Xu Kun sighed, he was just the hall master, and he couldn't even persuade Yuan Xiu, let alone the minister.

"Oops! With your cultivation, you can't deal with that kind of monster at all, I really don't understand, what is Si Zheng thinking? ”

In this regard, Xu Kun started the topic again, asking about the cultivation realm of the two of them, and instructing them to hurry up and cultivate, not to be wasted, which extends to their martial arts.

Li Huaiyun and Ah Tian could only wait anxiously, and finally Li Huaiyun couldn't stand each other's verbosity, "Hall master! We're going to investigate the case! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Xu Kun also realized that he had said too much, "Since Si Zheng asked you to continue to investigate, there must be a reason for him, you have to do a good job!" ”

"Subordinates obey!" When they just wanted to leave, they were stopped by Xu Kun, "Pay more attention to the surrounding situation when investigating the case, when I was investigating the case of monsters, it was always... ”

"Yes, Hall Master!" The two responded loudly, interrupting Xu Kun's words, and then immediately took a few steps back.

Xu Kun thought about it, raised his hand again, and said loudly again, "When you find out what kind of monsters, you must be careful, some monsters are quite cunning, I used to... ”

"Subordinates follow the teachings!" Li Huaiyun and Ah Tian had already walked towards the street, and Xu Kun's voice came from behind them.

"When fighting monsters, you must be careful of the monster's fingernails, there may be poison."

Xu Kun looked at the backs of the two of them, and when the words came to his mouth, he could only swallow them, he could only talk to himself, "If I hadn't injured my knee at the beginning, maybe I could be like them now." ”

After the two of them left the Demon Slayer Division, their ears were finally cleared, and they sped up their journey to the official's house in the military department.

Li Huaiyun still complained a lot about this, after all, he was once caught, and after talking for an hour or two, his feet were weak, but this hall master was not soft-mouthed. "This Hall Master Xu is really verbose, after so many years, he is still talking about his heroic deeds, I really doubt that if he goes to the Teaching Workshop Division, will he talk to Oiran until dawn."

Ah Tian chuckled, "Don't complain!" That's what the hall master has been doing, since he injured his knee, even though he is the hall master, he has been doing patrol and night tours. ”

He quite understands people like Hall Master Xu, "If you have such an errand that you love, your life will be complete." ”

"Everyone has to find their place."

Li Huaiyun snorted, "His position is suitable for going to Temple Street to set up a stall and show people's faces!" ”

Ah Tian is actually quite envious of Xu Kun in his heart, and his goal is almost like this, the position of the hall master, the dull work, is basically the kind of life of a wife and children who are hot on the kang.

"It's really a fortune teller, it's quite suitable for the hall master!"

Li Huaiyun said casually, "This Hall Master Xu has been mixing in the Demon Slaying Division for more than 20 years, and he is only able to refine the Divine Realm, and he is hopeless to merge with the Dao Realm, except for doing things carefully and meticulously, he really has no other ability, I wonder why the Si Zheng let him sit in the position of the hall master!" ”

"Don't you know?"

"Ahh There's a story in it! "Li Huaiyun suddenly became interested, he was stronger than Xu Tang's major cultivation realm, and there were also those in the Sword Pavilion.

"Because he's got a hex in his knee!"

Li Huaiyun, who was full of curiosity, pushed Ah Tian, "Tell me seriously." ”

Ah Tian shrugged his shoulders, "This is serious!" ”

They walked a few streets and came to an open-air restaurant built in a shack, where a cheap food stall was run by an honest middle-aged man in his forties, who had set up a plot by the wall and started a small business.

On weekdays, Li Huaiyun and Ah Tian's lunch is basically solved here, and they only need to spend a dozen copper plates to have a full meal.

The food here is more practical than the restaurants in other places.

When the boss saw these two regular customers, he immediately stepped forward and greeted him skillfully, "Two, the same as usual?" ”

The two nodded, found a corner and sat down, the boss shouted, called out his daughter to come and greet the guests, this fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, in the cardamom years, waiting for the age of the boudoir, but for the sake of the family's livelihood, need to come out to help.

Li Huaiyun glanced at the little girl whose body had protruded slightly and was generous, "This boss's daughter is very pretty!" ”

Ah Tian glanced at him with disdain, "Little girl, don't beat her idea!" ”

"Aren't I complimenting other people's little girls on their beauty?"

"What is the boast or not, you, you need to find a woman, and then start a family, your mind will not be so debauched!"

Ah Tian pointed to himself, "It should be like me!" Find someone you like. ”

Li Huaiyun pouted, being toyed with like you? Speaking of which, he wanted to talk to Ah Tian about that woman again, but he didn't know how to speak.

After a while, their food was served, and Li Huaiyun obviously felt that the amount of food was less than before.

"Less!"

"yes!" Ah Tian looked at the busy boss, "It may be that little girl has a hand and fights less!" ”

"That's not too much less!"

Li Huaiyun didn't want to let himself suffer, so he immediately called the stall owner to report the situation to him.

After the stall owner found out, he showed a helpless look on his face, and said in a deep voice, "This year's harvest is too poor, the yield of this rice we cook has decreased a lot, and the price is a little higher, so the portion is less, which is also a helpless thing,"

"If the harvest is a little worse," he said, he turned his head to look at the stall, "it may even be closed." ”

The cheap rice used by the stall owners has a slightly poor taste, but it is better because of its relatively high yield, suitable for growing in places where the soil is not fertile, and can be harvested in multiple seasons, so it is suitable as a special substitute food.

In Kyoto, most of the hotels and restaurants need this cheap rice instead.

Hearing this, Li Huaiyun vaguely felt that this problem was likely to affect future grain prices, "In that case, wouldn't it be easy to cause famine?" ”

"Yes! It is indeed easy to happen at the moment, the weather in these months is really not good, and the harvest of the rice planted is too poor. ”

The stall owner sighed again, "The astrological division's forecast for the weather this year is not very accurate, and there will always be a lot of problems in the middle of the farmers sprinkling seeds in the field and harvesting!" ”

"Now..." The stall owner wanted to continue, seeing that one of the guests at the table had finished their meal and then got up to leave.

Seeing this, the stall owner looked a little bitter, he was hesitating at this time, whether to go up, and finally made up his mind, walked up tremblingly, and stopped the guests who were about to leave.

The men were dressed in guard armor and had swords around their waists, and they looked like the kind of people they didn't mess with.

"Official! Wait a minute! The stall owner's arms trembled, and he immediately walked up, "In the past few months, my stall has been difficult to make a living, can you invite a few officials, a few months ago, the account of the meal will be settled." ”

Several guards with knives in armor glared at the stall owner fiercely, the horizontal flesh on his face swayed slightly, he put his hand on the scabbard, and said in an arrogant tone, "Next month!" Give it again next month! ”

"That's not going to work! Sir, you've been dragging it out for months! We are doing a small business, but we can't afford this... ”

The guard standing at the front, hearing this, directly reached out and grabbed the stall owner's collar and lifted him up, "Are you fat or deaf?" Didn't hear what I said? ”

The stall owner struggled to grab the guard's arm and tilted his head over, "Master Guan, listen to my explanation, this place is really... ”

The bearded guard threw the stall owner to the ground, and then spat on him, "Lao Tzu will send you such a little money, and when this month is paid, I will naturally come back and pay it back to you!" ”

The guard glanced around, bent down, and shouted to the stall owner, "But since you said so, then I really should give it to you!" ”

When the stall owner heard this, he immediately knelt on the ground and kept bowing, "Thank you!" Mr. Official, Mr. Xie, Mr. Official. ”

Li Huaiyun sat there, a little unsightly, not only angry for these high-flying guards, but also ashamed of the stall owner's excessively humble figure!

The guard said loudly, "You set up a stall here to operate, and you need to charge operating fees, and you can collect it for this year's meal!" ”

Hearing this, the stall owner's face turned green, and he knelt forward, "Master Guan, we just paid the silver, why do we have to take things to pay off the debt." ”

"The silver taels you just handed over were given to me?" The guard kicked the stall owner in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

Not far away, the stall owner's daughter saw her father being kicked to the ground, and immediately rushed up with tears on her face and hugged her father.

"Don't hit my daddy, don't hit my daddy!"

When the guard saw the girl who pounced, his eyes lit up, and he looked at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl carefully, revealing a lewd smile on his face.

"Oops, hey!" With that finger, he leaned over and hooked the girl's face, "I say, you still have such a handsome daughter!" It just so happened that the official hadn't married yet, so he reluctantly married her! ”

He reached out and pulled the red-eyed girl like a beast in heat.

Li Huaiyun couldn't bear it anymore, and as soon as he wanted to get up, he was pulled by Ah Tian's cuffs, "These officers and soldiers don't seem to be from Kyoto, they shouldn't be easy to mess with, we are the people of the Demon Slayer Division, and we should be avoided." ”

"Remember what Si Zheng said? Don't get into a conflict with the people of the court! ”

Li Huaiyun clenched his fists and glared at the guards who were molesting the girl, "Do I want to watch these people do evil here, and be indifferent?" ”

"I can only report to the official!"

"When the people from the government come, this girl has been arrested and ruined, besides, these guards, the people of the government may not dare to take care of them."

Ah Tian knew that Li Huaiyun was righteous, and still persuaded Li Huaiyun not to act rashly, "Our duty is to catch monsters. ”

Li Huaiyun slapped the table and stood up directly, "These mermaids and flesh people, as a blessing, are more like demons than monsters, and the arrest of monsters is for the stability of the party here, and now there are more hateful things than monsters, why do we have no reason to arrest them." ”

"Calm down! Ah Yun, you just got out of prison. ”

"The prison can't shut up my sense of justice!" Li Huaiyun waved his hand, "No matter what your identity is, you can't stand such a thing!" ”

The girl was surrounded by several guards and pressed into the corner, and the stall owner tried to stop her, but was kicked aside.

The stall owner still ignored his injuries and tried to stop him again, so he was punched several times again and fell to the ground.

The girl in the corner was already full of tears, shrunk tightly, and cried loudly to tell those people not to come.

"Please! Leave me alone! ”