Shen Lang forced himself not to look at the ground and distracted his attention with nothing to say:
"Master Yan, after I go back, I want to buy a house first."
Yan Tianying said in surprise:
"Buy a house? Things are very expensive in the capital. Housing prices are extremely high. Many poor officials in the capital can only rent. Do you have that much money?"
Shen Lang said in surprise:
"When I killed the Spider Sisters, I saved many innocent people who were sacrificed by the Spider Sisters. There were several wealthy people among them who gave me more than five thousand silver dollars as a thank you for saving their lives.
"I know this is against the rules, but someone said that to save us, you just did it casually for the mage, but it is a life for us. Isn't our life worth such a small amount of money?
"Some people said righteously: Those who work for everyone should not be allowed to freeze to death in the wind and snow. We must never let heroes like the mage bleed and shed tears... Then I think what they said is reasonable, so I reluctantly accept it.
Come down.
"In addition, after destroying the pirate alliance, eradicating the King Shark Gang, and inspecting various properties of the King Shark Gang, Mr. Mu also paid me a lot of bounties according to the rules. In addition, Mr. Mu also made a windfall while sheltering from the storm at sea.
I picked up a lot of gold from the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea, and I also shared a part of it... so I should have enough money to buy a house."
Yan Tianying frowned and recited several times, "Those who work for everyone should not be allowed to freeze to death in the wind and snow." Then he relaxed his brows and smiled with relief:
"You just came to the capital yesterday to report. Before, you were just an undercover agent developed by Xiao Mu. Since you have not officially joined the job, you are not yet an official agent of the Shen Catching Hall. Since the rich man is grateful for your life-saving grace, he will give you gold and silver.
Just accept it."
Xuanyou looked solemn and said seriously:
"But Xiao Shen, you must be vigilant. Some people with ulterior motives will deliberately design various situations to ask you to help or even save their lives, deliberately owe you a favor, and then give you gold and silver in the name of gratitude.
"At first, it was just a small gift in the scope of normal human relations, so that you can relax your vigilance. Then it gradually increases the amount. Today I treat you to a big meal, tomorrow I give you some worthless 'local specialties', and then I ask you to do something.
It's a small thing that's reasonable and doesn't violate the rules. I'll give you some calligraphy, painting and curios that are hard to value...
"Just like this, I have been dealing with people again and again, building relationships with you, building friendships, letting down your defenses little by little, paralyzing your vigilance, and getting you deeper and deeper step by step. By the time you come to your senses, you have been pulled down.
He drank the water and held the handle.
"Similar incidents have happened more than once since I took charge of Shen Cat Hall.
"Even some of the senior catchers in the God's Catcher Hall have been unfavorable and were slowly corroded by people with ulterior motives... So Xiao Shen, after you officially join the job, this kind of thing cannot happen again. You must take precautions and take precautions.
Not burned.”
Shen Lang was taught awe-inspiringly:
"What the adults teach is for the subordinates to be taught!"
Yan Tianying nodded and said:
"More than five thousand silver dollars is enough to buy a nice little house. Where do you want to buy a house?"
Shen Lang thought for a while and asked in a low voice:
"Um, I wonder where Mrs. Mu lives? I want to buy a house closer to her..."
Before Yan Tianying could speak, Master Wanfa pursed his lips and smiled, jokingly:
"Xiao Mu is the flower of Shenqi Hall, and she is also one of the most beautiful beauties in the capital. Xiao Shen, you are very ambitious!"
Shen Lang sneered:
"Well, when I was in Yingzhou, I was taken care of by Lord Mu, and I am very grateful. When I came to the capital this time, I just wanted to live closer to her. If anything happened to her, I could help her and repay her..."
Yan Tianying laughed:
"No need to explain! We understand. Speaking of which, the houses around Xiao Mu's house are extremely cheap and basically cannot be sold. If you live next door to her, you can save a lot of money."
Um?
Shen Lang said in astonishment:
"The environment where the Muda people live is not very good?"
Yan Tianying said:
"Not really. The 'Xingye Fang' where she lives is originally a good place. Even though Xiaomu has a bit of luck in making a fortune, in other aspects, his luck is not that good. Sitting at home, the sky is like a stone.
Come up and burn the house to the ground. Have you ever seen this kind of thing? Xiaomu happened to it.
"Anyway, her family always suffers from unexplained disasters. The death of rocks from the sky is an extreme case, and it only happened once. However, fires are common, and there have been several times when someone sought revenge and found the wrong place.
He went to her house and started a fight, and there was even a ghost.
"As time went by, the residents around Xiaomu became unbearable and moved away. The vacant houses couldn't be sold, which gave you an advantage."
"..."
Shen Lang was immediately speechless.
…
Although buying a house in the capital is a big deal, Shen Lang is really embarrassed to trouble Yan Tianying and Wanfa Zhenren again.
One of them is the great master and the boss of Shencat Hall, who is very busy with official duties, and the other is a real person who is impossible for ordinary people to meet. They put down their respective affairs and worked hard all day and night with Shen Lang, a little shrimp. Not only did they help him achieve
In exchange for his promise to Bai Shishi and helping him partially solve the hidden danger of the Spider Mother, Shen Lang naturally had to know good and evil and always trouble them.
So after returning to Beijing, Shen Lang asked Yan Tianying to help him send a guide to take him to buy a house.
As for studying at the "Imperial Capital Taoist Academy", Master Wanfa has already prepared a letter of recommendation for him. Once he settles in, he can enter the "Imperial Capital Taoist Academy" to practice at any time with the recommendation letter and token from Master Wanfa.
Since it was already the time when the lanterns were going on when he returned to Beijing, Shen Lang rested for the night in the Shenhua Hall. Early the next morning, he followed an old scribe assigned to him by Yan Tianying to "Xingye Fang" where Mu Qingxue lived.
"Buy a house.
Bai Shishi joined an action team under the Shen Cat Hall and began to carry out her first dangerous mission, going to the "Taiyi Mountain" barrier north of the capital to hunt down a group of horse thieves who had been rampant recently.
It is said that among the group of horse thieves, there is also a wild monk who knows a thing or two about Taoism. The leader of the horse thieves is also a powerful and experienced gangster. Bai Shishi's martial arts has dropped to two realms. During this operation, he is likely to encounter
Life is in danger.
But this is her road to atonement. Life or death is her destiny.
Shen Lang's house purchase went very smoothly.
Things are expensive in the capital, and house prices are very high.
Xingyefang is located in the inner city, not far from the Imperial City where various government offices are located, and the housing prices are sky-high.
If a seventh-level county magistrate is not promoted throughout his life, he will have to struggle for more than thirty years to buy a small courtyard with two entrances in Xingyefang with a salary of 240 silver dollars a year.
Even if Shen Lang has a small fortune, if he wants to buy a house in other normal areas in the inner city of the capital, he will have to spend more than half of his wealth.
But the houses around Mu Qingxue's house are not like this.
The price of the houses near her home is very impressive, only 20 to 30% of the normal house price.
Just this, it can't be sold at all.
So Shen Lang easily bought a small house with two entrances facing Mu Qingxue's house, with only a bluestone street in between.
The reason why she didn't buy the house next door to hers was just to avoid being affected by disasters such as fires and falling stones.
Separated by a two-foot-wide bluestone street, it is more or less safer.
With the help of the old scribe of Shenhuatang, he negotiated a deal with the owner, signed a contract, and went to Jingzhao Mansion Office to go through the transfer procedures, pay the deed tax, and pay the owner the purchase price. After a long time of work, this house
Even if it belongs to Shen Lang.
After putting away the house deed stamped by the government and inviting the old scribe to a restaurant for a big meal, Shen Lang moved into his house in the capital after noon.
It took another half a day to work until dusk, and finally the two courtyards were tidied up inside and outside.
He jumped up to the ridge of the second door house and looked down at the fruits of the afternoon's work. Shen Lang nodded with satisfaction and planned to prepare some delicious dishes, call the little monsters out, and have a big meal to celebrate.
Just as he was about to jump back into the courtyard, he looked back at Mu Qingxue's house across the street. Shen Lang became interested and flew to the ridge of the house as soon as he entered the outer courtyard. He looked over there for a while and saw Mu Qingxue's house which was also the same.
How could the small courtyard on the second entrance be so desolate?
Most of the partition wall between the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard fell down, and the remaining half of the wall that was barely standing was covered with traces of smoke, fire, and even cuts from sharp knives.
The houses in the front and back are also dilapidated.
Except for the main house in the inner courtyard, which is still intact, the rest of the houses and even the roofs are full of holes. Anyone who dares to fly over the roof of her house will fall into the house if they are not careful.
The entire roof of the wing room on the left side of the main house in the inner courtyard is gone, with only a single charred beam hanging on the frame.
Even the ground in the yard is full of potholes, and traces of filling can be seen in many places.
Mu Qingxue had been away from Beijing for a while, and the house had not been taken care of for a long time. The ground and walls of her shabby courtyard were covered with weeds, and it looked like an abandoned house without anyone living in it.
"Tsk, how miserable!"
Shen Lang shook his head and sighed, then looked at Mu Qingxue and his neighbors, and found that several houses were completely uninhabited.
"That's fine, it's quiet!"
Shen Lang laughed, jumped back into his yard, put the small fish into the pond in the inner yard, released Xiaoya and Xiaogu, and let them explore and play around in their new home, while he took out the pots and pans from the space.
After getting firewood, rice, oil and salt, we went to the well in the backyard to fetch a bucket of water, and then we started to cook a big meal.
Mu Qingxue will not return to Beijing for some time, and during this period, he will live alone in this area.
But soon, he will go to the Imperial Taoist Academy to further his studies.
By then, I'm afraid it will take several days to come back.
"When Mu Qingxue comes back and finds out that I live opposite her, will you be surprised or very surprised?"
…
Mu Qingxue didn't know that Shen Lang had prepared a "surprise" for her.
All she knew was that her mood changes had become more and more intense recently, and she often became impulsive and angry at every turn.
Two days ago, due to matters involving the Duke of Ying's Mansion, I had a quarrel with a government official, and actually slapped him so hard that he suffered internal injuries and vomited blood.
Although the head catcher was the Duke of Ying, and he always opposed Mu Qingxue during her investigation and repeatedly obstructed her, but in any case, before getting the evidence and taking off the head catcher's uniform, the other party
He is her nominal colleague.
To injure a colleague in a public place like a government office, even if she is a big shot from the capital, would have a very bad influence and be very taboo.
The matter was finally settled with Mu Qingxue paying for healing pills and a sum of gold and silver, as well as an apology.
To be honest, when she apologized, looking at the complacent expression on the other person's face, the evil fire in Mu Qingxue's heart kept boiling out, and she almost couldn't help but slap the other person's head to pieces.
After suppressing her anger and apologizing, she went to the uninhabited beach alone, walked on the water for more than ten miles, and squandered her true energy on a small desert island. She bombarded it until most of the terrain of the small desert island was changed, and then she finally vented her anger.
Exhaust that evil fire.
Mu Qingxue is also well aware of the origin of all these changes in her.
It is the "devil seed" left behind by the six-armed snake demon.
Although the demon was sealed around her navel by various means, the snake demon's plan to seize her body failed to come true, but the position where it finally occupied was too close to her Dantian.
Although third-level warriors are not yet able to actively "refine the spirit", their true energy can already passively feed back the spirit, subtly strengthening the spirit and making the spirit stronger and tougher.
The demonic seed was entrenched in the "Shenque" point of her belly button, affecting her Qi all the time. The Qi affected by the demonic seed then slowly affected her soul.
This kind of influence, in a short period of time, would not distort her nature and turn her into a demon. It would only make her mood swings become increasingly violent and her temper gradually become irritable and irritable.
But if the "demon species" exists for too long, even if the snake demon is unable to snatch it away from her, she herself may gradually become a demon due to the deep pollution accumulated in her soul.
Mu Qingxue knew the crux of the matter.
But there is no solution for the time being.
If you want to eradicate the demon seeds left behind by an evil demon like the six-armed snake demon, you must at least ask Yan Tianying or a first-level great master to take action.
She can't write a letter back to the capital and ask Yan Tianying to make a special trip to Yingzhou to help her get rid of the evil seed, right?
Mu Qingxue looks cool and calm, but in fact she has a very strong temper.
Otherwise, as a woman, she can cultivate the "Tiangang War Qi", a kind of Qi that has extremely high requirements on the mind and will, and reach the third level with unstoppable speed. The Tiangang War Qi has only four requirements on the mind and will.
One word: never turn back despite all the odds. Simplified into two words: head iron.
This can be seen from her heroic feat of heading directly to the Thousand Stars Islands and directly to King Shark Island in a straight line.
In short, with Mu Qingxue's temperament, she didn't want to trouble Yan Tianying before settling the matter in Yingzhou.
At the very least, she had to eradicate the influence of the Blood Shadow Cult in Yingzhou before she could have the dignity to return to Beijing for business.
As for the Duke of Ying, this old nobleman had the emperor's back and had deep roots in Yingzhou. The contemporary Duke of Ying was also cunning and cunning. He cut off all the clues that were unfavorable to the Duke's government early and wanted to overthrow the Duke of Ying.
It is impossible to achieve it within the time limit.
This may be a long-term struggle.
To be disrespectful in my heart, I may even have to wait until the current emperor dies, or the emperor voluntarily abandons Duke Ying, before he can be overthrown.
Mu Qingxue knew that she might have to stay in Yingzhou until winter, and would not be able to return to the capital until before the Chinese New Year.
During this period of time, she was able to hold on and would not be affected to the worst extent by the "demon seed".
It's just that my temper has become a little more grumpy.
I don’t know how far Shen Lang will be able to practice when she returns to Beijing.
If he is still insisting on "double cultivation of magic and martial arts"... Well, with his talent, he has reached the seventh level of martial arts and has reached the seventh level of Taoism, so there should be no problem.
But further up, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make any progress.
At that time, he must choose a path and focus on practice.
He should be able to choose spells, right?
After all, his Taoist talent is far superior to his martial arts talent.
I don’t know if he has arrived in the capital or entered the Imperial Taoist Temple...