Chapter 918 Convince the bull-nosed people of Xuanduguan,
Chapter 918 Convince those awesome people in Xuandu Temple and not dare to gibber (please subscribe and vote)
Cheng Chubi looked at Li Ke suspiciously, always feeling that this boy was talking nonsense.
"At the end of autumn, at the end of autumn, not to mention our north, even in the south, the lotus leaves have already withered. Where are the damn lotus leaves?"
"Haha, you don't understand, brother Chu Bi. The Xuandu Temple was originally called Tongda Temple. It was built in the ancient city of Chang'an in the third year of Xiang Xiang's reign in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. It was originally named Tongda Temple.
It is said that when Daxing City was built in the previous dynasty, it was moved to the current place for construction in the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's reign.
When Xuandu Temple was being built, we discovered that there was a hot spot in the current site of Xuandu Temple."
"No matter what the seasons change, that area of about one acre is always warm."
"At that time, I thought there might be some rare treasure underground. I dug several feet, but no good treasures were found."
"The excavated soil was also ordinary soil, so the first Xuandu Temple Master transformed the excavated hot land into a lotus pond."
"The lotuses there are said to have been brought as tribute from Cochin. In this lotus pond, which is as warm as spring all year round, they always bloom undefeated."
Cheng Chubi's expression immediately dropped, and he wiped his face with a complicated expression. Day!
This is really a noun. The late autumn sunshine can no longer illuminate Cheng Chubi's cold heart at the moment.
Why is there floor heating in that shitty place, and why do you have this kind of lotus that blooms all year round?
Cheng Chubi was so angry that he wanted to rush to Xuandu Temple with a big hoe and dig up the lotus pond directly.
Raising his head and looking at the two unlucky turtles in front of him, Cheng Chubi's eyes became a little wet.
I always feel like my salary is starting to flutter again.
Cheng Chubi raised his hand, pulled Fang Jun's hand aside, and patted the turtle with scriptures engraved on its back with a heavy heart.
If they are just dying, you can't even give them cardiopulmonary resuscitation or artificial respiration.
But they had died heroically, so what should we do? Looking at this large turtle, Cheng Chubi really felt a little tricky.
Fang Jun next to him was making bad ideas.
"Brother Chu Bi, if it doesn't work, let's throw it back quietly."
"Thank you for telling me. The people at Xuandu Temple know that the old Cheng family took away the spirit turtle."
"Even if you throw it back, within a few days, the Taoist priests in the temple will see that the spirit turtle has lost its breath. Tsk tsk..."
"Even if Xuandu Temple does not dare to offend the old Cheng family, if my father and mother go to Xuandu Temple for a walk, do you think those Taoist priests will not say anything wrong?"
Seeing Brother Chu Bi looking so worried that he wanted to wipe out all the hair on his head, Li Ke didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he came up with a bad idea next to him.
"Brother Chu Bi, how about you make a fake one?"
"Fake?" Cheng Chubi narrowed his eyes, tilted his head to look at Li Ke, and gently patted Li Ke's shoulder with his big hand.
Although this idea is still very bad, it feels really good to have a backing up.
Cheng Chubi chuckled and couldn't help but grin.
"Thank you dear brother for this good idea. I will listen to you."
"Whether it succeeds or not, my dear brother, you have a share of the credit in it."
Li Ke looked at Brother Chu Bi who suddenly started to smile. He always felt that something was not good, but he didn't know what the problem was.
Fang Jun's reaction was a little slow, but as the biological son of Prime Minister Fang, his way of thinking was still very flexible.
"Brothers, are you planning to make a fake spirit turtle?"
"What's fake is not real. What if the people in the Taoist temple see the flaw?"
Cheng Chubi chuckled and smiled confidently. "So what if you see the flaw?"
"As the saying goes, if the people don't encourage people, the officials don't correct them. As long as we can find a way to stop those old cows from being gibberish."
"Then there won't be any problem."
"Also, we can take a fake turtle and put it in the lotus pond first.
When you find a spiritual turtle of about the same size, you will also have this verse on its back."
"If we secretly replace the fake one, wouldn't it be perfect?"
After hearing Cheng Chubi's words, Li Ke and Fang Jun raised their thumbs towards Cheng Chubi with expressions of sincerity on their faces.
All they had to do was shout 666 to express their heroic wisdom towards Brother Chu Bi.
Well, I was mainly looking forward to it. I just wanted to see how Brother Chu Bi would brag and fool people into taking the Taoist priests at Xuandu Temple seriously after taking a fake turtle.
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Next, three young people squatted in the Imperial Medical Office and began to brainstorm how to make a spirit turtle that was fake but not too fake.
"It's really hard to find such a big turtle, and it's almost winter. The turtles have all gone into their nests to hibernate, so it's hard to catch them."
"So now we can only make a fake. But for the fake, what kind of material do you two think it is best to use?"
"Wood." This was the advice given by Li Ke. "Wood is light and easy to carve."
Fang Jun gave a different opinion.
"I think the stone is better. The stone sinks a little, but at least it won't float in the water."
Cheng Chubi smacked his lips and nodded. "If the wooden turtle floats around, it will be easy for others to tell that it is a fake."
"But if it's a stone turtle, the color is wrong. This turtle is yellow-brown in color. Such a stone is really hard to find."
After hearing this, Li Ke nodded in agreement, but soon became worried again.
"Then what should I do? Wood won't work, stone won't work, how can I still use copper and iron?"
Cheng Chubi looked at the dead turtle, looking at its tawny shell and the brown color on his body.
It's not impossible to cast it with brass, but it's so big that if it were solid, it wouldn't be possible to do it without one or two hundred kilograms of copper.
When he thought that one or two hundred kilograms of copper coins had turned into such a useless thing, Cheng Chubi, whose heart almost bled, suddenly had an idea.
"Once you have it, cast it out of brass and cast it into a copper turtle with a hollow inside.
Then when the time comes, put some plaster or something on it, and it will be almost like the real thing.”
After hearing this, I looked at the turtle, which was mainly copper-yellow with a few spots being brown.
Li Ke nodded, but there was still something he couldn't figure out.
"Brother Chu Bi, it doesn't matter what materials you use, but you have to think about it.
Why did you stuff such a fake turtle into the lotus pond in front of everyone? This is serious."
Cheng Chubi laughed and waved his hands with a satisfied expression.
"Don't worry, it's just a trivial matter."
"After the bronze turtle is cast, I will let you experience Brother Yu's words.
It will definitely convince those people in Xuandu Temple that they won’t dare to babble.”
Seeing Cheng Chubi's performance like this, Li Ke and Fang Jun could only laugh...