[Liao Zhai] I live in Lanruo Temple

Liu Qingyu strode closer and listened to everyone's conversation for a while.

Seeing that he was guessing what the thief did, there was nothing substantive in the topic, so he hurriedly interrupted the meaningless discussion of the students.

"After all, the master of the Wang family helped us solve the problem of food and lodging. Now that his family has suffered a disaster, it is not appropriate for us to stay out of it. Why don't you stop guessing and come with me to see if there is anything we can help?"

"What brother Liu said is very true, let's go now." Gu Fang was the first to agree, and the rest followed suit.

Immediately, a group of people galloped out quickly.

In a blink of an eye, the entire courtyard was empty and lost its noise.Except for the soft sound of withered yellow autumn leaves falling to the ground, there is no other movement.

When Liu Qingyu and the others rushed to the warehouse to meet Wang Taichang, he happened to be over-excited and passed out as if in mourning, Song Juren staggered under the weight of his fat body.Fortunately, the housekeeper's servant rushed over to help him up, otherwise Song Juren would probably have twisted his waist.

This scene just happened to fall into the eyes of Mrs. Wang who rushed over in a hurry. Her eyes darkened, her body shook violently, and then she stumbled and ran to Wang Taichang. "My lord, what's wrong with you, my lord? Come on, please invite the doctor into the house!"

The housekeeper next to him hurriedly responded, ordered a servant to go out to ask for medical help, and looked at Mrs. Wang with a pair of anxious red eyes. "Ma'am, look at the storehouse. You need to send another servant to report the case to the magistrate's yamen."

Getting a reminder, Mrs. Wang, who was distracted by her husband, immediately turned her head to scan the empty warehouse, and screamed: "The warehouse! My warehouse! Who did this!"

In the warehouse of the mansion, there are antiques, curios, silver and famous woods accumulated by the Wang family... at least they account for [-]% of the Wang family's property.Once the dynasty is suddenly lost, the blow to the Wang family is not insignificant.

Mrs. Wang almost fainted and fell down like Wang Taichang.

"Master Wang has fallen, Madam should take care of yourself so that the mansion can be stabilized." Liu Qingyu comforted in a warm voice, looked at the door of the storeroom, and then said in a different voice: "As for the theft of the storeroom, I will wait and see. Do your best. If you take the liberty to ask, can I go in and check it out, I'm sure I can find some clues."

"You go in as you like, the government can't find anything, just you young people can think of it?" Mrs. Wang's tone was not good, and she immediately started cursing, cursing the thief.

It was very obvious that she looked down on Liu Qingyu and his group. Liu Qingyu has a good temper, but it doesn't mean that he is willing to put his hot face on other people's cold ass.

Therefore, the next moment Liu Qingyu changed his target without hesitation.He looked at the steward with questioning eyes, and asked, "The government can't find any clues about the thief? How do you say that? Didn't you report it to the government?"

The housekeeper spoke bluntly and told Liu Qingyu everything he knew.

After listening to Steward Quan's words, Liu Qingyu realized that Wang Taichang's family was not the only one whose warehouses were robbed in Hangzhou.

In fact, as early as last month, there were many cases of theft from rich households in the city.

The owners of the families who suffered heavy losses seemed to have their hearts broken and their livers dissected. The crying Shangfu government reported the case, and united to pressure the Hangzhou prefect to find out the culprit as soon as possible and recover their losses.

However, even if the prefect of Hangzhou tried his best and exhausted all the people in the yamen to investigate the city, they still failed to find any clues.

Even during the official investigation period, as time went on, the number of stolen homes continued to increase.The trouble caused the prefect of Hangzhou to be devastated, with a headache to die.

What made the prefect of Hangzhou even more desperate was that at this moment, something happened that made him bald.

After the rich families suffered, the official treasury was also ransacked by unknown thieves.This year's tax revenue and the official bank sent by the court to develop people's livelihood disappeared overnight.

The time when the incident happened was the day before Liu Qingyu and his group of scholars arrived in Hangzhou.

Because they drove directly into Wang's house when they first arrived, they didn't have time to feel the condensed and tense atmosphere in the city.

After smoothing out the matter from beginning to end, Liu Qingyu frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice: "Since we know that the thieves are making trouble in the city, didn't the master of the Wang family send more people to guard the warehouse?"

"I've seen it, how can I not watch it?" The housekeeper said excitedly: "Day and night, the servants stood outside the warehouse for a few times, densely surrounding the warehouse for strict precautions."

Even before the thieves stole the Wang's house, Wang Taichang's attitude was somewhat irrelevant.However, just in case, he still added manpower to guard the warehouse.

And he also specified that the housekeeper must open the door to check before sunset every day.

Today, because he didn't want to give people the impression of being stingy, Wang Taichang suddenly ordered the housekeeper to open the warehouse in advance and took out some famous inkstones and inkstones.

Unexpectedly, when the warehouse door was opened, there was nothing in the room.

The servants in charge of guarding around couldn't help but said: "For several days, we ate and drank around the warehouse, and we never left. But the thief seems to have the ability to come and go without a trace, and let us keep a close watch on him. It’s better to come as soon as you say, and leave as soon as you say. If the housekeeper hadn’t opened the warehouse door in advance today, we would not have known that the inside had been emptied by thieves.”

"Yes!"

"Yes, that's it!"

After glancing at them, Liu Qingyu synthesized a few pieces of information and walked into the warehouse.

He carefully searched and inspected the inside inch by inch. The moment he stepped out of the threshold, a strong premonition was born in his heart.

Liu Qingyu thought to himself, he probably encountered a non-human special event again.

Thinking about it, the corners of Liu Qingyu's eyes twitched.Facing the eyes of the crowd, "Have you found anything?", he pondered, "The windows and doors are closed, and there are countless servants patrolling and guarding around. Under such circumstances, it is still possible to rob the warehouse quietly." , don't you guys think it's a bit weird?

Mrs. Wang, who had ordered her servants to send Wang Taichang away, was about to follow her back to the house when Liu Qingyu's words suddenly attracted her attention.She paused, turned around and asked, "What do you mean by that? What do you want to express?"

"Lang Jun means..." The housekeeper held his breath and thought of a certain possibility.

He blurted out half of his words, and suddenly Wang Keshou and others gave the answer in unison. "Is it the work of ghosts?!"

"It's likely to be the case." Liu Qingyu nodded her head, sighed and said, "Ordinary people will never be able to do this kind of mysterious and unpredictable theft. Don't you suspect it?"

One after another, the strange things that happened this year made Liu Qingyu doubt her own luck.He was very depressed and felt that he seemed to have acquired an alternative elementary school student's physique, carrying some kind of inexplicable aura on his body, constantly attracting monsters to his side.

Based on this knowledge, Liu Qingyu can say with certainty that the looting of wealthy households and government offices in Hangzhou, even if it was not done by ghosts, must have been done by monks and Taoists who have practiced and proficient in magic arts, but have evil intentions .

Whether it is the former or the latter, they are not among ordinary people.

Thinking about it carefully, the high incidence of "accidents" seems to have started when his "Mr. Mu" came to him.

Sometimes, he really doubts that his newly acquired special physique has something to do with the other party.

If Mu Yunxing knew what Liu Qingyu was thinking, he wondered if he would be silent because he suddenly took the blame.

Because it wasn't his doing.

It was Liu Qingyu who was one of Tiandao's own sons. In order to help him earn merits, Tiandao tried his best to pull the strange things that happened elsewhere to Liu Qingyu's side.

But Liu Qingyu is not clear about this, so Mu Yunxing still has to continue to take the blame.

"If the perpetrators are really as you have speculated, it is no wonder that the government's yamen came out in full force, but they still got nothing."

Since the only extraordinary person she knew was Xiao Cui, at this moment Mrs. Wang couldn't help but see Xiao Cui's figure in her mind.Thinking of all the extraordinary things that Xiaocui did when she was a daughter-in-law in the Wang family, and thinking of how critical and scolding Xiaocui she was at the beginning, she suddenly suspected that the disaster in the warehouse was Xiaocui's revenge for the Wang family. .

But after thinking about it, Mrs. Wang felt that she was worrying too much.

The only ones who annoyed Xiao Cui were their husband and wife. If Xiao Cui wanted to take revenge, she would only take revenge on her family, and it was impossible to cause trouble all over the city.

Furthermore, it has been a long time since the conflict of that day, even if Xiao Cui wants to take revenge, she will not wait until now.

Suddenly, the butler said with lingering fear, "Fortunately, that evildoer didn't use his ability to kill people, otherwise the whole city would not know how people died."

Hearing his words, many people suddenly felt a cold breath coming from the soles of their feet, and then went straight from their backs to the top of their heads, and their whole bodies were icy cold.

If that's the case, it's too scary!

I'm afraid Hangzhou City is going to become a dead city!

Mrs. Wang wrung her handkerchief unwillingly, "Could it be that the wealth accumulated by the family for several generations has been put into the hands of monsters and can't be taken back?"

Liu Qingyu remained silent.

It's okay if things don't happen, but since they happen, he must take care of them.

After all, he was also worried that one day the perpetrators would not be satisfied with money, and the targets would become human beings.

However, given that the theft case is very likely to be related to ghosts, Liu Qingyu does not want to make it public.For this reason, he changed the frontal assistance at the beginning, and only planned to silently investigate the mastermind behind the scenes.

So at this moment, he was silent and didn't want to respond to Mrs. Wang.

"Perhaps we can report to the government and ask the magistrate to ask eminent monks and priests from the Taoist temples inside and outside the city to help us eradicate evildoers." The butler thought for a while and came up with an idea.

Mrs. Wang disapproved, "The masters are all people who have attained the Tao, and they are rare, so it is so easy to find them. There is a lot of theft in the city, and almost everyone knows it. In those temples and Taoist temples, if there are people with real skills , I’m afraid I’ve already noticed that evil spirits appeared in the city and killed them. Why wait until we go to invite them?”

After a pause, she murmured again: "It would be great if my daughter-in-law was here. She will definitely get back the lost property at home."

Liu Qingyu was close enough to hear Mrs. Wang's whisper.

He couldn't help looking at the fox lying on the roof, and with his good eyes, he saw Xiaocui roll the whites of his eyes and make a sneering look.

No matter Zhong Wuyan, no matter Xia Yingchun.

It was only when she was in trouble that she would say hello, and on weekdays, everything was wrong.

Xiaocui gave Liu Qingyu a "see you later" look from a distance, and went back to Liu Qingyu's house to wait with a sulky face.

After about half a stick of incense, Liu Qingyu came back from the outside.

Seeing him enter the room and close the door from the beam, Xiaocui jumped lightly, jumped off the beam and landed on the table.

Can't wait for Liu Qingyu to speak, she first talked about her harvest. "I slipped into the warehouse before you, and when I walked around, I could smell the smell left by my fellow clan."

Speaking of business, Liu Qingyu looked solemn.

He sat down in front of Xiaocui, put his fingers on the table, and tapped lightly. "You mean the theft is related to the foxes in Hangzhou?"

Xiaocui shook the fox's head, not sure, but the fox said in a human voice, "I don't know, but check Hangzhou Fox, it should be right."

"Before the smell completely dissipates now, I can still trace the past and find the owner of the smell." Xiaocui asked Liu Qingyu's thoughts, "Time is urgent, and it is too late to ask Fourteen Niang and San Niang for help. I am low-level and may not be the other party. Opponent, can you go with me?"

Although Xiao Cui had never seen Liu Qingyu's strength with her own eyes, she had heard Xin Shi Shi Niang praise her very much.In her eyes, Liu Qingyu alone could be worth ten mothers.

"Of course!" Liu Qingyu replied without hesitation.