Dafeng Night Watchman
Chapter 343: Chapter 343: Northbound

Chapter 343: Chapter 343: Northbound

"Two reasons."

Wei Yuan put down the teacup in his hand and analyzed for his confidant Yin Luo, saying: "The governor represents the court, and his power is so great that even if it is the King of Zhenbei, he is at most on an equal footing. Your Majesty does not want to replace a governor to restrain the King of Zhenbei, or he may be mixed with selfish motives, or consider the war situation.

"If you appoint a Yinluo as the chief officer, there will be no such problem."

Xu Qiyan frowned: "In this way, won't I be restricted in investigating the case?"

Wei Yuan smiled and said: "Everyone is vying for a good job, otherwise why would the court officials recommend you? Bloodbath for three thousand miles... If the King of Zhenbei lied about military intelligence and tried to evade responsibility, it would be fine if the chief officer could not replace out. If he did."

If he found out, he would be killed to silence him? Xu Qiyan's heart trembled.

"This is the second reason why the officials recommended you. "Wei Yuan said leisurely.

This group of old silver coins... Lord Wei doesn't seem to be worried at all? Xu Qian'an asked hurriedly: "How should I deal with it?"

He has his own ideas about this matter, but he is also willing to listen to the opinions of the elders. It is a good habit to be good at accepting "advice".

"Pretend to be tactful and investigate secretly."

Wei Yuan gave the eight-character mantra, and then said: "After you go to the north, remember not to act impulsively and try not to conflict with the subordinates of the King of Zhenbei. Showing weakness to the enemy can relax their vigilance.

"If you can investigate secretly, you must never be open and aboveboard. If you replace evidence that is unfavorable to the King of Zhenbei, hide it and show it back in the capital. If you encounter an assassination, the King of Zhenbei will most likely not do it himself. I will let Yang Yan go with you.

"You are not weak in your own strength, and the Vajra Divine Art has been a little successful, so you don't have to worry about this. "

If the King of Zhenbei takes action himself, no matter how many golden gongs are sent, it will probably be useless. Although I don't know how strong a third-rank warrior is, there is only one third-rank warrior in the entire court, while there are many fourth-rank warriors... Xu Qiyan nodded and said:

"That's what I think."

In fact, he is not afraid of being assassinated. What he is afraid of is that the King of Zhenbei will take action himself. At that time, he can only risk everything to summon the monk Shenshu. When fighting against a third-rank warrior, the monk Shenshu will inevitably absorb blood and essence crazily, and will inevitably kill innocent people. This is what Xu Qiyan does not want to see.

Moreover, he will have to go far away and cannot return to the court. In this case, the mastermind behind the scenes will be very happy...

Wei Yuan continued: "You can control the balance yourself. If the situation is not right, you can stop this case. After returning to Beijing, you will at most be held accountable. "

"I......"

Xu Qian'an hesitated to speak, and the five words "bloodbath for three thousand miles" suddenly popped up in his mind.

"If this is true, I, I will not stop, and I will not turn a blind eye." He whispered, and then Xu Qian'an added:

"But I won't be reckless, Duke Wei, don't worry."

Wei Yuan looked at him for a long time, with admiration and helplessness in his eyes, and finally turned into relief, and said: "We will set off in three days, you should prepare during this time."

......

Huai Wang Mansion.

In the back garden, flowers are in full bloom, bees are buzzing and flapping their wings, busy among the flowers. Colorful butterflies are dancing, chasing and playing.

The air is filled with refreshing fragrance. The veiled princess is holding a bamboo basket in her hand, dragging her long skirt, walking among the flowers.

In the bamboo basket lies a bunch of tender flowers.

She leaned over to pick a flower, put it to her nose and sniffed it, her eyes curved, revealing a look of joy.

It was mid-spring, and the princess, wearing a brocade palace skirt, had a graceful back curve, the ribbon outlined her slender waist, and the proportion of her shoulders and neck was just right.

The black hair that was tied up hung down in strands, and the slender neck was looming, crystal white.

Just looking at the back and the figure, it can be called stunning. Such a woman, even if the facial features are not beautiful, can be regarded as a beauty by men.

Chu Xianglong, wearing light armor, entered the back garden. His armor clanged as he walked.

He stopped, keeping a distance, and said with a fist: "Your Majesty has ordered that the princess must go to the northern border with the investigation team in three days. Please make preparations early."

The princess's curved eyebrows gradually calmed down, gradually became cold, and she clenched her fists tightly, her knuckles turned white, and said coldly: "Anything else? If not,

get out."

Chu Xianglong bowed and turned away.

........

Knowing that he would leave for the northern border in three days, Xu Qi'an left the government office, rode a mare back home, found Li Miaozhen who was sitting cross-legged and breathing, and said:

"Can you go with me to Yunlu Academy?"

"No." Li Miaozhen refused with a heartless heart.

Hey, you are not a delicate and weak woman at all, your personality is too strong... Xu Qi'an bowed, "It's important. "

Li Miaozhen looked over with a pair of eyes as clear as a deep pool, waiting for the follow-up.

"Do you remember the case you found? The bloodbath of three thousand miles." Xu Qian'an walked into the room, took off his sword and put it on the table, poured himself a glass of water, and explained:

"The court appointed me as the chief officer. Three days later, I will lead the delegation to the northern border to thoroughly investigate the case."

Li Miaozhen instantly became energetic, changed from sitting cross-legged to sitting upright, and said: "I will go with you."

Alas, the dignified Tianzong Saint is so eager to do good for the public, I really don't know if it is a sin...Xu Qian'an pondered and said: "The court has its own rules. You are not an official and cannot participate in this case.

"How about this, you can go first, we will meet in the northern border and contact each other through the earth book."

He came to Li Miaozhen to talk about this matter, just to invite the Tianzong Saint to participate, no, there is no need to invite her, with Li Miaozhen's jealous character, she will definitely take the initiative to ask to participate.

With a Taoist fourth-rank helping in secret, the chances of solving the case will be greatly

increased.

"I have another request." Li Miaozhen said.

"Please speak."

"When you investigate the case, I want to be by your side. If you are not present due to other things, you must tell me in detail the process and the ideas of solving the case afterwards." Li Miaozhen had a serious expression.

She wanted to learn how to solve the case from me? Well, she will definitely have to do justice in the future, and in the process, she will inevitably have to eliminate evil and redress the wronged, so she is eager to learn some reasoning knowledge and criminal investigation

skills...Xu Qian'an agreed to her request and said seriously:

"Okay, one more thing."

Li Miaozhen sat upright and put on a listening posture.

"When you contact me with the fragments of the Earth Book, remember to ask Taoist Master

Jinlian to block other people."

"....." The Saint of Tianzong rolled his eyes at him.

The two immediately left the city, one riding a horse and the other flying on a sword.

Arriving at Qingyun Mountain, Xu Qiyan met the three great scholars. He said with an embarrassed face: "Alas, my students have been running out of ideas recently. I can't think of any good poems. Please forgive me, teachers."

The three great scholars wearing Confucian robes and Confucian caps looked at him calmly:

"No problem, what's the matter?"

Xu Qiyan coughed and said shamelessly: "I have used up most of the magic books given to me by Master Li and Master Zhang, so..."

The "magic books" given to him by Li Mubai and Zhang Shen were mostly low-level spells, among which the most common were the Qi-watching spells of the Sitianjian.

This was because the great scholars didn't have much in stock, and they needed to use the high-level spells themselves. Moreover, Xu Qiyan was only in the Qi training stage at that time, and giving him too powerful spells would harm him.

In the magic book, the most powerful skill is the "Words Come True" engraved by Li Mubai

and Zhang Shen, a high-level Confucian skill. There are almost no high-level skills in other

systems.

The three great scholars looked at him for a while, and Li Mubai said: "I have been running

out of ideas recently..."

Zhang Shen: "I feel unwell..."

Chen Tai: "I am exhausted..."

Everyone who is willing to be taken advantage of for free was a broken-winged angel in his

previous life, and you three are obviously not... Xu Qian'an said: "Then I would like to ask the

three teachers for help to help me record the Taoist spiritual magic."

"Okay!" The three great scholars nodded.

Li Miaozhen frowned and said: "The spiritual magic needs to be arranged in a magic array."

Zhang Shen waved his hand and said: "Just perform it, and leave the rest to us."

As he spoke, he took out a brown-covered book without words and slowly ground it.

Seeing this, Li Miaozhen took out the negative materials from the fragments of the earth book without any nonsense, arranged the magic array, and performed the Taoist magic.

In the house, there were gusts of cold wind, as if it had suddenly stepped from mid-spring to

mid-winter.

Zhang Shen picked up the pen and wrote on the book. Every time he wrote, there was a burst of clear light.

It was reasonable that the soul-gathering array did not summon souls. Ghosts could not exist

in Qingyun Mountain. Under the righteous spirit, all ghosts and monsters would be wiped out. Zhang Shen stopped writing at the right time and said, "It's enough. I have engraved twelve

sheets. Is that enough?" "Enough, enough..."

Xu Qian'an nodded and sighed that the Confucian system was really a cheat. Just like reading a

book, you can remember what you have read, and what you have remembered can be written on paper through a pen.

"I wrote you a few Confucian spells by the way. The sequelae are quite terrible. I believe you

have experienced it. Don't use it unless it is absolutely necessary." Zhang Shen said in a deep

voice.

Xu Qiyan happily took the book and asked the doubts that had troubled him for a long time: "Students don't understand, how do you teachers avoid backlash?"

The backlash of Confucian magic is so terrible. If the great Confucians cannot avoid such

backlash, they can't fight a protracted war at all.

In response to Xu Qiyan's question, Zhang Shen smiled and said: "The fourth grade of Confucianism is called "gentleman". Gentlemen cultivate a righteous spirit and are immune

to all evil."

Invulnerable to all evil, this means that when you reach the gentleman level, you can rebound or be immune to the backlash of magic..... Isn't this too buggy. Xu Qiyan regretted that he followed the martial arts system.

Gentlemen talk instead of hands, and use their mouths to defeat the enemy, which is his ideal

style.

Li Mubai added: "If the spell is applied to one party, then the party on whom the spell is applied will bear the backlash effect instead."

This... Xu Qiyan's pupils shrank, and he was extremely glad that he did not put his ideal into

reality. My Diao Chan is on my waist - the spell backlash brought by this sentence may be shrinking

the penis into the seam, or it may be iron wire wrapped around the waist. Even... it's awesome.

In this way, Erlang's status in my heart plummeted, and he was no longer useful... He joked in his heart.

After bidding farewell to the three great Confucian scholars, he took Li Miaozhen out of Yunlu Academy and walked down the steps to the foot of the mountain.

"The Confucian system is indeed magical. In addition to the law of words, there is also a

righteous spirit that is invulnerable to all evil, which is similar to our Taoist golden elixir. It can also record spells from other systems..."

Li Miaozhen praised and sighed: "I can imagine how powerful Confucianism was in its

heyday. Everything is inferior except reading. Now I can feel it. What a pity."

"It's really a pity."

A voice came from the front. It was an unkempt old man wearing an old Confucian shirt, with messy gray hair, and a pair of clear and bright eyes, but also full of vicissitudes.

Li Miaozhen was stunned. She hadn't noticed him standing there before he spoke.

"I'm honored to meet you, dean." Xu Qi'an saluted hurriedly.

He, he was the dean of Yunlu Academy, the first Confucianist of the day... Li Miaozhen stood

in awe.

Zhao Shou smiled, nodded, and said, "Are you going to the northern border?"

Yunlu Academy really planted a traitor in the court. My joke came true... Xu Qi'an said "hmm": "Investigate the case."

"Aren't you afraid of offending the King of Zhenbei?" Zhao Shou asked. "I'm afraid, but I want to see what's going on." Xu Qi'an said in a deep voice. Zhao Shou stared at him silently for a few seconds, stroked his beard and smiled: "It's not an

insult to your great fortune, Xu Qi'an, you have to remember that the root of fortune is the word "people", at least your fortune is like this.

"It's the common people who gather the fortune, and it's the common people who gather the

fortune. "

Xu Qian'an quickly looked at Li Miaozhen and found that she looked normal, looking at the

dean Zhao Shou, as if she didn't hear what he said.

Did the dean block her hearing?

Thinking in his heart, he suddenly saw Zhao Shou waving his sleeves, and a book flew over and

hovered in front of him.

"This is the various systems of magic that I recorded when I traveled around the world when I

was young. I don't need them now."

Xu Qian'an happily took it, but didn't open it immediately. He bowed and said, "Thank you,

dean. "

When he stood up, Zhao Shou was gone.

.......

Three days later, at the dock of Beijing.

The delegation heading north arrived at the dock and boarded the official ship.

There were 200 people in this delegation, led by Xu Qian'an and Yang Yan, with four silver

gongs and eight copper gongs.

There was one chief constable and twelve constables from the Ministry of Justice; the

Censorate sent two censors and ten guards; the Dali Temple sent one temple secretary, with twelve guards and followers.

And a hundred-man imperial army, which was the configuration for the governor's trip.

The rest were all Chu Xianglong's men.

It was not until just now that Xu Qian'an knew that Chu Xianglong was also in the delegation

and was heading to the northern border together.

In the government office, Chun Ge, Song Tingfeng and Zhu Guangxiao also wanted to go north

with him, but were rejected.

This trip north may not necessarily encounter a major crisis, but if it does, it will be very dangerous. He did not want the three of them to be in danger, after all, these three people in the night watchman's office had the deepest friendship with him.

At the dock, Xu Xinnian and Uncle Xu came to see off Xu Dalang on behalf of the whole family.

In addition, there were the blue-shirted swordsman Chu Yuanzhen, No. 6 Hengyuan, and the

Tianzong Saint Li Miaozhen.

"Go home safely."

Uncle Xu patted his nephew's shoulder. This was his only request.

Chu Yuanzhen quietly put a talisman sword on the ground and said in a voice transmission:

"The national master asked me to give it to you."

National master?

I am not familiar with the national master, why did she give me this... With doubts, Xu

Qian'an took the talisman sword and said in a voice transmission: "Thank the national master

for me." Hengyuan clasped his hands together and chanted the Buddha's name: "Lord Xu must return

safely."

Li Miaozhen stared at him and said in a clear voice: "Just do good things, don't ask about the future. " Secretly transmitted: "I will go ahead and wait for you in the North."

Xu Qian'an smiled: "Just do good things, don't ask about the future, it's really well said." Replied: "See you in the North."

He boarded the ship and sailed away.

Xu Qian'an stood on the deck and looked out. His eyes swept across the crowd and saw three

familiar people standing in the distance. They were Yang Qianhuan, who stared at him with the back of his head.

Chu Caiwei, who used her hands as trumpets and called out in a tender voice.

And Zhong Li, who waved goodbye silently.

What are you doing here? It seems that the crises you encountered on the way back to the

Sitianjian from the dock may be more dangerous than the dangers I encountered on the way north... Xu Qian'an was half worried and half emotional.