Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 287 Meeting
Shi Fei took Ji Dian into a clothing store, picked out some simple and comfortable clothes, and then took him to a nearby bathhouse to take a hot bath.

Ji Dian soaked in the steaming pool with his eyes closed, and the wrinkles on his face seemed to be ironed out by the heat. When he changed into new clothes, he looked much more energetic.

"Ouch~" Ji Dian stretched his muscles and said with a smile: "It's really comfortable after taking a bath, and the new clothes are not bad either."

He was wearing only ordinary clothes, a set of which, including shoes and socks, cost only one or two hundred yuan. Even so, it was much warmer than his previous tattered clothes.

"Have you eaten?" Shi Fei said to Ji Dian who looked much more energetic.

"Are you talking about breakfast or lunch?" Ji Dian asked with a smile.

It was now past one in the afternoon. Shi Fei smiled and said, "Then let's just eat something together!"

They came to a porridge shop, ordered two bowls of porridge, and a few buns. Old people often have poor stomachs and cannot eat greasy food. Ji Dian held the hot porridge, blew the hot air, and drank a sip with satisfaction.

At the same time, in a senior citizen park far away from them, the afternoon sun shone through the branches of the sycamore trees onto the stone pavement of the park, and the mottled light and shadows swayed gently in the breeze.

In a corner of the senior citizen park, a stone table was surrounded by people. Two old men were sitting opposite each other playing chess. There were several other old men standing around them, giving instructions and talking in a flurry.

"Lao Zhang, your horse's jump is wrong! You should do 'horse two to three' and directly suppress his cannon!" An old man wearing reading glasses and waving a palm-leaf fan in his hands was so anxious that he stamped his feet and wished he could do it himself.

"Old Li, don't give orders blindly!" Old Zhang, who was sitting on the left side of the stone table, frowned and hesitated while holding a chess piece: "If my horse jumps over, won't his chariot go straight to Huanglong?"

"Oh, your brain is too slow!" An old man in a white vest next to him couldn't help but interrupt: "Old Li is right, your horse has to jump, otherwise once his cannon comes over, your game is over!"

Old Zhou, who was sitting opposite, picked up the teacup with a smile and took a sip slowly, looking confident of winning: "Old Zhang, you still need to practice your chess skills. Don't listen to their blind instructions. Figure it out on your own."

"Old Zhou, don't be so complacent!" Old Zhang glared at him and finally dropped the chess piece in his hand: "My horse has jumped, let's see how you deal with it!"

Suddenly, Lao Zhang saw another old man coming from a distance. The old man had a kind face and bowed to him. Lao Zhang sighed and said, "Someone is looking for me. I can't play this game anymore.

"Hey~ Are you retreating strategically because you see you're going to lose?" The old man in the white vest next to him said jokingly.

Lao Zhang didn't say anything, but stood up and walked towards the kind-looking old man. Lao Zhou seemed to have some impression of that man, and whispered to the old men around him, "I remember that old man used to come to Lao Zhang often, but he seems to come less often recently."

"That's right! I don't know what the relationship between that man and Lao Zhang is. He doesn't treat them like brothers, and he doesn't treat them like friends." said the old man with reading glasses.

"He must be his former subordinate, right? He seems to be quite respectful to Old Zhang. You don't know Old Zhang, but he seems to have been an official in the past."

"Hiss... I can't tell. Doesn't he only have a nephew that he hasn't contacted for many years, and an old partner that he doesn't interact with either?"

“Every family has its own sutras that are difficult to recite!”

"That's right!"

Lao Zhang is now a mortal and has no idea what people are saying about him behind his back.

He saw the kind-looking old man and bowed to him from a distance and said, "Your Majesty."

"Don't..." Lao Zhang quickly helped the kind-looking old man up and said helplessly, "Lao Li, we are all mortals. What's the point of talking about His Majesty or not?"

"Even if your majesty is a mortal, he is still the Supreme Lord!" Old Li is Li Changgeng, and in the heaven, he is Taibai Jinxing. "What is the Supreme Lord? It's like a nightclub. This is not popular in the world now!" Old Zhang is the majesty mentioned by Taibai Jinxing, so he is naturally the Jade Emperor in the heaven in the past.

But he never thought that he was now just an ordinary old man, and couldn't even beat other old men at playing chess.

"Your Majesty! This old minister..." Li Changgeng was about to say something when he was interrupted by Lao Zhang.

"Your Majesty, old minister, why don't you just call me Lao Zhang and I'll call you Lao Li?" Lao Zhang pulled him to a secluded place in the park and said sternly, "We parted on bad terms last time. Do we have to do the same again this time?"

Before, Li Changgeng had always insisted on the monarch-subject relationship, and even asked him to kneel down to her, which really made him unbearable.

In fact, he hates these monarch-subject relationships the most.

Who would have thought that the Jade Emperor, the Lord of the Three Realms, is actually the most anti-feudal?
"Then..." Li Changgeng said, "Okay then! Old... Old Zhang!"

"Hey! That's right!" Lao Zhang patted Li Changgeng and said, "Why did you come all the way here again this time? Can't you call me if there's anything wrong? You're not young anymore, what if you fall?"

Lao Zhang is over 70, and Li Changgeng is also over 70. Unlike Nezha, they have been in the human world for many years.

It’s just that Lao Zhang has always been addicted to eating, drinking and having fun. He makes his own food and plays chess when he has nothing to do. His life is simple and happy.

"Your Majesty... Old Zhang." Li Changgeng said in a heavy tone: "In the past few days, I feel that my body functions have declined rapidly. If this continues, I feel that I will not live for many more years."

"Well~ you should worry less, maintain a good attitude, and exercise more, and you will naturally live a few more years!" Old Zhang comforted Li Changgeng.

"When you have nothing to do, go out for a walk, play some chess, and bask in the sun."

Li Changgeng sighed and said, "Everyone will die."

Lao Zhang nodded and said, "Indeed, everyone will die."

Li Changgeng said: "But I don't want to die."

Lao Zhang said: "No one will not die."

Li Changgeng said: "Gods won't do that!"

Lao Zhang sighed and said, "But you are not a god, and neither am I."

Li Changgeng said: "Your Majesty, what if we can still become immortals?"

Old Zhang glanced at Li Changgeng and said, "During the catastrophe back then, that man was so powerful that we had no power to fight back. Now we have become mortals, and you still want to become gods? That's not right..."

He couldn't help laughing and said, "Arabian Nights?"

When they were gods, they couldn't resist that man. Now they are two old men. Is there still a way for them to become gods?

"It's not a fantasy!" Li Changgeng said, "As long as Your Majesty is willing, we can become gods!"

(End of this chapter)