Chapter 273: Writing Letters

In the quiet room of the small courtyard, there was a long desk and two cushions.

Two Daoists sat opposite each other on both sides of the long desk, with letter paper and brushes in front of them, and an inkstone in the middle.

Under the table were a fox and a cat.

One moment both were burying their heads in writing, one moment junior sister bent over and stood behind Lin Jue, looking seriously at how he wrote, and one moment she returned to her seat and continued to bury her head in writing.

"Don't keep looking at me, write your own." Lin Jue didn't even lift his head and said, "For the first letter, only two things must be written: one is where we live, so the senior brother can reply, and the second is the matter of the third senior brother, so the senior brother can know. Anything else is fine."

"I don't know how to write 'anything else'..."

"It means write whatever comes to mind, say whatever you want to say."

"I don't know how to use words..."

"Just write in plain language."

"Oh..."

Junior sister scratched her head, lowered her head and didn't move, but lifted her eyelids, secretly aiming at her senior brother with her peripheral vision.

Under senior brother's brush were beautiful handwritings, still a bit moist when first formed, arranged neatly, without a single stain, and there were already two pages.

It even made people smell the fragrance of ink.

Actually, she had never written a letter before.

At this time, referring to senior brother, she had only written half a page.

The first letter was written to the eldest senior brother.

The words on the letter were truly simple and straightforward. Only at the beginning did she learn a sentence from senior brother, "Seeing the letter is like seeing the face, unfolding the letter relaxes the face," and the rest was all plain language:

"When autumn and winter exchanged this year, senior brother and I arrived in the capital and found the Fengshan Hongye Guan left by the predecessor on Mount Fengshan. When writing the letter, it is winter, and both the capital and Mount Fengshan are snowing. It must be snowing on Fuqiu Peak too, right? By the time senior brother sees the letter, the azaleas and peach blossoms on the mountain must have already bloomed.

"Little senior brother has also settled down in the capital, and we are very close. Little senior brother has his things to do in the capital, and I cultivate in the Daoist temple on the mountain. Sometimes I go to the capital to find him. He has two alchemy furnaces, one of which can be enlarged and placed in the Fengshan Hongye Guan. Sometimes he will come to my Daoist temple to refine pills.

"I don't know if the eldest senior brother has taken any new apprentices.

"If the eldest senior brother wants to reply to me, he must entrust someone to bring it to the Fengshan Hongye Guan on Mount Fengshan in the capital. Sixty miles from the capital, at the Sancha Temple, walk towards Niu Village, follow the small path up the mountain after passing Niu Village, and that is the Fengshan Hongye Guan. It is very hard to find.

"The front part is copied from little senior brother."

Junior sister held the brush and stared at the paper. After writing the beginning, she felt it didn't seem so difficult.

After a little thought, she picked up the brush and wrote:

"Although the capital is prosperous, there are also many yaoguai and ghosts. I heard that it is not peaceful under Mount Fengshan either. Little senior brother just taught me a few powerful spells. After I learn them well, I will go down the mountain to eliminate some yaoguai and evil ghosts for the people under Mount Fengshan. By then, when I have a reputation, it will be convenient for senior brother to send letters to me.

"By the way—

"We lost the third senior brother.

"It has been more than a year since we lost him from the time of writing this letter, and I don't know where he went.

"The reason is that one night, we walked to the wilderness and had no place to spend the night. We met a female ghost who took us in. She said she was the adopted daughter of the Western Peak Mansion Lord, named Princess Hua. She invited us to dinner, and then wanted to marry little senior brother. Little senior brother didn't want to, so he pushed it to the third senior brother. When we woke up the next day, the third senior brother was gone.

"I heard he is still being chased by ghosts..."

Writing it down in one go, there was actually no pause, and no smudges were left.

Even the senior brother in front was a bit surprised.

"Writing smoothly?"

Lin Jue lifted his eyes to look at the letter on her paper.

Junior sister was startled and hurriedly reached out to block it with her sleeve.

"You still won't let me see?"

Lin Jue twitched the corner of his mouth and shook his head with a smile.

Then each wrote their own.

"Originally, senior brother, third senior brother, and I had already sent off the other senior brothers last autumn. Originally, we should have arrived in the capital last autumn to reply to the senior brothers, but the reason we delayed until now is because we met a yaoguai when we walked to Runze County, called Green Water Immortal..."

Green Water Immortal, Tuo Dragon King, and the thousand-mile pursuit in the wind, sand, rain, and snow.

Junior sister originally thought she hadn't written a letter before and couldn't write anything. She had been worried for a long time on Mount Fengshan, but she didn't expect that once she started writing, she almost couldn't stop.

Unknowingly, she had consumed several pages of paper.

Finally, she had stopped the brush, but looking at the ink on the paper, she hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help adding another sentence:

"I still miss the life on Fuqiu Peak very much."

At the same time, senior brother also finished writing.

Seeing him pick up the paper one by one and blow a breath, the ink dried, junior sister also learned to pick up the paper, blew to dry the paper, and folded the letter paper carefully.

These few pages of paper took an hour.

Don't look at sitting here without moving, not costing effort, but actually, it wasn't an easy job. After writing one page, she felt half of the things in her brain were empty. Writing another letter for the second senior brother was about the same, and she felt the things in her brain were completely empty. Even knowing that the next letter would be about the same content, she couldn't do it for a while.

At least she needed another day to slow down.

After writing several letters, three days had passed.

The last letter was written to the seventh senior brother. She had already written about the prosperous scenery of the capital today.

There were still a few days until the New Year. Although the lives of ordinary people were getting worse and worse, and there were news of wars and uprisings in the south and north, the capital was after all the first city in the world. In these few days, the capital was clearly much livelier. There were many people performing magic tricks, acrobatics, and dragon and lion dances on the street, and that ten-mile spring breeze street was brightly lit all night.

These were all recorded in junior sister's letter.

A pile of letter paper was folded into an envelope.

Lin Jue also thought of a good way to save money—

Put the letter to the eldest senior brother into the envelope to the sixth senior brother who was closest to Mount Yishan, and let the sixth senior brother transfer it to the eldest senior brother after receiving the letter.

So he took the letter and found Master Fan.

"Friend Fan, the letters from me and my junior sister are written." Lin Jue said to Master Fan.

"Written? Just right, I also found that yaoguai." Master Fan said with a smile, "It's almost New Year, and there are quite a few people who want to entrust him to send letters."

The implication was that it was not easy to find him at this time and let him send letters for you.

"Many thanks, Friend Fan." Lin Jue also heard it, then said, "It's just that there are quite a few letters we want to send, and although they are all on the same road, some Daoist temples are very hard to find. If we sacrifice three livestock to the yaoguai that Friend Fan knows, it is quite troublesome. I wonder if spiritual pills can be used instead?"

Lin Jue took out a bottle of spiritual pills.

"Spiritual pills?"

Master Fan was secretly startled in his heart.

Actually, he hadn't eaten a single pill from the bottle of medicine Lin Jue gave him that day, but had taken them all to "reward" the yaoguai and ghosts in the capital.

For one thing, because although he had no Daoist attainments, he had heard that many pills were refined from gold and stone, and medicine and poison came from the same source. People who refined pills often had to cultivate specific spells to eat them at will. Ordinary people with Daoist attainments or yaoguai and ghosts couldn't eat too many, otherwise, it would be a waste at best, and if the medicinal properties were wrong, there might be a risk of poisoning at worst.

Master Fan wasn't sure if this Friend Lin knew that he had no Daoist attainments at all, and whether the pills given to him were something ordinary people could eat.

For another, he wanted to further consolidate his image.

Therefore, to be safe, he didn't eat them.

As a result, it was completely as expected. He took the pills to give to the yaoguai and ghosts in the city, and without exception, those yaoguai and ghosts were all surprised and treated them as treasures.

Using spiritual pills to exchange for three livestock, who wouldn't be willing?

Even if the yaoguai wasn't willing, he himself was willing to pay to buy three livestock to exchange for the spiritual pills. No matter what they were used for, they were well worth it.

Master Fan didn't say much and agreed immediately.

That night, a yaoguai came to visit.

"The small one pays respects to the Master."

This was a small yaoguai, thin and small, with a red body. I don't know what its original form was. It came to Master Fan's mansion and was very careful, not even daring to breathe loudly—

That middle-aged Daoist in front of him looked no different from an ordinary mortal, but the yaoguai in the capital all knew that this was the manifestation of Master Fan's return to simplicity.

"We have known each other for a long time, no need to be polite. Besides, today it is I who have a request for you." Master Fan said, handing over a pile of envelopes, "This time it is a friend who entrusted me to ask you for help to bring letters. There are quite a few letters, going to Huizhou, and some are not easy to find..."

"The Master has kindness to me. If you want me to bring letters, even if it is to the ends of the earth, the small one will send them!"

"Don't rush..."

Master Fan waved his hand with a smile: "The reward is also very rich."

"The Master wants me to bring letters, how dare I want a reward?"

"Look at what this is before you speak."

Master Fan smiled and took out a bottle of spiritual pills from his sleeve, pulled out the stopper, and a clear fragrance spread out, filling the room.

The small yaoguai's eyes went straight immediately.

Sure enough—

Master Fan had already returned to simplicity.

If not, how could an ordinary person casually take out a bottle of pills from his sleeve, and it be such a rare spiritual pill? And looking at his appearance, he clearly didn't care about it.

"This is the reward that friend entrusted me to give you. If you are willing, take this pill and send the letters well!"

"Yes, yes, yes! The small one is willing!"

The small yaoguai was immediately excited and kowtowed in thanks.

Truly worthy of being Master Fan, even the Daoists who come and go are such true cultivators with Daoist attainments.

Holding a pile of envelopes and the pill bottle, it walked back, thinking in its heart that a few days ago, there were yaoguai in the city questioning Master Fan's Daoist attainments and skills. If it told them about this and showed them the pills, I don't know if they would still dare to speak ill of the Master behind his back.

Just then, a voice came from behind:

"Send the letters well, record the address, and if there is a reply, bring it back on the way. If you send them well, there should be more spiritual pills of this kind in the future."

"Yes, yes, yes..."

The small yaoguai shuddered and turned back to thank him again.

At this time, the New Year atmosphere in the capital was already very strong. Lin Jue and junior sister sent letters to the senior brothers, which was a big event completed, just waiting for the reply.

Finally, they could have a good stroll around the capital. ===== CHAPTER 274 =====