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

Chapter 37 Dream Making

As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor, and a close neighbor is not as good as the one next door.

Xu Qing took out eight taels of silver, four of which were for Wu Yaoxing, and the remaining four...
He had already taken advantage of the moment when the tax collector was handing over the money and used the Thousand Shadows Stealing Technique to steal two booklets issued by the Tianxin Sect.

Xu Qing was incredibly quick. In the blink of an eye, he took out the booklet from his arms and handed it to the leading tax collector.

"One of these two booklets was thrown into my courtyard by a demon from the Tianxin Sect, and the other was left at the door of the incense and candle shop across the street. So, you officials, there's no need to waste your breath or feet. The extra four taels of silver will be considered the fine paid by me and the owner of the incense and candle shop."

The leading tax collector raised his chin and was about to say something when he saw Xu Qing take out another tael of silver.

"The Tianxin Cult has deceived people and caused great harm to them. Even if these two silver coins are an extra gift from me, it can be considered as a small contribution to the eradication of these evil heretics."

When the leading tax collector saw the silver and heard these polite words, his expression instantly softened.

"Look at what it means to understand the greater good and be sensible. This is what the people of Yong Dynasty should be like!"

When the messenger sees money, the cat and the mouse sleep together.

Xu Qing watched this group of well-dressed greedy cats leave, while the owner of the incense and candle shop across the street blinked her eyes and looked incredulous.

Why didn't these officials and bandits come to her house? Could it be that they have changed their ways?

At the door of the paper-making shop, Wu Yaoxing held two hundred yuan and two taels of silver and insisted on stuffing them into Xu Qing's arms.

"You paid for me, so you have to let me pay you back, otherwise I will be unhappy!"

Wu Yaoxing had no idea that the money Xu Qing gave him was all tampered with. As long as Xu Qing was willing, once the mother coin that had used the Qingqiu Guiqian technique called out, wouldn't all the child coins have to return to him obediently?
"Send the money first. I'll have to ask you for some paper figurines and paper horses when I have funerals. Besides, you know me. I like to go to the willow alleys when I have a little money, but in the end, I'll just throw it into the gutter. Just save it for me!"

Xu Qing is not short of money, and the money he gave to Qingqiu is not something he can't get back. If he really accepted Wu Yaoxing's hard-earned money at this time, then what is the difference between him and the officials and bandits who came today?

The proprietress of the incense and candle shop had no idea what was going on from beginning to end until Wu Yaoxing, who couldn't keep a mouth off, ran over to explain it clearly. Only then did she realize that it was Xu Qing who paid the tax for her.

Later that day, Xu Qing closed the shop door and was about to go to the classroom to look for his senior brother Wang Lingyuan, but he saw Cheng Caiyun from the incense and candle shop coming over with a basket of country eggs.

"Shopkeeper Xu, this is fresh chicken that my sister-in-law specially went to my sister-in-law's house to get. I heard you like it, so I brought it over to try."

Xu Qing raised his eyebrows and took the basket with a smile.

Cheng Caiyun and Wu Yaoxing were different. The latter refused many times before he temporarily accepted the idea of ​​paying back the money.

But the owner of the incense and candle shop just brought a basket of eggs and wanted to pay the tax in broad daylight.

Xu Qing was not surprised to see this. After all, he had just eaten low-quality candles from the incense and candle shop in the morning. From then on, he knew that Cheng Caiyun was a petty and greedy woman.

Cheng Caiyun observed Xu Qing's words and expressions, and was particularly happy to see that he didn't mention paying back the money. She even threw him a coquettish glance when she went back, which made Xu Qing's whole body go numb.

Why would a man in his thirties behave like this for a few hundred dollars?
Xu Qing naturally had no intentions towards the middle-aged woman. In his eyes, she was not as fresh as the old hen that laid this basket of eggs!
Tomorrow he will buy a few old hens and feed them in the yard. That way, he can eat freshly baked eggs every day, right?

Xu Qing put two country eggs in his arms and walked towards the inspection office while chewing them.

When they arrived at the yamen's detention room, Wang Lingyuan waved to him, and Xu Qing followed "Mother Wang" to the morgue with excitement, like a prostitute visiting a brothel.

A few green lamps illuminate the house.

There were more than ten hardwood beds neatly arranged in the morgue, three of which were covered with plain cloth, through which the outlines of human bodies could be vaguely seen.

On the other side there is a bookshelf for copies of case files and a table for examining corpses.

Coroners weren't solely responsible for examining corpses. According to the laws of the Great Yong Dynasty, they also had access to case files and participated in deductions. If they were able to solve a difficult case and successfully exonerate the deceased, the court would reward them with additional silver.

Therefore, coroner is one of the thirty-six trades, and it is a trade that really requires certain skills and experience.

On this side, Xu Qing was about to use the corpse-driving technique to help Wang Lingyuan drive the corpse to the inspection table, but Wang Lingyuan raised his hand to stop him.

"Junior Brother, an autopsy is different from a corpse-moving technique. We must do everything possible to preserve the corpse's original appearance. If we use corpse-moving techniques, we might change the corpse's posture at the time of the murder and lose important clues."

As soon as Wang Lingyuan talked about his profession, his whole temperament changed a lot.

He really wanted to teach Xu Qing the autopsy method!
Speaking of which, he is already old, and he really has no apprentice to pass on this skill of autopsy. Now that he has Xu Qing, his cheap junior brother, who is willing to learn, he is naturally extra serious.

After carefully moving the body to the designated location, Wang Lingyuan observed the deceased's posture and explained how to determine the cause of death.

The details are all recorded without reservation, and are all the valuable experience he has accumulated since he started working as a coroner.

Xu Qing listened attentively on the side, and from time to time he would pour tea and water for Wang Lingyuan until he was completely full.

It was about time to add more lights. Wang Lingyuan, who was over fifty years old, had drunk a lot of tea during the period and could no longer hold his urge to urinate, so he casually gave him a few instructions and hurried to the toilet.

On this side, seeing that his plan was successful, Xu Qing took advantage of the other party's absence and immediately turned his attention to the corpse on the table.

In front of me was a female corpse. Judging from the marks on her neck, she must have died of suffocation.

However, Xu Qing did not care about these things. He did not need to use any method to examine the deceased, and he could see through all the reasons why the deceased had died.

While reciting scriptures to save people, the underworld and the underworld appeared in his mind, and the memories of the dead bloomed in front of Xu Qing like flowers of the other shore, without reservation.

The deceased was named Sai Yuxian. She was originally an actress in the Liyuan Opera House. Because a patron often listened to her singing, she fell in love with him, redeemed herself, and married him.

But the good times did not last long. After only half a year of running the household together, Sai Yuxian's husband became drunk and had sex with her all day long because he owed a huge debt.

One day, after getting drunk, her husband pointed at her and said, "They say actors are heartless. If you really love me, you should go out and sing and entertain guests, pay off my debts, and save me from suffering every day."

Sai Yuxian also had an extreme personality. Because of this incident, she actually went to Yanliu Lane and became a secret prostitute!
After two or three months, Sai Yuxian straightened her neck like a proud white goose and gave her husband a large sum of silver.

"Today I want to tell you that actors also have feelings and loyalty!"

However, what Sai Yuxian never expected was that after hearing this, her husband began to angrily accuse her of being unfaithful to her husband. If she had been entertaining guests for two or three months, wouldn't all the neighbors, relatives and friends know that he had a fickle wife?

Sai Yuxian never imagined that her husband had two faces. It was he who made her become a prostitute to pay off her debts and express his feelings for her. Now it was he who accused her of being unfaithful and fickle.

Sai Yuxian was so angry that she pretended to be arrogant and wanted to go to the neighbors to seek justice and see who was really heartless and ungrateful.

Her husband was a man who loved his reputation very much. Even when the family was in debt and could not afford to eat, he would still wipe his mouth with thick pig skin and wait until his mouth was full of oil before he would go out. Now, after hearing these words, how could he suppress his anger?

So the husband immediately reached out and pressed down his wife who was about to leave, pulled out the belt around his waist, and tightly strangled his wife's throat, for fear that she would shout out something that would damage her reputation.

Just like that, the story of the actress who paid off her husband’s debts came to an end.

After watching this drama of a loving couple turning into mortal enemies, Xu Qing didn't know how to comment.

It is said that even if you rub your precious body in every way, you still cannot grind away the greed and desire of your lover.

Afterwards, the Sutra of Deliverance gave him a mid-level evaluation of the character "人" (human), and the reward was a "Dream-Making Technique."
(End of this chapter)