Chapter 62 Goodbye Fatty Sun
Chapter 62 Goodbye Fatty Sun
Fatty Sun is back.
The next morning, Li Yuan learned the news and was shocked.
Others might think that Fatty Sun went to visit relatives with the second shopkeeper, but he naturally knew that was not the case.
In particular, he became even more certain after learning that Fatty Sun came back alone last night and was immediately picked up by Cao Yan.
"problem occurs!"
Putting down the forging hammer, Li Yuan rushed back to the middle courtyard without saying a word, and saw Fatty Sun, who was dispirited and emaciated.
"you……"
Before Li Yuan could ask, Sun Hao rushed over, hugged him and cried loudly, tears streaming down his face.
"..."
Li Yuan held out his hands and waited until the crying died down before he asked:
"What happened on the way? Why did you come back alone? Where's the second shopkeeper?"
"Something happened."
Fatty Sun looked ashen and muttered to himself.
Li Yuan couldn't bear it, so he raised his hand and slapped him:
"What happened?"
Fatty Sun staggered after being hit, and fell into a chair, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably:
"My brother-in-law, my brother-in-law... was arrested?"
“…Who caught him?”
Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and almost observed a moment of silence.
"They were...captured by the Viper Gang."
Fatty Sun seemed to have just come back to life, with a bitter and worried look on his face: "He, he is so badly injured, what should we do? What should we do..."
The Viper Gang?
Li Yuan was skeptical.
The Viper Gang is a group of bandits entrenched outside the Clear Water Lake. It is said that they have thousands of members and are quite powerful, but they never disturb towns. It is said that they have close ties with several families in the city.
At least, one should not take the initiative to provoke the Weapon Forge Shop.
The influence of the Weapon Forging Shop spreads to all counties and towns, and it can even sell goods to Zhelong Prefecture. Its power is no less than that of the Viper Gang.
The inner courtyard is assessed every three years, and there are at least seven or eight batches of apprentices ahead of Yue Yunjin and others...
"How did you come back?"
Li Yuan frowned slightly.
Although Fatty Sun cried his heart out, he had been with this fat man for many days and he always felt that the fat man was not being sincere.
Being coerced?
"I took advantage of the cover of night and defeated the bandits who were on guard and escaped!"
It turned out that he was coerced!
Li Yuan understood and asked, "Can the chief storekeeper believe what you said?"
"he……"
Fatty Sun was dejected, his face full of anxiety and not pretending: "He doesn't believe it either, but, but this is true!"
Li Yuan was somewhat shaken by his behavior. He didn't remember this fat guy being so good at acting:
"How many people are you traveling with?"
"There are 23 of us, 13 of whom are from the Changyuan Escort Agency..."
"Then why did you escape back?"
Li Yuan felt that he had figured it out. The fat man must have been released back on purpose.
The Changyuan Escort Agency also runs a martial arts school business, and is one of the three largest martial arts schools in the inner city. There are at least five or six internal strength warriors who have been escorting for many years and are very experienced. The group from Fajiu Mountain came out unscathed before.
They failed and the cook ran away. Who can they trust?
"I, how should I know?"
Fatty Sun was a little anxious.
Cao Yan said the same thing, why doesn't anyone believe him?
Li Yuan knew that there was something wrong, but he didn't ask any more questions. He patted his shoulder and said, "Take some time. I'll go cook. Look how thin you have become."
Fatty Sun sniffed back his big snot:
"Put more fat!"
……
Li Yuan went to the kitchen to cook a table of dishes for Fatty Sun, and then went to the kitchen to borrow a pot of wine.
But even when he was drunk, Fatty Sun still spoke the same words, incoherently, as if he was not lying.
"Sleep well."
After helping Sun Hao onto the bed and covering him with a quilt, Li Yuan went out, only to see Cao Yan had arrived at the door without him noticing.
"The chief shopkeeper?"
Li Yuan really didn't notice it and was shocked.
This was the first time he saw Cao Yan up close. He felt that his breathing was long and light, almost nonexistent. He was clearly not tall or strong, but he gave him the feeling of facing a vicious tiger head-on.
No, he can kill a tiger now, this must be a demon beast...
"Li Yuan?"
Cao Yan glanced at the inner room where the snoring sound had begun. "I heard from Master Zhang that your forging skills have already reached a high level? Are you sure you can forge a top-grade blade?"
"To reply to the shopkeeper, this is also my first time making a forge, so I am not sure..."
Li Yuan lowered his head slightly.
"Don't be afraid. If you succeed, you succeed. If you fail, just use it as training. You are still young and there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
Cao Yan reached out and patted his shoulder, speaking in a gentle tone:
"If you can really forge a top-grade blade, I will give you a private reward!"
After that, he turned around and left.
"Reward?"
Li Yuan brushed off the non-existent dust on his shoulders and narrowed his eyes slightly. For a moment, his hair stood on end.
The martial arts skills of this shopkeeper are at least two levels higher than Qin Xiong's!
"What do you mean there will be plenty of opportunities in the future?"
……
"Huh!" After working for a whole day, when it was getting dark, Li Yuan put down the forging hammer, turned off the fire and went home.
There are still very few pedestrians in the city. Patrolling city guards and yamen runners can be seen from time to time, and few vendors are still setting up stalls at this time.
Li Yuan looked normal, and bought some rice and flour. From time to time, yamen runners passed by, but no one questioned them. The murderous devil Nian Jiu appeared again.
What does it have to do with him, an apprentice in the inner courtyard of the weapon forging shop who is obedient and well-behaved?
When passing by Chaiyufang, he saw Liang Ashui.
Liang Ashui, who had disappeared for several months, attracted a lot of attention as soon as he appeared. However, he was not here to sell spirit fish this time, but was in a hurry.
I walked through the crowd and went straight to Four Seasons Pharmacy.
"I heard that his Qi and blood have already reached great perfection. Is he going to buy medicine to break through his inner strength?"
Li Yuan glanced at it and didn't care. He carried the rice and flour to his second brother's house.
He was too busy every day and had no time to cook. He had a quick breakfast on the way, a big pot meal in the inner courtyard at noon, and dinner at his second brother's.
From time to time, he would bring chicken, duck, fish, meat, rice, noodles and the like, but he was worried that the couple were used to being frugal and would not be willing to eat them.
Pregnant women need more nourishment.
In his previous life, although he did not master the skills of chanting scriptures and drawing talismans, he was an expert in assisting in childbirth. Whenever a family had difficulty in giving birth, he would go there day and night, blindfolded by a black cloth, and still ensure the safety of mother and child.
At one point, that was how he supported himself.
It was not until later when everyone went to big hospitals to give birth that Daoye had no choice but to resign and return home to open a small supermarket.
"My appetite is getting bigger and bigger. My second brother and his wife don't eat as much in a day as I do in one meal. I have to buy more from now on..."
After eating until he was 80% full, Li Yuan said goodbye to his brother and sister-in-law and went home.
He closed the courtyard door and the room door, then took out a blood pill.
"The medicinal power required to change my bones is too much. I'm afraid the pills I have may not be enough."
After taking a look at the squeaking fat field mouse, Li Yuan tilted his head back and swallowed the pill. As the medicinal power in his stomach rose, the familiar feeling came back.
Blood is agitated, circulation is rapid, and the efficacy of the medicine is consumed...
Then came the unbearable itching and burning sensation that penetrated deep into his bones.
"The human spirit likes to be clear, but the heart disturbs it; the human heart likes to be quiet, but desires pull it. If you can always let go of desires, your heart will be quiet, and if you can clear your heart, your spirit will be clear. Naturally, the six desires will not arise, and the three poisons will be eliminated...
Fuck, it's useless!"
Li Yuan tried to recite the Pure Land Sutra silently in his mind, but after just a few sentences, he could not help pounding the ground, stood up, rushed out the door and jumped into the large water tank.
The water waves rolled, and Master Li Dao felt a little regretful. He thought he was too careless in his previous life and failed to learn the Taoist meditation skills.
But he suspected that even the Grandmaster would scratch this itch...
After enduring for an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan, almost exhausted, climbed out of the vat and once again lay powerless on the ground. After the soreness and itchiness subsided, he felt relaxed all over.
The change of one's bones does not happen overnight, but every time after taking the elixir, Li Yuan can feel the changes in himself.
His fingers became longer, and the muscles that had become somewhat obvious from practicing hammer standing became stronger, smoother, and less obvious.
He seems to have grown taller.
"Only once every three days at most, otherwise, my body can't bear it... Well, this hardship is not in vain. I practice martial arts horizontally. I guess I'm about to get started?"
Looking at the bright moon, Li Yuan felt the changes in himself, or rather, the harvest of self-abuse.
He tried it on the day he started the Seven Star Horizontal Body Training, and suffered a lot, but the progress was shockingly slow. On the contrary, when his bones were changed, his progress in horizontal training improved.
Li Yuan estimated that horizontal training itself is a process of strengthening the muscles and bones through training. The root bones are changing, so horizontal training will naturally improve.
"It will take one or two times to get started. If I want to master it, I'm afraid it may not be enough even if I take all the medicine... However, I should have skipped the wooden stick attack.
The second level should be the iron sand rubbing body?"
Whenever Li Yuan moved, his whole body began to tremble with pain, and he felt as if his bones were colliding and fighting.
Once the muscles and bones are injured, it will take a hundred days to recover, not to mention such a drastic transformation. More importantly, he doesn't have many pills...
"You should save on medicine. It's only a matter of time. You should be more careful when you are promoted to the rank of military commander."
Lying on his back, Li Yuan was thinking about something.
In the past two days, he had asked Zhang Ben indirectly about red gold, but red gold was not a circulating currency at all. He had some before, but only for forging weapons.
There are many people with red gold in Gaoliu County, but the only one he can be sure of is Cao Yan.
"He said that there would be a reward for forging a superior blade..."
Li Yuan yawned and felt quite sleepy, but was still thinking.
With the help of the Master Craftsman's Hammer, he had been confident that he could forge a top-quality blade several days ago. The reason he slowed down was because he was worried that his forging talent was too good and Cao Yan would not let him go.
He had never experienced this kind of thing, but he had heard a lot about it in his previous life.
But he didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing before he even forged a top-grade blade...
"Or maybe I'm overthinking it?"
After resting for a while, Li Yuan stood up with trembling hands and feet, washed off the mud on his body, and went back to the house to lie down.
But I have made up my mind.
Just make this soft armor and try to get the red gold from Cao Yan. After that, there will naturally be many failures...
"You can also work on the inner armor slowly. This is your first time forging a top-grade blade, so you have to be careful and take your time, right?"
Muttering to himself, Li Yuan fell into a deep sleep.
……
Li Yuan took a day off and went home in a hurry without daring to look at the glaring old Zhang.
"Old Three, you didn't go to work?"
Seeing him come back, Li Lin was a little surprised and almost thought he was sick.
"I've taken a day off and am planning to go around the inner city with you guys."
Li Yuan replied.
What Cao Yan said yesterday made him a little worried, but it was indeed the truth. In the past eight months, apart from forging iron and practicing martial arts, he had been studying, and his spirit was really too tense.
Now that Qin Xiong's threat has been eliminated, he is ready to take it easy.
"That's fine. Seeing you working all day, your second brother must be very worried!"
Wang Juan's face looked much softer, and her belly was slightly bulging, but not noticeable.
"Okay, let's go for a walk, buy some cloth, some pregnancy-preserving medicine, and then go to the Bodhisattva Temple..."
(End of this chapter)