Aunt Chen is back from the world of cultivation

When Huiyun heard this, her head buzzed. She only heard one sentence -

The master of the temple is leaving Cihang Temple!

From the last month of last year to now, her time at Cihang Temple can be described as returning from hell to the human world.

Originally, she lived a miserable life under Ci'an just for the purpose of one day being able to be with an important figure, return to the capital, and take revenge on the enemies who put her in such a situation.

But since she followed the abbot and was trusted, loved, and entrusted with important tasks by him, and participated in major events that she had never dared to imagine before, the hatred in her heart gradually settled.

She found a new meaning in life and felt that revenge or not was not that important anymore.

Sometimes she even felt that if she had to go through all those hardships to meet the master, even if she was asked to choose again, she would still be willing to exchange all the hardships she had experienced for the life she has today.

But now that the temple master was leaving Cihang Temple, she couldn't help but feel confused and panicked, as if she had suddenly lost her backbone.

After a while, she said as rationally as possible:

"I...I will protect Cihang Temple for the master."

Chen Qingzhu looked at her expression, his heart softened, he gently patted her shoulder, and said softly:

"Don't be afraid. Before I leave, I will leave you some means of self-protection. Also, you must trust the other disciples. They are no longer as weak and vulnerable as they once were."

Hearing the abbot's voice, which was gentler than usual, Huiyun's uneasiness was instantly soothed. She regained her senses and felt extremely ashamed.

For their safety, the abbot changed his tough style and was even willing to treat the Li family who had seriously offended Cihang Temple. However, when she heard that the abbot wanted to leave, she acted like a child who was about to leave her parents. How could she be worthy of the abbot's teachings and trust in the past.

The master of the temple is going out, he must have something important to do, she can't let the master worry.

Thinking of this, Huiyun's tone became sonorous and firm:

"I will definitely guard Cihang Temple for you and wait for you to come back!"

"Okay, I believe you."

Chen Qingzhu's eyes were full of trust.

*

Minister Li was overjoyed to receive the reply from Cihang Temple.

In fact, twenty thousand taels was already a very large sum of money. After paying one hundred thousand taels, he even had to go to a pawnshop to mortgage some land deeds.

But compared with the 100,000 taels of silver as an apology, 20,000 taels seemed to be nothing.

It even made people feel that if he added another 20,000 taels, he could cure his only grandson, and the money was absolutely worth it.

Seeing that his grandson was getting weaker, Minister Li did not care that it was getting late, and immediately took all the cash and the silver notes that were pledged, and escorted by dozens of guards and servants, rushed to Cihang Temple.

It was already dusk when we arrived at Cihang Temple.

This time, it was Minister Li who personally went forward to negotiate. When the steward Huiyun came, Minister Li's attitude was extremely respectful:

"As soon as I heard that the abbot was magnanimous and willing to forgive my humble family, I came here to apologize immediately."

"We had only heard that your temple could cure colds, so we wanted to seek medical treatment, but we didn't expect that two lowly slaves would act on their own initiative and offend your temple. Now, Li has beaten these two people to death to serve as a warning to others."

As he spoke, he pointed to two bodies being carried by several servants.

Both of them had been beaten to a bloody mess and their appearance was unrecognizable, but judging from their bloated and plump bodies, they must be the respected servants in the mansion.

After the incident a few days ago where the temple master had killed dozens of Japanese pirates with huge rocks, Huiyun was no longer concerned about these bloody scenes.

Hearing this, he just looked at her calmly for a few seconds, then nodded slightly.

Minister Li quickly asked someone to offer silver as an apology.

In addition to a stack of silver bills, there were also several boxes of silver and two boxes of small gold bars.

Huiyun was not shy and calmly ordered someone to count the amount on the spot. Then he said to Minister Li:

"Leave your little grandson to my disciples. You wait here."

There was no intention of inviting them in to sit down and entertain them.

Minister Li was somewhat unhappy. He gave more than 100,000 taels of silver but couldn't even get a seat.

This Cihang Temple is really grand!

If they are abandoned by the noble one day, he will definitely repay them for the humiliation they suffered today.

Even though he was thinking this in his mind, his expression remained respectful and kind.

He handed his little grandson, whose body was burning and unconscious, to the disciples of Cihang Temple, and said "thank you for your trouble".

Then he waited anxiously outside the Taoist temple.

But a moment later, the sound of footsteps and a clear shout came into my ears:

"grandfather!"

Minister Li turned around in disbelief and saw his grandson Gui Ge'er running towards him with a happy face.

The expression on his face and his steps were relaxed, without any sign of sickness.

"Gui brother!"

He quickly pulled the person over and touched him, and found that his body was no longer hot, and even the color of his lips had returned to the rosy redness of when he was not sick.

"Gui Ge'er, are you...are you okay?"

"Yeah!" Gui Ge'er nodded affirmatively, "I feel stronger now, my flesh doesn't hurt at all, and my stomach doesn't feel hot anymore, I feel so comfortable! Grandfather, I'm so hungry, I want to eat cherry meat! I want to eat osmanthus cake!"

Even my appetite has completely recovered.

This is completely different from the drowsy look when the fever temporarily subsided. It is obvious that he has completely recovered!

But he had only been in the Taoist temple for less than two moments.

When Minister Li heard his wife talking about Censor Yuan's wife, he thought it was a fantasy.

But looking at his grandson who was full of energy, he began to feel that there really were gods in this world!

No matter how powerful ordinary medical skills are, it is impossible to achieve such quick results.

No wonder that mysterious nobleman would protect Cihang Temple so much!

At this moment, Minister Li completely forgot about the idea of ​​dealing with Cihang Temple again.

Given the miraculous abilities of Cihang Temple, it is unlikely that the noble person will no longer protect Cihang Temple.

Besides, he wasn't crazy enough to continue to have a grudge against such a Taoist temple that possessed supernatural powers.

Cold is the most common fatal disease. He is not young anymore. If he gets a serious cold one day, he can still come to Cihang Temple for help.

As for the money for apology, the military pay of the Ministry of War, the tributes from the subordinates, and the additional 10% rent for all the tenants of the Li family...

No, the rent is already 70% now. If we increase it any more, those peasants will probably rebel.

Perhaps we could let them weave more cloth in their spare time and then let the soldiers in the army buy it.

In short, in a few years, the money can be earned back.

Thinking of this, Minister Li's anger was completely relieved.

"Thank you, Taoist priest! Thank you, Master!"

He bowed and thanked with all his heart.

Huiyun instructed:

"The affairs of Cihang Temple should not be spread lightly to outsiders."

"Don't worry, of course."

Perhaps the mysterious noble wanted to keep this Taoist temple with magical powers privately, so how could he go against the noble's wishes?

*

After resolving the issue of Minister Li, Chen Qingzhu began to prepare for the upcoming trip.

This journey is different from the journey in the cultivation world that requires one to comprehend the mortal world and break through bottlenecks.

She is now more like recovering her cultivation. She has no lack of insights and no bottlenecks. As long as she has enough spiritual energy and absorbs it quickly, her cultivation can be improved quickly.

Through past summaries, she has made it clear that the speed of absorbing spiritual energy is closely related to merit.

Although this year will be the coldest winter in the history of the country, there are no opportunities for her to gain a lot of merit near Nandu.

On the contrary, the southern province of Jiangxi will face a large-scale plague at the turn of winter and spring.

If we can stop this plague, the effect will be comparable to the relief of the flood in the summer.

By that time, the jade offered by the believers of Cihang Temple would probably not be able to keep up with her cultivation speed.

She needs to find an unowned jade mine.

In short, now that she needs to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining in a shorter time, staying in Cihang Temple will restrict her.

It is imperative to go out.

But before going out, she had to leave enough fairy dew for Cihang Temple to attract believers and give the disciples of Cihang Temple some means of self-protection.

Her specialty is talismans. If she could make talismans and leave a bunch of offensive and defensive talismans for her disciples, that would be the simplest and most useful.

However, making talismans requires converting the five elements of spiritual energy at any time and in one go. Now she is only at the fourth level of Qi Refining, and she is simply unable to convert her own water and wood spiritual energy into other attributes. If she wants to draw talismans, she needs to wait until the later stage of Qi Refining.

Due to limited conditions, she could only choose a formation based on the five elements.

In this way, one can directly draw power from nature. As long as one understands the principles and memorizes the formation diagram, one will not be restricted by one's cultivation level.

In her previous life, because of the need for cultivation, she also dabbled in battle formations.

Now we can set up some basic small-scale formations to protect the disciples of Cihang Temple.