Chapter 1041 Tea shop gossiping about the underworld
"Although this plane is quite chaotic, it is still self-contained, and if you ignore the fact that people, demons, and ghosts are mixed, it actually looks pretty good." Chen Kan sat in a tea shop, sipping tea, looking at passers-by, and said in his heart.
In fact, the so-called people, demons, and ghosts are mixed, that is, they are more chaotic than the previous plane, and the previous plane is still a clear boundary, although it is mixed, but it is mainly people, and the number of demons and ghosts is not much, but there is a feeling that a mouse feces spoils a pot of porridge, although the number is not much, but it is mixed in, and this kind of breath is not very accustomed.
It had been a year since Chen Kan had killed that child monk, and after Chen Kan had arranged his own mountain protection formation, because there was no breakthrough in refining the sun and moon dust, he decided to take a walk in the human world, and his task in this plane also needed to be well planned.
"Guest, your tea cake." The shopkeeper took a plate of tea cakes and put them in front of Chen Kan.
"Okay, thank you little brother." Chen Kandao.
"Oh, guest officer, you're polite, are you a scholar?" The shopkeeper asked curiously.
"Oh, why do you say that?" Chen Kan was just wearing a very ordinary cyan robe, which was a little faded, and he didn't look like a scholar at all, and of course, he didn't look like a monk.
"Because I've rarely seen a guest as polite as you, guest officer." Because there was only one guest in the tea shop at the moment, Chen Kan was the only guest, and he had nothing to do, so he chatted directly with Chen Kan.
"It's rare, that is, I still see it, can you please talk to me in detail." Chen Kan asked, saying that Chen Kan invited the shopkeeper to sit down.
"Of course you can, it turns out that there is a Zhu Ju person nearby, if he comes here to drink tea, he will be so polite, but unfortunately Master Zhu died of illness a year ago." The shopkeeper said truthfully, it seems that the shopkeeper in every world and every place is very good at talking, and he is not polite, sitting next to Chen Kan and chatting with Chen Kan.
"Zhu Juren?"
"Yes, guest officer, you are a foreigner at first glance, this Master Zhu, in this ten miles and eight towns, is a famous good man, Master Zhu's name is Erdan, he used to be the first place in the scientific examination, and he lifted people." The shopkeeper gave a thumbs up and said.
Although this plane does not have such an obvious hierarchical arrangement as the city's agriculture and industry, people still admire the scholars, especially the scholars who are admitted to the imperial examination, not to mention that this scholar is still a good person.
"Zhu Erdan, is it him?" Chen Kan said secretly in his heart.
The name Zhu Erdan is not unfamiliar to Chen Kan, there is a story called "Lu Judgment" in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", in which the protagonist is called Zhu Erdan.
"Then since this Master Zhu is a lifter, why didn't he become an official?" Chen Kan asked.
The shopkeeper sighed when he heard this, and explained: "Who said no, I heard that more than 30 years ago, when Master Zhu went to the exam in Kyoto, he was framed by gangsters because he was too good at writing, saying that Master Zhu violated the rules of the examination room and was discredited. ”
The shopkeeper who opened the chatterbox told Chen Kan in detail the story he knew, the main body of the story was that the son of a minister and Zhu Erdan took the same exam, because Zhu Erdan's writing was too good and threatened this son, so the minister joined forces with officials to frame Zhu Erdan.
Of course, there are all kinds of thrilling in this, such as how insidious this minister is, how unbearable the second generation of officials is, and how Zhu Erdan is not afraid of power, including some legends in it, what Wenqu Xing, Wuqu Xing, ghosts and the like, it is no worse than commenting on books.
Chen Kan also regarded it as a pastime to listen to a story.
"That's a shame." Chen Kanying drank.
"Not really."
"The little second brother said before that this Master Zhu is a Wenqu star, what is going on?" Chen Kan asked.
"I heard that this Master Zhu didn't learn well, but then he suddenly opened his mind, and since then, Master Zhu has made great progress in his writings, and his articles can never be forgotten, and he won the first place in the imperial examination that year."
"This Master Zhu is so extraordinary, I think this Mrs. Zhu is not extraordinary." Chen Kan asked.
Sure enough, as Chen Kan expected, although the shopkeeper said it wildly, the general story is the same as the story in "Lu Judgment", which shows that this Zhu Erdan is indeed the protagonist in "Lu Judgment".
"Lu Judgment" tells the story of a scholar named Zhu Erdan, who made a bet with a friend to carry home a statue of a judge with a green face, a red beard, and a hideous and vicious appearance in the palace of the Ten Kings, and invited the statue to drink.
The next night, this judge, that is, Lu Judge, really came to Zhu Erdan to drink, Zhu Erdan is also a big heart, the two became friends, and then Lu Juan saw that Zhu Erdan's article was not written very well, so he went to the underworld and found a wise heart for Zhu Erdan, and Zhu Erdan was enlightened.
Later, after a drunkenness, Zhu Erdan himself had a regret and wanted to change his wife's appearance, so Lu Juan really gave his wife a new head.
And the owner of this head is the daughter of a large family Wu Shiyu who has just been persecuted to death, although there are some things because of this, but later Wu Shiyu accepted Mrs. Zhu as a righteous daughter, and Zhu Erdan became a son-in-law.
And what Chen Kan really cares about is that in the whole story, although there are not many appearances, but the Lu judgment who changed Zhu Erdan's life, according to the description in the story, Lu Juan is the judge of the underworld, Chen Kan is very interested in this, the underworld, this is a long-term name, if there is a chance, Chen Kan wants to go and see, by the way, learn about the dead city.
And according to the description after the story, after the death of this Zhu Erdan, he became an official in the underworld, and he could return to the yang world to teach his son to read, and waited until more than ten years later, Zhu Erdan was promoted and did not come back, and later after his son was in high school, the father and son also met once, leaving a saber that could be rich and noble.
In other words, now Zhu Erdan often appears at home tutoring his children in reading, maybe Chen Kan can follow him, and if he doesn't do well, he can figure out where the underworld is, and at the same time understand some more specific situations in this plane.
However, Chen Kan did not leave here, anyway, Zhu Erdan still had to guide his son for a long time, Chen Kan continued to listen to the shopkeeper tell some supernatural stories in the vicinity.
"You stinky Taoist, don't get in the way, get out of the way." Just as they were chatting, they suddenly heard angry scolding from outside the tea shop.