Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

"Hey, what are you doing? Stop and don't run!"

Yuchiling raised his head: "If you didn't run away, who are you calling?" After answering the butcher's words, he continued to focus on the half-protruded stick in his hand, half talking to himself and half saying to Yunli: "This There is also a crutch rolled inside...it should be a crutch, right?"

Yunli made a gesture to appease the butcher, and then turned to Yuchiling: "You are not active in investigating the matter, but you are very active in looking at the corpse, and you arrived faster than us." He said while paying attention to the five balls of paste on the ground, It is true that every group of things has traces of being dragged, which is almost the same as that of Xiuzhu.

The butcher's eyes flicked back and forth between the two: "Young Master Yun, you, do you know each other?"

Yun Li changed his arms to hold the child, and said, "Do you know who this is? Come, let me introduce you. This is the Lord Fuguo who works by the Emperor's side, Yuchi Fuguo. Like the Holy Majesty, Fuguo My lord is worried about the world, and if something like this happened in your Huzhou, your lord Fuguo will definitely not turn a blind eye and let it go."

The butcher immediately knelt down and said that Huzhou was lucky to welcome Yuchi Fuguo.

Yu Chiling gave Yunli a look of "Are you going to die if you don't retaliate against others?"Yunli also communicated with him with his eyes, saying, "I'm going to die." Yuchiling avoided the butcher and rolled his eyes, and said to Yunli in a low voice, "Brother Juegui and I are going back to the capital together. I chose this route after I came to Huzhou, so I stopped by to have a look." Yun Li smiled: "If you don't want to stay, you just don't want to stay, just say it straight; you're so tactful, I thought I saw someone who was going to hang out with Yuchi Common people who look exactly the same."

Yuchiling lowered his voice: "..."

Yunli: "You said Su Tong was with you?"

Yuchi Ling said: "Brother Jue Gui is Mian Shan, and brought those young scholars into his shop to inquire about things."

Yunli: "What about you? Face evil? Or speak badly? They don't want you to come in?"

Yuchiling lowered his voice: "Shut up, you."

"Su Tong, what did he inquire about?"

Yu Chiling said seriously: "We asked around, and all the people who lived around said that some ghost had returned, so they stopped doing business and didn't go out for several days. They said that the ghost came to find the locals, but if they asked again Did anyone they know go missing, and they all said 'no'."

In this way, foreigners are more likely to die here.

Yu Chiling: "Whether Brother Juegui wants to stay or not is his business, anyway, I have to go back." He didn't explain why he was going back, he just walked silently in front of another corpse, took out a new small porcelain bottle, Put the corpse gas into the bottle.After filling the fifth bottle of corpse gas, he stood up and said, "This happened in Shuzhou and Huzhou, maybe it also happened in Shazhou, Chongzhou, and Haizhou. I'll go back to the capital to ask for leave, and go to those places to see, maybe Can find again..."

It sounds like he's on a treasure hunt.How can a person with normal thinking have any reason to expect accidents in other places?Leaving out all kinds of mental activities, Yunli blurted out: "You are sick."

Yuchi Ling: "..."

Yunli: "If there are other places, what are you going to do? Fill them with several large bottles of corpse gas and go back to refining poison?" He suddenly became interested in those small porcelain bottles, reached out his hand to untie the pouch on Yuchiling's waist, and loosened the seal. The bottles were poured out with a clink.Yu Chi Ling was very surprised, when he recovered, Yun Li had already pulled off one of the bottle caps.Yuchi Ling wanted to snatch it back, but Yun Li put the mouth of the bottle close to his nose, raised his hand to block him, and said, "Wait."

"Young Master Yun?" Seeing him in a daze for too long, the butcher stretched out a hand and waved it in front of his eyes.

Yunli put the lid on.He seemed to have "smelled" the contents of the bottle somewhere.With a dark face, Yuchiling put the scattered small porcelain bottles into the pouch, and finally snatched the one in his hand back, exuding a displeasure around him.Yun Li always felt that it was only a little bit away, that he could recall exactly where he had "smelled" that smell just a little bit; Grab a porcelain vase with a cheeky face.Yuchiling refused to let go, so the two pushed and shoved back and forth like children grabbing a toy.

They are obviously the two most reliable people, but they are "playing around" here at this time, the butcher couldn't stand it anymore, and interrupted: "Master Yuchi, Mr. Yun, you should think of a way to see if you can make Qian inherit the family. caught."

Yunli: "I'm thinking about it, but Master Fuguo doesn't cooperate."

Yuchiling said coldly: "These artifacts all come from the Master of the State Teacher. If you take them, what can you add to them?"

"The bottle belongs to that little national teacher, so does the 'corpse gas' belong to that little national teacher?" Yun Li suddenly stopped, and at the same time the chaos in his mind was broken, "No, no, no... Listen to me, you What he collects is not corpse gas at all." In an instant, he remembered why he felt familiar with the contents in the bottle: the day Nie Qiu invited him to dinner in Huzhou, he compared a move with Nie Qiu; the breath in the bottle , and the tyrannical aura in the broken wizard's body, it can match the number.

What autumn is it again?

Who is the broken wizard helping this time?

Who are those on Huzhou Street, and those in Xiuzhu's woman's yard?

Yunli: "Show me the other bottles!"

Yuchi Ling tied up the bag, stood up and took a step back.

Yunli: "..."

"Don't worry, Mr. Su. I have been dealing with wood for decades. Where is the wood that I haven't touched, and what kind of wood can't be recognized? You just need to hand over the things to me and let me see. Which state is big, which is small? I will tell you clearly which mountain and which river is here, and I promise it will be good!"

The footsteps of a group of people came from the other end of the street, and a straightforward voice pierced through the footsteps.Yunli and Yuchiling paused for a while, and the butcher said pleasantly: "Isn't that Mr. Su? Mr. Yun, it's all right now. Mr. Su is coming with you, and the surname Gan will definitely not be able to escape." Yunli Butcher Li Ting never leaves Gan Cheng's family, but he has fixed on Nie Qiu in his heart, and he doesn't know if the two are really related, so he no longer tries to correct the other party's thinking.

Yunli: "Who is that?"

Butcher: "My surname is Guo. All the wooden objects in our house were made by him."

The carpenter Guo boasted of himself without humility, then stopped in the distance and said, "Young master Su, it's okay if you let me look at the wood, but it's okay to look at the dead. I'm afraid I'm going to be blind." .” After finishing speaking, he actually wanted to withdraw.A few scholars of the civil and military department hurriedly wrapped him up and said: "I want you to look at wood, not dead people." Guo Carpenter complained: "I am at home well, why did you bring me here? ? Is there any wood here?"

Yu Chiling now wished to be far away from Yunli, so he took the "rolling pin in ground meat" and said to Su Tong, "Sure enough, there are."

Su Tong: "Mr. Guo, look at this piece of wood."

Under the strange gaze of the butcher, Yun Li pushed aside the corners of the other four balls of "minced meat", revealing the wooden sticks inside.The traces of dragging, the wooden sticks without exception, the horrible way of death, the identity of the deceased who is still in the mist... What is the connection between these?How to get in touch?What can be explained by connecting them?

In other words, what did Nie Qiu do?

What is he going to do?

Then I heard the carpenter Guo say: "Oh, this kind of wood can be found everywhere, and there is nothing special about it. However, people in Chongzhou and Jingcheng use this kind of wood more than people in other places." A scholar asked. "People there like to use it?" Guo Carpenter sniffed and said, "After all, the trees that grow this wood like to grow in the capital and Chongzhou."

The scholar said: "Mr. Su, didn't the people we asked just now mean that the team of beggars was heading west? Let's chase after them and ask if they are from the capital or Chongzhou?"

Yuchi Ling: "Beggar? West?"

The scholar said: "We are not sure, only one shop said that it seemed to see a group of beggars. For foreigners, this is the only clue."

"If you guys have nothing else to ask me, I'll leave first." Guo Carpenter said.

The little scholar: "Mr. Guo, have you seen any beggars?"

"I haven't seen it. People have been hiding in the house these days, and it's rare for a few of them to tell what color the sky is, let alone notice someone passing by." The carpenter Guo was silent when he saw everyone. He was silent, so he left the wooden stick and left in a hurry.Although the butcher believed that the ghost of the Gan family was the murderer, and didn't quite understand everyone's thinking, but when he heard a clue, he immediately said: "Mr. Yun, if you are going to the west, I will lead the way."

It’s just west, it’s such a big direction, and it’s not an alley, so there’s no need to ask someone to lead the way; but Yunli inexplicably thought of the scene where the butcher and his wife insisted on rushing to Yaoshan to find Gan Cheng’s family, but he persuaded himself not to use it , and then thinking that finding a group of beggars is not a dangerous thing, and it would inevitably bring out some heavy memories of the other party, Yunli nodded and said, "That's good. You go ahead?"

The butcher happily stepped forward, greeted Su Tong, and walked ahead to lead the way.

Yun Li came to Su Tong's side, Su Tong took the child and held him for him, knowing that he had something to say, so he slowed down and followed him behind.

Yunli: "Nie Qiu, do you remember?"

Su Tong: "...remember."

Yun Li: "There is his breath on those corpses."

"..."

The two were thinking about what happened in the Huzhou restaurant between Xia Tian and Nie Qiu, when Yu Chi Ling retreated "casually": "Brother Jue Gui, Your Majesty has granted you a few days off, are you not in a hurry to return to Beijing?" Su Tong said : "It took half a month. If it is really delayed, and the reason is announced, the responsibility will not be too great." Yu Chiling: "That is true. It is a pity that my leave was promised by the master of the country, and I have no chance to follow Brother Juegui. , Ask Jue Gui to help me block that lord's anger... Hey, hey, what are you doing?!"

Yun Li weighed Wei Chiling's pouch in his hand: "You have eyes, don't you see that I'm here? You came here yourself, no wonder I'm here."

"It's useless if you take it."

"The things inside are useless to me, but I took it, and you are not happy, so it is useful?"

"..."

Yun Li stopped talking to him, and lowered his head to find several small porcelain bottles, opened the caps one by one, and sniffed them one by one.After checking, he filled the bottle and threw the bag back to Yuchi Ling: "You have been with Nie Cang for so long, do you understand him?" "What do you want to say?" "If you don't understand, let me tell you about him." His deeds. Before he became a national teacher, he was still a little wizard wandering around in five states, following his..."

Yu Chiling interrupted Yunli and defended Nie Cang, saying: "I know what you know. Besides, it's not wandering, it's experience. The position of a national teacher is a master's inheritance, and experience is naturally indispensable to him."

"I'm not arguing with you about this. Let me ask you, have you ever heard him mention his senior brother?"

Yuchi ordered: "What autumn?"

Yun Li stopped walking: "So you know."

Yu Chiling opened the pouch and counted the small porcelain bottles one by one: "He is the senior brother of the Master of the State Teacher, and he has violated the taboos of the teacher's sect. That's why the State Teacher published a list a few years ago to arrest him. It's just that he is cunning. Still at large."

"do you have anything else?"

"No, that's all. What are you asking for?"

Yun Li said bluntly: "The so-called corpse aura you call has the aura of Nie Qiu."

A trace of surprise flashed across Yuchi Ling's face, but this surprise didn't seem to come from what Yunli said.Because of this, Yun Li observed his expression carefully, and for a moment forgot what he wanted to ask again.Yuchiling tightened the bag, poked the baby's face in Su Tong's arms, and walked forward with his thoughts on his mind.The doll was also skeletally surprised, and actually recognized who was poking him when he was blindfolded, and as soon as he stretched out his arm, he wanted to scratch Yuchiling's head; but his small arm was too short, so he only scratched back a handful of air.

I took a chance, but the silly boy was still smiling when he got mad.

Yun Li took off the cloth from his eyes and rubbed his face, "If you continue to be stupid, we will have to support you forever." The child shook his head, calling "Daddy" on the left and right, Although still smiling, it is not as eerie as before, but more innocence that a little doll should have.He babbled and leaped onto Su Tong's shoulder, Su Tong protected him and let him crawl, and only started to walk when he felt that he was sitting firmly.

Yunli: "I took him for so many days before he called me daddy; as soon as you hugged him, he started calling me daddy." He squeezed the little friend's fleshy legs, exerting a little force, and both of them The little leg kicked wildly, just thinking it was very fun, "I think you are more talented than me in taking care of children, someday I will take a picture of your doll and exhale fairy spirits, if he is really alive, I will leave it to you first. Needless to say, Su Tong laughed at him for talking nonsense, he himself felt unreliable at first, waved his hand, caught the sound that floated out and threw it on the ground.

The child riding on Su Tong's shoulder suddenly pointed.

At the same time, everyone stopped and heard the butcher say, "There are people! They haven't gone far, they are resting there."

In front, a few people dressed in dilapidated sloppy clothes leaned against the corner, taking advantage of the rotten house that had not completely collapsed to keep out the wind and cold.The broken earthen wall encloses two or three narrow spaces with weeds in them, where a few people dressed as beggars huddle together with the withered and yellow haystacks.

Being stared at by a dozen strangers, the beggars were obviously uncomfortable, and they pulled down their messy hair hanging on their foreheads in search of a sense of security.

The butcher was about to go forward again, but the scholars gave him a wink and told him not to move.

The beggars who got up halfway saw each other not moving, looked at each other, groped and sat down against the wall, firmly holding the... crutches in their hands.The butcher vaguely felt that everyone present had heightened their vigilance because of those bent and twisted wooden sticks, so he cleared his throat and said, "Where did you come from?" The action of walking.The butcher said: "What are you afraid of? Have you ever stolen something?! I asked you if you came from the direction of the capital. Why are you pretending to be dumb?"

no answer.

"I see those few are thieves, gentlemen, I have to ask you to restrain them and search our town."

The scholars thought it was better not to be so irritable, and let the butcher calm down, but the butcher refused to listen, and stepped forward and said that I could get all of them by myself.A few people by the broken wall immediately set off and ran away, but the butcher rushed ahead to stop them, and grabbed someone at random and pulled his sleeves.Seeing that their companions were being blocked, the others stopped running and stabbed the butcher with sticks to force him to let go.

The moment the butcher walked up, Yun Li's right eyelid started to twitch.Yun Li said that if you didn't remind me earlier, now that everyone has passed, what's the use of you dancing so fiercely?Helpless is helpless, he still walked over, trying to pull the butcher away.

"Mr. Yun, according to me, take their sticks back and show them to Lao Guo, then we don't need to ask these ancestors to open their mouths, and we can know where they are from."

It was said that the beggar who fell into the hands of the butcher struggled even more fiercely.

It was fine if he didn't struggle, but when he struggled, the butcher became more suspicious, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the stick was tricky, so he wanted to grab it and see for himself.

"Hide your head! Do you know that someone died on the street, and the dead are the things in your garbage dump?! Several adults and young masters came here to save your lives. Why did you make it seem like you were eaten by someone? The?! Bring it, show me first."

As soon as the wooden stick left his hand, the beggar plopped down on his knees and said, "Chongzhou! We are from Chongzhou!"

"Which place in Chongzhou?!"

"Chongzhou...uh, Chongzhou Wei County."

Yunli: "Yuchiling, do you have this county in Chongzhou?" He heard that the name of the county seemed to be made up, so he turned his head to ask Yuchiling for confirmation; Realizing that many people were looking at him, he began to think about Yunli's problem, and said for a long time, "I haven't heard of it."

The beggar gave himself a symbolic slap for some reason, and changed his words: "The capital, I came from the capital! That...you pay me back first!"

The butcher raised his stick a little higher: "There are no counties or towns in the capital city, do you think you can get away with just saying that the capital city is just a fool's errand, don't you?! You're in Chongzhou for a while and you're in Beijing for a while. I don't think you're familiar with those two places. Damn, Tell me where are you from?"

The beggar suddenly glanced at everyone: "The capital! I really came from the capital! You give it back to me, I won't run away, I'll go back, I'll go back! I won't run away, I won't run away, I will Really not..." He didn't seem to be talking to the butcher, but begging to someone.

then.

Under the eyes of everyone, this person "disappeared".

At the same time, the doll dropped her smiling face and let out a mournful cry.