Chapter Thirteen [Departure]
The next day, the sky just turned hazy and Liu Zhuo woke up. He had done almost a whole day of farm work last night. When he got up, he felt sore all over his body. However, when he thought of leaving the village where he had lived for almost ten years, he became excited in his heart.
By the time the roosters in the village crowed, he had already packed his bags, and the jar of wine was also put into the package. At Chen Yuzhu's urging, he went out for breakfast.
Seeing that his son was about to leave him, Chen Yuzhu was a little reluctant. She sat at the dining table and squeezed out a few tears. She held Liu Zhuo's hand and gave some advice.
"Mom, I will be careful. When I can learn the magic of immortality, I will definitely come back to see you." Liu Zhuo could only smile bitterly in his heart and comfort me with words.
Liu Dazhi looked careless. He was confident in his son and urged: "Okay, don't be slap, Zhuozi, let's go, don't let Mr. Zhang wait for a long time."
"Come on, bring the dry food and the water hyacinth." Chen Yuzhu, with red eyes, hung another bag on Liu Zhuo's shoulder.
Liu Zhuo weighed the weight of the burden and immediately understood in his heart how much effort his mom had spent, and he couldn't help but be moved.
At this time, Liu Dazhi also took out two heavy silver ingots and stuffed them into Liu Zhuo's clothes, and said happily: "Bring more silver is better than bringing too much dry food. Okay, let's go."
Liu Zhuo nodded repeatedly.
Under Chen Yuzhu's reluctance to leave, the father and son walked towards the home of Li Yun, the village head in the east end of the village.
The father and son were silent on the way. Seeing that their beloved son left home, Liu Dazhi was naturally a little sad. After a cup of tea, they arrived at the village chief's home.
In the yard, there were three large carriages parked, and several grooms in short-drawn fed the horses. The young master Zhang Shun was greeting the village chief and his family in the yard. There were still five or six young men in the village carrying bags and waiting on the side. It seemed that they were about to set off.
"Mr. Zhang, my Zhuozi will trouble you." Liu Dazhi happily came over.
Zhang Shun wore a silk robe that day, looking very noble. He said, "Where, where... Brother Liu, don't worry."
"Hey, hasn't Zhuzi come yet?" Liu Zhuo looked around and said in confusion.
Li Yun said: "It's true that everything you should have arrived, and it's just a short time for Iron Pillar."
"Then don't take him there. Tiezhu is confused all day long. Such a stupid thing will go in vain if he goes there." Beside Li Yun, there was a boy wearing a cloth clothes and carrying a bag, but was cleanly clean. He looked displeased.
This young man is Li Kang. Liu Zhuo frowned when he saw his squint look.
Zhang Shun waved his hand and smiled, "It's okay, let's wait, cousin, you and your friends will get on the carriage first, I'll let the servants go to Tiezhu's house to take a look."
"Let's get in the car." Li Kang said complainingly. He waved his hand and was the first to climb up the carriage. The other children followed.
Liu Zhuo also got on the carriage and sat in the farthest corner from Li Kang. He had no communication with Li Kang on weekdays, and because of his identity as a scholar, Li Kang was a little embarrassed about him.
On the contrary, Tiezhu often stood up for other children. He relied on his bull-like physique to beat Li Kang to the ground. After that, Li Kang was sure to ask Li Yun to complain. Li Yun had only Li Kang's grandson, who was so precious that he would definitely call Zhang Degui to scold him.
After Zhang Degui was scolded by the village chief, Tiezhu couldn't escape this beat.
After waiting for a while, Zhang Degui hurried over with Tiezhu, and clasped his fists and said that his own fault was not.
When Liu Zhuo saw Tiezhu hanging a big bag on his chest and climbing up his two carriages with a bitter face, he quickly pulled him up and asked, "Tiezhu, what's wrong with you?"
After getting on the car, Tiezhu gave Li Kang a blank look, sat next to Liu Zhuo, and sighed, "Don't mention it, it's not because of your pork head meat. I seemed to have eaten too much yesterday, but I got tired of my stomach all night, and my feet are soft now."
Liu Zhuo smiled: "You won't eat up all the pig's heads alone, right?"
Tiezhu smiled embarrassedly and scratched his head and said, "Yes, your mother's braised pork head meat is so delicious."
Liu Zhuo was amused in his heart and said, "It's your duty, you deserve it."
Li Kang, who was sitting in the center, glanced at this moment and interrupted, "You foodie, you still want to practice immortality, just dream."
Tiezhu shook his fists and stared, "Try it, let me tell you? Do you want to be beaten?"
Li Kang said disdainfully: "Foodie! Come and hit me. If you dare to hit me, don't think about going to Wuzhi Peak. But it's a joke if you go like a bull."
"You..." Tiezhu stood up in anger, but was forced back to his seat by Liu Zhuo. Liu Zhuo glanced at Tiezhu and smiled at Li Kang: "Okay, Zhuzi has this temper, don't be as good as him."
"Hmph." Tiezhu glared at Li Kang fiercely and turned his head away.
Li Kang glanced at Liu Zhuo. He was very jealous of Liu Zhuo's ability to pass the scholar at the age of eight. Now, relying on his cousin's support, he was confident and immediately teased: "You are not much better than that foodie. Don't think that you will be great if you read a few books."
After hearing this, Liu Zhuo just smiled and stopped talking.
He was born with a calm and decisive personality. Ordinary harsh words could not arouse his anger, but he had already decided in his heart that he would definitely make this kid who relied on his power to take advantage of it next time.
Despite the quarrel inside the carriage, the people outside the carriage were unaware of it.
Zhang Shun said to several mountain villagers: "I used to go out of our village, so don't worry. If the children were not selected by the immortals, someone would naturally send them home."
Several mountain people said yes, and then greeted Mr. Zhang again. It was not too early, so a group of people said goodbye with fists.
After Zhang Shun got on the carriage in front, several grooms slammed the whip and slapped the wheels on the mud and left wheel marks. They drove down the mountain at the speed of ordinary people running.
The mountain road was bumpy and the carriage was shaking. Half an hour later, the convoy had passed Qingshan Town.
Liu Zhuo suddenly remembered that the clean Bishui River was sucked by the jar of wine, so he quickly lifted up the door curtain and looked out.
At this time, the convoy happened to pass by the place where he threw the jar last time. I saw the water on the originally yellow riverbed, with hazy fog, and the waves on the river surface kept tumbling, which was even more rapid than before.
"Probably the water from the upstream flows over again, and the water is much larger than before. It seems that I have done something good." Liu Zhuo was relieved and crawled back into the car with a smile, sighing in his heart.
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