Chapter 159

The story of the "Divine Concubine's Smile" is:

In the Middle Ages, a divine lord named Li Longchu was wise and martial from a young age, and after reaching adulthood, his mysterious skills were even more overwhelming.

At that time, it was the end of the hundred-year war between the human race and the hundred demon races of the Earth Dragon World under the Great Cave, fighting for living space.

Li Longchu and his most beloved concubine, Mei Junzi, fought for the human race together, and finally, together with many great powers, they desperately suppressed the hundred demon races and won the victory of the great war.

But after the war, Mei Junzi was seriously injured, and finally drank the bone marrow of a demon dragon she killed with her own hands, and died laughing!

Leaving behind the eternal story of a heroine who is not inferior to men.

After Mei Junzi died, Li Longchu was depressed until he met another woman in his life, Yang Huan'er, who was known for her overwhelming beauty.

The two were inseparable and absurd for many years, until one day Yang Huan'er said,

Li Longchu's dead concubine, Mei Junzi, was once famous all over the world for drinking the bone marrow of a demon dragon.

She also wanted to imitate it.

This was simply unreasonable.

Because anyone with a brain understands that the real reason Mei Junzi was famous all over the world was that she had great supernatural powers but was willing to die for her race.

Drinking the bone marrow of a demon dragon was just a gimmick; even if she had swallowed a mouthful of her own saliva before she died, she would still have been mythologized.

Evolving into legendary stories such as "Jade death by spitting."

But Li Longchu, who had been wise for a hundred years, was stupid this time.

He actually launched a large army to crusade against the underground cave again.

He caught a demon dragon, killed it, and pulled out its bones and marrow.

He used the divine artifact "Swaying Sun Light Shuttle," which can travel a hundred thousand miles in an instant, to load it and send it steaming hot to Yang Huan'er.

As a result, this new divine concubine smiled charmingly and drank the dragon marrow.

But what was left was not a good reputation but infamy.

Just because Li Longchu's act of hunting the demon dragon for no reason broke the tacit understanding of the truce between the human great powers and those top experts of the hundred demon races.

So, one night later, retaliation arrived suddenly.

A thousand human cities closest to the Great Cave were destroyed, with casualties in the tens of millions.

It also left behind the story of "The light shuttle flashes, the dragon marrow arrives, a smile from the divine concubine topples a thousand cities."

Lü Zhenduan used this story to describe Prince Zhen, not saying anything else.

But metaphorically referring to the status of Shi Zhexian in his heart now.

Zhang Gui listened, nodded knowingly, and turned his head toward Zhang Rui,

"Eating is the emperor's business; Prince Zhen sending an envoy will not delay our eating.

Let's go, let's go, the three of us will chat while we eat."

Saying this, he took long strides and walked forward on his own.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was evening.

The envoy of Prince Zhen, who was said to arrive "in an instant," finally arrived with a big belly; he was a short, fat man.

However, although his figure was not good, his demeanor was quite elegant, and it could be seen that he must have come from a scholarly family.

A cold barracks room.

Only three braziers were lit on the ground, which were both light sources and for warmth.

When the short fat man met Zhang Gui and the two from Xianrong Island, he bowed his hands as if he were in the imperial court:

"I am Lü Ju, the 'running dog under the seat' of Prince Zhen, meeting Caiyang Longhu face to face.

How have you been lately, Brother Lü?"

This Lü Ju was the staff member who had given up the position of "Zaicheng" in the Longhu Curtain Office and insisted on following Prince Zhen's "Traveling Palace" to migrate to Xianrong Island, resulting in Lü Zhenduan "picking up a leak."

Although this person's consistent impression in Lü Zhenduan's mind was a "hypocrite."

He could do anything when necessary.

But he didn't expect that he would one day take the initiative to call himself Prince Zhen's "running dog under the seat" in front of him.

You must know that everyone is a student of the Imperial Academy, nominally "disciples of the Son of Heaven."

In front of the Ming Song Hezheng Emperor, they can also call themselves "students."

How could he humiliate himself like this?

This left Lü Zhenduan dumbfounded and speechless for a time.

And Lü Ju, who was obviously thicker-skinned, shook his head and sighed disapprovingly upon seeing this, and said again:

"I call myself an envoy, but in fact, I don't even know or understand what kind of envoy I am.

If I weren't a running dog under the gate, how would I come to handle this kind of thing?

After thinking about it, it's best to tell the truth.

Caiyang Longhu, I heard that the 'Hanli Shen Clan,' especially Shi Zhexian, owes you a not-so-small personal favor.

Now Prince Zhen wants to buy this favor; may I ask how much it is worth?"

"Can personal favors also be traded?"

Zhang Gui asked strangely.

"In ancient times, Emperor Yao originally wanted to demote Emperor Yu to a slave because his father, Gun Gong, failed to control the flood.

As a result, Emperor Yu used the lives of ninety-five members of his family as collateral to exchange for the opportunity to control the flood on behalf of his father from Emperor Yao.

Finally, he achieved a great cause.

What in this world cannot be traded?"

Lü Ju said with a classic reference:

"The General only needs to say what you want to exchange from Prince Zhen.

Whether it is treasures, rights, sea ships, or merchant firms, as long as it is not excessive, just bring it up.

But it needs to be not excessive."

An "not excessive" was said twice, which shows that although Prince Zhen performed a bit like a "dog" toward Shi Zhexian, he actually still had a count in his heart.

Or rather, Prince Zhen, this "fake licking dog," was pretending to be a romantic lover but was unwilling to "spend big money."

With Zhang Gui's brain, he could naturally hear this point and couldn't help but curl his lips.

After thinking for a long while, a flash of inspiration hit his brain, and he said even more "dog-like":

"Originally, since it is Prince Zhen's order, I should not make any requests and directly transfer the favor owed by the 'Hanli Shen Clan' to His Highness.

But a personal favor is not an object; you can't just give it away.

If it is not a transaction where both sides have paid, it would be less than beautiful or even counterproductive.

So I want to ask Prince Zhen for some useless trash, a small official authority..."

"Caiyang Longhu, don't hesitate; whatever you want, as long as it is not excessive, just say it."

"I

want the unclaimed corpses left behind in the national war between Prince Zhen and the Yuanshan Guard Army.

In the name of Zhang Gui of the Pingyang Zhang Family, I will take the post of Chief Coroner of the 'Traveling Palace'."

The Song Ming Kingdom was quite particular about funeral etiquette, and usually, there were rare cases of destroying corpses.

But wartime is different, not to mention fighting on a guest field on an island.

Let alone the corpses of the dead.

For wounded soldiers who could not be easily treated, they would be buried on the spot.

Because this method is the simplest and fastest, and there is no need to worry about plagues in winter.

But no matter how you deal with the dead, it is a thankless job.

Lü Ju was stunned and said:

"Caiyang Longhu, the clothing and armor of the dead soldiers will be handled by special personnel before burial..."

"Lord Lü, you misunderstood.

This subordinate only wants the corpses, naked is even better.

This point should not be difficult to achieve."

"That is not difficult; thinking about it seriously, it even saves the effort of the 'Traveling Palace.'

But what do you want so many corpses for?"

"Lord Lü, you already call me Caiyang Longhu, how can you still ask such an obvious question?

Don't you know that 'Caiyang' is the national surname of the Stone Corpse barbarian tribe."

Zhang Gui answered with a smile.

Hearing this answer, Lü Ju couldn't help but associate it with the customs in ancient books about indigenous barbarian tribes eating living people and skinning and burning corpses to sacrifice to heaven.

Immediately, he stopped asking how many tricks a barbarian tribe named "Stone Corpse" would have to toss corpses.

He said dryly:

"Since that is the case, as long as Caiyang Longhu can guarantee that the corpses of the war dead will no longer be an eyesore after one night.

And you cannot sacrifice with corpses in broad daylight, causing an uproar in the army.

I will report this matter to His Highness.

I think he should agree."

(End of this chapter)