Where the wind chimes sound, there is a god

Chapter 28 Tianhe
On June 15th, the five elements are water in the spring, rushing to the east with the rabbit evil, and the god Gou Chen is in charge, which is a good time to open a business!
Amidst a series of loud firecrackers, Tingyu Pavilion, which had been closed for more than three months, reopened!
Lao Wu and Aunt Liu stood outside the door and shouted, "Opening today, Tingyu Pavilion has reduced prices by 20%, and you will receive three red tickets when you enter the store!
Don’t miss it if you pass by it, it’s better to take an umbrella to protect you from the wind and rain! ”

Tingyu Pavilion is located in a prosperous area of ​​the city. Most of the people passing through the street every day are ordinary people, but they are the largest in the city. Xishui Street and Baihui Street are the streets that ordinary people must pass by every day, where they need food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Even slightly more expensive items like oil-paper umbrellas have a huge market, and there are only two umbrella shops in the entire Yunzhou City.

One is the You’s Umbrella Shop on Changyuan Street, north of Xifang. This shop only makes the simplest umbrellas and may not be able to make more complicated ones.

Because making an umbrella seems to be what a craftsman should do, but a good umbrella requires landscape painting, or even poetry to be written on it, and it cannot be made without the level of a scholar.

Therefore, if the wealthy families in the city wanted to buy a good umbrella, they could either choose one from the merchants from other places when they came to Yunzhou City, or come to Tingyu Pavilion.

The store has not been open for more than three months now, and people will naturally come to visit if the reputation spreads.

What Lao Wu and others mean by price cutting is price reduction, and red tickets are vouchers in ancient times. The business acumen of the ancients was no worse than that of modern people, and they could think of all kinds of attractive means.

In just one morning, he sold more than ten umbrellas and earned more than one or two taels of silver.

The discount was only for this morning. If it continued like this every day, his business would go bankrupt. The gongs and drums in the morning were just to announce the opening of Tingyu Pavilion and let everyone know.

In the future, if your umbrella at home is broken or you need to replace it with a new one, you can come to Tingyu Pavilion.

The Wang family has inherited the craftsmanship for hundreds of generations. How can it be compared with the You family umbrella shop which has only been in business for more than ten years?
Even though Chen Beimo's craftsmanship was not very high, his intelligence was far superior to that of ordinary people, so his umbrella-making skills naturally improved a lot. Although he was not as good as his master, he was still a skilled craftsman.

Old Wu was counting the silver in front of the counter, and Chengze asked beside him, "Uncle Wu, how much silver are these copper coins worth?"

"Don't interrupt, kid. We'll have to start the calculation all over again later." Lao Wu was counting on the abacus with one hand and writing in the account book with the other. He felt like he was dreaming of the time when he was the shopkeeper in a restaurant.

The backyard of Tingyu Pavilion and the house of Uncle Wang next door were destroyed bit by bit by a dozen men holding sledgehammers. There was also a master craftsman who understood Feng Shui layout in the work team. He came to the scene in person to do a divination, and then drew a rendering for the boss Chen Beimo to review. If he agreed, then naturally skilled craftsmen would come to start building the house.

However, Chen Beimo wanted to complete the project quickly, so he added fifty taels and requested that it be completed within two and a half months.

The saying that money makes the world go round is always true. As long as you have the money, you will be able to fulfill your wishes.

The attic in the front remains unchanged and is still the Tingyu Pavilion umbrella shop. The two backyards together cover nearly a thousand square meters. It would be very spectacular to build a garden courtyard in such a large yard.

Chen Beimo would go to the front of the umbrella shop every day, and then teach Chengze how to make umbrellas in the backyard. He was not afraid of others learning from him, because this craft had hundreds of steps, and even if he learned one or two, it would be useless.

At noon, I would walk around the construction site in the backyard, watching the men digging canals to divert water, tamping the foundation, and so on, step by step building a landscape garden in the empty courtyard.

The days passed quickly in the busyness. It was June, and the workers were still toiling in the scorching summer. Chen Beimo asked Aunt Liu to go to the street to buy a cart of melons to share with them to relieve the heat, and he also got cool sweet water from the well at home for them to drink.

Dozens of workers were naturally grateful and said that Young Master Chen was a very good man.

Aunt Liu came to Chen Beimo's side and said, "Master, those guys all said that the water from our well tastes very refreshing. I also think that the water in this well tastes very good. Could it be a sweet water well?"

Chen Beimo stood under a persimmon tree that had already produced small fruits and smiled, "This is a deep well that my master personally asked someone to dig when he was alive. Maybe it's a little deep, and it's a hot summer day, so it feels sweeter and cooler."

"Oh, that's true." Aunt Liu nodded and said, "Master, it's been two months and their construction team hasn't erected the beams or fired the bricks yet. It looks like the deadline will be extended.

"

"Aunt Liu also knows how to build a house?" Chen Beimo asked with a smile.

"Well, farmers build their own houses and tiles, and then ask their neighbors for help. I know a little bit about it." Aunt Liu was a little embarrassed and didn't dare to brag in front of the host.

"It will indeed be postponed." Chen Beimo nodded, "But fortunately, this summer did not have as much rain as in previous years, which is a good thing. It will be delayed a little. You can see that the planning of the ditches and ponds is quite feng shui-oriented. The master craftsman has put a lot of effort into it."

"Master, are you going to raise fish at home?" Chengze, who came out of the attic, just happened to hear this and said with a smile, "I have never seen a wealthy family with so many ponds and ditches."

After two months of getting along, they all felt that Chen Beimo was an easy-going person, so they gradually felt at ease and were no longer afraid. Instead, they were very satisfied with their current stable life and were very grateful to their host family.

"What do you know, you idiot?" Chen Beimo laughed and scolded, "For a house to be a treasure land, it must have both wind and water.

When this three-story courtyard is built into high walls and deep alleys, there will naturally be wind.

Add to that the canal around the wall, the pond in the middle courtyard, and the rockery in the garden, and it can be considered a Feng Shui treasure land. There are many tricks in it. I am just an outsider."

"Wow, there are rockeries and gardens?" Chengze said in surprise, "Isn't that the mansion of a wealthy family? Can I live in such a mansion?"

"Haha, if the house is built but you are not allowed to live in it, will you be forced to sleep on the street?" Chen Beimo laughed. "Well, you still haven't memorized the thirty words from yesterday. Why don't you go and ask Lao Wu to teach you again?"

"what!"

Chengzheng frowned immediately, but he didn't dare not go, so he could only run back to the house with his head tilted.

"There have been many snakes and insects in recent days, so you should be careful, Aunt Liu. We are doing groundwork here, so there are naturally many snakes and insects."

Chen Beimo suddenly instructed.

"Oh, I got it, young master!" Aunt Liu clapped her hands and laughed, "A rough person like me is not afraid of snakes or insects! In the past, when there was famine in the countryside, we would have loved to see a few long worms to eat."

Chen Beimo paused, thinking that it was a good thing that he had released the snakes in his house a long time ago, otherwise you might bring me a pot of snake soup one day.

Aunt Liu saw the young master's face suddenly change, and then he left without saying a word. She felt a little uneasy. Could it be that the young master was afraid of snakes? Did he scare the young master?

That's right, after all, people from the city are not as bold as her in the countryside. It seems that snakes must not be seen in the house in the future. Should I buy some sulfur or something to prevent it?

In the attic, Chen Beimo closed the door and looked at Beichen Jun, who was curled up in the small basket, exhausted. He could only say, "Be patient. When the new house is built, you will have a place to play."

Beichen curled up softly in a ball, huddled in a cool corner to escape the heat, and no one was bothered to pay attention to him.

Chen Beimo smiled and shook his head, then calmed down, sensing the Kanshui true qi in his body gathering into a ball. The thirty-six acupoints on his body faintly emitted blue light and water. The Kanshui true qi in his dantian finally stopped dissipating.

This also means that his body has reached the level of a treasure body after being nourished by the Kanshui true Qi for 49 days.

The next step was to open up the Qi Sea and Dantian, and he would truly become a practitioner! The difference between a practitioner and an ordinary person was truly like heaven and earth. From then on, he could go on a fast for more than ten days without eating or drinking, or even a month without hunger or thirst by just drinking water, just like an immortal who didn't eat any grains.

Once it is cultivated, one can easily defeat a top-notch master with just physical instincts. If one uses the magical energy in the body, one can be said to be invincible in the world.

Of course, this is just a general and exaggerated description. After all, there are still practitioners in the world, and even powerful demons and monsters.

But in short, once you succeed, you can live freely in this world!

Now that Chen Beimo's precious body has been formed, he will unconsciously affect the changes in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The well water in his home was originally an ordinary well. As his cultivation level deepened, the spiritual energy of the water in the underground was naturally attracted, making the well water extraordinary and contaminated with a trace of the effect of spiritual objects, which is what they call the sweet water well.

Chen Beimo has chosen tomorrow to go to the banks of Ying River for a breakthrough!
He needs to make some more preparations today. He has already read more than a dozen medical books and has memorized all the acupuncture points, pulses, and even the Chinese medical pathologies of the human body. This is to prevent mistakes in practice someday, that is, to prevent the legendary possession and inner demons that might damage the foundation of the body.

He had only to visualize the process in his body once, or even many times, to ensure that he would successfully break the mirror.

Even if the precious body has been successfully nurtured, this stage should not be difficult, but it is never too careful when it comes to cultivation.

……

On August 13, the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, and the city gradually became lively. It had been more than two months since the plague raged, and except for those who died in the city, the living people kept silent about it, as if nothing had happened.

The government banned private discussions on the matter, and more merchants from outside came. People were coming and going on the streets, and Chen Beimo was among the crowd, leaving the city and heading all the way to Yinghe.

The sky was gloomy today, with dark clouds blocking out the sun. A cloudy day always makes people feel depressed. The heat in Yunzhou City in August had not yet faded. Chen Beimo was wearing a sky-blue gown made of cotton silk brocade, which was quite comfortable.

When there is money at home, it is natural to buy some new clothes. Money is just worldly things, and it is right not to let yourself be wronged.

They came to the river, found a secluded place, and released Beichen Jun.

It jumped directly into the river and disappeared in three or five strokes. It was obvious that it was bored after being cooped up in the small attic for these days.

Chen Beimo smiled and said, "Don't play too crazy, restrain yourself!"

"Crash..."

The river water broke open, and Beichen had already swallowed a big fish, his stomach was bulging. He swung his tail and brought a gray-green net.

Apparently this guy ate the fish in someone else's fishing net!

"You rascal, you've ruined someone's livelihood!"

Beichen Jun didn't take it seriously and even flicked his tail to split the fishing net into two pieces.

Chen Beimo's eyes flickered when he saw this. The material of this fishing net was very tough, but it was torn into two halves by its tail, which was a bit like the feeling of a tiger's tail generating wind.

"Okay, stop making trouble. Just focus on protecting me and don't let others disturb me!"

After Chen Beimo said this, Beichen-Jun calmed down and obediently climbed ashore and coiled around him.

The gloomy sky was getting darker and darker. Gusts of wind blew by the river to dispel the stuffiness. Chen Beimo also began to calm his mind and enter a state of meditation.

His mind gradually calmed down, and the Qi was drawn from the Dantian. Under his control, the Kan water Qi began to rotate, presenting the images of a turtle and a snake.

This process took him an hour. At this time, a strong wind blew up in the sky, blowing the dense aquatic plants on the river bank into undulating waves. The sky became gloomy and dark, as if a heavy rainstorm was about to come.

Inside Chen Beimo's body, the true Qi of Kan water took shape, and a tortoise and a snake appeared as twins like the ancient mythical beast Xuanwu, wandering around in his dantian.

With every step the Xuanwu beast took, he felt a sharp pain in his Dantian. The thirty-six orifices drew in the mysterious Qi, which fell into his Dantian and turned into wind. The Xuanwu beast opened its mouth to inhale the wind and roared and screamed in his Dantian. The human body has blood and bone essence, and contains souls and treasures. It is an excellent body corresponding to the Five Elements and Four Symbols, and the innate Yin and Yang. Therefore, the human body is actually the most suitable body for practicing Dharma.

The Black Tortoise beast, transformed from the Kanshui true qi, was expanding its Dantian. With every step it took, it disintegrated a little. After the Black Tortoise beast had taken thirty-six steps, its Dantian reached the Qi realm, a hundred times larger than that of an ordinary mortal. The Black Tortoise beast's body disintegrated and turned into rain and mist all over the sky, like spiritual rain piling up in a corner of its Dantian to form a small puddle.

Every drop of water in the puddle is Dharma Qi, symbolizing the different natures of immortals and mortals.

"Rumble..."

The torrential rain that had been suppressed for most of the day finally poured down with the sound of a late summer thunder!

In the pouring rain, water mist gathered into clouds around Chen Beimo. As the clouds rose and fell, a blue light rose from his dantian. Even through the clothes, one could see the blue light going up to the lungs, through the throat, through the five senses, and finally stopping at the center of his brow.

In an instant, Chen Beimo felt that the world was like water, and he was like a fish, playing in the water, as if swimming in this world.

At the same moment, thunder roared in the sky. Although Kanshui was weak, it was in a superior position. The surging water of Yinghe River and the heavy rain from the sky were Yang, which attracted the thunder in the sky and struck down along the Yuling Dao image that appeared above Chen Beimo's head.

"Rumble..."

Beichen Jun was hit by the mighty thunder and his body was almost paralyzed in an instant. He was knocked unconscious.

However, Chen Beimo, who was protected by the Yuling Daoxiang, was also feeling bad. The unexpected thunder entered his body and traveled around his dantian. The nearly destructive power almost destroyed him, who had just achieved primordial spirit.

At this moment, the thunder that spread all over his body touched the golden bell on his waist. The magic bell swallowed the thunder and hung in the air. The golden bell jingled violently and the sound was transmitted into Chen Beimo's newly achieved soul.

Kan water rises from the lake, thunder and lightning burns the yang, the stepmother is yin, and Tun is weak and newly born, and the Ren water that melts the mysterious yin water is Xi.

Xi rises to the light, lowers to Kan, and the sky unites to Yuling. Kan water becomes Jing, and Chi becomes thunder. …

Chen Beimo didn't have time to think about it, he immediately recited this spell, mobilizing the Ren Yang Water, Gui Yin Water, Kan Mother Water, Tianze Thunder, and Yunxiao Jade Combination in his body, and all kinds of auras that were broken by this brilliant sky thunder turned into thunder and combined with Kan.

Kan is the spirit of all waters, and all waters in the world can be combined with it. Lei Ze can also combine water!

The golden bell vibrated and the thunder was like a dragon, causing the fish and shrimp in the Ying River to rush over, and for a moment it looked like a fish tide.

(End of this chapter)