Zhu Puyi was drinking there alone and telling his own story.
He said that his family is actually a family of practitioners, and everyone has the opportunity to practice, but he couldn't sit still because no one urged him or beat him with a stick until he couldn't stand up.
When they were young, the brothers and sisters all played together. When they grew up together, they began to be different. When others entered samadhi and were able to condense their magic power, they spent less time playing together, and everyone no longer studied together.
They all wanted to learn Taoism and Dharma knowledge, and I began to learn the way of business and how to manage the people, and in the future I would assist the monks in the clan to manage the place.
"Did you know? Originally this place was supposed to be where a cousin from our clan came here to serve as the county magistrate."
"The chief official of one party must be a practitioner. It is a consensus in the court. Although there is no need for assessment, he needs to be recommended by the chief officials from various places. Only in this way can he enter the Jingque Dao Palace."
"Only after entering the Taoist Palace in Beijing for three years, they will be assigned to serve as officials in various places. Some people like to be officials in the court because they can always be in contact with the preaching of some big figures, so they will try to stay there, and some people will I like less restrictions, so I like to go to other places to be the chief official."
"To come here as the county magistrate in Nanling Mansion, I should have chosen a Taoist disciple from the Jingque Taoist Palace to come here."
"Our Zhu family was selected, but our Zhu family's Daozi was unwilling to come, so he was injured in a fight with others, but he was afraid that the higher-ups would say that he didn't mean to come, and he didn't want to lose this credit, so he asked I wrote an application and came here on our cousin’s behalf.”
Zhao Fuyun did not answer or ask further questions. Why could he replace the Taoist master of the Zhu family when he clearly had no cultivation? There is no need to ask. If it has nothing to do with the above, he was called here by name, but he could not directly If you want to change it, then there are the following methods.
It must be a lie to say that Zhu Puyi also has cultivation and is willing to come here in place of the injured person.
Zhu Puyi continued: "After I came here, I applied for transfer several times, but the government office didn't agree. I know it's because my family doesn't want me to go back, and they want me to die here."
When Zhu Puyi said this, he burst into tears.
"My mother and my children are all at home. If they want a stable life, I must be here."
The sky entered the night amid Zhu Puyi's chatter. He finally got drunk and staggered back home. Zhao Fuyun was lying there, as if he had heard everything, but also as if nothing had happened. Hear and just fall asleep.
He remembered someone saying that when you open a history book, the word 'cannibalism' is written between the lines.
No one can deny that human beings form associations to resist aliens, but similarly, large countries eat small countries, all wanting to make the people in their own country happy, and within a country, associations and classes are formed to eat different classes, and then As small as a family, where everyone is a relative, there will also be oppression.
And within a family, even parents will feel distant from their biological children.
When it comes to a person, if I have to take away one thing from you, I will let you go, so many people will choose hair. If the hair is not good, they will use their fingers. No one will choose to have a head, a body, and everything. There are far and near.
All this is not unfamiliar to Zhao Fuyun. Among the princely and noble families of the Zhao family, the outside looks full of flowers, but inside, there are also miserable people.
The night dew fell on Zhao Fuyun, making his clothes wet. When a ray of light fell into the courtyard, he opened his eyes, but did not eat the morning glow.
When he came back yesterday, he had been suffering from heat in his body because he had stayed with the Red Flame God Lord for too long. He was not allowed to eat morning glow for at least three days, and could only drink yin dew at night to wash away the excessive fire in his body.
He has not built a foundation yet and needs to pay attention to the balance of yin and yang.
This is also the reason why he slept outside last night. Although he was sleeping, he was also practicing.
Back in the house, he began to think about what to do next.
It can be said that the stubborn local forces in Wuze County have been burned once, and then the next thing can be done.
Establish a Taoist courtyard, then cultivate the true demon, and then form the talisman seeds in the body to build the foundation of the Tao.
As for the cultivation of Zhensha, after getting this calamity fire lamp, he had a clear plan in mind.
Many small sects have their own evil pools, and the evil energy condensed in them can be used by the disciples of the sect or sold to other people.
And some aristocratic families will also occupy some places where they have knotted evil spirits, which can be regarded as a kind of cultivation resource in their family.
However, sects like Tiandu Mountain don't seem to care about this. When they reach the realm, they let their disciples go down the mountain and combine the evil spirits themselves. No matter how the evil spirits are combined, whether they were given by others or snatched by themselves, as long as they return from the foundation building, You can basically enter the inner sect and become a real disciple of Tiandu Mountain.
But this time it was different, because this group of Xuanguang disciples were not allowed to run around in the mountain, but a place was assigned to them, and they all had missions.
He came to the room and looked at the simple green and black lamp placed on the table. He didn't know what material the lamp was made of, but that was not the point.
The important thing is that he must make this 'tribulation fire' something that can be 'eaten'.
Just like people can eat many things, but they all need to be steamed before they can be eaten.
From the perspective of True Evil, this 'Tribulation Fire' is a top-notch 'treasure material' for condensing True Evil, but it is also a terrifying thing, so you need to be careful.
The first step is to neutralize it. To use another word, it is to train it to be "wild". The best way is to blend it with incense. Loss of its fire nature.
He thought of a place, the Chijun Temple outside the city.
He began to make ideas in his mind, and that night, he found Zhu Puyi again and told him that he was going to move to the Chijun Temple outside.
Of course, Zhu Puyi didn't want Zhao Fuyun to stay away, so he couldn't help but said: "Jiaoyu, if you weren't here, this, this, this, Zhu... would have trouble sleeping and eating!"
"I'm outside the city, only a few steps away. If you feel scared, you can also move to a temple outside the city." Zhu Puyi seemed to be moved by Zhao Fuyun's words, but he just thought about it. After that, he added: "Let's take a look first and then talk. Maybe the people here have been burned out by the teachings and don't dare to make mistakes!"
"That's fine." Zhao Fuyun said, taking out a talisman money from his arms and said, "My lord, you can take this talisman money with you."
"Amulet money." Zhu Puyi knew it. He also had amulets and other things on his body, but he had never been able to protect them before, so his expectations for this thing were not high.
"Yes, carry it with you. Some little ghosts and the like should not dare to approach adults." Zhao Fuyun said.
"The amulet of the teaching is definitely different." Of course Zhu Puyi would not refuse. After taking it, he pulled up a small brocade bag from the clothes around his neck and folded a piece of triangular talisman paper inside. He took it out, and then put Zhao Fuyun's Chijun Fire Talisman coin made of red copper into it.
Zhao Fuyun saw the triangular talisman folded in his hand. The aura belonging to the talisman on it had almost disappeared, and only the popularity lingering around him remained.
"Every day at noon, your Excellency, hold the Chijun Talisman Money in your hand and recite the 'Chijun Praise Sutra' once, then your breath will be entwined with the Talisman Money. Not only can you protect me better, but you can also Let the aura of Chijun on this talisman never dissipate."
"However, you must remember that it is best around noon, because this is when Yang Qi is the most abundant, and it is best not to do it at night, because it is when people fall asleep. Reciting the Chijun Sutra can easily cause physical and mental heat. , it makes it difficult to fall asleep for a while and affects sleep. Of course, if adults feel inexplicable coldness or fear at night, they can also recite it."
He kept Zhao Fuyun's words in mind. In the past, when he got the amulet, no one told him these things.
"One more thing is that I want to build a Taoist courtyard. How about the Taoist courtyard be located in the Chijun Temple?" Zhao Fuyun said.
"That place is not big, is it enough?" Zhu Puyi thought for a while and said.
"It is estimated that there will not be many people at the beginning. When there are more people in the future, we will just expand it." Zhao Fuyun said.
Zhu Puyi saw that Zhao Fuyun had made a decision, so he wrote a notice. However, there were not many people here who could read, so no one read the notice he wrote.
He understood that although Zhao Fuyun had shocked the people here, they might not listen to him.
He himself also needs to form a team of yamen, otherwise, his yamen will be just a decoration, and people here will go to their respective ancestral halls to solve problems when they have something to do.
Zhao Fuyun came to the Chijun Temple again and looked at the statue in the temple. This statue was a stone statue. Zhao Fuyun didn't know where Zhuang Xiange got the stone to carve it from.
The difference between stone statues and wooden statues is that stone statues can last for a long time, while wooden statues are easy to dry and crack. If they stand there and their faces are dry and cracked, they will inevitably look ugly, and they will need to be replaced.
He looked at it carefully and finally decided to change it himself. The stone statue was very roughly carved. Except for the carved head and neck, the body was almost a stone block and could only be regarded as a semi-finished product.
He wanted to find a craftsman who was good at stone carving, but found that Zhu Puyi couldn't find anyone to work in the city, and it was useless to talk, so he looked for him himself.
He went directly to a house where he had bought a lamp. There was no one in the house, and then he came to the well next to it.
There were some women washing clothes there. When Zhao Fuyun appeared there, the people who were still talking immediately fell silent, and some of them even stood up.
Zhao Fuyun saw the fear in their eyes. He originally bought so many lamps here. That time, although it could be seen that everyone was wary of him, there was not much fear, otherwise there would not be so many people. The lamp was sent without his permission.
But this time, Zhao Fuyun clearly felt their fear. Apparently he had killed too many people and burned too many poisons and ghosts a few nights ago, so they knew that this seemingly kind man The teaching master is actually a terrible person.
Of course, Zhao Fuyun should not kill their close relatives. The people he killed were all important people in Wuze County, and they should be the people they usually fear.
"Well, I want to find a craftsman who can carve stone statues. I want to re-carve the Chijun statue outside the city. Do you know anyone who has such skills?"
Everyone was silent, no one spoke.
"I will pay him money, not only money, but also give him a Chijun Talisman." Zhao Fuyun paused here and saw that everyone's eyes were moving intentionally, but still no one spoke, so he continued He smiled and said, "If anyone knows me, please tell me that he can come directly to my place."
After he finished speaking, he left without staying there any longer. He knew that these people were scared, so he left and went back to wait.
You Qiuniang told her husband about this after he came back from fishing.
Her man frowned and said: "Although you said that you are a member of the fifth service of the You family and are not qualified to worship ancestors in the You family ancestral hall, your surname is still You. He killed your You family's You Lingpo. You Are you still sending a message to him?"
You Qiuniang was silent for a moment and said: "I'm already married, and I'm not good at spiritual practice. I can't take care of the You family's affairs. The last time I taught you to buy our lamps, the dime and one silver just made up for our needs." I think the teachings gave me too much for buying a new boat. It was only two lamps. They were worth nothing, so he gave me a dime of silver."
"Besides, I heard that Mr. Jiaoyu stayed in his room all night and did not come out. It was because everyone insisted on breaking into his room. This cannot be blamed on Mr. Jiaoyu."
You Qiuniang said as she used a knife to disembowel the fish and wash it clean.
"That's what I said." Li Shuiyun said, "But he killed too many people. Our country is so big in Wuze. If you want to talk about it, who doesn't have a grudge against him?"
"If you have a grudge, just go and avenge it." You Qiuniang said.
"Who dares? With Master Teach Yu's ability, no matter how many poisonous insects are removed, it won't be enough to burn them. As for those little ghosts kept in the dark room, they can't even get close. I mean, if you go to help him at this time, you will I'll be poked in the back by everyone." Li Shuiyun was afraid that everyone would say it.
When You Qiuniang heard this, she paused and said, "I don't care. I'll go and tell my brother later. He learned stone carving from his master, and Master Jiaoyu said he would give him wages and a Chijun Talisman." Qian, I heard that wearing an amulet like this on your body can protect you from the intrusion of nightmare ghosts. If you have one, fishing on the river will be safer, and you don’t have to worry about the water ghosts in the river."
After hearing this, Li Shuiyun felt moved in his heart. The Wu River has been covered with fog all year round and the air is thick. Although there are many fish here, many people drown every year.
Although every fishing boat will bring their own little ghosts or Gu insects to defend themselves, there will still be victims.
"Go ahead and tell your brother the news. He has been helping people carve little ghost statues. He is the easiest to attract evil spirits. If you can earn a Chijun Talisman to protect yourself, it will definitely be a good thing. I heard that outside The Chijun Talisman money is extremely rare and can be used as a family heirloom."
"Go ahead, let me kill the fish..."
Li Shuiyun pushed his mother-in-law away, sat down and started killing fish.
There was one thing he didn't say. Today on the Wu River, one of the people who were fishing together did not come back. The empty boat was floating on the river. He was not very far away when he saw a dark figure sitting in the cabin. The black shadow also saw him. He couldn't see clearly the other person's true appearance, but he saw the faint look in his eyes, which was extremely terrifying.
