If I add money to become a layman, I can cultivate immortality

Chapter 130 The Way of the People

"Pudu Cihang is a bit interesting..."

In the inn, Ding Xiu couldn't help but mutter to himself.

However, Ding Xiu is not sure whether it is the Millennium Centipede in the original plot. After all, the timeline of the current world is somewhat different from the original plot.

The only way is to verify it yourself.

According to the news that Ding Xiu has learned so far, the reason why Pudu Cihang was canonized as a national master was because the emperor had a strange disease and had nightmares every night.

It got worse later on. Whenever I closed my eyes, I would feel unbearable pain, and I always felt like the sound of ghosts crying and howling was echoing in my ears.

The palace doctor prescribed many soothing medicines but they didn't work. Under such torture, the emperor's health became worse and worse, to the point of dying.

At this time, some ministers said that there was a Pudu Temple on the outskirts of Beijing. There was an eminent monk named Pudu Cihang in the temple. His Buddhist teachings were profound and he would definitely be able to cure the emperor's strange illness.

So, the emperor invited Pudu Cihang to the palace.

As soon as Pudu Cihang arrived at the palace, he said that the emperor was possessed by evil spirits and cast a spell in front of all the ministers. A cloud of black mist actually flew out of the emperor's body and turned into a black fox. Want to escape.

Pudu Cihang made a move in the air, and a Buddha's handprint appeared in the sky, instantly destroying the evil thing.

Since then, the emperor's strange illness has been cured without treatment. Longyan was so happy that he conferred Pudu Cihang as the national advisor of the dynasty and titled him the golden-robed mage.

At noon, Ding Xiu heard a rumor in the inn that a murder had occurred in the south of the city. The whole family of a roast goose shop owner, including his waiter, died suddenly and mysteriously overnight.

And the death was very miserable. Everyone's feet were cut off and thrown into the oil pan.

The strangest thing is that there are many belongings in the house, but all the geese raised in the backyard have disappeared, leaving only blood and goose feathers on the ground.

For a time, rumors spread among the people, some said it was the work of evil spirits, and some said it was retribution.

This has to start with the history of this roast goose restaurant.

The shopkeeper of the roast goose shop is surnamed Ji, and is known as shopkeeper Ji. The roast goose shop he runs is passed down from his ancestors. It has been handed down to him for the fifth generation. It is the most famous roast goose shop in the capital. The business has always been very prosperous. If you go late, you won't be able to eat.

The most famous thing in the store is the crispy goose feet. Many people come from far away just to try this famous dish of Ji's family.

In fact, this dish does not have a complicated recipe, but its processing method has always been controversial.

How do they make crispy goose feet?
First, wash the paws of the live goose, then grab it and fry it in the oil pan...yes, it is fried in the oil pan while it is alive.

As soon as the oil pan fried, the goose screamed loudly in pain, and then the waiter immediately threw the goose into a specially prepared pool with various spices in it.

After a while, he caught the goose again and put its paws in the oil pan to fry.

After repeating this process several times, the goose is still alive, but its palms are crispy and browned. Then, cut it off with a knife and put it on a plate, and it has become the restaurant's signature dish.

At this time, the goose was still alive, and the man immediately started to pick its intestines again...

In fact, many people are opposed to the Ji family's approach. If they want to kill, they will kill them with one knife. If they use such cruel methods for the sake of so-called freshness, sooner or later they will suffer retribution.

As a result, retribution really came, and the retribution was so cruel that no one survived.

It is said that as soon as the news spread, a famous restaurant in the west of the city was so frightened that it put up a sign saying it was temporarily closed.

Because this restaurant is more famous, it is said that the most expensive dish in this restaurant costs several hundred taels of silver.

What is the concept of a few hundred taels of silver?The common value of residential courtyards in the alleys of the capital is only one or two hundred taels of silver.

Eating one table of vegetables is equivalent to eating two or three courtyards.

So the question is, why do they sell it so expensively?
Some people say, don’t underestimate the dishes on the table. One of the dishes requires the lower lips of hundreds of sheep, and they are all live sheep.

After hearing about this strange case, Ding Xiu went to join in the fun when he had nothing to do.

Of course, ordinary people are not allowed to enter the scene, and government professionals are inside to investigate the scene.

However, he could block others, but he could not block Ding Xiu. After walking around inside, he confirmed that this was not a demonic disaster, but a man-made disaster.

It was clear that someone deliberately faked the scene.

Among the crowd of onlookers, a man in his 20s who looked like a young boy was talking to the people around him, saying that the Ji family had committed too many crimes, and this had attracted the monster to take revenge.

After finishing speaking, he left the crowd and headed east of the city.

Finally, we walked into a large courtyard, and there were two big characters on the wooden plaque outside the courtyard: Ma Mansion!

After the young man entered Ma Mansion, he went straight to the backyard and murmured for a while with a richly dressed young man.

After hearing this, the young master seemed very satisfied, and rewarded the young man with a piece of silver, and said: "If you have nothing to do, go to tea shops and taverns to spread the word. I will still reward you when the time comes."

The boy looked excited: "Yes, yes, thank you, sir, thank you, sir..."

As soon as the boy left, a man who looked like a butler stepped forward and whispered: "Sir, doesn't that boy know the truth?"

"Of course he doesn't know..."

The two began to whisper again.

Little did he know that Ding Xiu had a panoramic view of all this from the rooftop and heard everything clearly.

As expected, it was really a man-made disaster.

Before, he had noticed that something was wrong with the boy. Even if he liked to talk lively, he would not be like him. After talking here, he changed positions and continued talking, changing the position four or five times.

Obviously, this guy was deliberately spreading rumors that the Ji family was harmed by evil spirits.

So Ding Xiu followed him and accidentally heard the truth.

This Mr. Ma is Ma Hua, who has been married to Fu Qingfeng since childhood.

It was this guy who killed shopkeeper Ji's whole family, including the clerks.To be precise, he ordered it.

How much hate is this?

Or is this guy doing justice for heaven?
This is another twists and turns and bizarre story.

Shopkeeper Ji has an only son named Ji Changsheng, who is also an uneducated guy.

Although Ji's family is a merchant and has a low status, it is a time-honored brand that has been passed down for more than 100 years. The store may not look big, but it can't handle the business. Coupled with the accumulation of ancestors, it is a real wealthy family.

Ji Changsheng likes to make friends with foxes and dogs. Later, he met Ma Hua through someone's introduction.

Of course, in Ma Hua's eyes, he did not regard Ji Changsheng as a friend at all. Ji Changsheng also tried every means to please Ma Hua and acted like a slave.

He only thought that Ji Changsheng was trying to curry favor with him and increase his worth.

As everyone knows, this Ji Changsheng has a small circle of his own, and one of the things that their small circle likes to do most is to slaughter fat sheep.

Although Ji Changsheng was uneducated and incompetent, he had a very lively mind. It was under his leadership that the sheep-slaughtering circle was established, and its members were all children of merchants.

Their mission is to get close to those young men, and then take them around to have fun.

In order to make those young men willing to dig into their pockets, Ji Changsheng and others put a lot of thought into it.

Ordinary entertainment methods are not rare to those young men.Therefore, Ji Changsheng and others prepared some small courtyards in advance, and then went to find some promiscuous women in other places, and transformed them into the characters of good housewives.

Some are Xiaojiabiyu, some are business women, some are widows, some are women from ordinary families... In short, there are various types to cater to different young men.

Once those young men take the bait and are so fascinated, they will buy this and that freely, or reward them with money or something.

Most of these went into the pockets of Ji Changsheng and others.

Ji Changsheng is good at understanding people's thoughts and making arrangements according to the different preferences of each young master.

Ma Hua liked gambling, so he often took Ma Hua to gamble, and they went to some special places. In short, Ma Hua soon became addicted to it and couldn't extricate himself.

Although Ma Hua's family is rich, he is not the head of the family. Money is usually paid monthly. If he spends too much, he will definitely be scolded by his family.

Sometimes when he lost money, the guy felt dissatisfied, so he borrowed it from Ji Changsheng.

Ji Changsheng was naturally very happy.

To put it bluntly, these bets were a trap set by him, and the money Ma Hua lost eventually ended up in their pockets.

Therefore, as soon as Ma Hua opens his mouth, he can borrow as much as he wants, but if the brothers settle the accounts clearly, the IOU still has to be written.

When the accumulation was almost complete, Ji Changsheng finally asked Ma Hua for money, saying that the total amount of money in the IOU was almost 6000 taels, not counting interest...

Ma Hua was shocked at that time.

After all, I didn’t do any careful calculation when I borrowed money, but now it adds up to so much?
If his family found out about this, they would probably beat him half to death.

Just when Ma Hua was busy preparing to raise money... After all, a young man like him still wanted to save face. Once word spread that he owed money to others, he would be completely embarrassed.

I don't know what happened. There seemed to be internal strife in Ji Changsheng's small circle. One of the guys quietly found Ma Hua and revealed the truth.

After hearing the reason, one can imagine Ma Hua's anger.

Unexpectedly, his dignified Mr. Ma would actually be played like a monkey?

This Ma Hua is not a good person. He has done countless bad things secretly. As a result, a lowly merchant disciple dared to set a trap for him?
If this matter spreads out, wouldn't he become a big joke among the upper circles of the capital and be wronged?How can I have the dignity to hang out in the capital in the future?
In anger, Ma Hua completely lost his mind and decided to take revenge on the daring Ji Changsheng.

So, the housekeeper was called to discuss countermeasures.

After all, he is the eldest young master of the Ma family. After hearing this, the housekeeper was very angry and finally gave Ma Hua an idea to use the theory of evil to eradicate it.

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your shoes wet?

Although Ji Changzheng was a little clever, he forgot one thing, and that was the disparity in identity between the two parties.

He thinks that those young men and brothers are all face-saving, and sometimes he just keeps it in his heart even if he knows he has been fooled.

As everyone knows, there is another extreme situation, such as a cruel person like Ma Hua.

Under the careful arrangement of the housekeeper, several able-bodied servants were sent to sneak into Ji's house to silence him, confiscated the IOUs, and faked the scene at the same time.

Although Ding Xiu didn't hear everything about the process, it was enough to know the result.

Now, it will be much easier to deal with that Ma Hua.

Just when this strange case caused an uproar in the entire capital, an even more bizarre thing happened.

Suddenly, heavy snow fell outside Ji's door.

To be precise, they were goose feathers, fluttering like heavy snow, but they did not fall to the ground, but fluttered in mid-air, forming several large characters: The murderer, Mr. Ma!
This scene was not only seen by many people at the scene, but also by officials who were handling the case. They couldn't help but be stunned.

After a while, the goose feathers in the sky disappeared.

But this bizarre incident quickly spread throughout the capital, causing a frenzy of speculation as to who Mr. Ma was.

"What? There is such a thing?"

Ma Mansion, Ma Hua was shocked when he heard about this incident.

"Yes, young master, what I heard is absolutely true. Many people saw it with their own eyes at that time, and officials from Shuntian Mansion were also there..."

"Impossible, impossible!"

Ma Hua was furious and pacing back and forth in a restless mood.

He thought that this matter was done perfectly. Under his careful planning, the people in the city now believed that the Ji family died in retribution.

Unexpectedly, his retribution also came, and something so strange happened.

Although Mr. Ma was only mentioned three words and his name was not mentioned, once the official followed the clues to investigate, he would be found sooner or later.

Now that this case has become such a big deal, everyone in the capital knows that no matter how powerful Ma Mansion is, it will probably be difficult to keep everyone from talking.

Feeling panicked, Ma Hua made another wrong decision: he decided to leave the capital quickly and go somewhere else to avoid the limelight.

As everyone knows, this further confirms his guilty conscience.

The wedding day is obviously coming soon, but you are actually traveling far away at this time?Isn’t this 300 taels of silver without money here?

into the night.

In the inner courtyard of Shangshu Mansion, in the pavilion, two figures were sitting opposite each other.

Fu Yuechi said with a happy face: "As soon as I heard the news, I knew that the young master must have cast the spell secretly.

That's good. I heard that Mr. Ma left the capital in a hurry. It is estimated that the government will soon arrest him. "

Ding Xiu smiled: "That's inevitable. After all, this case is well known to everyone. If the government doesn't get to the bottom of it, it will be disgraced.

In fact, as long as they investigate carefully, they will definitely find Mr. Ma.

Now that Mr. Ma has escaped with a guilty conscience, his suspicion has been confirmed..."

The two chatted for a while. Fu Yuechi suddenly lowered his head, his face turned red, and he took out a sachet and handed it to Ding Xiu: "This... I made this with my own hands. I give it... to you..."

Is it necessary to be so shy when giving a gift?

It's really necessary.

Because this is a sachet, according to traditional customs, it is usually a special gift given by the daughter's family to her husband, her lover, or the person she loves.

If the other party accepts it, it means that he has accepted the woman's intention.

On the contrary, it is a polite refusal.

Naturally, Ding Xiu would not refuse and took it in his hand with a smile.

It can be seen that she must have sewn this by herself, stitch by stitch. Although the fabric is very delicate, the quality of this female beauty is indeed a bit inferior.

However, this is not important, what is important is her heart.

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(End of this chapter)