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This idea obviously suited the burly Judge Wu's taste very well, and he cheered from the sidelines.

"The City God cannot do that!"

Judge Wen hurriedly stopped them, saying, "If we mobilize the refugees to kill officials and start a rebellion, even if the underworld is in chaos and has no way to control it, once the gods wandering day and night find out and report it to the City God of Yingtian Prefecture, King Mingling will be furious and we will still not be able to escape the disaster."

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu swept across the world and established his capital in Yingtian. He conferred the title of Chengtian Jianguo Simin Shengfu Minglingwang on the City God of Yingtian Prefecture, and the rest were reduced in order of provinces, prefectures, and counties.

The City God of the capital was given the title of Weiling Gong, the City God of the prefecture was given the title of Weiling Hou, and the City God of the county was given the title of Xianyou Bo, the City God of the Simin.

Therefore, the city gods of the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty were all controlled and governed by Mingling Wang, the City God of Yingtian Prefecture, who was personally appointed by Emperor Taizu.

Judge Wen had to patiently explain the complicated City God system to Su Su. Guobei County was the lowest-level county City God's residence. Although it was usually inconspicuous, even if the entire City God Temple was destroyed by monsters, it would not attract much attention.

But if there is any trouble with rebellion and killing officials, King Mingling, who is far away in Yingtian Prefecture, will certainly intervene personally.

Su Su, who has a mortal body, can naturally escape easily, but these ghosts who rely on the City God Temple can escape from the monk, can they escape from the temple?

It's a death sentence anyway.

This is very disappointing.

"Who said we want to mobilize refugees to kill officials and start a rebellion?"

Su Su stared at Judge Wen with the same care as if he were a fool, until the other party began to doubt whether his IQ was not enough, then he continued: "Since taking office, the county magistrate of Guobei County has imposed heavy taxes and various other ways to make money. I believe he is very uneasy deep down, especially now that the world is getting more and more difficult. Our county magistrate must be suffering from it and can't sleep every night."

"The county magistrate just took in a beautiful concubine in her twenties half a month ago. Of course he can't sleep well because of all the partying every night."

Seeing Su Su lying with his eyes open, Judge Wen couldn't help but complain in his heart.

But Su Su paused for a moment, and his tone suddenly turned cold: "Finally, the county magistrate has been suffering until today, and he can no longer bear the condemnation in his heart, so he brazenly decided to die to atone for his sins. As the saying goes: saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda. There is also a saying in Buddhism: putting down the butcher knife will make you a Buddha. Since the county magistrate has regrets, how can the City God Temple sit idly by and do nothing? They must save him."

"However, swords have no eyes. The county magistrate was determined to die. In the end, he was stabbed three times and six times. He died without any treatment. It was diagnosed as pure suicide."

Everyone in the city knows what kind of person the magistrate of Guobei County is. Instead of making him feel remorseful and commit suicide to apologize, it would be better to ask the county magistrate to dig his own father out of the ancestral grave.

At least this possibility is greater.

The civil and military judges all shuddered.

Kill people and kill your heart.

The City God not only wants to kill people, but also wants to destroy their hearts!

"The county magistrate has committed suicide to apologize, so the next step is to deal with his lackeys and other local tyrants and evil gentry in the city, and open the warehouses to release grain to help the refugees. After all, the county magistrate is afraid of being lonely on the road, so he must have a few companions!"

"Now that we've come to this, I don't need to teach you what to do next, right?"

Su Su stopped talking.

The civil and military judges suddenly understood.

"The words of the City God have enlightened us all."

"It is better to act sooner rather than later. We must act quickly and catch the White Lotus Sect off guard."

He watched as the civil and military judges unconcernedly decided on a plan to force the magistrate of Guobei County to commit suicide, and then to open the granaries to release grain to provide relief to the refugees, thus thwarting the White Lotus Sect's plan to deceive the refugees and start an uprising.

Anyone would put the blame on the White Lotus Sect.

"Knife in hand, follow me, kill the county magistrate, and open the granary."

Killing someone with a borrowed knife and shifting the blame to someone else, Su Su felt that he was becoming more and more like a villain.

noon.

The civil and military judges who had finalized the plan immediately started working on it, while Su Su wandered around Guobei County bored.

Chang'e said that the only thing it needed to do before it could transform was to stabilize its position as the City God. Su Shu also felt that it had not undergone any significant changes after replacing the position of the land god of Hutian Village. The repair progress of its inner elixir, which was covered with cracks three inches below its navel, was still slow, and the land god of Guobei County was unable to provide it with more incense and prayer power.

I can only drool every day as I look at the wisp of incense and prayer power condensed into wisp in the City God Temple.

Su Su had no idea how to consolidate his position.

He walked to the city gate again. There were still drowsy soldiers guarding the gate. He was thinking about whether to go out of the city for a walk. Suddenly, Su Su saw a large ball of white light that was almost condensed into substance suddenly falling from the sky and hitting his heart from the top of his head.

"This direction... is Baishui Village. Calculating the date, it is time for the land temple to be completed. This is the incense and prayer power provided by the hundreds of villagers in Baishui Village."

The warm warmth instantly spread throughout the body, and the excess was restrained by the white light and absorbed by the divine body whose outline was faintly visible. Layers of phantoms like a skeleton gradually took shape inside the divine body.

The cracked inner elixir felt tingling and numb again.

Suddenly, Su Su seemed to have grasped the key clue: "Yes, Li Dingyuan's insect has the appearance of a god of the earth wearing a black hat, holding a jade sceptre, and wearing a green robe with gold-painted patterns of mountains, rivers, birds and beasts. But I can only vaguely see a phantom wearing crimson clothes. It seems that the problem lies here."

Glancing at the floating words on the cloth, he realized that his divine power had unknowingly exceeded two hundred, and his lifespan was approaching ten years.

"The amount of divine power restored by collecting incense and vows has not changed much, but the increase in lifespan has been greatly reduced."

While pondering, he mobilized three quarters of his accumulated divine power to condense his divine body.

With the naked eye, it can be seen that the divine body with the skeleton shadow is constantly showing more details.

The bones outline the body, the fascia gradually grows to depict the internal organs, and then the muscle fibers fill the gaps in the bones.

By the time three quarters of the divine power had been exhausted, the divine body in front of him had roughly outlined 70 to 80 percent of the human organs. If he wanted to continue condensing it, Su Su estimated that it would take at least several hundred divine powers before it could barely resemble a human being.

"The divine power that was originally sufficient has suddenly become insufficient. According to the incense and wish power that I collect every day, it will take at least a month to condense the divine body into a human form. The threat from the tree demon is imminent, and I don't have so much time to waste."

We must seize the time to reap the benefits... drive out ghosts and demons, and make more people in Guobei County realize that burning incense and worshipping the land god can really ensure safety.

Dear fellow villagers of Guobei County, could you allow me to take up a few moments of your time to tell you about our local deity who drives away ghosts and demons, the land god of Guobei County!

Chapter 22

After noon, the sky became clear and the air was fresh.

After the Waking of Insects with the continuous spring rain a few days ago, the temperature has gradually warmed up. Roadside trees and crops in the fields have sprouted one after another. All things are reviving and full of vitality.

"Baishui Village is just ahead."

After many days, Su Su returned to Baishui Village, where he could hear the sounds of chickens and dogs. Looking at the mud-brick houses scattered among the fields, he couldn't help feeling a sense of familiarity.

Leaning out of the ground, the view in front of me suddenly opened up. I saw wisps of white smoke floating in the village. Most of the villagers were gathered in front of the newly built land temple, burning paper and adding incense, and offering sacrifices to the statue of the land god with a fox in his arms that Su Su had left here.

"May the God of Land bless us, and I hope this year will bring good weather and a good harvest."

"My eldest son will go to the city to learn to work tomorrow. I pray that the land god will bless him and have a safe journey, and turn danger into fortune."

"..."

The villagers all around bowed their heads respectfully. Even if they had anything to ask for, it was just some simple wishes such as good weather and safe travel.

Looking at the grave mountain to the west of Baishui Village, the originally eerie and terrifying scene of howling winds even at noon has been significantly improved in just a few days.

"There are dozens of yamen runners and ghost soldiers in the City God Temple. They patrol at night as fast as the wind. If the exorcism power is doubled, they should be able to expand the patrol area to the entire Guobei County. It should not be difficult to protect passers-by on the road from being harmed by evil spirits and ghosts."

"With the help of these passers-by protected by the yamen runners and ghost soldiers, spread the rumor that I am the City God of Guobei County. After one person spreads it to ten people, ten people spread it to a hundred people, and it won't be long before someone will offer sacrifices in the name of the City God of Guobei County."

While thinking about this, he strolled leisurely in Baishui Village.

The gossip caused by the collapse of the land temple a few days ago came and went silently. Even Mr. Huang, who had fled to the city from the village, returned to the village at some point and added a lot of tributes to the newly built land temple and burned a few incense sticks.

However, Su Su did not receive any help from him, so it was no wonder that this guy could not wait to flee to the county town for refuge when the incident in Baishui Village just happened.

After Mr. Huang left, Su Su unexpectedly ran into Tan Jinxuan, who was wandering around the land temple and had the black energy on his forehead dispelled by it a few days ago.

"Hey, didn't he say he was going home to review his lessons and prepare for the autumn provincial examination? Why did he come back to Baishui Village?"

Tan Jinxuan looked haggard, with a dark aura on his forehead thicker than the last time he saw him. He wandered around the land temple in a daze, as if he had been drained of his energy by some evil ghost.

No way...

Su Su was right. Tan Jinxuan ran into a ghost again on his way back?

As Su Su walked in, divine light emanated from him. Tan Jinxuan shuddered violently, and the black air on his forehead faded slightly.

The dazed look on his face disappeared immediately, and Tan Jinxuan ran to the land temple as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, howling, "Land God, save me!"

Su Su looked at Tan Jinxuan who was kneeling in front of the land temple and howling. It took him a long time to understand the whole story from his words.

It turned out that a few days ago, after Su Su had driven away the black energy from Tan Jinxuan's forehead, he rushed home without stopping, seizing the time to review his lessons in an attempt to pass the provincial examination in autumn half a year later. Unexpectedly, he met a fortune-telling sorcerer who was setting up a stall on the roadside four or five miles away from Guobei County.

Tan Jinxuan passed by the sorcerer without saying anything.

The sorcerer called out to Tan Jinxuan who was returning to the city and asked, "Did you get harmed by an evil spirit and just found someone to exorcise it?"

Tan Jinxuan was shocked and nodded without thinking much.

Who would have thought that the fortune teller at the stall would brazenly say: "The man who exorcised the evil spirit for you is only a minor one, and the evil spirit that harmed you will come back soon."

With the help of the Baishui Village God of Land who personally appeared to exorcise evil spirits, Tan Jinxuan certainly did not believe the fortune teller's alarmist words, and even spoke up to retort the fortune teller a few words.

The fortune teller was extremely angry. He threw down the tortoise shell and copper coins in his hand, pointed at the hexagram and said to Tan Jinxuan: "You are about to meet with a disaster. Your family will be destroyed and your family will be in turmoil. You will die within three days. If you are willing to pay ten taels of gold, I can help you get rid of the disaster and solve the problem."

Tan Jinxuan didn't take this seriously, ignored the fortune teller, and just left.

However, that night, when Tan Jinxuan was sitting in his study reading attentively, he suddenly heard a rustling sound outside the window.

When he looked over with a lamp in hand, he saw a monster over ten feet tall with a green face and fangs in the yard. Tan Jinxuan was so frightened that he fainted on the spot.

It was not until he woke up the next day that he heard from the servants at home that the side room in the yard had collapsed the previous night. Mr. and Mrs. Tan were very frightened. They found Tan Jinxuan fainted in the study in the late night.

This is exactly what the fortune teller said about the disaster in the house.

On the second night, the rooster that crowed to announce the dawn in Tan Jinxuan's home and the black dog that guarded the yard died suddenly and mysteriously. Frightened, Tan's father and mother fell ill in bed, and the fortune teller's prediction of a chaotic life for the whole family came true.

Now is the third day, and according to the fortune teller's words, Tan Jinxuan might not survive this night.

So Tan Jinxuan set out before dawn and rushed to Baishui Village to seek help from Su Su. He had not slept for two nights and was so frightened that when he arrived at Baishui Village his mind was in a mess. He was so dazed that he couldn't even remember what he came to Baishui Village for.

It was not until Su Su approached and woke him up that he knelt anxiously in front of the land temple and explained everything in detail.

He cried and howled again and again, accusing the fortune teller of casting a spell to harm him, and begged Su Su to show up and save him.

The methods used by this sorcerer are extremely similar to those used by the street performers in front of the City God Temple yesterday.

It is nothing more than: one is to confuse, two is to block, and three is to scare.

The predictions about the family disaster and the unrest in the previous two nights have come true one after another. Under normal circumstances, Tan Jinxuan should have been scared out of his wits and would have run all over Guobei County looking for the fortune teller to eliminate the disaster and solve his problems.

Life is at stake. Let alone ten taels of gold, any amount of money can be given up to save life.

With such means of manipulating people's hearts, Su Su concluded that the fortune teller was also a White Lotus demon who sneaked into Guobei County.

"When a person is unlucky, even drinking cold water will make his teeth ache. The sorcerer cast a spell to harm people and asked for ten taels of gold. He is really asking for it. If it were someone else, he would have succeeded."

"This morning, people were saying that the White Lotus demon was secretly inciting refugees in Guobei County to gather a crowd to start an uprising. It turns out that they have been preparing for it for a long time. They have no good intentions!" Su Su thought secretly.

The divine body with only 70% to 80% of its organs outlined was really curious, so Su Su did not show up. Instead, he picked up a piece of rubble and used his old trick to add extremely weak exorcism power to hit Tan Jinxuan.

"This God already knows about this matter. You just need to go back to the county and find the sorcerer who cast a spell to harm people in order to defraud money. Tell him loudly in public how he harmed you, and then this matter will be solved."

As long as this White Lotus demon who casts spells and harms people dares to show up in Guobei County, Su Su will not need to take action personally. Dozens of yamen runners and ghost soldiers who have doubled their power to exorcise evil spirits will be able to make him know what cruelty is.

Are you here with bad intentions?

I'm fishing for law enforcement!

Chapter 23 The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows behind

Upon hearing this, Tan Jinxuan was overjoyed and knelt in front of the land temple and kowtowed repeatedly.

Then he hurried out, and without a moment's delay he rushed back to Guobei County to find the White Lotus sorcerer who cast spells to harm people and defrauded them of their money.

Su Su followed closely behind him and fled underground, and soon appeared outside the City God Temple in Guobei County.

At this time, the civil and military judges and a small number of alert yamen runners and ghost soldiers were all in the temple. Their orderly deployment allowed the magistrate of Guobei County to fully meet the conditions for suicide, which included the presence of other people, timely rescue by the city god, and an unwavering determination to atone for his sins, so he brazenly committed suicide and died heroically with three sword wounds and six holes in his body.

Seeing Su Su's arrival, the civil and military judges revealed the progress of the corresponding plans in full. In order to avoid any more trouble, they scheduled the county magistrate's death date to tonight.

"Although the plan is crude, it is feasible. If I find someone for you, this matter will be seamless."

He recounted Tan Jinxuan's experiences in recent days and emphasized the fortune teller's suspected identity as a member of the White Lotus Sect.

After receiving the instructions, Judge Wu, whose brain was filled with muscles, was confused, while Judge Wen reacted very quickly and was deeply impressed by Su Fu's unconventional ideas.

"The audacious White Lotus sorcerer performed evil magic in broad daylight to harm people with the intention of defrauding money and property, which was a serious crime. He did not repent for such a crime and even broke into the banquet openly, using evil tricks to manipulate the county magistrate to join forces with the White Lotus sect members outside the city to start an uprising. Fortunately, the county magistrate woke up in time and would rather commit suicide than follow the thief. It is really admirable and lamentable."

Judge Wen was very good at telling lies with his eyes open. Without blushing or breathing heavily, he prepared a story to deal with the City God in the future and put the blame on the White Lotus Sect.

It is an indisputable fact that the fortune teller cast spells to harm people, the White Lotus sect members instigated refugees to start an uprising, and the county magistrate committed suicide after being stabbed three times and six times.

Even in front of Mingling Wang, the City God of Yingtian Prefecture, Judge Wen dared to speak freely with a clear conscience.

As for the county magistrate's lackeys and assistant officials, as well as the local tyrants and evil gentry in the city, their deaths were all mysterious.