With the wandering gods and soldiers protecting him day and night, Shi Zhongkui no longer has to worry about ghosts and spirits harming him. As for man-made disasters, at least he can be warned in advance.

My mood suddenly felt much better.

After getting to know the Night Travel God, and the Day Travel God and his subordinates during the day, Shi Zhongkui simply took out the purple, gold and red gourd when handing over errands in the evening, and treated the two of them and their subordinates to a drink with fragrant fire spirit wine.

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For the Yinsi God in the City God's Temple, incense is the fuel and weapon for fighter jets, and merit is a shortcut to upgrade.

After a drink, Daxing Land was responsible for delivering the news from Daxing.

Every time when the day and night wanderers change shifts, they will also indirectly tell Shi Zhongkui by chatting with his subordinates whose mansion those people who are looking for him have entered.

If a certain mansion does not even have a door god, or the portrait of the door god is in a state of dilapidation, then whoever they talked to and what they said can be heard clearly.

Of course, it's not that simple to enter other people's homes.

As long as the officials appointed by the imperial court basically have a sense of culture and official fortune, although the wandering gods day and night can force their way in and eavesdrop, without the permission of the city god and without the monsters causing trouble, they will be held accountable and punished in the end.

Of course Shi Zhongkui wants to know all the information, but in fact knowing who wants to deal with him is enough.

Moreover, it is difficult to enter the day and night wandering gods, and the spirits are not so particular.

As soon as the magic of exorcism was activated, the land was summoned. On the same day, he summoned a golden-haired rat with the magic of exorcism.

As for Liu Yu'er, she has gained some merit due to her meritorious service in caring for the rice fields. She is currently practicing in seclusion in Kunming Lake.

Fortunately, Shi Zhongkui already knew the Xuanmen skills that Zhao Gongcao passed on to Liu Yu'er, and after passing the first level to the golden-haired mouse, the little mouse, which had lived for nearly a hundred years, suddenly trembled with excitement.

Simply relying on talent to absorb the essence of the moon is not as fast as running the skills to directly absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

Not to mention that Xuanmen's authentic sect means that the technique has been verified and improved by countless predecessors. Not only is the danger reduced to a minimum, but the spiritual energy cultivated is also righteous and peaceful, which greatly reduces the risk of going crazy and becoming possessed.

Lingzhi had already opened the Golden Mouse, knelt down on his hind legs, stood up, knelt down to Shi Zhongkui and said, "The Mouse has seen the master."

Shi Zhongkui smiled. With the ability to exorcise gods, he could indeed control the Golden Mouse easily. Even if this guy went to the end of the world, he would still have to come back to him obediently.

Moreover, spirits are different from ghosts. After some spirits develop spiritual wisdom, they basically practice in hiding, or they are more grateful than ordinary humans.

We don’t even dare to kill and cause trouble at will.

However, although rats are naturally timid, once they cause trouble, they are often more powerful than some spirits.

Therefore, Shi Zhongkui was wary of the Golden-haired Rat, and even though he was wary, he did not use him, otherwise there would be no need to arrest him.

Of course, I also learned through the land beforehand that after this golden-haired rat developed spiritual intelligence, it first spent 15 years hiding in a wealthy family's home.

After the old lady who had saved him from the cat's mouth died a good death, he left that family and hid in the Daxing Royal Hunting Ground to be at ease.

The emperor did not go hunting every year, and ordinary people could not even enter to cut firewood. It can be said that a hunting ground is a place with the fewest people and no shortage of food.

But as long as someone comes in to hunt, they are either royal people or nobles and accompanying officials and eunuchs. It can be said that this mouse knows the situation in the capital better than ordinary people.

But after several decades, I only relied on instinct to absorb the essence of the moon, which is called slow cultivation.

Liu Yu'er was only four months old, and after absorbing the Incense Spirit Wine once more, he was already at the second level of Qi training, but the Golden-haired Rat had only been able to practice the third level of Qi for decades.

Even the greatest ability is to penetrate walls and make holes.

Fortunately, this guy stayed in the wealthy family's house all year round. There were also eunuchs and soldiers in charge of the royal hunting grounds. Not only did he speak fluently under eavesdropping, but his IQ was no different from that of an adult.

After receiving the benefits from Shi Zhongkui and discovering that there was actually a day and night wandering god with soldiers guarding him, I felt very excited.

Without hesitation, he ran to the capital to work as a spy. He was faster than a galloping horse and could cross mountains and ridges. He actually entered the capital in ten minutes.

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After the yellow list of the provincial examination was announced, Shi Zhongkui hid himself and left all the matters of thanking those who reported the good news to Xue Pan, but he could not avoid the Luming Banquet no matter what.

However, due to too much red tape and too much emphasis on ancient ritual systems and political and religious functions, the money and food consumed actually reached tens of thousands of taels.

Suzhou Prefecture even spent a full 70,000 taels of silver one year.

As a result, many state governments in the Great Zhou Dynasty were only willing to allocate half of the money and food, so that the Deer Ming Feast became a somewhat thunderous but unsustainable trend.

Fortunately, no matter how short of money Shuntian Mansion was, they would not dare to reduce the size under the emperor's nose.

If the imperial censor joins a book, it will be more of a loss than a gain.

However, due to the shortage of money and food, most state capitals in the Zhou Dynasty changed from the Song Dynasty's habit of holding a deer roaring banquet the next day after the yellow list of the provincial examination was announced.

Not only was it changed to 5 days later, but many state capitals also used the name of the imperial examination event to instigate the wealthy locals, squires, and officials from the envoys, or donated officials to participate.

Shilin, Yamen, and the imperial court could only turn a blind eye to this.

A meal of three to five hundred taels of silver is enough for an ordinary person to last for more than ten years, but for a small number of people, it is just a meal.

Although Xue Pan, Jia Lian, and Jia Rong all have official positions, they have good grades but no positions, and are not even as good as casual officials.

Generally, casual officials basically have a smaller official position, or because of their great reputation, they are awarded casual positions by the court as a sign of respect.

But the official positions of Jia Lian and Jia Rong were donated, so officials despised the lowest group in the chain.

Since Shi Zhongkui is Xue Baochai's future husband, the Jia family can also be considered relatives. Jia Mu, Jia She, Jia Zheng and Jia Zhen certainly want to get closer and deepen their relationship. If they ask Shi Zhongkui for anything in the future, it will be easier to talk.

But Shi Zhongkui is a junior after all, and it is impossible for Jia Mu and others to follow him to the Luming Banquet to cheer him on.

So Jia Lian, Jia Rong and Xue Pan spent 600 taels of silver to enter the Denggao Building to attend the banquet that night.

Fortunately, no matter how powerful officials despise donating their posts, at least they still have to take care of their apparent dignity.

Jia Lian, who was admitted to the fifth rank, was assigned a seat near the front. After all, the examiner this time, Yuan Donggang, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, was also a fifth rank.

In addition, the Jia family is not an ordinary noble family, and it is impossible for normal people to offend the Jia family casually.

As for Xue Pan and Jia Rong, they simply acted as subordinates and sat on the seats behind Jia Lian.

I have said before that the Deer Ming Banquet in the Great Zhou Dynasty has too many red tapes, and Shi Zhongkui has heard people say this before.

But when the real thing came, he understood why most state governments were unwilling to pay.

Not only those who were only Jinshi people went to the Confucius Temple to worship, there were animals, brocade flags, and 200 people, all wearing brocade robes with cloud patterns.
Chapter completed!