Chapter 67: Retreat in Guanyun Tower
"Sent away?"
Inner city of Chenjiazhuang.
On a tall building.
Chen Yulou, who had already bathed, changed into a blue gown, lay on the bamboo chair, and swayed gently back and forth.
There is a new cup of Mingqian tea on the coffee table.
Finger clicks at will.
It’s like playing chess with people out of thin air, or like writing and painting.
Not far outside him, Huamaguai was sitting on a bench.
Looking past the floating gauze curtain, he stared blankly at the mountains in the distance.
The setting sun shrouded the dense forest, and the clouds dyed the sky red.
Although I have been here countless times.
But come every time.
He still couldn't hide his surprise.
This Guanyun Tower was built when the old shopkeeper was still here.
There are six floors in total.
At that time, the whole of Xiangyin could not find any masters of bricklaying and ink painting who could build high-rise buildings, so they sent people to the provincial capital to invite them.
Not only that.
I also went to the south to hire a master who was good at wood carving.
Inside and outside the building, there are carved beams and painted pillars, brackets and flying eaves, which are extremely luxurious.
It is said that when it was built, it caused a sensation in the entire Three Hunan and Four Rivers.
Countless people came to watch the ceremony.
It took three days before and after the flowing water mat.
No invitation is needed, just congratulations and you can sit down and have a meal.
And its original name was Jin Yutang.
Taken from Chen Yulou’s words.
It also means that the Chen family is full of gold and jade.
And it deserves this name.
In the six floors, there are countless antiques collected, each of which is a rare treasure of infinite value.
In addition, the Jinyu Hall is also equipped with earth dragons and ice cellars.
Warm in winter and cool in summer.
It is extremely comfortable to live in it.
However, the shopkeeper has always been critical of this name.
Even half a year ago, he directly changed it into Guanyun Tower.
Others certainly don’t dare to have opinions.
However, the servants of the Chen family have long been accustomed to Jin Yutang, but they are not used to the elegant Guanyun Tower.
“Yes, from the shopkeeper, I just fooled around a few words and he didn’t dare to think too much about it.”
Seeing him ask, Huamaguai looked away and replied with a smile. .
“Next, it’s best to give me some time to calm down.”
Chen Yulou didn’t know what he was thinking, so he just said coldly.
Viewed from memory.
He has secretly supported three people over the years.
But only Mr. Luo did the most crooked things, and he often came to Chenjiazhuang to fight in the autumn wind.
He has reminded me before.
The kidnapper warned me again.
If he is still the same as before and doesn't know how to restrain himself, then don't blame him for being ruthless.
Anyway, that guy succeeds more than he fails.
It would be better if someone else changed the situation.
"Hey, shopkeeper, don't worry. Although Luo Laowai is reckless and irritable, he is still a bit shrewd. When he gets blown by the wind when he gets back, he should be able to wake up."
Huamaguai looks at people quite clearly.
In his opinion.
Luo Laowai does not have the big city, but he has some small tricks.
To put it bluntly, his ability cannot support his ambition at all.
That is to say, he was lucky enough to board the shopkeeper's big ship, otherwise he would have been swallowed up to the point where no bones were left.
“It’s best.”
Chen Yulou nodded.
"By the way, Guaizi, if you have free time in these two days, send a few trustworthy people along both sides of the Yuanjiang River to find the current owner of Fengwo Mountain, named Yang Shuguo."
"Look. Can you invite him to Zhuangzi for a few days?"
"Okay."
Hua Maguai wrote down the name carefully.
"Shopkeeper, do you have any other instructions?"
"No, I will be in seclusion in the next few days, and I will leave the matters on the mountain to you and Hong Gu."
Chen Yulou Waved his hand.
He still trusted the kidnapper's loyalty and ability.
“What about the bright artifacts brought back this time?”
Seeing that the shopkeeper didn't mention it, Huamaguai cautiously reminded him.
"Is the channel at home still there?"
"It is still there, and several uncles have been guarding the shop."
Chen Yulou nodded, "That's fine. ”
“Let’s make a clear distinction between the obvious items, whether to sell them in stores, or to deal with them through channels. You can come up with a countermeasure and let me take a look at it when the time comes.”
Several generations of the Chen family started their careers by doing tricks.
After a hundred years of operation.
It is no longer the original banker's style.
From counties, roads to provincial capitals, Chen’s stores are operating everywhere.
As for the buyers, they include all provinces and governments, and even Peking City, Shanghai Beach and Hong Kong City.
After all, the name Chen family is a golden sign.
The uncle in Huamaguai's mouth.
Some are elders of the previous generation of the Chen family, and some are loyal associates who have worked in the Chen family for many years.
"Yes, from the shopkeeper."
Hearing this, Huamaguai's hanging heart finally fell back.
He is not afraid of the shopkeeper's rejection.
But he still has to take control of big things.
"Okay, you have been busy for a few days, go back and rest."
Chen Yulou waved his hand.
On the trip to Pingshan, I had calculated all my secrets and managed to save a few of them.
He didn't want to make people sick because of these things.
In the huge Changsheng Mountain, a kidnapper has to do all the big and small things for him.
"Thank you, shopkeeper."
"Then I'll go back. If anything happens, just ask me."
Huamaguai didn't dare to disturb his rest.
He immediately stood up, cupped his hands, and walked all the way downstairs.
Not long after.
Others appeared downstairs.
Chen Yulou stood at the window with his hands behind his hands, watching him rush to his residence along the path paved with bluestone slabs.
As the highest point in Zhuangzi.
He can see everything easily.
Now from his perspective, looking down, the entire Chenjiazhuang is like a piece of Nine Palaces and Bagua.
This was the suggestion of the Taoist priest who took him to the mountains to practice.
Near mountains and rivers.
Occupy the terrain and feng shui.
In the past, he didn't see much profound meaning, but now when he looks at it again, he just feels that the whole Zhuangzi is connected with the earth's energy at the bottom and the heavenly phenomena at the top.
Everywhere in the eight directions has its own aura.
The morning sun comes from the wind, and the night comes from the water.
The four words "situation and qi" are vividly interpreted.
As time passes by.
As the sun sets and the night gets darker, the lights in the village gradually light up.
It is more than ten miles around.
It is like a city that never sleeps.
The night breeze was blowing gently. Standing on the high building, Chen Yulou felt that his mind was clear.
The slight feeling of dryness in my heart was swept away in an instant.
"Kunlun, let's go downstairs."
Looking away from a distance.
Chen Yulou greeted.
At the entrance of the stairs, there was a tall figure guarding him.
Take Kunlun and descend with your hands behind your back.
Not long after, he appeared on the first floor, but instead of opening the door and leaving, he walked to a huge screen.
Although it is not carved from jade.
But we also hired craftsmen from Sichuan City to carve it carefully out of green bamboo, which is of astonishing value.
However, Chen Yulou only glanced at it casually, then walked straight around the screen to the back.
Put your hand on the wall and press it lightly.
There was a slight clicking sound.
It seems that some kind of machine expansion switch has been triggered.
The next moment, a dark hole appeared out of thin air on the water-polished tiles at his feet.
Sweeping down, a long staircase suddenly connected to the back.
The space underneath is huge.
There are lights everywhere, illuminating it as bright as day.
Guanyun Tower, others only think it has six floors, but in fact there is another floor underground.
Except for Kunlun, Guaizi and Honggu, almost no one knows about it.
Since discovering this place.
He directly regarded this place as a place of practice.
"Kunlun, guard the entrance. No one is allowed to disturb me without my order."
"Did you hear that?"
I saw the stairs appearing at my feet.
Chen Yulou glanced at the tall and majestic figure behind him and warned softly.
The latter just nodded heavily.
Seeing this, he walked down the escalator without further delay.
Wait for him to appear in the basement.
At a glance. All furniture is available.
It is no exaggeration to say that it is an underground palace.
When the Jinyu Hall was first built.
The old shopkeeper thought about it, if the Chen family declines, there is a big disaster, and soldiers and bandits attack.
There is really no way to be punctual.
The descendants of the Chen family can still hide in it and escape the disaster.
It is precisely based on this idea that this basement is simply a shelter.
What he can see now is just the tip of the iceberg.
There is also a secret door, which opens into a tunnel that connects the inside and outside of Zhuangzi.
It is said that in the original idea of his cheap dad, it would be best to build several structures similar to troop transport roads, leading from Chenjiazhuang to Changsheng Mountain.
However.
Finally it was terminated because it was too costly in terms of manpower and material resources.
And he fuses memories.
When I saw this paragraph, I almost couldn’t stand it.
I just feel that the cheap dad is more like a time traveler than him.
Have you experienced the end of the world?
That’s why I have such strong resentment towards the shelter.
But I have to say, this place is really good.
No one will bother you, you are quiet and free, and you are always prepared with enough food and water to last at least half a month.
It is simply a perfect place for retreat.
Walking through it, he stopped outside a pill furnace after a while.
That’s right.
It's the one that was brought back from the Danjing in Pingshan.
Compared to being covered in dust for thousands of years in a dark well.
Now it has been cleaned from the inside out.
At this time.
Under the light of the lights overhead.
Complex decorations of clouds and thunder, sun, moon, stars, birds and beasts emerge one by one, making it look more simple and heavy.
On the other side.
But there is a conspicuous blank space.
Looking at the traces is like the shape of a mirror.
Chen Yulou sighed secretly.
The scene I saw in the Sutra Cave that day seemed to reappear in my mind.
Today's alchemy furnace is completely different from its original style.
From the faint luster, he suddenly felt like the world has changed.
Thousands of years.
A fateful one.
As of today, it can't even maintain its original appearance.
“There are also the hexagram mirror and the fish and dragon talisman.”
“The dragon talisman is quite simple.”
“It’s the fish talisman and the hexagram mirror. If you want to find it, It’s as hard as climbing to heaven.”
I don’t know how long it took before he slowly woke up from his daze and murmured to himself.
And the reason why he wants to find the One Mirror and Four Talismans so strongly.
Of course it’s not a collection habit.
Chen Yulou is not that boring yet.
It is purely because of the ability of One Mirror and Four Talismans that is difficult to copy.
Looking in the mirror with a candle reveals a secret!
The secret of heaven seems to be illusory, but in the world of ghosts blowing lanterns, it seems to have traces and always exists.
Especially the path to immortality that he sought was going against nature.
If he could detect the secrets of heaven, it would definitely be of great benefit to his practice.
“Wait a little longer.”
“Zhelong Mountain, Kunlun Temple, Baiyan Cave, Dixian Village... I have to go to Guixu Land in the future. ”
I silently calculated the process in my mind.
Chen Yulou couldn't help but let out a long breath.
It has been more than half a year since I traveled, and now I have just passed through a bottle mountain. The road ahead is really long and difficult.
This alchemy furnace.
It should not be used for a while.
His initial idea was to bring it back to make elixirs.
But the Four Arts of Cultivation are not that simple.
Everything has to take time to be polished slowly.
Shaking his head and not thinking more, Chen Yulou turned to the desk not far away.
Pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
Paperweight and pen holder.
They are all deliberately crafted and carefully crafted.
The profound heritage of the Chen family can be seen from now on.
But his gaze did not stop. Instead, he looked across the desk and towards the layers of bookshelves behind.
Originally, it was filled with rare curios.
However, he put them away, and now there are countless jade boxes on the shelf.
That’s right.
Except for the hundred-year-old elixir collected from Yaobi.
He also brought back all the treasures and inner elixirs stored in the four pavilions of the Yunzang Palace.
It’s a pity that thousands of years have passed.
Most of the elixirs in the Lu Pavilion have lost their potency seriously.
No one out of ten can be used.
But the amount brought back is also extremely amazing.
Along the way, he also thought about the Taoist palaces in the hinterland of Pingshan, since they continued into the Song Dynasty.
It was most likely built by the Taojun emperor.
Among the 18 emperors in the two Song dynasties, he was the only one who paid special attention to taking elixirs for immortality, even to the point of obsession.
After all, in order to build a Gen Yue and build a large scale of flowers and stones, the destiny of the country was almost ruined.
He is definitely the first in history.
With Gen Yue in front, the overhaul of Pingshan Taoist Palace seems to be nothing.
He took a jade box and opened it.
A palm-sized piece of blue-black Ganoderma lucidum lay quietly in it.
Although thousands of years have passed, almost half of the medicinal power is still there.
The aura of the vegetation is extremely rich.
I picked up a few jade boxes casually. They were either old wild ginseng or formed polygonum multiflorum, both of which were rare treasures in the world.
“It seems that I really have to thank the Taojun Emperor.”
The corner of Chen Yulou's mouth curled up, and he shook his head and smiled.
Not him.
Where can I get so many spiritual herbs at once?
Immediately, he did not delay.
Like a diligent medicine farmer, he sorts the elixirs on the shelf into categories.
It took almost two hours to finally finish sorting it out.
Although he is not very proficient in pharmacology.
But Chen Yulou has abilities that ordinary people cannot imagine.
My own practice is Aoki Kung Fu.
For plants and trees, the spiritual energy contained in them is the most sensitive.
The stronger the spiritual energy, the stronger the medicinal power.
At this moment, the three ancient shelves behind the desk were divided into first, second and third grades by him from high to low.
Third level spiritual energy is the thinnest.
Most of them are precious medicines that have seriously lost their medicinal power and are on the verge of destruction.
The second class is the next best.
The first grade is the best and the quantity is the least.
Except for the old herbs collected from more than 30 medicinal plants, only seven were picked out from Lu Ge’s collection.
And the most amazing one among them.
The jade box in which the medicinal stones are kept is extremely luxurious.
Use a whole piece of mutton-fat white jade and carve it into the shape of a jade letter.
The whole body is covered with colorful lacquer paintings, all of which are auspicious patterns of pines, cranes and fairy grass.
Seal it with fire paint and wrap it with gold thread.
Even Chen Yulou was amazed when he saw it.
After finally opening it, I found that it was divided into five compartments, which contained spiritual objects and inner elixirs.
Snake eyes, turtle treasures, lion claws, and the rest have never even been heard of by him.
But there is a lot of spiritual energy in every inner elixir.
They are all comparable to the formed Polygonum multiflorum.
“Pingshan started from the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Song Dynasty, at least a thousand or hundreds of years.”
“How many heavenly and earthly treasures must have been burned...”
< br>Chen Yulou held his forehead and sighed.
Then, he couldn't help but grit his teeth.
Those warlocks and Taoists are really trashing things.
If this were given to him, he would be able to ascend in a day.
However.
Random thoughts are just speculation.
Chen Yulou did not dare to delay his practice.
Immediately took a piece of Polygonum multiflorum and took the jade letter with me.
I found an open space and sat down cross-legged.
The lights above him were as bright as the sun, shrouding him.
Hold your breath and concentrate, your thoughts begin to empty out, and your whole person gradually enters concentration.
Run Aoki Kung.
Wait until the moment when your mind is as clear as water and there are no more distracting thoughts.
He just picked out a turtle treasure, raised his head and swallowed it in one gulp.
Boom——
The majestic and mixed spiritual power instantly turned into a great tide and rushed towards the limbs and veins.
Others are like a pill furnace.
Water and fire are tempered together.
Refining the spiritual power in the turtle treasure bit by bit, turning it into pure spiritual liquid, and slowly returning it to the sea of qi.
Time passed suddenly.
Only the face under the firelight becomes more and more transparent!
(End of this chapter)