Chapter 16: Purgatory and Punishment

"From this point of view, Yunluo Xiaoyou is a master of pitfalls. The muffled sound is silent. High! It's really high! Chen Pingxiang was very satisfied with Zhang Yunluo's plan, and in his opinion, Zhang Yunluo's plan has been implemented so far, and everything is simply ready to lead the east wind.

Along the way, Zhang Yunluo's side was as righteous as a dragon, forcing the lonely souls and wild ghosts to dare not approach. Since there is Chen Pingxiang, the pioneer of the mountain, to deter evil ghosts, there is no need to bother him to exorcise ghosts, not to mention that it is not useless to keep these ghosts in the future, as a wise man, you must be good at using the resources around you.

Besides, there are two kinds of exorcism, one is to make the ghosts completely scattered, and the other is to open the door to the nether and send the ghosts to the world where they should go.

Since the ghosts of the underworld did not come to collect them, it seems that they will not have an impact on people under normal circumstances.

Before dawn, I saw that the east was yellow, and the ghosts in the city had not all receded, and there were already people who had to come out to make a deal, Chen Pingxiang had been the city lord in Long'an City for many years, and he couldn't bear to look at it when he saw this kind of thing.

A thin man with his child meets a woman with a child in a quiet alley. The man glanced at the woman, and couldn't help but sigh: "I really envy your old man for having such a strong mother-in-law as you, unlike the one in my family who is crying at home now, my eldest is sensible and knows what we are going to do, he came out with me directly last time, and told me to save some food and take care of my younger brothers and sisters before parting......"

When the man said this, he couldn't stop crying. The woman was silent on the side, the reason why she came out of her house was mainly because his father-in-law's legs had been cut off by himself, obviously he was a scholar, but he was more ruthless than anyone else, the knife at home was not sharp, and a leg was enough to keep a scholar busy for an hour. After getting his lips white, if it weren't for his fate, he would have gone a long time ago.

For a long time, her man did not make a sound, and if the neighbors knew that his man was crippled, their family would not want to live. In this kind of world, people can do anything in order to survive.

They can't complain about the city lord Chen Pingxiang, if it weren't for the city lord who helped them at the beginning, they wouldn't be as poor as they are now, obviously they are eunuchs, but they don't even have a fat doll at home, and they are all vice refugees.

The man's family is followed by the second child, he found a man last night and said that he wanted to find his eldest brother, afraid that his eldest brother would be lonely and lonely below, let the man take him with him, if the family can be rich in the future, he must find a reversible door for his sisters, so that his family has a queen.

Now the boy was seriously frightened and relieved, and even in the depths of his eyes there was a trace of pride that he had not lived in vain. He touched the man's head and comforted him: "If it's a man, don't cry, it's just dead, we are poor here, maybe it is not uncommon for the king of Hades to take me and my eldest brother, every Zhongyuan Halloween Festival, our brothers and sisters can go home and chat with you for a while, and you don't drive us out when the time comes." “

When the man heard this, he cried even more heartbreakingly. The little girl brought by the woman was not very sensible, so she pulled the woman's sleeve and asked the woman: "What's wrong with this uncle, why is he crying like this?" Is it that his family has no food, and he can't support Tuan Tuan. The little girl began to cry to herself.

After all, women are not hard-hearted, and they can't stop saying anything with tears, so they cry loudly. Zhang Yunluo saw the potholes on the woman's arm through her sleeve, and he sighed, it seems that the woman didn't know how many knives she had suffered and how many times she had suffered in order to prevent her children from being exchanged for rations.

Zhang Yunluo finally couldn't look at it, he walked among a few people, and said expressionlessly: "The kid is a foreigner, and he still has some silver taels on his body, and he can't bear to see the two households eating in Yizi, so he can't bear it, it's better for the two of them to take some silver taels, and go to the Great Wilderness Courtyard to get some food before dawn, no matter what, please be sure to survive the seven days, and after seven days, I, Zhang Yunluo, will return the people to a hundred years of disaster-free Long'an City." ”

After saying these words, he first gave the woman some silver taels, and watched her go away before giving the money to the man. The man pressed his son and kowtowed to Zhang Yunluo three times, Zhang Yunluo accepted it calmly, and had to accept the three heads of the father and son.

Zhang Yunluo walked behind Chen Pingxiang in a few steps and said to Chen Pingxiang: "Brother Chen, now I suddenly want to go to the Great Wilderness Courtyard, boy. Let's go back quickly, we should be back to your house before dawn, and it's not too late for us to start our plans. ”

Chen Pingxiang saw that Zhang Yunluo was expressionless now, but his eyebrows were angry, obviously he was angry now, although he didn't know what Zhang Yunluo was going to do, but he still said to Zhang Yunluo: "Everything is up to Yunluo Xiaoyou." ”

Zhang Yunluo took Chen Pingxiang to retreat thousands of miles into inches, and when he stepped out, it was a hundred meters, and it didn't take long to arrive in the Great Wilderness Courtyard.

"The eldest prince of Zhangfu came to visit the Great Wilderness Courtyard, and he wanted to discuss something important with the shopkeeper." Zhang Yunluo called a steward and told him to call the shopkeeper. The title of the eldest prince of the Zhang Mansion was enough, and the steward hurriedly entered the inner room to ask the shopkeeper.

"I don't know that Zhang Yunluo, the eldest son of Zhangfu, is coming, and I hope that Gongzi Yunluo will forgive me." The shopkeeper bowed slightly and clenched his fists, as a sign that he had seen this eldest prince of Zhangfu.

"The shopkeeper is out of sight, the kid now has important matters to discuss with the shopkeeper, and I don't know if the shopkeeper is inconvenient now." Zhang Yunluo also bowed slightly and hugged his fists, lowering his figure, so that the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard had a good impression of him in his heart.

"Business?"

"Naturally, it's business, boy, I'm here just to buy food."

The shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard had a stronger smile on his face, and hurriedly said to Zhang Yunluo: "Then there is naturally time, but I don't know how much Zhang Gongzi wants to buy and how much price he has to pay, if the amount is large enough, I am willing to write a discount for Zhang Gongzi." ”

"The amount depends on the shopkeeper, this is a conscientious business for the shopkeeper, and when the time comes, the price can be more or less, and it also depends on the shopkeeper's heart." Zhang Yunluo said to the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard, but he didn't say what he was going to do, and let the shopkeeper guess by himself.

"How to buy and sell with conscience? Please also let Zhang Gongzi know. ”

"You see that your Great Wilderness Courtyard has not sold much grain in the past two or three years, as far as I know, Fenglailou has purchased all the goods from outside the county. The grain has been piling up for so long, doesn't the shopkeeper want to dispose of it? Zhang Yunluo still didn't say what he was going to do, but bypassed the topic and talked about the quality of the food in the Great Wilderness Courtyard.

He is going to belittle these things now, all the good goods were bought yesterday and kept for the people of Long'an City to make seeds for the next year, and what is left in the Great Wilderness Courtyard now is not some old grain that has been piled up for a long time.

Looking at the head of the Great Wilderness Courtyard and nodded, Zhang Yunluo continued: "I want the shopkeeper to take care of the people of Long'an City for seven days, and the display cabinet will ensure that they have food to eat for three meals as much as possible within seven days, Xinshen doesn't care, don't let them starve to death in these three days, and don't let them eat in Yizi in these seven days." ”

When the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard heard this, his smile immediately disappeared, and he said to Zhang Yunluo: "This is a lot of food, Zhang Gongzi, you have to know that although the Great Wilderness Courtyard in Long'an City has been regarded as an abandoned son by the General Courtyard of the Great Wilderness Courtyard for many years, how many things here are still recorded, if you want me to take out so many things, Zhang Gongzi, you have to come up with something of equivalent value." ”

"I don't have much money, but I can give the shopkeeper a few paintings. If you look at this painting, you will know the price. Zhang Yunluo said as he took out a few paintings from the book basket, painting splendid mountains and rivers.

Of course, it doesn't matter what's in the painting, it's important that they get into the painting.

He spread out the painting, made a gesture of please, and said, "The inside of the shopkeeper, please, Brother Chen will also come and take a look?" ”

The shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard was skeptical, and tentatively put his hand deep into the painting, Zhang Yunluo gently pushed behind him, and the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard entered the painting like this.

"There is a lot in my painting, and the shopkeeper must know what the value of such a painting is. Shopkeeper, you want me to exchange a few paintings for seven days' rations, and I hope to tell the boy. Although I am not talented, my ancestors are rare, and I have given me these heirlooms. Each painting can contain a piece of mountains and rivers. ”

This painting Zhang Yunluo painted with such an effect, the ancestor of the Zhang family can make one or two pictures with all his life's strength, he is precious to outsiders, but it is not worth a few dollars to Zhang Yunluo of the away team. Chen Pingxiang saw Zhang Yunluoken pay such a treasure for Long'an City, and his eyes were a little moist, and he almost burst into tears.

"I want three of them, I don't know if Zhang Gongzi has so many." The shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard thought about it for a while and then said his thoughts. In his opinion, one was kept by himself, and two were handed over to the headquarters, and the headquarters obtained two such treasures through him, and it must not be long before he was promoted.

Zhang Yunluo pretended to be sad, because after a while, he said to the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard: "Before the kid went out, the elders of the family gave five paintings, and the kid wanted the people of Long'an City to live better, so he only left one painting with him, and the remaining four were all given to the shopkeeper!" I also hope that the shopkeeper can do a good job in this conscientious business. ”

Zhang Yunluo said that the word "conscience" was deliberately heavy. When Chen Pingxiang heard this, he hurriedly spoke out to stop him: "Yunluo Xiaoyou, don't do it!" “

"It doesn't matter! Boy, I have made up my mind, and I ask Brother Chen not to stop me. It's just that I can't hand over all four paintings to the shopkeeper now, let's go first to the villain and then the gentleman, and after seven days, the city will be the same as I said, and then I will give the remaining three paintings to the shopkeeper. I still hope that the shopkeeper is not strange," Zhang Yunluo, the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard and Chen Pingxiang withdrew from the painting and said with their fists cupped.

After a few polite words, Zhang Yunluo and Chen Pingxiang planned to leave the Great Wilderness Courtyard, but at this moment, the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard asked: "Do you need me to follow along, let the Great Wilderness Courtyard help more people from Long'an City." “

"That's not necessary, the Great Wilderness Courtyard will not care about them at all in seven days." Hearing Zhang Yunluo's words, the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard lowered Zhang Yunluo by two grades in his heart, the eldest prince of the Zhang Mansion is just like this, he only cares about the present and the future, it is really a bit short-sighted.

Zhang Yunluo knew what the fat man was thinking through the pair of squinting eyes of the shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard, and when he saw that the fat man did not speak, he continued: "I said that this is a conscience deal, and how to do it depends on you as the shopkeeper." And in six days, I will go to Qingxian River to call the dragon for rain, as long as I do it, there will be rain irrigation in Long'an City, and there will be no major drought in a hundred years. There will be no more prohibitions in the Qingxian River, and people can go into the river to catch fish, as long as they have cultivated well in the past seven days, it will not be a problem to feed themselves.

The shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard didn't say anything, but muttered in his heart: This eldest prince of Zhangfu is a little conceited, how can the dragon king of Qingxian River say that he can be called if he is called? If it were really that easy, Long'an City would not be like it is now. In six days, I'll go to the riverside and see.

The shopkeeper of the Great Wilderness Courtyard is also a layman, and he doesn't study or practice martial arts, just a small abacus in his heart is shrewd, how can such a layman feel the change in the luck of Long'an City.

"Who wants to destroy my foundation and take my place!" Under the palace, there was a five-clawed golden dragon roaring loudly, it was the dragon vein and luck of the Lan Dynasty, and he was now complaining that he was blind enough to let the old emperor pass the throne to such an incompetent monarch before his death.

Zhao Qianyin was now suspended above the imperial city by a wisp of breath, and the five-clawed golden dragon felt that someone was going to slap him in the face at this time. Everyone in the world knows that the emperor is the son of heaven and the son of a dragon, and now he is being bullied in front of the world, isn't it in his face of God, isn't he slapping the face of his five-clawed golden dragon?

In its heart, it's all to blame Zhao Qianyin for being too incompetent, but it doesn't matter, as long as it finds someone who is three or four points similar to Zhao Qianyin, it can claim to the outside world that he has kept one of Zhao Qianyin's illegitimate sons, and when the time comes, it will go out in person, and there will be anyone against the puppet being the emperor?

Of course not! Because the world does not dare, and how long can that saint stay in the world? After becoming holy, it is not as good as the immortal court, then you can only fall into the netherworld.

Thinking of this, the five-clawed golden dragon laughed and entrenched in the underground of the palace, shielding itself from the hustle and bustle of the outside world and entering his own sweet dream.

Zhao Qianyin is now cloaked in a cloak of hair, and his whole body is entangled with black qi, this black qi is nothing else, it is the fierce qi that was stuffed into his body by the Confucian scholars. When there is no more ferocity in his body, it will be the time of his death, and the emperor is now bent on death.

This emperor is now tortured, and from time to time he is whipped open by the black qi, but he is immediately forced to close his wounds by the fierce qi. The wound seemed to be healing on the surface, but in fact, there was a fierce aura in it that was constantly tossing, making him feel painful.

At first, this faint monarch still wanted to have some dignity, and he bit his lip tightly and said that he didn't scream, but as time went by, the pain gradually deepened, and Rao was quite persevering, but he also began to shout.

It hadn't been long since the Black Cloud Realm was overwhelmed, and he already felt that purgatory was nothing more than that. When it was dark, some people began to watch him be punished, and some people kept clapping their hands and applauding, and now the sky was yellowing, and those who had nothing to do had gathered to point fingers at him, and from time to time they despised and scolded him, making Zhao Qianyin feel that the torture in his heart was worse than his body. You must know that just one day ago, he was still the emperor worshiped by 10,000 people!