When Qing Yuan saw him, she called out happily, "Master Long Ning, you're here."
Long Ning looked at Qing Yuan, her pupils narrowed in joy, and she was obviously smiling: "Sister Qing Yuan, you don't have to call me Master. You are the maidservant beside the master, and you are one of our family members."
"Although I have been practicing for over a hundred years, among us monsters, I am not even ten years old."
"Okay, did the master ask you to come?" Qing Yuan nodded with a smile, and Zi Yao also smiled beside her.
Long Ning nodded. "Master is still in the Snow Mountain teaching the Northern Frost Saintess how to cultivate. Let me lend you a hand."
"Snake, what a big snake." Li Ao, who had just arrived, brought the magistrate of Hanze County to the vicinity. When they saw Long Ning, the magistrate Yun and a group of yamen runners screamed in fright.
Li Ao quickly said, "Don't be afraid, that's our county mistress's pet."
County Magistrate Yun felt a little relieved when he heard that it was a spiritual pet. After all, they in Beihan also had a saint.
It’s not that he really didn’t understand anything, but when he came to the yard and saw ghosts all over the yard, he was so scared that his calves trembled and he fell down.
"Sir!" Several yamen runners were also afraid.
"Qingyuan, Ziyao, are you two okay?" Li Aozhe didn't care about County Magistrate Yun and hurriedly ran to the yard.
Seeing that they were both safe, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's okay. They originally wanted to take over someone else's body. That young Taoist priest must have taught them that. It seems that Taoist priest is not a serious person either."
Qing Yuan quickly informed Li Ao of the situation, and Li Ao glared at Master Lu after hearing it.
"You were kind and generous when you were alive, why are you so cruel after your death?" Hearing Li Ao's scolding, Master Lu also became angry.
"Yes, we are kind and generous, but what results have we gained?"
"I've spent my whole life doing good deeds, but in the end, I died tragically at the bottom of the river with no one paying attention to me. Now we have a chance to be reborn, why don't we seize it?"
"Who wants to be a good guy?"
Long Ning stared at Master Lu, then said, "Then do you know why those people treated you like this?"
Master Lu was stunned and looked at Long Ning in confusion: "I don't know what you are talking about!"
Long Ning hissed and spit out her tongue, then swept her tail, and a curtain of water appeared. This was the ability that Qiu Yinong borrowed from her.
It was also a night of heavy rain, and a group of people came to a house and knocked on the door to ask for a place to stay.
The family accepted them and provided them with good food and drink, but in the end they were killed tragically by the knives of this group of people, and the one who was hacked the most was a woman.
Before his death, the young man from that family questioned God: "We have been kind to others all our lives, why did we end up like this?"
"Why is it so similar to us!" The head of the Lu family felt panicked.
Long Ning sneered and said, "When you committed such a mistake in your previous life, why didn't you think about the principle of cause and effect?"
"The fact that you are still a human being in this life, and that you have become a wealthy man, is because God wants you to atone for your sins."
"What you did back then was much more brutal than theirs. You're just paying off your debts from your past lives, but you're still unwilling to do it."
Listening to Long Ning's words, Master Lu couldn't believe it at all and kept shaking his head: "No, I don't believe it, I absolutely don't believe it."
"Don't you want to reincarnate? I'll send you to reincarnate right now!" Long Ning grinned, sticking out his snake tongue and swirling his tail.
A passage appeared and sucked the souls of Master Lu and others into it.
County Magistrate Yun almost fainted. What kind of existence was this? All its souls entered the passage.
The gloomy aura and illusion surrounding Zhuangzi quickly dissipated, and Long Ning transformed back into a small snake, wrapping itself around Qing Yuan's wrist.
"Thank you for your hard work." Qing Yuan touched her tongue. Long Ning stuck out his snake tongue, closed his eyes, and hung on her wrist like a bracelet.
"County Magistrate Yun, their bodies are at the bottom of the river in Zhuangzi. You can get them out and bury them when the time comes!" Li Ao also said to County Magistrate Yun.
County Magistrate Yun nodded quickly to indicate that he understood.
Seeing that it was getting late, Li Ao decided to stay here for one night.
County Magistrate Yun and his men also found a courtyard to live in. Because it had been eroded by evil spirits for a long time, the other courtyards were not as well preserved as this one.
There was a musty smell everywhere, and it was damp.
County Magistrate Yun and his men were at their wit's end, so they lit a fire and stayed in the house all night.
Li Ao and his companions slept soundly. When they woke up the next morning, County Magistrate Yun and his companions had dark circles under their eyes and looked extremely haggard.
"Mr. Yun, you didn't sleep all night, did you?" Li Ao was stunned when he saw them like this.
County Magistrate Yun gave a bitter laugh. "Last night, we were trying to rest in the courtyard next door, but the bedding on the bed was damp and cold, and the room reeked of mold. It was uninhabitable, so we spent the night around the fire."
"Oh, then why don't you come find us? It's no problem if we squeeze in." Li Ao was speaking from the heart.
County Magistrate Yun waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's over."
"Then let's eat something to warm ourselves up!" Li Ao invited. County Magistrate Yun did not refuse this time. Although there was a fire all night, his limbs were still cold.
In the morning, Yuechan and her friends made hot noodle soup, which was fragrant and delicious. Everyone felt warm all over after eating it.
"Finally, I'm alive." A yamen runner sighed with satisfaction.
Seeing that they were truly suffering, Qing Yuan asked Long Ning, "Long Ning, can you help fish the body out of the river?"
"No problem." Long Ning responded.
After eating the last spiritual fruit, she rushed out.
As County Magistrate Yun was speaking, he saw a streak of light passing by. He looked over and looked at Li Ao and the others in confusion.
"Long Ning has gone to help retrieve the bodies. It's really cold today. I'm afraid you'll get sick if you go into the water." Qing Yuan said with a smile.
County Magistrate Yun was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed and thanked her, "Thank you for your generosity, young lady."
"Thank you for your generosity, young lady."
"No need to thank me, you can thank Long Ning later!" Qing Yuan waved her hands quickly. This was not her credit.
County Magistrate Yun and his men quickly stood up and walked towards the river.
By the time they got there, Long Ning had already rolled up several corpses with his tail and placed them on the road.
She knocked a hole in the thick ice, and corpses were rolled out one after another. Seeing those corpses, County Magistrate Yun fell silent.
There were seventy-eight bodies in total, big and small, old and young. Although Mr. Lu and his men had done evil things in their previous lives, County Magistrate Yun still felt uncomfortable seeing so many corpses.
After all, this was a massacre that occurred in his jurisdiction. Li Ao said, "Although it's a cycle of cause and effect, we still have to arrest those who need to be arrested. This is the only way to put an end to it. Otherwise, the cycle of cause and effect won't be good."
"What Li Zhuangshi said coincides with what I said. Thank you all for your help this time."
"And this Miss Snake." As he said this, he bowed to Long Ning.
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