Lu Bai and others escorted the people and left the city in a mighty manner. When they boarded the boat, Lu Bai saw the paw prints again, and his pride surged into his heart again, "What on earth left these paw prints?"
"A dragon!" Gu Qinghuan had found out clearly yesterday.
According to legend, there was a dragon in this river, which often caused trouble and harmed the people. Later, the Jin Yiwei in the city and the people got along with each other and came up with a clever trick. When the dragon made trouble again and ate people, they found a group of suicide squads who were hiding the poison and voluntarily entered the dragon's belly.
The dragon was in unbearable pain, anxious and angry, so he attacked the city wall and left his paw prints.
"After the dragon killed some more people, it could no longer hold on and fled back to the river. It was probably severely weakened by the poison. Although it occasionally appeared and harassed ships on the river, it was no longer as frequent as before." Gu Qinghuan.
explain.
Lu Bai nodded suddenly, "It turns out it was left by a dragon. What is the approximate realm of this dragon?"
Gu Qinghuan thought about it based on the information she had learned, "I estimate that its realm does not exceed the sky-breaking realm."
Lu Bai was looking forward to seeing this dragon. Not only was there merit in killing him, but there was also a way to kill people like the Jinyi Guardsmen in a logical manner, which was much better than Lu Bai secretly using small tricks.
However, after Lu Bai and the others boarded the ship, they walked all the way east for five days and five nights, but they did not see the dragon. Instead, they saw a few water monsters and big fish. Killing them did not bring much merit. However,
They did provide a lot of convenience to Lu Bai. Lu Bai allowed them to cause chaos for a while, killing the Jinyi Weishe people one after another and throwing them into the water to feed the fish. Lu Bai also gained some merit points from this, not much.
, which is only 50,000 to 60,000 merit points, the merit points collected from the official seal of the same city god are only one or two times more.
When Lu Bai was doing these things, there was an eyewitness, Zhang Carpenter's daughter Jia Gu.
She was originally very indifferent to Lu Bai, but when she saw that Lu Bai fulfilled his promise so fiercely and effectively, and actually let the culprit die in front of her and avenged her, her eyes on Lu Bai suddenly changed.
Lu Bai told her that she could leave, but she didn't move. "I promised to be a good person to repay you. Since I promised, I must keep my promise."
"I'm not interested." Lu Bai's words made Miaogu sway.
After a long time, she said again: "Your Excellency is going to the capital, and my father has to go to the capital. In that case, I will go to the capital with you."
"Whatever, just don't hang around in front of me." Lu Bai left indifferently.
Miao Gu watched Lu Bai leave.
She looked at Lu Bai in surprise. She didn't expect that Lu Bai was indifferent to her. Many people used to care about her, but because of her young age, no one wanted to do anything to her for the time being. Until a guard in Jinyi came to the city——
During the boat trip, they passed through a city. Although they did not stop, they had enough time. Lu Bai shook the rattle on the boat and summoned a city god. He continued to borrow the living person to buy the official title of the Night Travel God, checked the official seal of the other party, and extracted the merit points.
——Well, four to five hundred merit points. It is estimated that the city god does not do anything on weekdays, and some believers have not even obtained incense.
"You have failed as a city god." Lu Bai felt sorry for the city god. He never thought about whether he would starve to death.
The City God smiled bitterly, "You don't know something. This city used to be an ancient battlefield. Tens of thousands of people died. The evil ghosts wandering around were all ferocious. I am a little ghost. Even if I want to do something, I don't have the ability."
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After the City God complained for a while, he added: "The City God's temple in this city is really not built by humans. Sir, I am doing a good job, at least I am still persisting. The remaining four City Gods in the city are actually cadres and have resigned.
Already."
"Resigning with a seal of approval?" Lu Bai got a useful piece of information.
The City God touched the three hairs on his bald head and said, "Yes, Guoyin has resigned, and we are waiting for someone from above to send someone, no, a ghost will be sent to take over Guanyin. Unfortunately, three to five years have passed, and no one has been sent down from above.
I guess no one dares to come."
The City God told Lu Bai that when the Peach Blossom Temple was prosperous in the past, the City God could suppress the evil ghosts for the time being. Now that the Peach Blossom Temple has declined, there are no more ghosts who want to serve as officials in their city.
Lu Bai was thoughtful.
His focus was elsewhere, that is, after Guoyin resigned, the ghost servant could also take over Guanyin as the city god. Although this required the formalities of Taohuaguan, it was not a problem for Lu Bai, because there is still the term temporary worker in this world.
Son.
It just so happened that no one could fill the positions of these City Gods, so Lu Bai sent a few temporary City Gods there, and then the real City God endorsed them - perfect!
Lu Bai couldn't help but lament that he never expected that the decline of Peach Blossom Temple would actually benefit him.
"In this way, I have two ghost servants under me who are in the qi training realm. I will ask them to bring some ghost servants to temporarily act as the vacated city god in your city to help you stabilize the situation. Then I will report it to the superiors and ask them to hurry up.
Send someone capable here." Lu Bai said, reaching out and patting the City God's shoulder, and the ghost exorcism charm disappeared in a flash, "What do you think?"
I don’t know whether it’s the role of the ghost exorcism talisman or whether it’s the city god’s wish. He nodded, “I think it’s pretty good.”
So it was settled.
Lu Bai went to call out the second and fourth of the four ghosts in Taoshan, but he did not let them become city gods. Instead, he summoned three more of their younger brothers from the ghost bowl, and after putting them on the ghost-expelling charms, they were
Go and be the City God. Let the two ghosts lead a group of little ghosts to wander around Lao Sangui, this city and the surrounding cities. If they meet the City God who has resigned from his post, they will send one of their subordinates to take charge.
In this way, the three-year ghosts of Taoshan can take care of the surrounding cities and get more merit points for Lu Bai.
As for keeping the boss of the Four Ghosts of Taoshan by his side, Lu Bai had other plans.
Lu Bai saw off the city god, and stood alone on the bow of the boat, staring at the night sky on the river in a daze. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and no trace of light or stars could be seen. The mountains and forests on both sides were bare, and there were shadows in the darkness. The cold wind was blowing.
At this time, it looked like a group of demons and monsters holding weapons, shouting, whispering, and making sinister laughter.
Suddenly, I felt a little cold on my forehead.
Then, wherever Lu Bai could reach his mind, he noticed a large amount of snow falling from the sky.
Snowing.
"call!"
Lu Bai exhaled a breath, disappeared in a flash, returned to the room, and got into bed.
Lu Qinghuan turned around in a daze, huddled in Lu Bai's arms, and soon fell into a deep dream again.
There was a lot of snow this time.
When I woke up in the morning, the snow was still falling, the sky and the earth were completely white, and only the Ningjiang River was flowing slowly.
The boat quickly arrived at the dock in front of a city in the white snow.
Lu Bai and the others had to stop, change boats and take the overland route. Firstly, the boats could not go because of the high mountains and narrow water ahead, and there were waterfalls. Secondly, they heard that there was a rebellion ahead and there were monsters causing trouble, so the boats could not go.
They had to go to the city next to the waterfall to change boats, so Lu Bai heard that they had to get off the boat early and take the land route.
After Lu Bai stayed in the city briefly, he hired a carriage and the convoy headed southeast.
Compared with the border town of Yancheng, Lu Bai has now penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Southern Dynasties. There are fewer monsters and less wilderness. There are official roads between cities and there are villages, wine shops and small towns on both sides of the official roads. They are no longer like Yancheng.
The city is half a month away like Yongle City.
They left the city where they disembarked and walked along the river for three days in heavy snow.
On this day, when the convoy came down from the mountains and forests, they were faced with a strong wind and heavy snow. The snow was up to the knees with one foot. Seeing that it was impossible, Lu Bai's disciples in Jinyiwei wanted to drive the horse out of the snow.
When we were at home, the Jin Yiwei who was exploring the way came back and reported, "Sir, there is an inn ahead."
Lu Bai nodded, "Let's go to the inn in front to rest and wait for the snow to stop before we continue our journey."
After saying that, Lu Bai turned around and saw that all the horses could not get out of the snow nest despite all their strength, so he took a sip of wine and snapped his fingers.
In an instant, the wheels of all the carriages climbed out of the snow nest lightly, and the horses let out a relaxed cheer.
"Let's go, let's go to the inn in front to rest." Lu Bai said.
The people behind cheered.
Zuo Qing, the father-in-law of Xichang, looked gloomy in the car and coughed from time to time, "Humph, the Za family said that you can't do it when the snow is heavy, but you don't listen to me. Now I have been freezing in the wild for two or three days. What will happen in the end? If I don't return it,
Do you have to listen to me?"
After that, he coughed again and couldn't help but kick the little eunuch who was playing with the charcoal brazier, "Your godfather is almost coughing to death!"
The little eunuch looked aggrieved and said, "Daddy, the fire is not strong and the car is not warm."
When it's not warm, he'll have to kick her.
Zuo Qing ignored him and thought for a moment, "Ask someone to find Jin Yiwei and ask for some unsmoked silver charcoal."
At that time, Lu Bai got a lot of fine silver charcoal from the hands of Jinyi Weishe.
The little eunuch replied: "Yes, but they said that Lu Qianhu has spoken and all the money is for Mr. Gu's use, and we don't have any share."
boom!
Eunuch Zuo Qing smashed the small coffee table to pieces with one slap, and the teapot on it was also broken. He said incompetently and furiously: "This is too much! I am the Salt Supervision Bureau of Xichang, do you really think I have no one in the capital?!"
"
The little eunuch didn't dare to talk.
"Go, change the soft table and coffee table!" Eunuch Zuo Qing vented his anger and waved to the little eunuch to change the soft table that was soaked with tea.
The little eunuch said weakly: "He, they said, there is only one set of everything, if you change it, it will be gone."
Eunuch Zuo Qing wanted to scold his mother.
With Lu Bai's help, the convoy quickly arrived in front of the inn.
The inn is located next to the official road buried in heavy snow, under a large banyan tree. The wine sign is hung on the banyan tree, frozen under the heavy snow, and does not move even if the wind blows.
The door of the inn is closed, but through the window, you can vaguely smell the alcohol inside and hear the excitement inside.
A guard in Jinyi went to knock on the door.
Lu Bai stood beside the carriage and helped Gu Qinghuan down.
Lu Qinghuan wore a mink fur coat, a white velvet cloak, and a white fox fur scarf around his neck. He held a heater in his hand. After getting off the car, Jin Yiwei also opened the door, and the waiter enthusiastically
He greeted everyone in with a smile on his face, obviously happy that so many people had come at once.
Lu Bai looked around after entering the door.
There were neither too many nor too few guests in the inn. There were business travelers on their way, people from the world with knives hanging on their waists, Taoist priests and monks walking together, and two women wearing cloaks and raincoats.
They were having a lively time dancing and drinking, but when Lu Bai and the others entered, the wind and snow poured in, chilling everyone at once and attracting their attention, making the lively inn quiet.
Most of the eyes were on Gu Qinghuan,
It is indeed rare to see such a beautiful woman who is alluring and wealthy in the wild mountains.
Gu Qinghuan didn't take it seriously. She handed the heater to Yun Niang and tied off her cloak.
Lu Bai withdrew his gaze and said, "Xiaoer, let's go upstairs."
This inn has two floors, and there are very few guests on the upper floors. Lu Bai and the others have a good rest there.
"okay."
The waiter hurriedly agreed and led Lu Bai and the others upstairs.
After a moment of silence, it became lively again. The difference was that their topic changed.
"Who are these people?" the businessmen on their way started talking, "It seems that their status is not low."
The most important thing for those doing business is to be well-informed.
Several businessmen shook their heads, but it was the Jianghu people with knives hanging on their waists. After they looked at each other, a certain bearded man lowered his voice and said, "Jinyiwei, I just saw someone's waistband."
"Where is the woman above?" Another swordsman with a mustache asked, "The woman from Jinyiwei?"
The bearded man shook his head, "It doesn't look like it. His status seems to be very noble, but his temperament cannot be cultivated by a small family. I guess he is not a vassal of Jin Yiwei. Maybe he has another background."
The mustachioed swordsman looked up and said, "What are they doing in Ankang City? That place is in chaos right now."
The bearded man shook his head.
At the same time, a monk from Yisengyiyi also said proudly: "A genius appears from nowhere, and his realm has reached the realm of breaking the sky."
The Taoist priest in front of him was focused on the wine. He raised his head and drank the wine in the wine jar before putting it down. "Genius, what kind of genius? It's just meat on the chopping board. If you have the ability to persuade him to die, then you are the wicked monk."
I’m missing your mother’s virtue.”
The monk was unhappy and said, "You are a sloppy Taoist priest. What are you doing? This poor monk is just trying to accumulate virtue and do good deeds!"
"Bah." The sloppy Taoist priest said with disdain.
He raised his hand and called to the waiter, "Waiter, here's another jar of wine, a jar of good wine."
As soon as he finished speaking, he sniffed and then stood up following the smell of wine, "Good wine, good wine, what kind of wine is this? It's so good." As he said this, his eyes fell on the cup in the hands of disciple Lu Bai upstairs.
On the wine gourd.
Lu Bai's disciples were drinking wine, and when they saw the sloppy Taoist priest looking at the wine gourd in his hand, he hurriedly put the wine gourd in his arms.
"Hey, don't hide it. You little brother, if you have wine, you have to know how to share it. We are both drinkers in the world. We must have a drink when we meet." The sloppy Taoist priest greeted from below.
Disciple Lu Bai remained unmoved.
The Jin Yiwei next to him said in a deep voice: "Taoist Master, drink your own wine and don't ask for trouble."
The sloppy Taoist priest didn't let them go unnoticed. He jumped up to the railing of the second floor lightly, scratched his head and said to Lu Bai's disciple who was drinking just now: "Let me have a taste of the wine, just one sip, one sip."
The Jin Yiwei next to him wanted to come up, but there seemed to be a wall blocking him out. Why couldn't he get closer?
"Give him a bite." Gu Qinghuan suddenly said.
After that, she ordered a few dishes from the waiter, all of which Yan Cheng had never tasted before.