023 Fishing the Dragon Gate
As soon as Chen Mu pushed open the door and entered the room, he saw his grandmother about to walk out and asked him, "You are back, there is something happening outside, is there something wrong?"
"It's nothing. A luxury carriage passed by, and everyone came out to watch the fun." Chen Mu explained casually and asked again, "You're hungry, I'll go cook now."
The old lady said curiously, "Didn't you send someone to deliver food to me? I've eaten it all."
"Yes, yes, I forgot."
Chen Mu said with a smile, and he secretly praised it in his heart. It must be the meal that Mr. Liu brought to his grandmother. This person is really appropriate to do things.
First, he forced Zhang Jian to apologize to him, and then carefully delivered food to the old lady. Chen Mu had to accept this love.
He couldn't help but think of hiring a servant. If there was such a helper around him, it would be so worry-free.
The old lady said again, "There are some left in the food, so you can eat it after you have a heat."
Chen Mu practiced all morning and ran around for another afternoon, and was indeed hungry. He went into the kitchen and took out all the food. He ate it directly without heat.
The dishes sent by Mr. Liu were quite rich, with three dishes and one soup. It was better than the meal he had spent a silver ball yesterday.
Chen Mu went to the Wei Mansion today, and the treatment soared. Mr. Liu wanted to vent his anger. A doctor like Bolan, who has a very big background, also wanted to seek cooperation with him.
This change came too quickly and he was a little uncomfortable.
The old lady also followed in and asked, "Who is Miss Lin?"
"What Miss Lin?" Chen Mu asked while having a big mouthful of food.
"What a fool to pretend? This little girl Yingying told me, saying that when you heard something happened to Miss Lin, you left in someone's carriage. Is this Miss Lin the sweetheart you mentioned last time?"
Only then did Chen Mu remember that something happened and said, "It's not her, it's another one."
"Come on, I want to lie to me. Yingying said, when you hear something happened to Miss Lin, you are so anxious."
Chen Mu explained, "Don't talk nonsense, if someone has a fiancé, it's--"
"Mr. Chen."
Before he could speak, he heard someone calling him outside, Sherlock's coachman, saying, "Okay, someone is coming to me, I won't tell you anymore."
When he went out, he saw the carriage also stopped at the door and asked, "Brother Liu, why are you here?"
Mr. Liu said, "The master has already set up a banquet in the restaurant and asks me to invite you there."
Sherlock did say he wanted to invite him to drink, but was interrupted by Berlan. He originally thought he would not drink the wine, but sherlock killed him and shot him back.
Chen Mu said politely, "Please trouble Brother Liu."
"You are too polite."
"There is something that happened today, thank you."
"You are the master's guest, and this is all right."
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More than ten minutes later, the restaurant arrived. Chen Mu looked at the signboard and Wanbao Restaurant. Just looking at the door was a few grades higher than the one he visited yesterday.
He told the waiter that the waiter led him to a private room, where Sherlock was sitting and waiting.
He apologized, "Sorry, I've made you wait for a long time."
Sherlock smiled and said, "Come here. Waiter, the wine and food can be served."
Chen Mu sat opposite him, and then the food and drink came on, five or six plates, and a table was set.
The people who were waiting for the food to go out and the door closed. Sherlock poured two glasses of wine and said, "The bamboo leaves here are famous for their far and wide. Come and have a drink."
Chen Mu picked up the wine glass, touched him, and then drank it. The wine level was not high, and he couldn't taste anything good. When he was on Earth, he had never drunk much white wine, and at most he could drink some beer.
After drinking a glass of wine, Chen Mu asked straight to the point, "Mr. Xia, do you have something to do to ask me for help?"
Sherlock smiled, "It seems that I'll invite you to drink, which makes you feel uneasy."
Of course, as the saying goes, politeness is something that people must ask for. Sherlock invites him to such a good restaurant to drink, so there must be at least several silver dollars for this meal.
Chen Mu felt that the relationship between the two had not reached this point.
He said, "If you don't explain it clearly, I won't dare to drink this wine."
Sherlock praised, "You are so mature and polite. You really don't look like a teenager."
Chen Muxin said that it was not.
Sherlock said, "However, you are still a little shallow in the world, and you may not know the weight of a practitioner."
“How to say it?”
Chen Mu knew that he had become a practitioner, so he could not hide it from him. When the two met for the first time, he must have discovered his spirituality and came forward to ask.
Sherlock poured himself a glass of wine, took a sip, and said, "In this world, there are more than one billion people, and most of them are ordinary people. Not one out of ten thousand people who can see through the threshold of practice."
"Among all the schools of practice, martial arts is the most widely circulated, with the lowest threshold, and the largest number of people practicing. But that's the case, how many people can enter the practice?"
"If you want to become a practitioner, you must have talent, understanding, and opportunity."
"No matter who you are or what kind of origin, once you pass the threshold of practice, it is equivalent to leaping at the dragon gate, and you are no longer in the same class as ordinary people. Do you understand what I say?"
Is it such an exaggeration?
Chen Mu was not so confident. The novelist genre had no combat power at all. As for the genre with masks, the genre with combat power, but he couldn't stand it.
However, thinking of Lin Xiuwan looking at him differently, the woman in red was cold and arrogant at first, but later became kind, and Bailan invited him to walk in the same car... it should be because he was a practitioner.
To put it this way, what Sherlock said is indeed the current situation of this society. He invited himself to drink because he wanted to make friends with him.
Chen Mu couldn't help but reflect, was he too cautious before?
Of course, Sherlock said last time that he wanted to recruit him as his assistant, but this time he was equal to the relationship, so he must have guessed something, plus Berlan's attitude towards him.
This is also a natural person. It is already good to meet someone who adds icing on the cake. It is too much to expect others to help you in time.
If Sherlock was kind to him from the beginning, he would rather doubt whether the other party had any other bad intentions.
Sherlock continued, "If you don't dislike me, call me Sherlock from now on."
Seeing that he was sincere, Chen Mu relaxed.
When he was on Earth, the reason why he chose to become a full-time writer was that he was tired of human relationships and did not have to deal with people, and it was so relaxed. There was no social fear, but it was purely disliked.
After traveling through time, because the situation is too difficult, if you want to survive, you have to do whatever you like. Nowadays, you can make money by staying at home, and you will inevitably have to deal with all kinds of people.
Sherlock, at least he has been getting along well, feels pretty good, and he takes the initiative to make friends with him. Naturally, he has no reason to keep people from thousands of miles away.
Chen Mu asked something he had wanted to ask for a long time, "The name Sherlock sounds like a foreign name."
"No," Sherlock nodded, "I lived in the West for twenty years and then I became a Western name."
After hearing what he said, Chen Mu immediately became interested and asked about the Western countries.
The two were very excited and drank until the moon was in the middle of the sky. Chen Mu was worried about his grandmother at home and proposed to end the banquet.
Sherlock asked the coachman to take him home first, but he did not refuse.
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When he returned home, Chen Mu heard the sound of grandma in the inner room breathing, but did not call her. He went back to his house, took out the manuscript paper, and wrote out the sixth chapter.
The sixth star was lit up and the sixth summoning object, the Silver Needle, was obtained. This was Yin Susu's hidden weapon, which was poisonous on it.
After writing the novel, he put on his mask and entered the heavenly palace.
There was no one in the Heavenly Palace, and Dragon Girl and others were not there.
He wanted to ask them about the Earth Demon Blood Pool. It seems that he can only wait until tomorrow.
Chen Mu promised the woman in red that she could not reveal the matter about the Earth Demon Blood Pool. He did not inquire with Sherlock. He would be fine if he asked the Dragon Girl and the others.
He returned to reality, took off his mask and put it away, and lay on the bed.
Chapter completed!