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Chapter 9 Is it illegal to fight ghosts?

"Open the door quickly! We are going to search for the fugitives!"

"Here, come, what are you knocking? It'll open right away."

He calmly agreed to take off the door bolt. As soon as the door opened, a dozen men holding swords, shields and torches rushed in. Feng Zhong, the leader, was wearing rhino leather armor, holding a two-foot version representing the performance of official duties. He shouted majestic: "I am Feng Zhong, the head of the Grand Qin Shiling Pavilion, and everyone is not allowed to move! The head of the pavilion suspects that there are fugitives here and want to search!"

"Chief Feng Ting, are you mistaken?" Xiang Kang quickly asked in surprise: "Apart from our brothers in the yard, there are only two of our uncles. What kind of fugitives are there?"

"Stop talking nonsense! Get out of the way!" Feng Zhong pushed away Xiang Kang, whom he knew, and shouted: "Everyone in the room comes out, and the head of the pavilion will check his identity one by one!"

"My third uncle is sick and can't move! My brother and others are taking care of her." Xiang Kang quickly said, "If you don't believe me, I can take you in and see you. But don't scare my uncle, she is a little sick."

As she said that, Xiang Kang didn't care whether Feng Zhong agreed or not, turned his head and quickly returned to the room. Feng Zhong and the people he brought were afraid that Xiang Kang would play tricks, so they rushed into the room with Xiang Kang, leaving only a few people to monitor outside the door. After Xiang Kang successfully brought Feng Zhong and others into the room, he immediately pointed at his brothers and said, "Chief Feng, look at it yourself, they are all our Xiang brothers, and there are no fugitives you mentioned."

Using the light of the torch, he carefully identified the Xiang brothers in the room and found that there were no outsiders. Feng Zhong was about to look at other locations in the room. Xiang Kangchao quickly said, "Chief Feng, have you seen it clearly? They are all our Xiang brothers. Should you leave?"

Feng Zhong sneered and subconsciously looked at the door leading to the back room. Xiang Kang quickly stepped forward and opened his hand to block the back door, saying, "Chief Feng, there are two of my aunts inside. My third uncle is still lying inside. You can't search!"

"Stop talking nonsense! Get out of the way! Go in and search!"

Feng Zhong scolded him and waved his hand to let the pavilion forward. Xiang Kang refused to give in and shouted to his brothers: "Brother, you can't let them go in and search. The third uncle is so sick that he will be scared!"

Although I didn't understand Xiang Kang's intention very well, Xiangzhuang, Xiang Guan and Xiang Tuo and several more alert Xiang family members came over to help and helped Xiang Kang stop the attempt to enter the back room to search the pavilion. As a result, a middle-aged man in armor and crown stood up next to Feng Zhong, and said majestic: "You heard that, I am a You Wu Xing from Dongxiang, and I come here to search for fugitives according to the rules. If you are smart, please let me get out of the way and let our people go in and take a look. If there are no fugitives inside, our people will certainly not scare your aunt, but if you continue to hinder the work of this official, I have the right to take you all now!"

"Wu Youzi, there are really only two of my uncles in it." Xiang Kang defended: "Our Xiang brothers are all honest and honest people, how could there be fugitives in the family?"

"Honest and honest?" Feng Zhong laughed and said, "But how do I remember that your two uncles Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo were wanted criminals? Or were they wanted criminals who were murdered and fled?"

"Is that our uncle's business? What does it have to do with us?" Xiang Kang retorted: "Which provision is the law of the Qin Dynasty? If someone in his relatives is wanted, the government has the right to search it casually?"

"We received a report from the inquiry. We heard that your uncle Xiang Bo came back quietly and was with a man with suspicious behavior, so we came to search." Wu Youzi explained the reason casually, and pointed to the two-foot version in Feng Zhong's hand and said, "Did you see? Chief Feng Ting held the two-foot version in his hand, which means acting in accordance with the law. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, as long as he held the two-foot version, he had the right to search every household under his rule."

Xiang Kang deliberately looked at the two-foot board in Feng Zhong's hand, and then hesitated, "Okay, you can go in and search, but I have to tell my uncle and the others first, you have to be careful, don't scare them."

After saying that, Xiang Kang really turned around and said a call to the back room, asking the two aunts to prepare for the search, and then waited for the two aunts to agree. Xiang Kang pulled Xiang Zhuang and others to make way, allowing the pavilion soldiers brought by Feng Zhong and Wu Youzi to go in and search. He stood by the door and kept urging: "How is it? Have you seen it clearly? Just come out soon after you see it clearly. My aunt and the others are all women, and it is not convenient for you to be inside."

Because of Xiang Kang's intentional behavior, Feng Zhong, Wu Youzi and others were of course focused on the back room, and they completely forgot to pay attention to the beam above their heads. Xiang Bo and Han Liang, who were hiding on the beam of the house, were so nervous that they were extremely worried, and admired Xiang Kang, who was calm in the face of change. Han Liang also quietly glanced at Xiang Kang and thought to himself: "This kid is amazing. I can't catch up with such calmness!"

Of course, the search result was nothing. After the Tingzun reported that there were only two women in the back room, Feng Zhong and Wu Youzi, who had been sure to win, did not believe their ears at all. They went to the back room door and looked inside, and then looked at each other in confusion. Xiang Kang observed his expression and expected that they would search more carefully next, so he quickly raised some voices and suddenly said loudly: "Xiang Sui, hurry up and go in and see if she is scared."

Xiang Sui agreed inexplicably, and Feng Zhong and Wu Youzi, who were suddenly attracted by Xiang Kang's loud voice, subconsciously turned their heads to look at Xiang Kang. As a result, at this moment, a shout suddenly came from outside the door, "There are people in the backyard! Stop! Don't run!"

"Someone has climbed over the wall! Hurry up!"

Hearing this, Wu Youzi and Feng Zhong did not think, of course, rushed out of the door to check the situation. Sure enough, they immediately saw two black shadows crossing the wall and fleeing to the distance of the dark outside the courtyard. Feng Zhong and Wu Youzi were overjoyed and quickly called out all the pavilions in the room and took the pavilions out of the hospital to chase the two black shadows. Before leaving, they shouted at Xiang Kang and others: "We are all waiting here, don't run around!"

Seeing Wu Youzi, Feng Zhong and others being tricked by Xiang Kang's design on the beam, Xiang Bo and Han Liang were of course ecstatic and could not wait to get off the beam. Unexpectedly, Xiang Kang raised his head and waved, first signaling Xiang Bo and Han Liang to be calm, and then whispered a few words in Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Sheng's ears. Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Sheng understood. When the sound was gone, they rushed out of the yard together and fled in the other direction. Then, as Xiang Kang expected, there was a noise outside the courtyard again. The pavilion guards ambushed outside the courtyard shouted and chased Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Sheng. Xiang Kang breathed a sigh of relief, and then returned to the room and whispered to greet Xiang Bo and Han Liang quickly.

Xiang Bo and Han Liang, who were more ecstatic, jumped off the beam of the room one after another, and gave Xiang Kang a thumbs up without saying a word. Xiang Kang asked hurriedly: "Uncle, Uncle Han, I'm sorry, you have to leave immediately, the person who arrested you may come back at any time."

"Okay, don't worry, I'm very familiar with the terrain here, so it will be safe after leaving the village."

Xiang Bo whispered, and said that he was living in Xia Pi. He asked Xiang Kang and others to visit him when they had time. Xiang Kang agreed and arranged two Xiang family members to cross the wall from the other direction to attract the ambush that might still exist. Then he asked Xiang Bo and Han Liang to go out of the courtyard gate and escape to other directions without a voice. As a result, Xiang Bo and Han Liang successfully disappeared into the darkness, Xiang Kang breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his forehead again. Only then did he realize that his forehead and palms were actually covered with cold sweat.

Of course, the matter was not over. After a while, Xiang Guan and Xiang Han, who were responsible for luring the tiger out of the mountain, as well as Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Sheng, who were responsible for attracting the ambush, were taken back to Xiang Bo's yard one after another. However, Xiang Kang had no longer any scruples. When he saw Feng Zhong and Wu Youzi, he asked loudly: "Why are you arresting my brother? What are they doing?"

After checking his identities, he knew that Xiang Guan and others were not fugitives. Of course, Feng Zhong and Na You's aura were not as high as before. He could only ask back: "Why should I catch them? In the middle of the night, why did they run away?"

"Is it a crime to go out in the middle of the night? In the Daqin Code, that law stipulates that it is not allowed to go out in the middle of the night?" Xiang Kang asked with confidence and said, "My brother and others are going to cut peach wood and thorns to beat the ghosts and treat the third uncle. Is this illegal?"

In the Qin Dynasty, the folk custom believed that illness was a ghost, and that it was necessary to use peach wood bows and thorn arrows to fight ghosts and cure diseases. Feng Zhong and Youzi often did such things when they were sick when their family members were sick. Of course, they were speechless after hearing Xiang Kang's explanation. Xiang Guan and Xiang Zhuang, who had long been instructed by Xiang Kang, also shouted loudly, insisting that they went out late at night to harvest magic weapons to exorcise ghosts. Feng Zhong and Youzi had nothing to say, so they could only order the pavilion soldiers to search everywhere, making the village where the Xiang family lived was so messy that the neighbors were uneasy.

Unfortunately, because Xiang Bo and Han Liang had already escaped, Feng Zhong and others' searches were of course nothing. In the end, they struggled until the second half of the night. Because they could not catch anyone and get evidence, Feng Zhong and others had to give up and let go, release the Xiang brothers who were accidentally arrested for the "cutting and exorcizing magic weapons" and left in disappointment, "Wait for me, don't hit us next time!"

When Feng Zhong and others left the Xiang family in disgrace, Xiang Bo and Han Liang, who had already escaped, finally stopped to rest in a secluded place. After gasping for a long time, Han Liang said the first thing he said, "Brother, your nephew Xiang Kang, will definitely not be a mortal in the future!"

"That little master is indeed a little clever." Xiang Bo also praised: "In such a short time, he can actually come up with such a way to help us get out. He can think so carefully. His little head is enough."

"Just clever?" Han Liang laughed and said, "I, Zhang Liang, traveled all over the world and traveled around the world for so many years. I have never seen a young hero like Ling. Not only have I learned a lot of cleverness, but I am also very cautious at such a young age. My brother, I think among your nephew, his future is the most limitless!"
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