Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 99

The sparsely populated part of the capital is in the north of the city.

The sparsely populated place in the north of the city is Beiyuan.

The sparsely populated place in Beiyuan is Qierzhai.

Qierzhai is another name for Qilinzhai.

Xu Zhiqiong knew that place too well.

There are not even people in that place. If there are no people, there will be no sinners. If there are no sinners, what merits can they get?
Is he targeting me, or Lu Yanyou?

"Cao Yilang, you may have misunderstood. I am not very familiar with Mr. Lu. I just came to ask you for a piece of land. You must at least give me a place with people..."

Before he finished speaking, Cao Yilang threw a seal to Xu Zhiqiong: "Take it, sit for a while if you want, and leave if you don't want to sit."

After speaking, the old man yawned and fell asleep.

In the blink of an eye, he fell asleep!
Xu Zhiqiong still wanted to argue a few words, but was persuaded by Lu Yanyou: "Don't talk about it, Cao Yilang has already made a decision, so you can accept it. The old man has a bad temper, so don't make trouble here."

He has a bad temper?
Not to mention whether he has a temper, Xu Zhiqiong saw that he was almost out of breath.

"Is this old thing still alive? Did he hear what you said clearly? Does he know where Qilin Village is?"

Lu Yanyou dragged Xu Zhiqiong back to the tea house, and Xu Zhiqiong said angrily, "What's the use of this place?"

"How can you say it's useless? Qilin Village is good!"

"What's wrong?"

"It's good to be quiet!"

"It's quiet," Xu Zhiqiong nodded and said, "There are no people, how can I find business in a place where there are no people? How can I earn meritorious service?"

"I'm impatient, you are too impatient!" Lu Yanyou took a sip of tea and sighed, "Our judges rely on merit, and you think this merit is so easy to get? It's like the first time you received business in Bapin, It is reasonable to wait for a year and a half."

Xu Zhiqiong said angrily: "Why wait a year and a half? I won't wait! Tomorrow I will go to your site to find business!"

"That's not okay, we brothers can't make enemies over this matter," Lu Yanyou said after a long thought, "If you are in a hurry, there is someone who can help you. He is honest and generous, willing to do business with others, and It’s still big business.”

"Where is this man?"

"Xiji Qingyuan Alley, there is a teeth brushing shop for the third son of Qin, the shopkeeper is named Qin Changmao, Fanchen's name is Qin Changmao, and the judge's name is also Qin Changmao."

Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise, "The judge's name is the same as his real name?"

"If you don't say that Mr. Qin is sincere, you can go to him and bring the token that the master gave you, and he will definitely be willing to help you."

After finishing speaking, Lu Yanyou handed the firewood stick to Xu Zhiqiong: "Brother, I have given you everything I have, and you should give me some kind words in front of an expert."

Xu Zhiqiong took the firewood stick and said, "Farewell."

Lu Yanyou picked up the seal given by Cao Yilang from the tea table, handed it to Xu Zhiqiong and said, "Don't forget to take this."

Xu Zhiqiong took the seal and said, "What's the use of this thing?"

Lu Yanyou said: "This is called the seal of the master, and it is very useful. For example, there is a person who committed a heinous crime. He went to the Yingque Forest first, and then to the Qilin Village. Is this person yours or mine?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "Of course it's mine! It's not easy for someone to go to that broken place, and you can still grab it?"

Lu Yanyou waved his hand and said: "We don't talk about friendship, let's just talk about the rules. According to the rules of our business, whoever stamps the master's seal on the crime karma first, this person belongs to him. If you are on that person's crime karma After seeing my master book seal, you can no longer snatch this person."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "What if I have to grab it?"

Lu Yanyou smiled: "Brother, then our hatred will be deep. When you do business in the future, don't blame me for stumbling!"

"Thank you, brother, for reminding me!" Xu Zhiqiong received the master seal and left the teahouse.

Before the fourth watch, Xu Zhiqiong went to the peach blossom shed and slept in the private room for more than an hour.

In fact, he could sleep in other places, but Xu Zhiqiong slept soundly in the fence.

After dawn, Xu Zhiqiong changed into casual clothes, went directly to Qingyuan Lane in Xiji, and found Qin Laosan's teeth-brushing shop.

The shop was not too big, and the shelves were full of teeth brushes, as well as willow juice, locust tree juice, ginger juice, and rhizome. Qin Changmao, the shopkeeper, was calling for business behind the counter.

Judging from his appearance, the old shopkeeper was about sixty years old, with a well-proportioned figure, a strong physique, and a kind appearance.

A woman in her thirties, with shabby clothes, was picking and brushing her teeth: "This one, can you count me as cheap?"

She chose a brush with bamboo ponytail.

Daxuan's toothbrush is similar to modern toothbrushes. It is a toothbrush handle with holes punched and hair planted inside.

Toothbrush handles have animal bones and ceramic slices, and the cheapest ones are this kind of bamboo slices.

Toothbrush bristles have horsehair and pig bristles, and the cheapest is this kind of horsetail.

This is the cheapest toothbrush, only ten yuan, but the woman still thinks it is expensive.

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "It's a coincidence that you came today. I just opened my business. This toothbrush is worth six yuan for you."

Six cents?
I'm afraid that even the labor cost is not enough.

The shopkeeper is a kind man.

The woman thanked her repeatedly, gave her the money, took it to brush her teeth, and was about to leave when the shopkeeper made some willow juice for her.

Willow juice is a medicine for wiping teeth, which is equivalent to toothpaste.

The woman waved her hands repeatedly and said, "We can't afford this thing."

The shopkeeper said with a smile: "The first business I opened, I will give it to you."

The woman thanked her a thousand times and left the toothbrush shop. Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward and asked, "Would you like to give it away for the second business?"

"Young master, what do you want to buy?" The shopkeeper still greeted him with a smile on his face.

Xu Zhiqiong took out a firewood stick, put it on the counter, and lowered his voice: "Shopkeeper Qin, I'm here to do business with you."

Qin Changmao touched the firewood stick, called a waiter to watch the counter for him, and brought Xu Zhiqiong to the small room behind the shop.

The hut was very clean. The two sat down in front of the tea table. Qin Changmao held a firewood stick and asked, "Is this something unusual. May I ask you, who gave it to you?"

Xu Zhiqiong said: "This person does not want to disclose his name, and I dare not make claims."

Qin Changmao smiled and didn't ask any more questions. He took out a mask and put it on his face.

"Since I am a member of the same sect, I don't play charades. The name of the old man is Qin Changmao. The common people and the Taoist sect all use this name. I don't know what you call me, brother?"

Xu Zhiqiong also put on a mask: "The name of this junior is Xu Zhiqiong."

"Zhi poor?"

"It's the vault of the sky," Xu Zhiqiong explained, and said, "The name of the junior Taoist sect is called Ma Shangfeng, which means advocating high mountains and peaks."

Master Qin put down the firewood stick and was fiddling with a teeth brush in his hand. It was obvious that he liked his job very much.

"Ma Shangfeng, Judge Ma, I've heard of you. You are well-known in the Criminal Punishment Division. Judge Ma is looking for me today. I don't know why?"

Xu Zhiqiong clasped his fists and said: "I have heard that Master Qin is generous and righteous, and this junior is a newcomer to the eighth rank. I want to punish evil together with Master Qin and earn more meritorious service."

Qin Changmao shook his head and said: "This is difficult, we may not be the same way."

Xu Zhiqiong's heart sank, and he thought about it carefully.

Judging from Lu Yanyou's description and his attitude towards women, he is an upright and kind-hearted person. An upright person is noble, and he mentions meritorious deeds as soon as he comes up. I'm afraid it's a bit vulgar.

Besides, I only need to complete three missions, so it doesn't matter how much I have achieved.

Xu Zhiqiong saluted again: "When I was a junior, I made a slip of the tongue. I worked with Master Qin, but I only wanted to punish the evil and get rid of the evil. Don't ask about meritorious deeds."

Qin Changmao sighed: "The difference is even further. If Judge Ma is willing to work with Qin, he will not dare to say much about his merits, but he will never owe you. But if it is about punishing evil and eliminating evil, the duty of the Taoist school is naturally not enough." Change, but you and I have different means, with your past actions, I am afraid..."

In the middle of speaking, the toothbrush in Qin Changmao's hand suddenly broke.

"Not good!" Qin Changmao got up and said, "Judge Ma, if you sincerely work with Qin, you can go with Qin."

Xu Zhiqiong didn't ask any more questions, and followed Qin Changmao out the door.

Qin Changmao took out a mirror and took a picture of himself. Between the interlacing of light and shadow, he entered a state of invisibility.

If you guessed correctly, Lu Yanyou also used this method. Could it be that this is a compulsory course for eighth-rank judges?
Qin Changmao took another photo of Xu Zhiqiong, and Xu Zhiqiong also disappeared.

Xu Zhiqiong tentatively asked, "Is this Master Qin's innate skill?"

He wanted to see if Qin Changmao was willing to tell the truth.

"Forget it, it doesn't count," Qin Changmao said, "My innate skills are divided into yin and yang. When I entered the product, I was able to use yin and yang skillfully. Many yin and yang techniques were self-taught. A lot of skills, this mirror is a magic weapon I made myself."

A magic weapon you made yourself?
Xu Zhiqiong asked again: "I have seen such a magic weapon at another fellow disciple."

"You mean Lu Yanyou, right? This mirror originally had two sides. Back then, I owed him a favor, so I gave one of them to him."

Whether this statement is true or not, you can find Lu Yanyou to verify it in the future.

If this is true, Qin Changmao revealed his innate skills as soon as he opened his mouth, which proves that this person really has no intentions.

The judge walked quickly, and while speaking, the two of them had already walked two streets and entered an alley.

There is a small courtyard in the alley, which is very eye-catching.

There are two houses in the small courtyard, one is the main house and the other is the warehouse. The reason why it is said to be eye-catching is that the roof tiles are incomplete and the surrounding walls are cracked. It is difficult to find such a dilapidated house near Xiji.

There were bursts of shouting and cursing in the house, and Xu Zhiqiong followed Qin Changmao into the door quietly.

The woman who just bought teeth brushes was sitting on the ground with scars all over her face and a child in her arms.

A man pointed at the woman and was yelling and scolding: "I'm so busy inside and out. Is it easy to work hard for this family? I ask you for two dollars, and you show me this face, I am so special!" So I treat you too well and make you sick!"

The woman sobbed, "I gave you all the money, and the whole family is really gone."

"Fart!" The man stepped forward and kicked the woman a few more times, "The day before yesterday, someone asked you to do knitting and gave you more than [-] cash. Where did the money go? Did you raise a wild man?"

The woman protected the child and said: "You let you gamble with that money last night, don't you remember?"

"I, I," the man smacked his lips and said, "I'm also doing it for this family? Why don't you accept it? I work hard all day, how much money do I get? I'll ask you if I will give it today!"

The woman cried: "You can beat me to death, I really have no money."

"I let you have no money!" The man grabbed the woman's hair like crazy, and crazily tore it.

The seven or eight-year-old child in his arms hugged his mother and cried, "Don't beat mother, Daddy, don't beat mother."

"Go away!" The man kicked the child away, and then beat the woman.

The man had two inch three horns on his head. Xu Zhiqiong looked at Qin Changmao to see when he would make a move.

Qin Changmao looked nervous. What he was looking at was not the man, nor the beaten mother and child, but the back of the man.

What are you looking at?

Xu Zhiqiong watched carefully with the pupil of crime, but he didn't see any clues, but he vaguely felt a murderous aura.

There is someone behind that man!
The real intangible art of incarnation cannot be seen with the pupil of sin.

There is a judge behind the man.

At this moment, Qin Changmao was watching the invisible judge.

Until the murderous aura slowly disappeared, Qin Changmao finally let out a sigh of relief.

The man was still beating the woman, Qin Changmao took out a bronze medal, held it in his hand, and said silently: "That's your wife, that's your son, how can you do it!"

After reading it silently several times, the man seemed to have a sense, stopped his hands, and walked out of the house cursing, leaving his wife and children crying in the house.

Qin Changmao wiped the sweat from his chin, and left quietly with Xu Zhiqiong.

After returning to the toothbrush shop, Xu Zhiqiong asked, "In that crappy house just now, there was a fellow student, right?"

Qin Changmao nodded and said: "It's a fellow of the sixth grade. I can't see him, but I can smell the murderous aura. There is no limit to killing Zhonglang. If we go one step too late, that person's life is gone. gone."

Bapin's business is really difficult, not only to guard against peers, but also to guard against killing Zhonglang.

"Master Qin, Suo Mingzhong Lang is the sixth grade, why did he retreat on his own just now? Could it be that we are afraid that we will fail?"

Qin Changmao shook his head and said: "It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that I'm giving this old man some shame. I have some reputation among my fellow disciples, not to mention that there's an old bookmark on the crime."

Xu Zhiqiong said: "I don't know what method Master Qin wants to use to kill that villain?"

"The villain you are talking about is that man."

"Exactly."

Qin Changmao said silently for a long time: "But he said that we are not the same kind of people. I never thought of killing him. I wanted to save him."

"Save him?" Xu Zhiqiong stared at Qin Changmao with rounded eyes.

"Yes, save him," Qin Changmao nodded, "Your reputation is punishing the evil one, and my reputation is rewarding the good one."

Rewarding the good department?
There is a road from the Department of Punishment, which leads directly to the Department of Rewarding Goodness. Xu Zhiqiong knows this place, but he knows nothing about the Department of Rewarding Goodness.

Xu Zhiqiong stared at Qin Changmao and asked, "Why did you save this man?"

Qin Changmao said: "Because he is a person, he is a life."

This is justified.

When Xu Zhiqiong heard this, his stomach rolled.

He knows this is a good guy.

But after hearing this, it was like drinking a large jar of honey in one breath.

I feel so disgusting from the bottom of my heart.

But he still has to listen patiently: "Master Qin, please ask me, how do you plan to save him?"

　Some readers asked about the Confucian skill system, and I will answer it later in this chapter.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)