Chapter 276 Eavesdropping
The paper man turns into the wind and moves with it.

Searching for traces, led by five ghosts and three generals.

Walking through the corners of the streets and alleys in Yangzhou, you will soon arrive at a courtyard.

Li Daoxuan looked and found that the place was quite familiar. It was the yard where he had come to rescue Xue Yurong before.

But this time is different from that time. The yard is much quieter. Without the wailing of women, there is only empty silence.

It seems as if such a scene never existed. Now there are only a few lights in the huge courtyard.

After falling to the ground and transforming into a human, Li Daoxuan stood in the yard and looked around. Although there was no one around, he could still hear voices.

It came from the backyard, and several people were whispering.

He walked quietly in the direction of the sound and saw that among the dark rooms, only one room had a light on.

Li Daoxuan put his ear close and heard someone talking in the room.

"Second brother, how long are we going to stay here?"

A man was speaking with a deep, hoarse voice like a pig. Just imagining it, one could picture an unkempt, burly man. The person who answered him spoke in a gentle voice, sounding like a scholar.

"The master once told me to stay in this courtyard for a full thirty-seven days. Now you are impatient after only a few days?"

"Tsk, why should I be impatient? I just feel that there is no fun in this yard anymore. Before, I could drink and chat, but now there is not even a bird. Living here with mice, what fun is there in having a bird?"

The burly man cursed and swore, seemingly dissatisfied with his current situation.

Li Daoxuan listened and thought about it carefully. As he expected, after the strong man finished complaining, the gentle man began to blame him.

"Don't worry, fourth brother. You should change your temper." The gentleman said slowly, "It's just that there are fewer women. We can catch more later. It's just that the master said that things are tense recently and asked us to be more restrained. If you are really frustrated, why not go to this brothel and have some fun. Don't ruin the master's plan."

"Damn it, Master, Master. What a ridiculous Master! I think that monk is just a charlatan. It's ok that eldest brother listens to that monk, but why do you, second brother, listen to him too? If it weren't for the four of us brothers helping this monk, how could he have such a happy life today? He doesn't remember our kindness, but instead makes us do everything for him. All the dirty and tiring work, life and death, was done by us. Just based on the fact that this monk has played with so many good girls, it is not an exaggeration to say that he deserves to be tortured to death." The strong man complained, venting his resentment.

He spoke quickly and angrily, and it was obvious that he had been dissatisfied with the monk he was talking about for a long time.

Li Daoxuan probably heard something or other from this person.

It seems that this Happy Zen sect has not been in Yangzhou for a long time, but was created by a monk and the four brothers in front of him.

As to why it developed into a major evil in Yangzhou, it is probably due to the help of Yangzhou officials and wealthy businessmen.

He had also heard a few people talk about this Happy Zen Buddhism, saying that Zen Buddhism had a secret method that was enough to make a person's sexual desire aroused, to have sex with several women at night without getting tired, and to regain his virility.

It is also because of this that Joy Zen Buddhism has been able to expand rapidly.

From what he heard today, it seems that a monk is the mastermind. The man called second brother calls him master, so he must have some special abilities.

Think carefully, then listen.

The sound of wine glasses clinking could be heard from inside the house.

The sturdy man did not disappoint Li Daoxuan's expectations. He continued, "I don't know why the monk left Yangzhou overnight. He just lost one person. In Yangzhou, which family doesn't have our people? Even the Yao family in Yangzhou has our insiders. As long as it's not the governor or the emperor who comes, who can do anything to us? This monk was so scared that he ran away overnight like a woman, leaving us two brothers to look after his house. It's really, really unlucky."

"Fourth brother, you can't say that. The master has his own decision. When he left, he told me that if Yangzhou is fine, he will be back in a month. He just asked us to help him look after Yangzhou. After the matter is settled, there will be some benefits. This is good for both you and me, so how can you complain?"

"Benefits, benefits. There are a lot of benefits. Could it be that the monk can pass on his unique skills to us? I'm not saying that, second brother, you should not count on this monk. Why don't we brothers work together and leave this monk to do it ourselves? With the abilities of the four of us brothers, there is no place where we can't make money?" The strong man shouted, and then he asked someone to scold him. The chat in the room was quite unpleasant, and Li Daoxuan could also sense that there was a disagreement between the two brothers.

Restraining his temper, he pondered over what he had heard.

The man behind the Joyful Zen Sect is a monk. The two brothers in the room came with the monk. The monk had some unknown means that could enable the men to regain their virility, so the four brothers conspired with the monk in Yangzhou to build up the Joyful Zen Sect as it is today.

However, the monk did not seem to be grateful to the four brothers. Instead, he abused them frequently, which made the youngest brother among them dissatisfied. At this time, he was having a dispute with his second brother.

As for where the monk is, it now seems that he has escaped from Yangzhou.

Perhaps the substitute he left behind that day frightened him, causing the monk to think he had hit a wall, so he hurriedly left Yangzhou and sought refuge elsewhere.

"So where has this monk gone now?" Li Daoxuan wondered secretly.

There was a sound of people standing up in the house. Li Daoxuan's expression changed, and he turned into a paper man again and fell into the corner.

Under the cover of the night, no one could see a paper figure floating in the corner.

The door of the room was opened, and a man eight feet tall walked out.

He was wearing a short shirt, with a long sword on his waist, a beard on his face, and a vicious look in his eyes.

Li Daoxuan took a look and saw that the man was emitting murderous aura, which was enough to show that he had committed many murders and was a vicious person.

Unfortunately, he could not see the aura through the paper man's eyes and could not see this person's fortune.

"Such a vicious villain is difficult to approach with ordinary sneaky people. No wonder the monk wants him to guard this yard. It must be because of this reason." Li Daoxuan thought to himself, and then he saw the man holding a knife, walking to the corner, taking off his pants and peeing.

All you could hear was the sound of water splashing against the bluestone slabs, like a mountain torrent.

Li Daoxuan secretly glanced inside the house, looked at the people drinking inside, then looked at the man in the corner not far away, then quietly floated over and poked the back of the man's head with a finger. Before he could scream, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

Seeing this, he waved.

A clay figure turned into an armored general.

Li Daoxuan pointed at the man on the ground, and the armored general carried him on his back.

Finding a secluded corner in the yard, the two pushed the door open and walked in.

Then the door closed and the courtyard became extremely quiet.

In the room, the pale-faced scholar who was still drinking came out and looked around in confusion. He searched everywhere but found no one, so he called out, "Fourth brother?"

"That's weird, where did he go now?"

The scholar was puzzled and could not find the answer after searching for a long time. He could only frown and go back to the house, where he sat down to eat.

"Fourth brother is very skilled in martial arts. It would be difficult for a dozen ordinary people to get close to him, so he should not be tricked by others. Could it be that he went out to enjoy himself without permission again?"

Just when the scholar was puzzled, Li Daoxuan appeared in a demolished house in the entire courtyard and sat on a pile of firewood, quietly watching the strong man who had woken up.

(End of this chapter)