Chapter 421 Rumors in the Capital
Inside the official post station is a palace made of mahogany.
The candlesticks are arranged in an orderly manner, and hundreds of thousands of lights illuminate the palace as brightly as day. There are red gauze curtains, carved beams and painted buildings, and there are often authentic calligraphy and paintings that can no longer be found in the human world, priceless antique ornaments, as well as performances by singing girls and dancers that are not like those in the human world, and servants bring wine and food.
"There's nothing to worry about!"
The third brother spread his hands and looked at Lin Jue in confusion, then looked around the halls: "These palaces are so big, can't they fit all this wood?"
"Brother, you mean..."
"That's it! Put the wood in, at most the largest piece. The door can't fit in, so we have to calculate the size and break it down into smaller pieces before putting it in." The third brother said, "Since we can take these palaces and pavilions with us, we can naturally take the wood from them with us."
"I see!"
Lin Jue was a little surprised and looked at the palace even more highly.
The same is true for several other senior brothers.
It seems that this palace and pavilion that is both real and illusory, and neither real nor illusory, is even more wonderful and magical than they had imagined.
"Where are you going to put your portion, Junior Brother?"
"Put it on Maple Mountain. After I return to the capital, I may have to leave for a few years to find some good fortune, and then return to the capital to stay for a while. It will be more convenient to put it on Maple Mountain, and my junior sister will help watch it."
"Okay, then we will start dividing it tomorrow during the day, and then we will start to unpack it. We will first send his share back to the abbot. After all, he is the abbot, so we dare not delay him. Then we will send your share to you, junior brother." The third senior brother said naturally, "You can take my share with you."
"Brother, do you want to continue wandering around the world?"
"Of course! It's only been a few years, how can you be free and easy?" said the third brother, "Besides, I promised Princess Hua to take her to visit famous mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery, and we haven't finished yet."
Upon hearing this, Lin Jue looked at his fellow brothers.
Several senior brothers also looked at each other.
"The world is so vast that it may take even decades for me to travel all over it," Lin Jue said with a smile.
"Who said that?"
"Ha ha……"
"Princess Hua's treasure is really powerful. Junior brother can travel the world with this palace and pavilion at ease." The second senior brother drank from the cup, pondered for a moment, and finally said in a calm tone, "No wonder Junior brother mocked us for eating pig food and famine relief pills every day in the letter."
Unexpectedly, the third brother said very naturally: "That letter is not written for you to read. Just forget it after you read it. I won't bother with you. Just forget it!"
Upon hearing this, the fourth senior brother also spoke up: "Senior brother, it's so lively here, with music and dancing, no wonder you mock me for being a savage."
"No wonder senior brother is worried about my health." said senior brother seven.
"You forgot too! You forgot too!"
"Brother, you really don't understand medicine. Why do we need to develop aphrodisiacs?" The fifth brother said, "Since ancient times, there have been many recipes for elixirs!"
"What herbs do you need? Junior Brother will prepare them when he returns! The King of Yue gave me a lot of herbs last year, I wonder if they are enough?" Senior Brother Six also said, "This is related to Senior Brother's health, so we must use the best!"
"..."
The third brother simply stopped talking, raised his glass to drink, shook his head, and forgot about his sorrow.
Lin Jue stroked the fox and smiled without saying a word.
The junior sister was concentrating on feeding porridge to the child in her arms. It seemed that she was taking good care of the child.
Starting from the next day, the spiritual wood was divided equally.
As for the largest piece of spiritual wood that Long Bo brought back, they did not let Junior Sister do it, but Lin Jue and Third Senior Brother planned and calculated together, and then worked together to divide it into pieces more than one person tall. This size can be used directly to carve Long Bo's bean soldiers. If Long Bo's residual soul cannot be found, it is also convenient to split it into small pieces.
It took several days just to split it up.
Then it can be placed in the palace.
Then he packed his luggage and prepared to leave.
Walking out of the official post station, the streets outside are still dilapidated and empty. No one has cleaned them for months, and they are overgrown with weeds. However, looking back, there is an elegant and luxurious palace inside the gate.
But this palace is also shrinking rapidly.
The beams and columns shrank, the ceiling fell, and the walls retracted, folding up layer by layer in the smoke, and the spiritual trees were also covered inside. Before I could see clearly, all the palaces and pavilions had become very small.
Princess Hua, dressed in red, walked out slowly, holding a tray with several palaces on it. As she walked out, the tray folded inward and soon turned into a square and exquisitely crafted mahogany box, like a jewelry box for a wedding.
It was early morning and there was no sunlight. Princess Hua handed the box to the third senior brother.
"Thank you princess."
It’s rare for Third Brother to be so polite.
Princess Hua smiled slightly and disappeared in an instant.
"Let's go."
A jade horse, two stone horses, two paper donkeys, a group of Taoists, a child, a fox and a colorful civet, walked out on the stone street.
When the people heard the sound, they all came out of their houses to see him off.
Upon hearing this, the officials in the city also came forward and kowtowed.
When leaving the city, the soldiers guarding the city also saluted and watched them go.
There was a boundless wasteland outside the city, and the group of people gradually disappeared.
It was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. The early morning was not hot, and the air was slightly damp and chilly. One could smell the scent of earth and weeds, the breath of nature. The few of them did not rush to use the magic of speed to travel, but took advantage of this comfortable and pleasant time to walk for a while.
You can chat while walking.
"Now you got what you wished for. You really picked up a disciple." Lin Jue said to the junior sister. He had already seen that the junior sister had the idea of taking in a disciple for fun.
It is indeed cold and chilly in the mountains. If you are alone with a cat, you won't feel lonely, but it will become boring after a long time.
When the eldest brother accepted a disciple, the younger sister found it novel. When the second brother accepted a disciple, she was also very interested and shared it with Lin Jue.
"I'm a little worried that I can't support her."
“Then you have to be careful.”
"I'm also afraid that she will be disobedient when she grows up."
"She's grown up, why should she listen to you? She has her own ideas." Lin Jue said, "As for what she will think at that time, whether it is good or evil, it is up to Junior Sister to teach her well. At least Senior Brother said that her five energies are balanced now, which shows that her nature is not bad."
"I'm still a little afraid of trouble."
"Then you have to ask the two brothers."
So Lin Jue and his junior sister looked at their two senior brothers.
"It's not a big deal. We can ask them to chop wood in the mountains, go down the mountain to buy things, fetch water from the spiritual spring, or sweep the floor in the Taoist temple." The eldest brother said, "In short, it's a great way to relieve loneliness when you're alone in the mountains."
"It's not a big deal. We can ask him to help fan the fire, fetch the pill bottles and herbs." Second Senior Brother also said, "Even if we need to teach him alchemy skills, reading and writing, and practicing cultivation, it can just be a good way to relieve boredom."
"This seems to be something my senior brother and I have also done."
"Is that so?" said the second brother.
"If you don't understand something, you can come back and ask me." The eldest brother said, "The only thing you need to pay attention to is that the Qinzhou Lingfa School respects Yushan outside the capital. Although our Fuqiu Temple has few people, it is not a small temple, and we have had conflicts with Yushan in the past. It's fine for you to practice here, but now you have accepted disciples and left a legacy. I wonder if they will be happy."
"What are you afraid of?" said the third brother, "When has our Fuqiu Temple ever lost to them?"
"Oh, that's not what I meant." The eldest brother shook his head.
"I know, I'll pay attention." The little sister nodded and asked, "But she doesn't have a name yet, only a surname and a nickname. Should I give her a name?"
"Sixth Junior Brother is good at this."
"Sixth Brother..."
"Last name?"
"The surname is Zhang."
"Why not just name it Ziyun?"
"Zhang Ziyun..."
The junior sister scratched her head but did not refute.
Although she had thought about taking in a disciple herself after seeing her eldest and second senior brothers taking in disciples so that she would have more things to do and more people to talk to in the mountains, she had not thought it would happen so soon - in her original expectation, it would take at least a few years or even a dozen years, at least she would be behind most of her senior brothers.
This was a bit sudden for her.
Maybe this is fate.
Then we continued walking and chatting.
Only then did they know that before the war, although the Seventh Senior Brother sent a letter back to Yishan, the First Senior Brother and others were already at the foot of the mountain when they received the letter.
They were concerned about the affairs of the area and often consulted the spirit mediums and made predictions through divination. They knew that a storm was coming, so they set out to go down the mountain.
……
Along with the other senior brothers, they first returned to Mount Yi to drop off the sacred wood before returning to the capital.
The Taoist priest from Yushan was the first to return to Beijing.
The people of the capital city thus learned about what happened in the northeast. For a moment, they were curious about the demon king who swallowed the city and the scene of the true gods descending to the mortal world, but they were also afraid of the terrible demon king.
Following them came the Southern Heavenly Master and the eccentrics from the Juxian Mansion.
The people in the capital city thus learned more details.
It is known that before the death of Emperor Qinghua, there was a multi-eyed general under the command of True Lord Qingmiao, who responded to the request of Master Nan and led his troops to the lower world to eliminate demons; it is known that the Demon King's clone is almost as tall as a cloud and can destroy a city with one whip; it is known that Master Fan, who originally stayed in the capital, went to Jiguang County at the cost of life and death in times of crisis, and asked the Lord of God to destroy the Demon King's clone and kill the Demon King's body, but Master Fan unfortunately died.
The people of the capital were all shocked, and even the goblins and ghosts hiding in the capital could not believe it.
Immediately, countless people mourned.
From this we also know that after Lin Zhenren, who went to protect Ziyun County, quelled the demon rebellion in Ziyun County and killed the clone of the Demon King, he came to Jiguang County to help. We know that there is a Yishan Mountain in Huizhou, and there is a Taoist temple in the mountain. The nine disciples in the temple are all immortals. When they heard that the Demon King was causing chaos, they went down the mountain together to help. The silver light in the sky covered the thunder and made the night as bright as day.
The Taoist priests of Zhenjian Palace also returned to the capital.
All officials and common people in the capital knew that the Taoist priests of Zhenjian Palace had gone to Boyu County in person, asked for the divine soldiers and generals to fight against the demon soldiers and generals and defeated them.
For a while, the Zhenjian Palace was filled with great incense, with smoke forming clouds. The door thresholds were trampled down, and the courtyard was packed with people, making it difficult to even turn around.
Some people rumored that Taoist Jiang was a living immortal.
Even the Star Observation Palace, which did not leave the capital, gained a better reputation after "inviting" two True Lords to eliminate the Demon King.
The extraordinary people in Ziyun County also returned to Beijing.
Many strange people vividly described the horror of the demon king and his demon soldiers and generals, the demeanor of the Taoist priest, the heavenly soldiers and giant gods who descended from the sky, the five-tailed white fox, and the details of the battle.
Only Master Lin has not returned to Beijing for a long time.
When they came back, the entire capital city, including teahouses and taverns, was already filled with rumors about the defeat of the Queen Mother of the East and the demise of the Changsheng Sect. The rumors involved many immortals and great masters, and people enthusiastically praised them. They were even distorted in their talk, and different people had different versions of the story.
Only a short while had passed.
I wonder what it will be like a hundred years from now.
……
Please give me a monthly ticket~
(End of this chapter)
