Yu Qingyao returned home exhausted and happy after a day of socializing, and shouted as soon as she entered the door: "Oh my God! I'm exhausted! I really don't want to socialize with those guys hypocritically!"
Wu Zhen said coldly: "Pretentious, I think you are too happy to return home!"
Yu Qingyao laughed and said, "Don't talk nonsense."
Wu Zhen said frankly, "What I'm telling is the truth."
Yu Qingyao pretended not to hear, and ordered the maid to boil water and take a bath.
The next day, Yu Qingyao woke up refreshed, dressed up carefully, and went out to socialize again.
She likes a lively banquet.
On this day, Ford Teahouse opened its doors for business.
Because of the New Year, there are extra many guests.
However, Li Huaide was impatient and continued to be the shopkeeper of the teahouse. He planned to hire a shopkeeper to run the teahouse.
It's just that at the end of the year, he was eager to find someone, so he had to stay in the teahouse and be the shopkeeper patiently.
On the fourth day of the lunar new year, Liao Ping came to Yichun again and asked Yu Qingyao to come out to play.
Li Huaide finally found a shopkeeper to take over the teahouse.
Elder Chu returned to Yichun with a large team.
After Li Huaide escaped that day, Elder Chu searched around the village for three days, but found no demon fox, and chased southward for several days. He searched hundreds of miles around, but did not find a single fox hair. No, I guessed that Hu Maode was hiding in the north.
After secretly scolding the fox demon for being cunning, Elder Chu led the team back to Yichun, planning to search northward with this as the center.
Returning to Changxin Temple, Elder Chu called for the head of the Lower Court and directly ordered to hunt down the silver fox Hu Maode in the whole city.
He suspects that the cunning Humaud is hiding here again.
The master of Changxin Temple had no choice but to agree.
At that moment, the gates of the four cities were blocked, and each of them had a Chu family guarding the gates with a scaring demon pendant to prevent the fox demon from escaping in disguise.
The Taoist priests of the lower courtyard of Changxin Temple formed a team of five, and took turns performing the Qi Wang technique, searching the past from street to street.
The power of the government was also mobilized, and Baojia and Lizheng went to each house to inquire to see who had someone of unknown origin.
As soon as Li Huaide returned to the teahouse with shopkeeper Liu who had negotiated the salary, he ran into the police who came to investigate.
Li Huaide didn't change his face, took his identity certificate and road guide for the policeman to check, stuffed another piece of money, and laughed with him, asking the policeman to hold his hands high, so as not to disturb the guests.
The police quickly saw that Lu Yin was a formal official document, weighed the money, and left without hesitation.
Li Huaide let the shopkeeper Liu take over the business of the teahouse, while listening to the guests chatting with his ears. Soon, he knew that Yichun was sealing off the city to search for him, and he also knew that Taoists were hunting him.
Li Huaide was depressed, he had never experienced this kind of encounter in his life.
In the past, he was a monster catcher, but now he is being caught as a monster.
He retreated to the backyard, called Hongxiu, told her the current emergency, and told her not to run out.
Hongxiu nodded nervously in agreement.
Li Huaide taught her the breath restraining technique again, and asked her to sprinkle some pepper powder on herself, and use the smell of pepper to cover up the smell of foxes.
He quietly and quietly sprinkled some pepper powder on the teahouse door and aisle.
This is to prevent the hunting dog from smelling the fox.
Fortunately, what they are practicing now is heart menstruation, the evil spirit and fox smell, compared with ordinary fox spirits, the smell has been much lighter. Li Huaide felt that if he hadn't met Elder Chu head-on, he would have had a great chance to escape the search.
In the name of increasing the joy of the New Year, he ordered his staff to buy more than a dozen pots of fragrant flowers and put them in the teahouse. Coupled with the aroma of dim sum such as steamed buns.
When dogs come into this teahouse, their noses will fail.
Li Huaide calmly sat in the teahouse and did not go out.
It was almost noon, and I saw a group of Taoists leading a hunting dog to this street.
Li Huaide calmly ordered: "Go, tell the kitchen to send a plate of free roast duck to each table of guests."
Xiao Er got the order and went to do it immediately. The roast duck was already prepared in the kitchen.
Xiao Er served the roast duck to the guests, and the guests said puzzledly, "Xiao Er, I didn't order this."
The second companion smiled and said, "For the New Year's Eve, our shopkeeper said, thank you all the guests for your support, this is a free gift."
Hearing that no money is required, the guests naturally accepted it happily, and then started to eat.
When the five Taoists came to the teahouse, a strange smell wafted from the teahouse. There are flowers, tea, and pastries, and the strongest flavor is roast duck.
The guests on the first floor were the least picky, and the duck bones were thrown all over the floor.
As soon as the hound came in, he couldn't help but ate the bones all over the ground.
Looking at the chaotic situation inside, the five Taoists couldn't help frowning.
Xiao Er nodded and bowed to meet him, and asked respectfully, "Master Dao, upstairs please?"
The leading Taoist waved his hand, scanned the inside of his eyes with the qi-watching technique, but found no evil spirit, shook his head and left.
The hound refused to leave for a while, and was dragged away by a Taoist.
Seeing them leave, Li Huaide, who was sitting behind the counter, let out a sigh of relief.
Li Huaide escaped unharmed, and some little monsters mixed in the city were in bad luck.
In this kind of city-wide raid, a dozen little demons and dozens of little ghosts who were caught off guard showed their feet. Some were killed on the spot by the Taoists, while others fled in all directions in a panic and were chased by the Taoists. Out of breath.
At noon, Yu Qingyao and Liao Ping were drinking on the top floor of Chunman Building, the largest restaurant in the city, when they heard the commotion below, they asked in surprise, "What happened in the city, why is it so noisy?"
Liao Ping also felt strange and said, "Let me see!"
Yu Qingyao followed him to the window, looked down, and saw many Taoists chasing and killing demons.
Yu Qingyao laughed and said, "Brother Liao, what are you Chang Xinguan doing?"
Liao Ping was surprised because he didn't know either. He said, "Wait for me to ask!"
He passed the letter to the deacon in Wenguan, and he will receive a reply in a while.
After reading the reply, Liao Ping handed the letter to Yu Qingyao and said with a smile, "A strange thing!"
Yu Qingyao glanced at the letter, and only then did she understand what those Taoists were doing. It turned out that the Taoist of Changxin Temple searched the whole city for a silver fox named Hu Maode under the order of Emperor Taiyi.
Liao Ping said: "It's none of our business, Qingyao, let's continue drinking!"
Yu Qingyao hummed, and went back to the table to drink.
After drinking a round of wine, Yu Qingyao finally felt strange, catching a fox demon, is it necessary to mobilize the crowd like this
She couldn't help asking about it again.
Liao Ping kicked the waiter out of the restaurant, and said with a smile, "I know about this, the Chu family of the Taiyi sect is ashamed this time."
When Yu Qingyao heard that there was gossip, she hurriedly asked, "How embarrassing?"
Liao Ping smiled and said, "The Chu family is like this in the Taiyi sect." He gave a thumbs up and said, "The ancestor of the Chu family is a grand master at the Yuanying level, and everyone in Chu country respects the Chu family threefold. However, a while ago, there was a scandal in the Chu family, the fourth-generation daughter of their family was seduced by a silver fox, and eloped regardless of the family's stop."
Yu Qingyao gasped in surprise, and asked, "What happened next?"
(end of this chapter)