Strange Records of Xijing

It was night, and the moon and stars were thin. Pei Jingxing and Su Yan, dressed in black and strong clothes, evaded the Jinwu Guards who were patrolling as usual, and came to the outside of Zhu Guogong's mansion.

The little demons who arrived one step ahead of them had already stopped scatteredly on the trees in the Duke's mansion, condescending, guarding the mansion for the two of them.

Pei Jingxing built a bridge with both hands as usual, sent Su Yan into the mansion first, then took a few steps back, ran quickly, and used his strength to climb over the high wall.

"Here." The Sparrow Demon stopped on top of them whispered, "Go to the left."

With so many little demons guarding and guiding them, Su Yan and Pei Jingxing arrived at a secluded courtyard in the northwest corner in a short while.

One of the crows who came to explore the way during the day whispered: "The monsters captured from the other side of the river bank are locked inside, but there are many talisman papers pasted on the door, so I dare not approach."

"Also," said another sparrow, "I heard someone talking to that middle-aged Taoist priest. They seem to have captured other monsters."

The leading crow perched high on the branch, and said softly, "Rescue the one here first, and then make plans after finding out what the other monsters are."

It is not without reason that the crow is so cautious. These days, big monsters eat little monsters happen from time to time, and he doesn't want to save an enemy after all the hard work.

Su Yan and Pei Jingxing also had the same idea, to rescue all Tian Qi's friends first, and then make other plans.

There were too many restrictions set up inside, in order to prevent these little monsters from being injured innocently, Su Yan untied the cloth bag and asked Tian Qi to wait outside with these little monsters, while he and Pei Jingxing sneaked in quietly.

Perhaps in order to avoid leaking the news, Zhu Zhiwen specially chose an independent house in the mansion. Two guards stood guard on both sides of the gate, not to mention the talisman papers that were pasted brightly.

"Strange." Su Yan pulled Pei Jingxing, and the two of them were leaning against the wall. He did a trick, and the patrolling guards in the Duke's Mansion walked by about ten steps away from the two of them.

"what happened?"

Su Yan pointed to the room ahead and said, "Don't you think there are too few people patrolling here?"

Pei Jingxing looked around. Indeed, apart from the four guards standing at the gate, there was only a team of people who just passed by patrolling the yard. Compared with the monsters locked in the house, the number of people was indeed too small.

It cannot be said that Pei Jingxing knew Zhu Zhiwen's temperament well, but he was quite familiar with it.He knew that Zhu Zhiwen was not the kind of person who would be careless about key issues, let alone such secret matters.

"Could it be that the imprisoned demons inside are all incompetent little demons, so sticking talisman papers is enough?"

Su Yan couldn't think of any other explanation for a moment, and time was running out, so he shook his head and said, "First save all the little monsters inside."

After the team of patrolling guards left, the courtyard was empty without a single person. As for the restrictions set up in the courtyard, they couldn't escape Su Yan's eyes.

He asked Pei Jingxing to follow behind him, bypassed the gossip array set up in the courtyard, and shot first, destroying the core of the mechanism of the two puppets hidden in the courtyard, and within a short while he arrived at the room where the little demon was said to be locked up.

The talisman papers pasted on the house could not trouble Su Yan, but because he had already suffered from the carelessness of the fisherman yesterday, Su Yan first took out the bronze mirror, brushed the mirror surface with one hand, and the mirror surface glowed faintly.

Su Yan put his palm behind the bronze mirror, and used the mirror to take a picture of the room up and down. After confirming that there was nothing unusual, he made a formula with both hands and muttered something in his mouth.

Every time Su Yan recited a sentence, several talisman papers would silently fall from the window and land in front of Su Yan.After about half a cup of tea, Su Yan opened his eyes and carefully put away the talisman papers piled up on the ground.

Su Yan casually stuffed the talisman paper into the secret pocket in his cuff, and reminded Pei Jingxing: "The Taoist priest may come over at any time, let's hurry up."

Pei Jingxing and Su Yan changed positions. The former took out a small and sharp sleeve knife, inserted it into the window, and opened the window with a little force on his wrist.

"Let's go." Pei Jingxing sent Su Yan in, while he himself stood in front of the window with a dragon's head and a tiger's tooth gun.

After Su Yan entered the house, his left eye saw a few faint clusters of evil spirits in the corner in the darkness.He walked over there cautiously, and found that it was a water tank with a cover, and the evil spirit was underneath.

He opened the lid, and there were several fish floating in the water tank, counting them, it happened to be the number given by Tian Qi.

These fish spirits floated in the water with their eyes open, without any movement, at first glance they thought they were asleep, but Su Yan quickly found a talisman paper on the other side of the water tank, and it was this talisman paper that held the water. It broke the minds of these little demons, making them unable to use their spells to escape.

Just as Su Yan's hand touched the talisman paper, he suddenly remembered the tragedy of the fisherman before, so he quickly stopped.He carefully identified the content on the talisman paper, but found that he was not familiar with it. He simply rummaged through boxes and cabinets from the side to find a small gourd. A few incantations.

The water was sucked into the gourd together with the fish that suddenly became smaller. Su Yan stuffed the plug, hung the gourd around his waist, and went to other places in the house to find other little monsters.

After sucking the tortoise into the gourd, he woke up the drowsy bird and let him climb on his shoulder. Su Yan didn't stay for long, and went out through the window again.

Su Yan handed both the bird and the gourd to Pei Jingxing, and he took out the previous talisman papers, threw them upwards, and silently recited a few incantations, and these talisman papers seemed to be held by a pair of invisible hands and pasted on them again. on the window.

Taking advantage of the time when the patrolling guards hadn't turned back, the two cautiously ran to the wall, walked against the wall for a while, and came to a deserted corner before leaving the yard.

Tian Qi, who was waiting anxiously outside, saw the bird on Pei Jingxing's shoulder, and heard that the fish and turtle were in the gourd, heaved a sigh of relief, and bowed to Su Yan in thanks.

Pei Jingxing reminded: "Go first."

A few sparrows and crows split into eight directions to check the route, and flew back after a while, leading Su Yan and the two to go south.

"What's the matter?" Pei Jingxing built a bridge with both hands, and was about to send Su Yan out first, but found that Su Yan behind him was looking to the southwest with a solemn expression.

"The evil spirit there suddenly became much heavier." Su Yan replied, "It wasn't like this just now."

Pei Jingxing urged: "Get out of here first."

Su Yan knew that now was not a good time to investigate, so he stepped on Pei Jingxing's hand and used his strength to climb over the wall.

Not long after the two left, the patrolling guards turned back to the courtyard and saw that the talisman papers on the windows were well pasted, so they didn't stay long and went elsewhere.

About an hour later, a group of people hurried over, walking behind the two young men carrying lanterns were Zhu Zhiwen and a middle-aged Taoist priest.

Zhu Zhiwen took a lantern, approached the room, examined it carefully for a while, then turned around and asked, "Master Jin, the talisman is here, why do you say those monsters are lost?"

"Someone has been here." The Taoist priest surnamed Jin flicked the whisk, walked forward, tore off one of the talisman papers, put it in his hand and looked at it for a while, his face changed suddenly, and he opened the window and jumped in.

When Zhu Zhiwen saw this, he felt bad—every window was fastened with his custom-made buckles, and they couldn't be pushed open from the outside.Now the window is easily opened by the Golden Taoist, which means that the window catch of this window door has been destroyed!

He immediately ordered someone to open the copper lock on the door, and went in to have a look, where were the traces of those monsters?

"Jin Daoist, this?"

The Golden Taoist stood in the room, his face was full of joy and anger, but his tone was extremely angry: "How dare you ridicule me like this!"

Zhu Zhiwen's expression turned even worse. He is the son of Duke Zhu. If someone finds out that he is acting secretly, let alone his identity as Duke, his name may not be guaranteed.

"Jin Daoist, could it be that person back then?"

Golden Taoist took a deep breath, nodded and said, "That's right, that's the one who found the fisherman."

Zhu Zhiwen turned his head and asked a servant behind him, "Have you found him?"

"No," the servant hastily pleaded guilty, "I don't dare to publicize it, so I can only send a few people out to look for it, but that person seems to have disappeared, and I can't find it at all."

At the beginning of the two fishermen, one died because of the spell in his body, and the other was knocked out by Tian Qi and handed over to the sparrow monsters to hide.The people Zhu Zhiwen sent out were all ordinary people, so how could they be found so easily?

Zhu Zhiwen looked at the Golden Taoist: "Jin Daoist, what do you think should be done?"

The Golden Taoist's heart tightened, knowing that Zhu Zhiwen wanted to help him find it, but he was not good at the spell of tracing the lineage, and even if he was good at it, he didn't want to spend so much energy looking for a fisherman.

The most urgent task is to quickly divert Zhu Zhiwen's attention.

The Golden Taoist made up his mind, shook his head and said: "My lord, I have fought against that man twice, but I didn't take advantage of it. It can be seen that the opponent's strength is definitely not inferior to mine. He hid the fisherman, maybe he has dug a trap , Just wait for me to take action. Anyway, Shizi himself did not show up, and the fisherman is not a big threat, Shizi might as well think about why that person suddenly found those two fishermen, and followed the vine to the Duke's mansion to take these little monsters away."

Sure enough, Zhu Zhiwen was taken into consideration by the Golden Taoist, he was just a fisherman, his life was not worth anything in Zhu Zhiwen's eyes, and he sent people to look for him because he was afraid that someone would take advantage of the fisherman to bring him down.

Zhu Zhiwen was already wondering if there was an inner ghost in his mansion and leaked the matter, but he has been secretly sending other people to investigate the people around him in the past two days.Now that Golden Taoist said so, his attention has indeed shifted to the matter of finding the inner ghost.

But in the past two days, I didn't have any clues. Instead, I suffered several dumb losses one after another.Besides himself, something happened to Niu Chunhui as well.

In fact, Zhu Zhiwen looked down on Niu Chunhui. He and Niu Chunhui had a good relationship, but the two were both first-class dukes, in order to win over the power of Niu Guogong.

A prince of a state actually went out on his own to kidnap a child, but he was unlucky that day, the carriage overturned and the child was found.Later, Niu Chunhui sent someone to beat up the little Taoist boy, but they happened to be bumped into by their deadly rival, Pei Jingxing, so they were self-defeating and lost everyone.

etc?Xiaodao boy?

Zhu Zhiwen felt that he seemed to have grasped some important clue, so he quickly grasped this flashing thought and continued to explore.

I heard that a young man took the child away that day, could it be that Xiaodao boy?Maybe the little Taoist boy discovered something suspicious about the child, followed the clues, discovered the behavior of the two fishermen, and knew that he had secretly caught many monsters.

But a Taoist boy came to save the monsters, which is too unimaginable.

The thoughts in Zhu Zhiwen's mind turned and turned, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.

Seeing Zhu Zhiwen's complexion changing, the Golden Taoist wished that he would continue to struggle with this matter and stop thinking about letting him do it.

Not only that, the Golden Taoist also opened his mouth to add some firewood: "My lord, do you have a clue?"

Zhu Zhiwen didn't answer, but ordered his servants: "Go, send someone to call Niu Chunhui to me immediately."

It's useless to guess here, it's better to call Niu Chunhui over and ask who saved the child that day, then tie him up and kill him.

"My lord, there is still a curfew outside now." The servant reminded, "What if the Jinwu Guard finds out?"

"If you find it, you will find it. If you don't take pictures of Niu Chunhui, we're all finished!" Zhu Zhiwen lost his demeanor and cursed loudly, "Take my sign. I want to see which Jinwu guard dares to attack me!"

The servant knew that Zhu Zhiwen was in a bad mood, so he didn't dare to talk anymore, and said repeatedly: "Yes, I'll go right away."

The first-class public has an imperial token, which allows him to walk outside during curfew.Zhu Guogong has been seriously ill for more than a year. As the son of the Duke of the Kingdom, Zhu Zhiwen has already taken control of the Duke's Mansion, and he has already taken this token into his pocket.

With this token, the servant was no longer afraid of meeting the Jinwu Guard. After waiting for more than an hour, the sleepy Niu Chunhui finally arrived at Zhu Zhiwen's residence in a carriage.