Chapter 16 Leaving Beijing Early

In the Xu Mansion in Shangjing, the head of the family, Xu Zhongzhi, was appointed as the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He did a great job in daily affairs and was deeply loved by the emperor. Some people asserted that Xu Zhongzhi should be the next Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and this Minister was Liu Decai's father-in-law.

His father-in-law was so high in status, do you think Liu Decai dared to disobey his wife?

Not long after Zhang Fulong accepted Liu Shuo as a registered disciple, Xu Zhongzhi heard the news.

"The Immortal Master of Fulong Temple actually accepted this evil son as a registered disciple. Is the news true?" Xu Zhongzhi asked, expressing his incomprehension.

As in-laws, the Xu family naturally knew about Liu Shuo's existence, but they did not recognize Liu Shuo.

"Father, the news is absolutely true, and many people have also known this news. It is said that Liu Decai spent 200,000 taels of silver to exchange for it."

Xu Zhongzhi's eldest son Xu Changfeng responded. Xu Changfeng was also puzzled. What was so special about Liu Shuo that made Zhang Fulong like him? Could it be that he accepted this bastard because of Liu Decai's 200,000 taels of silver?

If Zhang Fulong was short of money, he could tell them. Not to mention 200,000 taels of silver, his Xu family could afford 500,000 taels of silver.

Xu Zhongzhi thought calmly for a moment before ordering: "Anyway, this bastard is now a registered disciple of the Immortal Master of Fulong Temple. Send someone to talk to your third sister and don't go too far. In addition, send someone to test the mouth of the Immortal Master of Fulong Temple. The Xu family is willing to pay 1 million taels of silver to get a quota for a direct disciple."

A quota for an immortal disciple is too important to his Xu family. Didn't you see that at the banquet that day, His Majesty was polite to Zhang Fulong and called him Mr., and even the National Master took the initiative to give up the left seat.

"Father, please rest assured. I understand. I will go down and do it right away."

Xu Changfeng knew Xu Zhongzhi's plan. One million taels is not much for the Xu family. If it can be exchanged for a quota, it will be a sure win for the Xu family.

The Xu family has this plan, and other people have this idea. In Shangjing, the Xu family can only be said to be average, and there are more powerful and wealthy people than the Xu family.

Xixing Street became lively in an instant, and many people came with generous gifts, just asking for a word of fate.

The result was disappointing to these people. On the night of accepting Liu Shuo, Zhang Fulong took Liu Shuo and quietly left Shangjing City, as if he had expected this to happen.

"Teacher, why do we have to leave Changjing?"

Outside Changjing City, Liu Shuo asked Zhang Fulong with a puzzled look. He has never left Shangjing since he was a child. He still feels a little reluctant to leave suddenly at this time.

Zhang Fulong does not intend to teach Liu Shuo Taoist skills. How to do things and know the truth is what Liu Shuo should learn now. Therefore, Zhang Fulong did not let Liu Shuo call him master, just call him teacher.

"Shangjing is not suitable for our life for the time being." Zhang Fulong told him.

I had planned to live in Shangjing for a while. I had found a house and bought all the daily necessities. But I didn't expect to leave so soon. It was a pity. I spent so much money.

"Then teacher, where are we going now?"

"Qingzhou, Pingdingshan."

The old site of Fulong Temple, Qingzhou Pingdingshan, planned to go there after Fulong Temple was rebuilt, but now the plan has been advanced.

"Just the two of us?" Liu Shuo asked again. He didn't know where Qingzhou was, so it must be far away.

"Of course not."

Zhang Fulong blew a whistle, and soon a horse appeared from nowhere.

The horse walked to Zhang Fulong and stopped, shook its head a few times, and snorted.

Zhang Fulong stroked the horse's head with his hand and chuckled, "Fortunately you didn't run far."

When he arrived in Shangjing, Zhang Fulong didn't bring the horse into the city. First, it was inconvenient, and second, he didn't have money to buy fodder for the horse. He let the horse fend for itself outside Changjing and look for it after he left.

Fortunately, the horse didn't run far away, and came as soon as it was called, so there was no need to spend time looking for it.

Then Zhang Fulong introduced Liu Shuo to the horse.

"Let me introduce you, this is my new disciple, named Liu Shuo, you may have to work hard on the road."

It was three thousand miles from Changjing to Qingzhou, which was a huge challenge for the twelve-year-old Liu Shuo, and he needed the help of the horse on the road.

Zhang Fulong told the horse that Liu Shuo was his disciple, and he thought the horse would help.

The horse should have understood, and when Zhang Fulong finished speaking, the look in the horse's eyes seemed to be looking at Liu Shuo.

'Hiss~'

The horse hummed, indicating that it agreed.

"Teacher, the horse seems to understand what you say."

Liu Shuo saw an animal like this for the first time, and he was curious and a little excited.

After all, he was still a child.

'Hiss~'

The horse understood what Liu Shuo meant, and turned its head back to express disdain. It was intelligent, and it was not easy to understand human words.

Zhang Fulong smiled and said, "Of course, the horse has been with me for ten years and can understand human language. You should be nicer to the horse in the future, understand?"

Liu Shuo nodded heavily, "I remember it, I will definitely be nice to the horse in the future."

"Well, it's good to remember it, let's get on the road."

The two of them set off on the journey to Qingzhou.

With Liu Shuo, the journey was slowed down a lot. After walking only twenty miles on the first day, Liu Shuo had signs of blisters on his feet. When he woke up the next day, his feet were sore and there was a blister on his ankle.

Fortunately, Zhang Fulong was not in a hurry. He personally put Liu Shuo's blisters on him, picked some herbs to apply to him, and then asked Liu Shuo if he wanted to ride a horse.

Liu Shuo wanted to ride a horse, but he thought that his teacher had also come this way and would take care of him on the way, so he refused to ride a horse and wanted to walk on his own.

Zhang Fulong nodded and said no more, and was not in a hurry to go on. He rested for a day and waited for Liu Shuo to recover before continuing his journey.

As time went by, Liu Shuo slowly adapted. After a month, they could walk 30 miles a day, which was a great improvement.

The bad news was that Liu Shuo had worn out two pairs of shoes, and the pair on his feet was also getting worse.

Four months later, the two of them and the horse traveled 3,000 miles and finally walked from Shangjing to Qingzhou.

After five months of eating and sleeping in the open, Liu Shuo's original tender face faded a lot, and he looked a little mature.

After entering Qingzhou City, Zhang Fulong took Liu Shuo to a noodle stall and ordered two bowls of noodles.

While eating noodles, Zhang Fulong heard guests at other tables talking about Fulong Temple.

"Have you heard that the Fulong Temple is about to be completed."

"Of course, everyone knows that there was an immortal in Fulong Temple before, but the immortal disappeared later, otherwise Fulong Temple would not have been destroyed."

"You didn't see that the scale of this reconstruction is very large, almost catching up with the imperial palace, thousands of people are working at the same time, tut tut, this scene is probably not seen by many people."

Hearing this, Zhang Fulong smiled. They had never seen the imperial palace, so how could they know how big it was.

I heard them discussing again.

"When Fulong Temple is completed, I don't know if there will be immortals. If there are immortals in the world, I will definitely send my child to Fulong Temple to practice with the immortals."

"Tsk, you are not even worthy of carrying shoes for others, will the immortals look down on your child?"

"You can't say that. The world is still uncertain. Who knows if my son is a cow or a horse."