On the Avenue.

Chapter 269: Reincarnation
When Chen Tang returned home, he had calmed down.

He opened the door and saw Hei Guo cooking. The food was basically done. Several maids were chatting and laughing with Gou Zi nearby. When they saw him coming, they stopped laughing immediately.

Chen Tang put down the buns, which were still hot, but the breakfast made in the black pot was obviously more sumptuous. He fried four dishes, both vegetarian and meat, and also cooked porridge and cut two plates of cold dishes.

"Who bought the vegetables?" Chen Tang wondered.

If the servants of the Chen Mansion went to buy vegetables, they probably wouldn't buy so much.

The maid pointed at the black pot.

Chen Tang put down the buns and went to the backyard, only to see Chen Shi combing his mother's hair. It was obvious that he seldom did this kind of work. He combed from the roots of the hair and often could not comb all the way through.

"Let me do it."

Chen Tang walked forward, took the comb, started combing from the ends of the hair, combed the ends straight, and then combed some more hair to untangle the messy hair.

Chen Shiyong used a warm towel to wipe his mother's face very carefully.

After combing Chen Shiniang's hair, Chen Tang also tied her hair up and put on hair accessories. His movements were very skillful, and it was obvious that he did this often.

Chen Tang trimmed her nails again, and Chen Shi watched from the side, learning seriously.

"She can't move, so we need to help her stretch her muscles and get her blood flowing."

Chen Tang stood up Chen Shi's mother and taught Chen Shi how to stretch his muscles. He said, "You can use your own Qi and blood to help her move. Stimulate her Qi and blood and circulate it for a few cycles. When she wakes up one day, she won't be paralyzed. By the way, there are many people in Xijing, and they are all good and bad. You shouldn't associate with everyone. Especially a guy named Xiaowu. Stay away from him."

"Creator Xiaowu? Uncle Wu?"

Chen Shi was quite excited and laughed, "I heard that he was in Xijing and created a cloud of corpses, causing panic among the people."

Chen Tang snorted and said, "He is not a good person. Don't get close to him. There is also a guy named Qiao Zhuo, who is also not a good person. If you meet them, stay away from them."

Chen Shi was surprised: "Uncle Zhuo? Why isn't he a good person?"

He did not argue, but studied hard how to activate the blood circulation, and said, "I have a lot of magical medicines here, can they cure my mother's illness?"

Chen Tang shook his head and said, "We have tried all kinds of elixirs, but they are of little use. Her soul has run away, and Granny Sha couldn't find it either."

Chen Shi said: "The elixir I have here is different."

Chen Tang's heart was slightly moved: "Did you get the elixir from Qingzhou?"

Chen Shi nodded gently: "The medicinal properties are stronger than in Qingzhou."

He obtained 55 spiritual herbs in Qingzhou and planted them outside the small temple. Every day, they were nourished by the sunlight, moonlight and starlight from the ancestral temple. The medicinal properties of these spiritual herbs were greatly improved and were far superior to the original spiritual herbs.

On the way to Xijing, Sun Yisheng’s soul was nearly blown to pieces, but was saved by these elixirs. You can imagine how powerful the effects of these elixirs are!
"There are many candidates who are proficient in the properties and pharmacology of medicines. After dinner, I will go find them."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "Please ask them to come over and prepare medicine for my mother's treatment."

Chen Tang shook his head and said, "The effect of the elixir can certainly make her condition better, but the most important thing is to get her soul back."

Chen Shi thought for a moment and said, "I know two people whose ability in finding souls is not inferior to Granny Sha's. Perhaps we can ask them for help. They should have arrived in Xijing. Chen Tang, are there any romantic rivers in Xijing? The kind with brothels on both sides."

Chen Tang stared at him: "Brothel?"

Chen Shi said frankly: "Those two people make a living there."

Chen Tang said, "Don't make friends with people of questionable character. There is indeed a river in the city called Qushang River, with bright lights and feasting on both sides. If you go there, I will go with you."

Chen Shi said, "No need. I'm not going now. It's still early, the brothel is closed and there's no business. I'll have to wait until the evening when there will be business and I'll be able to find them."

Heiguo asked Chen Shi to have breakfast, but Chen Tang had already eaten, so he did not go over. Instead, he pushed Chen Shi's mother and walked slowly, with a worried look on his face.

"Ayu, Chen Yindu may not have taught Chen Shi well."

He whispered, "He's only thirteen years old, but he's so familiar with brothels. It must be Chen Yindu who brought him there."

After Chen Shi finished his breakfast and was about to go out, Chen Tang stopped him and said, "I bought you a new set of clothes and put them in your room. Try them on before you go meet your friends."

Chen Shi returned to his room, wearing a black Taoist robe with a white collar and a red silk ribbon. He looked energetic but rather steady and reserved.

The clothes were a little too big, but not by much.

Chen Shi put it on and looked at himself in the mirror. It was obvious that Chen Tang bought it according to his own dressing style, which did not match Chen Shi's personality. But when Chen Shi looked at himself in the mirror, he found himself quite handsome.

When he walked out of the room, Chen Tang looked at him and felt that his son looked much better. He said, "Your hair is a little messy. I'll help you comb it again."

Chen Shi sat by the corridor. Chen Tang took off the two hairpins that held his hair on the golden crown and the hairpins on the golden crown. He combed his hair for him. When he combed his scalp, he touched something.

Chen Tang touched it and found the marks left by the healed bones.

His hands trembled as he recalled the back of his son's head that had been opened when he first discovered his son's body.

He shook his head quickly to get rid of this bad image from his mind.

He gently touched the centipede-like scarlet mark that ran from one side of Chen Shi's ear to the other.

It's impossible to survive this kind of injury.

But this wound healed.

Chen Yindu really succeeded.

"Does it still hurt?" Chen Tang couldn't help but ask.

"It doesn't hurt anymore, but it still hurts a little when it rains and thunders. I feel a little dizzy if the thunder is loud." Chen Shi said.

Chen Tang stopped talking, tied his hair, put a golden crown on him, and inserted a golden hairpin into his hair.

Chen Shi dressed neatly and went out immediately.

Not long after, Chen Shi came in laughing with a few scholars. When the scholars saw Chen Tang, they quickly stopped smiling and greeted him.

Chen Tang looked at these young people in surprise. Chen Shi actually brought a pharmacist with him. These people were full of vigor and not very old, but they had been traveling around the countryside for many years and had seen a lot of things. They analyzed the condition of Chen Shi's mother.

After much discussion, they came up with a prescription. Chen Tang looked at it and found it was a prescription for calming the mind and thoughts, replenishing vitality, and improving blood. In addition, there were several powerful medicines for calming the mind. Taking this prescription could help one forget worries and strengthen the body, and stabilize the soul.

"Without the soul, there is no way."

Huang Fengnian said to Chen Shi, "We must find your soul back. When your mother's soul returns, her body will have recovered and she will not feel grief, and her soul will be stable."

Chen Shi thanked them, and everyone hurriedly asked, "You are our mentor, how dare we accept your gift?"

Chen Tang was extremely shocked.

Chen Shi took out a few main herbs and asked the servants to prepare them according to the prescription. Huang Fengnian and others helped to make the elixir. He said, "Once the elixir is made, there is no need to cook the medicine every day. Just dissolve one pill in honey water and feed it to your mother."

They helped to refine the medicine until noon, and Chen Tang invited them to have lunch. These scholars waved their hands and said with a smile: "We will go to the guild hall to eat. We dare not trouble you!"

Chen Tang sent them out of the Chen Mansion. When he came back, he looked at the scarlet elixirs and was afraid to give them to Chen Shiniang.

He took a pill to test the effect of the medicine. As the medicine dissolved in his stomach, Chen Tang suddenly felt that everything in the world became beautiful. He sat lazily in the yard, his blood and qi circulated automatically, his vitality was full, and all his worries disappeared.

When the effect of the medicine wore off, he was shocked to realize that he had done nothing the whole afternoon, let alone go to the Ministry of Revenue to handle official business!
He carefully checked the effects of the elixir he had taken, and his heart was slightly shocked: "My lifespan..."

After taking this elixir, his life span increased directly from a hundred years to over two hundred years!
Chen Tang was stunned and hurried to look for Chen Shi, but he couldn't find him, so he asked a servant, and the servant said, "The young master went to Qushang River." "He went to a brothel?!"

Veins popped out on Chen Tang's forehead and he clenched his fists.

Chen Shi came to the nearest dock to Qushang River in Xijing and waited quietly.

It was still early to go to the brothel. The girls were still dressing up, so it wouldn't open so early. There weren't many boats at the dock.

But there were already quite a few scholars and officials waiting at the dock. The scholars were in groups of three or four, chatting and laughing, while the officials were sitting in their sedan chairs and did not come out.

There were kids selling aphrodisiac pills on the dock, walking through the crowd again and again, asking people if they wanted any. The people being asked often avoided the question, or laughed and waved their hands, saying, "Why would I need this?"

However, Chen Shi still saw that a few people secretly bought some.

"It's a good business. I'll tell Huang Fengnian later and ask him to come here to make money." Chen Shi thought to himself.

At this time, a scholar on the dock talked about state affairs, and the people waiting to go to the brothel began to sigh.

"The border troops are in urgent need of help, and the sea monsters are constantly attacking the border. The court is also transferring border troops to Xijing. There must be bad people in the court!"

A scholar slapped his fan heavily on his palm, indignant, and shouted, "Are all the people in the cabinet freeloaders? Such a foolish decree was issued. In my opinion, the devil is not in the sea, not in the rivers and lakes, but in Xijing, and in the cabinet!"

As soon as this statement came out, the crowd was furious.

A silver-haired old man next to Chen Shi said angrily: "If I were a cabinet minister, I would take all these old officials who only talk but do nothing, and all these corrupt scums, to the prison and torture them severely. I'm not afraid that they won't confess!"

"Well said!" everyone cheered.

"Are the six ministries and three officials all loyal officials?"

An official stepped out of the sedan chair and said passionately, "Tomorrow, I will make a speech in the court, criticize the current ills, and shame those old people who are just sitting there doing nothing! Let them know that people's livelihood is declining, even the gentry can't even afford to eat enough and can't afford to ride in a carriage!"

His words resonated with everyone and they applauded.

"The masters of Xijing should be allowed to leave the capital and visit other places!"

Everyone flattered each other, gradually became familiar with each other, and the conversation became more and more heated.

Chen Shizi was listening on the side, and as they chatted, they started talking about famous prostitutes in Xijing, who had the best martial arts skills, who had the most graceful dancing moves, and who had composed some songs that were popular in Xijing and even spread to other provinces.

They then talked about famous prostitutes and then about the poems recently written by several officials in Xijing, and recited them.

Then they talked about their lifelong ambitions and the need to realize their ambitions, and then they started to curse the court. Then they talked about a noblewoman in Xijing who had committed adultery with a Zen master outside the city and was caught in the act, and then they gradually talked about romantic affairs, and then from romantic affairs to the government, and then they started to curse again.

"The brothel is open!" someone shouted.

Everyone rushed to the dock and scrambled to jump onto the boat. The boatman shouted, "Slow down, slow down, the boat is going to capsize!"

"My shoes were stepped on!" a scholar shouted in the crowd.

There were not many boats at the dock, and they were soon full. Many people were unable to board. A boatman said, "I can take one more person, who's coming?"

Arms were raised high, and many voices said, "Me! Me!"

Chen Shi shook his head. At this moment, a pleasure boat was seen approaching. Everyone hurriedly came forward and waved to the boat, "Boatman, come here!"

Chen Shi jumped up, paced in the air, and landed on the pleasure boat.

The boatman who was steering the pleasure boat was a familiar face. The boat girl in the pleasure boat was dressing up, holding a hairpin in her mouth and tying her hair with both hands. She smiled and said, "Master Jie Yuan, you are a little impatient."

Chen Shi smiled and said, "You two, I have something to ask of you."

On the shore, a group of scholars stamped their feet and asked, "Are you going to dock? Are you still going to do business?"

Some people were so impatient that they jumped onto the boat. Their cultivation was extraordinary, and some of them had even reached the Nascent Soul stage and could fly in the air. But after jumping out, they were getting farther and farther away from the pleasure boat and fell into the water one after another.

The boat girl put the hairpin in place and asked, "What's the matter?"

Chen Shi told the story of his mother's soul leaving her body and said, "I beg you two to help me. I will reward you handsomely."

The boatman didn't say anything until he finished speaking. Then he shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't obey your order."

Chen Shi frowned slightly: "With your abilities, it won't be difficult to find my mother's soul. I didn't come here empty-handed either."

He took out the sheep-horn heavenly spirit lamp, placed it in front of the two men, and said, "If you can find my mother, I will give this treasure to you two."

The boat girl hesitated and kept looking at the boatman, somewhat tempted.

Although they were both Yincha, there was a difference in status between them. The lamp they could use was the Tongzi Tianling Lamp, which was a level lower than Chen Shi's Sheep Horn Tianling Lamp.

The boatman shook his head: "I'm sorry, I can't obey your order."

Chen Shi couldn't help but ask, "Why?"

The boatman looked at him deeply and said, "Chen Jieyuan, don't you remember what happened in the underworld?"

Chen Shi was stunned and shook his head, "I don't remember."

The boatman said, "I see. No wonder you asked us to rescue you. When you fell into the underworld, didn't your mother's spirit find you?"

Chen Shi was stunned.

The boat girl said, "After you entered the underworld, your mother's spirit also went there to look for you. I have seen her before. At that time, you and your mother were together. After your incident, she was also imprisoned in Yuanchen Palace as an accomplice."

The boatman said coldly: "If you want to save your mother, we have to break into the prison! If we break into the prison, we will become your accomplices! We are already in trouble. If we break into the prison again, we will never be able to return to the underworld!"

Chen Shi murmured, "My mother has always been with me?"

His eyes turned red: "She found me?"

"It should be correct." said the boat girl.

She suddenly remembered something and quickly tugged at the boatman's clothes, pulled him aside, and whispered to him.

The two men were acting in a sneaky manner and speaking nonsense, which was completely incomprehensible. I had no idea what they were discussing.

After a while, the boat girl smiled and said to Chen Shi: "We can help you break out of the prison, even without the sheep-horn lantern. But Mr. Jie Yuan must do a small favor for us father and daughter."

Chen Shi was very excited: "What's the matter?"

The boatman said, "It's a small matter. Someone escaped from the underworld, and the underworld contacted us and asked us to capture him. This person has been reincarnated for many years, and the underworld only recently found out his whereabouts."

Chen Shi asked in confusion: "Who is this fugitive?"

The boat girl said, "It should be a ghost messenger who made a mistake. The higher-ups didn't say much. He has been reincarnated for less than 20 years. He has a mystery in his womb and his memory has not been awakened. You just need to capture him. He was reincarnated near Xijing, and his hometown is a day's journey from here."

"it is good!"

Chen Shi agreed and said, "What do you know about this evil messenger who made the mistake?"

"A little yin messenger, who was reincarnated as a weak scholar and is very incapable of fighting."

The boat girl smiled and said, "You can definitely catch him easily. By the way, his name is Zhong Kui."

(End of this chapter)