I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 115: Wangshan City (April monthly ticket 4 plus more)

Sang Que teleported away from the bandit camp and searched for Kou Yushan and Xia Chan along the woods.

On the way, she saw some people who had escaped from the bandit camp. They didn't dare to run around in the middle of the night and all hid at the foot of the mountain.

Kou Yushan and Xia Chan were not among them, they must have gotten separated.

Sang Que continued to search forward. She had consumed too much energy that night, and the evil fog had become extremely thin and could not support several teleportations.

Fortunately, Sang Que didn't run far before he saw Kou Yushan and Xia Chan. They both ran very quickly and had already reached the place they had agreed on in advance.

Xuanyu and Heilu were at the agreed location, guarding Xia Chan's body under the tree.

Xia Chan reassembled his body, hugged the bamboo basket, and ate the roast chicken brought by Sang Que.

His mouth was so full that he couldn't speak. When he saw Sangque coming back, he just whimpered twice and continued eating, and did not forget to give Kou Yushan a chicken leg.

After eating and drinking, Xia Chan regained her strength and used her hair to circle a space between three trees. They built a small fire and planned to spend the night in the forest and set off again at daybreak.

It is only half a day’s journey from here to the next post station. After that post station, you will reach Wangshan City.

Sang Que asked Yin Tong to sit on the tree to scare away the evil spirits around. Xuan Yu was also on the tree, trying to make friends with Yin Tong, and at the same time alerting He Buning and the other three who were coming this way. After all, they had to go this way to get out of Ziyun Mountain.

After Xia Chan had eaten and drunk his fill, he took a nap on Sang Que's legs. Sang Que and Kou Yushan had a brief conversation about the situation.

Kou Yushan didn't ask how Sang Que got there. In fact, Kou Yushan was aware of many things about Sang Que, but he never asked more questions.

"...The second in command of the bandit camp is Jiuge's bell doctor?"

Sang Que was a little surprised when he heard what Kou Yushan said.

Kou Yushan pondered, "I heard those bandits mention it when they were chatting, but I guess that bell doctor is a fake. Jiuge's bell doctors are dedicated to saving the world. Anyway, I have never heard of Jiuge's bell doctors doing bad things."

Sang Que nodded, "It could be fake. When we get to the post station tomorrow, do you have any money on you?"

Speaking of this, Kou Yushan looked a little strange, and reached into his arms, "All the money I had was taken away by the bandits, but..."

Kou Yushan took out a purse and after opening it, he found a crudely crafted gold bar and two ingots of five taels of silver.

"What I stole from the bandits is enough for us to buy a yard in Wangshan City and pay various taxes for the first year."

Sang Que laughed, "As expected, robbing is the fastest way to make money. So what do you want to do after you arrive in Wangshan City?"

Kou Yushan said, "I have lived to this age and have come to realize that it is useless to hide from evil spirits and strange things all day long. If you are destined to find you, you will not be able to escape. If you want to live well, you still have to have the ability to deal with evil spirits yourself, so I want to join the Evil Suppression Division."

"Actually, I went to Wangshan City with the intention of joining the Evil Suppression Division." Sang Que had never formally told Kou Yushan about this before.

Kou Yushan glanced at Sang Que and nodded slightly, "That's right. Now that the Wu Temple has been abolished, it's impossible for you to be a temple priest like your mother. It's good to join the Evil Suppression Division. Maybe one day you can rise to a high position and restore the Wu Temple."

Sang Que didn't respond. She had never thought about this matter at all, but she didn't want to ruin Kou Yushan's expectations. After all, he really believed in Queen Wu.

"By the way, your household registration document has been with me all this time. The bandits didn't care about it, so they didn't take it away. I'm giving it to you now. You need to register to enter Wangshan City."

Kou Yushan took out a thin piece of paper from the lining inside his lapel, on which was stamped the seal of the Dongyang County Government.

Sang Que has been able to recognize many traditional Chinese characters under his mother's training, and was a little stunned after reading them.

"Here is ..."

Kou Yushan explained, "Your mother asked me to protect you and not to reveal that you are her daughter, so I used the money you gave me to bribe the people in the Dongyang County government. You are now Sang Mulan, an orphan who grew up in Dongyang County and whose parents have passed away."

"Your age has also been changed to one year older, to seventeen. Remember, if you don't get married by seventeen, you will have to pay an extra head tax. But there is nothing we can do about it. You are tall, so changing your age to a younger one won't be appropriate."

"Thank you." Sang Que put away the documents. She didn't expect Kou Yushan to be so thoughtful.

It was not known whether this forest had been cleared by the people from the bandit camp, but Sangque and his companions spent the night peacefully.

The next day, when it was just getting light, they started walking towards the official road.

Xia Chan rode a donkey holding Xuan Yu, while Sang Que and Kou Yushan walked, and they arrived at the post station just after noon.

Sang Que was more cautious, fearing that He Buning would investigate her identity, so she did not show up, and asked Kou Yushan to take Xia Chan in to ask for two rooms, and then she teleported back to the house. In the afternoon, other people who escaped from the bandit camp arrived at the post station one after another, and the number of people was reduced by half. They began to cry as soon as they entered the yard of the post station.

At dusk, He Buning arrived with Xiaowu and Xiaoliu. Xiaoliu really began to ask those who had escaped whether they had seen a ghost walking.

Kou Yushan and Xia Chan were also questioned. Xiao Liu actually remembered them both. After revealing his identity, he asked some irrelevant questions and seemed to pay special attention to Xia Chan.

He Buning, Xiaowu and Xiaoliu just replenished their water and food and left without staying overnight.

The next morning, Sang Que asked Kou Yushan and Xia Chan to follow the others to Wangshan City. She did not show up, but followed behind them.

The group rode non-stop and arrived outside Wangshan City in the evening.

Wangshan City is located between two mountains, dividing the dragon-like Qianyue Mountains into Dongyue and Xiyue. It is the gateway to the entire Qinzhou hinterland. To enter or exit Qinzhou, one can only pass through Wangshan City.

Even though he has watched video footage of ancient cities from various dynasties in modern times, Sangque is still shocked by the grandeur and vastness of this magnificent ancient city.

The tall city walls are built of huge stone slabs, which are stacked one upon another, giving people a sense of heaviness and solidity. The stone carvings around the city gates are exquisite, and guards holding spears stand on both sides of the city gates, giving people a sense of majesty and solemnity that no one dares to offend.

People entering the city lined up in an orderly manner, as if they could feel the majestic aura of the ancient city, and they all lowered their voices involuntarily.

Registration is required to enter the city. Sang Que was afraid that the contact outside Tangyuan County during the last Ghost Festival would make He Buning and others suspect that she was the one in the bandit camp, so she did not enter the city with Kou Yushan and others.

Originally, Sang Que wanted to use the ability of teleportation to sneak into the city, but there was a giant Bagua bronze mirror hanging on the south gate of Wangshan City that looked very tough. Sang Que estimated that the thing must have the ability to restrain evil spirits.

She secretly ran to the city wall where no one was paying attention, and tried to infiltrate it with the evil fog. As long as the evil fog could penetrate it, she could go straight through the wall into the city.

But as soon as her evil mist touched the city wall, red runes slowly emerged on many of the stones, and Sangque's evil mist was like hitting a solid wall.

Not every one of these stones has runes on it, but there is one engraved with runes every seven or eight stones. The stone slabs are dark red in color with some black crystals mixed in them.

What else besides cinnabar?
Sang Que stood under the city wall and laughed at his own stupidity. It was the safest place in the entire Qinzhou, so how could it be easily invaded by evil means?

In desperation, she had to let Kou Yushan and Xia Chan take the donkey into the city first. She planned to go home and enter the city again after a day.

During this period, let Kou Yushan find a place to stay first. When he is free, he can help inquire about the recruitment of new members for the Xiazhenxie Division.

Outside Wangshan City, Sang Que, holding Xuanyu, hid under the shade of a tree. After watching Kou Yushan and Xia Chan successfully pass the inspection and enter, she breathed a sigh of relief. She was afraid that Xia Chan was a ghost and would be discovered. But it seems that there is no problem at the moment.

"Come on Xuanyu, let's go to the woods and cut some branches and make a simple door for ourselves to go home."

*
At night, Wangshan City was under curfew, and the streets were empty except for the night watchmen and patrolling officers from the Suppression of Evils Bureau.

Why not settle down in the backyard of the Evil Suppression Division?

Xiaoliu came back from outside with the documents for entering the city today in his hand.

"Boss, I checked. Kou Yushan and Xia Chan have already entered the city. There is no one named Sang Mulan."

He Buning sat at the desk and pinched his brows. He didn't know why, but when he saw Kou Yushan at the post station, he immediately thought of the girl he met outside Tangyuan County on the night of the Ghost Festival.

She can easily defeat Xiaowu and Xiaoliu by herself, so the possibility that she is the one in the bandit camp is very high.

But yesterday at the post station, Xiao Liu asked Kou Yushan and other people traveling with him, and none of them had seen Sang Mulan.

The name Sang Mulan was suggested by Kou Yushan. She was seventeen years old and from Dongyang County, not Heishan Village, so the age didn't match.

During this period of time, He Buning has been asking Dongyang County to count the survivors of the ghost theater sacrifice incident, especially the sixteen-year-old girls. Now he is waiting for the news from Dongyang County.

However, the girl next to Kou Yushan that Xiaoliu saw yesterday was of the right age.

Thinking of that silly and mentally retarded girl, He Buning felt inexplicably irritated and his chest ached.

"The Evil Suppression Division will recruit people in a few days. You two can go and see if there are any good candidates. We have too few people in the Night Tour Team and need more."

When this was mentioned, Xiaoliu and Xiaowu both looked embarrassed. They had a lot of grievances that they couldn't express, but they didn't dare to say them.

　There will still be no update at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. See you tomorrow~
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