Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 50 I have a treasure house, but you don’t know it

The night when the fire broke out in Xiejiazhuang.

Some are happy while others are sad. The people in the village are busy putting out the fire, while the friends in the mountain temple are watching the fire from the other side and gloating over their misfortune.

"Hahaha, Xie is dreaming, now everything is lost, right?" The civet cat licked the wine in the bowl and said smugly, "You still want to take advantage of Yuan? Dream on!"

"Yes, yes, the young master is really amazing!" Huang Lao Er held a chicken leg in one hand and a wine bowl in the other, and said with admiration: "I actually beat him in a game, I am really amazing."

Uncle Hu San was in charge of roasting chicken for everyone. Hearing this, he took a sip of wine and said, "I don't know who had the young master tied up and whipped."

"You were picked up and thrown down by the young master, and you've become a fox cake!" Huang Laoer immediately retorted.

Chibaobao laughed so hard that he almost got his throat choked by a chicken bone...

A Yao, however, was absent-minded. He hugged his knees and stared at the campfire in a daze.

The branches and leaves of Liu Zhongjun rustled, and he asked her if she was worried about Yuan.

A Yao nodded, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "A Yuan is already perfect in both orifices, and with Senior Tian Liangzi's secret protection, he shouldn't be in danger. But I just feel uneasy..."

Then he sighed and said, "Oh, if I had known earlier, I would have asked Senior to help look after the house, and I would have followed Yuan."

"My queen is worried that the young master will never come back, right?" Everyone else saw through it but didn't say anything, except Huang Laoer, who was simple-minded and spoke his mind.

The warm atmosphere suddenly stagnated.

"A Yuan won't leave!" The civet cat punched Huang Laoer on the head.

"Oh, it's hard to say." Master Hu sighed and said, "Young Master has long planned to flee far away, and now is a good opportunity."

Then he said to everyone, "Just go. The young master has done enough for everyone and for visiting the fairyland. We can't rely on him forever, can we?"

"That's right. Anyway, he has cut off the cause and effect with the Xie family. It's a good opportunity for him to change the environment and start anew. With Yuan's ability, he will soon be successful no matter where he is." The senior sister said with red eyes and took a deep breath:

"We can't be so selfish..."

"Who said I was leaving?" At this time, a familiar voice sounded at the door.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound in surprise, and saw Ren Yuan and Tian Liangzi appear from the darkness with smiles on their faces.

"Yuan is back! Yuan is back!" The civet cat was overjoyed and jumped onto his head, jumping and dancing happily. "I knew you wouldn't abandon us!"

"Silly boy, why did you come back?" The tears that the senior sister had been holding back finally rolled down, and a smile broke out on her face involuntarily.

"How can I abandon my companions and run away?" Ren Yuan smiled and sat down beside the fire. He took the chicken leg handed to him by Mr. Hu San and asked, "How is it? Are the fireworks beautiful tonight?"

"That's so spectacular!" He successfully diverted everyone's attention. Everyone was excited and talked about the grand occasion of Xiejiazhuang.

"Half the sky is lit up red, it's more lively than Chinese New Year!"

"We can see the fire in Xiejiazhuang even though we are deep in the mountains..."

"Smell it, the air is still filled with the smell of burnt food." Uncle Hu said with a smile.

"Stupid old man, you burned my fish!" The civet cat jumped up and down in anxiety.

"Oh, I was just busy talking." Uncle Hu quickly turned the grilled fish over.

"Everyone deserves credit this time." Ren Yuan held the wine jar and filled it up for Tian Liangzi first: "Thanks to your magic, we were able to move out the 80,000 shi of grain." Ren Yuan was reluctant to burn all the grain in the Xiejiazhuang public warehouse, but asked Tian Liangzi to use his magic to move out most of it in advance. Tian Liangzi could drain the water from Jiuqu River several times, so of course he could drain all the rice in the warehouse.

"If you weren't afraid of being exposed, we could absorb all of the 120,000 stones. It would just be a matter of making a few more trips back and forth." Tian Liangzi picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.

"They are not blind. They must leave enough food as a cover to avoid being exposed." Ren Yuan smiled and said, "Anyway, it is not our food anymore, so it is not a pity to burn it."

As he said this, he poured another bowl of wine for Master Hu San and said, "Thanks to Master San's family members who hid in the village and set fire, Xiejia Village was burned so cleanly."

"Alas, it's a pity that we have to find another place to live." Mr. Hu sighed.

"Once the lower house is built, you will have your own place to live." Ren Yuan said with a smile.

"That's great." Mr. Hu smiled, drank the wine in one gulp, wiped his mouth and said, "My entire Hu family swears to follow the queen and the young master till death!"

"Haha, good." Ren Yuan smiled and poured a bowl of wine for Huang Lao Er: "Old Huang's Qingxie debt repayment technique has been very effective this time."

"Hehe, that's fine, it's just that it has brought disaster to all the green flies in the whole village." Huang Lao Er finished his drink and asked curiously, "But little master, where did you hide the money?"

"Well..." Ren Yuan smiled and glanced at his senior sister.

A Yao threw a chicken leg to block Huang Lao Er's mouth and said, "Secret."

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I dreamed that night.

Ren Yuan returned to the Dream Boat as usual. The wooden boat had become a treasure ship. All the gold, silver and jewelry from Xiejiazhuang were here. Even the deck was piled with thick copper coins.

He hid all the Qingxie money here, it would be strange if County Lieutenant Xie could find it.

So the reason why Mr. Chen couldn’t find the six jars before was because they were brought into Ren Yuan’s dream.

Now this Dream Boat is not only Ren Yuan’s time house, but also his safe.

But every advantage has its disadvantages. Now he has no place to put his feet and can only sit cross-legged on the mountain of money. He feels that the essence of the sun and the moon he inhaled today is full of the smell of copper.

Well, that was just his excuse, the reality was... he was stuck again.

Since I opened the second orifice and started practicing Taiyin Jue, two months have passed in reality, and ten months in the dream.

During the past ten months, Ren Yuan practiced hard without slacking off for even a single day, and finally achieved the state of perfect harmony between yin and yang.

Now, the golden sun qi and silver moon qi in his body had merged into a green, sticky jelly-like vortex that filled the furnace of creation. No matter how hard he tried, he could not increase it by even a little bit.

This was not the first time that Ren Yuan had this feeling. He sighed, knowing that he had probably reached a bottleneck again.

With the experience from last time, he knew that it was useless to be anxious this time. But Ren Yuan knew that the real crisis was about to come, so he dared not slack off for a moment. He spent the remaining time practicing all the talisman techniques he could cultivate.

Thanks to the Dream Boat, he had mastered the talismans taught by his senior sister. However, most of the talismans he had mastered were mainly used to catch ghosts and cure diseases, and to protect himself from evil spirits, and they lacked offensive means.

The senior sister said that this was because offensive talismans required great mana to draw. At least one had to reach the state of "using the three lights to form a talisman".

He hasn't yet mastered the Three Lights, so he can't use it.

"Oh, three lights, three lights, how can I get all three lights?" Ren Yuan exited the dream with a sigh.

(End of this chapter)