Chapter Forty-Three: A Night Talk

Mo Chen walked out of Juxianglou, walked to the street, followed the crowd all the way, and unconsciously turned to the Chenghuang Temple in Jinghai County, thought about it, shook his head and smiled, and walked to the temple.

The city god temple in Jinghai County is slightly smaller than that in Anxi County, there are only three golden bodies in the temple to worship, that is, the city god master, as well as the two judgments of civil and military, and the other gods only have portraits pasted on the wall, and the pilgrims are not too many, much worse than Anxi County, there are only two or three pilgrims left and right, and the rest of the people seem to have come to visit.

Mo Chen walked to the hall dedicated to the golden body, and a temple greeting came over and asked Mo Chen politely: "Mr. want to offer incense? ”

Mo Chen looked around and said with a smile: "Let's go on a burn." ”

Miao Zhu heard this, a smile on his face, the incense of this city god temple is really worrying, there are too few people on the incense, seeing Mo Chen to go to the pillar incense, he hurriedly took a stick of incense from the side, lit it and handed it to Mo Chen, Mo Chen did not bow down, after taking the incense, directly inserted it into the incense burner, just about to leave, but saw the originally slow-burning incense, a wisp of green smoke, and then it was directly extinguished.

Miao Zhu on the side was stunned for a moment when he saw this, then took a few steps forward, looked at it carefully, and said to himself in confusion: "This incense is not damp, why is it extinguished?"

Then he looked at the place where Mo Chen was standing just now, but the figure of Mr. Tsing Yi had long been gone.

Inside the Yin Division.

Jinghai County Chenghuang, who was dealing with official business, suddenly shook his body, and a touch of red appeared on his face, and then his figure disappeared, and he came to the outside world, a pair of eyes scanned around the temple, and then looked at the incense burner that burned a little incense, pondered for a moment, shook his head, and returned to Yinsi.

In the Yin Division, the two judges of Wen and Wu saw Lord Chenghuang suddenly disappear and suddenly come back, they were all puzzled, the two looked at each other, and Wen Juan asked suspiciously: "My lord, what happened to the outside world?"

Jinghai County Chenghuang shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'll order a parade in a while to see if there are any strange masters in Jinghai County?"

The second judge of civil and military affairs was even more puzzled, it can be seen that Lord Chenghuang didn't want to say more, and they didn't want to ask more, so they agreed and continued to bury their heads in work.

Mo Chen had already left the City God Temple at this time, although he didn't know why his incense was extinguished, but his intuition told him that it should be related to the heavenly book of the world he had set in to prevent trouble, and it was better to slip away first.

Out of the City God's Temple, Mo Chen didn't know where to go for a while, he moved his nose, and there was a strong aroma of wine in front of him, which instantly aroused the cravings in his stomach, although he had just drunk a pot of rice wine, but the taste of the rice wine was still a little light, far inferior to the Du family's wine that Mo Chen drank in Anxi County.

Touching the silver in his arms, Mo Chen gritted his teeth and walked in the direction where the aroma of wine came from.

"Do you want to drink? Our family is a century-old shop, and it is the only one in the entire Jinghai County, and the taste is a must!" the tavern owner said as he saw Mo Chen walk in.

There is no need for him to say it, Mo Chen smelled the aroma of wine in this tavern, and he was already a little intoxicated, "I don't know what wine is here?"

When the tavern owner heard this, he smiled and said, "It's the first time the guest officer has come to Jinghai County, right?"

"Exactly, Mo only arrived today, and he smelled a smell of wine from afar, so I came to take a look. Mo Chen nodded.

The tavern owner smiled: "This store only sells one kind of wine, called jade elixir, the year is different, the price is not the same, the new brew is two taels of silver a catty, ten taels of silver for ten years of aging, and thirty taels of silver for twenty years of aging." ”

Hearing the price, Mo Chen frowned, his entire net worth was the three hundred taels of silver that Liu Hao gave him at the beginning, eating and drinking these days, plus the golden carp he bought a few days ago, there was not much left, but the smell of wine in the tavern continued to stimulate his nose, which really made him a little greedy.

"Haha, the guest officer came to our Jinghai County for the first time, I will invite you to have a drink, if you think it is delicious, you will buy it, if you think it is not good, you will not buy it. When the tavern owner saw Mo Chen's appearance, he knew that the latter felt that his own wine was expensive, and then said with a smile, he not only won people's favor when he said this, but also had great confidence in his own wine. Moreover, he saw that Mo Chen's bearing was extraordinary, not like an ordinary person, so he said so.

When Mo Chen heard this, he bowed to the tavern owner and said, "Just think of Mo as buying a cup and tasting it." ”

The tavern owner smiled and said hello, then took out a jar of wine on the shelf behind him, opened the seal on the wine jar, took out a small spoon and a wine bowl from the table, carefully scooped out a bowl of wine for Mo Chen, and said, "Guest officer, taste it." ”

Mo Chen took the wine bowl, looked at the crystal liquor in the bowl, and then poured it into his mouth, there was no spicy taste of ordinary wine, the entrance was soft, clear and dry, after swallowing, the wine in his mouth was more intense, and the aftertaste was endless.

"Good wine! It is indeed worthy of the name of elixir, and this sip alone is worth all kinds of fine wine in the world. Mo Chen said with a look of admiration after drinking.

When the tavern owner heard Mo Chen's words, the smile on his face expanded even more. 、

Mo Chen smacked his lips, gritted his teeth, and said, "Shopkeeper, give Mo a pound of ten-year aging." ”

The tavern owner responded and took out a wine jug, filled it and handed it to Mo Chen.

"Shopkeeper, counting the glass just now, how much does the wine cost?" Mo Chen asked.

The tavern owner smiled: "That cup is what the restaurant invites you to drink, you can just give ten taels of silver." ”

Mo Chen shook his head and smiled, then looked at the paper and pen on the table, and said: "Mo is not good at drinking your wine for nothing, and there is nothing to do with it, fortunately, the calligraphy is not bad, so I will send a few words to the store." ”

After speaking, he took the brush on the table, dipped it in ink, and wrote the words "Qiong Jelly and Jade Liquid" on the paper.

"Good words!" The tavern owner is also a person who knows a little calligraphy, and when he saw these four words, he instantly screamed, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this word was extraordinary, and even if people who love words saw it, they were afraid that they would not change it.

"Objectively, you ...... word" The tavern owner looked up and was about to say that this word was too valuable, but when he looked up again, there was still the shadow of the gentleman, and only a silver ingot of ten taels was placed on the counter.

......

Mo Chen walked down the street with a wine jug in his hand, and sighed secretly: "This time it's a bit extravagant." ”

Except for some distressed silver, there is no other feeling, this jade elixir is worthy of this price.

As soon as the night came, Mo Chen found an inn, opened a room, sat cross-legged on the bed, and cultivated.

Besides, the tavern owner, got Mo Chen's words today, and when he returned home, he couldn't help but copy it, and on a whim, he copied it until midnight, and he didn't go back to bed to sleep, and fell asleep directly on the table.

In the middle of the night, the two of the Yin Division of Jinghai County saw a family in the middle of the house, faintly flashed with brilliance, the two glanced at each other, came to the family's house, and then saw a person lying on the table asleep, on the table, a piece of rice paper revealed an inexplicable rhyme, the flow of light, so that they both felt a little dazzling.

"Edict?!"

The two of them snorted, glanced at each other, and one said, "Lord Chenghuang asked us to find out what strange masters came to Jinghai County, could this edict be left by that master?"

"Eighty percent of it is, the edict is a decree, you can't get it if you don't have a Taoist Miaogao, I think we should hurry up and report it to Lord Chenghuang." The other nodded.

Immediately, the two turned around and walked towards the City God Temple.

The tavern owner, who had been sleeping on the table, suddenly felt a little cold, then woke up, looked around, walked to the head of the bed, and muttered, "It's still so cold at night in summer?"