136. Reinforcements
On the bluestone road in Yichuan County.
The ox cart was moving slowly in front, and six scholars carrying boxes and baskets were following slowly behind.
They chatted and laughed, discussing tomorrow's literary gathering and the classics, history, and literature, just like a group of real scholars.
At a certain moment, Chen Ji also felt that he was a little suspicious.
He was sitting in the ox cart when he suddenly turned to look at Chen Wenzong and asked in a low voice, "Brother, what are these people discussing?"
Chen Wenzong was somewhat flattered and quickly replied, "They were discussing the current affairs section of this year's autumn examination. The topic was how to view trade in border towns. I discussed it from three perspectives..."
Chen Ji didn't continue listening. He just felt that he might be too suspicious. How could a killer understand these things?
However, before leaving the city, he suddenly shouted, "Stop the car."
Prince Jing, wearing a straw hat, pulled the reins to stop the ox cart.
Chen Ji jumped out of the car and said, "Everyone, wait for me for a moment."
Bai Li asked curiously, "Did you forget something at the inn? I'll go get it with you."
However, Chen Ji smiled and said, "I just happened to pass by a bun shop and wanted to treat everyone to some buns. How many would you like?"
The prince thought for a moment and said, "Four!"
Bai Li smiled and said, "Two."
Chen Wenxiao stiffened his neck and said, "I'm not hungry. If I want to eat, I can go buy it myself."
After Chen Ji finished asking everyone, he trotted over to a bun shop and shouted, "Shopkeeper, give me nineteen braised pork buns, and wrap them in yellow paper!"
When the shop owner heard that a big business was coming, he quickly opened the steamer and picked out the buns from it.
While pretending to buy buns, Chen Ji glanced at the scholars out of the corner of his eye. He saw that the scholars did not continue to move forward, but paused for a moment and then walked towards the bun shop.
One of them said to the shopkeeper with a smile, "Shopkeeper, give me fifteen braised pork buns."
Chen Ji's heart sank.
These people were indeed coming for them.
The fact that the other party simply stopped to buy buns may not mean anything, but the person who bought the buns ordered fifteen without asking others how many they wanted, which is not in line with common sense.
Moreover, the person who bought the buns did not mention how to pay for the buns.
Chen Ji sat back in the car with a normal expression and distributed the buns to everyone.
The ox cart headed west out of the county town, and a dirt road meandered among the woods.
The leaves have
The trees were withered and bare, and the ground was covered with rotten leaves like a soft carpet, and gradually no one was around.
Chen Ji sat in the car and silently turned his head to look at the official road ahead.
What on earth are these people here for?
Is it to track down the person who peeped last night and kill him to silence him, or to protect Prince Jing?
Chen Ji thought carefully for a moment and felt that it should be the latter.
After all, the incident last night has passed. If the mysterious figure wearing the black jade really wanted to kill people to silence them, he should have done it yesterday. Why would he wait until today?
Moreover, the prince, Bai Li, and Mr. Wang were in the car. How could Prince Jing allow them to kill and silence them?
Thinking of this, he felt a little relieved.
At this time, the ox cart went along the official road into the mountains. Mr. Wang was holding a book and giving lectures on the ox cart.
He calmly asked, "The Book of Rites, Great Learning, says, 'To acquire knowledge, one must investigate things. Only after investigating things can knowledge be acquired.' What does 'investigating things, to acquire knowledge' mean here?"
Chen Wenzong thought for a moment and said, "Zhu Xi said, 'To study things and to seek knowledge is to explore the principles of heaven, to clarify human relations, to preach the words of the sages, and to understand the events of the past.'"
Mr. Wang leaned casually against the ox cart and said with a smile, "This is what Zhu Xi said. Now I want you to explain for yourselves what it means to investigate things and attain knowledge."
Chen Wenzong was a little stumped.
Just as he was thinking about his answer, he heard a cat's meow from the forest. Chen Ji suddenly opened his eyes wide, turned to Prince Jing's back and said, "Please stop the car!"
Chen Wenxiao said impatiently: "What are you going to do? Why are you the only one who has so much trouble?!"
Chen Ji jumped out of the car, holding his stomach: "Sorry, my stomach hurts, I need to go to the bathroom!"
After saying that, he stepped on the rotten leaves on the ground and ran all the way to the woods. After running hundreds of steps, he slowly stopped and called out softly, "Dark Cloud?!"
But then the dark cloud appeared on the treetops, carrying a blue cloth bag.
Chen Ji was surprised: "Why are you here?"
Wuyun lowered his head and bit the knot of the cloth bundle. With a clang, a wooden box slid out of the bundle. He squatted on a branch and said, "Master told me a fortune last night. He said you might be in danger. He asked me to come to this official road to wait for you overnight. He also brought the fifteen ginsengs you hid."
Chen Ji's pupils shrank slightly.
These fifteen ginsengs were given by the Golden Pig. However, Chen Ji had never had the chance to use them because he was afraid of the Golden Pig's gambling-like practice method.
Now, Old Man Yao is no longer
Not only did he send Wuyun to come overnight to warn people, he also brought these fifteen ginsengs along with him!
This time, it's very dangerous!
Chen Ji looked at the woods and asked, "Has the master arrived?"
Wuyun meowed, "Master said if you ask about this, let me answer you on his behalf...it's none of his business."
Chen Ji: “…”
The master is still the same master who doesn't care about anything that doesn't concern him.
Chen Ji asked again, "Did Master tell me if I can handle this danger with these fifteen ginsengs?"
Wuyun meowed, "I asked about this, and Master said it's pretty tough."
Chen Ji: “…”
He stood in the woods, closed his eyes, and wondered where the crisis came from and how to deal with it.
But after thinking for a long time, he found that the crisis could only come from the mysterious big man last night.
If such a person really took action, how could he, a junior apprentice who had not even entered the innate realm, protect himself?
The next moment, he opened his eyes, picked up the wooden box from the ground and opened it.
With a gentle touch, the ginseng stalks in the box transformed into crystal beads, tinkling and falling to the bottom. Wuyun, envious, leaped down from the treetops and landed lightly on Chenji's shoulder, its dark, furry tail raised and swaying from side to side.
It rubbed against Chen Ji and asked, "Can we eat now?"
Chen Ji closed the box again and said calmly, "Not yet, Wuyun. I need you to follow me quietly with the box. When I call you to eat, you can eat it."
After saying this, he actually sat down cross-legged, pulled out a paper scroll from his sleeve, and unfolded it, muttering in a low voice: "Before the Purple Cloud Void Emperor of Shangqing, the Jade Morning Lord of the Great Dao. In his leisure time, he writes seven-character poems in Ruizhu, and transforms into the five forms and myriad gods..."
Jin Zhu said that the method of cultivation given by the Imperial Household Department was of the utmost confidentiality and should be burned after reading.
But Chen Ji couldn't memorize everything he saw, so he could only carry it with him and recite a section from time to time. After a few days, Chen Ji had only memorized half of it.
He repeated Zhayun over and over again, speaking very quickly.
The scriptures that originally required a stick of incense to recite can now be recited in half a stick of incense.
Wu Yun was shocked: "Suddenly encountering danger, and practicing temporarily? Fierce!"
Chen Ji shook his head: "I'm not practicing, I'm calling for help."
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(End of this chapter)
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