Chapter Five Hundred and Twelfth Mysterious Dream
Gujing County is not far from Liangzhou City, but only about 200 miles away. Even if the team leaves slowly, it will not be late for General Dan Tai's birthday.
But as he walked back along the way, Dan Tai's mood became obviously a little wrong, and he looked awkward, especially awkward, as if he was afraid of something.
Li Chi asked Dan Tai and said, "You said before that General Dan Tai's birthday will be coming soon. Judging from your uneasy appearance, are you afraid that General Dan Tai will be unhappy because you didn't bring a gift back?"
Tan Tai sighed and said, "Not all of them. When I left home, I brag about the great cowhide. I told my father that I was already invincible..."
Li Chi smiled and said, "After returning to Liangzhou, we can compete with you in front of General Dan Tai. We will all lose to you, so General Dan Tai will believe you."
Tan Tai said in a low voice: "That's not necessary. My father is honest and serious, and he doesn't like opportunistic things the most."
Li Chi smiled and said, "I was just a joke. Even if you told me that you would cheat in front of General Dan Tai, I would not act with you. What did you actually have and what you have learned during this trip? As long as you sit down and talk well between the father and son, he will be happy."
Dan Tai said, "We have never talked seriously. He always looks down on me. I always look down on him. If I can't say a few words, they will quarrel and part in a bad mood."
Li Chi said to Dan Tai: "If you are afraid to talk to him, then I can rehearse the show with you first, and I will reluctantly play your father."
Dan Tai’s imprisonment: “Get out…”
Li Chi laughed and said, "What do you think of me and my master?"
Dan Tai thought about it carefully and recalled the relationship between Li Chi and his master Changmei Taoist. It was exactly the way he lived with him. It seemed that he was not only a master, apprentice, father and son, but also a friend.
Li Chi said: "In terms of etiquette and law, we younger generations must obey our fathers' words and be respectful and obedient. But if we always get along like this, then will we still be father and son?"
He taught Dan Tai to be on the verge of the situation and said, "You try it. Don't always be so serious after you go back, and you'll also make jokes with General Dan Tai."
Tan Tai thought about it for a while and shook his head repeatedly. His father's rigid and serious personality, would you joke with him? Stop joking.
He sighed and said, "I'll think about it myself. I'll go to Wuji County ahead and see if I can touch any good gifts. It's always better than going back empty-handed."
Li Chi nodded: "This is right. The old people always say, don't bring gifts, don't bring things, we'll be happy if we come back and see each other frequently. That's just because you feel sorry for the younger generation. If you really bring gifts, they are really happy whether they are valuable or not."
Dan Tai asked curiously: "Is this true?"
Li Chi said: "Of course, most of the elderly are insincere. In fact, if you want gifts, you just feel sorry for the children's spending money. You don't have to think so much about it. Haven't you brought the best gift back to General Dan Tai?"
Dan Tai thought about it for a while, and Li Chi meant that he had learned a lot and realized a lot during this trip. He was not as arrogant as before. Such changes were the best gift for his father.
The maturity of a child is the best gift to his father.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw Li Chi looking at Yu Jiuling and saying earnestly: "Tao General Dan Tai back a daughter-in-law who is as beautiful as a flower, he is..."
Dan Tai Gang gritted his teeth and said, "I will chop me up, and I will chop you up, and I won't leave any one left, I'm afraid I won't be able to relieve myself if I chop it up."
Li Chi was stunned for a moment, then looked at Yu Jiuling and said, "Oh, it's a pity that you are a pair of miserable couples, it's really difficult to marry into a wealthy family."
Dan Tai’s imprisonment: “Get out…please get out.”
Wuji County is less than 60 miles away from Liangzhou City. When Li Chi and his team entered the city, they were already setting in the west. Everyone wanted to stay in Wuji County for one night and rush back tomorrow morning. They would definitely be able to arrive in Liangzhou before dark tomorrow.
Before the sky got dark, everyone decided to go around the city. There were many merchants from the Western Regions and many Central Plains merchants, and the goods sold were of a variety of interest, which was quite attractive.
For Gao Xining and Miss Ruoling, the two girls have not been shopping for a long time, so they are inevitably excited. As soon as they go shopping, they both become happy.
Everyone lived in Guanyi. At this moment, Dan Tai did not have to hide his identity. He also asked the people from Guanyi to send a letter to Liangzhou and quickly informed his father that he had returned.
They went shopping and not far away they saw a lot of people gathering at the door of a family, as if something was bustling.
Yu Jiuling has a goblin personality, so how could he resist being curious? He ran over to see it with a dazed look.
Mr. Yan said: "Every girl is so unscrupulous."
Everyone was stunned for a moment. When Mr. Yan woke up and said Yu Jiuling, they all looked at Mr. Yan, and the meaning in their eyes was similar, probably... Mr. Yan was fake.
Soon, Yu Jiuling ran back, shook his head and said, "It turns out that an old man has passed away, and many neighbors come to see him off."
Mr. Yan said: "This old man must be respected."
Yu Jiuling replied: "I asked for it and said that he was a stable woman, who was already in her seventies. For decades, she has delivered countless babies in the city. After she passed away, everyone came to see her off."
"A respectable man who fights for life with Yama."
Li Chi said: "Since you have encountered it, buy some paper money and burn it."
In Da Chu, Wenpo is respected, and most of them do not collect money for their birth. Someone once said that their hands are stained with blood, but they take lives.
When Li Chi and the others saw that there were people selling paper money on the roadside, they bought some and went to the house to burn it. They happened to see someone entering the house with a pair of gloves. The gloves were sewn with red cloth and the color was very bright.
Yu Jiuling was a little curious, and he asked: "Why is this?"
Li Chi once heard from his master Changmei Taoist that people in many places say that the Wenpo delivers children and saves the mothers. They are those who fight for their lives with ghosts and gods. Their hands have delivered countless babies and saved countless mothers.
So when he arrived at the Hall of Yama, Yama would order Wenpo's hands to be cut off as punishment. He would sew gloves with red cloth to put his hands on the deceased Wenpo, so Yama would no longer order his hands to be chopped off.
After hearing this, Yu Jiuling said in a little annoyed manner: "Life, old age, sickness and death are all natural techniques, why should Yan Luo?"
Li Chi said: "The people are afraid that Wen Po will be punished in the Hall of Yama after his death, so they have to prepare red gloves and prepare a lot of things, including an obituary. This obituary is unusual, and it must state the words of asking Yama to give high praise."
"I'll go."
Zhang Yuxu said, "I'll go and give peace to the people."
He slowly walked into the yard wearing a Taoist robe and took the initiative to do rituals for the deceased old man.
This was a coincidence, and Li Chi didn't expect to dream at night, and this dream made Li Chi feel...it was a bit fun.
They bought some things on the street, but there was nothing precious. Li Chi said that he would give the money he cheated from Gujing County Magistrate Liu Shengchun and others as a gift to General Dan Tai.
This ten thousand taels of silver as a gift is definitely not a small amount, but Li Chi felt that it was not much, because the silver would eventually be used by General Dan Tai on the border soldiers, so he discussed with Yu Jiuling and looked at how much silver he brought over.
Including both gold and silver, there were tens of thousands of taels in total. Li Chi asked Yu Jiuling to figure out what he needed to go back, and gave the rest to General Dan Tai together, which was also considered to have done something for the Xiliang border army.
That night, not long after Li Chi fell asleep, he dreamed of the old man who was stable.
This dream is so real that it feels like being there.
Li Chi felt that he was walking on a very desolate path, with strangely growing trees on both sides, like devils with fangs and claws.
There was a faint crying sound in the forest, which was quite scary.
But Li Chi was not afraid at all. He walked along the road and saw that there was actually a city in front of him. He looked up and saw two big characters on the city gate... Fengdu.
At this moment, a voice appeared in his ear.
"Why are you here in the underworld? This is not the place you should come, go back quickly."
Li Chi was startled by this. He was not afraid at first, but this sudden appearance really scared him. He thought that someone was making trouble with him. He looked around but no one was seen.
"The judge of the underworld, he respectfully requests the Emperor to return to his throne by the order of Yama. Don't stay in the underworld. The Emperor's aura is too masculine, which will hurt the Underworld."
Li Chi suddenly had a trance, opened his eyes and looked, as if he had returned to the official office. It was pitch black all around, and he could vaguely feel the night wind blowing. He took a look and found that the window opened at some point.
Li Chi stood up and closed the window, thinking that this dream was really absurd.
After drinking a sip of water, Li Chi returned to the bed and lay down, and soon fell asleep again.
After a while, he seemed to hear some terrible cry. He wanted to open his eyes, but he couldn't open it at all. There were waves of pleading in his ears and a very majestic voice.
The majestic voice said, "If you take off her gloves and just red cloth, can you stop my underworld from punishing me? In this life, you will steal dozens of lives from the underworld, violate the rules of the underworld. I will cut off your hands!"
Hearing this sentence, Li Chi suddenly became angry.
"Dare you dare?!"
Li Chi stepped on the ground, and the land collapsed and the ground broke.
Li Chi stepped into the underworld.
Not long after, Zhang Yuxu, who was sleeping in another room in Guanyi, suddenly woke up. He hurriedly got up and ran to the yard, looked left and right, and then ran outside the door of Li Chi's residence.
"Li Chi? The head of the family?"
Zhang Yuxu screamed anxiously, and Li Chi opened the door in a daze. Seeing that it was Zhang Yuxu, he smiled and said, "You are not sleeping late at night, are you going to come and punish me?"
Zhang Yuxu asked: "The head of the family... have you had any dreams just now?"
Li Chi was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "How did you know I had a dream?"
Zhang Yuxu swallowed hard and applied it, then looked at Li Chi carefully, and after a while, he said in a deep voice: "I had a dream just now..."
Li Chi smiled and said, "What did you dream about again? Such an adult, was he scared by the nightmare and dared not sleep anymore, so he came to me."
Zhang Yuxu shook her head, looked at Li Chi with a very strange look and said, "I dreamed that Yan Luo called for help, his voice was miserable, and he shouted that the Emperor of Man would spare his life."
Li Chi felt nervous.
Zhang Yuxu said: "It seems that I saved him."
Li Chi curled his lips: "What a mess, go back to sleep."
Chapter completed!