On the Avenue

Chapter 189 The eternal night is coming

There is one new Jieyuan in each province every three years. In any case, it is impossible to say that passing the exam will make the governor, commander-in-chief and other high-ranking officials feel honored. At most, they will receive them and give them one or two words of encouragement. But now The governor, commander-in-chief and other officials of Xinxiang Province actually came to the countryside in person, visited Chen Shi's house and congratulated him.

This scene left the villagers shocked, horrified, and confused.

Isn't Mr. Chen about to fall into despair? Why did he win the exam in the blink of an eye and rank first in Gongzhou Province? The key is, if you didn't take the Qiuwei exam, why did you get first place?

Li Tianqing was refining elixirs in the Chen Shi courtyard. Several officials quickly entered the courtyard. Seeing that he was busy, they did not disturb him.

In the past few days, Li Tianqing has refined more than fifty furnaces of resurrecting pills, and he is already familiar with the process. Although the voice of Chen Shi passing the imperial examination and high school's high school education came from outside, it did not shake his heart at all. He still calmly prepared this furnace of resurrecting pills. After the elixir was refined, he got up. "May I ask if it's Chen Shi and Chen Jieyuan?" An official asked, seeing that he was young and had an extraordinary bearing.

"This is Li Tianqing, a native of Quanzhou."

Li Tianqing said, "Chen Shi has gone out and should be back soon. Sirs, you might as well go to the courtyard to take a rest and wait for a while." "Don't dare."

The voice of the new governor came from outside, laughing and saying, "Xiaguan and others are waiting for Mr. Chen outside."

Li Tianqing was surprised, walked out of Chen's house, bowed and said, "Li Tianqing has met the governor and all of you."

The newly promoted governor looked him up and down and said: "Are you Li Tianqing from the Li family in Quanzhou? I heard that you are the lucky star of the Li family. Everyone on the stone ship is missing, but you are the only one who survived. I am also concerned about the murder of Mr. Li Xiaozheng. I was very sad to hear this. My surname is Xu, my given name is Jian, and my given name is Zhongxiao. This is Mr. Cui, who is responsible for the deployment of the border troops in Xinxiang Province. "

He introduced them one by one, and Li Tianqing stepped forward to greet them. These newly appointed Xinxiang officials often come from thirteenth-generation families, but four of them are not from thirteenth-generation families. Li Tianqing is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. Hearing the names of the four people, he knew that although they were not from the thirteenth aristocratic family, they were also from a smaller family and were not born in vain.

An official, who is the academic officer of Xinxiang Province, smiled and said: "Master Li, you are also on the list of Gongzhou Qiuwei, which is a good ranking. You are ranked fourth, and you are the leader." Li Tianqing did not take it seriously and said : "How are these candidates arranged?"

The Tixueguan smiled and said: "Of course it is from Xijing. The first person in front of you is Chen Jieyuan, the second is Yan Yayuan, and the third is Xu Jingkui. Your Excellency can be ranked fourth because of Quanzhou Li The family's face has been saved. Congratulations to Li Jingkui!" When Li Tianqing heard this, he knew that the list of Gongzhou candidates was arranged according to the thirteenth family.

As for why Chen Shi was ranked before the Thirteenth Family, he was not sure.

At this time, Chen Shi returned from stealing melons, holding two round watermelons in his arms, which were brought to Li Tianqing and Hei Guo. Governor Xu Jian quickly led the crowd to greet him and said with a smile: "Chen Jieyuan, I'm here to say congratulations. Congratulations on your high school's Jieyuan!" Other officials also came forward to congratulate. Chen Shi was so surprised that he handed over two watermelons. Li Tianqing.

When everyone explained the matter clearly, he finally understood it and said in panic: "The student has not written a word and has not made any achievements. How dare he be the Jieyuan of Gongzhou and Xinxiang? Fear, fear!" Ashamed of killing me !” Xia Mingdong, the censor of Xinxiang, said with a smile: “Ah——, Chen Jieyuan was talented in literature and military strategy. He lived in Gongzhou and Xinxiang for the first five hundred years and the next five hundred years. You will not be the second choice for Xijing! Wow!”

Everyone was talking to each other, praising Chen Shi and praising his literary talent and martial arts. Even though Chen Shi knew that he clearly did not participate in the autumn riot, he was still praised by them.

Governor Xu Jian looked at Chen Shi's home and said: "Mr. Chen is poor, but he lives in this remote and poor place. Xiaguan has a house in the provincial capital of Xinxiang, with only three acres of land, which has been abandoned and neglected. If Mr. Chen If you don’t mind it, give it to Mr.

Chen Shi was about to refuse, but Xu Jian held his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, my house is abandoned and abandoned, so why not let it be used? The so-called sword is given to a hero, your young hero, I can't wait to make friends with you. I am willing to give you life, let alone a deserted house!"

Cui Zongbing laughed at the side and said: "Exactly! Your Excellency's performance in the Autumn Festival astonished us. We saw what is a gorgeous article and what is a broken sword. We were impressed. I have never been close to women. There were some maids and singers in the house who were pretty pretty, so I sent them to the house."

Mr. Gao smiled and said: "With maids and singers, how can we not have servants available? I have a few people in my family who know how to read, and they are also sent to my house."

Mr. Ma also laughed and said: "I have always had a good appetite, and I happen to have a few good cooks at home. If Chen Jieyuan is used to Xinxiang cuisine, I will also send it to his house." "How can Chen Jieyuan travel without treasures?" Chariot? I have four good horses, they are from dragons, delivered to my house!"

"Hey, I have a Caiyun chariot at home. It was a gift from a wealthy businessman in Lingnan. I had nothing to do at home, so I gave it to Chen Jieyuan!"

Before Chen Shi could speak, everyone talked to each other and bought a house for Chen Shi. The house was equipped with beauties, servants, chariots, horses, etc.

Bao Tixing even planned to give Chen Shi a farm, which was not big, with thousands of acres of fertile land outside the city, and hundreds of households of tenant farmers. The annual rent alone is enough to support the house and his lovely wife and concubines. "Everyone, listen to me!"

Chen Shi was blocked and unable to speak, and suddenly said loudly, "I don't like this!" Everyone fell silent and looked at him with worry in their hearts.

A smile suddenly appeared on Chen Shi's face and he said: "But I am disrespectful to you, so I have to accept it!" Everyone laughed, and the guests of honor rejoiced.

Governor Xu and Chen Shi reminisced about their old friendship, as if they were old acquaintances for many years. They had a conversation and everyone was very satisfied. "Our village is relatively poor, so I won't keep you adults." Chen Shi said with a smile.

Everyone understood and said goodbye. Chen Shi saw them off attentively and sent them to the entrance of the village. Governor Xu quickly said: "Stay, stay." Chen Shi stayed and waved goodbye, and everyone was reluctant to leave.

After seeing them off, Chen Shi returned home. Li Tianqing cleaned the alchemy furnace and prepared to continue refining alchemy. When he saw him returning, he sneered: "Chen Shi, I think highly of you. It turns out that you are no different from these aristocratic families. You are greedy for money, lustful, and good. Luxurious things! You will be corrupted by them and become a philistine like them!"

Chen Shi smiled and said: "The Master of the Jade Hall said that we must attach ourselves to this world and coexist with it. Aren't what I am doing now attached to this world?" Li Tianqing said angrily: "The Master of the Jade Hall paid tribute to Gongzhou. Official, please give Hongshan Hall a chance to survive! "

Chen Shi probed: "The officials in Xinxiang paid tribute to me, aren't they attached to this world?"

Li Tianqing said sadly: "You are not attached to this world, you are this world! You are complicit in this world! Do you still have persistence in your heart now? Do you still have principles? Master Jade Hall has persistence and principles!"

Chen Shi sat on the recliner, lay back, fanned the cattail leaf fan, and said with a smile: "I took over their house, but I still killed them when it was time to kill them. Why didn't I insist on being unprincipled? Do you think I took the money?" , Don’t kill anyone? I can’t beat you!” Li Tianqing’s eyes widened and he was speechless.

Chen Shi glanced at him and said with a smile: "You still owe me forty-six furnaces of elixirs, hurry up and make elixirs!" Li Tianqing responded and went to make elixirs honestly.

During this period of time, his alchemy skills had improved greatly, and the resurrecting elixirs he produced were getting higher and higher in grade. He felt that the ten taels of silver per pot of elixirs he was asking for was a bit too low. However, Mr. Chen Dashan had already ordered a hundred furnaces of elixir with him. Even if he wanted to increase the price, he had to finish refining the hundred furnaces of elixir.

Soon after, Governor Xu and others sent someone to deliver the title deed to the mansion in the provincial capital. Chen Shi accepted it, but did not go to live in the provincial capital, but remained in Huangpo Village. He didn't recognize anyone in the city, but at home there were Zhu Xiucai, his godmother, and the lovely villagers of Huangpo Village.

Just for the dogs to run around every day, there is no room in the city.

When Governor Xu saw that he had not gone to live in the city for a long time, he let those yaks live in the house and cleaned it diligently without urging Chen Shi.

On this day, Chen Shi was practicing the Three Lights Righteousness Technique as usual. Suddenly, the elixir in his body turned from black to yellow, from a black elixir to a clear yellow elixir. He felt happy in his heart. "I finally broke through to the fifth level of the Golden Core. Without a superior spirit, I'm still a few days behind Li Tianqing."

Just three days ago, Li Tianqing had already cultivated the fifth level of the golden elixir. Chen Shi could only catch up with the progress of the purple jade divine child when there were spirits sitting on the two shrines in the small temple. Now that one of the divine boxes is vacant, the cultivation speed is slowing down. Not as good as Li Tianqing. "Where to catch a powerful evil."

Just as he was thinking about it, the black pot suddenly started shouting. Chen Shi's heart moved slightly. He looked up at the sky and saw fire flowing in the sky, and the sun was slowly closing his eyes! "It's dark, it's early again!"

Chen Shi was startled and stood up from under the old willow tree. He saw villagers working outside the village carrying forks, hoes and other farm tools, trotting all the way to the village. It gets dark a quarter of an hour earlier again!

Chen Shi looked up and saw that the crescent moon above the two suns had become larger than before. His heart was pounding and he had a bad idea.

"What if, if one day, the sun closes its eyes forever, no matter day or night, there is only the moon, what will happen?" Since the first darkening was advanced, a total of three similar celestial phenomena have occurred, and the darkening has been advanced by a total of three quarters. bell.

Although darkness comes three-quarters of an hour earlier, daylight does not arrive earlier. In other words, the night was extended for three quarters of an hour.

If one goes against the other, Xiniu Xinzhou may indeed enter eternal night! Everyone can only go out at night, evil spirits are rampant!

"Was the disaster that occurred at that time a disaster or a calamity? Or... the destruction of the world?" Chen Shi shook his head and pushed the ominous thought out of his mind.

But a sense of urgency arose, and he felt that eternal night might become a reality at some point in the future. If he cannot improve his cultivation as soon as possible, he is afraid that eternal night will fall and he will have no possibility of survival! "The True God from Outer Heaven is the greatest disaster! His transformations are often world-destroying levels!" He thought to himself.

Although it only got dark a quarter of an hour earlier this time, which didn't seem like a long time, it had a huge impact. The days have shortened, the nights have lengthened, evil spirits have become more active, and even the invasion of monsters in the dark sea has become more ferocious than before. When Chen Shi went to the county town to sell medicine with the refined rejuvenation pill, he heard the news that monsters had landed and attacked the Xinxiang Provincial Border Guard Station. There is also news that monsters broke through the guardhouse and entered the villages and towns, killing many people.

Moreover, the intensity of the moonlight is also rising. The moon is brighter than before. The evil energy in the moon greatly enhances the strength of the evil element, and the corpse changes evil faster! Qianyang Mountain is okay, with Chen Shi in charge, but there are still evil spirits passing by occasionally doing evil.

After leaving Qianyang Mountain, there are more evil incidents. For a time, people in the city and countryside were panicked.

Li Tianqing was refining pills at home, while Chen Shi took Hei Guo to the streets and alleys, selling talismans in villages and towns, and also exorcising evil spirits. Every time he exorcised evil spirits, he only charged five taels of silver, which was a very low price.

He had sold a lot of resurrection pills now, and he was not short of these few taels of silver. The main thing was that he wanted to make sure that the villagers were not killed by evil spirits before he could exploit them. On this day, Chen Shi walked in front, and Hei Guo sat in the wooden cart. The wooden cart followed Chen Shi into Xianghe Town.

This town is located in the southeast of Ganyang Mountain. There is a Xiang River that originates from Ganyang Mountain, flowing gently and pouring into the sea to the east.

Xianghe Town is named after the river. There is a kind of fragrant fish in the town. It is said that it is the young of the sea monsters in the form of fish. Every year at the autumnal equinox, the young monsters will go upstream, follow the Xiang River into the Bingquan Bay of Ganyang Mountain to spend the winter, and grow up there. In the spring of the following year, they will go downstream and return to the sea, turning into man-eating fish monsters in the dark sea.

The taste of sweetfish is excellent, with a unique fragrance when you put it in your mouth. It is smooth and tender without fish bones. The fish meat is firm and chewy, very refreshing, and is the favorite of old diners. When Chen Shi came to the town, it was the time when sweetfish was on the market. The air was filled with the smell of fish, which made people salivate.

At this time, he saw a young monk holding a copper bowl and begging for alms from the shops along the street. The young monk came, followed by a young girl with a veil covering her face. The monk only asked for vegetarian food and did not eat meat.

"Uncle Master, it's time for dinner again!"

Monk Wuchen was very happy. He walked out of a restaurant with a copper bowl and smiled, "The store owner is kind and gave away steamed buns and flower rolls. They are just out of the pot and soft... Mr. Chen!" He looked up and saw Chen Shi, and he was stunned. He hurriedly blinked at Chen Shi, signaling him to slip away quickly.

The voice of the young girl came, smiling, "Donor Chen? Since you are here, why don't you have a meal together? Wuchen, go ask the store owner for another portion."

Chen Shi looked at Monk Wuchen and walked into the restaurant with his head held high, and sighed, "A master of the Dabaoguo Temple has fallen to the point of begging for alms. What's your name, young lady?" "Ying Rumeng."

The young girl looked at him and smiled, "For monks in the Dabaoguo Temple, begging for alms is also a kind of practice. Wuchen lacked this kind of practice before, and following me is just right for him to cultivate his mind." Chen Shi turned around, faced her, and said in a deep voice, "Do demons also cultivate their minds?"

——I didn't sleep well all night, the building was shaking as if it was about to fall apart, and the trees downstairs fell down in rows. The typhoon was terrible. Fortunately, everyone was safe, but the water supply was cut off.