Chapter 44 The Epilogue

Every spring, when the river thaws, it is the time when the commercial roads resume. At this time of the year, Canglong Mansion is also busy, with convoys from all over the place coming in and out, transferring a large amount of goods to all parts of the country.

In addition to business luck, another lively event also starts at this time, that is, learning/moving.

Although the admission to Xiyue College only starts in Lixia, but the mountains are far away, and those who are afraid of delaying their trips have already started to prepare for their departure at this time.

This year, Tang Jie was sixteen years old, Shi Meng was fifteen years old, and the young master was fifteen and a half years old. The boys who used to be ignorant have grown into handsome young men one by one. After catching up with adults, people have become much more mature and sensible than before.

The Wu family is very lively today.

As soon as Tang Jie came in from the door, he saw the old man Wu and his wife taking things from the house in large and small bags, all kinds of quilts, clothes, shoes, in piles and piles.

Tang Jie looked surprised: "Father, mother, what are you doing?"

"Hey, isn't this because you are going to Beijing tomorrow? I have to prepare winter clothes for you." Mrs. Wu replied while tidying up.

"But hasn't winter just passed?"

"Then you don't want to spend next year's winter? What about the next year?" Mrs. Wu gave her godson a supercilious look.

Tang Jie was helpless: "Then let's wait until next year. If it really doesn't work, just buy some more."

"Is that possible? Things in Beijing are expensive. Look at our clothes. They are all in good condition. It's a pity that no one wears them." Mrs. Wu said, shaking a small jacket in her hand.

Old man Wu couldn't stand it anymore: "Old woman, yours was worn by Xing'er when he was a child, so don't give it to him. Young people nowadays don't wear old clothes."

"It's still new, it's a pity not to wear it." The old lady muttered, but she still put down the clothes and picked out a few more for Tang Jie to put away.

Then there was another small cloth bag in his hand, and he stuffed the cloth bag into Tang Jie's hand, grabbed Tang Jie's hand and said: "There are twenty-three taels of silver in here, you put it away, go up It’s good to have money.”

Tang Jie shrank his hand: "Mother, what are you doing? I don't need money, and the Wei Mansion has monthly cases."

After becoming servants, the treatment of Tang Jie and Shi Meng has changed. They can receive ten taels of silver a month, which is equivalent to ten thousand yuan a month in the present world. The expenses are all borne by the Wei family.

"Oh, what's the use of those monthly routines. Don't think that mother doesn't know, but the cost of the academy for cultivating immortals is huge. Even the sons and brothers of everyone are complaining every day that the money is not enough. Xinger wrote to me and told me!"

"Brother Xing wrote to tell you that you don't have enough money?" Tang Jie sensed something was wrong.

Mrs. Wu's face froze for a moment, and then she laughed dryly: "Isn't this a letter that came not long ago, saying that I want to buy some fairy medicine, and I don't have money to buy it..."

"How much does he want?"

"Five hundred taels, but we don't have that many, so we gave him one hundred taels."

"One hundred taels? You have given him a lot of money over the years, how can there be another hundred taels?" Tang Jie was stunned, and suddenly came to his senses, he shouted: "Did you give me all the money I gave you these years?" Gave it to him?"

The two elders bowed their heads together in embarrassment.

A surge of anger surged in Tang Jie's heart: "Why did you hide it from me? That's the money I gave you to buy medicine!"

Since Tang Jie spent most of his time in the Wei Mansion these years, Tang Jie could only come to visit occasionally, so apart from sometimes buying medicines by himself after receiving rewards, most of the time he directly gave the money to the elders and asked them to buy some medicines by themselves. Condition the body.

Now it seems that, except for those bought by Tang Jie, they didn't spend a single penny.

"Oh, it's nothing." The old man Wu quickly grabbed Tang Jie: "We are all living such an age, it doesn't matter if we live a few more days or a few days less. Besides, look at our bones, it's good."

As he said that, he punched his chest a few times, but it was too hard, and he coughed again and again. The old man waved his hands quickly: "I'm fine, I'm fine, I just feel a little stuffy recently..."

Mrs. Wu has stepped forward and stuffed the cloth bag into Tang Jie's hand,

Embarrassed, he said: "You gave us the money and kept it without telling you. Originally, I wanted to give it to you when you entered school. I didn't expect Xinger to ask for it, so I gave it to him. I'm sorry for this matter. If not, let’s gather some more…”

"That's not what I'm angry about!" Tang Jie shook his head: "Wu Xing has hands and feet, and he can earn it by himself! One hundred taels of silver is useless in the academy, and I'm afraid it can't even buy a real panacea. However, it can make your health better and provide for your life, but you..."

He wanted to get angry, but he couldn't do it to the elder, so he could only stomp his feet, secretly hating Wu Xing for being ignorant.

The two elders said awkwardly: "After all, I can help some."

Seeing the embarrassment of the two elders, Tang Jie's anger suddenly disappeared, but his eyes became moist.

After a while, he said: "Forget it, even if you didn't give it, you didn't go to buy medicine, so just give it. I hope he can live up to your two elders' intentions."

Hearing Tang Jie's words, the two elders also breathed a sigh of relief. Mrs. Wu insisted on giving Tang Jie the money. Tang Jie knew that if he didn't accept it, the two elders might have a worse life, so they had no choice but to accept it. It's time to prepare After college, find a way to get some real good elixir and send it to the second elder.

That day Tang Jie didn't let the elders do any more activities, he packed everything in the house by himself, and didn't rest until the elders went to sleep.

Lying on the bed, Tang Jie thought leisurely, leaving this time, but he didn't know when he would see the second elder again.

In the past three years, the second elder had already treated him as his own son, so why didn't he treat the second elder as his own father and mother.

Now that he was about to travel far away, Tang Jie couldn't help but feel sad after going away for many years.

Early the next morning, Tang Jie returned to the Wei Mansion with a large bag of clothes, only to see the Jingxin Garden was full of traffic, and countless servants were still busy packing the young master's bags. It seemed that this posture did not seem to be going out of school, but The whole family is going to be moved there.

Although there were only three people enrolled in the school, there were more than a dozen servants accompanying them all the way to Wanquan City, and even a spiritual master followed them to ensure safety along the way. Even if they really arrived in Wanquan City, there would actually be some servants outside Xiyue College, and the servants who enrolled were only responsible for the life in the college.

Tang Jie bypassed the large crowd and went back to his hut in the Wei Mansion, only to find that Manager Qin was already waiting there.

"Uncle Qin!" Tang Jie called out.

Manager Qin looked at Tang Jie with a smile on his face: "We're going on the road tomorrow, have you packed everything?"

"Well, just tidy up the house." Tang Jie replied.

The two entered the room together, and Tang Jie packed the pen, ink, paper and inkstone and some casual clothes on the table, and then took the two pots of flowers off the table.

Qin Guanshi was surprised: "Are you going to take these two potted flowers too?"

Tang Jie smiled and said: "I have been in the Wei Mansion for so long, I have learned nothing but planting flowers, these two potted flowers have been with me for a long time, seeing them will remind me of the years I was here, so I decided to Take it with you as a souvenir.”

Qin Guanshi looked at the pot of small white flowers, the pot of straight and thick root carvings, and the flower pot that Tang Jie made himself. No matter how ugly they looked, he smiled and shook his head: "As expected, talents always have eccentricities. It's all your own business, as long as you like it."

Speaking of this, Guanshi Qin said again: "By the way, you take the money first, and use it when you enter school."

Speaking of which, Manager Qin also took out a bag of silver and handed it to Tang Jie.

"Uncle Qin!"

"Take it." Qin Guanshi replied with a smile: "I know that the elders of the Wu family must have given you some money, but money is never too much. After going to Xiyue Academy, it is no longer the Wei family. If you need anything, I can't help you, so you have to rely on yourself."

"That may not be the case. In fact, there is still something that Uncle Qin can help with."

"Oh? What else do you want me to do for you?" Manager Qin said with a casual smile.

"It's nothing, I just want to ask Uncle Qin to write a few more letters for me..."

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Bringing those two potted flowers back to the Jingxin Garden, everyone was amazed after seeing it.

But Tang Jie is now a celebrity in the Wei Mansion, not to mention that his wife values ​​it, even the family law is entrusted to him, just a "great future" is enough to make all the servants dare not laugh.

There are a total of seven cars in the school team, among which there are three cars with Young Master Guang's luggage, and four cars, one is for the young master to eat and rest, one is for the healer, and the other is for other servants There is another cart for Shi Meng and Tang Jie.

Since the young master needs someone to serve him, Shi Meng and Tang Jie take turns to go there. However, Tang Jie does not serve the young master much, so Shi Meng is mainly responsible for this aspect. Tang Jie is mainly responsible for supervising the young master's cultivation after going to the academy. And restrain his behavior to prevent him from getting into trouble.

Therefore, on this journey, Tang Jie is destined to be much easier than Shi Meng.

At noon, it was finally packed, and after a light meal, the convoy set off on the road. Zheng Shufeng watched his son go, and saw him off all the way, and gave Tang Jie a thousand and one instructions, so he let the convoy leave with tears streaming down his face. .

After getting on the road, Shi Meng went to the young master's side first, while Tang Jie sat alone in the car, watching the scenery outside through the car window.

The scenery outside the window is slowly receding, getting farther and farther away, and gradually even the welcome and see-off crowds have turned into small black spots, disappearing in the eyes...

"Hee hee!" A laugh came from behind his head.

The little one, Yiyi, climbed onto Tang Jie's shoulders. Looking at it now, there was only one of the two pots of flowers left, and only the thick root carving was still standing alone in the pot.

Today's Yiyi is much older than when she met Tang Jie.

The former Thumbelina is now nearly 40 centimeters tall. Although she still looks exquisite, she is no longer the little girl that people worry about at any time and will be trampled to death if she walks carelessly.

Lying on Tang Jie like a little monkey, Yiyi looked out of the window curiously: "Brother, are we finally leaving here?"

"Yeah, I'm leaving." Tang Jie replied mechanically, and suddenly remembered the fear of leaving home that Miss Fourth had said in his mind.

Yes, there are always some people that you can't let go of!

On the other hand, this little thing has been with me since it was born, and has never been in contact with any outsiders. It is heartless and only feels incomparably curious and fresh about traveling.

She giggled and asked Tang Jie: "Is the outside world exciting?"

"Wonderful."

"Is the outside world pretty?"

"nice."

"Then can I go out and play by myself in the future?"

"...No, at least not yet."

Little Yiyi's interest immediately dropped.

She chewed her mouth and said, "I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!"

This childlike voice made Tang Jie's melancholy about parting finally a little less. He patted the little guy's head and said, "Okay, stop making trouble, here, I'll reward you, okay?"

Tang Jie handed over his finger.

Unexpectedly, the little guy shook his head: "No!"

"Why?"

"Because my brother's blood is getting harder to drink now."

"It's unpalatable?" Tang Jie was surprised: "Impossible, it's still the original formula and the original taste."

"That's not what it means!" Xiao Yiyi hopped on Tang Jie's shoulder and shouted, "It doesn't mean it's not good to drink, it's hard...it's difficult...it's just...drinking...it's so difficult!"

Little Yiyi danced and gestured with great effort to draw out what she wanted to say.

It was only then that Tang Jie realized that it turned out that Xiao Yiyi had been sucking his blood for some reason recently, but it was getting more and more difficult, and it often took a lot of effort to suck out a little.

Tang Jie was surprised when he heard this, and looked down at his hands, only to see that the skin was as warm and moist as white jade, not at all like the hands of a laborer, and there was still a faint glow. Tang Jie bit his own hand hard, but he couldn't bite it through, and finally bit it through with more force, only a little blood oozed out, lingering on the fingertips, but it didn't fall off.

"Blood is like mercury!" Tang Jie blurted out.

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PS: Sorry, the code word forgot the time.