In this world, corpse hunting has always been an outlier among Taoist sects.
The corpse exorcists do not pursue "ascension", but pay attention to "being involved in the world". Therefore, most of the corpse exorcists spend their whole lives wallowing in the world of mortals, and very few go to the mountains. Went up to clean it up.
Of course, compared to the Qing Xiu sect, the "commandments" of the Corpse Exorcist Sect are much looser. They can basically do anything secular people can do, such as drinking, eating meat, marrying wives and having children. Do.
What they need to pay attention to is not to fall into evil ways. They must remember that they are still members of the Taoist sect. Their minds must be upright, not harmful to others, and they must have the awareness to stand up when facing evil.
Under this kind of inheritance, it has led to a phenomenon that the average age of those who drive corpses is relatively "young".
On top of that, not many people can live to be sixty; on the other hand, not many people can get started after the age of ten.
The point of "you don't live long" is actually easy to understand. If you think about it, there are no taboos on "wine, meat, and sex". Then don't even think about "immortality", and the bones in your body can't Compared with those from the Qing Xiu Sect, and coupled with the dangers of their profession, very few people can finally die.
As for recruiting disciples, most of the corpse exorcism sects are women who follow the path of "the father dies and the son succeeds". They have a strong Yin energy and are easily invaded by the evil spirit of the corpse, so they Corpses are passed down from male to female, and those who have no sons in the family usually adopt an adopted son as a "disciple"; therefore, most of the corpse chasers learn the art from a young age, and many of them follow their masters at the age of thirteen or fourteen. My father went out to work, and he was able to start his own business when he was about twenty years old.
Just like the Liang Jingshuo in front of me, he was an abandoned baby who was abandoned in the cemetery. I don’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate, but he was picked up by a corpse exterminator.
In this way, Liang Jingxuan has been learning skills from his master since he can remember. More than ten years later, he has mastered the true teachings and started working alone. It has been more than ten years now.
According to the corpse exorcism sect, Liang Jingxuan is at the peak of his strength as a corpse exorcist at his current age, between thirty and forty, and can "do big things" "son" time.
No, at the beginning of this year, he got involved in "escorting the thirteen dead animals", and then met Sun Huang and others at Yandeng Slope
No matter So what, now that this disaster has occurred, even though it was not caused by Liang Jingxuan, he cannot leave all the work of "wiping his butt" to the people of Xuanqi Sect, so now he has also come to the capital and wants to go out. A little effort.
Tonight, he was lucky enough to save Lin Yuancheng.
For Snake, Liang Jingxuan's unexpected appearance is not good news.
Among the Thirteen Dead Animals, Snake ranks among the bottom in both combat and demonic power. It cannot be compared with the "Ox" and "Monkey" that have appeared before. In addition, it has just been killed by Lin Yuancheng. Use the talisman paper to severely damage it. If it confronts Liang Jingshuo now, it will be choked
Therefore, after hearing Liang Jingshuo,After Jing Shuo's first spell, Snake, seeing that the situation was not good, could only suppress his anger towards Lin Yuancheng and quickly turned around and ran away.
A few seconds later, as the snake turned into a black smoke and escaped, the space in front of Lin and Liang changed significantly. Lin Yuancheng felt a strange "sense of detachment" and followed him closely. It felt like the temperature around me suddenly rose.
In the blink of an eye, he found that he was back in the broken house. The house had not collapsed, and the three companions were also sleeping soundly in the house.
If Liang Jingxuan, a man who had not been here before, suddenly appeared in the house, Lin Yuancheng might have suspected that everything just happened was just a dream.
Time returns to the present.
At noon, the Young Master’s Mansion.
Han Yu, who was preparing to enjoy lunch, received an uninvited guest.
This man's surname was Geng, Daqing, and Shougong. He was the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment at that time.
This Master Geng is also a strange person. Although he holds a high position among the six ministers, he is not good at party politics and has no ambitions. His only hobby in life is "making inventions", and No matter what the original intention of his inventions, most of them can be used as instruments of torture in the end. Therefore, his works can be seen everywhere from the Ministry of Punishment, Duchayuan, Dali Temple, to Jinyiwei and Dongchang.
Another characteristic of this person is that he likes to "visit" the homes of other ministers in the court.
He doesn’t care whether you are a traitor or a loyal minister. He will go to whoever has the money, and ten times out of ten, he will come at meal time. He won’t say anything else and will eat you first. After a pause, I'll chat with you for a while, have a few drinks, and then start borrowing money.
He doesn’t borrow much, usually around ten taels, and no more than twenty taels at most.
For a Beijing official, can this small amount of money be a big deal? When most people heard the amount he borrowed, their first reaction was, "Isn't it just ten taels of silver? Master Geng." You're too polite. Why are you writing an IOU? You can just take it. If it's not enough for you to talk to, I'll ask my servant to get you another one hundred and eighty taels."
That's it, Master Geng is enjoying his meal. I have succeeded in borrowing money time and time again.
But over time, everyone discovered a problem: this guy really didn’t pay back the money.
Even if you are not afraid of losing face and asking for help, he will spread his hands and tell you that he has a new project recently and your money has been used as research funding.
Of course, he will not stare at a certain person repeatedly in a short period of time and do the fishing thing
There are too many high-ranking officials in the dynasty. Going to this house, then to that house on the fifteenth, a year may pass in circles, and if he comes to your house again a year later, you may not even remember how much he asked you to borrow last year.
It is such a strange man who came to Han Yu's house to pay a visit today.
Master Han took a look and said, oh, Master Geng asked to see him during lunch, so don't ask, it must be "it's my turn", just let the housekeeper prepare the money.
After a while, aThe servants brought Lord Geng into the room. He was real. He didn't even say a polite word. He just said, "Master Han, I'm eating."
Han Yu thought to himself, "Why don't you eat? It's not a meal." You're not coming either."
But when I think about it, I still have to be polite on the surface, "Ah, I don't know what Mr. Geng is today."
He hasn't even finished half of his greeting. On the other side, Geng Daqing was seen bending over the table and exclaiming in surprise, "Oh, Mr. Han, this must be the legendary pork."
Han Yu didn't even know why. After saying this, I can only complain secretly in my heart. If all the honest officials in the past and present were as shameless and capable of blackmail as you, then 80% of us who are corrupt officials would be forced to become good men by you.
"Master Geng, if you haven't had lunch yet, why don't we come together?" Han Yu didn't bother to talk nonsense to him, and directly handed over what the other party was waiting for.
And Geng Daqing immediately smiled and replied with a line that was completely expected by Han Yu but still made his blood pressure soar: "Then why are you so embarrassed?"
To make a long story short, after a while , the dishes on the table have changed a bit, and the two of them have had a few drinks together.
Master Geng, who was 60 to 70 percent full, started chatting, "Hey, Master Han, I heard that the case of the concubine's mysterious death has been handed over to you by the Holy Spirit."
p>If you don’t mention this, you will get angry when you mention Han Yu.
Yesterday, Han Yu rushed to the Army and Horse Department in the south of the city and worked all morning. He made all arrangements and was waiting for Yun Shili to come to the line. Who knows that no one came after waiting for a whole day? His work was not in vain.
"Yes." But Han Yu was an old fox after all. He quickly thought that no matter how weird the Geng Geng in front of him was, he was also the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. He had some skills in investigating the case. If you can get support from someone who has the right to speak, then your set of lies is actually very close to the truth and can be implemented more leisurely. "Yesterday I went to the Military and Horse Division in the south of the city to check, and I did get a lot of results. If nothing else, this case should be"
"Hey, Mr. Han." Unexpectedly, Geng Daqing interrupted his narration, "I just asked casually, I wanted to say if you need anything. If you want to help, you can ask me to help. I will help if I can, but please don’t tell me the details of the case. The Holy Father has not arranged for me to investigate. If you tell me all the inside information, am I not exceeding my authority?"< /p>
Hearing this, Han Yu really wanted to spit on Geng Daqing on the spot.
At this moment, Han Yu didn't say anything, but he was cursing in his heart, "This guy named Geng seems careless and shameless, but in fact he is as wise as a fool. You knew what I was going to do as soon as I opened my mouth." Well, what are we talking about? Just take your ten taels of silver and get out of here.”
Everyone, take a look, this money hasn’t even been loaned out yet. Master Han has already acquiesced that these ten taels are for money. It's up to you, just tell me how capable Geng Daqing is.
And just when Han Yu was about to darken his face and issue an eviction order on the grounds of "too much alcohol"
"How about we talk about something else." GengDaqing's mouth is also quick. The first sentence stopped people's words, and the next sentence came, "By the way, someone broke into the palace this morning and shocked the emperor. Have you heard about it?"
< p>"Ah" Han Yu opened his mouth wide when he heard this. Obviously he didn't know this at all. The Zhao Dynasty did not go to court early every day. There was no court on this day, and it took less than half a day for this incident to happen, so At this moment, word of mouth is still spreading, and many ministers don't know yet, "When will the emperor be the emperor?""Don't panic, the emperor is fine." Geng Daqing continued, and then After taking a sip of wine, he said happily, "I heard that this is what happened." "This morning, there were three people at Fengxian Hall, I don't know. Using some method, he passed through the heavy defenses of the imperial city without anyone noticing, and suddenly arrived in front of him like a divine soldier descending from the sky.
"The Imperial Guards on duty did not know their origins. Even though they fought with them for dozens of rounds, they could not be harmed at all.
"Fortunately, the Imperial Guard was also present at the time. He quickly recognized that one of the three people was a worldly expert like him, so he stopped the fight and resolved the misunderstanding.
"It turns out that among the three, one is an expert. A master of the Immortal family with the Taoist name Fudozi, and the other two are young knights known in the world as East Harmony and West Poison.
"These three people are here to warn the Holy One that there will be a collapse in the capital soon. "What a disaster."
"Wait a minute." After hearing this, Han Yu no longer wanted to listen to the other party's exaggeration. He quickly interrupted and asked, "What are you talking about?" Are they named Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai?"
"Yes. Geng Daqing nodded, "Master Han has also heard of them." He paused for a moment, as if remembering something, "Oh, yes, you should have heard of the cesspit murderer Huang Donglai. Master Zhang two years ago." What I have been mentioning is correct, Huang Shaoxia is the Western Poison. "
Now Han Yu's mind is in a mess. Not long ago, Sun Huang and others were just a group of quacks like ants in his eyes. It was he who used it to reveal the truth about Ma Xuansheng's case. "Scapegoat"
But what Mr. Geng said just now completely disrupted Han Yu's plan. These people actually met the emperor. According to this idea, not only were they not punished, they were also punished. After getting the approval of the Imperial Master who refuses to accept soft or hard tactics and cannot be won over at all, we can't touch them casually
I have to say that Fudozi's strategy of "breaking the situation from above" is indeed It was very effective, and it immediately turned everything that Han Yu was busy with yesterday into useless work, and also covered up many of the troubles they had caused before.
Master Han is really vain this time. He thought for a few seconds and then quickly asked, "How are these three people doing now?"
Geng Daqing was also a gossip, and he was still chatting with relish, "How is it? That's awesome." Yes, I was shocked when I heard it. "He gave it a try, took another sip of wine, and then slowly said, "This morning at Qianqing Palace, the Emperor had a secret conversation with these three people and the Imperial Master.After that, the three were conferred the title of Heavenly Protector of the Country on the spot, and were given three imperial gold medals. They also ordered that those holding the gold medals could do whatever they wanted in the capital. ”
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