Chapter 128 Winning the Gold in Public

The lively city god parade in the streets and the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers are not far away yet.

[If there is a city god called Duan Ming, he will bring three days of bad luck to the owner of the picture, which will be unfavorable to the owner and will bring about bad luck. If you kill them, you will get evil spirits. 】

This reminder from the change map made Chen Ku's heart feel like spring thunder exploding.

What the hell?

He subconsciously looked towards the back of the retreating shrine.

"Why did you offend this city god? And give me three days of bad luck?"

Chen Ku's heart beat rapidly:

"Could it be that the City God heard my inner slander just now? How is this possible?"

Not to mention what he was thinking just now, he did not change any thoughts about the City God. At most, he just commented on the Daji Dynasty's method of exterminating evil and righting the gods from a perspective.

Have you no contact with the City God?

Secondly.

If the City God really had the ability to see through everyone's hearts, he would beat gongs and drums from every household to ask for the 'donation deed'.

after all,

If one person, or the so-called 'god', could see what everyone is thinking, then let alone the world being so big, there shouldn't be any rebellion, and there shouldn't even be any secrets in Baojiao County.

The plots in the minds of the so-called Ping An Dao demons and other major trade lords, and all the things that are not on the table, will be like a mirror in the mind of the so-called City God.

Chen Ku relied on his dialectical thinking to analyze that it was absolutely impossible for him to be punished by the City God just because he thought about it.

Then he looked at Jiang Shaoyou beside him.

It was as if nothing had happened, and he was still looking at the team with interest.

I am even more convinced of this.

You know, the words that came out of Jiang Shaoyou's mouth just now were even more disrespectful.

That's because...

This time.

After the You Shen team ended, two people wearing clothes like government servants came from behind. One was holding a book and the other was holding a plate. They came to the Tongwen Pavilion and faced Jiang. Shaoyou smiled and held up his hands:

"Jiang Shaodong, I wish you a prosperous New Year. May you get rich. May the City God bless you. May the weather be smooth this year."

"Thank you City God for your blessing."

I saw that Jiang Shaoyou had been prepared, smiled and clasped his fists in return, and then waved, a guy behind him sealed a hundred taels of silver notes.

When the two 'City God's Yamen' saw the one hundred taels of silver notes, they beamed with joy and immediately called out:

"Remember, Jiang Shaoyou from Tongwen Hall on West Street donated incense and one hundred taels of silver."

Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums.

The yamen servant's shout spread throughout the streets.

"Walk slowly." Jiang Shaoyou smiled and held his hands.

Watching the two government officials leave.

Chen Ku seemed to understand something.

But he still confirmed again and asked: "Brother, does every household need to donate? What will happen if they don't donate?"

Jiang Shaoyou thought for a while and said: "This activity of the City God's Wandering God is divided into four waves, walking from the four streets of the inner city, east, west, north and south. It's the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, and almost most businesses have opened, so every household You have to donate some amount. If you don’t donate... I heard that you will be unlucky, but it’s hard to say exactly how.”

Will you be in trouble if you don’t donate?

Chen Ku's face turned slightly blue, really because he didn't want to donate.

Jiang Shaoyou seemed to have guessed something from Chen Ku's question. He couldn't help but be startled, and then confirmed and asked: "Junior brother, is your iron shop not open today?"

Chen Ku answered truthfully: "Yaowangtang has a six-day holiday, and I have given the Iron Shop a seven-day holiday. It is indeed not open today. I guess the door should be closed when the City God parades through the streets and rides his horse through my Iron Shop."

Jiang Shaoyou thought deeply: "This is not good."

Chen Ku raised his eyebrows and said, "What's wrong? Yaowangtang didn't open today."

Jiang Shaoyou said: "Although the City God's Temple is not a yamen in the underworld, it has the seal of the imperial court and is also a yamen in the underworld. Although it will not beat people openly, but secretly write down people's names and use some tricks to punish them, that is... It’s hard to say. As for Yaowangtang, although it has not opened, as a giant in the city, there will always be no shortage of this kind of incense donation. Junior brother... I think you should hurry up today and tomorrow and have someone pay it back. A good portion.”

Chen Ku felt agitated.

What kind of world is this?

When he was collecting herbs, he had to exploit the Shechai market, open a shop and start a business, and pay taxes to the government. Now... there is actually a Laoshizi City God's Temple that is also "forced to donate money."

"It's clear, senior brother, I'll take the first step."

Chen Ku suppressed his thoughts and kept his expression unchanged.

I need to go to the iron shop first and then talk about it.

"Well, don't take it seriously. Although the City God was granted the posthumous title and has no body, he still has some supernatural powers after receiving incense. Try not to offend him." Jiang Shaoyou said: "Junior brother, you know what you are thinking, I don't Say more."

Chen Ku cupped his hands and said goodbye.

Unexpectedly.

Just after leaving Jiang Shaoyou's Tongwen Hall and walking towards his iron shop, I accidentally stepped on a pile of cow dung.

Chen Ku's face was ugly, and he was even more surprised and confused:

"Is this bad luck... really true?"

Or is it just a coincidence?

Suppress your thoughts in your heart.

Turn around,

Half an hour later, we arrived at the Railway Station.

Unexpectedly, the door of Tiehang opened. Wu Gui was inside Tiehang. When he saw Chen Ku coming over, he quickly apologized to Chen Ku with a crying face:

"Boss, it's all my fault. I actually forgot this. Every year on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, we have to donate incense to the City God Temple. This year, we have a long holiday. When I heard the gongs and drums of the City God outside, I hurried over and found that white paper was pasted on the door of our shop."

"White paper?"

Chen Ku looked at Wu Gui holding a piece of white paper with a look of regret on his face. It was three inches wide and seven inches long. There was no handwriting on it. It was just a clean piece of white paper.

But when he took it over and touched it, he immediately received a reminder from the change map:

[The City God has affected the fortune of the owner of the map with moldy paper, which has brought six days of bad luck, which is not good for the owner... Killing the moldy paper can get a first-level evil spirit, and killing the City God can get a fifth-level evil spirit]

"Five realms? Is the City God a righteous god of the five realms?"

Chen Ku looked at the reminder on the change map and frowned.

Five realms!

Very powerful!

After all, if we only count the real human masters in Baojiao County, there are only two in public, one is the county magistrate, and the other is his master.

However, thinking the other way around, it is also more certain.

The City God of the Fifth Realm is indeed strong, but it is impossible for him to have the ability to "see through people's hearts". After all, he is only in the Fifth Realm, and he is not the "Founder of the Fire Virtue Sect" who can refine the Fourteenth Realm magic weapon Fire Mouth Pot. He can't help but feel a little relieved.

Then look at the white paper.

I roughly understand that this is a bit like the "ticket" issued in the previous life.

Kill?

What's the point of keeping something that brings him bad luck?

But it's better to destroy it privately.

Otherwise, it's too easy to attract targeting again.

At this time, Wu Gui spoke, and he said with guilt: "Boss, I am in charge of the store. I should remember this matter. It is all my responsibility. I will pay out my own money and donate 20 taels to go to the City God Temple to redeem our iron shop."

"No, it has nothing to do with you."

Chen Ku took a deep breath and said:

"I will go to the City God Temple myself."

"Then, do you have money?" Wu Gui was about to take money out of his pocket: "I have 20 taels here, you take it..."

Chen Ku shook his head and refused. Wu Gui was the shopkeeper for him, and his salary was only that much a year. How could he let Wu Gui pay.

When he subconsciously touched his cuffs.

His face suddenly became uglier.

"Fuck, the more than 100 taels of silver notes in my sleeves are lost."

During the New Year, he would not bring too much money when he went out, but he brought more than 100 taels of silver. Unexpectedly...

It was lost.

One hundred taels of silver, that is the price of a pearl grass.

"Boss, what happened?" Wu Gui saw Chen Ku's face suddenly turned bad.

"It's okay, you stay in the shop, I'll go out for a while."

Chen Ku left the iron shop and returned along the same route. His lost things were not like others' lost things, it was difficult to find them back. With the sense of smell of a small dog, I don't believe that he couldn't find them back.

But,

when Chen Ku returned along the same route, he opened the sense of smell of a small dog all the way and searched carefully, but he couldn't find his banknote.

"Is the bad luck of the city god really so outrageous? It only took half an hour to go back and forth. Even if someone picked it up, could it run ten miles away? It can't be taken away by a bird?"

It's the New Year.

First step on cow dung, then lose the banknote.

Chen Ku couldn't help but feel more deeply about the three days of bad luck that the city god gave him.

"What a great City God, he is really resourceful. Although he must have done more than just me, after all, not every household and store would pay incense, otherwise there would be no 'white paper' and 'bad luck warning', but I was done to him for no reason, and I really felt very unhappy."

If it was his previous situation, facing heavy taxes and being disciplined, he might have just held his nose and endured it, but now, not to mention that his cultivation has improved, there are also various means of change, so he is ready to go to the City God Temple to find out the details.

He wants to see if the City God is really powerful?

If he doesn't figure it out, he will be cursed today if he offends the City God Temple again in the future?

Chen Ku has always been a steady and cautious person, and likes to prepare for some unknown threats in advance.

So he went to the remote forest outside the city.

First, he used the power of the volcanic crow to spurt a ball of fire from his mouth and burn the bad luck white paper.

[The owner of the picture kills the moldy paper and obtains a first-level evil spirit... He also needs to kill the source of bad luck, the City God, to completely eliminate his own bad luck]

City God...

Hmph.

Chen Ku was in the dense forest.

He shouted "Change" in his heart.

He immediately turned into a three-inch-sized white mouse marten, with wings on his ribs. Suddenly, he shook and flew towards the City God Temple in the city.

"Go and see the situation. If you feel threatened, run away immediately..."

With his strength as a second-level marten, he has the ability and speed to change size and fly. If things are not good, he can just go anywhere or fly to the sky. He has a strong ability to protect himself.

The location of the City God Temple is about ninety feet outside the willow alley on the west street of Baojiao County. It was built eighty years ago, facing north and south, covering an area of ​​100 acres, which is larger than the area of ​​the county government office.

There are halls such as the Offering Hall, the Main Hall, the Hall of Enjoyment, and the Hall of the God of Tour in the temple.

Chen Ku turned into a white-haired mouse, three inches in size, and came to the entrance of the City God Temple, which is the Xiang Hall facing south. This hall is where the City God enjoys the incense of all living beings and the people offer incense.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year.

The hall was crowded with people, and everyone was holding incense in their arms. Some of the incense was as thick as a pillar. Rich and poor, everyone came to burn incense.

Chen Ku folded his wings under his ribs and turned into a white-haired mouse. He followed a group of incense believers into the Hall of Enjoyment. When people were not paying attention, he climbed up the angled beam and walked along the The beams and columns are on the wooden structure of the ceiling caisson of the Xiangdian Hall.

He carefully looked at the one-foot-long golden statue of the City God enshrined in the Xiang Palace. He was dressed as a military general and held a majestic saber in his hand.

Two small bean eyes stared at the golden body of the City God.

Always be ready and fly.

But after staring like this for a long time, I found that I didn't seem to be affected in any way, and I couldn't help but think:

"It seems that I have overthought it. I thought that according to the settings in the novels and movies of the previous life, entering the City God's Temple would probably be equivalent to entering the City God's 'Heaven and Earth'. But now that I have been looking at his golden body for so long, I have no idea. Shit, I guess... I overestimated the abilities of the Five Realms City God."

After all, if the City God's Temple, which covers an area of ​​​​100 acres, is the other's kingdom of God, and its ability can cover a hundred acres, it has such a huge ability, and it still has to be inferior to a small Baojiao County.

Now that I was sure that the City God didn't notice his entry.

This shows that even if the City God is really conscious, it is not in the golden body of the Hall of Honor.

Otherwise, he should have noticed it long ago.

"Is it possible that I went out with the parade? I seem to have heard of the wandering gods in the past life. They just threw the Holy Grail. When the gods agreed, they invited the gods out of the temple. Some gods were so popular that they refused to leave no matter how much they were invited. Play……"

With this in mind, he cautiously and boldly tested further. Carefully and boldly, he flashed down from the beams at the back of the hall and landed on the back of Jin Xi.

really,

Nothing happened.

The real body of Cheng Huang must be somewhere else.

But just when Chen Ku was planning to go to other halls and backyards to check.

[The picture owner meets the second condition for practicing the fifth transformation picture]

[The fifth change chart]

[Awakening conditions: 10,000 taels of gold, 10,000 taels of silver essence, one pound of incense aura, one-step ultimate martial arts mastery, one four-level evil aura]

[At this time, two cultivation conditions are met within three meters of the main body of the picture: ten thousand taels of gold and one pound of incense gas]

(Note: The pound of incense on the side of the figure has not been refined and needs to be imprinted with the spirit of the figure before it can be sacrificed)

[Do you choose to directly sacrifice ten thousand taels of gold? 】

Chen Ku was stunned.

gold? The smell of incense?

He didn't expect that he would accidentally trigger the conditions for completing the fifth transformation diagram.

The smell of incense is easy to understand.

This is the Xiang Hall of the City God's Temple, the place where the most incense offerings are made, so it is normal for it to be triggered.

only,

gold?

where...

Chen Ku was startled, then looked at the golden body at his feet, and a thought trembled in his mind?

"Is it this golden body? Damn it? It's not gold-plated? Is it pure gold?"

He was completely shocked.

Then, the crazy idea in my mind couldn't stop.

Looking inside the Xiang Hall and outside the main hall, today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. At least a thousand people are kowtowing and burning incense to the golden body of the City God in the main hall.

To be in front of so many people...

Sacrifice this golden body?

Gudong~

Chen Ku seemed to be able to hear the sound of his own saliva swallowing, and then the heaven and man were fighting in his heart:

"Ten thousand taels of gold. If I don't get it for free from here, according to Daji's ratio of gold to silver, one tael of gold can be converted into twenty taels of silver. That means I need to exchange it for 200,000 taels of silver. Gold, all I have now is only so much if I sell my house and shop... I might as well rob this City God's Temple."

He gritted his teeth and became ruthless.

"You bring bad luck to me, and I will take away your golden body! Sacrifice!"

In the entire City God's Temple, a burst of golden light suddenly erupted.