"Ask me to bring a message to Bao Zheng?"
Zhihua was originally in the yard. He couldn't put it down and looked through the underworld medicinal materials hidden in Su Yan's private treasury.
Unexpectedly, Su Hanshan and Ouyang Chun went out for a while, and when they came back, they suddenly asked him to find Bao Zheng.
He hesitated and said, "I don't really like dealing with the government. Neither Beixia nor Brother Su seems to pay much attention to the government. Why do you suddenly mention this?"< br>
Su Hanshan pinched his knuckles and said: "There are too many idle people here, and I can't take care of them for the time being. I'll ask some helpers to take care of them too."
While talking, Su Hanshan threw a baggage he had brought back to Zhihua.
That was at Lu Kun's residence. Some of the incense-burning instruments found were used to contact the Prince of Xiangyang, and traces can be found.
In addition, there are several treasures that are used to assist in daily practice. They are all produced in the Xiao Penglai Bixia Palace in the East China Sea. They are extremely valuable and can only be refined by a person of high status personally coming to request for customization.
Zhihua checked it over, and Ouyang Chun next to him added a few words about what happened, and then took out the ball of ten-day dazzling sacred sand to show it.
“Hey, this matter is indeed no small matter.”
Zhihua's eyelids twitched, "I thought I just wanted to guard against Kunlun, but I didn't expect that guy from Donghai to be more and more interested in interfering in the world."
"However, I'm talking lightly about such a big thing. If either of you can come forward, given your cultivation status, that would be more..."
Su Hanshan sat next to him, He leaned back on the chair to rest and said bluntly: "I want to practice, look at Taihu Lake, and wait for my friends. I have too many things to do and don't have time to run errands."
"Oh, I also need to recuperate."
Ouyang Chun covered his chest, and his face seemed to pale in an instant. He coughed twice weakly and forced a smile to Zhihua.
"Besides, brother, don't be too modest and belittle yourself."
"There may not be many people in the world who can recognize the sun-changing footwork, but I happen to have heard of some. In the past few hundred years, There should be only two people who have mastered this method.”
“One is the old master of Wudang, known as the old sword demon who steals the sky and changes the sun, and the other is the contemporary martial artist. black fox The mysterious figure is you, my dear brother.”
“I heard that you have dealt with Mr. Bao Zheng of Kaifeng Mansion several times. The existing friendship is there, wouldn’t it be a pity not to use it. , you can make this trip more smoothly and win people's trust."
"If it's Brother Su and I who have sensitive identities in the past, it might be embarrassing. Things.”
There was a look of helplessness on Zhihua's face: "Well, then I'll make this trip."
Bao Zheng has been able to solve cases like a god since he served as the prefect of Duanzhou decades ago. With a good reputation, he also eliminated redundant officials and canceled the exorbitant taxes imposed by his predecessor, which won the hearts of the people.
Later he became the prefect of Kaifeng and a bachelor. He often took the title of Imperial Envoy and visited various places to punish officials and dignitaries who were corrupt, perverted the law, and looked down upon human life. Everywhere he went, the people rushed to tell each other. It's a wonder.
So in recent years, whenever Bao Zheng travels, news spreads hundreds of times faster than their traveling team.
Zhihua never inquired deliberately and knew Bao Zheng's recent itinerary.
And there are other rumors that Bao Zheng encountered more troubles on the road this time than before.
Not only because of officials breaking the law, people breaking the law, banditry, ghosts complaining, but also because of... demons.
It is already evening on this day.
On the Yangtze River, the waves are rolling.
The sky is reflected in gold and red by the setting sun.
Bao Zheng placed a complete set of tables and chairs on the deck of the fleet. He sat at the table and took advantage of the river breeze and sunset to read the files and books.
Across the table is a scribe wearing a square scarf, with gray temples and a clear face. He has made a small stove and is cooking porridge. He opens the lid from time to time and stirs carefully. The aroma is fragrant and the juice is thick.
The light of the setting sun shines on the chopsticks, and you can see that the soup is as thick as honey, which whets your appetite.
"Almost."
The scribe smiled and shouted into the cabin, "Guard Zhan, Mr. Gongsun, do you two want hot or cold food?"< br>
Inside the cabin, two people were playing chess.
A man wearing a blue robe, with a majestic appearance and extraordinary martial prowess, was Zhan Zhao, who was known as the "Southern Xia" in the world. Because he admired Bao Zheng, he became a guard beside him.
The other man, with his hair tied up in a wooden hairpin, eyes as bright as lacquer, and three long beards, is elegant and calm, holding a feather fan, but only wearing a cloth robe. He is Gongsun Ce, Bao Zheng's staff.
Zhan Zhao turned to look at the deck and said with a smile: "Where did Mr. Fan start talking about this? Don't you think that sweet porridge with red beans, lotus seeds, purple rice, peanuts, and various ingredients should be served while it's hot? , can you taste the fragrance?”
“That’s wrong”
Mr. Fan shook his head, "If it's gruel, it's just a bowl of water and a few grains of rice. It's true that it has some aroma when eaten while it's hot. But for such a good porridge, the more ingredients used and the thicker it is, the less restricted it is. Time to eat it.”
"You can eat it hot, you can eat it cold. Even if you eat it on ice, it will have a different taste."
The old man put down his chopsticks and stroked his beard, feeling quite contented, "When I was young, I like to freeze the porridge into ice cubes before eating it. It was hard to study at that time. After a bowl of porridge was frozen into ice, I cut it into many pieces and took a bite from time to time. I felt refreshed and thought I was the best."
Gongsun Ce said: "I heard that someone did it. I wrote an article specifically for Fan Laojun’s deeds. The article, Cutting Porridge and Breaking the Porridge, was talked about among many scholars, and was used to promote the countryside, so that everyone should be willing to endure hardships and endure more hardships. Only those who endure more hardships are capable people. ”
< br>“Really?”
Fan Zhongyan shook his head slightly and said, "When I was young, I studied in order not to endure hardship. If I blindly preach to make people endure more hardships and make the villagers willing to endure hardships all their lives, I'm afraid there are some evil intentions."
"The right way to govern the world lies in Let many people who endure hardships be able to eat The sweet one is the best."
He sighed and looked at his porridge jar, "I still don't have enough sugar in this porridge!"
Fan Zhongyan grabbed a lot of sugar. , and just as he was about to throw it into the porridge jar, he suddenly felt the breeze move beside him, and his blue robe floated by.
Zhan Zhao suddenly arrived at the bow of the ship, holding a long sword and looking serious.
Fan Zhongyan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that something was wrong on the river.
I saw that more than ten miles ahead, the river flowing down the river suddenly rolled in the opposite direction, creating waves that looked like broken jade and scattered snow.
One wave is higher than the other, and the sound of the waves is roaring, mixed with the strange wind, blowing towards you.
The big sail on the ship was blown backwards, and the whole ship suddenly slowed down.
Fan Zhongyan looked carefully and found many strange shadows rising from the waves.
Some have fish heads and human bodies, some have bodies with crab claws, some are wearing turtle shells, and some look like humans. They open their mouths and spit out long snakes.
Some of them looked exactly like humans, but they were two to three feet tall, wore heavy iron armor, and held hammers larger than ordinary people. When they roared, they sounded like thousands of hippopotamuses. They stepped on the river, waved flags and shouted, slapped their swords on their shields, and strong men beat drums to cheer. There were clusters in the east and clusters in the west, and monster clouds and waves were almost all over the entire river.
At a glance, there are at least tens of thousands of these monsters.
“It’s a monster again.”
Fan Zhongyan sighed with emotion, "Empress Dowager Xiao's methods are really extraordinary."
Not long ago, Bao Zheng was ordered to go to Liao as an envoy. He was originally responsible for discussing the extension of the contract between the two countries.
Unexpectedly, Empress Dowager Xiao of the Liao Kingdom deliberately went around in circles and asked him to help investigate major unsolved cases in various states of the Liao Kingdom. With the help of Bao Zheng, many cancers among the nobles of the Liao Kingdom were eradicated.
In this way, Empress Dowager Xiao's own power was more consolidated, her majesty was profound, and she could carry out administrative orders at will. For the remaining nobles of the Liao Kingdom, she still retained a hint of humaneness.
Bao Zheng was thinking of the people of the Liao Kingdom, 90% of whom were Han Chinese. They lived in poverty. Some of them could only stay warm in dung pits in winter. Every winter, many farmers were reduced to beggars. In fact, Unable to bear it, he took action.
After such a cooperation, the Song Dynasty only gained the continuation of the peace treaty between the two countries, and the Liao Kingdom had already taken a lot more advantage.
But Empress Dowager Xiao was still not satisfied and wanted to eradicate Bao Zheng, but was unable to do so. Finally, she decided to find other ways to cause more trouble for him, so she sent people to spread rumors.
Rumors say that the Wenquxing Pure Land of the Song Dynasty was passed down from Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, through Chai Rong, Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Pu, the prime minister of the early Song Dynasty, Kou Zhun, the former prime minister, and Fan Zhongyan, the former governor of Kaifeng. Wait, the foundation is profound.
The most rare thing is to meet this generation of Kaifeng governor Bao Zheng, who is so talented that he is like Wenquxingjun who came into the world and was born specifically for the pure land of Wenquxing.
His pure land has been integrated with his body, and all the pure land details have been discovered. The essence and blood contain incomparable talents and talents. If the demon clan obtains some of them, his spiritual wisdom will greatly increase and he can repair the demon body and transform. defects at the time.
Empress Dowager Xiao herself is a demon fairy. After taking over the Liao Kingdom, her cultivation has become increasingly advanced. Among the demon clans in thousands of mountains on the land, she is respected as the "Red Bearded Dragon Mother". Her prestige is self-evident.
She personally spread the rumors and fabricated many news to support them, which naturally attracted thousands of monsters in the world, ready to take action.
In this world, there were people who first practiced the way of cultivation, and then spiritual thoughts were deposited in the underworld. Later, spiritual thoughts were transmitted from the underworld to the human world, nourishing the beasts and vegetation, and giving birth to the demon clan.
So the demon clan’s cultivation method is based on the human clan, but the demon body is very different from the human body, so the first thing in cultivation is to learn the form.
More than ninety-nine percent of monsters, after successfully transforming, will still have some differences in their bodies from the human body, which usually does not affect them. However, the more advanced the practice, the more awkward they will be, and defects will gradually form. It affects the progress of spiritual practice and even threatens to shorten one's life.
Many great demons who have cultivated to the realm of demon immortals are unable to completely eliminate this shortcoming.
If Bao Zheng’s essence and blood really had such a magical effect, how could the fairies from all over the world not be moved by it?
At first, Bao Zheng wanted to explain, but the monsters refused to believe him. They only thought that he was deliberately deceiving. Some were of low strength and did not dare to be violent. They were just begging. Some were self-reliant on being fierce. He was used to eating people, and he wanted to make a surprise attack to steal blood, so he died under Zhan Zhao's sword.
On the way back from Liao Kingdom, Zhan Zhao's giant sword drank the blood of countless famous monsters. It was not until everyone returned to Kaifeng that they finally stopped for a while.
As a result, this time Bao Zheng went on tour, the monsters everywhere started to behave strangely again.
"I looked at the two big flags in the monster formation. It seems that the leaders are Lei Yungong and Zheng Zhizhou."
Gongsun Ce also came to the bow of the boat and looked at the monster formation on the water. "That Lei Yungong Gong was already famous in the previous dynasty. I heard that he was a water ape who became a spirit, which is particularly good. He was a lustful man who harmed countless women. Later, he was severely wounded by an authentic Emei swordsman, who cut off his evil roots and fled into the sea. He has not been seen again for hundreds of years. "
"Zheng Zhizhou, It is a goat that has become a spirit, arty, and it was once He passed the imperial examination and became the first scholar in the Song Dynasty. He was called out at the Donghua Gate and served as an official. However, Jin Yu was ruined and became a disaster. He also had a bad temper with Lei Yungong. After Lei Yungong's incident, he took the initiative to disappear. "
"Now it seems that these two evil obstacles escaped into the sea They seem to have been together all year round after they passed away. This military formation was obviously created by the two of them training together."
Fan Zhongyan also saw the clues and nodded: "Yes, there are members of my Song Dynasty military formation in it. The shadow must have been passed down by Zheng Zhizhou.”
"Hahahaha!!"
A burst of wild laughter came from the river, and a big wave surged, two water columns erupted, and condensed into two thrones ten feet above the river.
There is an ape who is more than ten feet tall, wearing imperial clothes, sitting on the throne on the east side, and another scholar in a white robe with a folding fan and flowers on his temples sits on the throne on the west side.
"Even if you have some knowledge, a hundred years have passed and you still know our reputation!"
The ape has a sharp voice and laughs like a broken gong, without any shame. , shouted, "The dog thief from Emei chopped off the treasure pestle under my crotch. For so many years, I have been too uncomfortable in the sea and I have never been able to enjoy it to the fullest."
"Finally, I heard that the essence and blood of Kaifeng Fuyin, Wenquxingjun, who was in trouble, has an aphrodisiac effect and can cure my old injuries."
After Lei Yungong said this, he patted the armrest of the throne hard, "Informed , send that Kaifeng governor out quickly, we brothers are very kind and will only eat him, otherwise more than a dozen of your ships will sink, and 1,800 people will be buried in the belly of the fish."
Then. Zheng Zhizhou Shaking out the folding fan, covering the lower half of his face, he said softly: "Brother Lei, don't underestimate them."
"Since Bao Zheng's blood essence and blood have miraculous effects, his own cultivation must be Not bad, around There is another Lu Xingxian guard. If he is attacked by them, he might actually escape and injure our son."
Lei Yungong still laughed, but secretly used a secret method to transmit his voice. .
"Don't worry, dear brother, I just pretended to be arrogant and careless. I was actually concentrating on it and didn't relax at all." Even the most powerful Lu Xingxian who has survived the first disaster can still compete."
"After all, the people on the boat are just two juniors, especially the ones who are cultivating Lu Xingxian. How much skill can you have if you are only in your twenties and don’t have a good teacher?”
“It’s a good thing they don’t have the idea of surprise. If they really want to take advantage of my carelessness, they will die, you and me. Kill him immediately with a flip of your palm, saving more effort!"
After hearing this, the goat spirit nodded secretly under the folding fan, and couldn't help but scan his own formation again, feeling very proud.
His formation was based on Zhao Kuangyin's Yanming Formation back then, and he added demonic changes. It took him a hundred years to plant his own essence and blood into the soldiers.
The two demon immortal masters united with this formation, and the energy they used was overwhelming, several times more powerful than the power of a single demon immortal.
When the moves spread out, they become ten times more complicated, making them seamless and impeccable.
“It’s the Yanming Formation!”
On the bow of the boat, Gongsun Ce made two gestures with his feather fan, first to the west. The outline of the feather fan was similar to the military formation to the west. Then go east again and overlap again.
The feather fan flapped twice, like the wings of a wild goose. Then, the entire fan collapsed, and pieces of feathers interspersed and changed in the air.
Gongsun Ce stroked his beard and watched, raising his hand to flick away a feather from time to time, changing his formation.
In just a few breaths, he waved his sleeves and gathered all the feathers into one, turning it back into a fan. He turned to look at Zhan Zhao and asked with a smile, "Guard Zhan, What can I do if the wild geese block the river? "
Zhan Zhaogang had seen all the changes in the feathers, leaving only four words, letting the scabbard fly in the air, and the man drew his sword and walked away.
“Cut his throat first!”
(End of this chapter)