Chapter 2
When they came to the inner courtyard, the Ninth Princess directed the maid to hold a banquet and said to Li Zhen: "I know you forgot when you are busy, so I simply asked the chef to cook a few dishes. I'll just eat them here."
To put it simply, in fact, there are eighteen plates of delicacies, gold bowls, ivory chopsticks, and jade porcelain bottles, which are all delicious wines and delicacies.
The beautiful wife sat with her and the maid picked up food to serve her. Li Qi just sat there and chewed her mouth with her own mouth, but she didn't have the pleasant sound of silk and bamboo and sang and dance to cheer her up. For a rich and wealthy person like him, it can be said to be a simple fast food.
The Ninth Princess didn't have much power, and looked at his expression and suddenly said, "Why do you seem a little frustrated?"
After hearing this, Li Qi finished eating the food in his mouth, he said, "Are you still thinking about the opportunity to practice? Why do you think I am so unlucky? I am just accustomed to have a lack of spiritual roots."
The Ninth Princess comforted her: "You are happy in the mortal world, so why bother to force me?"
Li Qi shook his head slightly, but remembered that he had counted his previous accounts before and found that he had been in this world for twenty-one years.
"If you skip the incense recipe, you can just use it for the ancestors to believe in the spiritual incense."
"However, in recent years, for the success of our business and business careers have also flourished. We have found several base materials for pepper, orchid, icing and cinnamon, and identified thousands of plants and trees. The next should be a period of high yields that are integrated."
"If there is any other product other than the spiritual incense, even if your own spiritual roots are lacking, you may be given the opportunity to extradite it in order to prolong your life and make more contributions."
"I guess there is still hope to become a Qi Refining Cultivator, but even so, the age of life is only a hundred years old. How can I be called a god's day?"
The Ninth Princess smiled and listened to him continue to explain his heart: "A man's life is seventy years old, and the time is really in his prime is only two or three decades. When he is old, even if there are delicious food in front of him, what if there are beautiful wives and concubines in groups?"
"It's okay if you didn't know that there were monks who showed their Dharma before. Since you already know, how can you not want to break out of this sea of suffering in the world!"
Li Zhen imagined the days when he was old and his hair was gone, his teeth were gone, and he was hunched when he walked, and he was trembling with others. He couldn't help but feel a chill, as if a great terror attacked.
The Ninth Princess said: "Didn't the ancestor have already kissed you, and after becoming a baby, I will temper your mortal bones?"
Li Qi said: "I know that my ancestor is a trustworthy one, but even if he becomes a qi-refining cultivator, the level of mortals who are good at maintaining health may live longer. What can I do?"
The Ninth Princess was speechless for a while and said for a long time: "No wonder the ancestors said that you are a high-minded person and have actually found things after refining Qi. According to me, if you find nothing, you will be empty at both ends? It is better to enjoy yourself as soon as possible."
Li Qi said: "Enjoy early?"
The Ninth Princess said, "I don't think my husband likes to go out to play. It's better to raise a class family to listen to music and dance to relieve boredom. If he is a good-looking person, he will be sent to the room to serve him. After more than a year of marriage, except for the maid who married me, he won't even accept a concubine. Outsiders don't know about it, and they think I'm jealous."
Li Qi laughed silently. This princess is really undespicable.
But thinking that she was just a passerby in her long life, a hundred years later, she cut off the red dragon, cut off the ordinary heart, and truly searched for the immortals and asked the Tao, but she had already turned into a piece of loess, and she couldn't help but feel excited again.
No wonder Zhuangzi said that it is better to forget each other than to support each other.
When it was dusk, the Ninth Princess had already returned home, and a spring rain came unexpectedly.
Li Zhen took the bus to go home, but he still did not forget to continue his research.
He still never forgets his chance to practice. Since he has confirmed that his spiritual roots are lacking and the immortal path is unavailable, he simply starts with another major feature of the monk, his spiritual consciousness and deeper souls.
This was originally something that could only be involved in the advanced realm. Thanks to the assistance of the ancestor, we could obtain some classics and secret records to be detailed.
Li Zhen guessed that the ancestor had never expected that he could figure out what he was doing, and he was not afraid of practicing randomly and making trouble for him.
Because cultivators start by refining their souls, they follow the gradual path of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and refining spirit into emptiness. They cannot even refining essence into qi, and the subsequent steps are just fantasies after all.
"It's hard, it's really hard!"
"This is completely clueless. How can we enter the Immortal Sect?"
Suddenly, the carriage stopped, and Li Qi smelled a strange smell and couldn't help but feel suspicious.
As a result, the curtain of the car was quickly lifted up. He was a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe. He looked not very good-looking, but he had the unique temperament similar to a monk and was extraordinary.
"Who are you and why do you stop me?"
Li Zhen was silent on his face, but he felt secretly alert in his heart, because he judged from the strong smell that suddenly floated to him that this man seemed to be inappropriate.
The horse-faced Taoist looked at him and said, "You look calm in the face of danger, not like a fool. It's a pity that your heart beats aggravated and betrays you. Do you want to find an opportunity to escape? Forget it, I'm sorry that you are a mortal. No matter how smart and agile you are, you can't make trouble, that's right!"
With his sleeves swinging, an invisible force hit Li Zhen’s back neck.
"This guy is really a qi-refining person, how could he deal with me!"
Li Zhen was hit hard while thinking, but he didn't dizzy. After all, knocking on the stick was a technical job, and this person seemed to want to take the slap, but he didn't take any serious action.
But I still felt that the stars were coming out of my eyes, and the sky was spinning for a moment, and it was difficult for me to stand firmly.
"Come!" Li Qi quickly called for help, but the carriage had already entered an alley at some point, and the servants and followers were also lying on the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.
The horse-faced Taoist grabbed Li Zhen and stuffed it into a large cloth bag.
Li Zhen felt that he had fallen into a large vat-like cloth bag. He could no longer hear any movement outside. He beat the tarpaulin hard without any response, as if all the force had been removed.
"Is this a magic weapon?" Li Qi took a deep breath.
After a moment, a feeling of flying in the clouds and fog came, and Li Zhen felt that the man outside seemed to be carrying a cloth bag and running away.
Li Qi covered his head and said, "Who is you? You know, I am a disciple of the ancestor Huang Yun, and I also have a family business in Xuanxin Kingdom!"
The man seemed to know Li Zhen clearly and sneered: "Who has no ancestor behind him? The one who is asked to take is you, the incensemaker."
"What?" Li Zhen was shocked in secret.
The man said, "I'm not afraid to tell you that we are from Zhuyuan Kingdom next door. Speaking of which, the ancestor of the master and your family are the same clan and the same clan."
This is what is called being confident and fearless, Li Qi was speechless after hearing this.
The other party said, "So, you'd better know more, otherwise, just mortals, why not kill them with one sword?"
I don’t know how long it took, but the man seemed to run dozens of miles in one breath before stopping in a barren mountain on the outskirts of the city and releasing Li Shi.
"Have you arrived at the place? I don't know if this person has any accomplices, but since he came for the incense table, he should have no worries about his life for the time being, so he must stabilize them first."
Li Zhen was jogging in the bag for a long time, and after a few hours, he was really tired and hungry, but his brain was still running rapidly, constantly thinking about countermeasures.
This place seemed to be a cave, with a few torches lit up, which was illuminated clearly. There were four martial artists wearing short collars and strong clothes. The leader was wearing brocade clothes and looked like a wealthy businessman.
"The immortal master took action, it was indeed extraordinary, so he caught him."
He grabbed Li Zhen and grinned, saying, "Thanks to my junior brother who led the others away, I was able to succeed."
Li Zhen looked at the leader of Jinyi and found that he knew him: "Shopkeeper Huo from the Huo Family Trading Company?"
Manager Huo is a foreigner, indeed from the Nagizo Yuan Kingdom, and seems to have a close relationship with the Nagizo Yuan royal family.
When Manager Huo heard this, he turned his head and bowed with a smile and said, "Brother Li, are you okay?"
Li Qi snorted coldly, but his heart quickly thought.
Manager Huo said hypocritically: "I thought before that, Brother Li was doing ordinary business. Although he had made a lot of money in the family business, it was not surprising. However, before the New Year, a thing that made a name for the spiritual fragrance became famous. Huang Yun still hid it and did not let people know its origin, which was enough to make people suspicious. After a careful investigation, I found out that it was indeed worshipped by Brother Li."
"My ancestor has an order to invite Brother Li to visit Zhuyuan Kingdom. In a hurry, I will inevitably be frightened. I want to apologize to Brother Li here."
Li Tsing frowned and said, "The ancestor of Zhuyuan Kingdom? Is it Qingyun Zhenren?"
Manager Huo said, "Yes, the direct descendants of Tianyun Sect should have my ancestor, so he is called Qingyun Zhenren. In the future, he will become the Nascent Soul and be the ancestor. They are all inherited orthodox Taoist names."
Li Qi said: "There are the most expensive branches of Tianyun, but they do not expect that they will do such things as robbing and stealing."
Manager Huo was stunned when he heard this, but the horse-faced Taoist was not annoyed, but instead said with a smile: "It's right, but it's meaningless. If the boy knows the appearance, he knows what to do, right?"
Li Qi said: "There are prescriptions, but even if I clearly write them out, the details of the production process are hard to say. If the difference is slight, the error will be a thousand miles away. I wonder if you agree?"
Manager Huo said, "I really believe this, but I can't hide it. We have been secretly investigating the prescription for Lingxiang for a long time. The surface method is clear, but we have only got an ordinary product. We can't figure out the useful things. I think this kind of thing is not easy to see in the pen and ink. I have to work hard, you can go to our country."
Li Zhen was silent for a while and said, "Do you have something to eat? I'm almost starving to death after most of the day."
Manager Huo waved: "Give him some food."
Immediately, Kong Wuhan brought clean water and dry food, which were all foods that the travelers would eat when they were on the road.
Li Qi hadn't eaten such simple food for a long time, and almost choked himself to death. However, the situation is so strong that he had to do something to be hard and simple.
After eating, it was dark, but the group seemed to have been prepared, each guarding and venting the wind, in an orderly manner.
Manager Huo calmly searched Li Xiao's body and took away all the items he carried with him. The notes Li Xiao made over the years, the cultivation materials he compiled, and some spice combinations, and formula calculations all fell into his eyes.
"What's this?"
Li Zhen glanced at him and thought that the other party didn't understand Chinese characters and was too lazy to pay attention to them.
Manager Huo did not ask for any boring questions. He thought he had something to ask for and did not dare to offend Li Zhen too much, but this state would never last forever. Li Zhen did not know the temperament and style of the other ancestor. If he met an impatient and cruel person, he only knew how to kill the chicken to get the eggs, it would be bad.
Then, a talisman was found from Li Zhen, but it was a magical instrument given by his ancestor.
Li Qi kept it with him, but couldn't find an opportunity to use it. This was not how strict and cautious the other party was. It was clearly because of his sensitive perception and quick movements, and he would not miss supervision from beginning to end.
Although Li Qi was very unwilling to give up, he had to admit that no matter how smart and agile a person was, he could not make trouble.
Even the heartbeat is wrong, you can hear it, and you still expect to take out the talisman to use it?
Seeing this object, the horse-faced Taoist looked solemn and came over to put it in close proximity.
Manager Huo flipped Li Shi's treasure bag again and found that three quick things that were dark yellow, like wooden branches were all high, three inches long, about inches wide, and gold bar-like shapes. He couldn't help but lit up and asked, "Is this the fragrance of Xin Ling?"
Li Qi said: "Not bad."
The thing that believes in Lingxiang is Li Qi’s old capital that has been established over the years and has risen to the top. He is a craftsman in the world, born in a poor family and has no spiritual qualifications, so he relies on giving this thing to get rewards.
Of course, it is also necessary to help the skill of smelling fragrance. If the immortal master who was sure to have no malicious intentions towards him, Li Zhen would not dare to rashly take out the method of making this thing, nor would he choose the Ninth Princess, who is gentle and gentle in nature, as her wife.
But when he saw it, the smell on Manager Huo suddenly became strong, like a vulture biting a rotten corpse, and the invisible stench emanated.
This is a smell that Li Qi had never seen with his extraordinary talent before. Manager Huo must have been jealous and greedy, and even had the intention to kill!
Manager Huo had already revealed his thoughts and was amazed. Even the horse-faced Taoist could not help but come over and asked, "This thing doesn't look like a treasure, but it can attract spiritual thoughts and help refining souls. How was it made?"
Li Qi said: "It is not only this that the magical use of faith in the fragrance of spirit?"
Manager Huo said, "Oh? I hope to hear it carefully."
Li Qi said: "It is just a matter of incense, calming your mind and calming your energy. It is also effective in treating diseases and treating injuries. It is used to ward off evil spirits, to drive away snakes, insects, rats and ants, and to prevent mosquito bites. I saw that this cave was wet and pickled, and it was not a good place. You can scrape a little powder and spread it everywhere to prevent it."
Manager Huo smiled and said, "It seems that this Xinlingxiang can really be called a treasure medicine? But Brother Li said this, he wanted to take the opportunity to keep his track of the story, right?"
I immediately laughed and scraped off some powder on the incense block with my fingernails and spread it around me. It was obvious that I was confident and fearless.
The Taoist Ma face sneered and said, "Give up, everyone in Xuanxin Kingdom is probably chasing my junior brother north."
There are actually friends? It’s really been planning for a long time!
Chapter completed!