Gao Dong blinked, feeling that the old man in front of him had no malice, so he told him what happened to him and Zhao Huanshu a year ago.

Then, Gao Dong also knew that the old man's name was Chu Tianxing, and the old man didn't reveal anything else.

The old man didn't say much, came to the side of the boat and jumped lightly, then returned to his own Ye Zhou, took a big gulp of the wine brought from the high winter boat, and gnawed the leg of mutton clean by the way.

"Hiccup, little friend, do you still have meat?" The old man burped and said drunkenly to Gao Dong.

The old man named Chu Tianxing, while swaying after being drunk, the leaf boat he was sitting on also swayed, and the magic was that no matter how the leaf he was sitting on swayed, the river water would automatically flow back when it reached the edge of the leaf, and not a drop flowed into the surface of the leaf.

In any case, this old man named Chu Tianxing always saved his life, and Gao Dong was not stingy, and kept helping the old man carry wine out.

It wasn't until the leaves where the old man was sitting were full of wine jars that Gao Dong stopped carrying them with a lot of sweat, and miraculously, the old man's leaves showed no signs of sinking at all.

That Chu Tianxing said that it was also strange, no matter how much wine he drank, he seemed to be in a state of being half-drunk and half-awake, and he felt the best when drinking, and after drinking ten jars of good wine in a row, he looked at Gao Dong with a smile, shook his head and said, "Hiccup!" Little brother, I, I said, do you think life is important? Or is the future important? ”

"Lives matter! Without life, where will the career come from? Gao Dong said without thinking.

How do you know that the old man smiled and said: "No, no, no, the old man doesn't mean that, I mean, if you want to save your life, you have to give up high-ranking officials, and even future relatives, wives and children, are you willing?" Hiccup......"

"This ......" Gao Dong was silent, he seemed to hear something in the words he sent to the old man.

"Hahaha! Looking at your embarrassed appearance, you must not be able to let go of the glory and wealth of this world? Seeing Gao Dong's hesitation, the old man stroked his silver-white long beard and smiled bitterly: "That's it, that's it." ”

Then, the old man took out a small wooden sword from his sleeve and threw it at Gao Dong, the small sword seemed to have spirituality, and it happened to fly into Gao Dong's hand.

"This thing can keep you safe, although you are the champion of high school Wenqu Xing, it stands to reason that your fortune is prosperous, and you can be blessed by heaven, and all the demons in this world cannot disturb you." Chu Tianxing said, shook his head and sighed: "However, your life is not ordinary, even if your fortune is prosperous, it is limited to officialdom, and it is easy to provoke ghosts. ”

"But my sword with you is carved by the god peach wood of Dushuo Mountain, and you can carry this sword on your body to protect the ghosts from invading and the evil from disturbing." Chu Tianxing smiled and waved his hand at Gao Dong: "I'll go, you can do it yourself, don't be like the prime minister, do something hurtful to the heavens and reason, if you do evil, I can't spare you." ”

"Ugh!"

Suddenly! Gao Dong sat up sweating profusely, and he found himself on a couch in the cabin, and the guards could be seen patrolling outside the cabin, that is to say, everything just now...... Is it a dream?!

But......

Gao Dong soon found that beside his pillow, there was a small peachwood sword with a dark red texture and a hard middle finger; Gao Dong picked up the peachwood sword and remembered the words of the old man in his dream.

"Don't be like the prime minister, do something hurtful to heaven and reason, if you do evil, I can't spare you......"

Gao Dong looked at the peachwood sword in his hand carefully, and his brows became tighter and tighter: "This...... That old immortal called Chu Tianxing, could it really save my life? But that man said that the prime minister hurt heaven and reason? Where does this begin? ”

Gao Dong's thoughts were a little confused, first of all, the small peach wood sword in his hand, the old man called Chu Tianxing in his dream said that it was carved by the god peach wood of Dushuo Mountain.

This "Dushuo Mountain" is incredible! Gao Dong took a sharp breath, and there were clouds in the "On the Balance of the Troubled Dragon" written by Wang Chong in the Han Dynasty: "The ancient people, there are gods and Yu Lei, and the two Kundi, who are ghosts, live on the Shuo Mountain in the East China Sea, stand under the peach tree, and read the hundred ghosts. ”

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" has clouds again: "There is a big peach tree on Dushuo Mountain, and the flags are three thousand miles. ”

In addition, there is a cloud of "Book of the Yellow Emperor": "In ancient times, there were two brothers Tu and Yu, and they made a hundred ghosts and ...... with the peach tree of Shuoshan Mountain."

This Dushuo Mountain is the legendary ghost gate, there is a giant peach tree entrenched in 3,000 miles on the mountain, and there are two gods under the peach tree, which are called: "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei".

They rely on the peach tree and are in charge of all the ghosts who come to the Ghost Gate.

And these two gods, from the village to the rich family, will stick their portraits on the door as door gods.

"This is my life-saving thing!" Gao Dong put the peachwood sword in his sleeve pocket and pressed it a few more times, wishing that this thing would grow on his own flesh.

This is a legendary artifact that can resist all the ghosts in the world!

Gao Dong put the wooden sword in his sleeve and was not at ease, so he ordered someone to find a red rope, tied the peach wood sword tightly, and hung it on his chest, so he felt a little relieved.

Then, Gao Dong recalled Chu Tianxing's last words, and his face suddenly fell.

When Chu Tianxing was leaving, he said: That prime minister, Lao'er, did something hurtful to the heavens and reason in secret?

In Gao Dong's impression, the prime minister of the dynasty who took good care of himself was a good person who cared about the people, although there were many rumors in the court, saying that the prime minister controlled the government and had a bad heart, but Gao Dong followed him for a year, and he completely felt that these people were malicious slander!

Take the drought in the south the year before last, when the disaster reached the imperial court, due to the invasion of foreign tribes in the north at that time, a large amount of the country's property had to be used to fight against the enemy, resulting in the emptiness of the treasury; If funds are allocated for disaster relief, it is difficult to ensure that the north will not be invaded by foreigners or even lose the country.

At the time of these two dilemmas, it was the prime minister who found out the corruption in the army and the local area, and found that the military expenses allocated by the imperial court every year were all privately swallowed by the military department Shangshu and his subordinates, and the equipment sent to the front line was shoddy, not to mention those weapons, not to mention cutting the enemy in armor, there would be a shortage of firewood!

There are also cold cotton jackets sent to the front line, which are actually rotten cotton wool and straw!

In addition, there is also money and food for relief in the disaster area, which is also noticed by the prime minister, and with the gradual distribution of materials, it was privately swallowed by officials of all sizes layer by layer, and finally the disaster relief funds of tens of thousands of taels of silver from the imperial court arrived in the area only a few hundred taels.

These few hundred taels are not over, the local officials will take them privately layer by layer, and in the end, they will be implemented on the victims, but a few copper coins are worth dozens of catties, and there are only two handfuls of moldy rice gruel in the drink, let alone rebuilding the homeland.

However, after these things were discovered by the prime minister, he first raided the homes of all high-ranking corrupt officials, and in addition to confiscating their property, he also used the stolen money accumulated by these officials for decades or even generations for military affairs and disaster relief, so that the entire country's predicament was greatly improved within a year.

The northern war has been defeated continuously, the emperor is angry, and today's successive victories and triumphant soldiers; Although there is not much praise for the disaster in the south, from the complaints to the proper resettlement of the people, no one has risen up because they can't survive.

All this can be said to be the credit of the prime minister.

But why did Chu Tianxing say that he hurt heaven and reason?