Judgement

Chapter 3 Named by the Celestial Master

Chen Youfu knew what happened in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud. This was Chen Youfu's eternal secret.I can only cater to what Aunt Osmanthus said: "What Aunt Osmanthus said is very true, and I also expected it to be so."

Aunt Zhu and Aunt Chen also came out. They have been busy for a long time. Fortunately, both mother and child are safe.The three said goodbye to Chen Youfu and prepared to go home.Chen Youfu thanked the three of them, and invited them to go back to the house for tea, but the three declined.Chen Youfu hurriedly went into the room and took out some brocades embroidered by Mrs. Tian himself. The three of them accepted the brocades after seeing Chen Youfu's kindness.

When Chen Youfu returned to the house, he picked up his thick-headed and tiger-headed son. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it. Apart from being weak after giving birth, there was nothing serious about Tian's body.Tian looked at the happy Chen Youfu and said: "My son just fell asleep, don't startle him. Today is thanks to Aunt Zhu and the others. Tomorrow, you have to thank them for me."

"I know this, you have a good rest, I'll go prepare money and eggs." After speaking happily, he put his son beside Tian, ​​and turned to go to the outhouse.

Chen Youfu first went to the courtyard and bowed three times to the green bamboo: "Today, the mother and child are safe thanks to the divine bamboo's display of power." Just as Chen Youfu was thanking the green bamboo inscription, a voice suddenly came from midair: "Boundless Heavenly Venerable, Chen Shanren, the impoverished Taoist leader has died." Chen Youfu looked up to the sky, and couldn't help but shouted: "Ah, a monster."

I saw a person in a purple Taoist robe floating in the midair, nine feet two inches in length, with thick brows and broad eyebrows, vermilion crown and green eyes, long and square, with two horns in his eyes. "Hehe, don't be afraid of Chen Shanren, poor Daoist Zhang Ling."

"Are you Zhang Tianshi?" Chen Youfu opened his mouth in surprise, Zhang Tianshi's reputation among the people is not ordinary.Zhang Ling is known as Zhang Daoling in Taoism.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, he founded the Five Dou Rice Road, and was later regarded as the founder of Taoism.Also known as "Tianzun who subdues demons and protects Taoism", "Emperor Gaoming", "Zhengyi Zhenren", "Zu Tianshi", Zhengyi Zhenren is the title bestowed on him by the Taishang Laojun.His Taoism is profound, he can fight demons and demons, and he has great supernatural powers. He knows the four books and five classics, knows astronomy and geography, and the books of Heluo Tuwei.He once studied in Taixue and learned all kinds of classics.This Tianshi Zhang is enshrined in the Tianhe Temple outside Lin'an City.

"Haha, Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Pindao is Zhang Tianshi."

While speaking, the celestial master wears a Vajra Cosmos hoop on his head, holds a dust whisk in his hand, and is tied around his waist with a green silk sash of Yin-Yang Promise, on which hangs a three-foot-three-inch jujube red mahogany sword.With a bone-like fairy wind all over her body, three black beards floated on her chest, and the clouds descended and landed in Chen Youfu's courtyard.

Chen Youfu hurriedly knelt down on the ground, kowtowed like a bell, and said in his mouth: "Master Zhang, Daoist Zhang, Immortal Zhang, please save my son. The birth of a child today was thunderstorms, and the sky was dark. Just now There is also a monster in this courtyard wall, thanks to the divine bamboo bestowed by Guanyin Bodhisattva, the mother and child are safe."

Zhang Tianshi laughed loudly: "Chen Shanren please stand up, this time Pindao is here for Ling Lang." A breath of fresh air lifted Chen Youfu who was kneeling on the ground.

"Chen Shanren knows everything about poverty. Ling Lang was bestowed by Guanyin in a dream. This person will do a lot in the future. Chen Shanren, you don't need to worry too much."

Chen Youfu thought to himself: this child must be a celestial being descended from heaven as soon as he was born.But the child is coveted by demons and ghosts at such a young age, and now that the bamboo has been broken, I really don't know what to do in the future...Chen Youfu wanted to kneel and beg Zhang Tianshi again, but there was something invisible on his knees that prevented Chen Youfu from kneeling.

"Shenxian Zhang, my son is still in his infancy, but you can see that the black ash in this yard is all transformed by that seven-tailed demon tail. I'm only worried that demons and ghosts will attack again."

Zhang Tianshi stroked his three long beards, nodded and said: "Chen Shanren, you don't know something. It's because Ling Lang's celestial body was born, which caused all the demons to move. The seven-tailed demon fox was Zhang Lihua, the concubine of Chen Shubao, the empress of the Southern Chen Dynasty. Zhang Lihua was originally born in a poor family, and the whole family relied on his father and brother to weave mats. Later, Chen Shubao chose this girl to enter the palace for the crown prince, and appointed her as a maidservant in the East Palace. Not long after that, Emperor Xuan died, and Chen Shubao made Zhang Lihua a noble concubine after he ascended the throne."

Chen Youfu was stunned when he heard that, he didn't expect that this demon fox was a noble concubine in his previous life.

Zhang Tianshi went on to say: "Chen Shubao loved Zhang Lihua very much and built the Jieqi Pavilion for her. The Jieqi Pavilion is tens of feet high and stretches for dozens of rooms. The sills are all made of sandalwood and decorated with gold, jade, pearls and emeralds. There is a pearl curtain hanging at the door, and inside is the precious tent gum bed. The costumes are rare and precious, and the utensils are magnificent, all of which have never been seen in modern times." Zhang Tianshi sighed softly as he looked at the black ash all over the floor. Take a breath. "The wealth and splendor of the past are just passing clouds."

Chen Youfu asked strangely: "Then why did this imperial concubine become a goblin again?"

Zhang Tianshi said: "Zhang Lihua was a peerless beauty before her death. Her hair was seven feet long, and her hair was as black as lacquer. Her face was like the morning glow, her skin was as white as snow, her eyes were like autumn water, and her eyebrows were as dazzling as the distant mountains. He is very smart, eloquent, and has a photographic memory. At that time, the eunuchs Cai Tuoer and Li Shandu sorted out all the things that were revealed by the officials, and then handed them over to Chen Shubao for reading. Sometimes even the content forgotten by Cai and Li She was able to answer one by one without missing anything. Later, Chen Shubao ignored the government and became licentious, and his subjects were all content with pleasure, making the entire prosperous Jiangnan a miasma." Zhang Tianshi looked like he hated iron and steel.

"Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, sent more than [-] troops to attack Nanchen. Yang Jun, the king of Qin, went down the river from Xiangyang, Yang Guang, the king of Jin, set out from Liuhe, and Yang Su, the king of He of the Qing Dynasty, approached Kangjian City, the capital of the Southern Dynasty. Chen Shubao was captured The treacherous ministers were deceived and played and sang every night. Until the Sui army broke through Kangjian City, Han Qinhu led five hundred soldiers into the palace. But there was no one in the palace. They searched the whole palace and found it in a dry well in the back garden. Chen Shubao, Zhang Lihua and Concubine Kong Guifei, the soldiers put down the rope, but when they pulled up, there were three people hugging each other tightly. Zhang Lihua's rouge was rubbed on the dry well, which is now called the Rouge Well. Jin Wang Yang Guang Ordered to kill Zhang Lihua"

"Ah..." Chen Youfu didn't know why he felt a pity for Zhang Lihua's beheading.

Zhang Tianshi lightly shook the whisk in his hand, and saw a whirlwind on the ground.Blow away the scattered bamboo branches and leaves in the courtyard and the black ashes of the demon fox.

"Zhang Shanren, you must know that those who died unjustly and unjustly, if they are not saved, they can only turn into lonely ghosts, do not enter the six reincarnations, and wander in the two worlds of yin and yang all day long. After Zhang Lihua died, he turned into a resentful soul. It was a coincidence Under the body, he returned to the body of a three-tailed fox that was struck to death by lightning. He swallowed the wind and drank dew every day to absorb the essence of the sun and the moon. Now this seven-tailed fox has been practicing for more than 700 years. Therefore, the phantom human form harms him, and no one knows that the sky net is extensive, sparse but not leaky. It has its own arrangements in the dark. The devil is one foot high, the Tao is one foot high, and the immeasurable celestial being..."

Zhang Tianshi took out a handful of dark objects from the Taoist robe sleeve and handed it to Chen Youfu.Chen Youfu took the object and looked at it carefully.This object is more than one foot long, and it is quite heavy to start with. It is neither gold nor iron.

Zhang Tianshi said: "This thing is called Jiangmo ruler. You can hang it in your room to avoid evil spirits."

Chen Youfu nodded his thanks, and said falteringly: "Ordinary Chen Youfu begs Immortal Zhang to give my son a name."

Zhang Tianshi laughed and said: "Ling Lang's previous life was far more brilliant than Zhang Ling, but he just realized the Tao in the lower realms. I will have a relationship with him in the future. He will know these secrets in the future. Since Chen Shanren wants me to If you choose your son’s name, then I, Zhang Ling, will be shameless once, and this son is called Mengsheng because of Guanyin’s dream, and when he was born, he was born with a green bamboo to protect him, so he should be named Qingzhu.”

"Chen Mengsheng, Chen Mengsheng, the name is Qingzhu. It's a good name, thank God Zhang for the name." Chen Youfu bowed deeply to Zhang Tianshi.

"Chen Shanren, you don't need to be too polite. There is another sentence, the poor can't say anything. The subduing magic ruler can only wipe out demons and ghosts, but it is useless to ordinary people. I hope Chen Shanren is far away from the villain. Zhang Ling, farewell, Chen Shanren Do it for yourself. Don't tell a third person what happened today..."

When Chen Youfu was about to ask Zhang Tianshi what he meant by these words, there was no sign of Zhang Tianshi in the courtyard, only Chen Youfu was left in a daze with the magic ruler in his hand...

It was a miracle that Tian Cui'e gave birth to a house full of red lights. It took only half a day for everyone to know about it through the mouth of Aunt Osmanthus, and there was an endless stream of people who came to congratulate her.Those who are rich will give a pair of silver bracelets and silver locks, and those who have little money will give some copper coins or iron coins. In fact, two eggs for poor families can be regarded as congratulatory gifts.There are also those who come to congratulate with empty hands...

(The coins in the Southern Song Dynasty may be the most chaotic in Chinese history. From the Northern Song Dynasty, Jiaozi was issued in Sichuan, to the Huizi in the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, because the Song Dynasty was unable to make ends meet, Song Taizong unified the Central Plains and the South. The sixteen prefectures of Yunyun attacked Liao. In 979 A.D., the Gaoliang River fought fiercely, and the Song army was defeated. The [-] Song army fought fiercely with the Liao army , Emperor Taizong was hit by two arrows and fled back to the south in a donkey cart. Therefore, in addition to losing money to buy peace during the years of war, the generals at that time were still very good at fighting. The most typical one was Yue Fei. The emperor did not want to resist and could fight again The general is also a big girl who has no power to give birth. In addition, there were a lot of Jiaozi halls at that time. The circulation was stopped. There are gold leaves, gold ingots, silver, copper coins, and iron coins in circulation among the people, but the main ones are copper coins and silver.)

Chen Youfu treats all those who come to congratulate him equally, no matter whether you are polite or come empty-handed, you will be greeted with a smile and asked to eat wedding cakes and distribute wedding eggs in the house.After the congratulations were over, Chen Youfu went out to gather the relatives and friends who were used to congratulate the children at the three-dynasty feast.