I have a weird dynasty

Chapter 218: Devil's Department (asking for monthly ticket)
As soon as Sangque came in and had half a day off, the waiter's eyes lit up, and then he pretended to wipe the table and clean, pretending not to know him.

Yu Da was also very happy to see Sang Que come back, but he asked Sang Que if she brought back local specialties. Sang Que spread his hands in embarrassment.

She only had seven copper coins left in Tianliang City. She couldn't even afford a bowl of meat soup, so how could she bring back any local specialties?

Yu Da had been busy all morning and just had lunch. Sang Que chatted with him and said that the city was no different from usual during this period. Occasionally some strange things happened, but they were discovered and solved in time. Things like the gambler's crime had never happened again.

This was mainly because after the gambling incident, Cui Cheng reorganized all the day messengers in the city. During this period, the day messengers were very efficient and the city became more stable.

After having dinner with Yu Da, Sang Que went with Yu Da to visit Grandma Zhuang.

Granny Zhuang did have symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. She was in a daze, sitting there talking nonsense, muttering the names of some strange cases that Sang Que had never heard of. Yu Da said that those were all things that happened in the city in previous years, and perhaps apart from Granny Zhuang, not many people remembered them.

During this period, Wei Ziyan has been taking care of Grandma Zhuang. She usually takes care of sacrificial matters in Gongcaoyuan and is not particularly busy.

Since the beginning of this year, Wei Ziyan has been slowly taking over the files that were previously managed by Granny Zhuang. There will be no problem for her to officially take over next year. However, she is not Granny Zhuang and does not have such a good memory, so she still needs to find two people to help her.

Wei Ziyan usually stays at home and rarely interacts with others. Today is only the third time Sang Que has seen her.

After helping to chop firewood and sweep the snow at Grandma Zhuang's house, Sang Que and Yu Da prepared to say goodbye.

At this time, Grandma Zhuang, who was supposed to go to rest, suddenly rushed out of the house, stubbornly grabbed the door frame, shook her head and shouted.

"I won't sleep. If I fall asleep, I won't be able to get up. My son is back. He has come back to see me. I have to wait for him. I won't sleep!"

Seeing this, Wei Ziyan sighed helplessly, "Mother-in-law makes this fuss every day. She hasn't closed her eyes for two days. She has been holding on and refusing to sleep, waiting for her son to come back. Two days ago, she even treated Kou Er as her son and held Kou Er's hand before she fell asleep."

Kou Er is Kou Yushan. He has an older sister and is the second child in the family.

Wei Ziyan continued, "But grandma would wake up from nightmares before she could sleep for half an hour. She usually deals with a lot of strange case files, and she has a very good memory, so she often has nightmares. She has relied on tranquilizing soup to fall asleep over the years. I'm afraid that she has become like this now because of an overdose of tranquilizing soup."

All medicines are poisonous. Perhaps this is the price Granny Zhuang has to pay for her extraordinary memory.

As dusk approached, Sang Que and Yu Da separated at the street corner, and Yu Da had to continue patrolling the streets.

Sang Que returned to the courtyard where he lived and waited for Hua Qianmian to come.

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At that time, the Evil Suppression Division was deep underground.

He Buning walked down the stairs one by one. It was dark all around him. Only the torches on the stone walls illuminated a small area. The biting cold and depressing atmosphere made him feel as if he had entered the deep netherworld.

Walking to the deepest part of the ground, He Buning saw two stone doors in front of him. Various hideous evil spirits were carved on the stone doors. They looked lifelike and seemed to be twisting and struggling under the flickering firelight, which was chilling.

"Why don't you gather the night patrol captain and see General Cao?"

He Bu Ning shouted loudly outside the stone gate, but the echo faded away and gradually became distorted, like a ghost's cry.

After a while, the stone door opened from the inside. The one who opened the door was a jailer from the Evil Ghost Department, with a bloody word "slave" on his right cheek.

Most of the people who serve as jailers in the Evil Ghost Department are death row prisoners from all over the country. They are branded as ghost slaves by General Cao and have to spend their entire lives underground.

If the seal of any evil spirit is loosened, they will be the first to be killed.

He Buning walked in. There were prisons on both sides of the damp road. The pillars of the prisons were mainly made of lightning-struck wood with runes painted on them, and the ground and walls were made of large pieces of Tokachi stone.

There was a jailer guarding the door of each cell. The jailers had pale faces and looked lifeless. If they were not breathing, they would be no different from dead people. There were different things placed in the cell, including broken wine jars, hoes for tilling the land, dressing tables with talismans pasted on them, and blood-stained swaddling clothes with the cries of babies coming out.

Why not just lower your eyes, not daring to look or listen too much, and walk quickly towards the depths.

The underground of the Evil Ghost Department is in the shape of the Bagua, and every layout is carefully considered. When you walk to the center, you will see a desk lying across the intersection of several roads.

A middle-aged man wearing a scholar's robe and with a goatee was holding a candle in one hand and a brush in the other, splashing ink on paper, painting and writing poetry.

It looks normal at first glance, but if you look closely, you will find that a pale hand reaches out from the darkness, grabbing the middle-aged man's wrist to paint.

A large amount of discarded drawing paper was scattered on the ground, and the figures drawn on them with ink turned their heads, revealing terrifying faces, and looked at He Bu Ning.

That was the Yin-Zou general guarding Qinzhou, Cao Huiyuan. General was just a position and he was a scholar. Huiyuan was not his real name, but the title he got when he ranked first in the imperial examination that year. Since then, he has been called Cao Huiyuan.

Ever since the battle in Fengning City, when he failed to imprison the Yin Tong and was seriously injured, he fell from the sixth floor to the fifth floor and has been staying in the Evil Ghost Department ever since.

He can suppress the ghosts in the Evil Ghost Department, and the aura of these ghosts can also suppress the ghosts he controls, preventing him from being retaliated and killed.

His heart lamp and level have not yet reached balance, and he needs to continue drawing incense from the incense holders on the day and night tours.

In the Xiesi of Wangshan Town, only He Buning and Cui Cheng knew about this matter.

"General Cao, the year-end tour of the state has ended..."

He Buning briefly told Cao Huiyuan what happened during the inspection.

Cao Huiyuan was painting the whole time. When he heard that the ghost eye in Tianliang City was lost, his hand trembled and the painting was completely ruined.

He raised his head and looked at He Buning, "Have you seen Yin Tong?"

He Bu Ning's expression remained unchanged, "No."

Cao Huiyuan put down his pen. He had the authority to know about Yin Tong's affairs, so he knew things that He Bu Ning did not know.

Now he suspected that Yin Tong had been brought back by the barbarians of Yunzhou. The two ghost eyes were enough for Yin Tong to return to the fourth level. It would be difficult to catch her again after that.

Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. He Bu Ning had just returned from patrolling the state. Cao Huiyuan did not reprimand him, but only instructed, "Tomorrow there will be a New Year's Eve ceremony. Remember to check the four city gates to make sure everything is in order."

There are special Bagua mirrors on the four gates of Wangshan City. Although they cannot prevent evil people from entering and leaving, they can prevent evil spirits wandering outside from entering the city.

Cao Huiyuan and He Buning asked and answered each other about the details of the tour of the state, and He Buning took his leave.

Before leaving, He Buning saw the coffin containing the gambler, which was placed in a nearby prison.

Before, he thought that the detention process was too smooth and he always felt that something was wrong. Now that he knew that Sang Que was controlling Yin Tong, he no longer felt it was strange.

After leaving the Evil Ghost Department, the warm winter sun outside dispelled the coldness underground. He Bu Ning did not rest either, but went on to inspect the four city gates without stopping.

He didn't know whether Sang Mulan had returned or not. If she couldn't make it to New Year's Eve, he would bring Xia Chan to live with him this year to stay up with him and Xiaowu and Xiaoliu.

(End of this chapter)