Chapter 78: Testing each other

[Jiu: a while ago I took advantage of the head of the road slumber, secretly returned to the earth clan to do business, the result was ambushed. Escaped all the way to the capital city of Dafeng to save his life, in order to avoid the pursuit, will be sealed mirror gifted to …. Little Brother Chen Jinnan]

You have not only stated my gender, but also implied my age …. Xu Qi’an was a bit angry, he could have played the role of a human demon, or a high ranking person in the Tiandi Association.

[Jiu: Then, with the help of little brother Chen Jinnan, he killed the Purple Lotus and avoided this calamity.]

[II: No. 3, which courthouse is it?]

You are the equivalent of a netizen asking for an address ah, I will tell you the hell it …. Xu Qi’an had a flash of inspiration and mimicked Xu Erlang’s tone:

[3: Yamen? The government offices in the capital are nothing but a bunch of corpses.]

The Third seemed to have great disdain for the government offices, and his tone was a bit arrogant. There are only a few official forces in the capital, first of all, rule out the Human Sect, Golden Lotus Taoist will not cooperate with the Human Sect.

That’s not how a night watchman would describe a government office in the capital, is it the Divine Constabulary or the Cloud Deer Academy?

This tone of voice is very similar to that of the Confucian group of readers who boasted that “all things are inferior but only reading is superior”.

II and Lu in front of the mirror made simultaneous guesses.

[II: One is also in the capital, maybe you two know each other. One, I know you are watching in front of the mirror, have you heard about today’s incident.]

[One: A jungle guest has died at Gui Yue Lou in the inner city, and sixty miles outside the eastern city, a hill has been pierced by unknown means.]

After a pause, One then sent the message:

[II, has the banditry in Yunzhou subsided.]

It’s kind of fun!

Xu Qi’an raised an eyebrow.

He caught a whiff of a courtroom drama.

II pulls One down while sending him a message that One and you are both in the capital.

This is obviously targeting One, for the simple reason that after the chat earlier, everyone knows that Three is from the capital.

But as III himself, he doesn’t know the others’ information. II could have kept this from being revealed.

And One immediately returned the favor by throwing out the news in a big way, showing that he could channel and give Xu Qi’an a precautionary shot, while making a counterattack on Two.

II is in the cloud state …. Bandits …. She is also a member of the government office?

Yunzhou has been plagued by banditry year after year, and is jokingly called by people from other states: the bandit state.

While Xu Qi’an floated around, Lu and II were also chewing on the information given by One.

Sixty miles east of the city, a hill was pierced ….. There was too little information to determine what cultivation system, but it was certain that it was a high-grade powerhouse.

[II: How can it be pacified? The Emperor of Dafeng is a brainless monkey who thinks of cultivating immortality all the time and doesn’t know the suffering of the people.]

This sounds …. II shouldn’t be eating court salaries …. Xu Qi’an guessed.

[II: Not to mention previous years, this year alone, I checked the household registers of all the provinces and counties in Yunzhou and visited everywhere, and roughly estimated that at least 60,000 people have fled, become vagrants, or fallen into the grass and become bandits.]

A displaced person is a person without a field, a citizen who cannot afford the taxes and abandons the field and flees.

With the fields gone, people still have to live, some begging and working as laborers, while others directly fall into the grass and plunder the good people, forming a vicious circle.

II continued, “I eliminated a dozen or so mountain bandits and realized that they were hiding a deeper force behind them.”

[One: Any sign of it yet.]

[II: No…. By the way, how has the situation in the capital been lately?”]

Xu Qi’an didn’t wait for One to reply, and snatched the information to enter first: [3: Servant Zhou fell, and the political struggle began. However, Squire Zhou’s downfall was rather absurd, starting with his only son’s lustful attempt to defile the second daughter of the Marquis of Weiwu.]

With these words he was both sending a message to II; showing off his caliber to the crowd, and at the same time testing One.

Those who are qualified to participate in the struggle in the courtroom know that the real reason for Squire Zhou’s downfall is the tax and silver case.

To his dismay, One did not correct it.

[One: Daoist Master Jinlian, I have made inquiries for you, and the exact time when the Yunlu Academy’s Yashin Academy was banned was the day of Azi. Among the outsiders who were at the Cloud Deer Academy on that day, besides the Princess, there was also a Xuxian named Xu Qi’an.]

“!!!”

Xu Qi’an’s heart skipped a beat, a sense of panic that she was being fleshed out and her address was publicized on the internet.

What is the origin of this One, why do you want to find out what happened on the day of the Azi Day …. Xu Qi’an remembered, on the day of the Azi Day, Er Lang took him to visit Yunlu Academy, and on a whim, he wrote the four lines of the Hengqu on the stone monument.

Causing a vision of the clear air rushing through the Sub-Sacred Temple.

At the same time, he was curious as to why Daoist Golden Lotus cared about the changes in Cloud Deer Academy.

In theory, this is a matter of concern only for the readers of the State Council, what has it got to do with you, a Taoist priest of the Earth Sect?

[One: However, that Suxian is mediocre, except for his good poetic talent, he himself is only at the Refined Essence Realm, not a student of the Cloud Deer Academy, much less a scholar.]

[Jiu: Uh-huh, I know.]

[III: Why does Daoist Master care about the change in Yunlu Academy?] Xu Qi’an spoke out to test the waters.

[Jiu: I want to know if the stone tablet of Cheng Yasheng has any cracks.]

Is it important?

[Nine: Quite important.]

It cracked …. Xu Qi’an didn’t tell Daoist Golden Lotus, and even if he were to, it wasn’t now.

[III: There’s something I’d like to ask you all.]

[II: You said.]

[III: Are alchemists unique to the SITC?]

Xu Qi’an’s words practically ruled out his identity as a disciple of the Si Tian Supervisor.

The crowd became more and more certain that he was a reader from the Cloud Deer Academy, a certain scholar who was highly valued by the academy’s elders, or else he wouldn’t have been able to invite a high-grade powerhouse to kill the Purple Lotus Taoist.

And that was exactly what Xu Qi’an wanted.

You think that I am a student of Yunlu Academy, but I am actually a night watchman, and in the future, you will notice that I might be a night watchman, and then you will realize that I am really a student of Yunlu Academy, or, you will also find out that I am a life mentor for the alchemists of Sitian Supervision.

[Lu: Let me answer this question. Six hundred years ago, there was no warlock system. It was only after the founding of the Dafeng that warlocks appeared in the Sithian Supervisory Authority.]

The sect has a short history and has not branched out, which means that there are almost no alchemists in the wild, except for the Szechenwald …. There should still be some, just very few, or the alchemists should be surprised when I pull out a blue book.

No wonder the Alchemists are so thirsty for my knowledge of chemical theory, they’re obviously all powerful.

Because of its short history, it has not developed a comprehensive theoretical foundation program?

Also, who is the alchemist behind the tax and silver case?

The tax silver case in a doubt, always let the criminal investigation veteran Xu Qi’an nagging.

The Szeto seems to have taken a passive attitude towards the alchemists involved in this case, and not to have paid any attention to them.

This is very unscientific.

Whether it was Chu Caiwei, Song Qing, or any other white clothes, none of them had ever mentioned this matter in front of him.

[Lukas: No. 3, as a rule, you have to answer a question for me as well.]

Xu Qi’an then realized that the conversation between One and Two was a question and answer, and that it was himself who had just stepped in and answered for One about the recent situation in the capital’s court.

You asked.

[Luk: What’s the name of the second grade of Confucianism?]

This is another test, a test of my status …. The test wasn’t whether I was a Yunlu Academy scholar or not, but it was testing my social status.

Ordinary Confucian scholars did not know what the second rank of Confucianism was called, and at that time, in the tablet of the life story of that Qian Zhong great Confucian, there was no detailed description of his realm, and it was only after Xu New Year’s explanation that Xu Qi’an came to know about it.

Jiro knew because he was a valued student of the great scholar Zhang Shen, a high school graduate of the fall exam.

This was already at the elite level among the Yunlu Academy’s scholars.

If I were not a student of the Yunlu Academy, this test would be equally effective. Non-Confucian scholars also know that the social status will only be higher if they are of the second rank.

If I couldn’t answer, I’d probably be disliked by these guys for not being at a high enough level.

Xu Qi’an wrote with a finger instead of a pen:

[Sam: The second grade of Confucianism is called Da-ju.]