Du YueYao and Liu Qingyan went to study the latter's new insights into medicine. Thinking that he had not returned to the mountain in a long time, Lu Zheng carried a jar of huadiao wine and swayed his way through the air toward Shaotong Mountain.
"What? Senior Brother Yuan Jing isn't here?"
Lu Zheng had not expected Yuan Jing to be away. "He was invited by Old Master Li of Wang Family Town in Pingtan County to conduct a hundred-day blessing ceremony for his grandson?"
"Pingtan County? Isn't that Chicken Cry Temple's territory?"
Lu Zheng asked Yuan Xing curiously, "Did we go there to steal their business?"
Yuan Xing smiled wryly. "Tonglin County is large enough to support us. It's just that old master Li is wealthy and powerful. Inviting the local Yuan Sheng Sect and Chicken Cry Temple was not enough for him, so he also invited our White Cloud Temple and Yuhe County's Fangzheng Academy, gathering the Divine Maiden, Buddha, daoist Lord, and Confucian Sage all in one place."
"Good heavens!" Lu Zheng clicked his tongue. "Isn't he afraid his grandson's fate isn't tough enough to bear the weight of so many great powers?"
"Junior Brother..." Yuan Fu said speechlessly from the side. "We're going to offer blessings, not subdue demons."
"Ah, right, right, right!" Lu Zheng nodded repeatedly, then lifted the wine jar and food box in his hands. "Since Senior Brother Yuan Jing isn't around, why don't you join me instead?"
Yuan Xing and Yuan Fu exchanged a glance, then nodded together. "Exactly what we had in mind!"
Then Real Person Yuechen's voice sounded from the rear courtyard. "In that case, why aren't you coming in?"
After drinking a jar of huadiao wine and another jar of Wuliangye infused with king ginseng, Lu Zheng felt