Chapter 386

[Nine: A while ago, I sneaked back to the Earth Sect while the Taoist leader was asleep, but I was ambushed. I escaped to the capital of Daibun and saved my life. In order to avoid being killed, I gave the sealed mirror to … Chen Jinnan.]

[Not only did you reveal my gender, but you also hinted at my age …] Xu Qi'an was a little angry. He could have disguised himself as a transvestite or a master in Heaven & Earth Society.

[Nine: Then, with Little Brother Chen Jinnan's help, he killed Violet Lotus and escaped the calamity.]

[Two: Number Three, which yamen are you from?]

[That's like a netizen asking for my address. It's impossible for me to tell you …] Xu Qi'an had an idea and imitated Xu Erlang's tone.

[Three: Yamen? The yamen in the capital is just a bunch of people who don't do anything.]

Number Three seemed to be very disdainful of the yamen, and his tone was a little arrogant. There were only a few official forces in the capital. First of all, Renzong was excluded, and the Jinlian Taoist priest would not cooperate with Renzong.

The night watchman would not describe the yamen in the capital like this. Was it the Celestial Commissioner or the Yunlu Academy?

His tone was very similar to the scholars in the Confucian School who boasted that "reading is the best of all".

In front of the mirror, Number Two and Number Lu made a guess at the same time.

[Two: Number One is also in the capital. Maybe you two know each other. Number One, I know you're watching in front of the mirror. Did you hear what happened today?]

[One: A Jianghu man died in the Lunar Osmanthus Restaurant in the inner city. A hill 60 miles away from the east side of the city was pierced through by an unknown method.]

After a short pause, Number One sent another message.

[Number Two, have the bandits in Yunzhou been appeased?]

'Interesting!'

Xu Qi'an raised his eyebrows.

He smelled the scent of a palace drama.

Number Two dragged Number One into the water and sent him a message: Number One and you are both in the capital.

This was obviously targeting Number One. The reason was simple. After the conversation just now, everyone knew that Number Three was from the capital.

However, as Number Three, he did not know the information of the others. Number Two could not reveal this.

Number One immediately retaliated with a tooth for a tooth. He confidently threw out the news, showing that he had a channel to give Xu Qi 'an a heads-up. At the same time, he made a counterattack against Number Two.

Number Two was in Yunzhou … Bandits … Was she also from the yamen?

Yunzhou was plagued by bandits every year, so it was called 'Bandit State' by the people.

While Xu Qi 'an was deep in thought, Lu Hao and Number Two were also digesting the information given by Number One.

Thirty miles east of the city, a hill was pierced through … There was too little information to determine what cultivation system it was, but it was certain that it was a high-ranked powerhouse.

[Two: How can it be pacified? The Emperor of Da Feng is a brainless monkey. He only thinks about cultivating and doesn't know the suffering of the human world.]

Xu Qi 'an guessed that … Number Two shouldn't be getting paid by the imperial court …

[Two: Putting the previous years aside, this year alone, I have checked the household registers of all the prefectures and counties in Yunzhou. I have investigated everywhere and roughly estimated that at least sixty thousand people have fled and become refugees or bandits.]

Refugees were people without land. They had to live. Some begged, worked, and some became bandits, robbing the people. It was a vicious cycle.

The land was gone, but the people still had to live. Some begged, some worked, and some became bandits, robbing good people, forming a vicious cycle.

Number Two continued, "I eliminated a dozen groups of bandits and found that there was an even more powerful force behind them."

'Number One: Have you found anything?'

'Number Two: No … Right, how is the situation in Jingdou?'

Xu Qi 'an did not wait for Number One to reply. He typed in the information first.' Number Three: Assistant Minister Zhou has fallen. The political battle has begun. However, Assistant Minister Zhou's fall is absurd. The cause is that his only son was blinded by lust and attempted to defile the second daughter of the Marquis. '

His words were to send a message to Number Two. He wanted to show his skills to everyone, and at the same time, to test Number One.

Those qualified to participate in the court battle knew that the true cause of Assistant Minister Zhou's fall was the tax case.

What disappointed him was that Number One did not correct him.

'Number One: Jinlian Taoist priest, I have investigated for you. Yunlu Academy's Secondary Saint Academy was sealed on the sixty-year day. Other than Princess Royal, there was also a low-ranking official called Xu Qi 'an among the outsiders at Yunlu Academy that day.'

“！！！”

Xu Qi 'an's heart jumped. He felt panic as though he was being searched and his address was published on the internet.

What was the background of this Number One, why did he investigate what happened on the sixty-year day … Xu Qi 'an remembered. On the sixty-year day, Erlang had taken him to tour Yunlu Academy. On a whim, he had written the four lines of Hengqu on the stone stele.

It had caused the apparition of clear energy in the Secondary Saint Academy.

At the same time, he was very curious why the Jinlian Taoist priest cared about the changes in Yunlu Academy.

Logically, this was something only the scholars of the Imperial College would care about. What did it have to do with a Taoist priest of the Earth Sect?

'Number One: However, that low-ranking official was mediocre. Other than his talent in poetry, he was only in the Spirit Refinement realm. He was not a student of Yunlu Academy, much less a scholar.'

'Number Nine: Yes, I understand.'

'Number Three: Why does the Taoist priest care about the changes in Yunlu Academy?' Xu Qi 'an tried to probe.

'Number Nine: I want to know if Secondary Saint Cheng's stone stele cracked.'

'Number Three: Is this very important?'

'Number Nine: Very important.'

It cracked … Xu Qi 'an did not tell the Jinlian Taoist priest. Even if he wanted to say it, it was not now.

'Number Three: I have something to ask everyone.'

'Number Two: Speak.'

'Number Three: Is the Celestial Commissioner the only one who has a gold cultivator?'

Xu Qi 'an's words had basically eliminated his identity as the Celestial Commissioner's disciple.

Everyone was even more certain that he was a scholar of Yunlu Academy, a student who was highly regarded by the elders of the academy. Otherwise, he would not have been able to hire a high-ranked powerhouse to kill the Purple Lotus Taoist priest.

This was exactly what Xu Qi 'an wanted.

'You think that I'm a student of Yunlu Academy, but I'm actually a night watchman. In the future, when you realize that I might be a night watchman, you'll realize that I'm really a student of Yunlu Academy. Or perhaps, you'll realize that I'm the life mentor of the Celestial Commissioner's gold cultivators.

'Lu: Let me answer this question. Six hundred years ago, there was no warlock system. It was only after the founding of Daibun that the Celestial Commissioner became a warlock. '

'The history of the sect is short, and there are no branches. In other words, other than the Celestial Commissioner, there are almost no wild gold cultivators … There should still be some, just very few. Otherwise, the gold cultivators would be surprised if I took out a blue book.

'No wonder the gold cultivators are so eager for my theoretical knowledge of chemistry. They're obviously very powerful.

'Because of the short history, there's no comprehensive theoretical foundation curriculum?

'Also, who is the gold cultivator behind the tax case?'

There was a suspicious point in the tax case that Xu Qi 'an, a veteran criminal investigator, had always been brooding over.

The Imperial Astronomer seemed to have adopted a passive attitude towards the alchemist involved in the case, turning a blind eye to it.

This was very unscientific.

Whether it was Chu Caiwei, Song Qing, or the other White Agents, none of them mentioned this matter in front of him.

'Lu: Number Three, according to the rules, you have to answer a question of mine.'

Xu Qi 'an only then realized that the conversation between Number One and Number Two was a question and answer. Just now, he had interjected and answered the question on behalf of Number One about the current situation in the imperial court.

'Three: You ask.'

'Lu: What is the second rank of the Confucian school called?'

This was another test, a test of my identity …. It wasn't a test of whether I was a student of Cloud Deer Academy, it was a test of my status in society.

Ordinary Confucian students didn't know what the second rank of the Confucian school was called. Back then, the Great Confucian Scholar Qian Zhong's life story tablet didn't clearly state his realm. It was only after Xu Xinnian explained it that Xu Qi 'an found out.

The reason why Erlang knew was because he was a student that the Great Confucian Scholar Zhang Shen valued. He was a high scholar who had passed the Fall Quarter Examination.

Among the students of Yunlu Academy, he was already at the elite level.

If I wasn't a student of Yunlu Academy, this test would be effective as well. Even non-confucian students knew that the second rank of the Confucian school would only be higher in social status.

If I couldn't answer, these guys would probably think that my level wasn't high enough.

Xu Qi 'an used his finger as a pen and wrote:

'Three: The second rank of the Confucian school is called the Great Confucian.'