"Who dares to stop the Yincha from investigating the case?!"
The two ghost messengers dragging Li Yishu stopped. Even the woman kneeling on the ground, crying and trembling, and the servant beside her were stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at the tightly closed gate.
The next moment, the courtyard door slammed open with a bang, and a strong wind blew it open. In the street between the door and the courtyard, a scholar in a white robe stood there with a toad with bandaged feet on his shoulders.
"It's... it's the... master who came today." The woman and the waiter recognized who the person outside was. They couldn't help but want to beg, but they looked at the ghost messenger not far away in fear.
On the street, Lu Liangsheng smiled, raised his hand, shook out his sleeves, and bowed to the two Yinchai at the door.
"Lu Liangsheng from Qixia Mountain would like to apologize to the two ghost messengers first for delaying their official duties."
"Lu Liangsheng from Qixia Mountain?"
The two ghost officials at the door looked less angry. They seemed to have some impression of this name. One of them whispered, "It seems that the emperor of the human world has decreed a title for a person..."
At this point, the two ghosts suddenly remembered that the City God had received an imperial decree from the mortal world before, about a cultivator in the mortal world... who seemed to be called Lu Liangsheng. If they met him, they should treat him with courtesy.
The two ghost messengers looked at each other and quickly bowed in return.
"The Yin messenger under the command of the City God of Yancheng has seen the ** demon spirit appear in person."
The anxious woman and servants in the yard heard the two ghost messengers standing at the door suddenly salute and address them respectfully. The contrast made them slightly speechless and their thoughts froze.
On the other side, the two ghost messengers at the door saluted and stood up. Their tone and expressions softened a lot before they answered what the other party had just said.
"Sir, we are two undercover officers. We dare not release the captured ghost without permission. I hope you won't make things difficult for us."
It seems that the title bestowed by Yang Jian is quite useful.
But we can't do bad things to bad people.
Lu Liangsheng pondered for a moment, and thought of a compromise. He said, "Li Yishu has become a ghost, and it is natural for him to be under the jurisdiction of the City God. I will naturally not interfere. However, this ghost did many good deeds when he was alive, and he still has an illness that has not been cured. It is difficult for him to let go of his wish and leave the world. I beg you two not to take him for the time being. After seven days, it will not be too late to go to the City God when his wish is fulfilled."
"Master, we cannot make the decision on this matter..." The two ghost officials were filled with gloomy aura and began to hesitate. They turned around to look at Li Yishu who was tied up with soul-locking chains. The latter was imprisoned by magic, with an expressionless face and drooping body. He had no words or thoughts and was completely unaware of the magic at the moment.
Seeing the two ghost officials looking hesitant, Lu Liangsheng did not force them. After all, it was his job and he could not ruin other people's work. He smiled and bowed to the two ghost officials.
"Since you two are afraid that you cannot bear the consequences, can Lu Liangsheng go to the City God of Yancheng to plead for mercy? You two only need to wait here for seven days, and then we will take him away."
The direction where the painting of "Boundless Mountains and Seas" stops happens to be at the foot of the mountain north of Yancheng. It is convenient to go there and pay a visit to the local city god so that you can do things more easily.
The ghost who was in a dilemma hesitated for a long time. The two ghosts before him were also human beings, so they understood the situation clearly. Since there was a way out, it would be a good thing to do a favor. So they immediately put away the soul-locking chain and released Li Yishu.
"Since the Immortal has guaranteed him, I can't say anything more. So we will wait here. Three days have passed and there are still four days. After four days, we will take him back to the City God. What do you think?"
Lu Liangsheng cupped his hands and said, "Thank you both."
"You're so polite."
The two ghost messengers returned the greeting, riding on the cold wind, and their figures disappeared into the mist of the long street. They floated to the end of the long street and gradually disappeared. The cold wind around the courtyard stopped.
Li Yishu escaped and hugged the woman who came running towards him and burst into tears. The waiter next to him also had red eyes. Soon, the three of them remembered the master outside the door and turned around to thank him, but the street was filled with mist and the sky was dark, and there was no sign of anyone.
"Thank you for your kindness, I will pay my respects to you."
Facing the foggy street, Li Yishu knelt at the door and kowtowed to the outside before his wife and the servants brought him back into the house.
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Ding ding ding~~~
"The humidity is high in spring. Even if you don't light a big fire, you should be careful of Wang Sheng..."
The sounds of night watchmen's clappers and human voices could be heard in the distant streets. On the shoulder of the scholar walking in the thin mist on the long street, the Toad Taoist yawned and glanced back at the outline of the house in the distance.
"You really want to meddle in everything. I really don't know what to say to you. I owe you a favor for nothing."
"Do one good deed a day."
Lu Liangsheng didn't want to go back to the inn so soon. He just woke up from a nap and was not very sleepy. He walked slowly on the street, watching the lights of thousands of houses around him gradually go out.
"Donating good deeds and building virtuous karma is what Master taught us, isn't it? Who knows, one day when I have accumulated enough blessings and virtues, they will all come down to me, and I will become an immortal in my physical body."
The Toad Taoist snorted, closed his eyes and continued to lie down.
"You think better than me. If it were that easy, why would those who practice Taoism shut themselves in and think about how to ascend to heaven every day? They should all come together to do good deeds."
The scholar walking slowly on the street smiled and replied after a long while:
"Can they persist in doing one good deed every day? No matter how big or small?"
"Well… "
The Toad Taoist was stunned for a moment, smacked his lips and turned his face away. Although he did not quite agree with his disciple's statement, he had no way to refute it.
… How would I know about those people who practice Taoism? Either I have never seen them, or those I have seen are all in my stomach. What else can I know
After walking in the city for a while and feeling a little sleepy, the man and the toad returned to the inn to rest. However, in the next two days, Lu Liangsheng was not in a hurry to leave. Perhaps he wanted to see whether the doctor would fulfill his promise to treat the patient. Every morning, he restrained his breath, cast an invisibility spell, and went to Renxin Pharmacy, watching the other party take the patient's pulse, ask about the disease, and prescribe medicine.
Sometimes, Lu Liangsheng would show up and watch from the side, trying to learn some pharmacology and medical experience. After they became familiar with him, they would inevitably ask how he died.
"My benefactor, you may not know that Yishu went to the government office that day to treat the wife. In fact, the headache she suffered from was just a common disease. After acupuncture and medication, she would recover after resting for half a month. But the next day, I was arrested by the police. After being taken to the court, I learned that the wife of the prefect had died. I was then accused of being a quack doctor who harmed people..."
There was no one in the back hall, only the sound of boiling medicine pots.
Li Yishu sat in the shadow under the eaves, looking at the boiling medicine, his expression a little confused for a moment.
"… I couldn't understand why someone died from a common headache. I was thrown into prison, knowing that I would not survive, so I wrote down my medical experience over the years on my prison uniform and gave it to the prison boss. The prison boss was kind and told me quietly that it was not my medical experience that killed the prefect's wife, but that the prefect had married a wealthy family and it was not nice to divorce her, so he had to kill her, but she could not die without any reason… Haha, that's how it happened to me. Later, the prison boss taught me a secret method. When the execution is carried out, I can recite the formula silently and my soul will come back."
Lu Liangsheng sat with him under the eaves. He watched the woman who was drying herbs in the yard fall silent. He turned his head slightly to look at Doctor Li in the shadows.
"After becoming a ghost, have you ever thought about revenge?"
"I've thought about..."
Li Yishu raised his head, a smile appeared on his pale face, and then he shook his head.
"But I am also worried that patients waiting for life-saving treatment may not be able to wait. Since I have already suffered injustice, I cannot let other patients who trust me suffer injustice as well."
"Today I finally saw what it means to be a doctor with a caring heart."