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As soon as Xiaoyan and Yue Jiu were busy with their work, it was midnight. Their own carriage and coachman had been waiting for them for almost an entire day. Yue Jiu clapped his hands, as if he was about to call it a day, and whispered to Xiaoyan, "Let's end here today." , wait until tomorrow to ask the survivors what is going on, and then go to interrogate those who fry fish and drive black boats."

Last night, Xiaoyan basically only squinted for a while. Since he was busy today, Xiaoyan rubbed his exhausted cheeks with both hands, and softly agreed: "Well, let's go back and clear our minds."

The two turned around and just got into the carriage, but they didn't expect that in the night, an adult wearing a black soap robe and a saber in his waist was coming towards him.

The two of them took a closer look, and found that this person had a yellowish-white complexion, a few green tiger whiskers under his jaw, slender eyes, and sharp eyes. He was Gao Li, the deputy commander of the Imperial Forest Army. Gao Li, who was smiling, also had a serious face, and he clasped his fists in a salute neither humble nor overbearing: "Master Yue is indeed here, and I have something to say to you."

When Xiao Yan saw that the military had come, he knew that he was taking care of the case, so he immediately returned the courtesy and didn't say much. Let's see what Master Gao meant first.

Master Gao had a look of sadness on his face, and he first explained the identities of the people who had the accident today: "Master Yue, the brothers who had the accident today, you may have noticed that they are the sailors of the Royal Forest Army, and they came here to practice diving today , The venue was cleared yesterday, no one is allowed to come in, but I don’t think that the fish fryer may have hidden in the lake long ago, and as a result, many brothers were killed.”

The situation is similar to what Xiaoyan guessed, but Yanyun Lake extends in all directions, and it is basically useless to only clear the direction of the shore. He nodded and signaled Mr. Gao to continue talking.

Master Gao did have something to order: "Master Yue, it is inevitable that many people will be held accountable for such a major accident in the military, but I still hope that only the investigators will know about this matter, and not let too many people know about it." The city will be full of wind and rain."

After Xiaoyan and Yue Jiu got home to clean up, they sat down and began to drink porridge. It was already halfway through the fourth watch—no way, they didn’t have dinner at all at night, and the half-grown guy was hungry easily, and couldn’t bear it without food.

Xiaoyan was bare-chested, and didn't have the heart to drink the porridge carefully. He was looking at the four bloody spots on his body in front of the glass mirror, and said with a sad face: "Xiao Jiu, you said that the Royal Forest Army wants us to keep the case completely secret, so let's keep it secret, but Look at the four scratches on my brother's body, do they look like they were caught by a woman? If Mr. Liang saw it, he would think that I have gone to sleep in a flower and a willow, so don't be angry, even if I jumped into the Yellow River, I can't tell."

Yue Jiuyi rolled his eyes: "Second Young Master, you have many things to worry about, but this matter is not within your scope of worry. Hearing that your orientation is normal and there is nothing wrong with you psychologically, Mr. Liang is probably the happiest."

Xiaoyan drank the porridge in one gulp: "You boy, don't curse me. True love has no age, and true love has no distinction between men and women. Your young master is full of charm, and he will definitely attract Liang Enze, Xiao Jiu, the treasure tree of the Liang family. Come with me." warehouse."

Thinking of the miscellaneous things that Xiaoyan packed back, Yue Jiu couldn't drink the porridge right away: "Master, let's take a rest for a while, don't go to see that disgusting water ghost."

Xiaoyan smashed the bowl on the table, and said solemnly: "Why don't you go to see it? That's the evidence that I didn't find flowers to ask Liu. If I lost it, how can I explain to Liang Enze? Not only do I need to see it, but I also need to invite Liang Enze tomorrow. Let him see, the righteous brother-in-law has dedicated himself to the country in order to save people, and what kind of monsters and monsters he usually fights against!"

Yue Jiu was helpless: "Yes, yes, not only to feel your handsome and strong appearance, but also to feel more of your heroic feelings of self-sacrifice and self-sacrifice."

Xiaoyan is most interested in weird things. The water ghost is not heavy. Xiaoyan put it in a white canvas bag first, then wrapped it in his clothes and carried it back. The smell was very unpleasant after the thing died. Xiaoyan put it in the warehouse in his small yard after that, and now he wants to study it.

When it was not enough, the two of them became a little depressed when they saw the miserable state of the thing. Yue Jiu was wearing gloves and stabbed the water ghost with a stick: "Master, why does this thing smell so bad? It rots too fast Come on, look, my stomach is swollen."

Xiaoyan and Yue Jiu will also act as cowards. The decay of the corpse is related to the temperature and the surrounding environment. Normally, corpse spots will appear on the body a few hours after death. One to three days after death, due to the large amount of Putrefaction virus, the internal organs involved in the digestive cycle in the body begin to rot, and the pancreas begins to digest itself.It will take three to five days for the body to swell and gradually begin to rot.

Even in midsummer, there is still a process for a dead body to rot. It is so rotten that the skin cannot be seen, the lips fall off, and the arms and legs are dripping and dripping.

And the water ghost in front of him is really not a vulgar thing, he was beaten to death by Xiao Yan when it was getting dark, and now it is still dark, he is so dead that he can hardly see his original form.

Rao has been handling cases for many years, and this is the first time for Xiaoyan to see something decomposing so quickly. He didn't feel disgusted, so he put on his torn gloves and stretched out his hand to turn over the water ghost, only to see the rotten water left along the table. Xiaoyan suddenly realized: "Yue Jiu, you can see that this body looks like an eleven or twelve-year-old child. Its facial features and body are very similar to that of a human being. It has black skin and black hair all over its body. I saw it in the "Zhi Wei Jing". According to its description, it is called a water monkey, and it specializes in living at the bottom of the water for a long time, and the water of more than a hundred years is especially suitable for them."

"They are the worst. They often harm people. Sometimes when they encounter swimmers, they drag them by the feet and drown them in the bottom of the water. Sometimes there are five finger prints on the legs and feet of the salvaged remains. People panic. I thought it was the ghosts and water ghosts in the water, but it was not the case, it was them."

Yue Jiu took a step back due to the stench: "Master, if they have been doing mischief in one place for a long time, haven't they been caught?"

Xiaoyan folded his hands on his shoulders, looking at the thing thoughtfully with golden light in his eyes: "It is said in the "Zhiweijing" that water monkeys are different from the creatures in the world. , as if people can maintain their appearance when they are in their twenties. And they are very angry. Once they are caught, they can kill themselves in less than half an hour; once they die, they rot very quickly. The bones and scum that rotted when they were young are gone, and there is no time for people to think about them."

"Yue Jiu, hurry up, bring the pen and paper, let's draw it quickly, yes, and take a wine jar, if it is not broken after drawing, we can soak it in the wine jar."

Yue Jiuji had the ability to act, and he had already turned around to go out. He didn't forget to ask: "Isn't it better to paint in wine?"

Xiaoyan laughed and cursed and kicked his buttocks with two bones covered with a piece of skin: "You are the only one who is smart, if it is directly soaked, how can you draw? Hurry up and don't dawdle."

Xiaoyan uses simple pen and ink to outline the characteristics of things. Whether it is a simple terrain or a few portraits, he can paint lifelikely. It is a small skill that he has practiced in Dali Temple for many years. No matter what, it is easy to do anything.

Yue Jiu giggled while drawing: "Master, this water monkey seems to be a female monkey, look, it still has breasts."

Xiaoyan has seen it just now, and it really looks like a wild animal when it feeds its cubs: "As long as you are not blind, it brought a small water monkey to drown me just now, hurry up and draw, it will rot in a while It's over."

Looking at the water monkey at a speed visible to the naked eye, each hour seemed to be a normal corpse for more than ten days, Xiaoyan did not dare to neglect, and Yue Jiu and Yue Jiu painted both the whole and the part, tossing for an hour , it was dawn and finally the painting was finished.

The main goal has been achieved, Yue Jiu let out a long breath, and then dared not waste time: "Young master, open the lid of the wine bottle, look, the belly of the water monkey is swollen and transparent, and it will be like a balloon in a while Explode, oops, if this blows up the warehouse, you don't need it."

Doesn't Xiaoyan know the power of a dead body exploding on the spot, not counting the debris that collapsed all over the ground, it is estimated that the smell can float directly into his father's yard, causing his father to rest, and even if the disgusting mother vomits, why not just pick him up skin?

Xiaoyan supported the big transparent glass wine jar, and turned the open mouth towards Yue Jiu. Yue Jiu supported it with a wooden board, and threw the water monkey into the wine with a bang.

Fortunately, it was put in in time. With such a movement, and the water monkey was indeed ready for the fire, as soon as it entered the wine, there was a "bang", the wine bottle shook, and the clear Taishan puree turned into a piece. turbid.Looking carefully, it turned out that there was too much gas produced in the rotting stomach of the water monkey, and it had exploded on the spot.

Yue Jiu looked as if he had survived the disaster, and he grinned with both paws and said with luck: "I bought a big bottle of good wine for nothing."

Xiaoyan had quick eyes and quick hands, and he put the lid on with a "swish" to prevent the too bad smell from floating faster, then he looked at the wine bottle: "My dear, Xiao Jiu, look, the water monkey is so rotten that it was dismembered Like."

Yue Jiu also found it inconceivable: "Master, even a mosquito can't die so quickly?"

Xiaoyan squatted directly on the table, hugged his shoulders and started to stare at the water monkey thinking: "Xiao Jiu, we have encountered a lot of things in the past year. Chaojun doesn't know the dark and dark, and our life is short. Let's meet; There is a big toon, 8000 years is spring, 8000 years is autumn, we haven’t seen it, but we have seen it, but the Taoist priests of Baifeng Mountain have been in trouble for a hundred years; in the vast world, there are too many magical things, which cannot be characterized by conventional thinking, water monkeys are rotten So fast, there must be a reason."

Yue Jiu was also pondering carefully, he circled the big wine bottle that was already muddy a few times: "Master, water monkeys are quite common in folklore, and people who almost drowned often claimed that they were trapped in the water like water monkeys." The thing that looked like a child was pulled into the water, but everyone didn't believe it, thinking that the drowning person was frightened, and all the grass and trees blamed the ghosts and gods for the drowning; another reason was that no one had caught the water monkey for many years. , or have seen the corpse of a water monkey."