Chapter 21: The Girl's Talk
Hua Lin, who is in Shuanghe County, is completely ignorant of the Xianguan's fate and plans, and he has only recently come into contact with some not-so-absurd rumors - in terms of his preference for peachy news, the ladies of the upper class in the county town are no different from the farmers in the countryside, but fortunately, their husbands are either on errands in the county government or are related to the officials, so in all kinds of unbelievable scandals, there are finally some useful information that is not too distorted - It's just that if Hua Lin wants to dig them out, it is as difficult as digging for real gold in the sand. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
His former mentor was keen on tabloids and regarded reading clumsy and strange tales that plagiarized each other as a kind of practice, and Hua Lin thought that this was only part of the countless truths that his mentor had concealed, but he never expected that one day he would realize that this was indeed the truth.
There is an absurd and abnormal drama staged on the stage of the carved beams, to the effect that a certain brainless fairy suddenly found that he was kind and lovely after being robbed of his clothes by a mere mortal, not only did not care about his evil deeds of snatching clothes, but also volunteered to live with this poor man who had no friends, well, it was basically a one-sided feeding, the fairy was responsible for supporting the family and being beautiful like a flower, and the protagonist was responsible for ...... Responsible for kindness, until the fairy's family came to arrest the clothing snatcher, wrong, it was to arrest the brainless fairy, so this mortal who was less than 100 years old fought with a group of tens of thousands of years old immortals under the guidance of passers-by, and finally defeated a group of immortals, and took the fairy back to his hometown to farm and breed a bunch of mortal descendants who were stripped away by mortal landlords and officials.
The drama is already very absurd, and what is even more absurd than the drama is that it is still being staged today.
When the immortal officials came to Shuanghe County.
In Garo, the most merciful treatment for all the actors who dare to perform such a show is to silently drag their long tongues to rot in the deepest part of the prison, of course, they are cast a spell at the first moment they are caught, to ensure that their tongues are stretched out to the full three circles around the stage where they slander the intelligence of wizards, and then they have to soak their tongues in the excrement of all the prisoners so that they can "taste the shit they have made" and soak until they are rotten enough to leak through the sewer fence.
Under this harsh law that doesn't speak of human rights at all, even if a female wizard apprentice "forgets" to put on her clothes when she goes out – although the Age of Wild Dance has long passed, there are still some, in fact, quite a few retro female wizard apprentices who don't wear any clothes in the academy - others will turn their attention to their toes in the first place, rather than trying to turn her into their own private property through some "traditional custom" that violates the law.
Now that Hua Lin felt that the law was indeed a protection for fools, no matter how human rights they might seem, he could almost imagine what would happen to the protagonist of the drama when he appeared in the world of Garo to show his "kindness".
Retro female wizard apprentices, one counts as one, are all extreme fanatics, and in the Wine Moon Ceremony, where they have always tried to restore the laws of the Age of the Dancing Era, at least at some point in the academy they are allowed to do sorcery - they will imitate the wizards of the Age of the Dancing Age, and while drinking in the dance parade, they will unleash all kinds of powerful attacking sorcery as if they were testing the protection of the Academy, and thankfully, the others will generally be able to dodge in time to avoid being pulled by these madmen in public. And Hua Lin was very sure that when any female wizard apprentice found that her equipment was missing, she would never throw less witchcraft around than she did in the Wine Moon Ceremony, and that unlucky "good man" did not have the protection of the Academy.
And now, these humble actors have not noticed? They are incomparably mocking the magistrate of a county, an immortal who is said to be able to soar through the clouds and move mountains and seas, a judge who is close at hand.
Maybe not close at hand.
Hua Lin began to believe that the immortal official was indeed missing--he tried not to think about the rumors that she was hidden by a lowly little official, Jinwu, which led in a terrible direction, not because he had indirectly basically wiped out the Tian family, but because he began to wonder if the women of this world were infected with a disease that had hollowed out their brains, even immortal cultivators were no exception--fortunately, Wang Zhaodi was definitely not one of them, otherwise he would really have to consider getting himself a few brain fragments.
He believed in another possibility, she deliberately showed the weak and ignorant posture they thought she would have in front of mortals, and when the time came, after all, no matter how small and poor Shuanghe County was, it was still one of the states and counties of the Hundred Eyes Country, and the imperial court had not officially given up its rule here, and the unexpected decline of the Xiao family fairy might represent an intention to purge. He had already heard some complaints about the position from the wife of a certain assistant, her maiden family had married the Jiang family in the first place in the state four generations ago, although the other party was just a mortal, her family still relied on this relationship to seek a lot of benefits, and now the people of the Xiao family "even Shuanghe did not let go" really made her mention the word "Jiang" is not as elated as in the past.
Hua Lin meditated and listened to her complaints for an hour, and then prescribed her a dose of "Poison Pill", the main ingredients of which were Coptis and Rhubarb, to get rid of the poison she believed in because she had eaten the fake medicine sold to her by Jin Hantang.
Probably because this remote county town has not experienced hype activities for too long, Fang Xingtang's business has skyrocketed, greatly exceeding Hua Lin's expectations, eye medicine is almost not available, and the injury medicine has long been exhausted, but many noble ladies who are full of food all day long, and have nothing to do and therefore believe that they are poisoned are waiting in line for him to comfort, so Fang Xingtang basically does not need to sell medicine recently, and his door-to-door diagnosis and treatment business alone is ten times better than in the past, and other pharmacies can't insert it even if they are red-eyed, they don't have female apprentices!
In addition to the lucrative nature of the visits, the visits also allowed Hua Lin to enter the county's upper class social circles, which were previously impossible, and thus exposed him to more authentic information, although this information was still like a fog to him.
He needed more information.