Liaozhai Great Sage

After hearing this, Li Xiuyuan understood the idea of ​​Mr. Zhu.

He advocated that the people should be diligent and thrifty, not extravagant, advocated monogamy, not three wives and four concubines, and even taught the people that ghosts and spirits are not to be feared.

But the seemingly beautiful concept has offended many people behind it.

First ban extravagance?This offended many dignitaries and dignitaries.

Monogamy?

As far as the current era is concerned, it is still too early, and it is not appropriate at all. Even the emperor is in the Sangong and Liuyuan, so how can he advocate monogamy?

Let the people not be superstitious?Isn't this cutting off the incense of temples all over the world? Those people and ghosts who rely on these for food have to join hands to destroy you.

"Tell me, is the old man's idea wrong?" Zhu Sheng asked humanely.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Your idea is right, but the world is wrong. This world cannot accommodate your idea for the time being, but I think your idea is a seed. If you plant it today, it may bloom and bear fruit in 1000 years. After all You can be sanctified because God agrees with your ideas, otherwise you can’t be sanctified because of it, can’t you?”

Zhu Shengren calmed down, then lost his mind and said: "It's useless, I'm not a saint, I'm only a half saint, even if the idea spreads, it can only meet half of my expectations."

"But it doesn't matter. Your idea can restrain the ghosts and gods in the world. As long as you succeed, it will also help the old man's idea to carry forward. Therefore, when the old man helps you, he is also helping me. Do you have any other questions now?"

Li Xiuyuan said: "There is one last thing, that is, later generations said that you made your daughter-in-law's belly bigger. Is it true?"

Zhu Shengren's face suddenly turned red and purple, as if he was changing his face, and blue smoke rose from his head.

"Good boy, old man, old man..." He trembled angrily, looked left and right, suddenly picked up a ruler from the altar table beside him, rolled up his sleeves, and called Li Xiuyuan.

"See if this old man doesn't teach you a lesson, this old man has been innocent all his life, so is it possible that he will bear such a stigma even after he dies?"

As he said that, he knocked on the head.

Li Xiuyuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't block his breath today, there was nothing unusual within three feet of Mr. Zhu approaching him like a ghost.

Zhu Shengren seemed to have seen his surprise and said, "I asked the old man to tell you that the ghosts and gods you are doing are not close. It is because your breath is not compatible with the ghosts and gods. Your breath is upright and pure, and the ghosts and gods' breath is cold and mixed. The old man The explanation of the concept is that Yin and Yang are incompatible and repel each other, so ghosts and gods cannot get close, but after death, the old man is still half-holy, and his breath is close to you, you can dispel ghosts and gods, but you cannot dispel the old man."

"Old Zhu, are you really going to hit me?" Li Xiuyuan reacted quickly and dodged flexibly.

Years of practicing martial arts are not for nothing.

However, he also knew that his question was too offensive, and it seemed to challenge the bottom line of this Zhu Shengren.

"The old man said one thing, hit him as he says, don't leave, boy." Zhu Shengren chased after him with a ruler.

7 Chapter thirty

Within the Zhu Mansion.

After Zhu Qian sent Li Xiuyuan to the ancestral hall, he did not leave immediately, but waited quietly in the pavilion beside him.

After reading sage books all his life, he dreamed of his grandfather appearing in a dream last night. As a descendant, he attaches great importance to it, and dare not slack off in the slightest. This Mr. Li Xiuyuan, Mr. Li, is worthy of such importance from his ancestors, but caring must have something extraordinary place.

That day by the Longyin Lake, Li Xiuyuan made the Sleeping Dragon Picture. He saw it with his own eyes. It is indeed a skill of ghosts and gods, which can be mastered by extraordinary people.

This person possesses miraculous powers, coupled with his high position and weight, he will definitely have a profound influence on the Song Dynasty in the future.

"Master, listen, there seems to be some noise coming from the ancestral hall." Suddenly, the scholar at the side heard some noise and hurriedly reminded.

Zhu Qian suddenly came back to his senses, and heard the sound of fighting from the ancestral hall separated by a wall.

"How can there be fights in the place of the ancestor's spiritual seat, that is extremely disrespectful to the ancestors, I will go and have a look." He stood up immediately, and then strode towards the ancestral hall.

But when Zhu Qian just walked to the gate of the courtyard, his eyes shrank, and a look of shock appeared on his face.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but he seems to have seen an old man wearing a Confucian shirt and a square hat in the ancestral hall picking up a ruler and chasing and beating Li Xiuyuan, but Li Xiuyuan didn't resist. Dodge, but the old man was very angry, and did not give up chasing because of his dodge.

"Master, grandpa?" Zhu Qian trembled all over, his lips moved slightly, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Suddenly, a memory of his childhood emerged. He was still an elementary school boy at that time, and his grandfather used a ruler to chase and beat himself who was lazy and didn't do his homework.

In the past, when I was young and ignorant, I only had fear and fear of grandpa, but after he reached his age, he understood everything.

I couldn't help but walked to the ancestral hall, wanting to confirm whether my grandfather had appeared.

But he had only taken two steps forward, when suddenly a gust of wind blew up in front of him, rolled up the sand and gravel on the ground, and narrowed his eyes.

Zhu Qian rubbed the fine sand in his eyes, but when he opened his eyes again, there was no trace of the old man in the ancestral hall. Only Li Xiuyuan was kneeling upright in front of a portrait, slightly He bowed his head, as if he was listening.

hallucination?

He let out a long sigh in his heart, and after confirming several times, he turned and left with some disappointment.

"Master, what's happened to the morale of the ancestral hall." Several scholars and literati from the Zhu family rushed over and asked.

"Get out, everyone get out." Zhu Qian suddenly became stern. He still remembered what the ancestor said when he dreamed that no one was allowed to enter the ancestral hall to disturb him.

At this moment, inside the ancestral hall.

Li Xiuyuan obediently took the ruler from Zhu Laosan, and barely calmed down the old man's anger. He was also a little embarrassed. After all, he asked such a question that shouldn't be asked. Sometimes someone asks me like this, I guess I have the intention to kill someone.

Fortunately, this Mr. Zhu is a literati, and the severe beatings and scoldings are just a ruler and reprimands, and there is no swearing in the market, which shows that this self-cultivation is still first-rate.

Seeing that Li Xiuyuan didn't evade anymore, Mr. Zhu slapped three times before humming lightly: "Fortunately, I'm dead now. If I'm still alive, I might have to fight you desperately."

"However... your question is not completely speculative. After all, there is no clue, and those literati will not slander the old man's innocence like this."

Li Xiuyuan was surprised and said: "Then, is there really such a thing?"

With a dark face, Mr. Zhu held back his anger and said, "But it's not what the world thinks. It's a fact that my husband and daughter-in-law conceived themselves, but that woman is not a human being. Only after my death did I know that the woman was transformed from a thousand-year-old fox spirit. A fox spirit with a human body, such a kind of goblin with morality, once shed the fox body, even the gods would not be able to see the clues, it is not difficult to cast a spell to turn herself into a pregnant woman."

"So, Mr. Zhu has been tricked long ago?" Li Xiuyuan was taken aback for a moment.

It certainly did not happen overnight that the fox spirit sneaked into the saint's mansion, it must have been prepared and arranged long ago.

In other words, the fox spirit was waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to slander Zhu Shengren and make him unable to turn over.

But to complete such a plan, Fox Spirit must not be the only one. She is only the executor, and there must be a group of huge calculators behind her.

Thinking of this, Li Xiuyuan shuddered in his heart.

"It seems that you have already seen it. Yes, the old man was indeed tricked." Zhu Shengren stood with his hands behind his back, his expression not very good: "Ghosts, ghosts and ghosts are all-pervasive. That one time ruined the old man's reputation and gave the old man the spread of Neo-Confucianism." A fatal blow, let me ask you that you are not innocent, how can a clean person be trusted? After all, the old man was too bookish back then, and he wanted to carry forward his ideas with only his blood, without the support of force, it still seems too much Vulnerable."

After being silent for a while, he said again: "So what you have done is very good. You have ghosts and gods from all directions under your command, you hold tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in your hands, and your house is run by a fox girl with a thousand years of practice. Afterwards, I have laid a solid foundation from the text, and this kind of background means that I will not be afraid of any threats and plots."

"Old Zhu was joking. I practice martial arts, practice dharma, and control ghosts and gods, just to make some people who don't want to reason with me listen to my reasoning. The world is big, and my fist is the biggest. After all, what if I don't have enough force and just rely on words? Can people be persuaded? Convincing people with reason is important, but deterrence without force is too empty." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Although the words are vulgar, they are very reasonable." Zhu Shengren said: "Although there are some ideas that I really want to continue discussing with you, but the time for this old man to stay in this world is running out, and I will be reincarnated after I finish talking If you go, all the life and death will have nothing to do with the old man. Come here with your ears."

He sighed, and then told Li Xiuyuan some advice.