chewing dragon

Chapter 171 Marquis Anfeng

"I didn't expect that the magistrate Cui, who seems to be square and capable, would come up with such crazy and cruel thoughts. Is he affected by the evil spirit of Chihu Yuling, or is he, as a child of the Cui family, originally crazy?"

Seeing that Cui Zitao's words were sincere and did not seem to be fake, and that Tiger Girl's head was completely on the ground, without the slightest struggle, Qi Jingzhi couldn't help sighing again.

"Just look at the reaction of the tiger girl. If Cui Zitao can really fulfill his promise, the husband and wife will stay together after death. This idea is different from ordinary people. I am afraid that the Cui lady will really agree."

"It's true that husband and wife are of the same heart, and their love is stronger than gold. They are not a family, and they don't enter the family... If I don't help them, I will become a bad guest who beats mandarin ducks..."

This idea suddenly came to Qi Jingzhi's heart, and then even he felt that it was absurd.

He only felt that, as the old servant of the Cui family who devoted himself to death said, this is someone else's housework, and a monster who is willing to fight and suffer, even harming human life, will be punished, so there is no right and wrong. The truth is easy to tell, and it is not something outsiders can easily say.

"It's no wonder the Yin Division doesn't care about practitioners. Firstly, it can't manage them, and secondly, it can't be clear."

"At the beginning, the dead spirit of the famous master of punishment, Shen Ruhai, was thrown into the underworld by the old city god, and he was devoured by resentful ghosts day and night. In the teaching, there is the punishment of ten thousand snakes devouring the body in the Yin Pond."

"It's just that I don't know which one is more painful than the so-called "blue sea flooding, fish devouring spirits"?"

With this thought in mind, Qi Jingzhi looked at Ban Nu and said, "Let go of Mrs. Cui."

Bannu heard the words, although he was a little reluctant, but he didn't dare to disobey his master's will, so he snorted resentfully, let go of his paws and jumped off the tiger's back, and deliberately kept away from Cui Zitao and the scroll.

"Thank you Qi Ji for making things happen!"

Cui Zitao got up immediately, and bowed deeply just like his old servant did before.

The tiger girl on the side also turned her head slightly, and nodded to Qi Jingzhi lightly, her gesture was like a woman holding her skirt, giving a shallow blessing.

Qi Jingzhi still accepted it calmly, and waved his hand at the other party: "You two can take care of yourself, I will take my leave now!"

For the next scene where Cui Zitao sacrificed the tiger's wife, Qi Jingzhi didn't want to witness it with his own eyes, not to mention that the other party might not be willing to have outsiders watching.

The corners of Cui Zitao's mouth twitched, as if he wanted to put on a smile, but the county magistrate of Changle couldn't be happy after all.

Although he got what he wanted this time, his family was almost ruined. In the end, he just sighed, cupped his hands towards Qi Jingzhi and said: "The courtyard has not been swept, and there is no face to entertain guests, so I won't keep Qi Jingzhi here."

After finishing speaking, Cui Zitao turned around and walked towards the study.

Although she was injured a bit, the tiger girl who was not injured at all got up quietly, and followed behind her husband with lowered eyebrows.

One person and one tiger walked into the room, and then closed the doors and windows.

Qi Jingzhi shook his head, led Ban Nu out of the courtyard where the study was located, and returned along the same path.

He originally wanted to go over the wall and return to the back street of the county government office, but suddenly he saw a person sitting at the stone table where Cui Zitao's family had dinner, quietly pouring himself a drink.

"The majestic tiger Cui, what is the decline of virtue? The past is gone, and it will never come back!"

The man raised his glass and was about to drink, his mouth seemed to be reciting or sighing, looking sideways at the gate of the courtyard, seven out of ten eyes fell on Ban Nu.

Qi Jingzhi looked at him in surprise, and saw that the other party was a middle-aged man, with long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, square lips, especially two ears hanging like pearls, which was a sign of wealth and honor.

The robe on his body is quite gorgeous and exquisite, although it is based on black, it is covered with patterns embroidered with gold thread, or the Big Dipper, or a long string of copper coins, which are radiant and quite eye-catching.

If Qian Xiaoren saw him, he might be full of envy and make this person his lifelong confidant.

"May I ask who is your Excellency?" Qi Jingzhi asked.

He was a little surprised before, there was such a commotion in the back yamen, even the roar of tigers shook the sky, but after a long while, there was no one who came to check. He didn't expect that someone had arrived, but he didn't show up.

Although Qi Jingzhi never sensed the slightest aura from the other party, but just looking at the trembling and huddled appearance of Ban Nu beside him, he knew that he must not take it lightly.

"This Marquis Ding Chengyuan." The middle-aged man replied in a flat tone.

He withdrew his eyes from Ban Nu, looked at Qi Jingzhi a few more times, the corner of his mouth twitched suddenly, and said with a chuckle: "You are Qi Jingzhi from Linzhou, right? I already knew your name from Geshu Dashi, and at noon I heard about your righteous deed of repaying the sword against the Wei family, but I didn't expect to meet you in the back office of Changle County at night."

"A little police officer from outside can get involved in so many things as soon as he arrives in the field. It can be seen that he is a troublemaker!"

These words were not very polite, but Ding Chengyuan's tone could not hear the slightest sarcasm, on the contrary, there was some appreciation.

Qi Jingzhi's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, but his expression remained the same as before, and he bowed to the other party with his hands clasped together: "It turns out that it was Marquis An Feng in person, and Qi was disrespectful."

He has been on the go for almost two days and two nights, not only did he not close his eyes, but since he ate a bowl of shaken beef last night, he has not had a serious meal all day. The itinerary is really full, and I have experienced a lot of strange things.

With this Marquis of Anfeng coming to sit in the town, the anecdote of Cui County Magistrate Tanse's soft voice and sleeping with a tiger in the East China Sea would not spread, but Qi Jingzhi seems to have become famous in Jiuzhen County.

Marquis An Feng put away his smile, and nodded slightly at the young man, which was regarded as a return gift.

When he put down his wine glass and stood up, his face had returned to his previous indifference: "Everything is going on in the city today, and I can't stay for long. When my nephew finishes taking care of the house, you will immediately bring him to my residence. I have something to tell you two."

After saying that, Ding Chengyuan seemed to have decided that Qi Jingzhi was a troublemaker who loves to join in the fun, and without asking whether the boy agreed, he lifted his right foot and stomped lightly on the ground, and he immediately jumped high and crashed into Qingming.

Then I saw the brocade robe with black background and gold embroidery stretched out in the air, and a gust of wind suddenly picked up, pushing him to fly away into the distance.

Until this moment, there was a faint sound of chaotic horseshoes and armor plates colliding far away from the back street outside the wall, following Ding Chengyuan away quickly.

"This is because they found out that there was something wrong with the back office of Changle County, and took advantage of the trend to use Cui's family as bait?"

Seeing that the Marquis of Anfeng flew to support the trace, relying on the emptiness to control the wind, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, Qi Jingzhi raised his head and continued to wait and see for a while, then slowly looked away.

He turned his head to meet Bannu's pitiful eyes, and saw that this fellow seemed to have been frightened a lot, and compared with its previous majesty in subduing the tiger girl, it was really far away, making people don't know what to say.

Apart from laughing dumbfounded, Qi Jingzhi also felt that although his mount was a little timid, it was better than being well-behaved and sensible, so he didn't want to treat it harshly, so he flipped his left hand, and a black mirror surface appeared in the palm.

Immediately after that, something appeared in the mirror, it was a crystal clear jasper alms bowl, with colorful smoke flowing faintly in the alms bowl.

Beside the alms bowl, dozens of small characters emerged as usual: "The tiger consumes the ghost corpse, the ghost of wasting, meets the tiger and becomes a minion, the ghost destroys the ghost, the ghost leaves the corpse after death, great cold, sweet taste, slightly poisonous, can be absorbed, Pulling out Qi and dissolving evil spirits.

Qi Jingzhi couldn't help being stunned, he thought that most of the ghost boys would be like dragons and monsters, and they would be refined into something like tiger beads by the mirror, which would just be used to fill the belly of Bannu, and it could be regarded as a piece of comfort for it hard work.

Unexpectedly, the boy was not a human being before he became a minion, but a so-called "ghost of wastage".

As for the three abilities of "absorbing, drawing out, and dissolving evil spirits", Qi Jingzhi got a general idea after thinking about it for a while, and he couldn't help being playful for a while, so he took the jasper bowl out of the small bronze mirror.

I saw that the size of this thing was about the same as that of a mirror, and it could just be held in the hand. It was delicate to the touch and cold in the hand, which really corresponded to the word "big cold".

"Since it looks like a bowl, let's start with 'receiving'."

Qi Jingzhi looked around, and his gaze soon fell on the wine glass that Ding Chengyuan had just used.

He held the jasper bowl to his ear, aimed the mouth of the bowl at the wine glass, and said in a low voice: "Take it!"

The voice fell, and the wine glass did not move at all.

"Ok?"

Qi Jingzhi was slightly taken aback: "Could it be that I missed something?"

He clearly remembered that when the tiger monk forcibly peeled off the tiger's skin, the floral dress was stripped and destroyed, and finally disappeared. When it reappeared, it was already in the hands of those two ghost boys. It's because of how miraculous the tiger skin and flowered dress is, but it should be due to the means of the wasting ghost.

Therefore, in Qi Jingzhi's mind, this "retraction" should be similar to Lu Yunzi's so-called woman who carries goods, she can move things out of thin air, and I don't want to push it the first time and it won't work.

He was not discouraged, and pointed the mouth of the bowl at wine pots, bowls and chopsticks, leftovers, and even stone tables and benches in turn, but without exception, he failed to stimulate the absorption ability of the jasper bowl.

In desperation, Qi Jingzhi had no choice but to look at Ban Nu who was obediently watching, and the jasper bowl in his hand also turned towards him.

Seeing this, Ban Nu's face suddenly changed.

It could clearly see that this jasper bowl was created by Qi Jingzhi from the palm of his left hand, and the clear light that made him fearful and willing to surrender was also hidden in the palm of the young man's left hand!
This coward has been keeping himself safe for almost a day and two nights since he sold himself to seek refuge, and he is even more obedient to his master's words. He can't hold back his mouth even when it reaches his mouth. There is nothing more obedient than that. Unexpectedly, he is still hard to escape. !
Thinking of this verse, Ban Nu immediately felt weak and desolate.

It wanted to run but didn't dare, for fear that it would anger this terrifying young man and provoke that even more terrifying Qing Guang, then it would be too late to regret.

Fortunately, the new gadget in the hands of the master didn't seem to be very bright, Ban Nu still had three points of luck in his heart, so he simply imitated the appearance of the tigress just now, paralyzed on the ground, and couldn't get up on the ground.

How did Qi Jingzhi know that this coward was so sad and full of grievances that he immediately said "receive".

This time, before his words fell, the jasper bowl shook suddenly, and the smoke from the tiger's evil in the bowl surged out, and in the blink of an eye, it condensed into a colorful tiger claw, which suddenly protruded from the bowl, and grabbed at it. Bannu.

At the beginning, this tiger claw was only about the size of an ordinary person's palm, but when it was about to touch Bannu's head, it had swelled into a dustpan in the wind.

Seeing this, Ban Nu's eyes suddenly lit up, instead of pretending to be dead, he raised his head like lightning, and took the tiger claw in his mouth.

It flicked its neck without any hesitation, immediately tore off half of the tiger's claw with its toes and palm, chewed and swallowed it.

Immediately after that, there was a soft puff sound, and the heavily injured tiger claw immediately disintegrated into colorful smoke, and quickly went back into the jasper bowl, it really came and went quickly.

Seeing this change, Qi Jingzhi and Ban Nu were slightly startled, and then looked at each other with different expressions.

Ban Nu's face was obviously radiant, and he looked at his master flatteringly, but his eyes couldn't help wandering, and he kept stealing glances at the jasper bowl.

Qi Jingzhi was mostly surprised, with thoughtful eyes, and many thoughts emerged in his heart.

"I've seen the scene of evil condensing into claws before at the bottom of the Xunjiang River. It's not so unusual, especially the ability of the tiger to consume ghost corpses seems to only work on living things. If it's not good, it has to be the tiger skin and flower clothes." Wait for something with evil spirit."

"I have a mirror and a tiger Zen, both of which have miraculous effects on evil spirits. The "Secret Method of Riding the Clouds" can also directly stir up the essence of the world. This bowl is inevitably a little tasteless, and it is better than nothing."

At this moment, Ban Nu's face changed again, and suddenly he raised his head and sprayed a large cloud of frosty white mist from his mouth and nose.

These frosty fogs obviously have a chilly atmosphere, and there are still tiny bluish-black ice crystals floating inside, making it chilly just looking at them.

Ban Nu shuddered firmly, with a strange expression of both discomfort and comfort on his face, it seemed that he was fine.

Qi Jingzhi felt a little relieved, but he couldn't help but recall that when he was in the ancient temple of Xiaosong Mountain, he was grabbed by the two small hands of the ghost boy, and immediately felt icy cold, his feet were like lumps of ice, and he couldn't move at all.

Even with the strong physique of Senior Mandrill, if he gets slapped by the ghost boy, a green slap mark will be left on his body, presumably the essence of the skin and flesh has been pulled out.

Thinking of this, Qi Jingzhi looked down at the jasper bowl in his hand, and his perception was different.

"The wasting ghost's ability to absorb and pull out the qi actually landed on the tiger in the bowl, and it became a rather vicious and fierce means of fighting the enemy."

"That is to say, Bannu feeds on the evil tiger, which happens to be the nemesis. If you are an ordinary person or even a low-level monk, if you are caught by the claws of this tiger-consuming ghost corpse, it will be difficult to break free in a hurry. There is a fear of life."

"As for the final transformation..."

Qi Jingzhi thought for a while, and then stretched out the jasper bowl towards the white frost mist floating in the air.

Sure enough, there was a suction force at the mouth of the bowl, and it was swallowed into the belly.

Qi Jingzhi withdrew his arm and put his hand in front of his eyes to watch carefully. Even Ban Nu stretched his head over curiously.

Under the watchful eyes of the master and the servant, I saw the frost mist rolling and swimming in the bowl like a living thing, but like the ebb tide of the sea, it became visibly thinner and paler to the naked eye, and after a while, the sunken water was revealed. The blue-black ice crystals at the bottom of the bowl.

These ice crystals only persisted for a while before they all disintegrated and melted into the crystal clear blue bowl, where they merged with the colorful smoke, and were no longer separated from each other.

"Huh? In this way, the power of this jasper bowl can actually increase. If it is properly fed, it will be very impressive sooner or later."

Qi Jingzhi was thoughtful, then turned to look at his mount.

Bannu sensed the young man's gaze, and his expression froze immediately, but the white mane on his neck stood up abruptly.

(End of this chapter)