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Chapter 164 Evil Spirit
Fu Wen, who was sent out to deliver the secret letter, did not return until early the next morning. He looked like he had traveled quite a distance and was already visibly tired.

"Master, the Chifu Guard is stationed twenty miles outside the county town. After I handed him the secret letter, I also told him that the events in the Lizhou camp and the final outcome were all described in detail in the secret letter.

The Imperial Censor was accidentally injured in the Lizhou camp, and his injuries were very serious. In order to avoid endangering his life, he can only stay here to recuperate. He will return to report after his injuries have healed.

Lu Qing nodded with satisfaction, motioned Fu Wen to go down and rest, and then asked Zhu Yu: "What do you think about this?"

"Our previous guess is probably right." Zhu Yu nodded in understanding and added, "Although the Chifu Guards are His Majesty's men, His Majesty doesn't seem to trust them completely.

Whether this is a good thing for His Majesty, it is unknown..."

She glanced at Lu Qing and said, "For you, it might be something you enjoy."

Lu Qing didn't make any comment, but just raised his index finger and made a silencing gesture with a smile.

After breakfast, Lu Qing called for Fu Lu and asked him to buy a few more sets of Taoist robes based on Yan Daoxin’s and according to their body sizes.

This was not a difficult task. In just over an hour, Talisman came back with the things.

"What do you want so many Taoist robes for?" When Fu Lu came back, Yan Daoxin was bored in Lu Qing's room, eating a plate of watermelon seeds fried with salt. Seeing the fat-faced Fu Lu holding several Taoist robes of different sizes and handing them to Lu Qing, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Lu Qing suspiciously, "You don't want to pretend to be a Taoist priest and let me take you to sneak into Shuo Country, do you?

No, no! I won’t take you with me!
If I hadn't come to get involved in this matter in Lizhou, I would have wanted to go through Quzhou and go to Lan Kingdom from Quzhou, but I never planned to go to Shuo Kingdom!

The land of Shuo Country is just a bunch of barren rocky mountains. Only those who are after the minerals are willing to go there. I have no interest in going there for the herbs!"

"If I remember correctly, if it weren't for Zhu Yu, none of us would know why Captain Pang was burned by the invisible fire and had blisters all over his body, right?
Zhu Yuben isn't someone who's well-versed in poisonous herbs and drugs. As a woman from Shuo Country, she can still recognize Lai Jiao, whose name we can't even pronounce. How do you know that Shuo Country doesn't have any rare herbs that others don't know about?" Lu Qing flipped through the book in his hand without even raising his eyelids.

Yan Daoxin had originally refused very straightforwardly, but after hearing what Lu Qing said, he became a little unsure. He felt that it made sense, and after a moment of hesitation, he threw the watermelon seeds in his hand back into the plate, stood up, brushed off the watermelon seed shells on his body, and walked out, muttering as he walked: "Forget it! I'll trust you this time!
Anyway, whether this thing succeeds or not, you guys will have to bear the consequences yourself!"

After saying that, he walked out of the room.

It was not until dinner time in the evening that Yan Daoxin showed up again. He took out four certificates of ordination and gave them to Lu Qing, Zhu Yu and others.

The four certificates of ordination seemed to have been deliberately aged with tea, and the Taoist priests' native place, secular name, age, master's name, etc. were neatly written on them, including the signature and official seal at the back, all of which were meticulously done and looked exactly like the real thing.

Zhu Yu held it in her hand and examined it for a long time. She had never seen a real certificate of ordination in person, but the one she held was already indistinguishable from the real thing. "I didn't expect a miracle doctor like you to have such 'skills'!" she couldn't help but sigh.

Yan Daoxin is a man who has the best appearance as long as he keeps silent. Not only is he handsome, but his temperament also carries a sense of otherworldliness, as if he is not concerned with the mundane world. No matter how you look at him, he looks like a banished immortal from heaven.

But as soon as you open your mouth, that natural temperament will be destroyed without a trace left.

Now this skill of "forgery" is even more jaw-dropping.

"It's mutual. I didn't expect a princess like you would dare to cut open a dead person's stomach." Yan Daoxin grinned and bowed to her carelessly. It was obvious that he didn't treat Zhu Yu as an outsider, so he didn't care about his image at all.

He pointed at Lu Qing and said, "Otherwise, if this fellow had honestly copied scriptures in Shanqing Temple, would he have such vision and ability now?
It was thanks to my 'skill' that I was able to help him!"

"Then he followed you outside, who copied the scriptures?" Zhu Yu asked curiously.

"Of course, runes and talismans!" Yan Daoxin, adhering to the spirit of answering every question, nodded at the talisman who was grinning and touching the back of his head. "The two brothers practiced handwriting exactly like Lu Qing's, and stayed in Shanqing Temple to practice martial arts and help him copy scriptures.

Otherwise, people would have to come to the Moon Palace every month to take away the scriptures copied by Lu Qing. They wouldn't have to see him, but they couldn't be vague about how many scriptures they had to copy in a month. "

"Your Majesty cares so much about this matter?" Zhu Yu was a little confused. She didn't understand why Emperor Jin would send people all the way to Shanqing Temple every month to retrieve Lu Qing's handwritten scriptures, and even have to verify whether the number matched.

She originally wanted to ask Emperor Jin directly what was the purpose of asking Lu Qing to copy the scriptures, but when she thought about how every time the topic involved Lu Qing's past, he would suddenly and deliberately divert her attention in a frivolous manner. Now that Yan Daoxin and the talisman were there, Zhu Yu was also worried that Lu Qing didn't want to mention those things, so she changed the words to a euphemism.

Yan Daoxin was not as concerned as Lu Qing. After hearing Zhu Yu's question, he immediately curled his lips and said, "He may not really care about these things. If anyone cares, it's probably those old guys in the court who hang around him every day!
I heard that those old guys said in front of the emperor that Lu Qing's family was killed when he was still young, but he was the only one who survived, which meant that he had an evil spirit in his fate, so he had to concentrate on copying scriptures in Shanqing Temple. Only if he copied the scriptures with enough sincerity could he dispel the evil spirit in his fate.

If he didn't do this, once he returned to the capital, he might offend the emperor and cause all sorts of nonsense.

So every month they would ask the emperor to check whether the number of scriptures copied by Lu Qing was sufficient and whether the handwriting was his own.

Yan Daoxin shook his head and sneered as he spoke: "What a joke, they are a bunch of generals who wield swords and guns, and have no idea how many lives they have stained. They themselves have evil spirits, and they attend court every day without worrying about offending the dragon spirit. But when it comes to Lu Qing, they pretend to know everything and show off their skills in front of an expert!

My master said that Lu Qing was born in the Year of the Gou Chen, and he is both wealthy and noble, and he can assist the emperor. This is the best fate. If it weren't for the blessing of heaven, how could he have survived such a disaster and turned misfortune into good fortune? "

(End of this chapter)