Chapter 135 Chen Shi Becomes a God
Chapter 135 Chen Shi Becomes a God
Chen Shi and others climbed up the shore wet and in a rather miserable state. Gou Zi shook his body vigorously, spilling water everywhere.
Chen Shi wiped the water off his face and looked at the ship sailing away.
The speed of the Ming treasure ship was astonishing. At this speed, it would not take long for it to reach the estuary of Dejiang, sail into the vast darkness, and enter the unknown sea.
Can this ship really carry the body of the true king across the boundless dark sea and find the ancestral land of Shenzhou?
Can the soldiers on the ship cope with the various dangers at sea?
Do they know the way home?
However, the Ming Dynasty had not had any contact with Xiniu Xinzhou for more than 6,000 years.
Daming, what exactly happened?
Does the Ming Dynasty still exist?
Or has it, like other dynasties recorded in history books, been reduced to ashes due to corruption?
Li Tianqing's mind was filled with all kinds of fantasies. When he was moved, he murmured, "How I wish I could leave everything behind, return to that ship, and follow those Ming soldiers back to my homeland to see the beautiful mountains and rivers of my homeland. When I land on that land, I will loudly tell the people there that I am a descendant of the Chinese people, and I come from Xiniu New Island! My ancestors crossed the ocean, worked hard, opened up new territories, and fought against evil spirits, and created a new home there!"
Chen Shi suddenly interrupted his reverie and said, "Tianqing, your fourth uncle and your third uncle are still on the boat."
The pride in Li Tianqing's heart was suddenly suppressed.
Not only Li Xiaozheng and Li Xiaoti are on the boat, but also masters from other twelve families are on the boat!
Why didn't they get off the boat?
"I see. They have great ambitions and do things that we dare not do!"
Li Tianqing was filled with respect and said seriously, "They must have noticed the unusual movement of the Ming treasure ship, so they made up their minds to follow the treasure ship back to China and their homeland. The dark sea is extremely dangerous, and they may die at any time in the sea monsters or storms. But they are willing to take risks! Xiao Shi, is this kind of aristocratic family child worthy of your admiration?"
Chen Shi didn't believe it and said, "No matter what others say, your fourth uncle Li Xiaozheng is not the kind of person who would sacrifice his life for justice. He looks serious on the surface, but when he is alone, his inner demons are full of demons, which are probably more evil than the evil spirits."
Li Tianqing smiled and said, "Xiao Shi, you are too prejudiced against the noble families. The Thirteen Noble Families have unfathomable backgrounds, and many of them are generous and tragic. The Third Uncle and the Fourth Uncle were infected by the belief that the True King would return home, and they also wanted to find the ancestral land and try to restore the connection between Xiniu New Continent and Huaxia Shenzhou. Even if they cannot succeed, their loyalty will shine through the ages."
Chen Shi smiled and said, "Like Li Jun's heroic and tragic song?"
Li Tianqing thought of Li Jun and others singing sad songs in the brothel, and he felt a little embarrassed, saying: "Third uncle and fourth uncle are not that kind of people."
Chen Shi laughed and said, "They were that kind of people before! They are not like that now, they are just disguising themselves better."
Li Tianqing couldn't refute.
When they returned to Huangpo Village, the clothes that Li Tianqing had washed earlier had been hung out to dry. Chen Shi took a set of clothes and threw him a set of his own clothes. The two of them changed into dry clothes, and Li Tianqing went to wash clothes again, even brushing Chen Shi's shoes.
"She is much more diligent than Ding Ding." Chen Shi praised.
He went to Yuzhu's house and said, "Yuzhu, tell your grandmother that we have guests coming today. I plan to fry some duck eggs with green peppers, but I'm still short of duck eggs. I want to borrow some from you."
"Aunt Wang, I have guests coming to my house. I want to stir-fry duck eggs and green peppers, but I'm short of green peppers."
"Uncle Tian, we have guests at home, and we are short of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. Why are you being so polite? We are home. I am leaving now, no need to see you off!"
"Uncle Li, we're having pork stewed with tofu today, but we're still short of pork... Uncle, what do you mean by holding the stick? Are you going to compete with your nephew in martial arts? Put it down, don't hurt yourself. We're all neighbors."
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Chen Shi borrowed money from here and there and soon had enough food for a table. Heiguo went to wash rice and cook, while Xiaozao helped to boil the pot.
After leaving the shrine, the red bellyband doll always felt uncomfortable and wanted to find a place that looked like a shrine to sit down.
The black pot arranged for it to sit down and boil the pot.
Seeing that it was trying to break off the few branches on its head to make a fire, Chen Shi quickly stopped it and signaled it to use the firewood chopped by the black pot.
"Xiao Zao's mind seems to be a little abnormal."
Chen Shi was very concerned about the red bellyband doll and was always worried that when the pot was boiling, he would be burned at the bottom of the pot.
Fortunately, Xiaozao still had some intelligence and did not burn himself.
Chen Shi felt relieved a little bit, thinking that other people had done the work and the scholar had nothing to do, so he took out the Western King's Jade Seal.
He looked at it again and again. The Western King's Jade Seal was no different from before. The words "Fengtian Baozhang Yongzhen Xihuang" on the seal became clearer. He wondered if it was an illusion.
"This seal clearly contains the geographical maps of the fifty states in the True King's Tomb. How come there is no difference?"
Chen Shi tried to activate the treasure seal with his own true Qi, but there was no movement. He then tried to inject Qi and blood into it, but there was still no movement.
He bit his finger and dripped blood on the seal, but the seal did not move at all and instead absorbed his blood.
The blood on the fingertips is also called heart blood. As the saying goes, the ten fingers are connected to the heart. Dropping the heart blood on the treasure can gain the treasure's recognition.
But Baozhang refused to listen, leaving the scholar helpless.
Chen Shi blew hard at the jade seal, intending to find a place to stamp a few times. He saw the red bellyband doll stuffing firewood at the bottom of the pot, and had nothing to do, so he smiled and said, "Xiao Zao, Xiao Zao! Come here!"
The doll in the red bellyband staggered over.
Li Tianqing, who was washing clothes, saw the firewood floating in front of the stove and knew that there was an invisible "person" between them. When he heard Chen Shi calling him, he made a guess and thought, "No wonder I always see the dog talking to himself in the air, and something is playing with the dog's ears. Wait a minute, the dog is talking to himself?"
He felt like something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what.
Xiaozao ran to Chen Shi and looked up at him.
"Stick your butt out." Chen Shi said with a smile.
Xiaozao turned around and stuck out her butt.
Chen Shi blew on the Jade Seal of the Western King again, stamped a seal on its snow-white butt, and said with a smile: "I'll stamp it for you, so you won't get lost!"
Xiaozao stood up and twisted his body to look at his butt. When he saw the gold seal on his butt, he was surprised and happy. He bowed to Chen Shi hurriedly, like a little adult.
Chen Shi didn't understand what he meant, so he asked, "Why are you bowing? Tianqing, Tianqing, I stamped Xiaozao's butt, and it keeps bowing to me. What is it doing?"
Li Tianqing asked: "What are jujubes?"
"The crazy godmother from Sanhe Village, a tiny little thing."
Chen Shi briefly explained the story of the human-headed jujube tree and said, "It is a very powerful divine being. I am worried that it might go out and do evil, so I took it in and refined its evil spirit."
Li Tianqing stopped what he was doing and thought for a moment. He suddenly remembered that he had seen a similar situation in the ancient books of the Li family. He smiled and said, "You stamped it, and it asked you for a title. In ancient times, the seal symbolized power. After it was stamped, it would be rewarded. It thinks you can give it a new territory, and it can become your godmother."
"A new territory?"
Chen Shi was surprised and laughed, "Is there such a thing?"
Who doesn’t have a dream of becoming an emperor? Chen Shi dreamed of becoming an emperor every day.
He hurriedly brought a chair, sat down with his big horse and golden sword, held the jade seal of the Western King in his hand, and said with a serious face: "Xiao Zao, today I will appoint you as, as..."
Xiaozao looked at him expectantly. Chen Shi thought hard. All the nearby villages had godmothers. There were some wild godmothers in Qianyang Mountain, as well as the Qianyang Mountain King. There were also substitute mountain masters such as the big snake Xuanshan and Grandma Zhuang, and each town also had its own godmother.
Suddenly, Chen Shi's eyes lit up, and he said, "I will appoint you as the Lord of Black Mountain, managing the area within a hundred miles of Black Mountain, exorcising evil spirits and protecting the people. You will take office immediately!"
Xiao Zao was inexplicably excited. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times to Chen Shi. Suddenly, he turned into a puff of green smoke and disappeared.
"Xiaozao!"
Chen Shi jumped up from his chair and shouted, "Where have you been? Come back soon! Zao? Zao? Damn it!"
Cold sweat rolled down his forehead. "I just said it casually. Could it be that this silly kid really rushed to Black Mountain to take up the post? Now that this kid has lost his true body, he will be beaten to death by the evil spirit and his godmother! Tianqing, Heiguo, save the lunch for me. I'm going to Black Mountain!"
"Woof!" Black Pot shouted.
Chen Shi rushed out of the house and just as he arrived outside the village, he saw a dozen strange-looking people scattered in various corners of Huangpo Village. Each of them had big ears more than ten feet high, opened like a palm-leaf fan, and were heading towards him!
"True God's Apostle, Heaven's Hearer!"
His heart was slightly shocked. "So many people! Are they all here to monitor me?"
His heart sank. If that was the case, then he had to be careful when talking to Tianqing and not say anything.
He ran straight to Dejiang River along the Yudai River, circulating his true energy and crossing the river.
And all around him, within a hundred feet radius, the ears of the heavenly listeners were flapping, like wings, carrying them into the air.
Their ears are very big and grow on their heads. Because their bodies are heavy, their ears hang down, like a small bean growing under two big ears.
They fly using their ears and are still extremely agile and light. They can even take out paper and pen in the air and continue writing and drawing.
"This haunted fellow! When can I get rid of suspicion?"
Chen Shi felt a little unhappy. "I wonder if these guys will record me pretending to be the emperor in the village and rewarding a homeless evil spirit as treason and rebellion?"
He became curious about the small notebook in the hands of the Tiantingzhe and wanted to see how these guys recorded themselves.
Montenegro.
Since Chen Shi eliminated Black Mountain Grandma, the Black Mountain Grandma Temple has been destroyed, and all of her descendants have been slaughtered. Even if there were some who survived by chance, they were of no use.
Originally, the Black Mountain Grandma Temple ruled over many villages and towns within a radius of a hundred miles. Every year, the godmothers in each village and town would offer sacrifices to the Black Mountain Grandma and burn incense. After the death of the Black Mountain Grandma, the godmothers in each village and town breathed a sigh of relief, and the spirits and evil spirits in the Black Mountain area were also much more relaxed and were no longer bullied.
On this day, a column of green smoke suddenly rose from the ruins of the Black Mountain Grandma Temple and turned into a huge jujube tree more than ten feet tall that covered half of the mountain.
People were amazed. Looking from afar, they saw many large red dates on the tree, about hundreds of them, as big as washbasins, and very bright red.
When they got closer, they saw that what were hanging on the tree were human heads. The heads were covered in blood, so they were bright red, and the faces were painted with all kinds of colors. It was extremely scary!
"There's something evil going on!"
Everyone screamed and fled in all directions.
Soon, the godmothers from every village, stronghold and town within a hundred miles of Heishan, as well as the wandering spirits, received the message from the incense and rushed to Heishan, surrounding the human head jujube tree.
Xiaozao sat in a shrine made of bricks and stones, surrounded by men, women, old and young, as well as various strange-looking godmothers and spirits, all of whom looked unfriendly and stared at this little guy.
"You are the one who sent the message with incense, asking us to come and worship you, the new Lord of Black Mountain?"
Guangxia Village's godmother was hot-tempered. She stepped forward and shouted, "What ability do you have? You say you are a black mountain tiger? You are a foreign kid who wants to be a tiger. Can you beat us?"
Xiaozao stood up from the shrine, and the spirits were startled and took a step back.
When a fierce dragon crosses the river, it must have its strengths. They have been enslaved by the Black Mountain Grandma for a long time, and have long been strong on the outside but weak on the inside, and dare not cause trouble.
Xiao Zao turned around, stuck out her butt, showed the golden seal on her butt, and said proudly: "Look at this!"
The spirits came forward, and when they saw the contents of the golden seal, they all knelt down and kowtowed, saying, "We pay our respects to the Lord of Black Mountain!"
Xiaozao turned around, sat on the shrine, and said with a smile: "Get up."
All the godmothers and spirits stood up and stepped forward, offering their own wisp of incense, which floated towards Xiaozao and was absorbed by Xiaozao to show their loyalty.
Chen Shi came to Montenegro, stood in the distance and watched this scene with a gratified smile.
He had the mentality of an old father, thinking that Xiaozao had grown up and could stand on his own, so he did not go nearer and turned back home.
And in the mountains, forests, farmlands, and river surfaces around him, the heavenly listeners flapped their ears, flew up one after another, and followed Chen Shi.
"Does the Jade Seal of the Western King really have the power to confer deity?"
Chen Shi was rushing home while playing with the Jade Seal of the King of the West. When he arrived at Huangpo Village, he felt a little moved. He was not in a hurry to go home for dinner, but went to the loess hill.
He told Zhu Xiucai about the incident with the Western King's Jade Seal. Zhu Xiucai, who was hanging on the tree, was silent for a long time after hearing this, and then asked, "Have you seen the real king?"
Chen Shi nodded slightly.
Zhu Xiucai continued, "The True King took the jade seal from you, and then the jade seal floated up, and the map of the mountains and rivers of the fifty provinces was placed in the jade seal. You jumped up again and grabbed the jade seal. Did the True King not take the jade seal away?"
Chen Shi nodded again.
Zhu Xiucai choked up and cried, saying, "This should have been what the unworthy descendant of Xiao Wangsun deserved. Please treat it well."
The more he cried, the sadder he became, until he finally burst into tears, unable to stop his emotions.
Chen Shi was at a loss as to what to do. He didn't know why his enlightenment teacher had lost control of his emotions, nor did he know how to comfort him.
Around the loess hill, a group of heavenly listeners were writing furiously and drawing quickly on paper. One of them sorted out the information obtained by everyone, picked up the pen and wrote the words "Chen Shi obtained the Jade Seal of the King of the West and was deified", folded it into a paper crane, and blew it gently.
The paper crane flapped its wings and flew up, gradually flying into the sky, turning into a pure white crane, soaring up at an increasingly faster speed, heading straight for the distant provincial capital of Xinxiang.
At this moment, a scarlet tongue flew out, wrapped around the white crane, and retracted with a whoosh.
A tall and handsome young man walked over, chewing his food with his mouth moving up and down, and a few feathers hanging from the corners of his mouth.
"Heaven Listener?"
His eyes fell on those listeners and he laughed softly, "You reminded me of the taste I once had. Unknowingly, ten years have passed. It's such a nostalgic taste."
——I am hurrying to finish the manuscript. My sister-in-law’s funeral will be held this afternoon and she will be buried tomorrow. I may not be able to update tomorrow!
(End of this chapter)