Chapter 98: Sycamore Branches
Zhang Mo said this with a smile. Although he knew that Zhang Mo was teasing, he still couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He followed Zhang Mo with a blushing face and sent her out.
The place where he lived was a cave with a door. When he came out of the cave, Zhang Mo pointed at Mr. Hei lying under the courtyard wall and said, "I told you before that you may not be able to return to Chang'an in a short time."
Now that it's here, how are you going to place it?"
At this time, he still couldn't fully recover from the previous incident. After Zhang Mo finished speaking, he failed to answer immediately.
Seeing his hesitation, Zhang Mo said again, "This black horse has corpse poison on it. It cannot be handed over to the villagers for foster care. Just leave it here. I will find someone to feed and take care of it before leaving. This courtyard is also with you."
Keep it, you will have a place to stay no matter when you come back."
"Thank you, uncle," he said hurriedly, "I will keep the courtyard, but I want to take Mr. Hei away."
Seeing Zhang Mo frowning slightly, he hurriedly said, "It can be weaned at any time, so there is no need to take the goat on the road. And I am not heavy, so I can ride it on the road."
Zhang Mo looked up and down. As he said, he was not heavy, only about a hundred pounds. This was after a few months of peaceful life in Longhu Mountain. When she first saw him at the Chenghuang Temple, he weighed even more.
Not even seventy pounds.
After looking at it, look at Mr. Hei again. Under his careful care, Mr. Hei already weighs more than three hundred kilograms. A small donkey is only of this weight and can barely ride.
"Okay, it's up to you." Zhang Mo nodded and walked out.
Following her to see her off, Zhang Mo remained silent after walking out of the courtyard. Zhang Mo didn't speak, so he followed her and continued to see her off east.
After walking a hundred steps, Zhang Mo said, "Earlier, we wanted to take you to Chang'an on a white crane. Since you want to take the pony with you, you can only go by land. If Sanyizi does something like this, if we
Arranging for her to travel with you is like sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth. If you can't make it three hundred miles, you will be eaten."
After Zhang Mo smiled, he said again, "Well, don't wait until ten days later, pack up and leave early. The Baoqing Inn in the west city of Chang'an is opened by a layman from Longhu Mountain, so we can meet there then.
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"Okay." nodded.
Zhang Mo said again, "With your current level of cultivation, unless you meet a master of purple energy, ordinary people in the world will not be able to do anything to you. Time is very leisurely. Please be more careful on the road and let me know when you are leaving."
"Okay." nodded again.
Zhang Mo waved his hand at him, "Go back, don't give it away."
"Oh." He responded.
Seeing the depressed look, Zhang Mo felt amused, but couldn't help teasing, "Go back and cry, you've been kissed, you're worthless."
Zhang Mo finished speaking
, left with a smile, and returned dejectedly.
It was not necessary to cry, but frustration and annoyance were unavoidable. What he was upset about was not that he had been kissed by Ni Chenyi, but that after being hugged by someone before, he stood there like a fool and couldn't even think of refusing to resist.
But apart from being upset, I was also a bit nervous and excited. It turns out that hugging and kissing feels like this. I can’t describe the specific feeling. It’s weird anyway, but it seems to be pretty good.
After returning to his residence, he started to wash and hang the clothes, and then took Mr. Hei to graze in the forest. He also took out the silver he had buried earlier. It was a long way to Chang'an and he needed to travel.
In fact, the black boy has been able to eat grass for a long time, but unfortunately, he lost his mother when he was young. He has been pampering him, giving him goat milk and fine grains. Who would eat rough food if he is good? At this time, the black boy eats grass, that is, he is free.
Chewing and playing with nothing to do.
After returning from the forest, I milked the goat for the last time, and then led the goat down the mountain to the east town.
The goat followed him and Mr. Black and lived in the open air and made great contributions. He wanted to give it a good home, so he gave it to a widow with two children.
The reason why he gave the goat to this family was because the mother and son lived in poverty. If he gave the goat to them, they would cherish it and raise it well.
Thinking that the goat had been eating fine food for a while, before leaving, he gave the woman a handful of copper coins and told her to buy some fine food every now and then to eat with the goat.
After that, he went to the tanner's shop, where he had previously reserved a pair of saddles, and this time he set out early and couldn't wait any longer.
The money had been given earlier, and he just went there to say hello and not to let others do it again.
No one's life is easy in these troubled times. Part of the money given to the cobbler has already been spent. He just said that he did not need to refund the money, but just came to say hello. The cobbler felt sorry for him, so he took a bench to sit at the door, and then picked out
The tanned leather was cut and cut, and a set of simple leather cushions were sewed in a hurry.
I took the mat and went to the rice shop again, and asked the shopkeeper to help grind thirty kilograms of soybean powder. Hei Gongzi had been drinking goat milk mixed with soybean powder for a while. The weaning process should not be too steep, otherwise he would not be able to bear the goat milk.
It’s gone, so it needs to drink soybean powder.
After leaving Mipu, we went to the tea shop and bought three bags of the best tea.
After that, I went to a snack shop and bought all kinds of snacks in the shop, which weighed more than 20 kilograms.
It was autumn at this time, and there was a red fruit seller on the street, so he bought another bagful of red fruits.
for
I rushed back to the Tianshi Mansion before dinner, and ran all the way to the dining hall. I handed the snacks to the master who was sharing the meal, and all the Taoists who came to have dinner shared a little.
Then he asked the little Taoist boy in the kitchen to help him and gave Ni Chenyi the bag of red fruits and a bag of snacks.
In fact, he hesitated to give something to Ni Chenyi. At first, he felt like he was being hugged and kissed. Giving something to someone seemed to be a tacit response, but then he thought again. Ni Chenyi had previously sent a pack of snacks and some pears, and he returned the gift.
A pack of different snacks and a bag of red fruits are both a complete courtesy and a good deal. Sometimes being too polite is keeping a distance.
There are three bags of tea, two of which are for Fu Dong and Zheng Daozhi. Fu Dong had previously sacrificed his life for shelter in Yizhuang, and Zheng Daozhi broke out to ask for help. This is a life-saving grace. We should be grateful for a lifetime, and it cannot be repaid with a single thank you.
There is also a pack for Master Dazhong. He likes this easy-going great uncle very much, and the old man also likes him very much.
He didn't tell Fu Dong and Zheng Daozhi that he was leaving tomorrow, but he told Master Dazhong that Master Dazhong knew that he had practiced the Hunyuan Divine Art and also knew about his previous performance in the competition and selection, so he was not worried about him walking alone.
There will be dangers on the road, but I just casually warned, "You can be merciful to your own people, there is no need to be polite to the bad guys, and don't reason with them. They say you look old at the age of three. People, your temper is determined by the age of ten. It's not that easy."
Repent. If there are really evil people who want to die, then you will do justice for God. Hey, don't kill people in crowded places. If you run away, we will still have to wipe your butt.'
With a smile, Master Dazhong then took out the last watermelon of the year, cut it up and ate it with him, then waved him away.
Back at the residence, Mr. Black was sleeping in the corner. Horses can sleep standing up, but they prefer sleeping on their stomachs.
The young master didn't get up when he entered the door, but when he turned to close the door, he stood up and squeezed out before the door closed. He looked left and right from the door and then hurried back. While digging the ground with his front hooves, he sneezed repeatedly, which was an unspoken meaning.
'Where did you take my nurse?'
"It's time to give it away. You've grown up and it's time to wean yourself." She closed the courtyard door and went inside.
Black Master is very smart, but he is not smart enough to understand a series of complicated words. He is confused and keeps shaking his head and sneezing behind him.
I thought that Mr. Black would forget about it after a while, but I never thought that he would not let me go. He wanted to sleep, so he knocked on the door with his hoof outside.
With no choice but to get up and take it to the town, he knocked on the widow's door all night. It wasn't until he entered the yard and saw the goat tied in the woodshed that Mr. Black calmed down and followed him back obediently.
Actually, it doesn’t have to stay with the goat.
Maybe it just wants to know where its nanny is and is relieved to know that her nanny is fine.
When he got up early the next day, he did not go down to do the morning exercises. The Taoist monks at Longhu Mountain did morning and evening exercises, both Qian Tao and Kun Tao were together. He was worried that he would run into Ni Chenyi.
This time he did not knock on Zhang Mo's door again, but waited outside the door. After Zhang Mo went out, he stepped forward to say goodbye.
Zhang Mo was a little surprised to learn that she was leaving today, but not too surprised because she knew she was avoiding Ni Chenyi.
The sycamore tree in Zhang Mo's yard was very tall, with branches extending outside the door. Zhang Mo picked up a sycamore branch from the ground, cut off a two-inch length and held it in the palm of his hand. After a while, he handed it over, "This branch
It carries my spiritual energy. If you encounter danger on the way, just break the branch and I will go and find you as soon as possible."
He took the branch with both hands and said, "Thank you, Uncle Master. How long can the spiritual energy on this branch be retained?"
"As long as it is not broken, it will always be there." Zhang Mo said.
He carefully collected the branch, thanked Zhang Mo and left.
Return to your residence, take your baggage with you, close the door, and go down to Shandong.
He also ordered bean flour in the town yesterday, so he went to the rice shop to get the bean flour. He was a regular customer and knew that he would use it to drink for his horse on the way. The shopkeeper also gave him a small wooden bucket.
Mr. Hei had never carried anything before, so he put a leather pad on it and asked it to carry bean meal. It was unwilling, raised its front hooves, shook off the thing, and strolled to the widow's house.
Carrying the baggage, bean meal, and wooden barrel, he followed over. Young Master Hei didn't come to get milk, but just came to take a look. After making sure that the goat was still there, he followed.
Hei Gongzi was raised by one hand. He knew very well what kind of temperament he had. There was a horse breeder in the town. He took him to see other horses. Seeing other horses carrying heavy loads, Hei Gongzi also wanted to show off, so he took the opportunity.
He put things on his back.
Seeing that the other horses were carrying a lot of things, Young Master Hei was not convinced, so he bravely jumped on the horse's back. It was okay. Young Master Hei was stronger than he thought, and did not feel any difficulty. He carried him at a trot, but in fact it was
It should have been weaned a long time ago, but I have been spoiling it.
Knowing that it can carry people, we got down. However, we still had to put on the reins. It was not used to tie it or lead it. The black master would not run around. The reins were used to ride it when necessary.
After leaving the town, he began to consider where to go. There were less than twenty days before the official competition. There was enough time. He would not be back from Chang'an in a short time. If Chen Liqiu came to see him again, he would be disappointed.
Chapter completed!