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Chapter 273 Identity
Jiang Fan squatted down, carefully sticking to the door, listening to the conversation in the room.

"Just look at the appearance..."

"That's right, that Miao girl only cares about her appearance, so she came here because Li County Wei is handsome." Hao Xiuyang said, his voice was old, with a disrespectful smile, "How can there be many gods and ghosts? The old Taoist priest Just use this to make a living."

"Master knows that Miao girl?"

"Well, this Miao girl, Asha, likes to take care of some flowers and plants since she was a child. For example, there is a grass in the south of the Lingnan, which is called 'Ecstasy Grass'. It grows on the top of the grave. The living creatures lose their sanity until they die, and the grass absorbs the flesh and blood from the soil. If people stray into the enchanted grassland, they will often go around in circles, which is called "ghost hitting the wall".

The Miao girl often used similar flowers and plants for divination, so the Miao people called her "Tongsi". After her husband died, she was stimulated and lost her soul.In addition, after dealing with these poisonous flowers and weeds for a long time, he became even more delirious. "

Li Xiling said: "Master is saying that she stunned the yamen servants and entered the county yamen?"

"It's not just dizziness. If you often inhale her fragrance, people will go crazy. Others don't know it, and they think it's an evil spirit, so they seek the old way to drive away the evil spirit."

"So County Lieutenant Li is really not the reincarnation of her husband?"

"Do you believe this? The Taoist exorcising ghosts, the old Taoist, doesn't believe it, it's just to reassure people."

Having said this, Hao Xiuyang said again: "There are often sorcerers and generals in the Miao Village, and there are many mysterious things. Some old masters can understand, and some don't. But your way and mine may be true, but their witches must be true." is fake."

Li Xiling said: "Whether it is reincarnated or not, Li Xianwei should be clear in his heart, right?"

"Dare you have a higher moral than mine?"

"The disciple is also a person who cultivates the Tao after all."

"..."

Outside the house, Jiang Fan listened to this, and the doubt in his eyes gradually disappeared.

He had also heard a lot about various things in the old Miao village, and he was quite afraid of the deep mountains and old forests in the south. It turned out that these old Taoist priests usually pretended to be ghosts, but their hearts were clear.

In the room, Hao Xiuyang and Li Xiling were chatting casually.

Li Xiling looked over and saw that the words "someone" written by Hao Xiuyang on the table with tea had dried up.

The doubt in his eyes grew stronger...

~~
After listening to Jiang Fan's report, Li Xia was also pondering.

He didn't think it was strange to meet a nagging Miao girl, Miao Jiang, there were so many secrets and secrets; but it was strange to meet two smart Taoist priests who agreed to make gunpowder for him without saying a word.

Especially that expression...

He could figure out the logic of that crazy woman, but he couldn't figure out the minds of these two Taoist priests.

He always felt that the eyes of the two Taoist priests... seemed to see through that he was reborn, and wanted to eliminate demons and defend the Tao.

Feeling a little guilty for no reason.

"Brother Li, aren't you going to sleep?" Han Qiaoer yawned while sitting in the public room.

"Is Qiaoer all right?"

"It's really all right, I just had a long, long dream this morning..."

"Okay, why don't you go and live in Jiang Di's house for a while?"

Han Qiaoer was a little unhappy, and flattened her mouth.

"Why?"

Li Xia didn't explain, and said, "Let's go, let's talk to Mrs. Mou..."

~~
That night, Li Xia woke up twice, opened his eyes, and always thought that there would be a Taoist priest standing by the bedside, "The old Taoist wants to rid the world of you evildoer" and so on.

There was nothing to say that night, after Li Xia inspected the camp the next day, after thinking about it, he still walked to the firearms workshop.

……

Hao Xiuyang took a bottle of prepared gunpowder, lit the fuse and threw it out.

It exploded in the empty field with a "bang".

He smiled and asked, "What does County Lieutenant Li think? This fireball is not difficult to make."

"The power is too small." Li Xia asked, "What's the formula?"

"14 taels of sulfur, seven taels of nest yellow, two and a half catties of flame nitrate, one catty of echinacea, one tael of dry lacquer, one tael of arsenic yellow, one tael of fixed powder..."

Li Xia frowned after hearing this, and asked, "Isn't it too complicated?"

He felt that the old Taoist was not so much refining gunpowder as he was refining alchemy.

"Li Xianwei thinks how to match?" Hao Xiuyang had another half-smile.

Li Xia said: "It's because I don't understand that I asked the Taoist priest for help."

He thought about it, and tried his best to let Hao Xiuyang eliminate all kinds of unheard-of items in the formula, mainly using the ratio of sulfur, nitrate and other raw materials to try.

Hao Xiuyang agreed very simply, but his eyes were still weird.

Li Xia thought for a while, and asked bluntly: "The Taoist seems to have something to say to me? Why don't we have an open and honest talk."

"Why did Captain Li make such a statement?"

"I see the priest always looks at me with strange eyes."

Hao Xiuyang hesitated for a moment, as if he hadn't expected Li Xia to be so straightforward. He smiled "haha" and waved his hands, "It's because the county captain has a demon in his heart, so he is afraid of the old way. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. After a long time, the old man may become the county magistrate." Wei exorcising demons..."

Li Xia also smiled, and then looked at Hao Xiuyang, his eyes were calm and fearless.

~~
a few days later.

Han Qi'an fiddled with the counting chip, took a note of the next line of numbers, and handed it to Li Xia.

"Li Xiling's score is not bad, this person is not simple."

"He can't make gunpowder?"

"Yes."

"He doesn't look like a Taoist priest?"

Han Qi'an said: "It's really not like a Taoist priest, but more like a scholar."

Li Xia nodded, feeling the same way.

Li Xiling first pointed out the omissions in several workshops, and then casually told Han Qi'an that he should buy iron ore from Dali to smelt iron, and the coal for iron smelting can be mined in Qingfu County, so Hao Xiuyang pretended to investigate. Fan said that Guihua Township in Qingfu County had coal.

Later, Li Xiling pointed out that it was inappropriate for Li Xia to recruit refugees to build bridges and build roads in Qingfu. He believed that what should be done was "opening up wasteland and exempting taxes", so that a large number of refugees could be attracted and settled in Qingfu. Recruiting labor does not make people settle down.

In addition, there are many small things, such as calculating how much Li Xia needs to smuggle southward, how many goods he needs to bring, and how many mules he needs... The problem is, no one told him about the smuggling. It can be seen from various clues.

This man was unwilling to make gunpowder with peace of mind all day long, and he didn't know how to make gunpowder. He just wandered around Li Xia's workshops and observed everywhere.

"The strange thing is, with his intelligence, he shouldn't be unable to see that his situation is not good." Han Qi'an said: "For example, it is impossible for Alang to let him go now."

"Ah."

"I've been thinking recently, why did he do this? Or he wanted to serve A Lang."

"I'm just a county lieutenant. I'm only seventeen after the Chinese New Year."

"Smart people can see Alang's ability." Han Qi'an said: "Li Xiling is a smart person. I watched him act. He has been an official, and his official position is not lower than that of Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai."

Li Xia said: "I think of three possibilities. One, as you said, he is a person who committed a crime and hid himself in the rivers and lakes; the other is that he was sent by Jia Sidao, and he didn't intend to cover it from the beginning..."

"What about the third possibility?"

Li Xia was silent for a while, didn't say anything, but asked, "Did Jiang Fan find out?"

"not yet."

"I'm going to see him."

Han Qi'an murmured, "Ah Lang seems to be in a hurry? Even if he was sent by Jia Sidao, we don't need to rush to expose him."

Li Xia thought for a while, walked out, and only said three words.

"so awkward."

Han Qi'an was stunned for a while, not quite understanding...

Hao Xiuyang was still experimenting with the formula of gunpowder, and the gunpowder workshop hadn't heard an explosion for a long time.

Li Xiling was sitting in the yard, holding a leaf and blowing, the tune was quite nice.

Li Xia walked over, stood behind him and listened for a while, and said, "Daozhang Li is very proficient in music?"

"It's time for the county lieutenant to see that I'm not a Taoist priest." Li Xiling said.

"That is?"

Li Xiling turned his back to Li Xia, and asked back: "Can you hear that I have a Zhejiang accent?"

"Not too obvious." Li Xia thought for a while, and then asked directly: "You look at me strangely, why?"

"Because I know the county lieutenant." Li Xiling said, "The county lieutenant doesn't recognize me?"

Li Xia was silent for a while.

Li Xiling suddenly said: "My ancestral home is from Weizhou, Sichuan. I entered Lin'an Mansion with my father in the early years. Later, because I was from the same town as Mr. Xie Fang's uncle, Xie Xianggong, he entered his mansion as a curtain. Until you overthrew Mr. Xie, I offended Ding Daquan and was expelled from Lin'an. He wanted to return to his hometown, but western Sichuan had already fallen into the hands of the Mongolian army, so he went to Yuqiu Mountain to look for Taoist Hao, but he didn't want to be detained by the county captain again."

"Really?" Li Xia asked, "My hometown fell? Where did Uncle Xie Fang go?"

"Xie Xiang went to Jiangxi to live in seclusion. I don't want to go, because I don't know the place well."

"How did you meet Daoist Hao?"

"When Xie Xianggong was in Lin'an, he had an old friend with Mr. Guanmiao, the contemporary Tianshi..."

Li Xia seemed to believe it or not, and asked again: "What do you want to do?"

"Want to work for the county lieutenant?"

"Why?"

"Find a living." Li Xiling said, "If the county captain doesn't believe me, just keep sending people to watch me."

"There is a saying that 'suspect people don't need to'."

"Don't worry, the county lieutenant may trust me in the future." Li Xiling smiled and said, "My wife and son are in Xuzhou now, can the county lieutenant send someone to pick them up?"

"You have a son?"

"Yes, he is two years older than the county lieutenant, quite talented in literature, maybe he can contribute a little bit..."

After a conversation, Li Xia was somewhat uncertain about Li Xiling's identity.

But no matter how doubtful he is, he can only wait for someone to pick up his wife and children in Xuzhou, maybe there will be an answer.

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It was night, Hao Xiuyang listened for a while, confirmed that there was no one outside the house, and asked: "I came out with a false identity, are you afraid that this kid will be exposed by you?"

"Testing." Li Xiling said, "He failed to expose it today."

"It seems that he really doesn't recognize you?"

"Yeah, let's find out first..."

　Thanks to "Se Ruduo" for the reward, I became the leader of the new book, and I added a new chapter to express my gratitude. Se Ruduo is also the leader of the old book, an old friend along the way, thank you very much~~
　　
　
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