Chapter 1018

Fang's ancestral hall is no different from ordinary ancestral halls. Many memorial tablets are enshrined in the ancestral hall. A small and exquisite incense burner is placed in front of each memorial tablet, incense candles and fruit offerings are placed on the table, and three futons are placed on the ground.

It can be seen that people often clean here. Every place is clean and there is no dust at all.

Shang Kui made two rounds in the ancestral hall and looked for all the places he could find. He didn't find any abnormalities.

Instead, he looked at the nearby clan leader Fang and asked about Fang Wujiu.

The answer is almost the same as what Fang Huai said.

After worshipping his parents here, Fang Wujiu left here and never saw him again.

No one knows where he went.

Wen Jiucheng asked, "which two are the memorial tablets of Fang Wujiu's parents?"

The head of Fang clan pointed to the two memorial tablets in the bottom right corner and said, "these are the two."

Wen Jiucheng stepped forward and stared at the two memorial tablets for a while. He didn't see anything unusual.

He sighed. It seems that the elder martial brother didn't leave any clues here.

With the mentality that he had come all the time and couldn't come in vain, Wen Jiucheng asked Fang's patriarch for three incense sticks.

He knelt on the futon and kowtowed three heads to the memorial tablet of Fang Wujiu's parents to show his respect for his elders.

He stood up and inserted the incense into the censers in front of the two memorial tablets.

No one noticed that he paused when inserting incense.

After the incense, the party left Fang's ancestral hall.

The Fang family had already known that the things in Fang Wu's restaurant had been known by the sheriff. They were afraid of harming themselves and quickly said everything they knew, together with the money Fang Huai had bribed them.

As punishment, Jian Shujie doubled the taxes of the Fang family this year.

Doubling the tax is tantamount to letting the Fang family turn over all this year's harvest to the government.

Fortunately, in the first two years, Chengdu's harvest was good. Every household had surplus food. Relying on the surplus food, they could barely survive the next year without being starved to death, but it was certain that it would be difficult to tighten their belts.

At the warm invitation of Jian Shujie, monk Kui of wenjiucheng went to the sheriff's house.

They had a very big dinner in the sheriff's house.

When he had enough to eat and drink, Shang Kui declined Jian Shujie's warm invitation and returned to the inn in a carriage with Wenjiu city.

Because he drank a lot of wine at the banquet, when Shang Kui returned to the inn, the whole person was already drowsy.

But he still forced himself to summon all Yu Linwei and asked them about the results of their day-to-day inquiries.

After Yu Linwei's inquiry, they learned that the old fairy lived in the freedom view.

The view of freedom was originally just an unknown Taoist temple in Fufeng city. After the old immortal lived in it, the incense there suddenly became prosperous.

Many people in the city will go to watch and find the old fairy to divinate. It is said that the divination of the old fairy is extremely accurate and can be called iron mouth straight cut.

He will calculate three diagrams for free every day, and then he will have to collect money.

It is said that the old immortal's divination cost at least hundreds of liang of silver, and even thousands of liang of gold. The price is amazing. But even so, many people go to him to calculate the Divination as if they were carp crossing the river.

In addition to divination, the gods in the concept of freedom are also a major feature.

The statue of God was opened by the old immortal himself. As long as you invite it back and worship it piously, you can get what you want.

Of course, the statue is not free. A statue needs at least ten liang of silver. The better the workmanship, the more expensive the price.

Nowadays, almost every household in Fufeng city is provided with statues, and the status of old immortals in their hearts is incomparably noble.

After listening to the report, Shang Kui felt that there were so many rich people in Fufeng city!

A Yulin Wei said, "the old fairy will explain the Taoist Dharma in the Taoist temple on the 15th day of each month. As long as the believers who go to listen to the Taoist Dharma can have a vegetarian meal for free in the Taoist temple on the same day. There are a lot of people in the Taoist temple on these two days of each month."

Some people really want to listen to the Dharma, while others just want to eat.

But whatever the reason, it can bring a lot of popularity to the concept of freedom.

Wen old city calculated the time. It happened that tomorrow was 15.

He said to Shang Kui.

"Tomorrow we can mix in the crowd and enter the view of freedom to see what kind of person the old fairy is?"

Shang Kui nodded and said yes.

When Wen Jiucheng returned to his guest room, he first read for a while. When the night was completely dark and there was no voice outside, he put down his books and blew out the candles.

But instead of going to bed, he woke up Shang Kui who lived in the next room.

Wen Jiucheng whispered to him.

Then Shang Kui called two Yu Linwei and asked them to put on black night clothes and go out for two rounds.

The two jade guards were confused.

However, they did not ask much and did it according to the command of the commander.

As soon as the two front feet of Yulin Wei left the inn, two spies followed up from the inn.

This scene was seen by monk Kui of Wenjiu city standing by the guest room window on the second floor.

Shang Kui scolded low.

"Sure enough, someone is staring at us in the dark!"

Wen Jiucheng whispered, "I'm going out. You have to help me lead away those spies."

Shang Kui said there was no problem.

Under his arrangement, Yulin guards left the inn one by one.

Almost every Yu Linwei will be followed by a Sneaky Spy.

It was not until the seventh yulinwei left the inn that there were no spies behind.

To be on the safe side, Shang Kui sent two jade guards out. After confirming that there were no spies to follow, Wen Jiucheng changed into dark clothes and left the inn.

He used his lightness skill to walk through the night and came to the gate of Fang's ancestral hall as fast as he could.

The gate is locked.

Wen Jiucheng took out a piece of iron wire from his sleeve, poked it into the keyhole, gently turned it twice, and with a click, the copper lock opened.

He pushed open the gate and walked in slowly.

In the dark night, those dense memorial tablets look particularly impressive.

Wen Jiucheng went straight to the memorial tablet of Fang Wujiu's parents.

He picked up the small incense burner placed in front of the memorial tablet. The incense burner was filled with incense ashes, and three burnt out thread incense were inserted in the incense ashes.

Wen Jiucheng reached into the incense burner and turned his fingers in the incense ash twice. When he pulled it out, there was a folded note between his index finger and middle finger.

When offering incense to Fang Wujiu's parents this afternoon, Wen Jiucheng noticed something hidden in the incense burner.

He guessed that it might be the clue left by the eldest martial brother,

But he was afraid of insecurity around him, so he didn't say anything and left as if nothing had happened.

It was not until he was sure that no one was following him that Wen Jiucheng dared to take out the things hidden in the incense burner.

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Good morning, everyone~