Daxia Lingxian

Chapter 17 Collusion (Part [-])
The Town God's Temple in the north of Tuo County is very lively during the day and is the bustling place in the city.

But at night, it was very gloomy, and there were no tourists. Only two strings of blood-red lanterns were left hanging at the entrance of the temple, with four big characters: Tuo County Town God.

The couplets on the pillars are:
"The eyes of the gods are like electricity, and evil will surely appear. I know that the dark room is guilty."

This is the City God's Yamen, which is in charge of the affairs of the Yin Division in this county.

The Daxia Dynasty implemented two sets of bureaucratic systems, yin and yang, with yang officials as the main and yin officials as supplementary.

Yang officials are under the jurisdiction of the cabinet, and the emperor is in charge.

Yin officials are under the jurisdiction of Taimiao, and the first emperor took charge.

The government affairs of the 60 people in Tuo County, such as tax and taxation, public security education, water conservancy, farming and mulberry, criminal name business and trade, are in charge of the county government.

However, mysterious and gloomy things such as ghosts and evil spirits, bad luck and disasters, fate and longevity, and good fortune and karma are all handled by the city god Xuanqian.

Each person's life span, karma and blessings, even if they are not fixed by iron, the spiritual officer can't change anything, it has very little effect on this, and what they can do is actually very limited.

However, the Celestial Dynasty still set up a highly hierarchical and sophisticated spiritual officer system, which is actually mainly used to suppress ghosts and evil spirits, monitor the shadows of ancient gods, and prevent them from rebelling against them.

There is another reason why they don't say it out loud: to suppress speech, intimidate the people, make them feel awe, and understand that there are gods who hold their heads three feet high.

Therefore, although the common people know about the existence of the Lingguan master, very few people have seen the Lingguan master with their own eyes.

This makes Lingguan still a very mysterious existence in the hearts of the people.

According to the system, the Yin Division Lingguan is strictly prohibited from interfering in local government affairs, and it is strictly forbidden to go out of the temple to manifest during the day.It is strictly forbidden to leave the jurisdiction.

The land gods in the countryside, the mountain gods and river gods in the mountains and rivers, and the city gods at all levels in the city are all like this.

Through this kind of prohibition, the spirit officials at all levels are allowed to keep their responsibilities, perform their duties, and be worthy of the incense they enjoy.

But for some reason, the spiritual officials have become more and more slack in recent years.

For example, tonight, Xuanqian, the town god of Tuo County, did not patrol the night to work, but held a banquet in the temple.

The temple is full of ghosts, with gusty winds and shadowy shadows, but it has a majestic and majestic atmosphere.

"Gentlemen have eaten..."

A series of sacrifices containing the power of incense and vows were served by the ghost messengers of the Town God's Temple, and neatly placed on the table of the Eight Immortals under the statue.

"Gentlemen, take it easy... The incense is still hot for today's new offering..."

A ghost messenger with a blue face and blood eyes licked his scarlet tongue and said, its voice was whimpering intermittently like autumn water blowing over bamboo in a cemetery.

At the head of the Eight Immortals table sits a spiritual official in green clothes and black gauze, with a dry face and an eagle nose.

But seeing that although he was high-sounding, he was covered in ghost mist, with the cold and fierce aura of the undead.

It looks like a big ghost, and the illusory body looks no different from the real physical body.

It is the city god who is famous in Tuo County and the county magistrate is courteous, the seventh-rank Lingguan Xuanqian!
Behind him squatted a giant wolf with a head as big as a calf, with teeth as frosty as knives, carrying a terrifying and ferocious aura.

There is also a green-eyed black snake with a thick bowl mouth, entrenched on his statue, swallowing letters.

There is also a gloomy and ominous strange bird that looks like an eagle and a dove, standing silently on the temple beam.

Xuanqian has a banquet tonight.On his left sat an old man in shroud with red lips and long fangs, and on his right sat a "skeleton child" wearing a child's tiger-headed cap.

"Two fellow Taoists, the hospitality is not good enough, it's not a respect." Xuanqian held up a glass of wine and said, "The spiritual wine brewed with Yinde ointment and kind thoughts is very nourishing for the soul and good for yin and longevity."

His voice was gloomy and solid, like a door that had been corroded for many years was slowly pushed open, with stale and muddy thoughts.

If the living hear it, they will definitely have nightmares.

The small-footed ghost who served at the table immediately stepped up her ghostly hooves wearing red embroidered shoes, shuttled among the guests, and persuaded the guests to drink with a ghostly smile.

"Father Shizi, Master Pipa, please."

A group of newly dead ghosts, wearing Mingyi paper skirts, babbled and sang ghostly in His Highness, and played musical instruments with ghostly shadows.

very sad.

The skeleton child giggled, picked up the wine glass and poured it into the mouth of the bone without flesh and blood, the wine penetrated into the bone without a drop falling.

"Good wine." The skeleton child said with a crisp bone voice, "But Taoist Xuanqian misappropriated Yinde ointment and kind thoughts to brew Fushou wine. Isn't the good person's Yin virtue and kind thoughts in vain?"

"Isn't a good person just being a good person in vain, and there is no good reward? Hehe!"

"Master Pipa." The red-lipped and long-toothed old man grinned bloodily, and said sullenly, "Why do you care about these things? Which spiritual official doesn't use evil virtues and good thoughts?"

"With this blessing and longevity wine, I'll just take care of it, it's too much to talk about."

He is a hungry ghost in color, a ghost cultivated with the yin energy of a woman's red pill.

It has a kind of ghostly ability.The woman killed by it will conceive his ghost fetus.If a ghost fetus is born in three days, the woman will die suddenly.

It uses ghost fetuses as blood food and eats its own "children" to practice.

That's why the name of the Dao is called Daddy Shizi.

"Heck!" The skeleton child laughed even more presumptuously, and the sound of bones rubbing against each other filled the hall, making the ghosts "turn their faces off".

Although they were newly dead, they knew at this moment that this skeleton child was a ghost with a background in this county, the Ninth Young Master of the Bone Grave, and his skills were not shallow.

I heard that the Nine Young Masters love to inhale the bone marrow of living people the most, and then use human bones to make a pipa, and their Taoist name is Pipa Boy.

Even the master Xuanqian, when he heard the wild laughter of the skeleton child, his expression became displeased.

"What's so funny?"

Master Pipa stopped laughing, but his tone was particularly gloomy, "How many spiritual officials of the Great Xia Dynasty have a good chat with ghosts like us and call them brothers?"

"If things go on like this, the government will completely collapse, and the world will become more and more miserable, isn't it an opportunity for us to wait?
"From the point of view of the poor, the luck of the Celestial Dynasty is coming to an end soon, hehe."

Although he is a ghost, he claims to be poor.

Xuanqian sneered: "So what? One day in Daxia, the Lingguan is still a Lingguan."

"Besides, how can the Celestial Dynasty really collapse when it is so vast? Hmph, at least there is still a hundred years of national destiny."

Spirit officials and ghosts come and go, of course, it is a crime of collusion between officials and thieves.But if the crime is really punished, then I don't know how many spirit officials will be questioned, and the law does not blame everyone.

But if Xuanqian is really willing to call these ghosts brothers and sisters, then he is wronged.

At heart, he is still an official.Still treat ghosts like Papa Toriko and Master Pipa as thieves!
"The two of you are invited to come here today because there is something that needs your help."

"After the matter is completed, one hundred souls and ten pots of longevity wine will be rewarded."

After hearing this, Father Shizi and Pipa boy put down their wine glasses together.

Xuanqian said: "There is a brother and sister named Luo in this county..."

"...But they have already left Tuo County, and I have a ban on me, so I can't catch them..."

"...The ghost fetus that Luo Li gave birth to belongs to me, and I have other uses. The divorced son-in-law just ate it. His little black dog was originally my pet..."

……

Luo Ning on the carriage suddenly sneezed.

"Who is thinking about me? Xuanqian?" Luo Ning rubbed his nose and looked in the direction of Tuo County.

It has been a day since I left Tuo County.

It stands to reason that he has already left Xuanqian's jurisdiction, but Luo Ning is still restless and dare not be careless.

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