How to break into Liaozhai

Bai Guangping and his son followed the yamen servants to a shed in the backyard. It could be seen that this place was used for the dignitaries to rest temporarily, and there were melons, fruits and pastries on the table.

A man sat on the top chair by the table, with deep eyes, looked Bai Guangping up and down, then picked up an apple and said to Huzi, "This is for you."

Huzi took it and pretended to smile innocently, "Thank you sir." He wiped it off with his sleeve and took a bite.

Zhou Zongchen smiled slightly and said, "Your tricks were performed well. I want to see that little man again."

Bai Guangping brought out the wine bar and handed it to his attendants to pass it on to the governor: "Just look at it."

Zhou Zongchen saw that this little person had all four limbs. Although the facial features could not be seen clearly, he was clearly a human being. He couldn't help but wondered: "What is she, who is she? I don't believe in the ways of heaven and man."

Bai Guangping rubbed his hands, looked around in embarrassment, and pretended to be embarrassed: "My lord, don't tear down our stage, I just point at her to eat, she is indeed not a heavenly person, she is just a person I accidentally found in a crevice in the mountain." What I found, I don’t know what she is, it’s probably a goblin.”

If the little person in front of her is a monster, then it's no surprise that she knows what he's thinking: "How do you know she can read minds?"

"Isn't it just a coincidence that after picking her up, she was raised at home. One day, she picked up a brush and started drawing, and drew a little daughter-in-law. My son said that was the appearance of his future daughter-in-law. I I wondered if she could read minds, and then tried a few more times, and every time she could draw what someone around her was thinking." Bai Guangping said: "Oh, it's just who she didn't name by name. If people don’t come out to claim it, saying that she is not effective, it’s okay.”

Zhou Zongchen couldn't help staring at her: "...I think she's just a scribbling monster. If you don't get rid of this kind of monster, it will be a disaster if you keep it."

If she can draw what he thinks in his heart today, she can also draw it tomorrow. People who are struggling in the officialdom are most afraid that someone will be able to guess their thoughts.

Bai Guangping was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Zhou Zongchen to make such a request: "Then, let's put her back in the mountains."

Zhou Zongchen threw the wine tree to the ground, and Yan Zhi fell directly to the ground from the height of the table. She is now only the size of a mouse, falling from such a height, she would be smashed to pieces immediately.

Bai Guangping was sweating in his heart. People who know magic know the crime of killing people's life, so they don't kill easily, but officials, because of their high positions, treat people's lives like nothing, and treat people like mules.

No wonder the sect mainly established a peaceful and prosperous age, these officials are too corrupt.

Zhou Zongchen glanced at the two of them. Although they are lowly people who perform tricks, it is too eye-catching to deal with them immediately; "Come here, give them another ten ingots of silver."

Bai Guangping and Huzi hurriedly knelt down to thank them, took the money, put their heads down into their sleeves.

"Clean her up." Zhou Zongchen ordered without raising his head while touching the teacup.

Bai Guangping was stunned for a moment, quickly picked up the rouge on the ground, and retreated with his son.

The two of them didn't say a word, until they left the prefect's mansion for a long time, Hu Zi said: "Father, this sister is dead."

Bai Guangping sighed, although he made Rouge smaller, he had no intention of killing her, and even planned to send her home after a while, when the affairs here were finished, but now she was fine, and was thrown by the governor. died.

"It's terribly dead, send her body home." Death is the most important thing, at least ask her family to bury her daughter's body.

He came to her home with Yanzhi's corpse, put her on the bed, splashed the potion on it, and watched Yanzhi's corpse grow bigger in an instant.

The bloodstains at the corner of her mouth, the bloodstains on her head, and her twisted hands and feet all showed that she fell to her death from a high altitude.

Bai Guangping left here hand in hand with his son.

Before they left, Dr. Bian pushed the door open and walked into his daughter's room when he heard the noise. Her daughter had been missing for many days and had no news. They went to report to the official, but the official said that she might have eloped with someone, and the body was nowhere to be seen. To solve the case.

He suddenly saw his daughter lying on the bed, and at a glance, he found that she was covered in blood, which was more ominous.

He rushed over and breathed unwillingly at his daughter, whose head was mostly deflated. It was cold, and there was no vitality at all.

"Rouge, rouge—"

Miserable cries came from the big house of the Bian family.

When there is no body, it can be prevaricated as elopement, but now that there is a body, the government can't ignore it.

Since the magistrate was celebrating his birthday, and the accompanying governor was having a good time drinking, he had no time to take care of an ordinary case, so the master in charge of the criminal name came out to accept the case, and sent his assistant to do an autopsy, and the case was considered filed.

Wu Zuo came back and reported that the cause of the woman's death was falling from a high altitude, and almost all the bones on her body were broken.

But there are no mountains near the place, so it's really hard to understand why she fell like this. Besides, her father checked the house fifteen minutes before the body was found, and there was no body at that time.

The corpse appeared suddenly, and the cause of death was falling from a height that did not exist nearby, which seemed to be related to strange power and disorder.

Master Xing Ming was under a lot of pressure. He told Dr. Bian that the case was complicated and had to be investigated carefully, and sent Dr. Bian back.

Although the magistrate was celebrating his own birthday, but because of the presence of the governor, the core of the whole banquet became the governor. Even his birthday star had to be a small wine companion.

Halfway through the dinner party, Zhou Zongguang said "inadvertently": "I am very curious about who the scholar in the little man's painting is from. Aren't you curious?"

The boss said he was curious, but could he say he was not curious?The officials accompanying the wine all said, "It's really strange, strange, really strange."

The magistrate knew what his boss liked, and thought that he might have taken a fancy to the young man in the painting, and said with a smile: "Maybe it's a strange person, why don't you find out and question him, come here, and post this painting , but anyone who can provide clues to this person will be rewarded."

Zhou Zongchen lowered his head to drink and acquiesced.

The advantage of being an official is that there are some things that you don't have to do yourself, and someone will figure out the meaning and arrange it if you mention it.

The servant obeyed the order, took the painting, asked the painters in the yamen to copy several copies, and pasted them in the bulletin booths in various places.

In the early morning of the next day, passers-by saw this picture, and clues poured in like snowflakes.

A farmer in the countryside said that this man was with a Taoist priest and went to the room to help them remove the wooden nails from the beams.

The owner of a restaurant said that he saw this person with a Taoist priest and wanted to bully a peerless beauty, and then he used the magic spell to restrain the crowd, so they escaped.

An innkeeper, Mrs. Wang, said that this person and a Taoist priest lived in two rooms for more than half a month, and only recently checked out.

A scholar, Wang Zifu, said that he saw the scholar feeding the horses in the backyard of the inn, and heard from his cousin that he had rejected Bian Yanzhi's kindness, which may be the reason why Bian Yanzhi left home.

The magistrate felt that the name Bian Yanzhi was familiar, and when he asked the master, it was the woman who died recently, so he quickly left the prince's clothes and asked for details carefully.

"You mean, your cousin said that the dead Bian Yanzhi expressed his love to this scholar? She disappeared, the scholar left, and then Bian Yanzhi's body appeared?"

As a scholar, Wang Zifu didn't need to kneel when meeting an official, but now his calves were trembling and he almost knelt: "My lord, my cousin Ying Ning really said so, because the rouge disappeared a few days ago, and everyone can't find it." The reason is that she always played with Yanzhi, so Dr. Bian knelt down and begged her to reveal the clues, and she told this. I don’t think the two have any relationship. The person in the painting is just loved by Yanzhi, not the one who killed her. As for the murderer, even if Rouge left home because of emotional injury, it is more likely that she met a bad person on the road and has nothing to do with this prince."

Wang Zifu vaguely felt that because of his own words, Wang Gongzi might be charged with murder, so he quickly explained.

Life is full of hardships and disasters, among which the "disaster of prison" is enough to destroy a family, and no one wants to touch it.

The magistrate slapped the gavel: "You talk so much, do you want to settle the case for me?"

Wang Zifu didn't dare to say a word, he lowered his head and didn't dare to vent his anger.

The magistrate waved his hand: "I will remember what you said, so go back first. If necessary, I will summon you at any time."

Wang Zifu held his breath and backed out.

The magistrate, on the other hand, tapped a copy of the portrait of the prince, contemplating with his eyebrows, this person has something to do with the murder case, but he is also the person wanted by the governor. The picture should be distributed.

He hesitated and was in a dilemma.

At this time, the yamen servant came to report that Dr. Bian had come again, and he brought a few relatives from the countryside, crying together in front of the yamen, demanding that Master Qingtian uphold justice.

The magistrate was most afraid of making trouble, and the influence would be too bad, so he hurriedly told the master: "Hurry up and get into the yard, don't howl outside!"

Soon the master led Dr. Bian in who had aged more than ten years overnight, holding a picture of Prince Wang in his hand.

"Master Qingtian, I know the person in this painting. He once came to my house and asked me to heal his horse. He saw Yanzhi at my house. And I heard that Wang Zifu told Ying Ning that he once had Yanzhi in my house. I have been in contact with you before." Dr. Bian said with tears in his eyes, "My lord, do you think that he is the murderer who killed Rouge when you announced the pictures of Hua Ying? So you arrested him?"

The magistrate is always hard to tell the truth, frowning: "This government has its own reasons for doing things. As a strange man, he had contact with Yan Zhi, and after Yan Zhi disappeared, he also left the local area, which is indeed suspicious."

"It must be him. I heard from the owner of the restaurant that the Taoist priest with him knows how to perform magic tricks. My daughter fell from a very high place. There are no mountains in our area. It would be easy to explain if the magic tricks are at work. It must be him." Dr. Bian beat himself up: "It's all my fault, for luring a wolf into the house."

Bian Laosan supported this distant cousin: "Brother, this prince doesn't look like a bad person, let's not talk about it."

When Dr. Bian lost his daughter, he only felt the pain in his heart, as if his heart had been gouged out. The pain of losing his daughter made him lose his mind.

He now looks like a murderer to everyone, and it is impossible for him to look rationally at the murderer who killed his daughter. He wants someone to kill his daughter now.

The magistrate has a headache, the prince in the painting is involved in a murder case, everyone knows about it, and the public opinion is raging, it is really hard to protect him.

He asked the master to deal with it first, got up and went to the back hall, wrote a letter to the governor, and described the current situation in a roundabout way, implying that he might as well give up looking for this prince.

The governor's reply letter came soon, and Zhou Zongchen warned him righteously in it that an official should make decisions for the people, don't take too much into account, just enforce the law impartially, and bring people to justice.

With the governor's words, the magistrate had confidence in his heart, walked to the lobby, and announced: "All counties, towns and villages under the jurisdiction, post a list and offer a reward, and capture the suspect in the painting!"

After hearing this, Dr. Bian knelt down and shouted: "Master Qingtian-"

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Wang Rui and He Yunyi learned the lesson of Rouge, and they always felt that it was too worrying to live in a hotel with too many people. When they came to this place called Changyuan County, they saw the lively streets and pleasant climate here, so they wanted to live here for a while. .

The teahouse is a distribution center for news. Wang Rui brought He Yunyi in to drink tea, and asked his wife where to rent a house in the local area. Unexpectedly, the woman had a house in her hand. She looked at the house immediately, and both parties paid the money when they were satisfied, and moved in first. Let's talk in a month.

The original owner of this yard took his wife and children to the capital to rush for the exam. After failing the exam, he simply stayed in the capital to wait for the exam again. The house at home was empty, and he entrusted the woman who opened a teahouse nearby to rent it.

The four courtyards are not big, but the location is good. There is a bustling street just outside the door. Wang Rui and the others visited there just now, and it is bustling.

The only bad thing is that the house has been unoccupied for a long time, and a thick layer of dust has accumulated.

"..." Wang Rui carefully inspected each room and made a decision: "I'll go to that woman and ask her to find a few women to come and clean it. The price is easy to negotiate."

He Yunyi stopped him: "You call these people here, they are too noisy, asking questions, it's really annoying."

Wang Rui rolled up his sleeves, revealing two snow-white forearms: "Then let me do it, I guess I can finish wiping it in two days."

He Yun smiled and said, "Do you think I'll let you do the work yourself?" He put down Wang Rui's rolled-up sleeves, and took him by the hand to walk outside the house: "Let's find land and borrow a few servants for a while."

"Servant of the land?" It reminded him of the rich old lady a few days ago.

Land, as the lowest level of public servants in the Heavenly Court, has a lot of incense offerings, and this county seems to be very rich, and the land here is not too poor, there must be a surplus of servants in the family.

As soon as He Yun took out the paper crane, he raised his hand and let it go: "Tell him, we don't use servants in vain, and we will buy joss sticks to offer incense to the earth temple someday."

The paper crane flew higher and higher, and soon disappeared.

Wang Rui smiled and said, "It would be great if there is a helper."

He Yun thought wholeheartedly, I didn't bring you out of home to make you suffer. Even if I can't get help, I don't need you to do it. How could the pampered young master do this? He has practiced alchemy anyway. What about the furnace?

"Don't you have that kind of spell that makes dust fly away at once?" Wang Rui asked.

"No, there are magic spells to attract whirlwinds, but when a strong wind blows, not only the dust, but even the house may be gone." Magic spells are not omnipotent, and there are always places that cannot be taken care of.

At this time, Wang Rui saw a grape trellis in the courtyard, and the green vines were entangled on the shelf. Due to lack of care, the vines grew fiercely, and the dense vines covered the sunlight, forming a natural roof, which was a good place to cool off. place.

"Hmm... Grape rack..." As a scholar, he still knows some classic stalks, so he couldn't help but have a subtle expression.

He Yun said, "What's wrong?" Wang Rui shook his head, "It's nothing."

The two walked in together, found a place to sit down, and enjoyed the coolness under the shade.

Wang Rui stretched out his arms, letting the sunlight that leaked through the gaps in the vines fall on his hands, the light and shadow were mottled and shining.

He Yun looked at him with a smile, although sometimes this guy drank flower wine and attracted rotten peach blossoms, which made people feel angry, but sometimes, he had to admit that he was so innocent that people liked it very much.

He looked at him, and suddenly felt that this feeling was so good, calm and warm.

The atmosphere was somewhat ambiguous, and the timing was just right. He took his shoulders and kissed him lightly on the cheek: "Let's stay here for a while longer."

Wang Rui also liked it here, nodded in agreement, and put his head on He Yunyi's shoulder: "It's a good day like this."

At this moment, a human head popped out of the ground in front of him, and Wang Rui sat up straight in shock. At the same time, the human head popped out from the ground. It was a middle-aged woman, and soon the whole body Everyone rose from the ground.

"He Zhenren, I was sent by the land of this city. If you have anything to do, just tell me."

He Yun said together: "Please clean the house, I'm sorry."

"You're welcome." The woman carried a bucket of water from the well and went into the house.

Wang Rui's relationship with He Yunyi was not to the point where he could ignore other people's "tiredness". The woman came in and out fetching and changing water, and his actions when he came and sat in the grape arbor were all clearly understood by her.

Wang Rui couldn't sit still, so he got up and suggested: "Let's go out for a walk, and eat something by the way."

He Yunyi was afraid that he would be hungry, so they went out together and walked towards the main street.

Wang Rui found that there were not many restaurants and taverns in the bustling streets, but the casinos were the most numerous. Looking down the street, places with large stores were all gambling houses.

In addition, in the shady place under the wall, there are small gambling games for three or five people from time to time, and some people keep playing with the dealer to toss copper coins.

Wang Rui grinned: "Is this a gambling city?" The atmosphere is not good, the gamblers are hopeless, and the city officials don't care.

Just as he was wondering, a man in bunt came up and held a small bamboo cage: "Master, I am a big cricket, with a big head, blue neck and golden wings..."

Wang Rui was not interested in crickets, so he raised his hand to block them: "If you have one at home, you can ask someone else."

"My lord said that, there are not many crickets in this city, so there are too many crickets." The man didn't even look at Wang Rui's crickets, muttered something, and left disappointed.

It was only then that Wang Rui discovered that there was a low basin in front of the gambling crowd under the wall, and everyone stared inside, clenched their fists to encourage the thing inside: "Bite it, bite it to death!"

It turned out to be a cricket fight.

As a playboy, Wang Rui has no interest in cricket fighting, and no one around him plays it. He didn't expect it to be so popular here, as expected, the atmosphere is different in every place.

Looking for a hotel to eat is a serious matter. Wang Rui looked around, scanning the plaques one by one, and finally saw a hotel. When he entered, the diners were also fighting crickets.

He lost his appetite for a moment: "Let's find another house." He Yunyi went out with him.

After walking a few steps outside, I heard someone say fiercely: "Tell you to become famous, if you don't hand over the crickets in ten days, you will have to pay for the money. The delivery was due half a month ago, but you still have nothing to pay." Yes, stop talking nonsense, if you don’t hand in after three days, you will be punished.”

The person who was reprimanded was thin and gentle, in his thirties, and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead: "Master, please ask the magistrate for mercy, and give me a few more days, in fact, I got a strong cricket yesterday , I don’t want to be let go by my son’s naughty, I scolded him, he jumped into the well to die, now there is only one breath left, you can pity us.”

"... Tsk, you, you, you, as Lizheng, are responsible for handing over crickets to the county government. Every year, you can't complete the instructions from above. I plead for you, and I'm almost ashamed of being scolded by the county magistrate."

"My son... really jumped into the well..."

"Oh, it's okay, I'll give you another five days at most."

After the master finished speaking, he walked away, leaving this man named Cheng Ming to wipe away his tears.

Wang Rui frowned. Why does he feel that this situation is so familiar to this person's name? In Liaozhai, someone who is called famous...

At this time, Wang Rui suddenly heard a loud cry of crickets. He followed the sound and saw a bright black cricket squatting on Cheng Ming's shoulder.

Cheng Ming glanced at it, and said disappointedly: "You are too small, you will be scolded if you hand it in, alas."

Wang Rui was stunned, and remembered, it was "Promoting Weaving"!Learned in class!

He Yun was stunned when he saw him, and touched him: "What's wrong?"

"It's fun!" Wang Rui took a step forward and said to Cheng Ming: "I think this little cricket is small in size, but it has a loud cry. Maybe it has great abilities."

He Yunyi was a little confused: "Aren't you not interested in fighting crickets?"

"That was before I saw this little cricket. You can see that it looks like a mole cricket, with plum-like wings, a square head and a long neck. It looks like a good breed!"

Seeing the handsome young man complimenting the little cricket, Cheng Ming took a closer look and found that it was all black and shiny, it was really good.He took out the small cage from his sleeve and put the cricket in.

People in their city have to wear cages when they go out, which is as common as wearing handkerchiefs.

Wang Rui urged: "Although it looks good, it's too risky to dedicate to the government. Why don't you try it first, and I bet it will win."

He Yunyi couldn't understand why he suddenly wanted to gamble.

"Shut up, here is our chance to make money." This little Zizhi was transformed into a famous son, and he defeated the invincible Zizhi all the way.

So now as long as you buy it to win, you will definitely make a lot of money.

The famous man was honest and felt that what this young man said made sense: "You really should try it, if it doesn't work, you will be miserable." Looking around, he walked into a gambling house at random.

Wang Rui didn't let He Yunyi in. After a while, the little cricket won, let alone Taoism, so He Yunyi stood outside: "You wait for me here, I will come when I go, give us Win a meal money."

Of course, He Yunyi couldn't agree, what kind of place is the gambling house, there are three religions and nine streams gathered, there are all kinds of people, it's very chaotic: "I have to follow you."

"No, I won in a while, and if people question whether I won by Taoism, I will be in trouble."

It's interesting, Mr. Wang felt that he could win the first fight, He Yun smiled lightly: "Well, I'll watch you win." After speaking, the man disappeared from Wang Rui's eyes.

Wang Rui felt his back being slapped with an invisible force, and knowing that He Yun followed him with an invisibility technique, he smiled and walked into the casino.

In the gambling house, all the tables are engaged in promotional wrestling.

At this time, on a platform, a person who was bitten ran away, and the winner said arrogantly: "My crab shell is invincible in the world, who dares to fight?"

Wang Rui made a wink at fame: "Go on."

Cheng Ming shook his head, the crab shell green in the basin was huge, with a slender body, he was not easy to mess with at first glance.

Wang Rui hates that iron can't be made into steel. Your precious son's transformation is invincible. He snatched the cage from his hand and stood in front of the crab shell green's owner: "I'll fight. Bet 100 taels."

Probably suppressed by Wang Rui's shot, the owner of Xie Keqing responded carefully: "Let me see your crickets first." Could it be that he has a background and feels that it is inevitable, so he dared to bet big.

Wang Rui unceremoniously poured Xiaozai out. Sure enough, when he saw the cricket, the other party burst into laughter: "You are not stupid, it's just it? Give us the crab shell and green teeth."

Wang Rui said coldly: "When you win and the money is in your pocket, it's not too late for you to laugh." Looking around: "Add another 50 taels, who wants to bet?"

As soon as the words came out, all the spectators gathered around, no matter how they looked at this little cricket, he had no chance of winning. He was watching Wang Rui's speech, but he didn't know anything about crickets.

Wang Rui was dressed in a dignified manner, and his face looked careless. In addition, his ignorance of Zhizhi was fully exposed, and he didn't even know what the grass stalks of crickets were called.

Everyone hesitated for a while, and decided to call the young master to bleed, and all bet on Xie Keqing to win.

At this time, Cheng Ming weakly persuaded: "There is still time to stop..."

Wang Rui was waiting to make money, how could he stop, let the little cricket out of the cage, and confronted the two big crab shells that were about the same size as it.

Everyone laughed: "It's no use, it's dead."

But he didn't want to say that as soon as the words fell, the little cricket jumped up and bit the crab shell green's neck directly. Wang Rui even heard a crisp click sound, the crab shell green struggled a few times, and then stopped moving.

The eyeballs of the onlookers, including the famous ones, almost dropped: "Dead, dead?"

This cricket will fight all kinds of rare crickets, such as butterflies, mantises, You Lida, Qingcong, etc., which are paid tribute from all over the world. It is not a piece of cake to deal with the crab shell green in front of you. It can only be said that it is normal to defeat the enemy with one move play.

Wang Rui put the little cricket in a cage and returned it to his father to become famous, and gave him half of the money he won, pocketed the rest in his hem, and strode out the door amidst everyone's astonished eyes.