After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 43 I'll Treat You, You Pay

It will be daybreak.

The people who were trapped in the illusion in their sleep gradually showed signs of waking up, groaning in pain and tossing and turning.

Of course, there were also a few people who were "deeply sinful" and whose souls were black. Their faces were purple, their lips were black, and they did not look like they were about to wake up.

The cock crowed three times.

The sky gradually brightened, and the fire penetrated the clouds, dispersing the morning mist and splashing on the earth.

The green pines and cypresses all around are as if bathed in cream, with crystal clear dewdrops hanging on them.

The first people to wake up were the clerks sent by the government to do the notarization.

Song Lan raised his eyebrows.

It was a bit unexpected, but also seemed reasonable.

They seemed to have become accustomed to this situation.

After waking up, he took out a stick of incense, set up the incense table, and lit the incense.

Others woke up one after another.

These people, to varying degrees, had terrified looks on their faces and evasive eyes.

Obviously, something unpleasant happened.

Wait until the incense burns out.

In Yu Songlan's eyes, the few people whose souls were tinged with black did not wake up.

Several yamen officials seemed to have anticipated that some people would not wake up, so they stepped forward, carried the few people away, and left them together with Wang Da.

Everyone felt sad.

"What happened to them?"

Some people couldn't help but ask out loud, no one answered, but most people had a guess in their hearts.

"It's daybreak. You can choose to leave and do your own things or something else, or you can stay in the courtyard and rest."

"To continue the challenge, just return to the courtyard within half an hour after sunset."

After the leader of the yamen officials finished his instructions, he left immediately.

There was no intention to clear their confusion at all.

Song Lan's eyes turned slightly, then he smiled and looked at Liu Wu: "Where are you going, Mr. Liu?"

"You're hungry, I guess?"

"I know a steamed bun shop in the city that makes really good steamed buns with mushrooms and spicy bamboo shoots."

"I heard you say before that you were from Linzhou. That's perfect. His salty soy milk has a unique flavor. I think you should be used to it."

Song Lan squinted his eyes and smiled: "Why don't we go eat together?"

Liu Wu's mind was still confused.

However, since the female ghost invited him warmly, there was no reason for him to refuse.

He smiled foolishly, scratched his head, and replied, "Okay."

Pei Yuanshi glanced at Song Lan, stepped forward and said, "I'll go with you too!"

When people looked at him, he made up an excuse with a guilty conscience: "I have been practicing in a Taoist temple for many years and am not familiar with the capital. Why don't we travel together?"

Song Lan doesn't care.

Liu Wu only follows the lead of the female ghost.

Pei Yuanshi followed him shamelessly as a matter of course.

On the way, Song Lan suddenly thought of something and looked at Liu Wu, alert: "Do you have any money on you?"

Don't let her be penniless and then ask her to pay the bill?

Song Lan subconsciously hid the three hundred coins in his sleeve pocket.

Liu Wu blinked, not understanding what was going on, but took out a stack of silver bills.

"enough?"

He asked somewhat unconfidently: "I heard that in the capital, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are all very expensive."

As if he was afraid that the money was not enough and would make the ghost lady angry, he hurriedly made amends: "If it's not enough, I, I, I will go to the bank to get it."

"My home is in the north of the city, and I have a small grain store. I can withdraw some money from the account there."

Song Lan's eyes fell on the stack of banknotes and he stared at it for a few more seconds.

That’s a lot of money!

After two thousand years in the underworld, she almost forgot what money looked like.

After all, no one burned paper money and gold ingots for her. That bastard Little King of Hell just made her work but didn't pay her.

"That's enough! That's enough!"

Song Lan was smiling and in a good mood.

The three of them arrived relatively early, and there were not many people in the steamed bun shop.

Song Lan ordered two baskets of Xie's signature pork, mushroom and spicy bamboo shoots buns.

Liu Wu is the same as her.

Pei Yuanshi thought about it and decided to do the same.

Liu Wu couldn't help but wonder: "Doesn't the Taoist priest need to be a vegetarian?"

"My school cultivates the mind and is not bound by external things. You can eat either meat or vegetables."

Pei Yuanshi looked very dignified.

After eating and drinking, Liu Wu went to pay the bill.

He was also very thoughtful and packed a bag of tea eggs for Song Lan.

Just now he saw that Song Lan seemed to like eating very much.

One person ate six!

Pei Yuanshi was still distressed and was trying to think of an excuse to continue following the two of them shamelessly.

Just now when he was eating, he was anxious and had a lot of questions to ask Song Lan.

What on earth was going on in that yard?
Why were those government officials not surprised by the deaths of those people?
Is someone practicing evil magic?
But Song Lan was so focused on eating that he didn't have a chance to speak.

I could only be obedient, not talking while eating or sleeping, and finish my breakfast in a dull and tasteless manner.

At this moment, he heard the two people say that they were going to the funeral shop to buy incense, candles and yellow paper, so he immediately took advantage of the opportunity and said, "I'll go with you!"

"In the past, I have had a lot of contact with these artifacts, so I know the quality and authenticity of them."

Thinking that some unscrupulous merchants would even cheat dead people of their money, Song Lan did not refuse.

Since the female ghost didn't refuse, Liu Wu wouldn't say anything.

All he had to do was pay the money.

Pei Yuanshi breathed a sigh of relief, and began to enthusiastically talk to others about how to judge the quality of yellow paper.

Liu Wu listened very carefully.

Song Lan's mind wandered.

When approaching the funeral shop, Song Lan's expression suddenly changed. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Jingzhao Prefecture with a sudden sharp gaze.

"Ms. Ghost?"

Seeing the man suddenly stop, Liu Wu asked in confusion.

But he accidentally made eye contact with the person and was almost frightened to death by the person's sharp gaze.

Pei Yuanshi helped Liu Wu and followed Song Lan's gaze, looking in the direction of Jingzhao Prefecture.

In the distance, you can faintly see purple, red and black lights interweaving. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be a place like a government office.

Why did Miss Song suddenly look over there?

Pei Yuanshi asked curiously, "Did Miss Song find anything wrong?"

Song Lan glanced at him, suppressed his anger, and returned to normal.

"nothing."

The corners of her mouth curved slightly, with an ambiguous meaning: "I just found that it seems that a fish has taken the bait."

Pei Yuanshi: ???

He was confused, but Song Lan didn't seem to want to explain.

"go in."

Song Lan did not mention it again: "Business is more important."

Just think about it, someone will soon burn paper money and gold ingots and offer incense to her.

Song Lan was still a little happy.

After Xie Shangqi and Lu were released from Jingzhao Prefecture, they seemed less important.
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Jingzhao Mansion.

Jiao Bubai stood at the gate of the yamen, watching Xie Shangqi and Lu's carriage go away, his face frosty.

"Follow them! See who took them away!"

The seal on the Xie family's property had not been removed yet, and the person driving the car was obviously not someone familiar to Xie Shangqi and the Lu family.

But unfortunately——

"Sir, the prefect has personally come out to say that we are not allowed to continue investigating. You?"

It’s not good to follow you, right?

Jiao Bubai glared at him and said, "If he is guilty, why can't we investigate? If the emperor breaks the law, he will be punished the same as the common people!"

"If you are innocent, what is there to be afraid of?"

"Follow!"

(End of this chapter)