Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 31 The Happy Life of Lantern Lang
Xu Zhiqiong was admiring Wang Shijie's crimes. A crime of more than four inches long is too rare.

He was thinking about how to get the crime karma, when he suddenly heard a newcomer say: "My hat doesn't fit."

When everyone saw it, they couldn't help laughing.

This newcomer is called Niu Yuxian. His head is a little small, but Wang Shijie gave him a large black gauze hat.

The hat was on his head, just covering his nose, Shi Chuan couldn't help laughing twice when he saw this.

Niu Yuxian blushed and said, "Can you get me a new one?"

Wang Shijie frowned and said: "This is an official hat, how can it be so suitable? Just wear it."

Niu Yuxian lifted his hat and barely exposed his eyes: "How can I make do with this?"

Wang Shijie lowered his eyes and said, "Then what do you want? Can I make you a special hat?"

"There are so many official hats behind you, why can't you change one for me?"

Niu Yuxian was telling the truth. Wang Shijie had many official hats and robes behind him, and he was deliberately embarrassing these commoner students.

This sentence annoyed Wang Shijie: "Why do you talk so much!"

After finishing speaking, Wang Shijie kicked Niu Yuxian in the chest.

This Niu Yuxian seemed to be an honest person, he stood motionless on the spot, and seeing that his foot was about to be kicked, he suddenly heard someone outside the door shouting: "Stop!"

Wang Shijie turned around and saw a white lantern man walking in.

Xu Zhiqiong had seen this white lantern man before, his name was Lu Yinpeng, his identity was different from other white lantern men, he was in charge of the lamp.

It was the person holding the wooden box that Xu Zhiqiong had seen before.

Lu Yinpeng looked at Wang Shijie and said, "What are you doing?"

"What's the matter?" Wang Shijie looked sideways at Lu Yinpeng, "I teach newcomers, so you don't need me?"

"I can't control others, but I can control this person."

"This is the Mo family?" Wang Shijie looked at Niu Yuxian, carefully moved his feet back, and said in a friendly voice, "This kid has no rules. I'll teach him a lesson for you!"

The Lantern Yamen recruited a newcomer to the Mo family, and this person was under Lu Yinpeng's management.

Lu Yinpeng is also a Mohist cultivator, and the Mohist is in charge of holding the lamp, because only Mohist cultivators can control the wooden box.

Lu Yinpeng smiled and said: "I told you to stop for your own good, Niu Yuxian, take out the things in your chest."

Niu Yuxian took out a breast shield from his clothes, Wang Shijie laughed and said, "Isn't it just a piece of broken iron?"

Lu Yinpeng took the heart mirror, tapped the mirror lightly, and a three-inch-long iron spike popped out from the center of the mirror.

Xu Zhiqiong really opened his eyes. This mirror is so smooth that it can clearly show people's shadows. How could there be such a mechanism hidden on it?Not even a trace can be seen.

Lu Yinpeng smiled and said: "Old Wang, if I hadn't stopped you, you would not be able to walk for at least a month if you kicked down."

Wang Shijie said angrily: "This kid is really vicious, he should be severely punished."

Lu Yinpeng ignored him, and then said to Niu Yuxian, "Take out everything."

Niu Yuxian shook his head and said, "There's nothing left."

"What's under the left rib?"

Niu Yuxian took out a hammer from under his ribs: "As craftsmen, shouldn't we bring a hammer with us?"

Lu Yinpeng took the hammer and pulled out a knife from the handle: "Is it right to bring a knife?"

Niu Yuxian remained silent, and Lu Yinpeng asked again, "Is there anything else?"

"Gone."

"What's that in the waist?"

Niu Yuxian took out another ink fountain box: "As craftsmen, we must have an ink fountain with us."

"Good guy!" Lu Yinpeng pulled out the ink fountain thread, "This is iron, it can strangle people's necks, what's in the trouser legs?"

"This is a saw, we are craftsmen..."

"Is there a knife under the right rib?"

"This knife, this, this is, for cutting fruit..."

Niu Yuxian jingled and took out a dozen items from his cotton coat.

Xu Zhiqiong took a deep breath and told himself one thing repeatedly:

The "Killing Sutra" is right, you can't be reckless with the Mo family, you must not be reckless, you must not be reckless!

Lu Yinpeng took Niu Yuxian away, and the rest of the students dressed neatly and followed Wang Shijie to the front hall of the yamen.

I thought that after receiving the equipment and talking about the rules, the night would be over, but I didn't expect a green lantern man to come.

The Qingdeng man was called Meng Shizhen, and said to Wang Shijie, "Take these newcomers to patrol the streets, be careful, it's not peaceful recently."

Seeing Qingdeng Lang Meng Shizhen, Wang Shijie was like meeting her long-lost father, and said with a smile on her face, "Meng Qingdeng, do you want to light the lamp tonight?"

Meng Shizhen said: "What do you call watching the night without lighting the lights? Go quickly!"

Wang Shijie carried the lantern and led the crowd to the side of the street, and took out a map: "You are lucky tonight, I will teach you something real, can you read the map?"

A map is a map. The maps of Daxuan Kingdom are painted realistically. If there are bridges, draw bridges, and if there are buildings, draw buildings. The whole map is drawn like the Qingming Riverside Map.

These students have stayed in the capital for many years, and the map of the capital is naturally understandable. There are many marks on the map, and there is one near the Zhangdeng Yamen.

Wang Shijie carried the lantern and led the crowd to the marked location, where a light pole more than ten feet high stood.

Wang Shijie took out the candle in the lantern, climbed up the lamp pole, and lit the wick, which is called lighting the lamp.

A bright light is on, what is the use of lighting this light?

lighting?
There are street lamps on the street in Daxuan, and there are small officials who are responsible for lighting the lamps. This errand has nothing to do with the yamen.

This light is called a night watch light. It is not for lighting, but for marking the night.

Lantern Lang patrols the night, if he is lazy to catch fish and does not go to patrol, how can he find out?

The night watch light is the best way to restrain the behavior of the lantern bearer. The lantern bearer passed a night watch light and lit the light to prove that he had patrolled here.Within his inspection area, if a light was not turned on, it proved that he was negligent during the night patrol.

How to check if these vigil lights are on?
Do you have to check them one by one every night?
You don't need to check it every night, just check it once a month. These night vigil lights are specially made by the penance workshop. Once lit, they will be automatically counted on the light pole.

If the lamp is lighted once less, the number on the lamppost will be one less, which proves that someone caught fish this month. When the time comes, check the lantern man who is in charge of night patrol, and it will be clear who caught the fish.

Can you take a loophole?
I lit the lamp first, then blew out the lamp, and then lit it again. This is an extra count, and I can catch fish tomorrow!
The idea is good, but the vigil lamp cannot be extinguished, nor can water be extinguished!

There is only one way to extinguish the vigil lights - daylight.

At dawn, the night watch lights will automatically go out when they see sunlight. This high-tech method basically eliminates the possibility of night patrols and fishing.

After Wang Shijie finished the lighting rules, he showed the map to everyone: "Look carefully, we are going to watch the night in four places tonight, Xu Zhiqiong, you patrol the northern wall, there are a total of twelve night watch lights, Chu He, you patrol the west Ji, a total of seven night-watch lights, and the four of you going to Xilu, a total of nine night-watch lights..."

Hearing about the division of labor, Xu Zhiqiong went to Beiyuan (pronounced Tongyuan) alone to light twelve lamps, and arranged four other people to go to Xilu to light nine lamps.

Xu Zhiqiong did more by himself than all four of them!

The north of the city is a poor place in the capital, where the poor live. The streets are twists and turns and the road conditions are complicated.

Beiyuan is the northernmost place in the north of the city. It has reached the root of the city wall, and it is also the poorest and most chaotic place. There are a large number of abandoned houses, and they are full of wandering warblers, pickpockets, ruffians, beggars and villains who have come out to hide from lawsuits.

These twelve lamps are very scattered, lighting them up one by one means walking around Beiyuan carefully.

Beiyuan is far away, and the place is still very big. If you don't know the way, this night patrol will really take you all night.

This bastard is really vicious.

But looking at the four inches of sin on his head, Xu Zhiqiong lost his anger.

He seemed to see that lovely horn beckoning to him: "Come on, come on, come and pick me!"

Wang Shijie looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said: "It is said that your talent is different from ordinary people. I thought highly of you, so I handed over Beiyuan to you. It was originally my territory. I will explain the rules first, and turn on one light less. If you have one tael of silver, if you miss two lamps, your monthly salary will be deducted, and if you miss three lamps, you won’t be able to use them tomorrow.

"You took care of me." Xu Zhiqiong cupped his fists and slowly disappeared into the night.

Chu He glared at Wang Shijie, turned around and went to Xiji, which was also far away, in the westernmost part of the capital.

These two brothers have a hard time.

……

Fortunately, Xu Zhiqiong is familiar with the road, fast, and has good endurance. In less than three hours, all the night watch lights in Beiyuan were lit.

Beiyuan is poor, not as poor as the capital city. The houses are low and dilapidated. It is dark at night and it is difficult to see the lights.

Although it is so depressed, there is always a place for recreation where there are people. There is also a tile market in Beiyuan. Goulan, one is an orchid shed for listening to music, and the other is a peach blossom shed for enjoying dances.

The hook bar is very small, and the ticket is cheap, only ten coins.

Xu Zhiqiong still has ten coins.It's halfway through the ugly hour, almost two o'clock in the middle of the night, Xu Zhiqiong is going to rest for a while in the peach blossom shed where the dance is enjoyed.

He took out ten copper coins from his pocket and was about to hand them over to the clerk, but the clerk stared at Xu Zhiqiong in silence.

He saw Xu Zhiqiong's white robe and Xu Zhiqiong's lantern.

He recognized the lantern.

"What are you looking at? Collect money!"

"Don't dare, dare not!" The man shook his head again and again, "Master Denglang, please come inside!"

what's the situation?
Is Lantern Lang free?
And this kind of treatment?

Xu Zhiqiong didn't want to take advantage of this kind of petty advantage, so he stuffed ten copper coins into the clerk's hand, blew out the lantern, entered the hook rail, and found a seat in the back row to sit down.

It was a small Goulan, and the stage was also small. There were twenty or thirty people sitting sparsely under the stage, and there were only three dancers on the stage, and their looks were ordinary.

But this dance was very bold, one dancer in the middle was wearing tulle, the other two dancers didn't even have tulle, Xu Zhiqiong looked completely tired.

Xu Zhiqiong looked engrossed from this side, the guy was so frightened, he didn't even look at the door, and went all the way to find the boss.

Not long after, the boss came over, stood beside Xu Zhiqiong, and said tremblingly: "Deng, Mr. Denglang, I am not sensible, I don't know that you are a new Denglang, so please don't be like him." care about."

Xu Zhiqiong was taken aback: "What am I fussing about? What's wrong with spending money to watch a movie?"

The boss was sweating anxiously: "You're annoying me, please don't say that, you, don't sit here, no, you can't sit here..."

The more Xu Zhiqiong listened, the more confused he became: "If I don't sit here, where should I sit?"

The waiter said from the side: "Master Deng Lang, there is a private room upstairs, I have cleaned it for you, please come upstairs with me."

This time Xu Zhiqiong understood that the boss was afraid of Lantern Lantern and tried every means to please Lantern Lantern.

Lantern Lantern is the law enforcement officer at night, so can he even control the fence?
While thinking about it, the waiter kept begging: "My lord, you go upstairs. If there is something wrong with the little one, you can go upstairs and beat me up. I beg you to sit upstairs."

The boss also begged from the sidelines, Xu Zhiqiong was worried about disturbing the other guests, so he had to go upstairs with the two of them.

The so-called private rooms upstairs are just small pavilions with beds in which you can lie down and watch theatre.

Also, lying down is better than sitting.

Xu Zhiqiong just lay down for a while, when the waiter brought a fruit plate and a jug of wine.

Not long after, the boss came again, with two slings of money in his hand, and handed it to Xu Zhiqiong: "This is a tribute to you from the shop."

Xu Zhiqiong said in amazement: "You give me back the money?"

The boss rubbed his hands together and said, "A little thought, don't be too little."

Xu Zhiqiong waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I can't take this money."

The boss was anxious: "I'm a small business. The previous Mr. Deng Lang had so much monthly money, so don't think too little."

monthly money?

Is this still a steady income?
Lantern Lang's life is really good.

Xu Zhiqiong stuffed the money back to the boss, who was so anxious that he was on the verge of tears: "What's wrong with the shop, just tell me, Mr. Denglang! Don't embarrass me like this!"

Not taking advantage of you has made it difficult for you, and it seems that I can only take advantage of you.

"Tell me first, who did you give the previous monthly money to?"

"It's all given to Lord Wang Denglang."

This is really Wang Shijie's territory.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "I don't care what Wang Denglang's rules are, from today on, you just follow my rules, I will waive your monthly fee for you, and when I am watching the night in the future, I will often go to your place to rest when I am tired. Xie, I'll give you more when you have more money, and you can just waive my ticket when your money is tight."

The boss waved his hands again and again and said, "My lord, you are willing to come because you think highly of me, and what are you talking about?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Just listen to me, there is one more thing, you have to promise me, you have to remember that I have been here."

"Remember you came here?" The boss shook his head again and again, "Sir, you are testing me, don't worry, I understand the rules, and I won't say a word that shouldn't be said."

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said: "You have to say what you have to say, you have to remember that I have been here, if someone asks you for a monthly payment, just say that I waived your monthly payment and let him come to me. If you still dare to give other people monthly money, I will let your place close tomorrow."

The boss nodded again and again: "I remember, I remember, I will never forget."

Xu Zhiqiong said again: "There is one more thing I need your help with. Tell me, in Beiyuan, what other businesses do you need to give Wang Denglang monthly money?"

These three things are very important, it is related to whether Xu Zhiqiong can get the crime karma on Wang Shijie's head.

(End of this chapter)