Chapter 10: The City God's Invitation
Li Xuanyang excused himself to be unwell, and said goodbye to Qin Chuan and Wei Liangye and left.
Qin Chuan's gaze fell on the group of Laoshan Taoist priests until his back disappeared from the horizon, and then he turned his head to look at Wei Liangye and asked, "Boss Wei and Daoist Li are very familiar with each other?" β
Wei Liangye waved his hand and said with a smile: "I can't talk about acquaintance, but I have sung a few times in Laoshan Taiqing Palace, and once I come and go, I will know each other." β
Qin Chuan was curious: "The Taoist priest of Laoshan also watches the play?" β
Wei Liangye touched his bare chin, his expression flashed a trace of weirdness, and he said leisurely: "Speaking of which, this is also a strange thing, they invited me to go to the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan Mountain and play the story of Lao Tzu who left five thousand words of morality in Louguandao." I said at the time, I'm okay to play Guanyin, but I am too old and my spirit is ethereal, how can I play it? β
When he said this, he paused slightly, and used a tone that imitated the elders of Laoshan at that time:
"They told me that they had discussed it inside Laoshan, and after thinking about it again, they felt that I was the most vivid to play the immortal, and it was decided that it would be me. I can't, and no one else can. He also said that this matter is very important, and I hope I will not refuse.
I think of the elders of Laoshan, who are highly respected, and designate me as me, which is also a recognition of me. If I make any more excuses, I will inevitably offend people. So it was difficult to get into trouble.
They also found a worn-out garment from nowhere, saying that Lao Tzu had worn it, and they also found a green ox, saying that it was the descendant of Lao Tzu's mount when he rode out of Hangu Pass.
There is also an elder who specially explained to me about Lao Tzu's observation of the Tao in the building. I listened attentively and thought about it carefully, and finally the trick was performed.
Later, I went to Laoshan to perform a few more times.
There is a strange thing, when I first went to Laoshan Mountain, I saw nine Supreme Elders, the second time there were only eight, and the third time I went there were only seven.
He asked about it curiously, and they said that the two Supreme Elders failed to attack the ghost immortals and feathered. I didn't think it was that simple, and I didn't dare to ask more.
Since the third time I went to Laoshan, it was five years ago, and I haven't been there again. They also carefully told me to accept a good apprentice, so that he could inherit my mantle, and maybe in a few decades or hundreds of years, he would have to come to find my heir. I also agreed, but I couldn't find the real talent and beauty all these years. On the contrary, it was Mrs. Wu who I met by accident, which was quite in line with my heart. Although she is old, she has her own spirit, and she has practiced kung fu since she was a child, and she has also learned channeling techniques, and she has learned things from my school. β
Qin Chuan couldn't help but be curious, it seems that Laoshan asked Wei Liangye to play Lao Tzu, and there must be a major hidden secret. But what does this have to do with him?
Qin Chuan felt that this matter must involve major secrets of Laoshan and should not be asked.
If you get involved, it's not good.
However, Wei Liangye was able to tell the matter, and it seemed that Laoshan was not worried about the leakage of the matter, so he did not warn or try to erase the relevant memories.
This is also a bit unreasonable with Laoshan's emphasis on this.
Mo Chenglaoshan deliberately did not hide this matter.
Qin Chuan was exquisite, and he noticed that there were a lot of strange things. But it's better not to pay attention to it.
He didn't continue to ask, but continued to focus on Wu Wanqing's affairs.
It's not that I really want to refuse Wu Wanqing's participation in the West Chamber Matchmaker, but I discussed with Wei Liangye how to make Wu Wanqing become a quick success.
He didn't want to waste time and hoped that the opera would come out soon.
It only took half a day to finalize the general direction framework.
Wei Liangye didn't expect Qin Chuan's efficiency to be very high, and many of the knowledge and professional details of opera were somewhat ignored by him, but Qin Chuan brought it up, and it really made sense.
It seems that Qin Chuan has been immersed in this industry for many years to come up with such incisive insights.
He didn't know that Qin Chuan had recently developed another wonderful use of Xuanhuang Qi. Although Qin Chuan once recalled the past of his three lives, some details of his memory have long been lost.
But if he makes a wish to merit and completes those memories, he can make up for them out of thin air.
This is extremely useful.
Making a wish once consumes only a trace of merit.
He now has more than 10,000 merits.
The reason why he didn't make a wish to get back all the detailed memories is because too much information is stuffed in at once, which has some impact on his current primordial spirit, and there is a limit to the memories that can be completed by a one-time wish.
Take back all the knowledge and knowledge, and leave it in the Yuan Shen clearly and undoubtedly, and it is estimated that he can consume his 10,000 merits.
He also tried to trace the memories of past lives of reincarnation before the modern era.
But the merit is not enough, and it cannot be opened.
And in that modern life, it can be said that he is in his first life now, before the first life, what kind of origin did he have, it was like opening a blind box, and he spent so many merits, and the result may not be good.
If the merit is massive, he doesn't mind wasting it.
In addition, beings who are beyond the world may have the ability to travel back in time and attack the distant past.
He still has to make some preparations for this, trace the reincarnation before the first life, and find the initial starting point, which must be the direction of a practice.
It's just that he is definitely far away from what he is now.
But if a cultivator has no dream, how can he become a Heavenly Emperor?
Set a small goal, like in that dream, to be a green emperor first.
He feels that he has a lot of fate with Qingzi, and Wu Wanqing also has a "Qing".
After these things were done, on the way home for Qin Chuan, she released Ying Ning from the green gourd, and she turned into a snow-white fox, stepping on Qin Chuan's shoulder, looking at the world around her curiously.
These worldly human feelings are so fresh.
On the way, I met a ghost.
"This immortal chief, I am the day parade of this county, Lord Chenghuang is invited, I don't know if the immortal chief can go to the city god temple in the county to talk about it."
He and Li Xuanyang fought the method, although ordinary people didn't feel anything, but as a county city god, he must have sensed it.
"Yes, Brother Lao will lead the way."
Although Qin Chuan is a dragon crossing the river, there is no need to offend the county town god of a county, just see it in the past, it is okay.
Seeing that Qin Chuan was very polite, he was relieved.
However, he was also afraid that Qin Chuan would not know the etiquette and be too polite.
Because before the county town god came, he said that this immortal chief was unfathomable. It stands to reason that ordinary creatures have entered the boundaries of Jinhua County, and the life and death books of the county town god will have a corresponding written origin.
But Qin Chuan's literary background is not at all.
It is enough to show that Qin Chuan's Taoism is profound, and his roots are beyond the authority of the county town god's life and death book, and I am afraid that it will only be possible to find out if the city god of the prefecture or even the city god of the provincial capital or even the city god of the divine capital.
Such a person, if he accidentally parades around the county like him and worships him, it is likely that his divine body will be damaged.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the harshness of the Shinto hierarchy.
Because of the worship and worship and the like, there is incense.
But some of the existing incense is too low for the gods to bear.
It is rumored that the ancient sons worshiped ghosts and gods and stayed away, and there is a saying that it was to not harm those ghosts and gods. Often this kind of existence, often worship the innate gods of heaven and earth during the New Year's holidays, which is very face-saving.
Soon arrived at the Chenghuang Temple in Jinhua County, entered the back of the main hall, there was no one inside, and the sun parade pointed to the wall in front of him, and the wall was torn open like a curtain when he landed.
Qin Chuan walked in with Ying Ning.
This is the Dharma Realm of Shinto.
Inside is also a city god temple.
Among them, the city god of Jinhua County led the crowd to greet him, "Jinhua County City God Taoyuan has seen the immortal chief." β
Qin Chuan was quite surprised when he saw Jinhua Chenghuang's face, it was actually a female Chenghuang.
Tao Yuan Qin Chuan's face was different, and took the initiative to explain that she was originally a county lord of the previous dynasty, and when the thieves captured the city, she personally led the crowd to kill the enemy, fought and died, and was remembered by the local people, and died as a god, also known as Jinhua Fairy, Tao Yuan is her original name.
This incident is recorded in the county annals.
As for the statue of the city god, it is majestic and solemn, wearing official uniforms, and if you don't distinguish carefully, you can't see men and women, and outsiders don't know what's going on, and they will only think it's a boy or a girl.
Only by reading through the local county records can we know the exact origin of the city god.
When he said this, the guest and the host took their seats.
Taoyuan Chenghuang first looked at Ying Ning, "This should be a Taoist friend of the Taishan Tushan clan, I went to Taishan Mansion three years ago to report to Taishan Niangniang, and I saw a Taoist friend of the fox clan appear next to Niangniang, and the little Taoist friend next to the immortal seems to look very similar." β
Qin Chuan's heart moved, and then he replied: "It must be the mother of the sister-in-law." β
It's just that they met three years ago, and of course Qin Chuan doesn't need to ask about the whereabouts of the little uncle.
Tao Yuan Chenghuang nodded, "This is fate." However, this time I dared to ask the immortal chief to come over and talk about it, but I asked for something to ask for, and I asked the immortal chief to be merciful, and I will be grateful to Jinhua City. β
Qin Chuan: "Fellow Daoist first, let's talk about something." β
Taoyuan Chenghuang then said something, it turned out that a group of monsters from the grassland Yuanmeng country recently came to Huaning Mansion, and this group of demons has done many cases in Huaning Mansion and eaten a lot of people.
However, they have a hidden aura on their bodies, and even the city god is difficult to trace.
In the past two days, the other party should have arrived in Jinhua County, and there were three bloody cases.
The souls of these bloody cases are now gathered in the Chenghuang Temple in Jinhua County, and they are resentful and refuse to die.
Tao Yuan Chenghuang also said that it was natural for demons to eat people and beasts with people, and as long as they did not do the act of devouring souls, it was not against the way of heaven.
It's just that she received the incense of the people of Jinhua City, how can she sit back and watch the people suffer?
However, she couldn't track the breath of that group of monsters, how could she avenge the people under her rule, and she was worried that that line of monsters would leave Jinhua County, and it would be too late to track down the past.
She finally said in a deep voice: "In fact, although this line of monsters has a hidden breath, the little god is not without clues, the little god is determined, they are either in the county government, or hiding in the county school palace, only in these places, the divine power of the little god cannot penetrate, and they will be investigated one by one." β
There is a statue of a saint in the county school palace, which contains righteousness, and ghosts and gods dare not approach. As for the county government, it has its own dynasty luck to suppress it, and the city god can't snoop on it.
Unless it is an acting city god like the Zhou Governor's Mansion and has a heroic and righteous spirit, it will not be affected.
But that's not a long-term solution.
"So Taoyuan Daoyou wants to ask the county government and the county school to investigate?"
The statue of the saint in the school palace does not have much impact on the demon.
Righteousness is mainly aimed at ghosts and gods.
"Well, as long as the Immortal Elder helps the little gods determine their specific locations, then the little gods will lay a net to arrest them and bring them to justice to comfort the resentful souls."
"It's just a trivial matter, but after I investigate, do I want to come to the City God Temple to inform the Taoists?"
"Immortal Chief, don't you think that we can monitor you, you have a profound Xuan Qi on you, ordinary cultivators, we can't monitor it, otherwise it is easy to be hostile and cause trouble, not to mention Immortal Chief. At that time, the immortal chief will determine the location, just crush this wooden card, and I will understand later, and at that time, our City God Temple will start to act. β
The god of the city god gave Qin Chuan a wooden plaque with the word Tao Yuan on it.
Presumably, there must be the breath of Tao Yuan, and the wooden card is broken, and it has its own induction.
Qin Chuan put away the wooden card, "While it's not too late, then I'll go first." β
"Thank you, Immortal."
As Qin Chuan left, Ri Parade asked: "My lord, this immortal chief has a high and profound realm, we should ask him not to show the Fa at will, disturb ordinary people, and sow bad karma." β
Tao Yuan: "No need, if this immortal chief helps us catch that group of demons, it is a mercy, I don't have to wait, he will also pay attention." β
"Your Excellency is clever."
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Qin Chuan decided to go to the county school first, he was traveling as a Xiucai, and if he stayed in a place temporarily, he still had to take the time to go to the county journal to prepare.
It's still daylight, and it's the right time to go to the county newspaper to prepare.
He looked at the qi with the Yuan Shen Method, and indeed did not find the monster that Chenghuang said, it seems that the other party's means of hiding his aura are indeed not coarse.
Could it be that there is also such a breathing technique as him?
And certainly not ordinary.
Thinking that the other party's origin is the grassland Mengyuan Empire.
Qin Chuan had a bad guess in his heart, could it be that he was a monster under the throne of the ancestor of Youxuan, and he came to Yujiang Province for the matter of the White Wolf King?
Youxuan Ancestor is a real demon immortal, more powerful than ordinary ghost immortals, Qin Chuan is naturally not an opponent now.
If you let the other party find out the truth, it will inevitably be a lot of trouble.
A demon fairy broke into the Great Liang Dynasty in the name of avenging his concubine, and the Great Liang Court may not really bless him.
Pinning one's own safety on the attitude of others is also the next policy.
Qin Chuan must take his fate into his own hands.
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Jinhua County, the county government mansion.
Huang Shiren, the commander of Jinhua County, is a distant branch of the Huang family in Lingzhou Prefecture, and is entertaining the envoy of the Mengyuan Kingdom at the moment. Daliang is a state of etiquette, although the battle between Jiubian and Mengyuan is fierce, but to treat the envoy of Mengyuan, it is still necessary to do enough courtesy.
"General Heida, when you visited our Jinhua County, the county was not well entertained. I don't know if the general has a favorite food, so I asked someone to prepare it at night. β
Huang Xianling raised his glass to a majestic steppe man.
General Heida drank a glass of wine, cracked his mouth, revealing his white sharp teeth, which was quite terrifying, he patted his belly and said, "Well, I want to eat human flesh." β
Huang Shiren's wine glass fell to the ground.
"Hahaha." Heida patted his shoulder, "Lord Huang is very timid, I'm just scaring and scaring you." Didn't you Central Plains people say that we grassland people like to drink blood, I'll just make a joke. β
Huang Shiren wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "General Heida is a funny person. β
He secretly scolded in his heart, just a martial artist, if you are in this dynasty, you must not kneel down to this official to salute. Heida is just a messenger of Mengyuan, not a real general.
The corresponding beam is also a six-rank military attachΓ©.
In the Great Liang Dynasty, the status of civil officials was much higher than that of military attachΓ©s, and the status of the county commander of the seventh rank could be compared with the five officials of the fifth grade.
In terms of status, it is not as good as showing talent.
At least Xiucai didn't have to kneel when he saw officials below the third grade.
Even if you see the big people on the third grade, if you have backbone, you don't need to kneel.
A civil servant kneeling to his immediate boss could not do anything unless he was extremely flattering.
If you are a gentleman of the academy, or a first-class jinshi and a first-class scholar, or a courtier of the third rank or above, you do not need to kneel to the emperor.
The treatment of civil officials is extremely advantageous in the Great Liang Dynasty.
It's a pity that the rough people of the grassland don't understand the gold of the scholars.
This vulgar martial artist, do you know the gold content of his fellow jinshi background?
I really don't know how the people above arranged it, and they actually agreed to let this group of martial artists wander around in Yujiang Province. What exactly are they trying to do?
Huang Shiren is too lazy to figure it out, anyway, let this group of plague gods eat and drink well, and leave quickly.
As for this vulgar martial artist, whether he is a blood-drinker, he doesn't bother to care.
He was still a little hesitant to call his nephew over to the official banquet in the evening. However, tonight's official banquet of the county government called the local gentry and celebrities, and it was not good not to call the nephew over.
He has a relationship with the Huang family in Lingzhou, and if he says this by himself, it is not as convincing as the children of the Huang family to appear next to him.
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Qin Chuan came to the county school, and Huang Meng was also there.
Huang Meng heard that Qin Chuan came to report to the county school, and it seemed that he really wanted to stay in Jinhua County for a while, but he was just passing by for a few days, so he didn't need these at all.
Actually, it's not necessary.
He took Qin Chuan to meet the county school teacher.
It just so happened that most of the students from the prefectural school were present.
Take out the tooth card for this matter, prove your identity, and file the edict afterwards. The dynasty treats the students very favorably, and there are not so many rules.
After hearing about Qin Chuan's origin, the students of the county school came to watch.
The small Jinhua County is not as outstanding as Lingzhou Mansion. Qin Chuan can become the head of the three trials in Lingzhou Mansion, and the township test is also a matter of being caught.
It should be known that Yujiang Province has a township examination once every three years, and a total of tens of thousands of students are qualified to participate in the township examination, including prison students, etc., and more than 10,000 people compete every three years to pass the examination about 70 people.
It can be seen that the pressure of competition is huge.
Qin Chuan seemed to have already booked a place.
Once selected, it is equivalent to a candidate official and has an official status.
If a person violates the royal law, he must report it to the Shendu, and the Ministry of Rites will discuss and decide to deprive him of his literary background before he can be arrested and convicted.
And the decision must ultimately go through the approval of the palace before it can really take effect.
Generally speaking, officials hide from each other, not a deep hatred, and the Ministry of Rites will not casually decide to deprive an official of his literary origin.
For lifting people, generally speaking, the biggest punishment is nothing more than not being an official, and there are still all kinds of privileges in the township.
Qin Chuan also took this opportunity to observe the county school, there is no so-called demon.
It seems to be in the county office.
He had to make sure.
At this time, the county government sent an invitation, inviting the county school's teachings and Huang Meng to participate in the official banquet in the evening, and the teachings could take a few students to go.
(End of chapter)