The face in front of him was hidden in the shadow behind the car curtain, but Ruan Tao could still see that this face was no longer a human face.

Half of this face is huddled between the eyebrows, it feels like the whole skin has been rubbed together, and the eyes are forced to be rounded, like the eyes of a beast.

The lower half of the face seemed to be lifted directly towards the nose, the corners of the mouth were forced to open up, and the skin and flesh on the face were squeezed into lines, like a huge flower roll.

Even if Ruan Tao had seen a ghost like Zhou Youling, he was startled by the face in front of him: "You, you are..."

Wu Taishou was afraid of being seen by others and frightening the surrounding people, so he quickly lowered the curtain of the car.

His voice was a bit astringent, because he asked, "I wonder if Mr. Ruan has time to have a cup of tea at the house now?"

Ruan Tao naturally had no reason to refuse.

When he arrived at the prefect's mansion, Ruan Tao found that Fusu, Wang Mang, and Du Zimei were already sitting in the flower hall. Presumably, prefect Wu got up this morning and saw his current appearance, so he had to report it.

Prefect Wu still looks less than five inches long as it was yesterday. Fortunately, Ruan Tao came to see it yesterday, otherwise I don't know if Prefect Wu really went to the grave today.

His current appearance is very much like a person with a yellow face, and his walking posture has also changed accordingly.

Although he tried his best to control it, Ruan Tao could still see that his hind legs wanted to jump subconsciously.

Ruan Tao frowned, his eyes sank instantly.

He walked to Fusu and sat down, Mrs. Pan brought tea, because Prefect Wu has become like this now, even the servants who signed the death contract in the mansion, they avoid as much as they can.

Ruan Tao saw that Mrs. Pan looked haggard, her fat-like skin turned pale, obviously last night must have been a sleepless night.

At this time, Fusu handed him a purse, and Ruan Tao took it later, opened it and saw that it was still a bag of roasted chestnuts, still steaming.

The corner of Ruan Tao's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

Fusu asked him: "Is there something going on in Zhuoling Pavilion recently? You were called away so early?"

"Yes!" Du Zimei looked up curiously after hearing the words, "I remember Zhuo Ling Pavilion is full of firecrackers in the morning, can't even wake up a bird? Why did you call you so early in the morning?" ?”

"Hey!" Ruan Tao didn't want to think about Zhuoling Pavilion now, so he said casually, "Is it because Mrs. Pan went to Zhuoling Pavilion to look for them last time and they pushed them back? Looking for me today Go, it’s just an excuse that I took the case of Wu Taishou privately, didn’t register in the cabinet, it’s against the rules, and then I was reprimanded.”

Hearing this, Fu Su frowned slightly: "What did they say about you?"

"What else can I say? Just say I'm dereliction of duty!" Ruan Tao stuffed a chestnut into his mouth and said indifferently.

Those words were indeed too harsh, so Ruan Tao naturally didn't intend to tell them.

It's not that he is magnanimous, it's just that the most important thing now is that Wu Taishou is infected with evil spirits all over his body. If the delay continues, Wu Taishou will probably become the first prefect in the history of the Great Qin Dynasty to kill himself by himself.

After all, Huang Pizi is quite good at making holes.

After hearing this, Prefect Wu and Mrs. Pan feared that Ruan Tao would be troubled by them. Ruan Tao comforted: "Don't worry, they won't embarrass me because of such a small matter. They still expect me to be with the yamen." Let's investigate the recent case of a missing child, so that Zhuo Lingge can take the opportunity to get some credit and get some oil."

"The child is missing?" Wang Mang asked back.

"Hey! Recently, due to the falling of the stars, many people have poured into Shangjun. When there are more people, it becomes chaotic, and the number of kidnappers in the city also increases." Wu Taishou sighed a little guilty, "It's just me now. It’s such a strange disease again.”

"Li Taibai is also investigating this matter," Fusu said.

Speaking of this, Fusu looked a lot more serious: "Recently there have been too many incidents of missing children. People in the army have been mobilized to help maintain the law and order of Shangjun, and a lot of soldiers have been deployed at the gate of the city. It stands to reason , There are documents for entering and exiting the city gate, every household has a guarantor, the gate of the workshop is closed early at night, and Marquis Wu is patrolling at night, and I don’t know how those kidnappers stole the child.”

"Is the child lost so ridiculously?" Ruan Tao frowned, and a bad premonition flashed in his heart.

At this time, Prefect Wu dragged himself guiltily, cupped his fists and bowed to Fusu: "I'm guilty, sir."

"Okay! You look like this yourself, you should worry about yourself first." Du Zimei comforted Prefect Wu.

In Du Zimei's eyes, the current Wu Taishou is almost the same as Hu Chang's grandson, Hu Qiu.

Hearing this, Mrs. Pan choked and said: "Mr. Ruan's whole body is relaxed after taking the medicine yesterday, and his body is not as painful as yesterday. I thought I would feel better when I woke up today. I know...the face has turned into this."

"Mr. Ruan, look at this..." Prefect Wu was a little embarrassed, and he didn't know whether his illness would be cured.

If not... He looked at the lady who was sitting by the side as weak as Si Luo, it would be fine if he died.

It's just that he and his wife never had any children, if he just left like this, what will his wife do?

Ugh!

Ruan Tao didn't say anything more, the situation of Prefect Wu is the worst at the moment.

He went forward to feel the pulse of Taishou Wu, and then pricked several silver needles on his face and wrist.

About a quarter of an hour later, Taishou Wu felt a little numb on his face, and some fine black watery and bug-like things came out of his body intermittently along the silver needles.

Ruan Tao hastily caught it with two yellow talismans, softened it into a ball, and blew on the fox flame lightly to burn it.

During the burning of the talisman paper, faint screams could be heard from inside the talisman paper.

"This is……"

Mrs. Pan was timid, she almost fainted from fright when she saw this scene.

"Is it Gu at this time?" Du Zimei asked with a frown.

"No, it's Sui." Ruan Tao's face was a little gloomy, "It's the yellow-skinned flesh."

Things like weasels are the most vengeful and good at revenge.

If you really mess with them, it's really troublesome!

Ruan Tao had a bit of a headache, but when he came to see Prefect Wu yesterday, the "soul" on his body did not come from the yellow skin, but a very common "sickness".

Things like "Sneaky" are actually very common. Children will bump into them from time to time when they walk at night. It is easy to solve "Sly" that is not serious, but I brought a Ruan Tao from Ye Yu. Just wrap the red cloth in a small triangle on your body, or press it under the pillow.

Ruan Tao came to see yesterday that the "sickness" on Wu Taishou was just such a "sickness", but the "sickness" on him was caused by the yellow skin, so it was more serious.

He poured down the bowl of locust leaf decoction yesterday, and gave him some red cloth bags. It stands to reason that he should be very "weak" today because of the "sinister spirit" on him. He only needs to cook it with locust leaf and wormwood. Just wash it off with water.

But now, Ruan Tao discovered that Prefect Wu's body was indeed weak, but because of the weakness of "Yin Moment", another thing lurking in Prefect Wu's body emerged—the evil spirit.

In layman's terms, it is Huang Pizi's curse on Wu Taishou.

Ruan Tao said: "I think the 'prescription' given to you by the monk from the Western Regions before you came here is actually to let you introduce the 'shadows' around you into your body, and use the 'shadows' to suppress the 'yellow spirits' like a gu. How can the body stand up to play like this?"

"Then what should I do?" Mrs. Pan held the handkerchief in her hand and pressed it to her heart, trembling all over.

"If this is just eating the meat of the yellow skin by accident, it is impossible to be cursed like this!" Ruan Tao took off the silver needle from Wu Taishou's body, and said angrily, "Aren't those hunters usually catching these things? ? Are there few weasel furs on the market? How come you just ate a mouthful of meat unintentionally? This is clearly someone messing with you!"

"But, but I have never had any enmity with anyone!" Wu Taishou wanted to cry but had no tears.

But when he said this, he was actually very flustered, because of the previous two incidents, he had chosen to side with the eldest son and Wang Xiang in front of Eunuch Zhao.

It is said that the old eunuch is very evil, and his face is as white as a piece of paper at the age of more than 40. I heard that he learned some evil things in order to please His Majesty.

Could it be because of this?

Because Eunuch Zhao didn't dare to touch Wang and other people, and he couldn't fight against Mr. Ruan with trembling skills, so he was used for the surgery?

Thinking of this, Taishou Wu felt depressed, but he didn't dare to speak.

That's it!

After all, the eldest son is going to ascend the throne in the future, if he can't escape this catastrophe, he has the right to die for Daqin, it's worth it.

"Hey!" Mrs. Pan, who was sobbing, seemed to have thought of something suddenly, she quickly said to Shou Wu, "Did that classmate of yours not take it with you? Why did he heal after taking the medicine from the monk from the Western Regions?"

"Student?" Qiqi looked at Mrs. Pan.

Yes, Ruan Tao remembered that Madam Pan had said before that the reason why Taishou Wu ate the meat was because one of his classmates came to his house as a guest that day, and the cook went out and bought raccoon meat as an accompaniment to the wine.

I remember she said at the time that Taishou Wu was just a night tour in those few days, and his classmate was a direct classmate or directly fell insane. Later, the monks in the Western Regions gave medicine, and they both took it.

Wu Taishou is so ill now, what is his classmate's condition now?

Mrs. Pan said he was fine? ?

This is so weird.

***

On a small hillside in Gushui Village in the south of the city, a woodcutter had just cut a few bundles of firewood, and turned to go down the mountain with his back on his back.

Walking halfway up the mountain, I suddenly saw something hanging on the branch of a tall cypress tree.

When he got closer, it looked like a painting.

At this moment, a cloudy wind blew by, and the originally sunny sky suddenly darkened, and the branches and leaves in the forest were rustled.

He also scraped the painting to his feet.

The woodcutter looked carefully at the painting on the ground, and found that the painting was incomplete, and there was a lot of brown-red dirt on it. He couldn't make out what it was, but he recognized what was painted on the painting—it was a portrait of Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui has a leopard head, ring eyes, and a beard. He is dressed in a red robe and wears a sharp ghost-slaying sword on his waist. This is what villagers often buy and hang to ward off evil spirits.

However, this painting is different from the Zhong Kui portraits he has seen. The eyes of the ordinary Zhong Kui portraits are all wide open, making the evil spirits terrified.

But this painting is strange, Zhong Kui's eyes are indeed closed.

The woodcutter was looking at the portrait on the ground carefully, and thought it was really interesting.

At this moment, he suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder, as if someone had leaned his head on his shoulder.

He thought it was Niu Er from the village who had also come up the mountain and was joking with him, so he smiled and scolded: "You suffer from the plague! Seeing that I carry so much firewood on my back, why don't you say to help your brother share it? You just..."

Before he finished speaking, an indescribable rancid smell suddenly came from the tip of his nose.

He frowned: "Did you fall into the cesspit? Is it so smelly?"

As he spoke, he turned his head and saw the head resting on his shoulder.

The head was the size of a human, with human hair growing on it, but the entire skull was a bit pointed, and the nose and mouth were even bald.

It was as if the skull of some kind of beast had been glued to human skin.

The upper jaw of the entire mouth was pulled forward, and the upper and lower corners of the mouth were directly split, revealing red flesh and blood, and yellow thick water slowly seeped out from inside.

Beneath the flesh were white teeth, lined up along the pointed palate that had been pulled forward.

The eyebrows and eyes were kneaded into a ball, and thin drops of blood were squeezed out, covering the entire face intermittently.

Seeing that the woodcutter had discovered him with this face, he tried to pull the corner of his torn mouth, trying to show a smile: "My good brother, this end is too heavy, let me lean on it."

"what--!!!"

The author says:

感谢在2021-12-1003:29:54~2021-12-1400:00:38期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 1 piece of lemon tea;

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of poke poke; 1 bottle of Xiao Jiusi;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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