Chapter 23 Mysterious Note
After that, Lin Xi took Li Yanran and walked for two days before coming to "Shangyuan City". The two of them rarely spoke during these two days, and even if they had some words, they were mostly insignificant conversations.
However, during the past two days and nights, whenever Lin Xi caught pheasants and hares as food, he could still see the curiosity and innocence that a little girl should have on Li Yanran's face. Perhaps she has never lived in the wilderness since she was a child.
The two walked outside the 'Shangyuan City' and saw a gorgeous carriage from afar. Li Yanran had already whispered beside Lin Xi: "They are here to pick me up."
"Oh, then let me leave you and I'll leave you." Lin Xi kept answering calmly. In fact, he had discovered this carriage a long time ago, and Lin Xi also felt that the two people standing in front of the carriage had the cultivation of seventh-level psychics.
"Anyway, Mr. Lin is also going to the Chaozhou capital, so why not walk with me?"
Li Yanran looked at Lin Xi with bright eyes and even invited her to walk with her.
"No need, I'm used to being alone. Besides, I'm not in a hurry to go to Chaodu, and I just took this opportunity to enjoy the scenery along the way."
Lin Xi directly rejected Li Yanran's proposal. In his understanding, Li Yanran and Meng Wushang were the same people as him, and Lin Xi thought it would be better to have less contact with such people.
"Oh, then there will be a date later!" Li Yanran said with a little disappointment. Then the two of them remained silent and walked all the way to the city gate.
When he walked to the carriage, Lin Xi walked straight into the city without stopping, and did not say goodbye to Li Yanran, as if the two of them were just strangers walking the same road.
"Okay, let's go too!" Seeing Lin Xi disappear into the crowd, Li Yanran suddenly smiled and walked into the carriage.
The carriage was slowly moving, but at this moment, there was more than Li Yanran in the carriage. Just in the carriage, opposite Li Yanran, a vague figure like water vapor was sitting opposite Li Yanran.
"What's the big deal happening in the last few days?"
Li Yanran asked to the blurry figure. At this moment, Li Yanran's tone was calm, but she revealed a sense of majesty that was inconsistent with her age, as if she had been in the top position for a long time and had experienced the world!
"Report to the eldest lady, the underground palace of Guiyuan Temple was opened a few days ago, and Zhuang Xu was killed. Then Meng Wushang and a mysterious man appeared at the auction of Fan's family in Dingtao. After that, "The True Interpretation of Guiyuan" was sold by Fan's family at a high price." The figure opposite Li Yanran said hoarsely. This news was exactly what happened to Lin Xi and Meng Wushang a few days ago. The mysterious man in this figure's mouth was Lin Xi!
"Meng Wushang... It seems that this mysterious man is not small! With Meng Wushang's personality, he should be disdainful to kill Zhuang Xu, so it must be the mysterious man killed. But if the two of them appear together, there must be a lot of hidden information. Focus on these two people in the future." Li Yanran said thinking. Big families like them have a complete intelligence system, and outstanding disciples of major families are the ones who are focused on.
"Yes, I'm leaving!"
A hoarse voice came from the figure again, and then the figure disappeared silently, leaving only Li Yanran in the carriage, as if the figure had never appeared!
After staying in "Shangyuan City" for a day, Lin Xi set off on the road again and headed towards Chaodu. He walked all the way, but occasionally flew in the air for a distance, and he was leisurely and contented along the way.
The closer he gets to Chaodu, the more prosperous the city he passes. During this period, Lin Xi not only walked along the official road, but sometimes he would deviate from the official road to some more famous cities or scenic spots. The result is that the Chaodu, which Lin Xi originally planned to reach around March, took nine months to go.
However, Lin Xi has gained a lot in the past nine months. During this period, he experienced the world, had many new insights into life, and his mood also increased a lot. In addition, during this period, Lin Xi copied the four words "Tao follows nature" based on the memories in his mind. As time went by, the characters he copied became more and more similar to the handwriting of the saint. Of course, this approach was only based on Lin Xi's original foundation, and the real difference between the handwriting of the saint is still very big!
At this time, Lin Xi had only a few days left to Chaodu. Today it was light rain, and Lin Xi did not continue to rush, but found an inn to stay in.
On the inn building, Lin Xi once again wrote the four words "Tao follows nature". And he placed the "Ancient Inkstone of the Heavens" at his hand. During these days, Lin Xi often used the "Ancient Inkstone of the Heavens" to produce ink. He found that as he used the times, the two words "The Heavens" at the bottom of the ancient inkstone also changed a little, and the original ancient font seemed to have a glittering glow. Lin Xi just vaguely felt that because the changes in these two words were only extremely small, he was not too sure.
Lin Xi put down the brush in his hand, looked at the light rain falling outside the window, and couldn't help but think of the mother of fox thousands of miles away. After this autumn rain, it was winter again, and a year was coming. I'm afraid that when Chaodu met his teacher and Ning Caichen, he would hurry back to Heishan!
In nine months, Lin Xi also had a deeper understanding of "Xiaoyaoyou" and "Guiyuan Zhenjie". Combined with these two classics and the insights after watching the handwriting of the saint, Lin Xi has fully comprehended the second chapter of "The Yin Fu of the Book of the Sutra". This second chapter is called "The Spiritual Turtle of the Ruo of the Ruo". After fully comprehending this chapter, Lin Xi also had a huge spiritual turtle in his mind. The spiritual turtle appeared under the seat of the ancient Buddha in the past, and exuded a constant breath, which complemented the ancient Buddha's eternal and unconventional!
At this time, Lin Xi's savings were already extremely large. He vaguely felt that with the blessing of these thoughts, it would be no problem to condense hundreds of acupoints in one breath. However, Lin Xi only condensed one acupoint at this time, but he planned to condense the acupoints in front of the fox mother after returning to Heishan. This process must be extremely useful to the fox mother, so Lin Xi has not continued to condense the remaining acupoints.
The last autumn rain of this year ended. As expected, just like the artistic conception expressed by the four words "Tao follows nature", the cold winter arrived as scheduled. Lin Xi stood outside the tall and majestic city gate of the Great Shang Dynasty capital, looking at the passing pedestrians entering and leaving the city gates in a row. This first long journey in his life finally arrived at his destination. Perhaps this was also the only long journey in his life? Facing the end of this trip, Lin Xi didn't know whether he was happy or lost!
After a long time, Lin Xi murmured and squeezed into the tide of people and headed towards the city gate. Behind the city gate was a bluestone street that was ten feet wide. There was no other road in the world except the "Suhuque Street" in the Great Shang Dynasty!
The permanent population of Chaodu is more than one million, and with business trips and travels, there are millions of people in the entire Chaodu capital at any time. The gathering of these millions of people makes Chaodu seem crowded in every corner anytime, anywhere! Endless vitality and prosperity shroud the center of the world!
Not only were there many people in the dynasty, but all kinds of dignitaries gathered. Perhaps they accidentally met someone on the street who might have an official position. However, Zhang Mo himself was the former Minister of Rites and a great sage in the world, so his mansion was still easy to inquire about. So soon after Lin Xi entered the city, he had already found out where Zhang Moben's mansion was!
As for the time, Ning Caichen should still be in the Taixue University. The Taixue University has a special status and is not accessible to anyone. At present, Lin Xi had no choice but to go to Zhang Moben's mansion first.
Lin Xi walked slowly into the "Shamao Street". The street here is not wide, only two feet away, just enough for two carriages to cross, and there are few pedestrians on this street. Because "Shamao Street" is like its name, all the people living here are the nobles of the dynasty.
Deep in the Shamao Street, a huge vermilion plaque reads the word "Zhang Mansion". This is Zhang Moben's mansion in Chaodu. The two doors are three feet high and three feet high. The two stone carved Qilin auspicious beasts in front of the door make the entire mansion grand and grand.
There were no guards on the mansions on this street. Lin Xi walked slowly towards Zhang's mansion, but just as he was about to step on the steps, a small wooden door next to the two vermilion gates suddenly opened, and then a man in gray-clothed clothes ran out of the small door hurriedly.
Lin Xi stopped and did not continue to move forward because he felt that the servant was coming for him! Could it be that the teacher already knew that he was coming? Suddenly, an inexplicable feeling surged into Lin Xi's heart, and this feeling was not a good sign!
The servant ran to Lin Xi in panic. Suddenly, his body shook, as if he had not stood firm, and he fell down.
"Ouch!" The man in gray fell to the ground, and there was no falsehood. Lin Xi frowned and hurriedly walked forward, reaching out to help the man up.
"Are you okay?"
"Oh, it's okay, the young man has to do something! Thank you, young master!" The servant stood up and hurriedly ran out of "Silly Hawk Street". It seemed that something really important was going to happen.
After Lin Xi helped the servant up, he did not continue to walk up the steps. Instead, he stood there, holding a note tightly in his hand. This note was what the person handed to him when he helped the servant up just now!
Lin Xi held the note tightly and looked at Zhang Mansion, then turned around and walked out of the 'Shamao Street'. At this time, Lin Xi was sure that Zhang Moben really knew that he had arrived in Chaodu, but why did he pass the note to him so secretly?
Chapter completed!