Longevity starts from Liaozhai

Chapter 120 Invitation from the City God
Li Xuanyang bid farewell to Qin Chuan and Wei Liangye on the pretext of being unwell.

Qin Chuan's eyes fell on a group of Laoshan Taoist priests until their backs disappeared from sight, then turned to look at Wei Liangye and asked, "Boss Wei and Daoist Li are familiar?"

Wei Liangye waved his hands and said with a smile: "It's not a matter of acquaintance, but I went to Laoshan Taiqing Palace to sing a few times, and after coming and going, I got to know each other."

Qin Chuan was curious: "The Taoist priests in Laoshan also go to the theater?"

Wei Liangye touched his bare chin, his expression flashed a little weird, and he said leisurely: "Speaking of which, this is also a strange thing, they invited me to the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan, and acted as the story of Lao Tzu leaving five thousand words of morality in Louguan Tao. I said at the time that I can play the role of Avalokitesvara, but Taishang Laozi has no airs, how can I play it?"

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 internally in Laoshan, thought it over and over again, and felt that I played the fairy, the most vivid, and the decision was me. I can't do it, and others can't do it. They also said that this matter is very important, and I hope I don't refuse.

I thought of the elders in Laoshan, who were highly respected. The appointment was me, which was also my recognition.If I make excuses again, I will inevitably offend people.So it was difficult.

They still don't know where to find a worn-out piece of clothing, which they said was worn by Lao Tzu back then, and a green bull, which they say is the descendant of the mount that Lao Tzu rode out of Hangu Pass.

There is also an elder who specifically explained to me about Lao Tzu's Taoism in the building.At that time, I listened attentively and pondered carefully, and finally the trick was performed.

Later, I went to Laoshan to perform several times.

There is a strange thing to say, when I first went to Laoshan, there were nine elders, but the second time there were only eight, and the third time there were only seven.

He asked about this out of curiosity, and they said that the two Supreme Elders failed to attack the ghosts and immortals and went away.I thought it was not that simple at the time, so I didn't dare to ask more questions.

Since I went to Laoshan for the third time, it was already five years ago, and I have never been there again.They also carefully told me to accept a good apprentice, who must be able to inherit my mantle, maybe after decades or hundreds of years, they will come to find my successor.I also agreed, but I can't find any real talents and qualities in these years.On the contrary, Mrs. Wu, whom I met by chance, was quite to my liking.Although she is old, she has an air of her own, and she has practiced kung fu since she was a child, and she has also learned Daoyin technique, learning from my school, and she can get used to it very quickly, except for her opera accent, which needs to be carefully polished. "

Qin Chuan couldn't help being curious. It seems that Laoshan asked Wei Liangye to play Lao Tzu, there must be a big secret behind it.But what does this have to do with him?

Qin Chuan felt that this matter must involve important secrets of Laoshan, so he should not ask more questions.

It would be bad if it got involved.

But Wei Liangye was able to tell the story, it seems that Laoshan was not worried about the leak, so he didn't warn, or tried to erase the relevant memory.

This is somewhat unreasonable with Laoshan's emphasis on it.

Could it be that Laoshan deliberately did not conceal this matter.

Qin Chuan had a delicate mind and noticed that there were many strange things in it.But it's better not to think too deeply.

So he didn't continue to ask, but continued to focus on Wu Wanqing's matter.

It wasn't that he really wanted to reject Wu Wanqing's participation in The Matchmaker in the West Chamber, but he discussed with Wei Liangye how to make Wu Wanqing a quick success.

He didn't want to waste time, and hoped that this opera would come out soon.

It only took half a day to finalize the general direction frame.

Wei Liangye didn't expect Qin Chuan to be very efficient, and he had neglected many opera knowledge and professional details, but when Qin Chuan raised it, it really made sense.

It seems that Qin Chuan has been immersed in this industry for many years to come up with such insightful insights.

He didn't know that Qin Chuan had recently developed a magical effect of Xuanhuang Qi.Although Qin Chuan recalled Sansheng's past, some details have long been lost.

But if he makes a wish to the merits and completes those memories, he can make them up out of thin air.

This is extremely useful.

Making a wish once consumes only a little bit of merit.

He now has more than 1 merits.

The reason why he didn't make a wish to get back all the detailed memories was because too much information was stuffed in at once, which would have some impact on his current soul, and there is a limit to the memory that can be completed by a one-time wish.

Retrieving all his knowledge and clearly storing it in the primordial spirit will probably consume all his ten thousand merits.

He also tried to trace past life reincarnation memories before modern times.

But the merit is not enough, it cannot be opened.

And the modern life can be called his first life now. Before the first life, he had some background, like opening a blind box, spent so much merit, the result may not be good.

If there is a lot of merit, he doesn't mind wasting it.

In addition, beings detached from the world may have the ability to trace back time and launch attacks on the distant past similar to the novel of the One World Lord.

He still has to make some preparations for this. Going back to the reincarnation before the first life and finding the initial starting point is definitely a direction of practice.

It's just that he must be far away from the present him.

But practitioners have no dreams, how can they become emperors of heaven?

Set a small goal, just like when you dreamed that time, let's be a Qingdi first.

He felt that he had a predestined relationship with the character Qing, and Wu Wanqing also had a "Qing".

After finishing these things, Qin Chuan released Ying Ning from the green gourd on the way home. She turned into a snow-white fox, stepped on Qin Chuan's shoulder, and looked at the world around her curiously.

These worldly feelings are so fresh.

Met a ghost messenger on the road.

"This Immortal Elder, I am a daily parade in this county. The Lord City God has invited me. I wonder if the Immortal Elder can give me the honor to go to the Town God's Temple in the county."

He fought with Li Xuanyang, although ordinary people didn't feel much, but as a county town god, he must have felt it.

"Okay, 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, but it doesn't hurt to meet him in the past.

Seeing that Qin Chuan was very polite on the day tour, he was relieved.

However, he was also afraid that Qin Chuan would not be polite and would be too polite.

Because before the county town god came, he said that the fairy head was unpredictable.It stands to reason that for ordinary creatures, if they enter the boundary of Jinhua County, the county town god's book of life and death will have a corresponding written origin.

However, Qin Chuan's writing 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. I am afraid that it is possible to find out only with the prefectural town god, or even the provincial town god, or even the chief city god of the gods.

Such a person, if he accidentally pays respects to a county parade like him, it is likely to damage his spiritual body.

The strictness of the Shinto hierarchy is most evident in this aspect.

Because there is incense when visiting worship and rituals.

But there are some incenses that exist, the status of gods is too low, and they are absolutely unbearable.

It is rumored that the ancient philosophers respected ghosts and gods and stayed away. There is a saying that they did not hurt those ghosts and gods.Often this kind of existence, it is very face-saving to worship the innate gods of the gods of heaven and the gods of the earth every year and festival.

Soon arrived at the Town God's Temple in Jinhua County, entered the back of the main hall, there was no one there, and the day tour pointed to the wall in front of him, and the wall was torn open like a curtain.

Qin Chuan walked in with Ying Ning.

This is the Dharma Realm of Shinto.

There is also a Chenghuang Temple inside.

Among them, the City God of Jinhua County led the crowd to greet him, "Tao Yuan, the City God of Jinhua County, has met the Immortal Elder."

Qin Chuan was quite surprised when he saw the face of Jinhua City God, it was actually a female City God.

The strange color on Tao Yuan Qin Chuan's face, he took the initiative to explain that she was a county lord of the previous dynasty, when the bandits captured the city, she personally led the crowd to kill the enemy, fought hard and died, was missed by the local people, died and became a god, and Called Jinhua Fairy, Tao Yuan is her original name.

This incident was recorded in the county annals.

As for the statue of the city god, it is majestic and majestic, and it is dressed in official uniform. If you don't distinguish it carefully, you can't tell if it is a man or a woman.

Only by reading the local county annals thoroughly can we know the exact origin of the city god.

When these were said, the host and guest sat down.

Taoyuan Chenghuang first looked at Ying Ning, "This should be a fellow Taoist from the Tushan clan of Taishan. I went to Taishan Mansion three years ago to report to the empress of Mount Tai, and I saw a fellow Taoist from the fox clan appear beside the empress. The little fellow Taoist next to the immortal seems to look alike."

Qin Chuan's heart moved, and he immediately replied, "It must be Sister She's mother."

It was just a meeting three years ago, so of course Qin Chuan didn't need to ask about the whereabouts of the little aunt.

City God Tao Yuan nodded, "This is fate. But this time, I have the courage to ask the Immortal Elder to come over and talk about it. I have something to ask, and I also ask the Immortal Elder to be merciful. Jinhua City will definitely be grateful."

Qin Chuan: "Fellow Daoist, tell me what's going on first."

Taoyuan Chenghuang then said something, it turned out that a group of monsters from Yuanmeng Kingdom in the grassland came to Huaning Mansion recently, this group of monsters had already done many cases in Huaning Mansion and killed many people.

But they have the Taoism to hide the breath, even the city gods are difficult to track.

In the past two days, the other party should have arrived in Jinhua County, and there were three murders.

The souls of these massacres are now gathered in the Town God's Temple in Jinhua County, full of resentment and unwilling to die.

Tao Yuan Chenghuang also said that it is natural for monsters to eat people and eat wild animals with people, as long as they don't do anything that takes souls and souls, it is not against the law of heaven.

It's just that she has been incensed by the people of Jinhua City, how can she just sit back and watch the people suffer and ignore her?

However, she couldn't trace the aura of that group of monsters, how could she avenge the people under her rule, and she was worried that that group of monsters would leave Jinhua County, and it would be too late to track them down.

She finally said in a deep voice: "Actually, although this line of monsters hides their aura, the little god is not without clues. The little god predicts that they are either in the county government office or hiding in the county school palace. There are only these places. The little god The divine power cannot be penetrated, and we will investigate one by one."

There is a statue of a saint in the county school palace, which contains righteousness, and ghosts and gods dare not approach it.As for the county government, it is suppressed by the luck of the dynasty, and the city god can't spy on it.

Unless it is an acting city god like the prefect of Zhou, and he is full of righteousness, he will not be affected.

But that's not a long-term solution either.

"So Taoist Taoist wants to ask you to go down to the county government and the county school to investigate?"

The statues of saints in the academy really have little influence on the demons.

Righteousness is mainly aimed at ghosts and gods.

"Well, it's enough for the fairy elder to help the little god determine their exact location. Then the little god will set up 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 you want to come to Chenghuang Temple to inform your friends?"

"Could it be that the Immortal Elder thinks that we can monitor you? You have profound profound energy, and ordinary cultivators, we can't even monitor them, otherwise we will be easily hostile and cause trouble, let alone the Immortal Elder. When the Immortal Elder determines the position, we only need to crush this A wooden sign, I will understand later, when that time comes, our City God Temple Fair will start to act."

The City God gave Qin Chuan a wooden sign with the word Tao Yuan on it.

Presumably there is Tao Yuan's aura, once the wooden sign is broken, it has its own induction.

Qin Chuan put away the wooden sign, "I'll go first while it's still dark."

"Thank you Xianchang."

As Qin Chuan left, Ri Xunyou asked, "My lord, this immortal leader has a profound realm. We should ask him not to display his magic at will, disturb ordinary people, and sow bad karma."

Tao Yuan: "No need, if this elder fairy helps us catch that group of evildoers, it is a kindness. I will not wait, he will pay attention."

"My lord is wise."

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Qin Chuan decided to go to the county school first. He was traveling as a scholar. If he lived in a place temporarily, he still had to find time to go to the county school to prepare.

It is still broad daylight, and it is the right time to go to the county school to report.

He looked at Qi with the eyes of Yuanshen Dharma, and indeed he did not find the monster that Chenghuang said. It seems that the opponent's method of hiding his breath is not rough.

Could it be possible that he also has his breath restraining technique?

And it's certainly not ordinary.

Thinking that the origin of the other party is the Mongolian Yuan Empire on the grassland.

Qin Chuan had a bad guess in his heart. Could it be that the monster under the seat of the ancestor Youxuan came to Yujiang Province for the White Wolf King?

Patriarch Youxuan is a real demon, more powerful than ordinary ghosts, Qin Chuan is naturally no match now.

If the other party finds out the truth, it will inevitably cause a lot of trouble.

A demon immortal broke into the Daliang Dynasty in the name of avenging his concubine, but the Daliang Dynasty might not really protect him.

Pinning one's own safety on the attitude of others is also a bad idea.

Qin Chuan must take his fate into his own hands.

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Jinhua County, the county government mansion.

Huang Shiren, the magistrate of Jinhua County, is a distant branch of the Huang family in Lingzhou Prefecture, and is currently entertaining the envoys of the Mongolian Yuan Kingdom.Daliang is a country of etiquette. Although the battle between the Nine Sides and the Mongolian Yuan Kingdom is fierce, it is still necessary to be courteous when dealing with the Mongolian Yuan's envoys.

"General Heida, you are visiting our Jinhua County. The county does not provide enough hospitality. I wonder if the general has any favorite food. I will ask someone to prepare it at night."

County magistrate Huang raised his glass to a majestic prairie man.

General Hei Da drank a glass of wine and opened his mouth, revealing his white sharp teeth, which was rather terrifying. He patted his stomach and said, "I want to eat human flesh."

Huang Shiren's wine glass fell to the ground.

"Hahaha." Hei Da patted his shoulder, "Master Huang is very timid, I was just trying to scare you. Didn't you people from the Central Plains say that we prairie people like to drink blood like hair, I was just joking."

Huang Shiren wiped the cold sweat from his brow, "General Heida is a funny man."

He cursed secretly in his heart, mere martial artist, if you were in this court, you would have to kneel down to salute this official.Heida is just a Mongolian envoy, not a real general.

Corresponding to Daliang is also a sixth-rank military officer.

In the Liang Dynasty, the status of civil servants was much higher than that of military officials. A county magistrate of the seventh rank was comparable in status to the five sense organs of the fifth rank.

In terms of status, it is not as good as a scholar.

At least scholars don't have to kneel down when they meet officials below the third rank.

Even if you meet a senior member of the third rank, if you have the backbone, you don't need to kneel down.

Civil officials kneel to their immediate superiors, unless they are extremely flattering, they can't do this at all.

If it is a gentleman of the academy, or a first-class Jinshi, or a courtier of the third rank or above, there is no need to kneel down to the emperor.

The treatment of civil servants can be described as extremely generous in the Liang Dynasty.

It's a pity that the rough people in the grassland don't understand the preciousness of scholars.

This vulgar warrior, does he know the gold content of his background as a Jinshi?
I really don't know how the people above arranged to allow this group of warriors to roam around in Yujiang Province.What are they trying to do?
Huang Shiren didn't bother to figure it out, anyway, let these plague gods eat and drink well, so let's leave quickly.

As for whether this vulgar warrior is a blood-drinking generation, he doesn't bother to care.

He was still a little hesitant, whether to invite his nephew to attend the official banquet at night.But tonight's official banquet in the county government has invited the local gentry and celebrities, so it would be bad not to invite the nephew over.

He has a relationship with the Huang family in Lingzhou, so if you say it yourself, it is not as convincing as the children of the Huang family's direct line appearing by his side.

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Qin Chuan came to the county school just as Huang Meng was there.

Huang Meng heard that Qin Chuan came to report to the county school's instruction, and it seemed that he really wanted to stay in Jinhua County for a while, and he just passed by for a few days, so he didn't need it at all.

In fact, there is no need.

He took Qin Chuan to see the county school teacher.

It happened that most of the students from the county school were present.

In this matter, take out the tooth card, prove your identity, and teach it to file after the event.Guochao treats the students extremely preferentially, 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 Prefecture.Qin Chuan was able to become the top case in the third test in Lingzhou Prefecture, and it was easy to get the list in the rural test.

It should be known that Yujiang province holds a township examination every three years. A total of tens of thousands of students are eligible to participate in the township examination, including supervising students. More than 1 people compete every three years, and only about [-] juren are selected.

It can be seen that the pressure of competition is great.

Qin Chuan seemed to have reserved a spot.

Once won the election, it is equivalent to the candidate official and has official status.

If a person violates the king's law, he has to report to Shendu, and the Ministry of Rites discusses and decides to deprive him of his literary background before he can be arrested and convicted.

Moreover, the decision-making still needs to be approved by the palace before it can really take effect.

Generally speaking, concealment between officials and officials is not a deep hatred, and the Ministry of Rites will not casually decide to deprive an official of his literary background.

For juren, generally speaking, the biggest punishment is not to be an official, and there are still various privileges in the countryside.

Qin Chuan also took this opportunity to observe the county school, there are no so-called evildoers.

It seems to be in the county government.

He still has to make sure.

At this time, the county government sent an invitation card, inviting Jiaoyu and Huang Meng from the county school to attend the official banquet in the evening, and Jiaoyu can bring a few lin students there.

(End of this chapter)