Chapter 294: Poison Sacrifice: Abandoned Royal Koi Garden
Tang Yejue came forward, looked at the koi in the big wooden barrel next to the vendor, and asked Li Qingjun in a low voice with confusion on his face: "What's going on? Why are you quarreling with him?"
Li Qingjun said with a displeased look on his face. He lowered his head and saw Tang Yejue turning into a snake. He immediately reacted. He grabbed Tang Yejue and put it on his shoulder, saying, "How did you become like this?"
"I used soul Gu, just in time. Since you are here, can you use Taoism to transform me into a human form?" Tang Yejue asked.
Li Qingjun said: "I do have a charm that can transform animals into human forms, but it can only last for one stick of incense."
"That's enough, that's enough." Tang Yejue said happily.
So Li Qingjun took Tang Yejue aside, pinched a talisman between his fingers and put it on Piao Miao's head. He recited a series of spells and heard a "pop" sound. Piao Miao turned into a human form as expected, but it was not
Tang Yejue looked like an ordinary farmer. However, Tang Yejue thought it was quite funny. He lowered his head and looked at himself and said, "This spell of yours is really useful!"
The two returned to the koi stall. Tang Yejue, who turned into a human, asked again: "So, why are you quarreling?"
Li Qingjun said: "It's not a quarrel, I just asked him to release these koi, but this man refused."
The vendor became anxious when he heard this: "Of course I won't! This is what I want to sell for money. If you ask me to release it, I will release it?" Then he turned to Tang Yejue and said, "Brother, please explain.
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Tang Yejue looked slightly embarrassed and apologized quickly: "I'm sorry, sorry, my friend is straight-tempered. Wait a moment and I'll ask him..." After saying that, he quickly pulled Li Qingjun aside and said, "Why all of a sudden?"
How about letting the hawkers go free? You know they are doing business, right?"
"Of course I know. But I always feel that there is something wrong with those koi, so it would be better not to sell them." Li Qingjun said calmly.
"Is there something wrong?" Tang Yejue turned around and took a look, "What's wrong with it? Why can't I see it?"
"This..." Li Qingjun seemed to be a little embarrassed when he said this, "I can't tell you the specifics. After I left you today, I went to do some business, but the strange thing is that the royal temple did not open its doors and there were no pilgrims.
, saying that they were preparing for the birthday of King Nanzhao in the past few days, so they were not open to the public these days, so they refused to help with salvation. So I went down the mountain, ready to find the person Master asked me to find, and passed by a pool of koi.
Pond, I saw this vendor fishing for fish."
Tang Yejue shrugged: "So?"
Li Qingjun said: "I seemed to hear someone calling for help, but I didn't know who it was. After searching for a long time, I finally saw a koi jumping out and landing on the ground behind the bucket the vendor was carrying. I wanted to throw it back into the pond.
But the vendor refused to let me go and snatched them away from me, so I followed them here and asked him to release the koi."
"I see." Tang Yejue finally understood what Li Qingjun meant, "So you think these koi fish are spiritual and are calling you for help?"
Li Qingjun hummed: "It's very possible."
"Then I understand." Tang Yejue patted Li Qingjun on the shoulder, "Taoist Master, you have to be flexible when doing things. Since he refuses to let go, then we can just spend money to buy it from him."
Li Qingjun was a little embarrassed and said: "When I came to Miao territory, I rescued an old man and used up all the money... so..."
Tang Yejue smiled and took out a piece of gold from his pocket. It was the gold that Lu Zhanfeng gave him... Oh no, it was stolen from Lu Zhanfeng.
"Just use this." He said, turned around, showed the ingot of gold to the vendor, and said, "Hey, we bought these koi!"
When the hawker saw the gold, his eyes instantly lit up, and he immediately said respectfully: "It's done! Of course it's done!" After saying that, he stretched out his hand to take it, but Tang Yejue shrank his hand.
"Help us transport these koi carp back to the koi pond first." He directed the vendor.
Seeing the wealth, the hawker immediately picked up the bucket and said, "Okay, let's go now. If you had told me you were rich, you would have asked me to quarrel with this Taoist priest..."
Soon, the three of them came to the koi pond. Tang Yejue looked around and understood. Until the vendor put all the koi carps back into the pond and wanted to ask Tang Yejue for money, but Tang Yejue didn't.
He only took a few pieces of silver from his pocket and gave them to him.
The hawker's face changed: "Where's the gold!?"
"Gold?" Tang Yejue's eyes turned sharp as he looked at him, "You stole the koi, and you still want gold? Giving you broken silver is already a great honor, or do you want me to report it to the official now?"
The vendor was shocked. Tang Yejue pointed to the doorpost on the side and said: "This is the Royal Koi Garden, right? The King of Nanzhao is celebrating his birthday these days, so he doesn't care about this place, so you came to steal the koi? Here
The matter can be big or small, how do you want to solve it? Either I go to the police and arrest you, or I take the money and get out of here, and you are not allowed to come back again!"
The hawker snatched the broken silver from Tang Yejue's hand and left cursing.
Li Qingjun, who was standing aside, breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Brother Tang, you are so awesome."
Tang Yejue was slightly proud and said: "It's nothing, I only knew about it when I saw the words carved on the pillars here." He raised his finger and pointed to the stone pillars with tigers and peacocks carved on the side. There was a plaque on it, but
It was written not in Chinese characters, but in Miao language, so Li Qingjun naturally couldn't understand it. But after Tang Yejue explained it, he realized that it was written about the Royal Koi Pond.
"But how do you know that because of King Nanzhao's birthday, there is no one guarding here?" Li Qingjun asked again, "Is it just because I said just now that the royal temple is not open?"
"That's not true," Tang Yejue said, "I guess this koi pond has been abandoned by King Nanzhao for some time."
"What?" Li Qingjun was startled.
Tang Yejue looked at the ground and then at the surrounding trees: "It's just that the people don't know it yet. Look at the cracks in the ground here and the flowers and trees that have not been well maintained. Maybe this vendor also happened to know that this place is temporary.
He came here unguarded and probably didn't notice that this place was abandoned, so I was able to scare him."
Li Qingjun stared at the koi pond thoughtfully and thought: "This is really strange. The painted monster outside the city, the unopened royal temple, the abandoned koi pond, and the Nan who is about to expire.
King Zhao...perhaps there are some secrets in Dali City that we don’t know yet.”
Tang Yejue nodded. Although he couldn't think of a reason, what Li Qingjun said was also strange to him.
Afterwards, Li Qingjun said that he still wanted to stay in the garden and think about some things. Tang Yejue thought that Lu Zhanfeng might be waking up soon, so the two parted again.