Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 73 The Wizard He Fang
After returning from the night watch, Xu Zhiqiong ordered his hair in the yamen and was about to go home to sleep when he suddenly saw Qu Jinshan walking over: "Zhiqiong, go to Mingdengxuan."

Qu Jinshan is here, which is a big deal.

Xu Zhiqiong entered Mingdengxuan and saw Wu Qianhu reading a book, his face was red.

What book are you reading?
Xu Zhiqiong took a closer look and shuddered.

He is looking at spring paintings!

Very warm spring painting!

It was said before that Wu Xu liked to read spring paintings in order to deceive Han Di through Yang Wu's mouth, but Wu Xu really had such a hobby.

"Why are you standing so close?" Wu Xu raised his head and said, "This is a painting by a master, can you, an ordinary person, see it? If you want to read it, take this book and read it!"

Wu Xu handed the "Valuation of Gu" to Xu Zhiqiong, and Xu Zhiqiong was stunned for a moment: "Qianhu, I don't understand yin and yang art, and I don't understand Gu art. This book is useless to me. It should be given to Qu." Light Keeper."

"You think I don't want to give it to you? That old stubborn Qu Jinshan refuses to read it. He said that he doesn't read anything written by Tai Bu. There may be some secret hand hidden in it! It's just a book, what secret hand can there be?
But it doesn't matter if you don't look at it, if you really encounter Gu art, such methods as divination may not be useful, and a bloody battle will inevitably be inevitable. "

Xu Zhiqiong accepted the "Huagu Volume", his eyes were still fixed on the spring painting in Wu Xu's hand.

Wu Xu frowned and said, "What do you think?"

Xu Zhiqiong sniffled: "This painting is so beautiful, Qianhu, please lend me a look!"

"Lend it to you? How can it work? Do you know how much this album costs?"

"What a big deal," Xu Zhiqiong sneered, "I can buy more than a dozen copies for a penny."

Wu Xu spat and said, "Can you get that kind of vulgar thing in the market? You go and ask who is Li Shabai, the master? You go and ask Xiao Songting, how much does a picture album of Li Shabai cost?"

Xiao Songting!
This painting was given to Wu Xu by Xiao Songting!
Xu Zhiqiong lied to Yang Wu, Yang Wu told Han Di, who did Han Di tell the news?

Is there anyone who can command the imposing Green Lantern?

There are many options, it may be Yu Shan, it may be Zhong Shen, and it may be someone bigger than Zhong Shen.

But these people can be ruled out one by one, they don't need to take such a big risk to insert a trick around Wu Xu.

In the end, there was only one person left - Liang Yuming.

Liang Yuming is the person who cares most about Wu Xu's movements.

Xiao Songting belongs to Liang Yuming, and this guy is an inside ghost.

No wonder Wu Xu never let Xiao Songting participate in important actions, he had already seen through Xiao Songting's identity.

But since he knew he was the ghost, why didn't he kill him?

Wu Xu's motives should be the same as mine. He didn't want to disturb Liang Yuming, but also wanted to use this ghost to do something.

Xu Zhiqiong was holding the "Valuation of Gu", and just about to leave Mingdengxuan, Wu Xu gave another order: "Go to the Ministry of Punishment and send me a letter. I don't want to let it go, it took so long, and now I have no place to go, I want to leave things to me,

You give them the letter and tell them that I am willing to accept it, but I have no place to save it. If you see one and kill the other, if they talk to you, you turn around and leave, and tell them that I am not in the mood to grind my teeth with them, let alone in the mood Accompany them and slime. "

Xu Zhiqiong got the order, took the letter, and was about to go out to ask where the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment was, when he suddenly saw Yang Wu walking over.

"Zhiqiong, where are you going?"

Good boy, you really care about me, you are waiting for me here, you want to spy on me!

What benefits did Junior Sister Han give you?Let me give you a kiss without talking, right?

Don't overestimate Yang Wu, I'm afraid he didn't even touch his hands.

Xu Zhiqiong felt that he was half-truthful with Yang Wu: "I'll go to the Ministry of Punishment and deliver a letter to Qianhu."

"What letter are you sending?"

"The criminal department arrested a few people and locked them in the prison. The case is no longer under their control. It's useless to keep it. Qianhu wants to get those people here." Xu Zhiqiong deliberately reversed the words, saying that Wu Xu took the initiative to ask for teeth, which would give Liang Yuming the illusion that Wu Xu had fallen into negativity.

Yang Wu smiled and said, "Is Qianhu trying to claim credit?"

"What kind of merit is invited, it is for the sake of business."

Yang Wudao: "My house is not far from the Ministry of Punishment, I will go with you."

Xu Zhiqiong sighed in his heart, it would be great if he could put so much effort into serious matters!
Yang Wu took Xu Zhiqiong to the Ministry of Punishment. The structure of the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment was very different from other government offices. On the whole, it was similar to the Yamen of Zhangdeng, with courts and prisons.

Xu Zhiqiong handed the letter to an officer, and not long after, the officer wrote back: "Xu Denglang, Yang Denglang, Zhang Xunde, the chief, asked you to go in and answer."

Zhang Xunde, Mr. Zhang...

How many heads are there in the Ministry of Criminal Justice?

Could it be the owner of the big black dog?
Xu Zhiqiong and Yang Wu followed the guards to the side hall, but Zhang Xunde didn't look up, just read the letter and remained silent for a while.

Yang Wu whispered to Xu Zhiqiong: "Why doesn't your lord speak?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Perhaps I was fascinated by the letter."

Are you really fascinated?
of course not.

These are the two great skills of the Ministry of Punishment - deafness and blindness.

Deafness and blindness do not refer to disabilities, but pretend not to see what you see, and pretend not to hear what you hear. It is easy to say, but it is really difficult to achieve a certain level.

Regardless of whether it is the plaintiff, the defendant, the first accuser, or the sufferer, as long as you come to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to do business, first stand below, no matter whether you take advantage of it or not, it will be treated as if you have not seen you, and first sharpen your spirit.

Zhang Xunde wanted Xu Zhiqiong and Yang Wu to learn the rules, not for the two of them, but for the yamen in charge.

At the beginning, one of Zhang Xunde's concubine, Mrs. Zhang who raised a big black dog, was beaten to death by two servants in the street. Qingdeng Lang Dong Qingshan shot the two murderers to death on the spot. This matter should stop here.Although Zhang Xunde was the victim, in the final analysis, he was just an outside woman, so the loss was not too great.

But Dong Qingshan felt that Lu San's identity was suspicious, so he took the bodies of the two of them and the two maidservants back to the Lantern Yamen, and interrogated them severely. Promoted to the sixth rank, after this incident, the news of the promotion disappeared.

From then on, Zhang Xunde hated the yamen in charge of lamps very much. When he met Xu Zhiqiong today, he had to teach him a lesson.

Xu Zhiqiong waited for a long time, only to hear Zhang Xunde sigh and say: "It's difficult!"

This sentence "difficult" has a lot of knowledge.

I didn't speak just now, and I could be silent for a few minutes.

Adding this "difficult" sound, you can be silent for half an hour.

If someone asks him to do something, this "difficult" can directly defeat the opponent's psychological defense.

Yang Wu's psychological defense was defeated: "Zhiqiong, what, what should we do? Why don't we go back and talk to Qianhu..."

Before Yang Wu finished speaking, Xu Zhiqiong clasped his fists to salute, and said to Zhang Xunde, "Farewell."

Director Zhang just started to pretend, but Xu Zhiqiong is leaving?

Zhang Xunde was furious: "Stop, where are you going?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Go back to the yamen to reply to Qianhu's letter, it's difficult for Mr. Zhang to say."

"I haven't finished my words yet!"

"Then please, Mr. Zhang, send someone to the Yamen to say goodbye."

Yang Wu was terrified beside him: "Zhiqiong, you, what are you doing..."

Zhang Xunde thumped the table: "You are so bold! You are just a nine-rank yamen, do you know who you are talking to? Left and right, take him down!"

Two yamen servants came up with shackles and shouted at Xu Zhiqiong: "You, don't move!"

They dared to shout, but they didn't dare to stretch out their hands. They had heard of Xu Zhiqiong's reputation.

Seeing these two bastards, Xu Zhiqiong was overjoyed. He held the lantern in his left hand and drew out his saber with his right hand.

The Yachai was startled and didn't dare to go forward, knowing that this was a murderer without blinking an eye.

Yang Wu was stunned: "Zhiqiong, don't dare to mess around!"

Zhang Xunde thumped the table and said, "It's rebellion, it's you! You dare to show your sword in the yamen of the Ministry of Punishment!"

The big hat of rebellion should be put down first. This is Zhang Xunde's experience in speaking skills for many years as an official.

Xu Zhiqiong pointed at Zhang Xunde with the tip of his knife and said, "Who is rebelling? I am the Lantern in charge of the Yamen! I am the official of the Imperial City Division! Without His Majesty's order, you, the seventh-rank chief, let the Yamen hold weapons What do you want to do to me? How dare you ask your subordinates to attack Lantern Lantern? Zhang Xunde, do you think you are worthy of His Majesty?"

Xu Zhiqiong had seen too much of the method of buckling the hat in his previous life, and he could buckle it back with a backhand.

It's just that Zhang Xunde's reaction was so intense that he suddenly stood up.

Xu Zhiqiong thought that Zhang Xunde was going to fight him, but he was wrong, Zhang Xunde was not that impulsive.

The reason why Zhang Xunde stood up was because he heard the word "Your Majesty".

Hearing the word "Your Majesty", you must stand up. This is a conditioned reflex engraved in the bone marrow.

"Zhang is loyal and sincere to His Majesty, you can show the sun and the moon, and you will never let your lies!" While speaking, Zhang Xunde's expression was solemn and solemn.

Taking advantage of his solemnity, Xu Zhiqiong turned around and walked outside the door.

Zhang Xunde shouted: "Stop, I still have a letter to send to Wu Qianhu."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "You ask someone to send it yourself, I don't have time to wait for you!"

Yang Wu was about to cry in fright: "Zhiqiong, don't say a word."

Zhang Xunde said angrily: "You are too crazy, you missed an important matter, can you afford it?"

Xu Zhiqiong turned his head and said: "Master Zhang, since there is something important, you should go and talk to Qianhu face to face."

Zhang Xunde shouted: "Thousands of your family would not dare to be so arrogant after seeing me!"

"I'm afraid my family's Qianhu is too lazy to see you," Xu Zhiqiong said with a smile, "Go to the prison and make up the mud first, and then go to our Qianhu!"

"You!" Zhang Xunde blushed with anger, Xu Zhiqiong took Yang Wu out of the side hall.

Yang Wu blamed Xu Zhiqiong all the way: "Look at you, Qianhu asked you to ask someone to do something, how did you offend him!"

Xu Zhiqiong snorted coldly: "I just have this temper!"

"You, you are so stupid, what can I say about you, we are out on errands, not when we were in the academy, I just said... what kind of voice is this?"

Walking to the front yard of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, I suddenly heard someone wailing. I took a closer look and saw that Liu De'an was tied to a stake, and a prosecutor of the Ministry of Criminal Justice was whipping him violently with a whip:

"I asked you to go to the Dehua class. You are shameless, and you dare to report the name of the Criminal Department. You will be ashamed!"

Liu De'an cried: "I didn't go, it's really not me!"

"How dare you speak so hard, everyone told me that there is a pussy-faced person in the Ministry of Punishment!"

"I have pockmarks on my face!"

"You don't admit it, I'll take a layer of your skin!"

……

Yang Wu was surprised: "Isn't this Liu De'an? How could he go to a place like the Dehua Class? It's really not embarrassing!"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Haven't you also been to the Jiqing class?"

"Jiqing class is cleaner than Dehua class, at least it's in the city."

Xu Zhiqiong nodded and agreed: "Why don't you say he's ashamed!"

……

After leaving the Criminal Department, the two went home separately.

Lying on the bed, Xu Zhiqiong opened the "Gu Hua Volume".

No wonder Wu Xu couldn't understand.

Xu Zhiqiong thought that this book directly introduced the method of resolving Gu Art, using a medicine, using a magic circle, etc., but it turned out that it first introduced the academic knowledge of the Yin Yang School.

The academic knowledge here is not the explanation of the terms of Yin-Yang, but some calculation problems, which is simply a torture of Wu Xu's soul.

Xu Zhiqiong is good at solving problems, but this problem is not so easy.

Three points more Yin Qi, one point less clear Qi, more than half a foot in distance, one point and thirty percent loss in strength, one point in strength loss, two points and forty percent increase in speed, and three points and five points of Yang Qi... The magic circle traps [-] enemies , how many yin and yang are there?

Enumerating so many conditions is to require the maximum damage value of a magic circle.

This is the optimal solution of linear equations, a total of sixteen conditions, corresponding to sixteen equations.

Solving this problem requires knowledge of linear algebra. Xu Zhiqiong can solve it, but what is the use of solving it?

The book does not introduce the method of arranging the magic circle, so can the Gu technique be resolved by just solving the problem?
Xu Zhiqiong didn't sleep all night and was very sleepy. He put away the "Gu Hua Volume" and fell asleep.

After sleeping until noon, Xu Zhiqiong wanted to ask Tong Qingqiu for advice, but he saw a carriage parked in front of Tong Qingqiu's door.

have a guest.

Xu Zhiqiong was about to leave without interrupting, but saw Tong Qingqiu sending the guests out.

It's a female guest.

Such a handsome female guest.

Her looks are as good as Han Di's, she is one in a million, and even Xu Zhiqiong's strict aesthetics are secretly admired.

The woman clasped her fists at Tong Qingqiu and said: "Senior brother Tong, what my younger sister said, I hope you think twice, Taibu sincerely invites you, you have to go if you go, or you have to go if you don't!"

This is to force Tong Qingqiu to become an official again.

This girl speaks loudly, so many people came to invite Tong Qingqiu to be an official, but Tong Qingqiu rejected them all, so how could she be able to invite Big Brother Tong?
Tong Qingqiu also smiled: "Junior Sister He, I haven't seen you for many years, your temper has increased a lot, Tong will not go if you don't want to go, can you still tie me up?"

The woman smiled, turned around and got into the carriage without saying a word.

Just as the carriage was about to leave, the woman suddenly poked her head out, looked at Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Your Excellency is Xu Denglang?"

know me?
Xu Zhiqiong rubbed his nose by mistake and nodded.

The girl smiled and said: "He Fang, the seventh-rank wizard of the Yin Yang Division, once heard from Taibu that you are very good at counting. He will come to Xu Denglang for advice some other day!"

(End of this chapter)