The two walked on the bustling Taiqing Square, and Zhang Yuelu suddenly asked, "Tianyuan, you seem to be very short of money?" How many cases of silver do you have per month now? If it's inconvenient to say, just when I didn't ask, it doesn't matter. ”

Qi Xuansu didn't deliberately hide it, and said, "I probably have less than two hundred Taiping dollars in my hands now. Because I have never served in the provincial government, I don't have any money. ”

"No case silver? Why don't you serve in the local provincial government? Zhang Yuelu was slightly surprised, on the surface surprised that Qi Xuansu did not have income from the Daomen, but in fact he was surprised by Qi Xuansu's confession.

Qi Xuansu knew that Zhang Yuelu was not an ordinary person, and it should not be difficult to check his past resume records, if he rashly lied and prevaricated, there would be no three hundred taels of silver here.

So he said in a false manner: "When the family teacher died in a vendetta, I still don't know who did it, I expect to dare to attack a dignified four-grade Taoist priest, most of them are big people within the Daomen, although I escaped with my life, but I am also afraid of being cut down and eradicated, so I have been wandering in the rivers and lakes all these years, and I dare not go to various Taoist governments." ”

"You're not afraid now?" Zhang Yuelu raised her eyebrows.

Qi Xuansu smiled bitterly: "I'm not afraid." ”

Zhang Yuelu asked, "How do you say this?" ”

"When I say I'm afraid, I'm afraid that I'll die like my master." Qi Xuansu said in a calm tone, "Say that you are not afraid, it is nothing more than death, and you must always avenge your master." ”

Zhang Yuelu spoke politely: "It seems that you are still a little bloody and know the word 'revenge', otherwise I would really look down on you, and my friends would not have to do it." ”

Qi Xuansu coughed lightly with a little embarrassment: "I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid that I don't know how I died, I'm afraid I'm still a fool when I die." ”

Zhang Yuelu asked again: "Then do you have any clues?" ”

Qi Xuansu shook his head and said: "No, when Master died, I was still very young, I didn't know much about Master's interpersonal contacts, and I didn't know much about Master's past. Now, I am just a seven-grade Taoist priest, with no power or power, and after many years, where can I find clues? So I think that if you want to take revenge, you must first get ahead. There is a saying in Confucianism, a gentleman takes revenge, and it is not too late for ten years. It just so happened that I heard that Tiangangtang had added another establishment, so I took out half of my savings and walked away, planning to be promoted to a six-grade Taoist first. ”

"The doorway." Zhang Yuelu looked at Qi Xuansu with a smile.

Qi Xuansu was uncomfortable by Zhang Yuelu, and said helplessly: "Don't look at me like this, this is also human nature." ”

"I don't like that." Zhang Yuelu frowned and said, "This kind of common sense will corrupt the atmosphere of the Dao Sect and damage the foundation of the Dao Sect. ”

Qi Xuansu sighed: "I don't know, it's just ...... There's nothing to be done. ”

Zhang Yuelu did not stand on the moral high ground to criticize Qi Xuansu, this is her strength, and she will never treat others with herself. For various reasons, she is favored by the real people, and she can rise to the top innocently, which does not mean that others also have this qualification, if she uses her own standards to ask those who are still struggling in the mud, she will stand and talk without backache.

Zhang Yuelu turned to ask: "In this way, you are not in the local Taoist government, but you have been promoted to a seven-grade Taoist priest, also because of 'human nature'?" ”

Qi Xuansu's heart froze, and he faintly guessed why Zhang Yuelu paid special attention to himself, but the expression on his face was helpless, weak-hearted, bitter, and ashamed, and he replied in Qi Niang's original words: "There is no way, if you want to climb to the position of a third-grade Taoist one day, you have to climb high step by step, and if you can't keep up with one step, you can't keep up step by step." If you reach the age of thirty, you won't even be a six-grade Taoist priest, and you'll be out of play. ”

Zhang Yuelu obviously understood this set of rules, and did not comment too much, but said: "I understand, in order to avenge your master, you want to be promoted to a third-grade Taoist, and then because you are afraid of the enemy in the dark, you dare not serve in the local Taoist government, so you work hard in the rivers and lakes to make money, and then use the money to dredge up the relationship, but the seven-grade Taoist is almost the limit, so you plan to go to Tiangangtang to get an errand, and you can also be promoted through meritorious service." ”

Qi Xuansu nodded and said, "That's right, I hope the girl won't ......."

"Don't worry." Zhang Yuelu relieved her doubts in her heart, and her attitude towards Qi Xuansu was even milder, "I won't say it, after all, we are friends." ”

Qi Xuansu smiled: "Yes, friend." ”

However, Qi Xuansu has been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and has been taught by Qi Niang's words and deeds, he is no longer the ignorant young man of the year, he has his own scheming skills, and he did not take it seriously because of Zhang Yuelu's friend, but pretended to hesitate.

Sure enough, Zhang Yuelu noticed Qi Xuansu's demeanor and said softly: "If you have something to say, you might as well say it directly." ”

Qi Xuansu said: "Since we are friends, I don't know which hall or Taoist government the girl is working in?" ”

Zhang Yuelu smiled: "It's a coincidence, if you can enter Tiangang Hall smoothly, then we will be colleagues in the future, and we can meet often." ”

Qi Xuansu was stunned: "It's such a coincidence." ”

Zhang Yuelu didn't answer Qi Xuansu's question directly: "Coincidentally, let's not talk about it for the time being, I don't plan to ask you." ”

Qi Xuansu said half-truthfully: "No way, in my eyes, the girl has her own momentum, like a tiger, like a dragon, I really don't dare to ask rashly." ”

Zhang Yuelu didn't laugh angrily, and gently slapped Qi Xuansu's shoulder: "Okay, are you saying that I'm a tigress?" ”

Qi Xuansu waved his hand again and again: "There is no such intention." ”

This scene naturally attracted the attention of many passers-by, and the elderly people naturally smiled, and the young people who had never experienced it could not hide their envy.

As for the party Qi Xuansu, it is complicated and difficult to say.

First of all, this girl from Lantai came with bad intentions, which made him walk on thin ice.

Then he gradually relaxed, and realized that the girl was actually a woman of the same age, and she was still a very beautiful woman, and between her every move, there was always a faint fragrance of virginity, which went straight to his nose.

In all fairness, Qi Xuansu is also a young man with strong blood, and the woman he has come into contact with the most over the years is Qi Niang, but for Qi Xuansu, Qi Niang is an elder between her mother and her eldest sister, and she cannot be generalized with women of the same age.

For a while, Qi Xuansu was also a little uneasy.

Fortunately, Qi Xuansu has experienced years of tempering in the rivers and lakes, and his mind is relatively firm, so he quickly suppressed this strange emotion, and said: "Since the girl from Tangtai is serving in Tiangang Hall, I wonder if Miss Tangtai can introduce me to the specific responsibilities of Tiangang Hall?" ”

Zhang Yuelu said: "The main duty of Tiangang Hall is to crack down on secret associations, lawbreakers, cultists, demons, and ghosts. ”

Qi Xuansu asked, "What's the difference?" ”

"There's no specific difference, but the emphasis is different." Zhang Yuelu said casually, "A few days ago, the rotating Dazhen issued an edict to 'further crack down on the secret association', so the focus of Tiangang Hall will be on the secret association first. The second is outlaws, such as Jiangyang thieves and the like, in fact, this aspect has always been dominated by the imperial court, and we can at most assist from the side. Then there are cults, and in many cases, cultists and secret associations are inseparable, or some of the secret associations are simply cults themselves. As for demons and ghosts, we don't want to kill them, we have to go through screening, but there are other voices in the Daomen, advocating that demons and ghosts have different paths, and we want to kill all demons and ghosts. ”

Qi Xuansu continued to ask quietly: "Some of the secret associations are cults themselves, which means that not all secret associations are cults?" ”

Zhang Yuelu nodded and said: "It is true that there are some secret associations that do not belong to cults, such as the Qingping Society, the 'Inn', the Eight Tribes, the Seven Treasure Fang, etc., not only are they not cults, but they are even inextricably linked with the Daomen. ”

Qi Xuansu was taken aback: "Daomen ......"

Zhang Yuelu smiled coldly: "It's not strange, without the connivance and support of the big people of the Daomen, how can these secret associations develop safely so far, it's just that I am soft-spoken and powerless to change anything." ”

Qi Xuansu didn't dare to underestimate this Tantai girl, because he, a member of the Qingping Society, also thought so after seeing the tip of the iceberg of the Qingping Society, and even he vaguely felt that it was not a coincidence that Qi Niang asked him to join Tiangangtang, but on purpose.

Zhang Yuelu sighed: "You have me, I have you, and everything in the world is bad here...... There are big people in the Daomen who support these secret associations behind the scenes, and they will not be able to exterminate these secret associations for another ten or twenty years. Therefore, the great trouble of the Daomen's henchmen is never outside, but in this Jade Void Peak, in this ancestral court. ”

Qi Xuansu also sighed: "In this way, these secret associations are just shadow puppets, and the people who really manipulate these shadow puppets are hidden in the shadow of the lamp, so that people can't see or touch them. ”

"So to speak." Zhang Yuelu was a little gloomy, obviously poked by Qi Xuansu's words.

Qi Xuansu didn't want to ask any deeper: "Are we a little shallow and deep?" ”

Zhang Yuelu waved his hand: "There are fewer than a thousand cups of wine for a confidant, and there is no speculation for half a sentence." ”

She paused: "Do you think the two of us are not speculative?" ”

"Of course not." Qi Xuansu hurriedly denied it.

Zhang Yuelu half-jokingly said: "Let's put aside these disheartening things for the time being, and wait until I become a great master one day, and then discuss how to rectify the atmosphere of the Daomen." ”

Qi Xuansu looked around and said softly, "Miss Tantai is still cautious." ”

Zhang Yuelu smiled: "Only you can hear the words just now." ”

Qi Xuansu was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing.

It turns out that this Tantai girl is not afraid of heaven and earth.

Zhang Yuelu seemed to see what Qi Xuansu was thinking, and glanced at him: "I'm not stupid, but there will be that day." ”