This Liao Zhai is not right

The atmosphere in the dense forest suddenly became tense.

But soon someone came out to smooth things over, saying, "We are all brothers and sisters in the church, why do we have to kill each other and make others laugh at us? Since this Guobei County City God is so difficult to deal with, let's just let him go. But Zhao the Dharma Protector in Yangzhou has gathered thousands of believers, and the arrow is on the string and has to be shot. Let's go to Yangzhou to help Zhao the Dharma Protector. When the matter is accomplished, we will raise an army to fight, and the Guobei County City God will have to accept his death, and we will avenge the Plague Taoist today."

"Then we will follow the incense master's instructions and rush to Yangzhou overnight to help Zhao Hufa raise his army and start an uprising."

boom.

There was a sudden sound, and candlelight overflowed into the dense forest.

As the candlelight faded, the few sneaky figures that had appeared suddenly disappeared.

The night wind blows and birds and insects chirp.

It was as if these figures had never existed in the dense forest.

However, after only a few breaths, the father and son, the street performers, suddenly emerged from the ground, their heads and brains covered with mud and grass debris. "No one is following us, the news didn't leak from us, it must be that plague Taoist who acted on his own and let the Guobei County City God see the flaw."

"Are you still going to Yangzhou?"

"Go! Zhao Hufa has a lot of capital in Yangzhou, and it would be much easier for him to start a rebellion than in Guobei County. Why don't you go?"

As they were talking, the figures walked further and further away in the dense forest.

then.

A quarter of an hour... half an hour... an hour...

From the second half of the night until the morning, the sound of roosters crowing came from the village outside the dense forest, and the shadow of a ghost soldier in armor quietly emerged from behind a tree.

He stirred up the evil wind and rushed to the City God Temple to report the news.

"Reporting to the City God, there are four members of the White Lotus Sect who are bewitching refugees outside the city, three men and one woman. The middle-aged man among the three men is called Xiangzhu, and he is the leader. The other two are the father and son who were street performers outside the City God Temple the other day. The father is Guo Laosi, and the son's name is unknown. The woman is a short woman less than three feet tall, holding a corpse Gu in her arms. She is extremely terrifying, and I dare not approach her."

A busy night.

Under the manipulation of the civil and military judges, the plan for the suicide of the magistrate of Guobei County went smoothly. After a whole night, except for the lackey Zuo Erguan who accompanied the county magistrate on the road, several local tyrants and evil gentry who had already been put on the list by them were also arrested and brought to confess their crimes and be punished.

Next, all that remained was to open the granaries to release grain, provide relief to refugees, quell public grievances, arrange production, speed up the reclamation of wasteland, and catch up with the water-milling work for spring grain sowing.

Today, the imperial court has suffered a series of defeats in the north, the barbarians from outside the Great Wall keep knocking on the gates, and the new emperor has been bewitched by an evil monk and has become obsessed with cultivating immortals.

According to Su Su's estimation, the news that the magistrate of Guobei County was killed by the White Lotus demon would take at least half a month to reach the capital of Jichuan Prefecture. After that, there would be another round of delays due to wrangling over reports. By the time the court actually learned of what had happened, it would probably take more than half a year.

Moreover, the civil unrest was quickly suppressed and did not develop into a serious incident of killing officials or rebelling, so its importance was naturally greatly reduced.

After going through the entire process, it would take at least two to three years for the court to send the unlucky guy to serve as the county magistrate in the remote area of Guobei County.

At present, the only thing Su Fu needs to face is the accountability of the City God for his day and night wandering.

Neither Su Su nor the civil and military judges in the City God Temple took this matter seriously.

The magistrate of Guobei County was killed by the White Lotus Demon. What does this have to do with our Guobei County City God Temple?

Didn’t you see that the evil man who killed the county magistrate was killed on the spot by the evil soldiers?

If anyone wants to blame someone, it's only because the magistrate of Guobei County is unlucky. It's bad enough that he just eats, drinks and has fun on a daily basis, squeezing the people's fat and blood, but he even dared to feast and have fun on the road that the ghost soldiers must take to hunt down the White Lotus monster.

That's good.

I was so happy that I died.

"The White Lotus Sect members moved as fast as the wind. We couldn't catch up with them. We didn't expect them to run to Yangzhou, which is the most prosperous city in Jiangnan. How could thousands of bewitched old, weak and sick people accomplish anything?"

Su Su couldn't help but feel anxious about the intelligence of the White Lotus Sect members, and made a sharp and well-reasoned comment: "If it were me, I would immediately organize the members to go north along the way and blend in with the refugees affected by the war to develop forces. Shuntian Prefecture was just besieged by the barbarians a few years ago, and the surrounding prefectures and counties must have been looted. A large number of refugees are starving. Once we start an uprising and capture the city to feed them, we can take over hundreds of thousands of refugees in less than half a month."

"Especially now that the reinforcements that came from everywhere to help the king win the battle to defend the capital have just left, you have instigated a popular uprising. It is not difficult to capture Shuntian Prefecture unexpectedly. Why bother staying in Jiangnan and engaging in petty escapades?"

“The pattern is really too small.”

Chapter 26 A whim

The roosters crow and the sun rises.

Stretching his front limbs, Su Su yawned in a very human way.

Through the reflection in the bronze mirror on the beam, it could clearly see a white-haired fox standing on its hind legs, with its front feet moving as freely as its hands, almost the same as that of an ordinary human being.

As the fox yawned, it slightly moved its body, which had not moved much all night. The divine power in its heart immediately flowed through its limbs and bones. A small part of it was intercepted three inches below the navel to repair the damaged inner elixir, and the rest returned to the heart.

The fatigue from not sleeping all night disappeared in an instant.

The civil and military judges led the yamen runners and ghost soldiers to the city, and used the possession technique that made the county magistrate commit suicide yesterday to open the granaries and release grain. It was expected that within half a day, the people and refugees outside the city would know the news that the land god of Baishui Village had taken office as the City God of Guobei County.

"If you believe it, it exists. If you don't believe it, it doesn't exist. If everyone in and outside of Guobei County believes that I am the new City God of Guobei County, then can the abundant incense accumulated by the City God Temple be used by me?"

Looking up at the sky above the City God Temple, there is white mist rising. Such strong incense and prayer power existed before the previous City God Li Dingyuan was demoted one level.

Prior to this, Su Su had specifically sought out Judge Wen to inquire indirectly and learned that seven or eight out of ten of this huge amount of incense and vows were supposed to be handed over to the underworld, but due to the chaos in the underworld, no one had been sent to collect them.

As the lowest-level county god, Li Dingyuan, with his illusory body that became a god from a ghost, was obviously unable to bear the huge amount of incense and vows that accumulated over time, so he could only let it grow stronger and stronger.

“If I can transform all of these incense and wish power into divine power, not to mention condensing a divine body, it would be no problem to immediately repair the damage to my inner elixir and shed my demonic body to transform into a human. Whether I can succeed or not depends on today.”

On a whim, Su Su gradually came to this realization.

"Oh, the City God has done a lot of great things during the few days I was away."

Outside the City God Temple, a woman in a light green robe, with her hair tied up in a bun, a cold demeanor and a hint of smile between her eyebrows walked towards them slowly.

As he spoke, a hint of osmanthus fragrance wafted into the air.

Su Fu heard the voice and immediately felt alarmed: "Fairy Chang'e, why are you here?"

Ever since they had cheated two ingots of gold from Su Su the day before, Chang'e and Mrs. Lin who lived in the inn disappeared from Guobei County. No matter how hard Su Su searched, he could not find out where they had gone.

"Why do you have to call me so politely? Just call me by my nickname Chang'e."

"When I brought back the one hundred taels of gold betrothal gift given by the City God, my mother was so happy. Even when I sent me back to my hometown, she reminded me to bring my son-in-law to her for her review." Chang'e, who had changed her clothes, seemed to see the doubts in Su Su's heart and explained with a chuckle.

Take me to show it to Mrs. Lin?

If Mrs. Lin, who is nearly 70 years old, saw that her so-called son-in-law was actually a white fox, she would be frightened to death on the spot.

Moreover, the cause of this marriage was strange. From Su Su's perspective, Chang'e only wanted to obtain divine power from it, so that she could communicate with the gods, return to her original nature, and return to the Guanghan Moon Palace as soon as possible.

This person could be Zong Zimei who was far away in Yangzhou, or it could be Su Su who happened to pass by Chang'e.

There is not much difference between the two.

If there is, it is just that Su Su is more attractive than Zong Zimei.

That's it.

However, according to what Chang'e said before, she had to use a lot of effort to deal with mortals, but it would be much easier to deal with Su Fu, and she didn't even need to use any means to deal with him.

As for the ancient female fairy who was banished to the mortal world and took the initiative to come to his house and offer to pay for him, Su Su said that it would be better for her to just take a shower and go to bed early.

There is everything in the dream.

Instead of harboring unrealistic fantasies, it would be better to establish a mutually supportive relationship with Chang'e in which both sides get what they need, and let her deal with the tree demon grandma in Lanruo Temple. This is always more realistic than looking for Yan Chixia aimlessly.

Su Su quickly responded, "I dare not visit her, for fear of scaring the old lady."

Chang'e's smile remained undiminished as she said softly, "The City God has accomplished such a great cause. The common people and refugees inside and outside the city who have benefited from it must be in awe. With this help, his position will be secure today."

The alarm bells in Su Shu's heart sounded even louder. It turned out that Chang'e had rushed here because she was planning to use the huge amount of incense and prayer power accumulated in the City God Temple to repair the damage to her inner elixir and shed her demon body to transform into a human.

Its sense of smell is even more sensitive than that of a fox, which is a canine.

Looking at Su Su's expression, his thin fox face had an indescribable vigilance, and Chang'e comforted him, "Don't worry, City God. I am here to protect you. Even if there are villains who are plotting something bad, it will be difficult for them to succeed."

Pull it down.

I'm more afraid of you.

Don't hit a smiling person. Since Chang'e said she came to protect the law, Su Su didn't say much.

As the sun rose to noon, more and more people came to the City God Temple to burn incense and paper, and the entire City God Temple was filled with smoke.

Invisibly, the rich incense smoke floating above the City God Temple was moving.

"coming!"

Chang'e stretched out her hand and pointed upwards, only to see that the sky, which was originally sunny, was suddenly covered with dark clouds, as thick as ink, with purple-red lightning.

Seeing the lightning and thunder and the approaching rainstorm, the people who came to the City God Temple to burn incense and paper dispersed and returned home.

Time passed by, and it was almost noon.

The rich incense smoke floating above the City God Temple transformed into a square seal, with the seal script "Guobei County Jiancha Simin City God Xianyoubo" visible below.

This is the seal of the City God.

The City God Seal, transformed from the rich incense, emitted a bright white light and fell in front of Su Su, quickly merging into the copper seal with the seal characters "Land God of Baishui Village" tied to Su Su's wrist.

The extremely filled incense and wish power swept through Su Su's body. The warm current that flowed into his heart was so hot that it made his heartbeat speed up suddenly. The inner elixir that was full of cracks immediately became as whole as new.

Su Su immediately felt endless strength coming from three inches below his navel. Even with just a thought in his mind, he could fly into the air and walk on the clouds.

The next change that followed was the divine body that connected to the divine power of the mind.

It only outlines the image of 70% to 80% of human organs growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, with bright red muscle fibers filling the bones, blood vessels crisscrossing, and layers of white skin appearing.

In a blink of an eye, a graceful figure with a face obscured by white light, wearing a one-size-small divine robe with a green background and gold-painted patterns of mountains, rivers, birds and beasts, appeared before our eyes.

"How does this divine body feel..."

Su Su instinctively sensed that something seemed to be wrong.

However, from the thick, inky black clouds gathering in the sky, a purple-red thunder suddenly struck.

Only a roar was heard.

Fiery lightning flashed.

The roof of the City God Temple collapsed due to the thunder, and the purple-red thunder fell into the temple and struck Su Su's body which had just taken human form.

The green divine robe shattered immediately, and the divine body condensed by divine power had its skin and flesh separated, revealing its white bones.

The divine body was severely damaged, and even the fox body was affected. Strands of lightning exploded on the surface of the body, and the whole body felt as if it was torn apart and felt extremely painful.

Without giving Su Su time to think, the divine power transformed from the power of incense and vows poured out from his mind, quickly repairing the damage to his divine body and fox body.

One after another, purple-red thunder struck down.

Su Su tried his best to keep his divine body from being split apart by the thunder, so much so that large patches of the fox's white fur were charred black, and he was completely unaware of the sparks that kept bursting out of his fur.

gradually.

The connection between the divine body and the fox body, which were originally distinguishable, became closer and closer, causing the purple-red thunder in the dark clouds to no longer distinguish between the divine body and the fox body and strike randomly.

Sharp stinging pain, tearing pain, dull pain from lightning burning the body surface...

All his senses were overwhelmed by pain. Su Su had been knocked to the ground by thunder and could not move. A tremendous amount of divine power surged out of his mind like crazy.

With the power of exorcism all over his body, he struggled to stand up, looked up at the dark clouds with lightning and thunder above his head, and said with gritted teeth: "Hasn't the fox body survived the thunder tribulation? Why is it struck by lightning again? It would be rude to be struck again!"

Chapter 27: Shocked by the River Dam Game

The thunderclouds in the sky seemed to be angered by Su Fu's actions.

Savings for a while.

The rumbling sound resounded through the sky.

A purple-red lightning bolt as thick as an adult's arm fell down with a loud bang.

Su Su, who had just stood up, was struck to the ground again. Amidst the lightning, the divine body with its white bones and the fox body with its skin and flesh torn apart merged together, becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.

Looking up, the dark thunderclouds in the sky had dispersed without anyone noticing, and the scorching sun peeked out from the clouds, casting its dazzling light over the dusty and charred City God Temple.

Chang'e, who was guarding nearby, walked into the temple and saw at a glance that a huge pit had been struck by thunder in front of the City God statue, and the surrounding area was covered with scorch marks from lightning and fire, and hair that had been burnt to ashes was scattered everywhere.

And in the huge pit created by the thunder, there was a woman with black hair like a waterfall, and a green robe on her body that was torn into strips, revealing her snow-white skin underneath. She was lying on her side with her eyes closed and her eyebrows were picturesque. Even though she was in a dishevel, there was a kind of alluring charm.

"She is truly a vixen." Chang'e exclaimed softly.

He walked into the pit, put his arms around the woman's waist and knees, and picked her up.

With the soft and fragrant jade in his arms and the faint scent of osmanthus filling his nostrils, Su Su woke up suddenly. When he opened his eyes, he saw Chang'e's cold and pretty face standing in front of him.

"What's happening here?"

Su Su couldn't help but be a little dazed.