After countless people saw Chen Kan's body with their own eyes, no one doubted whether the news of his death was true or false.
The undercurrents of various forces in the capital did not seem to have any impact on the Hou Mansion, which was plunged into a sea of sadness.
These days, fewer and fewer guests come to the Hou Mansion to express their condolences. It seems that everyone is waiting for the day of Chen Kan's funeral.
Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to plan.
at this time--
Twenty miles northwest of the city, in an open space next to a huge migratory bay of the Yangtze River, countless craftsmen are busy.
This is the burial place chosen by Qin Tianjian for Chen Kan.
It is also the place where the grand water and land ceremony is held on the eighth day of December.
What the craftsmen are building now is the altar for holding water and land rituals.
The entire altar is three miles long and three miles wide. While it can accommodate tens of thousands of monks chanting sutras and praying here, it can also accommodate 100,000 people to watch the ceremony.
Such a grand water and land ceremony is a grand event for the entire Buddhist sect.
Now monks from all over the Ming Dynasty are still rushing towards the capital, hoping to catch this Buddhist event.
In a small village not far away, a residential house was surrounded by the captains of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division.
In a private house, Chen Kan was grilling a barbecue with a contented look on his face.
A few days ago, in order to make his death look more realistic, Chen Kan had no choice but to take a fake death elixir provided by Dao Yan.
After fooling the officials who came to express condolences, Zhu Di arranged for people to be moved to this residence overnight.
The good name is to let him cultivate his body.
But Chen Kan knew that Zhu Di was leaving him the opportunity for revenge, giving him the opportunity to kill his enemy with his own hands.
This strategy of cheating death was undoubtedly very successful for Chen Kan.
All the people in the capital who had ill intentions towards the Hou Mansion came to light, saving Chen Kan the process of identifying them.
After more than a month of training, Chen Kan also changed from a skinny appearance to a thin young man.
Although he has not yet returned to his pre-coma state, he is completely different from the time he was lying in the coffin.
In addition to Chen Kan, there were three women in the yard who were temporarily transferred by Zhu Di to protect his life.
According to Zhu Di, each of these women can block ten with one, and they are the real masters in the palace.
Chen Kan had never seen them take action, but just by looking at the tall and burly figures on their arms that could run a horse, he had no doubts about the fighting ability of these women.
Chen Kan could easily identify their true identities as patron women.
He originally thought that creatures like patron women had become extinct long ago, but he didn't expect that Zhu Di not only restored this kind of creatures, but also really gave them great fighting power.
The meat skewers on the iron mesh were grilled until they were sizzling with oil, and a rich aroma of meat filled the yard.
Chen Kan grabbed a handful of cumin powder and sprinkled it on the meat skewers, then picked up a skewer and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Too bad there's no chili!"
The taste is okay, but it's a pity that Chen Kan was accustomed to eating spicy food in later generations. Now when he eats this kind of meat skewers sprinkled with cumin, he always feels that it is missing a bit of soul.
After eating three skewers in a row, Chen Kan stopped eating.
With his current physical condition, three skewers of barbecue was already the limit of his digestive system, and eating any more would cause constipation.
But Chen Kan's barbecue speed did not slow down at all. Soon, the wooden plate on the side was filled with grilled meat skewers.
Seeing that all the meat skewers made today had been grilled, Chen Kan clapped his hands, divided the skewers into three even portions on the wooden plate, and then brought the wooden plate to the three women who were guarding the door like door gods. .
"Boss, eat meat!"
Chen Kan put a piece of kebab into the boss's hand and came to the other woman: "Second brother, eat meat."
Immediately afterwards, Chen Kan put the last piece of barbecue into the hands of the last woman: "Lao San, this is yours."
Chen Kan's movements were very skillful, and it was obviously not the first time that he had fed three women.
After getting the barbecue, the three women looked at Chen Kan with empty eyes.
"Look what I'm doing, eat!"
Chen Kan made a gesture of eating meat, and then the three women expressionlessly put a lot of skewers into their mouths and chewed them.
When Chen Kan saw this, he couldn't help but slap his forehead.
Yes, yesterday I taught them that they must spit out bamboo sticks when eating barbecue, but they forgot again.
Yes, Chen Kan is teaching these three women.
He was conducting an experiment to see if he could teach his patron woman to become a normal person.
Before coming here, these three patron women could only do one thing, and that was to practice martial arts, and practice martial arts in an unstoppable way.
But they don't know how to do anything else, including eating by themselves.
Chen Kan probably knows some methods of training patron women. If they continue to be spoon-fed and undergo high-intensity training, over time, patron women will lose their ability to think for themselves and become pure war machines.
It can be said that the method is very cruel.
During this time, Chen Kan deliberately changed the daily life rhythm of the patron woman, but judging from the results of today's experiment, it seems that the effect was not significant.
Chen Kan skillfully took out the bamboo sticks that had been chewed until they were deformed from their mouths, with a thoughtful expression on his face.
Even animals can easily understand human intentions through long-term training, but support women cannot. What is the problem?
Throwing the bamboo stick aside, Chen Kan strode into the room, ready to teach them another way of doing things.
There were two other people in the room, a young eunuch and an old imperial doctor.
The young eunuch is here to take care of Chen Kan's daily life and feed the patron woman, while the old imperial doctor is here to nurse Chen Kan back to health.
Seeing Chen Kan walk in, the old imperial doctor said without raising his head: "I've told you a long time ago that you can't teach them anything by just teaching them methods without formulating any rewards and punishments."
In the past, Chen Kan never paid attention to the old imperial doctor's nonsense, but today he stopped.
"I thought they were like a blank slate that I could paint on, like a child, but it turns out I was wrong."
Hearing Chen Kan admit his mistake, the old imperial doctor seemed to have discovered a new world. He looked at Chen Kan in surprise: "I thought you should know that they have become machines."
Chen Kan rubbed his chin and suddenly asked: "In that case, how do they tell who is their master and who is their enemy?"
The old imperial doctor was stunned for a moment, then looked at Chen Kan as if he were looking at a fool, shook his head and stopped talking.
But Chen Kan still heard his muttering.
He was saying that this Lord Marquis might have something wrong with his brain!
For the sake of this old guy saving his life, Chen Kan decided not to argue with him.
Instead, he asked for advice seriously: "Look, they are human beings. Regardless of their appearance, skin color, or body structure, they are human beings just like us. But since they are human beings, they must have the ability to think for themselves, even if they change." Became a fool."
The old imperial doctor rolled his eyes: "Then what?"
"Then, I want to awaken them to the way of thinking and learning abilities that advanced creatures like humans should have. Is this wrong?"
Chen Kan's tone was very bad. The bad old imperial doctor changed his normal attitude and responded with approval: "That's right, just go ahead and try."
Chen Kan's chest felt tight and he felt like a punch had hit the cotton. His whole body felt extremely uncomfortable.
He walked back to the room without saying a word, lay down, and began to think.
He knew that the old imperial doctor was actually right. When people train animals, they often first develop a suitable habit for them.
Just like a famous monkey experiment in later generations, two monkeys were fed carrots at first. After teaching them something, they upgraded the food they were fed and replaced the carrots with bananas.
If things go on like this, after the two monkeys form a habit, after they complete a certain thing, one of them will be rewarded with bananas instead of carrots, and the other monkey will still be rewarded with bananas.
Then the monkey who got the carrot would be angry, extremely angry.
But that's a monkey, and the patron woman is a human.
Chen Kan felt that he had always been a person who respected life very much. He could not train people like monkeys.
After thinking for a long time, Chen Kan could not think of any way to teach the patron woman a certain skill without using any means.
A trace of exhaustion flashed through his mind, and Chen Kan decided to take a nap first.
The next day, Chen Kan still fed the three women without any conditions, and took the trouble to tell them to spit out the bamboo sticks and not to swallow them.
But the effect is still not big.
Then, Chen Kan decided to give up this method of giving advice.
He planned to follow the method of the old imperial doctor, pricking their arms with bamboo sticks when they chewed them, and rewarding them with a bowl of rice when they spit out the bamboo sticks.
But when he was about to start the experiment, there was a sudden commotion outside the door.
"what's going on?"
Chen Kan walked toward the door with a curious look on his face, but he was grabbed by the collar only halfway through by a patron woman.
"Master...said...you...can't...go out."
Intermittent words came out of the boss's mouth. Chen Kan couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Boss, can you speak?"
But the boss just said this and fell into silence again.
He just grabbed Chen Kan's collar tightly and didn't let him get close to the door.
"Bold, do you know who I am? Why don't you let me in? Get out of the way."
Outside the door, a somewhat arrogant voice reached Chen Kan's ears.
Chen Kan couldn't help but frown: "How did he know I was here?"
But after a moment, he still ordered to the door: "Let him in."
"snort."
There was a cold snort outside the door, followed by the sound of the door being pushed open.
A face with oily hair and pink face came into view.
After straightening the collar that was wrinkled by the boss, Chen Kan raised his hands to the visitor and said, "Master, what are you doing here?"
