Taoist priests are merciless

Seeing that he was very enthusiastic, Cen Shen knew that he would strike up a conversation first, so he took the time to straighten his sleeves and wait for the answer.

The scholar had laughed enough and showed his white teeth enough, he closed his mouth anyway, and looked at the surrounding environment, perhaps he was used to living in such horrible free "hotels" in the wilderness, the dilapidated level of the Buddhist temple did not let him Shocked, he glanced roughly around, then turned his attention to Cen Shen, and asked, "Master, why are you playing the piano here?"

Cen Shen guessed that he would ask such a question, but he was too lazy to make up nonsense to deceive him, so he simply replied: "I was on my way here last night, and it rained suddenly, so I took this place for the night."

His expression was indifferent and his tone of voice was steady, as if it was only natural for him to stay overnight in this ruined temple as an elegant young man in a brocade robe, a jade head, and a qin in his hand, and only a fool would ask more questions.

Seeing his calm and relaxed appearance, the scholar did not continue to question him. He took the burden off his shoulders and put it between his lapped knees, and said: "My surname is Bai, my name is Jinzhi, from Huai'an, the year before last. Qiu Weizhong was lucky, got the chance to take the exam this year, and rushed to the capital to take the exam. I don't know why the young master is rushing?"

Cen Shen hid the smile on his lips, and secretly sneered in his heart: This tender young boy is really interesting, and he will report his identity and itinerary completely within a few words of meeting, isn't he afraid of meeting bad guys—killing him? Then they pretended to be him and went to Beijing to rush for the exam, or waited for him to finish the exam and then killed the replacement, taking the fame and wealth as their own!

Or it was because he was born innocent and harmless, which invisibly made this little boy relax his vigilance, so he spit out what should be said and what should not be said.Thinking of this, Cen Shen was a little happy. Every time these students went to the exam, they would not worship him as the star king of Wenqu, praying for luck in the exam and coming out on top! The scholar in front of him was close to him, maybe because he looked like a Let's kneel down and worship God.

"Go to the grave to pay homage. My relatives are buried in the northern suburbs of the capital. I have been away from Beijing for many years. I want to stay by their side this Qingming."

Before falling into the mortal world, a star official in Tianquan Palace entrusted him with a matter.This star official himself became a god after death. Because of his unexpected death, his parents cried bitterly while hugging his corpse. They never thought that his son would fly into the priesthood after death. Every time he couldn't understand the meaning of the dream, he just thought that he was short of money in the underworld, so he kept burning papers for him, so that the king of hell once sent ghosts to give him coins.

Because he can't go down to earth privately, and because the Palace of Heavenly Power has a lot of affairs, the star official has no time to go down to pay homage to his parents after seeing his parents die one after another. This time Cen Shen was demoted, so the star official could only plead with him for a favor and feel sad in the mortal world. When the world is going on, help him pay homage to his parents by the way.

Cen Shen himself was born as a mortal, well aware of all kinds of fetters and worries in the mortal world, so he agreed without thinking much, in order to soothe the heart of a filial son.

After hearing this, Bai Jinzhi said: "It seems that we are on the way, the young master might as well go to Beijing together, we should take care of each other, I think you are alone, if you meet gangsters, it will be very bad !"

After finishing speaking, he looked at him expectantly, as if he was inviting a friend who had known him for many years to drink and go sightseeing together.

Cen Shen was overwhelmed by the "self-acquaintance" in front of him. He is actually a cold-tempered person. He thought that if he hooked up with a stranger along the way, he would definitely spend a lot of time with the ulterior motive of sucking his soul. Fan Zhouzhang did not expect this prey to come to his door, waiting for him to kill.

"Alright." Cen Shen nodded slightly, agreeing.

So the two planned to rest in the Buddhist temple for a whole day, and set off the next day, heading straight to the capital.

When he fell asleep at night, Bai Jinzhi neatly placed the remaining cattail mats in the Buddhist temple on the ground, and then spread a layer of cloth sheets on the mats to temporarily build a simple floor.He put the burden on one end of the bed and used it as a pillow, so at a rough glance, it really looked like a bed.

After fiddling with it, he stood up, smoothed out the wrinkles on the cloth sheet, and after making sure that the entire "bed" was as smooth as silk without traces, he clapped his hands in satisfaction, "Sheng Yan, you can sleep here , there are really no extra sheets, so I can only wrong you to take off your outer robe and use it as a quilt."

During the day, Bai Jinzhi asked Cen Shen what to call him, and Cen Shen was lazy, so he directly called him "Shengyan".Then he asked his age, and Cen Shen remembered that he became a fairy at the age of 17, and his appearance had not changed, so he reported "Seventeen".In the end, Bai Jinzhi had a cheeky face and insisted on Cen Shen calling him "Xiongtai", saying that he was a full two years older than him!

Cen Shen smiled inwardly: I am thousands of years older than you, young man!

Hearing his words, Cen Shen lowered his head and glanced at the flat, pleated bed, and saw that it was no more than two feet wide, which couldn't accommodate two people at all, and said, "It will be a bit crowded if two people sleep together."

Bai Jinzhi smiled and said: "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, you sleep alone when you smoke, I have rough skin and thick flesh, just nest on the straw pile in the corner for one night."

Cen Shen looked at the corner of the house where the waste was piled up. There were some sparse straws and more dust and sundries. If a strong person sleeps there for a night, he will have a sore back, a sore back and cramped legs the next day. Not to mention a thin scholar.

Seeing the hesitant look on Cen Shen's face, Bai Jinzhi went straight to the corner cheerfully, and said to himself: "I'm used to sleeping on hard slabs, and it's uncomfortable to sleep on soft beds! Hey, maybe this is The legendary bitch!"

That night, Cen Shen lay sideways on the floor and stayed up all night. He had been paying attention to Bai Jinzhi's movements, and he was vaguely afraid that he was plotting against him.After all, he was too enthusiastic during the day. According to Cen Shen's 17 years of experience in the mortal world, a man would only be so courteous to a girl he loved. How could he react like this when he was a man?

It turned out that his doubts were a bit unnecessary. Bai Jinzhi slept soundly at night, and the sound of even breathing lasted for a long time in the silent Buddhist temple, like a sleeping animal, without any distracting thoughts.

Fortunately, Cen Shen is a ghost, so he won't have dark circles under his eyes even if he doesn't sleep all night. He still has that white and flawless skin, and even dust can't stain his body.

But before going out, Cen Shen was still stunned. He suddenly noticed that today was another sunny day, so was he going to go out with this crippled ghost body?

Seeing him hesitate, Bai Jinzhi also stopped, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I think the sun is quite glaring today. I wonder if you have an umbrella with you? Let me cover you from the sun."

Sunshine is a very weird behavior, let alone a big man, but because of laziness, Cen Shen didn't even make up any reason, so he asked for it directly, and looked at Bai Jinzhi confidently, without any embarrassment.

Bai Jinzhi didn't ask any more questions, and took out the umbrella from the bag without saying a word. It was a tung oil umbrella, which was plain and clean, without any extra patterns. Confirmation below.

However, this plain oil umbrella was in line with Cen Shen's dull aesthetic taste. He stepped forward to take the handle of the umbrella, but Bai Jinzhi stepped back and said confidently: "As the saying goes: "Short people carry bricks, tall I hold an umbrella, I am older and taller than you, of course it is my brother who holds an umbrella!"

Cen Shen was speechless for a while, and he didn't raise any objections. Since there are fools who are willing to hold an umbrella for him, why not do it?

The two walked side by side, touching their bodies unavoidably. In order to cover up his ghost body, Cen Shen feared that he would use immortal energy to condense a physical barrier, which would feel like his real body when touched. Lose.

His real body is still locked in the jade cold coffin in the heavenly court, guarded by the Nine Obsidian Star Officials in turn, and he can't get out at all.The Jade Emperor's decree is that he can only obtain his real body and restore his immortal position after successfully surviving three catastrophes.

But at this moment, the physical barrier condensed by Cen Shen with immortal energy is no different from his real body. The sunlight is much lighter after being filtered by the dark oil-paper umbrella, like a layer of veil, spreading over his eyebrows and on the bridge of his nose. It overlaps with the shadow drawn between the lips, which really interprets the true meaning of the four characters with picturesque eyebrows.

Bai Jinzhi leaned all the umbrella towards Cen Shen, covering him as if he was wearing a black shadow suit, but he himself was exposed to the sun, without even a shadow on his shoulders.

While walking, he still went to look at Cen Shen from time to time, not sneaking a sneaky glance, nor sneaking a sneaky peek, but staring at him openly, wishing to grow his eyes on his face.

"Why do you keep looking at me?" Originally, he wanted to turn a blind eye, but the man looked too blatantly, afraid that he would lose his eyes, so Cen Shen asked.

Bai Jinzhi smacked his lips in satisfaction, as if taking a sip of sweet and sour plum wine, savoring the strong aftertaste, "Xiao Shengyan, you look so good-looking, brother, I can't get enough of it, it makes me hungry !"

Cen Shen didn't answer. He has lived for thousands of years. From the mortal world to the fairy world, he has heard many compliments on his appearance, but he has never encountered such flirtatious compliments. It looked like he wished he could chew and swallow him.

Cen Shen had a cold face, did not respond to him, and automatically ignored his dreamy expression, and quickened his steps, not wanting to walk side by side with him anymore.

Seeing that the beauty around him disappeared all of a sudden, Bai Jinzhi hurriedly withdrew his intoxicated look, and quickly chased after her with an umbrella in hand, shouting: "Smoke, walk slowly, the sun is so big, it's already smoked, wait What should I do if I get black smoke from the sun!"

In this way, Cen Shen strode like flying along the way, walking without looking sideways, while Bai Jinzhi held up the umbrella and swung his arms round to catch up. After catching up, his eyes became restless again, and he kept looking at the beautiful woman. The provoking beauty made strides like flying, and then he swung his arms to chase after it, and it went on and on again, and soon he arrived at a small town outside the capital.