Chapter 1196: Hell
Hearing Lin Ping'an's joke, Lin Xue smiled, she didn't mean to help Zhong Kui fight grievances,
That's meaningless, for the royal family, it doesn't matter who is the champion or who is the Tanhua, there is no need to take special care, but it will cause unnecessary trouble.
The royal family is used to look down on the world.
Lin Xue is here to repay Big Brother and the Religious Division, and the mobile phone Big Brother caused a sensation as soon as it was promoted, but because it looked too ugly, the people of the Lin family still didn't need it, anyway, they were immortals, and they could continue to use sound transmission spells.
"Buddhism and Taoism are really rich, buy big brother, buy hundreds. "Lin Xuedao,. "In this way, it should be no problem to dig out the money of the Daomen and the Buddha Gate, Chang'an alone has sold 10,000 big brothers, nearly 10 million in revenue!"
Lin Xuexiao's eyes couldn't close.
Lin Ping'an said: "You can stop, I have useful money, military spending has increased recently, and Da Sui has increased troops on the border, it seems that it will not be possible to fight again!, and other places in the country will also use money!"
Lin Xue rolled her eyes, "I'm rare, I just haven't seen so much silver, it's a mountain." ”
"I haven't seen it either!" Lin Ping'an said: "It's better to use silver now, don't worry about currency depreciation!"
Lin Xue said: "Although it is very good to use metal currency, it is not convenient to carry, and the total amount of metal currency is too small, and now the economy is underdeveloped and can meet the needs of the market, but once the market is prosperous, metal currency will not be enough sooner or later!"
"It is inevitable that human beings will have paper money!" Lin Xue said, "Do we have to plan ahead and establish a central bank, Datang now has a rich bank, which can be used!"
Lin Ping'an had a headache when he heard it, it was not that he didn't want to do it, but in Datang, the difficulty of making paper money was not ordinary.
"Later, later!
"Say another fart, there's nothing to say about it!" Lin Xue smiled: "I just want to remind you, now the two major industries of textile, mobile phone, and Datang have been established, with the expansion of the scale of the industry, it is definitely not enough to have a means of payment now, you can't let others buy things with tons of gold and silver, paper money is a matter of time!"
Lin Ping'an didn't know that paper money was convenient, but as an emperor, he couldn't just order the implementation of paper money
It also requires the people to be willing, but fortunately, it is the current economic system, and there is no rush at all.
"I have to discuss this matter with my father!"
"Daddy understands?"
Lin Ping'an estimated, "I may not understand, but if something goes wrong at that time, I can let my father take the blame!"
Lin Xue laughed, glanced at Lin Ping'an, and said, "You said that if Daddy knew, would he kill you!"
Lin Ping'an rolled his eyes, feeling guilty in his heart, his father was the one who took the blame for him, otherwise what was the use of asking for it.
After the imperial examination, the New Year is approaching in a month, and on the streets of Chang'an, big brothers are already very common.
As a jinshi of Xinke, Zhong Kui was also rewarded by the emperor with a big brother. As soon as he got his hands on it, Zhong Kui felt easy to use, and the contact person no longer had to run errands.
Jizo and Zhong Kui have been together since that day.
Jizo feels very bad about Big Brother, Zhong Kui also knows that he is not reluctant, and he usually takes out Big Brother in front of Jizo.
"After the year, the imperial court will be conferred an official, and I am very likely to stay in Chang'an!" Zhong Kui said, there were a few small dishes on the coffee table in front of him, and the stove on the side was warm with a wine jug.
Zhong Kui was asking Jizo's plans.
Jizo said, "Then I'll stay here too, do you know your official position?"
Zhong Kui said: "As long as you can contribute to the court, it doesn't matter if the official position is big or small!"
Jizo looked at Zhong Kui, he had already speculated that Zhong Kui's fate should have hit the Golden Palace, and then attained the Tao in the underworld, and was recognized by the Heavenly Dao as the Heavenly Master who punished the heavens.
It's just that now I'm looking at Zhong Kui, his personality has long changed, and he can't see it clearly, there is only one person who can have this kind of means.
Jizo pinched a peanut, pinched it open and put it into his mouth: "Recently, there have been many rumors of ghosts in Chang'an, and some people say that there are hundreds of ghosts walking at night on Suzaku Street. It's scary!"
Zhong Kui said with a smile: "It's all nonsense, Chang'an is the capital of the Tang Dynasty, what the hell is running rampant in Chang'an, do you think the royal family will sit idly by?"
Zhong Kui is extremely confident, and he has heard about the ghost rumors in Chang'an for a long time, but the scholar raises the spirit of Haoran and respects the ghosts and gods and stays away.
Jizo looked at Zhong Kui, but unfortunately Zhong Kui's reaction was not interested at all.
"Only when the world is impure can evil spirits haunt, I'm not lying!"
Zhong Kui smiled and said: "Master, I know that you are a person from Buddhism, the master's heart is worried about the people, Zhong Kui understands, but Chang'an is a ghost, it should be a rumor, I have heard of it for a long time since I entered Chang'an, but no one can say it clearly."
"Maybe it's just that it's scary for the little people to pick up the ghosts and gods, you and I don't have to worry, there is also the government!"
"Yes!" Jizo nodded,
After eating, Zhong Kui chatted with Jizang for a while, and Jizang got up and said goodbye, "I made an appointment with the monk of Puji Temple, and I won't come back today." ”
These days, Jizo has been wandering around Chang'an, Zhong Kui knows that he doesn't believe that the Chang'an Temple has broken the vows, and the takeover of Jizang's investigation is naturally not good.
Zhong Kui sent Jizang out of the door, and at the door, Jizang suddenly turned around and handed Zhong Kui a glimpse of the jade pendant and asked him to take it with him carefully.
"This jade pendant has already been opened in front of the Buddha, and it is very effective,"
Zhong Kui saw that the jade pendant was green and transparent, and it was an excellent high-grade jade, and felt that it was too valuable: "I have already received a gift from the master to help me in the imperial examination, and I am already grateful and disrespectful, and I can't accept such beautiful jade." ”
Jizo smiled: "If you keep it, you will naturally know the use of this jade pendant." ”
Without waiting for Zhong Kui to speak, Jizang pushed his hand and left, Zhong Kui took the jade pendant and wanted to chase, but the monk had already turned a corner, Zhong Kui hurriedly chased after him, but the monk had long since disappeared
Zhong Kui returned home, the jade pendant was cold in his hand, he didn't feel it when he first got it, but now he feels even more extraordinary when he looks at it.
After all, it's something given by Jizo, where is it ordinary.
The Chang'an Emperor List has not yet been announced, and Zhong Kui needs to wait until the first day of the Lunar New Year, but the news has already come out.
Since entering Chang'an, all kinds of things have made Zhong Kui feel that when he opened his eyes and ate a little casually, Zhong Kui was reading at home, and he also knew that because of his birth and appearance, the people in the same department looked down on him a little.
But Zhong Kui didn't have any idea, his birth appearance was given by his father, seeing that the time was not early, and there were still some uneaten lo-mei on the table, so he packed it up, and then went out.
Not far from home, Zhong Kui carried a lantern, I heard earlier that Chang'an had a curfew, but after the emperor ordered, Chang'an canceled the curfew, Zhong Kui walked all the way, arrived at Chaoyangmen, and saw an old man sitting in front of the door at a glance.
The old man has white hair, wears a torn cotton jacket in the cold winter, his hands are grouped, he knows some words, he lives by writing letters to people, sometimes he is lucky, and he is enough to drink a pot of wine, but more often, it is the same as today, there is no business.
This is not far from the Gongyuan, on the day of the end of the scientific expedition, the old man stopped Zhong Kui, perhaps because the old man was well-informed and knew a little about how to see people, saying that he was not an ordinary person.
At that time, the old man was horrified, "You are not a man, but a man of God." ”
Zhong Kui and the fellow subjects who left the Gongyuan together heard it, and the others only thought it was a joke, but Zhong Kui knew that he had already worshiped his master, = and began to cultivate.
"Old man!" Standing in front of the old man, Zhong Kui saluted respectfully, and then put down the things in his hand.
The old man smiled bitterly: "It's you again, you don't use it to find me, just think that I was drunk and talked nonsense that day."
Looking at the small package in front of him, the old man couldn't move, "Start meat!"
Zhong Kui raised his hand, and put down a jar of wine with his other hand, and the wine was fragrant. The old man couldn't help but swallow. "You're hurting me!"
Zhong Kui smiled, the old man was already used to seeing the world, and he didn't care about the ugly Zhong Kui at all.
He also likes to talk to old men.
"Okay, well, for your sake, I'll remember today and write your story!" the old man took out his pen and paper and began to write,
Zhong Kui looked at the old man, and saw the old man's pen walking dragon snake, he glanced at it, but his eyes were blurry, rubbed his eyes, and still didn't see anything, only to see the old man's pen on the paper,
The pen is like a wind and rain, but there is no handwriting.
What the hell did you go?
After a while, the old man wrote, looked up and looked at Zhong Kui, and he didn't care, grabbed the wine jar and took a big bite, opened the small package, pinched a piece of meat with his hand, and ate it deliciously.
"Old man, why don't I see a word?"
The old man's eyes seemed to be cloudy, looking at Zhong Kui, what he wrote was about the future, how could people see it now.
Looking at Zhong Kui, the old man's eyes suddenly turned red, he has been writing at the door for a living, he has been sixty years, he has seen countless princes and generals in sixty years, and countless people are handsome, but no one's life is the same as Zhong Kui.
The world is uneasy, and only then is a stranger born
"Hehe, I'll write casually, old man, why should the son care, you see!" The old man took out the broken book
There are words on it, which clearly records that Zhong Kui invited him to drink wine and eat meat today.
At the end, the word "great goodness" was written.
"I have eaten your meat and drunk your wine today, and I can't eat it in vain!" the old man smiled: "You must come home before midnight today, remember, remember!"
Zhong Kui thought it was funny, but before he could speak, the old man bowed to him, and Zhong Kui wanted to excuse himself.
The old man said: "Don't shirk the child, I don't thank the son for the sake of wine and meat, but thank the son on behalf of the world,"
The old man bowed solemnly and left with the restaurant.
Zhong Kui felt funny and helpless
On the Vermilion Bird Avenue, the flow of people is like weaving, and Chang'an City is brilliant, showing the spirit of a strong country.
Zhong Kui walked all the way, watched all the way, and didn't feel bored, there were many things he had seen and never heard.
"Look at that is Zhong Kui!" Someone suddenly spoke,
Zhong Kui looked back and saw a woman on the opposite side looking at him,
The imperial examination has just ended, and the current students are staying in Chang'an to wait for the emperor's list, and the women in Chang'an have heard a lot, and Zhong Kui also knows that his appearance has become a talking point in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion.
If he had been angry earlier, he would have been angry, but now he didn't care, he already regarded himself as inhuman.
"Zhong Kui, why don't you let us go!"
Just wanted to leave, Zhong Kui listened to the woman opposite again, he turned around, and the woman opposite came over and knelt in front of him in front of everyone
"Little girl, I have never been evil, why does the Divine Monarch refuse to let me go. ”
Zhong Kui was shocked, "You didn't recognize the wrong person!"
The woman shook her head and bowed her head, kneeling, "No, please spare your life!"
"I'm not the god monarch you said," Zhong Kui was helpless, glanced at the woman, and immediately found something strange at this look.
The woman knelt in front of him, and no one in the passers-by noticed that someone passed in front of him and passed directly through the woman's body.
"You..... "Zhong Kui was shocked, this is a ghost?
He can see ghosts.
The woman was overjoyed: "The little girl is indeed a ghost, and she asks the Divine Monarch to spare her life, only because she misses her parents at home, the little girl escaped from the underworld, please spare the Divine Monarch!"
Zhong Kui looked at the woman in front of him blankly, the woman was dressed in white, her long hair was hanging low, but the corners of her mouth were blood-red, and she looked very strange.
Zhong Kui didn't know what to do, he was a mortal, and he actually saw the hell. It is even more something that makes Zhong Kui think of it, Chang'an really has a ghost.
"You go first. Zhong Kui said. His mind is in turmoil,
When the woman stood up, at this glance, the woman didn't look like an evil person, Zhong Kui still felt incredible.
It is common sense for people to die in the underworld and return to reincarnation, but what to say in front of you......
"You escaped from the underworld?" Zhong Kui shuddered when he thought of what the woman had said before.
The woman shook and almost fell to her knees. "The Divine Monarch spares his life, the Divine Monarch spares his life!"
Zhong Pants said in his heart, what kind of god is he.
I heard the woman say in detail, "The little woman was originally a Chang'an personnel, and she passed away not long ago and went to the underworld, but the underworld was empty....."
"The underworld is empty?"
"Yes, the little woman saw that the underworld was empty, and countless ghosts escaped from the underworld, and the little woman escaped with her!"
"Why do you call me God-king!"
The woman was stunned for a moment, bowed her head and said, "The Divine Monarch is the Divine Monarch!"
The passers-by looked at Zhong Kui, talking into the air alone, and immediately laughed, Zhong Kui also knew that he must look extremely weird at this moment.
"You go back with me first, and take your time!"
"Haha"
A burst of laughter came, and Zhong Kui saw that a man came on the opposite side, and he knew that he was also a ghost when he saw that person passed by.
Zhong Kui felt a chill, as if he was going to freeze him.
As soon as the man saw the woman, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the woman, opened his mouth, bit the woman's neck, and saw the woman shriveled down, staring at Zhong Kui with dead eyes.
The man sucked the woman dry, wiped his mouth, and glanced at Zhong Kui. Thinking that Zhong Kui couldn't see him, the man opened his mouth, and his mouth was extremely huge, and his fangs were blood-red.
"Bold!"
Zhong Kui suddenly became angry and glared at the man.
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