Chapter 4 Back to Zijin Mountain

  The sun has already risen.

  Li Yunzhong overslept last night and didn't wake up until the sun was high in the sky. After getting out of bed, he rinsed his mouth and found some breakfast on the table, so he simply ate a bit. He thought to himself that it's good to be rich, with people serving him food and also helping him sleep.

  Li Yunzhong had finished his breakfast and was idle, so he thought of finding a spacious place to exercise. He strolled around the Wei family's house and found it was quite large, wondering if ancient wealthy families liked to build their houses that big. As he exercised in the courtyard, he heard voices coming from afar. Listening carefully, he realized it was Feng Yunshan and Wei talking. Judging from their conversation, they must have been talking for a while.

  "After that, please ask Wei brothers to collect more ironware and keep it for future use in making weapons."

  "Mr. Feng, please be at ease, for the sake of overthrowing the Qing dynasty and worshipping God, even if it means losing everything, I will not hesitate."

  Li Yunzhong listened to Wei Zheng's voice with some excitement, apparently he had been fooled by Feng Yunshan.

  "Now that the Wei brothers have made up their minds, they will be responsible for spreading the teachings in Jintian Town from now on."

  "Dare not to obey, without saying anything else, just in our Wei family near Jintian, there are several thousand people, and we will definitely mobilize the whole clan to participate in the Lord's prayer meeting."

  When he heard this sentence, Li Yunzhong secretly thought: I rely on it, how many people are there in a family in ancient times! It seems that the Church of God must develop and expand, and it is necessary for the Wei family to join such a large family.

  "It's settled then. I'll head back to Zijin Mountain and report back to the sect, sharing this good news with all of my brothers. Farewell."

  "We won't detain Mr. Feng any longer then. Here's a hundred taels of silver, for Mr. Feng to use on his journey. I hope Mr. Feng won't decline."

  "Haha, I'd rather obey than show respect."

  When Li Yunzhong bid farewell to Feng Yunshan at the Wei family, Wei Zheng gave Li Yunzhong thirty taels of silver again, and Li Yunzhong secretly praised him: This young man knows how to treat people.

  Jintian Town and Zijing Town are connected, the two of them left Wei's house and soon arrived at Zijing Town. Along the way, there were occasional followers of the Bai Shangdi Hui sect sending them off. When they reached Zijing Mountain, there were already over 2,000 people following behind them. Adding to that the thousand or so people from Zijing Mountain who came out to welcome Feng Yunshan, it was a sea of people, with men and women, young and old, all bustling about, making quite a lively scene. Li Yunzhong was stunned by the sight before him, and asked Feng Yunshan how he knew so many people. Li Yunzhong wasn't able to keep up as Feng Yunshan bowed to the surrounding crowd in gratitude, chatting with them for a bit.

  Yang Xiuqing frowned as he looked at the situation in front of him, with Xiao Chaogui, Li Kaifang, Lu Xianda, Lin Dajian and Fu Xuejian following closely behind him, all of whom were his trusted aides recently promoted by Yang Xiuqing.

  Xiao Chaogui said in a low voice to Yang Xiuqing, "Unexpectedly, Feng Yunshan's prestige has not diminished from the beginning. Xiuqing, let's also go forward to welcome him."

  Fu Xue said, "Not now, this is a good opportunity to test Feng Yunshan, it's best to give Feng Yunshan a warning."

  Yang Xiucheng slowly nodded and took two steps forward, his body suddenly started shaking slightly.

  "The Heavenly Father has descended, everyone kneel down quickly." Xiao Chaogui loudly shouted to the crowd.

  The crowd suddenly fell silent, and everyone turned their heads to kneel down piously towards Yang Xiuqing. Soon, only three people were left standing: Li Yunzhong, Feng Yunshan, and Yang Xiuqing, who was still "exercising his power".

  Li Yunzhong disdainfully looked at Yang Xiuqing's lowly tactics and turned his gaze towards Feng Yunshan.

  Feng Yunshan calmly watched Yang Xiuqing's body trembling, hands waving wildly, head shaking and muttering to himself.

  Yang Xiuqing also narrowed his eyes and looked at Feng Yunshan.

  Turning his head to look at the people kneeling all over the mountain, Feng Yunshan sighed and slowly knelt down.

  Li Yunzhong saw Feng Yunshan kneel down, hesitated for a moment, and also knelt down on the ground. He thought to himself: You're not even as good as me, at least I pulled off Yang Xiuqing's braid on my first try. Then he thought again: If you're also kneeling before Yang Xiuqing, doesn't that mean no one will protect me? It seems like I should make a run for it sooner rather than later.

  Li Yunzhong was deep in thought and didn't hear what Yang Xiuqing, the "Heavenly Father", said. Seeing that everyone around him had stood up, he also helped Feng Yunsan to his feet.

  Yang Xiuqing, now "enlightened", hastily stepped forward and grasped Feng Yunshan's hands, saying excitedly: "Recently, the Heavenly Father in Heaven couldn't bear to see the internal worries and external troubles within our God-worshipping Society, with evil demons and heretics emerging one after another. Therefore, He specially descended into my humble body to guide us in our actions."

  Feng Yunshan helplessly said, "Since the Heavenly Father wants to come down to the world, as his son, I will definitely know. Let's wait for Mr. Hong to return and have a good talk between father and son."

  Yang Xiucheng smiled and said "It should be, it should be".

  Xiao Chaogui saw Yang Xiuqing's embarrassing situation and hastily stepped forward to mediate, saying "Everyone knows that Mr. Feng is returning today, so they specially slaughtered pigs and sheep, prepared wine and meat, and invited Mr. Feng to join the banquet, hahaha".

  Everyone saw there was meat to eat and wine to drink, they all started cheering.

  Yang Xiuqing immediately assigned tasks to everyone present.

  Li Kaifang, Lin Fengxiang

  "In"

  "You two take some men to patrol at the mountain pass, if you see any members of the militia entering the mountains, report back immediately."

  "Obey orders"

  Huang Wenjin

  "In"

  "You take people separately to inform all branches of the Church of God in each county that Mr. Feng will return to the mountain."

  "Obey orders"

  “.........”

  One by one, the arrangements were made in an orderly manner. Those who were called upon all nodded and accepted their orders without exception. The several thousand people who had just been surrounding them dispersed in an orderly fashion under Yang Xiuqing's arrangement, each with their own tasks to attend to.

  Li Yunzhong saw Yang Xiuqing giving orders and everyone following them, and he couldn't help but feel a little envious of him. He thought to himself that one day he would be even more powerful than Yang.

  Feng Yunshan smiled and his expression also became more relaxed.

  Although it was late in the day, there were bonfires burning at various locations around the headquarters of the Zhi Jing Shan Bai Shangdi Hui, and dozens of tables had been set up on the empty ground.

  Li Yunzhong had never eaten anything so good since he came to this world, and after eating mantou for several days, his bones had become three catties thinner. Everyone was busy grabbing the fatty meat, but only Li Yunzhong slowly ate the lean meat, earning everyone's praise, and occasionally even got toasted with wine.

  The only thing that made Li Yunzhong regret was that this place was too remote. Looking at Feng Yunshan being surrounded by people toasting him, he thought to himself that he had been schemed against by Xiao Zhaogui. Li Yunzhong could see the outside, but the outside absolutely couldn't see what was going on over here.

  "Li brothers, come on, I'll toast you a bowl."

  Li Yunzhong turned his head and was stunned, it was actually a great beauty, with clear and bright pupils, curved eyebrows, long eyelashes trembling slightly, her white and flawless face showed a faint red glow, her full lips were like rose petals tender and about to drip, her voice was like Lin Zhiling's in her previous life, with a hint of huskiness, smiling cleverly, as the bonfire flashed, the beauty was sometimes clear, sometimes blurry, adding a few more points of charm.

  "Xiao Dajie, I also respect you." Someone shouted a sentence that made Li Yunzhong "spit blood".

  Sister-in-law? Got a husband already, too late, still, hadn't even made a move yet and it's already too late! However, at this moment, Li Yunzhong finally knew that there were still things in this world that could excite him.

  "Come on, Xiao Da Sao, let's drink!" Li Yunzhong downed his wine in one gulp.

  Dry

  Put down the wine cup and look at the smiling beauty in front of you, with a lingering drop of wine on her lips.

  A certain string in Li Yun's heart was struck hard.

  Xiao Dajie drank a few more bowls with someone else, and it didn't seem like she had such a large capacity for liquor.

  Maybe it was the first time these carbon workers drank so much wine, and soon they all fell down.

  Xiao Dajie sat beside Li Yunzhong with a bowl in her hand, it was clear that she had intentionally gotten them drunk.

  "This is our first meeting, I'm Hong Xuanjiao. I heard it was you who rescued Mr. Feng."

  Hong Xuanjiao! Xiao Chaogui's wife, hehe, want to give him a green hat, huh, two hats, ah, three hats...... or open a green hat factory for him.

  Li Yunzhong looked at the person lying on the table and said with a loud voice, "Beauty, come on, let's see who wins."

  "Beauty, haha" Yang Xuanjiao leaned her head against Li Yunzhong's shoulder and asked charmingly "Am I beautiful?"

  Li Yunzhong looked around and saw no one was paying attention, staring at her plump chest, licking his lips and said "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen".

  Yang Xuan's apricot kernel-like eyes rounded and opened wide, and she couldn't help but giggle.

  Two people playing rock-paper-scissors is not interesting, so Li Yunzhong teaches Hong Xuanjiao to play a drinking game from later generations. It's very simple: the two parties add up the numbers of their fists; if someone shouts out a number that is the same as the sum of the numbers of the two parties' fists, then they win, and the losing party drinks a bowl.

  Because she was a novice, how could Hong Xuanjiao be Li Yunzhong's opponent, but she got hooked. Before long, Hong Xuanjiao had drunk over ten bowls, her eyes blurry with intoxication, and fell into Lin Yunzhong's arms.

  Looking around and seeing no one, Li Yunzhong hesitated, whether to be a beast or not. "She is Xiao Chao's woman", this thought kept popping up, looking at the beauty in his arms, he muttered "again..." Li Yunzhong couldn't help but kiss Hong Xuanjiao twice more, who knew that Hong Xuanjiao would struggle and flip Li Yunzhong over, the two rolled under the table, Li Yunzhong looked at the beauty below him, her uneven body stimulating his male instincts, no longer hesitating, he rolled towards a darker place.

  With a loud "thud", Li Yunzhong was kicked back by Hong Xuanjiao, and Li Yunzhong covered his stomach, leaning against the table for a moment unable to get up.

  This chick's got quite a kick, if she kicks somewhere, wouldn't that make someone a eunuch.

  Hong Xuanjiao sat on the ground, tidied up her clothes, stood up and stared at Li Yunzhong for a moment, still wanting to scold him some more. In the end, she batted her eyelashes and left without saying a word.

  As expected: beautiful women look good even when they're angry.