After being choked to death by a copper coin, she became a demon Jin Ji in the other world

[Yes, that's what I mean. Huanyan is really smart! ]

[Well, Huanyan has one last small question, or to be more precise, the question that was just missed, which is what should we do with Sister Suchang? She is your enchantress, but the relationship between you two doesn't seem to be that pure, right? ]

[Also, Sister Suxin passed away a while ago. How are you going to explain this to her? Although I feel like she should have known about this a long time ago, there still has to be a formal explanation, right? ]

[Ah, yes, this matter has not been resolved yet. Well, forget it, let’s resolve the funeral first, and then talk about other things. Otherwise, I’m afraid it will hurt some people’s feelings. ]

[Huanyan, after we reported the casualties to the other world, did they make any official statement about the deaths of Su Xin and Ying Mengze? ]

[Yes, we have it. The death notice and the martyr recognition letter were just forwarded by the team two days ago. Because Sister Su Xin and the others died in the process of capturing a demon, the evidence is solid and there is no dispute, so they were all successfully recognized as demon martyrs in the inner world.]

[By the way, Zhiwei was originally one of them, but because of what happened in the past two days, she has been urgently withdrawn. I heard that there will be other compensations, but I don’t know what they are yet. ]

[Have they been recognized as martyrs? If so, when we return, we will hold a memorial ceremony for them according to the standards for the enchanting martyrs.]

[Remember to make it solemn. Invite all the high-ranking people in the inner world, such as Hua Liluo, who can be invited. They sacrificed themselves for the inner world, and they should be honored after their death.]

[This way, Su Chang can be said to have an explanation. By the way, the death notice and the documents for posthumously recognizing her as a martyr should be sent to Shen Su Chang as soon as possible. If you hesitate for too long, you will have problems.]

【OK. 】

Although Gu Tu, who proposed going to Qufu, left the team halfway, since they had already completed half the journey, there was no need to change the destination temporarily.

Anyway, Yanzhou, one of the places where Huichang coins were minted, is not far from Qufu. You can go to Yanzhou first and then visit Qufu on the way.

Gu Tu had previously asked Shen Yuelan to convey a message to Hua Liluo and others. Shen Yuelan specially found time to convey it verbally over the phone. After listening to the message, the other party remained silent for a long time. Finally, after saying that he understood, he hurriedly hung up the phone.

Shen Yuelan knew that this matter involved too many things and she couldn't get too deep into it, so she didn't dare to ask any further questions. After the other party hung up the phone, she just thought that she had completed her task. As for more, it was none of her concern.

Fortunately, after a few days, Gu Tu took the initiative to report to Shen Yuelan that he was safe, saying that the matter had been properly resolved and allowed her to work with peace of mind. Although what Gu Tu said might not be entirely true, knowing that he was safe was better than anything else.

The time came to Henan Province in the third year of Huichang. Two sisters with similar appearances were traveling north in the cold winter.

【Huanyan, what year is it now? 】

[It has been three years since Huichang, and we just celebrated the Spring Festival a few days ago. ]

[Eh? Ah, yes, time flies by so fast. I thought it was still the first year of Huichang.]

[Hey, how is that possible? We have been active near Luoyang since the first year of Huichang. We went south to Suzhou and Hangzhou in the second year of Huichang. After traveling here for more than half a year, we experienced the Zhiwei incident and the Gutu incident. It took a long time.]

[It was only during this period that I had the time to go north to Yanzhou. It took me a whole year to go back and forth.]

[Is that so? Twilight has been sent to Lin Xin's world? ]

[It has been delivered. Miss Yuhuan went to deliver it personally. She said she would meet us in Qufu later.]

[Ah, sending the little girl to Gu Tu was indeed the right decision. It makes my ears quieter now.]

[Yes, although Twilight looks very unhappy. ]

[Humph, she has become more and more undisciplined recently. Since her parents can't control her, let a professional teacher teach her how to behave.]

[That's right, she won't learn anything good from you, Master.]

【Nani? 】

It was actually Shen Huanyan who suggested that Shen Muguang be sent away. After all, this little bastard had begun to learn from Shen Yuelan to tease decent women, although most people treated it as a child's joke and just laughed it off.

But there were also some who liked to argue and came specifically to cause trouble for Shen Yuelan, thus causing a lot of trouble for Shen Yuelan and others along the way.

Seeing that if she continued to keep him around, who knows what trouble might arise, Shen Yuelan had no choice but to agree to Shen Huanyan's suggestion and send him to Gu Tu for serious discipline. At least in front of Gu Tu, Shen Muguang would be much more restrained.

What did Shen Muguang think about being sent away?

Of course she was furious. The reason why she was looking for women everywhere was not because she really liked that, but she behaved like that on purpose. Her purpose was to make Shen Yuelan realize that she should not be so unrestrained in front of the child. If she taught the child like that, the child would learn bad things.

But Shen Muguang didn't expect that he had gone too far and was sent directly to his stepmother. He was completely screwed now. Not only did he lose his target of surveillance, he was also trapped in a tiger's den and could hardly escape. It was really a bad omen.

Chapter 307 Scallion Pancake

Shen Yuelan didn't care about the dire situation that Shen Muguang was in. She was currently traveling on the ancient land of Yanzhou.

This Yanzhou is not that Yanzhou. The place Shen Yuelan and others are going to is the Yanzhou City of the Tang Dynasty, not the ancient Yanzhou in the concept of Kyushu. In fact, this place strictly belongs to the ancient Xuzhou boundary, not the Yanzhou boundary.

The place where the two men arrived at this time was the seat of the government of Yanzhou City. This place would become one of the more than 20 casting sites of Huichang Kaiyuan. However, it was the third year of Huichang, and there were still about two years before the official casting began.

At the gate of a treasury near the Yanzhou city wall, Buddhist statues collected from various prefectures in the eastern part of Henan Province were being sent here for storage. Emperor Wuzong of Tang originally planned to transport all the Buddha statues in the country to Chang'an.

But he soon realized the huge human cost involved, and eventually issued an edict requiring each state to mint coins locally.

The purpose of Shen Yuelan and the others coming to Yanzhou was very simple, which was to simply search the place where the Buddha statues were piled up. If they could find something, everyone would be happy, but if not, it didn't matter. They could just go to nearby Qufu to meet up with Xiao Yuhuan.

The work of the two in Yanzhou City was quite simple. Shen Yuelan's sharp eyes could tell at a glance whether there was what they wanted in those tattered Buddha statues. Therefore, without much effort, Shen Yuelan finished their work in Yanzhou City.

After work, it's time to go sightseeing. To be honest, there's not much to see here. One of the more famous local attractions is the Xinglong Temple Pagoda, which was built in the second year of Renshou in the Sui Dynasty (602 AD).

Xinglong Tower is a brick and wood structure with 13 floors and a height of 54 meters. It is an octagonal pavilion-style hollow brick tower. The lower seven floors have a thick tower body, with steps between floors and corridors between floors.

The upper six floors suddenly become smaller, forming a two-meter-wide balcony, which is surrounded by stone railings for protection and has a wooden ladder leading to the top of the tower.

This tower is quite sturdy and made of solid materials. Until the 21st century, it still stands in Yanzhou District of Jining. It is a veritable thousand-year-old tower. Even in the late Tang Dynasty, this tower was a scenic spot with a history of more than years.

In addition, the most famous thing in Yanzhou is the water-suppressing iron sword which weighs 1539.8 kilograms and is 7.5 meters long. When the sword was discovered, it was known as the "No. Sword in the World", which is quite childish.

However, this object was cast by Jin Yifeng, the then prefect of Yanzhou, in February of the Dingyou year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, which was February 1717 AD. Shen Yuelan lived in the Tang Dynasty and had no chance to see this object.

With no more scenic spots to continue appreciating, the two idle people, after a short rest in Yanzhou City, headed towards Qufu without any nostalgia.

In the Tang Dynasty, Qufu County was also under the jurisdiction of Yanzhou. The two administrative centers were quite close to each other, but even so, it still took ordinary people about a day to walk to reach either place.

Speaking of Qufu, most people's first impression is that it is related to Confucius. In fact, this place was also the old capital of Emperor Yan, the birthplace of Emperor Huang, the ruins of Shaohao, the ancient state of Shangyan, and the old capital of Zhou and Lu.

But then again, how many of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and the princes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties who once dominated this place remained until the end? They all turned into dust and drifted away with the wind.

Even in the Tang Dynasty, you can still see the scene of the "Two Holes" which had been destroyed countless times.

The reason why it is called the "Two Kongs" is that the Kong Mansion, one of the "Three Kongs", was built in the tenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1377 AD), and it was almost five hundred years later that the first signs of it could be seen.

Therefore, at this time, Qufu only had the Kong family tombs starting with Confucius and the Confucius Temple which was built in the 478th year of Duke Ai of Lu ( BC).

The Confucius Forest and Confucius Temple in the Tang Dynasty were much smaller than Shen Yuelan had imagined. In fact, the "Three Confucius Temples" in Qufu were the result of continuous renovation and expansion by successive dynasties. After the Tang Dynasty, the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties also repaired them to varying degrees.

[Master, this Confucius Temple is so small, it's not fun at all. And why are we wandering around in someone else's family cemetery? It's creepy. I just saw a woman burning paper, she was looking at us warily.]

[Hey, this place is already very big, okay? It is much bigger than ordinary temples. If any temple has such a big yard, it would wake up laughing in the middle of the night. ]

[As for the woman you mentioned, hey, did you look carefully? That person clearly has no legs, right? ]

[Hey! ! I don't talk about strange things! Master, please don't scare me here, okay? ]

[Hahaha, oh my, I didn't expect that Huanyan you would be afraid of ghosts. How strange! Why aren't Dujuan and the others afraid? They are obviously vengeful ghosts.]

[What? Huanyan is not afraid of ghosts. Huanyan is just playing along with some people's childish games. I just don't know if some people have had enough of playing.]

[Hey, enough fun, enough fun, thank you Miss Huanyan for your cooperation, let's go to Zhougong Temple and Yan Temple to worship, and then go to eat bèng ròu, how about it? I've been here before, the bèng ròu here tastes pretty good. ]

[Please, Master, that thing is not delicious, it is just simply big in size, and it will not appear until after the Northern Song Dynasty. What were you doing before that? ]

[Eh? I see. Oh, I didn’t have time to go to Daimyofu. Really? Okay, is there anything delicious here? ]

[Um, Huanyan doesn’t know. Most of the snacks in Qufu were formed in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There really weren’t any delicacies worth mentioning in the Tang Dynasty.]

[Well, forget it. Let's buy some pancakes and green onions when we get back to the inn. Eating pancakes with green onions will make our trip to Shandong worthwhile.]

[That's all I can do.]

After that, the two went to the Temple of Zhougong and the Temple of Yan. The Temple of Zhougong, also known as the Temple of Lu Tai, was the ancestral temple of the State of Lu. The original building was destroyed when the State of Lu was destroyed. The current temple was rebuilt on the original site.

The Yan Temple is a temple dedicated to Yan Hui, who was one of the most outstanding disciples of Confucius and the leader of the seventy-two disciples. He was famous for his virtue and was poor but studious. He was admired by later generations and was therefore called the Second Sage.

Although his temple was very small at that time, there is a saying that goes, "The smaller the temple, the more evil spirits there are, and the shallower the pond, the more turtles there are." As expected, Shen Yuelan met someone he shouldn't have met here.

From Shen Yuelan's perspective, a tall and handsome man with silver hair, sword-like eyebrows, stood on the throne that should have belonged to the Fu Sheng Yan Hui. At that time, he was in a half-asleep state, and was drowsily inhaling the incense offerings in front of him.

Shen Yuelan's ruby-like eyes swept over him several times, but for a moment she couldn't see through his depth, which made Shen Yuelan quite afraid.

At the same time, Zhiwei, which was in a semi-dormant state on Shen Yuelan's neck, suddenly gave her a warning, which further strengthened Shen Yuelan's determination to avoid trouble.

Chapter 308: A Dream

Just when Shen Yuelan was about to escape, a slender-looking figure suddenly rushed in from outside the door.

She stood in the middle of the hall, pointed at the man's nose and started cursing him, waking the man who was enjoying the delicious food from his sweet dream.

Because the man spoke so fast and with a hint of dialect, Shen Yuelan didn't hear most of what he said clearly, but she understood the general meaning.

This person said that she had heard from others that the gods in this temple were more effective, so she came to pray with generous offerings two days ago, but several days have passed and there is no sign of her wish being fulfilled.

This made her very angry. She thought she had been deceived. She was so angry that she ran here to find the god in the temple to argue.

After Shen Yuelan figured out what was going on, she was almost amused by the young woman in front of her. "Can you see that man or what? You're still here to argue with me. If you're not afraid of death, don't bring me along."

Just when Shen Yuelan thought that the man was about to get angry, he smiled bitterly, hurriedly stood up, and bowed in the direction of the young woman to apologize in a scholarly manner, trying to get her forgiveness, but the woman couldn't see him at all.

The young woman stood in the hall and cursed for a long time before she was pulled away by her family who arrived late. After the man apologized, he stopped talking and continued to endure the young woman's verbal torture.

The inexplicable scene in front of her made Shen Yuelan very confused. Why did those with power have to apologize to the weak and endure such terrible abuse? Although she was very curious, out of fear of the unknown and Zhiwei's warning, Shen Yuelan decided to leave first.

[Fellow Daoist, you want to leave after watching the fun. Isn't that a bit too heartless? ]

Shen Yuelan was slightly stunned when she heard this. She turned around and saw that the man was staring at her sharply, as if he was looking at something. Although Shen Yuelan did not hide herself, the fact that he could easily find out Shen Yuelan's location showed that this man was not simple.

[What? You charge for just watching the fun? ]

[Haha, you are joking, fellow Taoist. I just haven't seen anyone of the same path for a long time, and I just want to vent my troubles with you.]

[Heh, pouring out your troubles to a stranger? I'm surprised you could think of that.]

[Hahaha, I can chat with those mortals, but is a conversation without feedback really meaningful? Even throwing garbage into a trash can will have an echo, right? ]

[Okay, okay, I understand what you mean, but why should I be your emotional trash can? I don't ask anything of you, nor am I afraid of you. I just want to leave here because I don't want to cause trouble, and your request just now is very troublesome.]

[I'm really sorry, I took it for granted. I've been standing here for too long, so long that I've lost the ability to communicate with others. I won't let you waste your time in vain. As long as you are willing to listen here, I will prepare a generous reward for you.]

[Well, whatever, I just need to wait for my companions here for a while, so I'll just listen to your story. ]

[Thank you for your understanding. Today’s story is called The Boy and the Teacher. ]

[Eh? Wasn't it supposed to be finished all at once? ]

[Hahaha, please be patient, my bitter words are long and stinky, and I want to pour them out all at once. I’m afraid you won’t be able to bear it.]

【Hey, you are quite considerate. 】

【Where, where. 】

[Don't waste time, just speak up. ]

[Well, okay, the story begins with a thirteen-year-old boy who first entered a teacher's house. The boy came from a poor family and had no chance of learning. However, at the age of thirteen, he was lucky enough to meet a teacher, a gentleman who advocated teaching everyone.]

When he first entered the master's door, the boy was the youngest among the disciples. He was introverted, taciturn, and rarely showed his talents. Some people thought he was stupid, and some senior brothers even teased him when he asked questions, but the boy was unaware.

The boy's honesty and introversion overshadowed his intelligence and thoughtfulness. Even the teacher found it difficult to determine the level of the boy's talent and what method should be used to teach him.

Fortunately, the gentleman was not a person who gave up easily. After a period of in-depth observation and understanding, the gentleman found that the young man was not stupid, and could even be described as intelligent. There are many good horses in the world, but there are few good horse trainers. The gentleman's kindness to the young man was no greater than this.

Therefore, his respect for the teacher far exceeded the respect that ordinary disciples had for their teachers. They were as close as father and son. There was once a famous teacher who competed with the teacher for disciples, and the teacher's disciples were filled and emptied three times, but the young man was the only one who never left the teacher's door.

The young boy was extremely intelligent and eager to learn, so he recognized the greatness of the teacher's teachings very early on.

The more carefully you study Mr. Master's teachings, the more brilliant they seem to you. The more you delve into them, the more profound they seem to you. Mr. Master's teachings are so profound, like the moon in the water or the flower in the mirror, as hard to grasp as this.

But the teacher was good at guiding the young man step by step, enriching him and improving him with various literature knowledge, and restraining him with certain etiquette, making it impossible for the young man to stop learning. It was truly magical.

The young man once asked his teacher, what is the way to be benevolent?

The teacher replied: "To restrain oneself and do everything according to the requirements of propriety is benevolence. Once this is done, everything in the world will be benevolent. Practicing benevolence depends on oneself, so how can it depend on others?"

The young man asked again: [What are the rules for practicing benevolence? ]

The teacher replied: [Don’t look at what is not in accordance with etiquette, don’t listen to what is not in accordance with etiquette, don’t say what is not in accordance with etiquette, don’t do what is not in accordance with etiquette.]

The young man replied: "Although I am not smart, please allow me to follow your instructions. 】

Original text: [Yan Yuan asked about benevolence. Confucius said, "To restrain oneself and return to propriety is benevolence. If one day one restrains oneself and returns to propriety, the whole world will return to benevolence. Is it up to oneself to be benevolent, or is it up to others?" Yan Yuan said, "May I ask what it means?" Confucius said, "Do not look at what is not proper, do not listen to what is not proper, do not say what is not proper, do not do what is not proper." Yan Yuan said, "Although Hui is not smart, I will follow your advice."]

It took the young man about six years to complete the studies assigned to him by his teacher. He asked for marriage at the age of nineteen, got married at the age of twenty, and had a child at the age of twenty-one...

[Okay, let’s stop here for today’s story. Your children have been waiting for you for a long time.]

[Oh? No, that's it? You've been talking for a long time, but you've ended up with nothing. What exactly do you want to say? What's the main point of the article? You've left me confused.]

[Haha, didn’t I just tell you? This is my bitterness, it’s my life, life is not so logical, just listen to me.]