Zuodao Changsheng: I can transfer the price

Chapter 101 The Palace in the Lake (4k Subscription)
"Hurry up! Hurry up! Hurry up! Lao Yang, isn't your daughter-in-law sick? Why don't you go home and soak some steamed buns in human blood to treat her illness!"

"What's the hurry, if you can't get it today, won't there be a batch of beheads tomorrow?"

"Today is different. Today, the heads of scholars were chopped off! Soaked the steamed buns with their blood, maybe the child born to your daughter-in-law will also become an official!"

"What?! You didn't say it earlier!"

Seeing the two people rushing home, the Bodhisattva stopped kneeling, and Amitabha didn't bother to shout anymore. It seemed that the steamed bun made of human blood was more important.

The crowd suddenly surged up and ran towards one direction. Lin Shou was surrounded by the crowd, but he didn't resist and went towards the so-called beheading place in the vegetable market.

At Caishikou, there were more than a dozen soldiers holding long guns in two groups.

In the middle of the vegetable market, several strong men in red military uniforms, fat heads and big ears, were holding a ring-headed machete in their hands.

I saw those strong men picked up the wine jar on the side and poured it into their mouths, then spit on their machetes with a puff, took out some old rags and wiped them on the knife.

Followed by a group of menacing officers and soldiers in armor, over a dozen prisoners in shackles and tattered prison uniforms, their faces were dead silent.

In the end, there were several carts parked beside them, with bundles of blood-stained thatch beside them. It seemed that they were carts used to transport corpses.

The people gathered one after another and surrounded the inner three floors and the outer three floors, not only ordinary people watching the excitement, but also peddlers and even beggars, while those rich people were chilling in the teahouses on both sides of the vegetable market with fans. Watching coldly.

Lin Shou followed the crowd to a place near the entrance of the vegetable market, holding oranges in his arms, and Ah Liang stood beside him.

But at this moment, A Liang frowned, and said to Lin Shou: "Master, this is wrong. This place is obviously a place of execution for many years, but there is no evil spirit here! How strange!"

Lin Shou raised his brows, twisted out a formula in his hand, and then it passed in front of his eyes.

After a faint light flashed, Lin Shou could also see the evil spirit in this vegetable market.

The situation was no different from what A Liang said. Judging by the degree of dried blood on the ground, this place should have been an old execution ground for many years, but there was no evil spirit.

On the contrary, the place where the evil spirit is the strongest is actually the executioner's body.

Lin Shou nodded slightly, and casually grabbed a bystander nearby and asked, "Brother, how many years has this place been used as an execution ground?"

The passer-by seemed to be a waiter in a restaurant, about forty years old, and was caught by Lin Shou and wanted to be angry, but he found Lin Shou had a handsome face.

Being able to stay in this area of ​​the capital is so handsome, rich or expensive, the man immediately suppressed his anger and said: "Where do I know this, anyway, this place has been used as a execution ground since I was born."

At this moment, there was another commotion at the entrance of the vegetable market ahead.

"Damn it, are the steamed buns ready? They're about to be chopped!"

"Ready!"

"I heard that one of the beheaded was an official who failed to fight in Suzhou Province and escaped with thousands of people. Instead, his county town was lost."

"Then you mean this official is a scholar?"

"That's for sure. It's not like how can a military general become an official if he doesn't study? What's more, even the Taizu of Daqian advocated military generals to study!"

"Isn't it true that this official's blood steamed bun can not only cure diseases, but also make a scholar in the family?"

"Hey, do you know which prisoner is the official?"

"Hey, you don't know now, the second son of my fourth uncle's third aunt works as a servant in the government, and it is said that the one who holds his head high is an official!"

"Thank you very much, but your brother's family has connections, why are you a beggar?"

"This……"

……

The people below were whispering, and Caishikou was bustling with activity.

The supervisor held a writing brush in his hand, and there was a pot of tea on the table in front of him, and a stern-eyed master hurriedly poured tea for the supervisor.

After drinking tea and tsk-tsk, the supervisor picked up a brush and sketched a little on the booklet in front of him.

Seeing this, the time teller standing by the side shouted at the top of his voice.

"The time has come, behead!"

The executioner twisted his neck with the big knife, and pulled the arm holding the knife, as if it would be convenient for the next beheading.

The prisoners were pressed down by the officers and soldiers with their necks stretched out. Most of them were crying and trembling.

The person whose head was beheaded was trembling all over, and the people below were eager to try it with steamed buns.

Only the prisoner who was identified as an official still held his head high and refused to kneel down. There was no fear of death in his eyes, but he sighed faintly and shouted: "Born at the wrong time, born at the wrong time!"

"Shh!"

"Shh!"

The big knife was swung down one by one, and the bloody round heads rolled down the stage one by one.

There were only headless corpses left on the execution ground, and no matter how much blood there was in life, it turned into a slope of loess at this moment.

Those officers and soldiers who were blocking the common people also stopped blocking at this time, allowing the common people to scramble to take steamed buns and dip the beheaded prisoner's body in human blood.

Seeing this, Lin Shou could only shake his head slowly, and sighed: "The people are stupid and the officials are mediocre. It is really a scene of the end of a dynasty. I don't know whether Mr. Zhong will be able to turn the sky around and give the dynasty a breath of life again." .”

While the common people were scrambling to dip the steamed buns in human blood, Lin Shou felt something was wrong.

"Ah Liang, why didn't these people come to collect their souls when they died?" Lin Shou saw the souls of those dead people floating beside their bodies, refusing to leave for a long time, so he asked, "What on earth is the City God doing in the capital?" Yes, it stands to reason that the incense here should be quite strong."

A Liang looked around and found that there was indeed no black and white impermanence or other ecstasy messengers, and he was also a little puzzled.

"My lord, that's not right, I haven't even felt the aura of city gods belonging to this area! Where did the city gods of the capital go?!"

Ah Liang suddenly felt a little terrified. Small counties like Huashui County with a slightly larger population have city gods. It is impossible for this capital city to have such a large population without city gods?

Hearing this, Lin Shou looked towards the City God's Temple in the capital city with his divine sense, his eyes pierced through countless buildings, and found that the clay statues in the City God's Temple were indeed empty shells, and there were no practitioners of the Way of Incense.

At this moment, Ah Liang suddenly said to Lin Shou: "No, sir, look, those souls and hearts are actually fused together and escaped into the ground!"

Lin Shou frowned slightly, and found that the souls had indeed turned into pure soul power as A Liang said, and the heart essence and blood remaining on the corpses had merged into one piece, and all sank into the ground.

Lin Shou felt that something was wrong, and his consciousness sank into the ground along with the essence and blood, only to find that the entire capital was covered with densely packed tunnels!

It is said to be authentic, but it is actually more like a series of slender pipes, which cannot even accommodate mice.

Obviously, this is not caused by any animal, it is more like manpower or other existences made it under the capital.

"I didn't expect that this capital city is really authentic..." Lin Shou muttered to himself.

Ah Liang looked at his master with some doubts, not understanding what he was talking about.

Seeing that no one can understand his stalk, Lin Shou can only sigh and shake his head.

At this moment, his spiritual consciousness has been divided into thousands of parts along the tunnel, and he has explored the entire tunnel under the capital in an instant.

Lin Shou finally discovered this authentic final destination, which is also the final place where the essence, blood and soul go.

It was a huge lake in the east of the capital. It was hard to imagine that there was such a huge lake in this city.

At the same time, a magnificent palace was built in the center of the lake.

The corners of Lin Shou's mouth curled up, and he said to A Liang who was beside him, "Come on, I know what's wrong."

While A Liang was still in a daze, Lin Shou grabbed A Liang with one hand, and his body jumped into the sky in an instant.

Seeing this, the people on the ground exclaimed in surprise, and some even knelt down on the spot, just like they knelt down to worship Gelaji Bodhisattva back then.

"Honey, come out and see the gods!"

"Amitabha! God bless you!"

"He is a Taoist priest but not a Bodhisattva. What is his name Amitabha?"

"Then what do you think it should be called?"

"..."

……

Ignoring what happened on the ground, Lin Shou had already arrived at the center of the lake.

Lin Shou's body stood empty on top of that magnificent palace, but Lin Shou didn't see anything wrong from this palace. What about the disappearing blood and soul?

Lin Shou rubbed his chin, lowered his head in deep thought, the huge Buddha statue above the palace stood without sorrow or joy, clasped his hands together.

A Liang and Ju Zi are a little confused, why is it strange that Lin Shou came here?
"Master, is there any problem here?" A Liang asked.

Tangerine yawned in Lin Shou's arms, and said, "Is the Taoist priest not comfortable living in the small house at home, and want to occupy this palace? Then meow wants the biggest room!"

A Liang rolled his eyes at Tangerine, his master is not such a superficial person.

Lin Shou didn't see anything abnormal for a while, but you must know that the main hall in the lake is the biggest abnormality.

You must know that the current emperor has been obsessed with Taoism for decades and respects Taoism as the state religion.

Although the Daoist sect didn't pay attention to this, but under the influence of others, the atmosphere of emphasizing Daoism among the people is also very strong.

The government spent a lot of money to build Taoist temples, big and small. Those subordinate sects of Taoist sects are not very good at cultivation, but practitioners who are still very obsessed with the world are willing to give the emperor this face.

And just such an emperor who would rather weaken his national power, but now he doesn't know why he is willing to build such a luxurious palace for a Buddhist sect that has been banned by the Taoist sect.

Lin Shou couldn't help but began to pinch his fingers to calculate, but found that there was no strange result.

It seems that the emperor changed his attitude and wanted to fall into the embrace of Buddhism.

Although Taoism prohibits the large-scale spread of Buddhism in China, it does not prohibit personal practice.

After all, when you go to the Taoist sect, you don't even care about the monks who sacrifice to evil gods to gain cultivation. It's okay if there are monks in the Buddhist sect as long as they don't preach.

In the past, Lin Shou still had some doubts about this. With the improvement of his cultivation and his contact with [Mythology], it seems that the Taoist sect needs more high-level monks to step on the [Long Stage of Ascension to God].

Although I don't know what the purpose is, I hope that there will be more gods, or [myths], which is what Taoism expects.

And the disappearance of those souls and blood essence, and the strange phenomenon that there is no city god in the capital, Lin Shou still made a note of this matter.

"Hmph, these guys hide their heads and show their tails. They don't look like poor people who are dignified. Aren't poor people just heretics?" Lin Shou supported his forehead and slowly fell down.

Back in those bustling parts of the capital, Lin Shou found a decent-looking inn to rest.

Zhong Yunyi originally wanted to keep Lin Shou to rest at his residence.

But Lin Shou was not very interested in the intrigues in the court, he just wanted to find a quiet place to experience the style of the capital.

After finding a place to live, Lin Shou was going to taste the difference between the food in the capital and other places.

It's best to buy some white paper along the way. After all, the paper figurines you make can transfer the cost of casting spells, and you can't have too many of them at any time.

It was already noon now, and the closer the restaurants and restaurants were, the busier the place would be.

When he came to a restaurant that was as lively as the beheading at the entrance of the vegetable market, a guy in front of the door was yelling hard. His voice was able to overwhelm the entire crowd in front of the door. It seemed that he had to shout all day.

This made Lin Shou a little surprised. You must know that this guy is just an ordinary person, and ordinary people can't be so hoarse after calling him all day long.

This restaurant has six floors, and in terms of appearance alone, it is not comparable to Lao Liang's humble tea shop.

Lin Shou followed the crowd and walked towards the interior of the restaurant together.

But the people who walked with Lin Shou were all dressed in rich and noble clothes, and Lin Shou was naturally conspicuous in his tattered and patched clothes.

The guy yelling at the door obviously saw Lin Shou, and instinctively thought that Lin Shou was a beggar, and wanted to drive him out. After a closer look, he found that the tattered clothes Lin Shou was wearing were actually a Taoist robe , In the end, he still didn't make any move to drive people away.

Lin Shou noticed this detail, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

Unexpectedly, the emperor has practiced Taoism for decades, and there are such benefits in respecting Taoism.

Lin Shou found a table by the window and sat down on his own. Although the clerk in the shop felt a little guilty about why the doorkeeper let a beggar in.

But the act of driving people away in public was not very good after all, so he came over with a smile and asked, "What does the priest want to eat?"

Lin Shou smiled and said, "Serve all the famous dishes here."

The clerk thought that Lin Shou was here to eat Bawang's meal, and said with a smirk: "Master Daoist, we don't accept credit here, do you want to stop thinking about it?"

At this moment, a voice that was somewhat familiar to Lin Shou came.

"You just go and urge the back chef to serve the dishes, I will pay for the dishes on the table!"

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