Liao Zhai Zi is silent

Chapter 203 The King of Montenegro
It turned out that the ghost in the painting still had a wish, so he didn't want to be reincarnated.

Lin Zhuming didn't make things difficult for her, seeing her open Ning Caichen's book, sitting and reading quietly under the moonlight, she seemed a bit of a talented woman.

I think it was also a home of scholarly etiquette in my lifetime.

Waiting for the sky to light up and the female ghost to enter the painting, Ning Caichen yawned, was taken aback when he saw the clothes on his body, and then gave Lin Zhuoming a strange look.

Lin Zhuming didn't see this look, he just started his morning exercise and exhaled purple energy.

The purple qi came from the east, the qi descended to the dantian, the sun refined the spirit, and burned the dregs, Lin Zhuoming was very satisfied.

"This life cultivation has already made great progress. If I follow the three-step ancient method of refining essence, refining qi, and refining spirit, I am transitioning from refining essence to qi refining. If the true energy is gone, it will be a big cycle. Really refining Qi."

If it is divided according to the Five Immortals, it is also the third stage of Human Immortals.

Putting away the thought of thinking about his own cultivation, Lin Zhuoming accompanied Ning Caichen to Guobei County, a remote mountainous county outside Yangzhou City.

Tree edge of the village together, Aoyama Guo oblique.

Backed by green mountains, Guobei County should have been considered a good place at first, but good mountains have auspicious scenery, while poor mountains are surrounded by bad waters.

The feng shui of this green mountain has deteriorated due to earthquakes in the past few years, and it has become a bad land covered with clouds and mist all the year round. People who go into the mountain to collect mountain goods rarely come out.

Therefore, Guobei County has also gradually become lonely because it cannot collect mountain medicinal herbs and communicate with the outside world.

Ning Caichen took the account book and looked through the shops facing the street, only to see many signs saying "Wangpu sublet".

Finally came to a pawnshop, the clerk in the pawnshop saw a combination of a scholar and a Taoist priest, who seemed to be walking in the rivers and lakes, so he cheered up: "Do you want to pawn something, or do you want to redeem it?" ?”

"I'm from Jinhua, Zhejiang. Because your pawnshop owes a debt, I'm here to collect the debt."

"Ah? The business of our store is not good. Those who have no money...I'll ask the shopkeeper..."

Soon a fat and short merchant appeared. He was dressed in coarse cloth, but he had a big gold ring on his hand, and his shoes were also made of satin.

As soon as he came up, he greeted: "Oh, how is Boss Li's health recently? Did he get rich? Unlike us, it's hard to say whether he made a profit in a year. I'm afraid he still lost a lot. Please let him have some grace. day……"

"That's what you said last year..." Ning Caichen sat there and took out the account book: "It shows that you have been in arrears for eight years."

"That's right, are you the eighth one to collect debts!" ​​The pawnshop manager remembered clearly.

"?" Ning Caichen was puzzled: "Where are the seven people in front?"

"I don't know." The pawnshop owner suddenly kept his mouth shut.

Then he kept crying poor.

But seeing him hastily changed into this tattered sackcloth, and said that he invited the two of them to dinner, the pickled vegetables and tofu served...

It's obvious that he has money and doesn't want to pay it back. It's a fool once.

Lin Zhuming doesn't care about this kind of thing.

On the contrary, Xu Biao and Zhu Mei were already sitting on the beams of the house, eating melons and watching plays, watching the pawnshop owner's acting skills.

In the end, Ning Caichen only got a few taels of silver, which was borrowed by the pawnshop shopkeeper himself from the merchant next door.

After all, Ning Caichen is still inexperienced, so he can only go to the next one.

After walking for a long time, he sketched out most of the names, but he only got more than a dozen taels of silver, which made him worry: "What should I do?"

It's just that he is hungry, so he can only eat a bowl of Yangzhou fried rice at a roadside stall.

Originally, he wanted to invite Lin Zhuoming to eat, but Lin Zhuoming was fasting, and he only drank some water on weekdays. He had a jujube seed under his tongue, and when he was hungry, he would produce fluid, so that swallowing the fluid would stop his hunger.

This practice saves money the most, but it is also easy to get anorexic. If you starve yourself to death, lose your appearance, damage your internal organs, and finally die of exhaustion, this is not cultivating immortality, but trying to die.

Hululu was eating when suddenly a black wind blew up.

The people on the street changed their colors one after another. Those who went home immediately went home, and those who closed their stalls closed their stalls.

Soon there were only Lin Zhuoming and Ning Caichen left on the street.

"Master, what happened to them?"

"Based on my experience, the common people are panicking like this. Usually, the bad officials of the imperial court are treated like this when they go out. They want to smash stalls and collect goods..."

"But now there is no one. I'm afraid it's something else. We don't know the customs of the local people. It probably has something to do with the black wind just now."

Lin Zhuming hadn't finished speaking when he saw the picture of a lady that Ning Caichen had just taken out to observe was suddenly blown by the wind.

"My painting!"

Lin Zhuming squinted his eyes, and Liu Ding Liujia also sensed something unusual. It seemed to be a god...

At the same time, incense sticks rose from thousands of households, and the sound of devout prayers was heard.

After the black wind swept away the incense, it disappeared immediately.

At this time, the people who had been hiding reappeared.

It just looks like they all have sallow complexions and seem to have lost a lot of energy.

"My painting! My fairy sister..."

Ning Caichen was still melancholy.

Lin Zhuming has already found an old man to ask about the situation.

It's just that the old man was very taboo and refused to speak.

Lin Zhuming had no choice but to take out his trump card and conjure up an ingot of gold, only then did he know the strangeness of Guobei County.

But we also have to talk about the turnaround that happened a few years ago.

The old man said: "Dilong turned over in the middle of the night, thanks to the City God's reminder, so we escaped a catastrophe, but after that day, the statue of the City God cracked, and the temple's beams and pillars collapsed."

"Everyone said that Grandpa City God had given up his position in order to save people, and was cast into hell."

"Since Grandpa City God is gone, some ghosts and goblins from the mountain often dare to come into the city."

"In the beginning, everyone would invite a mage or something, but no matter whether it was a Taoist priest or a monk, there was nowhere to go."

"There is only one God, the Great King of Montenegro, who said he took over our Guobei County, and asked us to worship and pray devoutly at three o'clock a day, and he will bless us with good weather."

Lin Zhuming frowned: "Is that effective?"

The old man shook his head: "It has been dry for a long time this year, the fields have turned into soft sand, and the wind blows and it blows up, and everyone who can run has run away..."

"Then why do there seem to be many merchants here?"

"Although there are fogs and clouds on the mountain, as long as you spend some money to enshrine the King of Montenegro, you can provide a road with much less risk than before, and you don't have to worry about robbers, government or private checkpoints, and you don't need to take a buckle card." , on the other side, the price will be lower, but the quantity will be larger...so many wealthy businessmen are willing to follow the business path opened here."

Hearing what the old man said, Lin Zhuming probably had some expectations.

(End of this chapter)