Chapter 2: Capturing the Pill(1/2)
The sign in his hand is as big as a slap, rectangular, which seems to be made of wood, but it is quite heavy. The three words "Ghost Valley" are engraved on the front, and the pattern of a valley is engraved. When I turned over, I saw that there was "Tu Yuan" engraved on the back, and then the words "Sleeping in Seventy-Eight Beds".
Is this talking about the bed number?
Tu Yuan didn't know the direction, so he just looked around and looked for it based on his feelings. He was looking for those single buildings, which were probably the place for the disciples in the valley to live.
Fortunately, Yinhun Valley is not very big, it is just as big as a high school in the county. I found a row of single houses in about twenty minutes. When I arrived in front of the house, I saw wooden signs next to the door with words on it, saying one to four beds.
He went in the direction and came to the room of the seventy-eight bed.
The door of the room was open, and there was a man sitting on the bed inside, sitting cross-legged and closed his eyes, as if he was practicing.
As soon as Tu Yuan walked in, he opened his eyes.
After looking at Tu Yuan, he didn't say anything. Tu Yuan came to the fore and said, and he was not the kind of person who was good at talking, so he did not take the initiative to speak, found his own bed, and then began to look at the room.
The walls of the house were covered with stones, and the beds were also stone beds. The light was very dark and there was a cold feeling, which made him very uncomfortable.
There was no quilt on the bed, just a stone bed, nothing else, and the same was true for other empty beds. When I looked at the bed where someone was sitting in the practice, there was nothing else, but there was an extra futon under him.
How to sleep this night? Tu Yuan thought to himself.
I wanted to ask that person, but the other party was practicing there with his eyes closed, which made him dare not speak for a while, for fear of disturbing others.
After sitting for a while, I got up and went out, and went to the door of another room to take a look. Some of them were closed and some were not visible, and some were not closed. The same was true inside.
Don't you have to sleep?
After returning, the man opened his eyes and looked at it again. Tu Yuan took the opportunity to ask: "Is there no quilt here?"
The other party seemed to have known that Tu Yuan had such doubts, or that he had such questions himself, and said calmly: "No."
"How can I sleep? It's so cold."
"You'll know in one night."
After saying that, he closed his eyes again. Tu Yuan wanted to ask again, but the other party closed his eyes, as if he didn't want to speak anymore.
Looking at the empty room and watching the occasional people walking past outside, I was nervous, both with my own identity and my confusion about the future.
Here, he always feels gloomy and feels that this is not a place of righteousness.
The man sitting on the bed practicing suddenly opened his eyes and shouted with a little anger: "Don't walk around and disturb others' practice. If you have any, you can go to the servient room to ask."
Tu Yuan was not angry after hearing this, but instead asked: "Where is the servile house?"
"Go out and turn right and walk to your head." After saying that, he closed his eyes again.
Tu Yuan went out and came to the servient house. He found that at the end of the row of houses he was staying, there were a large house, and there were many people entering and leaving. This cold and ghost valley became a little more angry.
The room was divided into two sides by a very long counter-like table, with three people inside, and several of them were waiting for something in front of two.
"I've been doing it in the medicine garden for a month. This is my nameplate and business card."
When Tu Yuan heard this, he saw the person inside taking two signs, then took a booklet from a huge bookcase behind him, opened it and looked at it, and then said, "The reward is a yellow bud pill, hold it."
The man smiled happily, and then a yellow pill went out.
Later, someone continued to report what he had done, handed over the sign, and took the reward.
Tu Yuan was waiting there. Although there were three people sitting inside, one of them was sitting on the side reading a book, and no one was in front of her, so Tu Yuan didn't dare to ask her anything.
After everyone was exposed, he came close and said cautiously: "I just entered the Ghost Valley today, and I don't know many things,..."
Before he could finish speaking, the man reached out and pointed to the woman in black robe who had been sitting there reading a book not far away, and did not speak.
Tu Yuan understood what he meant and came to the woman in black robe again.
The woman kept her head down, and when she walked closer, she could tell that she was not young.
"Excuse me."
The woman in black robe looked up, her eyes were a little narrow and sharp, but the part below her forehead on the right half of her face turned out to be black, dry, like tree bark. Tu Yuan was shocked, and he quickly looked away and said, "I am the Yinhun Valley I just entered today. I don't know many things and don't know what to do."
"Give me the nameplate, have you found a place to live?" the woman in black robe asked directly.
“Finally found.”
"Who brought you in?" asked the woman in black robe again.
Tu Yuan was slightly stunned and felt a little uneasy. He was most afraid of others asking about these things.
"Uncle Qiu."
The woman in black robe looked up at Tu Yuan, and seemed to smile at the corner of her mouth: "Quo Baijie? Why didn't he bring you here?"
Tu Yuan didn't know how to answer, but fortunately the woman in black robe didn't need him to answer, and said in the direction where the other two were: "Prepare a piece of grain."
One of the two men immediately stood up.
"You have just entered the valley now and have something to collect. If you use it up in the future, you will have to earn it yourself."
"How to make money?" Tu Yuan asked.
"Do work for the valley, come here to consulate."
Even if she didn't say it, Tu Yuan had probably guessed it after seeing it.
"You can learn the method of practice in the Dharma Hall."
At this time, a woman with a tray, bottles and jars came over and placed them on the table. The woman in black robe moved to her, picked up a small bottle and said, "This is the removal of filthy water, which can remove filthy air in the mouth."
"This is a gourd that holds water. There is a spring on the west side of the valley. You can go there to fill a gourd water for daily drinking."
"There are ten grains of fasting pills in this place, and one grain can help you avoid hunger for three days."
“This is a terrain map in the valley…”
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The things you receive from the servient house are all things you need to use in life, but you need to earn everything you have to do afterwards.
What Tu Yuan wanted to ask the most about sleeping without a quilt. Of course, he asked, but the result he got was that there was no.
It is said that sleeping on the stone bed is good for the body. At first, you will feel cold. After the yin spirit enters the body, the internal organs will become warm and have the effect of cutting the marrow and washing the meridians.
When he returned to his residence, the man was still sitting on the bed practicing. Speaking of which, the other party was not very big, and he looked only sixteen or seventeen years old. He was probably older than his current body and looked very hardworking. But judging from his appearance, he seemed to have experienced many things and was cold.
The other party just opened his eyes and looked at him. Tu Yuan smiled at him, saying hello, and thanked him for guiding him to go to the servitor room.
He held a bunch of things in his hand and placed them on the stone bed. He looked at the sky. He didn't know when it was now. He wanted to install a Hushan Spring, then get a practice technique, and go to a toilet.
But holding a bunch of things is inconvenient, and I am afraid that someone will take them away.
After a while, he decided to speak and let the person sitting there take care of him.
The other party responded lightly, and Tu Yuan didn't hear it too clearly. After thanking him, he took the map and went out.
First I went to the thatched cottage, but fortunately there was toilet paper in the thatched cottage. Then I went to the mountain spring to fill a gourd mountain spring.
When I finally arrived at the Dharma transmission room, I found that the door was closed and had to come back helplessly.
But after I came back, I found that there were several people standing in front of the room where I lived, arguing about something.
When I got closer, I saw that the person who was in the same room with me was arguing with someone else.
"He's back."
As soon as Tu Yuan approached, he heard the man who was in the same room say, and the other three turned their heads to look at Tu Yuan. This made Tu Yuan suddenly have a bad premonition.
The three of them were all wearing gray robes and looking at Tu Yuan. Among the three, one of them was tall and very strong.
"New?" asked the tall and strong man.
"Um."
"Have you obtained the pill?" the tall and strong man said coldly.
blackmail?
Tu Yuan thought of this at the first time.
"This is your thing." The co-sitting roommate threw a small bottle in his hand towards Tu Yuan. Tu Yuan took it in his hand and saw that it was the bottle containing the fasting pill.
They were just asking for the fasting pill, but were he stopped?
Tu Yuanchao, who had never said a few words to him, looked at him in the room, and only saw him standing at the door and watching without any intention of paying attention to this matter.
"Take it over!" the big man stretched out his hand and said coldly.
Tu Yuan was surrounded in the middle, and he felt a little panicked.
No matter which world you are in, what happens will be the same. Tu Yuan retreated, but stepped on someone's feet.
Before he could turn around and say something, someone grabbed the back of his neck.
In an instant, a stinging sensation came to my heart and my whole body was not moving.
Tu Yuan decided that the hero would not suffer any loss at the moment. He didn't know if anyone would care about such a thing here, but seeing their blatant appearance, it seemed that there would be no problem, and he didn't even know who he wanted to stand up.
"What are you paying?" Tu Yuan guessed it, but he still asked with a tough bullet.
The leader touched his head and smiled, "Everyone who has received the pill must hand it over to me. This is the rule."
“How much to pay?”
To be continued...