Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 13 The County School Haunting Incident
A quarter of an hour later, the two sat down in the elegant room of Piaoxianglou.

Shi Xiaohan couldn't wait to grab the recipes from the shop's second-hand shop, and while flipping through the pages quickly, he gushed out a long list of dish names:

"Bring a plate of beggar chicken, a bird's nest in clear soup, a bowl of hot and sour mullet eggs, and sweet and sour carp..."

The shop assistant's hand speed obviously couldn't keep up with her speech speed, so she couldn't help shouting: "Guest officer, can you speak a little slower? I'm almost unable to write it down!"

Gu Xu sat opposite her and closed his eyes to rest, silently thinking about the improvement plan for the "killing ghost" in his mind.

What kind of dishes Shi Xiaohan ordered, how many dishes he ordered, he didn't care at all.

It wasn't him who paid for it anyway.

Anyway, Shi Xiaohan can always eat every dish clean and never waste food.

Another quarter of an hour later, the shop assistant brought the dishes one after another, filling the table.

"It's dinner, it's dinner!" Shi Xiaohan cheered, and immediately filled himself a large bowl of rice, and began to gobble it, making a "chu chu chu" sound from time to time.

Against her background, Gu Xu was as gentle as a lady.

He didn't rush, first wiped his hands with a napkin, then drank the soup first, then the vegetables, and finally ate the staple food, chewing slowly, and tasting it quietly.

For him, the most important things in life are undoubtedly eating and practicing.

Food is something that needs to be enjoyed.

Taste slow food to help health.

Like Shi Xiaohan, it is simply a waste of time.

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Full of wine and rice, empty cups and plates.

Shi Xiaohan stretched his waist, beckoned, and asked the store owner to check out.

"Guest officer, the total is five taels of silver!" The shop owner had a diligent smile on his face, and handed the bill to Shi Xiaohan with both hands.

When Shi Xiaohan took the bill, without looking at it, he shoved the bank note into the boss's hand and said, "Take it."

The boss smiled more enthusiastically.

He likes this kind of customer who pays easily and never haggles.

Gu Xu next to him silently calculated in his heart-five taels of silver, equivalent to his two and a half months' salary.Such high-consumption places should be visited as little as possible in the future.

Of course, except for prostitution.

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After dinner, the two returned the same way.

At this time, the lights on the street were dim, and the crowd was gradually thinning.

"Gu Xu, what are your plans for tonight?"

"Go back to the Exorcism Division and take another quest to earn more merits."

"You are really... your mind is full of meritorious deeds." Shi Xiaohan pouted, obviously not satisfied with his answer.

"Because I want to follow the female hero of the time, kill more ghosts, and benefit more people," Gu Xu chuckled, "try to be a hero who acts for the heavens like the female hero of the time."

He obviously knows what Shi Xiaohan likes to listen to.

Sure enough, Shi Xiaohan quickly turned his anger into joy, stood on tiptoe and patted him on the shoulder: "Work hard! I support you! Don't fall for the prestige of our Exorcism Division!"

Gu Xu nodded and agreed, thinking that this girl is really coaxing.

He's been promoted recently.

That competitor named Ma Qin was threatening—a higher level than him, more seniority than him, and a household registration in a big city. He was definitely a tough guy to deal with.

He must hurry up, do more tasks, and try to improve his impression score in the eyes of the examiner.

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In this Daqi Dynasty with serious introversion and increasingly fierce competition for careers, Gu Xu is obviously far more than just one person who is anxious about his future.

At this moment, on the other side of Yishui County, a young man with a sallow face in a blue cotton gown came to a fortune-telling booth with a sad face.

"Master, can you help me test the officer's luck?" As he said, he took out a copper coin from his pocket and placed it on the fortune teller's desk.

This fortune teller calls himself "Zhang Banxian".

He was sitting next to the table with his legs crossed. He was wearing ragged clothes, had a shaggy beard, and held a tattered fan in his hand. He looked like a beggar, and he didn't have the temperament of a "half immortal" at all.

On the wall behind him, there are two apricot-yellow pennants.

The pennant is embroidered with a couplet—

The first couplet: Four pillars and eight characters, calculate the misfortunes and fortunes in the world;
The next couplet: Five elements and gossip, breaking out the good and bad omen in the world.

"How do you want to take the test? Look at the pictures, test the characters, grab the signature, or start the six-line hexagram?"

"You know all this?"

"of course."

"Then... let's test the words! Please help me to see if I have a chance to be promoted recently."

After that, the young man in the blue shirt picked up the brush on the table and wrote the word "horse" on the paper.

The fortune-teller "Zhang Banxian" stared at the word "horse" and said nothing for a long time.

"Does it mean success?" the blue-shirted youth urged, with expectations and anxiety in his tone.

"No," Zhang Banxian shook his head again and again, "Let's go to the sun, but it's night, there's no sun, so it won't work."

The young man in blue shirt looked stiff.

However, he was still a little unwilling, and wrote the word "Qin" on the paper.

"Then you can help me test the word 'qin' again!" he said.

At the same time, he thought to himself: Qin, Qin Ding.This time there is no accident, it should be able to measure the result of "selected by the superior and prosperous by the officials".

But Zhang Banxian was still shaking his head.

"The radical of the word 'qin' is 'jin', which originally means that the wealth is rolling and rising, which is a sign of good luck; unfortunately, there is a word 'owing' next to "jin", which inadvertently becomes 'owing money', which can be said to be interrupted. , the grand plan is difficult to develop, and there is no hope of promotion.”

This blue-shirted youth is Gu Xu's competitor, Ma Qin, a second-level cultivator from Qingzhou Prefecture.

He's been so anxious lately that he can't sleep.

the reason is simple.

On the one hand, he is almost 35 years old now, but he still has nothing to do—no real estate, no wife, no black hat, and he is still a low-level official.

The so-called "loser in life" refers to people like him.

When acquaintances saw him, they couldn't help but say: "Ma Qin, Ma Qin, you are almost in the age of confusion, why are you still so miserable?"

On the other hand, his competitors are just too scary.

Ma Qin originally thought that when he came to a remote small town such as Yishui County from Qingzhou Prefecture, which was full of talents, he could avoid fierce competition, easily obtain the desired official position, and become a high-ranking person.

But he never expected that a terrifying monster would appear in Yishui County.

According to the gossip that Ma Qin heard from his boss, the freak named Gu Xu had already started to prepare to break through the second realm after less than a year of cultivation—

Is this the speed that a normal human should have?
Alas, the back waves of the Yi River pushed the front waves, and the front waves died on the beach.

The future is terrifying, the latter is terrifying!

As an ordinary clerk with nothing but ten years of work experience, Ma Qin was so sad that he wanted to cry.

He reached out and touched the top of his head, only to feel that the hair was getting thinner.

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Gu Xu returned to the exorcism department alone.

He first browsed the bulletin board and chose a task that was not too difficult for himself.

The reward is forty meritorious deeds, which is equivalent to killing four monsters.

The task description is very simple: "The county school in Yishui County is haunted. I hope the Exorcism Department will send someone to solve it as soon as possible."

The county school is a school for students to study.

In the Daqi Dynasty, after all, there were only a few people with the qualifications for cultivation, and the imperial examination was still the promotion level of most ordinary people.

According to the imperial examination system of Daqi, candidates who pass the Tongsheng Examination are allowed to enter the county school to study in order to participate in the higher-level township examination, which is called "enrollment".

Eight years ago, when Yishui County was attacked by ghosts, the county school was also destroyed, and many teachers were killed and injured.

A year after the disaster subsided, the county school was rebuilt.

As the students returned to the lecture hall, the scars of the past seemed to have been smoothed out.

until tonight.

Yishui County teacher Zhou Siqi was forced to return to the county school late at night to pick up the key because he forgot the key in the drawer.

Unexpectedly, in this supposedly empty school, I heard the sound of reading aloud.

Cadence, neat and loud.

Zhou Jiaoyu was so frightened that his face was pale and his scalp was numb, so he quickly ran out of the county school and asked the guards at the gate to inform the Exorcism Division of the matter.

So now, this task has been handed over to Gu Xu.

"I came back in time!" Gu Xu secretly complained.

At the same time, he took out three copper coins again, and used the six-line hexagram method to predict the fortune of this mission.

The result is "do the top and do the next", which is the hexagram of "doing for the sky", which indicates great auspiciousness and prosperity.

So Gu Xu showed a happy smile on his face.

With the remaining "killing ghosts" in his hand, he set off boldly.

"Come back early!" Chen Jisheng, who was working at the desk, raised his head and instructed him, "If you can't beat him, run away. Don't be brave."

"Don't worry," Gu Xu smiled slightly, "I'm good at it."

After that, he stepped out of the exorcism department and stepped into the vast darkness.

　I'm very sorry, because the chapter at noon was blocked by the starting point, I thought the release failed, so I reposted it again, resulting in repeated chapters and affecting everyone's reading experience.

　　Duplicate chapters have now been removed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)