Chapter 120

"But Teacher, may I simply ask what exactly happened?"

Because it concerned Chen Yaozu, Yuan Jie asked anyway even though she knew she shouldn't pry further.

Regarding matters like metaphysics, divination, and ghost-catching, she might previously have thought them unscientific, but after witnessing Nanyang's head-lowering techniques, she finally knew this world still had a mysterious corner undiscovered by people.

"There's no harm telling you — a neutrino was caught domestically, and it was caught thanks to Chen Yaozu's reminder, using the method he provided.

He calls this thing the Peach Blossom Nightmare.

After catching this neutrino, it was originally taken to the laboratory for research.

But now a slight mishap has occurred, so that's why I need you to ask whether he's willing to help!"

Yuan Jie was a bit dumbfounded; in the information she possessed, her nephew had been perfectly ordinary before her parents met with misfortune.

The change occurred after her parents and she herself met with misfortune.

He became a kung fu master in America and even made the news.

Now, he has actually developed to the point of being able to help people catch ghosts.

One just doesn't know whether Chen Yaozu originally had these abilities, or learned them while fleeing to North America.

However, Yuan Jie felt that since A Zu was needed now, perhaps she could legitimately raise a demand: "Teacher, logically I shouldn't shirk this matter! But since you called me, you should know about our family's Lao Hu and the matter on A Zu.

Although I've already found clues and roughly know that original incident wasn't done by A Zu!

After investigation.

Lao Hu's cancer was caused by someone frequently administering carcinogens.

Therefore it was also discovered through investigation that A Zu's girlfriend was actually arranged by Liu Xing to get close to him.

The key is the final family extermination — it absolutely wouldn't be something A Zu did while drunk; that's not his personality.

Even if he did do it.

It's also extremely likely he was controlled by Liu Xing using head-lowering techniques, leading to this incident.

Could you..."

The teacher on the phone, having called instead of speaking directly with Chen Yaozu, actually understood the general situation — after all, they were roughly aware of the activities on the Nanyang side as well.

"Since you've already uncovered leads, Lao Hu's honor will naturally be restored.

Additionally, Chen Yaozu can have the ban lifted and return.

But the chief culprit Liu Xing must be brought to justice hereafter; I don't care what methods you use, he must be brought to justice.

Understood?"

Yuan Jie stood up straight with joy: "Understood, Teacher, I'll call A Zu right away!"

Chen Yaozu has been very busy recently.

Busy with his own affairs all along — for example, buying houses and land.

Factory land isn't expensive; just find any flat parcel with convenient transport, near a highway, near a gas station, and with a commercial center within 10 kilometers.

Spent 2 million US dollars, bought nearly 110 English acres of land, and factory construction has already begun.

Simultaneously under construction is not just the factory, but also the Great Ming Pacification Commissioner Office.

He felt that over the past twenty-odd days, the Evil God Power inside the Celestial Master's Seal had begun to affect him.

That night, ignoring Audrey's pleas for mercy, he persisted until one or two in the early morning.

Next morning, he still summoned Wenzhou Yu and Zhou Jiping and berated them for a full hour.

This would have been absolutely impossible before; he knew his personality wasn't that domineering.

Precisely because of this, he also realized his mental state might have a serious problem. When he beheaded that Eight-Faced Ghost Buddha Evil God, the talisman in his mind had given a prompt: only the Great Ming Pacification Commissioner Office could make his refinement of Evil God Power legitimate, reducing most negative effects.

Legitimacy is very important.

But now that his spirit had this problem, the talisman surprisingly gave no prompt, no protection, and didn't even clear the negative state on his spirit.

Only then did he realize he had to save himself — he couldn't rely on the talisman in his mind for everything.

So he searched online for the style of Ming Dynasty government yamens, downloaded and printed the diagrams, and had his beautiful lawyer contact construction companies worldwide with qualifications and experience in this type of construction to build his Pacification Commissioner Office as quickly as possible.

Even factory construction was halted, focusing on building his yamen.

If this were ancient times.

Building such a yamen might take several months to half a year before even the beam and column carvings were done.

But now it's the technological era; with machinery in hand, all these bits and pieces are very fast.

In twenty-odd days, within the antique brick-walled courtyard, the Great Ming Pacification Commissioner government yamen was completed.

Entering the main gate, at the very front, there is a screen wall and a drum tower — the place where the yamen gate beats the drum to hear grievances.

Past the courtyard gate, through the spacious courtyard, one can see the mortise-and-tenon structured wooden house inside.

This wooden house has three doors; this also seems to have its particular rules, but Chen Yaozu doesn't know what rules they are right now — anyway, the construction company said ancient yamen architecture is just this style.

Inside the doors is the main hall, the place where ancient yamen chief officials tried cases and handled important government affairs; above it is a large desk, behind the desk are painted sea waves and billows with a signboard hanging above inscribed with four large characters: "Clear Mirror Hung High".

Behind the main hall there are two further courtyards, said to be where the yamen chief official daily worked and read and reviewed documents.

But did you think that was it? Obviously not; the construction company's blueprints were far more detailed than what Chen Yaozu found online.

A Ming Dynasty official yamen is not just the chief official's workplace; for example, a county yamen also contains other officials' yamens and residences.

For instance, a Ming Dynasty county yamen must have the County Magistrate's and Chief Clerk's yamens and mansions.

As well as the clerks' offices for other clerks to work in.

A prison for detaining criminals.

Warehouses — this needs no explanation; the common people's grain and collected tax silver, the place for storage.

To tell the truth, if his yamen were built at normal speed, it wouldn't have cost that much money at all.

Although all original timber is used, America has plenty of wood besides oil, unlike domestic.

So the normal construction cost wouldn't take much money.

But he told the others, he demanded the construction company build it at the fastest speed, not afraid of spending money.

As long as the money is in place, it's actually really not difficult, after all this is just civil engineering, how difficult could it be.

Money in place, people in place, supplies also in place.

So in just a short twenty days, even the roof tiles were airlifted over, the main point being a 1:1 restoration.

Now Chen Yaozu sits in the main hall, in that seat where the county magistrate sits, slapping the gavel, yet the annoyance in his heart hasn't gone down in the slightest.

Even if he now doesn't dare carry the Los Angeles Zhi Zhong Gongyin on his person, after all this is his great seal, the negative state brought by the Evil God Power on it can still affect him.

His heart is not calm, he cast a few divinations for himself, couldn't get any clues.

Just as he was racking his brains, suddenly seeing those four big characters "Upright and Bright" on the main hall door, a flash of inspiration struck.

Hurriedly walked out the courtyard, stood in front of the Big Door, facing this Great Ming Pacification Commissioner Office used the Talisman's Deduction Probe technique.

【No enfeoffment, no seal no authorization, a Great Ming Pacification Commissioner Office in appearance only!】

(Chapter End)