days of being forced

Chapter 114

In the days that followed, Lin Yuan gradually lost hope from the initial panic, all the good words, to the intense insults, and finally to the begging for mercy, leaning motionless against the wall of the medicine cauldron, feeling The medicine cauldron was constantly eroding his soul, devouring his energy and even his entire soul.

He thought that Gu Xingzhi had already blocked his voice, but it was not the case. Gu Xingzhi kept listening, but did not reply.

Listening and listening, the suppressed depression in his heart finally gradually spit out.No one knows that he was as fierce as a wolf cub since he was a child, and he was once vulnerable. He also hoped that he could live a life without being bullied by relying on the medicine cauldron, so that his mother would also be valued .

When Lin Yuan was actually turned into nutrients and completely digested by the medicine cauldron, Gu Xingzhi put this matter behind him and began to concentrate on preparing for the upgrade of the medicine cauldron.

His current strength is completely enough to match the medicinal cauldron of the holy rank.After upgrading to the holy rank, after merging the conceived spirit with Jiang Ning's soul, I guess it will be fine.

The nascent spirit has no consciousness, just like a blank sheet of paper, so there is no need to worry about other things.

After having his own space, Gu Xingzhi's demand for low-level medicinal materials in this world has been reduced a lot. Except for refining some pharmacopoeias mixed with some tasks assigned, he rarely asks for these anymore.The collection of folk medicinal materials has also stopped.Of course, he still finds time to go to the academy run by his family every few days to teach those doctors how to make medicine.

The elixir he refined has high efficacy, and many difficult and miscellaneous diseases can be solved, without the common people spending a lot of money like in the past, which makes his reputation among the people remain high, and the aura is also wave after wave Steady coming.

As he became obsessed with upgrading, he had less and less contact with the emperor, and he didn't like to go to the palace anymore. The contradiction between the two was reduced on the surface, and the emperor fell silent for a while, no longer playing tricks secretly.

After three years of living in peace, the emperor came to the door.

When Jiang Ning heard the maid's report, she waved her hand to let people go down, and went to find Gu Xingzhi by herself.In the past three years, their place of residence has also changed. After all, they are in the famous National Teacher's Mansion, which is too bad.Jiang Ning adapted very well to the new house, he likes the best.

"Cousin, the emperor is here." He ran all the way into Gu Xingzhi's pharmacy. Thanks to Gu Xingzhi, he is not as in awe of the emperor now as he used to be, and the Yong'an Hou Mansion has nothing to do with him anyway, "He is Is there something wrong?"

Jiang Ningke still remembered that the emperor secretly made trouble for Gu Xingzhi. He had always been extra vigilant against creatures like the emperor, that is, Gu Xingzhi didn't take it seriously, so he could only calm down.

Gu Xingzhi kept refining the medicine, and said, "It's nothing, don't scare yourself."

Jiang Ning sat next to him: "Aren't we going over there?" This was the first time the emperor came to their mansion, and if there were other courtiers, the whole mansion would have gone to welcome them, he was somewhat generous.

"Wait a minute, I'll go when I'm done practicing," Gu Xingzhi said.

After he finished his exercises, a long time had passed, Jiang Ning let it go after urging him once, and went to do his own thing.In the flower hall, the faces of the emperor Chen Yan and others were also gloomy.

Gu Xingzhi walked in, and Chen Yan took the upper seat, he didn't care about it, he just pulled a chair and sat down, then raised his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?" It doesn't make people feel that he is in the lower position when he sits at the bottom.

Chen Yan looked at Gu Xingzhi silently, but his method was obviously useless to Gu Xingzhi, so he had no choice but to say: "Our previous deal, I gave you the position of national teacher, and you gave me 20 years of life." Since He had tripped Gu Xingzhi in private before, so Gu Xingzhi stopped sending him some pills from time to time.

His body was originally pulled back by Gu Xingzhi when it was exhausted. After these three years, he could no longer hold on.But the relationship between him and Gu Xingzhi has fallen into the cold war period since he wanted everyone in the world to be hostile to Gu Xingzhi. Later, Gu Xingzhi even insisted on fighting with neighboring countries, and dealt with the rebels of the defeated countries with iron blood and ruthlessness. .

After Gu Xingzhi came back, they didn't see each other all the time, and the collection of folk medicinal materials also stopped. He didn't care about it at first, but he was glad that Gu Xingzhi didn't interfere with the court.

He didn't care about Gu Xingzhi anymore.

It's what happened afterwards that really made Chen Yan a little restless. In the past three years, his body has gradually weakened. It's not that he didn't send someone to find Gu Xingzhi, but Gu Xingzhi usually replied flatly that he couldn't practice. , retreat or busy with other things, no time.

Not to mention that this is a person with the ability to become an immortal and cultivate Taoism, Gu Xingzhi dared not do anything just because of Gu Xingzhi's ruthless methods in the arena and traveling around the world, so he could only force himself to endure it.

Now, he can't do anything about it, his body is back and forth, and the princes below are also arguing, so he can only come to find Gu Xingzhi in person.

Gu Xingzhi heard the words, looked at the person opposite, and for a long time, Chen Yan took out a bottle amidst Chen Yan's uneasy mood: "This is the longevity pill that can increase life expectancy by five years."

"Five years?" Chen Yan couldn't maintain his stable expression, he sat up and asked, "Didn't we say 20 years?"

Gu Xingzhi looked at him with a half-smile, and Chen Yan had no choice but to let it go.

Seeing that the person had left, Gu Xingzhi also got up and went back to his pharmacy, continuing his plan to upgrade the medicine cauldron.

Chen Yan, who returned to the palace, stared at the black pill in his hand, and then swallowed it in one gulp.He closed his eyes, feeling that a piece of land in his body that was about to be exhausted suddenly welcomed the river, instantly nourished, and his spirit was also uplifted by it.After the refreshing feeling finally stopped, Chen Yan raised his head, closed his eyes, spread his hands in the air, let out a long sigh, and couldn't help showing an inexplicable smile on his face.

This taste of youthful vitality is really fascinating.

He also felt a similar feeling once, but this was not longevity.

……

Time passed slowly, and after these years, Gu Xingzhi's medicine cauldron was finally about to be upgraded to the holy rank. When the spirit of the weapon was conceived, he could solve Jiang Ning's life.

Things are about to come to an end, Gu Xingzhi also told Jiang Ning: "When the time comes, your soul and weapon spirit will be fused, and your life will be connected to me in the future. As long as I don't die, you will always be with me around."

"Then we will live and die together?" The word "life and death together" almost melted Jiang Ning's heart, as if his whole body was soaked in honey.

"Yeah." Gu Xingzhi shook his head slightly in his heart as he looked at him. He couldn't understand why Jiang Ning was so happy to hear that his life was on someone else's body. He is unwilling to entrust his life to others.

Even if he is about to die, he doesn't want to.

But the only thing he can confirm is that after all these years of getting along, he is not at all tired of Jiang Ning being by his side for a long time.

"However, you may suffer a little during the fusion process."

"It's no problem." Jiang Ning said, it's good to be with Gu Xingzhi forever, even if it suffers a little bit, it's nothing.

Just after the two of them finished talking about things, the servant girl came in and handed a letter to Gu Xingzhi: "My lord, this is your letter."

Gu Xingzhi took it over and took a look. It was written by Gu Qingqing for him. He opened it and saw that his parents were going to Beijing to see him. Qin Yuan will follow and send people over, and send them back when the time comes, so that he can rest assured.

And when the letter arrived, they were already preparing to leave, and now they were probably halfway there.

Jiang Ning came over to take a look: "Father and mother are coming too." His first reaction was not rejection, Gu Xingzhi has always handled this matter better, and he didn't have much contact time with the two elders at all.

Moreover, the National Teacher's Mansion is so big, it's good to arrange to live there after he comes, but he may need to get up early for a while.He didn't expect, for no reason, why two old people who were not too young would leave their hometown and come to live in the capital for a while.

"Yeah." Gu Xingzhi replied, "It will probably be here in half a month, and it will be faster by boat."

"Then I'll arrange for some people to pick up parents at the pier during this time."

"Okay." Gu Xingzhi naturally has no objection, although Gu Qingqing and Qin Yuan know the way, but for parents, there is nothing wrong with making more arrangements, and they must do their best.

On the big boat, Zhao Xiulan was a little excited. She hadn't seen her son for a long time, and she missed it. Moreover, this time she didn't just go to her son's house to stay for a while and think about her own thoughts. I couldn't help asking my husband: "Tell me, if we tell Xiao Er that we will stay in the capital and not go back, will he not like it?"

"No." Gu Chenghai said.When Zhao Xiulan asked this question for the first time, he still analyzed and pondered for a long time, but Zhao Xiulan kept asking it several times every now and then, so he didn't bother to repeat it.But afraid that Zhao Xiulan would be dissatisfied, he added another sentence: "Isn't our son very filial, no way."

"That's true." Zhao Xiulan pondered, her son was naturally filial to her.But it's not been a long time since we saw each other. Some people in the village also gossip, saying that her son has become a national teacher, why didn't they both take over.

Zhao Xiulan scolded back at first, saying that she didn't want to go, but after hearing too much, she felt a little uncomfortable.In fact, she didn't object to her son taking her away. After all, compared to her son, she didn't have much to cherish here.The sky is big and the earth is big, and her son is the biggest, so she gave birth to a son, and her heart naturally follows her son.

As for the daughters, they are already married, so the old man can't still point at the daughters.

It's not that Gu Xingzhi didn't want to pick up people, it's just that he didn't expect it, and influenced by Gu Erlang's memory, he always felt that the people here, especially the farmers, had a very serious feeling of being unable to leave their homeland.And his side is not safe, it's not good for parents to be trapped in the house all the time, it's good to have Gu Qingqing and Qin Yuan taking care of them from afar.

And he didn't think that he would live in the capital all the time, and he would always go back in the future.

But the plan couldn't keep up with Zhao Xiulan's change of thinking.

Zhao Xiulan couldn't bear the fact that they didn't have a child all these years.