Chapter 31
The young disciple in the alchemy workshop felt that Xiaoyao Sect seemed to have been robbed recently. Seven days ago, he and two senior brothers secretly refined more than 20 aphrodisiac pills. Their master did not allow them to refine this medicine because it could easily destroy the Tao heart of those who practice Taoism. The three of them originally planned to sell it privately to other disciples or some independent cultivators after some time.
Unexpectedly, when I counted the aphrodisiac pills today, I found that half of them were missing. The box was originally full, but now there are only a dozen or so pills scattered around.
He hurriedly called over Senior Brothers Thirteen and Eighteen, who were refining the elixir with him. The three of them looked at each other for a moment. Senior Brother Thirteen pondered for a moment and asked suspiciously, "Junior Brother, could it be that you stole the elixir and sold it to someone else privately?"
The place where they hid the elixirs was very secretive, in a side room in the southeast of the alchemy workshop. Few people came here, and they also hid them in a corner where they usually kept miscellaneous items.
Logically... no one except the three of them would know where the aphrodisiac pill is hidden.
What's more, if someone really stole it, why wouldn't they steal it all at once? Instead, only half of it is missing. It looks like someone did it on purpose.
"Brother Thirteen, please don't slander me," the younger disciple said angrily, his face flushing red. "Since I've been working with you two, how could I do such a treacherous thing?"
"Besides, if I hadn't come to check, I'm afraid you wouldn't even know that the pills were stolen!"
Thirteenth Senior Brother retorted, "Who knows if you're the thief crying 'stop thief'? You stole the elixir yourself, then pretended not to know and informed Eighteen and me, pocketing the spirit stones we sold."
The younger disciple was furious: "You! I even said it was you, Senior Brother, who took it! You were clearly responsible for guarding the pills a few days ago, how come you didn't notice they were missing!"
Thirteen didn't take it too seriously because he thought no one would notice. When questioned by his junior fellow apprentice, he just said stubbornly, "I saw it clearly wasn't missing. It seems you're the one crying thief!"
"Alright," Eighteenth Senior Brother said calmly, "Junior Junior Brother is not a thief, so I don't think he was responsible. The most urgent thing is that the place where the elixir is hidden has been discovered. We need to move quickly. If Master finds out, we will all be in trouble."
The Pill Elder usually looks amiable, but all the disciples in the Pill Shop know that their master has different methods of punishing disciples who make mistakes. Last time, because the Eighteenth Senior Brother did not prepare the herbs cleanly enough, the Pill Elder punished him by making him turn over all the herbs drying in the Pill Shop.
If the master knew that they were secretly developing aphrodisiac pills, I'm afraid—
"Master won't let us eat and then stay in the ice cave for three days, right?" The anger faded away, and the little junior brother's face turned pale.
Thirteenth Senior Brother replied in a dead voice, "Or maybe we can each look after the alchemy furnace for a month." Anyone who dares to lose focus while looking after the alchemy furnace will be sprayed with black smoke in the face by the furnace fire.
Eighteenth Senior Brother: "...Anyway, let's go to another place first."
The three of them exchanged glances. Thirteenth Senior Brother took the porcelain bottle of aphrodisiac and stuffed it into his arms. Amidst the two men's uncertain looks, he calmly said, "We don't have a good place to hide it right now. I'll take it back to my room first, and leave it at the medicine shop at the foot of the mountain tomorrow morning."
"I know the owner of that medicine shop. If anyone wants it, they can just pick it up at the shop. We'll just pay the owner some storage fees."
However, Xiaoyao Sect did not dare to let them go again. Who knows when they will expose the three of them? Not to mention that Thirteen did not trust his two junior brothers very much now.
Eighteen had no objection. Although the junior brother was dissatisfied with Thirteenth Brother's suspicion of him, he finally clenched his fist and swallowed his anger.
Never mind, now is not the time to worry about it.
The three of them retreated from the side room one after another. Thirteen didn't say much and went straight back to his wooden house. He hid the pills in a wooden box in the cabinet and locked the cabinet. After making sure that no one could open it, he turned around and went to ask for leave from the pill elder.
The wooden door closed tightly. As Thirteen's footsteps receded, a little squirrel in a robe gradually appeared in the room. There was fire in the little squirrel's eyes, and its little feet angrily kicked a stone that had fallen on the ground against the wall.
It turns out that it is really harmful!
Rats need help getting rid of pests!
After practicing dual cultivation with Qin Mian for another three days, Song Shu finally ran out of the cave to get some fresh air, and met Ahua and several cats who presented him with aphrodisiac pills.
Song Shu accepted the pills given by the cats with an expressionless face, and asked them where they found the aphrodisiac pills. After learning the hiding place, he took out an invisibility talisman from his ring, turned invisible and went to the side room of the alchemy workshop, ready to destroy all the aphrodisiac pills.
Unexpectedly, before he could do anything, his junior fellow apprentice from the alchemy workshop came first. Not only did he discover that the aphrodisiac pill was missing, he also called over his "accomplices" who made the pill together!
With his paws clenched tightly, Song Shu turned his head to look at the closed cabinet door and sneered, "I'm going to make sure you know this time that you can't do anything that harms others!"
He must make sure that these three people will never dare to refine this rat-harming elixir again!
Tentatively pulling the cabinet door outwards, Song Shu discovered that although the cabinet door was locked, there was a triangular gap underneath, just enough for a person's palm to fit in.
However, a person can only fit a palm in, but for a petite squirrel, it can fit its entire body in.
A large orange-red tail flashed through the gap. Song Shu went into the cabinet and took out the porcelain bottle that Thirteen had just put into the wooden box. He then put the aphrodisiac pills that the cats had given him before into the box, leaving only one.
After putting the aphrodisiac pill in, he used his claws to scratch the cabinet door, poked his head out from the gap, exerted a little force with his two hind paws, and jumped out of the cabinet with his whole body.
He clapped his paws, took out a pen and paper from his ring, wrote three letters in a sloppy handwriting, and then rushed out through the open wooden window.
Humph, let you three be the rat killers!
Just wait for the rats!
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"How come you have time to come to my place today?"
Looking at Qin Mian who had come to his house on his own initiative, Xuan Hua teased, "Where's your bad-tempered little squirrel? Why isn't it with you? Could it be that the little squirrel regrets it?"
Qin Mian slowly sat down opposite Xuan Hua, a smile on his face, and replied indifferently: "He loves to go out and play, I can't always restrain him."
Xuan Hua nodded, crossed his legs, and said nonchalantly: "Tsk, that's right, the little squirrel is young and likes to be lively. He is nothing like you..."
The subsequent words gradually faded in Qin Mian's half-smile. Xuan Hua cleared his throat and stopped talking.
For those of them who practice Taoism, their age is just for show, there is nothing much to say.
Looking away, Xuan Hua abruptly changed the subject: "Then why did you come to see me today?"
Unless it was an urgent matter, Qin Mian rarely looked for him. Xuan Hua was very confident in his eldest disciple and let him do the work in the sect, which made him worry-free. He never asked too many questions.
It's nothing like Ling You who is in charge now. He seems to be unable to bear the thought of letting Xuan Hua relax for a while, and bothers him with both big and small things. As a result, he dares not return to his cave recently. He can only come to this pavilion in the middle of the lake to appreciate the pink lotus and green lotus and hide away in peace.
A hint of smile flashed across his handsome eyes, and Qin Mian whispered, "I want to ask for leave."
His back stiffened, and Xuan Hua said implicitly, "Didn't I say that I would let Ling You take charge of the affairs of the sect for you for a month..."
"I'm going to take a year off," Qin Mian said slowly. "You also said that Song Shu is young and hasn't seen the prosperity of the world yet. I plan to take him to travel around the human world for a year and enjoy the fireworks of the world."
Xuan Hua's mouth twitched. "If you want to see the fireworks, just go to the county town at the foot of the mountain and take a walk. That's all."
Qin Mian didn't say anything, just stared at Xuan Hua.
Xuan Hua: ...
Xuan Hua: "Half a year."
Qin Mian: "One year."
Xuan Hua collapsed and said, "If Ling You is allowed to take care of these trivial matters for a year, he will tear me apart."
Qin Mian smiled calmly: "That's even better. Master, you have been idle for two hundred years. It's time to get busy."
Xuan Hua: ...Unfilial son!
How come he accepts so many unfilial people!
After returning to the cave from Xuan Hua, Qin Mian walked leisurely on the road, thinking about how to coax the little squirrel. Since Song Shu failed to take revenge and was beaten instead, he woke up and was very angry.
He turned over everything in the cave, whipped Qin Mian with his big tail more than ten times, and then ran out of the cave shouting for revenge.
Qin Mian didn't know who he was going to seek revenge on, but he wasn't too worried. Song Shu looked reckless, but he was not stupid. He had a lot of protective magic weapons on him, and he was in the Xiaoyao Sect, so he would definitely be fine.
As soon as he stepped into the cave, a silver light flashed before his eyes, and a young man in a white robe and black boots stabbed at him with a long sword. Qin Mian slightly turned his body to avoid Song Shu's sword.
With a frivolous frown, he said with a smile: "Did your revenge fail?" She was so angry that she came back to murder her husband.
“Who said that!”
Song Shu put away his sword and raised his chin proudly: "Humph, just wait, they will definitely be in trouble tonight."
But when he came back, he didn't see Qin Mian, so Song Shu wanted to scare him and let him bully the rat!
Without asking how Song Shu took revenge, Qin Mian said with some regret: "Did you destroy all the aphrodisiac pills?"
"About the same."
Song Shu said vaguely: "Anyway, after tonight, no one will dare to refine aphrodisiac pills in private."
Cut the grass at its roots!
The rat will make those who secretly refine these things regret it!
Seeing Song Shu smiling again with his eyebrows curved, Qin Mian raised his hand to hook the strands of hair on his forehead and chuckled, "It seems you have done something extraordinary."
The big ponytail behind her head shook, and Song Shu said proudly:
It is not a matter of course for a man as powerful as Rat to do great things!
At night, the man and the rat had a rare moment of quiet practice. Song Shu held his breath and concentrated, and found that his cultivation had improved a little. Although it was not as much as the last time when he practiced dual cultivation with Qin Mian, the effect was still considerable.
He opened his eyes and looked suspiciously at Qin Mian, who was meditating with his eyes closed, for a while. Someone beside him seemed to notice his gaze and suddenly looked over, saying with a smile, "What's wrong?"
Uncrossing her legs, Song Shu grabbed Qin Mian's arm and asked curiously, "Why can dual cultivation increase your cultivation? Has your cultivation increased?"
Raising his other hand and touching Song Shu's soft cheek, Qin Mian said seriously, "Of course there is."
With his face wrinkled like a bun, Song Shu asked curiously, "Since dual cultivation can increase your cultivation, why do you have to practice alone?"
Song Shu calculated that the three days of dual cultivation between him and Qin Mian would increase his cultivation level more than the three days of meditation alone.
"That's because you are only in the Foundation Establishment stage now, so you feel that your cultivation is increasing rapidly. In the future, when your cultivation reaches a higher level, the increase in your cultivation from dual cultivation will be insignificant, or even difficult to detect." Qin Mian explained.
Therefore, the rat’s cultivation level is too low, so he thinks that dual cultivation can increase his cultivation level more!
"Then what is your cultivation level?"
Song Shu knew that Qin Mian's cultivation was higher than his, but he didn't know what level he was at.
He poked Song Shu's face with his finger, which was then quickly grasped in someone's palm. Qin Mian said softly, "I'm only in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul."
Song Shu: Nascent Soul!
With his mind spinning frantically, Song Shu let go of Qin Mian's hand and began to calculate carefully. He was only in the Foundation Establishment stage now. After the Foundation Establishment stage, there was the Golden Core stage, and after the Golden Core stage, there was the Nascent Soul stage!
Shu's cultivation level is actually so much lower than Qin Mian's!
With a stern face, Song Shu looked at Qin Mian seriously, then crossed his legs without saying a word, closed his eyes and prepared to meditate.
How can a rat be worse than a Taoist companion!
But he was quiet here, and Qin Mian, who saw the little squirrel's thoughts, came over and deliberately teased him, "Song Shu, do you want to practice dual cultivation?"
"You are still in the Foundation Establishment stage. The increase in your cultivation through dual cultivation is much higher than that through cultivation. Wait until you reach the Golden Core stage..."
Song Shu interrupted him: "So after the Golden Core Stage, there will be no more dual cultivation?"
Qin Mian sneered: "That's still not possible."
The rat knows!
Fiercely pouncing on Qin Mian, Song Shu rode on his waist, looking at him with disdainful eyes and said, "Dual cultivation is fine, but you are not allowed to move!"
Only mice can move!
There is no aphrodisiac this time, Qin Mian is not allowed to bully the rat again!
"All right."
With his hands neatly placed on either side, his slightly cold eyes and eyebrows were filled with tenderness and ambiguity, his black hair spread out on the quilt. Qin Mian smiled gently, "I won't move."
snort.
A rat’s companion must listen to the rat!
Rolling up his sleeves, Song Shu leaned over and bit Qin Mian's lips fiercely. The tip of his teeth gently rubbed for a while. Before he could see Qin Mian's smiling eyes, he inserted the tip of his tongue into the gap between his lips and kissed him gently...
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Something happened in Xiaoyao Gate that was neither big nor small.
I heard that the Alchemy Elder was drugged with the Xiaoyao Sect's banned drug - the Aphrodisiac Pill. Someone ground the pill into powder and put it into the Alchemy Elder's teapot, causing the Alchemy Elder, who habitually drank tea as soon as he returned to the house, to be drugged.
Fortunately, the efficacy of the aphrodisiac pill was weakened after it was mixed with water, and the elder didn't drink much, so no big mistake was made.
But after finally recovering, the Pill Elder found a piece of paper on the table with a few words scribbled on it:
"The master must pay the apprentice's debt!"
The Pill Elder: ...Which unlucky disciple was selling aphrodisiac pills privately and was found by someone!
Furious, the alchemy elder immediately sent people to the disciples' residences to thoroughly investigate the matter of refining the aphrodisiac pill. However, he did not expect that during the investigation he would run into the youngest and eighteenth senior brothers who went to the thirteenth senior brother to argue with him about whether he had hidden the pill secretly.
Otherwise, how come there were several more aphrodisiac pills in the porcelain bottle after he took them away!
The three people who were arguing were caught red-handed and were punished by the Alchemy Elder to kneel for a whole night.
On the second day, the medicine elder destroyed all the aphrodisiac pills in front of everyone, and issued a stern warning that anyone who dared to make aphrodisiac pills in the future would have to guard the pill furnace for a year and would not be allowed to refine pills during that time.
Disciples: ...
They rely on refining pills to earn some spirit stones. If they can't refine pills, where will they get the spirit stones to buy medicinal materials and research new pills!
As for Thirteen, Eighteen and the junior brother, the three were punished to look after the alchemy furnace for three months each, and they also had to clean the floor of the alchemy workshop every day.
After hearing this, Song Shu leaned back on the rattan chair and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back.
This is the price of offending rats!
As for Xiaohong and the cats who brought the medicine, Song Shu punished them by making them face the wall in the corner and reflect on their mistakes. They were not allowed to lie down, but could only stand on their hind legs and cling to the wall with their front paws. After an hour, Song Shu exempted them from punishment and instructed them:
"If you see any of these harmful pills in the future, destroy them! Don't give them away as gifts anymore."
Xiaohong, Ahua and other kittens nodded repeatedly. The fox and the cats had never expected that the elixir they found not only failed to win the favor of the sect leader, but was also severely criticized.
For a moment, they all hated the disciples in the alchemy workshop who made the medicine. They always went to the courtyard of the alchemy workshop and screamed and howled at night, disturbing the people who had to guard the alchemy furnace and making it even more difficult for them to be annoyed.
After letting out the anger in his heart, Song Shu found a sunny day, took Qin Mian's hand and said, "I want to tell you a secret today."
Qin Mian followed Song Shu all the way and passed through a dense forest. Finally, he saw a pavilion with a simple door in the middle of the bamboo forest. There were many spirit pets sitting or standing in the pavilion, some of which looked very familiar to Qin Mian.
"quack!"
"Woof woof~"
"Meow~"
"Wow~"
"Welcome to the Sect Master, Madam! Welcome to the Sect Master, Madam!"...
Qin Mian's eyelids twitched as the parrot chirped flatteringly. He looked at the exaggerated words "Rat Gate" on the door, then at Song Shu, who looked smug, and asked tentatively, "What are they doing..."
"They respect you!"
Song Shu pinched his waist, with an air of "I built this kingdom for you" and said proudly, "I am now the leader of the Rat Sect, and these are all my disciples. How are you? Are they all in high spirits?"
Rat’s disciples are the best disciples in the world!
"You mean, the Sect Master they're talking about... Madam is calling me?"
Having lived for a long time, Qin Mian had never thought that the title of Sect Master's Wife would have anything to do with him.
"What else?" Song Shu looked at Qin Mian as if he were a fool.
Shu is the sect leader, and if Qin Mian is not the sect leader’s wife, then who is?
Qin Mian: ...
Never mind, this was also the little squirrel's recognition of his status. Trying to comfort himself, Qin Mian gave a dry laugh and replied, "That's good. I just didn't expect you to become the sect leader without my knowledge."
Humph, rats are very capable!
With his chest puffed out, Song Shu pulled Qin Mian, brushing past a group of spirit pets, to the center of the pavilion and formally introduced him: "Qin Mian will be your sect master's wife in the future. When you see her, you must be as respectful as you would be to me. Do you understand?"
"quack!"
“Meow!”
“I understand, I understand!”…
Amid the cries of the animals, a weasel laughed out loud in a very unsociable manner. It lay on the little white dog, laughing with its back raised, obviously finding the scene very funny.
The weasel finally waited for the day when Qin Mian would be humiliated!
Look at the dry smile on his face. When he gets back, he must have a good laugh with Xuanxu!
"Ah Huang, what are you laughing at?" Song Shu asked dissatisfiedly.
He didn't like people laughing at him, nor did he like people laughing at Qin Mian.
Ah Huang turned over and explained, "I'm happy for the Sect Master's wife!"
So that's how it is. Song Shu felt relieved and turned to look at the smile on Qin Mian's face again, and her heart grew even more filled with joy.
Qin Mian must have been very surprised when he knew Shu was the sect leader!
Seeing Song Shu's eyes full of expectation, Qin Mian chuckled softly, not bothering to care about Ah Huang's ridicule. He took Song Shu's hand and whispered in his ear, "Master Song is so majestic."
hey-hey.
Song Shu liked Qin Mian's praise the most. He grinned and tried his best to maintain the dignity of the sect leader, but his heart was already filled with joy.
Rats are majestic!
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The author has something to say: Song Shu: Rats are the most majestic!
Qin Mian: Agree [Come on]
Small Theater:
After a fierce back-and-forth, Song Shu's weapons changed from the casually picked up AK and Uzi to the powerful P90 and M249. When the whole building quieted down, he contacted his teammates, "Building 3 has been cleared."
Ling Yang: "There are two more people in Building No. 1."
Ah Hua and Ling Yang are together.
Compared to the calmness of the other three, Ah Huang seemed much more excited. He hid in a small room, huddled in a corner: "Come and save me! There are so many people here, and I haven't picked up the sniper yet!"
Song Shu: ...What a useless weasel!
Carrying a P90, Song Shu fired all the way and first shot down the two people in Building No. 2 together with Ling Yang. Then the three of them ran to Building No. 2 together to rescue Ah Huang who was in a small corner.
At the same time, on a high tower not far away, a man in camouflage uniform, tall and long-legged, looked as if he wasn't in the middle of a gunfight but in the middle of a fashion show. He tapped the barrel of an M200 sniper rifle. Qin Mian heard Xuan Hua's urging voice in his earpiece: "There are several people coming to Building No. 2. See if you can snipe one of them."
Looking at a furry squirrel head that broke into the scope, the little squirrel was wearing bulletproof armor, holding a submachine gun in his hand, and carrying a light machine gun on his back. His expression was serious and a little weird and funny, but also very cute.
Seeing the little squirrel raise his gun and shoot a man to the ground, Qin Mian was stunned for a moment, then a smile appeared in his eyes, and he said softly:
"receive."
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