Qingtian County has been filled with a jubilant atmosphere these days, although it is not the New Year, but it is more lively than the New Year. All this is because the new county magistrate has beaten away the cat demon who has been making trouble in the county, and the people can finally sleep peacefully, so everyone is grateful to the new county order.

The demon extermination incident even alarmed the people of several counties next door, and they ran to this small Qingtian County with the old and the young, to see with their own eyes what kind of three-headed and six-armed fairy figure the new county commander was.

At this time, Qingtian County, which was originally remote and narrow, was packed with people.

If there are more people, there will be more trouble.

In order to prevent some treacherous people from taking the opportunity to steal property or do illegal things, the county order sent almost all the officials in the yamen out and asked them to patrol the streets of Qingtian County to prevent accidents.

I have to say that this county order is really thoughtful. Although his arrangement made his servants several times busier than usual, no one complained, and every official had pride and joy on his face.

There was only one soap-clothed official left at the entrance of the yamen, who was also standing proudly like a rooster who had won a fight.

"Stop!"

The official drank suddenly, his right hand was already pressed on the handle of the waist knife on one side, and he saw a strangely dressed person in front of him, and the other party planned to go directly to the county office without saying hello, so he didn't politely scold loudly:

"What do you do? Do you know what this place is, dare to trespass, be careful to eat the board. ”

"Why, isn't this the yamen of Qingtian County? Somebody came to the wrong place. ”

The man wearing the golden crown and the black robe stopped, he asked the official with a smile on his face, and without waiting for the other party to reply, he continued:

"Go and call your county order out to me."

"Ahh What kind of thing are you, you want to see our county master, you ...... too"

Before the word "matching" was spoken, the official felt a gust of fishy wind blowing in front of him, and he almost peed his pants in fright. It was actually the black cat demon that the county commander and the official didn't catch after spending a lot of effort a few days ago!

The black cat demon was half-lying on the ground, the sharp blades on its claws popping out, and the sharp fangs in its mouth glowed with cold light.

Damn my mom - my grandma!

The official almost subconsciously turned around and ran into the yamen, but he didn't have time to get up when he tripped over the threshold, and almost disappeared in the man's eyes.

The man in the strange suit chuckled, and with a wave of the black sleeve of his left hand, he dispelled the phantom of the black cat demon.

After a short time, the sound of clanging and rapid footsteps was heard, and the first thing to bear the brunt of it was the new county order with the ancestral sword.

"Where is the cat demon ......"

The county commander stood still, and hurriedly sheathed his sword, and his eyes quickly scanned the surroundings, but he found that the people on both sides of the street looked calm and everything was normal, not at all like the cat demon attacking.

His eyes turned around, and finally he locked on a man in strange clothes standing under the steps in front of the yamen.

"My lord, it's the cat demon he released, he's ......"

The new county commander waved his hand to stop the official from continuing, and he glanced up and down again with his eyes, and then slowly walked down the steps and bowed:

"Qingtian County Commander Guo Zida, dare to ask Your Excellency...... Five-Colored Spirit! ”

"Exactly."

The man in different clothes, who claimed to be a spirit official, nodded, he took off the red wine gourd on his waist, shook it, and then smiled at Guo Xianling:

"Can you ask Guo County Ling for a glass of water and wine?"

"Okay, good, it's really rude to the lower official, Lord Lingguan, please."

……

In the back hall of the yamen, the two sat down as guests and hosts. The county commander of Naguo hurriedly instructed his old servant to fry the new tea he brought from the capital.

"Lingguan, I don't know why you're here?"

Guo Zida was born in the capital scholar family, and he was promoted to the examination at a young age, and his family originally planned to dredge him up and directly let him enter the Hanlin Academy or be an official near the capital.

It was he who didn't want to, so he had to go to this remote place to make a small county order. His ancestors were born as military generals, but when it came to his generation, his family did not allow him to practice martial arts, and only taught him to read since he was a child, hoping that he could be a good official.

"Brother Guo doesn't have to be a Lingguan, I'm a little embarrassed to call him."

The man in different clothes took out an object from his arms, reached out and handed it to Guo Zida's hand, and said with a smile:

"My surname is Xia, and I know the cicada with two words, and I am one year younger than Brother Guo......"

The thing handed over was a two-finger-sized gold token, engraved on the front with "Heavenly Officials Blessing No Taboos", and on the back with a fly's head in small block letters with the detailed origin of Xia Zhicicada.

This thing is a characteristic of the Great Qi royal family, and it is given to each generation of five-colored spirit officials who walk in the world.

And the origin of this five-color spirit official has to start with the founding of the Great Qi State.

Three hundred years ago, demons were rampant in the world, and ghosts roamed the wilderness. In the previous dynasty, the Great Zhou Emperor was unscrupulous, favored strange and evil arts, and wantonly used people to sacrifice people for immortality. And Emperor Taizu of Great Qi started at the end of Weiwei, held high the banner of righteousness to crusade against Wudao, and got the help of capable people, and finally won the world.

When Emperor Taizu was in power, there were three capable people who subdued demons and subdued demons to help him. Only in this way can the decaying kingdom of the former dynasty be overthrown, and the demons and evil that are raging in the world can be driven to sparsely populated places, so that the people of the world can live and work in peace and contentment.

These three people are, Buddhism Bodhi Zen Master, Taoist Boundless Ancestor, and the first generation of Lingguan Yan Chixia.

After the world was pacified, Buddhism and Taoism flourished. Only the Lingguan lineage was incorporated by the royal family and became a special official position. This is because the people of the Lingguan line only learn the techniques of subduing demons and subduing demons, but they never seek immortals to worship Buddha, so they don't need to accept disciples like the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, and rely on incense to worship.

"Then even if the foolish brother is big, shout Brother Xia Xian. I don't know what Brother Xia Xian came to Qingtian County for, if he needs the help of Brother Yu, just ask. ”

Guo Zida hurriedly handed the Lingguan Gold Medal in his hand back to Xia Zhiciao's hand, he knew in his heart that the reason why the other party took out the token was to dispel the doubts in his heart and prove his identity. After all, it is not unheard of to pretend to be a spirit official to cheat on food and drink.

"Well, it's pretty much done."

Xia Zhician raised the wide black cuff of his left hand, shook it from side to side a few times, and saw a bulging thing come out.

It was a small, round black head with a pair of pointed ears on top of it. Two emerald green eyes adorn it, and a slender and lovely beard hangs on either side of a pink nose.

"Meow."

The kitten barked softly, and two small paws with pink meat balls hooked on the cuff of Xia Zhicicada's left hand.

"Brother Xia Xian is still so interested, this cat is very cute."

Guo Zida doesn't have cats, but just because he feels that this cat is really expensive, and he needs to spend a lot of effort to take care of it carefully, otherwise it will be easy to not be able to raise it.

In the past few days, because of the cat demon's troubles, he almost couldn't say the discomfort when he heard the cat meow, but seeing such a cute kitten, Rao is Guo Zida is a big man, and he can't help but feel a little fond.

"What? Brother Guo doesn't recognize her......"

"Don't recognize? This is not ......" Guo Zida was still looking at the little black cat on Xia Zhiciao's cuffs with a smile, but as soon as he heard this, coupled with Xia Zhicicada's identity, an answer appeared in his mind:

"This thing, could it be the cat demon?"

"Exactly."

Xia Zhicicada shook his cuffs again, and the kitten fell straight into the depths of the wide sleeves, and there was no movement at all. He picked up his tea and took a sip.

People in the capital love to drink Sushan clouds, and the best in this tea can raise a white cloud in the teacup, which lasts for a long time. You don't need to drink, just take a breath of cloud breath lightly, and you can taste the unique fragrance of the mountains and forests.

"Good tea."

Xia Zhician praised it, he had never drunk such delicious tea since he left the capital.

"Brother Xian, since the cat demon has been captured, why don't you kill this thing immediately......

Guo Zida's words were not finished, but what he meant was that since you have already caught the cat demon, why don't you kill it directly? Guo Zida didn't finish speaking because after all, he had only heard of the five-colored spirit officials, and he hadn't really received them, and he didn't know how they subdued demons and eliminated demons.

Some words are easy to offend people when they are said in a confused way.

Although Guo Zida is new to officialdom, he has been exposed to it since he was a child, and he also has a general understanding of this kind of twists and turns.

"My lord, it's the lower official who lost his word."

"It doesn't matter."

Xia Zhician waved his hand, he stared at the green leaf floating up and down in the teacup in his right hand, and after a long while, he continued:

"Buddhism talks about karma, and Taoism talks about reincarnation. In fact, all the avenues of Putian can be one......"

Well? Guo Zida didn't understand why the other party said such a profound sentence without a head. He only had a shallow understanding of the religious philosophy of Buddhism and Taoism, and he suddenly didn't know what Xia Zhician meant when he said this.

"The number of days is fifty, and the earth is forty-nine, leaving only a line for others to fight."

Xia Zhician put the teacup back on the table next to him, lightly dipped his right index finger on the tea, then pinched the magic with his left hand, and flicked his right index finger lightly.

Tick.

The drop of water flew down from his fingertips, through the heavy clouds, and smashed on the surface of the turquoise tea water, causing ripples.

Slowly, the fog cleared. There were so many figures in a small teacup.

Guo Zida was attracted by this strange scenery, and he no longer thought about the meaning of what Xia Zhician said just now, and his eyes were completely attracted by the figure that appeared in the teacup.

Xia Zhicicada's voice sounded in his ears, and as he said sentence by sentence, the scenery in the teacup was constantly changing:

"This cat demon's real name is Liu Cuicui, and he was originally from this Qingtian County. His mother died early, and his father gambled. When she was 12 years old, she was sold into the Wang family as a maidservant by her father in the name of repaying gambling debts, and was later insulted by her master to the point that she was pregnant. But the mistress didn't allow it, and poisoned her and the unborn child in her womb......"

In the small teacup, it shows how Liu Cuicui was sold by her biological father, how she was insulted, and how she was poisoned to death.

Her resentment was hard to dissipate, and she finally achieved the form of a cat demon by chance. So after 50 years, I came to seek revenge. ”

"Oh, I see." Guo Zida nodded, he had always been puzzled by something. That is, since the cat demon rebellion, only the Wang family compound in the county has suffered, and everyone else is fine. It turns out that this cat demon is taking revenge on herself.

"That'...... That's not right, I asked the mage to subdue the demon before, didn't I still have a Taoist priest who died tragically? ”

"That Taoist priest was Liu Cuicui's father in his previous life, and the money he got after selling his daughter was also lost in gambling, and then he suddenly had a serious illness, no one to take care of him, and finally died of hunger."

Xia Zhician stretched out his hand to cover the teacup, and the picture on the tea was finally frozen in Liu Cuicui's father dying of hunger and cold in a ruined temple.

Raise your hand again, and the tea has returned to its original state.

It's as if everything is a mirror.

"It turns out that this is the case, no wonder the old people say: everything is fate, and nothing is up to anyone. Now it seems that it is true. ”

Guo Zida was a little embarrassed, he didn't expect that there was such a story involving human life behind a demonic incident.

"I came to the county government this time mainly to find something. I'm tired of Brother Guo, help me find one or two. ”

Since the matter of the cat demon has been almost solved, Xia Zhician does not need to go to the county government at all. So he actually came this time for other purposes, and he didn't plan to speak until now.

"What? Although the virtuous brother said, the foolish brother must do his best. ”

When Guo Zida heard this, he hurriedly patted his chest and assured Xia Zhician that he was still swearing, but when he heard what Xia Zhician said next, he was directly stunned.

"A ......"

Xia Zhiciao's eyes froze, and two words gently spit out from his mouth:

"Human heads."