Taming the Demon: A Guide to Raising a Great Sage

Chapter 126 Chapter 125, Yan Tianying, the pill dealer
Shen Lang was shocked, opened his eyes, and gently pushed Chen Yuniang who was curled up in his arms like a kitten:
"Sister Yu, Sister Yu, wake up, Master Mu is calling me."

Chen Yuniang opened her eyes in a daze:
"Fox... Mu Qingxue called you? What's the matter?"

Shen Lang shook his head:
"I don't know, maybe you are looking for me to discuss how to solve the Shark King Gang?"

Chen Yuniang reluctantly left his embrace:
"then you go."

Shen Lang smiled, kissed her lightly on the forehead, got up and went to the door of the secret room, and knocked on the iron door:
"Master Mu, I'm coming in."

"come in."

The iron door opened slowly, and Shen Lang stepped in. As soon as he entered, the iron door slowly closed again, making Chen Yuniang, who was about to look inside, very vigilant:
"Why are you talking behind closed doors? Someone surnamed Mu won't plot against Shen Lang, right?"

I deliberately put my ear to the door to listen to what was said inside, but felt that I was too inferior to lose that person, so annoyed, I started to work hard again, and I just sat in the corridor and practiced "Eight Directions". The breathing method of the seventh-rank realm.

in the secret room.

Shen Lang got used to the dark light inside a little bit, and after seeing Mu Qingxue sitting cross-legged on the futon, his eyes froze:
"Master Mu, your injury..."

After a night of healing, Mu Qingxue's face was still slightly pale, and there was fatigue in the corners of her brows and eyes, and she didn't seem to be recovering.

"You can see it too? That's right, my injury hasn't healed very well."

Mu Qingxue sighed lightly:
"I thought that one night's effort would be enough to dispel the power of the Western demon in my meridians, but I didn't expect that I underestimated it. The power of the demon is not only firmly rooted in my meridians, but can also erode me. The acupoints, absorb my true energy, and constantly strengthen myself...

"I meditated all night, but I can barely suppress it, so that it can no longer erode and expand. If I want to completely remove it, I guess I have to focus on healing for at least half a month."

"It's so troublesome?" Shen Lang frowned and said, "Then shall we continue to stay here and wait for Lord Mu to heal?"

Mu Qingxue shook her head:

"Healing takes too long. We don't have that much time to delay. We must resolve the Shark Island incident as soon as possible, and then go to the South China Sea Sword Sect to arrest Jin Nanfei. Otherwise, if the South China Sea Sword Sect receives the news and destroys the evidence, this trip Even if it’s a waste of time.”

Shen Lang said worriedly:
"My lord, your injury..."

Mu Qingxue smiled slightly:
"It's okay. I have already used a magic talisman, which can delay the onset of the injury. It can be delayed for about nine days. During these nine days, I can fully display my martial arts, and I am not afraid of the power of demons.

"However, nine days later, the power of the demon will explode again, and it will counterattack me with doubled power. Therefore, we must eliminate the Shark King Island and the South Sea Sword Sect within these nine days."

Shen Lang frowned and said:
"Master Mu, Shark King Island has a radius of hundreds of miles, and it is in the three-day storm period. Yesterday was the first day, and the storm will continue for two more days.

"We will not be able to leave the island by boat within these two days. In other words, after the storm subsides, we only have seven days to deal with the South Sea Sword Sect. Is this enough time?"

"Don't worry, there's more than enough time."

Mu Qingxue chuckled, full of confidence:

"Jiange Island, where the South Sea Sword Sect is located, is not far from the Thousand Star Islands. As long as there are experienced sailors to navigate, it is estimated that it will take three or four days to reach Jiange Island.

"Being generous, even if I spend five or six days on the road, I still have enough time to wipe out the South Sea Sword Sect before the injury breaks out.

"And during the two days when the storm continued and the boat was unable to sail, it happened to catch all the pirate leaders who were trapped on Shark Island!"

Seeing that she was so confident, Shen Lang certainly wouldn't sing against her.

After all, she is the third-rank god catcher, and the trainee detective Lang is just an eighth-rank little shrimp whose output depends entirely on muskets and small fish.

Now I only talk about Qu Damu:
"Speaking of the leader of the pirates... Last night, when Mr. Mu was recovering from his wounds, the great pirate Qu Damu sneaked up near Shark King Fort, and talked with me through the air through the spell of his military advisor Ge Qingyun..."

He relayed Ge Qingyun's self-proclaimed subordinate of the Dragon King of the Seven Seas and those self-proclaimed "righteous thieves" and said with a smile:

"Qu Damu was trapped on the island by the storm, and it was difficult to escape. He also knew that the third-rank gods were invincible. Even though the Shark King Island is big, as long as Mu Daren is willing to hunt them down, they can't hide. So come to me to ask for mercy.

"I don't know whether what Ge Qingyun said is true or not, everything depends on Mr. Mu's decision."

Mu Qingyun chuckled lightly:
"A man from the Dragon King of the Seven Seas? He really knows how to use tiger skin as a banner."

Shen Lang raised his eyebrows:
"Is it really using tiger skin as a banner? I was also skeptical at first, but I heard that Ge Qingyun said that they transported food, population, and ammunition to Suiye Island, the Dragon King of the Seven Seas, and they were right, but I was dubious about it..."

Mu Qingxue smiled and said:
"They may indeed be working for the Seven Seas Dragon King, but this does not mean that they are the Seven Seas Dragon King's subordinates.

"It's better to use Ying Guogong's mansion as an example. Guogong's mansion consumes a lot of melons, fruits and vegetables every day. Many vegetable farmers supply goods for Guogong's mansion. Every day before dawn, they will pull carts and bring the freshest seasonal vegetables and vegetables to the mansion. The result was sent to the Duke's mansion.

"This kind of behavior can also be said to be working for the Duke's Mansion, but can those vegetable farmers call themselves members of the Duke's Mansion?"

Shen Lang clapped his hands:
"Understood! Let me tell you why Qu Damu didn't dare to tear the dragon king's tiger skin. It turns out that he is just the supplier of the Seven Seas Dragon King!"

Mu Qingxue said:

"That's right, Qu Damu's gang is just a supplier of the Dragon King of the Seven Seas, they may be able to speak up in front of the Dragon King, but they absolutely dare not pull the Dragon King's tiger skin outside.

"If Jin Yiming forced Qu Damu to take the poisonous pill and was bumped into by the Dragon King, the Dragon King might take a shot.

"But since the Dragon King wasn't there at the time, even if something happened to Qu Damu and he was even killed by Jin Yiming, it's impossible for the Dragon King to make a special trip from Suiye Island in Nanyang to make decisions for Qu Damu."

Shen Lang shook his head and laughed, and asked again:
"Master Mu, have the Naqu Damu gang ever robbed and trafficked human beings?"

Mu Qingxue frowned:
"When I tried to investigate the government of Yingguo through the pirates, I specifically checked the files of the pirates' rebellion.

"The crimes of the Qu Damu gang recorded in the file are mainly smuggling of commercial goods, smuggling of food and arms, recruiting people to go to sea, luring good people into bandits, and plotting wrongdoing. There are also many cases against him for extorting protection fees from passing merchant ships.

"In addition, the county officials of Chenghai County and Ningkang County, two large coastal counties in Yingzhou Prefecture, have written documents to the prefecture after the autumn harvest last year, accusing the Qu Damu gang of looting the countryside, robbing the population, shelling the county seat, and even The warehouse is on fire, the autumn grain is destroyed, and the bank is empty..."

Shen Lang laughed heartily:
"However, Ge Qingyun said that it was the coastal counties who sat and watched them recruit bankrupt refugees, and when they left, they wrote a letter slandering them for plundering the population, bombarding the county town, and burning warehouses. If what Ge Qingyun said is true, then this is the classic "Fire Dragon Burning" The Cang' case has been pushed to the pirates, and there is no way to investigate it!
"However, the chief officials of these two counties are really too courageous. The grain can indeed be burned to ashes, and it can be fooled by saying that the autumn grain is completely destroyed. But how can the silver be completely burned? The key is this According to the saying, how can you pass the test? Could it be that the court is full of fools?"

In fact, when Mu Qingxue checked the files, she also felt that there was something wrong with these two cases.

But what she thought at the time was that maybe pirates invaded the county and emptied the bank.

In order to reduce the responsibility, the county officials said that the bank was burned down.

After all, if it was just being bombarded and burned, the guilt is obviously worse than defending the city. It is much lighter to be attacked by pirates and evacuate the bank.

Besides, these two cases from last year have already been closed.

The person in charge of investigating the case was the Procuratorate of Yingzhou Prefecture, and of course the Procuratorate of Yingzhou Prefecture was the one who closed the case.

The imperial court also issued a reward document for this purpose, hunting down Qu Damu and the main members of his gang.

Those two county magistrates also suffered a lot and were transferred to poor counties in the interior as county magistrates.

By this year, the case had long been ignored.

Qu Damu and his gang, who were wanted with a reward, are still at large and have not been brought to justice.

But now looking at this case from Ge Qingyun's perspective, I realize that there are still tricks hidden in these two cases.

The burning of the warehouse was probably not done by the pirates at all. The pirates were just recruiting refugees and had never touched the county seat.

The so-called autumn grain and money burned by the pirates may have been wiped out long ago. The two county officials are just borrowing the pirates to settle their accounts!

Although the fat vacancy of the coastal county was lost because of this, as long as the deficit was wiped out and the official title was kept, it would be a victory.So what if he was temporarily transferred to a poor county?As long as you have money in your hands and someone in the court, you can make a comeback at any time after the limelight passes.

The most important thing is, just as Shen Lang said: How did the Yingzhou Prefecture Prosecutor's Office, which investigated and handled the case last year, be fooled?According to Mr. Chashi, he was really fooled by his inattention, or...

Thinking of this, Mu Qingxue couldn't help sighing deeply, and murmured:

"Master Yan often said that the Great Chu of today is no longer the scene of revival and vitality as it was at the beginning of Taizu's founding.

"Great Chu, which has been established for more than a hundred years, is like a giant covered in sores. All we can do is to dig out the sores on the giant's body and try our best to maintain its health...

"But no matter how fast we dig the sores, we are still far behind the speed of the giant sores...

"In particular, some abscesses grow on the vital points of the giant's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and even near the head. It cannot be dug or touched, and we can only watch it rot...

"Sooner or later, those abscesses that are constantly eroding and growing will swallow up the increasingly scarce clear water in the court, and even those of us who dig the sores and cure the disease.

"And by that time, the world will be in chaos, and the scene of the previous dynasty and the collapse of previous dynasties will reappear."

Shen Lang was surprised in his heart, he never thought that the number one master in the world, "the leader of the heroes" Yan Tianying, as the number one court eagle dog, would say such words...

Isn't this the end of Curse Dachu?
But think about it, it is precisely because he is the number one master in the world, and because he is the "leader of heroes", that he even dares to wholesale the "Great Chu Pill", right?

[Ask for a ticket~! 】

(End of this chapter)