A seal of immortality

Chapter 228 Strange Things
Half an hour later, Wang Changsheng, who was full of food and drink, followed the middle-aged man out of the restaurant and walked towards the west of the city.

The middle-aged man was introducing the customs of this place to Wang Changsheng, and at the same time he wanted to find out about Wang Changsheng's origin.

For this, Wang Changsheng had been prepared for a long time, and lied that he was a subordinate of a certain dignitary, but he didn't say which dignitary he was.

Knowing that Wang Changsheng is a subordinate of the powerful, the smile on the middle-aged man's face became even more flattering, and his words were full of flattery.

"By the way, Boss Qian, when I entered the city, I saw the soldiers guarding the gate with portraits in their hands, and seemed to be searching for someone. Why, do you often see bandits here?" Wang Changsheng asked casually.

"You said this! This person is the master of the Qingyuan Temple outside the city. He heard that his medical skills are very good, so Li Dashan brought his daughter to the door and asked this person for treatment. Who would have thought that this person was actually a good-looking man?" The hypocrite sneaked into Ms. Li's room at night, and wanted to do something wrong. Fortunately, Li Dashan discovered it in time and called other people, which scared this person away. They set fire to the entire Taoist temple in an attempt to kill people. Fortunately, Li Dashan and Ms. Li escaped unharmed, but the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple and those believers who stayed overnight were burned to death. For this reason, the government posted notices in various counties, Capture this person, but it has been more than half a month, and this person has not been caught yet, it is estimated that this person hid in a deep mountain and was bitten to death by wild beasts!"

After hearing this, Wang Changsheng nodded without thinking too much.

Not long after, the middle-aged man brought Wang Changsheng to a manor covering an area of ​​several acres.

The gate of the manor was closed tightly, and a plaque was hung on the door, with the two big characters of Zhou Mansion written on it.

Boss Qian walked up to him and patted the door hard.

Not long after, a hunchbacked old man with white beard and hair came out.

"You are······"

"I'm Qian Fu, the shopkeeper of Thyme, and I know that your son is going to sell the manor, so I specially brought him here to buy it," Boss Qian asked straight to the point.

Hearing this, the hunchbacked old man frowned slightly, sighed, and said, "Come with me!"

"My lord, please," Boss Qian nodded, signaling Wang Changsheng to leave first.

Wang Changsheng was not polite either, and walked in first.

This manor is really good, with connected courtyards, rockery fish ponds, and most importantly, this place is very quiet. It is a good choice to set up a soundless array here and draw talisman seals.

The hunchbacked old man led Wang Changsheng and Wang Changsheng into the hall, brewed a cup of fragrant tea for them, and then retreated.

Every so often, a joyful voice came from outside the hall: "Who wants to buy this house of mine."

As soon as the words were finished, a 20-year-old young man in brocade clothes walked in quickly, followed by the hunchbacked old man. The young man in brocade clothes swept Wang Changsheng and Wang Changsheng with his eyes, and then fell on Wang Changsheng.

"Zhou Zheng, this Prince Wang wants to buy your house, but Prince Wang thinks that 1000 taels is too expensive, and 800 taels is not bad," Boss Qian narrowed his eyes and bargained.

Wang Changsheng didn't say anything, he took a sip of tea, and looked at the young man in brocade with a calm face.

"What? 800 taels, shopkeeper Qian, your price is too low! Our master bought this house for 500 taels at the beginning, and you are only giving 800 taels now. The price is too low, right? !” Before the brocade-clothed youth could say anything, the hunchbacked old man spoke first, with an angry expression on his face.

"That's right! Boss Qian, your price is too low. This is a big house with three entrances and three exits. The fish in the fish pond alone is more than 100 taels. It will cost 900 taels no matter what!" The young man in Jinyi frowned. Wrinkle, haggle.

"Hmph, Zhou Zheng, I'm not afraid to tell you that this prince is working for a certain important person. He is willing to spend 800 taels to buy your house, which is already doing you a lot of face. Don't be ashamed," Boss Qian snorted softly. , mentioning Wang Changsheng's identity.

"Okay! 800 taels is 800 taels," the young man in Jinyi agreed with a slight change of expression when he heard this.

"Master, no! This house belongs to the master..."

"Shut up, you are the young master or I am the young master. If I say 800 taels, it will be 800 taels." The young man in Jinyi glared at the hunchbacked old man, interrupted the hunchbacked old man's words, and then forced a smile on his face, and said to Wang Changsheng: "Young Master Wang! , as long as 800 taels, this house is yours," he said, and took out the deed.

Wang Changsheng nodded, took out a heavy cloth bag, and threw it to the young man in brocade clothes.

The young man in brocade clothes opened the cloth bag and glanced at it, his face was happy, he handed the house deed to Wang Changsheng, turned and left.

"Okay, this house is not your Zhou family's house anymore, you can move out within half a stick of incense," Qian Fu said unceremoniously to the hunchbacked old man.

The hunchbacked old man nodded, sighed, turned and walked out.

"You did a good job. This is a reward for you. If you have nothing to do, you can leave! I will go to you if there is something to do." After finishing speaking, Wang Changsheng threw two ingots of silver to Boss Qian.

Boss Qian took the two ingots of silver, thanked him, and left happily.

Wang Changsheng sat in the lobby for a while, then turned and walked out.

Since he planned to live here for a period of time, of course he had to take a good look at his residence.

When Wang Changsheng walked out of the hall, he happened to see the hunchbacked old man carrying a package, looking at every plant and tree in the manor with a rather reluctant expression.

"Ah! Young Master, I'll leave immediately, leave immediately," the hunchbacked old man looked a little flustered when he saw Wang Changsheng, as if he was afraid that Wang Changsheng would blame him for staying in the manor. After speaking, he turned around and was about to leave.

"Wait, old man, take this silver coin! Don't follow that young master of yours," Wang Changsheng called to the hunchbacked old man, and handed him a silver coin.

"Then thank you, young master," the hunchbacked old man hesitated for a while, but still accepted the ingot of silver, thanked him, and left.

Wang Changsheng walked around the manor a few times, and after familiarizing himself with the layout of the manor, he walked into a courtyard full of flowers and plants.

This courtyard is the center of the entire manor, and it is a good choice to draw talismans here.

Wang Changsheng closed his eyes, let go of his consciousness, and scanned the entire manor. After confirming that there was no one else, he opened his eyes.

Wang Changsheng slapped the spirit animal bag on his waist, and a black smoke rolled out from it, turning into a black flood dragon more than ten feet long.

After killing the six bald-headed men, Wang Changsheng rushed to explore the ancient monk's cave, and didn't have time to check Xiao Hei's injuries. Now that he has settled down, he naturally wants to heal Xiao Hei's injuries.

Xiao Hei looked sickly, lying lazily in front of Wang Changsheng, flesh and blood could be seen in many places on his body.

Seeing this situation, Wang Changsheng frowned. He briefly cleaned up Xiao Hei's wound, and took out several hundred-year-old medicines for Xiao Hei to swallow.

After playing with Xiao Hei for a while, Wang Changsheng put it back into the spirit animal bag and let it recover quietly.

According to Wang Changsheng's guess, Xiao Hei might have to cultivate for a few months, or even half a year before he can recover. In this way, if he encounters a strong enemy again, besides the talisman, the bloodthirsty spirit bat will also be his reliance.

Thinking of this, Wang Changsheng flipped his palm and planted two more wooden boxes, each containing a second-level demon bird inner alchemy, there were eight bloodthirsty spirit bats, and only two inner alchemy. Prioritize training two.

If there are eight second-level bloodthirsty spirit bats, I am afraid that the monks in the late stage of foundation establishment will not be his opponents, but this is impossible, not to mention whether Wang Changsheng can train all eight bloodthirsty spirit bats to second-level monsters. He couldn't handle eight level-one bloodthirsty spirit bats alone, let alone eight level-two bloodthirsty spirit bats.

Considering the cost, there is no need to cultivate eight bloodthirsty spirit bats. Bloodthirsty spirit bats can only release one wind blade technique, and their flying speed is a little faster than ordinary middle-level magic weapons. The defense ability is not strong. Stone, might as well be used to cultivate Xiao Hei.

In addition to being able to spray water archery, Xiao Hei has thick skin and thick flesh. He can fight against the enemy at close quarters, and even spit out some corrosive liquid. Wang Changsheng has seen it with his own eyes. High-level attack weapons are sprayed by Xiao Hei Some kind of liquid spit out corrodes.

After a little thought, Wang Changsheng released the eight bloodthirsty spirit bats, picked out the two largest ones, swallowed the two inner pills for them, and packed them in another spirit beast bag.

Wang Changsheng is not sure whether these two bloodthirsty spirit bats can advance to the second level after swallowing the inner alchemy of the second-level demon bird.

After finishing all this, Wang Changsheng took out the talisman furnace, took out the materials for refining talisman paper, and began to refine blank talisman paper.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, two months have passed.

During this period, Wang Changsheng used the hundred-year-old elixir in his hand to refine many intermediate talisman papers, and used these intermediate talisman papers to practice drawing several intermediate talisman seals.

After a lot of practice and countless times of failures, Wang Changsheng successfully drew a few Trapped Beast Talismans and Golden Light Talismans, as well as a few Fire Escape Talismans and Fire Bird Talismans.

Wang Changsheng also tried to draw an intermediate lightning-type talisman, but not only failed to draw an intermediate-level lightning-type talisman, but spent more than a dozen low-level lightning spirit stones, which made Wang Changsheng feel distressed, so he had to temporarily give up drawing the intermediate-level lightning seal.

Although he didn't draw the middle-level thunder-type talismans, he did draw a lot of elementary-level thunder-type talismans, and he drew a lot of thunder-fire talismans and lightning-leading talismans. Then, the number of thunder spirit stones decreased significantly.

In addition to making talismans, in his spare time, Wang Changsheng would go out for a walk, silently observe the emotions of the mortals around him, such as joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, and comprehend and introspect from the perspective of a cultivator.

The lives of mortals are indeed different from those of immortal cultivators. Everything they do is to survive and work hard to live a better life, while everything that cultivators do is to live longer and work harder to live longer .

It is worth mentioning that Zhou Zheng, the former owner of the manor where Wang Changsheng lives now, spent 800 taels of selling the house, because he had no skills and loved leisure and work, and eventually became a beggar and starved to death on the street. Qian bought a coffin and buried it.

During this period, a strange thing happened here. The number of beggars in the city gradually decreased, and finally there were none.

Although there are no more beggars, but on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, Li Dashan still opens a porridge shed to give porridge to the poor, which makes the local people praise him a lot.

Perhaps Li Dashan's kind deeds moved God, Miss Li's strange illness was cured by Song Yu, Li Dashan actually donated half of his family's wealth as a gift, this incident became a topic of discussion for a while.

But soon, everyone's attention was attracted by another matter. I don't know when, the local children began to disappear frequently. Most of the children disappeared at night. Children, but as the number of missing children increased, people began to panic and closed the doors at night. Some people even tied themselves and the children together with ropes, but it didn't work, and the children were still lost.

According to the family who lost the child, the child disappeared when they woke up, but no one knows how the child was lost.

Under such circumstances, the government dispatched arresters to hunt down the thieves, and at the same time dispatched soldiers to patrol, but even so, the number of missing children continued to increase.

Young children kept disappearing, and the government said that the traffickers did it, but they couldn't solve the case. For a while, rumors were flying all over the sky, and there were all kinds of rumors.

Some people said that it was done by human traffickers, and these missing children were sold far away; others said that it was done by monsters, and the missing children were eaten by monsters; Lost, but no matter what kind of explanation, the family who lost the child cried all day long, and some even committed suicide because of the thought.

Chen Qingfeng is the county magistrate of Guangning County. He has been a Jinshi of Joan of Arc for 21 years. He has been in the position of county magistrate for 20 years. If he has not made special achievements, he will probably be a seventh-rank county magistrate in this life. .

In this regard, Chen Qingfeng also felt that there was something wrong. The reason why he stayed in the county magistrate for 20 years was not only because he did not make any special political achievements, but also because he did not use money to bribe his boss. Notoriously upright official.

For a long time, Chen Qingfeng has also regarded himself as an upright official, not greedy for money, not lustful, and not in love with power. The only thing he cares about is a good name, and an upright official is what he cares most about.

But now, Chen Qingfeng is about to go crazy. In the recent period of time, in the area under his jurisdiction, young children have frequently disappeared. Both.

One of the rumors made Chen Qingfeng very angry, saying that he colluded with human traffickers and trafficked young children in Guangning County. It was because he turned a blind eye that the human traffickers were not arrested and brought to justice. He is a corrupt official.

Chen Qingfeng has always regarded himself as an upright official, how could he bear the people scolding him as a corrupt official, and turning his anger into anger, he also understands that the most urgent task is to arrest the traffickers, otherwise let alone the people scolding him, if things go on like this, I'm afraid he won't be able to keep the black hat on his head, and he may even be beheaded by his boss on the charge of being a corrupt official to vent public anger.

"Li Xianwei, how many days have passed, why haven't you caught that human trafficker," Chen Qingfeng slapped the table vigorously, looked at the middle-aged man standing in front of him, and said angrily.

The middle-aged man had a resolute face and frowned. Facing the reprimand from his boss, he did not refute, nor did he have the face to refute.

It's been a month now, and as a county lieutenant in charge of public security and robbery, he couldn't even catch a few traffickers, so he has no face to refute his superior's reprimand.

To be honest, it’s not that he doesn’t want to arrest these traffickers. In order to arrest these traffickers, he hasn’t been home for half a month. No matter how many people he arranges to ambush families with children, the next morning, the children Still lost.

Afterwards, he asked his subordinates, and they all said that they fell asleep in a daze, and when they woke up, the child disappeared. If he didn't believe in evil, he stayed in the spot himself. For this reason, he also took several kinds of antidotes for Mixiang, but there was no one. As a result, he also fell asleep in a daze. When he woke up, the child was still missing, which made him a little uneasy. He vaguely felt that the disappearance of the child may not be related to the traffickers, it is very likely that it is like a folk It is said that it was made by monsters.

"Master Chen, I suspect that this matter was not done by humans. Well, it is very likely that monsters did it. In my opinion, let's report this matter! Let the higher-ups handle it!" The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, Suggested.

(End of this chapter)