Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Chapter 265: Fishing for Money in the Oil Pan

"Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! The Taoist priest's blessing ceremony has started again! Let's run faster. Last time, my neighbor's Hu Zi was nearly dead because he was blessed at the ceremony. He survived and is now alive and kicking. He doesn't look like he just had a serious illness at all."

A man ran over from the street and shouted.

This shout suddenly made the street lively, and everyone gathered around the man.

"Really? The blessing ceremony has begun."

"Then I want to participate too. Maybe the Taoist priest can bless me. After I gave birth to my second daughter, there has been no movement. I still want a son."

"I want to go too. My salted duck eggs are selling very well. I'll ask the Taoist priest to pray to God to let Princess Tai'an sell more of the secret recipe."

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[Isn’t this Taoist priest meddling in too many matters? ]

When Ren Changfeng heard this, his face turned pale. It was obvious that such a Taoist priest was a liar.

Seeing Xu Jinyu and the others frozen in place, the enthusiastic vendor greeted them: "You are outsiders, go to the Taoist priest's Dharma Assembly and try it, it is very effective."

Xu Jinyu turned around and asked Ren Changfeng seriously: "Master Ren, do you think someone is playing a prank? How could so many people believe in a Taoist priest?"

Ren Changfeng looked at the streets that were bustling just now and became quiet with an unpleasant expression, and squeezed out a sentence from his mouth with difficulty: "It shouldn't be possible. What about the people in a county town? Don't they have a life?"

Rich people are in the mood to pray to gods and Buddhas, but poor people still have to make a living, so why do they all go to that blessing ceremony?

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Who is Ren Changfeng? He is the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Inspectorate, a second-rank official. He has seen everything in the world. He waved his hand secretly and the guards behind him followed.

"Let's go to this blessing ceremony and see how this Taoist priest deceives people. I will expose his true face at the ceremony!"

However, Ren Changfeng still whispered to the guards behind him to keep an eye on him. If he was deceived by the Taoist priest, he should be held back by the guards.

As for Xu Jinyu, since Xu Jinyu has that magical weapon, there is no need to worry about Lord Xu being deceived.

In this way, a group of people followed the common people to the blessing ceremony.

The Taoist temple where the ritual was held was comparable to the original Ci'en Temple, magnificent and golden, with even the gate made of precious wood.

They arrived too late and couldn't squeeze in at all, but this was the time when they could use their money. After paying a silver ingot, Xu Jinyu and the other three were enthusiastically brought to the front by the Taoist child.

A Taoist priest with an immortal look was standing behind a big pot filled with boiling hot oil. The unique aroma of the oil made Xu Jinyu sniff.

[This is a blessing ceremony, right? They are not going to fry anything soon, it smells so good! By the way, I really want to eat fried chicken nuggets, I haven’t eaten them for a long time, it seems like it was in my last life. ]

Wei An was speechless. Xu Jinyu's mind was too distracted. It looked like he was going to perform a trick of fishing for money in a frying pan. However, he also wanted to eat fried chicken nuggets.

There are also French fries, hamburgers, grilled chicken wings... Although they are not healthy foods, Wei An still misses them after not eating them for a long time. He couldn't help but slurp his saliva.

Wei An's actions made Princess Wuyang and Ren Changfeng look sideways. What kind of weirdos are Xu Jinyu and Wei An? When someone wants to show magic, you two think of eating.

"here we go!"

Following an excited shout from a believer, the Taoist priest with an immortal look shouted and reached his arm into the bubbling oil pan. He stirred the oil for a few times, fished out a copper coin and handed it to the middle-aged man who had been kneeling devoutly in the front.

"Your fate has come. As long as you wear this copper coin close to your body and use the talisman ash I gave you, your wife's illness will be cured soon."

The middle-aged man knelt down devoutly, and said with tears in his eyes: "Thank you, Taoist Priest!"

"Wow!!"

"Ah~~"

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Various exclamations came from the believers, and everyone began to whisper: "He is so lucky, as long as the Taoist priest helps, the disease will be cured the next day."

"The Taoist priest rarely takes money out of the oil pan. Whenever he does, it's because there are people who are seriously ill and dying."

Some even wiped away their tears and said with emotion: "The Taoist priest has really suffered for us."

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Ren Changfeng looked at the bubbling oil pan, then looked at the Taoist's intact arm, his mind full of doubts, are there really such people in this world?

And does that copper plate really work?

Wu Yang's eyes widened and he couldn't help but grab Xu Jinyu's arm and said, "Taian, that guy put his hand into the frying pan, is it really not hot?"

Xu Jinyu smiled slightly and whispered in Princess Wuyang's ear, "How is that possible? There is only oil on the top layer of the pot, and the bottom is vinegar. Vinegar has a higher specific gravity than oil and a lower boiling point of only over 30 degrees, which is about the same temperature as warm water. When the white vinegar boils, it will look like a boiling oil pan. As long as you apply white vinegar on your arm and then put your arm into the oil pan, it will be warm and you won't get burned at all."

“This is science in its simplest form.”

[Fishing out money from a frying pan is the most classic scam. Even the emperor would be fooled by it.]

“But...but..."

Princess Wuyang was a little confused about what specific gravity and boiling point were. Are such magical things really just scientific knowledge?

"Don't you smell the sour smell in the air?"

Wuyang sniffed the air carefully and found a sour smell, and the source of the smell was the boiling oil pan.

Ren Changfeng and the guards were silent.

Ren Changfeng's family has been officials for generations. When he was a child, the late emperor was still alive. He once saw a Taoist perform the oil pan money-fishing show at a palace banquet. For this, the late emperor rewarded the Taoist with 10,000 taels of silver. Little Ren Changfeng also said that he wanted to be a Taoist with great magical powers when he grew up.

Now you tell me that the masters only know some scientific knowledge.

"Then...what about the treatment? The treatment can't be fake!"

Ren Changfeng held on to the last glimmer of hope.

[Is it possible that the sick person was poisoned by the Taoist priest, who waited until the person was about to die before giving him the antidote? Isn't this a cure for the disease? It's extremely effective! ]

[The reason why this Taoist priest was able to settle down in this plateau county in the first place was because of his ability to poison people. ]

Although Xu Jinyu knew a lot, she was still trying hard to pretend to be a normal person, so she had no intention of helping Ren Changfeng answer his questions.

"How should I know that?"

Ren Changfeng was shocked. He was so surprised that he almost got exposed. However, Ren Changfeng followed the example and stretched out his hand, and the inner guard handed him the notebook.

He flipped through the book in a pretentious manner and said in a deep voice, "He actually poisoned someone and then treated him. This Taoist priest is really a bastard."

[Wow! The inner guards are really powerful. No wonder the emperor is so poor. They even know everything about a county government. How many inner guards does the emperor have?]

Neiwei: Thank you, Mr. Xu, for your cultivation. We are everywhere.

Also, Your Majesty is poor because the late emperor was too troublesome, and it has nothing to do with our internal security.

The man who asked for medicine held the medicine in his hand, thanked the Taoist profusely and retreated. The next person stood in front of the Taoist priest.

He knelt down and begged respectfully: "Master, I haven't seen my wife for a month. Can you cast a spell to let me see my wife?"