When Liang En came out of the blacksmith shop, a smile broke out on his face. He didn't expect that the knife he bought casually would be so valuable in the ancient world, and could easily be sold for 500 taels of silver.
When he bought this knife, he just wanted to use the cheap labor of the ancient world to repair the knife and see if he could make a profit. But he did not expect that this knife was actually regarded as a precious luxury product in ancient China.
However, when Liang En walked to the stone bridge and was about to cross the river, ripples suddenly appeared on the originally calm river, and then a turtle the size of a washbasin floated up from the bottom of the water.
"Master, monster... monster——"
After seeing the movement on the river, Uncle Zhang subconsciously looked at the movement in the river and said tremblingly.
"Don't be nervous." Liang En released his grip on the handle of the knife because he didn't feel the cold atmosphere like the last time he encountered the black mist.
What's more important is that this place is only about 20 meters away from the City God's Temple. If any monsters and monsters could rush here, there would either be no movement at all, or there would be huge movement. It would never be like this.
"This turtle probably doesn't have any ill intentions. It probably has something to do with me. I'll go down and have a look."
After roughly guessing what the situation was like, Liang En signaled to Uncle Zhang to go first, and then he followed the steps beside the river for residents to get on and off boats and wash vegetables and arrive at a platform by the river.
When Liang En came to the water, the turtle also swam from the center of the river and spat out a jade pen as thick as an index finger and a small paper roll at Liang En's feet, then nodded to him three times and swam.
Returning to the middle of the river, it sank and disappeared.
At the same time, the bronze cauldron in Liang En's mind trembled and buzzed again, and then drop after drop of silver liquid emerged out of thin air at the top and fell into the cauldron.
"One drop, two drops, three drops - sixteen drops, seventeen drops!" After counting to the seventeenth drop, no new droplets were formed above the mouth of the tripod, but the liquid that originally dripped into the belly of the tripod was
It gathered into a puddle of liquid the size of a silver coin.
"What the hell is going on?"
Looking at the seventeen drops of liquid, Liang En fell into thinking. You must know that he had worked hard before and almost risked his life to kill the ghost head. He only got three drops of liquid, so he really couldn't figure out what he had done before.
Let him get seventeen drops of liquid.
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore, just look at this note first."
After thinking for a while, he simply shook his head, and then opened the note sent by the turtle before. Because he thought that if the other party's note came over, it would definitely have the reason for the whole thing.
This is indeed the case. A letter was written on this small piece of paper in small capital letters. At the beginning of the letter, he introduced himself as the writer was Huang Yongnian, a river god.
From the faint talisman on the letter, it can be seen that the person who wrote the letter to Liang En is a regular river god who has been granted the imperial title, and the reason why he is contacting Liang En now is because he wants to repay Liang En for saving his life.
"Could it be that the large eel I saved before is actually the river god?" At this time, Liang En had already reacted, because other than that, he really couldn't think of anything else that could be called a life-saving grace.
As Liang En's gaze gradually downwards, the entire content of the letter fell into Liang En's eyes.
Judging from the contents of the letter, the river god named Huang Yongnian is the second-generation river god from the nearby Wangyu River, and the first-generation river god is his uncle.
Unlike most rivers, the Wangyu River is a canal dug by the Yue State in the Spring and Autumn Period to connect the Taihu Lake and the Yangtze River. It was completely destroyed in this world a hundred years ago, and was only re-dug for the Northern Expedition after the establishment of the New Song Dynasty.
After the canal was re-dug, the then Duke of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang, petitioned the imperial court to enshrine a local eel spirit who had been doing good deeds for hundreds of years as the god of the river.
However, just three months ago, something went wrong while the former River God was practicing. In the end, he had to give up his body and priesthood and go to the Underworld in the Netherworld to become a ghost and god.
As a result, the position of Wangyu River God naturally became vacant.
Since his heirs were really useless, the River God decided to make his nephew Huang Yongnian the River God. Compared with other successors, Huang Yongnian's achievements in regulating water veins and protecting the people for so many years were enough to take over this priesthood.
At the same time, Huang Yongnian is also recognized as a kind eel, and at the same time he is fair and upright for eels, so after he becomes the river god, he can also ensure that the children of the old river god will not be attacked.
Because of the achievements of the old River God and the circumstances of the candidates, it can be said that Huang Yongnian became the River God. However, according to the process, he still needs to report to the court and get approval.
But during this gap period of only a few days, the Ghost King of Yinfengling suddenly launched an attack, using several water tribes he had bribed as internal agents to suddenly attack the River God Mansion.
This can be regarded as a collision between the ghosts and snake gods in the Netherworld and the Shinto system, and the Ghost King of Yinfeng Ridge is a pawn pushed out to cause trouble.
It is precisely for this reason that the series of actions taken by the Ghost King before he took action could be completed under the eyes of the city gods, and he dealt a heavy blow to the unlucky Huang Yongnian.
Facing the surprise attack, the Heshen Mansion was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. With the desperate protection of a group of confidants, Huang Yongnian escaped through a secret passage that only he and his uncle knew, and finally ran along the underground river to the yard of Liang En's house.
Unexpectedly, he encountered the Ghost King's subordinates who infiltrated into the city to search for his whereabouts. Fortunately, Liang En, an ordinary person, used something to directly kill the Ghost King's subordinates and brought him some food.
Because of Liang En's intervention, the river god finally got a night of peace, and he used this night to force out the poison he had been poisoned before, and then ran along the underground river to the city god early the next morning.
The next thing went smoothly - the city god who figured out what happened mobilized several surrounding city gods to go deep into the netherworld to launch an attack on Yinfeng Ridge. The ghost king of Yinfeng Ridge was defeated miserably under the joint attack and only escaped with his life.
Huang Yongnian successfully obtained the imperial title yesterday and finally became the God of Wangyu River.
Although Liang En only killed a low-level ghost leader in the whole incident, it was precisely because of his actions that Huang Yongnian, who was likely to die at the hands of the Ghost King, successfully became the River God.
But then again, Huang Yongnian was already in the city at that time, and as long as he was not killed in one blow, he could still make it to the city to get support. This is why Liang En did not obtain more luck essence.
The jade guide next to it was the river god's reward for his life-saving grace: after he learned at the City God's Temple that Liang En hoped to have a secret book that could really help him practice, he sent him a secret book of practice in his hand.
As a reward.
In addition, there is an invitation letter with a map of the river he manages, inviting Liang En to come to the river as a guest when he is free.
When the City God's Temple learned about this, they did not stop him: although the statement should not be passed on lightly, the merit of saving a river god was enough to pay for a real secret book of spiritual practice.
Not to mention that this inheritance is owned by the River God, so as long as it is not obviously entrusted to non-human beings, there is no reason for the Chenghuang Temple to stop it.