Chapter 783
"one two three……"
After using all the materials, Li Mu began to count the finished products. At the beginning, because of his lack of proficiency, he could only rub one incense at a time. As his proficiency increased, the incense he could rub at one time also increased, two, four, eight, and sixteen, until the top was capped. Each sixteen were tied up with a rope to form a small bundle until the materials were used up, and just enough a hundred bundles were collected.
The last bit of residue left. Li Mu wanted to try whether this thing was useful, so he took it outside the house and lit it with a fire twister. After igniting it, Li Mu squatted beside him, staring at Mars that lured the insects, without blinking.
Several Jinyiwei guards guarding the door saw Li Mu squatting in the corner and not moving. They were worried that something might happen to Li Mu, so they walked over carefully.
"Marty..."
"Shh!" Li Mu turned around and glared at them, saying, "Don't make a sound, don't be startled the insects."
The Jinyiwei looked at each other and exchanged glances, as if saying, "Is the Marquis a fool?" One of the Jinyiwei winked at the other Jinyiwei and asked him to find his wife. In the huge Marquis' Mansion, the only one who could talk to Li Mu was his wife.
"Marty, what are you looking at?"
"I have devoted myself to the development and finally achieved a little." Li Mu pointed to the burning residue of the insect-tempering incense, and pointed to a locust that was swaying over a foot away, and said, "Did you see that locust, it was tempted by my insect-tempering incense, and was fascinated by it."
Hearing this, the Jinyiwei concluded that the Marquis was a illegitimate demon and couldn't help but sigh. It was true that the Marquis had been too tired these days, and it was normal for him to worry about disaster relief and be anxious.
Just when the Jinyiwei was about to say something, he suddenly heard a sound from behind him: "Madam is here!"
He quickly moved out of the position and let Jin Chen come over.
"Husband, what are you doing?" Jin Chen reached out to pull Li Mu, trying to pull him up: "What are you doing squatting here?"
"Don't move." Li Mu was very involved and said in a divine manner: "Did you hear any sound?"
Jin Chen thought Li Mu was crazy and cried with pain. He also squatted down with him and said, "Husband, what are you doing? Get up quickly, Qiaoqiao is going to be anxious."
Before he finished speaking, a buzzing sound of flapping his wings from afar, as if a group of bees were coming. Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw a "dark cloud" rushing from the west. The Jinyiwei instinctively drew his sword, but when facing this "dark cloud", he didn't know how to deal with it, and his eyes showed a look of horror.
"Here!" Li Mu laughed loudly. He took a step back, not afraid at all. He hugged Jin Chen in his arms and shouted, "Go and light a torch!"
The Jinyiwei hurriedly ran to look for the torch. At this time, the "dark clouds" had already hit, and the sky was full of locusts. These locusts were fascinated by the green leaves on the trees, nor attacked people, but just circled around the white smoke that lured the worm fragrance.
Li Mu held the torch and reached out to hand it over, and a ball of flame burned out of thin air. The air suddenly emitted a smell of burning egg white. Everyone was stunned. Did the Marquis use the immortal method? If it weren't for the immortal method, how could these locusts be so obedient and would not escape without the fire?
After burning for a quarter of an hour, the incense of luring the insects was burned out, and the locusts that surrounded them ran away as if they were awakened from a dream. At this time, the ground was covered with locust corpses, four or five centimeters thick. Li Mu asked someone to bring a broom and sweep a basket out, and the two of them carried out of the yard.
Jin Chen hid in Li Mu's arms and witnessed all this, but could not recover for a long time. She was just as hard as the Jinyiwei, and just lit incense. Did the gods in the sky hear their husband's prayer and cast spells to save them?
Why do the gods in the sky help their husbands? Could it be that he is really the reincarnation of the banished immortal as rumored?
Li Mu was already silly laughing. When he decided to try it last night, he really just tried it. He didn't expect that this thing would work so well. The residue just now, only half of the incense, could attract locusts for a quarter of an hour, so eight incenses were about one hour. A bundle of sixteen incenses was just enough for two hours.
Just now, I was the only one who waved the torch by myself. If four people waved the torch together, how many insects would be burned to death. Damn locusts, I didn’t expect that I would kill yesterday, but today I will be AOE. This time I see if you gave birth to more or did you burn more!
"It's great!" Li Mu picked up Jin Chen's little face and kissed him fiercely. The Jinyiwei around him quickly turned around, but he looked at all the things he shouldn't have seen. Jin Chen was embarrassed to enter Li Mu's arms and said angrily: "It's like a broad daylight!"
"I'm happy, I don't care about that much." Li Mu let out a long sigh and said, "From now on, our Tang Dynasty will never need it--"
"Brother! It's not good!"
Li Mu's style was just getting angry, and he glared at him, but Li Tai ran over unhappily, yelling as he ran: "Brother, something happened. The group of merchants found a Taoist priest from somewhere. The Taoist priest asserted that this locust plague was a punishment from heaven. He also said that the star constellation was watched last night, and the Emperor Star was dark and unclear. It must be that there were evil people who were in trouble. He also said..."
"Stop!" Li Mu stopped Li Tai and said, "You breathe evenly first, I'll say, listen."
Li Tai nodded, and Li Mu said: "Anyway, in short, the Taoist priest said that this locust plague depends on me, and I am the evil one. Wherever I go, there will be no good. He didn't say it clearly, but every word is sarcastic, right?"
"Yes!" Li Tai nodded suddenly: "Brother, have you heard it too?"
"I heard a big deal!" Li Mu said angrily; "The routine is not new, does anyone believe it?"
"Yes!" Li Tai gasped and his voice became normal: "I don't know what method the Taoist priest used on the platform. The sound was spread far and many people heard it. There were also merchants mingling in the crowd and agreed, and many people believed it. When I came back, the people in Nanshi were already full and the Jinyiwei could not control it."
"Pretending to be a ghost-hehe!" Li Mu laughed and said, "Isn't it just pretending to be a ghost? Today, I am in a good mood. I will play with them. Ata, go find Li Chunfeng and lend me a Taoist robe." As he said, he said to the Jinyiwei next to him: "Go find a box, put the incense on the table in the house, be careful, and break a stick."
The Jinyiwei hurriedly responded and did as he ordered. Li Chunfeng was also in the Marquis' Mansion. Li Tai ran and came back soon. Li Chunfeng was quite particular. He didn't take Li Mu his old clothes, but took the new Taoist robe that Li Shimin gave him because of the "Tuibei Tu". It had golden auspicious cloud patterns on it. This pattern was not something that ordinary Taoist priests could wear. Li Mu didn't care about that, and took off his outer robe and put it on.
Li Mu and Li Chunfeng have similar figures. This Taoist robe is also very suitable for him. I don’t know if this dress looks good or if he is suitable for wearing this kind of clothes. This Taoist robe really has a little fairy-like temperament on him.
Li Mu tied Shangfang's sword around his waist, told Jin Chen to take good care of Bai Qiaoqiao, and took Li Tai and the four Jinyiwei out in a hurry.
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"...Tianshi, please, you can't stand by death and refuse to save me. The people of Luoyang are suffering. With such an ignorant marquis, you are a person who is in the world, so you can tell me the way to survive!"
The people begged hard under the platform, but the 'Tian Master' sitting upright on the platform did not raise his eyelids, and he just sighed: "It takes 9981 years for me to practice the mysterious heavenly way. Now I have practiced for eighty years, and I have only one year left to complete my merits and ascend freely. I cannot be contaminated with the cause and effect of the world. If it is contaminated, it will be of no use to my great way. I have explained the matter, what to do, you can think of yourself, but there is one way, the root cause will not change, everything will be stopped, and everything will be stopped-"
When the people heard this, they cried even more sadly. Suddenly, a man raised his arms and shouted: "Everyone just heard this locust plague has fallen on the newly arrived Marquis. Otherwise, he would have had a good weather this year, and he would have come to Luoyang, and there would be a disaster in Luoyang? He was obviously able to transport food, but he was more competitive and would rather starve the people to death than let them transport food in. Such a person is simply unworthy of being a human being and is simply a beast!"
Someone echoed: "Yes, it's a beast!"
"Everyone, let's go and settle the score with him and drive him out of Luoyang, okay?"
"Okay!" Someone agreed, and when others saw this, they thought of the Tao and did not blame the public. It would be nothing to shout twice. If they could really drive the marquis away, it might not be good, but it would not be bad. Most people would rather believe in this matter of gods and ghosts than not.
"Let's go!"
The chaotic crowd quickly reached an agreement. Seeing that the purpose had been achieved, the "Tianshi" on the platform wanted to slip down quietly while the person was unprepared. While he was climbing down, his neck tightened, and then a powerful force came and he fell to the ground. He hurriedly got up, and a sword was already on his neck.
"Sir, beg for mercy! I'm also using money to do business, not my idea!"
"Ha!" Dugu Jiu sneered and said, "Just this little ability, I'm just looking at you with a slightest look--" Before Dugu Jiu finished speaking, he saw the Heavenly Master retreating and sneaking into the crowd, shouting loudly: "Come here, someone wants to kill someone to silence him!"
With a shout, he pulled back the eyes of many people who were yelling to seek Li Mu's reasoning. Someone in the crowd glared at him, but the "Tianshi" was not attentive to him. If he didn't call him back, his life would be explained.
The people returned like a tide. Dugu Jiu wanted to leave, but he couldn't leave. No matter how good his light skills were, he couldn't fly.
Seeing that he was in trouble, he heard a voice coming from outside the crowd.
"When I was in the Heavenly Court in my early years, I often dealt with these celestial masters. Unexpectedly, after the lower realm, no one of them could be seen. Today, I finally saw a living person. I gave it to this lord, so that I could see the appearance of this old celestial master too?"
When everyone heard these stupid words, they knew that Li Mu was coming. They could not care about Dugu Jiu, so they turned around to find him. Li Mu did not dodge and walked over swayingly. Everyone was stunned when they saw him. When they saw a Tianshi, why did the Marquis become Tianshi? His clothes were also covered with auspicious cloud patterns, but they looked more beautiful than Tianshi's clothes. What can they sell in this gourd?
"Mr. Marquis, I have something to say to you-" The leader stood up with the courage to stand up, Li Mu glanced at him and said, "What are you? You deserve to talk to me?"
Before this person could respond, the Jinyiwei behind him pounced on him like a wolf and tiger, and shot more than a dozen big mouths from left to right, only hitting him with blood, and then dragging him to the back.
Seeing this, the accomplices of this man became ruthless and wanted to continue to encourage the people. Just as they were about to open their mouths, they saw that the brigade of Jinyiwei had gathered at the intersection. Everyone was holding a crossbow in their hands. After a rough calculation, there were at least fifty.
Fifty crossbows were enough to strangle everyone present. He remembered Li Mu's feat in Gaochang's massacre of the city, and was unable to make him anxious. Can he be fucked? After opening his mouth several times, he still didn't dare to open his mouth. No one took the lead, and the restless people calmed down.
The Heavenly Master had no choice but to hide, and his outfit had already exposed him. The Jinyiwei separated the crowd, and Li Mu successfully came to the Heavenly Master. The Heavenly Master stood up and watched him. At this time, he was already in a difficult position and could not retreat even if he wanted to.
"Where is the Heavenly Master? Why haven't I seen you when I was in the Heavenly Court?" Li Mu asked seriously, which made the Heavenly Master confused. He was indeed a Taoist priest. He was driven out because he stole the incense money from the Taoist temple to gamble. He was forced to wander around the world. When a locust plague broke out, merchants were going to cause trouble. Some people knew that he was used to pretending to be a god, so they found him. He muttered all his life, but he didn't believe in the gods in the world. Li Mu said this, and he didn't know how to deal with it. But as many people looked at him, he couldn't speak. He gritted his teeth and pretended not to fear power, and said, "I just said truthfully. I don't understand the words of the marquis!"
"Burn the watch!" Li Mu frowned and said, "You are a Taoist priest, have you never burned the watch and promised it? When I was in Heaven, I was sent to see the prayers of you Taoist priests. Those prayers were varied and they all wanted. There was an old Taoist in his 80s who had started making wishes since he was seventy years old and said he wanted a sixteen-year-old wife. Are you ridiculous? Have you never burned the watch? Is it impossible? Are there any shameful thoughts that are inconvenient to say it?"
The Tianshi's face turned red and gritted his teeth and said, "How can the Marquis talk nonsense? Are you not afraid of angering the gods in the sky?"
"No, I was a colleague before, how could I be so stingy?" Li Mu turned to face the people and said, "Dear people, I originally wanted to get along with you mortals as ordinary people, but I can't help it. I can't pretend anymore. I'm a stake. I'm a god."
Silent.
Chapter completed!