The Disciple's Diligence Makes the Master Seem Lazy - Chapter 10

[Chapter 10 Pattern “亼”]

The bloated man was sweating profusely. The idea of leading the charge just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, just like a basin of ice water was poured on his head.

The wonderful woman in the bed did not dare to move, because she could not move.

She felt a strong spiritual pressure enveloping her, and her heart seemed to stop, and she was almost scared to death.

Li Xu crossed his legs and looked coldly at the man lying on the couch:

“I told you to speak, why are you standing there? Are you looking for a beating?”

Faced with such a strong oppressive force, the bloated man wanted to jump up and run, but his body would not listen to him. He felt the atmosphere in the room was getting more and more solemn, and he could only speak with trembling:

“I said, actually I was also hired to find something, a lost cowhide.”

“After my investigation, I found that the cowhide fell on a child. The child found that the skin could not be torn apart, and he thought it was fun, so he carried it with him. Later, the child was abducted by a human trafficker monk.”

“Half a month ago, the human traffickers’ den was breached, and it was learned that the cowhide was taken away by three out-of-town monks. The three monks were also wanted, and other monks had been chasing them. They ran everywhere, and then the cowhide was lost, and finally I heard that it fell into her hands.”

The bloated man glanced at Daxu.

“This bullshit chase has made me so tired that it almost broke my mentality. I thought it would go wrong again, so I decided not to go out myself and hired another person to get the bullshit. That’s what happened.”

“It was such a tortuous process.” The man with the broken hand complained.

“I see.”

Li Xu then remembered that the three ascetics came to the academy to chase Dahu and wanted to skin her.

At that time, Li Xu thought they meant to skin Dahu’s fox, but now he thinks that they might mean the bullshit.

Daxu said, “Master, I didn’t pick up the cowhide. I just met those three practitioners.”

“Little Daxu, think carefully about whether there was anything unusual when you met the three practitioners?”

“Let me think about it.”

Daxu frowned, and after a while, she said, “It seems that there was such a thing, but it was not the cowhide he said. At that time, the bridge was broken and I fell into the river. As soon as I ran ashore, I was hit by a dried fungus. I thought it was edible food, so I put it in the storage ring. Later, the three practitioners chased me and said they wanted to skin me.”

“That means my apprentice didn’t pick up the cowhide at all, but you wanted to kill me.”

Li Xu stood up with a calm face: “Anyway, thank you for your patience in solving my doubts. I don’t have any gifts to give you, so I’ll send you on your way.”

The man with the broken hand looked terrified: “Can you let me go…”

“No.”

“Then I’ll fight you.”

The man with the broken hand gritted his teeth and tried his best to attack.

Li Xu punched out, and the man with the broken hand died immediately.

Just now, Li Xu had beaten the man with a broken hand and accidentally removed the spiritual pressure. The bloated man jumped out of the bed and tried to escape by jumping out the window, but was turned into ashes by Li Xu’s flames, leaving no ashes.

The woman curled up in the quilt on the bed shivered, slowly poked her face out, and said tremblingly:

“Don’t kill me, I’m not in the same group with them, I’m Miss Shanalou.”

Li Xu saw jelly flowing on the woman’s face…

“You’re really good at playing!”

Li Xu was stunned for a moment, then smiled, turned the dead man with a broken hand into ashes, and took Daxu away from here and left the town of Funong.

…

Back to Taixu Academy.

Li Xu found Daxu rummaging through things.

“Little Da’er, what are you looking for?”

“Master, I thought about it on the way back. The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. They went to so much trouble to find cowhide, which must be very important.”

“I know, but it has nothing to do with us. You didn’t pick up any cowhide. I guess the three monks saw that you were the only one nearby and thought you picked up any cowhide, but you didn’t.”

Da’er shook her head and said, “I’ve been thinking about it on the way. Maybe I really picked it up, and that dried wood ear might be cowhide.”

“How could dried wood ear be cowhide?” Li Xu felt that his disciple’s thinking was very clear.

“Master, you seldom travel in Daozhou, so you may not know that there is a place called Miaodou in Daozhou. Miaodou is good at Gu and poison, and makes strange things. One of them is a leather-making technique. You can write on cowhide and pig skin, and then process the cowhide and pig skin with some kind of Gu poison to turn it into a pen or a small stone, which is convenient to carry and inconspicuous. I suspect that the cowhide is accidentally weathered or exposed to the sun, shrinking and turning into dried fungus.”

“Is there such a thing?” Li Xu took a breath of cold air.

“I have a kind aunt who was poisoned by greed, and I asked Miaodou’s people to save her, so I have some understanding. Master, wait for me, it will take some time.”

Li Xu saw Daxu moving bags of dried fungus out of the storage ring.

She moved out five large bags.

Da’er put her hands on her hips and panted: “Master, I believed that nothing should be wasted, so I just put the piece of dried black fungus that hit me in the face into the bag.”

“Why did you buy so many dried black fungus? When will you find these five big bags?”

“On the way to Yuyang County, I met a vendor selling dried goods. He said buy three get two free. Hehe, it was the first time I heard of such a good deal, so I bought it without thinking.”

“It’s you who are fooled, and you are the only one who will be fooled.”

“Master, just wait and see, I will find it out soon.”

She searched for half an hour, but couldn’t find it, so she had to wake up Li Xu who was sleeping:

“Master, all the dried black fungus look the same, and it’s impossible to find it.”

Li Xu opened his hazy eyes and said:

“Of course all the dried black fungus look the same. I thought you had a unique skill to find it out. You should have woken me up earlier, and I would think about whether there is a good way.”

Li Xu closed his eyes and did not move.

Dahu thought that the master had fallen asleep again. Suddenly, the master opened his eyes and asked:

“What is the method to restore the dried black fungus to cowhide?”

“Water, I understand.”

Dahu quickly brought a few wooden barrels, poured the dried black fungus into the barrels, and poured water into them.

About an incense stick later, Dahu excitedly handed the cowhide to the master.

“Master, I finally found it.”

Li Xu took the cowhide, looked at it, and said, “This cowhide is quite tough, but there is nothing on it.”

“Master, come with me.”

Da’er took the cowhide off, ran to the kitchen, put the cowhide in the pot, added water, lit the fire, and poured vinegar into the pot.

Li Xu smiled and said, “Little Da’er, how about adding some chili and chopped green onions.”

Da’er rolled her eyes and said, “Master, don’t make a fuss. This is a little trick of Miao Dou hiding words. You will know the beauty of it later.”

Li Xu shook his head and thought to himself, “What little trick of Miao Dou hiding words? If I guessed correctly, it uses the principle of ‘white paper showing words’.”

However, there was no need to explain the acid-base neutralization chemical reaction to little Da’er.

Steam soon came out of the pot.

“It’s almost done.”

Da’er took the cowhide out of the pot and handed it to Master Li Xu.

Li Xu took it, and the words on the cowhide were clearly visible.

“September 13, Yuyang County, Dean Qinglian, 亼.”

At the end of this sentence, a strange pattern was drawn, with a closed “1” under the character “人”.

Isn’t this the “亼” pattern of the thief?

(End of this chapter)