Young master, why not become a corpse immortal?

Chapter 46 I am a great hero!

The streets were really lively.

As the celebration was about to begin, a large number of opera troupes came from the vicinity. Some of the less knowledgeable ones went to Hanbai, while others who were knowledgeable went to Cangsong.

Han Bai is good in every way, but this banquet is definitely not as good as Cang Song's.

The reason is simple: Hanbo doesn't have a large lake, so it's not a very nice place to hold a banquet.

While walking down the street, Lin Jiang first bought a skewer of candied hawthorns to eat. The hawthorns were crisp and sour, but the sugar on the outside was coarse sugar, not very sweet, and a bit astringent, but the taste was still quite good.

Numerous performers had already set up their stalls along both sides of the road, with acrobats being the most numerous, followed by opera singers.

There were many different kinds of juggling acts. There was a little girl at the entrance of the water store who lay flat on a board with a large vat that was as tall as a person attached to her feet. She kicked the vat with all her might. The vat was like a shuttlecock above her ankle. She could make it go left or up as she pleased, which attracted a crowd of people who applauded.

In the distance, you can see people performing opera, wearing ghost masks; it must be Nuo opera, and their voices are incredibly clear and bright.

"The heavens open the auspicious path and the day arrives; auspicious clouds surge from the earth and purple aura arises! The golden gong shakes the netherworld, and the Nuo mask illuminates the mountains and rivers!"
"Ho! Divine might sweeps away the plague!"

Looking down at the audience, I saw several performers who couldn't go on stage, selling Nuo masks.

Lin Jiang remembered that Nuo opera performers treasured their masks and were usually unwilling to take them out. It seemed that this troupe was really short of valuables and had even made a few fake ones to sell.

It wasn't expensive, only four coins each. Looking at it, it was definitely not finely carved; it was just something carved from wood and dyed.

Several children begged their parents to buy them, and after wearing them, they would chase and make a fuss.

Several elderly people saw this and shook their heads and sighed, muttering to themselves:

"How can you treat sacrificial offerings like this? It's truly a sign of the world's decline..."

But the mask vendor next to him laughed:
"Why not? It's not a real mask, just a wooden carving. It's just for the children to play with. Heaven bestows blessings, and Earthly Officials pardon sins. Even if the gods really saw it, they wouldn't hold it against the children."

Lin Jiang thought it made sense.

If you really care about such things, then you're not a god.

He thought it was interesting, so he simply took out four coins and bought one.

Once it's on your face, you become a noble young man with a ghost mask, swaggering around with even more style.

Little Ginseng peeked out from Lin Jiang's sleeve and glanced at his mask.

She thought about it.

"Now I understand why everyone says your face is beautiful. You really don't look as good as before after you put on this mask."

Lin Jiang was very dissatisfied with this: "This Nuo mask is so beautiful, it's more beautiful than my original face."

Do you understand romance in men?
After wandering around for a while, the surroundings were so lively that I almost forgot what I came out to do. So I just followed my memory and headed towards Qian Gong's mansion.

After taking only a couple of steps, Lin Jiang turned his head slightly.

He realized that someone was following him.

The man was a towering figure, dressed in fine clothes, with thick hands; even his large clothes couldn't completely conceal his physique.

He's a trained fighter.

But his footsteps were very light; if it weren't for Lin Jiang's exceptionally good hearing, he really wouldn't have heard him.

This person...

Could it be that they are like Magistrate Zhu? Are they the thieves who are looking for the secret of my resurrection?

Last time I wanted to ask Magistrate Zhu a question, but when he mentioned his name, I got myself killed.

This time we still need to capture him alive, but if we're going to ask for his name, we'll have to find a different method.

……

Constable Guo followed the handsome young man cautiously.

He watched the young man strolling around the street, and then he bought a mask and put it on. Overall, he didn't seem out of the ordinary.

However, the bell used to detect demonic energy would ring as soon as it got close to him. After confirming it several times, Officer Guo finally took out a small wad of cotton from his pocket and covered the bell's center. This way, the bell wouldn't make a sound, and he wouldn't reveal his location when he went to track others.

He doesn't want a delicate bell; it's not very practical.

After walking a while, the handsome young man noticed that there were fewer and fewer people around him, and Officer Guo felt that the time was about right.

First try politeness, then use force to corner him and ask him what's going on.

Having made up his mind, Constable Guo quickened his pace, wanting to catch up with the young master. The young master also seemed to sense something and hurried along as well.

Both of them had great stamina, and they walked with a whooshing sound as they went on flat ground.

In the middle of the night, someone opened a window to let in some fresh air and lit a candle to read. Just as they lit a candle, they suddenly saw a figure walking past outside the window, and then a gust of wind blew up, extinguishing the candle.

He muttered a curse under his breath, then took out a tinderbox and lit the candle again.

The candle had just been lit when a gust of wind suddenly blew in.

Guo, the constable, frowned as he chased after them. At first, he could catch up with them by taking big strides, but after a short while, he could not even catch them by jogging, let alone taking big strides.

Whose lightness skill is this? It combines both endurance and speed!

Finally, upon reaching the alley entrance, Constable Guo could no longer find the young nobleman.

Their stamina was on completely different levels; Officer Guo was running at full speed, while the other man was still strolling leisurely.

It was all just a joke.

Guo, the constable, felt frustrated, but he knew that he probably couldn't do anything to the other party on his own.

Looks like we need to go back and ask for help.

Just as he turned around, he suddenly realized that he had arrived at the abandoned alley of the ancient pine trees.

Beyond the pine trees by the lake, there are two districts, the old and the new. The new district extends towards Hanbai and is filled with merchants who have recently come here to do business, making it prosperous and splendid. Although there aren't that many yet, it looks clean and tidy.

The old district was originally for the people who lived in Cangsong. But after living there for too long, there would be abandoned houses left uninhabited after someone died. When there were many abandoned houses, there would be several abandoned alleyways. There were often rumors of ghosts there, and few people would go there.

The moon wasn't dark, but the wind was strong.

It wasn't a night for murder, but it was a day for blocking the roads!

Officer Guo immediately realized that he had probably come to the wrong place!
He immediately tried to run back the way he came, but a dark figure landed right in front of him and blocked his way at the alley entrance.

A Nuo mask looked eerily sinister under the moonlight.

"Who are you? Why are you following me?"

Lin Jiang whispered from beneath the Nuo mask.

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Officer Guo had no choice but to take out the harpoon from his back:
"Hey! You demonic creature with such an overwhelming aura! Cease your arrogance! I am Guo Dali, a constable from Zhenping Division, and I have come to Cangsong today to capture this demon! Why don't you surrender obediently?!"

Zhenping Division? Monster?
Lin Jiang had heard this name from the previous shopkeeper. It referred to a faction under the imperial court that specifically dealt with demons and monsters. The people his grandmother had asked Han Bai for help with some time ago were from this faction.

After a month of no news, they've suddenly come back?
Pointing at the victim's nose and calling them a monster?
Moreover, the tiger in Sanxing Town is connected to Zhenping Division, yet it comes here with such audacious words?

Lin Jiang was so angry he laughed.

"Me? A monster? How much have you drunk today? You're so drunk?"

“The treasure is absolutely right.” Officer Guo took out the bell from his pocket, removed the cotton wick, and the bell immediately jingled.

Moving the bell to Lin Jiang's left sleeve made it less loud, but moving it to his right sleeve made it ring like crazy.

Officer Guo blinked:

There's a monster in your sleeve.

The little ginseng, who lived inside the sleeve, couldn't resist any longer and poked her head out:

"You're the monster! I'm the hero!"

(End of this chapter)