Sky Surveying Demon Hunt

In the fourth year of Shengyuan, the first day of the first month.

It was the fourth year of Peidi's ascension to the throne.

The carriage followed the team entering the city and slowly moved towards the gate of Xiangcheng.

Looking at the red lanterns hanging on the city wall from a distance, and the city gate guards who rarely showed a smile, and even paid a few pennies for the benefits, it is true that the atmosphere of the New Year is everywhere.

Soon, it was the turn of Lin Ji's carriage to enter the city.

He said auspicious words to the guards, handed over some broken silver, and the carriage entered Xiangcheng smoothly.

"Why are there so many people gathered over there?" Lu Zhaoer sat beside Lin Ji, pointing to the notice board on the other side of the city gate.

Lin Ji turned his eyes around, took a look, and said with a smile: "It's a notice from the imperial court. It's probably saying how the weather will be smooth in the third year of Shengyuan, and the country will be prosperous and the people will be safe. It's not worth seeing."

Hearing this, Lu Zhaoer also lost interest.

"The real dragon is going north, let's say it is Xiangzhou, Liangzhou, Xuzhou, and even Jingzhou has been raining for several months, and the crops have been drowned. I don't know how many. The weather is good?" Lu Zhaoer said with a bit of sarcasm.

"Report good news but not bad news."

Lin Ji didn't care about it: "The incident of suppressing the demon tower has been poisoned to this day. In the first few years when I was on the job in Tiansi, I couldn't handle a few evil errands throughout the year, but now? It seems that everything is stable, but don't forget Now, the tens of thousands of evil spirits who escaped from the Demon Town Tower, if they are captured or beheaded now, they are probably just a fraction, where do you think the rest will go?"

"Hey." Lu Zhaoer sighed softly, not knowing how to answer.

Lin Ji smiled and said: "In this world, when the people below are on errands, they are still ordered to capture the evil spirits alive if they can. They will be sent to the capital and suppressed into the tower! The Demon Suppressing Tower is an important weapon for suppressing the country. Don't worry about you." Whether there is a lesson learned from the past, this rule cannot be broken."

"There is such a saying?" Lu Zhaoer was a little surprised.

"You have a special status, and you have always been a traveling star, so you naturally don't know these trivial matters." Lin Ji nodded and said, "The demon catchers and head catchers below all do their jobs like this, just like before."

During the time of speaking, the carriage moved forward slowly, but it came to the Xiangcheng government office.

As soon as the carriage stopped, the servant at the gate of the government office hurried up.

"Driver! Why don't you have any eyesight at all, and stop at the gate of the Jiantiansi Mansion? Go, go, and meet Lord Commander!"

The yamen servant chattered a lot, but was quickly blocked by Lu Zhaoer's token.

"Go in and report, we are here to visit Master Ouyang." Lin Ji said with a smile.

The yamen servants did not dare to neglect, one of them hurried into the yamen to report, while the other led Lin Ji and Lu Zhaoer into the yamen to the parlor.

After waiting in the living room for a while, Ouyang Ke, the magistrate of Xiangzhou Town, appeared soon.

He saw Lu Zhaoer at a glance, raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "It turns out that Miss Lu is here, why, there is another big case to be investigated in Xiangzhou?"

In the early years, Lu Zhaoer traveled around Kyushu as a Youxing official, and she was quite famous.

Afterwards, Ouyang Ke's eyes fell on Lin Ji.

"So Brother Lin is here too." Ouyang Ke didn't dare to neglect this time, and hurriedly bowed his hands in salute.

Lin Ji got up to return the salute, and said with a smile: "This trip is going to Yangzhou, and when passing through Xiangzhou, I thought of Master Ouyang, and I will definitely pay a visit when I arrive in Xiangcheng."

"Hahaha, it's rare for brother Lin to miss you, but, brother Lin is the magistrate of Weizhou town, so you're not afraid of being made things difficult for him who leaves his post without authorization?" Ouyang Ke hesitated, "I want to know that brother, but now the higher authorities have changed. God, it's really bad luck for an eunuch to be in power!"

"It's okay, my Weizhou is remote, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so news from Jingzhou can't get through."

"Can't pass it on? Oh, that's how it is!" Ouyang Ke understood Lin Ji's meaning after thinking about it, and laughed out loud.

After laughing, he shook his head helplessly and said: "It's a pity that my Xiangzhou is not too far away, but there is a Taiyi Gate and a Sansheng Cave in Xiangzhou. These two families really like to have trouble with Jian Tiansi. They are from Beijing. Most of the messages were blocked by them, hey"

"This is really tricky. These two sects are too powerful, and it is reasonable for Lord Ouyang to be powerless." Lin Ji laughed.

"Hey, who's to say it's not!" Ouyang Ke nodded seriously.

After talking about friendship for a while, Lin Ji mentioned the horse bandit on the way when he came here.

The horse bandit who died in his hands was naturally not worth mentioning, but the banditry in Xiangzhou made him a little bit embarrassed after all.

"Master Ouyang, when I came here, I met a horse bandit again." Lin Ji said with a half-smile suddenly.

Originally, Ouyang Ke still had a smile on his face, but after hearing Lin Ji's words, the smile on his face froze immediately.

"Meet again? Oh, yes, when you came to Xiangzhou two years ago, you took down a group of horse bandits on the road, and you also took down a head-catching official along the way."

"Li Fei." Lin Ji said with a smile the name of the head catcher he had dealt with.

Hearing this, Ouyang Ke had a wry smile on his face.

"Master Lin remembers clearly."

"Although it's just a small matter, it's Lin's job after all, so it won't be forgotten after three or two years."

That's what he said, but before he opened his mouth, Lin Ji really thought about it for a while before he remembered the trifles of that year.

Ouyang Ke was silent for a moment, and finally sighed softly, without avoiding the question.

"What I said before, saying that because of the Taiyi Gate and the Sansheng Cave, the news from the capital can't get out, is actually not a reason to prevaricate."

"I would like to hear the details." Lin Ji raised his eyebrows slightly.

Ouyang Ke raised his head and met Lin Ji's eyes.

"Thinking about it, Mr. Lin already had some guesses, so he didn't dare to delve into this matter, right?"

Lin Ji was not annoyed at being told what was on his mind, but nodded slightly.

"Lin also knows how to do what he can."

"The Li family."

"The Li family?"

"The Li family is in Xiangcheng, and it is also the most powerful family in Xiangcheng." Ouyang Ke said, "Even if I am the official, I have nothing to do with them."

Lin Ji was a little surprised.

"Even Lord Ouyang can't do anything about it? How sacred is this Li family? If Lin remembers correctly, there is also a Zhong family in Xiangcheng."

"The power of the Zhong family can't be explained clearly by a mere Xiangcheng." Ouyang Ke laughed dumbly, "Although the Zhong family is known as an aristocratic family, there are still too many monks attached to it. Even if you look at Kyushu, the Zhong family is also first-class power."

After a pause, Ouyang Ke continued: "Although the Zhong family is in Xiangcheng, they never intervene in the affairs of Xiangcheng, so no one regards them as forces in Xiangcheng. They have the ability to compete with Taiyimen and Sanshengdong." Those who are fighting for territory don't have the heart to play house in this small Xiangcheng."

Lin Ji laughed dumbfounded.

"So that's the case, let's talk about the Li family. What's the origin of the Li family?"

"The origin is also simple."

Ouyang Ke let out a long sigh of relief.

"It's the Taiyi Sect."