Chapter 148: Shen Tu and Yu Lei

The government office was not in the center of Tianmen Town.

Because Tianmen Town had multiple river channels such as the Lianghe, Qingshui River, and Xiao Lianghe running through it, the true geographical center was not suitable for building a county government office.

In a slightly southern area, backed by the Lianghe, there was a spacious and flat piece of land, and the government office was there.

Xiao Yu, however, had encountered the assassination not long after leaving Bao'an Hall.

And Bao'an Hall was at the foot of the city wall in the north of the city, which could be considered the furthest place from the government office in Tianmen Town.

So even with the Xinglong Noodle Restaurant owner beating gongs and drums, it didn't startle the distant government office at the first moment.

When Xiao Yu carried one person and one ghost to the government office entrance, the street was still pitch black, the two red-lacquered main doors of the government office were tightly closed, and it was quiet inside; she didn't even see a night watchman.

Looking at the Dengwen Drum on the left side of the main entrance, Xiao Yu hesitated a bit.

She just wanted to report the case first, and didn't want to wake everyone up in the middle of the night.

It was certain that once she beat the Dengwen Drum, besides Zhu Yitao in the back government office, the common people in the nearby streets would be woken up, and then they would greet her parents together.

"Besides Zhu Yitao, there are the Dianli, the County Assistant, and the heads of the six divisions in the government office. It's better to explain the situation to the Chief Clerk of the Criminal Room first and write a detailed petition. When dawn comes, submit the petition directly to Zhu Yitao—"

Xiao Yu was thinking while walking forward, preparing to call open the corner door and let the night watchman inside let her in.

"Weng weng~~~"

A dazzling golden light suddenly lit up in front, Xiao Yu's eyes were dazzled, and she hurriedly turned her head to dodge.

"Stop, this is a restricted area of the county government office, how dare you ghosts and gods trespass without an imperial edict?"

Xiao Yu's head was turned away, but her Heart Sea Art had been operating, and at this moment she "watched with her own eyes" as the "New Year paintings" on the county government office main door burst into golden light.

The two colorful and majestic door gods on the paintings actually walked down from the door directly.

The door god on the left was four meters tall, with a red face and black beard, holding a large Guan blade, wearing golden armor studded with jewels and jade; it was colorful and green, looking like someone performing in a big opera.

The door god on the right was also tall and burly, with a general's big belly, holding a large machete in each hand, also covered in blue jewels, green jade, purple tortoiseshell, and red cat's eye stones... Blue ribbons wrapped around his body, a big green cloak over golden armor, a Qilin-swallowing belt wrapped around his belly, and a pair of golden boots that were unimaginably large.

Xiao Yu blinked, first looking at the two divine generals, then turning her head to look at the "New Year paintings" on the main door behind.

The paintings were actually blank, and the door gods on them had disappeared.

"Forgive me, two upper gods, the little ghost didn't trespass the county government office... Open your eyes and look, old ones; the little ghost is helpless!" Xiao Yu was still looking at the door gods in shock and uncertainty when Chi Miao, who was being held in her hand, had already hurriedly wailed.

Xiao Yu said, "Two great gods, how should I address you?"

"Are you blind?" The door god on the left reached out to point at the "New Year paintings" on the door.

Although the door gods had come down from the paintings, there were still divine names written in cloud seal script on the side of the door god portraits.

On the left was "Shen Tu," and on the right was "Yu Lei."

"Great gods, please examine, I am Yu Fengxian of the Red Sleeve Workshop, the complainant, here at the government office to report these two criminals for colluding with ghosts, harming loyal and good people. By the way, I am the recently famous 'righteous and heaven-reaching Yu Fengxian'."

Xiao Yu lifted one person and one ghost and said to the two door gods.

"So you are the Yu Fengxian who was gifted a divine position for righteousness..." Yu Lei looked her up and down, his expression and tone softening, and he said softly: "Mortal lawsuits are not our concern, we only manage these two doors.

Without the edict of the Commander, no matter the reason, ghosts and gods cannot step into the government office even half a step."

Xiao Yu nodded, indicating she understood, and then asked curiously: "Please forgive my small Sha barbarian ignorance; the divine names of the two great gods are like thunder to even the barbarians.

You shouldn't be this idle, descending in true form for a tiny Western Shu government office?"

"You are indeed ignorant, unable to even distinguish between true gods and incense projections.

Hehe, all government office in the world, as long as they have invited us brothers, our billions of clones can all look after them," Yu Lei laughed.

"Brother, we don't have much time left, don't talk nonsense with her!" Shen Tu raised his large Guan blade, made a driving-away gesture, and shouted at Xiao Yu: "Since you understand the stakes, why don't you leave quickly! If you don't leave, don't blame me for being ruthless with my blade!"

Xiao Yu stepped back two steps, leaving the range of the county government office main door, and said: "Two great gods, don't be impatient, I'll stand outside and call for people."

"Who is calling outside?"

The night watchman was startled, and behind the red-lacquered main door, a government office runner shouted impatiently.

"Sou!" Before the words fell, the two great gods turned into golden light again and returned to the door.

The door god paintings were just like before, weathered by wind and rain, the colors mottled, the painting paper cracked and bulging, with paper scraps falling off.

The previous scene was like a dream.

"Zhiya~~~" The main door opened a crack, and a head wearing a pointed cone hat, with slanted eyebrows and small eyes, an anal-eye and big nose, and a flushed face, poked out from behind. He first let out a wine burp, then squinted his small eyes, his gaze blurred as he scanned around.

"Are you a human or a ghost, little girl?" He was startled by Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu was carved from pink jade, with her hair tied in buns and wearing a pink dress; she didn't look scary at all.

But in the middle of the night, a little girl holding an armored giant in one hand and releasing red light with the other, grabbing a black shadow that kept wriggling, was very strange, and the atmosphere was abnormally eerie, with bursts of yin wind blowing on her face.

"I am Yu Fengxian!" Xiao Yu said.

The government office runner was stunned for a moment, hurriedly pulled the door open, handed over the lantern, and stretched his head over, asking in surprise and suspicion: "Is it the righteous and heaven-reaching, ancient sage Yu Fengxian?"

Xiao Yu smiled bitterly in her heart; this damn reputation was truly something that made people both love and hate it!

"Who else could it be but me."

"Miss Yu, you are in the middle of the night... It's almost the fourth watch, right? What are you doing?" The government office runner asked suspiciously.

"There are criminals colluding with fierce ghosts to harm me." Xiao Yu handed the suspects to the lantern, "Look, this is the criminal, and this is the fierce ghost."

"Mommy, there's a ghost, there's a ghost!!!"

Seeing the iron-clad warrior, the government office runner was still stunned, but when he saw the ghost-faced Chi Miao, the government office runner's eyeballs popped out, he threw away the lantern, turned around, and ran, wailing shrilly while staggering and running wildly.

The wailing resounded through the empty and quiet government office.

Xiao Yu didn't want to disturb Zhu Yitao's rest, but Zhu Yitao was still woken up.

"Damn it, which bastard is wailing outside?"

Zhu Yitao was very angry.

Not only was he suddenly woken up from deep sleep, but the Zhu family living in the back government office was also affected.

His wife jumped out of bed wearing a bellyband, grabbed his arm, and screamed, "It must be that you are too cruel on weekdays and have offended too many people. Now criminals are attacking the county government office to seek revenge on you, run, run!"

From the embroidery building where his daughter lived, panicked screams of maidservants also came.

For a while, they said "the building is on fire," for a while they said "there's a ghost," and for a while they also shouted "criminals are here, they want to capture the young lady."

They shouted "criminals are here," not because they were sleepy, but because the government office runner outside was screaming in terror.

If the government office runner guarding the government office could scream in terror, what else could it be but criminals?

After tossing until almost the fifth watch, Zhu Yitao finally figured out what had happened.

"Who is the night watchman tonight? Drag him down and give him thirty big boards to vent my anger!"

"Master, the little one is wronged! My wailing might be wrong, but there really is a ghost!" The anal-eye big-nosed government office runner knelt on the ground and cried out for justice.

"Even if there really is a ghost, you are a dignified government office runner, how can you be afraid of a little ghost? Only little ghosts should be afraid of you, afraid of us!" Zhu Yitao roared.

After speaking, he shouted directly: "Bring Yu Fengxian into the main hall, I'm going to see what kind of ghost she is holding!"

His wife advised: "Even if you are not afraid of ghosts, as a Commander, how can you try a case at the fourth watch?

At the very least, you should wait until dawn, until all the teams are present, before opening the government office and ascending the hall."

Zhu Yitao thought it made sense and said: "You go and ask Yu Fengxian if the 'ghost criminal' she caught can wait until daytime and see the sun?"

A moment later, a government office runner came in to report: "Master, Yu Fengxian says the ghost she caught is not afraid of seeing the sun.

It's just that she needs you to issue a signature order allowing the 'ghost criminal' to enter the government office, otherwise the two great gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei won't let them in."

"Who are Shen Tu and Yu Lei?" Zhu Yitao asked suspiciously, then reacted and said in surprise: "Could it be the two great gods Shen Tu and Yu Lei who guard the door?"

"It is exactly those two door gods."

Zhu Yitao laughed and said: "Interesting, interesting, I've tried criminals all my life, but this is the first time I've dealt with ghosts and gods."

After pondering for a moment, he ordered: "The fourth watch is over, waking up now is just waking up early.

You send people out of the government office to call back the coroner, the criminal clerk, the criminal room, and the experienced case handlers in the government office.

More than ten elite warriors of the Luye Guard have died, and it involves 'righteous and heaven-reaching Yu Fengxian'; it is inevitable that the monarch will be alarmed, so the government office cannot be too careful.

Tell them that before I ascend the hall, all criminal investigation documents must be prepared properly."

The government office runner responded first, then hesitated: "Then the signature order that Yu Fengxian needs..."

"Since the victim wants to report a ghost and has even caught the ghost, of course, she should be allowed to enter the government office."

Zhu Yitao picked up a pen and quickly wrote an arrest document.

After writing, he stamped it with the county magistrate's seal and his own private seal, blew it dry, and handed it to the government office runner.

Outside the government office, a government office runner with a square face in his forties walked down the steps, handed a piece of paper to Xiao Yu, and said: "Miss Yu, this is the document written by the Commander himself, do you think it's okay?"

Xiao Yu took it and looked; it only had two sentences, more than twenty characters, meaning: Although Chi Miao is a ghost god, he is also a "criminal" in the "Baxia Alley" assassination case, and Tianmen Town County Magistrate Zhu Yiqun specially allows him to enter the government office.

"Zhu Yiqun" was Zhu Yitao's real name.

Xiao Yu was also experiencing this kind of thing for the first time and had no experience, so she just let the government office runner step back, holding Zhu Yitao's signature order in one hand and carrying the fat ghost Chi Miao in the other.

The iron-clad knight was a human and didn't need a signature order; he had already been sent into the government office.

Chi Miao closed his eyes tightly, and Xiao Yu was also cautious, walking into the government office step by step.

The two great gods in the door god paintings moved again.

However, they didn't jump out of the paintings directly, but opened their eyes wide, staring closely at the Commander's hand order.

As Xiao Yu walked forward, their heads and gazes also turned with her.

Until she crossed the threshold and completely entered the courtyard, the door gods' gaze completely disappeared.

"Hu~~~" Xiao Yu let out a long sigh of relief.

The pressure Shen Tu and Yu Lei gave her far exceeded that of the previous silver-clad talisman envoy.

"Miss Yu, how is it?" The square-faced government office runner looked at her eagerly, his face full of expectation and anxiety.

Xiao Yu asked suspiciously: "Didn't you see it just now?"

"See what?"

"The two great gods in the door god paintings were staring at me with wide eyes, and their heads were turning with me," Xiao Yu said.

The government office runner rubbed his eyes, looked at the door god paintings on the main door again, and said: "I've been waiting for the door gods to appear, I've been looking at the door god paintings, there's nothing!"

"Hey, dead ghost, did you see it?" Xiao Yu asked Chi Miao.

The fat ghost wailed: "Grandmother Tiger Girl has good fortune, he is a low-class person with a rotten life, he doesn't have the fortune to see the great gods."

"Oh my, it really is a ghost, it looks so fierce, its wailing is terrifying, heavens, so terrifying~~" The government office runner's face turned pale with fright.

It wasn't his fault for being cowardly.

As a ghost god, Chi Miao's "true form" was naturally very fierce.

Still the old saying, as an inspector responsible for hunting fierce ghosts, one must be fiercer than fierce ghosts.

Even if he once looked like Pan An, once he became a ghost god, he would become fierce in appearance and aura.

Green face and fangs, blood basin mouth, all are the most ordinary configurations.

He looked ugly, his aura was terrifying, and his voice was a true ghost wail.

It sounded like a night owl wailing, ear-piercing and soul-frightening.

"Don't be afraid, with me here, he is just a dough ball, let people knead him. If you don't believe me, brother runner, you can come and touch him, knead him, he's cold and very soft," Xiao Yu said with a smile, handing the fierce ghost she had rolled into a ball to him.

The government office runner brother trembled even more violently.

The sweet smile on her face also turned into a ferocious grin more terrifying than the fierce ghost.

"Miss Yu, I have a rotten life, I don't have the fortune to knead ghosts, you enjoy it yourself, I, I will lead the way for you."

He hurriedly turned and ran forward. ===== CHAPTER 149 =====