The Su family father and son returned to Qionglin Town with a big fanfare. They brought back a large amount of goods that they had just purchased and shipped back by boat.
The port of Jinshui was suddenly full of cars, and even the head of the town went to greet them, which made the Su family very proud.
However, after the father and son got off the boat, they had no mood for socializing. They were both anxious to go home to see their youngest son. They didn't know how his condition was. The last letter was three months ago, which only said that Oliver was still not in good health. This made the two of them worried.
So, this time, Brother Su used six ships' valuable cargo to exchange for a wild ginseng that was said to be a thousand-year-old. He planned to bring it back and keep it for Oliver's life.
Before the two of them approached the town, they saw the Su family's carriage coming to greet them on the main road from a distance.
Although Brother Su is eight feet tall and quite majestic, Father Su is not young anymore, and due to years of socializing, he drinks a lot, and he has been on the boat for a long time in the past few days, so when he lands on the ground, his feet feel light and his big belly trembles.
The two were about to get on a carriage, but they saw the curtain of the Su Mansion's carriage lifted, and a man jumped out from inside. As soon as the man landed, he ran towards them happily, waving.
"Dad! Big brother!"
Father Su paused, rubbed his eyes with his hands, and looked at his fat belly.
"Jingwu, Dad, am I seeing right? That's our Zhang'er?"
In previous years, he couldn't even leave the house, but now he is running all the way to pick someone up!
Brother Su cried out, and stopped supporting his father. After letting go, he strode towards Oliver and shouted at the young master who was jogging.
"Little guy, run slower and don't fall."
The family was reunited. Before anyone could say anything, Brother Su stepped forward, picked up Oliver and walked towards the carriage. He stuffed Oliver safely into the carriage and then began to teach her a lesson.
"Don't worry about your life, little ancestor!"
Father Su also came over panting, but stopped Big Brother Su from scolding him, "Zhang'er finally got a chance to go out for a walk, don't blame him, let's go back quickly."
Oliver looked at his father and brother, who were exhausted from the journey, and was extremely happy. "Brother, I've recovered a long time ago. If you don't believe me, go home and ask Master Jiang."
The two men saw Oliver's flushed face and it didn't seem like she was lying. Father Su immediately burst into tears, feeling really emotional. Their little son had been seriously ill for so many years, relying on medicine to keep his life going. When had he ever been as agile and free as he is today!
The three of them, father and son, were all moved to tears. They had so much to say to each other after just meeting each other. When they returned to the mansion, Master Jiang prepared a large banquet. The family drank for half a day before they stopped. Finally, Father Su waved his sleeves and decided to hold a big banquet to celebrate, but was stopped by the eldest brother Su.
"Dad, please don't be extravagant or you'll shorten Zhang'er's life."
"Yes, yes, yes! Then, open the warehouse to release grain, accumulate blessings, and our family will be rich!"
The three of them chatted for half a day and did not stop until it was dark. Oliver told her father, who looked tired, to go and rest.
Because he was so excited and had run so far, he was tired and wanted to go back to the yard to sleep.
When he was about to leave, he was stopped by his elder brother Su. His father was already snoring on the warm couch, but his elder brother Su bent down to open a small box that had been placed next to him, and then carefully took out a mutton-fat jade box from it.
The box was carved from a whole piece of jade. The jade was crystal clear and exquisite, and the workmanship was extremely fine. It was obviously worth a lot of money.
The Su family was a wealthy family, and Rowan was the treasured child of the family, so he had seen the world and had many valuable antiques, calligraphy and paintings in his study. He did not find ordinary treasures strange.
But this white jade box, which was as long as his eldest brother's arm, made him exclaim in surprise.
"Brother, you and Dad, are you going to rob the treasury this time?"
Brother Su made a "tsk" sound and stretched out his big hand to pinch Oliver's cheek as he was talking nonsense. As he pinched the cheek, the brother sighed that his brother's little face had grown flesh and became more and more beautiful.
"Don't lie. My father and I spent most of our fortunes and used the connections of an old friend to get this. I wanted to cook it for you."
Oliver exclaimed "Ah?" Eat? What kind of precious thing is worth half of Su's fortune!
Brother Su opened the jade box slowly with a serious expression.
The bright candlelight in the room reflected the warm mutton-fat jade. As the mechanism on the jade cover was removed with a "pop", a ginseng as long as a human arm came into view.
Oliver took a deep breath and felt terrified.
This is because this ginseng has a human shape and even has vague facial features. The ginseng's trunk is wrapped with golden bells and red threads. At first glance, it looks like a little baby sleeping in the red threads.
As Oliver had come into contact with all kinds of strange things during this period, he closed the jade cover with a "snap".
"Is this edible? Brother, aren't you afraid that I'll be struck by lightning?"
Brother Su's rather dark face was full of words. How could they have thought so much? Oliver had just turned 22 this year, and had reached what the Taoist priests called the "upper limit". He and his father had been traveling outside for many years, hoping to find a way to prolong Oliver's life. Moreover, when he left home last time, Oliver already looked like she was going to die soon.
Before leaving, Dad prepared all the funeral supplies for Zhang'er while crying...
"Now that you are well, you don't have to eat it."
Oliver wondered, "Where did you buy this rare thing?"
Elder Brother Su said, "They asked someone to come here for them. They didn't tell us the details, so we shouldn't ask too much." After years of doing business, the father and son of the Su family knew how to survive.
Finally, Oliver took the jade box back to the courtyard. Su Laoda said, "Even if you don't eat it, you can put it next to the pillow to smell it. Otherwise, our money will be wasted."
In the Su Mansion, his elder brother's words were more effective than his father's. Oliver had no choice but to obey and take the things back, waiting to be "marinated".
But he was in a good mood. Just now he asked his elder brother if he was still going to leave. His elder brother touched his head, smiled and said no.
A family staying together for a long time is better than any panacea.
Oliver returned to his own courtyard and stood at the door of the main house, looking at the green lotus swaying silently in the moonlight. He held the white jade box and thought to himself, it would be better not to let his father and brothers know about the inhuman creatures in the pond, so as not to worry them.
When Jaxon brought the basin and other washing utensils, he saw his son standing in front of his bed, pondering back and forth. He was uneasy about putting a box under the bed, and even at the foot of the bed.
"Master, exorcise the evil spirits!"
Oliver was worrying about where to safely put this "half of his fortune" with a human face, but Jaxon's words scared him.
"What evil are you trying to exorcise? I think you are quite evil."
Jaxon wrung out a hot face towel for Oliver, and Oliver then put down the jade box and took the towel to wipe her face.
Jaxon stretched his head to look, then reached out to touch the jade box, "Master, this is so cool and smooth." He didn't know what was so precious about it. If he were asked to choose, he would rather go to Old Meng's house at the west end of the street and buy a sturdy elm wood box than use this jade box that was so fragile that it was easily bumped or scratched.
Oliver wiped Jaxon's face as well, "This is expensive, I have to find a good place to put it."
Jaxon looked at the round and crystal jade box, and felt that nothing was as precious as his son, so he said casually, "It can be used as a pillow. I think the height is just right."
Oliver was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the old porcelain pillow he was used to using. The two things were indeed similar in shape, but one was gray and the other was smooth and shiny.
"Yes, it's not impossible!"
Oliver laughed again, his head is quite valuable, it has to support half of his fortune, he won't get a stiff neck, right?
The moonlight was hazy and the night was quiet. The only sounds in the young master's yard were the rustling of lotus leaves and some slight bubbling sounds in the pond.
Oliver was tired after a long day and was sleeping soundly. His hair was a little messy and fell on the pillow in strands. The mutton-fat jade "pillow" under his neck shone with the moonlight, making the young master's cheeks look even clearer, like a jade beauty basking in the moonlight.
But the young master was frowning, and in a daze, he gradually heard some noises. Listening carefully, he heard a burst of aggrieved crying coming from somewhere, like a little child. The child cried so sadly that it was very uncomfortable to listen to.
"Who is crying?" Oliver asked softly.
"Woo, woo, woo, me." the child replied.
"What's wrong with you?"
"Wow, I feel uncomfortable." After sobbing for a while, he said, "I feel uncomfortable being tied up, sir, can you untie me before you eat me?"
When Oliver heard this, he felt strange and thought to himself, what should I eat?
"Uh, I don't eat children's food."
The voice was surprised, "Really?" Then it thought about it and became discouraged, "You are lying, everyone wants to eat me."
When Oliver heard the voice that suggested the girl was about to burst into tears, she hurried to comfort her.
"I don't want to eat! Don't cry."
But the child kept crying, and the crying gave Oliver a headache. He felt as if his own soul was trembling with the crying.
At this moment, Oliver felt a flash of golden light in front of his eyes, and it suddenly became bright.
He gradually felt a familiar breath. As soon as the breath came out, the child's throat seemed to be strangled in an instant, and he was silent.
The only sound in Oliver's ears was this long breathing sound. After a long while, a man suddenly laughed in her ear and then spoke softly.
"come over."
Oliver's feet seemed to be out of his control and he moved forward subconsciously until the scene in front of him suddenly became bright and he came to this familiar place again.
It is in the misty hot spring.
There was a figure with his back to him, his sturdy arms casually resting on the stone platform, half of his body immersed in the shimmering water, and his entire shoulders and back exposed above the water.
There is a kind of noble and elegant demeanor revealed in the unrestrained posture.
Oliver quickly turned around with red ears and stammered, "Who are you? Why are you always naked?"
The man was a little surprised when he heard Oliver speak.
"It's rare that I can concentrate my soul and speak. It turns out that the spiritual communication is effective." Then he moved his body, the water ripples flowed, and Oliver's own clothes floated up with it.
The man walked towards Oliver, but Oliver quickly said, "Put on your clothes before you talk!"
"Excuse me, I was injured by the thunder, and my skin is damaged. Temporarily, I have no clothes to wear." The dragon king's dragon scales have not yet fully grown.
When Oliver heard that the man didn't even have clothes, she felt sorry for him.
"Well, I'll lend you one first."
After saying that, Oliver took off his coat and handed it to the man behind him. The young man's brocade outer robe embroidered with green bamboo flowed along the water, flowing gently to the man's sturdy chest, and finally across his strong waist.
The man chuckled, "Thank you, sir."
Then, he looked at Oliver's body, which was half transparent because of the water soaking her white middle garment, and answered again.
"My surname is Li, my name is Lucas, and I am grateful to you for saving me."
Oliver was puzzled, what did I save? But he still said politely, "So it's Brother Li, I, that I'm Rowan, what's the grace of saving you?"
The Dragon King named Li in Jinshui did not say much, but just put on the outer robe given to him by Oliver. However, because his body was much larger than Oliver, the Dragon King could not close the originally loose-fitting folded clothes.
So when Oliver turned around, what came into view was the man's chest, which was half-hidden by the gauze robe and seemed to be hesitant to speak...
As soon as Oliver was stimulated by this, his soul and body began to be confused again, and his nose began to itch. He vaguely thought, "I must not let my nose bleed flow into other people's pools!" So he quickly raised his head.
But when he looked up, he only saw Lucas Li's broad body that was much taller than him, and his Adam's apple slightly rolling on his neck.
There were also golden lines that alternated between light and dark and flowed slowly on the man's shoulders and body.
Oliver only had one thought at this moment.
"How eye-catching, how beautiful..."
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