Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 218 The Rooster
"Oh, oh oh~!"

It was just dawn when a rooster crowed on the roof of the mansion.

But I saw a strong and burly rooster with vermilion feathers standing on the cornice, and it croaked loudly against the early sun.

This cry seemed to be heard throughout Guobei City, awakening people from their sleep.

Li Xiuyuan, who was sitting in the gazebo, woke up when he heard the crowing of the rooster. After he opened his eyes, he subconsciously looked in the direction of the crowing.

When he saw the big rooster standing on the cornice of the roof, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

"It's Thunder God"

This big vermilion rooster is exactly the same as the 99 big roosters that were turned into after God Swallowing Thunder went down to earth that day. The whole body is vermilion, burly and strong, it should be two or three times bigger than ordinary roosters, and its size is close to that of an ostrich. up.

There are some curiosity and doubts in my heart.

After washing up, he asked Lu Bo for a question.

"Lu Bo, when did this rooster in the house appear?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

Lu Bo thought for a while and said: "Back to young master, this rooster should have escaped from young master's study a few days ago. At first, the old slave thought it was a mistake, but later when he was cleaning young master's study, he saw it. The shell of an egg shattered all over the ground, thinking that the rooster hatched from the egg shell, the old servant also found it unbelievable that a rooster could expand so big not long after it hatched, probably due to the Taoist priest’s magical way Let's do it."

"That's it." Li Xiuyuan looked in the direction of the study, and then remembered.

After Thunder God Swallowed Ghosts came down to earth that day, he left behind a scarlet egg.

He didn't know what it was useful for, so he put it in the study as a decoration.

Unexpectedly, within a few days after I left, the egg actually hatched.

Then this rooster should be transformed by the thunder god in the sky, or it should be the descendant of the thunder god.
But can roosters lay eggs?

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but think so strangely.

"By the way, young master, this rooster has been behaving strangely since it appeared, and it doesn't need to be fed or cared for. It slips out every night, and I don't know where it goes, but it will definitely return to the house to crow before dawn. After singing, he dozed off on the roof and couldn't get down no matter how loud he screamed." Lu Bo said.

Li Xiuyuan said; "This is an unusual rooster, you can't treat it as an ordinary rooster, so Lu Bo, you don't need to pay attention to it."

"Old slave understands." Lu Bo nodded.

Li Xiuyuan said again: "I'll go out later to take a look inside the city."

Lu Bo said again: "I'm afraid the city is not peaceful, the young master must remember to bring guards when he goes out. Wu Fei and Xing Shan, the sharpshooter recruited by the young master last time, have also returned from Wangchuan Mountain. The young master can bring them to your side. This way, the old slave can rest assured."

"Understood, I have Lao Lubo." Li Xiuyuan nodded.

After Lu Bo left, he looked at the rooster that had finished crowing on the cornice of the roof, then waved his hands and said, "Is it Thunder God Swallowing Ghosts? If so, fly down for a while."

The big scarlet rooster on the cornice looked at Li Xiuyuan with a flick of its head, then clucked and flapped its wings and flew down from the roof, landed in the courtyard, and then walked towards Li Xiuyuan.

"Ghost Swallowing Lei Gong, what did you leave an avatar here for?" Li Xiuyuan looked at the rooster close at hand and asked.

"Heck, heck."

But the scarlet rooster blinked and looked at him suspiciously with its head tilted.

Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel a little puzzled when he saw the rooster's appearance: "Isn't it Thunder God Swallowing Ghosts?"

The vermilion rooster seemed to be quite intimate with Li Xiuyuan, it just circled around Li Xiuyuan and dozed on the ground from time to time, as if it was not afraid of life at all.

"But no matter how you look at it, it's just an ordinary rooster, and I don't know what it has to do with Thunder God Swallowing Ghosts."

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, it's a pity that this rooster can't speak, and he can't ask why.

But looking at it like this, this rooster is stuck in the house and won't leave.

Forget it, just let the rooster stay in the house, it won't get in the way anyway.

"I'm going out, you can stay here by yourself." Li Xiuyuan shook his head, and did not continue to accompany the rooster.

He took some guards and left the house.

"Wu Fei, you stayed well at Wangchuan Mountain. Why did you come here? You still have a murder case, and the arrest warrant from the government hasn't been withdrawn yet." On the way, Li Xiuyuan said.

Wu Fei touched his bald head and grinned: "I'm tired of staying on the mountain, so I want to walk around, and the master is not worried about the young master staying alone in the city, let the younger one come over to have a look. The water and Guobei City are all flooded, and there is no time for disaster relief, so there is no time to arrest me."

"That's true. By the way, where are Xiaodie and Du Chunhua? Where did they go?" Li Xiuyuan asked again.

Wu Fei said: "The two girls were sent back to the county by the younger one. The water is flooding everywhere and there are dead people. The younger one still thinks it is safer for the two girls to go back to the county. There are many victims on the mountain. What's going on?"

Li Xiuyuan nodded, it would be good to let Xiaodie and Du Chunhua go back to the county, the county is safe, there has been a plague here, so as not to be infected.

"Master, the plague in the city is weird. The whole city was infected overnight. I think this is a bit strange. If it is really a plague, some people will always be infected and some will not be infected. It is impossible." Xing Shan beside him Shen Sheng said.

"You can see it too." Li Xiuyuan said: "I have considered this problem before, so I have to find someone to ask."

A group of people walked in the city.

There are still people in the city during the day.

The streets were bustling with people walking by.

However, the faces of the people are often sick, coughing lightly from time to time, as if they have a cold.

But this symptom is a sign of the disease.

Right now, the time is short and the disease has not yet exploded. After a few more days, the condition will become serious, and there will be dead people everywhere in the city.

On the way to the Town God's Temple, a group of idlers gathered on the street, lazily making jokes and doing nothing.

When they saw Li Xiuyuan and the group, their eyes lit up.

"Brothers, look, isn't that Mr. Li? Dong Li's house? He's back."

"In front of him, he didn't want to pay his wages and ran away, but he dared to come back. We can't spare him this time. We must ask him for our wages back."

"Extremely so."

Although a group of idlers look sick, the wages of ten taels of silver are more important than minor illnesses.

Immediately, a group of people rushed over together and surrounded Li Xiuyuan and others.

"Boss, you really made it easy for us to find you. You didn't pay us the wages you owed us, and you even hid." An idle man said angrily.

"Where did you come from, get out of here, or I'll kill you." Wu Fei grinned, touched his bald head and revealed a grin, exuding a murderous look all over his body.

He was originally an executioner, later became a bandit, and killed the magistrate of Guobei County. He is a vicious person, different from ordinary idlers.

Shocked by this momentum, these idlers immediately panicked and flinched a little.

At this time, Li Xiuyuan waved his hand to signal Wu Fei to retreat, and he said, "Are you the short-term workers I hired during the disaster relief?"

"Exactly, the master has a good memory. We were assigned to the master's job before. We have been busy for several days, but we haven't received a penny of wages. How can there be such a reason in the world? If the master doesn't pay wages today, we I won’t let my master go away.” Although the idle man panicked, he regained his courage when facing the kind Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "It was true that you worked hard for the disaster relief some time ago, but the wages are as agreed before. The month is settled, and now one month has not yet arrived, and there are still ten days. It is not appropriate for you to ask us for wages. , I, Li Xiuyuan, will never renege on my debts, and you can't violate the construction schedule and ask for wages in advance, and now you are still hired by my Li family to work for my Li family, do you want to betray the master?"

"What, what betrayal of the master, master don't want to talk nonsense." The idle man's face turned red immediately, and he said with shame: "I, we are just afraid that the master will run away again, and next time we won't even find anyone."

Most people in ancient times were very loyal, especially the idlers in the market.

If you are hired, you have to do something, and you will feel guilty if you don't do it well, let alone Li Xiuyuan mentioned betraying the master.

If this spreads, no one will be willing to deal with this kind of person in the future, and even his accomplices will look down on this kind of person.

Li Xiuyuan said: "How could I run away? My Li family is in Guobei County. If you can't get your wages within a month, you can go to the county to find me. My Li family is also a person who wants face. How can I be short of you?" Pay taels, now you can step aside, I have other things to do, by the way, you can also inform other people, come to my Li residence in ten days to pay wages, ten taels per person, no deductions will be made."

"Boss, are you serious?" The other men became a little excited again.

They didn't think about asking for wages at first, they just wanted to stop Li Xiuyuan from begging for some money.

"I'm a scholar, how could I tell lies? A scholar with bad morals can't even be an official. How could I make fun of my own future?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"Okay, then let's trust the boss one more time. If the boss doesn't take the money, don't blame us for being immoral." The leader of the idle man gritted his teeth and let his companion get out of the way.

Li Xiuyuan walked over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, the money will not be short of you. This time I came back to the city to cure the plague. Since you are still part-time workers of my Li family, I will give you money now." An errand, to spread the news, so that the people in the city don't despair, I have a way to cure the plague, just wait a few days, and good news will come."

(End of this chapter)