Chapter 1114 Fishing Law Enforcement and Late Night Thieves
Late at night, in a post station in a county town in Zhili.
The puppet marshal, who didn't need to sleep, was sitting upright in the post house.
Thin threads shot out from under the black robe wrapped by the puppet marshal and spread into the dark night outside the house.
Ever since he entered Zhili and made Qin Shaoyou feel like someone was spying on him secretly, he had strengthened his night watch.
Every night, in addition to the regular night watchers, the puppets controlled by Marshal Puppet and the paper figures made by Qin Shaoyou and Cui Youwei would hide in the dark to cooperate with the night watch, guarding against any possible accidents.
In another separate post house nearby, Qin Shaoyou was eating fragrant roasted sweet potatoes.
In front of the statue of Jiutiandang Mo Patriarch, half a roasted sweet potato was also enshrined, making the Patriarch's statue look satisfied.
I don’t know if the Patriarch and Master really opened the back door for Qin Shaoyou, or if Qin Shaoyou gave the mysterious recipe some new functions after being promoted to demigod.
During this period of time, the bloody storm in the Chuzhou officialdom actually allowed Qin Shaoyou to continuously harvest the souls and Confucianism of the corrupt officials who were executed.
Although the amount is a bit small and not as much as directly killing these corrupt officials, it is still better than nothing.
So in the past few days, Qin Shaoyou often asked the Fairy Wu for help, roasting sweet potatoes with thunder fire.
Although Qin Shaoyou's blood fire is also mixed with thunder and lightning, it is not as pure as the thunder and fire stored in Fairy Wu Nu's body. The baked sweet potatoes are not easy to burn, or the taste and effect will be worse, so they can only ask Fairy Wu Nu for help.
Of course, when Qin Shaoyou was eating roasted sweet potatoes, he did not forget to respect his ancestor and master.
It's easy to say that the ancestor has always followed Qin Shaoyou. It can be said that he never leaves, guarding the cook and waiting for the meal.
The master's side was a little more troublesome. Qin Shaoyou could only go to the local Confucian temple in every county or prefecture he visited to offer roasted sweet potatoes to the master.
Master must have eaten these roasted sweet potatoes.
Because Qin Shaoyou sent someone to observe secretly, and found that after he left, the person responsible for cleaning the Confucian Temple wanted to take away the roasted sweet potatoes he offered and eat them himself.
As a result, those people spit it out after taking a bite.
Although the appearance of the roasted sweet potato has not changed, the essence inside has been eaten up by the Master. If others try to eat it, they will only find it tastes too chewy and difficult to swallow.
At this moment, in the room of the inn, Qin Shaoyou was eating roasted sweet potatoes while staring at several other people in the room.
This is the witch they captured and took with them all the way.
Under the coercion of Qin Shaoyou, several Gu witches were using their full power to summon the gods.
However, they tried their best and chanted mantras until their mouths were dry, but none of the wild gods or evil gods came.
This situation is not limited to today.
In the past few days, these Gu witches would invite gods under Qin Shaoyou's coercion, but the results were all the same, not even the hair of wild gods or evil gods were invited.
According to the observations of Qin Shaoyou, Cui Youxu and others, it is not that these witches are acting in secret and agreeing to invite gods, but secretly they are playing tricks on them.
They failed to invite the wild gods and evil gods, probably because Qin Shaoyou's fishing and law enforcement actions had already spread among the wild gods and evil gods in Siam and Cochin.
Being able to cultivate all the way to become a wild god, the spirits of the evil gods are not stupid at all. How could they not know that something fishy was going on when they saw that their companions were invited out and never came back?
Therefore, these witches use the old method to invite gods, but they cannot invite wild gods or evil gods.
"Okay, that's it for today."
Qin Shaoyou saw several Gu witches sweating profusely but finding nothing, so he waved his hand and told them to rest.
When several Gu witches heard this, they felt as if they were being pardoned. They hurriedly stopped chanting spells and casting spells, and then obediently put shackles on themselves, without even the slightest thought of escaping or resisting.
In fact, they had tried to escape and resist before this, but the results were disastrous, and in the end they had to accept their fate.
At least be obedient and you won't have to suffer too much.
After these Gu witches had tortured him, Qin Shaoyou called the red-clothed envoys who were on duty at night and asked them to escort the people out to guard him. He was thinking in his heart: "We have to come up with a solution, otherwise the whole family will be destroyed."
Ingredients, the idea of refreshing dishes can only come to nothing..."
Qin Shaoyou thought about it and found no good solution. He could only wait until tomorrow on the road to discuss it with the Taoist priests at Jade Emperor Temple to see if there was any solution.
After all the witches were taken out, Qin Shaoyou sat cross-legged and used the breathing method to refine and absorb the spiritual effects of the half of the roasted sweet potato he had just eaten.
Time passed minute by minute, and in a blink of an eye, it was the fourth quarter of the ugly hour, which was around the highlight of the early morning.
This is the time when people sleep most soundly and deeply. Even some night watchers can't help but feel sleepy and doze off at this point.
Qin Shaoyou, who was doing the breathing exercises cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes.
But it was through [Listening] that he heard some strange noises.
At first, Qin Shaoyou thought that the person who was spying on them couldn't hold back his eyes and wanted to take action against them. But after listening carefully, he found that although someone was sneaking into the inn, they were not coming for them.
The target of this group of people is the inn to the west.
Qin Shaoyou remembered that when checking in, he heard the postman here mention that the posthouse in the west was mainly provided for caravans to stay in so that they could make some extra money to make up for the expenses of the posthouse.
Regarding this kind of thing, the imperial court turned a blind eye and did not stop it, as long as it did not delay the normal paperwork, military information transmission, and the check-in of officials.
As far as Qin Shaoyou knows, there are two caravans transporting spiritual guides living in the west post house of this post station today.
Looking at this situation, there are bandits who are eyeing the practice guide and plan to imitate the heroes of Liangshan and come to collect the practice guide at night?
Although Qin Shaoyou was dissatisfied with Emperor Jianwu's conquest of spiritual guides, he could not sit idly by when thieves plundered him.
He immediately got up and pushed open the door. Before he could call anyone, the puppet marshal who was keeping watch came out and reported to him: "Sir, my puppet discovered a group of thieves sneaking into the inn and seemed to want to rob property.
, should they be arrested?”
"Take them all." Qin Shaoyou ordered without hesitation.
These thieves were not worthy of him taking action himself and letting the puppets take care of them.
Immediately afterwards, Qin Shaoyou ordered again: "Call Zhu Xiucai and ask him to take a few people to the West Post House to explain the situation. In addition, arrest the post Cheng and the post soldiers here for interrogation. Those bandits are responsible for the situation at the post station.
I know it very well, I'm afraid there is someone inside taking care of it."
Qin Shaoyou and the others checked into the inn today, not as envoys in red clothes, but on the grounds that local officials came to Beijing to report on their duties.
If they reveal the identity of the red-clad messenger, the ghosts in the inn may not dare to invite the thieves.
The puppet marshal accepted the order with his hands, and the threads released from his body immediately began to shake violently.
Immediately, Qin Shaoyou passed [Listening] and heard exclamations and screams.
It was the puppets who took action and launched an attack on the bandits.
Zhu Xiucai, who was awakened, also held the knife and headed to the west post house.