On the Avenue

Chen Shi felt that both Uncle Hu and Uncle Qingyang were a little weird today, but he had no time to ask, so he quickly asked Granny Sha: "Grandma, did you go down and find my grandpa?"

He was inexplicably excited and looked at Granny Sha expectantly.

Granny Sha glanced at the five ghost kings, who suddenly thought: "Have you done something wrong with good intentions? However, it is obvious that the dog has made a meritorious service. If the dog makes a meritorious service, we have made a meritorious service. Our jobs should be saved, right?"

They are anxious!

Fortunately, Granny Sha didn't say anything and said with a smile: "I met your grandpa. He is fine. He also asked us if you have grown taller and if you have gained weight!"

Chen Shi was very happy: "I ate two more bowls of rice tonight. What else did grandpa say? Did he receive the paper money I burned for grandpa? Is it enough? If it's not enough, I will burn it again. I also burned a building of paper money." Did he receive the house, the big sedan chair, and the eight paper figures? Is he in need of company? How about I burn some more paper-made old ladies for him? That’s right. I don’t have a few years left to live. Let grandpa wait for two more years and it will be over without burning..."

Granny Sha smiled and waited for him to talk for a long time before she said: "Okay, everything is okay. Your grandfather has received it. This time we go to his Yuanchen Palace. The palace is luxurious and rich. You burned it for him. He When you go out, you will be greeted by a large sedan chair. When you enter the palace, you will be served by maids and boys. It’s so comfortable!”

Legend has it that Yuanchen Palace is the place where the human soul lives, hidden in the underworld. After a person dies, the soul enters the underworld and lives in Yuanchen Palace.

Chen Shi has also heard of this rumor, but has never seen it.

He has only seen many ghosts of people who died in vain, not living in Yuanchen Palace, but walking confused in the mist.

There were many loopholes in Granny Sha's words, but he was concerned about his grandfather and didn't think about it carefully.

Chen Shi then asked about his grandfather's diet and daily life. After all, Grandma Sha had been a goddess all year round, so she responded fluently.

Chen Shi did not doubt, and felt relieved and said with a smile: "Grandpa is doing well, so I feel relieved. By the way, mother-in-law, you guys go to see grandpa. Is there anything you can do?"

Grandma Sha glanced at the green sheep and found that the sheep was still covered by the bearded man. Then she felt relieved and said with a smile: "Your grandfather and we are old friends. We just missed him this time and went to the underworld to visit. Unexpectedly, the underworld is too dangerous." , almost didn't make it back. Fortunately, Xiao Shi and Gouzi rescued us, otherwise the three of us would have been in trouble. It was getting dark, Xiao Shi, we had to go back."

She mobilized the five ghosts to move the altar, glanced at Qingyang and the bearded man, and left in a hurry.

"Kai Guo, I always feel that Granny Sha has something she didn't tell us."

Chen Shi watched them leave and murmured.

Gouzi nodded solemnly in agreement.

"But, Black Pot, you saved Granny Sha and the others and did a great deed. I will buy you something delicious as a reward tomorrow."

Chen Shi smiled.

The dog was very excited and barked twice.

Granny Sha heard the dog barking in the distance and breathed a sigh of relief.

The big man with the beard let go of Qingyang, still in shock, and praised: "My mother-in-law must have reacted quickly, otherwise Qingyang will definitely make a big fuss. If their true identity is revealed, Chen Shi and Gouzi may have an attack on the spot and reveal their true colors."

He was still frightened when he thought of the time when the Black Pot entered the underworld and went on a killing spree in the mist to rescue them.

The evil spirits besieging them were extremely numerous and powerful, otherwise they would not have been hurt.

But these evil spirits are unable to resist the attack of the scapegoat.

Even the woman in white was almost bitten to death by the black pot.

Qingyang said: "Do you still remember when Old Chentou picked up this dog?"

Grandma Sha thought for a while and said: "Three years ago? I remember that Old Chen Tou said he would try again and go into the underworld to save Chen Shi. That was the ninth time he went to save Chen Shi, but failed. I heard he was still injured. He was seriously injured and lay there for three months. When we met him again, there was a little black dog next to him.”

Qingyang and the bearded man looked at each other.

"Could this little black dog be brought by him from the underworld?"

The big man with the beard asked: "I heard that ghosts and gods can transform into other creatures. My mother-in-law is well-informed and is most familiar with the underworld. Can you tell what it is transformed into?"

Granny Sha shook her head and said, "You can't tell. It's no different from a normal dog."

The three of them stared at each other.

Grandma Sha sighed and said: "Old Chen went to the underworld to be happy, but he left the mess to us. You two, you go to rest and heal first. There will be more hard work in the future!"

Qingyang muttered: "It's so hard, I might as well just become Xiao Shi's godmother."

Grandma Sha and the big man with the beard looked pale and shook their heads. "If you don't become a godmother, you still have a way to live. If you become a godmother, you will have no chance at all."

The three of them dispersed.

…

He would take the county examination in four days. Chen Shi did not dare to neglect these four days.

Every morning I went to Zhu Xiucai's lectures.

Zhu Xiucai also taught very seriously.

"Xiao Shi, you don't have to worry. You have already received my true inheritance and will definitely go to high school."

Seeing that he was a little nervous, Zhu Xiucai comforted him: "Your and my talents will surely shock Xiniu Xinzhou and become a rising star in the literary world."

Chen Shi was a little relieved and said: "I don't dare to ask for the top prize. I only hope to be a candidate and shine on my family."

"In the bag, in the bag!"

Chen Shi went to the Tiger Temple a few more times. The front hall was still being repaired, and the images of the gods in the shrines in the main hall were getting clearer and clearer.

He looked at it carefully. It seemed to have the head of a bull, but it had the appearance of a human body.

The strange thing is that there is a tiger lying at the feet of the god.

The formation of the divine form was extremely slow, and he couldn't feel any fluctuations in the divine form's thoughts, which was very strange.

Generally speaking, the reason for the formation of the divine form is that the spirit being sacrificed has self-awareness and thinks that what it should look like is what the divine form will look like.

For example, the godmother of Huangyang Village is a bronze statue of gods and demons. After being worshiped by the villagers for a long time, she became self-conscious and thought that she should be a fat man, so her appearance was that of a fat man who ate all kinds of things.

The godmother of Huangpo Village is an ancient tree and thinks she should be a girl in her mid-twenties.

So the appearance is that of a dignified and delicate girl.

"The divine form must be conscious, but the divine form in the Tiger Temple is not conscious. This means that the Tiger is still alive..."

Chen Shi took a deep look at the divine form in the shrine and thought to himself: "The tiger should be in the ancestral land, China. Therefore, there is no need for consciousness to form his appearance. However, why is the tiger in Qianyang Mountain not in Xiniu Xinzhou, but in the ancestral land?" land?"

He suddenly realized: "Back then, the Sanbao eunuchs led the Ming Dynasty soldiers to this strange continent. They saw that the place was full of evil spirits. The first thing they did was definitely not to create gods, but to offer sacrifices to the Chinese gods they brought on their ships. Let the Chinese gods come in their avatars through the statues. In other words, Qianyang Mountain Lord should be the mountain god of a certain mountain in China."

He was a little confused again.

This place must have been very prosperous back then, but why did it decline and even the statues of gods disappeared?

"When the tiger's divine form is formed, you will know the whole story."

He left the Tiger Temple, went to the county town, and came to Wencai Academy.

In the past few days of preparing for the exam, Chen Shi was not worried about his literary test, but he was a little worried about his martial arts test.

So I plan to ask my classmates for advice.

There were only a few students in the academy, and many did not come to school.

Chen Shi was surprised to see a few people gathered together, whispering to each other, wondering what they were discussing.

Hu Feifei was among them. She caught a glimpse of him coming and waved quickly: "Brother Chen, come quickly, come quickly."

Chen Shi came closer. The students, three boys and two girls, looked about the same age as him. The eldest was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest was about ten years old. They were all neatly dressed and wearing black hats.

"There are no classes starting today?"

Chen Shi asked.

"Classes haven't started yet. Something happened in the city. Mr. Fu asked us to go home and don't come to the academy for the next two days!"

Hu Feifei said mysteriously: "The day before yesterday, yesterday, a dozen students disappeared in the city, and the government could not find them. They said that evil spirits came into the city and captured and ate them. So Mr. Fu did not dare to start classes. We I don’t believe that evil spirits are coming into the city. Why are they specifically arresting students and not others?”

Several students nodded repeatedly.

One of the students said: "So, we plan to catch this evil spirit."

Chen Shi looked at this childish face in surprise, looking for evil spirits?

Are all the students in the city so brave?

"Have you cultivated into a divine fetus?"

Chen Shi asked.

The student looked childish and shook his head.

Chen Shi looked at the others and said, "Which of you has cultivated into a divine fetus?"

Everyone shook their heads together, except Hu Feifei who smiled without shaking her head or nodding.

The student who was about ten years old said: "Chen Shi, you are from the countryside. Let's search Miaowei Bookstore to read the full version of Above the Avenue. The students in the city learn different things from you students in the countryside. Although we only cultivate There is no divine fetus in the shrine, but we can use the energy of the shrine to activate spells. We are very powerful."

A girl said: "Yes. Shen Yusheng is the most powerful. He can condense his sword energy every time, but I can't."

Chen Shi looked at Shen Yusheng. He was also a childish boy, eleven or twelve years old at most.

"Have you not cultivated the golden elixir?"

Chen Shi asked.

"Golden elixir? Golden elixir can only be cultivated by a person."

Shen Yusheng looked serious and said: "You must first be admitted as a scholar. During the great ceremony, the true god descends and receives the divine gift. Only then can you possess the divine fetus, enter the divine fetus realm, and then practice the divine fetus. With the help of the divine fetus, you can Enter the stage of transformation and refine the golden elixir."

Several students nodded.

Chen Shi thought about it and realized that he was indeed different from them. He could cultivate the golden elixir without the divine fetus.

However, if you pass the county examination and the true god descends and gives you the divine fetus, then you will have reached this level and you will be able to keep pace with other talents.

"I suspect that this person disguised as evil is Mr. Fu from our private school."

Hu Feifei whispered: "The county examination is approaching, and he has been sneaking around lately. I think he has already found good candidates among us. When the big festival comes, he will dig out the students' divine embryos and sell them at a good price."

"How can we doubt sir?"

"Sir, this is definitely not the case."

The students refuted her words one after another, and Hu Feifei sneered: "You don't believe it? We only need to monitor Mr. Fu to find clues."

Shen Yusheng looked at Chen Shi: "Chen Shi, are you going?"

Chen Shi hesitated, and the students all said, "With Shen Yusheng here, what are you afraid of?"

Chen Shi was also worried that the classmates he had just met were dead, so he agreed and said, "Is there any way you can find this evil spirit?"

"Use me as bait."

The youngest student stood up and said righteously.

Chen Shi asked: "What's your name?"

"My name is Gu Qingmeng, what's wrong?"

the student asked.

"nothing!"

Chen Shi said sincerely: "Now I know what name should be engraved on the tombstone!"

Hu Feifei said: "Today, the teacher went to the East Market. Let's go to the East Market to find him. Qingmeng will go and talk to him later. We will observe in secret. If he really attacks Qingmeng, we will jump out to rescue Qingmeng and capture the old thief. Escort him to the county government."

Everyone agreed and walked out of the academy immediately.

Chen Shi called the black pot, wondering in his heart: "Feifei will definitely not talk nonsense. Could it be that Mr. Fu really did it? Why did he arrest so many students?"

The East Market is a market in the east of the city. There are no fixed shops in the woods outside the city. The vendors will set up stalls during the day to sell some daily necessities, and some peddlers will sell things that children like.

Therefore, many students will go there after school.

Now that the moon is out in the daytime, it is said that there are evil spirits outside the city, and the East Market has become much quieter.

When they came to the East Market, there were indeed few vendors in the woods.

Gu Qingmeng said, "The day before yesterday, someone was beheaded over there. It was the county magistrate who was beheaded. There were so many people killed. Could it be that the county magistrate's ghost was still there and turned into an evil spirit?"

"My father went to see it and said that the county magistrate's body was burned and could not turn into an evil spirit. My father even brought back red steamed buns for my brother to eat, but I didn't get to eat them."

Another female student was quite regretful.

Hu Feifei said excitedly, "Mr. Fu is in front, Qingmeng, I'll leave it to you."

Everyone looked and saw Fu Leisheng squatting in front of a stall and talking to the stall owner.

The stall was selling geese, and more than a dozen big white geese were in cages.

The stall owner was an old man with white beard and white hair.

The old man was dressed in cloth, washed white, kind-looking, and easy to talk to.

Everyone hid behind the tree, and Gu Qingmeng walked up bravely, bowed to Fu Leisheng, and said something unknown.

Fu Leisheng stood up, seemed very angry, and asked Gu Qingmeng to go back to the city.

Gu Qingmeng started crying.

Fu Leisheng was quite helpless, so he apologized to the stall owner, took his hand and walked into the city, saying: "It's dangerous outside the city, you are still running out alone, be careful that you will also disappear."

Everyone waited until Fu Leisheng and Gu Qingmeng walked away, then rushed out from behind the tree, Shen Yusheng's eyes flashed, and said: "Mr. Fu has taken the bait. Let's follow him."

They hurried out from behind the tree, but saw that the old man selling geese also stood up and stretched.

Chen Shi looked at the old man selling geese, only to see that when the old man exhaled, his breath was extremely long, and he exhaled for a long time in one breath.

"How can his internal organs be so strong?"

Chen Shi was surprised, "He is almost catching up with me. His strength is at most one or two points inferior to mine."

He just thought of this, and suddenly the old man selling geese looked up like a flea, so fast that it was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

With a thud, he landed beside them, shaking open a pocket in the wind.

With a whoosh, he put Hu Feifei into the pocket.

He jumped repeatedly, very fast.

In an instant, he put Shen Yusheng and four others into the pocket.

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment, resisting the urge to act.

Thud...

An old man like a big flea fell from the sky, landed in front of Chen Shi and Hei Guo, grinned, and put him and Gou Zi into the pocket.

Chen Shi and Hei Guo fell into the pocket, only to see that the inside of the pocket was dark, and it was unknown how big it was. There was no one in the pocket.

Only five big white geese were shivering.

"Sure enough, this old man is playing tricks."

Chen Shi spoke, but unexpectedly, the sound of geese came out of his mouth.

He looked down, and his body was all white, and he turned into a big white goose.

He looked at Hei Guo beside him.

Gou Zi was still Gou Zi, sitting there, sticking out his tongue.

"Selling geese, selling geese!"

The voice of the goose seller came from outside, shouting: "The big white geese in the countryside, the big white geese from boys, stewed in an iron pot, delicious, longevity, county magistrate, do you want geese? Fresh big white geese from boys"

A slightly majestic voice said: "This goose is fresh, my wife likes to eat the big goose stewed in an iron pot, send it to the county government for me."

"Okay!"