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Li Zhi looked helplessly at the distant room, licked his lips, and said, "But, I want to eat beef!"
Chen Chu waved his hand: "Let's go, I'll take you to Chang'an Da Da Da Da Restaurant to eat beef. To tell you the truth, what I brought in just now was not beef at all, but mutton."
What?
The two Li Chengqian brothers were dumbfounded.
mutton?
Li Chengqian said in surprise: "You... aren't you afraid of being discovered?"
Chen Chu shrugged, and said: "Didn't you just see that Master Changsun and Master Wang are urging their lives? Where can I find beef in such a hurry? I simply got some ready-made mutton and added some seasonings. Don't worry." , They are so hungry now, they definitely won’t be able to eat it, and when they eat it, I’m afraid they’ll be too drunk.”
Li Chengqian said in admiration: "Chen Chu, I just like the way you are not afraid of death."
Li Zhi urged: "Let's go, let's go to Chang'an Da Da Da Da Restaurant."
Several people hurriedly left, leaving a few cooks to greet Li Er and the others.
……
house.
Everyone has eaten enough.
I was also dizzy from drinking.
Changsun Wuji ate a piece of meat, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, everyone, do you feel that there is something wrong with this meat, it looks like beef, but it tastes like mutton?"
Wei Zheng blushed from drinking, snorted coldly, and said: "Master Changsun, others say that you are full of food and drink, and you are full of thoughts, but you are good. After eating and drinking, you will start to pick and choose..."
Changsun Wuji shook his head.
Am I feeling wrong?
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Chapter 223 What a Talent
After dawn.
Li Er and the others walked out of the room with sleepy eyes.
Changsun Wuji asked, "Where's Chen Chu?"
City guard Shi Ada stepped forward and said, "Master Changsun, Mr. Chen, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and His Royal Highness King Jin left last night. He asked the general to take good care of His Majesty and all the adults."
Hearing this, Li Er suddenly ran outside.
In a short time, he ran to the place where he placed it in a corner of the tower last night.
Changsun Wuji and others hurried to follow.
I saw that the cement sand in the wooden trough had solidified.
It looks like a broken stone with rough and uneven surface.
Li Er hurriedly ordered: "Come here, break open the wooden trough, and test how hard this thing is."
A guard stepped forward and removed all the surrounding wooden boards first.
thump.
Cement lumps fell to the ground, making a dull sound.
Just by looking at the movement, you can tell that this thing is no different from a stone.
The guard pulled out his long knife and looked at it sharply.
When the sound.
There was a gap in the cement lump.
But when he looked down at his good long knife, a piece was missing.
Incredibly hard!
Li Er and several ministers all believed what Chen Chu said.
Fang Xuanling hurried forward and said: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, this is a powerful tool for building a city. The biggest advantage of this thing is that it can be integrated into one, and even a wall can be integrated into one. In the future, if you use this thing to build a city wall, you must Be indestructible!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty!"
Wei Zheng and the others hurriedly said.
Li Er nodded and said happily: "Come here, transport this thing to the palace."
He planned to transport it back and hand it over to Jiangzuojian and Dushuijian for further study.
At the same time, in Li Er's heart, he became more and more satisfied with Chen Chu.
This kid can always surprise me when I don't expect it.
At this moment, Commander Zhang of the Forbidden Army ran forward and asked, "Your Majesty, shouldn't Chen Chu be punished for tearing down the city wall without permission?"
Li Er rolled his eyes and asked, "Who told you that Chen Chu was demolishing the city walls? He was remodeling the Chunming Gate."
"what……"
Commander Zhang was in a daze, not knowing what happened.
It turned out that he didn't know anything about what happened yesterday evening.
Now seeing that His Majesty Li Er even pursued the person who demolished the city wall privately, he was immediately dumbfounded.
……
At the same time, a carriage with a face came to Chunming's gate.
The driver was a young Taoist priest.
The little Taoist stopped the carriage, turned his head and said to the inside of the carriage: "Master, the Chunming Gate has been sealed, and it is said that it is under construction, so we can only take a detour, should we go directly to the Three-day Temple?"
Inside the carriage, Yuan Tiangang's voice came out: "No need, take a detour into the city, near Chunming Gate, I'm going to meet your master uncle."
Yuan Tiangang sat in the carriage, with a worried expression on his face: "Although the younger brother acted in time to transport the holy stone away and helped Taoism and Baiyun Temple to have a gate, it is not appropriate for him to use this evil thing as the gate of his mansion. Ah, when the time comes, how will the people of the world treat him, this is an unlucky practice, and it will bring you a big brother."
After a pause, he said, "I'm going to persuade him to give up such a dangerous practice, otherwise it will cause disaster."
The carriage speeded up, circled around from the north, entered Chang'an City, and then drove towards the vicinity of Chunming Gate without stopping.
Before the carriage stopped, Yuan Tiangang heard a noisy sound in the distance.
He opened the curtain and looked, only to see hundreds of craftsmen, using the pulleys and levers Chen Chu said, were slowly raising the boulder transported from Baiyun Temple.
Not far away, many people from Chang'an City were watching and pointing.
Seeing this, Yuan Tiangang's expression changed, he jumped out of the carriage suddenly, ran forward, and shouted: "Junior brother, no, absolutely no..."
He rushed under the boulder in one breath, only to see that the boulder had completely stood upright.
Craftsmen filled the surroundings with earth and stones.
Concrete has been prepared next to it, and Chen Chu intends to completely fix the boulder.
Yuan Tiangang grabbed Chen Chu's sleeve and said, "Junior brother, if you do this, you will bring disaster on yourself. There is a will-o'-the-wisp on this holy stone, and now the truth is unknown, how can you rashly use it as the gate of your mansion? Aren't you afraid that something will happen to the mansion?"
Something happened?
Chen Chu smiled lightly.
Cheng Chubi who was beside him quickly covered his mouth and walked away.
He was afraid that he could not help but tell the truth.
The truth is, the will-o'-the-wisps on the holy stone were all made by Cheng Chubi himself.
He took the phosphorus given by Chen Chu, and threw it on it when no one was paying attention.
At night, under the holy stone, the incense burns at its peak, and the temperature gets higher and higher, so it will naturally burn.
But this secret, Cheng Chubi did not dare to reveal it.
If he said it, Chen Chu would be finished, and so would he.
After all, the power of Taoism is too huge.
Chen Chu looked at Yuan Tiangang's concerned expression, and said, "Senior brother, don't worry, I had people stare at this boulder last night, but no will-o'-the-wisps were found. Presumably, the filth on the boulder has already left. Besides, I am also a descendant of the Daoist sect, are you still worried that I won't be able to restrain this boulder?"
Yuan Tiangang's eyes widened, and he asked, "You mean, after the holy stone left the Baiyun Temple, after being tossed about by you like this, the filthy thing left?"
Chen Chu nodded: "It's very possible, brother, think about it. Last night, the boulder was brought down, carried into the car, and escorted all the way to Chang'an. Those are all young men with strong firepower. Also, every four-wheeled vehicle There are many copper nails on the wheels of the car, those monsters, I'm afraid they have been scared away..."
This……
And this kind of operation?
Yuan Tiangang looked at the holy stone with mixed feelings in his heart: "Junior brother, you are really talented."
"Senior brother, you have won the prize. Senior brother, do you regret it, and now you want to take this holy stone back?" Chen Chu was surprised and asked.
Yuan Tiangang waved his hand: "It's nothing, junior brother, although the filth on the holy stone has disappeared, the common people don't believe it, so if we bring it back like this, I'm afraid it will harm the Baiyun temple... This is why I was in a hurry Let me remind you of the reason. Everyone in the world knows that ghost fires appeared on the holy stone, but now you use it as a gate. How do you let the world treat you? Look, the people around you are pointing at you Yes, in the future around your gate, I'm afraid no one will dare to pass by, so what's the point of the mansion you built..."
Although Yuan Tiangang was stubborn, he really cared about Chen Chu.
After hearing this, Chen Chu laughed, and said, "Brother, you are worrying too much. This matter can be solved now."
As he spoke, he strode towards the crowd of people who were watching.
Four 500 people gathered together, the scene is really not small.
Chen Chu looked at the crowd and asked, "Everyone, I am the owner of this mansion. My name is Chen Chu. What you said just now is correct. The gate of my mansion is the holy stone outside the Baiyun Temple. You know, there are will-o'-the-wisps on this holy stone, right?"
Yuan Tiangang caught up and almost vomited blood when he heard this.
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Chapter 224 Fantasy Story
The reason why Yuan Tiangang wanted to vomit blood was that the entire Taoist sect wished that the less people knew about it, the better.
Even now, when someone asks about this matter, the Taoist priests of the Taoist sect are silent and will never say a word.
Fortunately, Chen Chu announced it to everyone.
Sure enough, upon hearing this, many people backed away in fright, some of them were timid, and even turned around and ran away.
In this era of extremely underdeveloped science and technology, the people of the Tang Dynasty fully followed the words of the sages, that is, respect ghosts and gods and stay away, lest they be stuck by some dirty things.
Yuan Tiangang grabbed Chen Chu's sleeve in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "Junior brother, don't say any more, you will harm yourself when the time comes, and if you let the world know that you used things with will-o'-the-wisps to make the gate of the mansion, people will call it the gate of the mansion." You are treated as a demon, at least you will be scolded by others, and at worst you will be arrested and burned as a sacrifice to heaven..."
In many backward places in Datang, this kind of thing has happened.
Seeing that Chen Chu was about to speak, Yuan Tiangang became anxious, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to cover Chen Chu's mouth.
Chen Chu picked it up with one hand, put it aside, and ordered: "Chu Bi, hold him down."
Cheng Chubi stepped forward with a few vulgar men, and held Yuan Tiangang firmly.
Chen Chu took a few steps forward and said loudly: "The news you know is correct. A few days ago, there was indeed a ghost fire on this holy stone outside the Baiyun Temple, but it was not because of the problem with the holy stone... this matter , I have to start from the beginning. At that time, there were ten monsters in Zhongnan Mountain. It happened to be in Wuhuluanhua. Unable to kill all the monsters, so the method was to invite this meteorite from the sky to suppress the souls of the monsters... Now, hundreds of years have passed, most of the monsters have disappeared, leaving a small one who is not reconciled. Rebellion, that's why the will-o'-the-wisp appeared. At this time, my senior brother Yuan Tiangang, Master Yuan, had already cultivated to the Golden Core cultivation base. As soon as he made a move, he beat this little monster to ashes. So far, the monster's soul is no longer there. , this boulder also lost its meaning of suppressing the souls of monsters, so I brought it here and used it as the gate of the mansion..."
After a pause, Chen Chu continued: "Everyone, you can see clearly that this boulder is a sacred object, which can suppress the souls of monsters and beasts, and no evil objects can get close to it... that so-and-so, come here !"
Chen Chu pointed to a thin middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man stepped forward in a daze.
Chen Chu asked, "You, go to the bottom of the holy stone."
Middle-aged people do the same.
When he approached the holy stone, Chen Chu suddenly asked: "Facing the holy stone, do you feel uneasy conscience?"
The middle-aged man fell to his knees in front of the holy stone with a plop, and wailed loudly: "My lady, I'm sorry, I went to Pingkangfang to fool around again last night, and I said I gave all the money for my work to you. , I only gave you a small part, and the rest was squandered in Pingkangfang, I'm sorry for you, wow, woo woo woo..."
This guy is crying so sadly.
Seeing this, the people all stared wide-eyed.
An old man couldn't help but said: "Oh, is this holy stone really so powerful?"
The person next to him said: "That's still false, didn't you see that person is repenting? Besides, Mr. Chen must be right, you see that the person behind him is Master Yuan Tiangang, I have met... ..."
Yuan Tiangang: "..."
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