108 Ancestors
It is now the end of April, and the ceremony will be held in early June, although the road to Beijing is not close, but flying through the air, four or five times is more than enough. Cheng Jun plans to leave on the first day of June, and now that he is still a month away from going to Beijing, he can arrange some matters.
The succession of the new palace master of Zixiao Palace is a great event in the Shengtian cultivation world, and the Taoist temple has the obligation to publish the list, announce the cultivation world, and calm the hearts of the monks in the world. Cheng Jun also practiced himself, and made a big show in the county seat of Xiayang County and various Taoist cities. He also sent someone to send the list to Shangyang County, where there was no watch, to post the list together and celebrate with the whole world.
On the other hand, it is to arrange the usual matters on your own side.
Now there are some people under Cheng Jun, but there are not many people who really need to use them. It was still Cheng Zheng's cultivation that was the highest, and with the help of the Spirit Gathering Array, he was only one step away from building the foundation, one line higher than Jing Shu, who had just entered the ninth level of the Initiation Dao. But he's not there now. When he entered the peak of his initiation half a year ago, he asked Cheng Jun to return to Shangyang County, saying that he was looking for a few real friends to come back.
Cheng Jun considered that building a foundation also requires chance, and not everyone is as natural as him, so there is no harm in going out to travel, so he let him out, but told him that he was not allowed to go to Shangyang County to find Cheng's family. Now Cheng Jun has something to go out, so he sent a letter to summon him back.
Cheng Jun thought about it for a long time, but he still put Cheng Zheng in the county town to watch for himself, and took Jing Shu into Beijing. After all, the identity of the Lord of Jingshu Crane Feather Viewer still needs to be confirmed. Cheng Zheng's cultivation can barely hold the scene. Fan Daocheng handed it over to Chonghe, and Qinglongguan handed it over to Cheng Yu. For this arrangement, Jing Shu was naturally overjoyed when she heard that she could go to the Dao Palace to see the world, although Cheng Yu wanted to go to the Zixiao Palace in the capital, but she did not have a surname, and she did not even show obvious objections, and accepted Cheng Jun's arrangement.
There is no way, Cheng Jun has such a small number of people, although he has also accepted some ordinary Taoist priests in recent years, but not to mention that there are no talents, even if they do, it is not enough to be fully trusted, at most they are placed in auxiliary positions.
After the personnel are arranged, there will be no major events. He has been renovating this Fan Daocheng for three whole years, and if it is now, if he leaves with his front foot, and there will be chaos on his back foot, it will be too much of a failure.
Before Cheng Jun's letter recalling Cheng Zheng was sent, Cheng Zheng himself returned. He was accompanied by a young monk. Cheng Zheng said that this is his friend, named An Feng.
Cheng Zheng also spent a lot of money back then, and he made countless friends with his eldest young master. But after two years of fugitive, the people who can be contacted are all good friends who really do not avoid danger and value love and righteousness. Cheng Zheng's luck is good, among so many friends of wine and meat, at least three or four are worth dating, in Cheng Jun's opinion, it is not too little, but too much.
Although Cheng Zheng did not contact them later in order to protect others and hide his whereabouts, after all, this friendship cannot be faked. The big waves are sweeping the sand, and it is already his luck to be able to distinguish these real gold.
It's just that most of Cheng Zheng's friends are still the children of the monk family, most of these people have families and businesses, and Cheng Zheng is far from being able to return to his hometown now.
Only this An Feng is a casual cultivator whom Cheng Zheng inadvertently acquainted, he met as early as when he was still in Cheng's house, and the two had similar interests and became friends. At that time, he also returned to Cheng's house with Cheng Zheng, and Cheng Zhe had already made up his mind and accepted him as a registered disciple. Later, when the incident happened, this master-apprentice relationship did not continue.
After Cheng Zheng left home, he accidentally encountered the enemy situation and fought hand in hand with An Feng, but later they were separated in the chaos and broke off contact. This time, Cheng Zheng returned to Shangyang County, and when they met again, they pulled him back.
Cheng Jun was naturally very polite to Cheng Zheng's friend, chatted in a few words, and found that this child was very similar to Cheng Zheng at the beginning, with a sense of momentum, blood courage and strength, but he was a good boy, but he was a little impulsive and still needed to be honed. It would not work to hand him over to Cheng Zheng to sharpen, unless Cheng Jun had the heart to take him with him for a few days, but now he was not familiar with that part, so he had to let him stay in the county with Cheng Zheng first.
Let An Feng go back to rest first, Cheng Zheng said to Cheng Jun in private: "Big brother, someone from the Cheng family is here." ”
Cheng Junyi frowned and said, "You went back to Cheng's house?"
Cheng Zheng hurriedly said: "I didn't go back. If my eldest brother doesn't tell me, I won't be in a hurry to go back and find it now. It's just that I paid a little attention to the news over there, and learned that the ancestor of the Cheng family went out of the customs and went to Xiayang County. I think the eldest brother didn't deliberately hide his identity in Xiayang County, and the Cheng family probably knows your identity. Most of the people were looking for the eldest brother, so they hurried back. ”
Cheng Jun was stunned and said, "Ancestor, who is that?"
Cheng Zheng said: "The ancestor is the highest elder of the Cheng family, two generations higher than the patriarch. It is generally said that the Cheng family had three foundation-building monks, and two of them, including Cheng Bo, died in Xicheng. The Cheng family should only have the patriarch Cheng Xun left as a foundation-building monk. But when I went back to Shangyang County this time, I learned that the Cheng family still hid this old ancestor, who had already built the foundation a hundred years ago, and now he is already a monk in the late stage of foundation building. In Shangyang County, it can be on par with the original Watchman, but it has not been hidden. Later, it was not until three years ago that the Cheng family changed dramatically, and only then did he go out to preside over the matter. ”
Cheng Jun nodded and said, "Did you say that he was out of the customs three years ago?"
Cheng Zheng said: "Yes." Three years ago, the Cheng family, the Mu family, and the Yan family had major changes at the same time, and the ancestors of the Cheng family and the Mu family went out of the customs one after another to stabilize the situation, and they were all masters in the later stage of foundation building. However, the Yan family has no ancestors, so the situation has taken a turn for the worse, and now they have long since withdrawn from their position and are shrinking in a corner of the county town, just surviving for a long time. The Cheng family and the Mu family temporarily divided the power of the county, but after all, there was a lot of loss in strength, and they couldn't control the families in other towns in Shangyang County, and the whole county was still in chaos. ”
Cheng Jun said: "Then why did he think of looking for me?"
Cheng Zheng said: "I don't know about this. About three days ago, I got the news that the ancestor of the Cheng family seems to have decided to come out to find you, I don't know if it's here now. ”
Cheng Jun calculated the date and said, "Okay, I know." Ancestors...... If he does come to me, then I will see him. As soon as he said this, his eyebrows moved, and he said with a smile: "Say who is there - it can be seen that you can't talk about people behind it, and there is a Taoist friend in the later stage of foundation building." ”
Cheng Zheng moved and said, "How do you want to entertain him?" With Cheng Jun's seniority, it is not enough to call the old ancestor grandfather, the old ancestor should welcome him in person. But now even Cheng Zheng is not on the Cheng family's family tree, let alone Cheng Jun, who has not appeared at all. Moreover, with Cheng Zheng's understanding of Cheng Jun, this eldest brother takes great care of his younger siblings, but he doesn't seem to be very interested in the elders - the older he gets, the more annoying he is.
Cheng Jun smiled and said, "Then it depends on how he asks to see me." ”
As he was talking, a little Taoist boy came in and said, "Lord, there is an old man outside the door who asks to see you." He hesitated for a moment and said, "He said his name was Cheng Pan." The look was slightly weird.
Cheng Jun laughed sneered and said, "Don't hesitate so much, you can learn what he said word by word." Don't be afraid to offend me. ”
That Dao Tong's face twitched a little, but fortunately, he knew that Cheng Jun was not easy to lose his temper, so he said boldly: "The man flew down from the sky, pointed at me and said, 'Doll, go and tell your master, just say that Cheng Jun is here, and ask him to come out to greet him.'" If he doesn't know who Cheng Ban is, ask him to ask Cheng Zheng. ’”
Cheng Zheng's face changed when he heard this, he stretched out his hand and slapped it on the table, and said, "Ask me? Haha, it's funny, how do I know that something strange will fall from the sky?"
Cheng Jun stopped him with a smile and said to the child: "Your cultivation is quite good, you are not angry when you come to the door like this, and you are really a good material to be a guest." Reward you with ten spirit stones. Go and invite him in. Remember to salute before the soldiers, if he is really angry about this, you tell him to come in and shoot at me, don't make people laugh outside. ”
That Tong Nuo should retreat.
Cheng Zheng turned his head, frowned slightly, and said to Cheng Jun: "Big brother, could it be that I guessed wrong? I originally thought he was here to befriend you, but he actually came to seek revenge?"
Cheng Jun said: "Almost, it should be to make friends, at least to talk about cooperation." ”
Cheng Zheng shook his head and said, "That's not right, isn't it? Is it to be good friends and rush to the door to be a junior?
Cheng Jun said: "Because he was originally an adult." I understand him very well, really understand. When the ancestor has been in office for a long time, you let him pretend to be a grandson all of a sudden, it is impossible, there must be a period of adaptation. ”
He landed from the sky, but it took a whole month to get used to it. However, at that time, he had to adapt, and the old ancestor was unnecessary, in that person's heart, Cheng Jun and Cheng Zheng were his grandsons for unknown generations, did he really have to pull down his face to compensate his grandson?
In the final analysis, although Cheng Jun stood in a high position in his previous life, he always felt the pressure of the Tao from all directions, and met masters everywhere. And this old ancestor, who has always been held by the family, is in retreat at home and is called the king, I am afraid that he has developed the surname of the king of heaven, Laozi, and the longevity is about to end, and the surname is easy to understand.
Cheng Zheng said: "Then I'll accompany you to see him." ”
Cheng Jun said with a smile: "You go back-what did you see him doing? He doesn't speak well, do you stay here to scold? Not to mention that you are not easy to talk to." I'm the last person I can see as a junior. ”
Cheng Zheng nodded and went out from behind. I heard someone striding into the courtyard, and before anyone arrived, the voice had already come from afar: "Okay, my Cheng family has produced such a seed of disobedience, and the ancestors and ancestors have been disgraced with you." Do you remember your last name, Cheng?"
(To be continued)