Chen Tang had stabilized his mood when he returned home.
He opened the door and saw that Heiguo was cooking, which was almost ready. A few girls were joking with Gouzi aside. When they saw him coming, they quickly stopped laughing
Chen Tang put down the buns, which were still hot, but the breakfast cooked by Heiguo was obviously more substantial. He fried four vegetables, both vegetarian and meat, and also cooked porridge and cut two plates of cold vegetables. "Who went to buy the vegetables?" Chen Tang wondered.
If Chen's servants went shopping for groceries, they probably wouldn't buy so much. Ya pointed at the black pot.
Chen Tang put down the buns and went to the backyard. He saw Chen Shi combing her mother's hair. It seemed that she rarely did this kind of work. The comb was often unable to comb through the roots of the hair. "I'll do it."
Chen Tang stepped forward, took the comb, and started combing it from near the ends of the hair, combing the ends smoothly, and then combing some more hair to open up the messy hair. Chen Shi wiped his mother's face with a warm towel and wiped it very carefully
Chen Tang combed his hair, then tied it up and put on hair accessories for Chen Shi's mother. He moved skillfully, and he obviously did this often. Chen Tang trimmed her nails again, while Chen Shi watched and studied seriously.
"She can't move, so we need to help her move her muscles and bones to activate her blood."
Chen Tang set up Chen Shiniang and taught Chen Shi how to move her muscles and bones, saying, "You can use your own The qi and blood will help her move, and her qi and blood will circulate for several days. When she wakes up one day, she will not be paralyzed. By the way, there are many people in Xijing, and you don’t want to socialize with anyone, especially someone named Xiaowu. Stay away from him."
"Creator Xiao Wu? Fifth uncle?"
Chen Shi was quite excited and said with a smile, "I heard someone said that he was in Xijing and created a cloud of corpses, which made people panic."
Chen Tang snorted. He said, "He is not a good person. Don't get close to him. There is also a man named Qiao Zhuo who is not a good person either. If you meet him, stay away from them." Chen Shi was surprised: "Uncle A Zhuo? Why is he not a good person?"
He did not argue, and carefully studied how to activate qi and blood, and said: "I have a lot of elixirs here, can they cure my mother's disease?" Chen Tang shook his head and said: "I have tried all elixirs, but they are of little use. Her soul has escaped. , Granny Sha couldn’t find it either. Chen Shi said: “The elixir here is different.”
Chen Tang’s heart moved slightly: “The elixir you brought from Qingzhou? Chen Shi nodded lightly: “It’s stronger than the elixir from Qingzhou.”
He obtained fifty-five elixirs in Qingzhou and planted them outside a small temple. They were nourished by the sun, moonlight and starlight from the ancestral court every day. The medicinal properties of these elixirs were greatly improved and were far beyond the original elixirs.
On the way to Xijing, Sun Yisheng's soul was almost blown to pieces, but he was cured by these elixirs. One can imagine how powerful these elixirs are! "There are many people who are proficient in medicinal properties and pharmacology. After dinner, I will go find them."
Chen Shi smiled and said, "Invite them to come over and prepare medicine for my mother's treatment."
Chen Tang shook his head and said: "The effect of the elixir can certainly make her condition better, but the most important thing is to get her soul back.
Chen Shi thought for a while and said, "I know two people who are as good at finding souls as Grandma Sha. Maybe we can ask them to help. They should have arrived in Xijing too. Chen Tang, is there any beautiful river in Xijing? The kind with brothels on both sides."
Chen Tang stared at him: "Bortel?"
Chen Shi said calmly: "Those two people make a living there."
Chen Tang said: "You don't want to get to know some shady people. In the city, There is indeed a river called the Qushang River, with lively lights on both sides. If you go there, I will go with you." Chen Shi said, "No, I won't go. It's still early, the brothels are closed, and there is no business. Wait until evening, when there is business, and you can find them."
Heiguo asked Chen Shi to have breakfast. Chen Tang had already eaten, so he did not go over. He pushed Chen Shiniang around slowly, with a trace of sadness on his face. "Ruru, Chen Yindu may not have taught Chen Shi well."
He whispered, "He is only thirteen years old and he is so familiar with brothels. Chen Du must have taken him there."
Chen Shi finished breakfast and was about to go out when Chen Tang called him and said, "I'll You bought a new set of clothes and put them in your room. You put them on to try on before going to see your friends. Chen Shi went back to his room. The clothes were a black Taoist robe with a white hem and a red ribbon. He was dressed smartly, but he looked more stable and restrained.
The clothes were a little too big, but not much.
Chen Shi put it on and took a look in the mirror. It was obvious that Chen Tang bought it according to his own dressing style, which did not match Chen Shi’s personality. However, when Chen Shi looked at himself in the mirror, he looked quite handsome. When he walked out of the room, Chen Tang took a look and felt that Nizi was much more pleasing to the eye, so he said: "Your hair is a bit messy, let me help you comb it again."
Chen Tang was sitting on the corridor. Chen Tang took off the two strands on his golden crown that fixed the hair and the golden crown, and combed his hair smoothly. When he combed it to his scalp, he touched something. Chen Tang touched it and saw the marks left by the healed bones.
His hands trembled, remembering the way the back of his head had been opened when he found his son's body. He shook his head hastily to get this bad image out of his mind.
He gently touched the centipede-like scarlet scar, which ran from one side of Chen Shi's ear to the other. It is impossible to survive such an injury.
But this wound has healed. Chen Yindu really succeeded.
"Does it still hurt?" Chen Tang couldn't help but ask.
"It doesn't hurt anymore. It still hurts a little when it rains and thunders. If the thunder is loud, I feel a little dizzy." Chen Shi said. Chen Tang stopped talking and tied up his hair, put on a golden crown and inserted a golden hairpin.
Chen Shi dressed neatly and went out immediately.
Not long after, Chen Shi came in laughing and joking with a few people. When those people saw Chen Tang, they quickly stopped their smiles and bowed to Chen Tang.
Chen Tang looked at these young people in surprise. Chen Shi actually brought the pharmacist. These people were energetic and young, but they had been running around in the countryside all year round and had seen a lot of problems. They analyzed Chen Shi's condition around her.
They discussed it over and over again and drew up a recipe. Chen Tang looked at it and found it to be a recipe that would calm the mind and calm the mind, replenish vitality and improve qi and blood. In addition, there are several soothing herbs. By taking this prescription, you can forget your worries and strengthen your roots, making your soul stable.
Chen Tang was extremely shocked.
Chen Shi took out a few main ingredients of the medicine and asked his servants to prepare the medicine according to the prescription. Huang Fengnian and others helped to make the elixir, saying: "After making the elixir, you don't need to cook the medicine every day. You only need to dissolve one pill with honey and water every day and feed it to your daughter-in-law."
They helped. Busy refining the medicine, it was not finished until noon. Chen Tang left them to have lunch. These people waved their hands and said with a smile: "We will eat in the guild hall, don't dare to bother the adults!" Chen Tang sent them out of the Chen Mansion. When they came back, they looked at the vermilion elixirs, and some did not dare to give them to Chen Shiniang.
He took a test medicine, and the medicine melted in his belly. Chen Tang suddenly felt that everything in the world had become better. He sat lazily in the yard, the blood and qi in his body were running automatically, his energy was full, and all worries were gone.
When the medicine wore off, he was shocked to realize that he had done nothing all afternoon, let alone go to the household department to handle official business! He carefully checked the effect of the elixir he had taken, and his heart was slightly shaken: "My longevity..."
With this elixir, his lifespan was directly increased from a hundred years old to more than two hundred years old!
Chen Tang was stunned, and hurriedly went to look for Chen Shi, but did not find Chen Shi, so he asked a servant, who said: "The young master went to Quqiang River. "He went to visit a brothel?!"
Chen Tang's forehead veins popped out, and he clenched his fists.
Chen Shi came to the pier near the Quchang River in Xijing and waited quietly.
It is still early to go to the brothel. The sisters in the brothel are still dressing up and they will not open the door so early. There are not many boats at the pier.
But there were already many scholars and officials waiting on the pier. The scholars were chatting and laughing in twos and threes, while the officials were sitting in sedan chairs and did not come out.
There is a child selling aphrodisiac pills on the pier. He walks through the crowd again and again, asking the officials if he wants them. The people who were asked often talked about him, or laughed and waved their hands and said, "Why would I need this?"
However, Chen Shi still saw that a few people bought some secretly
"It's a business, I will tell Huang Fengnian later and let him come here to make money." Chen Shi said in his heart.
At this time, a scholar on the pier talked about government affairs, and everyone waiting to go to the brothel began to sigh.
Now that the border army is in a hurry, monsters in the sea are constantly attacking the border, and the court has to dispatch the border army to Xijing. There are bad people in the court!
A scholar clapped his fan heavily on the palm of his hand, filled with righteous indignation, and said loudly, "Are all freeloaders in the cabinet? Such a stupid decree came out. In my opinion, the devil is not at sea, not in the rivers and lakes, the devil is in Xijing, and the devil is in the cabinet!"
As soon as this statement came out, the crowd was furious.
A silver-haired old man next to Chen Shi said angrily: "If I were a cabinet minister, I would take these old court ministers who only talk but do nothing, these corrupt scum and bend the law, and send them to the sky prison, and torture them severely. I am not afraid that they will not be recruited!"
"Well said!" Everyone cheered. "Are the six tribes and three princes all loyal ministers?
An official stepped out of the sedan chair and said impassionedly, "Tomorrow, I will make a speech in the court to lament the ills of the times and shame those old people who are lying on their backs and eating nothing! Let them know that people's livelihood is in decline. Even the squires are almost out of food and can't afford to ride in cars!"
His words resonated with everyone, and they all applauded.
"The gentlemen of Xijing should be allowed to leave the capital and go see other places!" Everyone complimented each other, and gradually became familiar with each other, and the chat became more and more lively.
Chen Shi listened to them as they chatted, talking about the famous prostitutes in Xijing, who had good kung fu, graceful dancing, and what kind of music they had composed that was popular in Xijing and even spread to other provinces. They talked about the famous prostitutes and started chanting poems recently written by some adults in Xijing.
Then he talked about his lifelong ambition and the need to show his grand plans, and then cursed the court again. Then we talked about a noble lady in Xijing who had committed adultery with a Zen master outside the city and was caught in the act. Then the story gradually moved on to the romantic affair. From the romantic affair, we talked about government affairs, and then started to curse again.
"The brothel is open!" Someone shouted.
The crowd hurriedly crowded into the pier and rushed to jump on the boat. The boatman shouted: "Slow down, slow down, the boat is going to capsize!" "My shoes have been stepped off!" A scholar shouted in the crowd.
There are not many boats at the pier, and they fill up quickly, with many people unable to get on the boat. A boatman said: "I can pull one more person here, who can come up!" Arms were raised high, and many voices said: "Me! Me!"
Chen Shi shook his head. At this moment, he saw a painting boat approaching. Everyone quickly came to the boat and waved to the boat: "Boatman, come here!" Chen Shi jumped up, walked up in the air, and landed on the boat.
The boatman controlling the boat was a familiar face. The boat girl in the boat was dressing up, holding a hairpin in her mouth and twirling her hair with her hands. She smiled and said, "Master Jieyuan is a little anxious. Chen Shi smiled and said, "You two, I have something to ask of you."
On the shore, a group of scholars stamped their feet and asked: "Are we going to reach the shore? Can we still do business?
Some people were impatient and jumped onto the boat, but their cultivation was not good enough. Extraordinary, there are many who are able to fly in the air, but when they jump out, they are getting further and further away from the boat, and they all fall into the water.
The boat girl put the hairpin in place and said, "What's the matter?"
Chen Shi told the story of his mother's soul leaving the body, and said: "Please help me, I will thank you very much."
The boatman didn't speak, and after he finished speaking, he shook his head and said, "I'm sorry to have to obey."
Chen Shi frowned slightly: "With your abilities, it is not difficult to find my mother's soul. I am not empty-handed."
He took out the ram's horn lantern and placed it in front of the two of them, saying, "If my mother is found, I will give this treasure to you two."
The boat girl hesitated and kept looking at the boatman, feeling a little moved.
Although they are also Yin Cha, there is also a status gap between Yin Cha and Yin Cha. The lamp they could use was a boy's heavenly spirit lamp, which was one level worse than Chen Shi's ram's horn heavenly spirit lamp. The boatman shook his head: "I'm sorry to have to obey."
Chen Shi couldn't help but asked: "Why?"
The boatman looked at him deeply and said, "Chen Jieyuan doesn't remember what happened in the underworld?"
Chen Shi was stunned. He shook his head and said: "I don't remember."
The boatman said: "I see, no wonder you asked us for rescue. When you fell into the underworld, didn't your mother's soul find you?" Chen Shi was stunned.
The boat girl said from the side: "After you entered the underworld, your mother's soul also entered the underworld to look for you. I have seen her before, and you and your mother were together at that time. Later, after your incident happened, she was also imprisoned in Yuanchen Palace as an accomplice."
The boatman said coldly: "If we want to save your mother, we, father and daughter, have to rob the prison! If we rob the prison, we will become your accomplices! We are already bald men poking into a hornet's nest, and if we go to rob the prison, we will never return to the underworld!"
Chen Shi murmured: "My mother has been with me all the time?"
His eyes were red: "Has she found me?"
h "It shouldn't be wrong." said the boat girl.
She suddenly woke up and quickly tugged on the boatman's clothes, pulled him aside, and discussed quietly.
The two men were sneaking around and talking nonsense. I couldn't understand what they were discussing.
After a while, the boat girl smiled and said to Chen Shi: "We can rob the prison for you, even without the ram's horn lantern. But Master Jie Yuan has to do a small thing for us father and daughter."
Chen Shi became energetic: "What's the matter?"
Ship Ship The husband said: "It's a small matter. Someone escaped from the underworld, and the underworld contacted us and asked us to capture him. This person has been reincarnated for many years, and the underworld only recently found out about his whereabouts."
Chen Shi asked doubtfully: "Who is this fugitive?"
The boat girl said: "It's probably a culprit who made a mistake. I didn't say much about it. He was reincarnated less than twenty years ago. He has a mystery in his womb and has never awakened his memory. All you have to do is capture him. This man was reincarnated near Xijing, and his hometown is a day's journey away from here."
"Okay!"
Chen Shi agreed and said, "What do you know about this culprit who made a mistake?"
"A little shackle, he was reincarnated as a weak scholar and cannot be beaten."
The boat girl smiled and said, "If you go to get him, you will definitely catch him. By the way, his name is Zhong Kui."