New and dark light years

Chapter 340 Building Temples

Although Liu Shen was a Jiao Tou Ren, her facial expressions were still quite rich, and it was obvious that she was very aggrieved.

"What happened?" Li Lin asked.

“I’ve been able to move around more and more lately, and then I started to sense my older sister’s presence.” Liu Shen covered the wound on her face with both hands and said with a wronged expression, “At first, my older sister was quite happy to see me, but then she sniffed me and flicked her tail at me first.”

"You were beaten up like this by just one tail?" Li Lin asked in surprise.

Liu Shen floated down, squatted on the ground, and said with a long face, "No way, she didn't use any force when she swung her tail at first."

"Then why were you beaten up like this later?" Li Lin asked.

He has known the Tree Fairy for almost two years. The Tree Fairy has a cold personality, never likes to meddle in other people's business, and even less likes to bully others.

Otherwise, the villagers of Shangtikou Village would have been ruined by her long ago.

“I told her that you smelled like her, and then she slapped me again.” Liu Shen touched the spot where she was injured.

"It's like this now?"

“No, it wasn’t that serious back then.” Liu Shen sighed, resting her chin on her hands. “Then I flew back and told her to give me ‘you,’ and I would take good care of you. But I don’t know what got into her, she just beat me up like this.”

Upon hearing this, Li Yanjing covered her mouth and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Liu Shen looked at Li Yanjing with an unfriendly expression.

Li Yanjing suppressed a laugh and said, "I wasn't laughing at you, I was just thinking about some funny things from the past."

Liu Shen rolled her eyes at her, annoyed.

She's just naive, not stupid.

Li Lin suddenly asked, "Can you fly all the way from Tianjin to Yulin County?"

"Of course, otherwise how can I face my older sister?"

"You can do something that even the Tree Fairy Goddess couldn't do?"

"Who is the Tree Fairy?" Liu Shen asked.

"It's your eldest sister, Liu Zhe."

"What an old-fashioned title." Liu Shen pouted. "Big Sister's old titles were much nicer and more grand."

"What was her previous title?"

Liu Shen thought for a moment and said matter-of-factly, "I can't remember. I've forgotten a lot of things from before. My older sister should remember. Why don't you just ask her?"

Li Lin was indeed quite curious; he would ask her about it another time.

He said, "Let's not talk about Zhe'er's title anymore. Let's continue our previous topic. How are you able to travel between Jincheng and Yulin County? What's your secret?"

“I am a dragon!” Liu Shen said in a calm tone. “Of course I can run very far. If it were my third sister, she could run even further. It’s just a pity that I don’t know where she is now.”

"Let's make a deal," Li Lin said with a smile.

"Okay, you're going to feed me blood essence again?" Liu Shen said happily.

"No." Li Lin waved his hand.

"That's meaningless." Liu Shen looked disappointed.

Li Lin continued, "Since you can fly that far, you should be able to drive away any monsters along the way."

"Of course!" Liu Shen stood up, put her hands on her hips, and said proudly, "Although I am much weaker than my eldest sister, my strength is much greater than my third sister's. Ordinary monsters are no match for me."

"Then how about you protect the people along the official road?"

"Ah!" Liu Shen shook her head vigorously: "No way, it's too tiring, thankless work, and no one will appreciate it."

“Who said that?” Li Lin said, “I can build a Zhenjun Temple in the middle of the official road and move your altar there. Then you can enjoy the incense offerings from merchants and travelers between the two places.”

"Are you really going to build me a temple?" Liu Shen's eyes widened as she floated in front of Li Lin and hurriedly asked, "I want a temple, not an altar."

"Yes, it's a temple."

“Alright, let’s do it.” Liu Shen patted his chest: “You mark out the official road, and I guarantee that within a hundred feet to the left and right of that road, not a single ghost will appear.”

"Tomorrow I will go to Tianjin and Yulin County to discuss this matter with the officials, and ask some gentry to raise some money and grain, and then build you a big temple."

Liu Shen nodded vigorously, becoming engrossed in her fantasies about the future.

Li Lin asked, "Before that, you need to come up with a title for yourself."

“I used to have a title…wait, what was it! I can’t remember.” Liu Shen scratched his head and looked at Li Lin: “Why don’t you help me think of one?”

Can you help me think of one?
Li Lin looked at Liu Shen. The most distinctive feature of the other party was that he had the head of a dragon and the body of a human. He couldn't possibly call him "True Lord of the Dragon Head" after he had a temple.

It sounded strange at first glance.

Li Lin looked at Liu Shen's appearance, but then noticed that her dragon scales were light blue, so he said, "How about you call yourself True Lord Blue Scales?"

“Okay.” Liu Shen seemed quite satisfied: “The temple needs to be built quickly. Once I have my own temple, I can show it off to my older sister, hehe.”

At this moment, Liu Shen began to fantasize about how to show off in front of her older sister without getting beaten up. When she thought of something that made her happy, she would let out a strange laugh.

Li Lin ignored her and began the final step of the spiritual field experiment, scattering the soaked rice seeds into more than a dozen spiritual field culture media of different proportions.

Then he said to Li Yanjing, "I'll trouble you to look after these seeds for a while."

"I will certainly not fail my husband's trust," Li Yanjing said earnestly.

Then Liu Shen snapped out of her reverie and leaned closer, looking at the dozen or so culture media in different proportions. She said, "What are these things? Why does this soil smell so good to me?" Li Lin and Li Yanjing both looked at her.

Does the 'Jiao' eat Imperial Stone Powder?
After watching for a while, Liu Shen said, "I feel like what you did, Li Lin, is a bit strange... I'm going back to the altar to rest. My body still hurts. Big sister was really ruthless."

"Congratulations, True Lord Blue Scale," Li Lin said with a cupped hand and a smile.

"If you laugh at me again, I'll beat you up." Liu Shen felt that Li Lin's words were a bit sarcastic, so she snorted and flew away.

Li Lin glanced at the sky and said to Li Yanjing, "I'm going to Jincheng first. In a couple of days, I'll ask a bricklayer to come and help you build a small house to protect your altar from the wind and rain."

"Just protect the altar?" Li Yanjing gently traced circles on Li Lin's body with her fingers. "Aren't you going to put a big bed on it, or something else?"

"Of course we'll release it."

"That's more like it," Li Yanjing said with a seductive smile.

Before nightfall, Li Lin arrived in Jincheng and found Prefect Huang Yan, explaining his plan to build a temple for Liu Shen.

Huang Yan frowned slightly: "But... there aren't many pedestrians between Yulin County and Jincheng. Does that Blue Scale True Monarch have enough blood energy to absorb?"

“That doesn’t matter. A village with over a hundred people can support a True Lord,” Li Lin explained. “Besides, for True Lords who have reached a certain level of strength, incense offerings are more important than bloodline.”

Huang Yan nodded: "You know more about ghosts and monsters. If you want to do it, then do it."

"Thank you, Prefect." Li Lin bowed.

In formal settings, one should naturally use one's job title.

Just as Li Lin was about to leave, Huang Yan said, "Wait."

Li Lin turned around.

Then they saw Huang Yan writing something on an official document, and then he picked up his official seal and stamped it.

He then handed the official document to Li Lin: "Take this and go to the registrar to collect three thousand taels of silver as public funds."

"Three thousand taels of silver?" Li Lin was somewhat surprised.

He only came hoping to get permission from Huang Yan so that Yulin County could use the county government's money to build the temple.

After all, Yulin County is the biggest beneficiary of this.

Unexpectedly, Huang Yan actually offered three thousand taels of silver.

That's enough to build a very large and beautiful temple.

"If you're going to do something, how can you be short of money? Here you go."

Li Lin accepted it and then smiled, saying, "Thank you, Prefect."

"Go do something."

Li Lin took the approval document and instructed Su Bei to bring his personal guards to take the sealed silver to Yulin County.

He planned to find a bricklayer from Yulin County.

Li Lin placed the official document in front of Jiang Jili and said with a smile, "I've given you the document, and I've put the money in the backyard. You have to take over this matter."

Jiang Jili picked up the official document and looked at it for a while. Then, with a delighted expression, he asked, "Can you persuade a True Lord to reside in this temple? Is it believable?"

“If I couldn’t, I wouldn’t have taken on this task.”

“That’s true.” Jiang Jili looked at it for a while, then looked up and asked, “Are you really going to give me this credit?”

On the surface, this is a tough job, requiring both physical labor and supervision.

But this is what civil officials do. Once it is done, the official road between Yulin County and Jincheng will be fully opened, greatly increasing the safety between the two places. This is a real achievement.

It can be written in the 'calendar' and will play a key role when you are promoted in the future.

This shows that he is a local civil servant with a proven track record.

“Of course it’s yours,” Li Lin said with a smile. “The magistrate of Wen County can’t accept such wealth right now. Of course, if you manage to do this, he will benefit from it to some extent, after all, he is the superior.”

"You do not want?"

Li Lin shook his head: "I plan to pursue a career as a military officer."

"In the end, the Great Qi Dynasty governs the military through civil administration," Jiang Jili advised. "The current situation is rather chaotic, which is why military officers have a chance to rise to prominence. But once the world is at peace, the greater the merit of a military officer, the more... you understand."

Li Lin smiled and said, "We'll talk about it later."

If that happens, at worst we can just hold onto our military power and become independent.

Just like the Tang family's border troops.

The Tang family army has been passed down for four generations. Even in peacetime, who in the court would dare to say anything bad about the Tang family army?

Both emperors distributed ice and charcoal tributes every year and spoke amicably with the leaders of the Tang army.

Of course, he wouldn't say this to Jiang Jili.

At most, he would only tell a few women in his family.

Jiang Jili gave Li Lin a deep look, then smiled and said, "Alright, leave this to me. Within two months, I'll give you a beautiful temple! By the way, what's the name of the True Lord who will reside in the temple?"

"Blue Scale True Lord".

“Yes, I’ve noted it down. Three thousand taels doesn’t seem enough, I’ll add another two thousand taels personally.” Jiang Jili said, “If we’re going to do this, we should do it perfectly, so that we won’t lose face when we bring it up in court later.”

(End of this chapter)