Chapter 49: Sudden bad news
In this world, the corpse-driven sect has always been an alien among the Taoist sects.
The corpse-driven sects do not pursue "asking for the Tao", but rather pay attention to "going into the world", so most corpse-driven sects have been rolling in the world all their lives, and few people go to the mountains to practice.
Of course, compared with the Qing Cultivation School, the "precepts" of the corpse-driving sect are much more relaxed, such as drinking, eating meat, marrying a wife and having children... They can basically do what the secular people can do.
What they need to pay attention to is: Don’t fall into the evil path, remember that you are still a Taoist person, have a righteous mind, do not have a harmful intention, and have the awareness to stand up when facing evil.
Under such a heritage, a phenomenon has led to a phenomenon that the average age of the people in the corpse-driven sect is relatively "young".
Let’s talk about it, not many people can live to sixty; let’s talk about it, not many people can get started after the age of ten.
It is actually easy to understand the point of "living forever". What do you think about it? "Wine, meat, color" is not taboo, so "longevity" must not be thought about, and the body cannot be compared with those of the Qing Cultivation School. In addition, the dangers of their careers are very rare in the end.
As for the part of taking disciples, most of the corpse-driven sects follow the path of "father dies and sons" (women have heavy yin energy and are easily invaded by evil spirits of corpse, so the corpse-driven sect passes to men but not women). If they don't have sons at home, they usually adopt adopted sons as "child disciples". Therefore, most of the corpse-driven sect learn skills since childhood, and many of them follow their masters/fathers to go out for work at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they can go out to work alone at the age of twenty.
For example, Liang Jingshuo in front of him was an abandoned baby who was abandoned in the cemetery. I don’t know if it was lucky or unfortunate, but he was picked up by a corpse-driven man.
In this way, Liang Jingshuo has learned skills from his master since he remembered it. More than ten years later, he has learned the true teachings and has been working alone since then. It has been more than ten years since then.
According to the corpse-driving sect, Liang Jingshuo is now between thirty and forty years old, and is at the peak of his strength in the corpse-driving sect and can come out to "do big things".
Look, at the beginning of this year, he got involved in the matter of "escorting the Thirteen Deadly Immortals", and then he encountered Sun Huang and others in Yandengpo...
Anyway, the disaster has now appeared. Although it was not caused by Liang Jingshuo, he could not give all the "soft-wiping" work to the people of Xuanqi Sect, so he has also come to the capital and wants to contribute.
Tonight, he came by chance, just to save Lin Yuancheng.
For snakes, Liang Jingshuo's unexpected appearance is not good news.
Among the thirteen deaths, the snake is at the bottom of its combat power and demon power, which is incomparable to the "ox" and "monkey" that have appeared before. In addition, it was just severely damaged by Lin Yuancheng with talisman paper. If it faces Liang Jingshuo head-on at this moment, it will be very difficult...
Therefore, after hearing Liang Jingshuo's first magic trick, the snake, who saw that the situation was not good, could only suppress his anger at Lin Yuancheng and quickly turned around and ran away.
A few seconds later, as the snake turned into a ray of black smoke, the space in front of Lin Heliang changed significantly. Lin Yuancheng felt a strange "sense of withdrawal", and immediately he felt that the temperature around him seemed to rise suddenly.
In the blink of an eye, he found that he had returned to the dilapidated house. The house had not collapsed, and all three companions were sleeping soundly in the house.
If Liang Jingshuo, the person who was not here before, suddenly appeared in the house, I'm afraid Lin Yuancheng would have suspected that everything just happened was just a dream in Nan Ke.
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Time returns to the present.
At noon, Shao Shi Mansion.
Han Yu, who was about to have lunch, welcomed an uninvited guest.
This man's surname is Geng Daqing, and his courtesy name is Shougong. He was the Minister of Justice of the current dynasty.
This Lord Geng is also a strange person. Although he is in the high position of the Six Ministers of the Ministry of Justice, he is not good at party and government on weekdays and has no ambitions. His only hobby in his life is to "invent". No matter what the original intention of his inventions are, most of them can be used as torture instruments in the end. Therefore, his works can be seen everywhere from the Ministry of Justice, the Censorate, the Dali Temple, to the Jinyiwei, the Dongchang...
Another major feature of this person is that he likes to visit other ministers in the court.
He doesn't care whether you are a treacherous and loyal minister. He will go to anyone who has money. In addition, ten of the ten times he picks them at meal time, and doesn't say anything else when he comes. He will have a meal first, then chat with you and make some gossip, and then he will borrow money immediately.
He didn't borrow much, usually about ten taels, and at most no more than twenty taels.
For a Beijing official, can this little money be a big deal? When most people hear the number he borrowed, their first reaction was: "Isn't it just ten taels of silver? Lord Geng is too polite, why do you write an IOU? Just take it, it's not enough for you to speak, so I'll ask the servant to get you another hundred and eighty taels."
In this way, Lord Geng succeeded in borrowing money for free, and it was very successful.
But over time, everyone discovered a problem - this guy really doesn't pay back the money.
Even if you are not afraid of losing face and begging for trouble, he will spread his hands together and tell you that he has a new project recently and that your money has been used as research funding.
Of course, he will not be watching someone repeatedly borrowing it in the short term, doing the fishing in the dry pond...
There are more senior officials in the court. Lord Geng went to this house on the first day of the first day and the fifteenth house. After a round of orders, it may have been a year since then. He will come to your house again a year later. You may not remember how much he asked you to borrow last year.
It was such a strange man who came to Han Yu’s mansion to visit today.
Lord Han saw it, "Oh, Mr. Geng asked for a visit at dinner time, so don't ask, it must be "my turn". Just ask the housekeeper to prepare the money."
A moment later, a servant brought Lord Geng into the house. This guy was real, and he didn't even say anything politely, and he said, "Oh! Lord Han, are eating."
Han Yu thought to himself: "How about not eating? You won't come if you're not dinner."
But no matter how much I think about it, I still have to be polite on the surface: "Ah, yes... I don't know that Lord Geng today..."
Before he could say a word of greeting, on the other side, Geng Daqing had already bent over to the table and shouted in surprise: "Wow~ Lord Han, I guess this is the legendary pork, right?"
Han Yu didn't know how to answer this, so he could only complain in his heart: If all the honest officials from ancient times to you, they would be so shameless and could be robbed, then 80% of us who are corrupt officials will be forced to be raped by you.
"Mr. Geng, you have not used lunch yet...why should we go together?" Han Yu was too lazy to tell him that it was false, so he handed over the other party's words waiting.
Geng Daqing immediately smiled and replied with a line that Han Yu expected but could still make his blood pressure soar: "How can you be embarrassed?"
To put it short, after a moment, the dishes on the table had been changed, and the two of them had already drank a few drinks.
Lord Geng, who had eaten 60 to 70% full, started talking: "Hey, Lord Han, I heard that the Lord has handed you the case of Ma Prince Concubine's mysterious death?"
If you don’t mention this, you will be angry as soon as you mention Han Yu.
Yesterday, Han Yu rushed to the south of the city to work hard all morning. He made all arrangements and waited for Yun Shili to come to the lane. Who knew that after waiting for a day, he didn't come. Isn't he working in vain?
"Well...yes." But Han Yu was an old fox after all. He soon thought that no matter how strange the Lord Geng was in front of him, he was also the Minister of Justice. He had a say in the investigation of the case. If he could get his support through indirect attacks, his lies (actually very close to the truth) could be implemented even more leisurely. "I went to the military commander of the south of the city to investigate yesterday. I did gain a lot of gains. If nothing unexpected happens, the case should be..."
"Oh~ Lord Han." Unexpectedly, Geng Daqing interrupted his narrative, "I just asked casually. I wanted to say that there was anything I needed to help. You can ask. If I can, I can help you, but the details of the case... don't tell me, the emperor has not arranged for me to investigate. You told me all these inside stories, can't I exceed my authority?"
When Han Yu heard this, he really wanted to spit on Geng Daqing's face on the spot.
Han Yu didn't say anything at this moment, and he was cursing in his heart: "This man surnamed Geng seems to be careless and shameless, but in fact he is wise and stupid. As soon as I open my mouth, you know what I want to do, right? Then what else can we talk about? Get out of your ten taels of silver quickly."
Look, you guys, this money has not been lent out yet. Lord Han has already agreed that these ten taels belong to them. Just say how capable Geng Daqing is.
Just as Han Yu was about to turn his face black and issued an order to expel guests using the reason of "unbearable drinking power"...
"Or let's talk about something else." Geng Daqing's mouth was quick. The first sentence just blocked the person's words, and the next sentence came, "By the way, someone broke into the palace this morning and was shocked by the Holy Lord. Have you heard of it?"
"Ah?" Han Yu opened his mouth so loudly when he heard this. Obviously he had no idea about this. (The court does not have morning court every day, there is no court this day, and it has been less than half a day, so it is still word of mouth, and many ministers don't know it yet), "When is it? The Lord..."
"Don't panic, the emperor is fine." Geng Daqing answered, took another sip of wine, and then said with a gaze, "I heard that, that's the case...
"This morning, there were three people in Fengxian Hall, and I don't know what method to use. God passed through the heavy guards of the imperial city without knowing it. He suddenly came to the front of the emperor like a divine weapon descending from the sky.
"The imperial guards on duty did not know their origins. Even after fighting with them for dozens of rounds, they could not hurt them at all.
"Fortunately, the national teacher was also present at that time. He quickly recognized that one of the three people was a paradise like him, so he stopped the fight and resolved the misunderstanding...
"It turns out that these three are immortal masters with the Taoist name Buddler, and the other two are young knights known as "East and West Poison".
"These three are here to warn the emperor that there will be a disaster in the capital soon..."
"Wait first!" Han Yu heard this, he had no intention of listening to the other party's sniffing and blew it down. He quickly interrupted and asked, "Are the two people you said about 'East and West Poison', one of them is Sun Yixie and the other is Huang Donglai?"
"Yes." Geng Daqing nodded, "Has Lord Han heard of them too?" He paused for a moment, as if he had remembered something, "Oh, yes, you should have heard of... It's the 'die pit murder Huang Donglai', the one that Lord Zhang had been mentioning for the past two years... That's right, Young Master Huang is the 'Western Poison'."
Han Yu was very confused now. Not long ago, Sun Huang and others were just a group of people like ants in his eyes. They were the "scapegoats" he used to protect Ma Xuansheng's case.
But what Lord Geng said just now completely disrupted Han Yu's plan - these people actually met the emperor? And after this, they not only were not punished, but also received the recognition of the national teacher who was not good at it and could not win over it. Then they could not be touched casually...
It has to be said that the strategy of "breaking the deadlock from above" has indeed achieved great results. It directly turned Han Yu's busy work yesterday into useless work, and also covered up many of the bad things they had done before.
This time, Lord Han was really weak. He thought for a few seconds and asked again: "What's going on with these three people now?"
Geng Daqing was also talking nonsense, and he was still chatting with relish: "What's wrong? Haha... that's amazing, I was shocked when I heard it." He also kept a secret and took another sip of wine before he said slowly, "This morning, in the Qianqing Palace, the emperor had a secret talk with these three people and the national master, and he gave these three people the "National Protection Master" on the spot, and gave them three gold medals, and ordered that those who hold the gold medals could... 'do their jobs cheaply' in this capital."
Chapter completed!