Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 32 The Lantern of the Lantern

When the sky was about to dawn, Xu Zhiqiong stretched his waist, walked out of the Goulan, hummed a little song, and returned to Zhangdeng Yamen.

The picture of white flowers and roundness is deeply imprinted in my mind. Xu Zhiqiong didn't feel tired at all for his first night watch.

When they arrived at the yamen, it was already dawn, and the newcomers stood in a line, waiting for Wang Shijie to give a lecture.

Wu Chunyang, who left in anger last night, also came back. The scars on his face were still there, but the domineering temperament on his body was gone, and he stood in the middle of the line with his head down.

Someone pointed out to Wu Chunyang last night that in the capital, there are some places where his father can't stand up for him, especially places like Huangcheng Division.

Staying in the Imperial City Division is very important to him, and he has to endure some things. He is not the eldest son of the family, and he cannot inherit the family business. He has to rely on the big tree of the Imperial City Division to earn a family for himself in the capital. Industry.

Wu Zhifu is a visionary, he has to make his son realize the reality.

That night, Wu Chunyang realized the reality, and this was the first time in his life that he encountered severe beatings from society.

Wang Shijie was sitting on a chair drinking tea, when he saw Xu Zhiqiong, he put down the teacup and said, "So many people went out to watch the night, why are you the last one to come back?"

Xu Zhiqiong sniffled and said, "Beiyuan is too far away and too big, I don't know the way..."

Wang Shijie said: "That's your waste, I think I used to watch the night and came back before five o'clock."

Shi Chuan laughed beside him and said, "You know Lantern Lang is not a good job, right? This is just the beginning, and there will be more days to practice in the future."

Wang Shijie got up and said, "Wu Chunyang is out."

Wu Chunyang stepped forward, and Wang Shijie said to the crowd: "I'm afraid it will take a long time to temper a waste like you into a talent. I'm usually busy, and I don't have time to take care of you. From today onwards, you will be counted. A small banner (team), Shi Denglang and I are your banner leaders, Chun Yang is your deputy banner leader, and all daily affairs are handled by Chun Yang."

The small flag is the most basic organizational unit of Lantern Lang. There are ten people in a small flag, and the head of the flag is set, which is equivalent to the squad leader.

Wang Shijie is just an ordinary white lantern man, so naturally he is not qualified to be the squad leader. He set up a rookie flag and promoted himself to an official position. In fact, it is all nonsense, just to better squeeze the newcomers. Xu Zhiqiong had seen this kind of thing a lot in his previous life.

He also promoted Wu Chunyang to be the deputy head of the flag, proving that there was another deal involved, Wu Chunyang confessed, and Wang Shijie had to give him a sweet date to eat.

After the training, Wang Shijie yawned: "It's over, Chun Yang, you take them to the west courtyard, and then learn the rules."

It's time to leave work.

What are you going to do in the west courtyard after get off work?
As soon as Wang Shijie left, Mr. Wu's aura came back again: "Are you so deaf? Didn't you hear what the head of the flag said? Come with me to the west courtyard!"

This beating is not enough!
The crowd followed Wu Chunyang to the west courtyard, and Wang Shijie led them into a wing room.

The wing room was in a mess, clothes were scattered on the bed, and there were some chicken bones, peanut shells, and sauce and vinegar dishes on the table. It seemed that someone had supper here last night.

Wu Chunyang sternly said: "This is Wang Qishou's hut. You heard me clearly. I cleaned it up and washed my clothes this morning, and I have to clean Shi Qishou's hut this afternoon!"

Xiaoshe, the dormitory of Lantern Lantern.

Each lantern bearer has a small room, where he can go home to rest during the day, or sleep here.

Xu Zhiqiong thought: Where is my dormitory?

Forget it, even the saber is not issued, and the dormitory does not know when it will wait.

While thinking, Wu Chunyang shouted: "Xu Zhiqiong, I'm talking to you, can't you hear me?"

Xu Zhiqiong raised his head: "What do you mean?"

"I asked you to wash Wang Qishou's clothes."

Xu Zhiqiong wiped his nose and said, "No washing."

Wu Chun Yang Jian raised his eyebrows: "What did you say?"

Xu Zhiqiong said, "I said no!"

"Dare you say it again?"

"So what?" Xu Zhiqiong kept looking at Wu Chunyang with a smile.

Wu Chunyang stepped forward to grab Xu Zhiqiong's collar: "Shicai Wang Qishou said that I am your vice-banner, you dare to contradict me..."

Chu He stood beside Xu Zhiqiong: "So what if you contradict you?"

Before Wu Chunyang touched Xu Zhiqiong, he was enveloped by Chu He's huge figure.

He withdrew his hand, pointed at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Remember what happened today!"

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and said, "I remember."

Chu He sneered: "What the hell are you going to say to remember, you asked Wang Shijie to remember last night, if you haven't passed the night, you will be scared."

Xu Zhiqiong and Chu He turned around and left, Wu Chunyang was trembling with anger: "You dare to come out of this door and try!"

Xu Zhiqiong turned his head and said, "So what if you leave this door?"

"I will definitely tell Wang Qishou about this tonight!"

"Sue it! If you don't, you are..." Xu Zhiqiong stuttered habitually.

Chu He said from the side: "If you don't tell me, you are my son!"

Xu Zhiqiong originally wanted to talk about bastards, but when he heard Chu He's words, he didn't go any further.

After leaving the Lantern Yamen, Chu He felt a little scared: "Zhiqiong, this guy really wants to tell Wang Shijie, what should we do?"

"What are you afraid of?" Xu Zhiqiong sneered, "Wang Shijie is just a white lamp man, just like us, in the yamen, how dare he do anything to us? As long as we don't coward him, he dare not touch us!"

"I don't dare to do anything in the yamen, I'm afraid he will do something secretly."

"How do you do it?"

Chu He said: "I'm not afraid of him. It's a big deal. There are many people in Xiji, so he doesn't dare to go too far. Beiyuan is too desolate and there are too many secluded places. I'm worried..."

"It's okay, he can't do that kind of thing." Xu Zhiqiong said so, but he didn't think so in his heart.

He believed that Wang Shijie would do such a thing.

He hoped that Wang Shijie would play tricks on him.

But just looking forward to it won't work, he has to be forced to do something wrong.

……

Back home, Xu Zhiqiong was not sleepy, and gave Tong Qingqiu the qi-invigorating pills that Yang Wu had given him earlier.

Tong Qingqiu looked at these pills, and said: "If it was in the ghost market, these pills would be worth a hundred and ten taels of silver, but that is a lie to laymen. With my brother and me, they are worth ten taels. If you feel that you are at a disadvantage ,Never mind."

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "I gave you this, what money are we brothers talking about!"

"That won't work," Tong Qingqiu shook his head and said, "I can't take advantage of you."

"What are you talking about taking advantage of? You are ashamed to kill brother. I eat you and use your less? Besides, brother is also earning money now!"

"Who is it? The imperial court pays you [-] per month. You are so poor that you can hardly even eat porridge." Tong Qingqiu forced the broken money into Xu Zhiqiong's hands, "When you get rich, you will take care of your brother in the future." , don't pretend to be rich with me now."

Xu Zhiqiong refused repeatedly, but Tong Qingqiu forced him to accept it, not only gave him money, but also gave him a box of medicine powder.

It was the medicine powder that caused my wife to develop a rash all over her body.

He had promised to give Xu Zhiqiong the medicine powder long ago, but he was worried that Xu Zhiqiong would kill him: "I tried this medicine, it can really tickle people to death."

Xu Zhiqiong said with joy, "Okay, okay..."

It's good to die from the itching, so he won't have to worry about it.

Tong Qingqiu lowered his face and said: "Zhiqiong, it's fine if you make fun of others, but if you really want to make a big fuss, I won't give you this thing."

"What big trouble can I make? It's just to have fun with my colleagues."

Tong Qingqiu gave the medicine jar to Xu Zhiqiong, and also gave Xu Zhiqiong a small spoon: "At most one small spoonful, don't use more, be careful when using it, don't get your hands dirty,
After this thing got on the flesh, a rash appeared in half an hour, and the whole body was extremely itchy. If you only use one spoonful, it will disappear in one day and one night. If you use two spoonfuls, it will take at least three days. If you use three spoonfuls, it will disappear. , People will die! "

Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "I wrote it down."

"Zhiqiong, it's still the same sentence, it's okay to make a fuss, don't joke about your life, if the matter becomes serious and is tracked down by the Onmyoji Division, you and I will be inseparable!"

Xu Zhiqiong understood this reason, and he wouldn't use this powder to kill Wang Shijie, because it would leave too many hands.

After collecting the medicine powder and money, Xu Zhiqiong ate a meal at Brother Tong's house, slept until dusk, and went to the yamen with a lantern.

When they arrived at the Yamen, Wu Chunyang was complaining to Wang Shijie. Wang Shijie looked at Xu Zhiqiong, sneered and said, "Xu Denglang, you have such a temper. It seems that you can't learn this rule."

Xu Zhiqiong said expressionlessly, "What's the rule of doing your laundry?"

"That's a good word! I'll let you know what the rules are today!" Wang Shijie got up and came to Xu Zhiqiong, the murderous aura of the ninth rank came over his face.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled and looked into Wang Shijie's eyes.

Chu He also stood up and looked down at Wang Shijie's Tianling Gai.

Yang Wu wanted to come up to help, but he didn't have the courage, so he just lowered his head and rubbed his hands.

The three looked at each other for a long time, but Wang Shijie didn't dare to make a move.

Xu Zhiqiong was right, as long as they didn't give in, Wang Shijie wouldn't dare to do anything to them.

There are three elements in oppressing newcomers, one is deterrence, the other is isolation, and the third is making things difficult.

If you can't be deterred, you can't be tough, Wang Shijie knows this in his heart, and Xu Zhiqiong also knows it very well.

The scene fell into a stalemate, and Wang Shijie saw sweat on his forehead.

It wouldn't be good for him if he really fought, Xu Zhiqiong was still easy to deal with, but Chu He's physique was too scary, and he couldn't take advantage of one against two.

Where did Shi Chuan die?Don't even say come over and support me.

Really came here: "Xu Zhiqiong, Chu He, what do you two want to do? How did you talk to the seniors? Aren't Wang Denglang and I doing it for you? Who just entered the yamen and hasn't been tempered?" What happened to washing the clothes for seniors?"

Xu Zhiqiong lowered his eyes and said, "No washing!"

"No, if you don't wash it, don't wash it. Who forced you? Who cares about you washing?" Shi Chuan no longer argued with Xu Zhiqiong, he just wanted to give Wang Shijie a step down, and pulled Wang Shijie back to the chair.

Wang Shijie took a sip of tea and said with a sneer, "Okay, Xu Dadenglang, I like your integrity, and you will go to visit Beiyuan tonight."

Xu Zhiqiong said with a dull face: "Go, just go, walk more, it doesn't matter."

"Okay, let me see how hard you are!"

That night Xu Zhiqiong went to Beiyuan again, passing the city gate during the night patrol, and met his former classmate, Wu Shanxing who liked to study the art of war.

In the examination room, Wu Shanxing begged the martial artist to give him a question related to the art of war, hoping to attract the attention of the Minister of War.

Although Sui Zhi didn't notice him, Wu Shanxing went to the Ministry of War through the recommendation of the martial artists.

But when he arrived at the Ministry of War, he didn't get any good jobs, and finally became a city gate captain.

The official position has the word Wei, which sounds big, but it is actually a guard of the city gate, with ten guards under his command.

He just went to the Ministry of War to take office, and his boss asked him to stay overnight at the city gate for a month.

Wu Shanxing was depressed, met Xu Zhiqiong, took some dried meat, boiled a pot of wine, the two drank a few glasses, and complained.

"Zhiqiong, you are the only one watching the night in the huge Beiyuan?"

Xu Zhiqiong sniffled and said, "It's like this tonight, just, I'm afraid it will be like this in the future."

Wu Shanxing sighed: "I thought there were only those who stayed in the Ministry of War for a long time, but I didn't expect the Imperial City Division to be the same."

Xu Zhiqiong waved his hands again and again and said, "This, these words should not be said nonsense."

Wu Shanxing smiled: "Afraid that I will implicate you?"

Xu Zhiqiong shook his head and said, "I, I'm afraid of being involved, I, I'm alone, I'm afraid of your subordinates..."

Wu Shanxing looked at the soldiers under his command. They were standing guard and patrolling. They didn't seem to hear anything. Wu Shanxing nodded and said, "You're right, let's not talk about this troublesome thing, let's talk about the past of our academy..."

The two chatted for a while, and drank a few more cups. Xu Zhiqiong carried the lantern and continued to watch the night. After lighting four night vigil lights, he went to the white peony tea shop.

This is a serious tea shop, the proprietress is about twenty, she is pretty, and if you buy a few more cups of tea soup, you can secretly kiss her.

The white peony tea shop had to ask Wang Shijie for a sling of money every month, but Xu Zhiqiong waived it for the proprietress. The proprietress invited Xu Zhiqiong to drink tea, gave Xu Zhiqiong some good tea cakes, and let him kiss him. a mouthful.

After drinking the tea, Xu Zhiqiong continued to light the lamp, passed by Lin Erjie's flower cake shop, and went to buy another catty of flower cakes.

Second sister Lin used to pay Wang Shijie [-] yuan a month, but Xu Zhiqiong waived it for her. Second sister Lin was more handsome than the proprietress, so she gave Xu Zhiqiong an extra half catty of flower cakes.

Although she was a girl's family, she was reluctant, but Xu Zhiqiong gave her a kiss.

After lighting all the night watch lights, listening to the watchmen beating gongs and clappers, it is almost five watch.

Xu Zhiqiong stretched, and went to the Goulan again.

After staying in Goulan for an hour, Xu Zhiqiong returned to the Lantern Yamen at dawn just like yesterday.

After so many repetitions, everyone is used to it.

Every second watch, Wu Shanxing prepared food and wine under the city gate, waiting for Xu Zhiqiong to drink and chat.

In the middle of the night, the white peony tea shop has prepared tea soup.

At the fourth watch, Second Sister Lin prepared flower cakes, and put some more face powder on her face.

When it was five o'clock, the private room was cleaned in the Goulan, the fruit was prepared, and a dancer was asked to come down and wait for Xu Zhiqiong to beat his back and rub his shoulders.

At dawn, Xu Zhiqiong returned to the yamen on time, listened to Wang Shijie's bickering, and went home after finishing the work without anyone waiting on him.

On the sixth day, Xu Zhiqiong didn't go back after the value was cleared.

He saw classmate Niu was polishing the light pole in the workshop of the west courtyard.

Niu Yuxian, a ninth-grade practitioner of the Mohist school, is currently learning skills from the lamp holder. The lamp holder is off work, and he is still practicing skills here.

Xu Zhiqiong leaned forward, looked at the light pole and said, "Well, how does this thing work?"

Niu Yuxian raised his head and said, "Didn't Wang Denglang teach you?"

"Why is Wang Denglang willing to teach me? He just let me watch the night and didn't let me learn anything."

Niu Yuxian blinked and said, "Then why should I teach you?"

"I'll give you the money!" Xu Zhiqiong took out a piece of silver.

Niu Yuxian looked at Xu Zhiqiong with contempt on his face: "So what about the money? Where do you put the strength of the Mohist family?"

"I really do." Xu Zhiqiong took out two more pieces of silver.

Niu Yuxian smiled contemptuously: "The mechanism is three inches from the end of the light pole. If you are sincere, I can add something for you."

(End of this chapter)