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Chapter 718: The Eternal Life Sect Demon Wants to Do Big Things

The situation deteriorated even faster than Wang Yunxiao expected.

Yang Youxuan burned incense and prayed to Buddha for a long time, then told Wang Yunxiao with embarrassment that the master had indeed been invited, but he would not be here for a week.

After a week, the day lily was completely cold.

The meeting at the police station had just ended when news came in that a grain store had been smashed, looted and burned.

According to the intelligence gathered at the scene, some people received news that a granary outside the city had caught fire. Worried about a food shortage, they flocked to the grain stores to buy food, triggering a run on the stores.

The grain store owner and his employees were beaten to death on the spot, and tens of thousands of kilograms of grain in the store were looted.

Wang Yunxiao remembered that the news he had heard before was that 100,000 tons of corn were burned in the granary outside the city.

One ton is one thousand kilograms, and one hundred thousand tons is two hundred million kilograms.

Tianmen City has a population of 1.5 million, which means each person weighs about 100 kilograms.

If you calculate it based on the years of famine, it is indeed a very serious number.

But this is not a time of famine. Before the corn cobs from outside the Great Wall were shipped in, did you grow up eating the northwest wind?

That's the truth, but you can't reason with these people.

Their cultural level is not enough to solve such complicated math problems.

And there are all kinds of rumors and polluting factors mixed in.

At this time, the Red Lantern Society, as a local association organization, played a real role.

The lantern-wielding Rakshas of the Red Lantern Festival walk on the street, hanging the lotus lanterns in their hands at the crossroads. When people see them, they bow down and worship. This has been a local custom in Tianmen City for decades.

When the Rakshasa lights a lamp, it means that there are demons and evil spirits causing trouble nearby. When you see the lotus lamp rising, you must be vigilant and guard the door carefully to prevent the demons from causing trouble. If you do not listen to the advice and are confused by the demons, run to the street to pretend to be a demon and make trouble, you will die under the Rakshasa's knife.

The reputation of the Red Lantern Society has been earned through hard work over the years; it is not just a non-governmental charity organization that only talks big.

The incense masters began to inform the residents door to door that the heavens have eyes and good deeds will be rewarded. If anyone killed someone or stole food, they could turn themselves in now to get a lighter sentence. If they still hoped to get away with it and didn't want to admit it, don't blame the swords for being blind when the Rakshasa cleaned up the streets at night.

Ordinary civilians these days won’t understand what you’re saying about laws and morals, but they will understand immediately if you talk about feudal superstitions.

On the one hand, it is because of the excellent inheritance of thousands of years of historical and cultural dregs.

On the one hand, it’s because of the Red Lantern Society’s blood-stained golden signboard.

As for questions about the famine, Wang Yunxiao had prepared answers for them in advance.

The notorious bandit Liu Er had an irreconcilable feud with the owner of the grain store. Now he spread rumors and misled the people in order to destroy the grain store's business and cut off the owner's financial resources.

That’s the beauty of journalism.

No one likes to read serious news. If you want to cover up a hot news topic, just push another hot news topic to the top of the hot searches.

This shameless tactics obviously caught the opponent off guard, and the street finally quieted down.

But Wang Yunxiao knew clearly that the other party had carefully prepared such a big plan and would never give up easily.

In the evening, Wang Yunxiao brought his brothers back to the bureau to rest, and Youtiao and Xiaohulu also rushed back from outside.

Where exactly is the secretariat responsible for compiling local chronicles? This is a question that no one can answer.

But local chronicles themselves are not important secrets. In addition to being kept in archives by government departments, they can often be found in some bookstores outside.

Don't think that scholars in the past only read the Four Books and Five Classics. Reference books like local chronicles should also be kept on scholars' desks.

Otherwise, you study hard for ten years, but you can't find your parents anywhere. When people try to claim to be your relatives, you don't know what to say.

When you marry a wife, you don't know what family she comes from, you just accept whatever the matchmaker says. When your superior asks you if there are any celebrities from your hometown, or if there are any scenic spots or delicious food, you don't know anything.

This work is finished.

Youtiao took Xiaohulu out to search for a whole day and brought back several versions of local chronicles.

There are condensed versions, and there are also more detailed but not continuous ones...

Youtiao turned over one of the pages and handed it to Wang Yunxiao.

"In the summer of the tenth year of Tianqi, there was a severe drought in the Central Plains, leaving thousands of miles of barren land and no crops. Tianmen was seriously plagued by rats, with groups of black-haired rats running rampant on the streets in broad daylight... There was a man named Hu Dayou from Liaodong who claimed that he had practiced magic in Changbai Mountain when he was young, and that he could communicate with animals, exorcise spirits and send generals, draw talismans and chant spells, and was proficient in everything..."

Up to this point it's still quite normal, but it starts to get a bit absurd as you read on.

"The youngest daughter of the Liu family was kindhearted. She saved food to feed sparrows and squirrels. She was seen by the black-haired rat demon, who turned into a human and came to her house, demanding to marry her by force. Mr. Liu could not refuse, so he invited Hu Dayou to subdue the demon. Hu Dayou opened an altar and invited the immortal to possess him, using the Three Flavors True Fire to drive away the rat demon. Afterwards, he told Mr. Liu that this was because your daughter only fed squirrels and not mice, which caused the rat demon to bear a grudge. If you want to resolve the grudge, you need to prepare 33 pounds of fried peanuts and offer them in the southeast of your house..."

How small are the eyes of this mouse?

Wang Yunxiao turned to the next page and saw the words "Hu Dayouer saves Miss Liu" written on it.

How come there is a second chapter? The guy who compiled the local chronicles must have listened to too many storytellings.

The story in the second chapter is obviously more exciting. It tells the story of Miss Liu who grew up to be a 15-year-old girl. Because of her kindness, she saved a stray cat and was abducted from her home by a group of black-haired mice. Hu Dayou heard about this and rushed to rescue her alone. He fought hard and was injured all over his body before he rescued Miss Liu. Miss Liu was grateful for his life-saving grace and decided to marry him.

In order to avoid revenge from the rat demon, the two left Tianmen after their marriage and disappeared.

Hmm... this story looks familiar.

Wang Yunxiao thought for a long time and suddenly slapped his forehead. Isn’t this Liu Laosan?
At that time, Li Mumu took two little girls to visit a patient. On the way home, they were attacked by a swarm of rats. The disciple who suddenly appeared and rescued the girls seemed to be called Liu Laosan.

Although he rescued the person, he also lost his life.

At that time, Wang Yunxiao was staring at the Shen family and didn't think carefully about where this person came from.

Although the stories are not the same, the characters look very similar and highly overlapping.

Wang Yunxiao didn't believe this was a coincidence.

This shows that Youtiao’s speculation is very likely correct!

"Can you find other cases that match or are similar?"

"This will take some time. I only found these few books, and the content is not complete..."

Before Youtiao finished his words, he heard a commotion outside the cafeteria.

Yang Youxuan walked quickly into the cafeteria and came in front of Wang Yunxiao. She said in a low voice with a tense face, "Brother Wang, something big happened on the street. My incense master got wind of it and said someone is going to start a riot tonight!"

"Trouble?"

"It is said that the evil people of the Changsheng Sect are going to gather people to rebel under the banner of clearing the emperor's side."

"what?"

The amount of information was so overwhelming that Wang Yunxiao felt a little confused.

The Changsheng Cult is rebelling?

Pay off the emperor's side?

How were these two things forced together?

(End of this chapter)