Chapter 17: Introspection
When Zhou Ang returned home, it was not yet noon.
Unsurprisingly, a few more women from the neighborhood sat in the house, chatting with Zhou Cai's about some family matters.
Zhou Ang was only eighteen years old, and he followed his father's road back then, and entered the yamen, and now the brothers of the Chen family's generation are all officials in the yamen, which is a sign of development, not to mention that Zhou Ang has only been a few days since he entered the yamen to be an official, and the Zhou family is about to move, moving out of this poor Banzai Fang, it is said that there is a set of two-entry "big mansions"!
It is human nature to tend to be inflammatory, and the old neighbors who have lived in a street for more than ten years are developed, even if there is no benefit to rub, people come to sit before leaving, chat about the past, and strive to leave a good impression, which is really normal people's normal feelings - people are officials, and they have to ask for the door one day!
Two or three generations, or even three or four generations of the Zhou family have lived in this alley, although they will move out of here as soon as they are developed, but they will move back when they are down, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the neighbors have been together for decades - from Zhou Ang's grandfather's generation who moved out of this house, to Zhou Ang's father Zhou Ding's death, Zhou Cai's family moved back with a pair of children, and there was only a ten years in between.
The Zhou family, especially the Zhou Cai family, who lived back to Wansui Fang in the early ten years, has always acted introverted, and there must be a little friction between the neighbors, but there has never been a big contradiction.
Zhou Cai's own relationship with the neighbors has always been handled very well.
At this time, the Zhou family is about to move, regardless of whether it is sincere or false, everyone is spontaneously willing to come over to chat with Zhou Cai's family, which can be regarded as a gift, in Zhou Ang's case, there is no meaning of contempt.
Of course, the neighbors are busy with their livelihoods, they are all very busy, and those who can come and sit for a while are often forced to squeeze out time.
As soon as he saw Zhou Ang pushing the door back, Zhou Caishi, who was somewhat restless and perfunctory with several neighbors, immediately stood up and showed a relieved look - his son was urgently called away last night, although he had specially explained a few words before leaving, but he couldn't see him come back, and the mother would be worried.
When several neighbors saw Zhou Ang coming back, they were all somewhat restrained, and no one casually called "Zhou Family Official", some called "Zhou Family Official", some called "Young Master Ang", some called "Zhou Family Young Master", the most exaggerated, and those who had changed their name to "Great Official", all of them said hello one after another.
Zhou Ang smiled, nodded his greetings one by one, and paced into his study and bedroom.
The little girl Zhou Zi and sure enough, the cat is practicing calligraphy in it.
The brother and sister looked at each other and smiled.
Zhou Zihe put down the pen, opened and closed his lips mischievously but did not make a sound, and said in colloquial words: "I've been sitting for a long time, I'm annoyed!"
Zhou Ang smiled, went over to pick up her words, read them carefully for a while, praised a few words, and pointed out a few things that were not very well written, and then asked her to continue writing.
As a result, before Zhou Zihe sat down to write a few words, the guests outside said goodbye and left.
When they were sent out, Zhou Caishi came back and saw that Zhou Ang had already opened the bedroom door and came out, so he asked, "Everything in the yamen has been taken care of?
Zhou Ang smiled: "Mother, don't worry, it's nothing, it's a case, I stayed up all night, and now it's all dealt with." The murderer was also caught. β
Zhou Caishi hesitated, but he couldn't hold back, and asked, "Is it the murder case yesterday?"
Zhou Ang nodded and said, "Yes! The murderer has been punished." It's over!"
Zhou Caishi breathed a sigh of relief, quickly folded his hands, and silently recited a few times of Buddha Mito, before saying, "It's good to catch the murderer." Really...... This morning, I heard more than one person talk about this incident, and everyone was panicking, what do you say is the matter, actually committing murder on the street......
Zhou Ang smiled: "Mother, it's okay, it's really okay." A few people just went crazy. β
Then he asked, "What are the neighbors talking about?"
Zhou Caishi said: "What else can we talk about, let's talk about whether we are reluctant to move away, the main thing is to congratulate." Tell me how I am blessed, how you have the ability, how good-looking Zihe looks, that's nothing more than that. β
At this time, Zhou Ang had just smiled and was about to speak, when Zhou Zihe suddenly said behind him: "There is still someone who wants to kiss my brother! In the past few days, I have heard that one or twenty girls look like fairies!"
Zhou Ang immediately laughed when he heard this.
Zhou Caishi also smiled, turned his head and saw Zhou Zihe lying at the door of Zhou Ang's study, so he called her: "Come out, there is no one else at home, don't occupy the room to practice calligraphy, accompany me to clean up my things." Look at your brother, after a glance, there are a lot of bloodshot eyes in his eyes...... Ang'er, go sleep for a while!"
Zhou Ang nodded in response to "Okay", but said: "Mother, don't clean it up, there is basically everything over there, it is really missing from living in the past, you can also buy it again, and the things here are not very easy to use." It is enough to bring a few clothes that you will continue to wear later. β
Zhou Caishi sighed when he heard this, thought about it, and said, "Yes." β
Hurriedly picked up people again, "Go, you go to sleep for a while, and I'll call you when lunch is ready!"
Zhou Ang nodded, and when he turned around, he touched Zhou Zihe's double bun and urged her: "Wash your hair, touch the oil in your hand! There will be a lot of guests tomorrow!"
Zhou Zihe grimaced at him and ran out.
............
Closed the door, took off his coat, thought about it and took off his middle coat again, Zhou Ang was only wearing a pair of big pants of this era, so he felt cooler, but he was not in a hurry to lie down and sleep, but pulled out the chair and sat on it, rubbed his face, and let out a long breath.
Although he was busy all night, Zhou Ang was still very relieved that this sudden serial case could be solved in the current situation.
First, the person who was behind the scenes was found, and Gao Jing directly killed him, preventing the possibility of any accidents in the follow-up to let him escape, and second, the case was solved, not only to complete the requirements of the county Zhu Yamen to solve the case within a limited time in advance, but also enough to appease some panicked people in the city.
But in fact, Zhou Ang himself knows that the specific process of this matter, especially the process of capturing Wang Guo, is really thrilling, and it is by no means as beautiful as its final result - especially the fact that he was almost swallowed by that Wang Guo's soul.
At that time, if it wasn't for the idea that I thought of the mirror in my arms in less than a second, and it really helped, this matter would probably have been a different ending.
Therefore, Zhou Ang felt that in this matter, he had many things to reflect on and introspect.
One is that when you encounter similar things in the future, you should be more cautious.
Although I also knew that this world of cultivators was really full of dangers, after all, I didn't have a deep experience, and I didn't have the personal experience of facing danger and death like today, so I was still not careful and cautious enough when dealing with such things.
This is a lack of perception of a sense of crisis caused by staying in an environment that has been safe for more than 20 years and has little danger to life - now it seems that this is very serious, after all, the psychological stereotype of more than 20 years is too difficult to change, even if you encounter something that you think will be very dangerous, this psychological stereotype will make you subconsciously think that the danger of life and death is actually far away from you.
This was no problem in the previous life, even if you did something wrong in the office, it was a big deal to be fired, but in this world, this psychology has become "rash", and this "rashness" may even bring disastrous consequences the next time you encounter danger.
This must be changed!
In this world, any mistake can lead to death!
The second reflection and introspection brought about by this morning's arrest is that he feels that he has too little information.
Of course, this case alone is not my fault.
Soul dementorship is a magic of the evil sect, and there is not even a little information on the side of the county Zhu Yamen before, so it is obviously impossible to have any correct way to deal with it. But Zhou Ang believes that this kind of spell is definitely not the first time it has appeared in this world, so there must be information about it, but the above believes that this kind of case will not easily fall into too small a place, so the relevant information is not open.
Therefore, everyone didn't know that facing a cultivator with soul skills would be so dangerous, it was not a problem for any one person, not to mention, because of their own proposal, everyone had already prepared as much as possible.
I believe that after this incident, when the case is reported to the top, it should attract a certain amount of attention, and maybe some information will be sent down at that time.
In fact, in retrospect, Zhou Ang felt that he should have supported Du Yi's opinion last night.
At that time, it was because there was too little information about the soul dementorship that could be learned at hand, and some kind of danger was perceived from the cases that had already occurred, so when everyone was discussing, Du Yi once proposed that everyone should submit their judgment on this case, and would rather lose some points, but also pull in the county Zhu Yamen, and even ask the Taizhu Temple in Chang'an to give support, you can also work hard.
Because the time was completely in time, as long as there was no movement here, it was very likely that Wang Guo would not know that the official cultivators had already targeted him, so he could arrange it calmly.
It's a pity that although everyone was vigilant at that time, it was still not enough. So in the end, this suggestion was only half adopted, that is, two helpers were found from the county Zhu Yamen.
That's why I almost capsized.
It's still the same sentence, don't care about anything, the grasp of information is the key!
Therefore, the files in the archives will continue to be read, and you have to read the disgusting ones, this is the most first-hand information, it may not be complete, but it can make you as quick as possible to complete a part of the information.
Then, the batch of history books borrowed yesterday should be read carefully, set up more questions, and when you go back to return the books, you should pay attention to asking Lu Duan, the former prime minister, for advice.
He was a person who had been a prime minister, and although the official cultivator body was semi-independent, as a prime minister, he had the power to directly intervene in many things, so he should know a lot of extremely confidential things.
Although it may be old from twenty or thirty years ago, you can still greatly expand your knowledge - knowledge is information.
In addition, Zhou Ang also deeply felt his weakness!
The ninth order is the lowest level in the entire ranks of cultivators!
Although as long as you become a cultivator, your ability has already jumped out of the category of ordinary people, the paradox of this matter is that as long as you jump out of the category of ordinary people and become a cultivator, the danger you face will come from other cultivators or monsters!
So the danger has not diminished or diminished in any way!
In the face of this paradox, he knew that the only thing he could do, and the first thing he had to do, was to make himself stronger as soon as possible!
Although this paradox will always be there, that is, as you become stronger, you will inevitably encounter enemies stronger than you, but since you have embarked on this path, you will definitely be stronger and safer.
Of course, although this arrest was dangerous, and he almost capsized in the gutter, in addition to these lessons, there are still real gains.
And it's not small.
Putting aside the official level and the public level, they are simply talking about themselves. At the end of this matter, that is, the moment when Gao Jing stabbed Wang Guo to death with a sword, Zhou Ang felt that the aura in his body seemed to have undergone a small "convergence" - this time it was not as obvious as the last time he dealt with the case of the Spring Breeze Club, and the progress was greater, but his progress in that moment could still be clearly perceived.
The aura in his body that should have been scattered and ownerless, after this "convergence", is obviously more "suitable" to himself, and it seems to be more powerful.
Even, Zhou Ang faintly felt that if he came to two or three more things like the Spring Breeze Meeting and Wang Guo, he would probably have the opportunity to break through the shackles of the ninth order and go to the eighth order to take a look at the scenery at a higher levelβthe guidance technique was really a good thing. Very easy to use!
At the same time, I also have a very important gain, that is, through this incident, I suddenly discovered that the mirror that Master left for him when he left was really not a simple bronze mirror.
It has energy!
And it's a lot of energy!
In addition, what is even more surprising is that it seems to be not only passively triggered by its own "backtracking" to release energy to help itself, it can even communicate!
At this time, sitting in the Hu chair, rubbing this small ancient bronze mirror in his hand, Zhou Ang couldn't help but recall the words that the master said when he gave the mirror to him again, especially the three sentences of "You can be dressed properly, you can know the success, and you can know the gains and losses", and suddenly felt that it seemed to have a deep meaning.