Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 822 If you don't let me be your brother-in-law, I will be your stepfather (two in one)

"Hello, Master Consecration." Li Ru stood up and bowed in the surprised eyes of Xu Pingzhi and Xu Xinnian. To be honest, she really looked like a lady from a wealthy family.

"It was only today when I got home that I heard Zhiping and Dalang mention the master. I thought... the master was like the enlightened monks in the temples, but I didn't expect him to be so young and handsome."

Li Ru said, staring at a pair of expressive big eyes of Caroline.

"Who is this girl?"

"Her name is Fuxiang, and she is my...maid."

It was strange and odd for a monk to have a maid, but Li Ru did not show much emotion and said with a smile, "Hello, Miss Fuxiang."

"Hello, Mrs. Xu."

Fuxiang pressed his hands slightly and bowed in return.

Seeing this scene, Xu Pingzhi, who had lived with her for more than ten years, as well as Xu Xinnian and Xu Qian'an were all stunned.

When did my wife/mother/second aunt become so easy to talk to? This was definitely not the tigress they knew who could argue with the neighbors for an hour.

Where is her fierceness? Where is her mercenary nature? Where is her unreasonableness? Where is it?

"I heard from Ning Yan that it was the master who helped our Xu family a lot in the case of the Zhou family father and son."

Chu Pingsheng stood up and said, "I had no place to stay when I first arrived in the capital. Thanks to Captain Xu and Master Xu taking me in, I was able to avoid the hardship of living in the open air. I will repay their kindness and help them with all my heart."

"Hey, it's just a small favor, it's not worth mentioning. The master is the great benefactor of the Xu family. If it weren't for the master's help, Lingyue, Lingyin and I might still be living in Yunlu Academy."

"Since Madam Xu has moved back, I am afraid it will be inconvenient for me to stay in your house any longer."

When Xu Xinnian heard this, his face showed joy, thinking that this bald donkey actually spoke human words. He also knew that the women of the Xu family had returned, and if they continued to live here it would be immoral and would be criticized by others, right?

Li Ru said anxiously, "How could it be? The fact that the master can settle here is a blessing accumulated by our Xu family's ancestors for many generations."

Eh?
Xu Xinnian was dumbfounded.

Did he get the wrong script?

"mother……"

Li Ru gave him a look that warned him not to talk too much.

"Master, just treat this place as your own home and live here peacefully."

"inconvenient."

"What's the inconvenience? You live in the side courtyard, and we live in the main house. At most, we share the main door and the side corridor. Ning Yan, tell me, is there any impact?"

Xu Qian'an shook his head and said, "No, how could it have any impact? With a master like Master here, no evil or bad luck will ever get close to the Xu Mansion. Take me for example. If Master hadn't taken action to deal with Duke Wei, how could I have joined the night watchmen and become a glorious Tonggong?"

In fact, he knew very well that it was Princess Huaiqing who recommended him to the Night Watchmen. However, as a shrewd time traveler, he was well aware of the importance of currying favor with someone powerful. As long as he had a good relationship with a monk like Kaiguang who could walk around in the Night Watchmen's Office, why would he be afraid of the Silver Gongs and Golden Gongs in the Night Watchmen's Office making things difficult for him?
Chu Pingsheng said: "But the side courtyard..."

Xu Qian'an said: "That's all misunderstanding, I don't care, why should you feel bad about it, Master."

"Yeah yeah……"

Li Ru narrowed her eyes. Xu Pingzhi, who was secretly putting chicken into his bowl, patted his chest and said, "Leave the side yard to me. I guarantee that it will be restored to its original state within three days."

She was very satisfied with the old man's performance, and said to Xu Xinnian, "Farewell to the old man, after dinner, you should pack up your clothes and books and stay in Yunlu Academy for a few days. Leave the room for the master, and move back after the house in the side courtyard is repaired."

"Mom... why is this happening..."

Xu Cijiu was deeply shocked and felt that the whole world had betrayed him.

Li Ru ignored him and said, "Master, you haven't eaten yet, come and sit down."

Chu Pingsheng walked to the side of Xu Lingyue, who had been silent and looking at him curiously, and seemed to have chosen a seat with a larger space.

Xu Xinnian recalled the plot in his dream, and hurriedly pulled a stool to sit next to his sister, looking at him threateningly.

"Look how sensible Cijiu is."

Li Ru walked over and pulled her son away. She didn't know where she got the strength from, but as a woman, she almost pulled a grown man down.

"Master, sit down."

Chu Pingsheng sat down on Xu Jiaerlang's stool with an expression of being reluctant to refuse the hospitality, and Mrs. Xu very considerately handed him the chopsticks.

"I didn't know the master was here before, so I didn't prepare many vegetarian dishes. From now on, I'll ask Lingyue to prepare a few more exquisite vegetarian dishes for the daily meals. You don't have to cook separately in the future. Just come here to eat like Dalang. It will be more lively when we all get together to eat, right, Ning Yan?"

"Aunt is right."

At this moment, it seemed as if Xu Qian'an was her biological son.

Chu Pingsheng said: "Don't bother. We, the Heavenly Realm monks, have no dietary restrictions. We can eat meat or vegetables."

Li Ru clapped her hands and said, "That's really great."

Chu Pingsheng stretched out his right hand, rummaged in the sleeve of his monk's robe, and took out three taels of silver: "Madam Xu, you are so kind-hearted. I really feel sorry for you. Here are three taels of silver. Although it's not much..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Ru pushed them back.

"Master, you are slapping me in the face. The Xu family has been very kind to you and has just defeated a high-ranking official like the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Eating a few meals and living in two rooms is nothing."

"Alas, in this case..." Chu Pingsheng put the silver back into his sleeves: "Mrs. Xu is truly a kind-hearted person."

"Master, I feel embarrassed by your praise."

She pulled her stool over and sat next to him.

This scene made Xu Qian'an startled, thinking that something was wrong with his second aunt.

Look at Xu Pingzhi over there who has a similar expression.

No way, my second uncle covets the courtesan Fuxiang, and my second aunt falls in love with the monk who performs ceremonies for ceremonies. This is really...birds of a feather flock together.

He patted his forehead and looked at Xu Xinnian with sympathy, almost saying that what you should be wary of is not your sister eloping with a monk, but your mother throwing herself into his arms.

"In that case, I will respectfully obey your command..."

Chu Pingsheng winked at Fuxiang, and only then did Xu Qian'an realize that he was only surprised by Mrs. Xu's abnormal behavior after the two of them entered the room, and did not notice the exquisite food box in Fuxiang's hand. After opening it, there were two dishes inside, a golden and crispy crispy roast goose, and a tempting Fucha pig's trotter. Both are the signature dishes of Guiyue Tower. Before Xu Xinnian participated in the Autumn Examination last year, Li Ru went to Guiyue Tower to pack a Fucha pig's trotter for her son to eat, hoping for a good omen.

Fuxiang put the plate on the table.

Li Ru was not so enthusiastic about her. She quickly invited her nephew and son to sit down and eat, and gave a threatening look to the man who looked puzzled.

"Take advantage of the fact that the roast goose is still warm. It won't be crispy when it cools down completely."

Chu Pingsheng considerately tore off a goose leg for Mrs. Xu, and the other goose leg for Xu Lingyue, and also put two pig's trotters into the bowl of the little foodie who was already seven-tenths full. In return, he received a childish "thank you" which lingered in his ears for a long time, piercing Xu Xinnian's heart like a needle.

He finally understood that the monk's claim that he had many inconveniences living in a side courtyard was just a retreat to advance, a tactic of playing hard to get, and all pretense...

He deceived both my mother and my sister!
The more Xu Jia Erlang watched, the angrier he became. He could no longer bear it and said, "Mother, this monk is lying to you."

"Why do you say that, Erlang?"

"That woman...is not a maid at all. She is a prostitute kept by the monk Kaiguang. When you were not back, the monk and she stayed in the side yard all night long, indulging in lust day and night. If you don't believe me, ask Dad. He knows about this too."

The Xu family's eldest daughter, who had a baby face and was quiet and reserved, dropped the half-eaten goose leg into the bowl and moved towards her younger sister's seat.

"Private prostitute?" Li Ru turned around to look at the pretty maid who was standing behind the monk with a submissive face, and glanced at her own man. The guy seemed to know nothing, and lowered his head to eat voraciously. He even picked up a pig's trotter for his dear nephew and asked him if the rice was enough. If not, his second uncle would go and add more rice, looking like an uncle and nephew with a deep affection.

"Xu Pingzhi!"

The lion's roar startled Xu Pingzhi so much that he shuddered violently. Knowing he could not avoid it, he grinned and cursed Xu Xinnian in his heart.

Yes, doing so can indeed expose the monk's true hypocrisy and promiscuity, but why did this unfilial son mention him? Isn't this cheating his father?

"I don't know, I didn't hear anything. You know I'm a very good sleeper, not to mention the noise in the side yard. Normally you can't wake me up even if you kick me."

Li Ru thought about it and felt that this was true.

"father……"

Just as Xu Xinnian was about to tell others about what he had eavesdropped on, Xu Pingzhi glared at him and gave him a warning look, and his cousin kicked his stool from below.

Xu Qian'an thought further. If the three of them visited a brothel and it was discovered, Li Ru might not be able to get angry with the monk and would at most keep her distance from him. But she would not have so many concerns about the men in the Xu family.

"Ugh."

Just then, the monk sighed heavily.

"Now that things have come to this, I can only tell the truth."

Chu Pingsheng put down his chopsticks, twirled the Buddhist beads with both hands, his face was shining with a solemn expression.

"Everyone, to be honest, I came to the capital of Dafeng to avenge my lover."

"!!!"

Revenge for your lover?
Except for the little foodie, all the members of the Xu family were stunned. Xu Pingzhi and Xu Qian'an looked at each other in surprise.

The monk lived in Xu's house for more than half a month, and they never asked him the purpose of his coming to the capital.

"A year ago, I traveled eastward from the Celestial Realm to practice asceticism. I arrived in the capital during the New Year. That night, the city was full of lanterns and brocade. The streets were crowded with people. She walked a little slowly and was knocked down by a reckless child. I reached out to help her. When she turned around to thank me and I saw her eyes, I fell in love with her."

Chu Pingsheng continued, "That night, I forgot about Buddha and went to the Lantern Festival with her, guessed lantern riddles, and told her interesting stories on the way east. We agreed to go to Feixueping to set off fireworks and walk on the Magpie Bridge in the West Mountain three days later... We had a very happy time until I found out her identity... the daughter of Prince Yu of the Dafeng Dynasty."

Prince Yu's daughter? Princess Pingyang!
pat.

The chopsticks in Xu Pingzhi's hand fell to the ground.

He knew about this. After all, Prince Yu was implicated because of this incident. He died of depression due to the accusations of civil officials and the reproaches of the emperor. At that time, it was widely rumored that Princess Pingyang eloped with a monk, and that monk... was actually performing a consecration ceremony?
"Unfortunately, happy days are always short-lived. That day, Pingyang came to me crying and told me that Emperor Yuan Jing had arranged a marriage for her and her father agreed. She asked me if I had the courage to take her away from the capital and escape to a place where no one knew her. I went back to Tianlong Temple, stole the magic weapon that could hide the aura, and left the capital with her. However, an accident happened on the way. Pingyang was betrayed by the officials she trusted. In order to avoid being humiliated, she swallowed a hairpin and committed suicide. I was also beaten half to death by them and thrown off a cliff."

"Maybe it's God's will or Buddha's blessing. There is a river below the cliff, and the current washed me to the shore. I would have died without a doubt, but I didn't expect that I would be blessed to have survived. At that time, there was a Taoist master under the cliff who failed to survive the calamity and suppressed his injuries. After hearing my story, he resolutely transferred all his cultivation into my body, replenished his own Yang Shen, and dissipated in this world. It's a pity that I am a Buddhist monk and cannot absorb all the Taoist power in my body. I can only practice Buddhism and Taoism to refine the master's legacy, gain the ability to protect myself against powerful enemies, leave the valley, and return to the capital."

"Although this solves the problem of lack of power for revenge, it brings new difficulties. The technique practiced by the Taoist master is the technique of the Tian Sect among the three sects of heaven, earth and man. The characteristic of the Tian Sect technique is that as the cultivation level increases, one will gradually lose emotions, and eventually forget about emotions, abandon the physical body, and use the primordial spirit to supplement the Tao, becoming a part of the Heavenly Dao, which is almost the same as death. The way to solve this problem is to plunder the power of karma fire that comes from the human sect embracing the seven emotions and six desires, stabilize human nature, and avoid being assimilated by the Heavenly Dao. This is also the origin of the Taoist dispute between heaven and man, and the reason why the saint son and saint daughter of the Tian Sect do not practice in seclusion in the mountains, but like to experience the world."

"I don't want to forget Pingyang, I don't want to forget the hatred, and I don't want to attack and plunder the essence of the disciples of the Human Sect. So the way to suppress the negative impact of the Tianzong's skills is to abandon the Buddhist rules and regulations and follow the practices of the Tianzong's Saint. Maybe you don't know the name of the Tianzong's Saint Li Lingsu. If you go to the martial arts world to ask around, you should be able to hear some rumors that he is promiscuous and has countless mistresses. Just think about it, why can a Taoist Tianzong, which is very prestigious in the world, tolerate such a stubborn Saint? It's because they are forced by the skills. If they want to survive and not go astray during the practice and lose their consciousness, they must embrace human desires and burn themselves in the fire of karma."

"I don't want to harm a decent girl like Li Lingsu did, so I've settled for the next best thing and brought Fuxiang with me. She is the daughter of a convicted official in the imperial court, the most beautiful woman in Yingmei Pavilion, and the cash cow of the Jiaofang Bureau. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to redeem her. This monk did this to firstly solve my own problem, and secondly... to save her from suffering. When I have completed my revenge in the future, I will let her go and give her freedom."

He had finished speaking.

It was a long speech with a lot of information.

Xu Qian'an and Xu Pingzhi looked at each other.

All the things are linked together. The monk came to the capital, robbed Fuxiang, became a lewd monk, had no taboos, helped them deal with Zhou Xianping, and bravely broke into the night watchman's office...

"Master, I didn't expect you to be such a devoted and miserable person." Li Ru's eyes were red as she said in hatred, "This damned official should be torn into pieces and thrown to feed the dogs."

Xu Lingyue moved the stool back and looked at the handsome monk who radiated the light of love with a face full of fondness. She felt that his story was more heroic than those male protagonists in the storybooks who had rough life experiences and twists and turns.

"Master, eat now, or it will get cold."

She picked up the empty bowl in front of Chu Pingsheng and scooped half a bowl of chicken soup for him.

"Yes, yes, eat, eat."

Li Ru noticed that her daughter, who was a foodie, was looking at the dining table longingly after eating the pig's trotter. She wanted to break the atmosphere but did not dare to speak. When she found that there was only one pig's trotter left on the plate, she picked up the pig's trotter that Xu Qian'an had not had time to eat from his bowl and put it into the little foodie's bowl, and gave the last pig's trotter on the plate to the ill-fated master of consecration.

The captain of the Imperial Sword Guards and the eldest son of the Xu family dared not say anything or ask anything. They just looked at each other and ate their food in silence.

Only Xu Xinnian wanted to pick up some food, but was knocked over by Li Ru's chopsticks. He glared at her and was stunned. Ten breaths later, he silently picked up half a bowl of rice, squatted at the door of the hall, and looked at the bowl and sighed like a punching bag.

How did that happen?

Why is this happening!

He risked everything to expose the ugly face of the lecherous monk, but ended up giving the monk a chance to express himself and get into the hearts of his mother and sister, while he... turned into a clown seeking to attract attention.

Only Fuxiang knew that the monk was acting. This guy was really good at pretending. He deceived the Xu family and created a persona for himself as an affectionate and handsome monk.

Of course, she would not expose the lie. There was no need, and she didn't dare to.

In the afternoon, Jinluo came to arrest someone. As she was familiar with the twists and turns of the matter, she realized after a little thought that Li Yulang was anxious and planned to ignore the interests of the Demon Clan, the Kui Clan and the Wushen Cult and reveal the Henghui card early.

After the monk and the night watchman left, she went to the West City contact point to meet with her allies in secret. However, she waited for a long time but Li Yulang did not show up. Finally, Song Shi, a doctor from the Music Bureau, went there and said that the Shangshu was summoned to the palace by the Emperor to discuss the memorial service for Sangpo, and was busy at the moment, so he could not come to the contact point to see her.

Fuxiang was not a fool. She knew that this was Li Yulang's excuse. The interest of the demon clan in the capital of Dafeng was to hide their identities and collect intelligence. Naturally, they could not make a big deal out of it. There was nothing much to say to Song Shi, a small doctor, so she left in dissatisfaction.

Who would have thought that as soon as you go out, you would be blocked on the street by a master of consecration.

She thought that the monk had gone to the night watchman's office, and even if he could leave alive, he would be seriously injured. However, she didn't expect that he was not only unharmed, but also walked around the city openly. Moreover, she couldn't understand how the monk knew her whereabouts.

In the words of the master, as a private prostitute, if she acts without the master's permission, she should be punished, but how should she be punished? He has a unique way of corporal punishment, called S and M.

No one knew how he found the yard on the outskirts of the city that perfectly replicated the prison facilities. After all the trouble, it felt like he was going to destroy her. He didn't let her go until dark, and warned her to behave well at dinner, otherwise he would continue after dinner.

She was a dignified elder of the demon clan... Even if her own body was not used, she would never want to experience that kind of mental humiliation again.

……

After dinner, Xu Xinnian was driven out of the Xu family by Li Ru without any hesitation or reluctance. This cold violence chilled Xu Erlang's heart. He raised his head and sighed, comparing himself to a dog that had lost its home. He walked towards Yunlu College in a daze under the puzzled eyes of the neighbors.

Xu Qian'an and Xu Pingzhi were worried about his mental state and wanted to see him off, but Li Ru stood at the door with a feather duster and warned them that if anyone dared to move, they would never be allowed to come back. The uncle and nephew were so scared that they went straight into the house and dared not say a word.

The next day, the night watchman kept quiet and did not give any explanation for the monk's disturbance in the yamen. In the afternoon, something worrying happened at the East Market. A team of 20 craftsmen entered the Xu Mansion and repaired the side courtyards, including those that needed repairs and those that did not need repairs, inside and out.

Li Ru felt that her husband had spent a lot of money this time. It seemed that he had saved a lot of money in the treasury. He actually hired 20 craftsmen at once to help the master of opening the palace to repair the side courtyard. It was not until noon that Xu Pingzhi brought his drunken colleagues from the Imperial Sword Guards to repair the side courtyard, each carrying tools. Only then did she realize that they were not hired by her husband at all. After careful inquiry, she learned that it was a night watchman named Yinluo who hired them to come here to repair the house.

Xu Pingzhi learned that Yinluo, who was in charge of this matter, was the supervisor of the Fangzheng Teahouse in front, so he went to get close to him. However, instead of establishing a good relationship with him, he made Li Yuchun very embarrassed. After all, it was Yang Yan who brought him to dismantle the yard, and a day later he asked someone to repair it again. The night watchman was completely embarrassed.

At the same time, Wei Yuan summoned Xu Qian'an, who had just been beaten up by Nangong Qianrou. He tearfully accused Nangong Jinluo of transferring the hatred towards the monk Kaiguang to him under the pretext of training him. He demanded to quit his job as a night watchman and return to Changle County Government as a catcher. If Wei Yuan disagreed, he would go back to worship the monk Kaiguang as his teacher, see through the world, and practice Zen to gain enlightenment.

Of course Wei Yuan knew that he was acting, but since things had come to this point, he couldn't just ignore it, so he left the man to Yang Yan and asked him to take care of him.

Yang Yan was very happy, after all, Xu Qian'an got an A+ in yesterday's test. Of course, because of this, Nangong Qianrou hated both Xu Qian'an who reported it and Yang Yan who snatched the person from him.

In this way, Xu Qian'an went around in circles and finally went to Chunfengtang, where he became a colleague with Zhu Guangxiao and Song Tingfeng. After the three of them fooled around for a while, Chu Caiwei, a Feng Shui master from the Sitianjian, drafted him and took him to Dahuangshan to investigate a case of monsters attacking villagers. After a field investigation, they discovered the Kui warriors hidden in the mine. After a fierce battle, they eliminated the enemy and returned to the capital with intelligence. They reported the matter to Wei Yuan, who was worried about the rumor that was spreading widely in the city, saying that the monk Tianyu was making a big fuss in the night watchman's office, and Wei Yuan and the Twelve Golden Luos were helpless, which damaged the reputation of Dafeng.

After hearing about the latest developments in the capital from his colleagues and learning that calls for severe punishment of monks were growing louder within the court, Xu Qian'an felt somewhat gloating.

ps: Happy Lantern Festival.

(End of this chapter)