The sky was getting dark, and the weather was getting colder. Inside the house, Lin Xiao was already practicing the Jiangdongliu style in the new white robe he bought last night.
The sleeves of the robe were fluttering slightly as if blown by the wind, and the skirts of the clothes were fluttering. The invisible, colorless and qualityless kendo true meaning was gathered together, swimming like a small loach in the stream. It no longer had the staggering feeling at the beginning, but instead
It became smoother, firstly because Lin Xiao insisted on practicing day and night, and secondly, during the life-or-death battle at Yizhuang in the western suburbs outside the city that night, wind and thunder struck more than a dozen swords in a row, and the swords and swords had the true meaning of the sword flowing through them, making them more and more proficient.
After practicing the Dajiangdongliu style, Lin Xiao went to the courtyard to practice swordsmanship. It was not wind or thunder, but wind and thunder swordsmanship.
Fang Qinglei was stunned when he saw it for the first time, secretly surprised, but did not ask.
Too lazy to ask.
After having breakfast, and taking Zhou Zheng to the academy on the way, Lin Xiao hurried to the inner city and went straight to the Zhenwu Division.
Except for those who were seriously injured, everyone else had already arrived and were waiting in line to wait for their achievements... ahem...
This lasted all morning, but Chief Lin seemed to be missing and had not appeared for a long time.
"Could it be that he absconded with the money?" Lin Xiao sat next to Xiao Tianyu and rubbed his chin, muttering to himself.
Xiao Tianyu glanced at Lin Xiao and didn't want to talk to him. Lin Xiao didn't care. He was just entertaining himself anyway.
"Old Xiao, it's okay to wait like this. I'll treat you to a drink." Lin Xiao said to Xiao Tianyu. At present, in the entire Zhenwu Division, except for the governor of Wuguan Leshan, everyone knows Xiao Tianyu's name. As for the others
People only know a code name, and so does their own woodcutter.
"Don't you know I'm injured?" Xiao Tianyu glanced at Lin Xiao and said lukewarmly.
"Throughout ancient and modern times, injured people drank alcohol and recovered without taking medicine." Lin Xiao responded in an old-fashioned way.
"Shenxiao, what you're talking about is probably a emotional injury, and it's just a matter of drinking to drown the sorrow. It won't get better." A round-faced patrol inspector next to him said with a smile.
"That's because you didn't drink enough." Lin Xiao laughed.
"Feng Yuan suffered internal injuries." The round-faced inspector smiled again. Someone spoke for him, and Xiao Tianyu was too lazy to speak.
"Don't worry about such details." Lin Xiao responded with a smile. The round-faced inspector couldn't hold his breath and couldn't speak. Xiao Tianyu almost suffered from internal injuries.
What does it mean not to care about such details? There is a big difference between emotional injury and internal injury.
In fact, Lin Xiao was just waiting for boredom to tease Xiao Tianyu casually. If he really wanted to drink, forget it. After tasting it last time, although he was not drunk, he didn't think the wine was very delicious.
In addition, Xiao Tianyu did suffer from internal injuries and should not drink alcohol.
"If you don't want to drink, I'll treat you to dinner at the main office." Lin Xiao said again, but he was sincere. This time he was able to kill the real warrior, and Xiao Tianyu was indispensable. He was very grateful. What should he do, share some?
Give him credit?
This idea...seems...very bad. Don't expect any merit at all.
So, treat him to a meal first to express your gratitude, and then help him the next time we have a chance to perform a mission together.
"Then go to Lin'an Restaurant." Xiao Tianyu was about to refuse, but then he thought about it and sneered.
"Okay." Lin Xiao seemed to be gritting his teeth in response.
Lin'an Restaurant, with the word "Lin'an" in Lin'an County as its name, you know it is something special. It is the most famous restaurant in the entire county. No one with a small fortune dares to just enter and have a meal. After all, after one meal,
It would cost at least dozens of taels of silver.
"Can you count me in?" The round-faced inspector's eyes lit up and he immediately asked with a greedy face. He immediately continued without waiting for Lin Xiao's answer: "Thank you, that's the decision."
Lin Xiao was a little stunned. This man was a bit thick-skinned.
"Brother Woodcutter, let's go together." Lin Xiao looked at his partner, the dull and dull man.
The woodcutter seemed to think for a while and then nodded. The four of them just walked out of Zhenwusi and headed to Lin'an Restaurant. Lin Xiao calculated silently as he walked. This meal seemed to cost hundreds of taels of silver, at least for Zhenwusi.
A month's monthly salary, but I haven't received my monthly salary yet.
Lao Xiao, this black-hearted kid.
Speaking of which, Guan Duwu hasn't asked for the ten thousand taels of silver yet, so he must find an opportunity to mention it.
During the brainstorming, the four of them arrived at Lin'an Restaurant. In terms of scale, it was indeed not comparable to the Zhenwei Restaurant in Qingtong Township. However, the current Zhenwei Restaurant is no longer the former Zhenwei Restaurant because it has changed its owner.
That guy Wang Tiande teamed up with the Black Earth Gang to plot against the Baiyun Gang, and after the fall, the Baiyun Gang did not take his life, but took his wealth as a price, and other participating merchants all paid a certain price.
At Lin'an Restaurant, four people requested a private room. Herbal food was a must, as it was good for martial arts practitioners and had some benefit for internal injuries, which was better than nothing.
The medicated meals in each restaurant are similar. The difference lies in the age and main ingredients of the medicinal materials. For example, some medicated meals use pheasant, but some use bison, etc. Lin Xiao and the other four are lucky. Lin'an Restaurant happens to be available to hunters.
He killed a ferocious beast and used its meat and bones as a medicinal diet made from centuries-old wild ginseng and other ingredients. It was a great supplement for external warriors. A large portion cost a full two hundred taels of silver. Lin Xiao's tears flowed from his mouth.
.
So fragrant.
This pot of medicinal food is the main dish, and some side dishes are included in the rest.
Two hundred and five!
A meal is as fierce as a tiger's, and it counts as two hundred and five after it is finished.
Seeing Lin Xiao's expression of pain but pretending to be cool, Xiao Tianyu suddenly felt relieved.
When returning to Zhenwu Division, Chief Lin also happened to appear.
"This time I took down a stronghold of the Yan Dynasty, and the final merit is 11,700 points." Lin Sishou's Chunshuidanfeng eyes swept past, and his voice was as warm as water and reached everyone's ears.
Lin Xiao was horrified and shocked.
Eleven thousand seven hundred points!
It's just this little, which is far from the 100,000 or 80,000 that I imagined. It's just enough to exchange for a god-controlling art with a little left over.
Then, Chief Lin asked people to move the boxes of gold and silver found in the underground secret room of Yizhuang, and opened them one after another. The pieces of silver ingots and gold ingots were arranged neatly, so... tempting, Lin Xiao
His eyes couldn't help but shine.
A silver ingot is ten taels, and a gold ingot is also ten taels. How many are there?
Next, there will be a meeting to share the spoils... ahem... and share the work.
The amount of merit and money each person gets is closely related to the performance that night. There is no better way to reward based on merit.
It can't be an equal split, that would be too bad.
However, the imperial envoy is different from the patrol. There are 11,700 merit points, of which the merit for killing the Yan Dynasty villains is deducted. The remaining 10% goes to the governor of Wuguan Leshan, and 40% goes to the imperial envoy for distribution.
, the remaining 50% is allocated by the inspectors. This is the convenience brought by the difference in position.
According to the regulations of the Zhenwu Division, killing a Yan Dynasty deputy sergeant will earn ten merit points, and killing a Yan Dynasty regular sergeant will earn twenty merit points. When Lin Xiao heard this rule, his heart was filled with tears. It was like a horse in the year of the monkey.
Only then can I collect ten thousand meritorious deeds.
Then why is the God of War so expensive? You can't give a discount, such as a 10% discount for a newbie when redeeming for the first time.
But even a 10% discount would cost a thousand merits, which is still not enough.
Killing a Yan Dynasty Tiger Piao Colonel is worth 100 meritorious deeds, and killing a Longxiang Colonel is worth 200 meritorious deeds.
Ten times the increase, if you calculate it this way, killing a martial arts master-level Yong general is only a thousand meritorious deeds.
This seems to be too little.
Lin Xiao didn't know, the main reason was that the merit points needed to exchange for the God of Control were too many. You know, the merit points needed to exchange for a first-rate qigong training method was less than 10,000 merit points, and a third-rate qigong training method required
The merit points required to redeem the method are only two to three hundred points.
After all, the God Control Technique is not in the same system as the warrior, and it is not so easy for people to redeem it.
The Yan Dynasty villains killed in Yizhuang included forty-one deputy sergeants, thirteen full-time sergeants, and five Huqiao captains. The total number was 1,170 points of merit, in addition to the top rank.
The reward for a stronghold is increased tenfold, which is 11,700 points.
It's a pity that if no one had been retained at that time, including the reward for removing the stronghold, there would have been more than 20,000 merit points.
Among the eighteen Yan Dynasty villains that Lin Xiao killed, 11 were deputy sergeants, six were sergeants, and one was a Huqiao captain, which totaled 330 points of merit. Among all the inspections,
The one who ranked second was Xiao Tianyu, who only had 90 merit points, which was far from Lin Xiao's 330 points.
Those who died in battle cannot receive merit points. There are still twenty-five patrolmen alive, and 5,850 points of merit will be distributed according to their contribution.
"Shenxiao made the greatest contribution to the inspection and was awarded two thousand merit points." As soon as Lin Si spoke his first words, everyone looked at Lin Xiao with envy.
A total of two thousand three hundred and thirty merit points!
You know, if it hadn't been for such a big event as the Yan Dynasty's stronghold was destroyed, it would be very difficult to earn merit. Not to mention more than two thousand points, even a thousand merit points would take a long time to collect.
Lin Xiao did not show any joy, but instead frowned. Everyone was worried. Is this a bastard? He was not satisfied with more than 2,000 merit points. He really wanted to beat him to death. Beat him to death.
Even the governor of Wuguan Leshan could not get so many merits, especially those who only received dozens of merits. If they were usually happy and excited, they would have to perform several tasks to accumulate so much.
But now it feels bland, it...suddenly no longer smells good.
Finally, the gold and silver treasures are divided.
There are four boxes in total, three boxes of silver ingots and one box of gold ingots. The total number is 4,500 taels of silver and 1,500 taels of gold. One tael of gold in the Dayun Dynasty can be worth a hundred taels of silver, and one thousand five hundred taels of gold is equal to
One hundred and five thousand taels of silver.
It's a huge sum of money.
Eighteen thousand taels of silver were deducted as a pension, and the remaining portion was distributed according to the ratio of one, four, and five.
Because of Lin Xiao's great contribution, he received only 20% of the 50%, which is 9,150 taels.
At this moment, Lin Xiao laughed, and everyone wanted to beat him even more. He distributed more than two thousand points of merit with a sad face, and distributed the money with a smile. Was this looking down on merit? How much did he love money.
"You come with me." Lin Sishou finally said to Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao didn't know why, but he still followed him. As Lin Sishou entered his study, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
"Secretary-in-Chief, let me make it clear first that although you are quite beautiful, I will not be fooled." Lin Xiao said righteously before stepping into the study.
"Get in." Lin Sishou almost beat him to death, then took out a piece of white jade two fingers wide and as long as a palm and handed it to Lin Xiao.
"What is this?" Lin Xiao was confused.
"Mastery of the Gods." Lin Sishou said without hesitation. Lin Xiao's eyes widened and he immediately took it. He looked left and right, but couldn't see any inscriptions on it. It was smooth and clean.
"The content of the God Control Technique is engraved on the jade slip. You need to stick it between your eyebrows and calmly concentrate to sense it." Lin Sishou's voice was as smooth as water: "This jade slip can be sensed three times. After three times, no matter whether it is successful or not, it will be sensed."
If it loses its effect, if it succeeds once, it will also lose its effect."
Lin Xiao couldn't help but stare, it was a bit mysterious, the style of painting seemed to have suddenly changed.
"With my talent, one time is too much." Lin Xiao suddenly smiled, full of pride, and then his face was full of smiles: "Master Chief, you are so kind to me. You are so kind and kind that I can't repay you...
"
"You don't need to repay me." Chief Lin smiled slightly: "The 2,330 points of merit you earned will be deducted first, and the merit points earned in the future will also be deducted until it reaches 10,000 points. As for the 9,150 points,
Both of them are returned to me as the price for me to exchange the Divine Art for you."
Lin Xiao stared at Mr. Lin as if he had been struck by lightning. He could not utter a single word. His heart was filled with darkness. He just felt that there could be such a black-hearted person in the world.
"I have redeemed the Divine Art for you, there is no possibility of going back on it." Lin Sishou did not seem to see Lin Xiao's expression, and said to himself with a smile: "If the induction fails three times, it means that
You don’t have the talent to practice the God Control Art, so those merits and money will be wasted, but the rest of the merits must be returned to me."
Lin Xiao suffered a second critical blow and was on the verge of collapse.
miserable!
Since I was born, this is the first time I have experienced such a miserable thing. It is inhumane, cruel, and miserable...
When he walked out of the study room, Lin Xiao was floating with a look of despair on his face, and everyone he met was confused.
"Shenxiao, why are you doing this?" The round-faced and thick-skinned patrol inspector codenamed Iron Wall came over and asked with concern on his face.
"Don't hold back and talk to me." Lin Xiao responded subconsciously: "I want to be quiet."
"What is going on? Who is Jingjing?" Tiebi looked suspicious, and then looked in the direction of Lin Sishou's study. Shenxiao was quite normal when he went in, but why was it abnormal when he came out? Could it be that he was inside?
What unspeakable and indescribable things happened?
Thinking of this, Tiebi shivered all over. For a moment, he felt as if... very exciting. A pair of small eyes couldn't help but shine with rays of light, full of wisdom, as if he wanted to explore some mysteries in this world.