"Um?"
Qin Shaoyou noticed the incense falling on Cai Guizhong's coffin and couldn't help being slightly stunned.
The person who also made the discovery was Su Tingyu.
She sniffed and said with a confused expression: "I just smelled the incense again, but it disappeared quickly."
After listening to Su Tingyu's words, Qin Shaoyou knew that what he just saw was not an illusion.
He looked at Cai Guizhong's coffin, then raised his head and glanced at the statue of the City God in the temple, and suddenly smiled.
Zhu Xiucai, who was standing next to him, immediately came up and asked curiously: "Sir, what are you laughing at?"
Qin Shaoyou did not tell his findings and guesses, he just shook his head and said: "Nothing."
Then he called everyone on their way.
When he got on his horse, Qin Shaoyou took another look at Cai Guizhong's coffin and sighed in his heart: "Cai Guizhong, this kid, seems to have a lot of good fortune."
Everyone escorted Cai Guizhong's coffin and quickly left the Chenghuang Temple.
Because they wanted to investigate the night watchman in Lingjie Town, Qin Shaoyou and the others did not change back to the night watchman uniforms, but still wore casual clothes and dressed up like a caravan in order to prevent them from disturbing the situation.
As a result, not long after leaving the City God's Temple, the night watchman responsible for patrolling patrols discovered someone snooping in the dark.
Several fast horses galloped out and quickly captured the man.
He was still an acquaintance—Zhao Si, who had previously blocked the road to report a crime and asked for help.
After some interrogation, Qin Shaoyou and the others knew the reason why Zhao Si came to spy.
After reporting the crime yesterday, Zhao Si returned home and boiled water with willow branches, calamus and other things to take a bath.
Because he was afraid that there would be residual evil spirits, he washed very carefully, except that he barely rubbed his own skin off.
However, Zhao Si was not relieved after taking a bath.
When it got completely dark, he became nervous and restless.
Not only are they afraid that Qin Shaoyou and others have false reputations and cannot stop the life-buying ghosts, but they are also afraid that Qin Shaoyou and others are too strong and the life-buying ghosts will not dare to go to them to buy lives, and will instead vent their anger on themselves.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Si couldn't sleep at all, and he didn't dare to sleep.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Si suddenly heard a noise.
After careful identification, he discovered that the noise was coming from the direction of the abandoned City God Temple.
He knew that Qin Shaoyou and others were staying in the abandoned City God's Temple, so he guessed that the noise was because Qin Shaoyou and others were fighting with a life-buying evil spirit?
The village where Zhao Si was located was some distance away from the abandoned City God's Temple. Although he heard the noise, he didn't hear it clearly, and he didn't know who had the upper hand and who was at a disadvantage.
After the noise ended, Zhao Si became even more nervous. He kept praying in his heart, hoping that the gods and Buddhas in the sky would bless Qin Shaoyou and others to kill the evil ghost who bought life. At the same time, he was afraid that Qin Shaoyou and the others would not be able to defeat the evil ghost who bought life. Then He will die very miserably.
After finally holding on until dawn, Zhao Si, who had not slept all night, did not bother to rest and catch his breath, so he hurried out of the house and ran to the City God's Temple to see what was going on.
"How's the situation going? Heh... According to me, you want to come and see if we are dead, right?"
Zhu Xiucai sneered after hearing Zhao Si's words.
He did not embarrass Zhao Si. After laughing, he said: "The evil ghost who bought life has been eliminated. You can go back in peace."
Then he shook his head: "I told you yesterday to reassure you, but you don't trust us!"
After Zhao Si heard that the life-buying evil spirit had been eliminated, he was overjoyed and smiled broadly. After hearing what Zhu Xiucai said later, he was a little frightened and was at a loss.
"Okay, scholar, don't scare him." Qin Shaoyou saw this and comforted him: "The evil ghost who bought life has been brought to justice. You don't have to worry anymore. But in the future, you can no longer pick up things of unknown origin."
"Yes, I understand. I will definitely not pick up things again in the future." Zhao Si nodded repeatedly.
After this experience, he really didn't dare to take advantage of others anymore.
If some people are greedy, they will lose their lives.
"You're here just in time. Please make a sign before leaving, so that we won't look for you again later."
Qin Shaoyou planned to deal with the night watchmen here, so he naturally wanted to collect evidence of their crimes.
Dereliction of duty leads to the expansion of evil spirits and the increase in victims. It is undoubtedly a serious crime!
Zhao Si's mood was unstable yesterday afternoon, and it was getting late and he didn't take any notes, so Qin Shaoyou didn't let him draw any notes.
After bringing the life-buying evil spirit to justice in the evening, Qin Shaoyou asked Zhu Xiucai to record the entire case in detail.
His original plan was to send someone to find Zhao Si to sign and draw a bond, but he didn't expect that Zhao Si came to the door himself, which saved the trouble.
Zhao Si couldn't write, so he put his finger prints on the transcript, thanked Qin Shaoyou and others, and returned home happily.
I was really nervous when I arrived and relaxed when I left.
After sending Zhao Si away, everyone continued on their way.
There were no more surprises this time, and we soon arrived at Lingjie Town.
In order to guard against monsters and wild beasts, Lingjie Town was also surrounded by city walls, but the scale was much smaller than that of Mianyuan County.
But when passing the city gate, Qin Shaoyou did not see the night watchman.
According to the regulations of the Demon Suppression Department, in towns, there should be night watchmen and city gate guards to check passing passers-by and caravans to reduce the chance of demons sneaking into the town.
After Qin Shaoyou stuffed a few pieces of silver into the city gate guards, he used his [Skillful Tongue] to fool around, and soon became familiar with these city gate guards.
Not only did they call him brothers, but some people even proposed to cut off chicken heads and burn yellow paper with him to become brothers with different surnames.
This long-sleeved social skills greatly shocked Taoist Wenzhu, who was witnessing it for the first time.
And Qin Shaoyou also learned the reason why the night watchman was not here from the city gate guards who wanted to introduce the sisters to him.
It's very simple, just be lazy.
A city gate guard said: "At this time, they are either listening to music in the Goulan, or spending money in the gambling house... These night watchmen live a very comfortable life. They are not seen at all except midnight every day. people."
When Zhu Xiucai heard this, he was very envious.
Qin Shaoyou frowned slightly and asked, "Aren't they afraid that doing this will allow monsters to sneak into the town?"
Several city gate guards laughed together and shook their heads, saying, brother, although you are leading a business trip, you are still too young.
The leading city gate guard looked around and lowered his voice:
"Not only are they not afraid, they are also eager for the demon to sneak into the town, preferably to cause a few lives.
Only in this way can the people in the town pay and beg them to exterminate the monsters.
You just arrived today, so you don’t know that the night before yesterday, there was a case of demons hurting people in the Shigu Temple in Lingjie Town.
Several monks and pilgrims died suddenly and mysteriously in the temple.
When the group of night watchmen arrived at the scene, they said it was a sneaky act and took the opportunity to make a lot of money.
That's it, they still think it's too little. So I have been working hard these past two days, so I want to get the people in the town to spend more money and ask them to catch ghosts and eliminate demons..."
Qin Shaoyou understood.
The night watchmen here in Lingjie Town not only neglected their duties, but also played a trick of supporting the bandits to show their own self-respect.
Their ability to catch monsters and kill ghosts is not yet clear, but Qin Shaoyou has seen their ability to make money by taking cards.
Qin Shaoyou winked at Zhu Xiucai, who understood. After leaving the city gate, he took out a small notebook from his arms and recorded the new evidence in it.
(I wish everyone a happy New Year’s Eve and all the best~)
