My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 779 Master and Disciple

"Boom~"

In the backyard of Wulong Temple halfway up the mountain, a plume of black smoke rose into the sky, and the windows were blown out.

"Cough cough cough~"

A figure covered in smoke rushed out of the house, coughing as he ran, almost coughing out his lungs. He sounded young.

I saw this figure coughing for a long time, finally feeling a little better, and then wiped the black ash on his face, revealing the face of a young man.

However, the young man suddenly looked around in panic, and immediately shouted "Master", then rushed into the room with thick smoke, and soon dragged out a thin figure.

"Master, how are you? Master~"

The young man put the thin figure flat on the ground, beat his chest and pinched his chest. After a long time, he heard the thin figure scream, and he sat up all of a sudden, and then he gasped for air, a look on his face. Full of fear.

"Master, you finally woke up. If you don't wake up, I can only dig a hole and bury you!"

The young man finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the other party was awake.

"Bury your grandma's legs. I'm very lucky. Even if you die, I won't be able to die!"

The thin figure climbed up, pointed at the young man and cursed angrily.

"That's not necessarily the case. If you continue to concentrate on refining the Ascension Pill, I think you are not far away from ascending to heaven!"

The young man was not afraid of his master at all, and he said carelessly.

"You know what the heck, if I refine the Ascension Pill and send it to some dignitaries in Beijing, I will definitely be treated as their guest. I will enjoy endless wealth and wealth, and I can also marry you. , I’m doing this all for you!”

The thin master wiped his face and cursed again. He was about thirty or forty years old, with a face that was round at the top and pointed at the bottom, with almost no flesh, a swollen nose, and small eyes. He turned out to be a very ugly middle-aged man.

"Don't put gold on your face. You obviously want glory and wealth, but you use me as an excuse. Now the alchemy has failed, and all the materials you spent so much money on have been scrapped. What do you think should be done now? manage?"

Although the boy is young, he is not easy to fool, and he has grown up with his master, so he knows his character very well.

"What else can I do? Of course it's up to Liang to do it. Hurry up and make some food. Only after eating is full can I have the strength to think about things!"

The middle-aged man patted his tattered Taoist robe and said, "Although he looks ugly, he is actually a Taoist priest. His Taoist name is Duzhu, and he is the master of the Five Dragons Temple. However, there are only two masters and disciples in the entire Taoist temple." people.

"Don't even think about eating. I made the last bit of rice into porridge yesterday and drank it. Now the mice in the kitchen are starving to death!"

The boy spread his hands and replied.

The boy's name is Xu Yue. He is an orphan. He grew up with Du Zhu in a Taoist temple. Although they are called master and disciple, they are actually similar to father and son emotionally. Sometimes he even suspects that Du Zhu may be his father.

“If there’s no rice, wouldn’t you go down the mountain to buy it?”

Duzhu glared at his apprentice angrily and said, he was usually busy studying alchemy and didn't have much discipline for this apprentice, so he let him develop a neither big nor small character, which sometimes made him very angry.

"Give me money!"

Xu Yue stretched out her hand directly to Du Zhu.

"You...can't you get some rice back on credit first?"

As soon as he heard that he wanted to get money, Duzhu immediately showed a distressed expression.

"Last time, we paid on credit. The boss of the rice shop said that if we don't pay him again this time, he will go up the mountain to ask us for payment!"

Xu Yue replied plausibly.

"you……"

Duzhu was at a loss for words, and finally said impatiently: "Wait a minute, I'll get the money!"

As he spoke, Duzhu turned around and returned to his messy bedroom. After rummaging through the bed and boxes for a long time, he finally found a few ten-penny banknotes. Then he left the room with satisfaction, handed it to his apprentice and said, "Take it." go!"

"That's all?"

Xu Yue saw the dozens of pennies in her hand. This amount of money could not even pay off the last debt, let alone buy rice.

"Why are you so stupid? You owe the rice shop first. Anyway, our Taoist temple is here, and we will pay him back sooner or later. Take these dozens of coins and buy some side dishes first, and then buy a bottle of good wine." , I was frightened today, so of course I need to make up for it!"

Duzhu glared at his apprentice and ordered again.

"Do you still have money in your hand? You spent all the money today, what will we eat tomorrow?"

Xu Yue was anxious. He knew the revenue and expenditure in the Taoist temple very well. In the past, there were some Taoist fields that could be rented to farmers down the mountain for farming. Plus some perfume money, so the income of Wulong Temple was pretty good. But after his unreliable master took over the Taoist temple, he was not only lazy about food, but also obsessed with alchemy. In order to buy some materials for alchemy, he even sold the Taoist field, leaving the entire Taoist temple with only an empty frame. If he couldn't think of a way, Both master and apprentice had to go to the streets to beg for food.

"If you have wine today, you will be drunk today, and you will be worried tomorrow. Why are you so young at your mother-in-law?"

Duzhu pouted at his apprentice.

"But……"

Xu Yue wanted to say something more, but was interrupted by Du Zhu: "Go if you are told to go, no more nonsense, I have my own plans as a teacher!"

Xu Yue didn't dare to say anything at this time, so she had to turn around and leave the Taoist temple, but as she walked, she cursed in her stomach. Meeting such a master was a fate destined to happen.

Seeing Xu Yue leaving, Du Zhu fetched water to wash his face and changed into a set of clothes that didn't smell good. Then he returned to his alchemy room and saw an alchemy furnace as tall as a person standing inside. But it was blown up in the middle. If their master and apprentice hadn't been so lucky just now, I'm afraid they would have been killed directly.

"What's wrong? Why does it explode when heated?"

Duzhu looked at the broken alchemy furnace and the mess everywhere, with a distressed expression on his face. In order to raise these alchemy items, he risked all his wealth, but he didn't expect that he still failed.

Although Duzhu looks unreliable, he actually has a pretty good background. His master is a famous alchemist in the Taoist sect. He has learned alchemy from his master since he was a child. He also visited some noble mansions, but later he There was something wrong with the elixir that the master gave to a nobleman, so they took refuge here in Wulong Mountain.

When Duzhu was a boy, he had seen his master visiting the mansions of wealthy aristocrats, so he was very envious of it, so he studied alchemy hard, hoping that one day he could be a guest of dignitaries like his master, but he did not expect that he would ascend to heaven after carefully preparing for it. But the elixir failed. Instead of refining the elixir, a pile of yellow powder was produced, which almost killed their master and disciple.

"It's all my fault that old ghost, my master, died so early. Apart from leaving behind a pile of alchemy books, he failed to pass on all the alchemy skills to me!"

Duzhu cursed in a low voice. Since his master took refuge here, he had been depressed all day long and passed away soon. However, Duzhu was not good at studying, so he could only read books and study by himself, and he had no money to buy materials for experiments, which resulted in him refining it. Things are a bit out of control.

Thinking of the above, Duzhu felt very depressed, but he had no choice, life had to go on, so he rummaged around in the alchemy room to see if there was anything useful?

But it is a pity that the previous explosion not only destroyed the alchemy furnace, but also destroyed many valuable materials. However, most of the alchemy experience he recorded was preserved because it was stored far away.

So Duzhu had no choice but to collect the papers that recorded his experiences, planning to start refining the alchemy again when he had the opportunity in the future.

Just as Duzhu Gangma was packing up the alchemy room, he saw Xu Yue walking in with a few bags of vegetables in one hand and a jug of wine in the other.

"Good disciple, bring the wine quickly!"

When Duzhu saw the wine bottle in his apprentice's hand, he immediately shouted greedily.

"Drink, drink, drink. Just drink. This jug of wine can exchange for several kilograms of food!"

Although Xu Yue complained, she still put the things on a low table, then found a wine bowl for Du Zhu and poured him a bowl of wine herself.

Duzhu quickly came to the table, picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one gulp, then clucked his tongue and frowned: "Why is this wine so weak? Did you only drink a little and then add water to it? "

"It's unfair, Master. I drank half a kilogram of wine and definitely didn't add any water. The wine seller Hu Si must have added water to the wine!"

Xu Yue immediately raised her hands and swore.

"Hu Si, this profiteer, is adding more and more water to his wine!"

When Duzhu heard this, he immediately cursed. In fact, everyone at the foot of the mountain knew that Hu Si's wine was mixed with water, but there was no way. Hu Si's family was the only one selling liquor within dozens of miles, so an alcoholic like Du Zhu, even if he knew that the wine was mixed with water, There was water in it, so I could only identify it by pinching my nose.

"Master, don't just focus on drinking, hurry up and eat food!"

Xu Yue picked up her chopsticks at this time and opened the few paper bags she had brought. She saw that there were several common dishes inside, such as pig meat and braised tofu, which Du Zhu liked to eat.

"Not bad, not bad, I am still the closest to you as a disciple!"

Duzhu looked at several dishes and nodded with satisfaction, then picked up a piece of pork liver with chopsticks and threw it into his mouth. He chewed it a few times and took a sip of wine, with a look of enjoyment on his face.

Xu Yue had been hungry for a long time, and he also knew that after eating this meal, he didn't know when the next meal would be, so he kept putting food in his mouth, stuffing his mouth full.

Seeing his apprentice's greedy appearance, Duzhu cursed a few times angrily, but did not stop him, as long as he didn't compete with him for a drink.

"Huh? This is..."

Just when the master and apprentice were about to finish eating the vegetables in several paper bags, Duzhu suddenly shouted in surprise, then reached out and picked up the paper wrapping the pig's guts and looked at it.

"Recruiting talented people, the Han Dynasty recruits strange people and strangers, those who are proficient in the art of cinnabar, lead, and mercury will be given priority!"

Duzhu looked at the content on the paper and couldn't help but read it softly.

(End of this chapter)