Feast of Rebirth

Yun Congfeng was stunned for a long while: "This matter... is getting more and more complicated, isn't it?"

Quan Hongfang picked up a potato with his chopsticks: "Never mind him, Qing Pingsi has a profound background, it's no big deal to die, and give us back, right?" He lowered his voice and winked at the second half of the sentence. A sly smile on his face.

Yun Congfeng knew that what he said was right, he felt a little uncomfortable, he lowered his head and said sullenly: "I hope it can be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise there will be internal problems, which will affect our safety."

Quan Hongfang said: "That's right." He lowered his head and continued to eat.

The affairs documents accumulated by the Qingping Division were unexpectedly large. Yun Congfeng had been busy all afternoon, and there was still a pile left. He flipped through it, and saw a document from the Yamen, the content was to request the Qingping Division to send Qingping envoys to assist Investigating a missing child case, the case was filed a few days ago, and the envoy of Qingping signed it, but there was no reply——Yun Congfeng rubbed his chin, guessing that the envoy of Qingping who signed the signature was going to investigate, but the envoy of Qingping The master was temporarily transferred away, and he may have been injured in the explosion, and the document without a palindrome returned to him.

Yun Congfeng bit the tip of his brush—it was almost time to get off work, someone yawned, stood up and stretched, and called his friends to go with him.Quan Hongfang was also calling him, asking if he wanted to go out to eat out.He glanced at the official document, hesitated a few times, and said, "I won't go, I have something else to do."

People left one after another, and when Yun Congfeng finished reading the official documents, there were not many people in the room, and it was half dark outside, with insects chirping.

Li Chengde, who lived at No. 69, southeast of Tianshui Street, was walking on the market road in the early morning of May 14th, suspicious of spying on a temptress...

Tianshui Street is far away from the busy center of Wangjing, so it is quite quiet, with two or three lights, and the sound of dogs barking.Stepping on the moonlight, Yun Congfeng walked along the house wall to find 69. There was a narrow wood door in No. 69, and there was a faint smell of blood coming out of it, which made Yun Congfeng vigilant.

Seeing a temptress tying up a child, pouring medicine on it, turning it into a cow or a horse...

"Is anyone there?" Yun Congfeng picked up a stick casually from the ground, leaning on it and shouted.What he didn't expect was that the door opened after a while, and a sleepy face appeared: "Who is it?"

Yun Congfeng realized that it was not good for the other party to come so late, but he had no choice at the moment. He caught a glimpse of a long string of things hanging vaguely behind him, and when he looked carefully, it was a bright red sausage.Throwing the stick lightly: "I am the envoy of Qingping, here to investigate the temptress you mentioned."

Li Chengde lost all sleepiness for a moment, and said tremblingly: "Isn't it...have you already asked?"

Something went wrong with the program.Yun Congfeng thought to himself: "Is that someone from the Ministry of Punishment? Qing Ping envoy hasn't received any news about this, so I have to ask again."

"Then... that's fine." Li Chengde opened the door, half bent over: "My lord, please come in."

"You don't need to be too polite, just tell me directly, in detail, what did you see that day?"

It was just an ordinary market day.

Li Chengde struggled forward pushing the trolley full of sausages, the sky was dimly bright, and the morning mist was hazy.He wanted to get to the market early to get a good seat, so he decided to take a shortcut in the alley.

However, the vast morning fog confused his vision. He walked into the wrong alley. He didn't understand very well, thanked him in a daze, and walked away while thinking about what the other party was talking about.

As he was walking, he heard a child crying terribly. This had nothing to do with him. It was normal for a parent to teach a child a lesson.But the next moment, he heard a strange cry.

At first, the voice sounded like a cow's cry, but also like a child's cry, mixed into a strange tone, which seemed human but not human.

Li Chengde has been making sausages and bacon for more than ten years. He has killed a lot of cattle and sheep. He can understand the meaning of the sounds of cattle and sheep. He has never heard such a sound.

Curiosity overwhelmed his eagerness to go to the market. He followed the sound and searched slowly. He pretended to be casual and walked over. After judging the sound's distance, he retreated to a similar place. There were low-pitched cow moos and knife sharpeners coming from the wall. sound.

There was another child crying, whimpering, but the tone of the crying was slightly different from the previous one.The window was a bit high, and Li Chengde stepped on his own sausage to climb it up. The wooden strips were nailed all over the window and the coarse cloth was pasted. The cow had just had its throat cut, and the old woman took a copper basin to catch the blood under the knife.

On the other side was a child curled up, bound by hemp rope, not gagged, whimpering, but unable to yell.Li Chengde looked terrified, and didn't dare to take a breath.

The copper basin looked small, and it was filled in a while, but it didn't overflow for a long time.When the cow's blood gradually drained away, the blood in the copper basin dropped down inch by inch visible to the naked eye.

Sorcery, this is sorcery.Li Chengde was sweating coldly.

The blood was gone, and the old woman scraped the bones and gouged out the flesh with a knife, and her movements were skillful and unhurried.The ribs were almost removed, and the old woman took off the heart. The heart looked so small that she could figure out that it was not the heart of a cow with her toes.

The old woman soaked the heart in a copper basin, continued to divide the meat and chop the bones, and a cow became a pile of meat on the chopping board in a short while.She sharpened the knife again and walked towards the child.

The child whimpered and shrunk to the corner, and was picked up by the old woman like a chicken. She untied a cowhide water bag from her waist and forced it into the child's mouth.

Next, Li Chengde lost his memory.He could only hear the old woman screaming strangely, dancing and dancing like cramps, but the picture in his memory seemed to be covered with thick mist, leaving only a gray shadow.

"Then the kid turned into a cow?"

"Yes..." Li Chengde's face turned gray, and he said with fear and fear: "I have lived so long, this is the first time I have seen such a witchcraft."

"Then what happened to you after that? Do you have any physical discomfort?"

"Yes, I felt dizzy after hearing that ghost's scream. I felt sick all the time. After I reported to the police, I went home to rest. I didn't make it to the set." Li Chengde looked frustrated.

"And now? How do you feel physically?"

"Okay."

"Can you remember what tune that old witch was humming at that time?"

Li Chengde frowned, hummed a few times, and couldn't get into the tune at all. After trying a few times, he said embarrassedly: "My lord, I have a tone deafness, I really can't hum that tune..."

Yun Congfeng looked at the sky outside the window, got up and said, "I'm so sorry for the disturbance late at night, I've thanked you for your hard work, go to bed early, and I will leave. I will visit again tomorrow, and take me to that road to see."

"Adults walk slowly, small ones don't work hard. I will try my best tomorrow." Li Chengde nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

After leaving Li Chengde's house, Yun Congfeng was thinking about the case, lost his mind, and was a little excited.Kidnapping children and practicing sorcery, if this old hag commits many crimes, once exposed, it will definitely cause panic among the people. At this time, he must have done a great job in solving this case... Wait!Yun Cong slapped himself from the fan.

The top priority right now is to catch the witch and bring her to justice as soon as possible, so as to prevent her from harming more children. How can he take a big case as a stepping stone to his career?Yun Congfeng broke out in a cold sweat, and almost fell into a mediocrity with a single thought, luckily, luckily.

I went back to the Rujia inn with my heart full of worries. The inn was still bustling with wine and wine, and there was a lot of noise.Yun Congfeng was exhausted, he washed his hands hastily, and was about to lie down and sleep when there was a knock on the door outside.

"Hu Yan?"

"Well, it's me."

"It's so late..." Yun Congfeng muttered and opened the door, and a faint fragrance wafted through his nostrils: "Did you eat well tonight?"

Hu Yan brought a bowl of pink sticky stuff, Yun Congfeng didn't recognize it, but it looked delicious: "Ah...it's okay, what is this?"

"Lotus root powder, I soaked it, why don't you try it? It's also good for supper."

"Lotus root powder... looks like this?" Yun Congfeng was a little surprised, he had some impression of lotus root powder.The senior sister on the mountain often soaked it, and he stole some, but the one he brewed was like lime water, not tasty at all, so he never tried it again. The lotus root noodles brought by Hu Yan seemed a little different...

"Yeah, it's delicious."

Yun Congfeng scooped a spoonful, and sprinkled a thin layer of sweet-scented osmanthus on top of the lotus root powder. It was sweet and fragrant, and had a sticky, soft and chewy texture that melted with a little sip.

"It tastes good, but...it's too late, and I don't really want to eat it."

"Have you been so tired recently?"

"That's right, there have been a lot of incidents in Qingping Division recently..." Yun Congfeng yawned uncontrollably.

"Is there an explosion?"

Yun Congfeng was stunned for a moment: "This matter...has spread so widely?"

"How could it not be wide?" Hu Yan smiled half-smile, "Have you found out anything?"

"It's not my turn to wait for newcomers to intervene in this kind of thing." Yun Congfeng scratched his head, a little embarrassed, and Hu Yan continued: "Then have you heard the rumors in the market?"

"What rumor? Could it be related to the bombing?"

"It's kind of related." Hu Yan suddenly hesitated. He didn't know what consequences he would face if he said this, and what kind of drastic changes it would cause in the future... But, how would you know if you didn't try?To this world, he often has a sense of unreality, why not just treat it as a temptation, even if the consequences are a sea of ​​swords and swords, he has to get through it.

"Recently, children often go missing in the capital, do you know that?"

"Ah, yes." Yun Congfeng immediately remembered the case of a child turning into a cow.

"Some people say that this is a demon who used a child's blood to refine medicine for a high-ranking official. The demon has great powers, and ordinary people can't do anything about it." Hu Yan slowly organized his words, "As for the case of Yiyue Pavilion, two unlucky officials Knowing who the high official who needs to refine the medicine is, they gathered together to discuss a solution, but the high official acted preemptively and silenced him. Later, the Qingping Division entered the game, and the high official sent someone to do something to destroy the evidence, but this As soon as it got involved, the suspicion became more and more serious, so they did it together again, killing people to silence them."

Yun Congfeng listened carefully: "It's kind of interesting... The process looks decent, but, who did you hear this rumor from?"