Luo Jing whispered: "Light the incense, bow three times, insert the incense, and step back to the blood-gold thread. If you are not a believer, you are not allowed to kneel on the futon. You are not allowed to speak after passing the blood-gold thread."
Li Qingxian nodded, glanced at the long blood-gold thread not far from the confession, took nine one-foot incense sticks from Han Anbo, lit it in the nine-crane cloud pattern copper stove, shook it to extinguish the fire, and walked towards the nearest confession
.
Han Anbo, Yu Ping and Hong Cheng hurriedly followed, held their breaths, lowered their heads and remained silent.
After passing the long blood-gold line, Li Qingxian's heartbeat quickened. He walked to the black futon, held incense in both hands, bent down and bowed three times.
He stood up, walked around the futon, put the incense in the stove, then bent down slightly and walked back slowly.
After exiting the Blood Gold Line, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Follow me to the Clerical Department. People in the Household Department are talkative, so you can go to my room and talk again."
After Luo Jing finished his blessing, he led the four people across Hubu Street again, returned to the south courtyard through the side door, and walked all the way.
Occasionally, when encountering high-ranking officials, a few people would stop and wait for the high-ranking officials to leave before continuing on.
We walked through the corridor and through the door, crossed the bridge, and walked for a long time before we entered the courtyard with a black wooden red sign with "Department of Internal Affairs" hanging on it. Then we turned around and walked to the Dingke Courtyard and entered a white-walled and black courtyard.
Tile office room.
"Duan Heng, go get some tea. Take your time and sit down." Luo Jing moved a chair and placed it in front of the desk, then sat on the chair behind the desk.
Hong Cheng, who was observing secretly, felt his heart skip a beat. There was no reason for an eighth-grade official to personally move a chair for a tenth-grade official.
Li Qingxian stood and looked around the room. The desk was facing the door. The room on the left was filled with bookshelves and papers.
On the other side are four narrow wooden tables, on which are placed the Four Treasures of the Study and layers of official documents.
Li Qingxian thought in his mind that it was colder than expected, and Ding Ke was ranked fourth. Sure enough, as Pang Mingjing had guessed before, Luo Jing had no real power.
Li Qingxian didn't care and sat down with a smile.
Han Anbo and Yu Ping stood beside Li Qingxian on the left and right, supporting Ye Dao.
Hong Cheng was holding the handle of the knife and standing at the door, with the toes of his left foot facing the door.
"If you have anything to do, please tell me." Luo Jing put his arms on the table.
Li Qingxian looked at Luo Jing. His nose was rounded and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised. His face was a bit fierce to begin with, but sitting behind the desk made him even more powerful.
"No hurry, let's drink tea first."
Luo Jing smiled and said, "Okay."
"I'm still idle. Tell me about the recent important events in the court? You should be better informed than me." Li Qingxian said lazily.
Luo Jing thought for a while and said: "The biggest thing at the moment is that the emperor is preparing to resurrect some old ministers, which is very involved. There is a lot of discussion between the government and the public, and many people suspect that it is a major reshuffle."
"It's not that serious, right?" Li Qingxian asked.
"It's not that serious. His Majesty Jiazi ascended the throne, and his reign was Taining, which is almost sixteen years ago. Some people and certain places should take action," Luo Jing said.
"I see," Li Qingxian vaguely guessed, but didn't know the key, "How about the monster problem? Today, the people from the Financial Department even wanted us to patrol the streets and go out to exterminate the monsters."
Luo Jingdao: "I haven't heard anything, but it is a common practice for night guards to go out to exterminate monsters. When the monster infestation was serious, each department of the night guard had a 'demon extermination team'. You are still young and don't know, Tian Kangnian is
There was no Night Guard, but there was a Dragon Guard. There were not only demon-killing divisions, but also demon-suppressing, exorcism, and puppet-killing divisions. It was only later that major forces entered the dynasty that these organizations were broken up, and most of them joined.
Night Guard."
"I know about this. I heard people chatting a few days ago. I heard that the elders want to streamline the night guards and give up their original duties of supervising the officials and only be responsible for targeting the monks. Have you heard the news?"
"The general trend is the general trend." Luo Jing said.
"That's it." Li Qingxian said.
"Here comes the hot water." At this time, Duan Heng walked in with a steaming kettle, then made tea, poured water, and divided cups.
A rugged man who does things meticulously and swiftly.
"This is our Nanxing faction's specialty wingless tea, please try it," Luo Jing said.
"That kind of big tea tree with wingless birds nesting under its roots?"
"right."
Li Qingxian took a sip and tasted it. Nothing came out, and he said: "Good tea, it is indeed better than ordinary tea."
Luo Jing smiled and lowered his head to drink.
After drinking the cup of tea, Li Qingxian said: "Let's talk about business."
Luo Jing nodded.
Li Qingxian sat up straight and said, "Master Luo, if someone enters the household department, breaks the rules and blasphemes the gods, what should we do?"
"The lightest punishment is confiscation of money, and the worst punishment is imprisonment in the prison for interrogation."
Li Qingxian pointed at Hong Cheng and said, "Master Luo, do you think there is anything about me, the vice-captain, that doesn't follow the rules well enough?"
"You really want to hurt me!" Hong Cheng exclaimed, stepping out of the threshold and looking at Li Qingxian angrily.
Li Qingxian smiled and said: "You misunderstood. It's not me who wants to harm you, but the Ministry of Revenue who wants to act according to the rules. Don't you think so, Mr. Luo?"
Luo Jing pondered for a moment, then suddenly looked at Hong Cheng, his pupils shrank and turned red, the small red dots swayed rapidly from side to side, and returned to normal in the blink of an eye.
A strange cool breeze blew by.
Hong Cheng's whole body was numb. He clearly wanted to escape, but for some reason, his legs were weak.
He bent his neck with all his strength and saw a few more red dots on his shadow, like nails, nailing the shadow.
"You..." Hong Cheng looked at Luo Jing in horror.
Luo Jing stood up and said as he walked: "Thank you for reminding me, otherwise I would have been deceived by this blasphemous guy. Let me ask you, why didn't you burn incense when you entered the temple?"
Hong Cheng said hurriedly: "I came here with Captain Li. He has already offered incense for me."
"Qingxian, will you offer incense for him?"
Li Qingxian said in surprise: "Brother Han bought the incense and I put it on it. What does it have to do with you, Hong Cheng?"
"You framed me!" Hong Cheng shouted angrily.
Li Qingxian sighed and said: "If you make a mistake and make a loud noise, your crime will be increased."
Luo Jing smiled, clapped his hands lightly, and said: "Come here, arrest this blasphemous person, throw him into the divine prison, and interrogate him immediately!"
Hong Cheng's expression changed drastically. As a night guard, he knew best what the so-called interrogation in the Divine Prison was, using evil magic to invade the mind and drive people crazy. At that time, even if Wei Yong and the people behind him came to rescue him,
The only one who was saved was a madman.
"You..." he had to lower his voice, "You can't do this to me. Master Wei Yong knows that he won't let you go!"
At this time, Duan Heng came over expressionlessly and asked: "Interrogate immediately?"
"Interrogate immediately." Luo Jing said.
"Come here!" Duan Heng gave the order, and a group of people rushed in.
"You can't... Wuwu..." Before Hong Cheng finished speaking, a disciple of the tenth-grade evil sect flicked his right hand, and long blood-colored needles flew out like eyes, piercing his upper and lower lips, and stringing them together.
Together, blood flowed along the long needle, intertwined into a blood network, and blocked his mouth.
"Wait a minute." Li Qingxian said.
Everyone looked at Li Qingxian together. Hong Cheng's eyes burst into indescribable light and he nodded vigorously, as if to express his gratitude.
Li Qingxian stood up and asked as he walked: "Brother Jing, do we still have to pay today's incense money and tea money?"
A look of embarrassment appeared on Luo Jing's face, and he said: "According to the rules, you still have to pay."
“Isn’t it okay if I’m already a product?”
"You need to be at least a nine-level master to not have to pay at all." Luo Jing said.
Li Qingxian nodded and said: "Duan Heng, go through this man's leather bag and give it all to Brother Jing."
Hong Cheng looked at Li Qingxian in disbelief.
Duan Heng took off Hong Cheng's leather bag, took out the broken silver and copper coins, and weighed them.
Luo Jing said: "That's enough."
Li Qingxian walked up to Hong Cheng and said with a smile: "If you want to fight with me openly, I will ask you to get out of the patrol room at most, but you should never bully Brother Han."
Hong Cheng struggled hard, whimpered softly, and burst into tears.
"I, Li Qingxian, don't rub sand in my eyes!" Li Qingxian finished speaking and turned back to his seat.