Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 183 Coincidence
Lin Jiulang did not witness the scene of Tianlei burning the corpse of the demon snake with his own eyes.After he got the news in Luoyang, he hurried to Chang'an without even caring about his confidant Ah Chuan.

When he arrived in Chang'an, it was already two days after the demon snake's body was burned.But he heard about the scene from his friend Li Shen.

Li Shen returned to Chang'an one and a half days later than Jing Zhaoyin and his party, but he traveled quickly and caught up with the latter's team that day.Since it was getting dark at that time, Li Shen felt that it was impossible for him to enter Chang'an City before the city gate closed. Yin and his party lived in the same inn, and happened to witness the scene when the thunder struck.

It is said that the situation at that time was very strange. It was clear that the weather was clear, neither wind nor cloud nor rain, but suddenly a dark cloud floated in the sky, just staying above the inn.The outside of the hotel wall is still bathed in the setting sun, but the inside of the wall is already dark.Li Shen was talking with the shopkeeper at the counter at the time, and felt weird when he saw this, so he immediately decided to leave the inn with his entourage and lead the horses, and choose another place to stay overnight.

In the past, he might not have such an idea, but now he has "opened his eyes", knowing that there are demons, ghosts, and gods in this world, and ordinary people like him cannot compete. Maybe stay away from those spooky things.It just so happened that the family next door invited a Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits, and he planned to persuade the family to take in his group at a high price.Staying with Taoist priests will always be safer.

He walked very fast, and just as the master and servant walked out of the gate of the inn yard, thunder came from behind.The shopkeeper who chased after him and wanted to save his honored guest was so startled that his feet limp and fell to the ground, unable to speak.

The snake carcass was so big that it was three feet long, and even ordinary carts couldn't fit it. Jing Zhaoyin specially asked people to connect the three carts together, and then folded the snake carcass in half before it could be loaded.This super-long cart was parked in the yard of the inn. The board was covered tightly with burlap, giving off a faint smell of corruption.Next to the car is where the hay is stacked.When the thunder struck, it hit the snake corpse and immediately set the burlap on fire. The fire quickly spread to the entire vehicle, and then burned the haystack next to it.

At this time, the shopkeeper of the inn was so frightened that his feet softened. Seeing that the dark clouds in the sky had dispersed, Li Shen hurried back to the inn to inform Jing Zhaoyin. The fire was extinguished only by splashing water together.The owner of the inn only lost a few piles of hay and some sundries, but the car transporting the snake corpses was completely reduced to ashes, and the two snake corpses would naturally not be preserved.

During the journey from Jingyang to Chang'an, in order to avoid commotion, Jing Zhaoyin had people cover the snake corpse with burlap, so that only those who watched the demon snake corpse in Jingyang, or Jing Zhaoyin's entourage Besides, other people have hardly seen the monster snake.Because the snake corpse was burned too clean, many people questioned whether the "demon snake" really existed?
After this incident, there were mainly two kinds of voices in the court. One believed that the monster snake was real, but Jing Zhaoyin sent the monster to the capital, which was suspected of causing disaster and bad luck, and believed that he had ulterior motives; The snake is a fake, it was fabricated by Jing Zhaoyin to deceive the world, and the fake demon snake was sent to Chang'an specially to invite favor in front of the saint, God couldn't stand it anymore, and specially sent down thunder to punish him, and sent the fake demon snake to Chang'an burnt...

Jing Zhaoyin is not a human being inside and outside, he is almost aggrieved to death.However, he has been an official for many years, and he is not a fuel-efficient lamp.He quickly wrote a letter to plead guilty to the saint, admitting that he had not thought carefully about his affairs, but he definitely had no bad intentions.He also felt that it was very unusual for an ominous thing like a demon snake to suddenly appear in the world in this peaceful and prosperous age, so he wanted to send it to Chang'an and ask the sage to deal with it.He hadn't planned to bring the demon snake into Chang'an City, but wanted to send it to Longshouyuan in the north of the city and burn it.It's just that this matter needs to be decided by a decree from the sage. As a courtier, he dare not do anything alone...

As for the thunder that struck and burned the snake's corpse, Jing Zhaoyin thought it was God's will.God knew that the sage would definitely do this, so he fulfilled the sage's wish one step ahead of time...

What Jing Zhaoyin said was ridiculous, but the sage was happy to hear it.He accepted Jing Zhaoyin's plea and only fined the latter three months' salary.

It's just that the saint probably felt that the monster snake was really unlucky, so he didn't like others to mention it again.Those who had witnessed the scene of the thunder destroying the snake that day with their own eyes stopped talking about it in public.People in Chang'an city had never even seen the snake corpse, and even after listening to the reports of the onlookers, they felt that they were exaggerating, and they didn't believe it.This matter was far from being discussed hotly, and it was quickly overshadowed by other events in the city.

It is said that even the former magistrate of Jingyang County involved in the case was given a lighter sentence after his family members donated enough property to certain nobles. He has been demoted, and has already received the imperial documents, and is about to go to a county in the south of the Lingnan to become the county magistrate of the ninth rank.

Hearing this, Li Lijun couldn't help asking Lin Jiulang: "Do you know which nobleman interceded for him after taking his family's belongings?" She also got the compensation from the former Jingyang county magistrate here. It won't be on her head, will it?

Lin Jiulang heard Li Shen talk about this matter: "His family is said to have gone through the door of Yang Zhao, a member of the Duzhi family."

Yang Zhao is the imperial concubine's family brother, and is now a hot celebrity in front of the imperial court.

Li Lijun frowned, feeling a little upset, but didn't say much.

The magistrate of the lower county on the ninth rank is neither a parent official in the same place, and it is very difficult to be promoted.If the former magistrate of Jingyang wanted to make a comeback, he would have to suffer.Even if he has mountains of gold and silver, how many years will it take?The Yang brothers and sisters have a lot of appetite!
Li Lijun forgot about this person and turned his attention back to the burning of the snake corpse.Judging from the on-site situation reported by Lin Jiulang, it really seems that the practitioner deliberately created these unprovoked sky thunders and burned the snake corpse.When Taoist Xuanying bid farewell to her, he was planning to take his disciples to Yaoshan to visit the Holy Mother of Yaoshan and ask for nectar, so he probably wouldn't be able to return to Xianyang within a day or two.So he has a way to quickly send a letter to his colleagues in Chang'an City?

At that time, the Taoist priest who exorcised evil spirits at the house next door to the inn, did he have a problem with his identity?
Li Lijun pondered for a moment, then asked Lin Jiulang: "Uncle Shen was in the inn at the time, how did he know that there was a Taoist priest next door? Which Taoist priest is that?"

Lin Jiulang thought about it carefully: "It seems to be the Taoist temple in Leyouyuan. The three Taoist priests found evil spirits in his house when they passed by, so they took the initiative to go to get rid of them. His master saw that they were old and young, so he didn't believe them at first, but only because the old Taoist said that he would not charge money. They were let into the house. But after the Taoist priest read the scriptures, the strange thing never happened again. The family immediately changed their attitude towards these Taoist priests and wanted to entertain them for dinner. Seeing that they declined, they asked for the address of their Taoist temple. , Said that I will go to incense in another day."

Oh?Such a coincidence?There was a strange thing that day, a Taoist priest passed by that day, and offered to enter the house for free to exorcise evil spirits, and then the inn next door was struck by lightning.After the lightning struck, the Taoist priest left, and all the strange things in the family disappeared?
This kind of traveling Taoist priest knows how to direct and act on his own.

However, they have the ability to cast lightning and strike snakes, but they insist on casting spells in such a close place. Does this mean that Taoist priests of Fenyou Temple also have limited cultivation?

(End of this chapter)