Strange Records of Xijing

Of the two Wuhous on duty in the Wuhou shop, one was peeling and cooking peanuts non-stop, and the other was leaning on the stool and dozing off early.

The door of Wuhou shop was suddenly opened, the one who ate peanuts almost swallowed the peanuts in his mouth, and the one who dozed off was not much better, the whole person fell backwards with the stool and fell heavily on the ground .

"Who... cough cough, who is it!" Marquis Wu, who was eating peanuts, coughed twice, choking his throat and cursing.When he saw the person's face clearly, his eyes widened all of a sudden: "Pei Pei Pei Pei...Pei Street Envoy!"

Pei Jingxing pushed the prisoner in his hand, "Where's the spare shackle? Take it out."

The one who dozed off was woken up. Seeing that it was Pei Jingxing, he hurriedly got up and stumbled to the side to get a spare shackle.

Pei Jingxing took over the shackles, quickly handcuffed the prisoner's hands, then took off the tattered Taoist robe, and handed it to Zhang Hui: "Do you still want it?"

Zhang Hui was shocked by Pei Jingxing's actions, nodded, and took the Taoist robe.

Pei Jingxing looked at the two trembling Marquis Wu in front of him, and said angrily, "You two, there are murderers in the workshop, but you are eating peanuts and dozing off in Marquis Wu's shop, is Marquis Wu like you now?"

"Assault?" The two Marquis Wu looked at each other, and one of them boldly asked: "May I ask Pei Street Envoy, who committed the murder in Changming Square?"

Pei Jingxing looked at him coldly, and said, "I also passed by by chance, and I happened to find someone committing a crime, why don't I hand it over to you for interrogation?"

The two Marquis Wu shook their heads again and again: "Don't dare, I won't dare."

Pei Jingxing saw that the two Marquis Wu did not seem to know about it, so he didn't bother to waste time here: "I still want to take the prisoner back to the inner office for interrogation. If someone comes to ask, do you know what to do?"

The two Marquis Wu were startled, nodded quickly and said: "Yes, we will definitely inform Pei Jie in time."

Only then did Pei Jingxing escort the prisoner, and led Zhang Hui to answer the internal office.

The people in the inner yamen did not expect that Pei Jingxing would come back at this time, with a prisoner still in custody, followed by a young man dressed as a Taoist priest.

"Pei Street Envoy, what is this?"

"Someone was committing crimes in the street and beating Taoist priests, and I happened to bump into him." Pei Jingxing explained the whole story in a few simple words, "Put him down, and I will interrogate him myself later."

"Heh, does Street Envoy Pei want to abuse public power?" The prisoner suddenly said at this time, "This Taoist priest has a grudge against me and cheated me of money. Even if I was wrong in beating him, he wouldn't be arrested by the Jinwu Guard, right?"

Pei Jingxing was unmoved at all: "This is all your one-sided opinion, why don't we ask Taoist Zhang Hui."

After all, he asked someone to catch the prisoner for him, and he turned to look at Zhang Hui: "Daoist Zhang, do you know this person?"

Zhang Hui shook her head and said, "I don't know him."

Pei Jingxing asked the prisoner again: "What enmity do you have with Daoist Zhang?"

The prisoner said: "My child is sick, and I want to go to Taixuan Temple to ask for a talisman. In the end, the little Taoist gave me a talisman, saying that he burned the talisman paper to ashes, put it in water and made it for the child to drink. It will be fine naturally. I fed the child with talisman water as promised, and my child died within two days!"

Zhang Hui widened her eyes and argued loudly: "You are talking nonsense! I have never met you before. When did I give you the talisman paper, and when did I tell you to burn the talisman paper to ashes for the children to eat?"

Pei Jingxing waved his hand, signaling Zhang Hui to be calm and not to be impatient: "I heard from Su Yan that the Taoist boys in the Taixuan Temple are not allowed to cast spells on others, right?"

Zhang Hui panted, nodded and said: "That's right, Daoist Zhou taught us many times that we must not learn Taoism for ourselves and become complacent."

The prisoner laughed twice: "Pei Street Envoy is planning to cover up this Taoist priest? By the way, I heard that Pei Street Envoy got very close to a young Taoist priest. Could it be the one named Su Yan? It seems that Pei Street Envoy The envoy has a preference for Taoist priests."

Pei Jingxing laughed back angrily: "I didn't know that I made a friend who could spread the word all over Xijing. You heard, who did you listen to?"

His relationship with Su Yan is indeed good, but Su Yan is not a playful person, nor is he a showy person. Although the two are good friends, they seldom imitate other people's behavior, go out for spring together, or drink for fun .Moreover, Pei Jingxing, as the envoy of the Jinwu Guards, only rested one day every ten days, so he didn't have so much time to meet Su Yan in normal times.

Now the prisoner tried to use the so-called public opinion to force Pei Jingxing to treat him lightly, but he didn't expect that his own words made Pei Jingxing catch another loophole.

Knowing that Pei Jingxing and Su Yan had a good relationship, he would speak sourly to the outside world, looking at Xijing, Pei Jingxing could only think of Niu Chunhui.

"Come on, Jin Wuwei will know whether you are guilty or not at the first trial, so take him down!" Pei Jingxing no longer gave the prisoner any chance to mess around and asked him to take him down.

Then, he called a Jinwu guard who was standing beside him, "Take a few brothers and escort Daoist Zhang Hui back to Taixuan Temple. When I ran into it today, several people beat one of them. Maybe Daoist Zhang Hui is now inside Ya, he was beaten again."

Jin Wuwei took the order to go down, Zhang Hui hurriedly thanked: "Thank you Pei Jie."

"You're welcome," Pei Jingxing asked, "The child Su Yan entrusted to you today, where is his home?"

"It's in Changpingfang. It's a family named Yang." Zhang Hui replied, "His family found that the child was missing, and it was a mess."

Pei Jingxing knew it well, at this time the Jinwu Guard who had just left came back, Pei Jingxing asked Zhang Hui to go out with them.

Pei Jingxing let people look at the prisoner again, and first tried to find out the prisoner's name, where he lived, and where his native place was, then he went to Changping Fang according to what Zhang Hui said.

Besides, Su Yan, after waiting for almost two hours, a sparrow finally flew back and landed on the stone bench.

"Daozhang Su, those two fishermen have found them and are living in the west of the city. I heard from them that they will go to the river embankment to catch fish tonight."

Tian Qi shouted: "How can it be done! The little monsters in the river are almost caught by them!"

He turned his head to look at Su Yan in a panic: "Daozhang Su, let's go quickly."

Su Yan nodded, opened the cloth bag, signaled Tian Qi to jump in, and said to the sparrow: "You wait for me at the side door, I will come soon."

"Horses? How many horses are there at home?" Fu Bo heard Su Yan's request, but did not ask too much. "Su Daoist, please come with me."

Su Yan led the horse out from the side door. He got on the horse and said to the sparrow parked under the eaves: "Lead the way."

The sparrow led the way, and along the way, many sparrows and crows gathered and followed the leading sparrow.

Pedestrians on the side of the road were amazed when they saw such a spectacle, but they saw a lot of crows among them, and they talked about who was so unlucky.

Su Yan didn't seem to have heard of this, just followed behind the sparrow, and rushed towards the west without stopping.

"It's right in front of here." The sparrow stopped on the branch, "Su Daochang, what should we do next?"

Su Yan dismounted, tied the reins to the tree, and looked around.

There are not many people living here, most of the houses are unused, even the gates are broken, hidden there, I am afraid that even thieves would not bother to visit.

However, this added convenience to the two fishermen.

Su Yan took a few more steps forward, leaning against the wall, carefully poking his head to see the situation ahead.

Not far ahead was the home of the two fishermen. At this time, smoke was rising from the kitchen. It was obvious that the two fishermen were lighting a fire and cooking.

Su Yan looked up at the Huoshaoyun in the sky again. In winter, the night in Xijing comes very early, and now it is the junction of light and darkness, which is convenient for Su Yan.

"You guys are like this." Su Yan waved his hand and signaled these little monsters to come over, "I will cast a spell here to block the sunlight in this area, and you guys will take the opportunity to sneak into their house, it is best to transform into a human form .”

"Daozhang Su, I can't do it," said one of the crows who was targeted, coyly, "My knowledge is too shallow. If I take human form, my wings will still be there."

"It doesn't matter," Su Yan said, "It's even scarier when you look like this. Tian Qi is the leader, you should treat yourself as the little monster on the other side of the river bank, and come to avenge your friends."

Tian Qi patted his chest: "Don't worry, Daoist Su, I must have scared them to the point of peeing their pants."

This is Tian Qi's strong point, of course Su Yan won't worry about it.He told the little demons to back off, while he stretched out his hand to grab it forward, and the gossip mirror hanging under the eaves of the fisherman's house flew to Su Yan's hand.

Su Yan put it away, squeezed the formula with both hands, and said a series of awkward spells in his mouth.With the place where he was standing as the center of the circle, the darkness quickly spread in all directions, and after a while, this area was completely shrouded in darkness.

"Bravo!"

"Daozhang Su is amazing!"

"How did Daoist Su learn this trick? Can you teach me?"

The little demons were amazed one by one, and their eyes on Su Yan changed from fear to admiration.

Su Yan smiled, did not answer, but looked at Tian Qi.

Tian Qi nodded, and transformed into a man in his thirties, but there were many black flakes on his face and neck.

Several other sparrows and crows also turned into human shapes one after another, but some kept a pair of wings, some had a bird's head on their necks, and some were covered with feathers, so they couldn't see a single face clearly.

Su Yan held back his laughter and gestured, Tian Qi led the little monsters and sneaked into the fisherman's house.Su Yan followed closely behind, hiding outside the house, watching the situation inside the house closely.

In the house, the two fishermen realized that it was completely dark outside, and one of them went out to check the situation.

"Damn it, it's dark outside, how do we get out of the city?"

The fisherman who stayed in the house said: "There is always a way. Today, I am talking about it, saying that we have not caught enough fish these days, and we need to catch more."

"But it's so dark, the city gate must be closed, how can I get out?"

"Idiot! Do you think that just one person can spend so much money to let us catch some little monsters and send them over to eat? You cook here, and I will go find him. The city gate is closed, and we have no wings. How to get out? He asked for these little monsters by name, so of course he has to figure out a way."

"you……"

"What about me?" The previous fisherman looked at his companion with a distorted face, "What's wrong with you?"

"You...behind you..." The fisherman shook his whole body and pointed in the direction behind his companion tremblingly.

The previous fisherman turned his head and saw several people standing behind him at some point.No, not people, although these monsters look like people at first glance, they are not people!

Under the reflection of a little candle in the room, these monsters looked dignified, and their eyes were full of resentment.Especially the one at the head, with black moss-like things all over his face, glowing with candlelight, very scary.

"You...you..." All the arrogant arrogance disappeared, the fisherman's teeth chattered, his legs were weak, "you...you..."

"Us?" Tian Qi said coldly, looking down at the fisherman, "We are friends of the fish you caught."

"The fish spirit?" screamed the fisherman behind. "The fish spirit is not with us!"

Tian Qi's neck turned half a circle, revealing another face full of blue scales, spit out a red tongue, stretched out to the screaming fisherman, and asked, "Where is it?"

While speaking, the tongue was already wrapped around the fisherman's neck, and the fisherman was forced to open his mouth wide and breathe nervously.

"I'm asking you, where is it!" Behind Tian Qi, the little demon with feathers asked sharply.

The fisherman kneeling in front kowtowed in fright when he saw his companion's miserable situation: "It's really not with us, it's really not with us."

The little demon who kept a pair of wings on the other side of Tian Qi asked loudly: "Ask you where they are!"

The fisherman shook like he was sifting chaff, and a cloudy yellow liquid flowed out from his crotch—he was really scared to pee his pants!

The little demon with the bird's head on his neck wrinkled his nose, and said bitterly, "If you don't say anything, I'll kill you!"

"It was taken away!" The fisherman saw that the gossip mirror he used to ward off evil spirits couldn't stop these monsters, and he thought these were big monsters with profound knowledge, so he didn't dare to hide anything, so he hurriedly said, "All It was taken away by a middle-aged man, really, it was all taken away by him!"

"Which middle-aged man?"

"I don't know," the fisherman hurriedly explained when he saw Tian Qi's face changed, "he came to us suddenly, with a lot of money, and he brought a Taoist priest with him. Got the idea of ​​a monster. That Taoist... Taoist priest, Taoist priest...he...he..."

When the fisherman said this, his whole body convulsed suddenly, and he fell to the ground twitching non-stop. After a while, he foamed at the mouth, and he was dead!

Su Yan sensed something was wrong outside, and rushed in, but it was still a step too late.

Regardless of the fisherman lying in a pile of excrement and urine, he walked over to examine it carefully, secretly thinking he was careless.

It turned out that someone had cast a spell on the fisherman. Once the fisherman uttered those words, the spell would work automatically and kill the fisherman directly!

Su Yan recalled carefully, it seemed that the spell started to take effect when the fisherman mentioned the word "Taoist".

Could it be that the other party is a Taoist priest?

Just when Su Yan was guessing, a sparrow demon inside suddenly said: "I've seen it before, I should know what it looks like, draw it!"

This kind of spell only prevents the other party from speaking or writing those key words, but does not prevent the other party from drawing them.Su Yan only felt that the clues that had been disconnected before his eyes had been picked up again: "Yes, draw it."

The fisherman's house didn't have any pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and finally Tian Qi made a move, grabbed the fisherman who was still alive and didn't pee his pants, went outside, picked up a branch, and drew in the sand.

When the fisherman finished drawing, several little demons leaned over to look carefully for a while, and one of them suddenly said "Hey": "Isn't this a housekeeper in Zhu Guogong's house!"