Saint Immortal Way

A solemn and heavy atmosphere loomed over the Priest Prison of Bailongtan Academy. This was a triple-height palace. Outside the prison stood many guards from the feather forest, as well as the government soldiers of the government office and the patrolling officers of the academy.

The guards of the Yulin were brought by Princess Shouyang, the guards were brought by Xu Tianan, governor of the Moling Prefecture, and the guards were appointed by the academy's students. According to the rules of previous years, 40 to [-] people were appointed from among the academy's students every year. , The term of office is mostly one year, assisting in the safety of the academy and maintaining the order of the academy.

Now that such a big event happened, not only the master of the academy and the supervisors of the major courtyards, but also the governor of Moling Prefecture and Princess Shouyang were all alarmed.

It is a big matter to worship without sanctity, and you have to pay attention to it.

According to the procedure, this matter should be heard by the Priest Supervisor of the Academy and the Fu Yin together. However, the people involved not only have fame but also official status, so they can only be called back for questioning, and at the same time, the parties are allowed to defend themselves.

It is not a show that the punishment cannot be used by officials. The privileges of officials are still very useful in the dynasty, especially when they commit crimes. If they are a commoner, they will be captured directly instead of recalled.

Lu Yang stood in front of the sacrificial prison, feeling neither happy nor sad, and walked in accompanied by the deacon beside him. There were not many people in the whole hall, only a dozen or so people.

The moment Lu Yang saw his teacher Huang Zongxi and Princess Shouyang, he breathed a sigh of relief.As for the others, Lu Yang didn't know any of them except Ye Su, the great Confucian, and Cao Daoyuan, the head of the courtyard.

Even Lu Yang didn't recognize Xu Tian'an, the Governor of Moling Mansion.

"His Royal Highness Princess Qi, Lord Fu Yin, Lord Master, and all the supervisors, the waiting order of Shouyang Palace, and the student Lu Yang of Ding Ke's subclass have been brought here. Please show me your lordship!"

"Okay, you step back!" said Wang Daogan, the supervisor of the sacrificial supervisor, and waved his hand. The deacon hurriedly stepped aside. It's his job, and the others are listening.

"Lu Yang has met all the adults!" Lu Yang took a breath and bowed to everyone.

"En!" Wang Daoqian nodded, looked at Princess Shouyang, the head of the hospital, and the governor sitting on the high seats on the left and right, and found that the three of them had nothing to say, so he turned his head to look at Lu Yang, and said seriously: "Lv Yang Waiting for an imperial edict, you came here today to ask you about praying for rain, you can tell the story of praying for rain in detail, don't hide anything!"

Lu Yang nodded, and explained the matter carefully. After everyone listened, Wang Daogan said: "So the county magistrate Wang Hongzhi and the villagers in the lower reaches of the Chuiyang River can testify about the whole incident?"

"Yes!" Lu Yang saluted.

"Do you have any questions?" Wang Daoqian turned his head to look left and right.

"If you have any questions, please ask the supervisor face to face!" A stern voice came, and a middle-aged Hongru stood up and looked at Lu Yang coldly.

"It turned out to be Song Yucheng, the supervisor of the Supervisory Committee. Okay, if you have any questions, please ask!" Wang Daoqian nodded his approval.

Lu Yang stared at Song Yucheng and sneered in his heart, thinking that this person in front of him was looking for trouble for him. I am a small person, so I can't offend him. The status of the supervisor is not low, second only to the director.

If it wasn't an instigation, then it was done on purpose, probably not to hurt his teacher Huang Zongxi, or to test Princess Shouyang...

As Lu Yang thought about it, his heart became more and more calm. For now, the only way to deal with it is to be calm and calm. Don't think about it, as long as you stay steady, there will be justice in the future.

Huang Zongxi didn't speak to avoid suspicion.

"Lü Daizhao, the lower reaches of the Chuiyang River are dry, but you prayed for the rain yourself?" Song Yucheng asked seriously.

"Yes, the people are suffering. If it is delayed for another day or two, most of the crops will be lost. As a disciple of the Holy Dao, how can Lu Yang bear to see the people suffer, so he asked the county magistrate Luqiu to submit another report to the academy on the one hand. The request for rain, on the one hand, went to the drought-stricken area, because the situation was urgent, and the college could not send a great scholar to come to rain, so the students had to pray for rain in person. Fortunately, the students fulfilled their mission and asked for rain, alleviating the drought and saving The crops of villagers in dry areas!" Lu Yang talked eloquently.

"Hmph, what nonsense!" Song Yucheng snorted coldly, raised his eyebrows, and shouted: "You let the villagers set up shrines and burn incense to worship, this is an unholy shrine! You are violating the iron law of the Great Kuang, such a heinous crime, you must be punished." Make a decision!"

Princess Shouyang, Huang Rushi and others frowned slightly, and the others also looked sideways, obviously suspicious of Song Yucheng's madness.

"Haha!" Lu Yang laughed: "Supervisor Song, although you have two official words, it doesn't mean you can do what you say! Do you think whoever has the loudest voice is right?"

"You, you...you dare to quibble, the crime will be aggravated!" Song Yucheng was furious.

"Hehe, the official career is low, how can I know the art of rain? So I had to use the local method, let the villagers build a statue of the river god with yellow clay by the river, and pray to the river god for rain. If not, how can I ask for rain? ? As for the unholy ancestral hall mentioned by the supervisor of the Song Dynasty, there is no such thing!"

"Sophistry, sophistry, someone has already reported your actions to my supervisor, how dare you deny it?!" Song Yucheng gritted his teeth.

"May I ask Supervisor Song, who is that person, and can he come out and confront me?" Lu Yang smiled.

"It's inconvenient for that person to come out, lest he will be troubled afterwards!" Song Yucheng waved his sleeves, saying it as a matter of course.

"Haha, come here at random, a cat or a dog, and accuse an official of the dynasty of being unholy, but dare not come out and admit it even though he dared to wear such a big hat, and dodge it. This is not a guilty conscience. I will now hold him accountable and falsely accuse the dynasty. Official crime!" Lu Yang laughed.

Song Yucheng's face was ashen, and he sneered: "Forget it, it seems that Lu Daizhao will not cry when he sees the coffin, so I will tell you, it is your clan's orthodox branch who exposed you as unholy and shrine. The supervisor's rigorous investigation finally found a lot of clues. The source of all the news is a pigeon that flew out from the courtyard of the patriarch of your Lu clan. We have already got that piece of paper right now, heh heh, Lu Will the news leaked by the clan members be false?"

Everyone's colors changed slightly, and those who were worried even frowned.

"Supervisor Song, do you use this to determine that the lower official is not holy and worshiped? Hahahaha, it's so funny. You don't look for evidence of unholy and shrine. Instead, you use a circumstantial evidence that has nothing to do with it to testify to the crime of the lower official. , Fortunately, you are still the supervisor of the supervisor, I think you are trying to slander a royal official with your eyes open!"

"You..." Song Yucheng smiled instead of anger. He suppressed his anger and said, "The supervisor of this court naturally understands this truth, so he has sent people to Lu Qiu to investigate. I believe there will be evidence soon!"

"Song Yucheng, what do you mean?" Wang Daoqian stood up abruptly, and said angrily, "I, the sacrificial supervisor of Bailongtan Academy, is in charge of supervising all sacrificial matters in the barren state, but everything related to sacrifices is under the jurisdiction of my sacrificial supervisor. Scope, it is my duty to investigate the matter of unholy temples, when will it be your supervisor's turn to take care of it, this is not something you can intervene in!"

Song Yucheng said thickly: "It is also my supervisor's job to monitor the illegal activities in the barren state. In order to prevent the suspect from destroying the evidence, the supervisor of this court must investigate early! This is also to cooperate with the priest's investigation!"

"Hmph, I don't need you supervisors to investigate my sacrificial matter. I have my own staff. I can't believe your investigation, but I don't dare to believe it. Who knows if you have deliberately falsified. I only trust the deacon of this supervisor." Investigation and evidence collection! Humph, even if your inspectors provide evidence, it is not advisable, untrustworthy, and unprovable!" Wang Daoqian went into a rage on the spot and severely reprimanded him.

Song Yucheng's complexion turned purple, obviously being scolded by Wang Daogan in public, he had already lost face.

"Master Wang Yuanjian, the deacon of the sacrificial supervisor must have gone to investigate. If possible, please give the final innocence to the subordinate. The subordinate is pleading for the people and willing to accept punishment for the matter of setting up a wild temple for the god of the river. The lower officials are unholy and those who worship cannot be forgiven!" Lu Yang bowed solemnly to Wang Daoqian.

"It doesn't have to be like this. Nowadays, in the countryside, for the sake of praying for rain or making wishes, the affairs of the Liye Temple have been repeatedly banned. The higher-ups have long had strategies, so the establishment of sacrificial supervisors in some large academies to supervise these matters is mainly about monitoring and management, not blindly suppressing them. As a result, people's resentment boiled over, so it is not a big deal for Lu Daizhao to pray for rain for the people and set up a wild temple. It will not be too late to discuss this matter! The most important thing now is to wait for the deacon Wang Li from the prison to come back. Everything will be known!" Wang Daoqian waved his hand, obviously the matter of Liye Temple is not the point.

"Here we come!" Director Cao Daoyuan said suddenly.

"Hehe, Deacon Wang Li is back!" Wang Dao laughed dryly.

Three Confucian masters flew down from the sky, and the leader was Wang Li. The three adjusted their clothes and then stepped into the sacrificial prison.In the main hall, Wang Li glanced at the crowd, with joy on his face, he stepped forward a few steps quickly, bowed and saluted: "Fortunately, Wang Li and his colleagues did not disgrace their fate, and they have arrived in Luqiu County to investigate the whole story!"

"Oh, let's take a closer look at the future!" Wang Dao smiled dryly.

Wang Li didn't dare to be negligent, and talked about the investigation of praying for rain and Xiuye ​​Temple. Finally, he shook the Zhizhi ruler in his hand, and a cloud of pale righteousness gushed out. This mud tire is like a dragon head and a human body, which is the statue of the river god.

"The lower officials have already brought back the statues of the river gods set up by the villagers. After visiting, there are several statues of river gods erected by the river, and they all look like this!" Wang Li grabbed it, and the statues of the river gods shattered and turned into a stick. The loess, a little dark aura flew out of the loess, he grabbed it in his hand and wrapped it up with awe-inspiring righteousness.

"Master Supervisor, please take a look. This is the imprint of the soul of the River God! I believe that it is clear at a glance whether Lu Daizhao was worshiped for being unholy!" Wang Li handed over the imprint of the soul of the River God.

After Wang Daogan looked at it, he looked at everyone on the left and right, and everyone nodded in unison, indicating that they had seen the essence of this soul imprint, and it was definitely not Lu Yang's imprint.

Generally, the real owner of this soul mark is a demon spirit, or a dead mortal soul, pretending to be a ghost, deceiving the foolish people, stealing incense and offerings, in order to survive or practice.

However, this is not a big deal. Under the majestic orthodoxy of the Da Kuang Dynasty, all the ghosts and ghosts are all chickens and dogs, which is not worth mentioning.

Even the priests don't bother to spend time destroying those wild temples all the time, because often after they are destroyed, foolish people erect them again. Repeating this will waste the human resources of the priests.

"Okay, everyone has seen, what is the soul imprint of this wild temple? It has nothing to do with Lu Daizhao, so someone who slandered Lu Daizhao as unholy and the temple has ulterior motives!" Wang Daoqian said, turning his head to look Song Yucheng, the supervisor of the Supervisory Committee.

Song Yucheng's face was livid, and he had to nod his head to admit: "Okay, it seems that this is a misunderstanding. The patriarch of the Lu clan is really hateful, how dare to play such a conspiracy!"

"Minister Moling, the imperial edict in my palace has been slandered by others, you must give me an explanation for this matter, tell me, what should we do about this matter?" Princess Shouyang only spoke at this time, and this opening was to Moling Fu Yin Xingshi questioned the crime.

Xu Tianan thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "Your Highness, the Lu clan lived in Luqiu for generations, and it is a big clan, and the Lu clan is Lu Qiu'an. In order to avoid causing panic, the Lu clan chief should not punish too much. , so as not to turmoil the hearts of the people, so instead of being imprisoned, he will only be deprived of his ninth-rank official status as a San doctor, and be reprimanded as a warning to others?"

"Forget it, let's do it like this, and those housekeepers should be deterred when they go to prison, otherwise they will treat my royal family as having no majesty, and no one dares to touch it!" Princess Shouyang snorted coldly, and didn't care about Lu Yang and a group of supervisors walked away, and the farce ended like this.

Song Yucheng's face turned ashen, and he sighed in his heart, Huang Zongxi and Princess Shouyang were two trees, and they had established influence in the academy, and it was hard to shake them at all.

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