The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 112
Li Jingxiao hugged Jingrong, rubbed the heads of his eldest and second sisters with a smile, and nodded to Qin Zhong.

Then he handed Jingrong to his eldest sister Jingxi, looked at his wife and said, "Madam, your husband is back."

When Qin Keqing heard this, she remembered her worries from yesterday, her heart ached and her eyes became moist.

Li Jingxiao laughed and walked forward to hug his wife to comfort her.

Jing Xi and Jing Yue blushed slightly when they saw this, and the maids around them lowered their heads in shame and dared not look.

Only Jingrong was still a child. Although the 4-year-old Qin Zhong felt a little bad, he felt more that his brother-in-law was really good to his elder sister.

Li Jingxiao hugged his wife and comforted her in a low voice, while winking at Baozhu and Ruizhu.

The two maids were delighted, but at the same time, they looked at their master with eyes as if they wanted to eat him.

In the ancient patriarchal society, the higher the official position of the man in the family, the higher the status of the woman.

Even if she was a concubine, she would feel proud of it.

After a while, Qin Keqing herself realized that it was inappropriate for her husband to hug her.

She had no time to cry. After struggling for a few times, Li Jingxiao took her hand and led them into the main hall.

Needless to say after that.

After dinner, Li Jingxiao yawned while drinking tea.

Jing Xi, who was just about to hear his eldest brother tell him what happened yesterday, hurriedly asked his second and third sisters and Qin Zhong to take a nap.

So as not to disturb my brother's rest.

Jing Yue and Jing Rong looked at Li Jingxiao pitifully, but their eldest brother hadn't spoken yet, and Qin Keqing felt sorry for her husband.

He hurriedly said, "Your eldest brother was in the palace all night last night discussing state affairs with His Majesty. If you want to hear a story, please wait until after dinner tonight."

Jingyue and Jingrong pouted, but dared not disobey.

Together with Jingxi and Qin Zhong, he bowed to Li Jingxiao and Qin Keqing, and took the maids back to his room for a nap.

After the people left, there was no trace of tiredness on Li Jingxiao's face.

He reached out and grabbed his wife's moist hand, and glanced at the majestic part of her chest.

Seeing this, Qin Keqing blushed again, and she said something in a bad mood, but she stood up and said in a panic in her heart.

"Sir, I'll make your bed so you can have a good sleep and avoid hurting yourself."

Li Jingxiao didn't care about his wife's shyness. He got up and chased after her, picked her up and left.

Last night the rain was light and the wind was strong, and the raindrops hit the banana leaves with a rustling sound.

Qin Keqing quickly called Baozhu and Ruizhu in.

Then he was pulled by Li Jingxiao and they slept in the same quilt.

I got 150 experience points and took a look at my level.

Level 14 (245/1400), then he contentedly hugged his wife and took a nap.

Poor Baozhu and Ruizhu, they just wanted to rest for a while, but they had to endure their weak bodies and get up to help Li Jingxiao wash up.

After changing the couple into dry clothes, I went back to the cubicle to rest in a relaxed mood.

Li Jingxiao slept until around four in the afternoon, when his ears suddenly moved.

After listening carefully for a while, I heard the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the yard, getting closer and closer, and stopped at the gate of the yard.

I immediately understood that Zhao Junming, Shi Delong and others had returned from Jizhou.

After a while, a little maid hurriedly knocked on the door of Baozhu and Ruizhu's room.

Then Baozhu and Ruizhu came in to dress him and do his hair without tidying their clothes.

When Qin Keqing heard that the guards had returned, she hurriedly put on her robe and helped.

But Li Jingxiao is unwilling to wear armor now.

This thing looks heroic, but this set of Mingguang mountain pattern armor is actually heavy armor.

A full 48 kilograms.

It was Xia Shouzhong who knew that Li Jingxiao's family must be short of this kind of armor.

He asked someone to search the palace treasury and specially selected this set of heavy armor.

This will save Li Jingxiao from having to spend money to make it himself in the future.

This set of heavy armor alone saved at least a thousand taels of silver and several months of production time.

In the Ming Dynasty, one jin weighed sixteen liang, which is equivalent to 590 grams in modern society.

This set of armor weighs 56 kilograms in modern times.

And this is not the heaviest one. The real infantry armor weighs 60 kilograms, which is a unit of weight of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Equivalent to 70 kilograms in modern society.

So heavy armored warriors or heavy cavalry are powerful, but the logistical costs are astonishingly high.

Qin Keqing hadn't seen enough, but her husband didn't want to wear armor, so she could only say it was a pity.

I can only look forward to seeing him wearing armor again at an important event like a grand court meeting one day.

After a while, he was dressed neatly and tied a Qilin jade belt with a soft sword hidden in it around his waist.

Li Jingxiao walked straight to the front yard.

Then they saw Zhao Junming and thirteen other officers from the Left Pacification Division, as well as Han Mengzhuo and Shi Delong, three brothers, bowing and saluting.

"Your humble servants greet you, sir," he said, and then began to congratulate again.

At the age of 15, he was promoted to the Grand Guardian, General of Huaihua, Deputy Commander of the Palace Front Division, and Pacification Commissioner of the Pacification Division.

Just thinking about it makes people envious and admire it.

Li Jingxiao smiled and waved his hands, using his innate energy to lift everyone up in the air. He looked at the fifty or so Jinyi captains and strongmen from the Left Pacification Division standing outside the yard.

He smiled and said, "I'm hosting you tonight, so you all should go to Guangfeng Tower and have a good meal and drink.

You will have a day off tomorrow, and return to the yamen the day after tomorrow to receive your reward."

Many captains and strong men were overjoyed, and the sounds of their thanks startled the surrounding neighbors.

However, when he heard that it was the Jinyiwei who were congratulating Li Jingxiao.

The heads of households and their wives in the neighborhood all suppressed their dissatisfaction and were still thinking about what gifts to send to congratulate them.

But Li Jingxiao never liked to make friends with officials.

Even neighbors, many have never seen him.

I never took the initiative to visit anyone's house.

So he himself hoped that the neighbors would not come to look for him.

Of course, if you really meet someone, just say hello.

Li Jingxiao ordered the three brothers Zhao Junming, Erfu, Han Mengzhuo and Shi Delong to stay.

The others took the captain and the strong men to Guangfeng Tower.

When I saw Jia Heng running from Zhenwu Temple to the house.

He waved to Jia Heng and said, "Go and call Rong Ge'er over to me."

Jia Heng nodded quickly, and when he went out, his steps became three times lighter.

What this kid fears most is that Li Jingxiao will forget him, and that he will follow Li Jingxiao to take the position of deputy commander of the Palace Front Division.

Maybe I won’t be able to go to Zhenwu Temple to see patients every day.

If that were the case, Jia Heng would cry to death.

Jia Heng had previously offered to move out of his home and live in the Taoist temple so that he could take care of the temple and wouldn't have to walk back and forth for a long time every day.

It seems like he trapped himself in the Taoist temple.

So when Li Jingxiao went out of town yesterday and didn't go to the Taoist temple in the afternoon, and Han Mengzhuo didn't go back either, I felt a little anxious.

I cleaned the Taoist temple in the morning, and when I arrived at the yard in the afternoon, I heard that the master had been promoted again.

Who wants to go back to the Taoist temple?

Now, when he heard Li Jingxiao instructing him to call Jia Rong, he finally felt relieved.

Li Jingxiao certainly wouldn't give up seeing patients and gaining experience, but he couldn't go to Zhenwu Temple every day at 3 p.m. like before.

I only go to Zhenwu Temple to treat patients when I am not busy.

After Jia Heng left, Li Jingxiao brought Zhao Junming and six others into the reception room in the front yard.

After the servants served tea, Zhao Junming stood up and reported, "Sir, we had just entered the city with the bodies of the cat demon and the yellow-skinned man when we were taken to the palace by Eunuch Zhou, the chief inspector of the inner court."

Li Jingxiao waved his hand, indicating that it was not a big deal.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Although you haven't made any new achievements this time, I'm short of manpower right now, so you're lucky.

From now on, Zhao Junming will be promoted to trial centurion, and Erfu will be promoted to general flag.

Han Mengzhuo's position as the general flag officer remains unchanged. He will serve as the deputy commander of my personal guards and, together with Erfu, will protect me."

Zhao Junming and the other two were overjoyed. They thought it was just a bit of hard work, but they didn't expect that the master said that their contribution was not enough, but in action he promoted them.

As for Han Mengzhuo, although he is still the general flag, the deputy commander of the personal guards is already a sign of recognition and trust.

Even if Zhao Junming were allowed to choose for himself, he would definitely prefer to switch with Han Mengzhuo.

The personal soldiers around the commander-in-chief never hold high official positions, but their status is actually one level higher.

So Han Mengzhuo not only had no dissatisfaction, but also excitedly expressed his gratitude together with Zhao Junming and Erfu.

Li Jingxiao waved his hand and continued, "Reward Han Shi and Yang Shiyi with 50 taels of silver, and the captains and strongmen of the two small flags who followed them to Jizhou with 2 taels each.

By the way, you and the second batch of captains and strongmen will also be rewarded with 2 taels each.

But after the reward, he gave Han Shi and Yang Shiyi 10 boards each.

We asked them to help Brother Shi and his three brothers, but they didn't even know about the incident."

Zhao Junming and the other two thought about it and decided that he deserved a beating, and according to military law, 10 sticks was already a light punishment.

The three Shi Delong brothers hurriedly spoke up for him, but Li Jingxiao shook his head and said, "Rewards are given for merit and punishments are given for faults. This has been the case since ancient times.

Brothers, rest assured and have a few days' rest. If my predictions are correct, there is a high chance that you will be promoted three levels."

Shi Delong and the other two were overjoyed, but they saw Li Jingxiao waving at Zhao Junming and the other two.

After the three of them left the reception room, he sighed and warned, "Brother Dao, the saint is well-versed in Taoist scriptures and has extraordinary talent.

There are also Taoist seniors who take the initiative to offer their cultivation methods.

The Saint had already cultivated Taoist Qi yesterday."

After saying this, he took the initiative to recite the thirty-six verses of the Taoist song.

When Shi Delong heard it, he exclaimed, "This is the practice of the external alchemy school."

Anger showed on his face after he finished speaking. These people from Danding Sect were really confused. Not only did they make pills and then became stupid after taking them.

He actually dared to covet the royal resources.

In history, many emperors died suddenly from taking elixirs. If an emperor of the Great Zhou also died from taking elixirs, that sect would face even greater suppression.

Shi Delong and the other two suddenly became nervous. Liu Hongshi hurriedly said that this matter must be reported to Maoshan as soon as possible.

Although the three of them said "disaster is coming", they began to become curious about the Taoist scriptures in the palace.

Li Jingxiao just said that the palace has Taoist collections from the pre-Ming, pre-Yuan, and pre-Song dynasties.

Perhaps there are some lost cultivation methods left over from the previous dynasty.

Of course Li Jingxiao also wanted to see it, but he also knew it in his heart.

After reading it myself, if I really discover a powerful method of cultivation, I must pass it on to the emperor.

Even the emperor and the retired emperor would think that they had benefited a lot from the Taoist Canon, regardless of whether they had read it or not.

Then I felt that I owed them a huge favor.

It’s better not to watch.

Anyway, I have cheated, so reading so many Taoist scriptures will not be of much help.

Seeing the serious expressions of Shi Delong and the other two, he smiled and persuaded them, "I have taken the saint's pulse several times, and I think I have a good understanding of his physical condition.

To be frank, the saint is old, and his technique is so mediocre that it won't achieve anything special."

After hearing this, Shi Delong and the other two felt relieved.

Li Jingxiao felt relieved when he saw that the responsibility had been put on the Taoist priest of the Waidan School.

After a while, Jia Rong hurriedly came to Li's house with a dozen servants from Ningguo Mansion.

Before he even entered the door, he was stopped by Jiang Liu and Liu Qi.

Pointing to the dozen or so servants, he said, "Master Rong, you can just go in. These brothers will take good care of you."

Jia Rong looked at the size of the Li family's house and knew that it was much smaller than Ningguo Mansion.

He nodded, told the servant to behave himself, and then hurried in.

I arrived at the reception room in the front yard, received the notification, and went into the hall.

Facing Li Jingxiao who was sitting at the head of the table, he knelt on the ground and said, "My nephew Jia Rong pays homage to the general."

Li Jingxiao saw Jia Rong bowing down and kowtow to him.

He couldn't help but laugh.

With a wave of his hand, he lifted Jia Rong up in the air.

"Okay, I called you here. You are a soldier from the Left Pacification Division. You did a good job on this mission to Jizhou.

As the treasurer, you are in charge of the distribution of food and wages.

You discuss the rules with Captain Zhao, General Han, and General Lu outside the door.

Report to me, and then take the silver to Guangfeng Tower to distribute it.

By the way, please help me entertain the captains and strongmen below.

This is also your first time to appear in front of the soldiers of the Left Pacification Division.

Otherwise, people below you won’t recognize you in the future.”

Jia Rong hurriedly accepted the order and left in a very good mood, then started to discuss the matter with Zhao Junming and the other two.

Not long after, after summarizing the silver that needed to be distributed as rewards, Li Jingxiao took out a box of silver from the game inventory.

Let Shi Delong and the other two go to Guangfeng Tower to drink and divide the money.

Most of the salary of the Zuo Zhenfu Division was kept by Li Jingxiao in the game inventory.

His position as the Left Pacification Office was to distribute food and wages according to the number of soldiers in the two thousand-household units.

But Li Jingxiao only recruited dozens of people.

Those generals only draw half of their salary without doing any work.

If you are a little timid, just eat 10% or 20%.

But Li Jingxiao, with more than 2,000 soldiers under his command, only recruited less than 100 people.

Even if the Jinyiwei knew about it, no one would care.

Whenever there was trouble caused by evil spirits, Li Jingxiao could deal with it easily, and even the emperor would have to accept it.

However, Li Jingxiao only took half of the food and wages.

The treatment of Zhao Junming and others, as well as the captains and strongmen of the Zuo Zhenfu Division, was raised by one level.

Even so, there is still a lot of money and food that cannot be spent.

By the time everyone had left, it was already dark.

After Li Jingxiao finished his meal with his wife, sister and brother-in-law, he couldn't help but tell Jingrong and the others about the demon-slaying incident yesterday.

Even though many details were omitted, it was still possible to hear Qin Keqing, Jing Xi, Qin Zhong, Baozhu and Ruizhu all looking nervous and exclaiming from time to time.

After talking about exorcising the demon, Qin Keqing brought up the preparations for the New Year.

Finally, he looked at Li Jingxiao hesitantly, and then at the sisters Jingxi and Jingyue.

Seeing the two little girls looking at her nervously and expectantly, Qin Keqing gritted her teeth and spoke.

"Sir, on New Year's Day, are we going to spend it here alone, or go to my second uncle's place?"

(End of this chapter)