244|The Heavenly Officials’ Blessings

“Congratulations!”

“Your Highness, congratulations!”

The newly built Bodhi Chestnut Temple was bustling with activity, Xie Ren traveled through several long tables filled to the brim, sending out bowl after bowl of steaming noodles, golden soup, and snow-white fragrant rice like running water, and was so busy that she had to cope with the guests that she took time out of her busy schedule to say, “Thank you very much, please have a seat!”

The Bodhisattviguan, which unfortunately collapsed during the chaos, was rebuilt.

After the reconstruction, than the original dangerous house small view a lot of style, but also a newly renovated courtyard. Not Xie Ren or Hua Cheng rebuilt, but the villagers of Bodhi Capsicum Village. That day after Xie Ren fled, they turned over the ruins, actually found a box of gold bars. Naturally, it was the pile of gold bars that Quan Yizhen stuffed into his merit box every day.

These villagers have never seen so much gold, almost scared. After sobering up, the village chief took a part of the reconstruction of the Buddha Capsicum Guan, the rest of a did not dare to move, put waiting for Xie Ren back to give him.

Therefore, as soon as Xie Ren returned with Hua Cheng, he was greeted by the villagers’ enthusiastic “Taoist Master” and “Little Flower”, as well as a brand-new Taoist temple and a heavy box of gold bars.

That gold bar he was going to return to Quan Yizhen, but Quan Yizhen just won’t take it, until Hua Cheng said to him, you don’t want to know the correct way to raise a soul if you don’t take the gold bar back, the boy only honestly changed the problem of blindly giving gold bars to people.

After greeting them, after the several Magi led by Mu Yi haughtily stepped into the courtyard, they coldly looked up and saw the full picture of this Taoist temple, and were suddenly speechless.

Blind.

Too blind!

The big red and green festive color scheme and the pompous colored clay idol were not the most frightening. The most frightening thing was the plaque.

What is written, or painted, on that plaque?

The completion of the new temple, should be congratulated. But this new view taste everywhere so bad vulgarity, there is a plaque as the finishing touch of despair, really let a person can not boast of exports, so that they think of good words of congratulations have forgotten all the clean.

However, Xie Ren didn’t mind, and on the contrary, felt quite good, at least it was no longer a dangerous room that could collapse at any time. He greeted once more, “Please sit down?”

Those few magi look like they don’t want to sit, come over to congratulate probably just face to face, hurriedly put down the gifts and left. Xie Ren asked Mu情：”Why did they leave in such a hurry?”

Mugatu: “Is that even a question?”

Xie Ren: “Use it.”

Mu Ai said in a nonchalant manner, “Then go ask your good Sanlang.”

It turned out that once Hua Cheng came back, the first one to know was Xie Ren, and the second one was the Heavenly Court which had not yet warmed up the new Immortal Capital. Not only because not long ago, they organized the lanterns of the New Year’s banquet, just like the lanterns of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, was suddenly killed by Hua Cheng, waved his hand and exploded the 3,000 lanterns to the dregs, but also because from that night onwards, that bell rang madly non-stop, and the entire Heavenly Court echoed with the sound of its notification, as if it was reminding them that: the nightmare of the Immortals and Gods of all the heavens had come back again!

With the nightmare right in front of them, ordinary Magi naturally didn’t dare to get involved. However, now that the rumors in the Upper Heavenly Court about Hua Cheng and Xie Ren had reached the point where they didn’t need to add oil and vinegar to make it sound heavy, they still quite wanted to pull some strings with Xie Ren and ask Hua Cheng to be merciful later.

Hearing this, Xie Ren remembered that before, Hua Cheng had requested to go up to the Heavenly Court to inform him of his great achievements for a whole year, and laughed, “Naughty.”

Mu Yi said: “This is more than naughty? You let him put it away, it’s too much of a naughty thing, now that clock is noisy every day, it’s completely impossible to work in the Heavenly Court, and it even falls down and smashes people from time to time. It’s so hard to rebuild the new Immortal Capital, don’t let it be ruined again because of this kind of thing.”

Xie Ren said, “Alright, I’ll go talk to him later. By the way, taste it?” He pointed to the rice and noodle soup on the table in the courtyard and added, “I didn’t make it.”

Mu Qi listened to the front of the expression cold, written with rejection, listening to the latter sentence only to return to normal. It was at this moment that Feng Xin also came. He entered the courtyard just in time to brush shoulders with a few minor magi who were preparing to leave. They greeted and whispered again, “It’s General Nanyang.”

“It’s him. So poor, his wife and son ran away with someone ……”

Feng Xin’s forehead veins rippled, and he cursed on the spot, “I’m fucked!!!! Are you guys done? You guys have been pushing this for months? And! It’s ‘ran away’! Not ‘ran off with someone’! It’s a fucking rumor!”

Those few small magi with broken mouths were so frightened that they hurriedly fled, and Mu Yi said from the sidelines with his hands folded around his sleeves, “This explanation of yours might as well be no explanation at all, it just sounds even more humiliating.”

Feng Xin was furious and grabbed a broom nearby and threw it over. Muyi caught it and chortled, “Old-fashioned. This trick doesn’t work on me now.”

Feng Xin was about to curse again, but Xie Ren walked over and shoved a broom into his hand, saying: ”It’s good if it’s useless, then, you two help me sweep this courtyard together. Just now, I set off a few firecrackers, and the ground is covered in red crumbs. It’s hard work. If you’re bored, you can even catch the dragon by the way oh.”

“???”

Half an hour later, there was a rowdy sound of people coming closer and closer from outside the observatory.

A few people in the courtyard to look out, and then after a while, black pressure a large group of people flooded into the courtyard of the Bodhi Shepherd’s Guan, chaotically shouted: “Is it here?” “is here, yoho, quite grand ah.” “Really have rice, a lot of rice ah!” “And meat!”

The ground that Feng Xin and Mu情 just swept clean was again trampled by a large group of muddy legs. Mu Ai held the broom, as if she felt like she had been infected with fleas on her body, her eyes rounded, “…… What’s going on with these beggars?”

Before the beggars, one person is in the lead, with messy hair and dirty clothes, it is Shi Qingxuan. He limped over, arched his hand and said: “Your Highness, I have come to bother you! How is it, the last time to say yes or no?”

Xie Ren laughed, “Welcome to the core, of course it counts! Please sit, please sit.”

Muoi said, “This is too many people.”

Shi Qingxuan said, “Not many! All the great lords who helped guard the human formation in the Imperial City last year are here.”

At the time of the guardian formation, Shi Qingxuan and the others agreed to treat everyone to a chicken leg after the completion of the event, everyone had a share, but as a result, after the completion of the event, no one could be found anywhere, so naturally, that chicken leg was not eaten. Today, it’s finally time to fulfill the promise.

Bowls after bowls of chicken leg noodles were brought up, and Shi Qingxuan said, “Everyone, there’s no need to be scrupulous today, eat!”

The beggars squeezed from the table to the ground, have cheered, and then picked up the big sea bowl on the sucking sucking, puffing and puffing. Eat and eat, suddenly a man: “not right, there is a demonic gas!”

The crowd turned their heads to see that the circle was actually Heaven’s Eye Open and the others. Xie Ren felt a slight headache and said, “Why are you guys here too?”

Heaven’s Eye opened, “Last time we did help, why can’t we come?” And raised the bowl high, said with a serious look, “Everyone, listen to me, I’m absolutely not wrong! The food in this bowl has a demonic and evil aura, I’m afraid it’s not good, something is very odd! Quickly put it down!”

No one cares about him. The beggars had already finished their rounds and raised their empty bowls: “One more bowl!”

Fengxin and Muyi finished sweeping the red firecracker slags all over the yard while fighting with brooms, and seeing that the others were eating and drinking so favorably, they also sat down and picked up their bowls. It happened that Heavenly Eyes opened his anger and said, “Why don’t you all listen to what people say!” Said to get up to go to the kitchen to see, teacher Qingxuan pressed him said: “really Taoist, you think too much, here is the blood rain scout’s territory well, there is demonic evil gas of course is normal. Well well, you do not worry is right, I go to see, you sit don’t impulse.”

He then literally got up himself, walked near the kitchen, lifted the curtain and said, “Look, where’s the weird-“

Xie Ren said, “Wait a moment, I have to look at it too ……”

However, when he, Shi Qingxuan, Feng Xin, and Mu Xiang took a look at the probe, they were all shocked.

Only to see the kitchen, a man tall pig butcher is on the chopping board crazy chop chop chop, if not behind the hanging are pig legs, also thought he chopped is a person. Next to it, a huge tank under a big fire, tank a long-necked chicken essence man is rubbing bath rubbing hot, see outside someone saw him, immediately screamed, hands covered his chest.

Xie Ren had two big heads and hurriedly walked in and whispered, “Didn’t I say it’s not allowed?”

Chicken Essence “oh oh” patted his chest and assured: “Uncle Gong, we have taken a bath before coming here, it is very clean! Moreover, this soup has the effect of prolonging life, so it won’t harm anyone if you don’t drink it! It’s not a loss! Don’t worry about it!”

“……”

Shi Qingxuan silently lowered the curtain, while Feng Xin and Mu Ai immediately threw their bowls away, spewing, “It would be better if you did it!”

Xie Ren rubbed his brow and said with amusement and helplessness, “They must help, there’s no way around it, it’s also good intentions.”

At this moment, Tianye Kai seemed to finally feel that a few people over here were sneaky and suspicious, and came over. Xie Ren hurriedly stopped him, “What is it?”

He was afraid that Heaven’s Eye Open would see Pig Butcher and the others and make a scene again. Who knew, but Heaven’s Eye Open did not come at the kitchen, but at him. He circled around Xie Ren a few times and said suspiciously, “Strange ……”

Xie Ren said, “What’s wrong?”

Tianye Kai seemed puzzled, said, “Not right ah Xie Daolong, you body ghost qi, how than last time is still serious?”

“……”

Xie Ren coughed lightly. Mu Qi hummed, “Hanging out with the Demon King all day long, of course it’s getting worse.”

Heaven’s Eye Open, however, said, “That’s not right. Even if that’s the case, it shouldn’t be like this?”

Windsong said, “What such and such?”

After wondering for a long time, Sky Eyes Open finally spoke directly.

He said, “This ghost gas on your body, how did it become from the inside out? This …… is completely emanating from your body.”

“……”

“I’m afraid you’ve suffered a great deal here. What have you done? Why are you so sick?”

“……”

Xie Ren couldn’t even cough. His entire face was about to fill with blood.

Feng Xin and Mu Yi first hadn’t understood, and when they came back to their senses, they coincidentally looked at Xie Ren and fell silent: “……”

Only Shi Qingxuan’s brain couldn’t turn a corner as he said, ”So what? So what? What’s going on here? Your Highness, are you really sick? Does the Blood Rain Detective know about this? Did he not look after you?!”

No, no, no. It’s because of him, that’s why!

Xie Ren mumbled, “This. Actually. Not. You guys don’t …… I think it’s better to, ummm ……”

His mind was filled with jumbled images and jumbled words that made no sense, when suddenly, he leaned against a man’s chest behind him. An arm wearing a silver gauntlet encircled him, and a familiar voice chuckled, “What do I think, why don’t you guys go back to your seats, eat your food, and care less about anything else?”

In this situation, Xie Ren didn’t really know whether to be pardoned or more embarrassed, saying, “Sanlang!”

As soon as they saw Hua Cheng come out, Feng Xin and Mu Qi looked all at once, but with Xie Ren in front of them, they couldn’t say anything. Only Shi Qingxuan was still serious enough to ask, “Blood Rain Scout, have you examined His Highness the Crown Prince’s body?”

Xie Ren covered his forehead with one hand, hoping that he would not ask again. At this time, the beggars yelled, “Another bowl!” “Add more meat!” “This chicken soup isn’t flavored, put more salt!”

Mu Qi couldn’t stand it any longer and said, “Do you know that this is a Taoist temple, which is dedicated to the Magi, so can you be a little more reserved?”

But the beggars don’t eat his set. Last time, they joined hands with many magi to consolidate the human formation, and saw with their own eyes that a few magi were shivering and escaping from the battlefield, not as good as they were, coupled with the fact that they were too familiar with Shi Qingxuan, they could not help but all feel that the original gods and goddesses were just like this ah, and they didn’t seem to be much different, and it seemed to be not so lofty and inviolable anymore.

Suddenly, a shriek came from the kitchen, “Who is it?”

At the sound, Xie Ren’s heart tightened and she snatched into the kitchen, only to see Pig Butcher and Chicken Essence shouting inside, and she was busy calming down, ”Calm down! Calm down! What’s wrong?”

Chicken Essence was so horrified that goosebumps rose all over his body, “Great Uncle Gong! It’s haunted! There are ghosts and they have eaten all the soup we made! I just zapped it, and when I got up again, there wasn’t a single bowl left! It’s haunted!”

The Pig Butcher spat, “What are you afraid of! Aren’t you similar to a ghost yourself!”

Xie Ren was slightly stunned, “How could that be? Just now I clearly saw that you had just made more than fifty bowls?”

“Yes!”

But when I looked again, sure enough, the fifty or so bowls were all empty, even the soup was clean!

Xie Ren was wondering in his heart, but suddenly he thought of one person, and turning around to see Hua Cheng leaning against the door, he said, “Sanlang, could it be?”

Hua Cheng said in a faint voice, “Eight | nine out of ten.”

“Well ……” Xie Ren said, “he should, also come to congratulate. Rightfully welcome, but, just eat a little too much …… Now the meal is finished by him one, what to do?”

Flower City smiled, “No what to do. Add interest.”

The brain-wounded ghosts of the Ghost Market resigned themselves to their fate and started cooking again. At this time, there was a clamor coming from the main hall and courtyard, it seemed that someone was quarreling with someone, Xie Ren was about to go out to mediate, but Hua Cheng grabbed his hand and led him through the door on the other side.

Two people holding hands out of the Bodhi Shepherd’s Guan. There are trees on the road to stop the road, put down their hands and walk separately, it will be better to walk, but the two are unwilling to let go of holding each other’s hands, so seven turns, around and around. The side around Xie Ren side said: “Sanlang, where do we go now?”

Hua Cheng said, “It’s too noisy here, let them fight, let’s go first.”

Xie Ren walked and looked back, a little worried: “Do not care about them? The Bodhi Chestnut Temple was only rebuilt, what if it’s collapsed again?”

Hua Cheng was full of concern and said, “If it collapses, it collapses, just build another one. If brother wants it, he can have as many as he wants.”

“Hahahahahahahaha ……”

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At night, in the Thousand Lanterns Guan, after bathing, Xie Ren wore a thin, snow-white middle garment, leaning on the jade platform beside the collapse, writing with one stroke.

He was writing a calligraphy for Hua Cheng. Hua Cheng was leaning beside him, also wearing only a middle garment with a slightly open collar, playing with the red coral bead at the end of her hair in her hands in a bored manner.

Under the slightly warm jade-like lamplight, he kept staring at Xie Ren for a while before squinting his eyes as if he was insatiable and sighed, “Brother, don’t get that, come over and rest.”

Xie Ren had already suffered enough just now, and resolutely refused to be fooled again, this tone of voice made his ears burn, and he forced himself to calm down, and continued to write, and said in a serious manner, “No way. Sanlang, today again someone said that your writing is ugly, you have to practice which, otherwise, I don’t want people to know that you were taught by me.”

Hua Cheng sat up slightly and raised an eyebrow, “Brother, I remember, once upon a time, you clearly said that you liked my characters very much.”

Since Hua Cheng came back again, for a long time Xie Ren almost obeyed him and responded to his requests, probably because of this, he was finally spoiled, and his bad intentions became more and more numerous. Xie Ren finished writing the words, put down the pen and became more and more serious: “Don’t play bad mouth. I’ve finished writing, come over and practice.”

Thus, Hua Cheng lazily rubbed down behind Xie Ren and hugged his waist, bending slightly with his head resting on his shoulder. He removed his red coral bead from the end of his hair and placed it on the paper, letting it and Xie Ren’s bead chase each other across the paper, rolling around, deliberately not allowing Xie Ren to write properly.

He was so mischievous and forceful in manifesting his presence, Xie Ren remembered that Heaven’s Eye said that he was emitting a ghostly aura “all over his body, from the inside out”, and that it was all the aura of Flower City, so she could not help but feel a little flaccid and soft-hearted, and lightly struggled twice, saying in a small voice: “…. . write properly.”

Flower City said, “Alright, listen to your brother.”

He raised his pen, wrote two lines of poetry and then put it aside. Xie Ren looked at it and shook his head, saying in his mind for the millionth time, “It’s hopeless.” After a pause, he also lifted his pen and helped him fill in the last two lines.

After writing, Xie Ren gently blew on the paper and picked it up, and the two of them looked at the co-written poem together.

Ink colors on paper fall into a four-line poem with style that goes up to the sky and down to the earth:

There was once no water in the ocean, but the mountain of witchcraft is not a cloud.

I’m too lazy to look back at the flowers, and I’m half in love with the monks.

Even Doom was at the table, his eyes wide open, looking at it as if he was extremely appreciative. Hua Cheng laughed, ”An absolute masterpiece. Brother, quick, come and sign your name. This character will surely amaze future generations and be passed down through the ages.”

Xie Ren had already inscribed Hua Cheng’s name at the bottom, and when she heard him say that, she really couldn’t get down to adding her own name. Hua Cheng laughed enough and pretended to be serious, “Is brother embarrassed? I’ll help you.”

With that, he held Xie Ren’s hand and brushed down a few words. Of course, if you don’t say the prospect, no one can even see that it’s two words, and it’s also impossible to see that it’s Xie Ren’s name ……

Xie Ren laughed and crowed as he watched his men write this kind of thing, tilting his head at Hua Cheng’s chest. Suddenly, he felt that the words looked a bit familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere.

A few moments later, he remembered, his eyes lit up, and he said, “Sanlang, on your hand!”

He grabbed Hua Cheng by the small of his arm, pulled his sleeve up, and exulted, “This is it!”

Two people in the Bodhi Shellfish View of the common life of that period of time, one day, Xie Ren in his hands to see a text tattoo, seems to be what the foreign language. At that time, he also pondered in his heart, but never thought, that is not what “foreign language”, the original, just his name!

Hua Cheng also looked at his arm and laughed, “Brother finally recognized it?”

Xie Ren said, “Should have recognized it long ago, just ……”

Only, Hua Cheng’s words are really ghostly. Needless to say Hua Cheng also guessed what he was thinking, haha laughed, one hand wrapped Xie Ren’s waist, kissed him on the forehead, said: ”Doesn’t matter, brother’s words look good on the line, I will be 10,000 times happier than my words look good.

Xie Ren’s hand caressed the tattoo. The tattoo was extremely deep in color, so one could imagine how painful it would be. He softly brought, “Was this tattooed when you were a child?”

Hanagi smiled slightly, pulled down her sleeve, and nodded.

That must have been something he tattooed on himself. It’s so childish and brave to picture a little boy sneaking around and carving the name of someone he admires on his arm.

Ten fingers clasped, red thread intertwined. In front of Xie Ren’s eyes, the scene of Flower City transforming into a butterfly and dispersing at Copper Furnace Mountain a year ago suddenly surfaced.

At that last moment, Hwasong said something.

Though it was wordless, Xie Ren knew exactly what he said.

That was a sentence that Hanagi had carried out from the time she was a child until the day she died.

“I will always be your most loyal follower.”

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———- — “Folklore Quirks” —— ——–

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Folklore has it that there was this raggedy fairy.

Although he was known as the Ragged Immortal, this Immortal most often blessed not the rag collectors, but peace on earth. This was because, at the same time, he was also one of the strongest martial arts gods.

There is no devil that cannot be broken, no evil that cannot be chopped. Sitting with the power to destroy the world, but not losing the heart to cherish flowers.

However, there are taboos and rules for worshipping the gods. If you come across a palace or temple dedicated to this immortal, you must not worship at will.

It is said that this raggedy immortal has a special physique that summons bad luck. If you don’t believe me, prepare a dice, touch the hand of the immortal idol first, and then throw a handful of them, your hand will surely be rotten to the core.

Therefore, praying to a gray and white idol of a tattered immortal may result in more bad luck the more you worship it, drinking cold water and seeing ghosts in your Taoist robes.

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Folklore also says that there is such a red-robed ghost king.

Although the Demon King is no longer human, he has a huge number of followers, and it is popular to secretly set up a statue of the Demon King in one’s home and worship it day and night to pray for good luck.

Because, this Ghost King is not only said to be invincible without a single defeat so far, but also has strong and invincible luck. If you don’t believe me, pay your respects to him before casting the dice, and if you can get his help, your next hand will not be bad.

However, ghosts naturally have more taboos than gods. Although this Ghost King is highly skilled, his temperament is extremely eccentric and radical.

If he is happy, no need to worship him will help you; he is not happy, a throw of money also disdain for you; and if he is very unhappy, it is unlikely that he backhandedly want your life.

So, by the same token, it’s better to stay away from it.

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However, if people enshrine these two statues of a god and a ghost together, they will turn decay into magic.

That red-robed Ghost King will dispel the bad luck that haunts the Ragged Immortal, allowing him to reveal his true face.

One would be surprised to learn that, as it turns out, the original color of the ragged fairy was not grey, but golden.

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Legends usually have a basis. But it’s probably a long story, or maybe it needs to be told from 800 years ago, or maybe it’s going to be told for a long, long time. And people don’t always have the patience to listen.

But what is certain is that if you want each of these two to exert the most power, you have to offer them together.

In this way, you will have double the luck and double the invincibility.

The heavenly officials are blessed with a hundred things!