Mei Zhiyuan is actually an incompetent corrupt official, but he was lucky enough to be assigned to this Changshou County, which is rich in deer antlers, as a county magistrate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Who knows that Mei Zhiyuan, an incompetent official, is like a fish in water when he arrives in Changshou County, with outstanding political achievements, and he has been doing it for ten years, and the secret of Mei Zhiyuan's success lies in this incompetence and greed.

Greed led to a very good relationship with the merchants here, and the merchants called him brothers, opened the door to convenience, and promoted the prosperity of commerce in disguise.

And the incompetence led to his inaction, just gave the people a space to recuperate, the people's lives were not disturbed, naturally lived and worked in peace and contentment, the society was stable and prosperous, plus the special product deer antler velvet is sold all over the world, the price is more than gold, and the people's lives are very rich.

The addition of these two items has led to Mei Zhiyuan's excellent official reputation, and the people also love it, and the wealthy businessmen also like it, so the evaluation for many years is "although there is no achievement, the people return to their hearts", so he can do it for ten years.

This time the monsters besieged the city, and the wealthy merchants in the city found Mei Zhiyuan as soon as possible, and asked him to gather all the Taoist priests in the county in the name of the government, and go out of the city to subdue the demons and eliminate the monsters, each monster was rewarded with 500 taels of silver, and the cost of catching demons was paid by them.

This condition is undoubtedly very attractive, people, as long as they live can not do without silver, Taoist priests are still people in the end, naturally they also need silver, they can't drink the northwest wind to live, since the rich businessmen are willing to pay money, and the Taoist priests are famous, the two naturally hit it off, so they organized an army of demons, and they went out of the city.

I have to say that these Taoist priests still have some real skills, as soon as they get out of the city, they will beat the monsters besieging the city to pieces, and after seven or eight days of bloody fighting, when they see that they are about to be completed, suddenly there is a change.

The Guigu Zhenren of the Longevity View came with his disciples to catch demons and alchemy, just in time for the battle between the monsters and the Taoists, so he used the demon bag to collect a lot of monsters and go, which was equivalent to robbing the Taoists of money, so a fierce conflict broke out between the two sides.

The Taoist priests are good at catching demons, but the fight is not the opponent of the Guigu Zhenren, dozens of Taoist priests were killed by the Guigu Zhenren with the strength of one person, and the other half saw that they couldn't beat it, so they had to flee back to the city, just like that, the demon subjugation plan was aborted, and the Antarctic Immortal Weng laid an enchantment in Changshou County, otherwise the monsters would have invaded the county early in the morning.

Speaking of Antarctic Immortals, his cave mansion ---- the Hall of Eternal Life, which is at the junction of Changshou County and Fangcun Mountain, and the spiritual river that runs through the entire Changshou County and inside and outside also originated from the Hall of Eternal Life.

The Antarctic Immortal Weng lives here all the year round and knows the situation very well, as soon as the monster siege happened, he blocked the county seat as soon as possible, and then hurried to the heavenly court to find a solution.

Although the Taoist priests no longer go out of the city to subdue demons, the rich merchants are worried that the monsters will enter the city, so they continue to pay to hire Taoist priests, so that they can guard the city gate with the county government's fast catchers and dart masters who bring hundreds of darts to guard the city gates, and Luo Sihai happened to meet these "guards" when they entered the city.

Luo Sihai and these immortals thought that there were no monsters in the city, and they should be very safe, where would they pay attention to the capture of the city? They all rushed in unscrupulously, but they were splashed with black dog blood mixed with talisman water on the head by the Taoist priests, sealed all their skills, and then swarmed up, beat more than a dozen, and arrested them all in prison.

After listening to Mei Zhiyuan's explanation, Lei Yun couldn't help but smile dumbly and asked:

"Then after you arrested them, did you interrogate these people?"

Mei Zhiyuan was stunned when he heard this, and said:

"This... The master in charge of hearing the case was sick a few days ago, and now he has been resting at home, so he hasn't had time to try yet, but those guys are very skilled, and they killed and injured many of us in the process of resisting arrest. ”

When Lei Yun heard this, he pretended to be angry and said:

"Nonsense, those people are the guards of their own officials, but they are battle-hardened Xuanwu Army soldiers, they are all meritorious soldiers, you dare to arrest them, if you can't come up with real evidence of their violations, our General Su is famous for loving soldiers like sons, I'm afraid..."

Mei Zhiyuan was shocked when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that these people really didn't break the law, but their attitude was a little arrogant, and they were all taken down as soon as they entered the city, and they didn't have a chance to break the law.

Thinking of this, Mei Zhiyuan felt a little weak, and then thought about Su Dingfang's "love soldiers like sons", ---- was actually a rumor of protecting calves, and immediately complained in his heart, and immediately became pale again, and his heart was dead.

Lei Yun saw that Mei Zhiyuan was frightened again, and was afraid that he would faint again, so he had to say in a relaxed tone:

"They have fought at the border for half their lives, and it is inevitable that they don't understand the rules, so let's do it, Master Mei, just look at my thin noodles, let them go, and I'll just treat it as if it didn't happen."

When Mei Zhiyuan heard this, he immediately felt like he had been amnestied, and hurriedly said:

"Okay, well, since Lord Lei spoke, the lower officials naturally did so and released them immediately, but these people are very fierce, if they are released like this, I'm afraid..."

Hearing this, Lei Yun nodded, thought for a while and said:

"I think I'd better go to the cell with you, and when they see me, they'll be honest."

After the discussion, Lei Yun rushed to the cell with Mei Zhiyuan, and when he finally saw Luo Sihai and the others, the scene in front of him was really an eye-opener for him, and he couldn't help but secretly admire that this Taoist priest from Changshou County really had a way:

It turned out that Luo Sihai and these people were all locked in cages alone, and then tied them with ropes soaked in black dog blood, tied into zongzi, and stuffed their mouths with cloth soaked in black dog blood, which were only taken off when they were fed with water, and they were absolutely not allowed to eat rice.

In addition, the cage is also covered with Dao talismans, and every other hour, a ritual to suppress demons will be performed, and the blood of a black dog mixed with talisman water will be splashed.

When Luo Sihai and the others saw Lei Yun, they were all struggling desperately, as if they had seen a savior, Lei Yun saw this situation, and quickly asked Mei Zhiyuan to release them all, and then borrowed the table used by the prison guards and took out a lot of food.

Luo Sihai and the others have been hungry for several days, and they are still tied into the shape of "zongzi", if it weren't for the immortal fate person's excellent physique, it is estimated that they would have died several times, and now when they see what they eat, they can't care about anything else, they grab a plate of things casually, and they eat a lot, the scene is like a group of beggars having a dinner.

After eating, everyone changed their clothes one after another, and Lei Yun knew that the methods of these Taoist priests were actually very powerful, Luo Sihai and their skills were not only sealed, but even the space backpack was sealed together, and those Taoist talismans seemed to have the effect of weakening physical fitness, and they were all weak these days, and they couldn't escape at all.

Seeing that everyone was in such a state, Lei Yun discussed it with Luo Sihai, and decided to repair it in situ for two days first, and then go to the Hall of Eternal Life to investigate the reason why Linghe lost his aura, so everyone occupied Mei Zhiyuan's county government compound, and regarded his wife and concubine as slaves.

Originally, this hall of eternal life is located in the area between Changshou County and Fangcun Mountain, only thirty or forty miles away from Changshou County, and the reason why it has become the birthplace of the Ling River is because there is a huge lake in this place, called Mirror Lake.

The shape of this mirror lake is a very regular circle, the local legend is that the mirror of the fairy in the sky falls to the mortal world and is formed, the lake surface is extremely wide, the radius is about nearly 100 miles, and it is said that the lake water is not bottomless, regardless of drought or flood for hundreds of years, the lake water neither rises nor falls, it is very magical, and attracts a lot of tourists to play.

The Antarctic Immortal's Hall of Eternal Life was built in the middle of this mirror lake, which was originally a small island in the middle of the lake, and was later discovered by the Antarctic Immortal Weng that the environment here was excellent, so he built the Eternal Life Hall and lived here.

Miraculously, this Spirit River also has an aura after the arrival of the Antarctic Immortals, in fact, not only the Spirit River, but also the water of the entire Mirror Lake is also full of aura, which is of great benefit to the cultivators and monsters.

Thunderclouds walked about ten miles out of the city, and suddenly a tea stall appeared on the road ahead, and everyone walked for a long time, and they were all thirsty, so they just ran over to drink tea and rest.

Lei Yun threw a big ingot of silver to the boss, and asked the boss to hurry up to serve tea, this tea stall was originally a light business, and the boss was already idle to death, and suddenly came to a big business, and immediately was very happy, and he was busy with Zhang Luo.

After a while, several large pots of tea were served on the table, and in addition to tea, the boss also served some small snacks such as melon seeds and dried fruits to everyone.

Lei Yun took a few sips of tea, and saw that the boss was very honest, so he asked casually:

"Boss, your tea stall business seems to be very bad?"

When the boss heard this, he immediately sighed and said:

"Hey, don't hide it from the guest officer, originally my tea stall was spread on the road to Mirror Lake, there were a lot of pedestrians, and the business was excellent, but since three months ago, a group of monsters came out of nowhere, occupying the vicinity of Mirror Lake, as long as someone approached, it was eaten, so no one dared to go to Mirror Lake anymore, and now I am ready to end my business and go back to my hometown."

After a pause, he said:

"I think you guests are also going to Jinghu, so you better go back quickly, it's very dangerous right now."

Luo Sihai on the side nodded when he heard this, and then threw the boss a piece of silver, and said:

"Boss, have you ever heard about those monsters, tell me, think about it, anything can be done."

The boss happily took the silver, frowned and thought for a long time before saying:

"According to those who have escaped, it seems that they have seen a lot of huge pythons, but they don't know about the others."

Luo Sihai's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this, and he immediately waved his hand, called a young man over, and said:

"Qi Xuan, you rush back to Changshou County immediately, and buy all the realgar and sulfur in the county, there may be a snake demon in front of you."

Qi Xuanyan nodded when he heard this, but he didn't move.

Luo Sihai was a little unhappy when he saw this, and said unhappily:

"What's wrong with you? Go for it."

Qi Xuan looked at Luo Sihai, and suddenly said embarrassedly:

"This... Big brother, I don't have any money? ”

Luo Sihai was stunned when he heard this, and then stretched out his hand and touched his body for a long time, and then took out two ingots of silver, because Lei Yun was sitting next to him, Luo Sihai suddenly felt very faceless, so he angrily threw the silver to Qi Xuan and said:

"That's all I have, when you get to the county seat, you can figure it out yourself."