Be a national teacher in Liaozhai Fanwen

Ruan Tao and his party rushed to the cook's house, and the cook's family lived in Xiaoshijing Lane behind the prefect's mansion.

As soon as Ruan Tao and the others reached the entrance of the alley, they heard the deafening sound of the suona, which sounded like weeping, interspersed with the weeping of men, women and children.

When Ruan Tao and his party arrived, the family was shocked!

Naturally, they didn't recognize Ruan Tao and the others, but seeing the young man in front of him with extraordinary clothes and demeanor, they thought that their family had offended some important person, and they came to their door, and they were relieved when they saw Mrs. Pan's cook.

Hearing that several people were from the government, they hurriedly went to the house to invite them in fear.

"I don't know what the adults are here for...?" The cook's son asked cautiously.

"I heard that your father died strangely. We were sent by Zhuo Lingge to investigate." Wang Mang showed the cook's son the jade badge on his waist as he spoke.

That is not Zhuo Lingge's waist card, but an ordinary jade card.

But the cook's son didn't know what Zhuo Linge's badge looked like, and the other party came with Mrs. Pan, so Wang Mang would believe whatever he touched.

Seeing this, the cook's son didn't dare not answer, besides, he felt that his father's death was extremely wronged!

He burst into tears and said: "My lord, it is clear! My father was killed by a demon!"

Hearing this, everyone in the room was shocked!

Ruan Tao looked at the young man in front of him with half-closed eyes, and asked, "How do you say that?"

The young man said slowly.

It turned out that his father had always been in good health, and for so many years he was better at killing pigs and cattle with a butcher's knife than the butchers outside!

His family has been with Taishou Wu for many years, half of the family has had children, and Taishou Wu and Mrs. Pan have treated his family very well, so the cook is very grateful to Taishou Wu.

Unexpectedly, this time Taishou Wu actually fell ill after eating the raccoon meat he bought due to his own negligence, so he felt very guilty and depressed. In recent days, he often likes to drink outside and get drunk before coming back. They came back dejected.

He always talked about his negligence, but he also said that it was impossible for him to be so negligent that he couldn't tell the difference between a raccoon and a yellow skin.

The family has always comforted him, saying that as the saying goes, most of the people who fall to death are able to ride horses, and it is common to miss it occasionally. Besides, the prefect and his wife never blamed you, so you will be more energetic from now on. Just be on errands!Why bother to blame yourself so much?

But the cook still came back drunk every night, muttering that he couldn't tell the difference between the raccoon and the yellow skin.

The family also had nothing to do with him, they could only wait for Taishou Wu to recover from his illness in a few days, and the hurdle in his heart would naturally pass.

Unexpectedly, just last night, it was rare for him not to be drunk, and he returned home with a flushed face.

Everyone in the family was surprised and asked him what kind of happy event he met today?

He took out a small bag of oil-skinned paper from his pocket and said, "Today is amazing! When I just came home, I met an expert at the entrance of the alley. The expert saw my recent difficulties at a glance, so he gave me This, and told me to open it when I got home."

The family didn't believe it, and said, "You won't give him money, right? He must be a liar!"

The cook said with a smile, the man didn't ask for any money, he just gave him this thing and left, presumably he must be an expert!

When he said this, the family members also began to wonder what was inside.

He took out the oil-skinned paper, and there was a small black dot inside, with thin feet growing around it.

After careful inspection, I realized that it was a louse, a louse several times larger than ordinary louse but as thin as a piece of paper!

The cook felt strange, it was the first time he saw such lice after living for so many years!

So he poured it into his palm and looked at it carefully. For a while, he felt that his palm was burning and itching. It was the louse that was sucking his blood.

I saw the abdomen of the louse lying in his palm sucking blood gradually swelled, and finally the louse was the size of a grape seed, and then jumped out of the cook's palm.

"Hey! Grab it!" cried the cook, laughing.

Then he fell to the ground in an instant with a "boom", and the family hurried up to help him, only to find that he had passed away!

Look at his palm, where the flea bit him just now, it's swollen as big as a walnut!

After knowing the cause of the cook's death and the circumstances of his death, several people felt sorry for the cook's son, and then one of them took a few taels of silver, promising him that he would investigate this matter thoroughly and seek justice for his father, and then then left.

On the way back, Wang Mang asked Ruan Tao: "Just now I saw you were looking at the mourning hall. You don't want to open the coffin for an autopsy, do you?"

Ruan Tao denied, "I'm not a coffin, how can I open a coffin?"

As he said that, he took out a handful of hazelnuts from the pouch in his arms, and gave some to Du Zimei and Wang Mang, and then said: "I was just thinking, would the person who gave the kitchen paper wrap it? will come."

Du Zimei ate the hazelnuts and pondered for a moment, then said: "Thinking about that person knowing his recent unhappiness, and waiting for him at the door of his alley, he must know him. However, the cook obviously doesn't know him, could it be Is it the one who sold yellow skin meat to the cook?"

"I can't." Ruan Tao shook his head and said, "The cook is so guilty, he probably wants to find the person who sells yellow skin meat to him every day when he goes shopping in the street! If it's that person, the cook will definitely beat him up!"

"That man knows the cook, but the cook doesn't know him." Wang Mang leaned on the wall of the car with great interest, "Thinking about it, it might be a guest who came to Wu Taishou's house. When the guest arrives at home, he will naturally invite the cook to cook. Although the cook is Stay in the back kitchen, but according to my understanding of Wu Taishou, the other party is very likely to say to the guests, "The dishes are really good!" Then he slipped the cook out of the back kitchen and let him show his face."

Du Zimei nodded: "This is something Wu Taishou can do!"

"I think so too." Ruan Tao said, "Besides, the things that man gave were not ordinary objects, nor were they dogs. If you lose them, you can find them by yourself. After losing such a 'treasure', I was thinking Will that person come to the cook's house today?"

"What exactly is that louse? Is it really a louse?" Du Zimei looked at Ruan Tao curiously, "What kind of louse can be so evil?"

Speaking of this, Ruan Tao couldn't help but snorted coldly: "It's as thin as paper, and it's much bigger than ordinary lice, and it can kill people directly. Could this be a lice?"

"What's that?" Du Zimei asked.

Ruan Tao said slowly, "The birds and beasts absorb the essence of the sun and the moon to transform demons, and grass insects can also transform demons. It's just that grass insects are mostly cicadas and butterflies. It's not easy for lice and fleas."

"Get to the point!" Wang Mang was too lazy to listen to Wen Zouzou's words, seeing that it was almost time for lunch.

"The point is that the louse has actually turned into a demon. Although it is said to be a demon, it is different from Hu Chang and Hu Qiu in the family. It is not against the heavens to put people to death by instinct without enlightenment. Therefore, it is always There are some dark-minded demons who will raise demon lice, raise them as Gu, and help them kill."

After speaking, Ruan Tao paused and said, "It's really not easy to refine this thing. Normally, one catches a louse, wraps it in oily paper and hides it in the trunk of a peach tree. I'll go back to it in 81. Take it out, if the lice is not dead, and turns into a piece of paper as the cook said just now, then it has become a sperm."

"This kind of opportunity can be met but not sought. If you stuff ten thousand lice into it, you may not be able to make one. This thing is like Gu, and it is a hundred times easier to use than Gu. Killing people will not be punished by God. Don't you think it's a treasure? "

After hearing Ruan Tao's words, Du Zimei asked in confusion: "Who is the prefect Wu who is guilty? Someone use something like this to kill a cook?"

Wang Mang leisurely leaned against the wall of the car, ate hazelnuts and said, "The officialdom is dangerous, you two are still young, so you don't understand the insidiousness of it."

Back at Taishou Wu's mansion, Ruan Tao told Taishou Wu that the cook died unexpectedly, and that the other party's method of killing the cook was very unusual.

The other party gave such a big hand, just to kill a cook, which obviously put more effort on Wu Taishou.

Ruan Tao first asked who the prefect Wu had sinned against recently, and prefect Wu said that he had been an official in the local area for many years, and that Shangjun was a border city, and had no disputes with any other places.

As for privately, everyone who knows Taishou Wu knows that he is a well-rounded person. There may be some who don't like him, but there must be no one who insists on wanting his life.

Mrs. Pan was crying to death, Ruan Tao reassured the couple not to worry, the current situation of Wu Taishou is troublesome, but it is not impossible to cure.

Then, he left seven or eight yellow talismans, and took out the locust tree leaves that Du Zimei carried in his bosom, and asked Wu Taishou to start throwing the yellow talismans and locust tree leaves into a three-year-old medicine pot for brewing. , Add water when the water is gone, but the fire cannot be turned off until the beginning of Haishi.

Then fry a small bowl of soup with one-third of the brown sugar, and send it with it to take time to stabilize the status quo. As for the next thing, he has to wait for him to go back tonight and think about it carefully.

Even though Prefect Wu and Mrs. Pan tried to persuade them to stay, they didn't stay in the prefect's mansion for lunch. Ruan Tao remembered that the buddy in the alchemy room next to him in Zhuoling Pavilion had something that he wanted to borrow.

So, he asked Du Zimei and Wang Mang to go back to have dinner on the way, and he rode his horse to Zhuoling Pavilion by himself.

As soon as he stepped into Zhuoling Pavilion, he realized that something was wrong.

Ruan Tao looked at the blue bricks under his feet, and he found that the recent blue bricks had been polished very brightly!

The sunlight reflected in the whole yard is so bright that it is dazzling. It doesn't look like it has been wiped so clean at all, but it looks like the green bricks in the whole yard have just been replaced with new ones and re-polished.

Although Zhuo Lingge has indeed been greedy for a lot of money from the imperial court and the common people for so many years, it is not enough to do so.

What's more, even if you have money, it is used to repair houses and temples. What does it mean to throw it on the ground?

Not only that, Ruan Tao also felt a strange smell coming from the ground.

He frowned and looked carefully at the shiny blue bricks on the ground, only to realize that it wasn't the bricks that reflected the light, but someone touched a layer of grease on the bricks.

Although Ruan Tao didn't know what kind of oil it was, it was obviously not lard.

Looking at the yard reflecting in the sun, Ruan Tao was a little confused, so he said, "What's the point of this?"

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