(I was traveling abroad last week, so the updates are really messy. It will be stable next time. There will be another chapter tonight.)
Although the sky was dark, it was actually not too late. In addition, the Qiulu Inn's courtyard was exquisitely and elegantly decorated. Li Huaicai touched here and there and felt no sleepiness at all. While Chen Ping'an was carving the hosta, the child simply moved out.
Put the wooden box presented by the Land Master of Qidun Mountain across the table, put the painted puppets, and the five clay figurines presented by Wei Jin, the swordsman of Fengxue Temple, into it, and then put the book purchased from Hongzhu Town
"Broken Water Cliff" is also thrown in.
After the "move", this long box made of delicate yellow and dark wood still had room to spare. The wooden box turned red. Wei Bo of Qidunshan said that it was because it had been buried in the soil for countless years, and the color gradually turned from yellow to red.
Not only did the wood not rot, but it gave off a peculiar fragrance. At this time, Li Huai put his head on the wooden box and smelled it carefully. The fragrance was still the same and had not faded. It was no worse than when he took it out at the Pillow Station and smelled it.
Li Huai started to crack his fingers, left his hometown and small town, traveled far away to study, and slept in the open air all the way. He Li Huai relied on hard work and still gained a little. In addition to the most precious small green bamboo bookcase in the corner, there was also this charming little bookcase.
The yellow wooden box, puppets, and clay figurines actually housed a few valuable silverfish in the book "Broken Water Cliff", as well as the green fish that was slapped into the book by A Liang, but Li Huai
I don't like reading, so I rarely read this book, which cost Chen Pingan nearly ten taels of silver.
At this moment, looking at Chen Pingan, who was concentrating on carving words on the hairpin, Li Huai thought that he had spent so much money, but he didn't read the book very much. When he bought the book, he vowed to tell Chen Pingan that he would definitely read the book, which made the child a little agitated.
Feeling guilty, Li Huai took out the seemingly brand-new book "Broken Water Cliff" from the wooden box, opened a page at random, and began to read the words silently. Li Huai planned to make his conscience feel better.
Li Huai patted his head, remembered something, quickly reached into his collar, touched a pocket sewn by his sister Li Liu, twisted out an oil paper bag, shook it towards Chen Pingan, and grinned: "Chen Pingan,
Do you know what this is?"
Chen Pingan carefully put down the hairpin and carving knife, rubbed his eyes, and asked: "What is it?"
With a proud face, Li Huai took out a neatly folded piece of paper from the oil paper bag and explained: "At that time, people kept leaving the school, and in the end only me, Li Baoping, Lin Shouyi, Shi Chunjia and Dong Shuijing were left.
Five. In the last class, the teacher gave each of us a copybook with the word "Qi" written on it. We were asked to copy it carefully, saying it was homework. Later, the teacher did not take back the original copybook. During this study tour, my mother
I think the word "sir", even though it is neatly written, is not as good as the big characters on the couplets next door, which are heavier and more powerful. But at least I have a master-disciple relationship with Mr. Qi, and I will stay here just as a thought.
I asked my sister to secretly sew a pocket inside the clothes and put them into oil paper bags. Later I asked Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi. Li Baoping said he didn’t know where he had thrown them, and Lin Shouyi said he had put them at home.
I’m afraid it might be lost or damaged if I take it out.”
Li Huai opened the folded paper and gently smoothed the wrinkles, only to see the small copybook, which was square and about the size of a palm.
Li Huai stared at the word for a moment, raised his head and said seriously: "Chen Ping'an, I'll give this word Qi to you. It's useless for me to keep it. Besides, I often forget about things."
Chen Pingan shook his head and said with a smile: "If you are afraid of losing it, I can help you keep it temporarily before arriving at Sui Academy. But since this is the homework given to you by Mr. Qi, then as Mr. Qi's student and disciple, you can keep it for you temporarily.
It should be treasured well, even if Mr. Qi is gone, there is no need to copy it, but just like your mother said, keep the copybook to yourself, at least it is a memory."
Li Huai nodded, casually put the copybook between the pages of the book, then closed "Duoshui Cliff" and threw it into the wooden box.
Little did he know that in the pages of the book, the three silverfish and the green fish hidden in different pages left the text somewhere in the original book, swam quickly through the gaps between the lines, and finally quickly entered the straight-character poster.
He truly felt like a fish in water and was extremely happy.
Compared with Li Huai's bumper harvest, Lin Shouyi is actually not bad. He has a large pile of ancient talismans with high and low grades and good and bad materials. A "Langlang Book on the Cloud", a
The "Searching Mountain Picture" with more than a hundred kinds of mountain spirits and ghosts was a gift from the blind old Taoist because Chen Pingan gave the lame boy an excellent snake gallstone as a gift, so the old Taoist took it out.
This painting claimed to be an ancestral treasure of the master's family, and was donated to Lin Shouyi by Chen Ping'an.
As for Li Baoping, there are more famous sword auspicious symbols and silver sword-raising gourds. There are not many things, just two pieces, but they are all important weapons of the immortal family that are coveted by monks in the world.
Only Chen Ping'an, who contributed the most, seemed to end up with only that slightly withered and shriveled pale golden lotus seed. Now he doesn't know what use it is, and now he is in debt with the boy in white.
Li Huai lay on the table and repeated his old tune: "Lin Shou's family is very rich, but the identity of the illegitimate son is very embarrassing, so this guy may be more sensitive. Chen Ping'an, don't be like him."
Chen Ping'an nodded, "I'll go back to him and tell him, and then everything will be fine."
Li Huai said out of nowhere, "Good people and honest people suffer. My father is like this, and so are you, Chen Pingan. Otherwise, you should stop being a good person in the future, and think more about yourself in the future. There is no need to put up with others in everything."
.Otherwise, if you don’t do anything, Li Baoping, who recognizes you as his junior uncle, will be furious to death.”
Mentioning Li Baoping, Chen Pingan couldn't help laughing and asked: "Baoping always bullies you, why do you never fight back?"
Li Huai blurted out in a matter-of-fact manner: "I don't dare, I can't beat her!"
Chen Ping'an laughed loudly, and the fatigue of working hard to carve the words was instantly gone.
Li Huai looked at Chen Pingan, who was laughing happily, and the child also laughed happily, because in his impression, Chen Pingan did not smile like that. Normally, Chen Pingan, no matter what he did or said, was always very restrained and reserved, for fear of saying something wrong.
Did something wrong.
Li Huai then thought of his father, who seemed to have the same virtue. He pursed his lips, even if he was happy, and drooped his eyebrows, but he was not very happy.
Li Huai hesitated for a moment, but still planned to tell Chen Pingan what was deep in his heart. The child, whose head was resting on the table, stretched his neck, lowered his voice, and asked mysteriously: "Do you know why I always let Li
Aquarius?"
Chen Pingan joked: "Do you like her?"
Li Huai rolled his eyes, "How is it possible? I'm only so young! Besides, I'm not Lin Shouyi and Dong Shuijing, two perverts. Every time my sister comes to school to help me bring things, those two guys
My eyes were so wide open that they dropped to the floor. Especially Dong Shuijing. Every time he found an excuse to go to my house to play, when my sister was not around, he became very sick. As soon as my sister came home, Dong Shuijing felt as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
Yes, I can't wait to fill two large water tanks for my family. My mother likes Dong Shuijing more and thinks he is honest, just like my father. My sister probably prefers Lin Shouyi, who is gentle and elegant.
Like a scholar."
After saying bad things about Lin Shouyi and Dong Shuijing, Li Huai turned back to the topic with a gloomy expression: "Everyone in the school laughed at my father, saying that he was the most useless man in the town. He was a wife-in-law and had no future.
The son of a mouse can dig holes, so his son, that is, me, is the most useless in studying. Every time my husband takes exams, I am always at the bottom.
.”
Li Huai grinned and narrowed his eyes, "Li Baoping's family background is the best in the school, but she doesn't play with anyone, including Lin Shouyi. She just flies around like a gust of wind every day, forever.
She was the last one to come to class and the first one to disappear after class. Although she would find me noisy and would beat me up whenever something happened. But she never laughed at my father. Once my father came to the school to see me, everyone disliked me.
Only Li Baoping was willing to lead the way for my father and even called him Uncle Li, which made my father happy for many days. Every time someone deliberately made a joke about my father in front of me, Li Baoping would always stop them and not allow them to do so.
They said bad things about my father."
Chen Pingan sighed with emotion: "So that's it. By the way, Li Huai, do you have the person you hate the most?"
Li Huai was stunned, "No, every time I get home, I eat a delicious and fat chicken drumstick, and listen to my mother scolding my father and my sister over trivial matters, all my unhappiness disappears."
Chen Pingan directly twisted the wick with his fingers to make the light brighter, and said with a smile: "You are awesome."
Li Huai asked doubtfully: "What's so great about me? I also think you're not afraid of severe burns. You don't need to wear straw sandals when going up mountains and rivers. You can cut firewood and fish. That's how great you are. A wild girl like Li Baoping is very good."
When I was a child, I liked to climb trees, and then shout "Fly, fly, fly, fly!" and then fall to the ground with a plop. I never cried and stood up by myself. Finally, I limped home. In order to avoid walking wrong and being noticed by the elders in the family,
She will deliberately delay going home until very late, and even a person like her who is not afraid of anything will think you are the most amazing person in the world."
Chen Pingan picked up the carving knife again, "When you grow up, you will know why you are so powerful."
Li Huai didn't understand what he heard. He looked at the hairpins with growing envy, "When will you give us the hairpins?"
Chen Ping'an stopped carving and said, "We've arrived at Sui Academy."
Li Huai asked: "Why did you give that "Soushan Picture" to Lin Shouyi? I can see that you like it very much."
Chen Ping'an held up a jade hairpin and looked carefully at the fine lines on the hairpin by the light. "I'm afraid that I can't hold the good things. You are not outsiders. I give it to you. I don't feel bad."
Li Huai didn't open any pot and asked tentatively: "You spend two thousand taels of silver in one night, don't you feel bad?"
Chen Pingan put down the hosta and carving knife, put them back into the box, and said with a straight face: "I have to go for a walk. If I take a few more steps to see the scenery, I will earn back a few taels of silver."
Li Huai turned to look at Chen Ping'an's back, and the child was secretly happy.
Li Huai waited until Chen Pingan closed the door and silently told himself that he must give Chen Pingan something of the best in the future.
Because this guy has walked through so many mountains and rivers along the way. He just accompanied his timid self to pee and poop in a distant place, and then stood not far away to talk to him. He didn’t know how many times.
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Chen Ping'an didn't dare to wander around. He walked towards the pavilion and saw Lin Shouyi sitting there as expected. He didn't dare to disturb the mountain god who stood out first among the team. He watched from a distance for a while and was about to turn around and leave.
When I went, I saw Lin Shou stood up and waved to him.
Chen Ping'an walked into the pavilion. Compared with the handsome young man before walking into Qiulu Inn, Lin Shouyi seemed to be more elegant now.
Lin Shou chose a topic that was not embarrassing, "That Cui Dongshan borrowed a talisman from me, broke the rules of the inn, walked out of the pavilion, jumped into the old well, and disappeared."
Chen Pingan said softly: "Whether Cui Dongshan is dead or alive, I can't care about it, and I won't care about it."
Lin Shouyi held it in for a long time, then turned to look at the well, "I know you have good intentions about staying at Qiulu Inn, but you should have said hello to me in advance."
Chen Pingan nodded and said: "I will do it in the future."
Lin Shou turned his head and carefully looked at the straw-shoe boy's face and eyes, "That's it?"
Chen Pingan asked back: "Otherwise?"
Lin Shouyi laughed at himself: "I thought you would reason with me, or be straightforward, roll up your sleeves and hit me before you say anything. I'm actually ready to fight back or scold you."
Chen Pingan shook his head and said nothing. He leaned against the pillar of the pavilion and looked at the well at the ruins of the Old City God. Chen Pingan could not see anything special about it.
Lin Shouyi looked at Chen Ping'an and said, "I'm sorry."
Chen Pingan smiled and waved his hands, sat cross-legged, and then stared at Laoshuijing without blinking.
Lin Shouyi was relieved, and then asked in confusion: "What are you doing?"
The straw-shoe boy said seriously: "I want to get my money back!"
The stern young man who was already a practitioner quickly reached out and rubbed his cheeks vigorously, just to prevent himself from laughing.
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On the bank of Hanshi River, Dashui Mansion.
The man in green robe on the main seat looked at the guests in the hall. People kept getting up to raise glasses and toast, saying words of praise and praise, which inevitably showed some complacency.
Just now, a well-known literary man in both the government and the public stood up to toast again, saying that all the good weather in the county for so many years was due to him, the water god. In his words, the good or bad livelihood of the people in the county had nothing to do with the county governor surnamed Wei.
.The key point is this kind of naked flattery. There was a person here, wearing the official uniform of Huang Tingguo, a third-rank official. He stood up and offered a toast without hesitation, echoed the literary giant, and was full of beautiful words. As a senior official of the third rank, Yizhou Bijia.
, the person with the highest official rank in this sacrificial ceremony, facing him sitting high on the throne, he kept saying "Master Water God".
Once you become a god who enjoys incense, your name and family during your lifetime are all taboo. As for the people who can meet the gods, they are taboo. Generally, you need to pay attention to this and will not mention your names.
The term "Master" is a relatively safe popular title. There are different opinions as to why it is so. One of the most conclusive theories is that one of the three direct disciples of Daozu likes to call his mentor "Laoye", and Daozu happily accepts it.
, so it has been passed down to this day.
The green-robed man slowly withdrew his gaze. There were four confidants sitting on the left and right sides of the hall, following him to fight in all directions. The long ones lasted for more than three hundred years, and the short ones lasted for more than a hundred years. Before one of them transformed into a human form, he was
A bright red carp has an irreversible relationship with a certain carp spirit Yexiu from the Chongdan River in Dali.
However, this carp spirit has a mission at this time and his position is vacant.
One is a water snake who has become a spirit. He uses a pair of iron maces, which are immortal relics he accidentally obtained. Every time he fights with someone, he likes to smash the opponent's head with the iron mace. He likes to devour boys and girls, but he is only affected by the green robe.
Under the restraint of a man, he only goes out to look for food occasionally and does not dare to be too unscrupulous.
There is another person who was born as a water-blocking toad. He has the best talent, but he is lazy by nature and has the lowest level. He is just gifted and can easily swallow a large amount of river water at the forks of the river. As long as he does not close his mouth, he can keep drawing water.
If you don't stop, your abdomen will never explode. Therefore, no one dares to bully you. You are deeply respected by the man in green robe. There were two river gods who joined forces to cause trouble and gathered many forces to try to overthrow the man in green robe. This
The Hanshi River God's right-hand man was ordered to sneak ashore and sneak into the source of a river. Then he revealed his true body, as big as a mountain, and swallowed the source of the river forcefully, forcing the river god to surrender without a fight, causing another
The river god was left alone and helpless, and was finally beaten to pieces by the man in green robes. The temple and golden body were smashed, and all the pieces sank somewhere at the bottom of the Hanshi River, where he would never be reincarnated.
The last one is a bit out of place. He has a beautiful beard and a scholar's shirt, and is elegant. If his complexion were not dark and green, he looked like a middle-aged Confucian scholar from a scholarly family.
The Hanshi River is eight hundred miles long and passes through the boundaries of three states and eight counties. Therefore, the northern part of Huangting Kingdom needs to rely on the nourishment of this river. Although this man has never been known for his combat prowess in this large water mansion, he is recognized as the chief military advisor.
, always hides behind the scenes, making suggestions for the water god, and does not like to form cliques and act independently.
The beautiful maids who serve tea and wine in the lobby are half humanly beautiful, and the other half are smeared with special makeup to cover up the aura of a dead body. They are water ghosts who fell into the water and died.
Water ghosts in the world, whether they die by drowning or commit suicide, naturally not everyone can become a water ghost. After death, the anger must be difficult to eliminate, as well as the innate physique before death and the time of death. There are special explanations.
With the combination of the three, luckily the souls can be condensed together, and there is a possibility of being accepted as a maid in the Dashui Mansion. Among them, there are water ghosts who are destroyed by the strong wind and continue to disappear into smoke.
For example, the soul-beating wind and the soul-blowing wind blow in the golden autumn season. Among the five elements, gold is the main force. The two winds, one during the day and the other at night, take turns to drift. They are one of the natural enemies of ghosts and ghosts. What is called in the world "the souls are flying away".
, this is one of the sources. The two winds generally only pose a threat to yin objects, but if a living person is extremely weak and has a thin body, he may also be injured by this wind.
There is also the so-called execution after autumn. The imperial government usually carries out executions in the autumn. This is the reason why the execution is to prevent evil spirits from appearing.
In addition, the bursts of spring thunder that ordinary people have heard of are really like a drum to the evil and evil creatures, and they are even more difficult to pass.
It can be seen from this that if it is not easy to be a human being, it seems that it is not easy to be a ghost either.
In addition to the four close generals of Dashui Mansion, there were also guests who came to congratulate him.
The most pleasing figure to the man in green robe is, of course, the now famous literary giant. Back then, he was just a poor scholar who accidentally fell into the water. Unfortunately, this man was not destined to be an official. Even with the support of the water god, he was still just a poor scholar.
After reaching the sixth rank of official position, he couldn't survive, so he finally announced his resignation and went into seclusion. He built a luxurious mansion in the mountains of Hezhou in the north of Huangting Kingdom, and became the prime minister of the mountains and forests. After resigning, he went through two
After more than ten years of operation, he has been hailed as the gentle patriarch of the Northern Scholars of Huangting Kingdom. He has been advocating and building momentum for the Hanshi River Water God. He has written more than 20 poems about the Hanshi River alone, and will be invited every two or three years.
A large number of literati and poets held poetry gatherings on the Hanshi River, spending large sums of money on fine wines and delicacies, courtesans and beautiful maids, showing off their scholarly style.
As for the grandson of a literary tycoon who rose through the ranks in the Huangting Temple and had a mediocre background, and became a spiritual practitioner, no one is willing to delve into it, or in other words, they don’t have the guts to get to the bottom of it.
The leader of the literary world, who calls himself Taoist Huang Lao, is having a lively chat with Mr. Biejia, laughing heartily.
Biejia is the nominal third-in-command in a state. The top one is of course the governor, followed by the generals who are stationed in the local area and hold military power. Huang Ting's military generals are weak, and the temples emphasize literature over military power, so Biejia's official authority is often
The existential significance of being superior to the generals of a state was more for the emperor to restrain and balance the governor.
At this time, everyone subconsciously stopped talking and turned to look in the direction of the door. They saw an armored man with two long beards on his cheeks, striding into the hall, holding his fists and laughing: "Return to the master, that man who doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth."
The casual cultivator is dead and his head was broken by me myself, no accident at all."
The man in green robe first glanced at the expression of a white-haired old man in the hall, and found that the burly man with a short halberd on his waist was hesitant to speak, so he laughed and said: "If you fart, just let it go."
This man is the man who went to Qiulu Inn through Laoshuijing. He is a red carp. He grinned and said cheerfully: "That young monk had a lot of scandals before he died. Is it yours?"
There are some big families in the county, and of course the most important one is the county guard named Wei. He is very unpleasant to hear. His ancestors have scolded him back and forth several times for eighteen generations. If I hadn’t acted quickly, I’m afraid that guy named Wei
, I have to tell this guy whether I peed my pants when I was a child. If nothing else happens, the county town will be full of trouble tomorrow, and it will all be a joke to Governor Wei."
The man in green robe was obviously surprised, "Oh?"
The burly carp spirit was about to speak when the green-robed man waved his hand, signaling him to return to his seat quickly and stop talking nonsense. The former had to sit down obediently and glanced at the man who looked like a scribe. The latter smiled and nodded, indicating that he should be calm and calm.
Only then did the man let go of his hands and feet, eating large pieces of meat and drinking from large bowls.
After hearing the news that the casual cultivator died suddenly in the county town, there was a young man with a sick face in the scene. He immediately couldn't hide his smile and drank frequently.
In the county town, the governor surnamed Wei was depressed, and the young casual cultivators died without their bodies intact.
The guests of honor in Dashui Mansion had a great time.
The contrast is sharp.
The green-robed man suddenly raised his head and looked at the door. Hanshi Jiang Zhengshen had a gloomy look in his eyes.
There was a young man in white clothes standing quietly outside the door. He was reaching out to pat his sleeves and flicking away some water droplets. Finally, the young man stepped across the tall threshold, looked around, and said with a playful smile: "There are no ghosts or ghosts.