131 Sadness, against the current into a river! (Part 5)(1/2)
Su Chen, Anu and Wu Qiaofu went to Chaoge Fairy City, and soon arrived at a village built by the immortal cultivation family on the way. A circle of bluestone made a wall several meters high, and circled several miles of land.
There are not many people in Zhuangzi like this, with about a thousand people, most of whom are of the same clan and surname. There are only a small number of immortal cultivators in Zhuangzhai, and most of the rest are descendants of immortal cultivators. Some mortals live in Zhuangzi.
Only then did Su Chen and Annu realize that within a radius of hundreds of miles around Chaoge Fairy City, there were quite a large number of such villages, and the population of mortals was even far greater than that of the immortal cultivators in the Fairy City.
Most of them are descendants of immortal cultivators and have settled in villages near Chaoge Fairy City for generations, and rarely leave to live in secular cities of the Tang Dynasty.
At the entrance of the village, there is a shop selling wine, meat, tea and water, and only one mortal owner is busy.
Su Chen and the other two walked in the mountains for half a month, preparing to take a rest in the wine shop and have a few bowls of noodles. Then they went to the village to find the old master Lu that Wu Qiaofu mentioned.
On the way, Wu Qiao talked about the magic of this senior Lu.
"This brother Lu is a famous senior in Chaoge Fairy City. He practiced the extremely rare 'Tian Ji'. This is a magical technique of fortune-telling that passed down from ancient times. He knew astronomy and geography, and read tens of thousands of books. He has been a Taoist priest who has traveled around the world. He has a broad range of knowledge and can do everything. He can tell the fate of a person by walking, and he can count the fate of heaven by pinching his hands. There is nothing he can't do in this world."
"Compared with Brother Lu, I am a ignorant mountain woodcutter, insignificant. If Brother Su can take care of him, he will definitely be fine to go to Chaoge City."
Wu Qiaofu's eyes were flying and his saliva was flying. In his words, he obviously respected this powerful senior Lu.
"So awesome!"
Su Chen couldn't help but be curious and wanted to see this senior master Lu.
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The three of them were drinking tea.
Suddenly, I saw an old man in his seventies with a messy white hair in his village, running out of the village in a mess with a 15 or 16-year-old entourage, carrying his luggage.
A stingy woman in her forties and fifties chased her behind the old man with a broom and cursed: "Master Lu, you are a coward, you went to Chaoge to do business and lost another four or five hundred spirit stones. Do you want to lose all the spirit stones in your family?"
The old man was running in a mess, and was scolded by the woman. He couldn't help but turn around and scold, "You woman, you are a woman, dare to insult your husband!"
The stingy woman immediately slapped at the old man, and scolded: "You useless wine bag, you lose money in business, and you blame me in turn!"
The old man blushed and defended: "If you lose money in business, you will be unlucky. If you do business, profits and losses are common. Can you blame me all this?!"
The woman cursed: "Your Brother Song asked you to go to Chaoge City to guard the city gate, not to worry about losing money. At least you can earn dozens of spirit stones a month, why don't you go?"
The old man was immediately stimulated and furious: "My Master Lu is a seven-foot man, how can I be a dog who looks at the city gate? I will not be so angry when I wander around the world."
"Get out! Get out of the village and never come back!"
The woman grabbed the broom and beat it.
Old man Wu didn't dare to fight back, but just fled everywhere in a panic, and the village couldn't help but feel a mess.
Many mortals in the village watched jokes in front of their homes and pointed at the old man. Obviously, this happened not once or twice, and it happened often.
The old man who was a cultivator, but they were not afraid at all. Their tribesmen were the owners of this village. The old man who was just a cultivator who came to marry into the house, but he was still a coward who could not do anything, so he naturally had no status in the village.
"Lu...Brother Lu...What's wrong with him?!"
Wu Qiaofu was shocked when he saw the messy scene in the village.
This old man is nothing else, he is the senior Lu and Master Lu of Chaoge Xiancheng whom he respects and admires very much.
Today, he brought Su Chen and Anu to find Senior Lu, just to let the experienced Senior Lu lead the way and support them. Unexpectedly, he saw Mr. Lu being chased by his fierce wife, in such a miserable scene.
"He is Senior Lü?"
When Su Chen heard that this person was Senior Lu, he almost sprayed out a mouthful of tea.
The wise and powerful senior Lu mentioned by Brother Wu turned out to be like this.
He and Anu looked at each other in a flash. They didn't see any strange people, but only saw an old man with a messy white-haired man who was chased by a woman.
The expression in Anu's eyes suddenly became highly alert and gave Su Chen a look.
Young Master, this old man is not a liar, right?
Brother Wu lives in seclusion in the mountain village for many years and serves his mother at home. He has never been to Chaoge Fairy City. He rarely comes into contact with the cultivators outside. He is innocent and charming, so it is difficult to distinguish such a liar.
Over the past year, she and Su Chen Xunxian asked, and had a lot of experience and had a tacit understanding.
With a look, you can see the other person’s thoughts.
"Well, let's be careful..."
Su Chenshen nodded with consent.
This old man looked shabby and embarrassed, and he looked like a person who was eating and drinking in the world.
People like this in the world are best at joking around, and I am the only one who is the most awesome in the sky and the earth. But in fact, they are so skilled that they are very humble.
But he likes to eat and drink everywhere, and specifically coax those innocent and honest people. Immortals like Wu Qiaofu who live in seclusion in the mountain village and have pure minds are most likely to be deceived by such scammers.
It seems that it is not just a world of martial arts, but also in the world of cultivation, there are also such scammers who eat and drink.
But after all, Wu Qiaofu admired Master Lu very much.
For Brother Wu's sake, Su Chen was not inconvenient to expose the old man's true feelings directly, so as not to look ugly on Wu Qiao's face.
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The old master Lu hid in the village until the shrew left in a bad mood, and finally escaped.
He took the young follower with his bag and walked out of the village with his luggage, ready to leave the village.
When he passed by the wine shop at the entrance of the village, he accidentally saw Wu Qiaofu, Su Chen and Anu and others drinking tea, and was surprised.
"Brother Wu, why are you here?"
Master Lu was not embarrassed at all, and sat down at the same table with Wu Qiaofu and the others.
"I'm Xiao Zhang, three of you!"
His young follower smiled at the three of them, and then sat obediently next to him.
Su Chen's brow jumped slightly.
Only then did he accidentally discover that not only Mr. Lu was an immortal cultivator, but his inconspicuous 15 or 16-year-old follower was also a young immortal cultivator.
"Brother Lu...what are you and your sister-in-law just now?"
Wu Qiaofu was restless.
"Oh, a little troublesome housework. I'm just doing business in Chaoge and I lost a few hundred yuan in spiritual stone capital. This woman kept holding on to her and cursing herself every day! Don't mention this matter."
Master Lu waved his hand and looked quite disappointed.
Although he practiced the magic of heavenly secrets, he became an immortal cultivator early on.
In Chaoge City, you need to eat Spirit Valley, buy spiritual pills to improve your cultivation, practice spiritual skills, buy magic tricks, spiritual tools, spiritual talismans, food, clothing, housing and transportation, and all kinds of places are inseparable from spirit stones.
Otherwise, your cultivation will be slow to improve and your strength will not be improved.
He spent most of his life working on various business and making money, but he did nothing and did not do anything well. No matter what business he did in Chaoge Fairy City, he never lost money and did not earn spirit stones. He was poor and frustrated when he was practicing immortality.
"I really can't stay here anymore, so I can only leave. By the way, Brother Wu, why are you here?"
"I have met a new cultivator and want my brother to help you."
Wu Qiaofu no longer mentioned this matter and introduced Su Chen and Anu to Master Lu. They were immortal cultivators brought from Jiangnanyi and planned to go to Chaoge Immortal City to cultivate immortals.
"It's easy to say! If you don't understand anything in cultivation, just ask me!"
Mr. Lu nodded and shouted, "Shopkeeper, come five bowls of noodles with noodle soup, add spiritual rabbit meat! Let's chat slowly while eating, and then go to Chaoge when you are full."
The wine shop owner quickly served five bowls of noodle soup to the five of them.
Master Lu frowned and picked up the chopsticks in the noodle bowl.
But I found that the only spiritual rabbit meat in his bowl was small and thin.
It is obviously a few large pieces of meat in the four bowls of meat noodle soup than Su Chen, Wu Qiaofu, Anu, and even his young follower.
"Shopkeeper, what do you mean?"
Master Lu slapped the table and couldn't help but be furious and scolded the shopkeeper.
"I put a lot of it, your bowl of meat has melted into soup!"
The shopkeeper is also from Zhuangzi. He usually despises Mr. Lu, the cowardly son-in-law of his family, and deliberately put a few pieces of meat in his bowl.
"You mortal, you dare to bully me, Master Lu... Could it be that you are a member of the village, I dare not deal with you!"
Master Lu saw that the shopkeeper was deliberately bullying him and couldn't help but tremble all over.
He cursed and spitted everywhere. This store was not the opponent of Mr. Lu, and he scolded the store so hard that he dared not speak.
"You...I...!"
Suddenly, Master Lu pointed at the store and became more and more excited as he spoke. He suddenly held the noodle bowl of broth and cried loudly.
Tears were flowing, and old tears were flowing.
Wu Qiaofu was shocked and quickly put the big piece of meat in his bowl to Master Lu and said, "Brother Lu, it's just a bowl of meat, so it won't be like this. Come on, I'll give you the meat in this bowl!"
Su Chen and Anu were shocked and hurriedly grabbed the meat to Master Lu.
Mr. Lu didn't even look at it, and just cried heartbrokenly.
"I'm not crying! I'm sad! Master Lu was seventy years old and had been practicing immortality for most of his life. He couldn't do anything, but he lost one thing. He did a small business in the city, but he actually lost hundreds of spiritual stones. He lost a lot of money and lost all his money.
To be continued...