Chapter 38 [Wenjun invites guests to eat and drink]
Cheng Yu summoned the human form of Yuanshen in front of Wenjun Hall, and observed it carefully in the courtyard for a while as if taking a casual walk. After seeing nothing strange, he slowly drifted into Wenjun Hall.
There were waves of snoring in the hall. Old Miao Zhu leaned against the wall, his head tilted to one side and fell asleep.
Other than that, there is no one else in the hall.
Laomiao Zhu suddenly trembled and woke up.
Suddenly, I felt a chill running through my body. I couldn't help but shiver again. I couldn't fall asleep even after changing positions. I simply got up and walked slowly towards the altar table.
At this time, the Confucian Temple was out of season, and it was just past noon, so the main hall was very deserted.
Lao Miao Zhu came to the statue of Wenjun and lit three sticks of incense. Then he gradually felt that the cold was no longer on his body, so he turned around and walked out of the hall to bask in the sun.
And he was not the only one in the temple behind him.
Cheng Yu Yuanshen stands facing the statue of Wenjun.
Opposite him, stood three people, one tall and two short, none of whom he recognized, but they were definitely not ordinary people.
The three of them together don't even have a single fire.
In the middle is an old man wearing a red official uniform, with green and golden children on the left and right respectively.
"Wenjun..."
The boy in green next to the old man in official uniform boldly tugged on the old man's sleeve and shouted.
"Go ahead."
The old man waved his hand and said with a smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, the boy in green ran impatiently to the three burning incense sticks in the incense burner and inhaled the light smoke from the incense sticks like a charm.
The light smoke turned into a trace of black and yellow smell, which was inhaled by the child.
Cheng Yu looked at the kid in green with a seemingly calm smile, just like an old father watching a naughty kid digging and playing in the sand.
However, my heart secretly raised my alert level.
The old man in red official uniform cupped his hands and saluted Cheng Yu with a smile:
"I, Qingchuan Wenjun, Qian Wenbing, have met sir."
Seeing that the old man was polite and showed no evil or evil look, Cheng Yu felt relieved and instantly understood that this was the true form of the Wenjun Temple statue.
He glanced at it just now and saw what was written on the tablet.
Cheng Yu hurriedly returned the greeting and said:
"Cheng Yu, I met Wenjun."
After Cheng Yu finished speaking, the kid in gold shirt next to Wenjun also bowed deeply and said:
"Yuan Deng met his benefactor, and never thought that he would be lucky enough to see him again so soon."
After the kid in gold shirt finished speaking, Cheng Yu paused. He didn't take a closer look at the kid just now, but he just felt that he was obviously a young boy but he had a very old-fashioned attitude.
I heard the other party say Yuan Deng, and then I looked at the other party carefully.
I saw that he was wearing a golden gown and a small figure that fit him perfectly. His face also had regular features and clear and bright eyes. He no longer looked like the monster of a golden salamander before.
From this point of view, he must be doing well now.
"Oh? It turns out to be Mr. Yuan. After seeing each other in Qingluo Mountain, it seems that Mr. Yuan has achieved good results."
Yuan Deng smiled slightly, glanced at Wenjun next to him and cupped his hands:
"It's because Mr. Wen is wise and remembers that I have done some meritorious deeds in my previous life, so I am lucky enough to stay in the underworld."
"Sow good causes and reap good results. This is also the result of your previous life. Haha, it is inconvenient to chat in this palace. How about you and I go somewhere cheap to chat in detail?"
Wenjun said with a generous smile.
When Cheng Yu heard this, his heart trembled. Where is the cheapest place?
Yinsi?
Before Cheng Yu could reply, Wenjun continued:
"My unlucky descendants have opened a restaurant in the city. I've been there a few times. It's quite unique. I wonder if you would be willing to go and have a party?"
Cheng Yu heard that he was not going to the underworld, but to eat and drink, so he naturally had no reason to refuse.
"In this case, it is better to obey orders than to be respectful, please."
"Please!"
"Please, please!"
After Yuan Deng put on his jade raincoat, he followed Wenjun and Cheng Yu and walked out of the hall.
Wenjun, who was walking in the front, suddenly frowned slightly, turned back and coughed into the hall.
The boy in Tsing Yi who was greedily inhaling the Xuanhuang Qi quickly took two more puffs, then put on his coir raincoat and ran a few steps to follow.
Cheng Yu and Wen Jun were the first to leave the palace. The sunshine just after noon was still strong, but they were not affected at all and walked in the front yard chatting and laughing.
The boy in green behind him tightened the collar of his raincoat, lowered his bamboo hat, and stepped out of the hall.
"Stab it!"
There was a slight abnormal sound. As soon as the jade coir raincoat worn by the child in green came into contact with the sun, a faint smoke emitted, and the dark green jade pieces on it became slightly lighter, but only in the blink of an eye.
It stabilized.
Yuan Deng was at the end. He returned to the sun for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He tightened his hat tightly like the boy in green, and then carefully crossed the threshold of the hall and walked out of the hall.
After Yu Lili got used to the sunlight, he took a few steps to catch up with the three people in front of him.
When Cheng Yu passed by the big cypress tree in the front yard, he looked up casually and glanced at the sparrows on the high branches.
Then the four "people" walked directly through the wall and across the house, heading in a straight line towards Huichun Tower.
One of them met a young woman who was lulling her several-month-old baby to sleep.
It must be because the heat is still there at this time, the baby in her arms is crying because of the heat, and the young woman is also very irritable.
The four people entered through the wall, bypassed the mother and son, and exited through the wall from the other side.
The young woman suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing from nowhere, which made her feel much more comfortable than before.
When I looked at the baby in my arms again, he had stopped crying and fell asleep peacefully.
……
Lao Miaozhu basked in the sun for a while in the courtyard and then felt the wind outside. He was afraid that he would be caught by wind after falling asleep, so he walked back to the temple.
"Huh?"
The three incense sticks I just lit burned out, several times faster than usual...
Strange...
Laomiao Zhu looked around and found that he was still the only one in the palace. He suspected that he was old and confused and couldn't remember the time.
After twisting three more sticks of incense and lighting them, Fang moved to the wall and leaned against it, continuing to doze off.
At this time, there was no chill in the palace, and after a while, regular snoring sounded again.
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Along the way, Cheng Yu and Wenjun walked in front, chatting casually about the folk customs of Qingchuan County. The boy in Tsing Yi followed behind and looked around, as if he was entering the city for the first time. Everything he saw was strange.
Yuan Deng, who was next to him, didn't look sideways all the way and just followed behind.
At this time, the Huichun Building was quite deserted. The diners had all finished eating and left. Only a few drinkers were still sitting on the first floor, drinking and chatting.
Cheng Yu and the others did not enter the store through the door, but walked directly through the wall to a private room in the most remote part of the third floor of Huichun Building.
The four of them sat opposite each other. The boy in green and Yuan Deng took off their jade hats and sat upright in the guest seats.
Wenjun sat directly on the main seat like a host, and happily said to Yuan Deng:
"Mr. Qingluo, there is some good fruit wine here. Why don't you use your little water magic so that we can chat while drinking."
When Yuan Deng heard that Wenjun treated him with dignity, he hurriedly stood up and raised his hands, not daring to respond, and then used the Xiao Shui technique.
Following Wenjun's instructions, he was not polite and directly used his spiritual consciousness to find a jar of high-quality fruit wine that the shopkeeper kept in the cabinet, and led it out.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they were led to the second floor, the three of them saw that Yuan Deng was struggling.
It takes a lot of demonic power and vitality to perform Xiao Shui's magic. Yuan Deng is now in a bad state, and his magic power is no longer the same as it was before he was alive.
Fortunately, Cheng Yu was also performing the small water technique and took the large group of amber wine halfway.
The wine was suspended in the middle of the private room, glowing with crystal light.
Wenjun waved his hands lightly and brought up a gust of wind. The door of the low cabinet next to him opened automatically. Four celadon wine cups flew out of the cabinet and landed smoothly in front of the four people.
The wine in the air is evenly divided into four equal parts and falls into the cup, immediately filling the private room with the aroma of wine.
Cheng Yu knew that the three of them were also in a spiritual state, and when he was intent on watching how they enjoyed the wine, he suddenly remembered a cat meowing outside the window.