The Red Mansion Big Liar

After entering Chengtian Gate, Dai Quan ordered the eunuch accompanying him to take Zhang Yun逸 to a side hall to wait for the emperor to summon him. He also instructed Zhang Yun逸 on the matters needing attention when meeting the emperor, and he and Jia Jing reported to the emperor.

Zhang Yun逸 also took this opportunity to review the speech he had prepared in his mind.

After about an incense stick of time, I heard the summons.

Zhang Yunyi patted his official uniform slowly and followed the young eunuch step by step all the way to the Linjing Palace. He crossed the palace door and took three steps inside. He prostrated himself on the ground, shouting loudly.

"Your Majesty, I, Zhang Yunyi, would like to thank you for saving my life."

"When have I ever saved you? Didn't the late emperor save you?"

"The Immortal Realm also has its own rules, but Your Majesty receives orders from Heaven. Although I have died a sudden death, without Your Majesty's order, the late Emperor cannot violate the Immortal Law..."

He gave the emperor a little praise and patched up the previous lie at the same time.

After all, they are not related, so they need a reason to come back to life.

Although there are many coincidences in this world, dying suddenly just when being appointed as an official is, if not unique, extremely rare.

Even if there are new comers, he can always find other excuses.

It's still the same logic. As long as there is no way to verify it, but it can be supported by indirect evidence, the listeners will naturally make up their own minds.

Although it is said that flattery never gets worn out, the emperor has heard it so many times that he is immune to it. After his curiosity was over, he immediately returned to the topic and urged, "I heard that the emperor father has something to bring to me. Is it the way to become an immortal?"

"Yes!" Zhang Yunyi said firmly, "It's just that the emperor has taken the wrong path, and the late emperor is worried, but due to the immortal rules, he can't personally remind him, so I take this opportunity to let this humble minister help the emperor!"

"Hurry up and speak!" Emperor Zhengqing's voice trembled a little.

"The emperor is appointed by heaven, and the herdsmen in the lower world are gilded. Once they gain enough merits, they can be rewarded with more merits..."

"Merits and virtues?" Emperor Zhengqing frowned and asked, "How can you help me gain merits and virtues?"

"I really don't have such ability, but the late emperor did."

Zhang Yunyi stopped keeping the secret and said, "Although one person's enlightenment brings prosperity to all his family members, the blessings of a gentleman will be cut off after five generations. Immortals have infinite lifespans, but their followers cannot enjoy the blessings of immortals forever after many generations. After so many years, there are now a large number of immortals in the immortal world."

“What does this have to do with merit?”

"The so-called Tao follows nature. Although the immortals have no fate with immortals, they often see the methods of the immortals. Under their influence, they find new ways. Building a hundred-foot-high building with glass windows, not only can they afford food and drink far beyond imagination, but they can also control iron oxen to farm, and even have iron birds and iron horses that can travel thousands of miles a day and fly into the sky and hide underground. As long as the immortals' methods are applied to this dynasty, Your Majesty will surely gain merits!"

"what!"

This time, not only Emperor Zhengqing was dumbfounded, but even Dai Quan and Jia Jing who were listening could not help but exclaim.

He had no choice but to do this...

If one wants to escape from the Imperial Observatory, besides being favored by the emperor, one must also demonstrate sufficient value. However, the Imperial Observatory lineage cannot take the imperial examinations or join the army, so there is no place for them to display their talents even if they want to.

Moreover, the same applies to ancient and modern times. If it is not for the purpose of coping with exams, who would be willing to study boring exam books?

Therefore, the original owner read a lot of miscellaneous books, but rarely touched examination books.

Even if he was able to take the imperial examination, he would not be able to achieve anything without studying hard for ten or eight years.

As a modern man, all he can count on is modern knowledge.

Moreover, the theory of resurrection that he fabricated has both advantages and disadvantages.

Once he uses modern knowledge to create something that is ahead of its time, it will inevitably trigger associations.

If the emperor thought he had hidden something, he would be in big trouble. It would be better to take a chance.

However, everyone has cognitive limitations. If we want to implant a concept, we cannot subvert the old cognition. Instead, we should just follow your path and believe in what you believe in.

If he had talked about science and technology with the emperor at the beginning, he would probably have been accused of spreading rumors and misleading the people, or even been chopped into pieces.

However, by speaking of the technological means of the previous life through the immortal world and the immortal people, he could win the emperor's approval.

After all, immortals are omnipotent, and it is natural for the people who have been influenced by them to be able to fly into the sky and hide in the ground with the help of certain means.

After a brief shock, Dai Quan realized that Emperor Zhengqing wanted to ask but was afraid of damaging his dignity, so he asked first: "Did the late emperor teach you all these?"

Think beautiful!

Zhang Yunyi secretly complained in his heart, but said: "I am incompetent! The late emperor said that these are the methods that the immortals have spent tens of millions of years to figure out, and they are linked together, so we can only proceed step by step."

He just wanted to take the opportunity to climb up and settle down in this world, but he had no intention of devoting himself to the emperor.

"How to proceed step by step?" Emperor Zhengqing asked in confusion.

"The late emperor took a strand of the soul of me and a fairy from each of us and merged them into the other's soul. In this way, what he saw and learned, I can also glimpse in my dreams."

In fact, the imaginations of the ancients were no less than those of modern people. The cultivation systems and three thousand worlds in the immortal cultivation novels of previous lives can be traced in Buddhist and Taoist scriptures.

However, Zhang Yunyi could not remember any precedent for this kind of quantum entanglement.

Thanks to the fact that he integrated the memories of the original owner, this can be considered a mixture of truth and falsehood.

People without thought, he must worry about.

Whether or not you can show your past life identity to others is not important, but when you can't have both, you should take advantage of it...

"Great! Great! There is actually such a magic." Emperor Zhengqing raised his hand and said, "Hurry up and tell me what happened when you met your father."

Zhang Yunyi observed the expressions on their faces and knew that he had really passed this level. He hurriedly described in an exaggerated way the appearances of the gods in TV dramas in his previous life, such as their horse-drawn sedan chairs descending from the sky, their feet on auspicious clouds, and their heads covered with seven-colored rainbows.

Emperor Zhengqing was very interested and asked with a smile, "Have you chosen a courtesy name?"

"Your Majesty, I haven't taken it yet!"

Emperor Zhengqing hesitated for a moment and murmured, "Zhang Yunyi... Clouds are in the blue sky, so I will grant you the courtesy name Tianxiang. It not only sounds like Tianxiang, but also reflects the auspicious sign of the emperor's father appearing in person. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone!"

Zhang Yunyi secretly complained, isn’t this the same as Jia Rui?

However, the emperor's bestowal of a courtesy name has greater symbolic significance, so there is no need to worry too much about it.

He immediately showed excitement and said incoherently: "Your Majesty, I thank you for your grace!"

"Stand up! Since your uncle wants to take you back to live, I won't make any other arrangements." Emperor Zhengqing was quite satisfied with the courtesy name he had chosen. He raised his hand and said, "I grant you 200 taels of gold. Go back and handle your father's funeral as soon as possible so as not to delay your study of immortal arts. I grant you a token, allowing you to enter the palace at any time. Remember to report to me immediately if you have any news."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! I will obey your order!"

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(End of this chapter)

Chapter 5: First Meeting with Mrs. You

After leaving the Linjing Palace with Jia Jing, they arrived at the palace gate, only to see a four-wheeled carriage with carved patterns parked next to the carriage they had originally ridden in.

A man who looked like a manager was leaning against the side of the carriage and immediately came over to greet Jia Jing when he saw him.

"The master has left the palace!"

Hearing the noise, a middle-aged man in his forties, dressed in fine clothes and looking a little tired, hurried out of the car.

It was Zhang Yun逸’s cousin Jia Zhen.

"Master, why would you pass on the message..."

Jia Zhen saluted Jia Jing, but when he saw Zhang Yunyi behind him, he swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Jia Jing glared at Jia Zhen and shouted, "Why are you here? Have you dealt with your uncle?"

"Well... my son heard that the master had entered the palace, and he was worried, so he hurried over to take a look. My uncle has already asked his wife to go and help take care of things."

Jia Jing nodded, turned around and greeted enthusiastically: "Tianxiang, come and meet your cousin Zhen!"

"Tianxiang?" Jia Zhen looked at Zhang Yun逸 in confusion.

"Oh!" Jia Jing twirled his long beard with his hand, smiling and said proudly, "This is the courtesy name bestowed by the emperor on your cousin."

"Congratulations, cousin! Congratulations, cousin!" Jia Zhen smiled and said, "The fact that the emperor has bestowed upon me a courtesy name shows that I am deeply trusted by the emperor. If I become successful in the future, don't forget me, cousin!"

"Thank you for the compliment, cousin. I just made my uncle worry and made him run along."

After some polite exchanges, Jia Zhen helped Jia Jing onto the four-wheeled cart. Just as he was about to get on first, Jia Jing pointed to the carriage road they had come from and said, "Go to that carriage. I have something to say to your cousin!"

"This..." Jia Zhen hesitated to speak, and finally said nothing. He asked Zhang Yun逸 to get in the car, stomped his feet, and turned to get on the slightly shabby carriage next door.

Zhang Yunyi had just gotten into the car when he saw Jia Jing pounding his hands and stamping his feet, angrily saying, "Kid, why didn't you inform your uncle about such a big thing in advance? As the saying goes, serving the emperor is like serving a tiger. It's enough to have the blessing of the late emperor. Why bother making up that excuse... If we can't complete the task, won't it be a hassle?"

It turned out to be a cliché. Was he afraid that he wouldn't be able to complete his mission and that he would be implicated?

Zhang Yunyi cursed the old fox inwardly and said with a smile: "Uncle, you are joking. How dare a nephew deceive His Majesty?"

"Could it be true?" Jia Jing stared at Zhang Yunyi and asked.

"Absolutely true!"

"That's good! That's good!" Jia Jing's face was full of wrinkles, and he taught earnestly, "Uncle is also doing this for your own good. Although you are favored by the emperor, you must not take advantage of the favor and become arrogant and neglect the emperor's responsibilities. The dead are gone. I think you should go back and pack up first, and bury your father tomorrow morning."

Perhaps seeing his attitude towards his cheap father, Jia Jing was too lazy to pretend and made a suggestion by taking advantage of the emperor's order.

This proposal was exactly what Zhang Yunyi wanted, so he quickly said, "Yunyi is young and inexperienced, everything will be arranged by your uncle."

Seeing that Zhang Yunyi obeyed his orders, Jia Jing was very pleased and said sympathetically, "Well! You have been tired for a few days. Take a rest in the car. When we get to the destination, your uncle will wake you up."

Although Zhang Yunyi had just traveled through time, he was indeed a little tired after the ups and downs of the past half day, as well as overworking his brain. So he leaned back in the car as he was told and closed his eyes for a nap.

……

It is said that money makes things easier. Although the Zhang family's house was burned down to ruins, when Zhang Yunyi returned home, not only did he get a new coffin for his father, but he also built a shed in the yard and surrounded it with white curtains.

He put on mourning clothes again, pretended to cry in front of the coffin, and then returned the greetings to Jia Jing and Jia Zhen.

Then a pretty lady in a dark blue long coat walked into the mourning hall and bowed to Jia Jing: "My wife greets you, Master!"

"Ok!"

Jia Jing responded without comment and introduced to Zhang Yunyi: "This is your elder brother Zhen's wife, You."

Yu was a second wife, and the two families had already severed ties when she married into the family. Therefore, this was the first time Zhang Yunyi had seen her, and he couldn't help but sizing her up secretly.

She was about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, not tall, and looked delicate and dainty, but she had a curvy figure and was quite well-endowed.

The narrow-sleeved jacket was designed with a waistline to highlight the figure of young women. When worn on Youshi, it looked even more graceful.

Her petite figure and mature and charming face give her a unique charm.

No wonder Wang Xifeng said that she was a gourd with its mouth sawed off, the body shapes are indeed almost the same.

Zhang Yunyi secretly thought that Jia Zhen was very lucky, and at the same time he bowed and said, "It turned out to be Sister-in-law Zhen in person. Thank you for your help and help."

"We are all family, stop saying that." Yu Shi and Zhang Yunyi returned the greeting, "It's freezing cold, and there is no servant at home, my cousin has suffered this time. Sister-in-law asked someone to prepare some sweet glutinous rice porridge in advance, will I ask someone to bring it to you to fill your stomach?"

Zhang Yunyi secretly sighed at Youshi's thoughtfulness. He had not had a drop of water since he traveled through time, and he was indeed a little hungry.

"Thank you, sister-in-law!"

Yu Shi nodded slightly to him, then turned to Jia Jing and said respectfully: "My wife is also for you, Master..."

Jia Jing waved his hand and said, "Zhen'er and I need to look around."

Zhang Yunyi said gratefully: "Uncle has worked hard for most of the day. If I rest here, you will be busy running around. How can I feel at ease?"

"What? You still treat your uncle as an outsider?" Jia Jing showed a look of suspicion. "You are still young and have no experience in many things. Your elder brother Zhen and I just checked around to see if there were any omissions. Everything is handled by the servants, so it is not considered as hard work."

"That's good!" Zhang Yunyi showed a touch of admiration, "Then... Uncle, please come back soon!"

Jia Jing saw his expression, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, making him look even deeper.

"Well! Have a bowl of porridge first to warm yourself up. I'll talk to you when your uncle comes back."

As he spoke, he winked at Jia Zhen, opened the curtain, and left the mourning hall.

The scene before her stunned Youshi. Since she came in, she had never seen Jia Jing being so kind to anyone. She couldn't help but look at this cousin with some curiosity.

"What are you standing there for? Why don't you go and serve porridge to your cousin? If you neglect your cousin, I'll show you how I'll deal with you later!"

Jia Zhen, who was about to step out of the mourning hall, saw Youshi still standing there in a daze, and he shouted angrily, breaking the harmony.

Although she was used to being ordered around by Jia Zhen, Youshi still felt embarrassed in front of Zhang Yunyi whom she met for the first time. She wanted to retort but didn't dare to, and her mature and pretty face flushed.

"Hey! Hey!"

Feeling her cheeks getting hot, Youshi hurriedly agreed, turned around, lowered her head and walked away quickly in small steps, trying to hide her inner embarrassment.

Because her figure was already well-proportioned and she walked too fast, she left Zhang Yunyi with an indelible, alluring curve.

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(End of this chapter)