The Monk

Chapter 992 Yangzhou

Zhang Awei sighed and said, "Are we too ostentatious?" The fat man looked around and said seriously, "It's a bit ostentatious." Thirteenth Lang smiled and said, "If a fairy from the divine world comes to earth and doesn't even have this bit of attraction, It’s better to reincarnate and rebuild.”

The three men were talking and talking, and pedestrians on the roadside were watching. However, the seven beauties involved did not move at all. They just thought that everyone was dead and walked slowly behind Zhang Awei.

Seeing more and more people looking over, Zhang Ai felt a little uncomfortable. The Seven Beauties remained motionless. Zhang Ai smiled bitterly and said, "Hurry into the city and find a place to sit."

While they were talking, the ten people came to the city gate. When they looked up, they saw two big characters engraved on the top of the city gate, Yangzhou. Zhang Ain smiled and said: "The name is quite impressive. How dare you name a small city after a state." He lowered his eyes and was about to walk forward when he was suddenly attracted by a stone tablet on the left side of the city gate. The stone tablet was two meters high. A line of words is written vertically, and the silver hook enters the water, causing waves in the world.

Zhang Ping was afraid of something in his heart and looked to the right of the city gate. There was also a stone tablet with the inscription, "Sit vertically in the south of the Yangtze River and fish all over the world."

Zhang was afraid that he might be struck by lightning, so he stayed on the spot. The fat man asked curiously: "What's wrong?" Zhang Ao shook his head slightly: "Nothing." He looked carefully at the two stone tablets. They were very old, probably several thousand years old. He also looked at the city wall. There were new and old bricks. They are of various vintages and have obviously been repaired several times.

Estimate the time and look at the stone tablets. The two stone tablets should be erected later.

The fat man said: "It doesn't matter, let's go quickly. The city gate is blocked." Seven beauties appeared, and the people outside the city followed. The people in the city were unwilling to leave, so they happened to be blocked in the city gate. Even the six gatekeepers He was so focused on looking at the beauty that he had no time to care about the crowds under the city gate.

Zhang let out a fearful cry and ducked through the crowd. The nine gods did the same and quickly entered the city. There was a restaurant a hundred meters away from the city gate. It looked small and the decoration was old and nothing special. However, there were three words on the lintel that attracted Zhang Ai.

On a black plaque were written three gilded characters, "Jiangnan Residence".

Zhang Ai sighed and said, "It turns out that this is Jiangnan."

At this moment, he thought of the big tiger Hu Ping, who had spent his whole life trying to leave the God Refining Valley and see what the human world was like. The tiger had a map of the God Refining Temple formation, and there were some poems written here and there on the back of the formation. It is a fragment of a poem reciting Jiangnan. Among them is the sentence that was once told to Zhang Awei: "Silver hooks entering the water will stir up waves in the four seas; sitting vertically in the south of the Yangtze River, you will catch more than the world." This is also the words engraved on the two stone tablets at the gate of the city.

When the fat man saw him entering the city, he started to be in a daze and asked again: "What's wrong with you?" Zhang Ain smiled bitterly and said: "Go up and sit down." He walked up to Jiangnan Residence.

After entering the store, a waiter came over and was busy, leading ten people to a private room on the second floor and serving tea and wine attentively. However, Zhang Wen was just in a daze, thinking about one sentence in his mind, it turns out that this is Jiangnan.

Because the beauties came into the restaurant for dinner, the men who wanted to take a look rushed into Jiangnan Residence with one purpose. No matter what, they wanted to see with their own eyes what the seven beautiful women looked like. As a result, a small shop called Jiangnanju in Yangzhou City suddenly became the busiest and most popular place in the city one afternoon, and business was so good.

Zhang Pingku sat for a while, thinking about Hu Ping. The place where Big Tiger risked his life to go, the so-called Jiangnan, was not in his realm, but on another star who didn't know how far away it was. With Big Tiger's cultivation, even if he worked ten thousand more, Years later, it would be impossible to come here. Thinking of this, I picked up a glass of wine, raised it high above my head, saluted the sky, and then sprinkled it on the ground. I said to myself: "Since you want to see it, I will come to see it for you."

He originally had Hu Ping's soul in his body, but in order to help him improve his cultivation, Big Tiger forcibly erased all memories. He could only rely on instinct to do things, and he had no memory of the past. Even calling him out was useless.

After toasting, I suddenly heard some raindrops falling outside. I stood up and opened the window to look out. On this afternoon, a drizzle suddenly began to fall from the sky, as light as a cow's awns. A gust of breeze danced, and it was blown a few meters away, falling diagonally, looking like smoke.

Zhang Ai was so fascinated by the sight that he whispered: "So this is Yanyu Jiangnan."

In his three realms, there is also mist and rain, which can be so soft and gentle, and there are many beautiful scenery. The mountains are like fog, the water is like smoke, and the fog is stacked like mountains. But it was not as shocking as the moment before him. He looked at the gray wall bricks and tiles in the distance, which looked so swaying and hazy in the misty rain of the same color.

Maybe it’s because after years of searching, you finally found your goal? Maybe it’s because I miss people after seeing things and think about Hu Ping? In short, the misty rain at this moment is particularly beautiful, so beautiful that it makes people want to be intoxicated. Looking forward, there are several arch bridges, which are built on the blue river. It looks like the green water is surrounded by people, but there are also beautiful halls and pavilions on the water.

Zhang Ai was so engrossed in watching it that the nine gods around him watched the beautiful scenery with him. Although the world of gods is beautiful, there has never been such a scenery. It turns out that the rain can fall so beautifully.

They looked out the window, causing many people downstairs to look up, looking for the beauty. There is no shortage of literati in Yangzhou city. A group of scholars admired the beauty of the Seven Girls and wanted to attract their attention. At that time, someone took two sentences from an ancient poem and chanted: "The light smoke and flowing water paint the screen of tranquility, and the boundless silk rain is as fine as sorrow." Although it is not neat. , but it exactly sets off the scenery at this time.

The scholar woke up Zhang Ai and called the waiter to ask: "Who wrote the words on the stone tablet outside the city? Jiangnan refers to Yangzhou City?" The waiter smiled and said: "The guest is not from here, is he? That should be the case. He was not from the Daxing Dynasty. The two lines of inscriptions on the stone tablet outside the city were made by the emperor of the previous dynasty. I don’t know how long it was. In short, it was a long time. The emperor had a troubled life and was once trapped in Yangzhou. City, one day after drinking and fishing, I felt the ups and downs of my life, and I was unwilling to sleep in the cold, so I wrote a poem about a silver hook entering the water and making waves in the world; The founding emperor of the Xing Dynasty was also in Yangzhou. He accidentally heard these two poems and was deeply moved by them. He then worked hard to unify the world and established the Daxing Dynasty. Yangzhou City was the emperor's dormant residence, so a monument was erected to commemorate it. Those are the two lines of poetry.”

Zhang Ai nodded and said: "I see, what about Jiangnan? Isn't it here?"

The waiter smiled and said: "Jiangnan is a big place. It is a rich place south of the river. There is Yangzhou City and other places. It is not only rich, but also has endless beautiful scenery. It is also a place where countless scribes and senior officials gather. Of course, there are As long as there are literati, there are also brothels. Therefore, it is said that the richest and most beautiful places in the world are all in the south of the Yangtze River, and people are also the first. Whether they are talented people or beautiful women, they are all ranked among the top dynasties. In Jianghu terms, That’s called top spot.”

The waiter was explaining what Jiangnan was, but the literati in the middle of Jiangnan were busy reciting poems, thinking that they could impress the beautiful women with their talents and come out to meet her. Therefore, except for the scholar who recited two old fragments at the beginning, everyone else was reciting newly created sentences, poems or lyrics, all adapted to the situation. One person after another, they continued to recite, and they praised Jiangnan Ju. unprecedented heights.

Listening to a group of scholars reading poetry noisily, Zhang Ain thought of his years in Tianlei Mountain, and suddenly felt that it was both fantasy and reality, as if those things he had only seen in his dreams before were now his real existence. I smiled wryly and shook my head. Regardless of whether it was true or false, I would always go back there; no matter how good this place is, it is still in someone else's world.

When I think of the divisions between realms, I think of the poems on the stone tablet at the city gate. How could the words of this realm be spread to the Valley of the Gods? Could it be that the person who built the God Refining Valley had ever been to this world?

As he was thinking about it, he thought of the Nitian Cave again, and curiously asked Thirteenth Lang: "Do you know anything about the prisoners?" Thirteenth Lang said with a smile: "Who in the divine world doesn't know about it? There is a small star outside the divine palace, named Prisoner Star, when you enter the star, time will slow down. A year inside is just one day outside. It is interesting to say that the gods are all high above. People with great supernatural powers and abilities can point to the stars, but no matter How powerful it is, but there is nothing you can do about this prison star. No matter how hard you try, you can't break it. You can only enter and exit through the door. "

Listening to what Thirteenth Lang said, Prisoner Star and Nitian Cave are very similar. They should be built by the same god. Even if they are not the same person, they are at least related. I originally thought it was built by the Star Emperor and others, but now it seems that the Star Emperor cannot leave the Three Realms at will, and may not have the kind of heaven-defying means. It is most likely the work of a certain god in the God Realm. I'm just a little curious, why did the gods build Nitian Cave? Why did you plant the spiritual grass from the Three Realms instead of the immortal plants from the God Realm, and why did you not return to Nitian Cave for many years?

After thinking about this for a long time, I suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves on the street, followed by the sound of messy footsteps. I followed the sound and saw a group of servants running towards Jiangnan Residence. There were two big horses in front of them and a row of two people behind them. In a small sedan, both the rider and the bearer are dressed as servants, but the difference is that the rider's clothing is slightly more luxurious.

These people ran to Jiangnan Residence and stopped. The rider dismounted and went directly to the shopkeeper to ask questions. Then he heard footsteps going up the stairs and stopped outside the private room of Zhang Wen and others. Someone knocked on the door and said loudly: " The magistrate has invited three gentlemen and seven beauties to the mansion for a banquet. There are sedans ready downstairs, please move forward."

Zhang Ain looked at the fat man and smiled and said: "I really want to keep a low profile." The fat man frowned slightly and didn't even open the door. He said coldly outside the door: "I'm not going."

The two servants outside the door are used to being pampered. Today, the adults are entertaining guests, but the guests are having wine at Jiangnan Residence. After asking someone to ask, they found out that seven beauties came to the small restaurant at the same time, attracting countless idlers to join in the fun. The guests were noisy for a while, and in the excitement of wine, they persuaded the magistrate to send someone to invite the beautiful woman. Only the two of them came here, who knew they would be rejected. One servant froze with his bow in hand, but the other ignored it and pushed the door open and said loudly: "My lord, you have been waiting for a long time. Several guests should leave early."

Looking at that arrogant face, Zhang Awei shook his head gently and ignored it. When had that evil servant ever experienced such deficiencies? At that time, he was angry and said in a cold voice: "Your Excellency is the head of a palace, the father-in-law of hundreds of thousands of people, and has the power of an entire land..." There were many threatening words behind him, but unfortunately he was interrupted before he could finish.