Chapter 42: Clear Dreams Overwhelm the Star River

Chapter 42: Clear Dreams Overwhelm the Star River

Chapter 42: Clear Dreams Overwhelm the Star River

Although Xiao Wangsun was not there, the four horses and the driver of the carriage were not petrified and still obeyed orders.

"Let's go to Leiji Mountain!" Chen Shi got in the car and said excitedly.

The Thunder Struck Mountain he mentioned was the mountain that was almost razed to the ground by the Red Barbarian cannon. The driver immediately shouted, and the horses set off at once, roaring away.

Not long after, they arrived at the foot of Leiji Mountain. Chen Shi searched around and found a complete Red Cannon in a ravine. The soldiers of the Shenji Camp who had fired the cannon were dead, and their bodies were scattered all over the ground.

The moon has not yet risen and the body is still there.

Chen Shi immediately jumped out of the car, and after a while, he picked up the two or three thousand jin cannon and put it into the car.

The driver looked at him in confusion but didn't ask any questions.

Chen Shi did not move the artillery cart, which was already damaged. He only moved the baskets of black iron bullets the size of a human head onto the cart and said excitedly, "Let's go! Let's go back to Huangpo Village to ascend the throne!"

The driver drove the carriage to Huangpo Village. Chen Shi was in high spirits. He jumped off the carriage and walked around the village carrying the red cannon, looking very happy.

He carried the huge object weighing two or three thousand pounds on his shoulders and could walk around the village three or four times without feeling tired.

None of the villagers dared to show up, and every household locked its doors. Not even a ghost could be seen, let alone the children kneeling to welcome King Chen and support him to ascend the throne.

Chen Shi soon lost interest and became unhappy. He placed the red cannon at Old Chen's house, stood it up against the wall, and piled the black iron bullets in the doghouse.

Black Pot lay on the ground, watching his master busying around. After a while, the dog climbed onto the black iron pellets to sleep. The pellets were cold and very comfortable to sleep on.

After Chen Shi finished his work, he suddenly had an idea and picked up the red cannon, intending to fire two shots to cheer up the newly enthroned King Chen. But thinking that it was the property of the Shenjiying after all, if it attracted the people of the Shenjiying, King Chen would probably be brought to justice, so he had to give up.

Chen Shi glanced at the black pot lying on the bullet, quietly slipped into his room, took out a wire, crawled under the bed, poked in the mouse hole, and hooked out a small cloth bag.

He opened the cloth bag, which contained a few taels of silver.

He heaved a sigh of relief, this small change was his private savings, which he had saved with great difficulty. It had not been found by his grandfather, nor had it been used to frame him.

"I am strong enough now. As long as my true energy does not dissipate, the shrine can last for a long time. If I save some more money, I can register for the private school in town, take part in this year's county exam, and pass the exam to become a scholar."

Chen Shi counted the few coins and thought, "When I become a scholar, there will be a divine gift ceremony, and the true god will descend and give me a divine fetus. If I can get away with it, maybe the true god will give me a new divine fetus, and then I will not be a useless person. In the future, I will pass the imperial examination and live a good life with my grandfather to oppress the villagers."

Just as he thought of this, he suddenly saw a dog's head appear in the shadow cast by the sunlight on the ground. He shuddered and looked up quickly.

He saw a big black dog with its two front paws resting on the windowsill, its head sticking out of the window, looking at him quietly.

"My money was found!"

Chen Shi was so angry that he rushed over and wrestled with the black dog, shouting, "Black Pot, you discovered my secret, I will kill the dog today to silence him!"

Hei Guo fought with him for his life, barking and refusing to give in.

After fighting for a while, the man and the dog reached a compromise: Hei Guo would not tell the secret, and Chen Shi would not kill the dog to silence it, but he would go to the town to buy it a pound or two of exotic animal meat. At the same time, as compensation, Hei Guo had to contribute a little black dog blood to Chen Shi to draw the talisman.

Both the man and the dog were very satisfied with the result.

Chen Shi took the dog and went out again in the carriage. It must be said that Xiao Wangsun's carriage was very fast, and soon they arrived at Qiaowan Town, more than 20 miles away.

The so-called Qiaowan refers to the bend of Dejiang River, where a five-arch bridge was built across the river. Qiaowan Town is located here and got its name from the place.

Chen Shi bought two kilograms of exotic animal meat for Hei Guo, and also bought some kites, tangrams, Luban locks, diabolos, and spinning tops. Chen Shi himself didn't have any of these toys, and he wanted to play with them, but he forced himself to hold back.

He put the toys into the book box, rode on Xiao Wangsun's carriage, and soon arrived at Huangyang Village.

The villagers of Huangyang Village were a little afraid when they saw him.

Country people can distinguish between gratitude and resentment. Chen Shi had done a favor to Huangyang Village. He first saved the children and then paid for the burial of the dead, avenging the three children. He also taught his godmother a lesson so that she would no longer oppress them. After Sanwang died, Chen Shi avenged Sanwang and killed his enemy.

Everyone in the village remembers this kindness.

But the villagers are still worried. Six sons of the Zhao family died in Huangyang Village. If the Zhao family retaliates, how can they, ordinary people, resist?
Chen Shi called the elders of Huangyang Village and said, "Since six of the Zhao family members in the provincial capital have died this time, they may not let it go. If someone from the Zhao family comes to investigate the village, just report my name. If they come to trouble me and I beat them to death, they will naturally not trouble you."

The elder of the clan was old, an old man in his seventies, and his hearing was a little hard. He didn't hear clearly, and he said to himself: "Although we don't have powerful people in Huangyang Village, we will definitely not betray our benefactor! The last time it was Guanghao's wife who betrayed our benefactor, she couldn't stand the torture and confessed after being beaten. She betrayed our people in the village. We have tied her up. If the benefactor gives the order, we will send this woman on her way!"

Chen Shi was shocked. No wonder he saw a woman tied to a tree when he arrived. He thought the villagers were playing some interesting tricks, but he didn't expect that they were tying her up and waiting for him to deal with her.

Chen Shi picked up a branch from the ground, walked up to the woman, hit her twice, threw the branch aside, and said with a smile: "You are ungrateful and you deserve to be beaten. Now I have punished you. Guanghao's wife, I will let bygones be bygones. Don't do it again in the future."

The woman bowed her head and thanked him.

Chen Shi repeated what he had just said. The elder finally heard it clearly and breathed a sigh of relief, but he was also a little worried. He asked, "Wouldn't that bring trouble to our benefactor?"

Chen Shi smiled and said, "This matter has nothing to do with your Huangyang Village. It's my business. I will solve my own problem! If someone from the Zhao family comes, I will kill one if one comes, and I will kill a pair if two come. If more people die, the Zhao family will naturally be willing to let go of their grudges."

He gave some instructions and drove straight into the mountains.

The driver carried him and the black pot without any complaints.

On the way, Chen Shi burned incense to the spirits in the mountains such as Grandma Zhuang, the big snake Xuanshan, and the stream girl, and gave all kinds of fun toys he bought to the fruits in the forest to thank them for rescuing Xiao Wangsun.

These ginseng spirits were very happy and had a lot of fun playing with their toys.

Chen Shi brought the black pot into the Tiger Temple. He had not been there for many days, and the temple had lost its sunlight and became gloomy and deserted.

Even the extraordinary power is not as active as before.

Chen Shi put down the bookcase, inserted three incense sticks into the incense burner in the temple, and then activated the Three Lights Righteousness Technique, stepped on the Big Dipper, and walked slowly in the hall.

Unconsciously, the extraordinary power in the temple became active again and gradually became brighter, but what shone down from the roof was not sunlight, but hazy moonlight.

Hei Guo lay on the ground and looked up at the sky inside the temple. He saw a crescent moon hanging in the sky and twinkling stars, shining like the Milky Way.

That crescent moon is not the crescent moon that we see on Earth at night.

The crescent of the local moon is the vertical eye of the true God. The vertical eye of the true God has two eyelids, and both eyelids are closed at the same time, so the crescent is willow-leaf-shaped.

The crescent moon in the temple is like a girl's curved eyebrows, or the eyes of a girl when she smiles, charming and quiet. This scene made the dog stunned.

Behind Chen Shi's head, a shrine appeared, and divine light lingered for a long time.

His shrine became more and more stable. Although he did not have the divine fetus, at this moment, true energy was flowing in his body, along with the constantly bursting light of the Big Dipper, melting into his body.

The Seven Refinements of the Big Dipper were rapidly tempering his body, allowing him to continuously improve towards the perfection of the five internal organs and the refining of the bones and marrow!

At this rate, he would be able to refine the five internal organs and refine the bones and marrow in a few days at most!
By then, it will be the body of the holy fetus!

After cultivating the body of a holy fetus, his body will be comparable to that of a divine fetus!

Chen Shi was tired from practicing, so he stopped and simply lay down in the temple, with his hands behind his head, staring at the exotic starry sky in the temple, lost in thought.

"After getting drunk, I didn't know the sky was over the water, and the boat was full of sweet dreams that pressed down the stars. Where is that other world? When can I go there and see it in person?" He wondered in his mind.

Outside Jinghu Villa, a tall and thin ghost slowly walked over with a lantern in his hand. The light from the lantern cast a round spot on the ground, and a red figure walked in the spot.

Jin Hongying of the Shenjiying finally found the whereabouts of Xiao Wangsun.

"I never thought there would be such a quiet villa in this deep mountain. Xiao Wangsun, you hid here and thought I couldn't find you?"

Jin Hongying smiled and said, "You killed the governor's eunuch with one sword, you are worthy of being a senior of the Shenji Camp. But this sword also exposed your weakness."

There were only coffins in the villa, some big and some small, standing under ancient trees. It was extremely quiet and no one spoke to her.

Jin Hongying was not afraid at all. She stepped over the threshold and landed in the villa. Suddenly, her expression changed slightly and she looked at the coffins in the villa vigilantly.

There are not many coffins in this villa, just as many as trees.

Except for Chen Shi's thin-skinned coffin, the others can be called outer coffins, which are extremely heavy and luxurious.

As soon as she stepped into the villa, she felt a powerful pressure coming from the coffins!

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

Jin Hongying snorted coldly and took another step forward.

With the second step taken, the pressure increases sharply!

The coffins came into her sight, becoming larger and larger, and the whole world twisted and spun in her vision!
Jin Hongying's face gradually turned red and she took another step forward.

As she took this step, her delicate body trembled, and the tall and thin ghost holding a lantern behind her suddenly exploded with a pop, turned into green smoke and dissipated, dying a violent death!

Jin Hongying's nostrils were warm, and two streams of blood flowed down her nostrils, fell on her snow-white chest, and flowed down from the middle.

"Wow--"

She finally couldn't bear it anymore and spat out a mouthful of blood. She didn't dare to stay any longer and turned around and left.

She had just left the village when suddenly her red dress fluttered and she turned into a red skirt and flew away.

After a while, there was another sound of clothes tearing through the air outside. The red dress flew back again. Jin Hongying's laughter came from outside the manor: "Xiao Wangsun, I suddenly remembered that since living people cannot enter the manor, what if the person who came in is not a living person?"

Under the moonlight, two snow-white little paper figures were seen walking towards here from outside the village.

It was a paper man cut out of paper, with limbs and a head, only as tall as a palm, and it walked with its hands and feet together, looking clumsy.

They climbed over the threshold and entered the villa, muttering to themselves as they walked, speaking words that no one could understand.

Two little paper men took out two paper swords from behind their backs and muttered something, but no one knew what they were saying.

Suddenly, the two little paper figures quickened their pace and rushed towards Xiao Wangsun's coffin. They suddenly jumped up and stabbed the coffin with the paper swords in their hands.

The small sword that was rotating around the coffin immediately flew out and collided with one of the paper swords, causing a series of flames to burst out!

The power transmitted from the paper sword was incredibly powerful, causing the small sword to retreat repeatedly.

This sword is one of the two swords of Xiao Wangsun, named Shrike.

The Shrike Sword protected the coffin and tried to block the paper sword of another paper man. Just as it took it, it saw the first paper man lightly fall to the ground, then bounce up at an extremely fast speed, swinging the sword to attack.

The two little paper figures moved left and right, forward and backward, and their paper swords flew around, making Shrike Sword unable to cope with the situation.

Suddenly, the speed of the Shrike Sword increased greatly, and one of the paper figures had a sword in his heart, and was pierced by the Shrike Sword!

Another paper man jumped up, swung the Shrike Sword away with a clang, and saved the paper man.

The Shrike Sword stabbed out repeatedly, as if an invisible sword technique was used by the naked eye. Everyone attacked with swords, and the two paper figures suddenly felt the pressure. The paper figure that was stabbed by the sword was unable to resist and was stabbed again. It was cut in half by the Shrike Sword and fell to the ground.

When Shrike Sword was about to attack another paper figure, he saw that paper figure kneeling on the ground, crying in front of the dead body of its companion.

The little paper man, with only the upper body left, stretched out a trembling hand, grabbed its hand, and tilted his head as if he wanted to say something, but his head dropped and he died.

The paper figure pretended to cry loudly and beat its chest, then turned its head and stared at the Shrike Sword with ferocious eyes.

The paper man leaped up and rushed forward at an even faster speed, but the Shrike Sword was even faster, and the sword never left the paper man's chest.

The paper man blocked a few sword strikes, but could no longer withstand the sword blows. He was stabbed three times in the chest and fell to the ground.

The paper man knew that his life was in danger, so he crawled on the ground towards his companion, and stretched out his hand with difficulty, trying to grab his companion's hand.

The Shrike Sword flew up and split it in half. The paper man raised his head and tried to stretch out his right hand, but it fell down dejectedly and finally died.

Shrike Jian breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly he saw a dozen paper people climbing over the threshold of the villa. These paper people were just like the previous paper people, walking with the same hands and feet, clumsy and cute.

Some paper figures pulled up paper muskets and cannons from behind the doorstep, and some paper figures were shouting and yelling at the side, as if they were giving orders, as if they were planning to attack the villa.

(End of this chapter)