No matter what the Heavenly Ziwei Lingjun thought, the mage's entry into the palace to face the saint can be said to have opened the eyes of the emperor and many officials.

Even some ministers who were extremely resistant to the Dharma Appraisal Conference have changed their attitudes after seeing the true skills of some mages, not to mention some officials who originally belonged to the emperor's voice worm, or put their own interests first.

After seeing the true skills of the mage, some post stations also have special residences for the master of Jiehuangbang to live in, and there are frequent visits by dignitaries and nobles for a period of time after that.

The Dharma Appreciation Conference has not yet begun, and many mages have already made a lot of money.

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Perhaps it is the New Year is approaching, or perhaps it is affected by the Dharma Appraisal Conference, the atmosphere of the court and the people in the capital is also becoming warmer, and there are more scenes than in previous years.

From time to time, you can see those people wearing Dharma robes on the streets of the capital, whether they are real mages or fake mages, they always have to put on a high-ranking appearance.

What kind of stall fortune tellers, there are countless people who look at each other, and it is even more incalculable how many liars are mixed with them, and the ordinary people in the capital have been fooled a few times and then avoided some mages and left.

No, Qi Zhongbin just arrived at the teahouse today, except for some tea customers who arrived early to say hello, and the shopkeeper complained when he came to make tea for him.

"Alas, Mr. Qi, did you meet a mage on the way when you came?"

Qi Zhongbin sat down and looked outside.

"Well, isn't there one out there?"

Qi Zhongbin smiled, shook his head, and asked the shopkeeper.

The tea guests in the teahouse also got up one after another, and some walked outside to look at the direction of the official errand.

"Alas, there are so many such mages, I encountered several waves on the way to the building today, you said that the New Year, if you meet someone who insists on telling you something, you should spend money to buy some good and obedient words, but guess what?"

"Alas, I'm a Dharma Master, the Emperor's Dharma Appraisal Conference is for you strange people, why are you afraid of officials?"

Qi Zhongbin unfolded the folding fan to fan the wind for the tea cup, blowing away the hot air of the boiling water.

As he spoke, a group of officials rushed by.

"Alas, who isn't, these mages, don't hang around if you don't have the ability!"

"No, did the official in the lead see it, that's Fu Xinbo, one of the four famous arresters in the capital!"

The guy in the teahouse was teasing the mage who sold couplets and other things at the moment.

"Get out of the way!" "The official is handling the case, get out of the way—"

"Those who unveil the emperor list may not all have the ability"

"What's the matter?" "With so many officials, is something big happening?"

"What's wrong?"

"Hahahahaha." "Not to mention, shopkeeper, I've met it too!"

The shopkeeper looked back at the direction of the teahouse, but saw a mage in a suit passing by the door, the mage was carrying a box behind his back, and the hands stuffed in the box were carrying things like the word "flower blessing" in the door and window, obviously doing business in the previous year.

"Hey, the previous mage gave twenty wen, and all the good things he said were good things, and the New Year was prosperous and auspicious, and then he met another one and gave him five wen to send away, and then he said that I had a bloody disaster and needed to find someone to solve the disaster, so I'll fuck it!"

The mage who sold the couplet Fu character was so frightened that he ran directly to the teahouse, and what these traveling mages were most afraid of recently was the official errand.

Before Qi Zhongbin could speak, the nearby tea guests were already laughing.

Qi Zhongbin also frowned slightly, the qi in the capital has been really mixed recently, and the qi of the dynasty has also flickered and dimmed, as if half of the small and the big yong have been stirred into a stupor, and a lot of things have been covered under the rich qi, but a little calculation in his heart probably understands something.

"Do you have the ability to find customers on the street? The Emperor List has been arranged by the officials!"

The officials were obviously in a hurry, and the speed of the passage was very fast, and some pedestrians were a little too late to avoid it.

Other tea drinkers also teased.

"Yes, mage, what are you afraid of?" "Could it be that you have done too much to do wrong?"

The mage

A wry smile on his face.

"Oh, I'm just eating with a mouthful, everyone is merciful, I also came all the way to see the excitement, wondering if there can be a chance or something, and now I am shy in my pocket. To be honest, this dress looks okay, where to stay tonight, and what to eat tomorrow hasn't been settled yet."

This mage was so frank and crying like this, but the people around him didn't have the idea of making fun of him.

However, when he was speaking, the mage found Qi Zhongbin in the crowd, and he couldn't help but look at the old Confucian a few more times.

Qi Zhongbin noticed the mage's eyes, looked in the direction of the official over there, and thought about the way to the shopkeeper.

"Shopkeeper, Qi will follow and take a look, and he will be back in a while."

"Huh? The old gentleman wants to follow the official to see the excitement?" "Oh, I want to go too!"

"Then I'll check it out too?"

Many people on the teahouse side seemed to be very interested, but who knew that the mage who sold the word Lianfu suddenly said.

"Hey, hey, don't go, don't go, there's nothing to see, the officials are so angry, and something bad has happened, don't be bad when it's almost the New Year!"

Hearing this, Qi Zhongbin glanced at the middle-aged mage more, and even the gray man hidden in his collar probed the mage behind his neck to look at the mage.

"The mage has a point, but those of us who tell stories are more than happy to join in the fun, so there are more stories!"

After saying this, Qi Zhongbin hurriedly followed in the direction where the official had just run, and there were also individual tea customers in the teahouse who followed, and more people followed, even the mage who sold the couplets finally followed.

The place where the official went was actually not too far, and it was only three or five hundred steps away from the teahouse, but in the capital where every inch of land was valuable, there were many buildings in the middle, and it felt like it was not a short road.

The final stop is a mansion that is not small.

Not to mention a group of people coming from the teahouse, before they arrived, there were already a lot of people gathered here, obviously waiting to see the excitement.

When Qi Zhongbin's group of people came, they found that not only the official errand, but also some forbidden troops were there, some of the officials and the forbidden army were blocking the onlookers on the periphery, and some of the officials had entered the mansion.

The people were talking outside, Qi Zhongbin and a group of tea guests came, and some people who were good at talking asked about the nearest people.

"Oh, this old man, we just came, I don't know what's going on?" "I've just arrived!"

"I arrived early, and there were some forbidden troops standing in the way just now!"

"Whose mansion is this?" "I don't know, do you live nearby?"

"This is not anyone's mansion, I haven't lived in it before, and the mage who recently unveiled the emperor's list is living there!"

"Oh, isn't that a big deal?" "No wonder there is a forbidden army!"

The surrounding crowd was amazed, and they only felt that something big must have happened, after all, the mage who unveiled the emperor's list and was specially arranged to live in the capital, but unlike those who were abducted and deceived in the capital, to a certain extent, they were recognized by the imperial court, and the people were willing to believe that they all had the ability.

Some of the tea guests were strong, and a group of people came together to squeeze inside, Qi Zhongbin was also taken care of, and the group didn't come early and squeezed into a relatively high position, only a few steps away from the forbidden army blocking outside.

Qi Zhongbin stroked his beard and looked at the direction of the gate, his eyes swept over some details in front of the door, and he saw some blood stains, and even vaguely saw some filthy qi that was slowly dissipating due to the scorching power of the sun.

"It's better to see less, so as not to be tainted with bad luck!"

Qi Zhongbin looked to his side, but saw that the mage who sold the couplets also came over.

Inside the mansion, the official mission led by Fu Xinbo, who had just arrived, had already come in, and a captain of the forbidden army came over.

"Brother Fu, you're here!" "Well, let's tell me what you know!"

The two obviously have a bit of a friendship, the so-called art industry has a specialty, and case detection is not what the forbidden army is good at.

"Follow me first!"

The two first went to a corner of the courtyard, but saw several corpses of the forbidden army, Fu Xinbo walked in and took a closer look, and found that their necks were purple and bruised.

There was no need for Fu Xinbo to speak, the commander of the forbidden army spoke.

"They were directly twisted off their necks, and this is very powerful!"

"Hmm!"

Fu Xinbo nodded and squatted down at the same time, squinting at the marks on the neck of the corpse of the forbidden army, and also saw some small holes, he stretched out his right hand and compared, the hand that pinched the neck flashed in his mind, and the feeling of the nails on his head also pinching the skin, but it seemed that the fingers were a little long.

No, it's not the length of the fingers, the length of the nails.

"Let's go and see the Lord!"

"Well, Brother Fu comes with me!"

The so-called master is naturally the mage who originally lived here temporarily, Fu Xinbo followed the commander of the forbidden army to a room and saw the corpse of a mage.

This corpse is much more terrifying than the forbidden army, the person who should have been an old mage, at this moment the body is dry and his eyes are protruding, and the skin on his cheeks is attached to the bones, as if he is a real skin and bones, and it looks very terrifying.

Seeing the corpse of the forbidden army outside, it was okay, as soon as he saw this situation, Fu Xinbo's heart jumped, and he looked at the lieutenant beside him, who also looked very serious.

It doesn't look like a human hand.

"There are a few others!" "Let's go, let's see!"

Unlike a small number of mages such as Gao Daoren who can enjoy the treatment of their own compound alone, even the mages who have been unveiled and have not been brushed down are also superior and inferior, and there are eight mages living in this house.

Including the disciples they brought with them and some of the officials who were responsible for taking care of them, there were more than thirty people, not counting the forbidden army on duty outside.

Fu Xinbo and the Forbidden Army Lieutenant looked at many rooms, the eight mages were all like dry bones without exception, and a small number of their disciples were also treated similarly, about sixteen people died in this way, and the rest were not alive, most of them were choked off their necks.

Coupled with the forbidden army in front of the door, none of the thirty-four survived one night.

The onlookers outside waited for a long time, and when they saw that some forbidden soldiers and officials came out carrying some corpses, someone suddenly screamed in shock.

"Ah, it's dead!" "Oh, that's a lot!"

The corpses were loaded onto several ox carts that arrived behind the officials.

When more and more corpses were brought out in the back, the onlookers were a little scared, and the official messenger rushed again, and the crowd dispersed a lot at once.

Qi Zhongbin looked at the corpses that were carried out, he knew that what was carried out was just an ordinary death, and the others were so frightened that they dispersed, but he got closer.

Some of the corpses in the back were obviously not lying down when they were carried out, but they were covered with cloths, and it was not clear what they looked like.

It was also at this time that Qi Zhongbin's gaze rose slightly, and he looked at the door of the house, where there were two special "official messengers" standing there, and the surrounding people, whether it was the forbidden officer or the people watching the excitement, seemed to be invisible.

Everyone's attention was on the official errand and the corpses that were carried away one after another, and only the mage who sold the couplets paid more attention to Qi Zhongbin.

"What are you looking at, old sir?"

At this moment, the mage also looked up in the direction of Qi Zhongbin's gaze, and even searched with his eyes, except for some roof tiles and the sky in the distance, there was nothing strange.

And at this moment, the two wandering gods on the door bucket seemed to be aware of it, turned their heads to look at the crowd on the outside, and saw the mage at a glance, after all, the magic robe was more conspicuous.

It was also at this moment, when the mage was frowning, he suddenly had a strange feeling, as if he had been seen by something, his body trembled slightly, and he looked at the door bucket just now, and vaguely seemed to see two vague outlines.

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