The black-bellied prime minister always threatens me

Yue Qing stared at the bulging quilt on the floor, and after a while, opened a corner and got in: "I'm afraid of the cold, so let's squeeze together with His Majesty."

Hearing the sound, Ye Liushou moved himself aside as if he was electrocuted, and a cold person suddenly rushed into his side. He was startled and angry: "Yueqing! You!"

"Go to sleep, it's the middle of the night, don't let others think we are doing something shameful."

Ye Liuqiu took two deep breaths, tried his best to restrain the urge to hit someone violently, turned over and grabbed the corner of the quilt, closed his eyes angrily, and silently recited the Qingxin Mantra twice in his heart.

Seeing the angry little emperor, Yue Qing closed his eyelashes contentedly.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, the magistrate of Huaide County rushed over without stopping.

Ye Liuqiu opened his eyes, and Yue Qing sat on the stool sipping tea neatly dressed. He didn't know when he woke up, but he didn't seem to sleep the whole night, as if the one who squeezed in last night and slept on the cold floor was not He does.

After hastily washing and washing, the magistrate of Huaide County was led into the room by Su Gongcheng. Seeing the two big men, he was stunned and said without changing his expression: "The magistrate of Huaide County, Li Yinhong, has seen the imperial envoy."

Su Gongcheng only said that it was a private visit by the imperial envoy, but did not say that the emperor and the prime minister came in person. Li Yinhong, a young county magistrate, naturally had no chance to meet Yue Qing.

He made a deep bow, his face over half a century old was covered with wrinkles due to a smile, "I have lost my way to greet you, my lord, please forgive me."

"Lord Li, please excuse me." Ye Liushou was a little uncomfortable being stared at by Yueqing as if watching a show, and sat on the stool with his airs, speaking in a calm and majestic tone.

Although the young man's voice is immature and clear, it has a good appearance, like a newly crowned champion in the gold list.

Li Yihong naturally thought so, otherwise there would be no idlers in the court to take care of such thankless things, let alone the people who came here were so young.

He poured a cup of tea, Ye Liuxiao took it steadily, took a sip and put it aside, "Master Li, please sit down, I don't know if Master Li, as a county magistrate, knows about the monster of Wuwang Mountain In more detail."

Hearing this, Li Yihong shed tears of bitterness: "My lord, you don't know, that monster is really cruel, and there are some origins."

He began to speak vividly.

It turns out that Huaide County was in the Chengyuan period, that is, when Yeliuzi's grandfather was the emperor. At that time, it was still a prosperous city. At that time, there was a Shangguan family with rich heritage. First, there was a noble concubine, and then a queen. , Shangguan Patriarch is also kind and charitable, and he is a well-known benevolent person in this place.

In the 19th year of Chengyuan, the eighth daughter of the Patriarch Shangguan was born, which made him both happy and worried.The happy thing is that his daughter is smart and cute, but the sad thing is that he is already over fifty years old, but he doesn't even have a son under his knees, and there is no successor to his huge family business.

Fortunately, the Shangguan family went to pray for blessings and do good deeds on Sundays. After three years, the concubine in the fourth room became pregnant, and finally continued the incense for his Shangguan family and gave birth to a son.

"This should be a good thing, but who knows what kind of evil this is!" Li Yihong spoke in a cadence, spitting stars flying around.

The Patriarch of Shangguan was frightened when he carried his youngest son.Although he is not suave, he has good facial features and looks like a normal person, but this youngest son has strange erythema birthmarks all over his body, and his face is also hideous and terrifying, like a Yaksha.

But at least he was a son, and the head of the Shangguan family could only reluctantly accept it. He spent a lot of money to find a genius doctor. As long as he could cure the young master's erythema, he would be rewarded with a house and an additional 50 taels of silver.But it is a natural thing, although many people are jealous of the money, no one dares to treat it rashly.

Another three years later, the young master of Shangguan's family began to have pus-filled pustules on his body, and the stench was unpleasant.The head of the Shangguan family also tried to have another son, but they were all daughters without exception, so he stopped thinking about it and devoted himself to his younger son, raising the reward to 100 million taels and two houses.

That is, in the winter of this year, a virtuous quack warlock came to Huaide City. After counting his fingers, he concluded, "Young master's illness is the karma accumulated by the Shangguan family for several generations. If you want to There is only one cure in the world.”

The Patriarch of Shangguan was overjoyed and asked what the solution was, the man said, "Just change the skin."

The sorcerer claimed to be a half-immortal, not to mention changing the skin, even if it was a brain and heart change, he could easily catch it. The head of the Shangguan family believed his words, and soon looked for a good-looking boy who was the same age as the young master in the city, and promised a thousand gold to buy the skin. Finally, the skin was changed in February of the following year.

The sorcerer did not know what sorcery method, the appearance of the two children did not change, but moved all the red spots and pustules to the other person.

But the good times didn’t last long. In the summer of the 27th year of Chengyuan, the child whose skin was changed festered and died. It is said that only a pile of carrion was left in the end. Under the guidance of an expert, he changed his name to Wuwang, and built a cemetery for the child on the top of the mountain.

Later, the young master of Shangguan’s family also had a problem, and ulcers began to appear on his face. The warlock didn’t take it seriously: “It’s against the law of heaven to change the skin. Go ahead and change it again."

"It's against the law of heaven?" Ye Liuxiao asked in confusion.

In the three thousand worlds, that guy Tiandao is not so idle to take care of such trivial matters.

Apparently this so-called warlock is a liar.

"Yes, yes, this incident is too unimaginable. It is clearly recorded in the file, and the officials really dare not speak nonsense."

Ye Liushou glanced at Su Gongcheng, then at Yueqing who was watching with folded hands, rubbed his brows, and said patiently, "Go ahead."

Li Yihong said yes and continued.

The head of the Shangguan family thought that he had been a good person for half his life, and it was not too much to do a single evil thing, so he listened to the magician's slander, arrested more than 1000 children of the same age, and each gave their parents [-] taels.

But those parents were willing to come to the door one after another, and finally, after being driven out and killed two people, they went as far as they could with 1000 taels of silver.

Within two years, the sorcerer killed six or seven children, and all of them were buried in Wuwang Mountain. The head of the Shangguan family wanted to stop, but the cost was thrown away. If he stopped suddenly, wouldn’t those children die in vain? Warlock let it go.

And the Wuwang Mountain outside the city is becoming more and more cloudy, and pedestrians often pass by and hear the cry of children. Even if the sky is clear and the sun is bright, the place does not see the sun, and it is very gloomy.

All the villagers at the foot of the mountain moved away, and the city wall was moved again and again, causing panic.

The warlock not only failed to heal the young master, but healed him to death. The eight-year-old child shed a layer of hideous skin like a yaksha, and died of pain. The owner of the Shangguan was furious, and he skinned the warlock and threw it away. Wuwangshan.

Another half a year later, Shangguan's family and the two concubines in the palace all died tragically overnight. The foot of Wuwang Mountain was covered with flesh and blood, and the peeled skin was hung on the mountainside. .

The city gate shrinks again and again, shrinking to what it is now, and from Huaide City to Huaide County. The unsolved case a hundred years ago was hastily closed after the death of Shangguan's family, and no one dared to go to Wuwang Mountain again.

It's just that I didn't expect that now, the monster came to the door by himself.

After Li Yihong finished speaking, he took two sips of tea, and his back was already soaked.

"Hearing what you said, could it be the resentful spirits and not the monsters that caused the trouble?" Ye Liushou thought for a while, and then overturned his guess, "It doesn't make sense, the resentful spirits form quickly, and they should disperse after killing Shangguan's family and paying for their lives. Go complain, it doesn't make sense to come out to make trouble now."

Yue Qing reminded him aloud: "Maybe that thing has tasted the benefits of being a ghost, and it's cultivating the way of ghosts."

The human heart is greedy, and there are birth, old age, sickness and death, joys and sorrows, but if they become ghosts and gods, they can come and go freely, and they become the existence that people admire and fear in their hearts.

If he could be a free ghost king with no worries in his life, who would want to be a nodding commoner?

Ye Liushou suddenly realized: "This is really possible!"

Li Yihong was a little confused, why did he suddenly talk about ghosts and gods?Why did he suddenly not understand what they were saying?

He looked at Yue Qing, felt that he didn't look like a master of dancing and catching monsters, and seemed to know everything, so he cupped his hands and said awkwardly: "I don't know if this is..."

Su Gongcheng: "Followers!"

Ye Liuxiao: "Monster catcher!"

Yueqing: "He is a husband."

The three spoke in unison, Li Yihong was a little dizzy, and nodded hesitantly: I understand, he is the imperial envoy who acts as a follower but actually comes to catch demons.