Chapter 30

Mid-October, summer goes and autumn comes.

The fleet of the Pingyang Zhang Family's Four Seasons Trading Firm, which had not been navigated for a long time, on a night without wind or rain but dark and windy.

Docked at the largest wharf under Siyang Commandery, Siping Wharf.

Thousands of Zhang family descendants who had been exhausted in body and mind on Giant Serpent Head Island for months crawled out of the sea ships like ants.

A very small number of big-hearted ones still had the leisure for a late-night snack and flocked to the wharf canteen.

The rest of the small soldiers dispersed automatically, returning to their homes and finding their mothers.

Several family heads, owners, and senior managers walked quickly toward the main residence.

The autumn wind by the sea was cold, piercing the bones of people.

After Zhang Gui got off the ship, he looked at his hometown with flickering lights through the cold wind, and a feeling of being separated from the world arose in his heart.

Perhaps the cultivation technique was not as precious as he imagined, or the difficulty of learning to enter the Way was much harder than he imagined.

The leakage of the 'Vertical and Horizontal Book', as a sharp original sin dagger, backstabbed the former Pingyang clan head.

After becoming the last straw that broke the camel's back, no one cared anymore.

For the hundreds of Zhang family members who had seen the 'Vertical and Horizontal Book', the family actually just let it go.

After returning home, they were directly dumped on the wharf.

It was truly a bit unexpected.

In addition, someone notified before getting off the ship that although these beasts of burden in Blackwood Town were all dismissed from their jobs as a warning to others.

But after all, they were descendants of the Pingyang Zhang Family, so the breakup meal still had to be managed.

After getting off the ship, the wharf canteen prepared salty porridge, fried ghosts, steamed buns, and pickles. Those who were hungry could go to eat.

So Zhang Gui touched his stomach, pretended to be shivering from the cold, came to the canteen, hit a large bowl of salty porridge, clamped several fried ghosts between his fingers, and sat on a wooden stool to chew.

The helper saw that he ate a lot and stared at him, pointing out:

"Eat like a hungry ghost tonight.

There won't be good things like fried ghosts for late-night snacks tomorrow night.

Usually two large buns, a plate of sesame oil pickles.

And you have to show your waist token to eat.

You can eat and drink enough tonight without restrictions, and you don't have to show your waist token; you can be considered to be celebrating the New Year."

Zhang Gui was furious when he heard this.

"I am the dignified Stone Corpse Kingdom Lord, True Dragon Emperor, the super-generational successor of the ancient ancestor God Kuafu bloodline, and the inheritor of the ancient Warlord Great Venerable Chiyou!

I worked for the Pingyang Zhang Family for several months, and in the end, even my wages became waste paper.

What's wrong with drinking a bowl of salty porridge and eating a fried ghost?"

Although he was hungry, he intended to stop in moderation to avoid exposing the secret that he had mastered supernatural power.

A large appetite is one of the characteristics of a cultivator that is different from ordinary people.

But now.

"Helper brother, please go and get another basket of fried ghosts.

Isn't it eat and drink enough tonight without restrictions?

I want to be a hungry ghost."

After eating and drinking enough, Zhang Gui left the canteen under the nearly fiery gaze of the helper.

Some petty people are like this; even if they are beasts of burden themselves, the things they handle are not theirs, but they don't want to make it convenient for others, and they don't know what they are hating.

Pingyang Town, the household registration recorded by the government is more than 2,700 households.

Plus the hidden households working for the Zhang family, mainly those slave families named adopted sons and daughters who farm and work in manors, fields, and workshops, there are a full 4,000.

4,000 households, 20,000 people, already have the scale of a medium county city.

And Zhang Gui's family lives in 'Youyu Ward' on the edge of the town near the sea.

It is close to the fish market, and it smells of fish no matter how cold the weather is.

People with status will go around it when passing by, let alone live here.

Near home, fear of home.

As a reincarnation-type traveler, the mother of this life is also a biological mother.

Although it felt awkward because he had been an old soul since he was sensible.

But with the long-term closeness, the relationship between mother and son became more and more real.

The sea breeze drifted, gradually blowing away the dark clouds in the sky, and the moonlight appeared.

Arriving at the door under the moonlight.

Zhang Gui knocked on the door excitedly.

In the noble family territory, there are patrols day and night.

Even a single woman would not be harassed by thieves or blind people, and if she was not careful, she would be sunk into the sea.

After a few sounds of the door knocker, a crisp voice sounded,

"It's so late, who is it?"

Zhang Gui's mother is a barbarian Stone Corpse tribeswoman, and her name is different from Ming Song customs, called Caiyang Duojie.

About twenty years ago, she met Zhang Gui's father, the gentle scholar Brother Zhang Bashan, while selling mountain goods in Pingyang Town with her tribesmen.

Later, the two hooked up and became an 'outside room' who was not married in the Ming Song style and didn't even have the status of a concubine.

The name was not changed to Zhang, but just shortened to fit Ming Song customs, called 'Caiyang Sister-in-law'.

When she was first called this, Caiyang Duojie was less than seventeen, a bit of a misnomer, but now she is over thirty, which is quite appropriate.

And the voice of a mature woman is definitely not that crisp.

Hearing that it was not his mother shouting, Zhang Gui was stunned.

He asked suspiciously: "That, little girl, I'm looking for Caiyang Sister-in-law, is this her house?"

"Guigui brother, have you returned?

Aunt, Aunt, Guigui brother is back!"

Someone inside recognized Zhang Gui's voice, and there was a commotion.

Not long after, the door opened, and a large round copper basin burning paper money was placed out first.

Several women waved thorns and waved them around Zhang Gui's body.

"Quick, quick, quick, cross over the fire basin to get rid of the bad luck.

Demons and ghosts disperse, disperse."

"God of bad luck disperse, go, go, go, go."

"Fire burns away bad luck, great luck and great profit, endless blessings."

Being missed by so many people made Zhang Gui's heart warm, and tears almost welled up in his eyes.

But men always say the opposite in such times, and his mouth said impatiently:

"Cross what fire basin, get rid of what bad luck.

I am the 'Great Stone Crown' of the Stone Corpse tribe, what kind of demons and ghosts dare to provoke me."

The title 'Great Stone Crown' is equivalent to Regent Crown Prince in the Stone Corpse tribe.

Before Zhang Gui went to Luanya, his uncle passed the crown and seal of the Stone Corpse King to him.

Otherwise, he couldn't have started the ritual at the Old Tai Cave on Giant Serpent Head Island so smoothly.

"Don't mention 'Great Stone Crown' again.

It's not worth a few jars of fish sauce and shrimp paste.

Mother raised you, a good big son, by selling shrimp paste.

Can that big name be eaten as a meal?"

Caiyang Duojie is a stout woman with crow's feet at the corners of her eyes that can pinch flies to death, and a loud voice like a bell.

Although her features can still see the style of her youth, the labor of the years has made her reborn into a mother who can be the master of the house.

After scolding her son, she couldn't suppress the mixed sadness and joy in her heart, and hugged Zhang Gui in her arms,

"My son, let mother see if you have lost weight.

We won't go to sea anymore, we won't look for anyone's door, just sell fish sauce with mother.

You guard mother, mother guards you, we mother and son won't starve to death.

Let mother, let mother take a good look at you.

My good big son, you scared mother to death, woo woo woo woo"

(End of this chapter)