In this world, corpse hunting has always been an outlier in the Taoist sect.
The followers of the Corpse Exorcist Sect do not pursue "ascension", but rather "act in the world". Therefore, most of the corpse exorcists spend their entire lives wallowing in the world of mortals, and very few of them go to the mountains to practice meditation.
Of course, compared to the Qing Xiu sect, the "commandments" of the Corpse Exorcist Sect are much looser. They can basically do anything secular people can do, such as drinking alcohol, eating meat, marrying wives and having children.
What they need to pay attention to is: they must not fall into evil ways, they must remember that they are still members of the Taoist sect, their minds must be upright, they must not have harmful intentions, and they must have the awareness to stand up when facing evil.
This kind of inheritance has led to the phenomenon that the average age of those who drive corpses is relatively "young".
Speaking from the top, not many people can live to be sixty; speaking from the bottom, not many people start the profession after the age of ten.
The point of "you don't live long" is actually easy to understand. If you think about it... there are no taboos on "wine, meat, and sex", so don't even think about "immortality", and the body and bones cannot be compared with those of the Qing Xiu Sect. Comparatively, coupled with the danger of their profession, very few people can die in peace in the end.
As for recruiting disciples, the vast majority of zombie sects follow the path of "the father dies and his son succeeds him" (women have stronger yin energy and are easily invaded by the evil spirit of corpses, so the corpse sect does not pass on to men) (Female), those who have no sons at home usually adopt an adopted son as a "disciple"; therefore, most of the corpse chasers learn the art from a young age, and many of them start working with their master/father when they are thirteen or fourteen years old. Son, you can start working alone when you are around twenty years old.
Take the Liang Jingshuo in front of you, for example. He was an abandoned baby who was abandoned in a cemetery. Whether it was luck or misfortune, he was picked up by a corpse hunter.
In this way, Liang Jingxuan has been learning from his master for as long as he can remember. More than ten years later, he has mastered the true teachings and started working alone. It has been more than ten years now.
According to the corpse exorcism sect, Liang Jingxuan is at his current age, between thirty and forty years old, and is at the peak of his strength as a corpse exorcist, when he can come out to "do big things."
No, at the beginning of this year, he got involved in the matter of "escorting the thirteen dead animals", and then met Sun Huang and others at Yanden Slope...
No matter what, now this disaster has occurred. Although Liang Jingxuan was not responsible for it, he cannot leave all the work of "wiping his butt" to the people of Xuanqi Sect, so now he has also come to the capital and wants to make an effort.
Tonight, he was lucky enough to come to Lin Yuancheng's rescue.
For Snake, Liang Jingshuo's unexpected appearance is not good news.
Among the Thirteen Dead Animals, Snake ranks among the bottom in terms of both combat and demonic power. It cannot be compared with the "Ox" and "Monkey" that have appeared before. In addition, it has just been severely injured by Lin Yuancheng with a talisman. If at this moment If it were to face off against Liang Jingshuo again, it would be really tough...
Therefore, after hearing Liang Jingxuan's first spell, Snake, seeing that the situation was not good, could only suppress his anger towards Lin Yuancheng and quickly turned around and ran away.
A few seconds later, as the snake turned into a black smoke and fled away, the space in front of Lin and Liang's eyes changed significantly. Lin Yuancheng felt a strange "sense of detachment", and then he felt that the surrounding temperature seemed to suddenly change. The child has risen.
In the blink of an eye, he found himself back in the broken house. The house had not collapsed, and the three companions were also sleeping soundly in the house.
If Liang Jingxuan, a man who hadn't been here before, suddenly appeared in the house, Lin Yuancheng might have suspected that everything just happened was just a dream.
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Time returns to the present.
At noon, the Young Master's Mansion.
Han Yu, who was about to enjoy lunch, received an unexpected guest.
This man's surname was Geng, his given name was Daqing, and his courtesy name was Shougong. He was the Minister of Punishment of the current dynasty.
This Master Geng is also a strange person. Although he holds a high position among the six ministers, he is not good at party politics and has no ambitions. His only hobby in life is "making inventions", and his inventions do not matter what their original intentions are. , most of them can be used as instruments of torture in the end, so his works can be seen everywhere from the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, to Jinyiwei, Dongchang...
Another characteristic of this person is that he likes to "visit" the homes of other ministers in the court.
He doesn't care if you are a traitor or a loyal minister. He will go to whoever has money. And ten times out of ten, he will come at meal time. He will not say anything else when he comes. He will eat you first and then chat with you. They chatted a little, drank a few drinks, and then opened their mouths to borrow money.
He doesn't borrow much, usually around ten taels, and no more than twenty taels at most.
For a Beijing official, can this little money be a big deal? When most people heard the amount he borrowed, their first reaction was: "Isn't it just ten taels of silver? Mr. Geng is too polite, why do you need an IOU? Just take it, it's not enough for you to talk, I'll give it up." I’ll get you another one hundred and eighty taels.”
In this way, Mr. Geng succeeded repeatedly in borrowing money for food, and it worked every time.
But over time, everyone discovered a problem - this guy really didn't pay back the money.
Even if you are not afraid of losing face and asking for help, he will spread his hands and tell you that he has a new project recently and your money has been used as research funding.
Of course, he won't stare at a certain person repeatedly in a short period of time and do that kind of thing...
There are so many high-ranking officials in the court now. Mr. Geng goes to this house on the first day of the lunar month, and then goes to that house on the fifteenth day of the lunar month. A year may have passed in circles. If he comes to your house again after a year, you may not even remember last year. He asked how much you borrowed.
It was such a strange man who came to pay a visit to Han Yu's house today.
Mr. Han looked at him and said, "Hey, Mr. Geng asked to see you during lunch. So don't ask. It must be "it's my turn." Just let the housekeeper prepare the money.
After a while, a servant ushered Mr. Geng into the room. This guy was also real. He didn’t even say a polite word. He opened his mouth and said: "Hey! Mr. Han, you are eating."
Han Yu thought to himself: "Why don't you eat? You won't come even if it's not lunch time."
But when I think about it, I still have to be polite on the surface: "Ah, yes... I wonder if Mr. Geng is today..."
Before he could even finish his greeting, on the other side, Geng Daqing was seen bending over the table and exclaiming with a look of surprise: "Hey, Mr. Han, this must be the legendary pork, right?"
Han Yu didn't know how to respond to these words, so he could only complain secretly in his heart: If all the honest officials in the past and present were as shameless and capable as you, then 80% of us who are corrupt officials would be forced to rape by you. For good.
"Master Geng, if you haven't had lunch yet... why don't we come together?" Han Yu didn't bother to talk nonsense to him, and just handed over what the other party was waiting for.
And Geng Daqing immediately smiled and replied with a line that was completely unexpected by Han Yu but could still make his blood pressure soar: "Then why are you so embarrassed?"
To make a long story short, after a while, the dishes on the table had changed a lot, and the two of them had had a few drinks together.
Master Geng, who was sixty to seventy percent full, started chatting: "Hey, Master Han, I heard that the case of the mysterious death of the consort Prince Consort was handed over to you by the Holy Spirit?"
Even if I don't mention this, I will get angry when I mention Han Yu.
Yesterday, Han Yu rushed to the Army and Horse Department in the south of the city and worked all morning. He made all arrangements and was waiting for Yun Shili to come to the battle line. Who knew that no one came after waiting for a whole day? Wasn't his work in vain?
"Yeah...yes." But Han Yu was an old fox after all. He quickly thought that no matter how weird the Geng in front of him was, he was also the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. He had the right to say in the investigation of the case. If he could By gaining support from others, my set of lies (which are actually very close to the truth) can be implemented more leisurely. "Yesterday I went to the Military and Horse Division in the south of the city to check, and I did get a lot of results. If nothing unexpected happens, , this case should be..."
"Hey~ Mr. Han." Unexpectedly, Geng Daqing interrupted his narration, "I just asked casually. I wanted to say if there is anything I need help with, you can ask it and I will help if I can, but this The details of the case... just don't tell me, the Holy Father didn't arrange for me to investigate. If you tell me all these inside stories, am I not exceeding my authority?"
When Han Yu heard this, he really wanted to spit on Geng Daqing on the spot.
At this moment, Han Yu didn't say anything, but he was cursing in his heart: "This guy surnamed Geng seems careless and shameless, but in fact he is as wise as a fool. You know what I want to do as soon as I open my mouth, right? Then let's What are you still talking about? Take your ten taels of silver and get out of here."
Everyone, take a look, this money has not been lent out yet. Master Han has already acquiesced that these twelve taels belong to others. Just tell me how capable Geng Daqing is.
And just when Han Yu was about to darken his face and issue an eviction order on the grounds of "too much alcohol"...
"Why don't we talk about something else." Geng Daqing was also quick with his words. The first sentence just blocked people's words, and the next one came right after, "By the way, someone broke into the palace this morning and even surprised the Holy Master. Have you heard about it?"
"Ah?" When Han Yu heard this, his mouth opened wide. Obviously he didn't know about this at all (Zhao Chao did not go to court early every day, there was no court on this day, and it took less than half a day for this to happen, so It is still being passed down by word of mouth, and many ministers don’t know yet), "When did it happen? Your Majesty, he..."
"Don't panic, the emperor is fine." Geng Daqing answered, took another sip of wine, and then said with joy, "I heard that this is what happened...
"Early this morning, at the Fengxian Hall, there were three people who, by some unknown method, passed through the heavy defenses of the imperial city without anyone noticing. Like divine soldiers descending from the sky, they suddenly came to the front of the carriage. .
"The Imperial Guards on duty didn't know their origins, and even though they fought with them for dozens of rounds, they couldn't hurt them at all.
"Fortunately, the Imperial Master was also present at the time. He quickly recognized that one of the three people was an outsider like himself, so he stopped the fight and resolved the misunderstanding...
"It turns out that of these three, one is a master of the Immortal family with the Taoist name Fudozi, and the other two are young knights known as 'Eastern Harmony and Western Poison' in the world of martial arts.
"These three people are here to warn the Holy One that there will be a catastrophic disaster in the capital soon..."
"Wait a minute!" When Han Yu heard this, he no longer wanted to listen to the other party's exaggeration. He quickly interrupted and asked, "Are the two people you mentioned as 'Eastern Harmony and Western Poison' one named Sun Yi?" "Xie, one is named Huang Donglai?"
"Yes." Geng Daqing nodded, "Master Han, have you heard of them?" He paused for a moment, as if he remembered something, "Oh, yes, you should have heard of it...it's the 'cesspit murderer' Huang Donglai', the one Mr. Zhang has been mentioning in the past two years...yes, Huang Shaoxia is the 'Western Poison'."
Now Han Yu's mind was in a mess. Not long ago, Sun Huang and others were just a group of quacks like ants in his eyes, and they were the "scapegoats" he used to divulge the truth about Ma Xuansheng's case.
But what Lord Geng said just now completely disrupted Han Yu's plan - these people actually met the emperor? And from what I heard, not only were they not punished, but they were also recognized by the Imperial Master, who was hard-pressed and unable to win over, so they couldn't be touched casually...
It has to be said that Fudozi's strategy of "breaking the situation from above" was indeed very effective. It immediately turned everything that Han Yu was busy with yesterday into useless work, and also covered up many of the troubles they had caused before. .
Master Han was really weak this time. He thought for a few seconds and then asked quickly: "These three people...how are they doing now?"
Geng Daqing was also a chatterer, and he kept chatting with relish: "What's wrong? Ha... That's amazing. I was shocked when I heard it." He also gave it a try, After taking another sip of wine, he spoke slowly, "This morning at Qianqing Palace, after the emperor had a secret conversation with these three people and the imperial master, he named these three as 'Celestial Masters to Protect the Country' and presented them to the emperor on the spot. I was given three gold medals and ordered that the holder of the gold medals can... 'do things cheaply' in this capital city."
(End of chapter)
