Ku Rongti

Jing Gu, this kid, usually doesn't like to tidy himself up, his slovenly appearance is like cats hate dogs, now he came to Sang Shiyi's family, put on Sang Shishi's clothes and finally cleaned himself up.

Jing Gu's face is really good, and if he grows up, there may be a lot of little girls who are fascinated by him.

Chu Deng has lived for 160 years, and he has never seen a boy who is better-looking than Jing Gu. Jing Gu's eyebrows are more delicate than girls, and the faint red at the corners of his eyes makes his face a bit more beautiful.

Chu Deng felt that there was nothing to clean up, so he put some important books into his storage bag, and threw a book about puppetry to Jing Gu by the way, letting him think about it first.

Then he took two hapless children and a cat on the road.

Before leaving, Jing Gu and Sang Shishi went to the inn to say goodbye to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper wanted to give Jing Gu a tael of silver, but Jing Gu confiscated it.

Aunt Zhang brought her son to see them off. The widowed woman looked at Sang Shishi tearfully and told him to take good care of him from now on.

They hired a carriage and headed south.

Chu Deng said that they are going to Yangjing, which is near the sea and the only place on the mainland where they can go to the three islands.

Penglai is different from the abbot and Yingzhou. Every year, there is an opportunity to open to the mainland. The disciples of Penglai will be sent to pick up people from the mainland.

Generally speaking, the boat tickets are controlled by the royal family. There are [-] boat tickets every year, and those who can go to Penglai are the children of the royal family.

After all, opportunities are rare, if you are lucky enough to be favored by "immortals", you will not be a mortal.

Chu Deng came to the mainland to defend the sword, but now he can't just go back like this, he will definitely be discovered.

He can only go to Yangjing, which is the imperial capital, and he should be able to get a few boat tickets.

Along the way, Sang Shishi was very worry-free, but that bastard Jing Gu was too energetic and had too many problems, and Chu Deng was annoyed by him.

Then Chu Deng threw Jinggu to Sang Shishi and asked him to torment his apprentice.

Chu Deng was puzzled, didn't Jing Gu have a heart disease?I don't see him committing a crime for a few days, why is he so noisy?

After traveling day and night for a month, they finally arrived in Yangjing.

It is obvious that Sang Shishi and Jing Gu have never seen the world, but Sang Shiyi has benefited from Chu Deng's years of "teaching", so he is not as obvious as Jing Gu's old man.

However, the prosperity of Yangjing still shook the young man's heart severely.

I have seen many large and small cities along the way, but I have never seen a place as prosperous as Yangjing.

There are many shops on the street, and the pedestrians are not even wearing common clothes. The surrounding buildings can be called carved beams and paintings. There are not even hawkers on the street. Everywhere you look, there is orderly prosperity.

Chu Deng seemed to be very prescient. Before entering the city, he changed into a suit of silk and satin clothes. Although it was still blue, it seemed a bit like a nobleman.

As if to show his identity, Chu Deng actually put on the white jade crown.

In contrast, Sang Shishi and Chu Deng were like his little servants, dressed in coarse cloth, and their hair was tied up with only a strip of cloth, which was incomparable to Chu Deng's coquettish attire.

"Let's go, I'll take you to buy clothes." Chu Deng took out a folding fan out of nowhere, opened it with a "snap", and led the way while shaking it.

He should have been to Yangjing and is very familiar with the streets and alleys here, Sang Shishi and Jing Gu could only keep up with him quickly.

They said they were shopping for clothes, but Chu Deng took them to a quiet mansion.

He knocked on the door, and the door was opened immediately. When the people inside saw Chu Deng, they immediately welcomed him in respectfully, and called out: "Mr. Chu."

"Excuse me, is the prince there?" Chu Deng walked in with a smile. Although Sang Shishi and Jing Gu were surprised that Chu Deng knew such a big man, they had no choice but to follow.

"Take them to change clothes." After Chu Deng knew where the "Prince" he was talking about was, he ordered the housekeeper who came behind him.

Sang Shishi and Jing Gu were inexplicably taken down to change their clothes, and then led to the back garden.

Chu Deng was sitting drinking tea and chatting with a man in white clothes, Liuli turned into a human form, and was stuffing a snack into his mouth with each hand.

The man looked to be middle-aged, with some fine lines around his eyes, and he seemed to be smiling, elegant and gentle.

"My apprentice, Sang Shishi." Seeing them coming, Chu Deng pointed to Sang Shishi to introduce to the prince.

He pointed at Jing Gu again: "My nephew."

The prince wondered: "If I remember correctly, you only have one senior brother, isn't he dead?"

Chu Deng: "This child was brought in as a relic of his, so I accepted this disciple for him. If I want to come to him and find out about it, I won't blame me."

Only then did he introduce to Sang Shishi and Jing Gu: "This is King Heng of Great Xia, Gu Ming, you can call him Uncle Ming."

"I can't afford to say 'Uncle'." Gu Ming smiled, took a sip of tea and said quietly, "I understand why you came this time, but I don't think there is any need to waste the boat ticket. Yingzhou is here. Personal, I think you should meet."

"Who?" Chu Deng instinctively felt that it was someone he didn't want to see for a while.

"Your brother's big apprentice, Zhou Shanji, is now in the palace." Gu Ming observed Chu Deng's reaction, and saw his expression change as expected.

When Chu Deng heard the name, his hands shook, and a few drops of tea came out.

Really... what are you afraid of...

"When you came, I sent a message to the palace, and he should be here soon." Gu Ming gave Chu Deng another knife.

When Chu Deng spoke again, his tone was already gnashing his teeth: "Gu Ming, although we don't have a deep friendship, you don't have to cheat me like this, do you?"

Shall I ask you for a few boat tickets?Do friends still do it?

Chu Deng immediately asked the housekeeper to take Jing Gu and Sang Shiyi down, and Sang Shiyi looked back at Chu Deng as he walked.

Chu Deng's expression has never been so solemn, almost as serious as facing an enemy.

Sang Shishi turned his head and glanced at Jing Gu beside him. Seeing that the boy was half a head shorter than him even though he was one year older, he couldn't help rubbing Jing Gu's head.

"What are you doing?" Jing Gu looked at Sang Shishi in a daze.

"Your senior brother is coming, are you happy?" Sang Shishi asked.

"I don't even know him, why are you happy?" Jing Gu looked at Sang Shishi inexplicably.

Sang Shishi was still about to say something, when a man walked towards him, dressed in black like ink, with extraordinary handsome features but a serious expression, his eyes flitting lightly across Sang Shishi's face, but he suddenly stopped.

Sang Shishi didn't know how to describe that look, but felt that it was like a knife, tracing every inch of his face, as if he wanted to see through this layer of flesh to see through his soul.

But he doesn't know this person.

Before Sang Shishi had time to think about it, the man suddenly stopped and asked him, "What's your name?"

Sang Shishi replied subconsciously: "Sang Shishi."

The man frowned, but left in a hurry without asking too much.

The man was Zhou Shanji, and when he heard that Chu Deng was here, he wanted to inquire about his guilt, but after meeting Sang Shishi, he turned into an impatient question.

As soon as he saw Chu Deng, he asked straightforwardly: "Who is Sang Shishi?"

Chu Deng paused, looked at him somewhat complicatedly, and then glanced at Gu Ming, Gu Ming waved knowingly to make everyone around him back down.

It wasn't until there were only the three of them left around that Chu Deng slowly stretched out an index finger to dip the water in the teacup twice, and wrote a word on the smooth marble table: Pray.

As if being struck by lightning, Zhou Shanji stood there in a daze, motionless. Shocked and ecstatic, he stepped forward and grabbed Chu Deng by the collar: "He, he is..."

Chu Deng patted his hand away in disgust and took a step back: "If he wasn't, why do you think I haven't gone back for so many years?"

"I thought you couldn't find your way back." Recovering his senses, Zhou Shanji taunted Chu Deng as usual.

But this time Chu Deng pinched him without meeting him. Instead, he straightened his collar and sat down slowly, with a serious tone: "Don't tell Eleven."

"Are you going to make him think that he has no father for the rest of his life!?" Zhou Shanji didn't understand.

Chu Deng: "Zhou Shanji, you don't know how his father died!"

"Of course I know, it's because of you!"

"Even if I was wrong about what happened back then, how could my cultivation be able to kill senior brother? You have been in Yingzhou for so many years, and you haven't noticed any clues? Senior brother was clearly tampered with back then, and you also participated in that battle , you don't know!"

"I know!" Zhou Shanji roared depressingly, "If I didn't know, do you think you can get out of Yingzhou safely?"

Chu Deng also noticed his gaffe, picked up the tea cup and drank it down, put the tea cup on the table fiercely, and made a crisp sound: "Brother entrusted Senior Sister Wei Zi to me back then, when I found Senior Sister, She was dying, and before she died, she told me the whereabouts of Shiyi, and I have been looking for that child for eight years..."

"Chu Deng, what are you going to do now, take him back to Yingzhou to recognize his ancestors? Or hide this identity until death?"

"I want to go back to Yingzhou, take him to practice, and find out the truth about who tampered with my brother."

Zhou Shanji took a deep breath, and threw out two tickets: "In order not to let people notice the strangeness, you can take him on board."

Chu Deng's expression suddenly became weird, and Liuli on the side saw the ticket, and stretched out three fingers with crumbs stuck to it: "Three tickets are enough. Didn't you see that there was a child when you came here?"

Zhou Shanji recalled: "You mean the one next to Eleven?"

Liuli looked at him like an idiot, with disgust in her big eyes, as if to say: "Otherwise?"

Zhou Shanji: "Who is that child?"

Chu Deng glanced at him lazily: "Your junior brother."

"My master will only have me as an apprentice until his death."

"The wooden ball left by your master has always been carried by Eleven. The child touched the wooden ball by accident, and he was able to use the wooden ball as a medium to use the elementary puppet technique, and he could clearly see the complete body in the wooden ball. The puppet is a rare genius, so I will accept him for your master." Chu Deng explained.

Zhou Shanji thought for a while, "Look for trouble!"

"Your master will be happy if you know under the nine springs." Chu Deng looked at Zhou Shanji cheerfully, regardless of Zhou Shanji's attitude: "I will leave this child to you in the future, teach him well."

After finishing speaking, regardless of Zhou Shanji's reaction, Chu Deng quickly slipped away to find Sang Shishi, leaving Zhou Shanji alone.

Zhou Shanji sat in front of Gu Ming angrily: "Apart from Chu Deng being here, what else do you want me for?"

"This time, His Majesty ordered the prince to accompany him to Penglai, and rely on the elder to take care of him." Gu Ming stood up and bowed.

Zhou Shanji: "Ordinary people are troublesome. If you know it, we will leave in ten days."

He seemed impatient, but wanted to stay and see Sang Shishi, after thinking for a moment, he still left the palace.