Mysterious World Tour

The woman had a beautiful face and a slightly dark complexion. Tan Mo had noticed before that the woman was carrying a short sword. Although it looked like it was used to scare people, it could be seen that the woman was not a lady from a noble family, but someone who liked to wield swords and guns.

Tan Mo put his hands together and nodded slightly to the woman to show his gratitude.

Then he put on a blanket.

He was not cold, but there was no need to refuse someone's kindness.

After a night, few people in the lobby of the inn really slept. The candles burned all night, and the teapot was refilled again and again by the innkeeper.

If the guests in the lobby did not sleep, how could the innkeeper rest?

The innkeeper got up very early. It was still dark, and he was busy in front of the stove in the dark, washing rice and cooking porridge, and then cutting pickles and serving them to the people in the lobby.

Tan Mo took a mouthful of porridge and felt comfortable all over. Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, he paid the bill, returned the blanket to the couple, thanked them again, and prepared to leave.

However, the couple invited Tan Mo to go with them, saying that they had a carriage.

Tan Mo wanted to refuse this time because he thought the carriage was too slow, but Huoer wanted to get some fresh air, so Tan Mo agreed and followed them.

After a bumpy ride, he finally arrived at the gate of a county town before dark.

This county town was occupied by General Chi Lian. Because General Chi Lian did not rebel and claim to be a king, and in order to publicize that he was still loyal to the Qing court and a loyal minister, this place still used the system of the Qing court.

There is a county government in the county town.

There are county magistrates and constables in the county government, but they do not have much power. When it comes to convicting people, the county magistrate can judge and sentence minor crimes on his own, but for major crimes, he must consult his superiors.

General Chi Lian did this to prevent his subordinates from doing bad things while holding power tightly in his hands, thus causing a fire in the courtyard.

After all, he was a "loyal minister" of the Qing court.

However, even if he did this, General Chi Lian's reputation was still not very good.

Excessively collecting the power of grassroots officials, but arbitrarily authorizing the high-level officials, made the high-level officials under General Chi Lian in a state of lawlessness, so the high-level officials could interfere in local political affairs unscrupulously. In order to keep his official hat, the local county magistrate often obeyed his superiors.

If it weren't for the fact that General Chi Lian held military power and relied on his banner to deceive many "green" practitioners who had just come down the mountain to serve him, he would have been emptied by his subordinates.

Under the blindness of one leaf, General Chi Lian still thinks that he is a good general who pleads for the people, and what's wrong with a good general like him enjoying some?

So he built a palace for himself to rest.

He also collected beautiful women for his own enjoyment.

If there was no Water Dragon King to confront him, he would not be able to let go of himself, and General Chi Lian would even want to build a wine pool and meat forest.

The residence of the young couple was in this county town, and they were considered a wealthy family in the local area. However, as a wealthy family in General Chi Lian's territory, life was not easy. They were blackmailed every now and then, so the couple had few servants and few properties and fields.

They cordially invited Tan Mo to live in their house, and deliberately gave Tan Mo a sum of money on the grounds that "my mother believed in Buddha when she was alive."

"Why did you agree, little monk?" As soon as the outsiders left, Huo'er came out of Tan Mo's sleeve, and she looked at Tan Mo strangely.

Based on her understanding of Tan Mo, the possibility of Tan Mo not saving the dying was far greater than helping him. The couple obviously had something to ask Tan Mo for, and there was even a problem in their house. She didn't believe that this cunning little monk didn't see it.

Tan Mo pointed to a small box of silver ingots on the table, and then said: "I am a principled person."

Huo'er was stunned. What principles?

She glanced at the silver ingots that Tan Mo pointed at, and didn't understand what Tan Mo meant.

Seeing that she didn't understand, Tan Mo had to say directly: "Just give the money."

"Then yesterday in the county town, the people of that wealthy family asked you for help, why didn't you help? I think they wouldn't refuse to give you the silver!" Huo'er was confused.

"No, they haven't given it yet, this family took the initiative to give it." Tan Mo shook his head slightly, and said with a wooden face: "This is giving silver in advance, and giving silver after the event, the meaning is different."

"What's the difference?"

"In the former, I took the silver, found that the matter could not be done, and turned around and ran away, and there was no loss. In the latter, if I ran away, I couldn't get anything, and it would be a loss-making business." Tan Mo said seriously.

Huo'er: "..."

So you are always ready to run away with the money when the situation is not right!

Immediately, Huo'er's impression of Tan Mo increased.

Kind-looking, evil-hearted, strange thinking, and particularly cowardly!

"What are you going to do next? Are you going to ask the couple what trouble they are in?" Huo'er asked speechlessly.

Tan Mo shook his head slightly, looking at Huo'er in surprise, and said, "Just wait, don't you feel it?"

She had said before that she didn't feel any traces of demons and ghosts in the county town, which means that although this person is not very powerful at the moment, he still has special means, such as in this investigation.

"Is there?" Huo'er heard this and had to feel it carefully. Soon her face changed slightly, and then she frowned and said with a strange expression: "There is really a demon and ghost breath that I missed, but it's not my fault, the demon and ghost is too weak."

"How weak is it?" Tan Mo couldn't help asking.

He could only feel that there was indeed a demon haunting the young couple, but he couldn't feel how strong the demon was.

Probably the old monk who was bound by the shackles of karma near your temple could blow away a dozen of them with a casual breath... Huo'er wanted to answer like this, but then she thought, what if Tan Mo didn't know the old monk?

So she sorted out her words, found a reference in her mind, and said: "Only one-seventh of your spiritual power."

"Equivalent to the first level of the lower realm of the six imperial realms, so it is a snake-level demon." Tan Mo now had an idea in his mind. He was sure to kill such a demon.

Then, he waited in the wing room of this family with peace of mind until the family called him out for dinner.

After dinner, he came back again.

Chanting scriptures, waiting for the night to fall.

The colder the day, the faster it gets dark. Soon, it was dark. Tan Mo had already lit a candle in his room. He covered the candle with a lampshade, but did not close the window. Instead, he looked out the window.

Suddenly, Tan Mo stood up, stretched out his hand and shook it gently. A painted skin immediately appeared in his hand, along with the box of rouge and powder.

After putting away the rouge and powder, Tan Mo put on the painted skin in front of Huo'er and walked out.

Huo'er looked at Tan Mo in surprise. She followed him without hesitation, but she was afraid of bad things, so she just followed Tan Mo from a distance, intending to see how the little monk dealt with the demon, and by the way, take a look at Tan Mo's Buddhist treasure that seemed to be a Taoist magic weapon.