Longevity from Liao Zhai

Chapter 184 The County Magistrate is the Most

Zhou Ping kept changing his appearance, and then kept changing pharmacies to prepare his own medicinal materials.

After cultivating the Vajra Indestructible Body, Zhou Ping's telepathic finger would not be triggered at will.

The Vajra Indestructible Body is somewhat like armor, and the Lingxi Finger is equivalent to a famous sword.

If the armor is not penetrated, the famous sword will not be triggered.

All the gold bricks Zhou Ping had obtained earlier, including several boxes of jewelry from Song Tianlong, and other money Zhou Ping had obtained from killing people and stealing treasures, were spent by him.

"Poor in literature but rich in martial arts, how did these monks come up with such a way to spend money?" Zhou Ping finally understood why Buddhists loved money and would ask believers to donate a golden Buddha or something like that whenever they had nothing to do.

Because Buddhist magic really costs money.

In addition to the Vajra Indestructible Body, the Buddhist instrument Vajra, or something like gold powder can also restrain ghosts.

At this time, Zhou Ping had only more than twenty taels of silver left, and he had bought enough medicinal herbs needed for the Vajra Indestructible Body.

"Friend, buy some calligraphy and paintings." A weak voice stopped Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping felt familiar with this voice. He turned around and saw it was Chen Chao!
Qinghe County, Chen Chao, Confucian eighth rank!
Chen Chao was already a scholar, and he was like a teacher in Qinghe County, so he brought a dozen students to Qianzhou City to take the exam.

Along the way, Chen Chao led a dozen students along the official road and did not encounter any robbers.

In fact, there were many robbers on the road, but no one robbed these scholars.

Firstly, these scholars didn’t have much money, and robbing them would offend the government.

Secondly, there are also people with cultivation among the scholars, and many robbers have not yet reached the level of cultivation.

However, after Chen Chao brought these students to Qianzhou City, they encountered a heavy rain and had to take shelter in a dilapidated temple in Huangshan.

One night, a female ghost haunted the abandoned temple.

Chen Chao had also seen these female ghosts in his earlier years. He told the students that as long as they kept their original intentions and maintained their righteous spirit, the female ghosts would not be able to do anything to them.

Nothing happened during the night. When it was almost dawn, my cousin left the room as if possessed by a ghost for some unknown reason.

Everyone else was drowsy and didn't notice that their cousin had disappeared.

When Chen Chao discovered something was wrong, he hurried out.

When Chen Chao found his cousin, a dried up head was lying on his body. His face was intoxicated, and he had been sucked into jerky by the head.

This cousin was the one that Chen Chao valued the most. He thought he would pass the imperial examination and become a scholar in one go. Unexpectedly, he was almost sucked to death by a female ghost. Or maybe it wasn't a female ghost at all, but a creature that looked like a male ghost.

If Chen Chao had not brought his cousin to meet Zhou Ping before leaving, and Zhou Ping's poems had not enabled his cousin to reach the tenth rank of Confucianism, he would probably have become a wandering ghost long ago.

A tenth-grade cultivator is different from ordinary people and can hold on for a few more seconds in the ghost's mouth.

Although my cousin survived, he was seriously ill. The students all gave their money to treat him.

In this way, a group of people endured hunger all the way to Qianzhou City.

When the group arrived at Qianzhou City, they had no money to stay in a hotel and had to sleep in the open air.

In order to survive until the day of the exam, Chen Chao had no choice but to lead a group of students to Qianzhou City to sell calligraphy and paintings.

Even so, a group of people still starved.

Zhou Ping looked at the group of pale and skinny scholars, one of whom looked listless, as if he had indulged in excessive sexual activities, so he asked them what had happened.

At this time, Zhou Ping's face was not his own, but that of a stranger whom Chen Chao and the others did not recognize.

Chen Chao told Zhou Ping the story and couldn't help but complain to his cousin: "I've told them that the story of the scholar and the female ghost is all a lie. They still think they are the protagonists of the story."

"Brother, you are wrong. The story may be false, but Teacher Zhou is real. There is a female ghost beside him." Chen Chao's cousin said with his eyes suddenly lit up.

Chen Chao was so angry that he punched his cousin several times.

"Friend, would you like to buy some calligraphy or paintings?" Chen Chao said pitifully.

Zhou Ping sighed, then took out more than twenty taels of silver from his arms.

Chen Chao was stunned. What kind of living Buddha did he meet? Why did he give us more than twenty taels of silver?

With these twenty taels of silver, a dozen people no longer had to starve, and they also had the money to travel back home.

"My friend, how can I be so embarrassed?" Chen Chao had some dignity as a scholar, but thinking of the dozen young men around him, he still put the money in his pocket and said, "May I ask your name, sir? I will repay you in the future."

Zhou Ping's face was slightly different, and he said, "The teacher Zhou he just mentioned must be Zhou Ping. I have an old relationship with him, so I'll just consider it as helping him."

After Zhou Ping finished speaking, he left without further ado.

"Tsk tsk, Teacher Chen, Teacher Zhou is so amazing, and he knows such a rich person in Qianzhou City."

"Hey, you know Fan Shiyi, right? He is the son of Fan Zhongfu, the most famous Confucian scholar of the time, and he is a fourth-rank cultivator. Your teacher Zhou is also a close friend of his."

Zhou Ping almost fell down while listening to the conversation between the two people. A friendship like Guan Yu and Bao Yu! ?

Qinghe County.

A girl was lying half-naked on the ground, her body covered with bruises, her eyes were dull and she was completely breathless.

The girl must have suffered inhuman torture before she died, and there were tear marks in the corners of her eyes.

There is also some milky white stuff on the face and body.

This girl was none other than Mr. Yuan’s daughter Yuanyuan.

Mr. Yuan's eyes went dark and he fell to the ground. When he came to his senses, he reluctantly took off his gown and wrapped his daughter up.

At this time, a lot of people have gathered here.

"Why did Mr. Yuan's daughter die?"

"Hey, it's those little devils from the Wild Dog Gang."

"You mean them?"

"Oh, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything."

"Master Wang, who is the murderer?" Yuan Gong's voice was hoarse, and his eyes were bloodshot. He wanted to kill the beasts who insulted his daughter!

Wang Cheng didn't dare to look Yuan Gong in the eye. He flickered his eyes and said, "I have sent people to ask, but no one knows what happened."

Mr. Yuan felt the remaining body temperature of his daughter, which meant that she had not been dead for long.

"My fellow villagers, if you want to sue whoever killed my daughter, I will definitely reward him handsomely!" Mr. Yuan bit his lips so hard that they were broken by himself.

Mr. Yuan recalled that his daughter was like a kitten when she was born.

Gradually, my daughter would crawl on my body, and later she would call me daddy.

Every time Mr. Yuan goes out on a mission, his daughter will be a little older when he comes back.

It is said that a daughter is her father’s little cotton-padded jacket. Yuanyuan is also very affectionate to Yuan Gong and will rub her father’s legs and bite his ears.

Mr. Yuan loves his daughter much more than his two sons. He always gives the good things to his daughter first. Who can blame his daughter for being so adorable?
After Yuan Gong finished speaking, the officials in Qinghe County bowed their heads and no one spoke.

Mr. Yuan had a vague idea.

"Engineer Yuan, no one has seen who the murderer is. I guess it must be a lawless foreign cultivator." Wang Cheng said with Erdan's eyes flashing.

Yuan Gong muttered to himself: "Foreign warriors?"

The scope of foreign warriors is quite large. There are foreign cultivators coming in and out of Qinghe County all day long.

If it was really an outsider cultivator who insulted Yuanyuan, it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. "Outsider, you are really good at putting the blame on others." A man came out carrying a coffin.

This person is Yue Yunfeng!
Yue Yunfeng originally didn't want to get involved in Qinghe County's affairs. With his status, he would hide as much as possible.

However, Yue Yunfeng understood the sadness in Yuan Gong's eyes. He also had a daughter, and he was also running around for his half-human, half-zombie daughter.

This feeling for his daughter infected Yue Yunfeng.

"I wasn't at the scene and didn't see anything, but I heard from some people that there were three teenagers, and they were from the Wild Dog Gang." Yue Yunfeng said softly.

Engineer Yuan looked at Yue Yunfeng and nodded heavily. He believed what Yue Yunfeng said!

Wang Cheng's expression changed slightly, and he looked at Yue Yunfeng with a warning: "Outsider, you must be responsible for your words, and you can't spit blood at me."

Before Yue Yunfeng could say anything, a few more people walked out of the crowd.

"I didn't see what happened, but I heard from the villagers in Qinghe County that it was done by a few teenagers from the Wild Dog Gang."

"Yes, I can testify to that. I heard that it was done by a few teenagers and someone saw it."

"Captain, you are putting the blame on a stranger. Do you know something? Or are you trying to protect someone?"

Several people stood out from the crowd, all of whom came to Qinghe County to shop on Taobao. These people were not good people, and none of them had not killed many people.

But the death of Mr. Yuan's daughter was really infuriating. This was a child! ?
What kind of demon would attack a child?

As a few people stood up, more outside cultivators stood up.

"I've heard that too. He's either from outside the area or from Qinghe County."

"Me too."

Soon, more than twenty outsiders came out to testify.

Wang Cheng looked at these people and was speechless for a moment.

They are all cultivators from outside, and each of them has stronger cultivation than himself. Some are even at the eighth level, and there are also those at the seventh level.

"Thank you all." Mr. Yuan knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily to every outsider.

The people of Qinghe County lowered their heads at this time, and no one dared to look at Wangcheng. Outsiders dared to tell the truth, but the locals were unwilling to come out to testify.

What’s even more hateful is that this is not the first time the murderer has committed a crime. He killed a teenager a few days ago.

But who made the murderer so powerful?
Wang Cheng was thinking about how to deal with the situation at this time. He knew who the murderer was, but he had to protect the murderer.

"Captain Wang, I've caught the murderer!" Captain Leng picked up the two teenagers and threw them to the ground.

Mr. Yuan looked at the two young men.

One was the son of a wealthy local salt seller, and the other was the son of a local gambling house owner.

These two children have a bad reputation. Mr. Yuan has heard from his son that they have bullied his son.

"These two are from the Wild Dog Gang." Captain Leng looked at Wang Cheng provocatively. "When I was arresting them, they dared to resist. I wasn't paying attention and accidentally crushed them to death."

Wang Cheng looked at Captain Leng deeply. They both knew the truth of the matter, but Wang Cheng did not expect that Captain Leng's trick of sacrificing the car to save the driver was so vicious!
There were three murderers. The two who died were accomplices, and the main culprit was the county magistrate's son, Lu Chang.

The three of them drank some wine during the day, and their young blood was not enough to dissipate, so they actually did things worse than animals to Mr. Yuan's daughter.

And because Yuan Gong's daughter cried for help, Lu Chang covered her mouth and suffocated her to death.

There were eyewitnesses to this incident! However, because Lu Chang was the son of the county magistrate, no one dared to tell the truth.

What’s more important is that Wang Cheng also paid hush money to the witnesses!
With both the carrot and the stick, the witnesses are even more afraid to speak.

At this moment, several people in the crowd looked at each other, as if a stone in their hearts had fallen to the ground.

Yuanyuan was indeed dead, but the murderer was also dead. Although there was one less murderer, the murderer was indeed dead.

Mr. Yuan looked at the two dead boys.

Captain Leng took off the clothes of the two boys and found scratches on their bodies. These scratches were left by Yuan Gong's daughter.

The moment he saw the scratches, Yuan Gong instantly lost his mind and started slashing at the two teenagers with a long knife.

Knife after knife.

Qinghe County, county government office.

"Let me out, let me out." Lu Chang knocked on the doors and windows. Although he was young, he had a lot of ideas.

Magistrate Lu trapped him in a room, so Magistrate Lu burned the door of the room.

"Oh, young master, please stop fooling around. If you continue, the county magistrate will beat several of us to death." Several servants were trembling with fear.

Magistrate Lu asked them to watch Lu Chang, but Lu Chang could not stay in the house for too long.

Lu Chang calmed down, knowing that he had hit the servants' weak spot: "It's okay if I stay here, go to the Jiaofangsi and find me some girls."

The servants looked at each other. How old is this kid? He hasn't even grown all his hair yet, and he wants a woman.

"Master, you can have a woman, but we don't have any money."

Several servants said.

Lu Chang snorted coldly: "It's okay if you don't have money, just bring your wives or sisters over to me to play with."

The faces of several servants changed as they heard about the tragic death of Yuan Gong's daughter.

The two young men from the Wild Dog Gang were executed on the spot, but several servants knew that the leader of the Wild Dog Gang was still there.

As long as the road chief is still there, the wild dog will help the child. The gossip heard by several servants is that Yuan Gong's daughter was killed by the road chief.

Qinghe County is not big, and Yuan Gong is a tenth-rank warrior, a well-known figure. Even the yamen runners rarely bother to provoke him.

The servants never expected that Lu Chang would dare to attack Yuan Gong's daughter.

First, Mr. Yuan’s daughter is still young.

Secondly, it would have been fine if Mr. Yuan was just playing around, but he actually dared to kill someone!
However, these servants knew Lu Chang's character and knew that he would kill people.

"Why are you silent? If you still want to work in the county government, bring your women here to play with me, especially those who are my age. I don't like older women, and I dislike those bitches in the Jiaofang Bureau even more."

"In short, small, tender, and preferably the first time kind."

"When they lose their virginity, the sounds they make are just so beautiful."

Lu Chang licked his lips, as if he was savoring something wonderful. He finally understood why his father came to this godforsaken place.

Qinghe County is poor, and what is available in Qianzhou City is not available here.

But in Qianzhou City, Lu Chang was nothing, there were too many people with higher status than him. If you ran into someone on the street, he might be the illegitimate son of some high-ranking official.

Lu Chang had to behave himself in Qianzhou City, but it was different when he arrived in Qinghe County.

Everyone here was afraid of the county magistrate, and he could enjoy many privileges because of this. He could treat his servants like dogs, and he could take a few friends with him to eat and drink.

Even killing a person or raping a girl is not a problem.

Because Lu Chang knows. My father is the county magistrate!

In Qinghe County, the county magistrate has the highest position.

(End of this chapter)