Chapter Eleven, Strange Old Man
Since there was a glimmer of hope, Yi Xuan naturally refused to sit and waited for death. Before dawn, he ran to the gate of the Talisman Building Hall to wait. Finally, he waited until the third hour of the Chen Shi, two gray-robed disciples opened the door, and Yi Xuan was eager to break in.
"Stop, this is the hall of the Talisman Building Pavilion. Don't rush around if you are idle!" A gray-robed disciple stopped Yi Xuan.
Yi Xuan rolled his eyes and bowed his hands to salute, replying: "This senior brother is polite! I am a new talisman craftsman. I am here to ask Mr. Ge for instructions from the supervisor Liao Feihu. Please ask Mr. Ge to send additional staff to the talisman paper workshop, otherwise it will affect the talisman paper delivery this month. Please help me to make peace with me!"
"So it was arranged by Liao Feihu. Then you can go in by yourself and go back quickly. There are many restrictions in the hall. Don't go in randomly, otherwise we will be implicated. Do you know?"
"Senior brother, don't worry, I found Mr. Ge and said something and left. Brother Feihu arranged a lot of errands for me today. If you don't go back quickly, you may have missed the time!" Yi Xuan found a reason to evade, slipped into the hall, searched the path in his memory to find Mr. Ge's residence, and knocked on the door a few times.
"Come in, who came to disturb me so early! Cough... Cough..." Old man Ge Chuan let Yi Xuan in while coughing.
"Old Ge save me..." Yi Xuan turned his head and bowed to the ground as soon as he entered the door.
"Oh? What's the matter? You guy is so nervous, why did you come to me for help?" Mr. Ge asked strangely.
Yi Xuan explained his miserable situation clearly to Mr. Ge, and begged Mr. Ge to give him a way out.
"Hey! You have to bear the trouble you caused by yourself. Finding me here is a matter of fact! People didn't say they must kill you. I think you should leave quickly!"
"Stopping me to attain enlightenment is no different from harming my life. If I leave the academy today, where will I go to find my immortal path? Since Mr. Ge also wants to watch coldly, I will go to the front of the hall and wait for someone to arrest him. Let the many disciples of the academy see how my disciples of Fu Pavilion are merciless and bullied!"
"You kid, don't use words to provoke me! Alas! I have never seen any storms and waves. I thought about the glory that I had been born and died with the old pavilion master. Now that the Fu Pavilion has experienced a decline, I can't even protect a mate disciple! That's all, I'll show you a way out, and you can't control whether you die or live!"
Yi Xuan got advice from Mr. Ge, kowtowed and thanked him.
According to the guidance provided by the old man, Yi Xuan came to a spiritual field built along the mountain on the west side of the academy. The fields were planted with endless golden spirit herbs. A bell-shaped flower hung at the top of each spirit herb. Under the illumination of the sun, there were thousands of golden clouds. It turned out that the yellow bellflower used to process talisman paper in the past few days was taken from here.
Yi Xuan carefully walked over the ridge of the field, walked out of the spiritual field, and came to a thatched hut that built a fence as a wall and made grass into cottages. Under the weeping willows in front of the cottage, an old man in a narrow shirt was lying on a rattan chair with his eyes closed and resting, leisurely basking in the sun.
"Didn't you just harvested a batch of yellow bellflower a few days ago? Why did you disturb me again?"
"Old man, I'm not here to get the spiritual herbs. Are you senior Ke Zhenyang Ke?"
"What seniors and juniors are you looking for Ke Zhenyang? You're late, this person has been dead for decades!"
"No! Mr. Ge just said that he asked me to come here to find Senior Ke, why did he die?" Yi Xuan couldn't help but see the bad news.
"You said Xiao Ge called you to find someone?" The barefoot old man stood up from the rattan chair. Only then did Yi Xuan realize that the old man's left leg was missing the soles of his feet, and his right hand was broken with his wrist, and he supported his body with a crutch.
"It is Mr. Ge Chuan, the manager of the Talisman Building!" Yi Xuan saw that the old man was physically disabled, so he hurried forward to support him, but was pushed away by the old man.
"You don't need to help me. I'm very tough! What a scholastic man? Isn't it just a choreographer? If Xiao Ge hadn't followed me and the old Pavilion Master to the dangerous place... Alas! Hey! He wouldn't have ended like this!"
The old man mentioned the past, sighed, and sat back on the rattan chair.
"Since it was introduced by Xiao Ge, please tell me if you have any questions to help me?"
Yi Xuan told the story of his evil relationship with Lian Jincheng and was forced to be a slave. He heard the old man's hair and beard standing upside down and his hair was thunderous.
"It's outrageous, it's just too much to deceive people! What do you want to turn the academy into? Just live here. See who dares to come to my husband's place to cause trouble. I'll go back and find Xiao Ge to come over, so I'll stay here to help me manage these acres of spiritual fields."
"Thank you, no, thank you Senior Ke for taking it in!" Yi Xuan wanted to thank the old man again, but was stopped by the old man.
"Seeing that you have some backbone, don't learn the red tape of a scholar. It doesn't matter if you are bullied. Practice your fists and hit them back! I'll just take you in for a while. If you want to hide here and be a turtle for life, I'd better slash you with one palm now!"
Yi Xuan had just lived in Ke Zhenyang, but the talisman making workshop caused trouble...
"Young Master Lian, Young Master Lian, we really don't know where that kid Yi Xuan has gone..."
"Yes, yes, we drove Yi Xuan out of the room as you told me the day before yesterday. I thought I would escort him to apologize to you early this morning, but who knew that he would be gone when I got up..."
Lian Jincheng and Lian Yinian came to find Yi Xuan's bad luck early in the morning, but they disappeared when they thought of it. After repeatedly questioning the people in the talisman paper workshop, they found nothing. They were so angry that they beat Pang Hu, Monkey and others one by one. It was Liao Feihu who saw that something was wrong and secretly asked Mr. Ge to support him.
"Young Master Lian Family, I'll punish these slack boys for a little punishment. They have to make talisman paper in the past few days, and it's hard to explain if the delivery is delayed. The disciples of the Criminal Pavilion came to our talisman building to cause trouble. It wouldn't sound nice if it spreads!" Ge Chuan stepped forward to stop him as soon as he entered the door.
"You old ghost, don't think that you want everyone to give you face if you take care of you. It's not easy for me! The few of them hiding the people I'm looking for must have an explanation today!" Lian Jincheng said mercilessly.
Ge Chuan asked deliberately: "Oh? There is such a thing! Bold! You guys dare to go against Master Lian. Tell me, who are you hiding?"
Liao Feihu replied with a bitter face: "It's the new Yi Xuan. He confessed that Young Master Lian was absconded, but he fled for fear of the crime and left us with nowhere to go. He left us a few of us. He really died unjustly. I hope Mr. Ge and Young Master Lian will observe clearly!"
Ge Chuan frowned, slapped his thighs, and said, "It turned out to be this kid! Yesterday, Senior Brother Ke said that his Lingtian was short of help. I was worried that Senior Brother Ke had difficulty in legs and feet, so I sent Yi Xuan over early this morning!"
Lian Jincheng said disdainfully: "Don't use such a bad excuse to swear me! Send someone to escort the kid back to me..."
Chapter completed!