The old man's name is Chi Xianhuai, and he is a lifter.

Since the birth of the imperial examination system, people have had two chances to be reincarnated, the first time in the Yama Hall and the second time in the school examination room:

As long as you can be admitted to Xiucai, this can be glorious for a while, if you can be admitted from Xiucai, it will be a glorious life, and the ancestors will be glorious.

There is a saying in the countryside, it is called the poor show talent and the rich raise people, and becoming a show talent is not a big change in life.

You must know that people have to eat, and Xiucai has no energy to farm and do business if he wants to concentrate on studying, so if he is not from a large family, Xiucai is often shy and has little money.

Lifting people is different, first of all, in terms of title, ordinary people call people masters.

When you get to the point of lifting, you will have the opportunity to be an official, and you will also have the four irons of life to go through the same window together, this kind of relationship network is very powerful, once someone in the same class boils out to become an official, they will give priority to finding ways to promote their own people.

The most important thing is that the land is attached, and the imperial court gives the people preferential treatment to the people, first of all, they are given a living allowance, and secondly, they are exempted from forced labor and given a quota for land exemption.

That is to say, the imperial court will not tax the land in the name of the people, so that the farmers who have fields around will take the initiative to take refuge with the fields, and the people will collect lower taxes from them than the imperial court, and they don't have to do anything, just lie down and collect money.

This is very powerful, become a landlord when you become a lifter, and easily complete the class leap.

Chi Xianhuai was a landowner, he could have been an official, but he had to leave Shangyuan Mansion to go to the local county seat.

However, he didn't look down on small places, and finally failed to grasp the opportunity to step into officialdom, which he did not regret, he lived freely by lifting his identity, living in the county town, with a house and a field at home, and a happy life.

It's a pity that Wang Qilin came.

Chi Xianhuai is very eye-catching, although Wang Qilin changed his official uniform when he was cleaning up at the post house, he can be an official with his own majesty, this is a temperament that goes deep into his bones, Chi Xianhuai, who often messes with fellow officials, saw it at a glance, and immediately asked respectfully:

"Who are you?"

Wang Qilin pointed back at the Heavenly Prison.

Chi Xianhuai glanced at him and then looked at Xu Da behind him, and said suddenly: "Are you the new Lord Tiewei Wang who is listening to the Heavenly Prison in this city? ”

Xu Da pursed his lips and said, "Have you seen my family?"

Chi Xianhuai smiled calmly: "I have never seen it, but the adults are extraordinary, high-spirited, and live in this room like a bright moon in the sky." ”

In addition, the student had heard his classmate and friend Liu Weisheng, who was in Taicang Langzhong at the time, talk about the fact that the adults were going to come to the city to perform their duties, so they dared to guess. ”

Wang Qilin said: "You guessed right, then guess again, who is this girl you want to marry back as a concubine?"

Chi Xianhuai suddenly trembled.

Everyone is a man, what do you have to think about when you encounter such a superb product?

Wang Qilin knew that this Chi Xianhuai was an old man, but he was helpless:

The first family didn't make a big mistake, they just shamelessly came to Suisui to propose marriage.

The second is that he is a lifter, and behind him stands a group of landlord friends and fellow civil officials.

Third, he flattered himself vigorously after seeing himself, as the so-called reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, he was not easy to shoot.

So he gave Ambassador Xu a look, and let Xu Da deal with the things he couldn't handle.

Xu Da nodded in understanding, and he gave Yameow another look.

Eight meows and one stunned, meow meow?

It gave Nine-Six a look to the next one.

Jiuliu received its instructions, without saying a word, lowered his head and took a bite on the old man's leg.

Chi Xianhuai, a scholar, how can he have the experience of being bitten by a dog?

Jiuliu's mouth scared him into a Buddha who was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven, and opened his mouth and shouted while retreating: "Mad dog, where did the mad dog come from? Come on, give the master to fight this mad dog!"

He brought his servants to the teahouse, and as soon as the servants heard his master's order, he immediately grabbed a chair and rushed up.

Hu Tu reached out and pressed the shoulder of the house slave, and grinned: "Don't move this chair." ”

The servant was furious and wanted to scold him, but the smile on his face changed to a sneer, stared into the servant's eyes and said, "I am saving you!"

Glancing at him, the servant's expression was in a trance, and he staggered out of the door as if he was drunk.

Xu Da grabbed Jiuliu, and he said solemnly to Chi Xianhuai: "Master Chi, you don't know, this is not a dog, this is our spirit beast that listens to the heavenly prison!"

"The spirit beast will not easily put its mouth down, it must be that you have a little ghost wrapped around your leg, this spirit beast will help you drive away the little ghost, so according to the rules of the court, you have to thank it. ”

Chi Xianhuai was stunned for a moment and asked, "Master, I have to thank it and a dog?"

Xu Da said: "Yes, the tengu is a spirit beast and an auspicious rui, you had better thank it, otherwise it will be dissatisfied, and I am afraid that there will be trouble in the future." ”

Chi Xianhuai's willingness to retreat to Wang Qilin does not mean that he is a coward, he has lived for sixty or seventy years, and it is not easy to be fooled, so he suddenly sneered and said: "I am reading the book of sages, worshipping the two saints of Confucius and Mencius, but the disciples of saints, how can I apologize to a dog?"

He bowed to Wang Qilin and said, "Lord Wang's forgiveness, the student can't talk to you today, you have to go to the hospital to take medicine quickly, we will have a date later." ”

Looking at his limping back, Wang Qilin sneered: "Master Xu, find a brother to knock him on a stick." ”

Xu Da was stunned for a moment and said, "Just let Jiuliu bite him, he is just wishful thinking, and he didn't make a big mistake." ”

Wang Qilin was furious, he stretched out his hand and slapped it on the table and said sharply: "This old pig is not an ordinary delusion, he actually covets our family's Suisui, what crime should he be guilty of?"

Xu Da suddenly, he also slapped the table and said, "His crime should be punished!"

Suisui Niangzi watched the two brothers perform with a smile, and she patted the table and said, "Why don't you go to the kitchen to get a kitchen knife and kill him?"

Eight Meow cooperated and played a set of meow meow boxing.

Ninety-six didn't know why, but in order to avoid being beaten, it stood up and learned to punch a set.

The teahouse is still called the fifth taste, in addition to selling tea and wine as usual and adding meals, it happens that the teahouse has a downstairs lobby and an upstairs seat, and Suisui Niangzi can open it after a simple tidying up.

She was also about to invite a storyteller to tell in the lobby, Wang Qilin said: "What kind of gentleman is this invite? Just let Xu Ye come, no money." ”

Xu Dayi was anxious when he heard this, and said: "Seventh master, you have a new love and forget your old love, but Uncle is your right-hand man." ”

The two quarreled, and Suisui went to prepare dinner for them.

There is no need to eat any fancy dishes when the weather is cold, the big pot stewed meat is the most suitable, with sweet potato vermicelli and frozen tofu, Wang Qilin directly invited the remaining 30 or so people in the post office to have a meal.

Early the next morning, Wang Qilin practiced swords in the school field, and Yang Dayan, who had been the porter at the post office that arrived in advance, walked with a crutch and came to report: "Seventh master, didn't I come to this county town in advance? ”

Wang Qilin put away his sword in a dashing manner and asked, "What's the news?"

Yang said solemnly: "There are rumors everywhere in the city, saying that there is an evil gang called Xingtian Sacrifice that has been destroyed by Tingtianjian, and this evil gang has sold women, girls and children, and Tingtianjian wants to investigate this matter thoroughly, whether it is selling women and girls or buying women and children, it must be investigated!"

"And!"

According to the news, Qian Xiao, the former iron captain of the city, demanded a careful investigation of the traders of women, girls and children before making a judgment. But the high-ranking officials above the Heavenly Prison were impatient, and sent a bad star to violently investigate the case, no matter the reason, as long as it has anything to do with the Heavenly Sacrifice, they will be sentenced and convicted!"

"There is also news that Seventh Master, you climbed to the position of Iron Captain by means of brutality, and this time you came to Shangyuan Mansion to create a great injustice!"

Wang Qilin was annoyed and said, "Let it its stinky fart, is this giving me eye medicine?"

There must have been someone who leaked the rumors related to the Xingtian Festival, and some people who had done business with them were afraid, so they released their mouths in advance to stir up the emotions of the people, and at the same time, it was also a preventive shot for those related to the Xingtian Festival:

They all gritted their teeth, and as long as they listened to the heavenly prison investigating the matter, they would say that they were wronged.

Near noon that day, Yang Dayan sent a letter: "Seventh Master, Lord Taiba sent someone to bring you a document, saying that it is confidential information, let you take a look at it quickly." ”

Wang Qilin took the letter and opened it, it was full of names and information, it was the roster of people who had made transactions with the Xingtian Festival in the Shangyuan Mansion that Zhong Wuzhi asked You Xing to sort out.

Uehara Mansion is indeed a big city, and there are quite a few transactions with the Xingtian Festival, and there are no less than fifty of them.

He probably swept it through, and actually swept a familiar name from it: Chi Xianhuai!

The transaction is recorded behind the name, and Chi Xianhuai once purchased an atavistic girl with animal ears and a tail from the Xingtian Festival.

As soon as he saw this content, Wang Qilin was sure that this Chi Xianhuai must be the rhodium, cesium, and beryllium that he had just seen yesterday!

He went to Xu Da and Xie Toad, slapped the letter on the table and said: "The soldiers are divided into two ways, Daoye, you are waiting for Huang Junzi to arrive in the yamen today, and then take him to find out the news of the prince." Xu Ye, come with me, let's go and do it, Chi Xianhuai!"

Now some people in the city are very worried about listening to the Heavenly Prison to investigate matters related to the Xingtian Festival, so relevant rumors are flying all over the sky, and the gangs and people who have traded with the Xingtian Festival are ready to play Tai Chi with the Xingtian Festival.

In this way, the first person to do it has to be well chosen.

When the first cannon is completed, it will be simple to make an appointment in the future.

Rhodium, cesium, and beryllium all understand this truth.

In this way, it is necessary to have a late pregnancy.

Wang Qilin even wondered if Suisui Niangzi was helping him.

Chi Xianhuai made many mansions in Shangyuan Mansion, but he rented them all out and lived in an old residential area, which was the first house he bought after coming to Uehara Mansion.

The old residential area is a bit like an urban village, it is on the northeast side of the city, and then there are mountains, which were originally some villages that rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and then the peaceful and prosperous times, life development, and the repeated expansion of the Shangyuan Mansion have wrapped this village.

There are still many traces of villages in this urban area, the roads are longitudinal and horizontal, the neighborhood is warm, the chickens and dogs smell each other, the clan is built together, and the village has a small medical center, a small grocery store and a private school, which is simply a city within a city.

When Wang Qilin and Xu Da arrived, there was a group of naughty children playing with spinning tops on the street, and they were whipping spinning tops around a frozen ditch, playing with hot air on their heads.

By chance, a child saw them, and the child was immediately excited, and shouted, "Go and call my father, it's this stupid big guy who robbed me of my sugar yesterday!"

Wang Qilin took a closer look at the children and was immediately happy, what a coincidence, they actually ran into the group of naughty children they had met on the glacier outside the city yesterday.

A child sniffled the little green dragon in his nose and ran away, and the naughty boy who had been robbed of the candy man rushed over and stretched out his hand to stop them, and said arrogantly: "Don't go!

Xu Da said: "Child, it's good that the uncle robbed you of the candy man yesterday, but he gave you a handful of copper baht, isn't that copper baht enough for you to buy ten sugar people?"

The child smiled slyly and said, "I don't care, you robbed me of the candy man, unless I give me another copper baht, I won't let you go, let my father report to the official to arrest you!"

Wang Qilin kindly persuaded him: "Your father is here, and your ass is about to bloom." ”

The child pointed at him and shouted, "Little White Face has nothing to do with you here, get out of the way!"

Wang Qilin said: "Well, it turned out to be a bear child, what I didn't say, today the little white face will teach you a lesson." ”

Soon a sick and thin man came running with a fat young man, one carrying a flat shoulder and the other carrying a hoe, and shouted from afar: "Who is robbing my son of his money?"

Xu Da was dumbfounded, ran into Diao Min?

The people in the city were somewhat knowledgeable, and the father and son ran to the front and saw the official robes on the two of them in a panic, and quickly knelt down to salute without saying a word.

Xu Da went up and asked, "This child is the son of the two of you?"

The man said anxiously: "Back to the big and the adult, the villain is the son of the two of them, no, the two of them are the sons of the villain!"

When the urchin saw that the situation was not good, he was about to run.

Wang Qilin was not soft on the bear child, he looked up, Jiuliu shook his little short legs and quickly chased after him as if he was stepping on the wheel of a car, opened his mouth and bit him on his trouser leg and dragged him down.

Xu Da didn't want to waste time, so he said simply: "You take care of your son, he has a very cheap mouth, and he reverses black and white, obviously he picked up the uncle's money yesterday, and today he actually told you that the uncle robbed him of his money?"

The boy panicked when he was pounced on by the dog, and he shouted, "It's not me, it's me, it's my father, yesterday my father saw the copper baht in my pocket and told me, and he said that when he saw the rotten good guy who gave me money again, he grabbed him and said that he had robbed me of my money." Don't let the dog bite me, let the dog go quickly, come and save me!"

When he heard this, the thin man was shocked, he picked up his flat pole and rushed up to slap his son: "Let you talk nonsense, let you be cheap, and dare to talk nonsense to Lao Tzu at this time?"

The man protects the calf, he looks like he is wielding a flat pole to beat the bear child, but in fact he wants to open the ninety-six.

But ninety-six is a tengu, the first time the flat arm was thrown up, it avoided it, and the second time it was thrown at it, it was angry, and the lightning bit the flat arm, and the upper and lower two small mouths were closed: "Click!"

The flat slab was shattered.

The thin man was shocked, threw away the flat pole and dragged his son back quickly.

Seeing this scene, Xu Da shook his head and said, "Seventh Master, forget it, this child, this family, we can't control it, this child is wasted." ”

Wang Qilin looked at the father and son with great interest, and said, "I don't interfere with how their families educate their children, but you look at what they are wearing and think about the poison in the sugar man yesterday, isn't it a bit weird?"

He walked over to the child and asked, "Where did you come from yesterday's sugar man?"

The naughty boy bullied the soft and was afraid of the hard, and when he saw Wang Qilin in an official uniform coming over, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak for a while.

The thin man shook his hand and gave his sons a big mouth, and said angrily: "The official asked you what you said, are you dumb?

The urchin was frightened and in pain, so he rolled on the ground and cried bitterly, playing the scoundrel.

The thin man was afraid of being angry, so he smiled and said, "The sugar man the adult asked, is it the little red boy that the villain's cub ate yesterday?"

Wang Qilin nodded and said, "Yes, where did it come from?"

The thin man said: "I bought it, I bought it from Lin Lao Wu's family, Lin Lao Wu is a sugar man, if the sugar man has something to do, it must have something to do with Lin Lao Wu, and it has nothing to do with the villain's cub!"

Things are not clear yet, and he shirks responsibility first.

Wang Qilin asked, "Where does Lin Lao Wu's family live?"

The thin man pointed to the east and said, "My lord, you go that way, walk two intersections in a row, and then you can smell the sweet taste of syrup, that is Lin Lao Wu's home." ”

Wang Qilin nodded and asked, "Where does Chi Xianhuai's family live?"

The thin man was at a loss: "Who? Chi Xianhuai?

"He's a lifter. Xu Da added.

The thin man said suddenly: "Oh, you ask Master Chi's house? Master Chi's house is here, forget it, the villain will take you there personally, it just so happens that the villain has to go to his house to buy two pairs of medicines, cough, cough, cough, the villain's body is poor, and he will suffer from the wind and cold in this winter." ”

Not only is his body and bones not good, but his eldest son's physical condition is not very good, at first Wang Qilin only felt that he was fat, but now he found that he was edema!

Chi Xianhuai's family conditions are very good, no wonder he lives a good life even if he is not an official, first, he is a lifter, and second, his family is a medical center, and the largest medical center in this residential area is where their family belongs.

The thin man on the road thought that they were Chi Xianhuai's friends, after all, the old man had many friends in the officialdom, and they would see the officials coming to visit Chi Xianhuai as soon as they arrived at the New Year's Day, so he tried his best to say good things about Chi Xianhuai.

The man said that their pharmacy uses real medicine and is cheap, and if there is any problem, it can't be cured by spending 50 copper baht in other pharmacy, but buying 10 copper baht medicine at their house can cure it.

Chi Xianhuai's pharmacy is not large, and there is a couplet engraved on peach wood on the left and right at the door: I hope that everyone in the world is healthy, and I do not hesitate to put medicine on the shelf.

Horizontal batch is 'the world is peaceful'.

The thin man proudly pointed to the couplet and said: "The villain also recognizes the words on it, Master Chi is a living immortal, he taught us poor men who are not as good as pigs and dogs to recognize words, we all recognize this couplet." ”

At this time, the pharmacy had already opened, and a couple came out with their arms, they coughed all the way, and saw the thin man say hello to him, obviously they were all neighbors.

Lang Zhong, who was sitting in the pharmacy, was stroking his beard and weighing medicine, and suddenly looked up and saw Wang Qilin and the two, he stood up with a smile on his face and asked, "The two adults are here to visit my master?"

Xu Da sneered: "Do you recognize our skin?"

Lang Zhong looked at their official uniforms carefully, and then his face changed: "You two are the official masters who listen to the heavenly prison?"

"That's right," Xu Da raised his head and chested, "Let your master come out, his matter has happened, and the official wants to bring him to justice!"

Lang Zhong was taken aback, and he stepped back again and again, and suddenly hit the medicine shelf, and then he shivered and ran into the back door with the shelf.

Looking at the panicked back, Xu Da smiled and said, "Hey, there are ghosts." ”

The thin man was stunned and said, "How do you know?"

Wang Qilin asked, "What do you know?"

The thin man said mysteriously: "There are ghosts, there are ghosts in this house of Master Chi's house! The little female ghost who sucks people's yang energy, Master Chi has to move several times in the past two years, but his wife does not allow it, saying that he will suppress this ghost here, so as not to make trouble for it!"

Wang Qilin frowned and asked, "There are ghosts in this medicine shop?"

The thin man nodded solemnly, and he was about to explain carefully, when Chi Xianhuai walked out quickly with an old woman with a panicked expression.

The two sides looked at each other, and Chi Xianhuai was startled: "Ah, Lord Wang, why are you here?"

Wang Qilin said, "Let's go into the house and talk?"

Chi Xianhuai invited them in, and immediately a maid came up to serve tea.

Wang Qilin pushed away the tea and said, "You don't need to drink tea, the official came to ask you directly, did you buy a girl with hairy ears and hairy tail a year and a half ago?"

Chi Xianhuai nodded and said: "Yes, the student's family and many neighbors know about this, there was a juggling team to act at that time, and some of them were strange, and the juggling team didn't treat them as people." ”

The students felt pitiful for them, and after begging for a while, they bought a girl. I wanted to save her from the sea of suffering, but I didn't know that she was blessed, and after she came back, she kept getting sick, and the student's family opened a pharmacy, but he couldn't save her, and finally watched her die of weakness day by day. ”

In the end, Chi Xianhuai closed his eyes and raised his head, and old tears flowed out.

Wang Qilin smiled and said, "You really bought this girl from the juggling team? According to the official's investigation, you bought her back through someone, right?"

"And you said you had good intentions, but I heard that you were tired of playing with ordinary girls, so you wanted to buy a leprechaun to seek novelty?"

Chi Xian was furious, he opened his eyes and shouted: "This is slander! My lord, someone slanders the students! How can a student do such a thing when he reads the books of the sages?"

This was not unexpected.

Zhong Wuji originally proposed to bring to justice all those who had anything to do with the Heavenly Sacrifice, but how many people would be involved and on what basis would they be punished?

Zhong Wuji didn't say anything, and he didn't know either, anyway, he wanted to set up a business with the Xingtian Festival, according to his original words, it was because these people were crazy bastards.

Some of them sell their children inside, some buy children and send money to them, and it is their responsibility that the Xingtian Festival can develop to this day.

But Shu Jie, Taiba and others are opposed to rashly dealing with these people, the reason is that they are killed by the sacrifice of the heavens, and they are fleeing, and they lack evidence!

Just like Wang Qilin is now encountering this situation, Chi Xianhuai insists that he bought the girl out of pity for her, so how can the Heavenly Prison arrest him? How can he be convicted if he is arrested?

Especially the girl is still dead, there is no proof of death, and they are helpless to Chi Xianhuai!

However, Wang Qilin is confident in dealing with Chi Xianhuai, the two have already dealt with each other, this scholar is lustful and courageless, as long as he finds a breakthrough to scare him, he can make him confess.

So he had to find this breakthrough.

Coincidentally, when he entered the pharmacy, he first saw the doctor in a panic and Chi Xianhuai's wife Chi was panicked, and there should be a breakthrough in these two people.

So Wang Qilin changed his direction, and he asked Chi Shidao: "Old lady, you were very scared after seeing this official, why?"

Chi Shi said in a panic: "Please Lord Mingjian, Adult, Lord Mingjian, that, that little goblin was killed by me!"

As soon as the word came out, the house was horrified.

Xu Da immediately asked sharply, "Have you ever killed someone?"

Chi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "My lord Mingjian, I didn't kill anyone!"

"I—I'm just stopping my lord from saving her! She's a goblin, she's really a goblin, she can suck people's yang energy, she lives by absorbing people's yang energy!"

"My lord was sucked yang energy with her at first, and after the lord separated from her, my son was also sucked yang qi with her, and finally I locked her in a side room, and brought her food with good food and drink, but I didn't let her stay with men, and as a result, she gradually became weak!"

"The neighbors and the guys at the pharmacy know that I didn't kill her, I just wouldn't let her be with a man, and then she got weaker and weaker, and finally, finally, she died!"