Chapter 1241 Living Immortal(1/2)
It turned out that this person was a new class in the Shi Mansion. His surname was Chen Minghua and his nickname was "Living God". One day, Shi Heng and several old friends who participated in the transformation of the sect were in the Dongchang Governor's Office, Cao Shaoqin's nephew, Cao Jixiang, the chief eunuch of the company's rituals. During the meal, he talked about the art of immortality. Cao Shaoqin smiled and said:
"In the past, we refine alchemy to nourish qi, one for the purpose of loyalty to the Lord Long Live, but for the purpose of longevity. But now I know that this road has gone wrong. 'If you want to know the things in the mountains, you need to ask the woodcutter.' To know the technique of longevity and immortality, you need to ask the person who is immortal."
Shi Heng said: "Where are there people who are immortal!"
Cao Shaoqin said: "Duke Zhongguo said very much. I am afraid there are no people who live forever, but there are still people who live forever. I usually only say that life is only a hundred years old, but I don't want to be nearly two hundred years old. We have a newly introduced old man, born in the 17th year of Zhiyuan in the previous dynasty, and by this year it has been 180 years old."
Shi Heng stared at him: "Is there such a thing?"
Cao Shaoqin said, "I don't believe it if I don't see it myself. Although the old man's beard and his eyebrows are all white, his face looks only forty or fifty years old. He is Zhang Sanfeng's junior brother. He often talks about the grand events of the previous dynasty and the previous kings of our dynasty, because they were all witnessed by themselves, and they were very vivid and touching. The most strange thing is that this man has boundless magic power. He does not pass through the door when walking. He only has a small sword in his hand, and even a stone wall cannot be stopped... Such things can't be said at the moment. He is really a top-notch figure."
Shi Heng asked, "Can this person be in the mansion now?"
Cao Shaoqin smiled and said, "This Mr. Chen is a drunken immortal. His most greedy thing is the thing in the cup. He said that he had been beaten by Zhang Sanfeng back then and should not have lived or died. He didn't want to leave because my house was brewing well. Today, the cereals opened at the table are all aged for a hundred years. He smelled the wine in his nose, and he was afraid he would never go to the streets again."
Shi Heng also smiled: "What's wrong with asking him to have a meal like this? I want to know each other."
Cao Shaoqin laughed: "The Duke of the State said, what's the problem?" After that, he ordered his subordinates: "Go and invite Mr. Chen!"
Soon, the "living immortal" Chen Hua walked in from outside while swaying. During the meal, more than a dozen guests stopped cups and looked at it carefully. The old man who came in was wearing a black soft satin robe, with an ancient sword hanging on the ribbon on his waist, and a pair of cloud shoes, revealing snow-white cloth socks. The dressed monk was not monk, Taoist, and when he approached, he looked at his face and saw that his skin was tender and tender, with a white and red inside, paired with silver hair, two long silver eyebrows, and a snow-white goatee, which was really called a "living immortal".
Cao Shaoqin smiled and said to the old man: "Today I invited several guests to have a drink. I knew that Mr. Chen was very kind to this, so I specially invited him to the table."
The servant put up a seat and a pair of chopsticks. Chen Hua glanced at the unbalanced and smiled and said, "Today, Duke Neng is here, but the old man dared not sit down."
Cao Shaoqin frowned and looked at Chen Hua's family with his eyes squinted.
It turned out that when Shi Heng came to him, he never had any unrelated family members. After all, there were not necessarily any spies from the family, so the disciples naturally didn't know.
At this time, he couldn't help but suspect that his family was talking too much.
The family looked at him, and was extremely frightened, and knelt down and said:
"The villain only said 'Mr. Chen, sir,' and never..."
The living god laughed and said, "Don't blame him, the commander of the Beijing camp, Duke Zhongguo, and the Taiwei of the dynasty, are not everyone possessed. Even if he wears ordinary clothes, can he change his dignity on the battlefield?"
Cao Shaoqin smiled and when he looked at Shi Heng, he saw him twisting his beard and nodding, so he waved his hand to his family and said to Chen Hua: "Sir, it's true that sir is not an ordinary person."
Chen Hua did not answer, but just untied the sword on his waist and handed it to the servant next to Cao Shaoqin. He bowed to Shi Heng: "The old man never leaves this sword and is used to carrying it. He has always been negligent. He really offended the general!"
Shi Heng said: "It's okay, the old man just bring it with him."
Chen Hua was not polite either. He took the sword and hung it on his body, sat down in his seat, and his family poured wine.
Shi Heng asked, "Old sir, Gui Geng?"
Chen Hua said: "The old man is a little bit old, and he said it very disrespectful, and he doesn't know how to say it or how to say it." He looked like he was kind-hearted, and it sounded a little stuck.
Shi Heng nodded, stopped asking, and just said, "Sir, I've made this cup."
The "living god" picked up the cup and drank it all in one go.
Shi Heng smiled: "Sir is indeed a pleasure, so I pour wine with you."
So my family poured wine, aged it and drank it again, and drank three cups in a row.
When Shi Heng saw him smacking his lips, he secretly looked at the wine pot. He knew that he was not enough and smiled and said, "Come on a big bowl with the old man."
Chen Hua drank three more bowls.
When he was drinking, he didn't go to eat the newly served dishes, but just put the chopsticks into the big box that served the mandarin fish. The box of mandarin fish had moved, and he frequently stretched out the chopsticks. At a moment, only the fish head and bones were left. Cao Shaoqin turned his head and ordered:
"Come two mandarin fish with Mr. Chen!"
The family said: "Although there are mandarin fish, they are not alive."
Chen Hua deliberately showed off his skills. How could he let this opportunity go easily? He interrupted and said, "The fish is better, so go and bring me a basin of clear water!"
Seeing that Cao Shaoqin nodded, the family turned around and went out. After a while, they brought a basin of clean water back.
Everyone didn't know what Chen Hua meant, so they looked at him together. He pulled out the short sword, used the tip of the sword to lift a fish head and the fish bone in the big basin, threw it into clear water, and then stirred it with the sword. Seeing that the fish bones began to rotate with the stirring water, Chen Hua pulled back the sword.
The water surface not only rotates continuously, but also turns faster and faster. Later, water splashes splashed. When everyone looked closely, the fish bones in the water had already turned into two or three pounds of live mandarin fish. They shook their heads and tails, and struggled to go out. Chen Hua picked up the mandarin fish and threw it on the ground. The fish was jumping around and looked very beautiful.
Everyone cheered when they saw Chen Hua's performance! Shi Heng couldn't help but praise: "Mr. Chen is a good method."
Chen Hua made another fish bone according to law and turned it into a live mandarin fish. He said to the family: "I'll go to the kitchen and cook it, and ask the guests to taste it."
Chen Hua was already drunk. Seeing that everyone respected him, even Duke Zhongguo showed appreciation, he couldn't help feeling a little fluttering. He saw a family member holding a large plate of steamed lotus leaf balls, and then used tricks. He pointed with a sword and turned dozens of lotus leaf balls on the plate into frogs, jumping from the plate to the table, jumping around, and for a moment he was in an uproar.
The empty plates that frogs jumped in front of the guests no longer moved. When everyone watched, they turned back to lotus leaf balls, with four of them in each plate, and they were placed upright. Everyone cheered again.
"It is indeed; a living god" is well-deserved.
Shi Heng thought to himself: "This Cao Shaoqin invited me to come and drink, and took the initiative to invite the gods to liven up. It seems that he wanted to give this person to me in exchange for him to impeach Yang Yuxuan, the Minister of War. Well! If my family holds a banquet and entertains guests, the table will add a bit of elegance! Humph! Yang Yuxuan is ignorant of politeness, and he will die if he dies! It's better to clean up Zhou Huaian! I can't ask for it!"
Thinking of this, Shi Heng glanced at Cao Shaoqin and said to Chen Hua: "Mr. Chen has such a good sword, and his martial arts are of course good!"
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Shi Heng felt relieved after saying something, and he thought to himself that Cao Shaoqin really knew people.
In fact, in terms of martial arts, he was also conceited that he had few opponents in the world, but as the old man said, the grand Duke of Zhongguo and the Grand Marshal of the dynasty could not end up fighting with the assassin, right? He had no choice but to lose his identity.
However, there were not many masters in his mansion, and he finally recruited Wu Xi, a top-notch master in the world, but he couldn't even catch a female assassin.
He launched the door-snatching change, killed Yu Qian, and promoted his own legs to a high position. He knew in his heart that there were really many potential enemies, and he didn't know when the uninvited guests would visit again.
Besides, adding elegant fun during the meal is just a small matter. Enjoying life safely is much more important than this. So he smiled and said to Chen Hua, "My wine is probably better than Eunuch Cao's. I'll go to my house to eat a few bowls in my spare time. What do you think?"
Cao Shaoqin knew in his heart that the agreement he reached with Shi Heng had already taken effect, and he could command the East Factory and mobilize the impeachment of the Minister of War Yang Yuxuan, and lead Zhou Huaian out of the situation and kill him. By then, the world, inside and outside the court, these people will be able to rest assured.
So he smiled and said to Shi Heng, "Mr. Chen has a very amazing alcohol tolerance. He has eaten most of the good wine in the cellar for just a few days. Our family doesn't have much good wine for him. The Duke of China will not bother him. In the future, let him go to the Duke of China's mansion to be a wine fairy!"
Shi Heng smiled and said, "I want to thank Eunuch Cao for his kindness! It's just that a gentleman does not take away everyone's love. I just keep Mr. Chen in my mansion for a few days, and I will definitely send Mr. Chen back to my mansion in the future."
The two looked at each other and laughed together.
The officials next to them looked at their noses and their noses, and they didn't dare to say much.
In fact, everyone understands that on the surface, it seems that they just transferred a guest, but in fact the two of them are afraid that they have reached some agreement.
Then Chen Hua originally defected to Cao Shaoqin to win the favor of the dragon and the phoenix. Now that he has gone to the Duke’s Mansion, how can he not be happy?
After all, Duke of Wei in Jinling, Duke of British in Beijing, etc. are all hereditary first-class families. Duke of Shiheng and Duke of Shi were highly trusted by the emperor. Maybe he could pass on the Duke and Marquis to pass on the generations and enjoy the fine wine for many years.
So after the banquet ended, he happily followed Shi Heng. Since then, he has become Shi Heng's disciple.
But Chen Hua saw Wu Xi furious and rushed through the courtyard with Shi Xiao, and laughed in his heart: "This kid must have encountered something unlucky, otherwise why would his nostrils disappear all of a sudden?" He thought again: I just want to see him jokes, but I am afraid that the relationship will be messed up, so it would be better to follow him secretly to see. If he has something urgent, I will use some tricks to help him, and I can gain a foothold in the Duke's Mansion in the future...
When Chen Hua came to Shi Mansion, Shi Heng treated him like a guest of honor. When Wu Xi saw him, he naturally felt awkward, so he was picky about Chen Hua. He heard that he claimed to be 180 years old, and even more disdainful.
Chen Hua is also an old man. When he saw Wu Xi's expression, he knew that he didn't take him seriously. So although Wu Xi's sarcasm, he had to pretend not to hear him. After all, he was a newcomer and could only flatter him, try to change his opinion and gain his favor, so he could gain a foothold here. So he thought of secretly taking the lead.
Therefore, Chen Hua secretly followed Ding Wu Xi and Shi Xiao to the alley outside the Huashi Street. He saw a young man stopping Wu Xi, drawing two semicircles on the ground, and trapping Wu Xi. Wu Xi mistakenly treated him as a poor child and was happy with him. Chen Hua, who was hiding around the corner, was secretly surprised: This is clearly an immortal art of "drawing the ground into a prison"! This young man didn't even need a sword. It would be amazing to use a dead branch picked up on the ground to perform this technique!
Chen Hua looked at Wu Xi and was indeed fighting in the circle. No matter what, he couldn't go out again.
For a moment, the young man and Shi Xiao disappeared. Chen Hua walked out of the alley, pulled out the sword, drew the sword twice on the line drawn by Chen Zhao, and pulled Wu Xi out!
Wu Xi felt completely different inside! He first heard a loud bang, and saw the lower half of the walls collapsed. Then he saw Chen Hua, the new witch in the mansion, swinging his sword hard. With just a moment, he split the half of the wall that was still surrounding him, and stretched out a hand to pull him out.
Wu Xi was grateful and bowed to Chen Hua, bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Chen for helping him."
Chen Hua laughed and said, "What a small matter, what's the point."
As he said that, he inserted the sword into the sheath.
Wu Xi had something in mind, but had no time to explain it in detail. He bowed to Chen Hua and said, "I still have some urgent matters. When I return to the mansion, I will talk to the old man in a hurry!" After that, he turned around and left.
Wu Xi arrived at Huashi Street and saw a crowd of people from afar. He approached and separated everyone and shouted at his brother at the top of his lungs:
"...My shopkeeper Wu's surname is Wu Ye, and he is known as 'Iron Abacus'. In the past, I felt angry when I saw that the neighbor's "Ruixianghao" had a good business. I had a younger brother named Wu Xi who was an official in the Marquis of Wuqing. One day he came to me and heard that the feng shui of the Ruixianghao was good, so he said, 'What's the difficulty! I guarantee that the Ruixianghao, the shopkeeper Wang, was in the hands of my brother..."
When Wu Xi heard this, his head buzzed, rushed up and shouted to his brother: "What are you talking about?"
Tie Abacus seemed not to see her and continued to shout: "He came up with an idea, asking me to go to the workshop and secretly got a pair of fake gold bracelets, marked with Ruixiang, and forged a ticket for Ruixiang. Wu Xi asked the butler Fang of Wuqing Hou Mansion to put on a broad-smoking clothes and came to Ruixiang..."
Wu Xi went up to pull him, and shook the iron abacus with his hand. I don’t know when his skinny monkey-like brother learned martial arts. He even had strong internal strength and almost knocked Wu Xi down.
Seeing his brother open his mouth and say something again, Wu Xi covered his mouth with his right hand, hugged him with his left hand, thinking about pulling him in. Unexpectedly, the iron abacus shook all over and directly shook Wu Xi away, taking a few steps in a row, and the blood and blood did not condense.
At this time, Wu Ye still didn't stop and shouted: "When I heard that Wu Xi had a good idea, I would say..."
Wu Xi was anxious and was about to use strong power. At this moment, someone patted her on her back. When she looked back, she found that it was Chen Hua.
"You go away and look at me!"
Before he finished speaking, the sword was unsheathed with a "swish".
Wu Xi was shocked and then thought to himself: "Since that's the case, then kill it!"
But Chen Hua slowly placed the sword on the iron abacus head, lay it flat, and patted it lightly.
Just after such a beat, Tie Abacus suddenly woke up and looked around. He didn't know when so many people were surrounded: "What are you looking at?"
He looked at Wu Xi again, with a strange look on his face and said, "Brother, when did you come here?"
When the three of them saw the store, Tie Abacus looked puzzled. He still couldn't believe it when both the guy and Wu Xi said this. Finally, a guy recalled that it seemed that after a boy came in, the shopkeeper lost his mind.
Wu Xi was so angry that Wu Ye was so dirty that he was also very angry.
Chen Hua was curious and asked how Wu Xi brothers offended the beggar boy. Wu Xi didn't dare to talk about other things, so he only said that the female assassin came to Shi Mansion late at night and assassinated Duke Zhongguo. He was killed by him, so he held a grudge and now he was specifically against him. The enemy of his brother Wu Ye also colluded with the female assassin and specially invited two beggars to make trouble.
To be continued...