Chapter 189 The eternal night is coming
There is one newly promoted Jieyuan in each province every three years. In any case, it is impossible to say that passing the exam will make the governor, commander-in-chief and other high-ranking officials feel honored. At most, they will receive them and give them one or two words of encouragement. But now
The governor of Xinduo Province, the commander-in-chief and other high-ranking officials actually came to Duoxia in person to visit and congratulate Chen Shi.
This scene left the villagers shocked, horrified, and confused.
Isn't Chen Daguan about to lose his job? Why did he win the election in the blink of an eye, but he is still ranked first in Gongzhou Province?
The key point is, if you didn’t take the Qiuwei exam, why did you get first place?
Li Tianqing was refining elixirs in the Chen Shi courtyard. Several officials quickly entered the courtyard and saw that he was busy, so they did not disturb him.
In the past few days, Li Tianqing has refined more than fifty furnaces of resurrecting pills, and he has already become a light person.
The road was familiar, and although Chen Shi's voice came from outside that he had passed the examination and passed the high school exam, it could not shake his soul at all. He still calmly refined the resurrecting pill before getting up.
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Dare I ask if it’s Chen Shi and Chen Jieyuan?”
An official asked, seeing that he was young and had an extraordinary bearing.
"This is Li Tianqing, a native of Quanzhou.
Li Tianqing said, "Chen Shi has gone out and should be back soon. Sirs, you might as well go to the courtyard to have a rest and wait for a while.
"Don't dare.
The voice of the new governor came from outside, laughing and saying, "Xiaguan and others are waiting for Mr. Chen outside.
Li Tianqing was surprised, walked out of Chen's house, bowed and said: "Li Tianqing has met the governor and all of you.
The new governor looked him up and down and said, "You are Li Tianqing from the Li family in Quanzhou."
I heard that you are the lucky star of the Li family. Everyone on the stone ship was missing and you were the only one who survived.
I also heard about the murder of Mr. Li Xiaozheng, which made me sigh with regret.
My surname is Xu, my given name is Jian, my courtesy name is Zhongxiao.
This is Mr. Cui, who is responsible for the mobilization of border troops in Xinduo Province. He is the commander-in-chief of Xinduo Province.
He introduced them one by one, and Li Tianqing came forward to greet them.
These newly appointed Xinxiang officials often come from thirteenth-generation families, but there are four others who do not come from thirteenth-generation families.
Li Tianqing is knowledgeable and knowledgeable. Hearing the names of the four people, he knew that although they were not from the Thirteenth Family, they were also from smaller families and were not born in vain.
An official, who is the academic officer of Xinxiang Province, smiled and said: "Master Li, your Excellency is also on the list of Gongzhou Qiuwei, which is a good ranking.
Your Excellency, ranked fourth, is Jing Kui.
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Li Tianqing didn't take it seriously and said: "How are these candidates arranged?
The Tixueguan smiled and said: "Of course it was arranged by Xijing.
The one in front of you, first
The first place is Chen Jieyuan, the second place is Yan Yayuan, and the third place is Xu Jingkui.
The fact that you are ranked fourth is because of the reputation of the Li family in Quanzhou.
Congratulations to Li Jingkui!
When Li Tianqing heard this, he knew that the list of Gongzhou candidates was arranged according to the thirteenth family.
As for why Chen Shi was ranked before the Thirteenth Family, he didn't know very well.
At this time, Chen Shi returned from stealing melons, holding two round watermelons in his arms, which were brought to Li Tianqing and Hei Guo.
Governor Xu Jian quickly led the crowd to greet him and said with a smile: "Chen Jieyuan, I am here to say congratulations. Congratulations on your high school diploma!"
Other officials also came forward to congratulate him. Chen Shi was so shocked that he handed two watermelons to Li Tianqing.
It wasn't until everyone explained the matter clearly that he finally understood and said with fear: "The student has not written a single word and has not made any achievements. How can he dare to be the Jieyuan of Gongzhou and Xinduo? Terrified, terrified!
I'm so ashamed of myself!
Xia Mingdong, the censor of Xinxiang, smiled and said: "Hey——, Chen Jieyuan is a talented literary and military officer in Gongzhou, Xinduo, for the first five hundred years and for the next five hundred years, I will not be the second choice! You are Jieyuan because you have the skills to know people in Xijing.
Wow!
Everyone was talking to each other, praising Chen Shi and praising his literary talents and martial arts. Even though Chen Shi knew that he clearly did not participate in the autumn riot, he was still praised by them.
Governor Xu Jian looked at Chen Shi's house and said: "Mr. Chen is in a state of bankruptcy and actually lives in this remote and poor place.
Xiaguan has a house in the provincial capital of Xinxiang, with only three acres of land. It has been abandoned and neglected.
If Mr. Chen doesn’t give it up, I will give it to Mr. Chen.
When Chen Shi was about to refuse, Xu Jian held his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, my house is abandoned and abandoned. It's better to make use of it.
The so-called sword is given to a hero. Your Excellency, young hero, I wish I could make friends with you. I am willing to give you my wealth and life, not to mention a mere abandoned house.
General Cui smiled and said: "
Exactly! Your Excellency's performance in Qiuwei astonished us and allowed us to see what a gorgeous article is and what a beautiful article is.
The sword energy smashed and closed, and we were convinced.
I have never been close to women. I had a few maids and singers at home who were pretty pretty, so I sent them to my house.
Mr. Gao smiled and said: "With maids and singers, how can we not have servants? I have a few people in my family who know how to look, and they are also sent to my house.
Mr. Ma also laughed and said: "I have always had a good appetite, and I happen to have some good cooks at home. If Chen Jieyuan is used to eating new dishes, I will also send them to his house.
How can Chen Jieyuan travel without a precious chariot? I have four good horses, bred from dragons, delivered to my house!
I have a Caiyun chariot at home, which was given to me by a wealthy businessman from Lingnan. I had nothing to do at home, so I gave it to Chen Jieyuan!"
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Before Chen Shi could speak, everyone talked to each other and bought a house for Chen Shi. The house was equipped with beauties, servants, chariots, horses, etc.
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Bao Tixing even planned to give Chen Shi a farm, which was not big, with a thousand acres of fertile land outside the city, and hundreds of tenant farmers.
The rent collected every year is enough to support the house and the beautiful wife and concubines.
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Everyone, listen to me!
Chen Shi was blocked and unable to speak, and suddenly said loudly, "I don't like this!
Everyone fell silent and looked at him, worried in their hearts.
A smile suddenly appeared on Chen Shi's face, and he said: "But I am disrespectful to you, so I have no choice but to accept it!"
Everyone laughed, and the host and guest enjoyed themselves.
Governor Xu and Chen Shi reminisced about their old friendship, and they were like old acquaintances for many years. After a conversation, everyone was very satisfied.
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Our village is relatively poor, so I won’t keep you adults here.
"Chen Shi smiled and said,
Everyone understood and said goodbye. Chen Shi sent them off to the village attentively.
After speaking, Governor Xu quickly said: "Stay, stay."
Chen Shi stayed and waved goodbye, while everyone reluctantly left.
After bidding them farewell, Chen Shi returned home. Li Tianqing cleaned the alchemy furnace and prepared to continue refining alchemy. Seeing him return, he sneered: "
Chen Shi, I think highly of you. It turns out that you are no different from these aristocratic families.
Greedy for money, lustful, and fond of luxurious things! You will be corrupted by them and become a philistine like them!
Chen Shi smiled and said: "Master Jade said that we must attach ourselves to this world and coexist with it.
Aren’t my current actions attached to this world?
Li Tianqing said angrily: "The master of Yutang is an official who paid tribute to Gongzhou to gain the chance of survival of Hongshan Hall! What about you?
Chen Shi tried and said: "
Xinduo officials pay tribute to me, are they not attached to this world?
Li Tianqing said heartbrokenly: "
You are not attached to this world, you are this world! You are collaborating with this world! Do you still have persistence in your heart now? Do you still have principles? Master Jade Hall has persistence and principles!
Chen Shi sat on the recliner, lay back, fanned the cattail leaf fan, and said with a smile: I took over their house, and I still killed them when it was time to kill them. Why didn't I insist on being unprincipled? Do you think I took the money?
Don’t you want to kill anyone? I can’t beat you!”
"You!" Li Tianqing's eyes widened and he was speechless.
Chen Shi glanced at him and said with a smile: "
You still owe me forty-six furnaces of elixirs, hurry up and make them!
Li Tianqing responded and went to refine the elixir honestly.
During this period, his alchemy skills had greatly improved, and the resurrecting elixirs he produced were of higher and higher quality. He felt that the ten taels of silver per pot of elixirs he was asking for was a bit too low.
However, Mr. Chen Dashan had already ordered a hundred furnaces of elixir with him. Even if he wanted to increase the price, he had to finish refining the hundred furnaces of elixir.
Soon after, Governor Xu and others sent someone to deliver the title deed to the mansion in the provincial capital. Chen Shi accepted it, but did not go to live in the provincial capital, but stayed in Huangpo Village.
He didn't recognize anyone in the city, but at home there were Zhu Xiucai, his godmother and the lovely villagers of Huangpo Village.
Just for dogs to run around every day, there is no room in the city.
When Governor Xu saw that he had not gone to live in the city for a long time, he let the maids and singers live in the house and cleaned it diligently without urging Chen Shi.
On this day, Chen Shi was practicing the Three Lights Righteousness Technique as usual, and suddenly the elixir in his body turned from black to yellow, from a black elixir to a clear yellow elixir, and he felt very happy.
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I finally broke through to the fifth level of the Golden Core. Without a superior spirit, I was still a few days behind Li Tianqing.
Just three days ago, Li Tianqing had already cultivated the fifth level of the golden elixir. Chen Shi could only catch up with the progress of the purple jade divine fetus when there were spirits on both shrines in the small temple. Now that one of the shrines is empty, his cultivation speed is not as fast as Li's.
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Green.
Where to catch a powerful evil spirit.10000
While he was thinking about it, suddenly the black pot started shouting. Chen Shi's heart moved slightly and he looked up at the sky, only to see the sky flowing with fire and the sun slowly closing his eyes.
“It’s getting dark and early again!
Chen Shi was startled and stood up from under the old willow tree. He saw villagers working outside the village carrying hoes and other farm tools, trotting all the way to the village.
It gets dark a quarter of an hour earlier again!
Chen Shi looked up and saw that the crescent moon above the two suns had become larger than before.
His heart was beating wildly and he had a not so good idea.
"If, if one day, the sun closes its eyes forever, no matter what day it is
What will happen in the dark night with only the moon?
Since the first advance of darkness, a total of three similar celestial phenomena have occurred, and darkness has advanced by a total of three quarters of an hour.
Although it gets dark three quarters of an hour earlier, daytime does not arrive earlier.
In other words, the night was extended for three quarters of an hour,
If one goes against the other, Xiniu Xinzhou may indeed enter eternal night!
Everyone can only go out at night, and evil spirits are rampant!
"At that time, was the disaster that occurred at the disaster level or the calamity level? Or was it the annihilation of the world?
Chen Shi shook his head and pushed the ominous thought out of his mind.
But a sense of urgency arose, and he felt that eternal night might become a reality at some point in the future.
If he cannot improve his cultivation as soon as possible, he is afraid that eternal night will fall and he will have no chance of survival!
The True God from Outer Heaven is the greatest disaster! His transformations are often world-destroying levels!"
He thought to himself.
Although the darkening was only a quarter of an hour earlier this time, which may not seem like a long time, the impact it brought was huge.
The days have shortened, the nights have lengthened, evil spirits have become more active, and even the invasion of monsters in the dark sea has become more ferocious than before.
When Chen Shi went to the county town to sell medicine with the resurrected elixir, he heard news that monsters had landed and attacked the border guard station of Xinduo Province.
There is also news that monsters broke through the guardhouse and entered the villages and towns, killing many people.
Moreover, the intensity of the moonlight is also increasing, and the moon is brighter than before. The evil energy in the moon greatly increases the strength of the evil spirit, and the corpse changes faster!
Qianyang Mountain is okay, with Chen Shi in charge, but there are still evil spirits passing by occasionally doing evil.
Beyond Qianyang Mountain, there are more incidents of evil and worship.
For a time, people in the city and Tano were panicked.
Li Tianqing was refining elixirs at home, while Chen Shi took the black pot to the streets and went to villages and towns to sell talismans and slay evil spirits.
Every time he killed evil spirits and eliminated evil spirits, he only charged five taels of silver, which was a very low price.
He has sold a lot of rejuvenation pills now, and he is not short of these few taels of silver. The main reason is that he wants to prevent his relatives from being killed by evil spirits before he can kill his fellow villagers.
On this day, Chen Shi was walking in front, and Heiheiguo was sitting in the wooden cart. The wooden cart followed Chen Shi into Xianghe Town.
This town is located in the southeast of Qianyang Mountain. There is a fragrant river originating from Qianyang Mountain that flows gracefully and flows eastward into the sea.
Xianghe Town is named after the river. There is a kind of sweet fish in the town. It is said to be the cub of the monster in the sea. It is in the form of a fish. Every year at the autumnal equinox, the baby monster will swim upstream and follow the Xiang River into the Bingquan Bay of Qianyang Mountain. Overwinter and grow there.
Next spring, it will swim down the river and return to the sea, turning into a man-eating fish monster in the dark sea.
Ayu has an excellent taste, with a peculiar aroma in the mouth. It is smooth and tender with no fish bones, and the fish meat is firm and elastic. It is very refreshing and is a favorite among gourmets.
When Chen Shi came to the town, it was the time when the sweet fish was in season, and the air was filled with the smell of fish, which made people's fingers twitch.
At this time, he saw a young monk holding a copper bowl and asking for alms from the shops along the street.
The young monk came, followed by a young girl, wearing a veil to cover her face.
The monk only asked for vegetarian food and did not eat meat.
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Uncle Master, it’s time for dinner again!
Monk Wuchen was overjoyed. He walked out of a restaurant with a copper bowl in his hand and said with a smile, "The store was so kind that he also gave away steamed buns and flower rolls. The ones that were just out of the pot were soft and soft."
Huhu... Donor Chen!
He looked up and saw Chen Shi, and couldn't help but be stunned. He winked at Chen Shi quickly and signaled him to slip away quickly.
The voice of a young girl came and said with a smile: "
Donor Chen? Since you are here, why don’t we have a meal together? Wuchen, go and ask the store for a portion.
Chen Shi watched Monk Wuchen bravely walk into the restaurant and sighed with emotion: "A master from the majestic Baoguo Temple has actually been reduced to begging for food.
What do you call a girl?
"It should be like a dream.
The young girl looked at him and said with a smile, "The monks of Dabaoguo Temple beg for food, which is also a kind of spiritual practice.
Wu Zai lacked this kind of practice in the past, so he just cultivated his mind by following me.
Chen Shi turned around, faced her directly, and said in a deep voice: "Can a demon also cultivate his mind?
I didn't sleep well all night. The building was shaking like it was falling apart. The trees downstairs fell down in rows. The typhoon was so scary.
Fortunately, people are safe but the water supply is cut off.
Chapter completed!