[Comprehensive Martial Arts] Daoist Mo's Whisk

Chapter 31

Zhao Zhen said with a hoarse voice, "It is precisely because they are all ghosts crawling out of the ground that they are the scariest."

After all, who would guard against the dead?

Moreover, these ghosts not only appeared in the northwest of Song Dynasty, but also appeared beside Zhao Zhen, even under his nose, in his own palace.Zhao Zhen hardly dared to think, how many ghosts like this are there, isn't it... already quietly spread all over the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Zhen looked at Li He: "Go and find this Lu Xiaoji for me, and ask him, he saw the dead with his own eyes, Huo Xiu, Taoist Mu, Xue Bing... They all crawled out of the ground. Something...does he even know about it?"

Li He hesitated for a moment: "Your Majesty, what if he says he doesn't know?"

Zhao Zhen smiled slightly, revealing a calculating expression almost identical to Gong Jiu's, which made people shiver: "Then he knows now."

"Since he knows about it, I have to trouble him to send all these evil spirits who lay on the ground in front of his eyes and crawled back to the ground to where they should go."

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What kind of suffering Lu Xiaofeng will suffer in the future, Mo Qi has yet to know.

He left a prescription for the Queen Mother, and without any hesitation, he agreed to Zhao Zhen's request to send another batch of Yihudong to the palace, and he earned Jiang Shanzui a plaque with his own handwritten imperial inscription. Royal wine.

Mo Qi hesitated for a while, and he didn't have the nerve to tell Zhao Zhen that a pot of Dong was actually the cheapest among the Four Seasons wines.

That's it, Zhao Zhen was still a little annoyed: "Daoxian, such a good medicine and holy product, how can you treat it as ordinary wine and sell it to those alcoholics who don't know the goods? It's a waste of money!" The words "Dong" are like silver hooks painted on iron, flying across the paper.

The poor little emperor held up the rice paper and looked at it for a moment, remembering his shabby appearance of hesitating to eat a bird's nest, he felt very dissatisfied, immediately picked up a pen, and quickly and ruthlessly added a few more characters on the pot of winter, Angrily said: "No, I won't allow it!"

Mo Qi looked at the words "a pot of winter can't be exchanged for ten thousand gold" on the rice paper, speechless.

Is the treasury of Song Dynasty poor?Not poor.It's just that Zhao Zhen always spends money on the common people and officials and soldiers, so that his private treasury can't get much oil and water, which makes Zhao Zhen seem to be picky.His generosity was always to others, not to himself.

Zhao Zhen happily held up the rice paper, admiring his own words, and had a small calculation in his heart: If the price of wine has increased, shouldn't the tax also increase?Where will the extra tax money be used?I remember that there are still many wastelands waiting to be reclaimed in the southeastern states...

Mo Qi entered the palace empty-handed, and when he came out, he had an extra gold plaque in his hand, and there was an imperial decree that a pot of winter must be sold for more than ten thousand gold, otherwise I would not obey.

... Why did I encounter this kind of thing? I obviously went to see a doctor.Mo Qi was extremely at a loss.

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Regardless of whether Mo Qi accepted the fact that a pot of winter was forced to raise the price, Bao Zheng personally decided that the itinerary to Hexi would not wait for anyone.

After Mo Qi returned to Kaifeng Mansion, everyone set off overnight.Tang Yuandao fell asleep halfway, and when he was carried out by Mo Qi, he was still crying and talking in his sleep: "...Woo, don't recite...don't recite formulas...Woo, learning martial arts is so difficult..."

While talking in his sleep, Tang Yuandao shed two lines of sad tears sincerely.

I really don't want to memorize inner strength formulas.

Mo Qi: "..."

On the road from Kaifeng to Hexi, even if Bao Xiang ordered the horse to hurry up, it took two full days.

When he arrived at the prefect's office in Hexi, Mr. Gongsun's face was pale, and he almost lived on the wine given by Mo Qi.

Gongsun Ce got out of the carriage, uncorked the wine hastily, took a last sip of wine, took a few breaths, and his face turned rosy.

He looked at the knuckle-sized wine jar in his hand, and praised sincerely: "Thanks to Daoxian's pot of winter, it is indeed the Royal Wine appointed by the Holy One, and it really has miraculous effects."

Mo Qi: "...This is not a pot of winter, but a pot of summer."

On this trip, Mo Qi specially went to Jiangshan Zui in Bianjing to bring all the Four Seasons Wine, and now he has four jars of wine pinned to his waist, each of which is contained in a delicate, knuckle-sized wine jar.

Zhan Zhao has been greedy for a long time, because he saw that the wine was so little that he didn't have the nerve to open his mouth. Hearing what Mo Qi said, he couldn't help asking curiously: "Could it be that the four seasons of wine have different effects?"

Gong Jiu: "That's natural." As soon as this question was mentioned, he was extremely displeased, and said coldly, "Don't ask, don't tell."

Mo Qi: "..."

Zhan Zhao realized that the medicinal effects of the remaining three kinds of wine were rarer than that of Hudong, which is why Gong Jiu didn't want people to know about it.

Thinking about it this way, and thinking about how many jars of these four seasons of wine are poured into the drunkard's stomach every year, Zhan Zhao can completely understand Zhao Zhen's mood when he issued the imperial edict.

Seeing Mo Qi hesitate to speak, Gong Jiu sneered.

After he asked Mo Qi about the efficacy of the remaining three wines, he immediately sent someone to inform the palace that when they came back from Hexi, all the Four Seasons wines would become royal wines appointed by the Holy Majesty, and all of them had to be raised in price. Money is hard to come by.In fact, if he didn't know that except for the wine that was tributed to the palace, the medicinal properties of the other four seasons wines had been greatly weakened, Gong Jiu would have asked his unlucky cousin to list the four seasons wines as tribute wines that were only allowed to be paid as tribute.

The prefect of Hexi is the master of Tao Zhifu, and he has been waiting at the gate of the government office for a long time.As soon as Bao Zheng got off the car, he immediately greeted him: "Bao Xiang!"

Bao Zheng nodded, avoiding Master Mei's generous hand to support him: "There is no need to be too polite."

This Master Mei looked so weak that he had no flesh. Bao Zheng asked him to help him, fearing that he was too heavy and fell Master Mei.

Master Mei was very good at watching words and expressions, and took his hands back without saying a word.

Like the wind blowing under Bao Zheng's feet, he led the people into the government office quickly, and went straight to the subject and said, "The truth came late, and I don't know if there are new murders in Hexi these two days?"

Master Mei's delicate face showed deep sorrow: "To tell the truth, in the past few days... a new corpse has indeed appeared. No, it cannot be called a new corpse." He sighed deeply. He took a deep breath, "In the past few days, I have sent people to the hilly forest or deep mountains to see if there are no other undiscovered dead. As a result, in a dense forest adjacent to Xixia, I found a person whose corpse was abandoned there. Dozens of corpses..."

Gongsun Ce was shocked: "Dozens?! Are they all aliens?!"

Master Mei sighed non-stop: "Yes! I didn't know there were so many strangers in Hexi! I really don't know how the murderer found so many strangers."

Master Mei: "Now those corpses that have been found, I have already ordered people to send them to the morgue. Do you want to go and see them now?"

Bao Zheng looked at Master Mei with some scrutiny for a moment: "No, I have to go and see the soldiers guarding the border here first. It is the autumn of life and death at this time, and Xixia is still eyeing the other side of Hexi. Cases and frequent mobs did not disturb the morale of the army."

Although both Hexi and Yumenguan were on the northwestern frontier of the Song Dynasty, their situations were completely different.

Yumenguan is guarded by the Ma family. Since Song Taizu's time, it has undergone several generations of replacements and has established a deep root system.It can be said that as long as the descendants of the Ma family are present, there will be no major disturbances in Yumen Pass.

But Hexi is different. It has been under war for many years, and the ownership is vacillating between Xixia and Song Dynasty.Maybe it was guarded by the Xixia army for ten years, and in another ten years, it will be replaced by the Song army.Therefore, the army here is disorganized and chaotic.

If the Ma family army in Yumenguan is a loyal hunting dog, then the Hexi army is probably a wild wolf pretending to be a loyal dog. Sometimes the green eyes of this wild wolf will even glance at the lambs in their own pen.

Master Mei hurriedly said: "Looking at the sun, it should be the time for General Mu to train soldiers. However, General Mu has already heard the news of your arrival, Prime Minister Bao, and he told me earlier that he has already set a few days for Hexi. The wing room of the best restaurant, I would like to treat you to a dinner party with all the generals in the army."

Master Mei bit the words "best" seemingly unintentionally.

Zhan Zhao hugged Tang Yuandao, squatted on the wall, frowned, looking at Master Mei thoughtfully.

Tang Yuandao hugged Que Ling.Que Ling scratched Tang Yuandao's chin with her tail, and Tang Yuandao poked Zhan Zhao's chin with the small tug on the top of his head: "Brother Zhan, what's wrong with you?"

Zhan Zhao followed the trend and lowered his head, pretending to rub against Tang Yuandao: "Brother Zhan thinks, Master Mei seems to be hinting at us."

Tang Yuandao quickly picked up the sparrow feathers, and used the fat bird's round body to block Zhan Zhao's approaching face: "What do you imply?"

Que Ling, who suddenly squeezed into Zhan Zhao's face, said, "...whew, whew."

To be crushed.

Zhan Zhao smiled and said, "I don't know the Nine Turns Returning to One Sword Art taught by Chang, have you memorized it? If you have memorized it, Brother Zhan will tell you."

Tang Yuandao, who can only memorize a small part of all the tricks, said, "..."

There was something in Master Mei's words, which implied that Zhan Zhao was not the only one who understood the meaning of Master Mei's words. Anyone present who was not a smart person would naturally understand the meaning of Master Mei's words.

Now that there are internal and external troubles in Hexi, under such circumstances, the generals of Wubian are still in the mood to book a room and invite the people who come to handle the case to drink and eat meat, which is simply outrageous.

Mo Qi couldn't help but glance at Master Mei again.

The other party was thin and thin, his eyes were bloodshot from exhaustion, standing in the limelight of Hexi, his face was flushed from the cold, even wrapped in cotton clothes, he was so thin that he would be blown away by the wind in a second.

In his eyes, there was worry, worry, and exhaustion, but there was no trace of sadness.He didn't even mention Tao Zhifu separately, and only regarded Tao Zhifu as one of the ordinary victims in the serial case. It seemed that the relationship between this master and Tao Zhifu was not good.

Bao Zheng pondered for a while: "Why wait until the evening, since General Mu is now training his troops, then the truth has passed at this time, isn't it just a good time to see the heroic and heroic appearance of my Great Song generals? Master Mei doesn't need to say much, just lead the way!"

Master Mei pretended to dissuade a few more words in a decent way, and before Bao Zheng could express his persistence, he immediately sighed helplessly and said: "Since Bao Xiang insists, I will take everyone to the barracks for a visit." Look. Your luggage carriages are left here, and the servants of the Yawei will naturally send them to the guest room."

After saying that, he walked away, not even planning to leave time for everyone to pack their luggage, he was more anxious than Bao Zheng and others who came all the way to handle the case.

Bao Zheng didn't have any objections, and there was nothing shady in the left and right carriages, but Tang Yuandao definitely wanted to stay, and he couldn't take the children all over the river.He looked at Mo Qi with a questioning look.

Mo Qi frowned: "I'll take it, it's okay."

He always felt that Master Mei's current behavior was not normal, he was a bit afraid to say something and could only hint, as if there was some danger lurking around... Mo Qi glanced at the soldiers standing solemnly in the yamen.

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The Hexi military camp is stationed on the bank of the Xiliang River, almost across the river from Xixia.

Although logically speaking, there is still some distance to go to the land of Xixia after crossing the Xiliang River, but Li Yuanhao will naturally not stay behind the border obediently, and will send troops here to harass and garrison The soldiers were so annoyed that they simply retreated to the back of the river. They could defend or attack, but the Xixia army did not dare to cross the line at will.

When Bao Zheng and others came to the barracks, the soldiers were indeed practicing, but they all looked lazy and lacked energy.Every Hexi army had a look of impatience on their faces, as if they didn't care about this kind of daily homework at all.But on their resolute faces, everyone can see the wildness hidden under the laziness, like a dozing wolf, waiting for the prey to come into view, it will rush to chase and kill with one blow.

Bao Zheng stood on the watchtower, looked around, and immediately frowned: "Where is General Mu?"