I am the county magistrate in Liaozhai

Cheng Jin left the palace with a dazed expression on his face. Although the curiosity in his heart almost leaped out of his throat, he shouldn't have asked? He still didn't ask. After all, it is a secret matter of seizing the palace. It is enough for them to know that Dr. Qi is dead and that his body and Danfang are missing.

It's just that the blame for this is that Imperial Physician Qi died less than a day ago, and their bodies disappeared. Now during the national mourning, who is so capable of hiding Imperial Physician Qi's body?What is the purpose of hiding?If it is aimed at the prescription of Xiantian Pill, this is too bad.

Now the palace gates are strictly guarded, and ghosts cannot enter the imperial city. The mystery of the disappearance of the imperial doctor Qi can only be caused by ordinary people. I am afraid that the solution to this doubt can only wait for the investigation of the senior brother.

Cheng Jin's palace turned around. At this time, the night was completely dark. Now that the capital is under curfew, he touched Hungry Bian's belly and made a sound of wanting to go back to Tangxi.

"Cheng Yi'an, you can make me easy to find."

Hearing the familiar voice, Cheng Jin was so moved that he almost shed tears: "Master, you finally appeared!"

The night is deep, the country under the curfew? The night of the mourning capital is extraordinarily quiet, even the lights of the fire are much less. Yesterday was the jubilant Lantern Festival, but today is shrouded in silence. Montenegro is still dressed in black, and the moonlight shines on him? There is a unique sense of remoteness on the face like the ice and snow of distant mountains.

Cheng Jin was stunned for a moment, and then said another sentence: "Is there anything to eat? I'm starving to death. I just gave all the food on my body to my brother."

Heishan slightly lowered his head to look at the person, and his voice was calm: "Do you think there will be one in this seat?"

"..." As if asking a stupid question, Cheng Jin just wanted to take it back, but a warm oiled paper bag was stuffed in his hand. He unfolded it gently under the moonlight, and there were two plain steamed buns that were still steaming.

Now, magistrate Cheng is really moved? He cried, "Master, you are so kind!"

"The little female ghost insisted on taking it with me. She said that you entered the palace. Is the person surnamed Qi dead?" Heishan took two steps out a little uncomfortably before his voice returned to its usual indifference.

Cheng Jin took a bite of a plain steamed stuffed bun, which was the three-silk stuffed stuffed bun from Jinzhenzhai in the capital. He killed one in one go before he said, "He's dead, but his body is gone."

"It's gone?" Hei Shan began to frown, "The guards of this mortal palace are really useless, they can't even see a corpse, have they been transported out of the palace?"

Cheng Jin had already gnawed half of another bun and pressed it on his stomach. He finally felt much better: "I don't know for now, but if it is shipped out of the palace, the seductresses of the underworld will definitely seduce the soul. After all, ghosts Can't even enter? Can't get into the imperial city."

They finished eating the other half, then clapped their hands, and put the oil paper away: "Besides, they are related to the Xiantian pill, the underworld will only be more anxious than us, once their names appear in the Book of Life and Death, The underworld will definitely be the first to seduce the soul."

This is true, Heishan showed a contemplative look, and suddenly said: "Then have you ever thought about the possibility of him becoming a ghost?"

Hearing this, Cheng Jin's stomach began to feel bad again: "Then I'm afraid I have to wait for the underworld to catch it? He? After searching the soul, I can find the whereabouts of the Xiantian Pill."

"No need, I can do it for you."

"Don't scare me, I can't help being scared."

Hei Shan cast a sideways glance at the man, and followed the master to use the method of shrinking the ground to an inch. Although the process was not very comfortable, it perfectly escaped the eyes and ears of the curfew patrol army.

Nie Xiaoqian has already been waiting in the servant's mansion. After half a day, she contacted many lonely ghosts in Beijing, but none of them saw Imperial Physician Qi.

Seeing Master Cheng came back, when she heard that she couldn't find it in the palace, Nie Xiaoqian went to squat in the underworld again, at least she would know as soon as the ecstasy of the underworld was activated.

"Are you going back to Tangxi?"

Cheng Jin shook his head: "I won't reply for the time being. The obituary is here? How can it take three days for Jiangnan? I'll wait for news from senior brother tomorrow." Hei Lulu told Hei Lulu the news. Seeing his dark face, Cheng Jin didn't want Hei Lulu to send him back.

"You didn't do those plans?" Hei Shan was unavoidably surprised when he heard that.

County magistrate Cheng spread his hands and sighed: "There is no way, there is nothing to do during the national mourning period, except for farming, and during this period, the people dare not make trouble. I am afraid that the Tangxi Yamen will usher in the world's worst ? At leisure."

Montenegro: ...I don't really understand you mortals.

"How about you, what news did you find in Beijing?" Cheng Jin thought to himself that he knew Hei Lulu a little bit, since he couldn't find it? Qi imperial doctor, the other party must have gone to the imperial medical office to look up other people's information.

Sure enough, Hei Lulu's answer confirmed his guess.

"I found an empty box." As he spoke, Heishan turned his hand sideways, revealing a palm-sized ebony box.

Cheng Jin just wanted to reach out to touch it, but Heishan dodged it: "You can't touch it, just look at it."

"There's something on it? Then why can you touch it, no problem?"

Heishan put the box away again, nodded upon hearing the words and said: "It's nothing, just a little dark and deceptive little thing." He didn't know the monster next to him, but he was born to absorb resentment and filth. ? OK is nothing.

"What demagogy?"

Heishan frowned when he heard the words, obviously thinking about how to describe it, and after a while, he said: "Maybe it is something that magnifies the desire in people's hearts."

"Then, even if the formula of the Xiantian Pill has not been tampered with, it may have been contaminated."

So, can he understand that the imperial physician Qi was bewitched to concoct the Xiantian pill?But that's not the point. The point is that Qi wants to see people in life, and corpses in death.

For three days in a row, the news sent from the palace was not very satisfactory. Cheng Jin could not stay in the capital for a long time. Although Tangxi was a small place, the national funeral project had to be done.

After three days of busy work in Tangxi, tomorrow will be the "first seven" of the late emperor. Of course, the emperor's death is different from that of ordinary people, but the officials can go home. Days, even young people can't stand it, let alone veterans in their forties and sixties.

Thinking of the tired senior brother six days ago, anyway, he has nothing to do, so why not go to the capital to pick up the senior brother home.

Although it may sound superfluous to go to the gate of the imperial palace in the distant Tangxi to pick up a person who already lives in the capital, but someone Cheng urged Ah Cong to make a few vegetarian dishes, and then put on a magic talisman and ran to the capital. up.

In the evening of that day, many carriages had stopped behind the palace gate to pick up the ministers, all of them came according to their grades. brother.

"Brother, drink some soup first to warm your stomach." On this day, most of the food served in the palace was cold. After all, it was getting cold too fast. This country?

Fu Chengshu had no appetite at first, but when he smelled the aroma of food, he took it smoothly: "Ah Cong's craftsmanship?"

"That's right, Ah Cong's small restaurant was about to open."

Fu Chengshu took a sip: "It's a pity."

"It's just time to think about the decoration again, and he has been doing vegetarian food recently, so he can have more time to think about it."

Along the way, Cheng Jin picked up some anecdotes and chatted. After seven days and seven nights, even the iron could not bear it. On the way, he stuffed Zhang Lingfu over there.

Just as he was about to reach out to carry the senior brother in, the senior brother woke up.

"Don't show off your power in front of others."

Cheng Jin: ...So senior brother, are you asleep or not?

After entering it, Fu Chengshu sent someone to deliver a letter to the teacher, and then went to take a bath. For a nobleman with a slight obsession with cleanliness, it was obvious that this bath would take a long time.

Cheng Jin ate the pastry on the table boredly, because there was no lard in it, so he ate dryly, and it took a long time to eat a small piece.

Speaking of? Last year, they planned to send Maomao to Beijing to amuse their seniors in the spring. Now it seems that this is not the case.Bring the kitten to work during the national mourning period, and the next day the censors will fill up the case books in the censor's study by spraying their seniors.

Thinking of this, Cheng Jin became more and more sleepy, and the brazier next to him was burning warmly, which was really hypnotic.

When a sleepy man woke up, Cheng Jin rubbed his eyes in a daze, and saw his brother's confidant No. [-] coming in, and asked, "What time is it now, where is brother?"

"If you are going back, son, it's almost [-] o'clock, and your lord is still taking a bath."

It's been more than half an hour, no wonder it was completely dark outside, Cheng Jinzheng was a little puzzled, when suddenly there was an exclamation from the backyard.

Cheng Jin ran to the backyard without thinking, but he still remembered to put a scarf around the lower half of his face, and when he rushed to the backyard, he? didn't know that the voice came from the door of the senior brother's room.

Confidant No. [-] outside is calling the door, but there is no movement inside at the moment.

"Get out of the way, I'm coming!" Cheng Jin felt something was wrong when he touched the door frame, and immediately shouted back, "Take someone to guard outside the yard, don't let anyone in."

After all, Cheng Jin kicked the door frame so far, and the door opened immediately.

Confidant No. [-]: ...

As soon as the door was opened, a strange aura came out. Although Cheng Jin didn't recognize ghosts, he?had been dealing with ghosts all along?and walked through ghost paths many times. Regarding the aura of ghosts, he?although he couldn't say no. Clear, but intuition sometimes gives him? Better judgment.

They immediately sent a signal to Heilulu, and then closed the door. If it was really a ghost thing, the outsiders came in just to deliver food.

This is the first time for him to enter the "boudoir" of his senior brother. Cheng Jin walked to the ear room in the dark. There was a faint mist, and he? Still didn't hear any movement, but the strange atmosphere became more intense.

At this moment, Fu Chengshu was only wearing a shirt, and if it wasn't for the talisman that his junior had stuffed into his arms just now, he might have disappeared by now.

He was rescued again by his junior brother, but the talisman was quickly worn out. Fu Chengshu only heard a toothache and a little familiar crazy voice: "Fu Chengshu, you ruined my good deeds, you are Sinner, I want to do justice for the heavens?!"

The ghostly aura that suddenly erupted was almost thick, and Fu Chengshu thought he couldn't hide it. Just as he was about to make the final struggle, a sound of hurried footsteps suddenly sounded. The next moment, the light suddenly revived, and he ?I saw?...Yi'an stomped a cloud of black air on the soles of his feet with a violent face, and even crushed it hard.

"..."

The well-known Mr. Wushu in the capital seldom had a moment of speechlessness.