Fairy cage

A human figure swayed among the hay.

The straw was opened carelessly by Yu Lie, revealing the old beggar sleeping like a dead pig inside.

Yu Lie pushed and shouted, at least after shaking half a cup of tea, the old beggar opened his eyes sleepily and muttered:

"What? Disaster?"

The other party squinted his eyes and took a look, and realized that it was Yu Lie pushing him. He immediately closed his eyes again, turned over, and said angrily: "You are the kid who came here to scare the old man!"

The old beggar waved his hands: "Go and have a rest! The old man is so poor that he still comes to me to get some benefits. Just be a human being!"

After saying that, snoring sounded from the other party's mouth and nose, which was extremely loud. It was obvious that he didn't want to pay attention to Yu Lie anymore.

When Yu Lie saw this, he immediately held up his hands and said, "Taoist Priest, the master of Blackwater Temple is dead. This is really a disaster!"

Just when Yu Lie was about to explain his findings in detail, before he could say the rest of his words, the old beggar in front of him sat up.

The old beggar twirled his chicken coop-like hair with a suspicious look on his face as he stared at Yu Lie:

"Who do you think is going to die?"

Yu Lie said seriously: "Master of Blackwater Temple!"

When the old beggar heard these four words, he glared at Yu Lie with a strange look on his face. He hesitated for a few breaths and then said angrily:

"What kind of person is the Master of the Black Water Monastery? How could he die for no reason! You're talking nonsense, you little brat. Be careful. I'll go to the Yamen and file a complaint against you. I'll put you in the water prison next door. I'll save you. Come and disturb me again."

Yu Lie handed over his hand again and explained sincerely: "This matter is about life and death. I really don't dare to joke with my senior. Although my senior is cynical, he is a profound person and must be a well-known person in the town."

His flattering words fell into the ears of the old beggar, which greatly benefited the old beggar, and he said with a proud smile: "Hehe..."

But Yu Lie's next words immediately made the old beggar pull at his beard.

Yu Lie continued to speak: "I heard that the reason why the Master of Blackwater Temple has not shown up for a long time is because he is injured, or he has become obsessed with practicing Qigong and lost his energy. It is even possible that the Master of Blackwater Temple is not young. I'm afraid His life is about to end... Anyway, there are rumors now that the main body of Blackwater Temple is exhausted, and the outer towns have already set their sights on him, trying to plot evil, and there may even be people in Blackwater Town who want to collude with him!"

At this time, the old beggar's expression finally changed and became more serious.

Yu Lie looked at it and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, as an expert above the eighth grade, this guy knows something about the actual situation in Blackwater Town. Now I will tell you the purpose of 'Mei Yan' , which aroused the other party’s vigilance.”

The old beggar frowned and remained silent.

Sighing softly, the other party did not ask Yu Lie to present evidence immediately. Instead, he looked at Yu Lie quietly and said, "So what do you want to do when you come to see the old man today?"

The old beggar obviously still looked like an ordinary old man with his dim eyes and cloudy eyes.

But the other party was serious now, and just staring at Yu Lie made Yu Lie feel an invisible sense of oppression.

Fortunately, Yu Lie had already imagined various situations in his mind on the way here. He didn't panic at all and immediately folded his waist.

Naturally, he couldn't just let the old beggar escape if he could and run away with him. It's just that the master of Black Water Temple has been plotted by others, and the eighth-level Taoist disciples are not very useful in this kind of calculation. The most important thing is to save his life.

Yu Lie cupped his hands and called:

"The junior came here today, just hoping to be able to stand by the senior during this turbulent time. As for other matters, everything will be subject to the senior's arrangements."

Yu Lie gritted his teeth: "As long as you can save your life!"

"Hey!" Hearing Yu Lie's answer, the old beggar tugged on his beard and laughed strangely. He didn't know whether he was satisfied with Yu Lie's answer or not:

"You're such a naughty little kid. I can't even support myself. How can I still let you come in and steal my food?"

The old beggar waved his hand and ordered: "Please present your evidence. I still have some connections in Blackwater Town. If this matter is indeed true, it will be of great benefit to you."

Seeing the old beggar's attitude, Yu Lie's expression did not change, but he sighed softly in his heart.

He originally thought that with the old beggar's playful nature, he would naturally run away if he encountered such a thing. At most, he would inform the Black Water Temple Master and come back after the dust settled.

This approach is undoubtedly the most life-saving and stable!

But now it seems that the other party's thoughts are beyond his ability to guess. However, since Yu Lie has come to look for this person and is not thinking about going to anyone else, it is useless to think about anything else now that the matter is at this point. All he needs to do is be obedient.

So Yu Lie cupped his hands, took a step back, patted the bag on his waist, and took out the human skin mask and the female Taoist girl from the piggy bag.

However, after a slight hesitation in his heart, Yu Lie did not take out the "Ape Head Leopard Fetus Pill".

This was not because he wanted to hide the elixir, but because he was not sure about the relationship between the old beggar in front of him and the female Taoist disciple in the alchemy room.

If he took it out carelessly, and then revealed his suspicions about the female Taoist disciple in the alchemy room, and it turned out that the other party had a good relationship with the female Taoist disciple, then he might become a "false accusation" all of a sudden.

It would be better to let the old beggar and his acquaintances ask questions from "Mei Yan" Taoist boy on their own.

In an iron cage.

The "Mei Yan" Taoist boy wrapped in a rice dumpling appeared and landed in the prison. He fell at Yu Lie's feet. He was still asleep and his body was crimson.

Seeing the other party's appearance, the old beggar glanced at Yu Lie strangely and shook his head slightly.

Yu Lie thought that the other party was going to criticize him for being unruly, but the old beggar sighed and said:

"Your rope skills are so bad! I've been to the teahouse so many times for nothing. Next time, don't go in with the old man and me."

Hearing this, Yu Lie looked slightly suffocated.

The next moment, the old beggar first touched the human skin mask in Yu Lie's hand and looked at it carefully with squinted eyes. Then he sat down cross-legged without saying a word, scratched his messy hair, and squeezed out another mud ball.

However, this mud pill was different from the two pills the other party gave to Yu Lie before. It was white, and after it squirmed, it turned into something like an earthworm and roundworm.

Yu Lie looked at the white threadworm, vaguely guessing what the other party was going to do next, and his scalp felt slightly numb.

Sure enough, the old beggar flicked the white worm into the ear of "Mei Yan" Taoist boy. Then the worm squirmed and got into the ear of "Mei Yan" Taoist boy.

In just one or two breaths, the Taoist boy's face was twisted in pain, and veins popped out. Even though Yu Lie had stuffed a chew into his mouth in advance, he was still moaning and writhing in pain.

The old beggar didn't even raise his head and muttered to Yu Lie:

"Fortunately, you are just a Taoist boy and can still use brain-eating insects. If you were more aggressive and caught an eighth-level Taoist disciple, I would have to spend a lot of time and effort, and I would have to use the same tricks as you. ”

"Um?!"

Yu Lie watched calmly. He keenly noticed something in the other party's mutterings and pondered: "Even if it is an eighth-grade Taoist disciple, it is just a lot of effort? Could it be..."

This made Yu Lie's eyelids twitch and he began to doubt the identity of this old beggar.