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Chapter 125 "A Chinese Ghost Story" Guobei County's Experience
After half an hour, the torrential rain finally stopped.

Ye Yu rode the horse, Xia Houba held the reins, and the two continued to head north.

Guobei County is located to the north of the pavilion. After walking for half an hour, they saw villages appearing around them. When they walked in, the village was empty.

Xia Houba told Ye Yu that in recent years, there have been continuous disasters, frequent droughts and floods, coupled with exploitation by officials, the villagers have all fled to other villages to flee famine.

The new magistrate of Guobei County issued a notice, offering a reward for the capture of the Jiangyang bandit.

After hearing about it, many swordsmen gathered around the county town, killing good people and taking credit for their crimes, causing chaos in nearby villages and towns.

If he hadn't wanted to compete with Yan Chixia, he wouldn't have come to this smoky place.

The two continued to move forward, and finally arrived at the gate of the county seat an hour later.

Just when he wanted to enter, he was stopped by the county government servants, and the leader of the police took the portrait of the wanted criminal to compare the two.

The younger brother looked at them twice, and without a word, he wanted to lock them up to see the magistrate, but was knocked down by Xia Houba.

He took out a token, waved it twice to the policemen, and told them to leave.

The catcher saw that he took out the token of the head arrester of the thirteen counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and ran away with the crap of the younger brothers.

This kind of boss is not something they can afford to offend. The county magistrate will be very polite when he sees it, let alone a group of young people like them.

Ye Yu stopped the fast yamen servant, he took out two ingots of silver, patted them into silver cakes, and threw them to a few people for soup and medicine.

This made the county government's arrester even more fearful, and he bowed respectfully and left.

Xia Houba was so envious of the two silver ingots that Ye Yu felt a little funny.

Telling him to go to the inn to rest, Xia Houba led the horse and walked to the Yuelai Inn in the east of the county.

Ye Yu looked at the county town. Except for the city walls which were built of bricks and stones, most of the houses in the county were made of earthen walls and earth tiles, and the ground was paved with a layer of gravel, which was regarded as the main road of the county town.

The county seat is a rectangular building with a length of 600 meters from east to west and a width of 400 meters from north to south.

The buildings here are all red bricks and gray tiles, there are two big lions at the door, and the roads are paved with blue bricks.

But Ye Yu saw through the black door that many courtyards were deserted and looked particularly desolate.

As I opened the door of a courtyard, I saw that the house collapsed, the pond dried up, and all the carved beams and painted buildings were demolished. Only the dry well in the garden told the story of its former glory.

Ye Yu sighed, greeted Xia Houba, and went to the most prosperous restaurant.

Passing through the commercial street on the way, Ye Yu was surprised to find that the most popular industry in this county was actually a coffin shop.

Ye Yu randomly walked into a coffin shop and found that the shop was covered with talismans.

Picking up one, a system prompt came.

"Low-level evil talismans, made of impure cinnabar, contain weak mana effects, can restrain low-level ghosts, and cause 1-7 points of magic damage, and sell them to the system to get 5 points."

"Boss, where did you get these talisman papers?"

"A poor Taoist priest was short of money to buy a coffin for his companion, so he used my paper to draw some talismans on it. It is said that it can drive away evil spirits. It is very useful! Sir, would you like some?"

"I'm just looking at it, I don't want to buy it yet."

After Ye Yu finished speaking, he saw a picture of a lady in the shop, which depicted a woman who looked very much like Nie Xiaoqian.

The system beeps sound one after another.

"Picture of Lady Nie, props, can hold ghosts (0/1), sell to the system to get 100 points."

"Broken mahogany sword, magical weapon, can cause 10-15 points of damage when attacking low-level ghosts, and sell it to the system to get 250 points."

"A dilapidated Sanqing copper magic bell and magic weapon. It causes dizziness and other negative effects on ghosts when used. If you sell it to the system, you can get 150 points."

Ye Yu pondered for a moment, and bought two magical instruments, the portrait of a lady and the Sanqingling.

The shopkeeper saw that he was a big customer, and enthusiastically recommended Heigouxue, Bronze Mirror, Cinnabar, Langhao Brush, Talisman Paper, and three Taoist scriptures.

With a wave of Ye Yu's hand, he asked for them all.

After harvesting 30 taels of silver, the shopkeeper enthusiastically sent Ye Yu out of the shop.

After walking along the street for another 10 minutes, the two entered Yuelai Inn and asked for the two best rooms.

Ye Yu used four ingots of silver to cover it for a month.

The clerk in the store led the two of them upstairs in a doggy manner, and saw a group of swordsmen coming in from the door. After learning that the best room had been rented out, he dragged the boss out and beat him up.

The boss, who was bruised and swollen, had no choice but to negotiate with Ye Yu and arrange two first-class seats for them.

Xia Houba was about to get angry, but was stopped by Ye Yu, and the two changed rooms on the second floor, giving up the two best seats on the third floor.

The boss personally delivered delicious food and wine to the two, and Ye Yu asked the boss why he didn't report to the police and let the police deal with it.

The boss lamented that the world is so cold, there are only a dozen or so arresters in this group, and they dare not provoke those swordsmen at all.

You must know that there are more than 350 swordsmen resident in the county, and the county magistrate still relies on them to bring him money, so he dare not offend.

Ye Yu is very curious, why is this?

The boss explained that the county magistrate was crazy about money, and he asked the police to arrest the wealthy households in the city as gangsters and extort money.

The wealthy family dared not speak out, so they had to pay money and take their families to live in the capital.

This place has become the territory of the swordsmen, as long as the swordsmen arrest people and bring them into the county government, they will say that they are Jiangyang robbers who are on the run.

The county magistrate asked the family members of the arrested person to take money to redeem him, and the money he got was divided in half.

In just three short months, the people in the county and the surrounding villages and towns fled and died.

Apart from the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, the residents in the county town are all young and middle-aged.

Ye Yu asked again, why doesn't the boss leave here?
The boss had a depressed face, and told Ye Yu that his family didn't have much money, so they had to look at the shop for the county master to make money, and they would leave when they had enough money on the road.

He sighed, "A harsh government is as fierce as a tiger, and the people will suffer when it prospers, and when it perishes, the people will suffer."

I am very curious, since this county is so chaotic, how can it support thousands of people.

Be aware that the surrounding land is barren and few farmers are farming.

The boss told again that there were thousands of acres of fertile land five miles west of the county seat, all of which were occupied by the county lord, and he let the criminals go to work in the fields.

It is said that a copper mine was also found there, which was also occupied by the county lord, and the criminals went to mine it.

When Ye Yu heard this, he wanted to understand why there was order in this county.

He finally asked, he wanted to buy some items to ward off evil spirits, but he didn't know where to buy them.

The boss told Ye Yu that after leaving the inn, he walked west along the small road, and there was a market in the southwest corner of the county town. There were three shops specializing in making coffins, and they should have items to ward off evil spirits.

Ye Yu privately gave the boss two ingots of silver, and asked a shop waiter to take him to the market.

As for Xia Houba, let him wander around to see where those swordsmen usually operate.

Ye Yu went out with the waiter and came to the market in the southwest corner. He saw that this area was the craftsman area.

There are shops that make farm tools, carve stone mills, weave baskets, and make tables, chairs and benches.

But the most popular one is the coffin shop where people do business.

He walked into a house at random and saw an old woman buying a thin coffin. She tremblingly took out fifty copper coins from the cloth bag and handed them to the shopkeeper.

The guys in the store carried the coffins to deliver the goods to the door. Seeing Ye Yu stepping in, the shopkeeper greeted him with a smile. When he learned that he was going to purchase a large number of talismans, the smile on his face was even fuller.

Pack all kinds of talisman papers in big bags and small bags at the shopkeeper, put fifteen catties of cinnabar and twenty Buddhist scriptures into wooden boxes, and ask the shop assistant to push them back with a wheelbarrow.

In the Yuelai Inn, Ning Caichen was holding the account book to ask for the account, and was very upset when he found that the paper on it was soaked in water.

Ye Yu stepped forward, asked the shopkeeper for a banquet, and invited Ning Caichen to the table.

Five tastes of food, three rounds of wine.

Ye Yu once again offered to hire him as an accountant, with two ingots of silver a month for food and lodging.

Ning Caichen thought for a while, gritted his teeth and agreed.

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