On the Avenue.

Chapter 253 Chinese New Year
By the fifth watch, the Wan family's money had not been spent yet. Guandi was riding his horse in front, with mountains of gold and silver flying behind him. Bunches of gold and silver ingots were flying in the rainbow light behind the horse, more lighthearted than birds.

Guandi rode his horse into the city. The guards at the city gate did not dare to stop him and went straight to Wan Mansion.

When he arrived at the Wan Mansion, he killed a few short-sighted monks from the Wan family and ran straight to the Chunshan Pavilion.

Chen Shi stood in front of the Chunshan Pavilion, holding the miniature courtyard and waiting. He saw a green dragon enter the miniature courtyard and a red horse rushed into the underworld and disappeared.

Li Tianqing landed in front of Chen Shi, and gold, silver and treasures fell like rain behind him, soon piling up like a mountain.

Li Tianqing fell down in a daze.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on the bed, covered with a quilt. The quilt was soft and fragrant.

He sat up and lifted the quilt. His head still hurt. It was probably the aftereffect of the blessing of Guandi Emperor's will last night.

Li Tianqing lifted the white gauze curtain, hung it up as usual, put on his shoes and walked out of the room.

The sun is glaring outside.

He raised his hand to block the sunlight and it took him a moment to adjust.

He was still in the Chunshan Pavilion of the Wan Mansion. In front of him was a mountain of gold and silver, mixed with a lot of silver bills. It was even several times larger than the rockery not far away.

He looked around and saw devastation everywhere, with collapsed houses, destroyed buildings, broken trees, and half of the wall in the distance collapsed by a fallen tree.

He gradually remembered what happened last night. At that time, he was very excited and walked out of Chunshan Pavilion, determined to save Chen Shi at all costs.

Then he met Chen Shi, holding a miniature courtyard, and then he fell asleep, as if sleepwalking, killing people in all directions.

This dream is extremely real, yet also extremely unreal.

At this time, he heard Chen Shi's voice, as if he was talking to someone.

He walked forward, and Chen Shi's voice gradually became clearer: "... Go back to Xinxiang? Not so soon, things here will take a few days to deal with... Tianqing, are you awake?"

Chen Shi was sitting under a big tree at this moment. There was a stove under the tree. Hei Guo was cooking with an apron on his back, and Chen Shi was sitting in front of the stove and making a fire.

There were several treasure chests next to them. The things in the boxes looked like papers, which Chen Shi took out and stuffed under the stove.

There was a sizzling sound in the pan as the hot fat was frying food. Li Tianqing smelled the aroma of the food and felt very hungry.

There are not many people in the Wan Mansion now, and all the servants have run away.

The Wan Mansion's kitchen was also destroyed in last night's battle, so they could only set up a stove here to cook.

"What is this?" Li Tianqing looked at the things in the treasure chest and asked.

"It's the Wan family's title deed."

Chen Shi patted the treasure chest and said with a smile, "I killed all the people in the Wan family and only spared the servants. Without descendants, the Wan family will not come back and inherit the land of the Wan Mansion."

Li Tianqing said: "Why not distribute the land deeds? Then the villagers in each village and village can all get a piece of land."

"Are you planning a rebellion?"

Chen Shi rolled his eyes at him and said with a smile, "If you distribute these land deeds to the tenant farmers, you will have to rebel, become a governor yourself, and go against the court. Can you deal with the Mahayana realm, or can I deal with the Mahayana realm?"

Li Tianqing thought for a moment and said, "It is indeed best to burn it. After it is burned, all the land will be ownerless, and the Wan family will have no descendants. These fields will be ownerless, and each village and village will cultivate them on their own. However, in this process, some people may take advantage of their power and bully others and rob them by force."

"That's their own business."

Chen Shi continued to use Qingzhou's land deeds to stir the pot, and said with a smile, "Now the opportunity is given to all Qingzhou people, they have to seize it themselves. They have been bullied by Master Wan for a lifetime, two lifetimes, and their ancestors have never dared to resist. Now that Master Wan is gone, they have to be braver and take the initiative to kill the next Master Wan."

Li Tianqing squatted beside him and picked up a thick stack of land deeds, about a hundred in total, and asked, "How much silver is this bunch of land deeds worth?"

Chen Shi estimated it and said, "It's worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Li Tianqing was shocked and laughed, "I have never seen so much money! I have never touched so much money."

As he said this, he stuffed the deed under the stove.

Title deed burning.

"It would be so cool to burn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver!" Li Tianqing said with a smile.

After they finished burning one box, they took out the deeds from another treasure chest and put them into the bottom of the pot.

"The black pot also wants to make an iron pot to stew a goose, and put corn cakes around the iron pot. I don't know if these deeds are enough to cook."

"Where did the goose come from?"

"There are swans in the Wanfu fish pond. I killed one of them while you were sleeping."

……

There were not enough land deeds, and when the fire was finished, the goose was not yet stewed. Chen Shi chopped some more firewood and finally finished the dish.

Outside the Wan Mansion, there had long been a heavy guard, and the Governor Liu Dingchen personally led the Qingzhou masters to guard outside. Liu Dingchen was promoted by the Wan family, and one of the few governors who did not belong to the Thirteen Surnames. Although he was on high alert, he did not attack the Wan Mansion.

After all, Master Wan and a group of masters were all dead, so even if he rushed in, he would be sending himself to death.

But you still have to do it.

He is a smart man and knows what to do and what not to do.

At midnight, it was Chen Shi's turn to be the Red Horse Thief. He rode the Red Hare from hell, wielding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. He rushed into the government office, killed the governor Liu Dingchen with one blow, and set fire to the government office.

——Although Governor Liu is a smart man, he is still not smart enough. Qingzhou's harsh laws came from him. Master Wan must die, so how can he be spared?

The Red Horse Bandits traveled with mountains of gold and silver, distributed them to the people of Qingzhou, and cleared out the evil spirits nearby.

In the next few days, Chen Shi and Li Tianqing took turns to be the Red Horse Bandits. They killed many corrupt officials, but even more were evil spirits. Finally, they dispersed all the gold, silver and treasures accumulated by the Wan family.

That day, the two men sat in a wooden cart, which drove out of Qingzhou City and went farther and farther away.

Li Tianqing looked back towards Qingzhou City and suddenly asked, "Xiao Shi, do you think there will be another Master Wan after we leave?"

"There will be."

Chen Shi raised the canopy and said, "After we leave, the court will send people to investigate what happened here. Someone will become the governor, the salt commissioner, the general, or the Lord Wan, and they will still act tyrannically. This is the way the world is."

Li Tianqing was a little unwilling: "We finally managed to clean up Qingzhou, how can we bear to see it return to its original state? Is everything we have done useless? All in vain?"

He felt that the passion in his heart was suddenly cooled down.

Chen Shi smiled and said, "How can it be useless?"

He lit a stick of incense at the Guandi Temple, bowed, and said, "At the very least, they will be much more restrained. They will worry that if they go too far, a red horse thief will come in with a knife and kill them like chopping melons and vegetables. They will be much better to the people, because... we have been here!"

“We’ve been here…”

Li Tianqing murmured, feeling much more comfortable in his heart, and whispered, "As long as corrupt officials and powerful people are still around, the Red Horse Bandits will come back. Guan Sheng Emperor, the God of Wealth, will gallop over and swing his sword to kill them."

Chen Shi glanced at him, then suddenly smiled and said, "Tianqing, there is a small organization among us scattered people, called Tianting. Do you want to come in? We have no intention of rebelling. We really don't want to rebel. The goal of our Tianting is to find those lost Chinese gods..."

After Chen Shi explained for a while, Li Tianqing was sure that Master Jie Yuan really had no rebellious intentions. The implication of the Heavenly Court was actually to find the gods in the mythology of the Chinese court, rebuild the Taoist tradition for them, and re-establish incense.

It's not about overthrowing the imperial court or the true God.

Li Tianqing nodded in agreement. Because of his erudition, his code name in the Heavenly Court was "Scholar".

Chen Shi took out the Heavenly Court Token he made and handed it to him. Li Tianqing looked at it and saw that the Heavenly Court Token was quite simple. He said, "I know how to refine treasures, so I might be able to make some Heavenly Court Tokens." Chen Shi was surprised and said, "Tianqing, you have read so many books, and you can also refine pills and treasures. What else can you do?"

Li Tianqing said: "I know a lot of things. Basically, I know a little bit of everything... Oh, right! The spiritual medicine in the spiritual garden!"

He thought of the spiritual medicines that had become spirits in the Wan family’s spiritual garden. These spiritual medicines were definitely a huge fortune!

He was about to jump out of the car to grab those spiritual medicines, but Chen Shi smiled and said, "I have already taken away those spiritual medicines that can be taken away."

Li Tianqing breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "When did you do it?"

"While you were asleep."

Chen Shi lay down in the car and said leisurely, "Not all of those spiritual herbs can be transplanted to the Temple of the God of Wealth and the small temple behind my head. Some have higher climate requirements, so I didn't transplant them. There are a total of 109 plants suitable for you and me. I planted 54 plants in the Temple of the God of Wealth and 55 plants outside my small temple."

Li Tianqing smiled and said, "You are becoming more and more careful in doing things."

Chen Shi said, "You can take the Temple of the God of Wealth. First, you can practice in it. Second, the New Year is approaching. You need to return to Quanzhou as soon as possible to pick up your mother and old man Li Jindou. If you are in danger, Guandi can protect you."

He paused, and said, "What happened in Qingzhou cannot be hidden from the top leaders of the Thirteenth Family. Take your mother and Mr. Li away, either to Qianyang Mountain or Gongzhou. Don't go to Xijing to participate in the Spring Examination."

Li Tianqing was stern and nodded silently.

"What about you?"

"Me? Xijing, I will definitely go!"

Chen Shi looked up at the sky and said with a smile, "Not only am I going to go, I also want to pass the imperial examination and become the top scholar in the palace examination! You don't have to worry about me, I have ways to protect myself."

Li Tianqing was worried and said, "I heard from Uncle Thirteen that the top scholar has been selected. I'm afraid you won't pass the exam."

Chen Shi was stunned, and then he was indignant: "So dark? Who is the one who was chosen? I will kill him!"

"I don't know about that."

Li Tianqing put away the miniature courtyard, jumped out of the car, bowed and said, "Mr. Chen, let's say goodbye here. We will meet again in Qianyang Mountain in the future. I will wait for the good news that you will win the championship in Xijing!"

Chen Shi also jumped out of the car and returned the greeting, saying, "You and I are almost equal in talent and learning. Although you cannot take the exam, if I win the first place, then you will win the first place."

Li Tianqing was touched and said with a smile: "It's a pity that I can't decide who is the top scholar and who is the second in the Golden Palace with you."

"Hahaha, of course I am the top scorer!" Chen Shi laughed.

"Not necessarily."

Li Tianqing waved goodbye to him.

Chen Shi watched him go away until his figure disappeared, then he got in the car and continued to rush to Qianyang Mountain in Xinxiang.

The wooden cart gradually accelerated. Chen Shi sat in the cart, looking at Qingzhou shrouded in mist, his heart beating fast.

Qingzhou, we have been here.

Guandijun has been here.

Leave you a piece of blue sky.

If there is any haze blocking the way, cut it away with a knife and the sky will open again!

The wooden carts rumbled to the dilapidated dock on the Xianzhou River.

The pier has been in disrepair for many years and there is not a single boat. Only a pleasure boat is floating alone on the water.

Chen Shi glanced at the pleasure boat, rubbed the wooden cart against the ground, exerted force suddenly, and jumped into the water.

"Hey! Hey!"

The boat girl rushed out of the pleasure boat in a hurry, shouting, "No charge! No charge, okay? We'll even provide meals on the way!"

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment and jumped onto the pleasure boat.

The black pot also jumped up. The wooden cart grew six arms, grasped the edge of the pleasure boat, climbed up, and parked on the deck with its four wheels propped up to dry itself.

The boat girl breathed a sigh of relief, and looking at Chen Shi, she seemed to see that her contribution had returned to her pocket, and said with a smile: "Master Jie Yuan has committed a major crime in Qingzhou, so is he going back to Qianyang Mountain to avoid the limelight?"

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "I am innocent. The case was committed by Li Tianqing and has nothing to do with me. I returned to Qianyang Mountain not to hide from the limelight, but to celebrate the New Year."

The boat girl controlled the course and asked, "How old is Mr. Jie Yuan after the New Year?"

"Twelve. But my grandfather said I was born early, in the first month of the year, so I should be thirteen."

"Who else is at home?"

"No one, just me."

The boat girl advised softly, "There are not many people in the world of the living. You might as well go to the underworld to accompany your grandfather so that he won't be lonely. I will find a few more companions for you two, so that your life in the prison won't be difficult."

Chen Shi ignored her.

Two days later, they arrived in Xianzhou. Chen Shi separated from the boat girl and took a car to Xinxiang County. They went to the vegetable market and bought a lot of chickens, ducks, fish and meat. They also bought a basket of firecrackers, which were full to the wooden cart. They left the county and rushed to Huangpo Village.

As the New Year approaches, the city is decorated with lights and lanterns, and the countryside is also full of joy, with children setting off firecrackers everywhere.

Chen Shi returned to Huangpo Village with a big smile on his face. He distributed chickens, ducks, fish, meat and firecrackers to the villagers from door to door, and spoiled his fellow villagers a lot. Grandma Yuzhu and Old Lady Wuzhu were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling, and they were very respectful to Master Chen.

On New Year's Eve, the sound of firecrackers could be heard everywhere. Chen Shi moved the red cannon in the yard to the entrance of the village and fired three cannons in a row. The sound was so loud that it almost sent the old men and women in the village to death early.

After setting off the firecrackers, Chen Shi went home with a smile on his face. When he got home, the house was empty except for Gou Zi who was making dumplings.

Chen Shi walked to the east room, the west wing, and the main room, but they were all empty.

Grandpa is not at home.

It’s New Year’s Day, and he and Hei Guo are the only ones at home.

There were crackling sounds of firecrackers outside, but the house was unusually quiet.

The house seems a little cool and a little cold.

At this time, there was a knock on the door and Chen Shi went out to open it.

Yuzhu poked her head in and said with a smile, "Little Ten, you haven't had the New Year's Eve dinner yet, right? My grandma said that if you haven't eaten yet, don't make it. My family has prepared it. Let's sit down and have a meal together."

Chen Shi hesitated for a moment and said with a smile, "That's too much trouble for you! Yuzhu, wait for me, I'll clean up! Don't take the blame, wash your hands!"

He came to the well, secretly wiped the tears from his face, washed his face with cold water, calmed himself down, and went out with a smile.

On New Year's Eve, he had a reunion dinner at Yuzhu's home. Yuzhu's grandmother was very kind, Yuzhu's father was very honest, Yuzhu's mother was talkative, and Yuzhu was also very pretty.

Chen Shi only felt that the light was warm, and under the light, the family was having a great time.

He returned home, lay on his bed, and stared at the dark ceiling.

At this moment, he missed his family especially.

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(End of this chapter)