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Nightwatcher - Chapter 10

Published at 21st of April 2023 07:09:25 AM


Chapter 10

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The night sky is like a wash, dotted with stars.

Dafeng is the highest building in the capital, the star watching tower, and the office of the celestial supervisor.

The yellow skirt girl climbed up with light steps. When she passed the seventh floor, she heard a loud noise coming from Dan's room.

A group of alchemists in white, red in the face of quarrel.

"Why did you fail again? It's such a simple step. "

"As I said, it must be the wrong dose of salt."

"No, I think it's water."

"Fire? I saw elder martial brother Wan boil the salt just now. "

"It's too difficult. The alchemy of changing salt into silver is too difficult. I can't do it."

The yellow skirt girl named Caiwei smoked from the corner of her mouth and muttered, "these people are still making fake silver."

Two days ago, she brought back the story of changing salt into silver, but her elder martial brothers didn't believe it.

Can salt turn into silver?

Three year olds don't believe it.

But soon, the tax case was solved, and his majesty felt that the fake silver was very powerful and miraculous, so he ordered the qintianjian to refine the fake silver.

So the alchemists of qintianjian began to work on exploding the liver, and devoted themselves to the blessing of 996 day and night.

From two days ago, until now, we have been defeated many times.

"Caiwei is the younger martial sister of Caiwei." There was a cry of excitement.

Instant, a gaunt face turned, a pair of eyes suddenly put light.

"Younger martial sister Caiwei, how did the fake silver come out?"

"Younger martial sister Caiwei, come and help me to have a look. Is there something wrong with the steps? You're the only one who's made fake silver. "

Surround the yellow skirt girls.

Chu Caiwei had to enter the Dan room to watch the elder martial brothers refining fake silver.

"Failed again!" An alchemist in white who was operating on site lamented.

"Younger martial sister Caiwei, what's wrong?" All the white clothes put on an attitude of seeking advice with an open mind.

There's no problem. I refined it in the same way at the beginning. Chu Caiwei pondered: "this is the ancient alchemy. It's profound and obscure. It doesn't mean that you can learn it just by learning it. You need to learn in a simple way to be deeply rooted. I'll give you a pithy formula to remember. "

Elder martial brothers put on a posture of listening.

"H He Li be B C n o f ne Na mg Al Si P!" Chu Caiwei was very lucky in Dantian. She uttered this great formula word by word.

"How can we reconcile?" The elder martial brothers don't know how to feel. They understand every word. When they are combined, they are confused.

I don't know what it is... Chu Caiwei's deep smile is silent.

"Prodigy, prodigy, the man who wrote this formula is really a prodigy of alchemy." One elder martial brother in White said with emotion.

Where is the wizard, elder martial brother? Don't think about it! Chu Caiwei's smile remained unchanged.

"Younger martial sister Caiwei, who told you this formula. Did the younger martial sister meet an expert in alchemy and get her advice? "

Good question, Chu Wei! Throw out the pot gently.

"That man's name is Xu Qi'an, the nephew of Xu Pingzhi, the seven grade green robe of Yudao camp. You can just find him."

As soon as he heard that he was a warrior, the white clothes were not happy.

"Joke, I'm a good supervisor of heaven. I've got a lot of talents. I have to find outsiders to refine fake silver?"

"And a warrior."

"It's a joke when it comes out."

According to the different systems of practice, there are several interesting chains of disdain.

Taoism despises Buddhism, but Buddhism is contemptible.

Warlocks despise witches, witches despise demagogues, and demagogues despise warlocks.

Then, the Taoist and Buddhist magicians, the wizard and the demagogue, look down on the Wufu together.

As for Confucianism, I'm sorry. With all due respect, all of you here are rubbish.

However, modern Confucianism has been weakened.

"Younger martial sister Caiwei, please guide us."

Caiwei said, "next time it will be!"

She squeezed out from the group of elder martial brothers in white and continued to climb the stairs.

In fact, she doesn't understand.

Last time in the yamen, she made fake silver in one fell swoop. Afterwards, Caiwei tried again in private and failed.

Completely copied the previous process, but even if it failed, she did not know why.

The roof of the star watching building is not a normal eaves roof, but an octagonal platform, which coincides with the eight trigrams.

Therefore, it is called baguatai.

On the edge of the Bagua platform, an old man in white lies in front of the case, holding a wine cup in his hand and leaning on his head in the other hand, looking down at the capital.

The girl in the yellow skirt doesn't disturb her. The master doesn't do business on weekdays, so she likes to drink and watch the scenery on the gossip platform.

I don't like to be disturbed.

Pick a cup of wine, squint, said to focus on the world.

"Caiwei is here?" The old man in White said with a smile."Master." The yellow skirt girl smiles and trots over, standing on the edge of the eight diagrams, her skirt flying.

"What's the reward for the emperor?"

"A few hundred taels of silver, a few silks and satins." The yellow skirt girl said, "master, what is the fake silver?"

"I don't know."

"Is there anything else in the world that master doesn't know?"

"Too much, too much." The old man in White said with a smile, "master, I don't know where those thieves went nineteen years ago."

"You always say that the thieves nineteen years ago are hateful, but you don't tell me who they are or what they stole."

The old man in white got up and stood on the edge of the octagonal platform, sighing: "the stolen things are terrible."

"Do you know who made the fake silver?" Sima Tianjian is the birthplace of the warlock system. Alchemists in the world, even if they are not born in Sima Tianjian, must have a relationship with him.

Behind the tax and silver case, there was an alchemist who took part in it and produced this kind of strange thing, which was not ordinary people.

"As a teacher, I naturally know."

....

courtyard, main room.

Xu Qi'an lies on the bed and stares at the crisscross beams through the bright moon coming in through the window.

He was worried about his future, some at a loss, and some excited.

As a high-quality product of nine-year compulsory education, I have all the knowledge in my mind.

It can easily stand out in the backward monarchy society and become the most beautiful flower.

However, the society with the supremacy of imperial power often means that human rights can not be guaranteed. Today's society is a young model, and tomorrow's society will be exiled.

This is a phenomenon that makes any modern people feel more sad.

Thinking about it, Xu Qi'an fell asleep. When he woke up, it was bright. He put on his black suit, tied his belt, tied his long hair, and hung his sword around his waist.

He is upright, masculine and handsome.

I have to admit that ancient clothing has a bonus to both appearance and temperament, but it's too troublesome to go to the toilet.

He went over the wall to the second uncle's house for breakfast. His uncle and nephew went out to work together. Xu Pingzhi returned to his original post and everything was the same.

Changle County Yamen is the capital's Fuguo county. The Yamen is in the city, six or seven miles away from Xu's house. Xu Qi'an had no horse or carriage, so he had to take bus No.11 to get to the County Yamen in two quarters of an hour.

Changle County Yamen faces south from the north. There are two stone lions of equal height at the gate. On both sides of the red brown painted gate, there are big drums with peeling paint.

The structure of the county government is worth mentioning. Of course, the biggest one is the magistrate, who is called the chief official. He has two deputies, one is the county magistrate, the other is the chief officer.

These three officials were of high rank. They were organized in Xu Qi'an's time.

Under the three officials of the imperial court, there is a history book, also known as the chief official.

But there is no grade, not classy.

Then there are three classes and six rooms: the three classes are the soap class, the fast class and the strong class, which are responsible for the guard of honor, public security, arrest and so on; and the six rooms correspond to the six departments of the imperial court.

Xu Qi'an was the officer in the express class. He was called a constable in the Ming Dynasty.

When he entered the yamen, Li Dian Shi, who was standing in front of the hall, saw Xu Qi'an with a simple knife on his waist and was stunned.

That expression, as if the day saw a ghost.

The Yamen officers noticed that the leader's face was not right. They turned around one after another. Then, they also had the same look.

"Xu, Xu Qi'an, are you a human or a ghost?" There was a tremor.

Li Dianshi noticed Xu Qian's shadow on the ground. He felt a little relaxed and calm: "what nonsense is said in the court? Does the ghost have a shadow?"

When they heard the words, they were all relieved.

Xu Qian thought about it and said, "it can't be a walking corpse."

Li Dianshi was shocked, and the Yamen servants were worried.

Xu Qi'an quickly clasped his fist: "I'm kidding. I've met Mr. Dian Shi. My colleagues, I'm out of prison."

Li Dianshi asked, "what's the matter?"

They heard that the Xu family had been jailed for the tax case.

"Of course, he made atonement for his sins, performed meritorious deeds, tolerated the emperor, and pardoned the Xu family's guilt." Xu Qi'an immediately repeated the story, but gave the credit to the second uncle and took out the certificate given by Jingzhao government.

At the same time, I know that although the tax bank has been found, the judgment has not yet come down. That is to say, the dust of the tax bank missing case has not yet been settled. After all, we have to go through the process, not so fast.

Therefore, the gang of Yamen officers in Changle County did not know about it.

At the end of Dianmao, several familiar captors immediately came up to say congratulations.

"Ningyan, you have to treat people to drink."

In this era, when we call friends, we use words instead of names. When you introduce yourself, use your name instead of words.

"Yes, if you survive, you'll be lucky. It's a treat."

"I heard that the GouLan restaurant in Linshui street has bought a new batch of Qingshi people. Ningyan, will you come with us tonight?"It's OK to have a drink. The sleeping woman wants me to treat her. It's too much. Xu Qi'an just wants to say that he has no money. Suddenly, he steps on a hard lump and looks down. It's a piece of broken silver.

Is it true that there will be a good fortune if you don't die? He immediately stepped on it, quietly, pretending to see the scenery everywhere.

Waiting for everyone to take a few steps forward, Xu Qi'an quickly lowered his head and picked up his income pocket.

After walking through the corridor and sitting in the side hall on the west side for a few minutes, Li Dianshi came in with a gloomy face and looked at Constable Wang: "old Wang, the county magistrate asked us to go to the inner hall."

Constable Wang's face was bitter and he went out in silence.

Xu Qi'an watched the head Constable Wang's back disappear and asked, "what's the matter? The head's face is not very pretty."

"In the past few days when you were in prison, there was a homicide case in Kangping street. It was a merchant with a lot of money who died. The county magistrate was so angry that he had to catch Wang and scold him every day."

"It's just that a merchant died. There's no need for the magistrate to be furious." Xu Qi'an is eating melon seeds.

Since ancient times, people's lives have been major cases, but as a magistrate of Fuguo County in the capital, from five grades, it's not like this.

"Oh, the merchant's intimate relationship with an adult in the business, I think it's the pressure from there." The Yamen servant said, "besides, this year is the year of gengzi."

"The year of gengzi?" Xu Qian didn't respond.

"Jingcha!" The Yamen officer pointed out.




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