Longevity from Liao Zhai

Chapter 127: Treasures in the Storage Jade
"Zhou Ping, are you there?" Fan Shiyi pushed the door and entered the room.

When he entered the house, the first thing Fan Shiyi saw was fog.

In order to avoid being disturbed by others, Zhou Ping asked the ghost bride to block him with mist.

"Damn it! I disturbed my husband." The voice of the ghost bride was heard.

Immediately afterwards, the ground began to collapse, and Fan Shiyi was caught off guard and his feet were stuck in the ground.

Then, tree roots and vines came out and wrapped around Fan Shiyi's body.

Fan Shiyi's face changed drastically. She didn't expect that the ghost bride would attack her.

Although the ghost bride knew that Fan Shiyi and Zhou Ping were friends, Zhou Ping asked him to protect herself, so the ghost bride would not let Zhou Ping be disturbed by others.

Moreover, the ghost bride dislikes Fan Shiyi and Xiaoqing very much.

Xiaoqing, like the ghost bride, absorbs Zhou Ping's yang energy. Fan Shiyi is prettier than a woman, which makes the ghost bride dislike her.

"Retreat." Xiaoqing's body flashed with light, and several rays of light flew out.

The ghost bride's vines were cut into pieces by Xiaoqing's scales, so Fan Shiyi was not hurt.

Xiao Qing stood in front of Fan Shiyi and said sarcastically, "This female ghost is getting more and more powerful!"

Firstly, she felt that the ghost bride's temper had become worse, and secondly, the ghost bride's strength had obviously become stronger.

Xiaoqing felt that the ghost bride was no weaker than herself.

The Ghost Bride is already at the seventh level, and her cultivation level is the same as Xiaoqing’s.

The previous ghost bride was no match for Xiaoqing, because although she had transformed into a seventh-grade master with the help of Song Tianlong's remaining ghost energy, she had no magic.

But after practicing the Ghost King Art, the overall strength of the Ghost Bride has become stronger. In particular, the Ghost King Art is the best art among ghosts, which allows the Ghost Bride to kill people across levels.

If the demon and the ghost really fight, Xiaoqing may not be a match for the ghost bride.

"You little snake are not bad." The ghost bride appeared in front of Xiaoqing.

Xiaoqing was a little angry. She saved the people of Qinghe County and also provided disaster relief in Qingyuan County with Fan Shiyi. The people of the two counties called her "Dragon Fairy" when they saw her.

The ghost bride's tone was disrespectful, albeit obviously provocative.

Xiaoqing's desire to win immediately arose: "Come on, let's fight and see who is stronger. I've been annoyed with you for a long time."

The ghost bride meant just that: "Come if you want, no one is afraid of you."

"What are you doing?" Zhou Ping suddenly walked out of the fog, his upper body naked, revealing his muscular body, and he was wearing thin pants on the lower body. He was yawning and looked sleepy.

In fact, Zhou Ping didn’t have anyone. He was just about to see what was in the storage jade, but Fan Shiyi came.

When Fan Shiyi broke into the room, Zhou Ping knew that she had doubts about him. He knew that Fan Shiyi suspected that he was the cloth hero.

There are only a few people who know about the secret realm. Except for Zhou Ping and the old man picking herbs, everyone else is in the secret realm.

So Fan Shiyi suspected that Zhou Ping was the Cloth Strip Hero, otherwise how would the Cloth Strip Hero know where the secret realm was?
What a coincidence.

Xiao Qing looked at Zhou Ping: "Zhou Ping, why are you going to sleep? Why are there so much fog?"

Zhou Ping smiled sheepishly and said, "I am just entertaining myself. I'm afraid I'll be scared."

Fan understood it in 11 seconds, and Xiaoqing understood it in 3 seconds.

Xiao Qing looked at the ghost bride and said, "You have plenty of Yang energy. You still have some energy left if we both absorb it."

Zhou Ping said seriously, "Seventeen or eighteen years old is when a boy is at his most courageous."

"Zhou Ping, the secret realm has been breached." Fan Shiyi stared at Zhou Ping's body, and his face suddenly turned slightly red. Zhou Ping was shirtless, and although he was wearing thin pants on his lower body, the pants could not block the "Vajra".

Zhou Ping looked at Xiao Qing happily: "Congratulations."

Xiao Qing looked annoyed: "What are you congratulating me for? I didn't get the storage jade, someone else did."

She didn't expect that a cloth hero would suddenly appear halfway, and she didn't expect that the hero's handwriting was so bad, but with a poem of "Ming Nong", he broke through the realm and obtained the storage jade.

Xiaoqing and Fan Shiyi discussed this on the way back. They thought that the Cloth Hero might come at any other time, but why did he come just after they discovered the secret realm?
Fan Shiyi boldly guessed that Zhou Ping was the cloth hero.

All along, Fan Shiyi felt that Zhou Ping was like a layer of fog and he couldn't see clearly.

"Zhou Ping, please help me write two words." Fan Shiyi suddenly said. She waved her hand and took out a table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone from her storage jade.

Zhou Ping looked calm, but he was panicking inside. He knew Fan Shiyi wanted to identify his identity from Zhou Ping's handwriting.

Zhou Ping: "Why write?"

Fan Shiyi: "Let me tell you your fortune."

Zhou Ping: "That's fine."

Zhou Ping knew he couldn't avoid it, so he had to write it.

He held the pen and began to write on the paper: "Which two words?"

Fan Shiyi smiled and said, "Mercy for the peasants."

Zhou Ping said "Oh", and then wrote down the two words "Minnong".

Xiao Qing laughed at the side and said, "Min, the Min of pity."

Zhou Ping scratched his head: "I can't write."

Fan Shiyi looked at Zhou Ping's words and sighed: "That's it."

She waved her hand, collected the things, and left with Xiaoqing.

"Brother Fan, you are leaving now. You came to me in such a hurry, just to ask me to tell your fortune?" Zhou Ping greeted him, "I haven't even told you what I tell you."

Fan Shiyi: "What do you want to calculate?"

Zhou Ping: "Fortune telling, fortune telling, tell my fortune, my life span."

Fan Shiyi said unhappily, "Immortality."

Zhou Ping gasped. Could it be that my faceplate was seen through?

After leaving the room, Fan Shiyi stared at the two words on the paper.

Xiao Qing asked: "How is it? Can you see anything?"

Fan Shiyi is a Confucian who can judge people by their handwriting. She wants to judge whether the cloth hero is Zhou Ping by his handwriting.

Although Zhou Ping wrote a wrong character, the character "民" can still reveal a lot of things.

After looking at it for a long time, Fan Shiyi shook his head in disappointment: "No."

Xiao Qing looked at the calligraphy in Fan Shiyi's hand and said, "This calligraphy is quite ugly."

Fan Shiyi nodded in agreement. From the handwriting, it can be seen that the handwriting of Bu Tiao Da Xia and Zhou Ping are completely different, but the two characters have something in common, that is, they are too ugly.

In the mist of the room, Zhou Ping's lips curled up slightly.

Zhou Ping knew that Fan Shiyi would doubt him, so when he was writing in the secret realm, he held the pen in his palm. This pen-holding posture was wrong.

But when he was writing just now, he used the correct pen holding posture.

Although both characters are written ugly, the handwriting of the two characters is different.

After sending Fan Shiyi away, Zhou Ping did not let the ghost bride remove the fog in the room. He was afraid that Fan Shiyi would strike back.

So Zhou Ping stretched out his hand, and a jade piece appeared in his hand.

Zhou Ping had seen the jade piece in Fan Shiyi's hand. It was made of exactly the same material as his, but his was bigger in size.

Fan Shiyi's storage jade was only the size of a fingernail, while mine was the size of a palm.

His own storage jade is Fan Shiyi's dozen laughs. Zhou Ping's consciousness entered the storage area, which is a space of ten feet long, wide and high.

Seeing the space inside the storage jade, Zhou Ping couldn't help but gasp. Fan Shiyi said that her space was only three meters long, wide and high.

My storage space is more than ten times that of hers!
"I'm rich, I'm rich!" Zhou Ping licked his lips and began to check the things in the storage space.

According to Fan Shiyi, Li Shen was once the chief minister of the cabinet of the previous dynasty, second only to the emperor and above everyone else.

Such a person must be extremely powerful and wealthy.

"What a pity! I have five gold bricks and Song Tianlong's three treasure chests. I am already financially independent. There is no point in asking for more money." Zhou Ping couldn't help but act Versailles.

As for money, the more the better.

Zhou Ping was immersed in the space where the spiritual jade was stored.

The space is very large, with shelves filled with boxes.

Zhou Ping thought the box was full of gold, silver and jewelry.

After all, he is the Prime Minister!

Zhou Ping opened the box anyway.

"What, a box of books?"

The first box Zhou Ping opened was full of books. He had no interest in books, so he opened the second box.

However, the second box still contained books.

Zhou Ping didn't believe it, so he opened all the hundreds of boxes in the space.

"What a rip-off!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but swear. The box for storing spiritual jade was full of books.

Zhou Ping couldn't believe that a prime minister didn't have any money, so he searched the entire space again, but he still found books.

"Okay, could he be an honest official?" Zhou Ping finally admitted that Li Shen was an honest official, otherwise why there was no silver in the storage space.

But soon, Zhou Ping figured it out. The fact that Li Shen approved of the poem "Mercy for Farmers" showed that this person was kind.

However, Zhou Ping still felt that Li Shen could not be an honest official.

"Who would write a diary if they are serious?" Zhou Ping was holding a book in his hand.

The books in the storage jade include various classics, history, and collections, as well as Li Shen's annotations. However, there is another book that is very special, which is Li Shen's diary.

"Great Zhou, the 38th year of Emperor Yuan, I am 53 years old, and this is the thirteenth time I have entered the capital to take the imperial examination."

"No one is on the list, but the top scholar is a first-rank scholar of the current dynasty. I have seen this man before, and he is totally ignorant."

"The officialdom is dark, the people are suffering, and demons are causing chaos in the world."

"Emperor Yuan died, Emperor Gao ascended the throne, the emperor was young, his sister Princess Yunluo took power, and reopened the imperial examinations."

"The first place in the imperial examination was awarded as an official in the imperial court."

"Princess Yunluo invited me to the palace. She said she was the one who selected me as the top scholar. I asked her why. She said I was born in a poor family but I have a good heart. Both my parents are dead and I am all alone. I can be a lone minister and save the Great Zhou."

Zhou Ping read the diary and learned about Li Shen's life.

This man was born into an ordinary family, grew up in a lower village, and had three acres of thin land.

Relying on three acres of thin land, he worked half-farming and half-studying, and took the imperial examinations more than ten times, but never passed.

In the world at that time, the officialdom was corrupt and the imperial examinations were full of fraud, so ordinary people had no chance to succeed.

Fortunately, the old emperor died and the new emperor reopened the imperial examination.

The new imperial examination recruited many children from poor families, and Li Shen even became the top scorer.

Li Shen still thought he was talented until that night when the eldest princess met with Li Shen.

The new emperor is young, and the eldest princess Yunluo controls the government.

That night, Li Shen learned that he was chosen by the princess as the champion. His essay was not the best, but his background was the cleanest.

The eldest princess also saw the darkness of the current situation, so she needed some children from poor families to fight against the powerful families.

"Kindness in nature." This was the eldest princess's evaluation of Li Shen, and it was also the reason why she made him the top scholar.

A gentleman will die for his confidant. On the one hand, Li Shen was grateful to the princess for her kindness. On the other hand, he had the same goal as the princess, which was to clean up the officialdom, clear up the government, and let the people live a good life.

Next, Li Shen became a cruel and lonely official, and he began to kill corrupt officials.

From Kyoto to the nine counties and thousands of prefectures, Li Shen killed so many people that blood flowed like a river.

Ten years later, Li Shen was already in his sixties.

Over the past ten years, the Princess and Li Shen killed corrupt officials and many powerful families. The treasury of the Great Zhou was filled and the people were able to live a rare good life.

But the four largest chaebols were not defeated.

Just when the Princess and Li Shen were about to take action against the four major clans, the four major clans took action against the Princess in advance. They instigated Emperor Gao to arrest the Princess on false charges.

The eldest princess was thrown into prison and Li Shen was killed.

Li Shen was not afraid of death, but he felt a little regretful. He had followed the princess for many years and had always had an idea in his mind: to be the empress!
Li Shen wanted to persuade the eldest princess to become emperor herself many times, but he always held back and did not say it.

If Princess Yunluo became the empress, perhaps the Great Zhou would be different.

Zhou Ping finished reading Li Shen's diary when the cocks crowed at dawn. He spent the whole night reading Li Shen's life.

Although there are only a few words, Zhou Ping can still feel the tragic feeling when reading them.

"Being a farmer in the morning and ascending to the Emperor's Hall in the evening."

"A scholar dies for a confidant."

"I served as a lone minister for the people of the world."

At this moment, Zhou Ping knew that Li Shen was an honest official. Not only was he an honest official, but he was also an able and capable official.

"Forget it, forget it. It's already pretty good to have a storage jade. Why think so much?" Although Zhou Ping was a little dissatisfied, he could still accept it.

If Fan Shiyi were here, he would probably go crazy.

These things are thousands of years old, they are all cultural relics, especially many books are still unique copies, any one of them can be sold for a lot of money.

Unfortunately, Zhou Ping didn't know the value of these books.

In addition to the book, Zhou Ping also found a scroll.

When the scroll was opened, there was a picture of a beautiful woman in red, looking cool and majestic.

Next to the portrait is written Princess Yunluo.

The moment Zhou Ping saw the woman, he was shocked. He had seen this woman before!

After Zhou Ping killed Song Tianhu, he devoured his soul with the magic seed and saw a tomb inside.

There was a jade coffin in the tomb, and the woman in the coffin looked exactly like the woman in the portrait.

"So that woman is Princess Yunluo." Zhou Ping was shocked. He didn't expect that he would know the woman's identity by accident.

But Zhou Ping had no special hobbies, nor did he have any intention of robbing tombs. Just the talking mummy in the tomb was enough to make Zhou Ping know that it would be difficult to deal with.

After checking the items in the storage jade, Zhou Ping rearranged them.

After everything was arranged, the space in Zhou Ping's storage jade was as big as two rooms, which was larger than Fan Shiyi's storage space.

"Let me put you in first."

(End of this chapter)