At dawn the next day, Xu Zhiqiong returned from his night patrol and saw Yang Wu squatting in the corner, staring blankly at a ball of paper ash.
Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "What's wrong? Your wife has also turned into ashes?"
Yang Wu shook his head: "This doesn't make sense. She is bound by my ghost energy, how could she loosen her grip?"
"It must be that you fell asleep last night and the ghost energy stopped in your dream, and your wife couldn't hold it anymore."
"I don't need to sleep. As long as I have incense offered to me, I won't be tired. One sandalwood incense from Sunjiaxiang Medicine Shop is enough to last me three days. How could my ghost energy be broken?"
"Maybe it was because the wind was a little stronger last night, and there was a paper figurine. I burned it to accompany you tonight." Xu Zhiqiong yawned and looked at Xikuoyuan, "Where is the judge named Xue Yun?"
"He left early in the morning. By the way, after he left, I found this thing on the desk in the main room."
Yang Wu gave a grain of gold to Xue Yun. Xue Yun also had a little benefit and was not greedy for money.
Xu Zhiqiong swallowed the gold in one gulp, and Yang Wu was surprised: "Can this be eaten too?"
"You take the incense, I take the gold, and that's how we live from now on."
Xu Zhiqiong got into the main room and slept until noon. When he woke up hungry, he took out a few eggs from the basket and boiled them.
With nothing to do, Xu Zhiqiong took out the "Enlightenment of the Magic Circle" given by Taibu and studied it carefully. After reading a few pages, he heard footsteps coming from the front yard.
At this time, you should be here for inspection, right?
Xu Zhiqiong sat in the courtyard, put on a mask, and asked Yang Wu to stand aside.
Not long after, a man walked into the main courtyard, and it turned out to be the same Xue Yun who came to stay last night.
"Why is it you again? Are you coming to stay overnight again tonight?"
Xue Yun shook his head and placed a horn in front of Xu Zhiqiong.
When Xu Zhiqiong saw the length of the horns, he couldn't help but frown. Trouble was coming.
Visual inspection showed that the horn was less than two inches, so Xue Yun had broken the rules.
Xu Zhiqiong originally chose to be Fei Yilang because Fei Yilang had less business and less trouble.
The promotion process to the seventh rank is too difficult, the income is low, and the business is complicated. The business of promoting officials is difficult, and the business of criticizing officials is even more difficult.
What Xu Zhiqiong wanted was to reach the seventh rank as quickly as possible by fishing. He never thought of using the business of recommending officials and right and wrong to accumulate merit.
But now that the lawsuit was coming, Xu Zhiqiong had to take it. He took a ruler and carefully measured the length of his crime.
Just right, one inch and nine cents, not one centimeter more.
Even if one inch is three-nine-points, Xu Zhiqiong can go as far as two inches and just give him a letter of pardon. But if it's even one point short, Xu Zhiqiong will have to ask more carefully.
"The sin karma has not yet matured, why did you pick it off?"
Xue Yun said: "This man is guilty!"
"I know he is guilty, but being guilty and deserving of death are two different things! According to Taoist rules, he can only be killed if his crime has been punished by two inches!"
Xue Yun was very unconvinced: "Isn't it just one point behind?"
"A difference of one point is still a difference. Today I killed one inch nine, what should I do with the one inch eight? If we continue to kill like this, wouldn't it mean that everyone who has committed a crime will be killed?"
The rules are like this, and you really can't make any decisions on this point, but Xue Yun still refuses to accept it: "If I don't kill him, he will kill someone!"
This reason is quite sufficient. Xu Zhiqiong ordered: "Get the evil mirror!"
The two looked at each other for a long time. Xu Zhiqiong pointed to the west wing and said, "Go and bring the evil mirror table!"
Xue Yundao: "Should I go?"
Xu Zhiqiong said angrily: "Is it possible for me to go?"
Not long after, the Evil Mirror Stage was moved in, and Xue Yun also released the dead souls.
The figure of the undead was blurry, and his appearance and age could not be seen, but this man was very calm. He looked at his surroundings, then at his own situation, and smiled and said, "Are you two of the same kind?"
Xu Zhiqiong was shocked and asked Xue Yun: "Did you harm your fellow disciples?"
This time things are serious again.
Xue Yun shook his head repeatedly: "You will know what his skills are after a while."
There was chaos on the evil mirror stage, and Xue Yunyi frowned. He had seen this situation in the Judge's Pavilion before. This person's sins were too many and too complex. If he wanted to see them all, he would probably have to wait until this time next year.
Xia Hu said that the evil mirror platform can selectively display sins, but this depends on the judge's will.
Xu Zhiqiong concentrated his thoughts and let the evil mirror show a recent crime. The picture on the mirror gradually became clearer. A beggar was lame on one leg, begging from house to house.
Xu Zhiqiong looked at the dead soul and asked, "Is this you?"
The dead soul stared at the mirror and exclaimed: "You two know witchcraft?"
"Don't worry about witchcraft!" Xu Zhiqiong said angrily, "Why do you say we are the same way? How do we look like beggars?"
The dead soul sneered and said, "My eyes are stupid, who said I am a beggar?"
Looking at the sin karma in the mirror, this beggar is very lovable. According to the previous life, he has a relatively high emotional intelligence.
He went begging from house to house in the village, always saying auspicious words for the occasion:
"Brother, you are in good health and live as long as Nanshan."
The old man opposite was coughing repeatedly and looked sick. After listening to his two auspicious words, he gave him a small piece of dry food.
"Madam, you are beaming with joy and your auspicious stars are shining brightly!"
The middle-aged woman smiled and gave him two copper coins.
The woman was holding a rattle and a clay doll in her hands with a happy face. She must have bought them for her grandson.
A Confucian scholar, carrying a food box and a sad face, was walking on the rural road. The beggar came up to him and said: "Sir, your business is prosperous and your wealth is rolling in!"
The Confucian scholar walked with his head lowered and ignored the beggar.
This means that he can't speak anymore. This is obviously not a businessman, but a scholar. Looking at the food box in his hand, he must have gone to take the exam. Now that spring has passed and autumn has not yet arrived, this person must have taken the county exam.
Judging from the facial expressions of the students, they did not do well in the exam.
The beggar came forward again and bowed: "Young Master, you are a lucky man and a good match. You will surely be named on the gold medal list."
The Confucian scholar liked hearing this and gave the beggar a few copper coins.
Along the way, the beggar begged for a lot of food and money. But is begging considered a crime?
It doesn't count for the real beggar, but it counts for him.
He first found a place where no one was around and threw away the hundreds of meals.
Then he put on a robe and held a trick in his hand with three lines of words written on it:
Jade lotus phase!
Hua Zi Qing!
The ancestral home of Liu Taicheng!
Jade Lotus is the sign of fortune telling.
The flower character Qing is the sign of Chinese character testing.
Liu Taicheng was a famous imperial physician in the early years. Under his banner, this was the sign of practicing medicine.
Reading fortune-telling and fortune-telling are the professions, so why are they still claiming to be practicing medicine?
This is not a contradiction. Among the people, fortune telling and medical practice are often the same profession, and there are countless doctors who do fortune telling part-time.
The identity of this beggar finally emerged, he is a liar!
Before, he begged for food just to find a way out. This time, he didn't have to go door to door.
He first went to the old man's door and called himself Wei Xingfan, which means the stars descend to the earth.
Hearing the old man cough twice, Wei Xingfan asked: "How long have you had this lung disease?"
The old man casually agreed: "It's been a few years."
"My husband, with all due respect, if this illness continues any longer, it will be life-threatening."
The old man waved his hand and said, "You don't need to tell me that. I don't have the money to buy your medicine."
After living at this age, I still have common sense, but the old man doesn't believe in the talk of selling medicine.
Wei Xingfan sighed and said: "To save the world and save people, if you talk about money, it will destroy my cultivation. I will give you a pill without taking any money. You take it and try it. Whether it works or not, I won't let you suffer in the end."
He actually gave the old man a pill.
In Daxuan, if you get sick, even if you go to an unknown doctor, the consultation fee will be three to five thousand yuan, not counting the cost of medicine.
Naturally, he would not refuse the pills he was given for free. When the "doctor" left, the old man took the pills and really stopped coughing.
Does this medicine work?
Of course it doesn't work.
This is not a medicine for treating lung diseases, but a special type of yin and yang medicine.
This liar knew some yin and yang skills. After taking his medicine, the old man didn't stop coughing. He just lost the desire to cough within three to five days. It had no therapeutic effect on his lung disease.
The old man felt that his condition was getting better, so he hurriedly chased Wei Xingfan. After catching up, he wanted to ask for two more pills.
This time, I couldn't give it for free. Wei Xingfan made a price: "One pill per drop of money, no counter-offering!"
One sling of money was too expensive, and the old man couldn't bear it, so he begged all the way from the beginning of the village to the end of the village. Wei Xingfan finally showed mercy and gave him five pills for three slings of money.
The first business was successful, but the profit was not much, and the yin and yang medicine also required costs.
But the old man brought disaster all the way, and the reputation of "Wei Miracle Doctor" was established.
A middle-aged woman who had just given birth to her grandson begged for an amulet and earned two ounces of money.
A businessman asked him to help with fortune-telling and got a fortune.
In half a day's work, he made dozens of pounds in the village. At dusk, the fat sheep took the bait.
The scholar also came to tell fortunes and wanted to calculate his own fame.
Wei Xingfan looked at the physiognomy, measured the characters, frowned and said, "Your divination is not good, isn't it going well in the examination room?"
The scholar smacked his lips repeatedly: "I misread a question during the county exam. I was supposed to pass the exam, but now I made a mistake!"
Wei Xingfan looked troubled: "It's not easy to help with this matter. Fame and fame are all determined by fate. If I help you change your destiny, I'm afraid it will damage my cultivation."
The scholar kept begging, but Wei Xingfan reluctantly agreed, charging the scholar five ounces of money and asking for a magic talisman for him: "Put this talisman on the door, and within three days, a noble person will come to help you change your life!"
The scholar waited at home for three days. On the third day, someone did come. The man was well-dressed and claimed to be the steward of the county magistrate's family. He said that Wei Xingfan, an expert, came to the magistrate's house to intercede with him and misunderstood the question.
Just let the invigilator pass.
The scholar was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly. The butler stroked his beard and sighed: "But to do this, not only our master, but also the people below have to take care of it."
This costs money.
The "big housekeeper" offered thirty taels of silver, and the scholar gritted his teeth and gave it!
This "big housekeeper" is still the same liar. He changed his appearance and deceived the scholar again.
Is this scholar so easy to deceive?
It's really that easy to deceive.
Xu Zhiqiong also experienced the examination room in his previous life, and he had seen many such things.
For students, some exams are too important. Scammers can easily succeed as long as they capture the students' psychology.
These thirty taels of silver were all the scholar's savings, and they were all given to this "big steward".
The "big housekeeper" never came back. On the day when the results were announced, the scholar saw that he had failed the results and cried to death.
The family members were reduced, the fellow villagers laughed at him, and the scholar couldn't think about it for a while, so he wanted to hang himself.
Xue Yun kept staring at Wei Xingfan, a liar and a scholar who committed suicide, so he quickly came to his rescue and gave him ten taels of silver so that he could study hard and start over.
The scholar listened to the advice and the matter was over.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, the "butler" came to the door again: "The county magistrate helped you cover up this matter, but Master Xuezheng refused to let it go. To put it bluntly, he also wanted money. We have done everything this far."
No matter what, I have to get some more."
The scholar said with tears in his eyes: "But the results have already been released."
"What are you afraid of? Our master can fill the gap with just a word! If you pass the county test, you will be the government test. If you pass the government test, you will be the college test. If you pass the college test, you will be a scholar. With our master taking care of you, you can decide on this scholar.
Okay, are you still reluctant to part with this little money?"
The scholar sighed: "But I have no money in my hand."
The "Butler" shook his head and said: "It's hard to be a good person. It's really hard to be a good person. Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything about it. You spent the thirty taels of silver in vain."
"No, no, wait..."
The scholar gritted his teeth and gave Xue Yun ten taels of silver to him and also handed it over to the chief steward.
When Zuiye saw this scene, Xu Zhiqiong understood.
Xue Yun gritted his teeth and said: "This liar is targeting the scholar. If I don't kill him, the scholar will definitely be tricked to death by him. When his criminal karma reaches two inches, the scholar's life will be lost. I will first
Is it wrong to kill him in one step?"
In the last scene on the evil stage, Xue Yun wiped Wei Xingfan's neck with a knife.
He killed it with his own hands.
This proves that he not only committed unripe sins, but also violated the eighth-level rule of not killing people.
Wei Xingfan laughed loudly when he heard this: "You two, I don't know the origin of this mirror, but I know what methods you used. You also learned Yin and Yang, right?
I've seen this kind of illusion a lot, so it's not surprising! We are all of the same kind, so don't use those bluffing tactics. You just pointed at my neck with a knife, am I afraid of you?"
Wei Xingfan's memory still lingered on the moment before his death. He believed that Xue Yun was also a liar and used illusions on him to defraud him of money.
Xue Yun gritted his teeth and said, "Zhazui, who the hell is the same as you?"
Wei Xingfan narrowed his eyes and said, "What's the matter? Looking down on me? I still think your methods are rough!"
Xue Yun was furious and wanted to hit someone, but Xu Zhiqiong quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Brother, it's your fault. In our industry, we make money based on our own skills. How can we say that we should use violence without mercy!"
Xue Yun was startled: "What kind of line? Which line are you talking about?"
Xu Zhiqiong waved his hand to signal him to be silent. He turned to Wei Xingfan and said, "Regardless of whether it is your real name or not, let me call you Brother Wei first. Brother, what you are doing is not authentic. Since you are out to do business, you are
Don’t we have to ask about the doorways on this territory first and worship the gods on this territory first?
Is it appropriate for you to do business on our territory without even saying hello?"
Wei Xingfan snorted and said, "It's not my first day in this industry. I've never heard that our industry still has territory."
"I haven't heard of it, so just ask around. This territory belongs to our brothers. You have broken the rules, you know?"
Wei Xingfan looked disdainful: "I don't understand your rules, I just know how to make money based on my skills."
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "Brother Wei, if you want to talk like this, don't blame me for being unkind."
Wei Xingfan smiled and said: "Why, you want to use the knife again? Can you scare me?"
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "How big of a deal is it to use a knife? As for that? I want to bury you alive. We are all colleagues, why can't I leave you with a whole body?"
Wei Xingfan was still disdainful: "Come on, bury it, see if I'm afraid?"
Xu Zhiqiong turned around and said to Yang Wu: "Brother, dig a hole in the backyard!"
Yang Wu agreed and dragged the shovel to the backyard. The sound of digging could be heard. Xu Zhiqiong was still explaining at the side: "Brother Wei, you also know that in our industry, we are afraid of leaving behind a knife.
I'll kill you and make the blood all over the floor hard to wipe away. In the end, I'll have to bury your body, so why not just bury you directly, it's clean and saves trouble!"
Xu Zhiqiong spoke calmly, but there was murderous intent between the lines.
Wei Xingfan was a little panicked.
"Well, it's Wei who has offended you two. Can you give me some clothes to wear first so that we can talk decently?"
Xu Zhiqiong rubbed his fingers and sighed: "Clothes are so expensive, where can I buy them?"
Wei Xingfan is an expert and understands the meaning of these words, which is blackmail.
But there is no way to blackmail him. Xue Yun can fight, but he is no match.
"Flying geese all day long, today the geese pecked their eyes and fell into your hands. I admit defeat. You two, go to the Tonglai Inn and tell the innkeeper Wei Xingfan's name. There is a baggage there that belongs to me.
I respect you both."
Xu Zhiqiong glanced at Xue Yun, and Xue Yun understood, went to Tonglai Inn to get the baggage, and soon got it in front of Xu Zhiqiong.
Xu Zhiqiong unfolded the baggage, which contained silver taels and loose money. Together, they amounted to almost fifty taels.
Wei Xingfan raised his hands and saluted, "How are you two? Have you fulfilled your wishes, brothers?"
Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said: "Brother Wei, I have nothing to say, you are a cheerful person!"
"Then I'll take the first step!"
"Don't worry," Xu Zhiqiong smacked his lips and said, "We brothers have nothing to say, but our shopkeeper has been tight lately. This territory belongs to him, and we have to give him an explanation."
Still want blackmail?
Wei Xingfan said: "It's just this money, there won't be any more."
"Oh, it's hard to be a good person, just pretend I didn't say this," Xu Zhiqiong turned around and shouted towards the backyard, "Brother, have you dug the hole yet?"
"That's good, that's good!"
Wei Xingfan thought for a long time, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, you guys are cruel, the shopkeeper of Donglin Pavilion also reported my name and a baggage, I only have this little possessions left, please spare my life!"
Before Xu Zhiqiong could give him a look, Xue Yun went to get the baggage. After a while, the baggage was brought back. Xu Zhiqiong opened it and saw that there were more than seventy taels of silver. He nodded and said: "Our shopkeeper can't say anything.
"
Wei Xingfan said: "Can you let me go?"
Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said: "But our shopkeeper's wife, recently wanted a set of jewelry. The jewelry from Xianzhu Shop is so expensive!"
Wei Xingfan gritted his teeth and said, "What do you want? You can't kill someone without just nodding your head, you just kill me!"
"Oh, it's hard to be a good person. Since you don't appreciate it, I'll help you. You spent so much money in the past in vain. Brother, have you dug the hole?"
Yang Wu replied: "It will be ready soon!"
Xu Zhiqiong pulled Wei Xingfan and walked to the backyard. Wei Xingfan shivered for a while and burst into tears: "Mayuan Market, the second yard to the east from the market entrance, is my home. There is a baggage buried in the northwest corner of the yard. You guys
Dig out the baggage and give it all to you."
Xu Zhiqiong asked: "How much is there?"
Wei Xingfan cried: "I will give you all my savings of more than two hundred taels, just spare my life."