Everyone was dumbfounded.
"It's over!" Said the carp demon, "It's your boss! Exorcism Director Shi!"
"What should I do?" Everyone looked at each other, Hong Jun said: "I caused trouble, I will wake him up and apologize to him."
Hong Jun bite the bullet and walked forward, and the other three looked at it. After all, it was not possible for Hong Jun to take responsibility alone, so he followed in. Hong Jun patted Li Jinglong's face carefully, and whispered: "Hey, get up .”
The carp demon said: "Where can I wake up here? Just give me a slap."
Hong Jun said frantically: "It's the boss! Why don't you show me?!"
Without saying a word, the carp demon stepped forward and slapped Li Jinglong twice on the spot. There was a crisp sound of "slaps", and everyone was almost scared to pee, and hurriedly said: "Stop!"
Li Jinglong was startled, and woke up in an instant. When it was too late and then it was too late, Artai quickly shot, and slapped Li Jinglong on the back of Li Jinglong's head firmly. With a muffled sound, Li Jinglong was slapped and passed out again.
"Zhao Zilong, stop making trouble, please." Hong Jun was about to cry.
Qiu Yongsi had an idea, and said: "Why don't we lift him to the couch, loosen his ties first, and wait for them to wake up on their own later, and everyone will pretend that this didn't happen. It is said that they fainted from heatstroke.”
"Good idea!" Everyone said one after another.
So Artest took back the rope, untied Feng Changqing and Li Jinglong, and carried them to the tidy couch so that they lay side by side.
"It's done!" Qiu Yongsi said, "Brothers are going to the front yard now, what to do and what to do, when they come out, they all look happy and ask, 'Chang Shi, are you awake'? Everything is death If you don’t admit it, they have no way to verify it, is this the truth?”
So everyone said yes, turned around and went out. Just as he took a step, Li Jinglong said coldly behind his back: "I heard it all."
Everyone: "..."
After another incense stick, Li Jinglong's head was wrapped with a bandage, Feng Changqing was fine, and sat in the main hall, while the other four knelt on the couch, all with embarrassing smiles on their faces.
"Chang Shi." Mo Zhigen said seriously, "Today's misunderstanding, in the final analysis, you should never have done it, you shouldn't have done it suddenly without asking clearly, and hurt our little brother..."
"How do I know!" Li Jinglong roared angrily, "This guy caused me to lose my official position and was ridiculed by the people of Chang'an. Who will clear up my grievances now?"
"Ah? Why?" Hong Jun asked while hiding behind Mo Rigen and Qiu Yongsi.
Mo Zhigen immediately pulled him back and blocked him, Artest said: "Everyone is here to do their best for the peace of Chang'an. How can such a childish heart be angry at others because of a misunderstanding? ? This beautiful young brother is innocent... "
"Enough is enough!" Li Jinglong was so angry that he almost fainted.
"I'll play a song for you, Mr. Changshi." Artest laughed, "May the song dispel your anger, and may all the world..."
"Take back your piano!" Li Jinglong roared angrily.
The crowd had no choice but to remain silent again. After Artest rambled on and on, the atmosphere suddenly became weird again. Li Jinglong's grief and indignation disappeared into nothingness, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
Feng Changqing suddenly said: "So, there are indeed monsters in Chang'an. You, you, you... What kind of monster are you?"
Feng Changqing pointed at the carp demon with a trembling finger, and the carp demon replied: "You are blind! Carps don't even know each other..." Hong Jun immediately blocked his mouth with his finger before finishing a sentence.
"Come out." Li Jinglong pointed to Hong Jun and said, "Don't hide behind them, I will ask you three sentences. The past will be written off."
Hong Jun bowed and walked out from behind Mo Zhigen in small steps, and sat cross-legged in front of Li Jinglong.
"Did you fight me in the alleys inside and outside Pingkang that night?" Li Jinglong asked.
"Yes." Hong Jun replied.
Li Jinglong looked at Feng Changqing, but Feng Changqing just didn't speak.
"Where did you take me after you knocked me out?" Li Jinglong asked again.
Hong Jun thought for a while, then briefly described the situation that night, and said, "But to be honest, I didn't knock you out, it was you..."
Li Jinglong raised his hand, stopped Hong Jun from talking, then turned to look at Feng Changqing, Feng Changqing nodded in silence.
"Did I do anything to Sonny?" Li Jinglong asked again.
"No." Hong Jun observed Li Jinglong's face, completely unaware why he asked this question.
This time Li Jinglong turned to Feng Changqing, and said: "Everyone says that I am..."
Feng Changqing immediately said: "All four of you go out."
The four of them resigned, and Mo Rigen closed the door with his hands back. Li Jinglong was furious, and continued: "... Everyone said that I was the prodigal son of the Li family. I spent all my wealth just to fulfill Di Gong's last wish. Tang! For the court! Suffering this injustice! No one is willing to believe me! Now the monster is in front of you! See it!"
Speaking of which, Li Jinglong pointed to the carp monster in the hall. The carp monster opened and closed its mouth, and stood on the ground half-squatting on two legs, staring at Li Jinglong and Feng Changqing.
Carp demon: "..."
Feng Changqing: "Why are you still here! You go out too!"
The carp demon was also kicked out, and the four of them were waiting in the front hall. Hong Jun couldn't help but feel anxious. Everyone started discussing, and the carp demon ran up and said, "The two of them are arguing!"
Hong Jun asked: "What are you arguing about?"
"It should be for the brothel." Mo Zhigen said.
Artai tiptoed over, and the other three followed to eavesdrop, only Li Jinglong's angry voice was heard in the room, Feng Changqing was just silent.
"... Today, the Longwu army is laughing at me! Yang Guozhong even made a fuss about my life experience! No one can argue for me, what did I say?! I can bear it! The world humiliates me so much. I have seen it all along the way. Rolling my eyes, but I ridiculed these ordinary people in my heart, they are all stupid people! What about you?! Now I realize that I was wrong! Are you going to let it go?!"
"I was wrong." Feng Changqing sighed, and said, "What do you want? Take that child to Prime Minister Yang to clarify right and wrong?"
There was silence in the hall.
The three people outside the hall looked at Hongjun together. From the conversation between the two, Hongjun vaguely guessed that this person was killed badly... He felt that he was either causing trouble, or he was on the way to cause trouble, and he didn't know what to do.
"That's all." Li Jinglong said coldly, "One day, you will all see it."
At this moment, the evening drum sounded, and Li Jinglong said indifferently: "You go back."
Feng Changqing said seriously: "Good man, why are you afraid of rumors in the world? Jing Long, I blamed you yesterday, it's not mine..."
Li Jinglong pushed open the door, and the four people outside the door immediately separated with a "shua". Artai sat in front of the flowerbed under the plane tree and touched the strings of the piano. Qiu Yongsi looked up at the faded red lacquer pillar with his hands behind his back. Mo Zhigen lifted his hands and was smashed Hong Jun squatted by the well and poked the carp demon's mouth with a branch to play.
The sound of the evening drum kept going, Li Jinglong stood in the courtyard, looking sideways at Feng Changqing.
Feng Changqing walked out leaning on a staff, and still turned his head to look at the people passing by from time to time.
"If Yang Xiangwan comes over, you have to hide this carp well." Feng Changqing warned, "Otherwise, it will be given to His Majesty and Concubine for entertainment."
"He won't come." Li Jinglong said indifferently, "Even if it's a monster, I wouldn't give it to him as a plaything."
Hong Jun opened his mouth in surprise, and looked at the carp demon. The carp demon couldn't stop looking at Li Jinglong, and Feng Changqing left amidst the sound of evening drums.
"Let's all come in." Li Jinglong said now, his tone was full of majesty.
Several people entered the main hall. Li Jinglong first fetched water himself and asked them to wash their hands one by one. He then searched the drawers in the hall and found a lot of loose incense.
"Who has Huozhezi?" Li Jinglong said calmly to everyone.
Artest flicked his finger, and a puff of smoke came out of the ruby ring on his finger, and the flames ignited.
There was a little surprise in Li Jinglong's eyes, Artest smiled slightly and raised his eyebrows, as if he had discovered some secret.
Li Jinglong didn't say anything, lit a handful of incense on the flame, distributed it to four people, held three sticks by himself, walked to the mural, and bowed three times to the portrait of Di Renjie.
"Mr. Di, today the Exorcist Division is revived. May your spirit in the sky protect us and the Tang Dynasty."
After Li Jinglong finished worshiping first, he signaled everyone to come and worship, and put the incense into the incense burner. Finally, he looked up at the mottled portraits on the murals, turned and left the main hall after a long time, and said:
"Let's go away."
The sound of evening drums still came from afar, and everyone had to leave in anxiety.
Mo Zhigen squatted in the courtyard, and the other three began chatting, looking at the east chamber from time to time, not knowing where Hong Jun had offended Li Jinglong, and guessed that he took him to the brothel, ruining his reputation. But Hong Jun didn't know what a brothel was, and he was still confused so far.
Everyone concluded that Li Jinglong would do it without asking the reason when they met, and he had an impulsive temper.
But the most important point is not who offended whom, or what Li Jinglong's temper is, but... everyone is very depressed, and the depression is that Li Jinglong is a mortal.
It stands to reason that the exorcists who came to report for duty would more or less have some spells to absorb demons, and possess supernatural powers, but Li Jinglong is actually a mortal!
"His sword is very powerful." Hong Jun said, "It can break my five-color divine light."
"No matter how powerful the sword is, it's just a magic weapon." Artest said, "I don't have the slightest ability, how can I do it? Sigh..."
Hong Jun didn't want to say that Li Jinglong had sucked the heart lamp away, and it hadn't been verified whether the heart lamp was on him. After much deliberation, everyone was quite frustrated. Mo Ri thought that the person in charge of the Exorcist Division should be a master, but Artest saw that Li Jinglong was very boring, and Qiu Yong thought about the history of the Exorcism Division Chief, so at least he had to be able to protect his subordinates.
But seeing Li Jinglong's skill, except for his high martial arts and having a magical weapon in his hand, he has no strengths at all, so he has little interest.
Halfway through the talk, Li Jinglong came out of the east chamber, ignored the rest of the people and went to the front yard to get the bedding, and several people stopped talking, obviously dissatisfied with this long history.
"Then... what are we going to do in the future?" Hong Jun asked again.
"Wait for his orders." Artest said with a smile, "He will do whatever he asks and go back."
When Artest left, Qiu Yongsi said, "I don't want to follow him to catch monsters, and I have to work hard to protect him. I'm afraid of death."
Qiu Yongsi also left, Mo Zhigen shrugged, and was about to ask Hong Jun which room he lived in, but Hong Jun told him to go and see Li Jinglong by himself, so he walked over lightly.
The moon was in the middle of the sky, and the ground was full of cool autumn. Hong Jun stood outside the east wing and looked around. He saw Li Jinglong carrying the bedding inside, and a tall figure making the bed under the lamp.
"Chang Shi, do you want to help?" Hong Jun asked.
"Don't look for something to say." The carp demon said from the side, "I sincerely help you and go in."
Hong Jun: "Shut up!"