Chapter 431 Return to Shanghai (Part 1)
On the evening of February 17, 1930, a light girl from the ocean mail ship sailed from the United States on the ship walked down one after another on the dock in Shanghai, looking excitedly at the Eastern Metropolis, which is known as the Magic City in the West. Among these passengers are Chinese students who returned from studying abroad, and foreign adventurers who hope to rise again in the East after bankruptcy. Although they have different skin colors, their goals are very close, so they come out of the crowd.
At the dock, relatives and friends who had already received the news picked up the passengers who had disembarked one after another. The foreigners who came alone also took the rickshaw to leave the dock with their skin color. Soon the originally bustling dock became empty, and only the trumpets sung by the porters who were unloading goods not far away echoed on the dock.
Among the remaining passengers, two of them looked very prominent. They both had tall figures that stood out from the crowd, which was particularly eye-catching among the thin people. Their appearance was also outstanding. One was thin and cold like a scholar, and the other was fierce and evil like a bandit. It would not be great if they walked alone, but when they stood together, they were very eye-catching. People around them guessed in their hearts why these two people with completely different temperaments came together. Most people guessed that one was a bodyguard and the other was a returning student, but when they heard the person who looked like a murderer called the scholar as his master, everyone could not hide the surprise on their faces.
"Let's go to Chen's Mansion!" After hearing Long Jinbao's inquiry, Xu Changqing thought for a while and said, "I want to meet Chen Weng."
After that, he walked towards the city, and Long Jinbao followed closely behind.
Although it took twenty years to return to his hometown, Xu Changqing did not have the joy of returning home at all. Since the entire China was surrounded by the great catastrophe of heaven and earth, coupled with the limitations of the heavenly way, although Xu Changqing had the cultivation of the Golden Immortal, he could not calculate the specific situation of China. He could only speculate on the general situation of China through overseas newspapers and other Chinese people. However, after returning to China, he found that the situation here was much worse than he thought.
When Xu Changqing left, it was the time when the Chinese regime changed; although the fortune of the Chinese dragon vein was exhausted and the world was full of disputes, it was just a brief darkness before the phoenix nirvana. According to Xu Changqing's inference, after the Republic of China was officially established, even if Yuan Shikai was invaded in the north, it would not affect the recovery of the entire Chinese dragon vein.
Later, Yuan Shikai tried to become emperor against the will of heaven and eventually died. The Beiyang Army was divided into pieces and disappeared one by one, which also confirmed his previous calculations. Originally, the authorities should have taken charge of the world at this time, stabilized the chaos, and the new dragon vein fortune would gradually recover, and eventually formed a complete dragon vein.
However, when Xu Changqing set foot on the land and calculated the fortune of China, he found that the fortune of China's dragon vein was not as good as it was to recover. Even twenty years ago, it was not as good as it was. It was dispersed but not gathered, and it could disappear at any time. It seems that the Republic of China government, which claimed to have mastered the political situation of China over the years, did not completely unify its respective regimes, which made China form a chaotic situation during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and therefore could not replace the Qing court to gather the new dragon vein of China.
The situation has become so bad. Although it is related to the ability of the authorities themselves, the people in the practice world in the demonic path should also use some means. The more chaotic the situation, the more beneficial it is to practice in the demonic path. Moreover, the authentic immortals and Buddhas have almost completely abandoned the secular world of the Chinese world and retreated to the Kunlun fairyland. They are blocked by the Ten Transformed Demon Lords and cannot come out. As the Tao eliminates the demons, the evil demons who have been suppressed will inevitably do their own arbitrarily. According to Xu Changqing's speculation, there are many local forces fighting for power and profit on the land of China, and there are some people in the demonic path behind the fire, which will make the situation in China even more chaotic, thus turning the resentment of the heaven and earth into demonic energy and practicing the supreme demonic path.
The reason why Xu Changqing inferred this was mainly because he saw that Shanghai alone could be said to be a demonic path, and other war-torn places were probably even more serious. When he came to Shanghai from Tianjin, foreigners had already made Shanghai the city of demons. However, this city of demons was more of a compliment. In the eyes of Westerners, Shanghai is an Eastern city full of magical powers. There are opportunities to make money everywhere, and it is a veritable adventurer paradise. However, how could the foreigner who nicknamed Shanghai, how could he think that decades later, the demon city of Shanghai had really become a demon city. Not to mention anything else, the strong level of the demon energy that covered the entire Shanghai city was unprecedented. Ordinary people were immersed in this kind of demon energy for a long time. At the least, the mind became cowardly and selfish, cynical, violent and cruel, and bloodthirsty. If someone had the muscles of practicing, he might be directly entangled.
Since the dock where the ocean cruise ships docked was not Wusong Wharf, but the Neijiang Deepwater Wharf of the Huangpu River, it is not too far from the Chen family's mansion in Shanghai, Xu Changqing and Long Jinbao soon arrived outside the Chen Mansion. Compared with twenty years ago, the Chen Mansion now seems a little deserted, with green vines climbing over the walls. The iron gate is lurking. Looking inside the railing, the garden is also overgrown with weeds. The Chen family can be said to be in charge of the world of China. People from all walks of life who visit every day can be said to be busy, but now the door is deserted, desolate and cold, and can only be said to be ebb and flowing, and the rise and fall of the tide. At least when Chen Deshang gave up the real power of Chinese government and business and made the Chen family three, he should have expected this situation. Although the Chen family has lost the Chinese regime, it can grow branches and leaves, and its influence has spread all over the world. This can be regarded as a kind of rebirth of Nirvana.
Xu Changqing sighed a little in his heart, and soon returned to normal, signaling Long Jinbao to call the door. Not too much, he saw a servant walking out of the doorman next to the garden. He approached the door and looked at Xu Changqing and Long Jinbao carefully from the fence. He saw Long Jinbao with a fierce look on his face.
Long Jinbao said truthfully: "This place should be the Chen Mansion, right? We will look for Chen Deshang and Chen Weng, and I hope you can go in and report it."
"Sorry, our master said that my body was infected with cold and all foreign guests were missing. Please come back!" The servant used a set of rhetoric passed down from above and pushed Long Jinbao back, and then turned around and walked back to the doorman without saying anything more.
"Hmph! This old man Chen is so arrogant!" Long Jinbao, who was turned away, snorted coldly with a little dissatisfaction, then turned to Xu Changqing and asked, "Master, what should I do now? Should I force myself to break in, or should my disciples go in and pull out the old man Chen?"
"No need!" Xu Changqing shook his head slightly, looked around, and said, "You go and clean up the demonic people lurking around, leave a few living mouths, and ask for questions from the teacher.
Chapter completed!