Lost Charm

Led by Li Yimu's son, Yu Chijiong and his team went to the small river for fishing. The river water was very clear, and different fish could be clearly seen swimming in the water, but whether they caught it or not was another matter.

"What fish did you catch?"

Now Yu Chijiong usually only speaks when it is critical, and the rest of the time he looks like the outside world does not want to interfere with him. Qian Jiguang can only try his best to ask questions.

"We call it 'palm fish' because it is the size of a palm, but the meat is very delicious. Usually we come to catch a palm fish when we are lucky...Look, my lord, there, I will catch it Come back." Li Yimu's son suddenly found the target while talking, and went to catch fish under Qian Jiguang's signal.

All children who grew up by the river know how to catch fish. Li Yimu's son almost caught the fish with his hands in the water. He carefully put the fish into the bucket, brought it to Qian Jiguang, and said, "My lord, this is the fish." The palm fish is bigger than the one I caught that day."

Qian Jiguang pretended not to hear the coveting fish in the other party's words. He glanced at the black fish swimming happily in the bucket, and beckoned Ning Baihu to come over.Because of being thrown into the river by mistake by an unscrupulous owner when staying in a suburban temple, although Yu Chijiong insisted afterwards that he was sleepwalking and gave him a few days of rice compensation, Ning Baihu always had a psychological shadow in his heart. Standing far away with self-knowledge, I mustered up the courage to walk to the river.

Then there was a loud cock crow.

Yu Chijiong raised his eyebrows slightly, looking thoughtfully at the black fish that looked no different from ordinary fish, but Qian Jiguang asked solemnly, "Before cooking, do you have any special methods for handling this fish?"

Li Yimu's son was surprised that Qian Jiguang would ask this question, but he still replied, "No, it's just slaughtered and steamed as usual. Everyone in our village eats like this."

Qian Jiguang frowned, Ning Baihu's barking meant that the fish had a demonic aura, and these people were fine after eating it?

"Go and grab some more." Yu Chijiong ordered suddenly.

Li Yimu's son didn't know why the two adults were suddenly so nervous about the palm fish, but since he was asked to catch fish, he obediently went to catch it, but every time he caught one and came back, the giant chicken crowed once.

Qian Jiguang led Ning Baihu for a walk around the river. From the beginning to the end, it only barked at the palm fish, which meant that only these palm fish had a demonic aura.

Or, is this fish a monster?

Impossible, these villagers are all human beings, how can there be no accidents after eating for a long time?

Seeing that Qian Jiguang was in the maze of thinking, Yu Chijiong didn't bother him, but told Li Yimu's son to bring the fish back, and they wanted to find Lin Sanniu if they had something to do.

Lin Sanniu had been waiting for Yu Chijiong and others to come back in Li Yi's wooden house. When Yuchijiong saw this, he motioned for people to put the fish on the table, and said straight to the point: "To tell you the truth, this chicken came from the palace, and it is very sensitive to poison. Sensitive, it will chirp endlessly whenever there is something, just now it screamed happily at the palm fish in your mouth."

Yu Chijiong didn't lie, Ning Baihu was indeed dragged out of the palace when he was trimming his feathers, and demon food is an accident for humans, similar to poisoning.

Lin Sanniu immediately panicked when he heard Yu Chijiong's words, this is a chicken from the palace, so there is nothing wrong with it, but the palm fish is poisonous?They have eaten it for many years without any accidents, how could this be?

Qian Jiguang called Li Yimu's wife and asked her to demonstrate how to cut the fish, hoping to see if they would have detoxification treatment, but the result was disappointing.

Yu Chijiong looked at the pale faces of the crowd and said, "When did you start catching this fish? Has anyone ever felt sick after eating it?"

"It's started as long as we can remember." Li Yimu said halfway, and suddenly stood up excitedly, looking at Lin Sanniu with fiery eyes: "The village chief, you...haven't you ever gone to every household and told you not to eat palm fish? Yes Not what does he know?"

Lin Sanniu's face darkened, and he said, "That has nothing to do with this matter."

Yu Chijiong said, "Tell me more in detail."

Lin Sanniu was silent for a while before he said: "...Speaking of it will dirty the adults' ears. My grandfather is crazy. He used to tell people not to eat palm fish everywhere. After his grandmother left, he moved to live in the woods outside the village. , now occasionally come to the village to ask for some ingredients.”

After all, the lady died in his room. Li Yimu finally found a suspected clue, so he ignored Lin Sanniu's ugly face and continued: "He once said that the palm fish is an "inhuman thing". I still remember it to this day."

Qian Jiguang saw Lin Sanniu's extremely sad face, so he pretended to be excited and slapped the table hard, and said loudly: "How could he know this! Impossible! Village chief, where did your grandfather live in! "

Except for Yu Chijiong, everyone was intimidated by Qian Jiguang, especially Lin Sanniu. He always hated other people mentioning his grandfather and thought it was a shameful thing, but judging from the reaction of the Beijing officials , Could it be that his grandfather really knew something they didn't know?

Qian Jiguang easily got his grandfather's position out of Lin Sanniu, and hurriedly set off with Yuchi Jiong and Ning Baihu before it was dark. The people who were left in the house looked at each other in dismay. He didn't expect that the person they had been laughing at for so many years... ...prescient?

The two of them walked forward in the forest, and Yu Chijiong walked behind Qian Jiguang with a sullen face. Walking here reminded him of Xu Yanfeng and Xu Qin who also lived in the forest, and his heart ached.He raised his head and took a deep breath, hypnotizing himself not to think about things during the investigation, but to focus on everything in front of him, but he accidentally spotted a familiar creature flying over his head and landed not far in front of them.

"Ning Baihu, don't bark later, don't even think about having dinner if you startle the target." Yu Chijiong ordered suddenly.

"Yichi Qianhu, is there a demon in front?" Qian Jiguang knew what was going on as soon as he heard it.

"Lin Sanniu's grandfather...may be a monster." Yu Chijiong's eyes flashed a strong interest that he didn't even notice: "Interesting."

"How is it possible?" Although Qian Jiguang's tone was full of surprise, a smile flashed in his eyes, instead of making Yu Chijiong depressed all day, he should find something for him to do, so he has no time to turn gray and moldy—this But what Yu Chijiong's good brother Meng Yingming said.

To be honest, there is no need to dispatch two embroidered clothes to investigate this case. Meng Yingming had long ago ordered Qian Jiguang to entangle Yuchijiong to give him the illusion that he "doesn't want to go out of Beijing with Meng Yingming". Follow, who knows that everything is calculated.

It has to be said that Meng Yingming knew Yu Chijiong very well and knew how to bring people out of grief.

"I don't know what wind brought you here to find my old man?"

When Yu Chijiong pushed open the door of the room, he saw a man sitting in the middle of the room calmly.

"We belong to the Underworld, please show your Human World Stay Permit." Yu Chijiong glanced at the Yaoge standing by the window, and continued: "But it seems that you don't have any, are you an illegal immigrant? "

The man didn't panic when he heard Yu Chijiong's identity, but said calmly: "Yes, I'm a tree demon. I came here because the air here is fresher than the demon world. Will you drive me back?"

"How long have you been here?"

"Let's think about it, well, it's 500 years."

"I want to make a deal with you. If you tell us about that village, we will treat it as if we don't know you exist, and we can give you a stay permit afterwards." Yu Chijiong easily made a promise. The dryads are a kind-hearted race. , Even in human form, he always sits motionless, and nothing will happen if he leaves it alone.

"Okay." The Dryad said cheerfully, "What do you two adults want to know?"

"What exactly is the palm fish they are talking about." Yuchi said quickly.

"My lord, did you find out so quickly?" The tree demon said with a slight smile, "That's a silverfish, which is what you call a monster."

Qian Jiguang was taken aback, Shiyu?No wonder he can't recognize it. The "Shan Hai Jing" only has four words to describe the tiger fish: "Eating kills people". He can only think of ghosts.

"Impossible." Yu Chijiong obviously thought of the records in "Shan Hai Jing", and said, "If you eat the yellowtail, you will die."

"So that woman is just dead?" The dryad blinked innocently, and said, "The people in that village are special. They have undergone a physical transformation, and they have become as if they were fine after eating the yellowtail."

It was hard for Yu Chijiong to believe what he heard, but he also asked, "How did they do it?"

"When I came here, they had the custom of eating graylings. The older generation would not eat this fish, but the younger generation would be fine if they did. I have been paying attention to them for a while. Although they are human, they have a habit of eating graylings. Poison resistance, so they are already non-pure human beings with a little demonic nature, I call them little half-demons, after all, they are only immune to graylings, and the demonic nature in their bodies is almost zero."

"If my deduction is correct, then the reason for their immunity is obvious. It should be that a pregnant mother ate the yellowtail first. It was unfortunate or lucky. In short, the mother died and the child was born. Named as a little half-demon, he grew up and married a wife and had children, and gave birth to offspring that were also immune to yellowtails, and then this village has always been a village head marrying a village tail, and gradually the whole village is resistant."

Yu Chijiong was silent for a while before he said: "...you have never seen pain in their body?"

"No." The tree demon knew what Yu Chijiong wanted to ask, and only the next generation born from the union of demons and humans would not be accompanied by the pain of demonization: "They have such a physique through the mother's body, by the way, you also know The lifespan of demons is longer than that of humans, I wonder if it is because of their little and half-demon physiques, most of them can live to be over a hundred years old.”

Qian Jiguang forced himself to digest the shocking truth about the villagers, and said, "But isn't Lin Sanniu your descendant? He's a half-demon?"

"You mean that idiot? Oh, he is the son of my adopted son. The dryad will not collide with three cows. If you say it, you will throw the tree demon into its frame." The dryad suddenly showed a disgusted look.

Yu Chijiong didn't know where the point of disgust was, but it might as well be that he lowered his head and cast a look of disgust at Ning Baihu, saying, "Did you hear that? The whole village is full of demons, why don't you feel it?"

Ning Baihu innocent lying gun: W_W

Don't think it can't hear the sentence that the villagers' demon nature is so low that they almost don't exist.