I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 31: Double-dealing

No matter which dynasty or era, buying a house and land is a big deal. It doesn't mean that you pay the money and I agree, and then the money and land are settled.

That's just a joke.

In Dayong, if you want to buy a house or land, the buyer and seller must first sign a deed and pay the deed tax, and then obtain approval from the government before the transaction is considered complete.

Xu Qing and the manager of the pawnshop drafted a contract for the sale of the house, and then went to the government office together to have the clerk in charge of household registration register the house.

After doing all this, he still had to pay for a few "official deeds" out of his own pocket.

There are four copies of the deed in total, and each copy must be exchanged for real gold and silver.

The clerk in charge of handling the house deed was obviously an old acquaintance of the pawnbroker's manager. After they greeted each other and asked about the house information, the clerk felt happy.

He almost said to his face, "Welcome to come again when Manager Xu sells his house."

"This house is extremely good, you are really blessed!" The clerk said this without any embarrassment on his face, because he had already felt embarrassed when he handled this house before!

The official only needs to do his own job. Whether the person who bought the haunted house is dead or alive has nothing to do with him.

Even after the deposit is completed, the work is not over yet. Xu Qing still has to go to the Capital Tax Bureau to pay the "deed tax".

After going through the whole process, he didn't feel tired. After all, if he found these things troublesome, then where would he get the mansion to hide more corpses in the future?

Apart from anything else, in the Great Yong Dynasty, money meant efficiency. Xu Qing went to the Capital Taxation Bureau in the afternoon, and the official deed was delivered to the brokerage firm in the evening.

Seeing Xu Qing's delight when he took the house deed, Mr. Li Si, who still had some conscience, finally couldn't hold it in anymore.

Others may not understand, but he knows it very well!
Did Huang Laosan sell that house to people to live in? It was clearly a haunted house where his people could have children and use it to support themselves in their old age!
"Brother Xu, I don't think you're stupid. Please don't be foolish. We are family and we know our own business. That house is really not suitable for living!"

Xu Qing thought to himself, I never said I was a living person!

Besides, no matter how scary the haunted house is, can it be as scary as a real zombie like him?
"I appreciate the Fourth Master's kindness, but I must live in this house!"

Xu Qing ignored Mr. Li Si's dissuasion and just said that he knew a little about Feng Shui and it would be okay.

The pawnbroker's manager also said, "Fourth Master, Manager Xu is a capable man. He might be able to revitalize that house."

After hearing this, Mr. Li Si shook his head and said, "Don't worry about whether the person will be alive or not. As long as there are no more deaths in the future, it will be fine!"

The sun sets and the lights gradually come on.

Outside the coroner's shop, Xu Qing borrowed a cart from Hu Baosong, then placed the bodies that had been drained of their value from the coffins onto the cart and covered them with coarse cloth.

He was attentively tucking in the corners of the quilt for the corpse on the cart when Wu Yaoxing from the paper-making shop suddenly opened a door and greeted him.

"Hey, Brother Xu, you're finally back!"

"I haven't seen you all day, and when I heard the noise I decided to come out and see you. You look like you're going out again?"

Xu Qing tucked the coarse cloth in and said with a smile, "I just rented a yard. I'm planning to move the things that can't fit in the shop there."

Wu Yaoxing came up and looked at the cart that was bulging as if it was full of goods, without thinking much about it.

"You weren't here today, and two people came looking for you one after another. One was the coroner from the previous class, and the other one was quite unfamiliar. He looked mournful, so someone in his family had died, so he came to see you to do something."

Xu Qinghun said nonchalantly, "If we are destined to meet, we will meet even if we are thousands of miles apart. If we are not destined to meet, we will not even meet even if we are face to face. This is just not the right time, so we are destined to miss it."

Wu Yaoxing smacked his lips and said half-jokingly, "Brother Xu seems to be educated. He speaks very coherently. I think we should go take the spring exam together tomorrow and get a degree."

Scholar? Xu Qing was amused. He had previously prescribed the Book of Documents to scholars. This book was a culmination of all the classics and articles in the Great Yong Dynasty. It was no problem for a scholar to become one, let alone a scholar, even passing the imperial examination would be a piece of cake.

But it was useless for him to take that exam, as he had no intention of becoming an official. If you said that taking the exam to become a scholar would exempt him from miscellaneous taxes and corvee labor, it would be of some practical use.

After the little incident at the shop door, Xu Qing pushed the small cart into the street with a creaking sound.

At this time, the cloud shadows were floating, the moonlight was bright and dim, and the number of pedestrians on the street was becoming increasingly sparse.

The new house is about five or six miles away from the shop.

Xu Qing was walking through the streets and alleys. When he was almost halfway there, he suddenly heard the sound of rubble knocking and shaking.

He glanced sideways at the sound and saw cats walking and jumping along the eaves of the houses connected to each other on the roadside. Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and continued to push the cart slowly.

Soon, the faint sound of bells came from the surroundings, sometimes far away and sometimes near.

"That ringtone sounds familiar."

The wheel hub of the cart stopped turning. Xu Qing held his breath and concentrated. As his wide sleeves shook, a pair of brass knuckles were put on his hands.

The wind is silent and the night road is deserted.

Suddenly, there was a sound of rubble breaking. Without thinking, Xu Qing's whole body was like a cannonball. His legs exerted force instantly and he retreated three feet away in an explosive posture!
At the same place, the unknown creature that attacked from above fell heavily to the ground, and a sound that was not like a human roar came from it.

Xu Qing was on full alert and looked intently.

As he often came into contact with corpses, he could tell at a glance that something was wrong with the other party. His nostrils flared and his qi-reading technique began to work.

Xu Qing smelled the familiar corpse smell in the air and saw the grayish-white mist emanating from the other party.

Combined with the bell sound he heard before, he had already made a rough judgment in his mind.

This means that some of his colleagues want to kill him!

Just as he stepped back, another zombie blocked his way not far behind him.

The bell sounded again, not any melody from the corpse-driving curse, but a curse that he had never known before, full of murderous intent.

Looking at the ferocious zombies attacking from both sides, Xu Qing thought calmly and gave up the idea of ​​using brass knuckles to fight the enemy violently.

He originally thought that the person who attacked him was a gangster or a dark night bandit.

Now, after a closer look, it turned out that they were two thick-skinned zombies controlled by his colleagues, who had not even refined the armored corpse.

Seeing two "alive and kicking" corpses approaching, Xu Qing silently took out the corpse-driving whip from his jacket bag.

You like to scare people by pretending to be dead in the middle of the night, right?

Xu Qing waved the top-grade corpse-driving whip in the shape of a human figure. There was a loud bang in the silent night. The dark red whip with a hint of black hit the zombie that was rushing towards him like a spinning top.

He was filled with anger and whipped with all his might!

Do you really think that he, the corpse driver, is useless? No corpse dares to run in front of him!

The two zombies had never seen such a vicious man before. After a few beatings with the rattan sticks, they even cut off the ringing of the remote control bell.

While Xu Qing was teaching a lesson to the two zombies that wanted to escape, he used the Qi-gazing technique to search for the location of the person behind the scenes.

Finally, the whipping stopped, and only two twitching corpses remained on the ground.

Xu Qing put away the corpse-driving whip and walked straight towards the alley across the street.

About two meters away from the alley entrance, a hoarse and low voice suddenly came from the deep and dark alley:
"Young man, don't go any further. This is the end of today's business."

Xu Qing paused and clenched his brass-knuckle hand into a fist.

Then he continued to move forward.

Mo Xiangqian? You were hiding in the alley late at night, driving a corpse here to scare people, and now that things are going badly, you want to run away. How shameless do you have?
"enough!"

Seeing that he was still going forward, the people hiding in the alley seemed really anxious.

"Boy, since you're new to Linhe, I won't bother with you. But as a senior, I must warn you. The bodies in Linhe aren't just yours. Other families also need to leave food for themselves. You've already cut off their income by collecting corpses worth four taels each. I'm kindly reminding you now that we can call this a draw. We owe each other nothing, and I won't bother you again in the future."

Xu Qing stared at the dead end in front of him and asked a soul-searching question: "Do you really think it can sneak attack me?"

Before he finished speaking, Xu Qing's face suddenly twisted and another face appeared on the back of his head.

At the same time, he gave a grin to the cat-faced zombie that was sneaking up behind him.

Two-faced tactics!
(End of this chapter)