A voice came, and Chen Shi and Li Tianqing looked over. They saw seven or eight young people, dressed as scholars, bright but unassuming. They were all high-spirited and youthful people, waving to Li Tianqing from a distance.
Li Tianqing responded and whispered: "They are from my Li family. The person who called me is Li Juan, the second son of my fourth uncle, who takes good care of me. They asked me to come over if there is something else."
Chen Shi nodded.
Li Tianqing ran over, and Li Juan smiled and said: "Tianqing, we brothers have just arrived in Xinxiang. We are not familiar with the place where we live, and there are many inconveniences. We don't know where to play. After all, you have been here before, why don't you show us around."
Li Tianqing was puzzled: "The last time I came here, I went to the countryside, and I never came to the county town."
Li Jun said: "It's just a place to watch the scenery and drink tea. Are you a local when you were talking to someone just now? Just go and ask."
Li Tianqing ran back again and took the After the matter was settled, Chen Shi said: "I went to the night market a few days ago and passed by the Qingqu River in the city. I saw a painted boat in the river. I could probably enjoy the view and drink tea. But Tian Qing, I saw them calling you around and not treating you as a human being. We are brothers, but we are like servants."
Li Tianqing said: "I'll tell you when I get back."
He hurried over to Li Juan again. When others talked about the boat painting, Li Jun asked the other brothers and sisters what they meant. Everyone laughed and said, "It's just a new place to enjoy the scenery and find a secluded and elegant place. Let's get on the boat."
Li Juan nodded and said, "Thank you, Tianqing. Is that your friend just now? Let's call him together. It will save some trouble to have a local to lead the way." Li Tianqing said yes, came over to call Chen Shi, and led everyone towards the Qingqu River.
Li Tianqing whispered: "I am a concubine in the Li family. The son of a concubine has no status in the first place. My status in the house is not as good as that of a favored maid. If I hadn't made a contribution to the discovery of the Ming Dynasty treasure ship this time, I'm afraid they wouldn't even pay attention to me."
陈实笑道：「那么呆在李家还有什么意思？不如跟我一起去干阳山，好歹做个山大王，在乡里说一没人敢说二。」
李天青叹了口气：「生在世家，身不由己。」
While they were talking, they came to the dock of Qingquhe River and summoned a boat. The water in the river was also clean. There were wind charms painted on the boat, which could be stimulated and allowed the boat to travel with the wind, which was very convenient.
The boat owners are a father and a daughter. The father is at the helm, while the daughter is busy helping to make tea. They are very attentive.
Several young men of the Li family saw that the girl was pretty, so they made fun of her. Unexpectedly, this woman was aggressive and full of meat and vegetables, which made several young men of the Li family blush with shame.
Everyone laughed and watched the boat sail into the Qingqu River.
“Ask the channel how clear it is, so that there is a source of living water.”
Li Jun sighed, with helplessness in his voice, and said, "The Ming Dynasty is a picturesque country, but it's a pity that the government is weak. Those in power are many people with wine bags and rice bags, and they collude with each other, so that evil spirits run rampant. They have let down this picturesque country and let down the people. In this world, how can we clear the canals? Without clear canals, how can we have living water? If the water is not alive, how can there be dancing fish and dragons?"
As soon as he said this, everyone felt a lot.
Chen Shi couldn't help but look sideways at him, and thought to himself: "This Mr. Li Jun can see clearly the evils of the times."
Li Zhengqing is Li Xiaozheng's fourth son, and said: "What the second brother said is absolutely true. It's just that the world is like this. Although you and I have the intention to reform the evils, but we have no power, what can we do?"
They all sighed.
Li Jun chanted: "I am so sad, my young head is gray! I have the intention to kill the thief, but I can't save myself! It's a shame, it's a shame! If I can enter the court, I will sweep the world, get rid of the court's stubborn diseases, promote ancient laws, and restore a bright world to the world!"
Everyone praised him, and Chen Shi also praised him, saying to Li Tianqing: "The Li family are mostly knowledgeable people, admirable, much better than the Zhao family."
He has killed many Zhao family members, and he has a very good understanding of the virtues of the Zhao family's children.
Li Tianqing smiled and said nothing.
On the boat, everyone was impassioned and sang many sad songs, lamenting how miserable people's lives were in this world, but most of the people in the court were ruthless people, lamenting that they were powerless and unable to change the situation.
Chen Shi admired Li Jun and others more and more. At this time, Li Jun asked the boat girl: "Is there any thin horse in this city?"
The boat girl wondered: "What is a thin horse?"
Li Jun was slightly embarrassed and whispered: "It's just a young prostitute." Zhengqi, I thought the young masters didn’t want to go to the brothel, so we didn’t go to the brothel. But we usually go there at night, and there are very few during the day. Please wait a moment, please allow me to turn around. Dad, they are not serious scholars, so they will go to the brothel.”
The boat turned around and headed towards the brothel.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, talking and laughing. Occasionally, he would say something about the current situation, but it would be quickly dismissed by others, and everyone would talk about the thin horse again, with many vulgar words in his words.
Chen Shi only thought it was weird and could not connect these people with the generous and tragic people just now.
When they arrived at the brothel and the boatman berthed the boat, he saw a group of gorgeous girls upstairs opening the windows, looking down, wearing fresh clothes, singing and dancing, and waving handkerchiefs to let the uncle come up.
The crowd, seduced by their emotions, picked up their clothes and hurriedly went ashore.
船姑连忙道：「还未付船钱！」
「天青，你来付钱！」李隽第一个冲入青楼，高声道。
The crowd poured into the brothel, hugging the beauty and drinking wine and chatting happily. After a while, I don’t know which nerve they touched. They lamented the government, worried about the country and the people, and then put their hands into the beauty’s arms, making sounds and sounds.
Shortly after, everyone ran out of the brothel in embarrassment. Behind them, the Madam and the Turtle Man chased them and shouted: "Why go to a brothel if you don't have money? Just go home and enjoy yourself!"
Everybody was ashamed and angry, and ran away with their heads in their hands.
Li Jun said: "Tianqing, do you have any money with you?"
Li Tianqing shook his head and said, "I only have a few taels of silver a month, how can I get enough?"
All the Li family princes returned to the boat in shame and left angrily. In the end, Chen Shi paid the boat fee.
Li Tianqing also planned to go ashore. Chen Shi shook his head and said: "Shipman, let's sail."
The two came to the bow of the ship. Chen Shi looked at the crowds of people on the shore. After a long time, he suddenly laughed out loud and laughed so hard.
Li Tianqing was very embarrassed, but immediately laughed out loud.
"This is Qingliu, who is good at discussing but has no ability and only uses his words."
Li Tianqing smiled and said, "If you go to a provincial capital, no matter which province you are in, most of the fifty provinces will have clear water like this. Just now you said they are knowledgeable people, I know you have never met them, so I didn't answer the call."
Chen Shixiao He said: "Now I have seen something. If many people in the world are like this, then I can not only return to Qianyang Mountain to be the master, but also the master of the entire Xiniu Xinzhou, I can do my best!"
He felt a sense of pride in his chest.
What kind of skill is it to go back to Huangpo Village and act arrogantly?
If you have the ability, then be the master of the whole world!
Li Tianqing shook his head and said: "Although there are many such people in the family of the wealthy family, there are also people who work hard and work hard. Is it so easy to be the master of Xiniu Xinzhou? "
Chen Shi glanced at him and said with a half-smile, "Are you one of those hard-working people?"
Li Tianqing said calmly: "After I returned home, I practiced with great concentration and made great progress. I finally completed the Golden Elixir not long ago. With the completion of the Golden Elixir, no one in the Li family cares about my purple jade divine fetus. From now on, birds can fly in the sky, and fish can jump in the sea."
Behind his head, the shrine was shining brightly, with a divine fetus sitting in the center. Opening his mouth slightly, he saw a blue divine elixir flying out, reflecting the light. The air around him was like clear water, with ripples of light, and the boat seemed to be shuttled through the water.
Chen Shi was as powerful as a tiger, staring at him and saying: "Tianqing, you are ambitious, I can hear it from your words."
Li Tianqing was thin and said with a smile: "I was born as a man, so I should have ambitions. Xiao Shi, although you are good at both civil and military affairs, you will definitely pass the examination as a scholar this time, but you don't have a divine fetus. Even if you can get a divine fetus, you will be remembered by others. You cannot escape this disaster, but I can take the lead every step of the way and be ahead of you."
Chen Shi smiled slightly: "Golden elixir? Although I don't have a divine fetus, I have cultivated it."
His aura suddenly surged, and the palace of elixir in his body was like a sea of fire. The golden elixir was like a sun, shining on the internal organs, refining the pulse, qi, blood, essence, bone, marrow, shape, and spirit, seven returns, eight transformations, and nine returns.
Li Tianqing looked at him as if he were looking at a morning sun rising from the sea.
His golden elixir makes the boat seem to be driving under the water, and Chen Shi is like the rising sun!
Li Tianqing's body trembled slightly, with a look of disbelief on his face, and he lost his voice: "How did you achieve it?"
Chen Shi was very proud: "You think you can get ahead of me by cultivating the golden elixir? I don't think so." As a divine fetus, I refined the body of the holy fetus, and finally broke through, and the qi and blood in my body refined the mysterious elixir!" Li Tianqing snorted: "The heretic! I have one more divine fetus than you, which means I have one more realm than you!"
He took a step forward, took one step forward, and landed on the water. Without stopping, he ran as fast as flying, and actually rode the waves on the water!
"Xiao Shi, come, let me show you the authentic form of the Golden Elixir!"
He had mastered the Golden Elixir, and was so high-spirited that he actually challenged Chen Shi and ran more than ten feet away in an instant.
His golden elixir hangs above his head, and the divine light in the elixir reflects, causing the water surface to sink slightly and dent, but it lifts his figure up and walks across the waves as if he were walking on flat ground!
Chen Shi couldn't help but admire in his heart when he saw this scene: "As expected of a noble family, he is indeed much better than me in the cultivation of golden elixirs!"
He was about to jump onto the river when the boat girl suddenly grabbed his sleeve: "I haven't paid yet!"
Chen Shi laughed and dropped a couple of silver.
"No need to look for it!"
He stepped out and landed on the river. The golden elixir in his body was refined, and the energy and blood poured into his legs. When he landed on the water, the water exploded!
Chen Shi rushed out like an arrow from a string, but saw a figure like an arrow. Wherever it passed, the water surface continued to explode, heading straight for Li Tianqing!
Li Tianqing was running on the water, and suddenly he turned over like a wild goose. Six invisible moon wheels flew out from below, up, down, left and right, quickly and slowly, towards Chen Shi!
Chen Shi made a sword move with his hand. The sword moves were either cutting or picking, changing continuously. The invisible sword energy cut off the six moon wheels one after another. He punched out with the other hand. The wind and waves were violent on the river, and the strong wind rolled up the big waves, and he rushed towards Li Tianqing!
Li Tianqing's golden elixir protected his body, passed through the big waves, and moved forward through the waves. The moon rotated around his body to meet Chen Shi's punch.
The blood of the two people surged, and the big waves on the river suddenly exploded. Among the waves, Chen Shi passed through the water curtain, turned over and landed on the stone bridge. He looked down and saw that the river was flowing slowly. Li Tianqing was standing on the river, floating downstream with the current.
Chen Shi encouraged Jin Dan and was about to rush down from the bridge when he saw small boats swaying this way and that in the Qingqu River. The boatman and boat girl cursed loudly, which was very unpleasant. He hurriedly gave up the idea and left whistling.
Li Tianqing was still waiting to respond to his attack, but he saw Chen Shi walking away as if he didn't recognize him. Just as he was surprised, he saw a small boat swinging past him. The old boatman on the boat He yelled at him: "Dead head, your ancestors fell into the water! Explode, explode, explode a big bastard!"
His words had a local accent, and Li Tianqing didn't understand it for a while. When he came back to his senses, his face turned red and he hurriedly got ashore.
He was about to look for Chen Shi, but saw his fourth uncle Li Xiaozheng and others walking towards him, so he had to give up the idea of defining the winner with Chen Shi.
After the literary and military examinations, you have to wait for the results to be released, which takes several days. After the list is released, the grand ceremony will begin.
Chen Shi also had nothing to do in the city, so he simply returned to Huangpo Village.
"Xiao Shi is back after taking the exam? Did you pass the exam?"
Old lady Wuzhu stood on the roadside. When she saw Chen Shi, she couldn't help but show a flattering smile and greeted, "Xiao Shi came to the field to eat watermelon."
Chen Shi smiled and said: "There are still a few days until the results are released."
The old lady Wu Zhu kicked the watermelon back into the ground, as if she didn't see him.
Chen Shi returned to the village and came to Huangtugang to see Zhu Xiucai. Zhu Xiucai quickly asked about the test questions, and Chen Shi told him the truth.
“I’ve talked about this question before!”
Zhu Xiucai said excitedly, "It's guaranteed, it's guaranteed! Don't worry, it's safe!"
Chen Shi was also very excited, saying: "I think it's guaranteed too! I just offered incense to grandpa, and his grave was smoking!"< br/>
He thought for a while, then quickly took out the incense and worshiped his godmother. After burning the incense, he was about to talk to Zhu Xiucai, when suddenly the light on the stone tablet flowed like water, and a stream of light shot out from the tablet and sank into the back of his head!
Chen Shi's eyes were pitch black and he couldn't see anything.
He knew something was wrong and hurriedly opened his eyes, but saw that the surroundings were still dark and he was the only one standing there alone.
Willow tree, godmother, Zhu Xiucai, Gouzi, Huangpo Village, Qianyang Mountain, all disappeared!
"Did you get into trouble?"
Chen Shi was surprised, "Now there are still evil spirits who dare to hit me?"
At this time, a glimmer of light gradually appeared in front of his eyes.
He waited quietly, but saw that the light was like white ink smeared in the darkness, gradually expanding, but the light still had a sandy texture, as if the space in front of him was composed of white and black sand grains.
In this strange space, a temple actually stands.
The temple is not big and has no courtyard. It is a solitary hall, about one to seven feet high and more than two feet wide. There are three steps in front of the door and two vermilion pillars, which are all old and simple.
The roof is covered with glazed tiles, layer upon layer, and there are no immortals, animals or dragon heads on the ridge.
When Chen Shi came to him, he saw words on the pillars, which were divided into left and right parts, writing:
I follow the example of heaven, the heaven and the earth are all like me
My nature is self-sufficient, it is better to ask for gods and ghosts than to ask for myself
End of this chapter