Chapter 197 Forty-Six: Zhi Ke

Chen was just over an hour before the morning bell of Qing Dynasty. The morning class of Taoist priests in Guanzhong was not over yet. Even though the wind and snow were winding and snowing across the street, it seemed that they could hear the sound of reading the scriptures beyond the world. In the Liujijiao store on Fuqiao Street east of the west city, the shopkeeper was moving the very regular ice tiles into the cellar and compacted them with cotton cloth to prepare for the ice drinks for the next spring and summer. A guy went out of the kitchen and brought a plate of plum ginger to the table by the window.

There were already a few foods and dishes on the table, and two guests sat next to it, one was Li Chan and the other was Chen Jikang, the supervisor of Shenzha.

After the guy left, Chen Jikang whispered: "The Taoist priest is in the sacred world. He will come out after the morning class of the Qing micro-concept. This Taoist priest acts a bit strange and likes to do good deeds and does not charge money."

Li Chan said: "Can you be a true and kind person?"

Chen Jikang shook his head, "This is not considered a man who has done merits and is a bit obsessed with other Xuanmen. It is very different from other Xuanmen Yushi. After entering the capital, he recorded a name in the Chongxuan Bureau and reported the spring examination of Qianyuan Academy for the next year. Wang Changyue studied under the Yinlou Temple in Jiangning. Yinlou Temple is not big. Although Xuanmen has a view of the portal, he only compares it between the same portals. It is not a strange thing to worship Daguan since childhood. It seems that Wang Changyue came to Yujing to enter Qianyuan Academy. However, seeing that he acted strangely and regarded merit as his life, Xiyishan also promoted it to the outside world. You colluded with demons and subverted Xuandu. It is not accurate to say that this person also regards you as a merit."

Li Chan raised her eyebrows, looked at her hands, and smiled and said, "Then I am really a great merit."

Chen Jikang also smiled and asked, "If he really came for the Xuandu affairs, how would Li Youyi plan to deal with it?"

Li Chan pondered, grabbed a piece of plum ginger, bit off a trace, savored it on the tip of her tongue, and looked at the clear microscope of the opposite street through the window.

Chen Jikang also said: "This man is a Taoist priest with genealogy. The two sects have a unique status. At that time, Hong Yixuan colluded with demons from outside the territory. He was just an abandoned son from Xiyi Mountain. He died in Xuandu and made a lot of noise."

Li Chan withdrew his gaze, "Chen Jianyin thought, what should I do the best?"

Chen Jikang said: "The two sects cannot be killed easily or injured. However, Yujing is the territory of the court after all. This man acts so strangely, which is his weakness. He sent a few people to pretend to be fake Taoist priests and perform a play farther from the Qing microscope. When this man saw the demon Tao cheating, he would definitely come forward to expose it. If the demon Tao provokes rampantly and leads him to take action, he would hurt people in the street."

Chen Jikang had a few words, but he understood the meaning very clearly. The spectators and the "demonic Taoist" were all in the same group, so naturally there was no deception. Only Taoist priests were hurting people in the street. As for how much injury was, they could be arranged in advance.

Chen Jikang also said: "This matter can be big or small, but it is accepted to the Qianyuan Academy Spring Examination. The reputation of the Taoist priest who was hurt in the street was very unfavorable to him. However, the official mission has arrived, and he has left his name and surname, and he cannot leave it."

Li Chan said with a twitch: "It is worthy of being Shenzhasi. Even if the Taoist priest has magical powers, he cannot use it under this situation. However, he was slandered and knew that someone had set a trap for him."

"Just let him know." Chen Jikang smiled, "But our official sang blushing."

"How to sing?" Li Chan asked.

Chen Jikang changed his tone and said, "This Taoist priest has been patrolling and enforcing the law for a long time in Yujing, but he has a little bit of cognitive eyes. He sees that the Taoist priest is not like a villain." He lowered his voice again, "However, this group of people are very brave, and I'm afraid there are some origins. The people gather more and more. At that time, if the matter is spread, it will be unfavorable to the Taoist priest. If the Taoist priest returns to Qingwei, he will also be stabbed by someone. Let's take a trip with him and go to the government office for a while. At that time, the Taoist priest will be innocent."

After saying that, he cleared his throat and said, "The practitioner has a transcendent status. If he wants to arrest and interrogate, he needs the documents of the Chongxuan Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Yuantai Department. None of them are missing. We can only trick him into the Shenzha Department first. At that time, it will be much more convenient to test his background."

Li Chan drank a glass of wine, rubbed her fingers against the thin edge of the cup, thinking that if the black-faced blushing face was good enough, even he would have to do something. However, although this plan was meticulous, he could use the Taoist priest's actions to do good, but he could not help but use any means to do anything.

Chen Jikang continued: "At that time, if he doesn't know Li Youyi's identity, if he knows, it will be a big trouble. Since he knows your identity, Xiyishan must have known it. At that time, even if he is concerned about Shenzhasi, he dare not openly hurt his life, but he will never give up in secret. Li Youyi's best to hide his identity and change his identity. However, in this case, half of winter has passed, and Li Youyi has just gained some reputation in Yujing. If you fabricate another identity, your spring test will be affected. But if you don't change your face, Xiyishan will also put pressure on you." Speaking of this, he sighed, "This is a bit cowardly, but Xiyishan is not only a holy place in the Taoist sect, but also a general leader of the world's gods. Even the saints must be shorter in front of it."

Chen Jikang's words are true. Since ancient times, the Emperor of Humanity had to show orthodoxy and always had to proclaim the saying "Accepted by heaven." Although Confucianism interprets this heaven as the way of heaven, in the eyes of the people, it is actually the gods in the sky. The sages sacrifice to the country and pray for good weather. Are the gods in all directions the world?

"You have to make bad plans for good things. If you do bad things, you will hurt your morale." Li Chan relaxed his brows, "You don't have to go a long way to deal with Chen Jianyin. I'll go to meet him in person."

Chen Jikang was stunned, "Li Youyi is..."

"He probably wouldn't have thought I would do this." Li Chan smiled, "When people are not prepared, they can't hide things on their faces."

...

In the Qing Micro-Scene, juniper pine trees are in the frost. In the window, Wang Changyue did not go to the morning class of the Jingtang, but just ate beans by the table.

He had a bamboo basket in his hand, and the fried beans in the basket were fragrant and had yellow and black colors.

The way to eat this bean is quite particular, and it is Zhao Zhongsai from Yinlouguan who taught him how to clear his mind.

This method is easy to say. Every time he has a good idea, he eats a black bean, every time he has a bad idea, he eats a soybean. It is not easy to make. Ordinary people have to work hard to understand their thoughts. It is even more difficult to eat only soybeans left on the plate. He uses fried beans as breakfast every day, and has always eaten only a few black beans left in the basket. Today, when he is almost full, the yellow and black in the basket is mixed. The reason is simple. There is a gossip mirror with a dressed dress next to the table. In the past, he never looked in the mirror. After all, it was useless to look at it. This morning, he couldn't help looking at the mirror many times.

After eating beans, Wang Changyue sighed, covered the Bagua mirror on the table, put the merits and demerits into her sleeve, brought the gourd and sword, and planned to go out to do some merits.

After greeting the Taoist priests who met, he praised his fellow Taoists, said a few words of great merits, and wrote down a few meager merits, and finally felt a little relieved.

He left Qingweiguan, and there were cars and horses passing by on the floating bridge street, and there were a few pedestrians on the edge of the blue brick curb. Among them, a young man was wearing a wind puppet and stood quietly in the snow.

Wang Changyue glanced at the young man and looked at him without caring about it. He passed by the young man. After walking two steps, a voice came from behind: "Kunyangzi?"

Wang Changyue paused and turned around. It was the young man who spoke. He was stunned for a moment, with a puzzled expression, "It's me, you..."

The young man said, "Don't you recognize me?"

Wang Changyue looked at the young man carefully for a few seconds, but had no impression of this face. He said strangely: "Why should I recognize you?"

Li Chan was also looking at Wang Changyue. The Taoist priest's reaction was indeed not aware of him. He felt relieved, "You have asked me."

Wang Changyue tentatively said: "What's the foot?"

"Li Dan."

When the young man spitted out these two words, Wang Changyue raised his eyebrows high, both surprised and confused, "Are you Li Dan?" He was stunned for a while, and asked again: "Do you know I'm in the microscope? How do you recognize me?" When he asked, he remembered the fox girl who fled yesterday with the mirror.

From last night to this time, Li Chan and Shen Zhasi were busy, but it turned out that it was just a cup of bows and snakes, but this matter could not be explained clearly. Li Chan thought about the reason, was silent for a while, and smiled and said, "Someone wants to say something to you."

As soon as Wang Changyue asked "what", Li Chan took out a bronze mirror and handed it to him.

When the Taoist priest saw the bronze mirror, he was stunned for a moment and took it into his hand. The young man handed over the bronze mirror, smiled at the Taoist priest, and turned around and left.

It was not until the young man walked across Fuqiao Street, turned around and waved to Liuji's foot shop that the Taoist priest came to his senses. He looked around and saw a few pedestrians stopping and casting their eyes curiously, and quickly put the bronze mirror in his arms. He wanted to cross the street to go to the foot shop and return the bronze mirror.

But my steps turned around in a strange way and went to the clear microscope.

...

There are two colleagues who have just met in the sight. They curiously asked why Wang Changyue was gone and returned. Although Wang Changyue was guilty, she smiled without revealing her flaws and said that she forgot about her merits and demerits.

Walking under the juniper and returning to the room, he looked at the gossip mirror on the table, hesitated for a while, and saw the mixed yellow and black beans in the basket, and took out the bronze mirror, intending to ask the demon in the mirror why he messed up his Taoist heart. Unexpectedly, the girl's face appeared on the mirror, and a begging came from: "Master, save me!"

Wang Changyue was stunned and looked at the girl in the mirror with tears in her eyes, "What's wrong?"

Deng Yuanying took a deep breath and calmed down his emotions, "I was taken away yesterday, but I accidentally entered the ghost cave. The ghost master is of great origin and is full of evil things under his command. The Taoist priest must not trouble him."

"Ghost Lord, do you think of Li Dan?" Wang Changyue was stunned and shook her head and smiled bitterly, "This is not the case. He is a cultivator. I think he just raised some wild spirits..."

"Wild Spirit Elf?" Deng Yuanying was a little confused.

"The wild spirit is also inhuman, but it does not harm people." Wang Changyue explained.

"But I have never harmed anyone." Deng Yuanying murmured, "Taoist Master, you are going to kill me."

"How can this be the same?" Wang Changyue coughed dryly and explained: "The wild spirit spirit, someone is restrained by the law and the Taoist protection. The demons and ghosts are like tigers. Even if a young tiger does not eat people, there will always be times when they can eat people."

Deng Yuanying felt something was wrong, but he couldn't think of how to refute it, but he didn't bother with it and said, "I am willing to protect the Taoist priest, so I am not a monster."

Wang Changyue was stunned, but stared at the mixed yellow and black fried beans in the basket, shook her head repeatedly, "It's not possible."

Deng Yuanying asked: "How can't I use it?"

Wang Changyue murmured: "Providing non-human things is not a good thing after all, if you let people see it..."

Deng Yuanying said anxiously: "If you don't say it, I won't show up, who can see it?"

Wang Changyue took a deep breath and said seriously: "There is Beichen, Siming, and Silu Santai in the sky. He sent a god to call it Taizhi Talisman, and it was on the top of his head to observe people's merits and demerits." He put the bronze mirror on the rack and held the crown of the straight hair. "How can people hide it from the gods if they cannot see me? If there is merit, the straight talisman will be reported to the heavenly court. If there is any mistake, this god will punish the life of the person."

Deng Yuanying couldn't see the Taoist priest's face, but only stared at the swaying hair crown. He stayed for a while, "Is the Taoist priest's shadow a long time being punished?"

"Of course not." Wang Changyue shook his head, "I was born with a lack of fate, and I killed my biological mother. I was destined to be a life of five disadvantages and three disadvantages. Fortunately, I had a great help from others to cut off my shadow and make up for my fate. Now I just lack shadows, do more merits, and make up for my lack of fate, and then I can redeem the shadows."

Deng Yuanying listened carefully and murmured: "If I do more merits, can I redeem my body?"

The word "no" hit his throat, but Wang Changyue swallowed it. He hesitated for a while and shook his head and said, "I can't say it."

Deng Yuanying said: "Master Taoist, you said I am a demon. If I protect the Tao for you and have done a lot of merits because of you, that is also a great merit for you."

Wang Changyue opened her mouth and was speechless for a moment.

"Did the little lady learn Buddhism during her lifetime?"

"How did the Taoist priest know? My mother often took me to Daxiangguo Temple to worship incense." Deng Yuanying said, sighing, "I have also been on the incense of Changsheng, what's the use?"

Wang Changyue also sighed inwardly, and Deng Yuanying said again: "Master Taoist, are you willing to take me in?"

Wang Changyue suddenly realized that she had been quarreling with the mirror demon for so long and said decisively: "No!"

"Why?"

"I said no, it just doesn't work."

The Taoist priests have to be decisive in refusing.

The girl in the mirror looked gloomy and stopped talking. However, the Taoist felt empty in his heart. Looking at the bamboo scoop, his heart suddenly pounded. He said to the gods: "Unless the beans in the scoop are all yellow."

"The beans are yellow?" The girl in the mirror looked confused.

The Taoist priest coughed and sat at the table.

"This bean was when I was studying Taoism in Yinlou Guan..."

The juniper outside the window swayed in the wind, and the Taoist priests in the window started chatting in a vague manner in front of the mirror.

...

In Liu Jijiao Store, Shenzhasi's right monarch's hands gradually dissipated. After making arrangements, they were in vain, but the best result was. Even those who pinned their heads on their waists were not born to like to lick blood from the blade.

Li Chan gave the bronze mirror, returned to the window of the foot shop, asked for a pot of wine, and waited quietly. As a result, after waiting for almost an hour, the clear and micro-scene golden bell and Yuqing rang again, but he could not see the Taoist priest.

Just as he was thinking of leaving, the Taoist priest walked through the wind and snow, walked into the foot shop, looked around, and sat at the table.

"Wait for a long time, wait for a long time."

Li Chan took the pot and poured a glass of wine for the Taoist priest, "Are you finished speaking?"

"I said it." The Taoist priest raised his glass and drank it all, "Xiaodao will first compensate Yingniang for this glass of wine."

Li Chan raised her eyebrows, "Is this?"

The Taoist priest took out the bronze mirror, and Deng Yuanying's face appeared in the mirror, and said embarrassedly: "It was me who had no eyes and mistakenly regarded Li Lang as... the ghost master, thinking that Li Lang is a villain, so I hope Li Lang will not blame him."

Li Chan looked at Deng Yuanying and turned her eyes to Wang Changyue. She thought she was going to take a sword today, but she didn't expect that she would hold the Ke Axe and her worries disappeared. She said "Oh" and said with a smile: "It's a good thing that you can protect her."

Deng Yuanying's face turned red.

Wang Changyue put away the bronze mirror and bowed, "Xingniang was originally a monster, but now she has done good deeds. It is a merit. I am... "

Li Chan smiled and said, "How do you want to thank me?"
Chapter completed!