chewing dragon

Chapter 162 Household Affairs

After Qi Jingzhi's words fell, Cui's old servant did not answer immediately.

He raised his head slightly, first took a look at Cui Zitao, saw that his young master did not object, then lowered his eyes again, turned his body to Qi Jingzhi, and bowed slightly.

Compared to the reply to Cui Zitao just now, this time Cui's old servant cherished words like gold, and only said four words softly: "I don't know."

"Oh?"

Qi Jingzhi looked at the old servant, nodded thoughtfully, and then exchanged a glance with Wei Bao, both of whom could see the suspicion in the other's eyes, after all, only the two of them knew that the White Cloud Palace was very important to Jin Dao Wei. The meaning of shi is quite unusual.

Cui Zitao did not doubt him, and immediately turned his head to look at Wei Bao and said, "It's still a few adults who have thought carefully. If there are so many remains of the Wei family, if they are parked at home, how can you take care of them alone? Not only is it easy to make mistakes, but also It will make the neighbors uneasy, after all...your relatives and relatives are all dead."

"Looking at the city, only the back garden of Baiyun Palace is big enough and clean, and it is also a place blessed by the gods. In the past, most of the big families in the county chose to stay there for the elderly. By the way, I heard that Wei Gong A large amount of sesame oil money must be enshrined to Baiyun Palace, and now that the Wei family is going to have a funeral, everyone in Baiyun Palace will definitely do their best."

These words sound very reasonable, even if it is only for the corpses of the clansmen not to be infested by snakes, insects, rats, thieves, robbers, and even evil things, they cannot continue to lie at home like this, let alone the Baiyun Palace of Lingling. The order of the big shots in the county, the only one left, Jindao Wei, actually didn't have the confidence and room to refuse.

So Wei Bao paid for it, and the Changle county government came forward to call all the people in the county who were doing the business of carrying and burying.

The yamen servants guarding the alley of Wei's house shouted a few times, and after a little screening, they also let in the relatives and neighbors of the Wei family.

When collecting the dead, because the incident happened too hastily, except for a few older Wei family members who ordered coffins early, even if Wei Bao scoured all the coffin shops in the city, it was still a lot worse. The lower servants could only be placed on the temporarily removed door panels, wrapped tightly in the bedding and clothes of their lifetime, and then carried out hastily, looking at them they felt desolate and shabby.

After working for a long time, the huge corpse-carrying team finally set off.

On the road from Weijiaxiang to Baiyun Palace, there are crowds of people on both sides of the street, and there are many spectators. At the beginning, there were many people exclaiming, laughing and pointing, but as the coffins and door panels passed by. , as if there was no end, the spectators gradually fell silent, and finally became completely silent.

By the time all the dead were placed in the largest garden in the backyard of Baiyun Palace, the sky had already dimmed.

During this process, Wei Bao was too busy to touch the ground.

He first gathered his relatives and neighbors together, suppressed the strange thoughts of these people with a red gold knife, then counted and identified the dead bodies, distributed the coffin door panels, commanded the people in the barn to carry them, and closed and locked the Wei family's houses one by one. Please take care of the watchman Tori. He has to go back and forth along the way, hand over to the supervisors of Baiyun Palace, etc., and finally settle the money one by one.

Qi Jingzhi has been following the corpses of the dead members of the Wei family, and then sits in the back garden of Baiyun Palace in the name of Zhenmoyuan, and does not allow idlers to approach.

Until sunset, Wei Bao still did not come back, and the people in the backyard gradually thinned out, until finally only he and Ban Nu were left.

What surprised Qi Jingzhi was that, after seeing the day passed, the Jiuzhen County Zhenmodu Lieutenant's Office never sent anyone from the beginning to the end.

Not only that, but the Marquis of Anfeng's Mansion, the Governor's Yamen, and the Commander's Yamen of the county army also remained silent, and I don't know if they really didn't care, or they had other plans.

Qi Jingzhi raised his eyes and looked around, but saw that under the shadow of the trees in the courtyard, the residual red sky fell on more than 100 coffins and door panels, and the bleak evening wind blew, and the fallen leaves rolled down, and he felt infinitely desolate in his heart.

On the way to Liaozhou, the young man had imagined the appearance of Baiyun Palace in Jiuzhen County more than once, and the appearance of the dragon claw locust tree with a tree hole, but he never imagined that he really arrived here, and what he saw before him was like this A sight.

In the unspeakable silence, someone stepped on the fallen leaves, walking unhurriedly, making rhythmic rustling sounds.

The young swordsman sitting on Ban Nu's body focused his eyes, followed the sound to look at the old man walking towards him, and said after a moment of silence: "It's so late, the old man didn't go back to Yamen with Cui County Magistrate, but at this moment Come here alone, what advice do you have?"

Cui's old servant stopped when he heard the sound, still behaved as he did when he first met, his seemingly humble behavior reveals the arrogance deeply buried in his bones.

He lowered his eyes, did not look at the dead people of the Wei family in the garden, nor did he look at Qi Jingzhi, bowed slightly to the young man, and said indifferently: "Qi Jishi, you spied on my young master for no reason today. Li! If the old man doesn't come to ask for an explanation, won't it make outsiders think that there is no one in the Cui family?"

Hearing this, Qi Jingzhi's face showed no abnormality. As early as when he was in Wei's house, he could see that this old servant of the Cui family was cultivated, but he didn't know whether the peeping in the mouth of the other party referred to the time of Yinsha Blood Flame, or later. That time of observing the wind and observing the color?

He smiled casually, bowed his fists to this very loyal old servant, and said bluntly: "Magistrate Cui has evil things entangled around him, Qi was surprised for a while, so he glanced at him twice, and I hope the old man will not be surprised!"

Hearing this, Cui's old servant finally couldn't help raising his head, and looked at Qi Jingzhi in surprise, as if he didn't think that the young man in front of him was worthy of his attention until now.

Qi Jingzhi was also surprised, because he saw it clearly, the old servant of the Cui family was not surprised that his young master had suffered an evil spirit, but that Qi Jingzhi was able to see through it at a glance.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Qi Jingzhi immediately became vigilant and stood up slowly.

Unexpectedly, the astonishment on Cui's old servant's face was fleeting, and he recovered his previous arrogance and indifference almost in the blink of an eye. The appearance of being exposed by people did not become angry from embarrassment, let alone violent and murderous.

I saw that this old servant of the Cui family seemed to have considered his words, and then slowly said word by word: "I didn't expect Qi Jishi to be young, but a pair of tricks are so vicious! It's just that the old man has a word of advice... "

"Like the so-called big clans like the Jindao Wei clan that rises and disappears suddenly, Jiji is willing to mess with it, and no one really cares. I, the Cui clan, are not those small families who are easy to manipulate. It’s just a few housework, and there’s no need for outsiders to comment on it!”

"Housework?"

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help frowning, always feeling that the other party's understatement should not be the same thing as what he said.

"That's right! I want to teach Qi Jishi to know that the Holy King of Jiuhe has a son, Ding Gong, who is the first ancestor of the Ding family with the surname Jiang. The ancestor. My Cui family has a long history, and I have always been close to An Fenghou, so no one can meddle in family affairs!"

This became more and more like a chicken talking to a duck, and Qi Jingzhi suddenly felt that he couldn't laugh or cry.

The old servant in front of him opened his mouth about his family background but kept his mouth shut about his origins, but he only used the Ding family's name as Marquis Anfeng to overwhelm others. It can be seen that the Cui family does not have any prominent figures nowadays.

For this kind of old guy who clings to the glory of his ancestors, especially if he is just a domestic servant who pretends to be a tiger, the young man really looks down on him.

At this moment, footsteps sounded again from the gate of the garden, but it was Wei Bao who looked tired and came wearing stars and moons.

"That's all the old man said, and I hope that Qi Ji can do it for himself."

Cui's old servant said this lightly, and then retreated respectfully.

When he and Wei Bao passed by, although he also bowed, he didn't even lift his eyelids.

Wei Bao gave the old servant a strange look, and then saluted Qi Jingzhi: "Today we have Lord Lao En!"

Qi Jingzhi shook his head, and didn't ask how the tall and thin young man took care of the many trivial matters outside, but said with emotion: "At the beginning, I fell into a dream with Duke Wei, and there was a white cloud temple in the dream, and the temple master looked like a Tiger-looking, even the little Taoist priests in the temple are tiger-headed and tiger-brained."

"I passed by the hall today and saw that the God of Siqiu had a tiger's face and a human body with white hair and tiger claws, and was wrapped in a long snake and held a copper axe. I realized that the white cloud temple in the dream that was born because of Wei Gong's thoughts was not real. It’s just that the snake and the tiger that came from the red golden saber are also closely related to this Baiyun Palace. Presumably, Duke Wei has been thinking hard about the way of the autumn god’s golden punishment in the mouth of that fairy all these years.”

About the dream in the pillow, Qi Jingzhi said vaguely, Wei Bao also half understood, just thought he wanted to be like Wei Gong, and he would start from this aspect in the future.

So the second-generation Jindao Wei nodded and said: "I have heard from my uncle that Daqi has the largest number of Baiyun palaces in the six states of the East China Sea, and among the six states, Liaozhou has the largest number. Among them, Jiuzhen County Baiyun Palace is the largest among the counties in Liaozhou, even the one in Liaozhou City can't compare, so there must be some way."

When Qi Jingzhi heard the words, he secretly said in his heart that it was true.

Mencius said that "the holy king teaches with the way of God", its purpose is not only to educate the people of the world, but also to tame the wildness of the earth with the people of the world, so in the six states of the East China Sea where the golden spirit and golden demon are most active Autumn God's Baiyun Palace is also the most prosperous.

It can be deduced from this that the so-called gods of the eight masters should all have similar functions, and they do not appear holy, just because they do not really have their gods, but only in the hearts of the people.

Perhaps because of this, these gods don't even have a name, because they don't need it.

Wu Chengsheng conferred the gods of the eight masters, not to use the thoughts of the people to support the gods, but to gather the power of the people to subdue the wild nature of the earth, so that the Dharma of Shengjiang can take root deeply.

"Well, the only exception is Chi You, the soldier lord. This divine lord, who has the head of a cow like the Emperor Yan, probably has some other secrets about him."

Seeing that the young man did not speak, Wei Bao went on to say: "It's getting late now, and benefactor has been tired for two days and one night and has not closed his eyes. Please go to eat and rest quickly. I greeted the prison house of Baiyun Palace, and I have done it for benefactor. The public has left the guest house and the food and drink."

Qi Jingzhi shook his head and said with a smile: "Since you are here, I happen to go out on something, and I will use the food and wine when I come back."

Wei Bao was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he said decisively: "If your benefactor has something to do, you can tell Wei Bao to do it. Although Wei is only one person now, he is willing to do his best!"

"It's nothing serious, but I didn't expect that I would meet an old enemy here after being thousands of miles away from home!"

Seeing Wei Bao's sudden change of color, Qi Jingzhi waved his hand again: "I just think it looks like it, but I'm not completely sure. I'll go over and check it out, but you don't need to pay attention, just stay here and watch the spirit with peace of mind."

While speaking, he had already stepped on Bannu's back.

One person and one beast did not go through the main entrance of the garden, but ran directly towards the courtyard wall on one side.

Wei Bao stared blankly, and saw Bannu leaping up from the wall, pedaling with four claws, and grabbed a large piece of wall skin, at the same time, his fat body was lifted up again, and he was about to go higher than the wall .

Immediately afterwards, Wei Bao felt a flash in front of his eyes, and the man and the beast suddenly disappeared.

Seeing this, he immediately remembered Engong's ability to appear and disappear during the day, and most of the anxious look on his face disappeared. He turned to look at the clansmen who were separated from life and death, and couldn't help heaving a long sigh.

But Qi Jingzhi came out of Baiyun Palace, with one arm around Ban Nu's neck and the other holding a silver candlestick, he ran wildly on the street.

The street was deserted, few shops were still open, and few pedestrians were seen. It seems that the more than 100 corpses of Jindao Wei's family really frightened the people in Jiuzhen County.

When passing the Town God's Temple, Qi Jingzhi took a hasty glance, but saw that the temple was dark and gloomy, with no light shining through the walls.

Even if he held the flame of blood high, stepped on the netherworld, and rushed past the temple gate, no ghosts and gods appeared to stop him.

Qi Jingzhi shook his head secretly, not intending to get to the bottom of it.

Now that the red gold knife has been returned, the Wei family's bloody case has no clue, so it's important to go and see his enemy first.

Not long after, he drove Ban Nu to an official office, and the plaque in front of the door clearly wrote: "Changle County Office."

One person and one beast quickly went around to the back street, Ban Nu went to lie under the wall of the back office, Qi Jingzhi climbed up the wall, looked around, and had already spotted a place where a light was on.

In a small courtyard that wasn't too big, Cui Zitao looked a little tired, sitting in front of the stone table under the moon, with a few dishes of wine and vegetables in front of him.

A beautiful woman was sitting at the bottom, holding a flagon and pouring wine for him.

The two looked at each other and smiled, their eyes full of tenderness and sweetness.

On the other side of the woman was a seven or eight-year-old child, but he didn't even look at the two of them, and just stuffed food into his mouth.

Qi Jingzhi squatted on the top of the wall, seeing this scene in his eyes, and then his eyes turned only on the child.

Through the blood flames of Yin Sha, he could see very clearly that there was a boy in green clothes sitting upright with his eyes closed inside the child. Although his facial features and figure were human-like, his whole body was green and full of evil spirits.

Every time the child puts food into his mouth, the little boy in Tsing Yi will raise his head and open his mouth wide as if chewing, no matter how you look at it, it will seep into people.

After watching quietly for a while, Qi Jingzhi grinned suddenly: "This is really a narrow road to Yuanjia!"

He paused, and then spit out another sentence: "It's really a very troublesome housework!"

(End of this chapter)