Author: Looking at the beauty after crossing the water
Chapter 40 Who is Chunyangzi?
Zhang Yi looked at the shrine in front of him and called out bad luck.
I didn't expect that after spending so much effort, I actually got a shrine.
Looking at the empty shrine, Zhang Yi didn't know what to do with it.
But he didn't dare to be careless.
Whether it is a shrine in a store or a shrine encountered in a theater.
These things seem to have unusual powers.
Otherwise Zhang Shulai would not enshrine himself in it.
Besides, the shrine in front of me seems to be more advanced than the one in the store.
Zhang Yi tried to put the account book together and see if he could throw this thing into the account book.
To his disappointment, it seemed that not everything could be thrown into the account book, including this shrine.
He could only leave the shrine aside for now. He had no choice but to enshrine himself in it.
This thought came to mind, and Zhang Yi himself was shocked.
Looking back at the empty shrine, a strange feeling welled up in my heart.
What are you thinking about?
Zhang Yi shook his head, lay on the bed, and put aside the shrine. His harvest this time can be described as rich.
"Huh?"
At this time, Zhang Yi suddenly felt something on his lower back, so he picked it up and took a look.
a book.
How come there is a book?
Oh, Uncle Zeng threw it to me.
At that time, I seemed to have asked myself to pick it up and read it, but I had forgotten about it.
Pick it up and flip through two pages at will.
It's still handwritten.
He didn't pay much attention at first, but as he watched, Zhang Yi sat up from the bed.
He stared at the book line by line, occasionally raising his head to glance at the shrine in front of him.
Confusion grew in his eyes.
When Zhang Yi turned to the last page, he saw the words Zhang Shulai clearly written on the page, and seemed to have figured out something.
Zhang Yi picked up the book in his hand, got up from the bed and walked downstairs.
Dai Moli and Yang Yan were startled by the sound of rushing downstairs. They thought something had happened, so they followed Zhang Yi down the stairs.
"boss?"
When the two of them walked downstairs, they saw Zhang Yi standing in front of the shrine downstairs, staring at the photos in the shrine.
“Boss, what’s wrong with you??”
Dai Moli saw that Zhang Yi looked a little uncomfortable and asked tentatively.
Zhang Yi shook his head and was silent for a while, his lips moving slightly.
"Jasmine, tell me, after death, can a person still become an immortal?"
"ah??"
Dai Moli opened her mouth wide, as if she didn't understand what Zhang Yi said.
"Can a person still become an immortal after he dies?"
Zhang Yi repeated it.
"How could I know this? I don't even understand ghosts."
"I think... we can't. Otherwise, why would Le Zhong study the boundaries between death and death in the university town?"
Yang Yan thought of the experiment in the university town and determined that ghosts were ghosts and could not be related to immortals.
Zhang Yi glanced at Yang Yan: "How many gods do you know?"
"Uh... does the Jade Emperor count?"
"Calculate."
"That's quite a lot. I remember a lot of immortals in Journey to the West."
Yang Yan counted several mythological figures for Zhang Yi with his fingers, and then gave examples of several historical immortals, such as Ge Hong, Zhang Sanfeng, the Eight Immortals, etc.
Zhang Yi waited for Yang Yan to finish speaking and then asked, "Of these gods you mentioned, who is still alive?"
"ah??"
Yang Yan looked at Zhang Yi without knowing why.
"Why are you so crazy?? What on earth do you want to say?"
Zhang Yi handed the book in his hand to Yang Yan.
"There is a story in this book."
Zhang Yi took a deep breath and shared the story.
The story is very simple.
It is about a Taoist priest named Penglai Zhenren who spent more than ten years refining elixirs in the mountains and finally made a pot of elixir.
After the villagers heard about it, they immediately came to watch.
Master Penglai enthusiastically distributed the elixir to the villagers, but the villagers did not dare to eat it, so they gave one to the dog.
After the dog ate it, he fell to the ground without breathing.
When Master Penglai saw this, instead of being afraid, he smiled and congratulated the dog on becoming an immortal.
The villagers thought he was crazy, but Master Penglai ate the elixir in public.
Then, he died.
The villagers did not dare to touch the body of Master Penglai and planned to wait until the next day to take a look.
When the villagers came down the mountain,
However, when I went up the mountain the next day, I found that the body of Penglai Master was missing, so they all suspected that the Taoist priest had become an immortal.
Every household set up plaques and worshiped Penglai Zhenren.
A few days later, there was a disciple named Chunyangzi who claimed to be Penglai Master.
Chunyangzi claimed that he was entrusted by Penglai Master with a dream and came here to build a mountain and a temple.
Enshrined Penglai Zhenren as the ancestor, and slowly, Penglai Zhenren became a local deity.
"???"
Yang Mei and Dai Moli looked at each other with questions on their faces, wondering what the story Zhang Yi meant after telling it for a long time.
"Don't worry, it's not over yet."
Zhang Yi signaled to the two of them to stay calm.
There is a separate article at the end of the story, which is about Chunyangzi.
It turns out that this Chunyangzi is actually a wandering sorcerer who deceives, kidnaps, and waits for death.
That day he heard about the elixir made by Master Penglai and came to watch it.
Who would have thought that Master Penglai would die after taking the elixir.
Chunyangzi still thought that Penglai Zhenren was not good at cheating, but after thinking about it, he felt that this was an opportunity.
So they took advantage of the darkness of night to steal the bodies of Penglai Master and the dog, and spread the news in the village that Penglai Master and the dog had become immortals.
Later, he used the name of Master Penglai to ask for money from the villagers to build Taoist temples and make a lot of money.
After mixing and mixing, Chunyangzi's reputation grew.
The popularity of Taoist temples continued, and Chunyangzi also became a famous local master.
As Chunyangzi got older, he looked at the Penglai Master who was enshrined in the main hall, and suddenly couldn't help but smile and pointed at the Penglai Master.
Then he pointed at the huge Taoist temple behind him.
"You see, I am a superb liar. I deceived these things in your name."
Chunyangzi was quite proud.
I feel that I made a clever move back then and achieved my huge family fortune today.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw the statue of Penglai Zhenren, as if he was alive. He looked down at him and asked with a smile:
"The elixir is fake, and your words are also fake, but now I am a real god, so tell me, who did you lie to..."
Zhang Yi didn't understand the meaning of this story at first.
It wasn't until he saw Zhang Shulai's name written clearly on the back of the book cover that he realized that the story of this book was written by Zhang Shulai.
After he connected the content of the book with Zhang Shulai's actions, Zhang Yi seemed to have found some key information.
The key to becoming an immortal lies in worship.
So Zhang Shulai enshrined his spiritual tablet in another place.
This is not difficult to understand.
But according to the story in the book, death is the first step to becoming an immortal.
Zhang Shulai reversed the order, establishing the spiritual throne first and then dying.
"But what do these... have to do with us??"
Dai Moli really didn't understand how this story had anything to do with them.
What's more, the evil spirits in those places created by Zhang Shulai have probably already escaped Zhang Shulai's control.
Let alone worship him.
How could he become an immortal?
Zhang Yi stared at the black and white photo of Zhang Shulai in the shrine in front of him.
The problem is here, if Zhang Shulai is a real person from Penglai,
So.
Could it be that I, who inherited his inheritance, was the Chunyangzi chosen by Zhang Shulai?
He remembered the scene tonight when he was pretending to be Zhang Shulai and the fat man Zhou Xuan.
Zhang Yi couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
Then he thought of the letter Zhang Shulai left for him.
He had prepared it in advance.
In other words, he expected himself to be his successor.
It's hard to say that I am in Zhang Shulai's plan at this moment.
Just like Chunyangzi in the story, she became a chess piece used by Zhang Shulai...
