Strange Records of Xijing

That night, a black butterfly landed on a corner of the prison plaque.

Su Yan, who was dressed in night clothes, followed closely behind, following the butterfly all the way, hiding in the shadow of the outer corner of the prison.He first took out the bronze mirror from his pocket, brushed the mirror with his right hand, and the figure of the butterfly appeared in the mirror.

Su Yan squeezed the tactic with his right hand, urging the butterfly on the plaque to flutter its wings lightly, crossed the high wall of the prison, and fluttered into the prison.

From the bronze mirror, you can see the butterfly flying into the prison, passing through a path that can only accommodate two people side by side, and arriving at an open room.There is a table on the side of this room, with many small dishes on it, all of which are nut snacks such as peanuts and cashews. There is also a crock pot in the middle, with constant heat coming out of it, I don’t know if it’s overcooked something.

There were also many wine jars on the ground beside the table, most of which were unsealed, and some of them fell on the ground, with wine constantly flowing out of them.

Su Yan roughly observed the situation in this room, and continued to urge the butterfly to fly in, looking for Pei Jingxing's whereabouts.

Although this prison is not small, there are very few people in it. Su Yan watched the butterflies in the mirror fly over each empty prison, and finally stopped in front of a cell.

Su Yan's right hand brushed against the mirror again. This time, the scene in the mirror became clearer. Su Yan could even see the purple bruise on Pei Jingxing's exposed skin—obviously, even if Princess Minglang told him about it. Jing Zhaoyin and Pei Jingxing could not escape the lynching of these cruel officials.

Su Yan was angry, he let the butterfly stay where it was, and he put away the bronze mirror, walked out from the dark corner, looked at the prison diagonally ahead, and thought about how to sneak in without anyone noticing.

Before Su Yan could come up with a solution, there was a sound of friction between the wheels of the carriage and the ruts on the road from a distance. When the carriage got closer, it was discovered that the cart was pulled by two mules. At least half a person's tall round barrel, from inside emits a strong stench.

It is evening fragrance.

The driver was a middle-aged man, with a piece of cloth covering his mouth and nose, but obviously the covering effect of the cloth was not very good. At this moment, he was frowning and kept driving the mule away.

The old man who fell behind him had a calm expression, as if he had long been used to this smell.

Su Yan hid in the darkness again, but the conversations between the two continued to reach his ears.

"Father, why does it smell so bad today?"

"Really? Why didn't I smell it?"

"Father, your nose is useless long ago, and the smell smells in your nose, it looks the same!" The middle-aged man raised his left hand and kept fanning, and said, "Father, why don't we do it wrong?" Let Yexiang live."

"Don't do it?" The old man asked with a smile, "Then what are you going to do?"

The middle-aged man was thinking loudly in his heart, and said, "It's been so many years, and I still have some savings, so I just set up a shop and you will be the shopkeeper."

The old man laughed: "Then what kind of business are you going to do? You have no contacts, let alone connections, so how can you buy goods at a low price and sell them?"

The middle-aged man's weakness was hit, and just about to speak again, the old man patted him on the back and reminded: "We're about to go to prison, shut up quickly, so as not to offend those officials."

The middle-aged man reluctantly shut up.

The conversation between the two father and son gave Su Yan an idea - the prisoners in the big prison may have to eat, drink and drink in the small prison, but these jailers are not prisoners, how could they be willing to suffer such a crime?

These two people who fell for Yexiang went to the prison, so I could secretly create some small disturbances to divert the attention of the jailers, so that I could sneak in and find Pei Jingxing.

Su Yan made up his mind, he just stuck to the roadside wall, followed the father and son not too far away, and slowly approached the prison.

The mule cart stopped in front of the prison, and the old man stepped forward to negotiate with the two guards guarding the gate of the prison.After a while, he retreated, beckoned his son to unload one of the drums from the mule cart, and slowly pushed it into the prison.

Su Yan who was hiding in the corner picked up a few stones from the ground and hit the barrel on the mule cart.The barrel was smashed several times by stones, and a foul-smelling thick liquid flowed out of it.One of the barrels may have been used for a long time, but it crashed a few times, and the body of the barrel broke into several pieces.

The middle-aged man and the two guards guarding the gate of the prison took the lead, covering their mouths and noses one by one, and hurried away from the mule cart.

One of the guards scolded: "How the hell do you work? Hurry up and clean this thing up for me!"

How can a middle-aged person get close to a mule cart so easily?The cloth he specially tied on his face to cover the stench was useless. At this time, like the two guards, he covered his mouth and nose with one hand, doing Tai Chi in a vague way: "You two officials, please be safe! Cao, even if I grab it with my hands, I won't be able to fix it in a while. I haven't been in this business for a year, and I haven't encountered such a situation. You two officials, why don't you see it like this, I'll go inside and invite me Dad came out and asked him what the old man should do, okay?"

At this time, the two guards were already swollen by the stench. Hearing what the middle-aged man said, one of them scolded: "You can enter this prison at will? Do you know that this prison is used Who are you here to imprison?"

The middle-aged man apologized and said with a smile: "I don't have much knowledge, so I really don't know. Since it's not convenient for me to enter, why don't you ask the official to go in and call out my father, okay?"

The two guards had no other choice right now, and one of them said, "I'll go inside, you continue to watch."

The other one raised his eyebrows and refused: "Why do you go in? I'm older than you, of course I go in and call someone, so it's safe for you to stay here."

In fact, it is not important to go in and call people, the key is to find a legitimate reason to stay away from the stench on the ground.The two guards refused to give in to each other, and the stench continued to invade their sense of smell, which was simply a double torment.

In the end, the junior one was defeated, he continued to guard the prison door, while the other went in to call for someone.

The guards and the middle-aged man were far away from the door of the prison, and did not pay much attention to the movement at the door.Taking this opportunity, Su Yan took one step, like a swift, entered the prison in the dark.

After entering the prison, Su Yan did not hurry forward, but walked to the middle of the road, leaned against the wall, groped the wall with his hands a few times, and found a candlestick for placing candles.

This candlestick should have been useless for a long time, Su Yan touched the ashes with one hand.Just in case, Su Yan finally chose the position between the two candlesticks, leaning against the wall, pinched the formula with his right hand, and muttered something.

After Su Yan finished all this, the footsteps of several people came from inside the prison.In the darkness, with his left eye, Su Yan could clearly see the guards who were guarding the door walking in front with a few shovels in their hands, followed by the old man pouring Yexiang, followed by two The jailer of the oil lamp.

The lamp tube of the oil lamp is weak, and the range of illumination is limited. In addition, Su Yan has a blindfold on his body. A group of people passed by the road, but none of them noticed Su Yan's existence.

Previously, Su Yan only saw four jailers in the bronze mirror, all of them were in the room behind this passage, but now two of them have left, and the remaining two are no longer a problem for Su Yan.

He took a deep breath and moved slowly against the wall.When Su Yan walked to the end of the corridor, he could see the remaining two jailers drinking with their backs to him, and one of them was cursing, as if scolding Ye Xiang for his incompetence and causing trouble for them.

Su Yan suddenly appeared from the darkness, pulled out the mahogany sword behind his back, and struck like lightning.The two jailers only felt an unusual gust of wind coming from behind them, and before they could turn around, they passed out.

As soon as Su Yan succeeded, he was not in a hurry to go in and look for Pei Jingxing, but picked up the unsealed wine jar on the table, poured some wine into the bowls of the two jailers, then overturned the bowls, pretending to be the two guards. A jailer looked drunk.

After he finished all this, there were footsteps in the passage—obviously, it was the two previous jailers who had returned.

Su Yan didn't stay any longer, and after arranging everything, he hurriedly walked deep into the prison.

"Pei Jingxing, Pei Jingxing." Coming to the cage where Pei Jingxing was imprisoned, Su Yan lowered his voice, and called the butterflies parked beside him to fly in to attract Pei Jingxing's attention.

"Su Yan?" With the help of the starlight streaming in from the square opening above the cage, Pei Jingxing could see who was coming, and walked to the cell in surprise, facing Su Yan across a few iron bars.

"Why are you here?" Pei Jingxing was very anxious when he saw Su Yan, "This is a prison, if someone finds out, your head will be lost!"

"Don't worry," Su Yan reassured Pei Jingxing perfunctorily, before talking about business, "Zhu Zhiwen designed to frame you."

"Zhu Zhiwen?" Pei Jingxing was a little puzzled, "Niu Chunhui asked me to meet that day, and suddenly a man came out and killed Niu Chunhui."

Su Yan told Pei Jingxing what he had found out, and then said: "This Zhu Zhiwen seems to have wanted to do something to Niu Chunhui, but I overheard him talking to his servants, saying that this is a plan to kill two birds with one stone. You Don't worry, I have asked Tian Qi and the others, these little monsters will do their best to find that killer for you."

It was the first time that Pei Jingxing saw anyone other than the jailer in these few days of distress. Although the torture on his body was tough, it was not as good as the suffering in his heart.

Even though he understands that he has been withdrawn and has no friends these years, and although the servants in Uncle Fu's family are willing to help, they suffer from no connections, not to mention that he has indeed "killed" Niu Chunhui, Niu Guogong's only grandson, Pei Huaiyu. talk.However, when he saw that Su Yan broke into the prison alone in spite of many dangers, told him these secrets, and comforted him that he would save him, Pei Jingxing said that it was impossible not to be moved.

After all, Pei Jingxing was a person who had experienced big storms, he calmed down quickly, and seized the time to analyze with Su Yan: "Zhu Zhiwen and Niu Chunhui are in the same boat, Zhu Zhiwen is quite powerful and courageous, he can be regarded as the leader of that small group. But Niu Chunhui has been spoiled by his family since he was a child. He always acts according to his heart and never cares about other things. Zhu Zhiwen's poisonous hands on Niu Chunhui are probably because Niu Chunhui accidentally said something wrong or did something wrong. Zhu Zhiwen's secret has been exposed."

"The matter of catching the child," Su Yan reminded, "the killer did it sooner or later, after we rescued the little demon. Maybe Zhu Zhiwen was worried that the matter of him and Niu Chunhui catching people and monsters would be exposed, and wanted to kill people to silence them. Cut off this thread immediately."

"Very likely," Pei Jingxing said, "Niu Chunhui planned to let me be alone with him that day. According to his temperament, he would never have thought of such an idea. It is very likely that Zhu Zhiwen gave him the idea and introduced the killer to him. Niu Chunhui pretended to let this killer kill me, but Niu Chunhui didn't expect that the killer turned out to be his impermanence."

"But why did he frame you?" Su Yan was puzzled by this point. "Even if he wants to clear himself of the suspicion, there are many ways. Why would he try to design you into it? If you are not fooled, this trick is not worth it." Is it lost?"

Pei Jingxing's eyes darkened: "He has an old enmity with me, and he wanted to find a substitute for the deceased. Perhaps it was for this reason that he found me."

Su Yan didn't believe it, and asked again: "You said that you went to the Western Regions with them, did you form an enmity at that time?"

Pei Jingxing said vaguely, "Maybe."

Su Yan continued to ask: "How did the feud end? Is there anyone else? This may be a clue."

What Su Yan didn't expect was that Pei Jingxing simply gave up this clue this time: "No, it's just the two of them. It's not a deep hatred, they are both young people with arrogance, so there will inevitably be some friction."

What Pei Jingxing said did not match his usual personality at all, and Su Yan could clearly sense that Pei Jingxing was going to hide something about the past.This past incident might help Pei Jingxing get rid of his grievances, but Pei Jingxing would rather give up this opportunity than tell him.

Su Yan only felt cold and sour in his heart, as if he had a breath stuck in his chest and couldn't vent it.He had never felt this way before, so he didn't know why it happened, and asked sullenly, "Then what should we do next?"

Pei Jingxing was speechless for a long time, just looking at his injured hands, wondering what he was thinking.

Under this unusual silence, Su Yan only felt that the gas in his chest was expanding, as if it had spread to his limbs, along his neck and into his head, making him feel like he was about to explode. .

At this moment, Pei Jingxing suddenly raised his head, stared at Su Yan, and said in a hoarse voice: "Su Yan, this matter is too involved. You are an ordinary little Taoist priest, don't continue to wade into this muddy water."

"Why not?" Su Yan only felt that the gas in his body was exploded by Pei Jingxing's words, and seemed to be discouraged. He was both excited and weak and asked, "Back then you didn't care about yourself. Save me from Taoist Wan. Pei Jingxing, it's my turn to save you this time!"

Pei Jingxing's heart warmed, and he smiled wryly: "The situation that time was no more dangerous than this time. Su Yan, sometimes the potential danger is more terrifying, because you don't know when the enemy hiding in the dark will suddenly attack."

Su Yan was even more persistent: "How will you know if you don't try? No matter whether the enemy is a human or a ghost, I, Su Yan, are not afraid. Pei Jingxing, as long as I am Su Yan, I will definitely save you!"

Pei Jingxing had a sore nose, and tears welled up in his eyes.He hurriedly lowered his head to cover up his gaffe, and wiped his face casually.

He was about to speak when he heard footsteps approaching.

Now that he couldn't care less about persuading Su Yan, Pei Jingxing urged: "Hurry up and hide!"