My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Seeing that the matter had been resolved, everyone returned to the house. Yixiu said, "Now that Wu Guanshi and those guards are dead, what should we do with the little prince?"

Simu said, "How should I know? If you are willing, send him to the capital. Maybe the emperor will appoint you as the imperial teacher if he is happy!"

Qian He heard this and said, "Not to mention how dangerous this journey is, we don't even know if the emperor is still in office, what's the point of sending him to the capital?"

Then he turned to look at Jiang Li and said, "Nephew, is what you said about the emperor's abdication true?"

Jiang Li had no idea whether it was true or not, he just remembered learning it in history in his previous life. It seemed that it was during this period that Yuan Shikai forced Puyi to abdicate and became the president himself.

As for whether this world is like this, he doesn't know, but he can't say that at this time. After all, these things cannot be explained.

He could only vaguely say, "I just heard some rumors, but I don't know whether they are true or not."

"As for how to place this child, I think it would be most appropriate to leave him to Master Yixiu. There is no need to take him to the capital. I think for such a big matter, we can find out the news in a larger county."

"Then we will have a conclusion on whether to stay or go. If it doesn't work out, you can take him with you as your apprentice. When he grows up, it's up to him to decide how to go about his future."

"Besides, it is really inconvenient for you, a monk, to have a female disciple by your side. If you trust me, why not let her become my senior apprentice, Zhe Gu? She specializes in giving birth and nurturing spirits, which is just right for a woman like Qingqing."

After hearing this, Ikkyu thought for a while and said, "It is indeed inappropriate for me to have a woman by my side, but whether she wants to join the Taoist sect or not, I will have to ask her."

"As for this little prince, he can stay with me for the time being. As for whether he will go or stay in the future, we will decide when the time comes!"

Seeing that these things had been discussed almost completely, Jiang Li said goodbye to the others and said, "My two uncles and the master, you guys can chat. I'm really exhausted, so I'm going back to my room to rest."

After getting the consent of several people, he returned to his room alone, sat cross-legged and practiced internal energy to recover the consumed magic power. As for Simu Chizuru Ikkyu and others, they continued to discuss the follow-up matters.

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Early the next morning, Jiang Li took eight Taoist soldiers to Gaoshulin, found the copper-horned golden coffin hidden on the side of the road, and transported it back to the Simu Taoist temple.

When Jiale saw this "golden coffin", he exclaimed, "Oh, Junior Brother, you actually brought this coffin back. Even if it's made of copper, it must be very valuable!"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Of course it's valuable. This thing is not only decorated with gold, but the brass has also been infected by corpse qi and baptized by heavenly thunder. It is a rare material for refining instruments. When the time comes, each of us disciples will be equipped with several instruments. How can we describe how magnificent it is?"

Then he called Chizuru Ikkyu and Shimoku and asked them to cut off a part each to make a magic weapon.

But Ikkiu said, "After all, this is someone else's property. It would be a bad idea for us to claim it as our own!"

Jiang Li smiled and said, "Master Yixiu is wrong. We saved the little prince's life. These gold and copper should be regarded as his life payment."

"Wait a minute, you will saw off a piece of gold and keep it for him temporarily. If the situation changes in the future, you can give it to him and he will be rich for the rest of his life."

Upon hearing this, Master Yixiu glanced at the little prince who was peeking at the door, and then said, "That's the only way. The material of this copper coffin is really rare. I can just make a few magic tools for him to defend himself."

Seeing that the matter had been settled, Simu immediately found tools and began to split the walls of the coffin. As for the coffin lid and coffin floor, they were not touched because they were too thick.

Speaking of which, this coffin is worth a lot of money. Apart from anything else, the more than 1,000 kilograms of copper alone is a huge fortune in this day and age. What's more, there are gold decorations on the four corners. This cutting yields a total of 36 kilograms of gold.

Several people took some gold and divided up a few hundred kilograms of copper, and the rest went to Jiang Li.

After an inventory, Jiang Li obtained a total of nine kilograms of gold, eight hundred kilograms of brass that was contaminated by Yin Qi and corpse Qi and baptized by heavenly thunder, plus a fox spirit that could transform into human form. Overall, the harvest was quite fruitful.

Jiang Li wanted to leave at that moment, but when he thought of Simu's strange behavior, he wondered, "What is his reason? Why doesn't he want to stick with Uncle Jiu? There shouldn't be any harm in this, right?"

He immediately found Qianhe, who was checking the injuries of several disciples, and pulled him aside and asked, "Uncle Qianhe, do you know if Uncle Simu has any conflicts with my master or Uncle Zhegu?"

Qian He was stunned when he heard this and said, "We brothers have always been in harmony in the mountains. Even when we go out of the mountains, we often exchange letters. Why do you ask this?"

After hearing this, Jiang Li thought for a while and then told him about Uncle Jiu inviting Simu to go up the mountain. He even roughly repeated Simu's excuses for declining.

Qian He frowned the more he listened. After Jiang Li finished speaking, he saw Qian He frowned and said nothing, so he asked, "Master Qian He, do you know anything?"

Qian He heard this without saying anything, and took Jiang Li to find Simu who was about to split the brass. Simu smiled and asked, "Junior brother, what do you want from me?"

Qian He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he asked, "I heard that Senior Brother Lin once invited you to practice at Qingyun Temple, but you refused. Is this true?"

The four of them looked at Jiang Li awkwardly, and then said to Qianhe in an unnatural way, "It is true, but I didn't..."

"Are you still thinking about cultivating a spiritual corpse, or have you already done it and are unable to extricate yourself at this critical moment?" Qianhe asked seriously.

Simu felt guilty when he heard this, but he did not refute it. Jiang Li knew that this was probably the case when he saw this, and immediately asked, "Uncle Simu, you really raised a spirit corpse, I wonder how the matter is going?"

Qianhe Simu looked at Jiang Li in surprise when he heard that. They were curious that when Jiang Li learned that Simu was raising a spirit corpse, he was not surprised at all. Instead, he was concerned about the progress of the taming of the spirit corpse.

After a long period of hesitation, Simu still brought Jiang Li Qianhe to the morgue, opened a secret compartment, took a torch and led the two of them into a secret room below.

After the three of them went down to the underground, Simu lit several oil lamps on the wall, and only then could the two of them see the situation underground clearly.

I saw a zombie standing in the middle of the secret room, fixed to the wall with iron chains. When it saw the three people coming, it let out a series of roars.

Seeing this, Chizuru said, "Where did this zombie come from, and why does it seem to have no signs of being tamed at all?"

Simu smiled bitterly and said, "This zombie is one of my clients, but he has no family to take him in, so I am keeping him here."

"Come to think of it, I chose this place as my dojo because I thought it was suitable for raising corpses."

After that, without paying any attention to Jiang Li and Qian He, he said to himself, "I usually feed it with my own blood essence, but unfortunately the effect of raising corpses here is too good. The blood I release each time can't keep up with its growth speed."

Jiang Li asked doubtfully, "Master, have you tried raising some animals to take blood to feed it? I see that its corpse energy seems to be very weak?"