Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 212 Thieves, what do you want

Han Chen agreed to Xu Zhiqiong, and hurriedly left the Lantern Yamen.

Xu Zhiqiong said to Tong Qingqiu: "I have something to trouble my elder brother, can I have Tao Huayuan come to see me?"

Tong Qingqiu was very unhappy: "Why are you seeing her? That woman is vicious, you'd better stay away from her."

Xu Zhiqiong's eyes lit up and said, "Although she's a bit ruthless, she's handsome!"

Tong Qingqiu was speechless for a while: "Forget it, I just let her come to see you, you can make it right, if you marry her home, I will not recognize this younger sibling."

Tong Qingqiu left, around midnight, a rain of peach blossoms fell in the Mingdeng Pavilion.

Tao Huayuan appeared in the peach blossom rain and walked up to Xu Zhiqiong: "Thief boy, are you willing to see me?"

Onmyoji have their own strengths, Han Chen is good at medicine, Tong Qingqiu is good at pharmacology, Qu Jinshan is good at puppet, and Tao Huayuan is good at magic circle.

Xu Zhiqiong brought a cup of tea soup, and respectfully offered it: "Miss Tao has worked hard, let's drink a cup of tea first, this is specially cooked for Miss Tao, and look at the color of the soup, and then smell the fragrance of the tea, with all my heart, It's all in the tea."

"Is there your intention here?" Tao Huayuan stared at the teacup coldly, "Have you been poisoned?"

"What is this called? I am sincere to Miss Tao, why is Miss Tao harboring malice?"

"Am I harboring malice?" Tao Huayuan said angrily, "It's been so long since you've been resurrected, why have you ever thought of me? Now that you're here to show your respects again, do you think I'm so easy to deceive? Besides, what do you need from me?"

Xu Zhiqiong didn't go around in circles, and took out a piece of paper from his arms: "There are nineteen places on it, and I have to go through all these nineteen places overnight."

"Nineteen places in one night?" Tao Huayuan stared and said, "Why do you think I can fly? Even if I can fly, I can't fly so fast!"

"In case of an emergency, it all depends on the girl's magic circle."

Tao Huayuan looked carefully at the places and asked, "Why are you going to these places?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "I can't tell right now, but when you go with me, you'll know at a glance."

Tao Huayuan said angrily: "Why do you let me go? Do you also go with you? The matter is so difficult, but you still don't make it clear. Just take this cup of tea and want to send me away?"

"A cup of tea is definitely not enough. What does the girl want? As long as Xu can get it, give it to the girl immediately, without blinking an eye!"

"Okay!" Tao Huayuan smiled, "I want your life, will you give it?"

"Life cannot be given to you," Xu Zhiqiong gritted his teeth, "To show my sincerity, I will give this body to the girl..."

"Bah!" Tao Huayuan spat at Xu Zhiqiong, picked up a pen, and stippled on the paper, "These thirteen places are relatively close to the capital, and they can be walked there overnight, and the remaining six places are far away from the capital." Some, it will take one more night to complete the journey.”

"An extra night is fine!" Xu Zhiqiong clasped his hands, "Ms. Xu remembers this friendship in my heart."

"What's the use of keeping it in your heart? You have to do something for me!"

"Speak, girl!"

"I am hiding some ancient books in the palace. If you have a way to get them back for me, I will help you."

"This..." Xu Zhiqiong scratched his head and said, "The things in the palace, can you just take them out?"

Tao Huayuan snorted: "If you feel embarrassed, let this matter go, and don't beg me!"

Tao Huayuan got up to leave, but Xu Zhiqiong hurriedly persuaded her: "It's difficult, but since the girl ordered, Xu will do it. I wonder how many books the girl has hidden?"

"Thirty-nine volumes of paper books, ten volumes of bamboo books, eight volumes of silk books, a total of fifty-seven volumes."

These fifty-seven volumes are the ancient books that Xu Zhiqiong stole from the secret garden.

He understood in his heart, but he still had to pretend to be confused: "If you want to bring out fifty-seven volumes of books at once, it's hard to reach the sky. How about this, I'll bring back three or five books for the girl at a time, and bring them back in several times, girl. How do you feel?"

Tao Huayuan thought for a while and said, "That's fine, but three or five books are too few, please help me bring back ten volumes of bamboo books first."

Xu Zhiqiong guessed right before, among these ancient books, bamboo books are the most precious.

"The bamboo book is too big, and it is difficult to bring out ten volumes at a time. How about this, I will copy the ten bamboo volumes to the girl, what do you think?"

"copy……"

Tao Huayuan was not very happy in her heart. If she copied it back, it would be tantamount to asking Xu Zhiqiong to read the contents of the book.

But after thinking about it, Xu Zhiqiong brought the book back. If he wanted to read it, no one could stop him.

What's more, the books are all written in cipher text, which even she can't decipher, so it doesn't matter if Xu Zhiqiong reads it.

"Thief boy, I can tell you clearly, if you deliberately copied a fake book to deceive me, I will fight you desperately!"

"Miss Tao, we have a life-threatening friendship, so you can't trust me?"

"I can trust you," Tao Huayuan nodded, "As long as you can get these ten bamboo books, I will help you with this matter."

Xu Zhiqiong deliberately asked: "Where are these books hidden?"

Tao Huayuan told Xu Zhiqiong the location, and specifically explained how to break the magic circle.

After explaining clearly, Tao Huayuan got up to say goodbye, and Xu Zhiqiong was about to see her off, but she disappeared into the peach blossoms.

Xu Zhiqiong hurried to the Zhonglang Courtyard, Yang Wu was sitting in the main courtyard, and Chang Decai was cleaning the front yard.

Seeing Xu Zhiqiong, Chang De hurriedly said hello: "Master, I haven't seen you for a while, and Han Chen went to the inn to pick up Shi Shuangliu, so our family dared to come home."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "It's just in time to come back, I have something for you to help."

"It's our duty to serve the master, but why do you want to help?"

He first took out sandalwood and fed two to each of them, and then took out Yin Lingshi, sucking half of Yang Wu's Yin energy, and giving the remaining half to Chang Decai.

Chang Decai shook his head and said, "Our family is not bad at all, master, what are you doing? Are we going to fight?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "It's not fighting, it's copying books!"

He brought out ten bamboo books from the backyard: "Both of you, please help me to copy these ten bamboo books carefully. After copying, check and verify them. Make sure you don't make any mistakes."

Xu Zhiqiong never thought of cheating Tao Huayuan with a fake book. This thief woman is a bit vicious, but when Xu Zhiqiong fought Liang Yuming fiercely, Tao Huayuan helped him. Just because of this, this thief woman can definitely be regarded as one of his own. .

Yang Wu scratched his head and said, "What are you doing copying?"

Chang Decai said: "Do whatever the master tells you to do, why do you talk so much?"

The two of them lit the oil lamps and started copying books facing the bamboo slips. Seeing that Chang Decai's handwriting was very neat, Xu Zhiqiong couldn't help but wondered, "Who did you learn this handwriting from?"

Chang Decai said: "When I was in the palace, I learned from Eunuch Bingbi. Our family once stayed in the Supervisor of Rituals and often helped Eunuch Bingbi approve red."

Isn't it the emperor's business to criticize red?How could it be handed over to the eunuch?
In fact, this is normal. The emperor receives hundreds of memorials every day. Except for the emperor who is particularly diligent, he will personally review all of them. comments are approved.

For example, a road was going to be built in the west of the city, and the emperor personally approved it: "Yes!"

There is also a pavilion to be built beside the road. This is not an important memorial, and it will be directly handed over to the eunuch Bingbi for approval. According to the emperor's intention, the word "approved" will be written on it.

It seems to just let the eunuch do it for you, but the doorway here is very deep.

The emperor may not have read all the memorials sent every day, nor may he know which memorials are really important.

Some important memorials may not be seen by the emperor, and they were directly approved by the supervisor of ceremonies. The supervisor of ceremonies has great power. In the previous emperors of Daxuan, eunuchs had monopolized power.

There have also been cases where the chief inspector and the cabinet joined forces to directly evade the emperor.

Of course, these situations could not have happened to Emperor Zhaoxing, and the entire supervisor of ceremonies, including Chen Shuncai, was tightly controlled by him.

Looking at Chang Decai's neat handwriting, and looking at his self-cultivation, he must have had a high status in the Supervisor of Ceremonies.

"Old Chang, you are capable of both literary and martial arts. You were also a person of status in the palace back then, right?"

Chang Decai smiled: "What kind of status can our family have, it's just a slave."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Before Zhang Jiugu sought revenge on me, you had a fight with Zhang Jiugu and Xiao Songting, and you didn't lose, but with this skill, you are one of the best in the palace."

When Chang Decai heard the words, something suddenly sounded: "If the master doesn't say it, our family almost forgot, it doesn't matter that the surname Xiao is just one more Taoism, but Zhang Jiugu is not an ordinary person, she is a Qiongqi Daoist." the repairer."

"Qingqidao?" Xu Zhiqiong was startled.

Chang Decai nodded and said: "When our family was working in the palace, we saw Qiongqidao's cultivators, and we would never be wrong. That guy can make people feel evil. This is Qiongqidao's ninth-grade skill."

With evil thoughts in his heart, it's no wonder that Han Chen had so many weird ideas in Zhang Jiugu's house.

"Besides evil thoughts, what skills does Qiongqidao have?"

"Our family doesn't know much about it. We only know that his eighth-grade skill is called crazy tongue. He can tell outrageous lies. He knows it's false, but it sounds true, and he wants you to believe it is true.

The seventh-grade skill is called randomness. A person who concentrates on doing things at first, once he gets this skill, there will be a lot of thoughts in his mind, and all kinds of distracting thoughts will be in a mess.
The sixth-grade skill is called blindness. This skill can make people confused, forget about serious things, and always get entangled in minutiae.

Our family doesn't know any more advanced skills, and we have seen Qiongqi sixth-grade cultivators. "

Evil thoughts, wild words, random thoughts, and blindness.

From the ninth rank to the sixth rank, there is not a single skill that absorbs human power.

Why can Zhang Jiugu absorb the power of others?
She has a fifth-rank cultivation base, is it a fifth-rank skill?
Why is her fifth-grade skill the same as my innate skill?
My talent comes from Qiongqi?

Wu Xu once said that I was injured by Qiongqi's remnant soul, and I still have Qiongqi's aura on my body, maybe this is the source of the innate skill.

The talent skill is a fifth-grade skill, so wouldn't I take advantage of it?
While thinking, Yang Wu opened a roll of bamboo books and saw a piece of paper inside.

"Do you want to copy this too?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "That doesn't need to be copied, only the content in the bamboo book."

Yang Wu threw the paper aside and continued to copy the books until dawn. The two of them finished copying the ten volumes of bamboo books and handed them to Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong took the transcript and went back to Zhangdeng Yamen.

Chang Decai was tidying up the bamboo slips, but he saw Yang Wu staring at a piece of paper, fascinated.

This is a translation written by Xu Zhiqiong.

Chang Decai stepped forward and said, "This is the master's property, don't rummage through it!"

Yang Wu took the translation and read it more and more vigorously: "This thing has great knowledge, if you learn it, it will be really amazing."

Chang Decai glanced at it and said, "That's Yin-Yang Art, you're going to die soon!"

"What about Yin Yang?" Yang Wudao, "Can't I learn it?"

"What have you learned? Do you have yang energy?"

Yang Wu scratched his scalp: "There is no yang energy, it's good to learn half of it."

(End of this chapter)