On the Avenue.

Chapter 322: Filial piety! (Ask for monthly votes in the middle of the month)

Yan Xianzhi stood on the second-floor windowsill of Wenyuan Pavilion, looking at the two people and the dog getting closer and closer, his face pale.

He knew that at this moment, he, the twelve senior officials behind him, and all the civil and military officials in the court had become Chen Shi's hostages.

As long as they don't deal with Chen Tang and don't touch Chen Shi's people, they will be safe. They can still be high-ranking cabinet ministers and still command the Xijing court.

But if the Thirteen Families deal with Chen Tang and harm Chen Shi’s people, he, the cabinet ministers behind him, and all the civil and military officials in the court will be buried in the calamity and wiped out!
"audacious in the extreme!"

When Yan Xianzhi saw Chen Shi and the white-robed fairy walking through the collapsed Meridian Gate and onto the broken stone steps of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, he couldn't help but clench his fists, but couldn't help but feel a strong sense of powerlessness.

Even if Chen Shi was extremely daring, what could he do? Wouldn't they still have their lives at the mercy of their enemies? Wouldn't they have to rely on Chen Shi's breath to survive?
Chen Shi led the white-robed fairy through the Hall of Supreme Harmony which was under renovation, and came to the coverage of the Nine Palaces of the True King.

"Perhaps, I shouldn't have taken back the position of Prime Minister from Zhang Fuzheng!"

Yan Xianzhi secretly regretted it, thinking, "If I resign now and return home..."

Xia Canghai said behind him: "Lord, he is among the Nine Palaces. Can we take this opportunity to mobilize the Nine Palaces and kill them all at once?"

Yan Xianzhi hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If the Nine Palaces unleashes their might to the point where they can get rid of this evil, their might will surely destroy Xijing, and we won't even be able to survive!"

Xia Canghai was quite indignant: "Are we just going to watch him show off his power?"

Yan Xianzhi said woodenly: "Then just watch."

Chen Shi was also in a state of anxiety at the moment, fearing that the Thirteen Families would completely fall out with Chen Tang. He thought, "Now, the power of the Thirteen Families in Xijing should have seen through me clearly, right? I am under the power of the Ninth Palace, and they can take my life at any time, so they will not attack Chen Tang and my mother."

He was moved by himself and thought to himself, "I have fulfilled my filial duty!"

He took the fairy in white to visit the nine fairy palaces, but all nine palaces were heavily guarded by soldiers, who were ready to attack when they saw him approaching.

But immediately a eunuch came running and sternly rebuked the soldiers, asking them to be polite to Chen Shidu.

"Chen Shidu?"

Chen Shi was stunned. The tutor was an official of the sixth rank, whose main job was to accompany the king or the crown prince in reading books and reading memorials.

Of course, there is no real king or crown prince now, and the prince was beaten to death in public by Chen Shi. Therefore, the tutor was promoted in name only and demoted in reality. He has no power and no chance to influence others.

However, he had just recently become a historian and compiler. How come he was promoted to a higher level in just a few days?
The eunuch smiled and said, "Master Chen is devoted to his studies and has written many books. His reputation is well known to all in the capital. Today, the cabinet is only temporarily appointing Master Chen as a tutor. The appointment will be made at the morning court tomorrow."

Chen Shi was completely relieved after hearing this, thinking, "The cabinet promoted me to appease me. They were embarrassed to tell me openly that they would accept me as a hostage, so they told me by promoting me. It seems that Chen Tang and mother are safe."

He let out a long sigh, and his originally serious face relaxed a lot. He talked and laughed with the fairy in white. Of course, he was the one who talked and laughed. The fairy in white could only listen, and occasionally Aba said that he didn't understand.

The thirteen ministers of the cabinet breathed a sigh of relief when they saw a smile on his face.

Chen Shi took the fairy in white to visit the Nine Palaces. Two of the Nine Palaces were pavilions, one was the East Pavilion and the other was the Wenyuan Pavilion.

When Chen Shi passed by Wenyuan Pavilion, he inadvertently looked up and saw Yan Xianzhi sitting in front of the window, so he gave him a kind smile.

When Yan Xianzhi saw this smile, his heartbeat suddenly stopped for a moment, and he forced a smile.

Chen Shi left with the fairy in white.

"Abba, Abba!" The fairy in white said to Chen Shi with a serious expression.

Hei Guo told Chen Shi that she felt these nine palaces were somewhat familiar, and she felt uneasy and uncomfortable when she saw them.

Chen Shi started a small temple offering sacrifices. The fairy in white hurried into the temple and sat on the shrine. She was still a little uneasy, so she lay on the shrine and curled up, only then did she feel a little more comfortable.

"I think I really broke this girl's brain."

Chen Shi showed a worried look, thinking, "If she never recovers her memory, won't I have to support her for the rest of her life... How much will that cost me?"

He returned to the Chen Mansion. The craftsmen were still repairing the house and the maids were tidying up Chen Tang's room. Now that Chen Tang had left, the master bedroom became Chen Shi's bedroom.

Chen Shi had never been to Chen Tang's room. The bedroom was divided into two rooms, the inner room was where the master slept and was more private, while the outer room was where the maids slept and could serve the master's daily life.

At night, Chen Shi slept in the inner room and the two maids slept in the outer room.

Chen Shi was not used to it. The two maids in the outer room always wanted to sneak into his inner room and refused to leave. This made him angry and he shouted, "Are you going to sleep or not? If you don't want to sleep, give the outer bed to Hei Guo!"

The two pretty maids looked at each other and went back to the outer room unhappily.

Chen Shi was able to close his eyes and thought, "Why not kick the two maids out tomorrow and let Hei Guo sleep in the room. It's not convenient to have two women in the room."

He fell into a sleepy state.

Early the next morning, Chen Shi woke up, put on his clothes and walked out of the room. He saw three maids sleeping on the bed in the outer room. The fairy in white had run out at some point and was squeezing into a bed with two of the maids.

The two maids slept facing each other, and she slept between them, nestling in their arms.

Chen Shi shook his head, opened the door and practiced morning lessons.

The sound of him opening the door woke up the three girls. The two maids then noticed that there was a woman on the bed and screamed.

The two maids then noticed that the woman had delicate skin, a soft figure, and was much prettier than them. Her voice was somewhat coquettish, and they thought to themselves, "No wonder Master Chen ignored us. It turns out that she has a hidden charm."

The white-robed fairy flew up in a hurry and went into Chen Shi’s small temple.

After Chen Shi finished his morning prayers, Hei Guo had already cooked the meal, and Chen Shi asked the fairy in white to come out of the temple to eat.

The girl shook her head to indicate that she didn't want to eat.

"How can you live without eating?" Chen Shi was puzzled.

The black pot barked twice, and a fragrant breeze blew over. The fairy in white was sitting at the table, holding chopsticks in a proper manner, trying the human food.

"It's still useful to use the black pot."

Chen Shi thought to himself, "I have to go to the Hanlin Academy today. The cabinet wants to promote me, so they have to go through the procedures."

After breakfast, he set out for the Hanlin Academy to report in, waiting for promotion.

The girl ran out again. She was very interested in the books in the various academies of the Hanlin Academy and picked them up to read.

Niangniang Shiji also gradually became more and more unbridled. She walked out of Chen Shi’s small temple and walked back and forth among the bookshelves with her huge head on her head.

Her head was ten feet long and her body was also ten feet long, which was quite amazing.

"There is a top-level demon god beside Chen Zhuangyuan!"

Immediately, a spy quickly came to Wenyuan Pavilion and reported to the thirteen cabinet members, saying, "According to the "Records of Relics" in the Classics and History Department of Wenyuan Pavilion, this demon is called Shiji, and he was a disaster-level demon god in the True King era. He was suppressed by the monks under the True King before he was revived!"

There was silence in the cabinet.

Yan Xianzhi waved his hand weakly and said, "Explore again."

The spy withdrew.

Xia Canghai could not hold back his anger, and slammed the table and shouted: "We have already promoted him, what else does he want? Now he is bringing out the disaster-level demon god to suppress us!"

Fei Zhong asked tentatively: "Is it because the official position we gave is too low?"

Gao Quan sneered, "A sixth-rank tutor, how small? Since ancient times, the top scholar has only been this high of an official. Giving him a higher official rank would violate our ancestors' precedent!"

Gu Yanshan said: "Precedents are meant to be violated! In my opinion, we have to satisfy his appetite first, otherwise I'm afraid that the more than a hundred demons in his head will be released tomorrow! It's better to give him the right place and immediately promote him to the position of Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, just like his father, so that things won't get out of control!"

"You are being vulgar! His father was the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and even Lord Cui was played as a fool! He is the Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ming Dynasty can be emptied by him. Everyone present here will be played as a fool by him!"

Xia Canghai was furious and slammed the table. "Cut off five cities today, and ten cities tomorrow, in exchange for a night of peace. Get up and look around. The bandits are coming again!"

Gu Yanshan couldn't bear it anymore, so he slammed the table, stood up, and looked at him: "So what do you think, Brother Xia? When we go to war against the disaster, can you please take the lead and sacrifice yourself bravely?" The two of them were getting more and more angry. Yan Xianzhi coughed, and the two of them immediately stopped bickering and looked at Yan Xianzhi together.

Yan Xianzhi asked, "Has Chen Shi's tutor been promoted?"

"The eunuch has gone to the Hanlin Academy to issue an edict." Cui Baihe said.

Yan Xianzhi said leisurely, "Then add another decree to promote Chen Shi to the rank of fifth-rank academician. It's just a nominal position. Even if he continues to be promoted, it would be fine to make him a fifth-rank academician of the Hanlin Academy."

Xia and Gu stopped talking and sat down.

In the Hanlin Academy, Chen Shi received the imperial decree and was about to leave when another eunuch suddenly ran over and shouted, "Master Chen, Master Chen, please stay! The cabinet has issued an order that Master Chen will be promoted again!"

Chen Shi had no choice but to accept the imperial edict again. When he heard that he was only promoted to the fifth rank, he shook his head and said, "Can't we just do the promotion twice?"

He received the order, called upon Lady Shiji and the fairy in white, and left with the black pot.

The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict returned to Wenyuan Pavilion and repeated Chen Shi's words to the thirteen adults. Xia Canghai and others looked at each other in surprise.

"Are you dissatisfied with your low position, or are you dissatisfied with our slow payment?"

"Although he was a little slow, it seemed like he reluctantly accepted it."

Yan Xianzhi looked around and said, "I've been promoted three times in a row. I can't promote him any more. If this gets out, not only will our cabinet lose face, but the prestige of the court will also be damaged."

Everyone nodded.

Yan Xianzhi thought, "Unless he takes out more than a hundred demons tomorrow, he can't upgrade any further."

In the next few days, Chen Shi behaved much better, but he was always running around in Xijing City.

When Chen Tang was around, he was more restrained. But now that Chen Tang is gone, he wanders around Xijing City with his black dog, Big-headed Shiji and the prehistoric fairy.

Everyone in the cabinet was in fear every day, especially Yan Xianzhi, who lost even the desire to be happy with his thirteenth concubine because he was severely blamed.

"Chen Shi left the city and went to Gaoshan County!"

When the cabinet ministers heard the news, they were overjoyed and looked at Yan Xianzhi one after another.

"After all, he is a hostage of the Chen family. It seems that he wants to escape. Should we stop him?" Gao Quan asked.

"Stop him for what?"

Yan Xian was so angry that he laughed and couldn't help but said, "We are the proton! Let him run! Why stop him? Mr. Gao, go stop him?"

Gao Quan nodded in agreement and said he didn't dare.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and waited for the result.

Chen Shi went to Hongshan Hall and asked Grandma Sha for the magic to enter Yuanchen Palace, and followed Grandma Sha to study the geographical map of the nine districts of the underworld.

The underworld is extremely dangerous. He doesn't want Grandma Sha, Qingyang and Hu Xiaoliang to follow him, so he plans to go to the underworld alone with Heiguo, and therefore comes to learn Grandma Sha's magic.

——After all, Granny Sha and her son were reunited, and he didn’t want Granny Sha to take risks for him.

Granny Sha also knew the purpose of his coming to learn magic, and was moved, saying, "I will teach you another one, called Linshe, which will keep you safe. I won't teach your father anything!"

Chen Shi stayed in Gaoshan County for two days before he learned the magic of Linshe. He bowed to Granny Sha and said, "Aunt Qiutong, tomorrow I will go to the underworld to find my mother. You and Uncle Qingyang must leave Xijing as soon as possible. We will meet again in Qianyang Mountain in Xinxiang!"

Granny Sha nodded solemnly.

Chen Shi handed the Fox Grape Mirror to Granny Sha and said, "Aunt Qiutong, take this mirror immediately and travel a thousand miles east to wait for me in the mountains."

He returned to Xijing.

Yan Xianzhi and others received the news that Chen Shi had returned to Xijing. They were all as big as a bucket and had a worried brow.

The next day, Chen Shi quietly found the house that the boat girl rented and said to her, "We are leaving Beijing for Xiandu today. You should be ready."

The boat girl said sternly, "Will Xijing let you go?"

"I have a secret method that can travel thousands of miles through the Lesser Universe. I will teach you the spell today!"

Chen Shi handed her a Heavenly Court Order and taught her how to use it to open the Lesser Universe. He said, "Half an hour after I leave, you must immediately follow the method I taught you, sacrifice the jade pendant, and open the Lesser Universe. I will wait for you in the Lesser Universe. Once you arrive, I will take you to the exit a thousand miles away! Don't delay, remember, remember!"

The boat girl was extremely nervous and asked, "Can't we go through the underworld?"

Chen Shi shook his head and said, "Everything that happened in the underworld of Xijing, the existence of the Mahayana realm in the Return to Void Realm, is clear in their eyes and known to everyone. If we go through the underworld, they will definitely find us and we will die without a burial place!"

The boat girl became even more nervous, and hurriedly tried the method to open the small heavens to make sure it was correct.

Chen Shi left and returned to the Chen Mansion, pretending to be normal and not showing any sign of nervousness at all.

Hei Guo's two hind legs were shaking nervously, and he didn't know where to put his tail. He felt that his tail was raised, hooked, dragged, and clamped, none of which looked natural.

It was too nervous, but when it saw Chen Shi's calmness, it couldn't help but admire its young master's indifference.

Chen Shi returned to the Chen Mansion, entered his bedroom, and told the maids, "I didn't sleep well yesterday, I need to rest and catch up on my sleep. You must not disturb me."

The maids obeyed the order and walked out of the bedroom.

Chen Shi closed the door, his hands shaking uncontrollably.

When Hei Guo saw this, he realized that Chen Shi was also extremely nervous.

A man and a dog were guarding in the bedroom. Chen Shi calmed himself down, waited for a moment, pretended to snore, and the snoring gradually became louder. Soon, he subsided.

Gradually, the snoring became quieter.

After an unknown amount of time, Hei Guo suddenly pricked up his ears and looked at Chen Shi, indicating that the time was up!
Chen Shi immediately took out the Heavenly Court Order, opened the Small Heavens, and walked in.

He closed the door and waited for a moment, then he saw the door in the small heaven open and the boat girl appeared.

Without saying anything more, Chen Shi immediately took Hei Guo and Chuan Gu and flew out of the Small Universe and out of the Fox Grape Mirror.

The boat girl looked around and saw that they were far away from Xijing. There were lush green mountains all around them. A big river ran through the mountains with fast-flowing water. They had actually entered the Huangyan Mountains!
Grandma Sha has already set up the altar and prepared the method of transforming into a god. The five ghost kings stand on both sides, and Xiang Tianyu also stands next to the altar.

Everyone was extremely nervous, even Xiang Tianyu was affected and his face became very serious.

Granny Sha was relieved when she saw the two men and the dog flying out of the mirror. She immediately activated her magic to transform Chen Shi and Chuan Gu into two green-faced, fang-toothed ghosts and said, "Xiao Shi, there's no time to lose. Go to the underworld!"

Chen Shi bowed and said, "Aunt Qiutong, please go back to your hometown and wait for my news! Black pot!"

Hei Guo roared and a cold wind blew up, carrying Chen Shi into the underworld!

Grandma Sha immediately walked down from the altar, ordered the Five Ghost Kings to move the altar away, and hurried away with Xiao Tianyu.

Xijing.

The thirteen ministers of the cabinet watched this scene from afar, and suddenly there was thunderous cheers in Wenyuan Pavilion.

Everyone cheered, hugged each other, celebrated, and were so excited that tears filled their eyes.

"Gone! He's finally gone!"

Yan Xianzhi seemed to have used up all his strength. He slumped down in the armchair with a long-lost smile on his face.

"Well done, well done! We have finally gotten rid of this plague god! We are safe now!"

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(End of this chapter)