Chapter 137 Reinforcement
On the bluestone road in Yichuan County.

The ox cart was moving slowly in front, and six scholars carrying boxes and cages were following slowly behind.

They chatted and laughed, discussing tomorrow's literary gathering and the classics, history, and literature, just like a group of real scholars.

At a certain moment, Chen Ji also felt that he was a little suspicious.

He was sitting in the ox cart, and suddenly turned to look at Chen Wenzong and asked in a low voice: "Brother, what are these people discussing?"

Chen Wenzong was somewhat flattered and quickly replied, "They were discussing the current affairs section of this year's autumn examination. The topic was how to view border trade. I discussed it from three perspectives..."

Chen Ji didn't continue listening. He just thought that he might be too suspicious. How could a killer understand these things?

However, before leaving the city, he suddenly shouted, "Stop the car."

Prince Jing, wearing a straw hat, pulled the reins to stop the ox cart.

Chen Ji jumped out of the car and said, "Everyone wait for me for a moment."

Bai Li asked curiously, "Did you forget something at the inn? I'll go with you to get it."

However, Chen Ji smiled and said, "I just happened to pass by a steamed bun shop and planned to treat everyone to some steamed buns. How many would you like to eat?"

The prince thought for a moment and said, "Four!"

Bai Li smiled and said, "Two."

Chen Wenxiao stiffened his neck and said, "I'm not hungry. If I want to eat, I can go buy it myself."

After Chen Ji asked everyone, he trotted to a steamed bun shop and shouted, "Shopkeeper, give me nineteen steamed buns with marinated meat and wrap them in yellow paper!"

When the shop owner heard that there was a big business, he quickly opened the steamer and picked out the buns.

While pretending to buy buns, Chen Ji glanced at the scholars out of the corner of his eye. He saw that the scholars did not move forward, but paused for a moment and then walked towards the bun shop.

One of them smiled and said to the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper, give me fifteen braised pork buns."

Chen Ji's heart sank.

These people were indeed coming for them.

The fact that the other person just stopped to buy buns might not necessarily mean anything, but the person who bought the buns didn't ask the others how many they wanted, but ordered fifteen. This doesn't make sense.

Moreover, the person who bought the buns did not mention how to pay for the buns.

Chen Ji sat back in the car with a normal expression and distributed the buns to everyone.

The ox cart headed west out of the county town, and a dirt road meandered among the woods.

The leaves have fallen, the branches are bare, the ground is covered with rotten leaves like a soft carpet, and gradually there is no human habitation.

Chen Ji sat in the car and silently turned his head to look ahead at the official road.

What on earth are these people here for?

Is it to track down the person who peeped last night and kill him to silence him, or to protect Prince Jing?

Chen Ji thought about it carefully for a moment and felt that it should be the latter.

After all, the incident last night has passed. If the mysterious man wearing the black jade really wanted to kill people to silence them, he should have done it yesterday. Why would he wait until today?

Moreover, the prince, Bai Li, and Mr. Wang were in the car. How could Prince Jing allow them to kill people to silence them?
Thinking of this, he felt a little calmer.

At this time, the ox cart went along the official road into the mountains. Mr. Wang was holding a book and giving lectures on the ox cart.

He asked calmly, "The Book of Rites says, 'To acquire knowledge, one must investigate things. Only after investigating things can one acquire knowledge.' What does 'to acquire knowledge, to investigate things, to acquire knowledge' mean here?"

Chen Wenzong thought for a moment and said, "Zhu Xi said that to study things and to acquire knowledge is to explore the principles of heaven, to understand human relations, to preach the words of the sages, and to understand the events of the past."

Mr. Wang leaned casually on the ox cart and said with a smile: "This is what Zhu Zi said. Now I want you to say it yourself, what is the meaning of "investigating things and seeking knowledge"?"

Chen Wenzong was a little stumped.

Just as he was thinking about his answer, he heard a cat meowing in the forest. Chen Ji suddenly opened his eyes wide, turned his head and said to Prince Jing, "Please stop the car!" Chen Wenxiao said impatiently, "What are you going to do? Why are you so troublesome?!"

Chen Ji jumped out of the car, holding his stomach: "Sorry, my stomach hurts, I need to relieve myself!"

After that, he stepped on the rotten leaves on the ground and ran all the way into the woods. After running several hundred steps, he slowly stopped and called out softly, "Dark Cloud?!"

But then the dark cloud appeared on the treetops, carrying a blue cloth bag.

Chen Ji was surprised: "Why are you here?"

Wuyun lowered his head and bit the knot of the cloth bundle. With a clang, a wooden box slipped out of the bundle. He squatted on the branch and said, "Master told me a fortune last night. He said you might be in danger, so he asked me to wait for you on this official road overnight. He also brought the fifteen ginsengs you hid."

Chen Ji's pupils shrank slightly.

These fifteen ginsengs were given by the Golden Pig. Chen Ji had never had the chance to use them because he was afraid of the Golden Pig's gambling-like practice method.

Now, Old Man Yao not only asked Wuyun to come overnight to warn the police, but also brought these fifteen ginsengs as well!

This time, it's very dangerous!

Chen Ji looked at the woods and asked: "Has the master come?"

Wuyun meowed, "Master said that if you ask about this, let me answer you on his behalf... It's none of his business."

Chen Ji: "..."

Master is still the master who doesn't care about anything that does not concern him.

Chen Ji asked again: "Then did the master tell me whether I can deal with this danger with these fifteen ginsengs?"

Wuyun meowed, "I asked this, and Master said it was pretty bad."

Chen Ji: "..."

He stood in the woods, closed his eyes and wondered where the crisis came from and how to deal with it.

But after thinking for a long time, he found that the crisis could only come from the mysterious big man last night.

If such a person really took action, how could he, a junior apprentice who had not even entered the innate realm, protect himself?

The next moment, he opened his eyes, picked up the wooden box from the ground and opened it.

With just a touch of his hand, the ginseng in the box turned into crystal beads, which fell to the bottom of the box with a jingle. Wuyun was greedy and jumped down from the treetop, landing lightly on Chenji's shoulder, with his black and furry tail raised and swaying from side to side.

It rubbed the old trace and asked, "Can we eat now?"

Chen Ji closed the box again and said calmly, "Not yet, Wuyun, I need you to follow me quietly with the box, and eat it when I call you to."

After saying that, he actually sat down cross-legged, took out a paper scroll from his sleeve, stretched it out, and muttered in a low voice: "In front of the Supreme Purple Cloud Emperor, the Supreme Dao Yuchen Lord. In his leisure time, he wrote seven-character poems in Ruizhu, and transformed into five forms and became a myriad of gods..."

Jin Zhu said that the method of cultivation given by the Imperial Household Department was of the utmost confidentiality and should be burned after reading.

But Chen Ji couldn't memorize everything he saw, so he could only carry it with him and recite a section from time to time. After a few days, Chen Ji had only memorized half of it.

He recited Zhayun over and over again, speaking very quickly.

The sutra that originally required a stick of incense to recite can now be recited in half a stick of incense.

Wu Yun was shocked: "When you encounter danger temporarily, you practice temporarily? It's fierce!"

Chen Ji shook his head: "I'm not practicing, I'm calling for help."

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