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Chapter 153 Reform (asking for monthly votes)

After finishing his shift, Lu Xiang called out to his colleagues as usual: "Let's go play a few rounds."

"My wife won't let me."

"I also want to be as happy as you, but I have three children to support at home."

His colleagues refused one after another, but Lu Xiang waved his hand and went on his own.

Zhou Leizi followed quietly behind and watched him enter the "Changhong Gambling House" in the south of the city.

Zhou Leizi ate at a stall outside the gambling house and then sat staring at the door.

Half an hour later, Lu Xiang came out.

Zhou Leizi hid behind a few diners.

Lu Xiang looked around vigilantly and didn't find anyone suspicious, so he stopped a carriage and told them a place.

Zhou Leizi also stopped a carriage and followed behind.

Lu Xiang got out of the car at the back door of a house in the north of the city, knocked on the door and went in.

Zhou Leizi wrote down the address and went back quietly.

He was just a third-rate cultivator and had no ability to sneak in and gather further intelligence.

Let's check the owner of this house tomorrow, and I think everything will become clear.

Not long after Zhou Leizi left, Wu Jinghan came out from the small door.

Wu Jinghan's carriage was parked half a block away. After walking over and getting in, he couldn't hide his excitement: "Go back."

The brothel has started to receive guests, and the front yard is bustling with the beauty of the nightclub.

Wu Jinghan came in from the back door and listened to the noises in front. He couldn't help but laugh in his heart. The prostitutes of the Pingtian Society were all beautiful and slim.

But they all used the "beauty trick" to hide their true faces.

If this method is abolished, the clients who are hugging their loved ones and calling them "baby, darling" all the time will probably push them away on the spot and shout "There's a ghost!"

Wu Jinghan chuckled secretly and walked into the garden from a path in the backyard.

Suddenly, Wu Jinghan stopped.

There was an extremely thin silk thread hanging in front of him. If Wu Jinghan had not been prepared in advance, he would have bumped into it.

"Captain." He bowed and called out.

The trees in the garden trembled.

A huge spider web can be vaguely seen hanging between the trees in the back garden, with more than a dozen spider silk threads extending all the way to the front yard.

A giant black-bellied spider crawled out from the woods, its sharp jaws opened wide, and it let out a sweet giggle: "Old Wu, you really should listen to what those people in the front yard say. When they're holding a little beauty in their arms, they dare to say anything. It's really funny, hahahaha..."

She dropped a thread from the web to the ground, and her body transformed back into human form.

She is a stunning beauty who is three times more beautiful than the Saint Lady.

I just don't know how much of it is true.

The helmsman is practicing "reform", which can be varied.

Her reform method has not yet reached the top third level, so she can only change herself and cannot change others.

Wu Jinghan couldn't help but complain in his heart: Why can't she transform into anything else? This woman just likes to turn into a big-bellied spider, lying on the web all day, eavesdropping from all directions, making it so that no one in the helm dares to speak casually.

"Captain, I have met the Chief Lawyer of the Shanhe Division!" Wu Jinghan was still a little excited.

"Is it really her?"

"Dragon eyes, snake tail—she is the only one in this city who practices the dragon transformation technique. There is no way I'm wrong about it." Wu Jinghan was very sure.

"Oh? Then do you think I'd like to see that female lawyer?"

The helmsman twisted his body, his legs turned into snake tails, and his eyes blinked, turning into gray-blue vertical pupils.

Wu Jinghan was speechless. Could they still talk about business?
"Captain," Wu Jinghan advised, "this isn't fun. Those who practice the Dragon Transformation Technique are all more arrogant than the other, and they hate it most when someone pretends to be them."

"Hmph." The helmsman snorted coldly and returned to his previous demeanor. "Tell me, are the Mountain and River Division willing to support us in building a temple for the Great Sage Pingtian?"

"She agreed!" Wu Jinghan said, "But she has a condition." "As expected." The captain was also excited: "What condition?"

"She wants us to kill Xu Yuan."

"That new deputy inspector?" The captain frowned. "Why is it this condition?"

"I don't know. But... today, news came from the Department of Exorcism that Lin Zijin might be dead. This Xu Yuan was sent by Ma Tianshou himself, probably to strike a blow against Ma Tianshou's power."

The captain snorted coldly and muttered "dog bite dog", but her beautiful eyes turned and she said, "Xu Yuan insulted you for no reason, which is an insult to the Pingtian Society. He should be killed!"

Wu Jinghan, on the other hand, was somewhat hesitant: "He's the deputy inspector of the Department of Extermination of Filth, an eighth-rank official. Killing him would be easy, but it would completely offend the Department of Extermination of Filth..."

The captain asked in return, "Between the Department of Exorcism and the Department of Mountains and Rivers, which one do you choose?"

"How can we choose? No matter which company it is, as long as they are willing to... cooperate, we must do our best to meet their requirements."

To put it bluntly, as long as others look up to us...

"So you still want to cooperate with the Mountain and River Division and avoid offending the Disinfection Division?"

Wu Jinghan was speechless.

The captain stroked his brow with his fingers, thinking, "That being said, we can't make it too ostentatious. Well, we can't do it in the city... Got it!"

The helmsman waved his hand, and Wu Jinghan hurriedly put his ear closer.

"Something's happened at Shuangjiang Pass recently. Take Miaozi with you and start fighting there! Feed Xu Yuan to Miaozi, and you'll save a lot of blood food!"

"I obey my orders!"

……

The night passed quietly. Song Lu woke up from a sweet sleep and looked at the almanac, his face became sad.

"Why is heavy makeup banned again today?"

"If a woman doesn't adorn herself, it's disrespectful to herself and her lover."

In addition to "heavy makeup", today also banned:
Singing operas, offering sacrifices to temples, and climbing mountains.

So Song Lu was not the only one with a sad face.

Singing operas and offering sacrifices to temples are fine.

The actors won't perform today, and the temple keepers will just escape from the temple.

However, the ban on "climbing high" made officials and civilians inside and outside the city tremble with fear.

How do we define “climbing high”?
Many wealthy families have three or five steps at their doors. Does climbing the steps count as climbing high?
Fortunately, over the years, people have figured out that the general standard for "height" is: a height above one's own height.

Don’t climb higher than your head. If you do, you will definitely see the most terrifying thing in your life!

This limits many livelihoods.

Those who are building houses are afraid to start construction because if the walls are built too high, accidents may happen.

People no longer dare to go up the mountain to chop firewood.

Many transactions related to "buildings" have stopped...

Those who are more cautious dare not ride a horse or a car.

After Xu Yuan got up and washed up, he greeted everyone and asked, "Where's Captain Song?"

Fu Jingyu said in a muffled voice: "She said she was not feeling well today and was resting in bed. If you don't have any official business, don't call her."

"Oh." Xu Yuan agreed and asked, "The commander should have some news back today, right?"

Champa is not far from Luocheng, only a few hundred miles away, and the captains can reach it in one day on fast horses.

As he was speaking, Lang Xiaoba came in and said, "Master Xu, there's news from the Iron Boat Gang. They've found Zhang Lao Ya."

　I was careless. I was drinking with some friends last night. You guys didn't follow the rules of martial ethics. I got drunk before I knew it...

　　I'm in a bad mood today...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)