Chapter 141 Hundreds of Monsters (Part 1)

(I was traveling abroad last week, so the update is really messy. It will stabilize next time. There will be another chapter tonight.)

Although the sky is dark, it is not actually late. In addition, the courtyard of Qiulu Inn was exquisitely and elegantly decorated. Li Huai touched and touched here and there without feeling sleepy at all. While Chen Ping'an was carving the hosta, the child simply moved out the wooden box given by the land master of Qidun Mountain. Place it horizontally on the table, put the painted puppets, and the five clay figurines presented by Wei Jin, the Sword Immortal of Fengxue Temple, into them, and then throw in the copy of "Broken Water Cliff" purchased from Hongzhu Town.

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 from Qidunshan said it was because it had been buried in the soil for countless years. , the color gradually changes from yellow to red, and the wood not only does not decay, but also produces a strange 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, no worse than when he took it out to smell it at the Pillow Station.

Li Huai started to break 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 achieved little results, except for the most precious little green bamboo in the corner. The book box, as well as this delicate yellow wooden box, puppets, and clay figurines, in fact, the book "Broken Water Cliff" also contains several very valuable silverfish, as well as the green tail fish that was slapped into the book by A Liang. Mingyu, it's just that Li Huai doesn't like reading and rarely reads this book, which cost Chen Pingan nearly ten taels of silver.

Looking at Chen Ping'an 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 Ping'an that he would definitely do it. As a reader, this made the child feel a little guilty, so he took out the seemingly brand-new "Broken Water Cliff" from the wooden box, opened a page at random, and began to read the text silently. Li Huai planned to make his conscience feel better.

Li Huai patted his head and remembered something. He quickly reached into his collar and touched a pocket sewn by his sister Li Liu. He twisted out an oil paper bag and shook it at Chen Ping'an, grinning. He smiled and said: "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 and asked us to copy it carefully. He said it was homework. Later, the teacher did not take back the original copy. During this study tour, my mother was very disappointed. I think the word "sir", although written neatly, is not as good as the big characters on the Spring Festival couplets next door, which are heavy and powerful. But at least I have a master-disciple relationship with Mr. Qi, and I will stay here just to think about it. I asked my sister to secretly sew a pocket inside the clothes and put it into a paper bag. I later asked Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi. Li Baoping said he didn't know where he had thrown it, and Lin Shouyi said he had put it at home. Afraid that it would be easy to take it outLost or destroyed. ”

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 words. After a moment, he raised his head and said seriously: "Chen Ping'an, I'll give this Qi Zi to you. It's useless for me to keep it. Besides, I often forget about things. "

Chen Pingan shook his head and smiled: "If you are afraid of losing it, I can keep it for you temporarily before arriving at Sui Academy. But since this is the homework given to you by Mr. Qi, then you As Mr. Qi's student and disciple, you should treasure it well. Even if Mr. Qi is gone, you don't need to copy it. But just like your mother said, keep the copybook for yourself. It is just a thought. ”

Li Huai nodded, casually put the copybook between the pages, then closed "Broken Water Cliff" and threw it into the wooden box.

Unexpectedly, among the pages of the book, The three silverfish and the green fish hidden in different pages of the book left the text somewhere in the original book, swam quickly through the gaps between the lines, and finally quickly entered the full-character poster, truly like a fish in water, happily. Extremely.

Compared to Li Huai's lucky 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. The "Langlang Book on the Cloud" and the "Soushan Picture" with more than a hundred kinds of mountain spirits and ghosts were presented by the blind old Taoist because Chen Ping'an gave the lame boy a snake gallstone of excellent quality. , as a courtesy, the old Taoist took out this treasure that he claimed to be the ancestral treasure of his master, and was given to Lin Shouyi by Chen Pingan.

As for Li Baoping, there are even more famous sword auspicious symbols and silver swords. There are not many gourds, just two of them, but they are all important weapons of the Immortal family that are coveted by monks in the world.

Only Chen Pingan, who contributed the most, seems to have only the slightly withered gourd in the end. The shriveled pale golden lotus seed has no use now, and now it is in debt with the boy in white.

Li Huai lay on the table and repeated the old tune: "Lin Shouyi." The family is very rich, but the identity of the illegitimate child is very embarrassing, so this guy may have a sensitive mind. Chen Ping'an, don't be familiar with him. "

Chen Ping'an nodded, "I'll go back to him and tell him, and it'll be fine. "

Li Huai said for no reason, "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. Think about it, there is no need to tolerate others in everything. Otherwise, if you don't do anything, Li Baoping, who recognizes you as his junior uncle, will be furious to death. "

When 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 Pingan 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 children were also happy. I laughed because I had the impression that Chen PinganHe doesn't smile like that. Usually, no matter what he does or says, Chen Ping'an is always very restrained and reserved, for fear of saying something wrong or doing 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 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 give way to Li Baoping?"

Chen Pingan joked: "Do you like her?"

Li Huai rolled his eyes, "How is that possible? Such a young age! 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' eyes will drop to the floor, especially Dong Shuijing. , every time I find an excuse to go to my house to play, I feel very sick when my sister is not here. As soon as my sister comes home, Dong Shuijing feels like he has been injected with chicken blood, and he wants to fill two large water tanks for my house. . 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 more 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 her eyes, "Li Baoping's family background is the best in the school, but she doesn't play with anyone, including Lin Shouyi, and just follows the wind every day. Like, flying around, always the last one to come to class and the first one to disappear after class. Although she would find me noisy and like to beat me when I had nothing to do, she never laughed at my dad. One time, my dad came to study. When I came to the school, everyone disliked me. Only Li Baoping was willing to guide my father and called him Uncle Li, which made my father happy for many days. Every time someone deliberately made my father a joke in front of me, Li Baoping will always stop them from speaking ill of my father."

Chen Pingan sighed: "That's right, Li Huai, do you have the person you hate the most?"< /p>

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 with trivial things. All my unhappiness comes from No."

Chen Pingan directly twisted the wick with his fingers to make the light brighter, and said with a smile: "You are awesome"

Li Huai said doubtfully: "I have it. What's so great about it? I also think you're not afraid of being burned. You don't need to wear straw sandals when going up mountains and rivers. You can chop wood and fish. That's what you do. Li Baoping is such a wild girl. She liked to climb trees when she was very young. , then shouted "Fly, fly, fly", fell to the ground with a plop, never cried, stood up on his own, and finally limped home, for fear of leavingIf something is not right on the road and the elders in the family notice it, she will deliberately delay going home until very late. Even someone 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 and became more and more greedy, "When will you give us the hairpins? "

Chen Ping'an stopped carving and said, "Let's get to Sui Academy. "

Li Huai asked: "Why did you give that "Soushan Picture" to Lin Shouyi? I can see that you like it too.

Chen Pingan raised a jade hairpin and carefully stared 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 won't give it to you." Feeling distressed. "

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 the carving knife, put them away and put them back in the box, and said with a straight face: "I have to go for a walk. Take a few more steps to see the scenery. I think it's just to earn a few taels of silver." . ”

Li Huai turned to look at Chen Pingan’s back, and the child was secretly happy.

Li Huai waited until Chen Pingan closed the door, and silently told himself that he must put someone in the future. The best thing to give to Chen Pingan

Because this guy has walked through so many mountains and rivers along the way, just accompanying his timid self to pee and poop in a distant place. Then he stood not far away and talked to himself for countless times.

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Chen Pingan did not dare to wander around, so he walked towards the pavilion and looked at it. Lin Shouyi was sitting there as expected, not daring to disturb the mountain god who was the first to stand out among the team. He watched from a distance for a while, and was about to turn around and leave when he saw Lin Shouyi stand up and wave to him.

Chen Pingan walked into the pavilion. Compared with the handsome young man before entering Qiulu Inn, Lin Shouyi seemed to be more elegant now.

Lin Shouyi. As soon as he picked 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 face and eyes of the straw-shoe boy, "That's it? "

Chen Pingan asked: "Otherwise?

Lin Shouyi laughed at himself: "I thought you would reason with me, or be straightforward, roll up your sleeves and beat me up, but I have actually prepared myself not to fight back or scold you." 's ready. ”

Chen Pingan shook his head and said nothing. He leaned against the pillars of the pavilion and looked atLooking at the well at the old Chenghuang ruins, Chen Ping'an couldn't see anything special about it.

Lin Shouyi looked at Chen Pingan, "I'm sorry."

Chen Pingan smiled and waved his hands, sat cross-legged, and then stared at the old well 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!"

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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 was related to that The county governor named Wei has nothing to do with it. The key is this slightly obscene flattery. There was a man here, wearing the official uniform of Huang Tingguo, a third-grade official. He stood up and made a toast without hesitation, echoing the literary giant, and full of beautiful words. As a high-ranking official of the third grade, Yizhou Bijia , the person with the highest official rank in this sacrificial ceremony, facing him who was sitting on the throne, he kept talking about the water god.

Once you become a god who enjoys incense, your name and family during your lifetime are all taboo. As for those who can meet the gods, they are taboo. Generally, you need to pay attention to this and will not name them.

The term "Master" is a relatively safe popular name. 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 Taozu likes to call him "Master". The mentor was the master, and Taozu happily accepted 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 elders were more than three hundred years old, and the short ones were more than a hundred years old. One of them Before taking on the human form, I was a bright red carp, and I had a close relationship with a certain carp spirit Yexiu from Dali Chongdan River.

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 is restrained by the man in green robe. 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 water at the forks of the river, as long as it does not close. With your mouth, you can keep pumping water and your abdomen will never burst. Therefore, no one dared to bully him, and he was highly regarded by the man in green robe. Two river water gods who once joined forces to cause trouble gathered many forces and tried to overthrow the man in green robe. The Hanshi River God's right-hand man was ordered to sneak ashore secretlySneaked into the source of a river, and then revealed his true form. He was as big as a mountain and swallowed the source of the river forcefully, forcing the river god to surrender without a fight, leaving the other river god alone and helpless. Finally, he was beaten to death by a man in green robes. The fragments of the temple and the golden body all sank somewhere at the bottom of the Hanshi River, and they will never be reincarnated.

The last one is a bit out of place. He has a beautiful beard and a scholar's shirt. He is elegant and elegant. If his face were not dark and blue, he looks different from the living people in the world. He looks 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 fighting prowess in this large water mansion, he is recognized as the chief military advisor. He always hides behind the scenes and makes suggestions for the water god. He does not like to form cliques and act independently.

The beautiful maids and maids serving 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 the dead. They are water ghosts who fell into the water and died.

Whether a water ghost dies by drowning or commits 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 physical condition at the time of death. Every time, there is a saying that if you have all three, you can be lucky enough to have your soul condensed together, and then you have the 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 thin air.

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 killer. The two winds, one during the day and the other at night, take turns to drift, which is one of the natural enemies of ghosts. , the so-called "souls are scattered" in the world, this is one of the sources. The two winds generally only threaten yin objects, but if a living person is extremely weak and has a thin blessing, 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 autumn. This is the reason to prevent evil ghosts from appearing.

In addition, even if ordinary people have heard the bursts of spring thunder, to evil and evil creatures, it is really like a drumbeat, and it is a difficult threshold.

It can be seen that if it is not easy to be a human being, it is not easy to be a ghost.

In addition to the four close generals of Dashui Mansion, there were also guests who came to congratulate him.

The most pleasing figure among the men in green robes is of course the now famous literary giant. Back then he was just a poor scholar who accidentally fell into trouble. It's a pity that this person is really not an official. Even with the support of his water god, he still only reached the sixth rank of official, and he couldn't survive. In the end, he simply announced his resignation and retired to the mountains of Hezhou in the north of Huangting Kingdom. , built a luxurious mansion, and became the prime minister of the mountains and forests. After resigning, after more than 20 years of management, he has been known as the gentle patriarch of the Northern Scholars of Huangting Kingdom. He has been advocating and building momentum for the Hanshi River Water God. There are more than 20 poems about Hanshi River. Every two or three years, a large number of literati and poets are invited to hold poetry gatherings on Hanshi River. They spend a lot of money, win and go, have oirans and maids, and are very elegant.

As for the textHao's son rose through the ranks in the Huangting Kingdom Temple, and his grandson, who was a mediocre person, became a spiritual practitioner. No one was willing to delve into it, or in other words, they didn't have the guts to get to the bottom of it.

The literary sect master who calls himself Huang Lao Taoist is having a lively chat with Mr. Biejia, laughing heartily.

Bie Jia 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. Huangting's military generals were weak, and the temples valued literature over military affairs. Therefore, Biejia's official authority was often superior to that of a state general. The significance of Biejia's existence was mostly used by 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: "Replying to the master, that rogue cultivator who didn't know the heights of heaven and earth is dead. I broke his head myself. It was absolutely no accident."

The man in green robe first glanced at the expression of a white-haired old man in the hall. Finding that the burly man with a short halberd on his waist was hesitant to speak, he smiled and said: "If you fart, let it go."

This man is the man who went to Qiulu Inn through Laoshuijing, and he is a Yiwei Red carp, he grinned and said cheerfully: "Before the young cultivator died, he had a lot of scandals, including yours, the master's, and some of the big families in the county. Of course, the most common one was the county guard surnamed Wei. , it was so unpleasant that the eighteen generations of my ancestors scolded me back and forth several times. If I hadn’t acted quickly, I’m afraid that guy named Wei would have told him whether he peed his pants when he was a child. If nothing else, the city will be filled with uproar tomorrow, all made up of Governor Wei's jokes."

The man in green robe was obviously surprised, "Oh?"

The burly carp spirit was about to speak. , the man in green robe waved his hand, indicating that he should hurry back to his seat 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 then the burly man let go of his hands and feet. Eat big chunks of meat and drink from big bowls.

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 city, the governor surnamed Wei was depressed, and the young casual cultivator died without a complete body.

The guests of honor in Dashui Mansion had a great time.

The contrast is sharp.

The man in green robe suddenly raised his head and looked at the door. Hanshi Jiang Zhengshen had a gloomy look in his eyes.

A young man in white clothes with beautiful trees in the wind stood quietly outside the door, reaching out to pat his sleeves and flicking away some water drops. Finally, the young man stepped across the tall threshold, looked around, and said with a playful smile: "There are no humans, no ghosts, no gods. It's weird, weird, really weird."