"Good morning ...... Mingfu"

"Lord Mingfu, don't come to ...... harm"

"It's really fortunate that Mingfu has just recovered from a minor illness."

In the morning, Luming Street, inside the Yamen of Longcheng.

The officials on duty saw the young county magistrate in official uniform walking out of the county hall and greeted him respectfully.

Ouyang Rong smiled faintly and nodded.

This is the first time Ouyang Rong has come to the county government after recovering from his illness, and it is still a familiar taste and an orderly atmosphere.

Ouyang Rong's gaze swept over the faces of his colleagues who greeted him, and he quietly walked around the county office.

"I don't seem to be seeing anything."

Ouyang Rong looked down at the brand-new official uniform on his body, raised his hand and touched his chin, and by the way, he supported the cheeks on both sides with his right hand, his eyes were thoughtful.

At this moment, Liu Ashan held a stack of dossiers, passed by the corridor, turned his head to look at Ouyang Rong, said hello, and was about to move on, when his face suddenly turned stunned, turned his face to look at it carefully, and said in confusion:

"Master, why did you suddenly change your clothes?"

"Oh, it's a little shady in the room, so I'll put on an official uniform." Ouyang Rong nodded and explained.

"Understood......" Liu Ahan wanted to say and stopped.

Ouyang Rong suddenly asked: "What's different about me, although Ah Shan is often by my side, do you see something?" ”

Liu Ashan shook his head, "I just think that compared with going out in the morning, the master seems to have less stubble and is whiter." ”

Ouyang Rong nodded, smiled slightly, raised his hand and habitually supported his chin.

Behind his back, he turned around and returned to the court, and before leaving, he dropped a sentence lightly:

"Freshly shaved beard, Ah Shan is very careful, okay, you can go with your business, I'll deal with the piled up of official documents."

"Yes, sir."

Liu Ashan Mu answered, glanced at Ouyang Rong's somewhat strange back before leaving, and left silently.

It's just an illusion.

After Liu Ashan left, Ouyang Rong, whose expression had always been light, suddenly turned around, and when he saw the man walking away, he exhaled.

Ouyang Rong looked down at himself, muttered a few words in his mouth, and shook his head slightly.

He went straight into the back hall of the lobby, found a secluded room, silently entered the door, turned and locked it, and sat down on the table.

In the dimly lit room, Ouyang Rong lowered his head, raised his hand and grabbed the cheeks on both sides of his chin, as if he had plucked something, and his face was separated from his palm.

Faintly, the light in the room was distorted.

The young man at the table was still the same young man, but it was a little different from when he first entered the door.

Ouyang Rong was dressed in navy blue clothes, sitting leisurely on a chair, playing with a bronze beast face with great interest in his hand.

It's a mirage mask.

Just plucked from the face.

"Ah Shan is as careful as a hair, but also, he has been following me all the time, so he naturally observes me carefully, and it is normal to find some abnormalities.

"But those county government colleagues don't seem to have found anything, too, normal people get along, even if they are good friends, they won't get close to each other's faces to take a closer look, at most they are sensitive to clothing and hairstyles."

Ouyang Rong nodded slowly, turned around and walked to a copper basin filled with water, and looked down at the real face reflected on the water.

After being bedridden for a few days, he grew a stubbled beard on his chin.

Ouyang Rong touched the real scum, looked down at the bronze mask in his hand, and his eyes showed some novelty.

"Mirage masquerade? In this way, it can really be fake and real, which is a bit interesting, but it is less exciting to become yourself, and it is a little weird, the uncanny valley effect, right......"

Ouyang Rong shook his head with a smile.

He spent 1,500 merits last night to exchange for good fortune, so that this mirage mask, which originally belonged to a certain type of special Fang Shi Qi practitioner, was transformed by the strange purple mist on the blessing bell.

Ouyang Rong not only bound this thing with the qi machine, but also obtained a large amount of strange and hazy information, which seemed to be the way to use it.

So early this morning, I couldn't wait to try it, just now he put on a mask, changed himself, and walked around the county government twice, and Liu Ashan found something wrong, and the others didn't notice it.

It sounds a little weird, but someone is so bored, and it's the first time to come into contact with this mythical power, so naturally they have a lot of fun for a while.

Inside the room, Ouyang Rong returned to the table, holding the bronze beast face in his hand, and closed his eyes slightly.

I sensed the message in my mind from the shadow of the mirage.

He flipped through it carefully, closed his eyes and muttered:

"I see...... Enable special rituals...... Murder of the sacrifice in the presence of the audience...... to collect the mythical spirituality of the unjustly deceased...... Make an illusion...... Maintain the appearance of the sacrifice in front of it...... And this bronze beast face can hold multiple sacrificial illusions......"

Ouyang Rong suddenly opened his eyes, frowned at the empty room, and muttered to himself in confusion:

"Can you store multiple sacrificial illusions...... But didn't the little junior sister leave the bamboo slip and say that if you hear about a mirage mask, you can only change one person.

"Could it be that the Jade Maidens are not good at learning, they are too vegetable, or they are not talented, so the special sorcerer Dao vein they walked was not thoroughly excavated, and they were half-hanging?"

As if he had guessed the answer, the corners of Ouyang Rong's mouth couldn't help twitching.

"Or is this thing transformed by purple mist?

"Whatever the reason, these strange purple mist that came out of the Fortune Bell seem to be a bit overbearing, and the level is crushing, unlocking this mirage mask from the inside out, well, it's already my shape now."

For the cost of this 1,500 merits, Ouyang Rong was quite satisfied, as if it was not a vain flower.

"I just don't know if if I have the opportunity to collect the sacrificial illusion again, will I need to consume merit and good fortune...... It should be, after all, I don't have any aura cultivation at the moment, and this purple mist seems to be able to replace the aura, and even unlock the mythical artifacts that the little junior sister, a middle-grade qi practitioner, can't unlock. ”

Ouyang Rong touched his chin again, and sighed at the mirage mask in his hand:

"It seems that when the original body had just taken office, he drowned in public and passed out, it was Liu Ziwen and the Jade Maiden who made a ghost, and they had collected the spirit of the original body to make an illusion...... Am I confused, avenging myself in this life?

"But the Jade Fairy is still in a coma and is not dead, well, I can't let her go, and I don't know what happened to Rokuro who took care of the house......

Ouyang Rong pondered for a moment, then lowered his head to study and play with the bronze beast face for a while.

After a while, his face was a little interested, and he threw the bronze mask on the table with a "pop".

"It's still a bit of a chicken rib, and it's not interesting to be yourself...... Do you want me to go and find the unjust offerings and collect new visions? But designing to kill people in public, it's inevitably a bit perverted, why don't you go home honestly and stay in this world to fix this thing? Live-action Werewolf Kill, right? My evaluation is that it is not as good as the graduate school entrance examination.

"But after this thing is unlocked by the purple mist, it seems that I can use it for others to make a stand-in...... It's a good way, but what am I going to do as a stand-in......"

Ouyang Rong's words stopped silently, he glanced at the mask, and then looked out the sunny window.

After a moment of silence, Ouyang Rong suddenly got up and put away the mirage mask.

He left the desk, and when he passed the copper basin filled with water, he paused, looked at the reflection in the water, and Ouyang Rong went to get a pair of utensils and scraped the slag clean.

Suddenly he looked a lot younger, just like the original illusion in the mirage mask, but the skin was slightly darker, but it was not a big problem to raise it recently.

Ouyang Rong, as usual, dealt with a lot of official documents in the morning, all of which were trivial things.

Among them, it is slightly worth noting that the official message sent by the Jiangzhou Thorn History Mansion said that Ouyang Rong, the Longcheng County, had made meritorious contributions to disaster relief and water control, and had taken the lead in saving the sluice.

However, Ouyang Rong is not interested in this, and he does not have any hopes, he has no one in the court, so he should not expect daydreaming.

Please take credit for this thing, the same credit, there is no one in the Jinluan Hall to speak for you, and the rewards you get are very different.

As for the top boss, Wang Lengran will say good things for him?

Ouyang Rong was skeptical.

Fortunately, he didn't care anymore, there was still half an hour before noon, Ouyang Rong threw away the official documents of the case, went out directly, left the county office, and took Liu Ashan to the official house where the jade fairy was imprisoned.

As soon as he arrived at the courtyard where the jade fairy was held in the official house, Ouyang Rong saw Yan Liulang and the others with sad faces, and sighed around the bed.

These days, the bureaucracy's side is under the full management of the little junior sister and Yan Liulang, Ouyang Rong only occasionally asks, but he doesn't know much, mainly trusting the little junior sister.

"What a bitter gourd face." Ouyang Rong asked curiously.

Yan Liulang and his subordinates glanced at each other, and their faces showed guilt.

"Ming Mansion, it's the incompetence of the subordinates and the poor care that disrupted the arrangements before Master Xie left......"

Yan Liulang scratched his head, explained what happened last night, and stomped his feet and said hatefully:

"The prisoner finally woke up, but he suddenly vomited blood and fainted, I don't know if it was the cause of the antidote pill, or if someone wanted to kill people and kill people......"

The blue-clothed catcher gritted his teeth and held the knife, showing a half-wiped blade: "Ming Mansion, the subordinates are investigating, who did it......"

Ouyang Rong's originally breezy face changed, and he looked at the jade fairy who was breathless and dying in the direction of the bed, and he asked quietly:

"The suspect vomited blood and fell into a coma...... What time was it last night? ”

Yan Liulang thought about it, thought for a while, and said an exact time.

"Ahem." Someone bows his head and covers his mouth with a fist.

"What's wrong with Mingfu, isn't the wind chill good? The Ming Mansion came out to work again. ”

"I didn't ...... It's okay, I think... Liulang is so conscientious, I believe that the little junior sister will not blame, that, let's continue, the official will go back first, and will not disturb your investigation. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Yan Liulang to be polite, a certain young county commander slipped away like oil on the soles of his feet.

Only a group of caretakers in the courtyard were left to look at each other curiously.

"It is still the Ming Mansion that loves the people like children, takes care of his subordinates, and is considerate and caring."

Yan Liulang turned his face, his eyes were slightly red, and he shook his fist violently:

"Everyone, do a good job, and strive to find out the real culprit before Master Xie comes back."

"Yes!" Everyone was in high spirits.

Ouyang Rong left the official house without blushing and heartbeat, and boarded the carriage.

On the way back.

Finding that his master's face seemed a little strange, Liu Ashan, who was driving in front, couldn't help asking:

"Brother Liulang's matter, did the master find any clues?"

"Ahem, what clues can I have."

Ouyang Rong diverted the topic:

"By the way, Ah Shan, if one day, I am no longer in Dragon City, what will you do?"

"No matter how far the master is transferred to become an official, I will follow the master." Liu Ahan replied without thinking.

Ouyang Rong shook his head, "What if I don't become an official anymore?" It's useless for you to follow me. ”

Liu Ahan hesitated, and said categorically: "Then I will go home with the master, and I will go wherever the master goes." ”

Ouyang Rong still shook his head: "I said, you and Ah Qing are now free bodies, not my slaves, so you don't need to follow me." ”

After a pause, Ouyang Rong asked again, "Do you have anything you want to do?" ”

The wooden man bowed his head silently, as if he had misunderstood something, and his tone was a little lost and said:

"Don't you want to follow me with me, then, then I stay in Dragon City, this is a native place, I don't go anywhere, just ask for a living here, take care of my mother and sister, and live honestly."

"You also want to marry a daughter-in-law and have a fat son." Ouyang Rong added, and nodded: "It's good to be with your relatives and live a down-to-earth life." ”

Liu Ashan was stunned, "Master." ”

He couldn't help but turn his head to look at the smiling young man sitting in the carriage.

The latter said softly:

"I haven't let you take up a post in the county government before, because there are some other considerations, but now that I don't, tomorrow, I will arrange for you and the other brothers of the Democratic Warrior Team to take a position in the county office.

"In the future, you will eat public meals, work hard, have a structure in your hometown, marry a wife and have children, accompany your family, and live a very happy life."

Ouyang Rong suddenly smiled, Liu Ashan, who had neat white teeth and shining white teeth, rubbed his eyes, and someone muttered some jokes that he didn't understand:

"Or Ah Shan, you are smart, your hometown is making an iron rice bowl, isn't this the end of the universe? Comfort, win or you win. ”

"Huh?" Liu Ahan was stunned when he heard this.

Ouyang Rong always said something he didn't understand or awkward words, but unlike Yan Liulang, who liked to go back to the roots and learn new knowledge, Liu Ashan just listened silently, never asked much, kept to himself, and was extremely strict.

This is probably one of the reasons why Ouyang Rong is willing to joke and relax in front of Liu Ashan.

Liu Ashan couldn't hold it back, and asked in a muffled voice: "The master hasn't said yet, what are we going to do in the future, maybe we will be desperate in the future, so we will go to the master." ”

Ouyang Rong looked out the window, was quiet for a while, and said a sentence without a beginning or an end for no reason:

"Sir, I also have a native place."

Liu Ahan was stunned.

In this faint parting atmosphere like explaining the aftermath, on the way back to Luming Street, neither of them spoke again.

Liu Ashan, who was full of doubts, didn't know that in the carriage behind him, a young county magistrate looked at his back and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah Shan just arrange it like this, honest people have the blessing of honest people, people are too honest, follow others everywhere outside, but dangerous, easy to get into trouble, I can feel that Liu Mu has a complicated attitude towards me, I guess I am also worried about this, fortunately Ah Shan and Ah Qing are okay in the end.

"As for Liulang's side, don't worry about anything, this kid is very clever, heh, the skills of the nobles are not bad, taking the opportunity to assist the little junior sister to deal with the case, I happened to accumulate some friendship with the little junior sister, when the time comes, I will leave a letter, let the little junior sister and the Xie family take care of him, whether it is to go to the rivers and lakes to dream of heroes, or to take the official career, there is a guarantee......

"Okay, now there is one of the most stubborn and the most subjective."

Ouyang Rong nodded calmly.

Back at the county office, Ouyang Rong buried himself in dealing with the official business of the afternoon, as if it was the end of the day, and he did a lot of hard work.

Before he knew it, it was evening, Ouyang Rong went straight back to Merlot Garden, and as soon as he entered the door, he called Ye Weilai, looked her in the eyes, and said directly:

"Clean up, go back to Nanlong in the next two days, you can catch up with the Zhongyuan Festival to worship the ancestors, and the ship is set."

Ouyang Rong's tone was light, but it was a declarative sentence, and his attitude was incomprehensible.

The white-haired maid who came running happily trembled.

The hot towel fell at her feet like a hot hand, Ouyang Rong bent down first, picked it up and wiped his hands, his face was as usual, and he passed by.

Thank you for the alliance leader award of the good brother of "Favorite Dongshan Qing"! Ahem cough is a reward for the sword lady, but thank you here, good brother, hehe fencing! (ORZ Day 5)

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