This Liao Zhai is not right

After all, there were still several months away from the autumn examination. All the students, tribute students, and supervisory students from the eight counties under the jurisdiction of Jinhua Prefecture who were planning to take the provincial examinations gathered in the prefecture. Some were visiting relatives and friends, or participating in literary gatherings. A landlord would only start to suspect that something had happened to his tenant if they hadn't been seen for a long time.

"It only took us more than half an hour to walk all the way from Guobei County. The area north of Jinhua adjacent to Guobei County is indeed poor and mountainous. Not to mention the evil spirits that harm people, even the robbers who are rampant in Jinhua are not seen at all. It makes people feel unreal." Su Su said with emotion.

This rented courtyard only has three main rooms that can be lived in in the front yard, and a kitchen on the left. The floor is paved with large slabs of bluestone. Excluding the garden of several acres in the backyard, there is not much remaining space.

Chang'e opened the tightly closed door of the front yard. Except for the bedroom where she was temporarily staying, the rest of the house was empty, making the house look bare. The painting of Guobei County City God Temple that Su Su had sketched on the bedroom wall the day before had also disappeared without a trace due to the exhaustion of his magic power.

"Before the Black Mountain King invaded Guobei County, it rained heavily for several days. The robbers dared not stay in the mountains for long."

After entering the house and cleaning the other two main rooms outside the bedroom, Chang'e waved to Su Fu, who had been standing outside the house for a while, and said, "One bedroom, one study, and one bathroom. Just decorate them as simply as the courtyard in the land temple."

A small house has its advantages. Su Su only took half a quarter of an hour to tidy up the three main rooms including the bedrooms.

Jinhua is not a place to stay for a long time, so simple arrangements will suffice.

"I'll go ask the landlord for the price tomorrow morning and buy this house as soon as possible. I can leave for Taiyuan in less than three to five days."

Su Su estimated how long he would need to stay in Jinhua City.

She didn't need to do anything herself to buy the house to prevent future troubles and wait for the civil and military judges to lead the ghost soldiers to fight against the evil spirits that had escaped from Guobei County to Jinhua. As for the Jinhua City God, who was frightened by the true form of the Pudu Cihang Centipede Monster, she could go to the City God Temple in the north of Jinhua City at any time to question him.

Thinking of this, Su Su felt relieved immediately.

He said he came to Jinhua City for business, but it seemed more like he had stayed in Guobei County for too long and wanted to change places to broaden his horizons.

"Husband..."

As soon as the three main rooms were cleaned up, Chang'e could not wait to come forward and hug Su Su's waist from behind, and whispered softly in her ear: "There is no one around, my husband should let me fulfill my wish."

Sure enough, it was exactly as Su Su had guessed earlier.

As soon as the other party found an opportunity, he wanted to force her into bed.

"It's not dark yet!"

Su Su's face flushed as he broke free from Chang'e's arms, his eyes dodging as he said, "Tonight... Let's talk about it tonight."

Chapter 169 The Ghost Messenger Arrives

The seasons change and the weather is changeable.

When we arrived in Jinhua in the afternoon, the sun was still shining brightly, but the weather suddenly changed towards the evening.

Along with gusts of north wind, thick dark clouds swept in layer by layer. Occasionally, lightning snakes danced in the gloomy sky. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was a bit of damp coolness in the air. It was clear that the spring rain was coming.

Su Su originally wanted to take the opportunity to go out for a stroll in Jinhua City, but seeing that it was about to rain, he had to give up the idea temporarily. He leaned weakly on the gooseneck chair in the pavilion in the backyard garden, staring at the tiny raindrops falling obediently in a daze.

Jiangnan is shrouded in mist and rain.

It’s almost Qingming Festival, but the cold air has not yet dissipated.

The rain was falling mistily, the sky was filled with mist, like wisps of green smoke hanging down, the drizzle was like silk, and the mist was like smoke.

The garden in the backyard was filled with a faint white mist in the hazy rain, which seemed to float among the trees like a veil, creating a dreamy beauty.

There was the sound of raindrops falling in my ears, and sometimes birds would fly into the yard to avoid the rain and chirp.

There is a saying: In spring, I sleep so soundly that I don't wake up until dawn, and I hear birds singing everywhere.

This misty weather was indeed a good time to take a nap. Su Su stretched out lazily, half-closed his eyes and felt drowsy. He felt his vision gradually blurring.

In a trance.

She heard a knock on the front gate.

He slightly opened his sleepy eyes and glanced sideways towards the front yard.

A faint evil aura lingered outside the door.

"If you have never done anything wrong in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door at night. It's not even night yet, and there's a ghost knocking on the door outside the yard. Could this yard be a haunted house?"

Looking around, the previous drizzle still showed no sign of stopping.

Although it was not yet night, the sky was already dark. The candles in the house in the front yard had already been lit. Stimulated by the evil spirit lingering outside the yard, the burning candles swayed left and right, and suddenly the candle flames turned green.

"But here?"

"That's right. The day before yesterday, all the strangers involved in the Pudu Cihang incident outside the city have been found, except for a pedantic scholar who was outside with his servant and has not yet been brought to justice. I made inquiries and learned that this pedantic scholar is a student from Guobei County. He rented this courtyard three days ago and then went out of the city for an outing. Now there are candles in the courtyard, so I guess this pedantic scholar has returned from the outing."

"There is no time to lose. Take this man and his servant back to the City God Temple and bring him to justice."

"There is a consecrated door god portrait blocking the gate. Don't force your way in for now. Keep knocking on the door and let that pedantic scholar open it on his own initiative."

Listening to the whispers outside the courtyard and the increasingly loud knocks on the door, Su Su knew that it was the ghost messenger who had laughed at her on the road the day before for being unaware of seeing ghosts in person who had come to visit her. From the content of their conversation, it seemed that the City God of Jinhua Prefecture had controlled many of the people who had seen her take action to get rid of the National Master Pu Du Ci Hang's carriage, leaving only her and Chang'e.

to be frank.

Su Suzhen had never expected that before she went to the City God of Jinhua Prefecture to question him, the other party sent a ghost to find her first.

She walked along the corridor to the front yard, and seeing Heng'e, who had also discovered that there was a ghost knocking on the door, she winked and said, "Sister, the ghost messenger you offended last time is here. Hurry up and think of a way to deal with them."

Faced with Su Su's teasing, Chang'e pretended to be gentle again.

"I am just a weak woman, how can I deal with these fierce ghost messengers? I can only beg my husband to help me."

Seeing the other party's statement, Su Su felt a black screen before his eyes.

"hehe......"

She laughed dryly a few times and couldn't help but complain in her heart: "If I hadn't been beaten by you last night without any room for resistance, I would have really believed your lies."

Seeing Su Fu's speechless expression, Chang'e gave an ambiguous smile.

"Then the City God of Jinhua Prefecture came to you on his own initiative. Isn't this exactly what you want?"

Chang'e reached out from the suitcase and took out the brown gown she used to disguise herself as a servant. She took off her clothes in front of Su Su and said, "The door god statue outside the courtyard can't stop these ghost messengers for too long. Why don't you disguise yourself quickly?"

In no time, Chang'e disguised herself as the servant from a few days ago, hurried out of the house, holding an oil-paper umbrella and trying to open the courtyard door that was being knocked loudly.

Seeing this, Su Su had no choice but to mobilize his Yang Shen magic power and transformed himself into a young scholar with red lips and white teeth, and a bookish air. He walked out of the house, stood under the eaves, and stared at the courtyard door that Chang'e was slowly opening.

"Huhuhuhuhu..."

As soon as the gate opened, gusts of cold wind blew into the front yard, blowing the misty rain from the sky into all directions.

As the cold wind blew, six or seven ghost messengers, some holding mourning sticks and some holding iron chains and shackles, appeared in the yard.

One of the ghost messengers with a pointed mouth and long beard opened his eyes wide, staring at Su Fu who was standing under the eaves and said, "It was the sour scholar under the eaves who said in front of us the other day that he was not afraid of ghosts and gods."

"That's a bad word."

Su Su looked directly at the ghost messenger with a pointed mouth and long beard, and defended himself by saying, "I clearly said that a gentleman should respect ghosts and gods but keep a distance from them. As for the statement that one should not be afraid of ghosts and gods, it was said by my servant. How can you confuse the two?"

"presumptuous!"

"Quick, take him down!"

"We are the ghost messengers under the command of the City God of Jinhua Prefecture. Today we have been ordered to take you back to the City God Temple for prosecution. How can we allow a pedantic scholar like you to speak nonsense here?"

The ghost messengers in the courtyard shouted at Su Su who was trying to defend himself.

Then, seeing that she was still fearless, she swung the iron chains and shackles in her hands and threw them at Su Fu, obviously wanting to capture her soul and return to the City God Temple to report.

However, the iron chains and shackles they threw out had not yet landed on Su Su before they were burned away by the blood and energy that was filled with the body transformed by the power of the Yang God.

Not to mention arresting Su Su's ghost, even shaking her figure standing under the eaves was difficult.

"The ancients were not deceiving me. You have a righteous heart and are truly fearless of ghosts and gods."

Chang'e, who was disguised as a servant, lifted the door bolt and spoke in amazement.

You think the chaos isn't big enough, so you're still fanning the flames.

"..."

All the ghost officials in the courtyard looked at Chang'e, who was dressed as a servant, and suddenly became furious. They directed their anger at Su Su, who was standing under the eaves without saying much.

With his palm open, he swung the mourning stick, which was as thick as an adult's arm, and whistled in the dark wind as he went straight towards Su Su.

"Well, you ghost officials not only trespassed into private houses, but also dared to commit murder in front of people."

Seeing this, Su Su waved his hand casually, and the mourning stick that came with the howling cold wind broke into pieces with a crackling sound.

Since words were not convincing, Su Su had to convince people with virtue.

He walked out from under the eaves leisurely, stomping his feet, and with a simple flurry of punches, he knocked down the six or seven ghost messengers who had barged into the courtyard. Then he stood with his hands behind his back and said, "I'm afraid you can't take me back to the City God Temple today. Instead, I will take you to the City God Temple to ask for an explanation."

Chapter 170 Wansheng

After arresting the ghost officials who had been knocked to the ground, Su Su and Chang'e walked out of the courtyard and headed towards the City God Temple in the north of Jinhua City in the drizzling rain.

At this time, the sky was full of dark clouds, but it was not yet curfew. There were still many pedestrians walking hurriedly through the streets, using the flickering candlelight from the roadside shops.

Su Su and Chang'e, holding oil-paper umbrellas and accompanied by six or seven ghost officials, passed by them openly without attracting any strange looks.

It was not until this time that the ghost officials suddenly woke up.

The man in front of them was not a pedantic scholar at all, but a great master who had sneaked into the secular world. Whether it was the previous conflict outside the city or the conflict just now, it was all just a tease to them.

"Please spare my life, Immortal, please spare my life."

"We are all following the orders of the City God. We have absolutely no intention of bending the law for personal gain!"

Seeing that the situation was not right, the ghost officials tried their best to beg for mercy even though they were detained by Su Su and could not move.

Ordinary people with abundant blood and strong yang energy can kill the ghost messengers with a single blow of their sword, not to mention that Su Su, who was disguised as a handsome scholar, could subdue them with just three punches and two kicks.

If they had the intention to kill, they would have no chance of survival.

If you kneel down and beg for mercy decisively, there may be a glimmer of hope.

"I don't know whether you have abused your power for personal gain or not. It's not my decision, nor is it yours. But the City God of Jinhua Prefecture that you mentioned must have abused his power for personal gain and perverted the law. Let's go to the City God Temple to sue him first."

It turns out that this person was planning to attack the City God of Jinhua Prefecture!

The expressions in the eyes of the ghost officials when they looked at Su Su were filled with shock to the point of being beyond description.

The City God of Jinhua Prefecture is now in a difficult situation, and they can only hope for the best for themselves.

In this way, Su Suju led a group of ghost officials and walked steadily to the north of the city, and stopped in front of the Jinhua City God Temple with white walls and black tiles.

Now that night is approaching, it is time for the City God of Jinhua Prefecture to open the court to judge cases.

As far as the eye could see, the City God Temple was filled with divine light, and various ghost messengers and ghost soldiers were constantly coming in and out, reporting to the City God of Jinhua Prefecture on the relevant matters of rewarding good and punishing evil, protecting the territory, and punishing evil spirits that were causing harm to people. Jinhua Prefecture governed eight counties, and its authority was much greater than that of the City God of Guobei County in the tiny place of Suwu.

"Stop! Who are you?"

As soon as he appeared outside the City God Temple, the Yin soldiers guarding on both sides of the temple gate came forward and shouted loudly.

Su Su glanced at the ghost messenger she had arrested and said righteously, "My ghost messenger broke into a private house in the middle of the night with the intention of committing a crime in front of me. Shouldn't the City God of Jinhua Prefecture give me an explanation?"

Upon hearing Su Su's words, the ghost soldier who came forward to ask questions immediately changed his expression.

After watching the ghost officials being detained by Su Su and unable to move, he quickly turned around and went to the City God Temple to report.

After a while, an old man with white hair and beard, dressed like a scholar, and with divine light floating around him, stood at the temple gate and looked at Su Su for a few times, then hurried out to greet him: "Please calm down, Immortal. I am the judge of the temple. Perhaps these ghost officials did not recognize the great man and caused the disaster. Please come into the temple and sit for a while, and let the City God resolve this misunderstanding in person."

"fair enough."

Su Fu responded bluntly.

In the eyes of the Jinhua Prefecture's Wenpan, Su Su exuded yang energy all over his body like the scorching sun. It was obvious that he was a cultivator who was no different from immortals and gods, walking the world in his yang god body. He was no one he could afford to offend.

Even when facing Chang'e who was disguised as a servant, he did not dare to underestimate her in the slightest. He led Su Su and Chang'e into the temple gate with great respect. He was about to order the ghost to bring a chair and invite Su Su to sit down.

But suddenly, I heard a sad and mournful cry coming from the main hall of the temple.

The Jinhua Prefecture's judge stood aside cautiously and explained in a hurry: "The City God is trying the case in the court..."

"It's a rare opportunity to see the City God solve a case, I'd like to see it for myself."

Walking past the screen wall inside the temple, the main hall of Jinhua City God Temple comes into view.

Looking inside the hall, I saw a gentle-looking woman in her twenties, wearing pale mourning clothes, kneeling in the hall in a large room that looked like a court. She was crying so hard that blood was coming out of her seven orifices. Her voice was so mournful and long that one could not feel any beauty in it, but only extremely creepy horror.

"I died unjustly! I just went to the Feng Shui master Wan San outside the city to have my face read, and he raped me with his evil magic and tortured me in every way... I refused to obey him, but he went crazy and strangled me to death..."

The woman in the hall kept crying and complaining bitterly, telling her own experience with great resentment. She called herself Wu, and was from Wujiazhuang, ten miles north of Jinhua City. She had been married for a long time and had a son.

A few days ago, a Feng Shui master who called himself Wan San passed by Wujia Village and solicited business for fortune-telling. The price was only a copper coin. The people in the village came forward one after another, and Wu also joined in the fun and asked Wan San to read her face. Unexpectedly, Wan San saw her beauty and had evil intentions. He broke into the house that night with his sorcery and wanted to rape her.

Wu refused to obey him and resisted till death, even biting off a piece of flesh from Wan San's shoulder. However, Wan San became murderous and strangled her to death on the bed. Later, he chose a time to bury Wu under the pretext that Wu was harmed by evil spirits, intending to turn her into a corpse and make her unable to even be a ghost.

Listening to Mrs. Wu's complaint, Su Su's mind was moved: "I just resolved the evil spirit of the corpse in the coffin of Mrs. Wu outside Jinhua City during the day, and I actually ran into her complaining in front of the City God Hall in Jinhua Prefecture at night. This is really a coincidence."