On the Avenue

Chen Shi offered Feng Xi's hind legs and turned back to the mountain stream.

"He saw me staring at him and thought I wanted to eat his food, so he offered me the roasted hind legs."

Orochi Xuanshan said silently in his heart.

He had a very clear understanding of Chen Shi's psychology.

However, he has given up eating blood and has not touched meat for three thousand years. He breathes wind and drinks rain and dew.

His ambitions are lofty, and he wants to be like the true god outside the sky, eternally motionless, without food or sleep, sitting and watching the changes in the world.

but……

It smells so good.

Orochi Xuanshan stared at Feng Xi's hind legs and had to admit that this little guy did have some skills in barbecue, which aroused his greed.

"I'm probably controlled by greed."

Orochi Xuanshan hesitated for a moment and tasted the taste of Feng Xi's hind legs.

I was indeed controlled by greed. So he thought.

After eating the roasted pork belly, Orochi Xuanshan's mind followed Chen Shi away.

"I want to be like the true God outside the sky and see everything in the world. I thought God's Taoist heart is like a rock and will not change easily. But a month ago, the sky darkened a quarter of an hour earlier."

Orochi Xuanshan's eyes became more profound and he said silently, "The True God is also changing, but his change is extremely long. His one change may have caused mortals to have experienced dozens of generations of birth, old age, illness and death. This change of the True God seems to have changed the world It has no impact, but how could it not have any impact? Maybe, I also need to change..."

This time eating blood food made his unwavering Taoist heart slightly stir. But he was too old, and to him, Chen Shi was just a short passerby in a long life. He could only bring It was just a realization in his heart.

He entrusted the young man with a dream at night, instructing Chen Shi how to breathe, how to regulate the true blood, and how to move around the body according to his own thoughts.

When Chen Shi went to bed at night, he would practice with him. During the day, he would forget all this. When he was sleeping, he would remember it again and continue to practice with him.

It will take five or six days before the replacement of real blood is completed.

Orochi Xuanshan did not continue to dream.

In his opinion, he had repaid Chen Shi for his sacrifice.

Chen Shi closed his eyes. At this moment, he could feel the blood in his body starting from his heart and carrying the majestic innate energy to all parts of his body.

With a heartbeat, the real blood reaches the ends of the limbs and bones. Every blood vessel, internal organs, and even various conditions on the surface of the skin are clearly reflected in his mind!

He could clearly feel the wounds on his skin, the scars left by previous injuries.

He could feel the breeze blowing across the surface of his skin, and every hair swaying slightly.

He can even regulate his blood to repair his injuries and scars.

This is the wonderful effect of replacing true blood!

Not only that, after refining the true blood, his internal organs are constantly moistened by the true blood. Qi and blood flow, and the internal organs become stronger and stronger.

The hidden dangers and innate deficiencies of the internal organs are gradually being made up for!

This is the second stage of the Holy Fetus, which is called the completeness of the five internal organs.

Only when the true blood is exchanged and the five internal organs are nourished by the true blood can the five internal organs be fully authentic.

Chen Shi activated the Three Lights Righteousness Technique, and the shrine appeared involuntarily, with divine light shining brighter and brighter. Even if he stops activating the technique, the shrine will still remain and will fall apart after one or two breaths.

He was extremely happy.

"If the shrine can be kept longer, I can try to practice the sword technique in Tianxin Zhengqi Jue. But to learn this technique, I have to go to a private school in the town."

He saved some money, but he didn't know if it was enough to pay for private school tuition.

Chen Shi left the Tiger Temple, held up the big pot that was enough to stew himself in his hands, used the turtle shell he picked up as the lid, and walked out of the mountains.

After changing to true blood, he no longer had the strong hunger he had before. He no longer had to stay in the mountains to hunt and could go home.

He changed to real blood this time and went out for several days without going back. He missed his grandpa and the black pot a little.

This was the first time that he had been away from home for such a long time, and he also carried away the big pot for cooking medicine at home. He couldn't help but feel a little worried, lest his grandfather would punish him.

"But my family is indeed empty. If I didn't have someone to rely on, I would starve to death."

Chen Shi said sincerely, "Grandpa will definitely be angry, and the scapegoat will definitely say bad things about me. But if I take the initiative to admit my mistake, even if the scapegoat is responsible, grandpa will not beat me to death. The most he can do is hang me up and beat me."

He passed by Gangzi Village and came to Granny Sha's door to say hello to Granny Sha.

Granny Sha looked at him alertly and did not let him enter the house.

"A loving mother often loses her son. There is not even a grain of rice left in my jar!" Grandma Sha cried.

Chen Shi put down the big pot, opened the lid, took out a hundred pounds of spirit beast meat, and said with a smile, "I ate so much from my mother-in-law, so I brought some meat to compensate."

When Grandma Sha saw this, she suddenly felt extremely ashamed and said in confusion: "To be honest, I also bought some rice so that I can open the pot at home. Xiao Shi, will you leave after eating?"

Chen Shi saw that she didn't sincerely intend to let him eat, so he dismissed being homesick, picked up the big pot and left.

The cauldron was filled with meat from all kinds of spirit beasts. They were the most delicious parts of the spirit beasts. He was reluctant to eat them. In addition to honoring Grandma Sha, he also had to honor his grandfather and Shibei Godmother.

He returned to Huangpo Village, came to Grandma Yuzhu's door, put down the big pot, and knocked on the door.

When Yuzhu opened the door, he saw no one outside. There was a piece of spiritual beast meat hanging on the door, weighing about ten kilograms.

There was also a knock on the door next door to her house. Yuzhu turned around and saw that Chen Shi was hanging meat on the door next door, weighing about ten kilograms.

Grandma Yuzhu asked from behind: "Girl, who is outside?"

"Grandma, it's the dead child you mentioned."

Yuzhu carried the fan of meat back to the yard and whispered to her grandma, "He gave us these meats. Grandma, we haven't eaten meat for a long time!"

Grandma Yuzhu was surprised and walked out of the yard on tiptoe. She saw Chen Shi knocking on the door from door to door and hanging meat on other people's doors without waiting for them to come out.

Just like that, Chen Shi walked over and hung up. Soon, most of the spirit beast meat in the pot was gone.

When we arrived at Chen Shi's house, the pot had bottomed out and there were still two or three pieces left.

"This child is very kind. If he had not died back then..."

Grandma Yuzhu sighed and turned to tell Yuzhu, "Remember, you are not allowed to play with him! He is a dead child!"

Chen Shi opened the door, walked into the yard carrying the big pot, chirped twice, called the black pot, and took out a piece of spirit animal meat from the pot.

The black pot was so happy that he immediately gave up the idea of ​​helping his grandfather to reprimand him for not returning home for many days. He walked under the table with the meat in his mouth and ate it.

Chen Shi shouted into the hall: "Grandpa, I'm back!"

"Humph, you still know how to come back!"

Grandpa walked out of the main room, holding a half-eaten candle in his hand. He was quite unhappy and scolded, "Go out without saying a word. If you can, die outside and never come back! Isn't it, a scapegoat? A scapegoat! Where to die? Are you going? I don’t know how to say a few words..."

Grandpa cursed a few words, and Chen Shi took out the remaining spirit animal meat from the pot and said with a smile: "Grandpa, eat this tonight!"

Grandpa hung up the meat and wanted to scold him again, but he didn't know where to start. He wanted to hit him but couldn't bear it.

"I did a business a few days ago and made some money. I bought you some new clothes. They are in your room. Go and see if they fit you."

Chen Shi hurriedly entered the house. He had grown a lot taller after changing to real blood in the past few days. He just felt that the clothes on his body did not fit him. He was thinking about how to get his grandfather to pay for him to change clothes. Unexpectedly, his grandfather had already bought them. .

There is a new set of clothes on the bed. In addition to the close-fitting sweatshirt and small clothes, there is also a light blue t-shirt, a pair of white trousers, a blue trousers, a red satin belt, and a blue t-shirt. Color sachet.

Chen Shi was dressed neatly and it fit him perfectly.

He was so happy that he was about to go out when he saw a ribbon on the bed for tying his hair. It was also red, but the color was more rose-red.

Chen Shi tied up his hair and walked out of the room.

"He is a handsome boy!" Grandpa praised.

Chen Shi was very happy and planned to go out for a walk, but he thought that he was hated by people in the village and had no friends, so he had to give up.

"Grandpa said he had a business, what kind of business was it?" he asked curiously.

"There was an evil incident in Shanyin Village. The Wang family's donkey died and became stiff. In the middle of the night, the donkey came back to life. It got up and grinded all night. After dawn, it grew claws and sharp teeth, and began to eat people and chase them. Running around the streets and biting several people.”

Grandpa arranged the medicinal materials and said calmly, "The godmother in the village didn't care, so she had to come and invite me. I went over and took a look. It turned out that it turned into evil under the moonlight at night. But it turned into evil in the village. Damn it, godmother, I won’t care about it.”

Chen Shi said: "What happened next?"

"Then? Later, I surrendered the donkey and returned it to the Wang family. I earned a tael of silver and bought you these clothes."

Chen Shi wondered: "Why do the Wang family want to become evil donkeys?"

"Lagrind."

Grandpa said matter-of-factly, "The donkey died and turned into an evil spirit. It is tireless and energetic when it is exposed to the moon. It can work all night long without resting. It can make much more money than one tael of silver."

Chen Shi said oh.

"But I heard someone said that the donkey died yesterday. He probably worked too much and was exhausted by the Wang family."

Grandpa paused and said, "Then the Wang family skinned the donkey and boiled it into donkey hide gelatin. They made another fortune. One tael of silver, which is less."

He sighed and shook his head.

Chen Shi's eyes widened, could this still be done?

He couldn't help but get excited and looked at the black pot: "If the dog becomes evil, can we keep taking the black dog's blood..."

Under the table, Heiguo quietly protected his piece of meat, lest he get under the table and snatch it from him.

Chen Shi has done this before.

In Huangyang Village, Liu Fugui was walking on the path in the village.

He was still a child and recovered quickly, but he still often felt cold and often woke up from nightmares when he went to bed at night. As for peeing, I don’t even dare to go to the latrine until I need an adult to accompany me.

Although the climate was pleasant, he was still wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket and his face was pale.

As he walked, he looked into the ditch. He remembered that he saw a big silver carp in the ditch. He made a hook and line today and planned to catch it.

At this time, he bumped into someone, like hitting an iron frame. It was so hard that it hurt even through the cotton-padded jacket.

"Little thing, you don't have eyes!"

The man he hit couldn't help but get angry and kicked him into the ditch.

Liu Fugui was wearing thick clothes and was in a panic. He was worried that he would drown in the water. He struggled hurriedly, but found that it was the big silver carp that was slipping underneath him, and he hurriedly held on to it.

The water in the ditch was not deep either. He held down the flopping silver carp and looked towards the shore. He saw that the person who kicked him into the water was a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old wearing a scarf on his head. He was wearing a green shirt and white He wears a lapel collar and a pair of black square-toed shoes. He is very neat. He should be a scholar from the city.

Behind this young man, there were mostly young men and women in similar clothes, ranging from fourteen or fifteen to twenty or thirty years old, six of them.

Behind the six people were Jin Yiwei wearing red flying fish suits and horse-faced skirts, with swords on their waists. There were thirty or forty people.

The leader of the Jin Yiwei is a middle-aged man with a burly build, a dark complexion, a beard, and thick black eyebrows that are slanted down, like an inverted "eight", with bright black eyes, and a three-eyed fire gun on his back. He is not angry and has authority, which is quite eye-catching.

"Brother Yan, be polite to the villagers. If this spreads to other aristocratic families, people will laugh at my Zhao family for bullying their children."

A Confucian scholar in his twenties looked gloomy and scolded, "We are here to investigate the case of the disappearance of my second sister, not to be arrogant! You all should restrain yourself and don't cause trouble!"

Those Confucian scholars all said yes and said: "The third brother is right."

That third brother is the third son of the Xuanying Mansion of the Zhao family in Xinxiang Province, named Zhao Yue.

The Zhao family is a large and prosperous family. The ancestors of the Zhao family followed Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty to conquer the world and made great contributions, so Emperor Taizu did not kill his family.

Later, the Zhao family moved to Xiniu Xinzhou. The sky was high and the emperor was far away, so they were not liquidated.

In recent years, as the imperial power declined, the Zhao family took the opportunity to rise and run Xinxiang Province on a large scale, opening four mansions: Tianlu, Digang, Xuanying, and Huangting.

Miss Zhao Er, Zhao Yue and others came from Xuanying Mansion, and the master of the mansion, Zhao Yanlong, was also their father.

It's just that the Xuanying Mansion was too large. In addition to his wife, Zhao Yanlong also had concubines, maids, and concubines. He gave birth to a large number of children, nineteen in total.

In addition to Zhao Yanlong's branch, there are many branches, most of which are Zhao Yanlong's brothers and sisters. They have spread out. There are two to three hundred people in the next generation with the surname Zhao alone.

This is just Xuanying Mansion.

If the other three prefectures are added, it will only be even worse.

That's why Zhao Yue and others were so restrained when traveling. They didn't want to leave any excuse for other aristocratic families, and they also didn't want the children of the same clan in the other three mansions to have an excuse to attack their Xuanying mansion.

A moment later, Zhao Yue sat on the seat of the clan elder, with the tall and mighty bearded and handsome guard standing behind him, which was terrifying.

Zhao Yue picked up the tea cup, blew a few bubbles on the tea water that had not dispersed, smelled the aroma of the tea, gently raised his eyelids, and scanned the darkness below the kneeling villagers of Huangyang Village. He felt helpless and said: "Get up. Well, although I am an official, I am not going to the countryside to do business this time. It is not good for you to kneel to me like this."

The villagers in Huangyang Village hesitated and slowly stood up.

Zhao Yue raised his head and looked at the disheveled faces of these villagers. He hesitated and said helplessly: "You'd better kneel down. If you stand up, I will feel uncomfortable."

The villagers knelt down again and remained motionless.

Zhao Yue took a sip of tea, put down the tea bowl, and said calmly: "Let's talk. Iron Pen Man stayed in your village for one night, and he was murdered a few days later. Who killed him? How dare you, to pay for the murder of my Zhao family? "