The Imperial Concubine Just Wants To Be a Salted Fish Every Day

Fang's ancestral hall is no different from ordinary ancestral halls. There are many memorial tablets enshrined in the ancestral hall. There is a small and exquisite incense burner in front of each memorial tablet. There are incense candles and melon and fruit offerings on the table, and three futons are placed on the ground.

It can be seen that there are often people here to clean, every place is clean, there is no dust at all.

Shang Kui walked around the ancestral hall twice and searched all the places he could find, but found nothing unusual.

He turned to look at the patriarch of the Fang clan next to him and asked about Fang Wujiu.

The answer he got was almost the same as what Fang Huai said.

After Fang Wujiu worshiped his parents here, he left here and never saw him again.

No one knows where he went.

Wen Jiucheng asked: "Which two tablets are Fang Wujiu's parents?"

The patriarch of the Fang clan pointed to the two tablets in the lower right corner and said, "These are the two."

Wen Jiucheng stepped forward and stared at the two tablets for a while, but didn't see anything unusual.

He sighed, it seems that the elder brother didn't leave any clues here.

With the mentality of coming here and not being able to come in vain, Wen Jiucheng asked the patriarch of the Fang clan for three sticks of incense.

He knelt on the futon and kowtowed three times to the tablet of Fang Wujiu's parents to show his respect to his elders.

He stood up calmly, and inserted the incense sticks into the incense burners placed in front of the two tablets.

No one noticed that when he inserted the incense, he paused for a moment.

After offering incense, the group left Fang's ancestral hall.

The Fang family already knew that the county sheriff had known about Fang Wujiu's family. They were afraid of hurting themselves, so they hurriedly told what they knew, including the money that Fang Huai bribed them back then.

As a punishment, Jian Shujie doubled the tax of the Fang clan this year.

Doubling the tax is tantamount to letting the Fang clan hand over all this year's harvest to the government.

Fortunately, the harvest in the first two years was not bad, and every household had surplus food. With the surplus food, they could barely survive the next year without starving to death.

Under Jian Shujie's warm invitation, Wen Jiucheng and Shang Kui went to the county guard's mansion.

They had a very sumptuous dinner in the Sheriff's Mansion.

When he was full of wine and food, Shang Kui declined Jian Shujie's enthusiasm to stay, and returned to the inn with Wen Jiucheng in a carriage.

Because Shang Kui drank a lot of wine at the banquet, when Shang Kui returned to the inn, he was already drowsy.

But he still tried his best to call all the Yulin Guards over and ask them about the results of their investigations during the day.

After some inquiries from Yu Linwei, they learned that the old fairy lived in the Temple of Freedom.

The Zizai Temple was originally just a little-known Taoist temple in Fufeng City. After the old god lived in, the incense there suddenly became vigorous.

Many people in the city would go to Zizai to look for the old gods for divination. It is said that the old gods' hexagrams are extremely accurate, which can be called straight-talking.

He would do trigrams for free every day, and then he would have to charge money for fortunetelling.

It is said that the old god's hexagram cost at least hundreds of taels of silver, and the expensive ones even cost a thousand taels of gold.

In addition to fortune-telling, the statues in Zizai Temple are also a major feature.

The god was consecrated by the old god himself. As long as you invite it back and worship it devoutly, your wish will be fulfilled.

Of course, the idol is not free, a statue costs at least ten taels of silver, the better the workmanship, the more expensive it is.

Today, almost every household in Fufeng City enshrines statues of gods, and the status of the old gods in their hearts is even more lofty.

After listening to the report, Shang Kui felt that there are so many rich people in Fufeng City!

A Yulin guard said: "The old god will explain the Taoism in the Taoist temple on the first and fifteenth day of every month. As long as the believers go to listen to the Taoism, they can have a free meal in the Taoist temple on that day. There are a lot of people in the Taoist temple."

Some people really want to listen to Taoism, and some people just want to have a meal.

But no matter what the reason is, it can bring a lot of popularity to the concept of freedom.

Wen Jiucheng calculated the time, and it happened that tomorrow was the fifteenth day.

He said to Shang Kui.

"Tomorrow, we can mix in the crowd and enter the free view to see what kind of character that old fairy is?"

Shang Kui nodded and said yes.

After Wen Jiucheng returned to the guest room, he read a book for a while, and when the night was completely dark and no human voice could be heard outside, he put down the book and blew out the candles.

But instead of going to bed, he woke up Shang Kui who lived in the next room.

Wen Jiucheng whispered a few words to him.

Then Shang Kui called two Yulin guards and asked them to put on black night clothes and go out for a walk.

Those two Yulin guards were at a loss.

But they tactfully did not ask any more questions, and followed the commander's order.

As soon as the two Yulin guards left the inn, two spies followed from the inn.

Wen Jiucheng and Shang Kui, who were standing by the window of the guest room on the second floor, had a panoramic view of this scene.

Shang Kui cursed in a low voice.

"Sure enough, someone is watching us secretly!"

Wen Jiucheng whispered: "I'm going out for a while, you have to help me lure those spies away."

Shang Kui said no problem.

Under his arrangement, the Yu Lin guards left the inn one by one.

Almost every Yu Linwei is followed by a sneaky spy.

It wasn't until the seventh Yu Linwei left the inn that there were no spies behind him.

To be on the safe side, Shang Kui sent two more Yulin guards out, and Wen Jiucheng changed into dark clothes and left the inn after confirming that there were no more spies following him.

He used lightness kung fu to walk through the night and arrived at the gate of Fang's ancestral hall as fast as possible.

The gate is locked.

Wen Jiucheng took out an iron wire from his sleeve, inserted it into the keyhole, turned it lightly twice, and with a click, the copper lock was unlocked.

He pushed open the door and walked in slowly.

In the dim night, those densely packed tablets looked particularly oozing.

Wen Jiucheng went straight to the tablet of Fang Wujiu's parents.

He picked up the small incense burner placed in front of the tablet. The incense burner was filled with incense ash, and there were three burnt incense sticks stuck in the incense ashes.

Wen Jiucheng reached into the incense burner, flipped through the incense ash with his fingers twice, and when he pulled it out again, there was already a folded note between his index finger and middle finger.

When offering incense to Fang Wujiu's parents this afternoon, Wen Jiucheng noticed something hidden in the incense burner.

He speculated that it might be the clue left by the elder brother,

But he was afraid that his surroundings would not be safe, so he didn't say anything at the time, and left as if nothing happened.

Wen Jiucheng didn't dare to take out the things hidden in the incense burner until he was sure that no one was following him.

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