The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

Chapter 404 God's Way of Investment

The lonely old man took Ge Youfu's half copper coin and left.

A group of old men looked at them regretfully and enviously.

Ge Youfu's heart moved, and he casually asked an old man, "Old man, who is he?"

"Zhang Erdan, you are old and out of business. Ever since his wife and children died in that disaster decades ago, he has become like this, tsk tsk tsk..." The old friend shook his head and said.

"What disaster?" Ge Youfu was a little curious.

But when the old man heard this, a shrewd philistine expression appeared on his face, and he touched the copper coin in his hand.

Ge Youfu understood immediately, cursed inwardly, and then took out a copper coin.

The old philistine did not speak.

Ge Youfu took out another copper coin.

The old philistine still didn't speak.

Ge Youfu was already very upset, so he took out two copper coins this time.

The philistine old man still didn't speak.

Ge Youfu quit, greeted the male servant, turned around and was about to leave.

The old philistine was startled, and quickly called Ge Youfu to stop, "Wait a minute."

Only then did Ge Youfu turn around, holding the four copper coins in his hand, the meaning was obvious.

The philistine old man took the copper coins from Ge Youfu's hand with one hand, and then said, "Young people nowadays are not sensible at all."

"If you don't tell me, then return the money to me, and I will stop asking." Ge Youfu said directly.

The old philistine laughed dryly, and began to tell Ge Youfu about the bastard.

It turned out that after decades, Zhang Erdan's wife took two children back to her natal home, which is Shatian Village on the other side of Tianguling, to visit relatives, but they encountered bandits who slaughtered the village.

None of the hundreds of people in the village was spared.

As a result, Zhang Erdan's temperament changed drastically and he became withdrawn.

These years, if the clan hadn't provided assistance, they would have died long ago.

Ge Youfu thought it was like this.

He asked another question, "What about the dead yellow mud road on Tiangou Ridge?"

When the philistine old man heard that he wanted to talk about money again, Ge Youfu said calmly, "I'm going to hire someone to be a guide to go up the mountain to find the land temple. If you behave well, I can give you this opportunity to introduce the guide to me. you."

Hearing this, the philistine old man regained his energy immediately. He smiled and said, "The yellow mud road actually leads directly to Shatian Village, but because of the massacre of the village, there is no one in Shatian Village. I heard that there are ghosts coming out at night." It turned into a ghost village, and no one dared to go there, so someone opened a new mountain road in the middle of the yellow soil, leading directly to the town, and the original road was abandoned. It's a dead end."

"There used to be a lot of incense in the land temple, and the villagers passing by would go to worship, but now, no one cares about it, and the older generation still vaguely remembers that the younger generation is completely unaware of this It's the matter." The old philistine said.

Ge Youfu thought in his heart that luckily he didn't go back directly, otherwise there would be an oolong, and if Ge Dafu knew about it, the position of housekeeper might not be secure.

He thought for a while, then offered another [-] Wen, and said to the philistine old man, "We want to pay homage to this land lord, please find someone who is more agile and take us there."

"It's easy to say, easy to say." The old philistine took Ge Youfu's money, smiled from ear to ear, and said repeatedly.

Not long after, the philistine old man found a man with a yellow face and a bitter gourd like a thin bamboo pole, and said to Ge Youfu, "This is my nephew from the same family. He is very familiar with Tiangou Ridge. Let them take you to the land on Duantou Road." temple."

"First of all, it's okay to go to the Land Temple, but I won't go to Shatian Village. I heard that there are ghosts there!" the yellow-faced bitter gourd man said in a muffled voice.

"We don't go to haunted places either! We just follow my master's order to go to the Land Temple to worship and pray for my young master." Ge Youfu said.

"Yeah." The yellow-faced bitter gourd man turned his head and said to the philistine old man, "Fifty Wen."

"I'll give you a deposit of [-] Wen first, and the rest of [-] Wen will be given to you after you go down the mountain." The philistine man glared at the yellow-faced bitter man angrily, and said, "Really, you deserve it if you say such things in public. Not good for anything, my wife is hungry.

Ge Youfu didn't say a word about the behavior of the old philistine middleman making the price difference, and after the yellow-faced bitter gourd man took twenty cents from the old philistine, he asked, "Can I go?"

The man with a yellow face and a bitter gourd glanced at the lush and dark green Tiangou Ridge. A hint of fear flashed in the depths of his eyes. He turned his head to look in the direction of his home, sighed helplessly, and said, "Let's go."

Ge Youfu keenly caught the trace of fear in the yellow-faced bitter gourd man. He felt that Tiangou Ridge might not be easy, but the arrow was on the string, so he had to do it.

Ge Youfu, and the male servant, the yellow-faced bitter gourd man, the three of them walked out of the village entrance and walked up the rugged path up the mountain.

The triangular-eyed Miao Zhu of the mountain temple came here at some point, looking at the backs of the three going away, his eyes flickered, and he remained silent for a long time.

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At the beginning, the road up the mountain was relatively easy. There was a winding yellow mud road, and it was quite easy to walk.

But as we go up the mountain, the road conditions get worse and worse.

When he got to a certain mountainside, the yellow-faced bitter gourd man turned directly into a weedy path, and there was no place to stand. He knew that if he stepped on it, the bottom was empty or spiked.

The yellow-faced bitter gourd man was better, but Ge Youfu was quite uncomfortable.

The mountain roads are difficult, especially the undeveloped mountain roads.

noon.

Ge Youfu was sweating all over his face, feeling like he had lost ten catties, he walked through a small forest, and finally came to Ling Yaodong's statue.

Looking at the humble statue of Lord of the Earth standing under the stone, Ge Youfu was inevitably a little disappointed in his heart, "Is this the Temple of Earth?"

"If you're talking about the land master of Tiangouling, then this is the only one." The yellow-faced bitter gourd man stood aside, holding a weed in his mouth, and said casually.

Ge Youfu was silent, he never expected that Taoist Yimei introduced them to such a land temple.

Compared with it, the mountain temple in Xitou Village can already be said to be magnificent.

He shook his head in his heart, thought for a while, and asked the male servant to take out the letter incense and light it.

After all, it's all here.

Let's burn a stick of incense.

Ge Youfu picked up the incense stick, worshiped three times in front of the god statue with a pious face, and then planted it in the ground covered with incense ash.

However, it looks pious, but in fact...

"An ordinary believer performed an ordinary worship to you, and you got 1 point of incense power."

"..." Hearing the system's notification sound and the incense and wish power pouring into his body, Ling Yaodong in the statue looked at the man who came suddenly with a speechless expression.

"Pretending to be pious, but it's useless." Ling Yaodong shook his head inwardly.

In reality, there are many such people. When they kneel down to worship the gods, they look very devout, and some even eat vegetarian meals, chant scriptures, and copy scriptures to demonstrate their beliefs.

But in fact, the person they believe in the most is themselves.

In fact, Ling Yaodong noticed the arrival of Ge Youfu and the others very early on. At that time, Ling Yaodong didn't take it seriously, but when they got closer and closer to him, he realized that the other party was coming towards him.

At that time Ling Yaodong didn't know the opponent's purpose.

After all, the place is barren and uninhabited, and Ling Yaodong, a new land master, is not well-known, so why would someone come here to look for him?

It wasn't until Ling Yaodong heard his heartfelt voice when Ge Youfu worshiped and prayed, that Ling Yaodong suddenly realized.

A land master like Ling Yaodong, who has low divine power and is not good at quality, can't detect other people's thoughts.

But there is one exception, that is, when praying, the gods pointed to can perceive the relative wishes of believers.

When Ge Youfu paid homage to Ling Yaodong, he also expressed his wish in his heart:

"Lord of the land, please bless my young master of the Ge family, Ge Changshou, to live a long life and grow up healthily and smoothly."

Wow, you only give 1 point of incense and vow power for one worship, and you want me to bless Ge Changshou for the rest of your life. You really think so beautifully!
The gods also take as many incense and vows as they wish!

However, Ling Yaodong deduced the cause and effect from the name Ge Changshou.

Ling Yaodong is no stranger to the name Ge Changshou.

Whether it was the [Shamey Ghost] seen in the previous life, or the chat with Lin Jiu the night before, I have heard of this name.

A hapless young man from a rich family who is prematurely aging and will not live to be 23 years old.

In this way, it is very clear that there is a high probability that Lin Jiu casually recommended him after helping Ge's son look at him.

Because of Lin Jiu, the one-eyed Taoist priest, who has the reputation and endorsement, the Ge family would rather believe it or not, and sent servants to worship and pray.

It should roughly be like this.

As expected of the famous Saint Master of Myriad Worlds.

This Lin Jiu can really deal with it!

Ling Yaodong just saved his apprentice's life, and Lin Jiu not only brought him hundreds of points of incense and wish power, seeing his "difficult business" and "no one cares about him", he also took the initiative to introduce clients to him!

Ling Yaodong's favorability towards Lin Jiu was greatly improved, and he thought, "Uncle Jiu, when you are tricked by your gang of villains in the future, don't worry, I will help."

Ling Yaodong, who made this great wish in his heart, looked at Ge Youfu.

He has decided to manage this [client] well, oh, bah, he has decided to manage this [believer] well.

Gods manage believers, and merchants manage customers, which are similar.

First of all, there must be [investment].

Ling Yaodong glanced at Ge Youfu, his body was permeated with ghostly aura invisible to the naked eye.

This is what Ling Yaodong discovered immediately after Ge Youfu came over.

But looking at Ge Youfu's appearance, he is completely unaware.

This is also normal, the ghost aura is very weak, and it is broad daylight, it has no effect on an adult at all.

But with a newborn baby, it's a different story, especially around midnight.

This ghostly aura came from something on Ge Youfu's waist.

Although Ling Yaodong doesn't know how Ge Youfu became infected with this thing, it doesn't prevent Ling Yaodong from planning to use this thing to deepen the [loyalty] of believers and develop more believers.

Otherwise, with the belief of Ge Youfu, a [universal believer], he will be forgotten later.

This guy sees what kind of temple burns what kind of incense.

Although it seems to be [everything] to the gods, in fact, because such people do not have deep beliefs, they can provide extremely limited incense and vows to the gods.

But Ling Yaodong is now in the early stage of starting a business, and there are almost no [customers], so he must pay special attention to the only customers, dig deeper, and become bigger and stronger.

Ling Yaodong made a decision when his heart moved, and his body surged with divine power.

When Ge Youfu was about to leave to reply to the situation of his master Ge Dafu, suddenly, a beam of white light shot out from the statue and hit him.

Ge Youfu was stunned, and before he could react, he saw a red peace talisman floating out from his waist. It was the peace talisman wished to him by the mountain temple in Xitou Village.

I saw white light shining on this peace talisman, and a cloud of black air visible to the naked eye suddenly gushed out from it.

As the intensity of the white light increased, the cloud of black air was eliminated, and the safety talisman spontaneously ignited without fire.

A shrill ghost cry sounded.

The entire peace talisman was burned to ashes.

The white light just disappeared.

And Ge Youfu felt a burst of clarity in his head for no reason.

He realized in an instant that it was the triangular-eyed Temple Zhu of the mountain temple who had nothing to do and was doing his best.

It was the land master recommended by the Taoist priest with one eyebrow who saved him.

Empress Ge Youfu was terrified. If he hadn't come here today, he might be haunted by ghosts after he returned.

He suddenly knelt down towards Ling Yaodong's statue, and kowtowed repeatedly, "Thank you Lord for saving your life! Thank you Lord for saving your life!"

The other two saw this scene in their eyes, and their eyes were full of shock. Seeing Ge Youfu kneeling, they also knelt behind and bowed to Ling Yaodong's statue.

"A true believer made a pious worship to you, and you got 8 points of incense power."

"A deep believer made a pious worship to you, and you got 5 points of incense power."

"A deep believer made a pious worship to you, and you got 4 points of incense power."

Ling Yaodong manifested himself once, and directly gained one true believer and two deep believers.

This efficiency simply makes the gods who hear it sad and cry when they see it.

You know, Ling Yaodong spent more than 40 points of divine power in order to show his holiness this time.

The obtained incense and wish power add up to 17 points, and when converted into divine power, it is less than 6 points.

Of course, there is also an advantage, that is, three fixed believers have been harvested at one time.

At least when these three believers offered incense to Ling Yaodong, Ling Yaodong could continuously reap the power of the incense.

That is, the number of incense vows they can provide is not very large.

Ling Yaodong has been groping for the [Way of the Gods] during this time.

Based on the knowledge he obtained from [Shinto Talismans], he divided believers into seven levels: unbelievers, general believers, superficial believers, deep believers, true believers, fanatics, and saints.

Among them, unbelievers cannot provide incense and vows to the gods.

Depending on the situation, ordinary believers and shallow believers can provide gods with 0-1 points of incense power every day.

If you are a deep believer, you can provide the gods with 1-2 points of incense power every day.

As for true believers, they can generally provide 3-5 points of incense and vow power to the gods every day.

In the case of fanatics, the power of offering incense to the gods every day has reached more than 10 points, but the number of such believers is extremely small.

There are even fewer fanatics than saints. Saints can provide more than 100 points of incense and vows to the gods every day, and they are also the best carrier for gods to trance.

(End of this chapter)