3. The Magical Story of the Great Chu Kingdom (3)(1/2)
In the fifth year of Fengming, in midsummer of August, outside Lin'an, the Qiantang River estuary.
This season is the best tide viewing day of the year. Early one day, literati and poets from all over the world, as well as people in the city who like to be lively gathered here.
Lin'an City has been a wealthy place since ancient times, so in this place where you can watch the tide, there is naturally a "primitive room" exclusively for officials and nobles to enjoy. It is a seven-story attic, which is built very elegantly and elegantly.
Every year on the day of watching the tide, the money for tea is naturally very high, which often attracts a group of rich and leisurely guys to secretly bid for battle just to find a location in a tall building.
Watching the trend and other things are just a matter of elegance for the rich businessmen who like money. As long as you get that position and make friends with the nobles in the building, no matter how much money you spend, it is worth it.
It was fine in the past few years, after all, it was an era of war. Lin'an City was burned by thieves when the former southern country was destroyed, so the trend of competing for wealth was slightly reduced.
Since the reconstruction of the Great Chu, China and Earth have been peaceful and stable, and there is almost no war in the country, and the people cannot be considered happy and prosperous. However, the order of the family and country has returned quickly. Under the command of the wise Qingqing Empress, the court and the people are all in a prosperous state.
Although the expedition from the Great Chu to Japan has been intermittent for five years and has not yet ended, it has caused some complaints from the middle school.
But as long as you ignore this, the entire Great Chu has just begun to take off and good days are still coming.
Businessmen, this is a group of people with the keenest sense of smell in peace times.
They smelled the smell from a series of laws issued by the imperial court in recent years. The new dynasty did not suppress business. The queen even handed over the private warehouse of the king to the Jiangnan rich merchant Luoyueqi to operate on behalf of the company.
The most famous and powerful sect in the world, the Heluo Gang, has traveled all over the country and rebuilt the chaos in various places. It has joined hands with the Mojia Tianji Pavilion, which is good at creating, and has made a lot of money.
The Heluo Gang is not only a sect in the martial arts world, but also one of the leaders of the Jiuzhou Martial Alliance directly under the court's military system. He takes charge of the Central Plains martial arts affairs, and has both a Jianghu identity and an official identity.
The business is so big, but the court does not come forward to control it, which shows a lot.
So the merchants all over the world became active again in the past five years and became the most active group under the command of the Great Chu Dynasty.
Such a background made the wealthy merchants in Lin'an City shook again. This year, many imperial officials participated in the Tide Watching Sea Club in a low-key manner, so the phenomenon of fighting for wealth and buying tickets became more and more intense.
But there are also strange things.
This year, the Tchaohai Building released twenty-five seats to merchants, which is more than half less than in previous years. Moreover, these seats are all five floors below the bottom, and the top two floors with the best scenery, but none of them are for merchants.
Not without it.
But no matter how much money you pay, you can't give it.
There have been rumors that this year's top floor of the Tide Watching Sea Club has been booked by a mysterious person and is allowed to be used by a noble person with a great identity. The entire floor is not allowed to enter and exit others.
Not to mention poor and rich businessmen, even officials of Lin'an City are not allowed to enter, so they can only watch the sea on the sixth floor.
The merchants had no complaints.
They dare not complain either.
These days, unlike in the past, the identity of the past is more of an exaggeration, describing some relationship with the senior officials of the court. However, in recent years, it is really a "person who has the identity of the sky".
Three years ago, some strange sayings were spread in the Western Regions, saying that some bright world had appeared. Any good person who believed in the doctrine of the Holy Fire can go to the bright world after his death and enjoy happiness forever.
Anyone who knows a little about the world knows that it is a major sect in the Western Regions. Everyone believes that they are skilled in martial arts, but the remarks of "going to heaven after death" are a bit shocking.
It's just the same rhetoric as those cults in troubled times.
No one took it seriously at that time.
As a result, in less than a few months, people in the world were slapped in the face.
One day, on the Holy Volcano, the souls of the first batch of good people in the religion were sent to the world of light under the protection of the leader of the mountain and the Saint of Shiyin who rushed back from Japan.
This scene invited heroes from all over the world to watch the ceremony with people from all walks of life. That day, the sky turned into a sacred fire, and golden flames wandered around the sky, forming a building full of majestic and reflected in the flame world between heaven and earth.
Under the fiery red door, there are steps made of flames.
Extending from the sky to the ground, the souls of those good people are brought into it, and then burning flames, washing away dirt, reshaping their bodies with fire, wings grow on their backs, returning to the bright world, and enjoying peace and freedom forever.
Such a big scene cannot be explained by just one or two illusions.
What's more, that day, the Holy Fire Sect also invited the official of the Great Chu government. General Li Shouguo, the leader of the military who suppressed the Western Regions of Guanzhong, came in person, which was equivalent to an official platform.
The news spread all over the world all at once.
In the following year or two, a series of "immortal worlds" such as Buddhists and Western Infinite Pure Land, Taoist Haotian Spirit Realm, Five Immortals Shuoxue Palace, Demon Alliance and Demon Abyss appeared one after another.
Their appearance made all sentient beings in the world realize a very important issue.
That is, the fairy world really exists.
Not only can peerless warriors leave their bodies with their souls and travel around the fairy spirits, but the officials of the Great Chu also opened up an underworld guarding in the fairy spirit world, hoping to reshape the cycle of heaven and earth.
In other words, ordinary people, as long as they do not do evil things in their entire lives and live with their hearts, they can ascend to the fairy world after death. The evil people also have this opportunity, but entering them will cause suffering.
With this propaganda, the order of the entire Great Chu world will be quickly moved towards the direction of people's livelihood and happiness. Who doesn't want to have a good place to go after they die?
Human nature is like this and cannot be changed.
But everyone has curiosity. Early in the morning of the tide, the high-ranking officials and nobles entered the Guanhai Tower early. Except for some literati and scholars, the core of the issue that most people discussed was to guess where the noble people on the seventh floor came from and who they were?
Some brave men also tried to take a look at the seventh floor in the name of toasting a glass of wine and pulling a relationship. At the entrance to the seventh floor, they were blocked by a slender female warrior holding a Japanese sword.
No one can enter, don’t disturb the noble person’s tranquility, but someone recognizes the identity of this female warrior.
Someone had met her several times in Yanyulou. The man's name was Xiuhe.
His identity is very mysterious, but it can be confirmed that he is in charge of the information exchanges between the Great Chu world, listening to the world for the Queen, and listening to Dihou, the mysterious "Hong Gu".
The answer to the mystery has been revealed.
On the seventh floor is the first female marquis in a thousand years. This identity is indeed a perfect match.
In addition, Tingdisi, as the queen, has his disciples all over the world, specializing in supervising the world's illegality and collecting evidence of criminal crimes by officials, and doing things that are all about destroying people's jobs.
No one wants to get involved with them, so no one dares to tease them anymore.
On the seventh floor, it suddenly became quiet.
"I have to spend all my time opening my eyes every day. I originally thought that after the Great Chu world was pacified, I would be idle, Tingdihou, but I didn't expect that, but I became more and more busy every day."
On the seventh floor, the decoration was abnormally suppressed, and the closed pavilion used to view the sea was wearing a big red dress. Chen Lan held a scroll in her hand. While opening it, she complained to the people around her:
"The Japanese side has improved, but there is trouble in the middle of the earth.
Qingqing and the court officials were very anxious these days. The deployment pressure from my subordinates was extremely high. All parties were like donkeys with whipped whips running around the world.
You said, this is so good, how could so many monsters pop up all of a sudden?
And it is available everywhere in the world, just like an appointment, jumping out all of a sudden, scaring our human race.”
While speaking, the female marquis opened the scroll in her hand, glanced at it, and her face was full of depression, as if she was tired and angry, so she threw the scroll aside.
The movement became a little bigger, and a sound came out, which alarmed the cradle beside him, causing the baby to wake up and burst into tears.
"You are all mothers, and you are a senior official of the court and a master of the side. Why is this temper worse than a few years ago?"
Another person on the seventh floor said helplessly, reached out and picked up the baby in the cradle, and shook it gently for a few times. It was strange that the frightened child seemed to feel very safe and comfortable in this person's arms.
Within a few breaths, he stopped crying, and giggled, stretched out his little arm, as if he was playing games with the person holding him.
This scene made Chen Lan feel even worse.
Hong Gu, who was as beautiful as in previous years, said with a lip of her lips:
"Why are I in a good mood?
This little unfaithful person born from my belly is even closer to you, an outsider than to be close to my mother. How can this make me feel better?
If I hadn't known you well, I would even think that you used a magic trick, why are the children of our families so attached to you?
Your yard is almost a nursery school.”
"You're talking nonsense."
Yaoqin, who was amused and crying by Chen Lan's statement, shook her head. This Jiangnan woman who has become more beautiful and charming in recent years said while taking care of the child in her arms:
"Don't compare with me. Huiyin came to see me a few days ago and said that I had cultivated the 'martial spirit'.
This surprised me very much. I didn’t practice martial arts, so I asked her again, and she said that there are three ways to achieve three thousand ways in the world, and music and martial arts also have different ways to achieve the same goal.
If the spiritual energy is full of today and there are spiritual objects like Luo Yueqin accompanying me, this music of my hand will also show various changes."
Yaoqin smiled, plucked her long hair around her ears, and said:
"So when you think about it carefully, the children are so attached to me, I'm afraid it's also related to this."
"Really?"
Chen Lan looked suspiciously, looking up and down like a red fox. After a few breaths, she said confidently:
"If I don't believe it, it must be that Immortal Chen left some strange power on his beloved wife before leaving this world, which is for you to defend yourself.
Just like Lin Huiyin.
In just less than five years, I have become the top martial artist in the world. Seeing that my martial arts are sophisticated, I have gone to chase the leader of the martial arts world, Lu Guizang, which puts great pressure on my family.
These days, the period of the Heroes is approaching, and the man gave up my Yu'er and went to the sea to find a place to go to seclusion and practice."
When Chen Lan heard Chen Qiu mention Chen Qiu, Yaoqin's expression changed a few times, and the smile in her big eyes also drooped a little.
Chen Lan thought it was not good, and she was just right, and she even poked the heart of her best friend again. Then she changed the topic and picked up the scroll she had left behind. She said to Yaoqin as if she was complaining:
"I'm not even more bad-tempered, but this matter is troublesome and makes me feel unhappy. Look, from the secret letter from Liaodong, a dragon turtle suspected to be a dragon seed appears under the Tianchi Lake of Changbai Mountain.
This is not the first time that the stronghold gate of the Tongwu Sect was razed to the ground by monsters overnight.
To be continued...