Chapter 1: A Splendid Boy Who Can See Ghosts
After hundreds of years of war, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty pacified the eastern territory and established the Tang Dynasty. At this time, the Tang Dynasty was not stable and its national strength was weakened, and there were Turkic and Tibetan tigers watching outside, and bandits and ghosts were rampant inside. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty invited the senior monk Xuanzang to go to the West Heaven to obtain the true scriptures of the world, and at the same time issued a recruitment order to recruit talented people from all over the world to rule the troubled times.
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The small city of the East China Sea was built in the industry, and the killing and resentment of hundreds of years of war have bred a large number of mountain spirits and wild monsters, adding a solemn atmosphere to this beautiful water city in the south of the Yangtze River.
In the city's Wan Po Po embroidery workshop, Wan Sheng, a thirteen-year-old thin boy, took his mother-in-law's embroidery brocade that was completed this month to Jianye Bu Yu in the city to deliver the embroidery brocade that his mother had completed this month.
When Wansheng was young, his parents died in the war, and he depended on his mother-in-law, who could stab a good hand, and made a living in the city by supplying Bu Xu. In fact, the mother-in-law is old and dizzy, and it was difficult to embroider a few years ago, and it was the eight-year-old Wan Sheng who inherited the mother-in-law's craftsmanship to help her finish.
A boy learning embroidery? Saying this will make you laugh at other people's big teeth, so this is a secret that Wansheng must not say.
But even so, the consequence of long-term embroidery is that Wansheng will unconsciously raise his "orchid finger" and be ridiculed by other children in the neighborhood. But born in troubled times, it is not easy to have a craft to make money and make a living, just laugh at it, it is better than those rogue teenagers who steal chickens and dogs and bully people.
And to say that the scoundrel is here.
At this time, a group of teenagers came in front of Wansheng, and the leader was the son of Zhou Yuanwai in the city, known as the little overlord Zhou Tong, who was only thirteen years old and had amazing strength in his tall horses and arms.
Seeing Wansheng appear, the little overlord suddenly laughed: "Brothers, look who is coming!" ”
The young people were happy: "The little winner of the sissy!" ”
Zhou Tong said hatefully: "Brothers, don't let him run away this time!" This month's wine and meat money is all counting on him! ”
All the teenagers rushed up: "Grab it!" ”
it! Wan Sheng clutched the basket and turned his head to run. This is not the first time this kind of thing, and it won't be the last, but no matter which Wan Sheng didn't let this group of scoundrels succeed, of course not this time! In troubled times, you can't do without two life-saving brushes.
Wan Sheng rushed all the way into a barren and grassy abandoned house in the alley, and the teenagers stopped in fright: "Boss, he has entered the haunted house again!" ”
Zhou Tong said indignantly: "The master is about to join the world's famous Tang Dynasty Mansion, if it is a haunted house, it can scare the master, how will the master mix in the rivers and lakes in the future!" After saying that, he gritted his teeth and rushed in.
A group of rogue teenagers stood outside the door in fright, looking at each other: "The boss will be fine, right?" ”
"I don't know if the boss will be fine, I just know that this sissy will be fine."
"It's really weird, why isn't this sissy afraid of ghosts?"
"Why don't we follow the boss in too? I've never been in it yet! ”
"You're a new stupid kid? This haunted house looks like an ordinary dilapidated house from the outside, and it is very scary when you enter it! ”
The teenagers were discussing, and there was a howl of wah-wah and wow-wah from the house, and the gray-faced and tearful Zhou Tong dragged his wet crotch and ran out of the door: "There are ghosts~~~"
All the teenagers also screamed in unison and scattered in fright!
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At this time, the haunted house was dark and gloomy. To be exact, this is not a house, but a large courtyard, and the world inside the haunted house looks completely different from the outside. This has always been something that Wansheng has been trying to figure out.
A white shadow appeared in front of Wan Sheng, the ghost of a young woman suspended in the air.
It's still the old rule, Wan Sheng hurriedly took out a pair of brocade handkerchiefs from the basket as a thank you gift: "Thank you, Sister Xiaozhuo, for saving me!" ”
The ghost said gloomily, "You go! ”
"Goodbye!" Wan Sheng left the haunted house with a sigh of relief.
This is another and biggest secret of Wansheng: Wansheng is very talented and can see ghosts since he was a child! At first, Wan Sheng thought that other children were the same as him, after all, it was normal for this world to be haunted, and even Emperor Li Shimin was so troubled that he couldn't sleep, and then sent two generals, Qin Shubaowei, to guard Chi Gong night and night to sleep, not to mention ordinary people.
But later Wan Sheng discovered that ordinary people can only see haunted ghosts, but they may not be able to see ghosts, let alone talk to ghosts. His various weird behaviors are simply evil in the eyes of others, which is another reason why ordinary children are reluctant to play with Wansheng.
However, the mother-in-law was not too surprised by Wan Sheng's ability, and only sternly warned Wan Sheng: Don't let others know your abilities before protecting yourself, and don't come into contact with ghosts.
In troubled times, many truths do not need to be explained, and Wansheng remembers them. And Xiao Zhuo of this haunted house was also met when Wan Sheng fled into the haunted house when he was chased by those scoundrels, and then he found out that this was a good ghost. As long as a ghost that doesn't harm people is a good ghost, that's enough.
However, after all, with special abilities, Wan Sheng thinks that he is the capable person needed by the emperor's recruitment order, and the ambition of the young man to pursue a great future has always been on the move. Especially when he heard Xiaobawang say outside just now that he wanted to apprentice and join the Tang Dynasty Mansion, he was even more unconvinced.
The Tang Dynasty Mansion is not a yamen, but a martial arts sect founded by Cheng Yanjin, the first fierce general on the list of the founding hero Ling Yan Pavilion. Legend has it that Cheng Biting Jin was taught the "three-plate axe" by the gods in a dream, and then widely accepted disciples to carry forward the Tang Dynasty's expedition to the east and west to become a famous family in the world. The emperor personally gave the purpose of "the art of war in the world is like a chest, and the invincible brave are crazy in all directions".
However, although the Datang Mansion is a wide range of disciples, ordinary people really can't enter this door, and there is a registration office of the Datang Mansion at the entrance of the Jianye Yamen - who can hold the nearly 100-pound stone lock with one hand and chat with the examiner, and the content of the chat is probably "one plus one times two divided by three equals" and something like that.
Of course, Wan Sheng was sure to answer arithmetic, but he had no choice but to be thin and dry, not to mention that he could hold the stone lock with one hand, and he couldn't do it with both hands and feet. Perhaps, you can consider joining another famous sect of Huasheng Temple? No way! Who would be a monk!
Forget it, let's hand over the goods first......