Chapter Forty-Six: A Trip Through the Countryside
When Bu'an returned to his lodgings, it was already light.
He slept until noon, when he was woken up by Su Su's screams.
"Childe, what do you think is going on?" Su Su handed over a ball of paper.
Bu An caught it in a daze, and found that the paper ball was sinking terribly, and when he opened it, he saw that there was actually a gold ingot inside! He suddenly fell asleep, and exclaimed: "Who brought it?"
Su Su saw the bright gold, and also knew that it was a very valuable thing, smiled on his face, pointed to the only window in the house, the perennial disrepair of the gap, said: "It's under the window, it looks like someone has stuffed it in through that hole!
Bu'an spread out the ball of paper that was used to wrap the gold collar and saw the scribbled handwriting on itβnot in vain to hear your story, XVII.
"It's that crazy girl, right? Bu An was surprised and delighted, and grinned: "Seventeen, is her name Seventeen, why does she have such a strange name?"
Su Su stretched out his hand and touched the gold, as if he was afraid of breaking it, he quickly retracted his hand, and said curiously: "Childe, this is worth a lot of silver, right?"
Bu An said while dressing: "Of course! Maybe it can solve our urgent need! This crazy girl turned out to be a nobleman!"
He was not wrong, this ingot of ten taels of gold collar, according to the gold and silver consideration of one pair of eleven in Yueshi City, was worth a full one hundred and ten taels of silver, which was enough to start his ghost hunting business.
Bu An felt that it was not good to ask this girl for money before, because he regarded her as the daughter of the Yu family, and felt that it was spineless to do so, as if he had settled down to eat soft rice, but now that the misunderstanding has been eliminated, he has spent this ingot of gold, and he has no psychological burden.
This may be a little girl named "Seventeen", who inadvertently helped him a lot, Bu An secretly made a note in his heart, thinking that he would have the opportunity to repay her a favor in the future.
Since the ninth day of the fifth lunar month, Bu An and Deng Xiaoxian have gone to the yamen to walk around and have various relationships.
Money can make ghosts grind, and the next day they got the official document of "Governing the Evil Division of Yuezhou Town", in addition to the big red seal, there is also a number seven, which means that this is the seventh ghost hunting team in Yuezhou City, referred to as the Ghost Hunting Seventh Division.
Before and after, in order to get this ghost guide, Bu An has spent eighty taels of silver, which is just a down payment, and he will have to pay fifty taels of silver on time every month in the future, which is equivalent to throwing in a suite every month!
In any case, on the tenth day of the fifth month of the second year of Longxing, that is, on the last day of the evil moon and Jiuyang on the head of May, the grass platform team of the Seventh Division of the Ghost Capture Division in Yuezhou was set up in the corner of the downtown area of Nancheng, in the tiled house rented by Deng Xiaoxian.
After all, Deng Xiaoxian was clever, knowing that in this team where half of the members were disabled, the burden on his body was too heavy, and he didn't know what method he used, so he actually deceived Luo Qingting.
At this point, the Seven Divisions of Ghost Hunting can be regarded as having gathered the four Taoist cultivators of spells, talismans, arrays and feng shui, and they have at least looked good when they go out.
In the evening of this day, the four Taoist cultivators, plus Bu An and Su Su, gathered in the room to discuss how to cooperate in order to give full play to the maximum potential of this team.
A few people suddenly quieted down, staring at each other, thinking that this Luo girl was really disappointed, and she was telling the truth.
Obviously, this ghost hunting team that has just been put together wants to be famous or not, and it has to be powerful or not, and it has to be pompous...... There are four serious people who do the work, and there are two people with disabilities, so there is no pomp and circumstance.
These are not the problems - Bu An can completely promote this team in the way of soft advertisements in his future storytelling career - the problem is that after this night, it will be the evil moon and nine clouds, and every day of delay here is a waste of silver, and it is also a waste of Bu An's opportunity to rub ghosts.
Just when everyone didn't say a word and the atmosphere gradually became dull, Bu An, as the manager of the Seventh Division of Ghost Hunting, the nominal kobold military division, and the actual controlling person, stood up staggeringly, and waved his big hand:
"Don't limit your vision to Yuezhou! In my opinion, the countryside is a vast world, and great achievements can be made there!"
Although Bu'an is the one who paid the money, his prestige in this team has not yet been established, especially Luo Qingting, who does not regard him, the "director", as a cadre.
As soon as she heard this proposal, she subconsciously shook her head in denial.
Bu An explained: "It's not that I really want to leave Yuezhou to develop in the countryside, but to go to the countryside to accumulate some experience and reputation first, and then come back!"
Deng Xiaoxian also helped: "Tomorrow is the beginning of the Nine Yins, and being idle is also idle, it is better to go out of the city to try, after this decade, the evil moon will return to the city after the mountain!"
Luo Qingting felt that this was also reasonable, so he stopped insisting.
So early the next morning, the newly established Yuezhou Ghost Hunting Seventh Division carried large bags and small bags one by one, like a troupe that sent operas to the countryside, walked out of Yuezhou City and went to the countryside to catch ghosts.
In the past few days, they have also done a lot of ghost hunting business in the countryside of Yuezhou, but the owners are too shabby to earn much silver, but they are not without gains, at least a new member has been brought in: a seventeen or eighteen-year-old wild monk with a wide face and an honest face.
The monk's name is Hui Yuan, who claims to be a monk from Qixia Temple in Jiangning Prefecture, and travels through Yuezhou, helping people exorcise ghosts to exchange some coils, and is just bumped into by Bu'an and his party.
As a licensed ghost hunting team that spent a lot of money to be officially recognized, of course, he couldn't see him operating without a license and disrupting the market like this, and kept this monk under the threat of "sending it to the government", trying to recruit him.
Along the way, Monk Huiyuan didn't know how many times he said: "The poor monk has no intention, and a few donors should let me go." β
Luo Qingting's ears were calloused when he heard this, so he threatened: "It doesn't matter if you have the heart or not, if you violate the king's law, you will have to suffer a lawsuit." Deng Xiaoxian, come and tell him what it's like to be locked up in a cell in the Yuezhou Mansion. β
Deng Xiaoxian pretended to ask Hui Yuan profoundly: "How old do you guess I am this year?"
Hui Yuan didn't know what he meant, so he looked at Deng Xiaoxian's face carefully for a while before replying, "The donor is about twenty-seven or eight." β
Deng Xiaoxian waved his hand and said, "Wrong! I'm only sixteen this year." Pointing to Bu'an: "Younger than him!"
Monk Huiyuan shook his head slightly, and said with a sincere expression: "The donor is young and old. β
"You are a ghost!" Deng Xiaoxian snorted coldly: "I was locked up in the prison cell of the government for more than ten days, and I was tortured like this!"
Hui Yuan exclaimed: "Why is this cell so urgent?!"
Luo Qingting glared at him and said: "It's okay for you to catch ghosts on the ground in Yuezhou, but you can't catch ghosts and take money, send them to the mansion to go to the hall, and you have to be locked up for at least a year, I'm afraid that if you go in a small novice, you will be seventy or eighty when you come out!"
Hui Yuanhan said with a smile: "The female benefactor is wrong, the little monk is not a novice, but a monk monk; β
When Deng Xiaoxian saw that this monk turned out to be a monk monk, that is, he had cultivated to the second level of the three realms of Buddhism, "precepts, concentration, and wisdom", and the realm of "entering concentration", so he refused to let him go, threatening: "Even if you can be beaten again! If you don't give you food, will you be able to survive?"
When Hui Yuan heard that he was going to be hungry, he immediately deflated.
Bu An saw that this monk was stupid, and he was embarrassed to embarrass him too much, so he simply said a condition, let him stay in the Seventh Division of Ghost Hunting for three months to help, take care of food and housing, and let him go after three months, promising not to report to the official.
The monk suddenly felt that among the group, this scholar was the best to speak, and he was a great and kind person.