My book friend Long Aotian

Chapter 169: Faith is a way of life

Ma Fulong was trapped in a double-limit room, feeling angry and annoyed.

"I shouldn't have walked into this trap in the first place!"

He felt regretful, but then he thought that if he refused to come, Li Bailong would have a trick up his sleeve and would force him to come to the Tongwen Bureau, where he would fall into his trap.

"This guy wanted to arrest me, he would find a way..."

Master Ma paced in the room, thinking angrily: "Damn it, if I just passively accept the attack, I will fall into his trap. To deal with this guy, you fight yours and I fight mine, just like inciting the canal workers to cause trouble and forcing him to come out to deal with it. This is how we have to fight in the future..."

It's easy for anyone to make hindsight comments, but the current difficulty is hard to overcome.

"The dog official hit randomly, but hit the vital point..."

Ma Fulong was anxious.

"Invite the second and third wives to open a store" is just a political game of playing with words in Li Bailong's view, but it is fatal for the first wife.

The territory of Huazhou was developed by the eldest son of the family.

According to the rules, people from other groups are not qualified to come in.

However, the election of the leader is approaching and the disputes in the court are fierce. When it comes to education and cultural affairs, even the rule that "the six major factions shall not interfere in the imperial territory" can be slightly flexible. The second and third houses can also use similar reasons to argue... Let's not talk about the second house for now, if the third house gets the chance to intervene, it will never let it go!
but.

It's OK anywhere else, except Huazhou!

Yun Gongjun ordered Huazhou to be the starting point of the event. He wanted to conceal the truth and take advantage of the situation to do a great cause that would lay the foundation for the Cao Gang for a thousand years. Ma Fulong participated in it. As the flag bearer, he had to write the first line of this history that was destined to go down in history and shine through the ages...

——How come the second and third rooms are suddenly here!

With the other branches here, the possibility of leaks increases dramatically. Given Mr. Yun's cautiousness, this matter may have to be postponed or the location may have to be changed... I'm afraid that by then, there will be nothing for Ma Fulong to do.

This is my destiny, how can I miss it?
Ma Fulong gritted his teeth, knowing that such a serious incident was beyond his ability. He had to report the matter to Lord Yun, and let Lord Yun intervene and take precautions... the sooner the better!
Turning around and looking around, he saw that the two-limited rooms were tightly locked and heavily guarded. The Yuan Qi in his body was empty. He was imprisoned here and was isolated from Yunhua Hall. It was difficult for him to get out a single word.

If Taoist Ling discovered something was wrong and tried to rescue and communicate, I'm afraid Li Bailong would have already sent out the invitation letter for investment!

Thinking of this, Master Ma no longer hesitated.

He listened carefully and focused for a moment, took a deep breath, and patted his stomach with his right hand.

The remaining Yuan Qi seeped in, and the Yue hidden in the stomach was immediately activated.

An unstoppable thrust rose from his stomach, and the two halves of the cup in his stomach quickly moved up his esophagus like swimming fish. With a "wow" sound, he spat out the two halves of the crescent moon made of special material.

A pair of cups fell right into his hands.

After rolling around in the stomach, the cup was neither rotten nor damaged, and there was not even a speck of dirt on it. The little liquid remaining on it rolled down along the raised arc and fell all the way to the ground.

Brother Wan Yunlong's power is so miraculous.

He didn't have time to feel too emotional, so he put the cup in his hands and began to pray silently.

Brother Wan Yunlong is actually not particular about details. There are no strict restrictions on the format and rituals of throwing the cup. After all, if it is an emergency, there is no time to set up an incense burner or an altar, take a bath and burn incense. As long as your heart is sincere and selfless, no matter where you are, you just need to throw the cup sincerely.

The reason why there are complicated rituals, tall altars and grand sacrifices is nothing more than the metaphysics that vulgar, bored and pathetic mortals tirelessly pursue in order to increase a little illusory success rate.

No matter how pious some people are or how complicated and grand the ceremony is, Brother Wan Yunlong will not give them a better result.

For some people, just a simple throw can make their dreams come true.

The reason is actually very simple and obvious, but the former is unwilling to admit it and only attributes the failure to their own lack of piety or some minor omissions in the sacrifices and rituals.

But now, what Ma Fulun wants is simple and sincere.

For the sake of his first wife, the Cao Gang, and his unfinished business, he needed to send a message.

"I'm coming!"

Li Bailong lay in the dark, paying attention to the situation in the two-limit room.

Ma Fulong has been captured today. Retaliation is secondary. The primary task is to find ways to force the other party to use the cup-throwing technique on the spot, so that Lao Long can get a glimpse of how the Cao Gang uses their power of will!

And now, Aozi, who had been watching with his divine sense, shouted, "Move! Move!"

Li Bailong didn't have X-ray vision and couldn't see what Ma was doing in the room. He just asked, "What is he doing? Making a wish? Or performing a ritual?"

As for the cup-throwing incident, due to their oath to keep it secret, Uncle Seven and Miss San could not say much, but Li Bailong had vaguely guessed that this was how the Cao Gang used the power of wills.

It seems that by making a wish by throwing the cup, the person involved can obtain a certain degree of blessing.

Aozi has relatively few ways to use his willpower, but recently he has gained more willpower. Li Bailong is restricted by the martial arts feast and cannot make too much progress. It is a bit of a waste to have nowhere to use the stored willpower. If we can find out how the Cao Gang uses it and build a stronghold in the mountains, it will be a good thing.

He brought Ma Fulong here to observe him secretly.

"No...none at all!"

Long Aotian replied: "He is writing! He is writing with that cup!"

Li Bailong was confused and asked cautiously, "What is written? How and when I will die?"

"It doesn't seem so. Let me explain..."

Long Aotian pondered for a moment and said, "Okay! If this heterogeneity is understood as a kind of willpower, then it must have the attributes of willpower. I analyzed its moon attribute with this idea and was able to sense its dissipated fluctuations. He was writing with a cup, and the willpower flowed from the tip of the cup onto the table..."

As he said this, Aozi read out the words one by one: "Li Bailong wants to bring the second and third branches into Huazhou. Report this to Lord Yun immediately..."

Li Bailong suddenly realized: "——Send a letter, right?"

Writing with a cup involves matters of vows, so it is definitely not paper messaging, but another faster and more invisible means of communication... Ma Fulong is reporting to the outside world!

Li Bailong pondered and said, "Remote communication? Can we copy this method?"

The means of communication in this world are still relatively primitive.

The fastest one should be the early radio of Xuanyuan Sect.

However, the maximum transmission distance is relatively short, and it can only be transferred through a large number of signal relay teams deployed in the post station system and beacon towers. It is expensive and inefficient, and can only be used to transmit the most valuable emergency intelligence. It has not even been delegated to the public, and can only be used by the court and the six major sects at a fee.

Now it seems that the Cao Gang seems to have a hidden trick up its sleeve?
No wonder next-day and same-day delivery are so fast!
Aozi listened to his request, pondered for a moment, and said: "Message transmission, this is just the transmitting end, how to transmit to the receiving end, I have to go and see it myself... Do you want to go and see it?"

Li Bailong thought about it and said, "Go!"

"Okay, I can sense the trajectory of the power of will in the void, a mysterious and subtle resonance... Let's go!"

The map of willpower reappears in the retina.

However, it does not calibrate the distribution of Huazhou readers.

There is a line across the map, which looks like a poorly constructed quest guide.

Li Bailong didn't say much. He gathered his energy and leaped out of the yamen. He ran as fast as a whirlwind and rushed in the direction indicated by Aozi.

He asked, "Is it too late?"

"The bandwidth is too low, there's still time!" Aozi had been with him for a long time and could describe the situation with the most precise words, "I'm afraid I can only write the third word...but I still have to hurry up!"

He navigated in real time and planned a route for Li Bailong.

The warrior ran at full speed, his speed far surpassing that of a galloping horse. However, a strong man running fast in a city would cause a commotion. He sped all the way and had already exceeded the speed limit. In an instant, he was locked onto the Xuanyuan Sect's star disk in the city, and soon a rapid response team from the Tongpan Hall came to intercept him.

Li Bailong showed his military certificate from a distance and drove them away.

Until they ran to the main hall of Yunhua Hall.

In the secret room, Taoist Ling looked solemn as he stared at the cup floating in the air in front of him. It slowly moved on a plate of fine sand, and words were formed bit by bit.

So far, he has only seen the four words "Li Bailongyu".

It's really worrying.

"Has it gotten this bad?"

Taoist Ling thought hard, "If he was trapped in the hands of the enemy, the hall master should have written 'save me'. In other words, what would he write that is worse than being trapped in the hands of the enemy?"

While I was waiting, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

Ling Daoren was shocked and asked angrily, "Who!"

How do the people below do things? Why is the discipline of Yunhua Hall so corrupted?
A trusted voice rang out from outside: "Military Advisor, Li Bailong is here! He's trying to force his way in!"

"?????"

Taoist Ling was startled and asked in a lost voice, "What is he doing here?"

"I don't know. He just said that the hall master broke into the government office and beat and scolded him by relying on the power of the six major sects. He was so angry that he came to ask for an explanation and asked the person in charge to come out and answer!"

What a mess!

When Taoist Ling heard this, he felt sad. He thought that the hall master would surely be beaten and scolded.

He looked at the words on the sand table on the table again, knowing that the news conveyed by the hall master must be extremely important, and he should wait here. Not to mention leaving, even his eyes could not move away at all.

However, Li Bailong arrived at this time, and the hall master was not there. Who else in the hall could deal with this man except him?

There are those few people there...but how can they show up?

Ling Daoren was extremely troubled and could not make a decision. He wanted to see the news of the hall master as soon as possible, but he allowed Li Bailong to make trouble in Yunhua Hall. This man was extremely smart and cunning. If he saw some flaws in the intelligence, bad things might happen.

If he were to hesitate, then this place...

Invite those people to read this news?

No, even though they were sent by Lord Yun, they may not be of the same mind. If the hall master said something important and they saw it, it would inevitably cause trouble.

hateful!

Taoist Ling had even heard Li Bailong's shouting.

If this guy rushed all the way here, what would happen? ?

He looked at the sand table. The cup had only written the character for bow, and it was still unknown what was on the right... Damn, it's too slow! Why not simplify it a little!
Almost no one is willing to use the precious cup-throwing opportunity to send a message, unless the news is really urgent, so the use of cup-throwing to send messages with a cup only exists in the rule book.

Neither Ma Fulong nor Ling Daoist had expected that this method would be so slow.

He sighed and finally stamped his feet: "That's it!"

Let’s get rid of Li Bailong first!
After he walked out the door, he called his trusted followers and whispered, "Lock this room! No one is allowed to enter! Anyone who breaks in except me will be killed with a knife!"

He still felt unsafe, so he ordered, "Find ten guards, have them all throw their cups, and ask Brother Wan Yunlong to help you defend this house!"

With blessings, the determination of these people to protect can be guaranteed.

This is another way that the Cao Gang’s top brass have used the cup-throwing system in recent years.

Brother Wan Yunlong’s blessing is both assistance and supervision.

"Yes!"

Taoist Ling locked the door himself and gave a few more instructions before he hurried to the main hall. Li Bailong's shouting rang out, "Fuck you! What do you mean? What do you mean? You asked the boatmen to surround me and force me. I gave in and you actually sent people to burn my house?"

Some small leaders who were in charge of Yunhua Hall had already stepped forward to stop them.

With the power and pride of the Cao Gang, anyone who came to cause trouble would be beaten away with a stick, no matter if he was right or not. But this person was a little different after all.

These people were all small leaders of the canal gang, not ignorant canal workers. They knew that this was an official appointed by the imperial court and was extremely difficult to deal with. Without clear instructions, no one dared to step forward and use force.

Taoist Ling put on a smiling face and greeted him, saying, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, Lord Li, why did you come here in person?"

Li Bailong suddenly changed his expression and said coldly: "Your Yunhua Hall is colluding with the Demon Sect, so I came to investigate."

Ling Daoist's face changed drastically, and he said in a lost voice: "Where did you get this from?"

Li Bailong rolled his eyes and said, "We found a suspicious letter on Ma Ni's body."

Damn it! Can you make it more realistic?
Taoist Ling had imagined seven or eight possible ways for the conversation to unfold, but he had never thought of this path. While he was in a daze, Li Bailong rushed in: "Ma Fulong is so bold that he broke into the government office and insulted and beat up the officials of the imperial court. There must be some demon instigator behind this. Let me search and we will know the clues!"

Taoist Ling gave a signal and everyone rushed forward to stop Governor Li.

"Okay! Come a little closer...yes! I can already sense what's going on on the receiving end!"

In his mind, Long Aotian was concentrating, and he was surprised and said: "Huh, it's not resonance. This method is labor-saving, and it can achieve the goal with very little willpower. It's just that the willpower comes from the void, which is a bit inconvenient..."

Li Bailong was trying to buy time. Seeing everyone rushing over, he glared and asked, "Why are you trying to stop me? Are you feeling guilty? What's hidden inside?"

Taoist Ling shouted: "It hides the dignity of the Cao Gang!"

Seeing the situation was chaotic and Li Bailong was coming up to him, he decided to quickly control the situation. He took two steps forward and whispered, "Sir, you came to Yunhua Hall alone while our hall master was captured. If you want to do something, please tell me directly. There is no need to resort to trickery... I will accompany you at all costs."

As soon as he finished speaking, Aozi spoke again.

"What the hell!" he exclaimed, "There are so many strange waves, it seems like many people are throwing cups!"

——There is such a good thing!
Li Bailong said: "Why don't you observe quickly!"

“I’m watching, I’m watching!”

So, Li Bailong looked around at the Cao Gang members around him, then looked at Taoist Ling and smiled.

"What's your surname, Taoist priest?"

"I am from Jianghe, my surname is Ling."

"Come, let's chat."

Taoist Ling heaved a sigh of relief, waved his hand to let everyone disperse, and said, "Please take a seat."

Li Bailong ignored him and said with his hands behind his back, "This is my first time in Yunhua Hall. Won't Mr. Ling take me on a tour? After Hall Master Ma came to Tongwen Bureau, I took him to visit many places."

What on earth is this guy here for?

Ling Daoren was suspicious, but he couldn't refuse. He thought, "If we don't let him go to the main hall, he will be worried and it will be dangerous. It's better to take him around... There are people guarding there anyway."

As soon as he thought of this, he bowed and invited.

Sure enough, after Li Bailong passed the main hall and entered the second hall, he looked around.

Taoist Ling watched coldly and guessed, "Why did he come here suddenly? Did he find something? No, it seems that his target is not clear. He is looking around... What's going on?"

At this moment, he heard Li Bailong ask directly: "Sir, what is cup throwing?"

When Taoist Ling heard this, he was shocked.

He was very cunning, but on the surface he remained calm and said with a smile: "Tossing cups is a divination method passed down from our ancestors in the Cao family. If anyone has any questions, they can toss cups to ask the ancestor."

Li Bailong stopped and asked, "Is it effective?"

"Of course it works."

Li Zhishi thought for a moment and said, "This morning, the canal workers gathered together to attack the Tongwen Bureau in order not to affect their interests. Was it Master Ma who used the power of the cup-throwing?"

When Taoist Ling heard this, his expression changed again.

He forced a smile and said, "My lord, I have no idea what you are talking about."

Li Bailong asked again: "I locked Ma Fulong in the room, and he secretly wrote and drew on the table with a cup. Is he using the cup to tell you something?"

"..."

Taoist Ling almost suffocated.

Master Ma has been captured, and this time he has to face this man directly, only to find out how difficult it is!

How could you ask such a thing?!

Only then did he understand why Li Bailong was looking for trouble, framing others and setting fires, and summoning Ma Fulong to his house.

I also know why the other party would rush here alone after capturing Master Ma!

There are such smart people in this world who can quickly guess the clues after suffering a loss and immediately seek verification!

"No wonder... the high-ranking officials of Tongwen, who were so proud of themselves, suffered losses under an incomprehensible strange force after winning many battles. So we must find out what happened..."

He thought, "It makes sense. After all, the incident with the canal workers was indeed bizarre. It would be strange if Li Bailong did not express anything. It is normal for him to have an outburst at this moment..."

Unfortunately, Li Bailong’s wisdom only goes so far.

How could an outsider in the world guess such a vast power?
Thinking of this, he said in embarrassment: "It is difficult for me to tell you, this is a private matter of the Cao Gang."

Li Bailong said aggressively: "I told Ma Fulong that I would allow the Cao Gang to enter today, but I didn't say which branch would be allowed to enter. He reacted strongly and seemed to care about this matter. We can make a deal. If you tell me what the cup throwing is, I will not allow the second and third branches to come."

"..."

Taoist Ling was shocked and angry at first, and then stunned.

This should be what the hall master wanted to tell him.

——Wait, what is the hall master doing?
This was the third time that Li Bailong had confused him, and he just felt a little bewildered.

However, the cup-throwing matter involved an oath of secrecy, and Big Brother Wan Yunlong's judgment criteria were very vague. If he said something wrong, he might incur divine punishment, so he could not reveal a single word under any circumstances.

Taoist Ling sighed: "It's not that I don't want to, but I just can't."

In his mind, Aozi's progress bar has been completed: "Alright! I have figured out the mechanism of information transmission! And I have also observed those damn cup-throwing ceremonies! Although I don't understand the general principles yet, I can give it a try by copying them..."

Li Bailong nodded and said, "Since you don't want to tell me, there's nothing we can do. Let's just use our own methods."

The purpose has been achieved.

Aozi finished reading it.

He also left the impression on the Cao Gang that "I guessed a little but didn't know much."

After finishing speaking, Li Bailong turned around and was about to leave without any hesitation, but he heard Ling Daoist hesitate and say, "Wait a moment, Governor, please stay."

He looked back and raised an eyebrow.

"Please allow me to consult Lord Yun on this matter."

Huh?
(End of this chapter)