Chapter 194

Zhai the blacksmith practiced "Iron Armor Fist" and related body-tempering techniques, possessing the strength of a thousand jin.

When he played the bully, ordinary people couldn't stop him at all.

Before, he could be pulled by the neighbors, because he could still maintain reason and his emotions were not out of control.

Once the dog-meat Daoist spoke cheaply and finished a series of absurd words that deserved to be beaten to death, the string in Zhai the blacksmith's brain named "reason" seemed to be completely broken.

However, he still didn't commit murder.

"Third Brother Zhai, don't be impulsive. If you smash this hammer down, all the dogs in the city will cheer and be grateful to you, but Zhu Yitao is not a 'corrupt official,' he will likely make you pay with your life for this Daoist.

So you are not smashing his head, you are smashing your own skull, you are dying with him."

A thousand jin of force hit the body, and Seeing Xiao Yu Yu couldn't bear it either.

But she had too many ways to make the hammer not touch her, but fall gently to the ground.

After knocking down the hammer and letting Zhai the blacksmith take three steps back, she looked at the dog-meat Daoist again.

This guy was sloppy on weekdays and especially liked to wipe the grease on his hands with his Daoist robe when eating dog meat.

Now he had rolled a few times on the ground, covered in dust and dirt, looking even dirtier than a beggar.

"Besides eating meat and drinking wine on weekdays, your words are usually reliable. Today you are possessed by evil, or have a brain wind, speaking nonsense at the door of a family holding a funeral?"

The dog-meat Daoist patted the dust off his body, pointed at the paper wife in the hands of the paper craft shop assistant behind her, and laughed loudly: "Today many people came to the Zhai family, sending many funeral gifts, but this is the first one sending a wife for the big dog, and it might be the only one."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was stunned and said: "Is it not allowed to send a wife? Although the big dog died young, he has the nickname of 'Black-Headed General.'

As the saying goes, 'Ambition does not depend on age.'

And it is said, 'Alive as a hero, dead also as a ghost hero.'

The big dog might be making a scene in the underworld now! Marrying a wife is also appropriate."

"'Alive as a hero, dead also as a ghost hero'" The dog-meat Daoist smacked his lips a few times and sighed: "You left this sentence behind, and in the future, if you gift it to great heroes like the Prince of Qinghe or the Heir Apparent Xianzhi, you can also earn the beautiful name of 'Little Talented Girl.'

Now you have gifted it to the big dog, it's like handing a peony flower to an old cow to chew."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's mouth twitched, "You are indeed drunk today, your brain is muddled, speaking nothing but nonsense!"

"Hehe, I'm muddled. Hehe, tomorrow, you group of people, count one by one, don't come to Xianyun Temple to worship me!"

The dog-meat Daoist patted the dust off his body, with a proud smile on his face, turned around and walked away.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu turned her head to ask Zhai the blacksmith, who was still gnashing his teeth in anger, "Third Brother Zhai, you said the dog-meat Daoist killed the big dog, how do you say that?"

Zhai the blacksmith held his breath for a good while before opening his mouth, murmuring: "Actually, it's not his fault, it's mine, it's all my fault. I simply thought that by worshipping the Long Wang as a foster father, the big dog wouldn't have an accident while swimming in the river.

If I had taken more care of him, let him play less by the river, instead of entrusting everything to ghosts and gods, the big dog wouldn't have died, woo woo, it's my fault"

He covered his face with both hands, his crying sound muffled and weak, but full of sadness and regret.

"Worshipping the Long Wang as a foster father." After a good while, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu remembered.

After saying "Even God can't protect," she went to find the dog-meat Daoist that day to seek a way to overcome the tribulation and eliminate disasters.

In Xianyun Temple, she also happened to meet Shopkeeper Hu and Zhai the blacksmith.

Shopkeeper Hu is not to mention.

Zhai the blacksmith went to Xianyun Temple to find the dog-meat Daoist, it seems, just to help the big dog worship the Long Wang as a foster father.

"Which foster father did you find for the big dog at that time? What did the dog-meat Daoist say?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked curiously.

Zhai the blacksmith covered his face, sobbing, "It's not his fault, it's mine, it's all my fault, I simply thought."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was speechless.

"Little Fengxian, why are you here?" At this time, Aunt Zhang walked over and asked.

She held a rolling pin, wore an apron around her waist, wore sleeve covers on her arms, and a gray cloth wrapped around her head, looking like she had taken time out of her busy schedule to come over.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu pointed to the paper craft on the side, "The big dog passed away, I came to send funeral gifts. Is Zhang Zhang Da Niang preparing to steam steamed buns?"

Aunt Zhang looked at Zhai the blacksmith and sighed: "There is no hostess in Zhai the third brother's house. If we don't come over to help, they can't even handle the funeral to send the big dog away."

They not only came over, but also brought their own stools, tables, steamers, bowls, and dishes, and all kinds of miscellaneous items for the banquet.

It was fortunate that the big dog died young, so there was no need to hold a big funeral, just invite the neighbors, old friends, and relatives to have a meal, and quietly send the small coffin out of the city, which was almost the end of it.

"Do you know about the big dog worshipping the Long Wang as a foster father?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked.

Aunt Zhang nodded and whispered in her ear: "The big dog really likes playing in the water. Zhai the third brother didn't worry about him, tried beating him, slapping him, but when the big dog was beaten, he cried loudly, yet he wouldn't change.

Zhai the third brother also doesn't know who he heard it from.

It is said that as long as the child worships the Long Wang as a foster father, the Long Wang will protect the child who goes into the water from drowning.

Our Tianmen Town has merchants from all over the world, it might be a custom from some foreign region.

Even the term 'foster father' is an import.

Anyway, Zhai the third brother believed it.

He took the big dog to Xianyun Temple and asked the dog-meat Daoist to help host the ceremony of worshipping the foster father.

Not to mention, after that, the big dog became even crazier.

Heavy rain, the river rising, he was still fighting in the waves, just like a black dragon!"

"Looking at it this way, the big dog's swimming skills are really good!" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said.

With such good swimming skills, he drowned in the autumn season when the river was calm. Could it really be a water ghost looking for a substitute?

"Hey, the big dog is really too wild, completely unwilling to listen." Little Zhang sighed.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu whispered: "Although the dog-meat Daoist is god-like and ghost-like, his words are usually reliable on weekdays.

He said it was a happy banquet, perhaps there is a turning point in the big dog's matter?"

"What turning point?" A group of shining curious eyeballs shone over like searchlights.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu shrugged, "Wait and see! The dog-meat Daoist said we will go to Xianyun Temple to worship him tomorrow. If there is a change, it must be tonight!"

She scolded the dog-meat Daoist for "full of absurd words," but in her heart, she believed in his ability.

She didn't sleep all night, kept sitting on the roof, operating the Heart Sea Art, opening the "Spiritual Eye of the Heart," facing the direction of the blacksmith shop at the intersection in the north.

A night passed, and she didn't "see" anything.

The next day, there was no abnormality either.

"Hehehe, dog-meat Daoist, you also have times when you miscalculate!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was a little disappointed and decided that next time she met the dog-meat Daoist, she must take this matter to mock him severely.

But early on the third day, she jumped onto the roof, just finished a set of "Warm-up Rose Sword," when a crazy shout suddenly came from the intersection in the north: "It's not a dream, I didn't dream, the big dog really became a black-headed dragon!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was not the earliest to get up.

There are many shops and stalls in the back alley, and they get up at the fourth watch to get busy, so the street was not silent at this moment.

But after Zhai the third brother shouted, more than half of the alley was really silent for an instant.

"Woo woo woo, big dog, you didn't die, that's great"

Unfortunately, Zhai the blacksmith didn't shout anymore, just sobbed muffledly and low.

People outside the house gathered at the door and couldn't hear clearly.

"Third Brother Zhai, are you okay?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu flew over the eaves and walked on the walls, easily crossing a hundred meters in two breaths, and came to the outside of the blacksmith shop.

Zhai the blacksmith was quiet for a while before saying muffledly: "I'm fine, I'm okay."

Then he didn't speak anymore.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu also didn't know what to say, not knowing whether to knock on the door or not.

Fortunately, she had the Heart Sea Art!

She "saw" in the dark small bedroom inside, Zhai the third brother wearing shorts sitting on a bamboo mat, holding a small water jar in his arms, the water jar filled with gold and silver jewelry.

The Heart Sea Art perceives the fluctuations of the world with the "Spiritual Eye of the Heart," and can only "see" the shape and feel the texture, but cannot identify the colors.

But Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was very sure that besides gold ingots and silver ingots, including the water jar, all the jewelry were top-grade goods worth a fortune.

Especially that water jar, which seemed to emit a faint "spiritual energy of water"—the same as her shrimp shell inner armor, and the ripples projected in the heart sea by the black diamond grass fork.

If the spiritual energy emitted by the shrimp shell inner armor is 1, the black diamond's grass fork is probably 3, and the spiritual energy of the small water jar in Zhai the blacksmith's arms is at least 100!

The gap is too big.

"Hey hey hey, what are you doing!"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu raised her right hand and blocked a young man who was about to put his head to the door crack with the hilt of her sword.

"Miss Yu, I am Niu Er, I am a good person, I am just looking at what Third Brother Zhai is doing!" The young man in brown short clothes showed a look of fear, smiling awkwardly.

This Niu Er is not the same person as Niu Er in Apricot Blossom Village, just both surnamed "Niu" and both ranked second.

"Third Brother is shouting, could it be that something happened?" Another young man "Gui San" on the side was still peeking.

"Stand on the side, wait for Third Brother Zhai to come out himself." Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said loudly.

She stood in the middle of the street herself, and Niu Er was blocked on her side.

People who came later, even if they didn't stand with them, consciously didn't get too close to the big door.

Zhai the blacksmith was not a fool after all; he wiped his tears, grabbed a few handfuls of gold and silver jewelry from the water jar and put them on the bed, and then wrapped the water jar with an old quilt and hid it under the bed.

Then he put on a piece of clothing, took a few ingots in his hand, and opened the blacksmith shop door.

"My big dog didn't die"

He shouted excitedly first, then his expression hesitated for a moment, and he changed his words: "The big dog died, but he is alive again now. He went to the West Sea Long Gong and became the foster son of the West Sea Long Wang.

The Long Wang was merciful, not only took in his lonely soul but also transformed him into a black-headed dragon, sealing the big dog as the 'Black-Headed General'."

"Third Brother, what nonsense are you talking about?" Niu Er stared straight at the ingots in his hand, swallowed his saliva, and asked: "What a big ingot, at least twenty-five taels each, right? Where did it come from?"

"The big dog really became a black-headed dragon!"

Zhai the blacksmith glanced at him, frowned, and turned his joyful gaze to Seeing Xiao Yu Yu.

"The big dog entrusted a dream to me last night, telling me about becoming the Black Dragon Prince of the Long Gong, and also gave me a bag of gold, saying 'Child can no longer fulfill filial piety before Dad, please don't forget the child, and please Dad must find another talented and beautiful stepmother, give birth to a few brothers for the child, let them fulfill filial piety to Dad, and the child can also rest assured to patrol the ocean for the foster father.'

Little Fengxian, look, this is the gold the big dog left for me, for me to live in a big house and marry a talented and beautiful wife!

I thought I was dreaming, but I didn't expect to find the gold at the head of the bed after waking up.

It's exactly the same as the treasure he took out and gave to me in the dream."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu raised her eyebrows; this Third Brother Zhai is a cautious person, but the last sentence still leaked the secret.

Pure gold ingots and silver ingots, no matter where they come from, are about the same.

And interested people will not think that "Long Gong treasure" is just gold and silver ingots.

"Ah, there is such a strange thing, the big dog actually became the Black Dragon Prince!"

The neighbors were shocked and amazed, with relatively few showing suspicion.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu reminded: "Third Brother Zhai, this matter is very fantastic, don't spread it widely for now, and don't take out the gold and silver jewelry to show off.

I'll go help you call Daoist Yunqing, and only after he comes over to identify it can we truly determine the good or bad luck."

Zhai the blacksmith was stunned and nodded: "It is right to thank the Daoist, I was reckless the day before yesterday.

Now, to invite the Daoist over, how dare I trouble you, Little Fengxian, I must go personally to show sincerity."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu waved her hand, "It's not a big deal, I was going to find him anyway."

If Zhai the blacksmith dared to leave home at this time, eight out of ten times some rascals would quietly climb over the wall to search for Long Gong treasures.

There are honest people like Aunt Zhang and Uncle Li in Soy Sauce Alley, and there are also rascals like Niu Er and Gui San.

A moment later, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu successfully found the dog-meat Daoist who was drinking morning wine in Xianyun Temple.

Without mentioning Zhai the blacksmith's matter, she bent down and bowed, "Daoist, I also want to worship the Long Wang as a foster father, please help me!"