"Hoo—" Sanniang finally exhaled a puff of smoke, blinked in the smoke, and murmured: "Are there really aliens in this world?"
"Are you talking about aliens? Yes~~ Some have even settled here and become gods worshipped by local ordinary people. Here..." Lian Youyou pointed at the table, as if pointing at the vast land after Pangu created the world, "There are many aliens living here. Why, Sanniang, are you interested in aliens?" Lian Youyou supported her face with one hand, curled her lips and smiled as she looked at Sanniang's charming and beautiful profile.
Sanniang smiled gently and raised her hand to grab a card: "It's always very interesting to listen to Master Lian bragging. Only you, Master Lian, can brag so well that people still think it's true~~" Sanniang grabbed a card and winked at Lian Youyou.
Lian Youyou raised her eyebrows and held up the cards in front of her. Not bad, a good hand: "Boasting in your spare time will make your body and mind healthier~~~~ I suggest that you live in the present. Being a mortal is the best. You will spend your life in a daze and not know that you have actually experienced several doomsdays. However... sometimes we get tired, and when we are tired..."
"Come down to brag about your vacation?" Yunxi replied, a relaxed smile returning to his face.
Lian Youyou paused, raised her eyebrows, and looked up. Her eyes were cold, three parts ruthless and seven parts numb: "Let this world be destroyed. When I feel better one day, I will rebuild it." After Lian Youyou said this, the corners of her lips rose, but the smile on her face had lost its warmth, "Continue playing cards."
Sanniang held the smoke she inhaled in her mouth. She finally understood why Lian Youyou had such a cold and numb reaction when Wanqing accused the gods of being ruthless. It turned out that they were really ruthless. This ruthlessness was because they were too tired to protect this world, too tired, so tired that... they didn't love.
Yun Xi stared blankly at his mahjong tiles. What Lian Youyou said must be a lie. How could the world be destroyed so easily? It has been more than three thousand years since Pangu created the world...
However, Heiyan said that Lian Youyou is a ten-thousand-year-old old woman. What was the world like three thousand years ago
Could it be... that it was really destroyed once
When Yunxi thought of this, his eyes couldn't help but shake as he looked at the mahjong. He felt his hands shaking, but he didn't understand what he was afraid of.
The temperature in the whole yard became a little chilly. I don’t know if it was because the autumn wind swept away the warmth of the sun, or because of the numbness in Lian Youyou’s eyes that made people feel cold to the bone.
On the busiest street in Beijing, there is a shop called Du Antiques. The owner of this shop is none other than Fu Mingsu. The shop is frequented by high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Beijing.
People in the Qian Dynasty who collected antiques really did so, not for money laundering, because the Qian Dynasty used gold and silver, which would not deteriorate easily like paper if left there, and their houses were large, so any house they built would be like a vault that could hold a lot of gold and silver.
Therefore, antiques are a real hobby, especially popular among the upper class. Sometimes people play with antiques to expand their circle of friends. If everyone around you plays with antiques, you will be excluded if you don’t.
The rich and powerful who collect antiques often get together to show off their latest antiques, which reflect their taste, status and class.
In ancient times, this antique gathering was more elegant than a brothel, and was more popular with people in the interest circle. Because at the moment of appreciating antiques, they were elegant and virtuous, not the beasts who took off their clothes in the brothel.
Outside, people should be gentlemen, not beasts. So, these clothes have to be worn.
Fu Mingsu opened an antique shop called Yazangxuan, which sounds like a high-end antique shop. The items in the shop are mainly calligraphy and paintings, vases, and jade. You can't see tortoise shells like oracle bone inscriptions here.
Because people who come in and out of here want to be classy, to make people think they are elegant. They want another piece of exquisite, elegant and noble clothing, not really going to do archaeology.
Yazangxuan is more than just a storefront, it is just like its name, with a lot of hidden secrets. Behind the storefront is a large courtyard.
The courtyard is exquisite and elegant, with arched stone bridges, winding paths, and waterside pavilions.
Colorful butterflies chase each other among the flowers, and red carps swim frolic in the green pond.
The mynah bird in the corridor imitates the laughter, and the beauty in the house waves with a round fan.
Elegant courtyard, elegant gallery, elegant paintings, elegant people.
Every detail is elegant and meticulous.
Fu Mingsui usually stayed in Yazangxuan, because he formed a society of scholars in line with the Beijing people's tendency to be pretentious, which is equivalent to the current antique appreciation association.
Most of the dignitaries in Beijing who collect antiques gather in his Yazangxuan to show off their antiques. In their opinion, antiques are not to be kept by oneself, but to be shown off to show off their value.
In order to cooperate with these people, Fu Mingsui also bought some beauties from the black market to wait here. When appreciating antiques, it would be more elegant and interesting to have beauties by your side.
At this time, Fu Mingrui was receiving some officials from the capital in Yaxuan Pavilion. One of them, coincidentally, was Wang Yi, Lord Wang, who had just been transferred to the capital.
Wang Yi made great contributions in the matter of the mountain monster, so he was transferred to the capital.
He investigated the Qinzhou Mountain Monster incident in a timely manner, upheld justice, stopped rumors, and stabilized the people's hearts. Therefore, he was transferred to the capital with a transfer order and became a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue, a fifth-rank official.
The official rank was promoted from the fifth rank of the prefect to the fifth rank. It may seem that the promotion is not much, but which official doesn't want to get into the capital? The cracks in the capital are not so easy to get into.
From the perspective of power, it seems that a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue does not have as much real power as a prefect. Although the prefect is a fifth-rank official, as the head of a state, he can be said to be a snakehead. He can erase many things without anyone noticing, and they will not be heard by the emperor.
But doctors? There were as many doctors as there were provinces in the Qian Dynasty, each in charge of the household registration of a place, and above them were assistant ministers and ministers, not the heads of a department.
However, this still couldn't stop Wang Yi's determination to rush to the capital. Wang Yi's promotion this time was different from Yuchi Feng's.
Yuchi Feng was promoted in name only but demoted in reality, while Wang Yi was promoted in name only but promoted in reality. Why? Because he climbed up to the high branch of Fu Kun, the left prime minister behind Zhang Lidong.
The officials around him actually knew that Wang Yi's promotion was not because he investigated the mountain monster and stabilized the people's hearts. Bullshit!
Stop a rumor and you get promoted? Who are you kidding? This is just an excuse to cover up the real reason. The real reason is that Wang Yi used the third son of the old general Yuchi Gongshan: Yuchi Feng, to get the fertile land of Qinzhou, so that Qinzhou will become Fu Kun's possession from now on!
Originally, Qinzhou could be considered as Fu Kun's. But with the presence of the Yuchi family, it was always a thorn in Qinzhou, making it inconvenient for Fu Kun to train his own people in Qinzhou, and even more inconvenient for Qinzhou to transfer oil and water. So getting rid of Yuchi Feng was undoubtedly a thorn in Fu Kun's eyes. (To be continued)