Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Five days later.

Xu family’s new house.

Crackling, crackling, the sound of firecrackers never stopped.

Xu Lingyin and Xu Lingyue hid behind the door with their ears covered, while Xu Pingzhi and Li Ru stood in front of the door in brocade robes, expressing their gratitude to the neighbors who came to congratulate them.

"Deputy Commander Wang, Captain Zhong, why are you here?"

"After learning that Lord Xu had moved to a new house, Lord Liu prepared some gifts and asked us to bring them along."

"Commander Liu? How...how can I let you spend money? It is an honor for you to visit my humble home today. I am really flattered."

"Master Xu, you're welcome."

"Please, my two lords, please come in."

Xu Pingzhi knew very well that Captain Zhong, Deputy Commander Wang and others were not coming for him, but for his eldest nephew Xu Qian'an.

Emperor Yuan Jing asked Xu Qian'an to set up Tai'an Hall, which was independent of the night watchmen and directly responsible to the emperor. Why? It was simple, to divide Wei Yuan's power.

Xu Qian'an holds the sword of superiority that can be used to investigate the collusion between Dafeng officials and the demon clan. It depends on who he dislikes. He will investigate inside and out, and if they don't die, they will be seriously injured.

"what."

At this time Xu Pingzhi was stunned for a moment, because a man in golden armor came over from the crowd, and judging from his attire, he looked like Jinluo.

Although he was only a centurion of the Imperial Sword Guard, he knew that his nephew had great power, but there was a fire basin under his buttocks. How could those Jinluo feel good about dividing Wei Yuan's power in the Night Watchman's Office? How could they possibly come to congratulate him today?

Could it be...here to cause trouble?
Just as he was thinking, someone came up to him and said, "Captain Xu, I'm Yang Yan."

"Hello, Yang Jinluo, hello."

"Xiaorou has caught a cold these past two days and is recuperating at home. She is unable to come here to congratulate you, so she asked me to bring some gifts over. When she recovers, I will congratulate you in person with Lord Xu."

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Yang Yan gave a wink, and the two guards behind him brought over a set of stationery and a heart-protecting mirror of considerable value.

"I still have official business to attend to at the government office, so I won't bother you any more. Goodbye."

"Yang Jinluo, take care."

After Xu Pingzhi finished sending her off, he asked his wife in confusion, "Aren't Yang Yan and Nangong Qianrou Wei Yuan's adopted sons? How could they..."

"Hey, isn't this hard to understand? Nangong Qianrou is Ning Yan's deputy. Her boss is moving to a new house. If she doesn't come out to congratulate him, it's not that she doesn't give Ning Yan face, it's that she doesn't give face to the emperor. And Yang Yan's brother-in-law, Li Yinluo, who came to our house for a drink last night. He came and put down the gift and left immediately. He was polite but kept his distance. This way, he didn't offend my sister, nor did he offend Wei Yuan."

"Madam, you still see things clearly."

"That is……"

Li Ru was about to brag a little when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a woman who had just gotten off a carriage. Her eyelids jumped: "Isn't this Sister Xiu He?"

"Sister Ru." Wang Xiuhe's smile was dry: "I know that you have moved to a new house, so I came to congratulate you."

After saying that, he handed over the food box in his hand: "This is your favorite snack from Guihualou."

"Sister, you are so thoughtful. You even remembered that I like to eat this. It's a pity that Ping Zhi is a low-paid official and can't afford to buy it. I can't eat it once in half a year. Unlike sister, who is the wife of the Minister of Rites, she can eat fresh cakes every day."

The last time they met, Wang Xiuhe mocked her for not contacting her for a long time and only stopped a car to ask for help when she encountered difficulties.

When the two met this time, Li Ru counterattacked her, saying that she was arrogant and that her eyes were on her forehead after she married the Minister of Rites.

Wang Xiuhe forced a smile and said, "Sister, you are really good at joking. The Xu family has moved to a new house now. We will be closer in the future. We should visit each other more often."

Li Ru thought, is it getting closer? Originally it was eight blocks away, but now it is only seven blocks away. Is it really that close?
She lifted the food box and saw a sparkling sapphire.

Just as her good brother said, Wang Xiuhe came back the way she sent her away.

Although the Sangpo case was closed, who knows if Li Yulang was the only court official who colluded with the demon clan? Li Yulang was the Minister of Rites, and Wang Xiuhe's husband was the Vice Minister of Rites, who was the deputy of the Minister of Rites. As for the current situation, whether the Vice Minister of Rites was suspected or not, and whether to investigate or not, was all a matter of a word from Xu Qian'an.

"Sister Xiuhe said it very well..."

However, she couldn't continue speaking halfway because three women in the crowd were talking about the good brother who gave her the sapphire necklace.

"I heard that Xu Pingzhi moved here from East City because it was inconvenient for the bear to move in and out, and the yard over there was too small."

"I remember that bear was the mount of the Heavenly Realm monk who stayed at the Xu family, right? Did he come here too?"

"This is normal, he is the master of the eldest daughter of the Xu family."

"What are you learning from a monk? Buddhism? That's ridiculous."

"What's so outrageous about this? I heard that the monk who performed the ceremony has another identity. He is the concubine of Princess Lin'an."

"What? Princess Lin'an is taking a monk as her lover? Are you sure? You will be arrested and beaten if you spread such a rumor."

"I...I just heard it from...others. I don't know if it's true or not."

"It seems to be true. Didn't the news come out a few days ago that the emperor was discussing a marriage with the Heaven Realm? It is said that Princess Lin'an and Princess Huaiqing have always been at odds with each other and love to compete with each other. Is it possible that men also want to compete and see who wins and who loses?"

"..."

Li Ru got angry all of a sudden, and stopped the kitchen helper who was carrying vegetables to the yard, and tore off a few vegetable leaves and threw them at the women, "What are you gossiping about? If you keep gossiping, I'll let Ning Yan put you in jail."

"This……"

Several women looked at each other, wondering why Li Ru reacted so strongly. What did the gossip between the monk and the two princesses have to do with her, a daughter-in-law of the Xu family?
"Humph!"

Li Ru glared at them fiercely and turned to go into the yard.

Captain Xu wanted to catch up with his wife to ask her what happened, but there had to be someone at the door to greet guests, so he had to continue patiently.

When Xu Lingyue saw her mother rushing angrily to her husband's master's room in the backyard, she quickly put her foodie sister down and quickly followed.

The mother and daughter came to the back room of the new house with three courtyards.

Previously, Xu Pingzhi had invited the monk to help stand at the front door, but he found it annoying and refused, and took Ye Ji and the little fox to paint in the backyard.

Less than an hour later, they came back and found the house empty. There was no one around. However, Abao was still there, lying on a wooden stool specially set up for him to bask in the sun, sleeping soundly.

Li Ru walked to the front of the desk and saw a picture of herself and her daughter on the rice paper under the paperweight. One of them was pinching her waist and scolding with a fierce look, while the other one was pouting and saying nothing. Her face clearly said "I won't listen, I won't listen, no matter how much you say, I won't listen". She couldn't help laughing.

"Mom, Master left a letter."

Xu Lingyue saw a corner of an envelope sticking out from under the tea tray, so she pulled it out and unfolded the letter paper.

"What's written on it?"

"Master said that he... found a way to revive Princess Pingyang. She will be back in two months at the shortest and three months at the longest."

Li Ru opened her eyes wide and said angrily, "Really? I think he went out to avoid disaster."

"Escape from disaster?"

"What disaster are you hiding from?"

Xu Lingyue did not hear the discussion of the women outside the door. She just saw her mother looking angry as if she was looking for someone to settle a score, so she followed them subconsciously. Naturally, she could not understand Li Ru's angry words.

"Peach Blossom Disaster!"

Xu Lingyue's face changed, thinking that the fact that she was taught cultivation by the monk in bed was exposed, so she took a step back and asked, "Mom?"

"He often goes to the princess's Huairen Residence. You know about this, right? Mother is puzzled. How could he become Princess Lin'an's lover without anyone notifying her?"

"what?"

pat.

The cup that Xu Lingyue was using to hide her nervousness fell on the table.

……

"Ah."

"Ah."

Chu Pingsheng sneezed twice, realizing that Li Ru was scolding his brother who was always attracting bad luck in love.

"I got scolded."

Ye Ji touched her good sister in her arms and looked back. The west gate of Dafeng Capital had sunk into the horizon and there were fewer pedestrians on the road.

"what?"

"You said it yourself, one thought, two scolds, three colds. I counted, two sneezes in a group. You've sneezed five times. Either five people scolded you, or one person scolded you five times."

Chu Pingsheng said: "If you say so, I will sneeze if you scold me, then I will do nothing for the day and just sneeze."

Ye Ji was about to continue teasing when the person walking in front of her suddenly stopped and she almost bumped into him.

"what happened?"

Chu Pingsheng nodded at the woman who was slowly standing up after wrapping the baked bread and dried meat on the big bluestone by the roadside.

Ye Ji looked at her carefully and found that it was a woman wearing a linen robe, with messy hair hanging in front of her eyes, covering half of her face. She seemed unkempt, but she had a good figure, and her face shape and facial features were impeccable. If she took good care of herself and put on some beautiful makeup, she should be a rare beauty in the world.

"Zhong Li, the prophet of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?"

"You actually know her?"

Ye Ji smiled but said nothing.

What was she doing lurking in the capital of Dafeng? Secret observation and gathering intelligence. How could such an important institution as the Imperial Observatory let her go? Although Zhong Li was plagued by bad luck and was not like Chu Caiwei, the foodie who ran around the streets and did all kinds of activities in front of people, it was not difficult to create an opportunity to take a look from a distance.

The two men took two steps forward, and the prophet who had just finished chewing on the baked bread and jerky came over with his bag on his back and followed them silently.

Ye Ji looked at her, and then looked at her again. She still said nothing, just lowered her head and walked away.

"She came to see you?"

"Why can't it be you?"

Ye Ji rolled her eyes at him and sighed heavily: "Alas, another romantic debt."

"Amitabha, you are slandering me."

"..."

She sneered and ignored his protest.

"I hate it most when people don't believe me." Chu Pingsheng paused: "Hey, that fortune teller from the Sitianjian, tell her whether I have any relationship with you."

Zhong Li raised his head and looked at the two people's faces for a moment: "It didn't happen before, but...it will happen in the future..."

Both of them were speechless with shock at her answer. It was common for men to pester women, but it was rare to see a woman like her who would take the initiative to get close to a man.

Chu Pingsheng said: "It seems that we two... don't have any friendship?"

Zhong Li said decisively: "Now I have it."

"What kind of logic is this?" He thought for a moment and understood: "I see. Is it because I stabbed your Senior Brother Sun that you are seeking revenge on me?"

Yeji looked puzzled, and Qingji in her arms blinked her narrow fox eyes, with an emotion of doubt brewing in her.

Sun Xuanji, a third-rank master of divination, is no match for the monk. What can Zhong Li, a fifth-rank prophet, do to him?
Chu Pingsheng explained: "Whoever gets close to her will be unlucky."

Ye Ji suddenly realized that the prophet was prone to backlash because he was peeping into the secrets of heaven, and that she and the people around her would be plagued by bad luck. Zhong Li did not need to take action directly, he only needed to stand aside to create all kinds of accidents and kill the people around him.

She moved to the side, away from the gloomy girl.

A cavalry guard on the opposite side looked at her because she was too beautiful and did not pay attention to the road conditions. He was knocked down by the protruding roof of the carriage in front and fell off the horse. Because of his hands and feet grabbing around, he whipped the horse, which was frightened. Xi Yuyu let out a long neigh and hit the shaft of the carriage with his head, squeezing the coachman away and the black-maned horse that was pulling the carriage. The official's son, who was staring at Ye Ji with the curtain lifted and hated the monk, left the official road, staggered all the way, and finally fell into the drainage ditch with his horse.

Ye Ji quickly ran to Chu Pingsheng, looked at Zhong Li warily, and whispered, "Go separately and get rid of her."

"It wasn't me."

The prophet's expression was gloomy, and his voice was equally gloomy: "Teacher said that my bad luck cannot affect you. You can block the secrets of heaven. As long as I am by your side, the way of heaven cannot see me."

"Supervisor?"

Chu Pingsheng frowned: "Did he ask you to do this?" "Yes."

"He actually predicted that I would go through the west gate? Doesn't that mean that I can block the secrets of heaven, but I can't block him?"

"No."

Zhong Li reached into her arms and took off the necklace from her neck. At the end of the necklace was a crystal ball slightly larger than a thumb. A wisp of black evil spirit was suspended inside it, slowly rotating and drifting as time passed. But interestingly, the pointed part was always facing Chu Pingsheng.

Ye Ji asked in a low voice: "What is this?"

Chu Pingsheng was silent for three breaths: "Point to me the needle."

"What did you say?"

"I can't explain it to you."

He was speechless. The original purpose of keeping the Seven Deadly Shadowless Evils was to monitor the situation in the Sitianjian and to trigger an explosion at a critical moment to give the old man a good kick. But he never thought that if this thing was left alone, it could also track him.

call out!
At this moment, a green light flashed and array patterns appeared.

A man in a white robe appeared not far in front of the group. He slowly stretched out his arm, and with a swoosh, the folding fan in his palm opened.

"Monk, the old man said that you can help Zhong Li survive the punishment from the heavens. I will believe him for once. If I find out that he is lying, I, the most powerful formation master in the Sitianjian, will beat you to a pulp."

Ye Ji stared in amazement at the guy who was talking nonsense with his back to them.

"Fourth-rank formation master? Yang Qianhuan?"

"Holding the sun and moon in my hand and picking up the stars, there is no one like me in the world."

The man laughed: "Yes, I am the future director of the Si Tian Jian, Yang Qian Huan."

Chu Pingsheng: ?????

Didn't Heng Hui's murder of the entire Pingyuan family never happen? Who taught him this chuunibyou opening line?
Xu Qian'an, how free do you have!
Zhong Li said in a sinister voice: "Ignore him..."

"The mountains remain green, the water flows east, see you later."

Yang Qianhuan closed the folding fan in his hand and tapped his right foot lightly.

no response.

He added another point.

no response.

Order again.

Still no response.

"Huh? Why doesn't it work? That's impossible."

Yang Qianhuan's voice was full of confusion. Why did the teleportation array fail to work?
Chu Pingsheng said: "There is a problem."

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand violently. Yang Qianhuan turned his head to dodge and at the same time, he reached up and grabbed the thing he threw at him.

"I can help her resist the punishment from heaven, and correspondingly, you and Song Qing will help me deal with it."

"You actually negotiate terms with me?"

"If you can't solve this problem, it means you are not qualified to compete for the position of supervisor."

"I know this is a provocation, but I accept your challenge. Those who underestimate my strength..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the teleportation array resumed operation.

call out.

The pretender disappeared in a flash of light.

Ye Ji said: "I really want to strangle him to death."

Zhong Li was silent for a moment and said, "Me too..."

Chu Pingsheng did not respond to their sighs and continued to move forward.

Ye Ji thought about it, followed his steps, and whispered to him at a close distance: "You just let her follow you like this? Aren't you afraid of exposing the secret?"

"She's just repeating what you've done before."

"!!!!!!"

Ye Ji's expression was not very good. Can you please give some face to people instead of hitting them in the face or exposing their weaknesses when scolding them?

……

call out.

"Everyone will pay the price..."

Yang Qianhuan spoke incoherently, but when he looked carefully, he found that the three monks had disappeared. The one who appeared in front of him was the director who was sitting on the terrace of the Sitianjian and drinking tea peacefully. He quickly turned his face away and showed his back to the people.

"Old man, you pulled me back before I could finish my words. Is this how you destroy your successor?"

The supervisor glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, and said nothing. He blew away the green buds floating on the surface of the tea and took a sip of tea: "What did he give you?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Yang Qianhuan suddenly burst into laughter: "Old man, there is something you don't know about. Do you want it? I won't give it to you."

He stepped down and disappeared.

The supervisor waved his sleeves lightly, and Yang Qianhuan came back the same way he had left.

He teleported away again, and then he was caught back, and this happened several times, leaving Huaiqing, who came to play chess with the supervisor on time, dumbfounded.

"Teacher, what are you doing..."

……

Xu Qian'an was very happy when he was working at the night watchman's office. He moved to a new house, became a leader, drank tea, read letters and approved official documents. He felt like a leader, a civil servant in another world. After get off work, he went to the brothel to listen to music and ordered a meal of 1888, oh no, it was King Zhou's set meal. The life goals that he had not achieved before crossing over were achieved after he came to Dafeng.

However, when he returned to the new house, he could no longer laugh, because Li Ru told him that the monk had left a letter and ran away to avoid a romantic affair.

You have to know that he played the role of a monk who performed consecration in the Tiandi Society. Chu Yuanzhen and No. 1 believed it to be true. Now that the monk has been corrupt, he might be exposed.

This is not the most uncomfortable thing. The monk is in the capital. He is not afraid of Wei Yuan, and he even dares to speak with his head held high in front of the emperor, because his "brother-in-law" can take advantage of the power of others. Now that the monk's protection is gone, wouldn't it be easy to deal with him, a little silver gong in the realm of spirit refining?

No, as the saying goes, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. He can't just sit there and wait for others to trip him up.

The next day he summoned the people from Tai'an Hall, left the capital affairs to Nangong Qianrou, and took Li Yuchun, Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao to Yunzhou on the grounds that the tax case might involve the forces of the demon clan and the Wushen Cult. This cowardly guy also tricked Abao away, saying that he would take it to find its mother, oh no, to the master of consecration.

Nangong Qianrou breathed a sigh of relief. After all, every time she saw Xu Qian'an, she had the urge to beat him to death. However, the rule that night watchmen should not offend their superiors was set by Wei Yuan. How could she, as an adopted daughter, not give face to her adoptive father? So during the few days she spent in Tai'an Hall, she felt like each day was a year.

Emperor Yuan Jing was very happy when he heard that the monk had left the capital, because the longer he stopped supplying Qi, the harder it would be for Luo Yuheng to suppress the fire in her body. One day, she would be unable to bear it and would practice dual cultivation with him in order to survive. As for the rumors that the monk was Lin'an's lover, he just pretended not to have heard of it. After all, without Lin'an to share his father's worries, how could the monk be unable to choose between mission, feelings, and responsibilities and choose to escape from reality?
She is such a good daughter, with such a great assist.

Lin'an was very angry. It was obvious that the monk had drunk and slept with the master and the servant, but he just walked away like that? What a great monk, what a master, he has no sense of responsibility at all.

Of course, she had no other choice but to sulk and curse the monk, because Concubine Chen had confined her shameless daughter to her room. Not to mention settling accounts with the unfaithful man, she couldn't even leave the palace.

……

Two more days passed.

The old residence of the Xu family in East Market.

Hearing the rumor that the monk was Princess Lin'an's lover, Xu Xinnian happily returned home with his luggage, wanting to prove his foresight in front of his family.

However, when I opened the gate and walked into the house, I was stunned.

There was no one in the front hall; there was no one in the backyard, even in the side yard where the monks lived. Only some old belongings were left, the Buddha's hand flower that Li Ru loved so much, the wooden horse that Xu Lingyin rode every day and Xu Pingzhi rode occasionally, and the romance novels that Xu Lingyue secretly hid... all were gone.

"Where are the people? Where have they gone? Where have they gone?!"

Xu Xinnian raised his hands high and shouted with a look of grief and anger like an orphan.

……

The world of The Legend of the Two Heroes of the Tang Dynasty where the immortal infant resides.

Chu Pingsheng first castrated the Uighur Khan Shi Jianjijin, helped his mother Shafang to control the Uighurs, and cooperated with the new Western Turkic national teacher to attack the remnants of the DTZ. The coalition forces advanced northward to the DTZ tent. The DTZ tribes, which had lost two khans, fled northward. They were killed by the Uighurs on the way, with corpses everywhere and starving people all the way. They did not get a chance to catch their breath until they entered the Siberian mountains. The number of people left was only one tenth of what it was when they fled north.

A small number of DTZ people entered northern Liaoning and were captured by Goguryeo and became herding slaves.

Afterwards, the Western Turks withdrew and took the territory in the northwest of Longyou previously occupied by DTZ. At this point, most of the territory from the Chu capital Luoyang to the north to Lake Baikal was annexed by DTZ.

After finishing all the affairs in the north, Chu Pingsheng returned to Pegasus Ranch in the Jianghan Plain. His kind mother Shafang handed over the affairs of the Ming Zunjiao in Huihe to Xinnaya and Zhou Laofang, and then went south.

Ta da...ta da...

The horse's hooves dug small holes in the grass, mud scattered everywhere, the horse's tail flew, and the woman on the horse's back had a long skirt fluttering, as if she was about to be blown away by the wind.

"How's the horse?"

Shang Xiuxun called on the black horse to stop and got off the ground.

"Very good, not inferior to the Dayuan horses that the Western Turks are proud of."

"It's all your fault."

"mine?"

Chu Pingsheng looked at her in surprise, not understanding what this had to do with him. He had been hunting down DTZ and the dishonest Khitans in the north for the past few days.

"Didn't Shang Peng and Shang He come to find you under my orders?"

"and then?"

"I asked them to drain the water you used every time you took a bath, collect the sediment and transport it to the Pegasus Ranch to feed the young horses. Look, they are growing so well."

Chu Pingsheng twitched the muscles at the corners of his mouth. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.

"You asked Shang Peng and Shang He to collect my bath water? They are old enough... How could they do such a thing?"

"What's the matter? I heard from Linglong Jiao that when the soldiers went south, they drank your bath water all the way, and all their diseases were cured, and the miasma was unstoppable. Those who survived, the ones who were almost killed became sergeants, the better ones became lieutenants, and some were made generals. Since you poisoned so many horses at Pegasus Ranch, shouldn't you compensate me now?"

"You really can hold a grudge. You even gave birth to my child."

"That's different."

Shang Xiuxun took out a small knife and gestured to him: "This time when I come to Pegasus Ranch, I have to clean a few pounds of dandruff off your body."

Then she moved her gaze to the top of his head and said, "Shave it bald, so you can spend the summer cool and refreshing."

Chu Pingsheng thought of the image of the night watchman in Dafeng, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you want to play with my bald head, just say so directly, don't use raising horses as an excuse."

Just at this moment, a pretty little girl walked out from the yard behind, running forward with her hands raised. It was obvious that she was not very experienced in running. She only ran three or four meters when she fell into the grass with a plop. Perhaps because of the green grass blocking her way, she was not hurt and did not cry. She staggered to her feet and continued to run, calling for her father and mother incoherently.

Shang Xiuxun hurried over and helped her brush off the dust on her body.

A figure flashed in the yard, and Shafang, wearing a purple suspender and a white gauze dress, landed beside him.

"When?"

"What time?"

"The child you promised me."

It turned out that she was jealous of Shang Xiuxun.

Chu Pingsheng didn't dare to say anything, after all, the immortal infant body here was a sexless clone, so he quickly avoided the topic and said, "Well, I know how the Bright Sutra breaks through to the Pure Good Realm."

When Shafang heard this, she really stopped asking when she would be given the seeds: "Really?"

"follow me."

Chu Pingsheng gave Shang Xiuxun and her daughter a few words, and took Shafang into the training room in the backyard. (End of this chapter)