Chapter 420: If you don't leave, I will use magic to drive you away

A white egret flew over and landed on the crabapple tree in the courtyard.

The Daoist priest put down his luggage, and the fox rolled on the ground in the courtyard, then played freely.

"Several Shixiongs, just find a room to live in. However, if you want to live in the courtyard, two or three people will have to share a room. If you want to live alone, you can go to the courtyard that originally belonged to Daoist Friend Fan." Lin Jue said, pointing to a pavilion in the corner of the courtyard, "There are spirits in that pavilion. They are the 'foxes' common in the capital. I have agreed with them that the pavilion will be divided equally between the upper and lower floors. They usually play upstairs, and the downstairs is ours, so please don't go upstairs to disturb them."

"Ma Shidi actually has 'foxes' here?"

"In the capital nowadays, 'foxes' are not rare. Many remote or uninhabited houses have spirits temporarily living in them."

"Do you know what they look like? What are their surnames and names?"

"Haven't asked, we don't disturb each other."

"Ma Shidi has elegant interests."

Several Shixiongs heard this and didn't ask much.

"Several Shixiongs are also tired from walking, so rest for a while. Later in the evening, we will go out to find a restaurant to have a meal. After a period of time, the leaves on Fengshan will turn red. It's just right to go to Little Xiao Shimei's place to live for a period of time. At that time, we will also put my spirit wood there and seal it well."

Lin Jue said so, and returned to the room first.

The furnishings in the room remained the same.

Lin Jue first took out everything in the cloth bag one by one.

Change of clothes, the wood carving of the food-spirit ghost, the remaining silver, some pills, ancient books, Earth Spirit Pills, pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, the mother-of-pearl box, semi-finished statues, treasures of heaven and earth, the night-watching lamp, paper donkeys, more than a dozen magic tools that had not been divided, and some sundries.

Lin Jue first threw the change of clothes into the basket, put the night-watching lamp on the table, took out the unfinished statues and carving knives, put them in suitable positions, and then picked up the Earth Spirit Pill.

The spiritual aura on it was truly mysterious.

Lin Jue looked at it for a while, carefully put it into the mother-of-pearl box, put it together with other golden core materials, closed the box, put it back into the cloth bag, and put the cloth bag on the pillow in the room.

The night-watching lamp was kept on.

This cloth bag is truly a good thing. It's a pity that Wang Mu of the West or the demons under her command must have similar treasures, but the battle was too chaotic, and he didn't dare to be distracted, had no heart to look, and didn't find anything similar after the battle.

He did find things as useful as the night-watching lamp, such as the jade horse Third Third Shixiong chose and the bone pendant Fifth Third Shixiong chose.

He should look for other materials.

But before that, there are things to do in the capital.

For example, entertaining several Shixiongs, for example, listening quietly to the general trend of the world, for example, sleeping well to rest, and for example, when returning here to refine pills, it is necessary to have someone to protect the Dharma, and the matter of protecting the Dharma cannot be worried about when the time comes, because it will be too late.

Several things are very important and hard to distinguish from each other.

As for the silver that is about to be eaten up, Lin Jue is not worried.

Perhaps there will be income again soon.

And in a few years, he might not need this Spirit Origin Pill anymore.

……

That evening, they found a restaurant.

As soon as they entered the door, it was a bit strange—

This is the restaurant where Fan Tian Shi Fan often ordered dishes, and it is also the restaurant where he often invited Lin Jue and others to eat. Now, a divine statue is placed in the middle of the restaurant, which is a middle-aged Daoist priest with an immortal demeanor, with an old servant slightly bent over behind him. At a glance, one can tell that it is Fan Tian Shi Fan.

But it can't be called surprised.

This is what Lin Jue had long expected.

This restaurant should only be a representative. At this time, the number of merchants, people, and even high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital who worship Fan Tian Shi Fan should not be small.

He could only shake his head and sigh that it was a pity.

"Ah! True Man Lin!"

The waiter was clever and immediately lowered his voice.

"True Man, please come in."

Ordering a table of dishes, it was also the one they often ordered before, a pot of wine, which was the restaurant's signature Yujingchun, and listening to the discussion in the next private room for an hour about Wang Mu of the West, True Man Lin, and Fan Tian Shi Fan who descended to the mortal world to experience tribulations and returned to heaven. Even several Shixiongs couldn't help but be curious, asking Lin Jue and Little Xiao Shimei to tell them more detailed things about the capital and Fan Tian Shi Fan for a whole night.

By the next day, the mansion was not peaceful.

High officials and nobles, princes and nobles, and relatives of the emperor in the capital heard that True Man Lin, who went to the northeast of Qinzhou and fought Wang Mu of the West with his own great magical power, had returned to the capital, and that several Shixiongs were with him. Even though they knew that Lin Jue did not want to be closely associated with others when he was in the capital in the past, they still had to thicken their faces to visit.

No way—

These are immortals in the world who can fight Demon Kings!

Even if there is only a little possibility, even if they can only get familiar with him, they have to make a trip! Even if they came in vain, everyone went, and they didn't dare to let the immortal know that they didn't go!

Lin Jue only let the old servant refuse them all at the door.

He didn't want the gifts either.

Fan Tian Shi Fan's old servant was also very clever—

He himself was a mute, never spoke, and Fan Tian Shi Fan didn't tell others whether he was deaf or mute. Coupled with his old and honest appearance, at this time he stood at the door, opening his mouth, dull and silent. No matter how prominent the high-ranking officials were, no matter how good the words they brought were, and no matter how powerful the rhetoric of requesting an audience was, it was useless. He just pretended not to hear.

Even the Crown Prince had come in person to visit.

The Emperor had also sent people to invite him to a meeting in the palace.

Perhaps in their eyes, Lin Jue had become an immortal True Man who could help them continue the country's destiny and resist the northern military towns. However, Lin Jue treated them all the same.

The old servant was also the same—

Because he is a "deaf-mute" person.

I don't know how many people were blocked outside the door, unable to enter, and unwilling to leave, so they guarded the door, and piled up like a mountain with gifts. The carriages and sedan chairs blocked the road outside the door.

How many times have the people of the capital seen such a scene, and how many times have they seen so many high-ranking officials and princes and nobles at the same time? For a while, in order to watch the fun, they all gathered, looking into the alley, making this already congested road even more impassable.

Such a scene was something Lin Jue didn't expect.

But unexpectedly, among the high-ranking officials and princes and nobles who were impassable, a small official came, bringing several clerks. After the old servant saw them, he welcomed them in.

The crowd of nobles was very surprised.

This is because this is Wu Wu Lingshi of the Rites Department, an old acquaintance of Lin Jue and Fan Tian Shi Fan, who came to send him silver.

"I have seen True Man Lin." Wu Wu Lingshi lifted his sleeves to wipe his sweat, "True Man Lin, it is really lively here. The subordinate almost couldn't get in."

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"Didn't you get in?"

"It should be that the subordinate has some good fortune to be able to see True Man Lin's true face." Wu Wu Lingshi looked up and smiled, while quietly aiming at Seventh Third Shixiong pacing beside him and Third Third Shixiong lying down drinking, and said, "True Man Lin is indeed an immortal in the world. Wang Mu of the West and the Longevity Sect had such great momentum, but they couldn't resist the True Man's magical power."

"How much merit do I have?" Lin Jue shook his head and said, "Let's talk about business."

"Talk about business! Talk about business!" Wu Wu Lingshi nodded repeatedly, "This time Wang Mu of the West harmed the world, and the Longevity Sect harmed the imperial court. Thanks to the True Man going to help, we were able to eliminate Wang Mu of the West and the Longevity Sect. Of course, although the True Man is already an immortal, since the True Man hangs on the Gathering Immortal Mansion, according to the rules, the Rites Department still has a portion of salary to pay tribute to the True Man, to add some wine and tea."

This time it was four clerks, carrying two boxes.

Opening them, they were all silver.

Besides that, there was nothing else.

Wu Wu Lingshi maintained the posture of bowing, looking down and not speaking.

Lin Jue looked up at him and smiled slightly.

This Wu Wu Lingshi is truly clever.

They have dealt with each other many times, and he must have slowly figured out that he is only interested in silver.

Therefore, there is only silver this time.

"Many thanks." Lin Jue said casually, without any other expression, "It's too noisy outside today. After the Wu Lingshi goes out, bring two sentences for me to them."

"True Man, please speak!"

"The first sentence is: Please leave quickly, don't disturb my cultivation, otherwise I will use magic to drive you away." Lin Jue said, "The second sentence is, the year is not good. If you want to be safe and settle down, don't ask me, just ask yourself. Do good for the people every day. If you take the opportunity to do evil, not to mention retribution, if this Daoist knows about it, I will also use magic to clean you up!"

"!"

Wu Wu Lingshi trembled all over and kept saying yes.

Once upon a time, wasn't he also an official who bullied the weak?

For a moment, he only felt that True Man Lin was saying it to the people outside, and also felt that True Man Lin was saying it to himself.

"The subordinate retires……"

Wu Wu Lingshi put down the silver and quickly retreated.

The courtyard returned to a brief quiet.

"True Man Lin has such a great style!" Third Third Shixiong moved the bed to the courtyard, lying in the sun drinking, teasing him, "Among our Shixiongs, True Man Lin is the one who has mixed the best after going down the mountain."

"True Man Lin has surrounded too many people here, and it really should be managed." Seventh Third Shixiong paced back and forth, "It makes me embarrassed to go out to see the piano and singing in the capital."

"Third Shixiong, just go. Do they still block you?" Lin Jue ignored Third Third Shixiong and only said to Seventh Third Shixiong.

"How can that be?" Seventh Third Shixiong immediately refused, "If people see me going out from here, or others know that I came back with Ma Shidi, wouldn't that lose the face of Ma Shidi and Fuqiu Peak?"

"Aiya!" Third Third Shixiong was startled, turned his head to look at him, "You still know this?"

"……"

Lin Jue and Seventh Third Shixiong looked at each other, and neither of them paid attention to him.

Fourth Third Shixiong sat in the courtyard, painting on the table facing the crabapple tree and the cloud leopard sitting under the tree, smiling while listening to their conversation.

Fifth Third Shixiong was thinking in the room, not knowing what he was thinking.

The only one who went out was Sixth Third Shixiong, not knowing where he went.

Faintly heard the sound of carriages and horses coming from outside.

It should be that after Wu Wu Lingshi went out, he passed on True Man Lin's words. Those people saw True Man Lin's determination and felt afraid, so they all left.

But unexpectedly, after this day, there were indeed no crowds at the door, but these high-ranking officials and princes and nobles all changed their gifts into white silver, which was placed on the street edge at the door.

It is rumored that True Man Lin likes silver, and there are rumors that True Man Lin wants to use it for alchemy.

"These people also have some skills."

Lin Jue shook his head and muttered to himself, and also refused to accept them all.

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