Chapter 86 Chen Laodao
After Song Qingming came to Qinghefang, another busy half year passed quickly. During this period, Song Qingming patiently learned how to operate a store and became very familiar with the business in the Song family's store.
During the years of training in Guiyunfang, Song Qingming read a lot of various classics in the world of immortality in the Guiyunfang Merit Pavilion, including many books introducing various spiritual objects. This also helped him learn to run a shop here. Very big.
Nowadays, Song Qingming has basically left all matters in the store to Wang Cheng and several mortal clerks from the Song family. They will only ask Song Qingming when they encounter difficult customers or spiritual objects that they cannot identify. Come out and decide.
Wang Cheng is a casual cultivator hired by his fourth uncle in Qinghefang. He is about the same age as Song Qingming, but their cultivation levels are quite different. Song Qingming is already a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator, and his cultivation level is only Qi Refining. The fourth level of Qi.
But as Song Changqiu said, Wang Cheng is a relatively honest person. Like his fourth aunt, he is also a monk from Qinghefang. Song Changqiu hired this person mainly because Wang Cheng had a relatively innocent background and was surrounded by people around him. There are also many tribesmen living in Qinghefang.
If you rashly hire casual cultivators from out of town to manage the store, you will inevitably be afraid of the appearance of some desperadoes who are motivated by money. After all, people’s hearts are at odds with each other. Whether they are cultivators or ordinary mortals, it is difficult for you to judge a person in a short period of time. Good and bad.
Song Qingming now spends most of her time in the back hall of the shop. In addition to practicing, she also has a lot of free time to make spiritual talismans and earn spiritual stones.
The shop that Song Qingming manages usually also purchases various low-level spiritual objects and talisman-making materials. It is not difficult to collect these low-level materials in the market. After arriving here, Song Qingming used his skills as a talisman-making master to make talisman-making materials in half a year. Over time, many spiritual talismans have been drawn on my body.
He directly put these talismans for sale in the Song family's shop. Qinghefang was full of casual cultivators with low cultivation levels. The middle and lower-grade talismans produced by Song Qingming were very popular here. In his spare time, he also used the shops to With the materials received, several sets of formations were made and placed in the shop, attracting many casual cultivators.
On this day, Song Qingming was meditating with his eyes closed in the back hall. A mortal clerk from the Song family in the shop hurriedly came to his door.
The waiter raised his hand and was about to knock on the door. Unexpectedly, the door suddenly opened from the inside. Song Qingming ignored the surprised look of the waiter and asked softly: "Why do you come to see me?"
"A guest brought a special spiritual object. Master Wang Xian didn't recognize it. Let me invite you to come and have a look."
Song Qingming didn't speak, just nodded slightly and walked ahead.
His cultivation has now broken through the late stage of Qi refining. When he meditates and practices, his spiritual consciousness is spread out ten feet away. He can easily sense the movement in most places in the store. When the clerk came to see him just now, he was still three feet away from his door. His consciousness had already detected it from ten feet away, so he appeared at the door of the room in advance just now.
Song Qingming had just walked to the front hall of the shop and saw several monks in the shop checking out the sale of spiritual objects. Following the guidance of the clerk, Song Qingming immediately saw a man with a long beard standing next to Wang Cheng not far away. The old man in yellow clothes has a high level of cultivation and has reached the late stage of Qi refining.
Wang Cheng held a green elixir in his right hand and was talking to the old man in yellow about the elixir in his hand.
Song Qingming, who was about to walk over, suddenly stopped. After taking a closer look at the old man in yellow, he turned around and retreated into the back hall.
The Song family guy who had been following him felt a little confused when he saw Song Qingming suddenly return. He didn't know what happened and didn't dare to ask, so he could only chase Song Qingming back to the back hall.
"Go and talk to Wang Cheng and ask him to take the guest to the side room in the back hall to entertain him. I'll be here in a minute."
After returning to the back hall, Song Qingming whispered to the waiter behind him, asking him to inform Wang Cheng. Then, with a sneer on his lips, he took out a set of formation flags from his storage bag.
After a while, Wang Cheng and the old man in yellow came to the back hall. After inviting the old man to sit down in the side room, he asked the waiter on the side to serve tea.
"Old senior, our boss will be here soon. Just talk to him directly about the following matters. Junior will go out first, and you can chat slowly." After saying this, Wang Chengcheng smiled and left.
The old man in yellow had just taken a few sips of tea. After a while, he saw a young man in green pushing the door in. He quickly put down the teacup in his hand and stood up.
"This old man, I am Song Qingming, is the person in charge of this store." Song Qingming walked into the room, first introduced himself, and then bowed to the old man in yellow.
After the old man in yellow clothes saw Song Qingming, his expression suddenly changed, and then he pretended to be calm and asked: "My fellow Taoist, you are so polite. My surname is Chen. I look familiar to you. I wonder if you have met the old man somewhere before." ?”
"It's really not easy for me, Senior Chen, to still remember. Ten years ago in Qinghe County, you encountered the Yingchao Ridge robbers that day. Senior, I still remember." Song Qingming knocked on the table lightly and slowly Said slowly.
The old man in yellow sitting next to Song Qingming in front of him was the old Taoist priest Song Qingming met on the way back to Lingyuan Mountain from Funiu Mountain ten years ago.
When Chen Laodao was being chased by robbers, he happened to meet Song Qingming who had just come down the mountain. Later, he also dragged Song Qingming in, almost causing his death in the Yunwu Mountain.
Song Qingming did not have such a bad memory as Chen Laodao. Song Qingming had never forgotten this old Taoist priest who was almost driven to death in the past ten years.
As soon as Song Qingming walked to the front hall of the store, he immediately recognized Chen Laodao, and then specifically asked Wang Cheng to take him to the back hall.
Chen Laodao heard Song Qingming talking about this incident ten years ago, and immediately recognized Song Qingming. He looked at Song Qingming in surprise and said:
"You are that little friend Song that day. I thought you were in trouble. I really didn't expect to see you again. Not only did my little friend escape from danger, but your cultivation level improved so quickly. It's really a blessing from God." People.”
"Fellow Daoist Chen was in jail that day, and he was able to escape thanks to me diverting some of his energy. If I hadn't used a high-grade life-saving talisman given by an elder, I probably wouldn't have had the chance to see you again today," Song Qingming said. After finishing, he smiled and filled another cup of tea for Old Chen.
"When I was in trouble, I had no choice but to ask for help from my friend Song in order to survive. Later, I was able to escape by luck. Every time I think about what happened that day, I feel guilty. Being able to see Xiaoyou Song again today is like fulfilling my wish. ”
Chen Laodao touched the beard at the corner of his mouth, smiled awkwardly, and then took out a high-grade spiritual talisman from his body. He put it on the table with some reluctance and continued to speak to Song Qingming:
"Since I wasted a high-grade spiritual talisman on my little friend back then because of my old ways, God has allowed you and me to meet again today. I must be asking me to replace this magical talisman for my little friend. I hope you don't dislike it."