Luo Shen's affair was easy to deal with. Feng Yi, the river god, was a deity in the circle of Yunzhongjun and Dashiren when he was alive. Now this circle has been almost destroyed by Deng Chanyu, hidden and lowered, Feng Yi has been dead for decades. Originally, he took Lo Shen to his palace to marry her because he thought she was beautiful. Whether from the will of heaven or human hearts, there is no problem with the divorce.
All of Feng Yi's property be granted to Lo Shen. This ruling's enforcement is weak, far inferior to the will of Heaven. Fortunately, Lo Shen does not lack sycophants around her. As long as she has this title, there will be plenty of people willing to help her collect debts in the end.
Sending Lo Shen away was on the mind of Deng Chanyu.
Luo Shen and Feng Yi do not belong to the heavenly court and are considered immortals in the usual sense. This separation might be the completion of the earth marriage ritual for them. The next should be Chang'e and Hou Yi, but since Hou Yi is also dead, this shouldn't be too difficult to handle.
With the completion of the three divorce cases between heaven, earth, and man, she can appoint someone or an agency to handle these trivial matters. The question is, who should she choose?
Taking stock of the "jobless" people around her, Nezha, Little Qingluan, and Yuan Xiao? These guys are childish enough to let them deal with the divorce event? It's obviously inappropriate.
The relationships with people like Shiji are too distant. Deng Chanyu believes that a separation should still carry some warmth, and Shiji is too indifferent to be suitable for this task.
Deng Chanyu thinks that if necessary, she can set up an agency at the side of Zǐ Wei Di Jun, and add more responsibilities for Ding Cè.
The next morning, Deng Chanyu found Deng Xiu, who was refreshed and whiting his beard in the palace.
To conceal her abnormal lifespan, she had to apply makeup every morning, and couldn't eat or drink before going to court, all for that look of age and exhaustion. Deng Chanyu sighed with a sense of melancholy, thinking how hard it must be to be an emperor.
Deng Xiu is quite indifferent to it, as he believes that this is the price of longevity. He is willing to pay this price, and probably the vast majority of beings in the mortal world would not refuse such a price.
Deng Chanyu then stated her purpose for coming to Luoyi this time.
Deng Xiu was somewhat surprised: "To summon the descendants of Yu Gong in the name of the court, and have them help you build a mountain? Can mortals really participate in building a fairy mountain?"
"That's not a fairy mountain, but it's hard to explain in a few words. Currently, I can only think of the Yu Gong family for this job. As long as there is a formal edict, there will be people who will benefit from the humanitarian merits."
Deng Xiu is concerned only about his country and doesn't care about building what kind of fairy mountain. He was originally worried that Deng Chanyu would follow the old path of building Luotai for King Zhou, so he asked a few more questions. After discovering that it had nothing to do with Luotai, he stopped asking any more questions.
Deng Chanyu can find the descendants of Yu Gong, but she cannot force them to work. With the imperial edict, it becomes much easier. Do you want to rise in rank or get rich?
"Okay, I will draft an edict for you." Deng Xiu, who had been a emperor for twenty years, knew how to mobilize the enthusiasm of his subjects. In the edict's final clause, he even appointed a position for the contemporary Yu Gong. "If you do well, you can inherit the position. If you do poorly, you will have to see for yourself."
The beings on this land are extremely enthusiastic about becoming officials, a desire far greater than the pursuit of wealth. They would be willing to incur financial losses just to attain an official position. If they could inherit the title, they would indeed put in their all to achieve it.
The records do not show that the Yu Gong in the historical texts completed the heroic feat of moving the mountain. Instead, "the Emperor was moved by his sincerity," and the Emperor of Heaven dispatched his subordinates, immortals, to help remove the great mountain.
The Yu Gong of Hongwu was entirely different, possessing the bloodline of the Wu race and being born with boundless strength, they were truly capable of moving mountains.
Deng Chanyu does not hold any specific official position within the Han court, and all the officials who knew her are now dead. So Deng Xiu sent a Su surname general craftsman, with an edict in hand, to find Yu Gong with her.
"Su Rui? What a great name."
Deng Chanyu originally planned to go by horse, but after learning that the Su surname master craftsman is the grandson of Su Quanjiao, she immediately stopped pretending and took the sixty-year-old old man to travel through the clouds and mist, heading towards Wangyashan to find the contemporary Yu Gong.
This is the 19th generation of Yu Gong.
Every leader of their family is called Yu Gong, and there are two main branches, one is the descendants of the ancient Yu Gong, and the other is the descendants of Hequ Zhi Song. The current 19th generation Yu Gong comes from the Zhi Song branch.
The Su family has always been passed down with stories of immortals. Excluding those who are in the "hang" position, Su Rui is now the oldest person in the Su family. Suddenly enjoying the treatment of flying through the clouds and mist, the old man looked astonished.
Immortals really exist?!
Deng Chanyu didn't say anything either. The grandson of the Daji brother has no more kinship with her; he's just a tool person. Just help me deliver the edict and then let me take away the people from Yu Gong's lineage.
Su Rui quickly recovered from the shock, he wanted to chat a bit. Maybe he would say something and his destiny as an immortal would come to him? He was over sixty, a man of the flowering age, and he wanted to live a few more years. He also thought of the question Deng Xiu had asked before.
"Immortal, this immortality house is to build an immortal mountain. Why should it hire mortals?"
Deng Xiu didn't continue to ask, while Deng Chanyu is now letting Su Rui understand her meaning, and giving an answer immediately: "Normal immortal mountains wouldn't use mortals to build them. But the mountain we are building is not a normal immortal mountain. The immortals here can't help much, and the key is the strength of mortals."
The remaining pressure from the Buzhou Mountain is enough to make Jingjiao and Yinjiao gasp for breath. How about finding ten thousand heavenly troops to repair it? They can barely walk in the mountain.
The Yu family is different; they have some bloodline of the Wu tribe, and the Buzhou Mountain does not repel the Wu tribe. With Deng Xiu's edict, their own bloodline immunity reduces 30% of the pressure, and another 60% is helped to resist by the human clan's and Han country's fortunes. The remaining part can be borne with willpower alone.
The original Yu Gong helped move mountains for everyone, becoming the oldest movers of mountains. But there are only so many mountains to move. Generation after generation, the central plains have become fertile land as a result. Now there are no more mountains left to move. They cannot simply restore these mountains just for their job. That would be cruel and inconsiderate.
The ancient traditions are hard to adapt to the modern way of life, and the contemporary Yu Gong has been trying to find new avenues for a living.
He heard that the court had an edict, so he immediately took his tribe to receive the edict. After hearing the content of the edict, he was overjoyed.
Who would prefer to move mountains when they can do official jobs?
That night, there was a fierce dispute between the descendants of the former Zhi Song line and the descendants of the original Yu Gong line.
The family motto of Yu Gong is "Children and grandchildren are endless", which emphasizes the power of a large number. If they are united enough, then the saying "Many are stronger than one" is entirely correct.
They opposed the contemporary Yu Gong's proposal, making a lot of noise. Deng Chanyu originally didn't want to get involved in this idle business, but seeing that they kept arguing without end, she was worried about their impact on her upcoming work and had to step forward to reason with them.
