Strange Records of Xijing

Although Su Yan has lived in Xijing for more than half a year, it is really too difficult for him to find a certain dyeing workshop based on the description of the child.What's more, Su Yan still has important things to do, if he can't find the two fishermen, or if he goes late, the three fish spirits may be in bad luck.

In desperation, Su Yan had no choice but to think of a compromise.

"Su Daochang, why did you come back so soon?" The Taoist boy who was sweeping the floor at the entrance of the Taoist temple found Su Yan. Seeing that the other party was just standing outside the Taoist temple but did not come in, he put the broom in his hand aside and walked away voluntarily. come forward.

After Daotong approached, he saw the drowsy child in Su Yan's arms, and wondered, "Huh, who is this child?"

"I found this child on the road, and he got lost with his family." Su Yan handed the child to Dao Tong, and instructed, "He said that he has a tall tree and a dyeing vat at home, maybe he opened a dyeing workshop. You He grew up in Xijing since he was a child, so he should be more familiar with this place than I am, can you send this child home for me?"

Dao Tong was only in his early ten years old, holding a four or five-year-old child in his arms, and worrying about waking him up by accident, it was all his strength.Daotong nodded with difficulty: "Don't worry, Daoist Su, I will definitely send this child back."

Su Yan smiled: "Thank you."

The child in Dao Tong's arms didn't realize that the person holding him had actually changed, he smacked his mouth a few times, buried his head in Dao Tong's chest, and fell asleep.

When Su Yan walked away, Tian Qi in the cloth bag breathed a sigh of relief, and whispered: "Thank you, Daoist Su."

Su Yan stretched out his hand and patted the cloth pouch lightly, taking it as a response.

Su Yan only passed by the inner office where Pei Jingxing worked. Based on his impression at that time, when he arrived at the inner office, he asked the guards guarding the gate to pass it on to him—since Su Yan carved a peach charm and gave it to him. After Pei Jingxing, the latter fell asleep at night with confidence and boldly, and spent most of the day working in the inner office.

Pei Jingxing, who is also the envoy of the Jinwu Guard, is responsible for the safety of Xijing. Compared with the general Jinwu Guard, he has one more power that he does not have to patrol at night.In the past, Pei Jingxing took the initiative to invite Ying, and Si Jie, who was in charge of arranging the order of the Jinwu Guard's night patrols, gave him a convenience, but now that Pei Jingxing was no longer patrolling at night, Si Jie had no choice but to cross his name off the list.

There was no major event today, Pei Jingxing was just dealing with some official documents as usual, when he heard someone report that a young man surnamed Su was waiting outside, he got up and went to the front - the inner yamen is an important place, no one else is allowed to enter.

There is a room specially used for entertaining guests outside the inner office. Pei Jingxing led Su Yan to a room, closed the door, and asked, "What happened?"

He knew Su Yan's temperament, so it was impossible to come to the inner office to look for him for no reason.

Su Yan told Tian Qi's experience, and said: "I need to find an open place."

"What are you going to do?" Pei Jingxing trusted Su Yan extremely, "My home is empty and there are no outsiders, I just don't know if it will work."

Su Yan's eyes lit up, this place is not only good, it's really good!

Ever since the snake-haired monster disappeared in the Dukang Building that day, Su Yan never found its whereabouts again.Although Pei Jingxing, the sufferer, didn't care and comforted Su Yan in turn, Su Yan was always worried that this monster would make a comeback.

Originally, Pei Jingxing and Su Yan were going to find the whereabouts of the snake-haired monster that day, but when they met Tian Qi, they were busy with this matter.If you go to Pei's mansion today, you can check whether there are any traces of snake-haired monsters around Pei's mansion, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Seeing Su Yan's expression, Pei Jingxing knew that he agreed, got up and said, "Wait for me here for a while, I will come as soon as I go."

"You want to go together?" Su Yan was puzzled, "It's only noon now."

Pei Jingxing said with a smile: "It's okay, things that can be done in the morning don't have to be delayed until the afternoon. Besides, as the envoy of the Jinwuwei Street, how can he stay in the inner yamen all the time?"

What Pei Jingxing said was correct, because the Jinwu Guard was in charge of the safety of Xijing day and night, he was often on the go, so he didn't have to stay in the inner office all the time, and he didn't even have to come to the office when necessary.Moreover, the Zhou Dynasty was much more relaxed than the previous dynasty. Court officials took a bath every ten days, and each government and government office would arrange three or four people to be on duty every day. Officials below the fifth rank only need to stay at their posts for half a day and finish their official duties. go home.

Jin Wuwei's left and right street envoys were sixth-rank military officials, and Pei Jingxing returned home at this time, and no one could say anything.

When Uncle Fu saw Su Yan coming, he naturally smiled, hurriedly went to the kitchen, and personally instructed the cook to cook some delicious food for the guests.

Pei Jingxing led Su Yan to the courtyard where he lived, and asked people to guard the door so that no one else would accidentally break in.

Only then did Su Yan open the cloth bag, let Tian Qi come out, and asked Tian Qi who was panting on the ground: "How much do you know about those little monsters in Xijing?"

Tian Qi made a rough estimate: "I don't know many people, only twenty or thirty."

"It's still too little." Su Yan got up, took out a piece of talisman paper, and said to Tian Qi, "I'll call some sparrow monsters over later, I want to ask them to help find the two fishermen, you Can you convince them?"

Although Su Yanda could suppress these little monsters with his magic power, forcing them to find the fisherman for himself, but after hearing Zhou Yuyi's words last time, Su Yan didn't want to use this method anymore.

Tian Qi knew that Su Yan was helping a little monster like them, so he naturally agreed: "Don't worry, Daoist Su, I will definitely convince them!"

Su Yan nodded, closed his eyes, and silently recited a series of spells.Accompanied by his movements, the sound of birdsong and flapping wings came from far above Pei's mansion, from a single one at the beginning, it evolved into echoes from all directions.The common sparrows and crows flew over one after another and landed scattered in Pei Jingxing's yard.

A huge crow landed on the stone bench in the yard, staring at Su Yan with blood-red eyes, flapped its wings uneasily, and asked, "Does this priest have any orders?"

Su Yan picked up Tian Qi and put Tian Qi on the stone bench: "He has something to do with you."

When Crow saw Tian Qi, his nervous mood calmed down a little, and he asked Tian Qi: "What's the matter with you?"

Tian Qi took a deep breath, and chattered about what happened in the past two days: "Last night, two fishermen took away three friends of a certain one. He was brutally murdered. I invite you to come here now, because I want to ask you to do a favor and find these two fishermen."

The crow pondered for a moment, and said, "Although we are willing to do our best, we don't know the faces of these two fishermen, so how can we find them?"

Tian Qi turned to look at Su Yan: "Daozhang Su, can you show them the bronze mirror?"

The crow said vigilantly: "Bronze mirrors must never be seen."

Su Yan comforted: "It's okay, with me here, this bronze mirror won't hurt you."

Crow looked suspiciously at Su Yan and Tian Qi back and forth, and finally agreed: "Okay, then please let me take a look first."

Pei Jingxing was curious, so he wanted to come over to have a look, but he only took two steps, and the crow flew up, circling in the sky above Pei Jingxing.

Tian Qi understood, and hurriedly said: "Don't be afraid, this is Daoist Su's friend, and he is also here to help someone."

Crow was relieved now, and landed on the stone bench again, poked her head over, and watched the scene in the mirror with Pei Jingxing.

After the crow finished watching, he realized that the bronze mirror did not harm him, so he honked a few times at his companions.All of a sudden, the sparrows and crows in the courtyard gathered around Su Yan, looking curiously at the bronze mirror in Su Yan's hand.

Su Yan did the same thing, brushed his hand across the mirror again, and stretched his hand forward for a while, so that the birds could see the picture in the mirror clearly.

As the pictures in the bronze mirror flowed, the birds around Su Yan screamed or sighed one after another.

"very scary!"

"What are these two people doing? Run away, why don't you run away!"

"Idiot! Didn't you see those two fishermen threw the worm in! This thing is a Gu worm!"

"What is a Gu worm, can it be eaten?"

"stupid!"

Surrounded by a flock of birds chirping, Su Yan felt miserable.

Finally, the picture in the mirror ended, and the birds were still not satisfied, they kept asking Su Yan: "Is there any more? This thing is really fun."

Seeing Su Yan's bewildered look on the side, Pei Jingxing smiled secretly, went to the room to get some shortbread, and broke it out to share with the sparrows and crows.

Food is scarce in winter, even these little monsters are hungry.When the birds saw the shortbread in Pei Jingxing's hand, they abandoned Su Yan one after another, and flew to surround Pei Jingxing, grabbing the shortbread in his hand.

Pei Jingxing has practiced martial arts for many years, and his fingers and palms are covered with calluses. Even so, he will still be pecked by these sparrows and crows from time to time.Some birds smelled the faint smell of blood in Pei Jingxing's palm, and quickly called out to their companions to stop, and stopped in front of Pei Jingxing one by one, with their heads down, as if admitting their mistake.

Pei Jingxing couldn't bear it, so he put the shortbread on the stone bench and said, "You guys come here to eat."

The birds immediately flew happily to the stone bench again, competing for this rare food in winter.

Only the leading crow, the biggest one, looked at Su Yan with his head held high, and he didn't care about the shortbread at all.

Uncle Fu came over at this time, saw a yard of birds, and was amazed: "It's winter, where are there so many birds? Hey, isn't this a crow? Where can such a big crow come from? It's not auspicious! "

After saying that, Uncle Fu went to catch the birds with a broom.

The leading crow was furious when he heard the words, and flapped his wings to attack Fu Bo.

Pei Jingxing hurriedly stopped Uncle Fu: "Uncle Fu, you are not needed here."

Fu Bo held the broom, nodded with a smile and said, "Master, I will drive these crows away first."

Pei Jingxing snatched the broom from Uncle Fu's hand: "Uncle Fu, it's hard for crows to find food in winter, so why do you bother with the birds?"

Seeing what Pei Jingxing said, Uncle Fu didn't want to be forceful, so he asked, "Master, the food and drink are all ready, should Master and Daoist Su go to the front hall for dinner, or send them to your yard?"

"Just go ahead and set it up."

After Uncle Fu left, Su Yan said to the leading crow: "A dozen little demons have disappeared from a river bank outside Xijing. Yesterday these two fishermen captured three fish spirits. I hope you can find them in Xijing." These two people. Once you find them, tell me immediately."

The crow heard this, and suddenly said: "I heard that many dolls and girls disappeared in Xijing in the past two days. Did the same group do it?"

Su Yan had never heard of this incident, but he thought of the child found in Niu Chunhui's carriage earlier today.

Would a grandson of a prince do something like kidnap children and girls?

On the other hand, Pei Jingxing nodded and said: "That's right, I've also heard about it in the past two days. Jing Zhaoyin has sent dozens of people to investigate this matter, but so far nothing has been found."

Seeing Su Yan's pensive look, he couldn't hold back for a moment, stretched out his hand and rubbed Su Yan's head: "Find out the whereabouts of these two fishermen first, Jing Zhaoyin is investigating that matter."

Su Yan nodded, then turned to the crow and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."

"Don't worry, Daoist Su." Crow's attitude towards Su Yan has changed a lot at this moment, and he took the initiative to express his position, "The matter of finding the fisherman is on our shoulders. Since they dare to attack the little monsters in the suburbs of Beijing, Bao Buqi will attack us one day, and we will definitely find out these people!"

When the leading crow spoke, the other crows and sparrows in the yard flapped their wings and flew in all directions.

Su Yan put Tian Qi into a cloth bag again and hung it on his waist: "You stay inside for a while."

Tian Qi made a few cooing sounds, and he had the right to answer.

"Let's go to the front for dinner first." Pei Jingxing said, "Uncle Fu knew you were here, so he must have made the kitchen cook a lot of delicious food."

Su Yan nodded, but he didn't intend to leave immediately. Instead, he walked around the room in the courtyard where Pei Jingxing usually slept.

"what happened?"

"See if there are traces of the snake-haired monster." Su Yan replied, "It's strange, this place is very clean, and the snake-haired monster hasn't come back."

Pei Jingxing also felt strange: "He followed me all the way from the Western Regions to Xijing, did he escape back?"

Su Yan shook his head: "He came to Xijing with you and pestered you for more than three years. It is impossible to go back now. I always have a feeling that he is still in Xijing now, but I don't know where he is hiding."

Seeing that Su Yan's brows were frowning, Pei Jingxing comforted him with a smile: "Daozhang Su, we can't sit here and wait for rabbits, can we? We always have to eat, aren't you hungry?"

After being told by Pei Jingxing, Su Yan really felt hungry.Last night, he felt a faint vibration from the bronze mirror. Today, he left the city as soon as the city gate opened. After bringing Tian Qi back, he was busy again and didn't even drink a sip of tea.

Seeing him like this, Pei Jingxing smiled deeper: "Okay, let's eat first. What if the snake-haired monster comes to the door right now and you don't have the strength to fight him?"

Su Yan touched his cheek with some embarrassment: "Okay."