God stick peeping the sky

The cold-faced sickle has been in charge of Xiaoyan and Yue Jiu since childhood. Unless they are obedient, they will beat or scold. Yue Jiu stretched out his thin arms. It seems that there is a layer of skin on the two bones, and the skin has been completely removed. .

Xiaoyan rolled up his sleeve and took a look, and couldn't help gloating: "Haha, what did he ask me for? Don't say it's just to visit."

Yue Jiula sat down on the chair next to the table, with his legs spread apart, his back leaning against the back of the chair, his expression was a little more formal than before: "He may want to ask you, what did he provoke, and the new injury he caused himself?" A pile of old wounds?"

Liang Enze also nodded and nodded: "Yes, Xiaoyan, I also want to ask you after you wake up, we were attacked by a big fish a few days ago, what is the reason?"

Xiaoyan also became serious, and he walked around the room a few times: "Yue Jiu, haven't you noticed that some things are particularly weird recently? I don't know if these coincidences are related. First, Enze's family was killed by a white tiger." second, Liang Enlun's death was too accidental; third, what kind of water did the Imperial Forest Army go to the Yanshui Lake for nothing? Fourth, when I rescued people into the water, I ran into a water monkey; fifth, Miss Wen Jia was thrown into the water Lower your head, let's go to the scene to have a look, but we didn't expect to be attacked by a fish."

Yue Jiu pulled a piece of paper from Liang Enze's desk, picked up a pen and began to write and draw, jotted down all these points, and then muttered with the pen in his mouth, his black eyes shining brightly: "Master, contact us! The most recent one is the Yulin Army. Although the Yanshui Lake is spacious, we all know that without sufficient safety measures and a good understanding of the hydrology, the wild water is extremely dangerous. Jumping into the water rashly is almost like dying, but the Yulin Army suddenly entered the water that day. "

Liang Enze rested his forehead on his hands, frowned slightly, and thought deeply. Under the candlelight, his Adam's apple and jaw formed a beautiful curve, which blinded Xiaoyan's dog eyes: "I have heard about this too. I heard my father came back from court. I mentioned it in secret from time to time, now is a time of peace and prosperity, such a major accident in the military is logically regarded as a serious dereliction of duty, although I don’t want to make it public, but internal accountability is indispensable, but it seems that there is a tendency to reduce major incidents to minor ones.”

Xiaoyan originally wanted to go home and ask his father, who was the Minister of the Ministry of War, what the well-behaved Yulin Army did to go diving in Yanshui Lake: "Enze, I wanted to confirm it with my father, but it is probably the same as I guessed. "

Liang Enze's eyebrows twitched: "Wait, Xiaoyan, you said you encountered a water monkey when you went into the water to save people? What is a water monkey?"

Xiaoyan nodded: "Enze, there are some folk records of water monkeys, which say that they look like children, with black hair all over their bodies, cruel by nature, and will lure others into the water and drown. I was caught by the water monkey in the water that day, thankfully There is a dagger in the boot, otherwise good or bad will be unpredictable, look at my ankle, there are still a few rose-colored handprints."

As he spoke, Xiaoyan stretched out his legs, and pulled up his dark blue trouser legs. Sure enough, on his slender ankles, one left and four right, the five blood spots that had been forcibly pulled had turned purple. This creature has great strength underwater.

He continued: "I think it may have something to do with a rare animal like the water monkey. It is different, and then it appeared in the Yanshui Lake and attracted attention, so it was caught."

Liang Enze's eyes rested on Xiaoyan's ankle for a while, and he pondered: "But why do you want to mobilize people to catch the water monkey? What's the point?"

Yue Jiu shook his two chopsticks, which made many girls dream of, but made him so annoyed to death: "It seems unbelievably impossible to say that the Imperial Forest Army is to catch water monkeys, but in fact, many impossible things are ruled out. , and the rest, no matter how unreliable it may seem, is the truth.”

Xiaoyan raised his head and shook his head from side to side a few times: "From the perspective of governing the country, catching rare species is purely useless. The last time the court mobilized a large number of people to catch them, it was to catch donkey-headed wolves in the Taihang Mountains. When it arrived, it was transported back to be raised in a temple in the suburbs of Beijing. In the first few days, everyone was fresh and brought their wives and children to see it."

"Later, the freshness passed. It is said that except for the feeder, you can't even see a bird's feathers at other times. Later, the thing was depressed and died of depression in less than a year. If you can catch it, you still have to rely on the local people to catch the wind. The clues provided."

Enze has also heard about this, and couldn't help laughing: "I also heard the old man talk about it as a new thing, and thought it was just joking, but after reading the historical materials, I realized it was true, the donkey-headed wolf and the water monkey It's not the same, water monkeys have to be caught in the water, so it's not easy to raise."

Xiaoyan tapped the table with ten fingers, his eyes glowing brightly: "Enze, that thing wants to drown me in the water, it is my enemy, I took one back, and threw it in when it was about to rot into a giant. In the wine."

Yue Jiu felt numb all over when he thought of the smell of floating corpses, and he was forced to hear the whispering of the monkey cubs. The two of them were very close and touched each other countless times. As soon as it came out: "It rots so quickly, it doesn't look like it's made of meat, and I don't know what eggs are for?"

Xiaoyan's eyes fixed: "Enze, Yue Jiu, last time we saw something decaying so fast, beyond our imagination, what is it?"

Yue Jiu pinched his nose with his hands: "Baifengshan is a good old man with a nose."

Xiaoyan stroked his chin and pondered: "The Ox-nosed Old Daoist has applied the sorcery of life extension. After death, his internal organs look like they have been for hundreds of years. He is not considered corrupted, but restored."

"But the water monkey rots too quickly. It must be different. From a pharmaceutical point of view, as long as it is something special, it is a gift from nature and has great medicinal value. If If it is used well, it may have a miraculous effect. Water monkeys and all other creatures in this world have such a different decay rate, as if it has been accelerated hundreds of times. If it is used as medicine—”

Before the speaker had any intention, the listener had already. Liang Enze's eyes moved: "The reason why the child's bones and flesh are strong and the skin is plump is because of the inborn energy, and the speed of replacing the old with the new is fast, so the recovery is also fast; The old man loses his teeth because the body can no longer keep up with the pace of aging at the rate of replacement, and the recovery is also slow. If the recovery of the old limbs can be accelerated, will it be possible to rejuvenate?"

Xiaoyan straightened his waist, and met Liang Enze's eyes: "If there is really an elixir in the world, then the medicine and its pharmacology are to speed up the replacement of the old with the new; the water monkey-just happens to have this miraculous effect."

Yue Jiu unconsciously leaned forward: "Young master, what you mean is that the purpose of the Imperial Forest Army's capture of the water monkeys is to refine the elixir of life?"

The three of them looked at each other, and Xiao Yan sighed: "It seems that there are only unexpected things in the world, and there is nothing impossible to do. Tang Monk flesh exists; but those who can use the power of the military to catch water monkeys are those few people at the time." .”

Liang Enze looked at him thoughtfully.

Xiaoyan was a little confused, so he suddenly came to his senses: "Enze, why are you looking at me like this? You don't think it has something to do with my... my father, stop. He accepts his fate and intends to hand over all Dali Temple ministers to me in a few years, and the person who wants to live forever is an ambitious person, and he is definitely not my father."

Liang Enze felt that what he said was reasonable, and he immediately thought of his father: "It should not be my father. Although he is the Duke of Liang and has fiefdoms in other places, since my third brother's accident, his hair and beard are all gone. To put it bluntly, if there is this medicine, he can take it first, so he doesn't have to grow old."

Yue Jiu also rolled his eyes and pondered: "The pursuit of immortality has been the hobby of emperors throughout the ages. Could it be the one in the palace?"

Emperor Chengde is 35 and 20 years old this year, and has been on the throne for almost [-] years. Although he works hard all day, he has never seen alchemy or medicine.

Thinking of this, Yue Jiu himself shook his head: "If you have already played such an advanced game as Water Monkey, it means that you have already played lower-level alchemy and medicine, but the current emperor never pursues other skills."

"And I have said many times that everyone yearns for Penglai Mountain and immortality, but no one has ever obtained the essence, but the blind pursuit has killed many emperors. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of Tang were not exempt. Tired; even if it is ironic, it is true that there has been no movement of alchemy for many years, and it is not like today."

The three of them stared wide-eyed, and Xiaoyan sighed: "Enze, Xiaojiu, I think this matter is actually easy to find out, as long as we find out who ordered the leader of the Imperial Forest Army to catch the water monkey, and who ordered it later?" It’s fine to ask, but the military’s mouth is the tightest, and it may all be a one-way connection, as long as you ask, all will be revealed.”

Liang Enze clasped his fingers, and after thinking for a while, he suddenly smiled: "Xiaoyan, actually, when you think about it carefully, people in high positions have been pursuing immortality since ancient times, and it doesn't make sense for us to find out. Alchemy is also a similar approach, so I think let’s put it aside for now, let’s think about the day when we were attacked by big-mouth catfish.”

Yue Jiu felt his scalp numb when he thought about it a few days ago, and he almost got the most innovative death method of a young master in the capital—feeding the fish, which is much higher than Liang Enlun who was assassinated: "The fish followed the evil spirit." It seems that they are all biting people desperately, and the eyes of the fish are all red."

Xiaoyan laughed and interrupted him: "Yue Jiu, do you know why the wild dogs and wolves in the suburbs all had red eyes during the war?"

Yue Jiu sneered: "This has nothing to do with ghosts and ghosts, it's because too many people died on the side of the road during wars or catastrophes. It's cheaper for animals, and the dead bodies are too poisonous. Wild animals that are used to eating dead bodies If the toxins cannot be excreted, the eyes will inevitably turn red."