Those years when I hunted demons in Dali Temple

Chapter 8 'Twin crutches'

When Wang Xuanzhi got out of the prison, he could not help taking a deep breath when he smelled the fresh air outside.

As soon as he was affected by the Tao, his somewhat chaotic brain became clear, and he nodded with the saluting jailer and cell boss, and went straight back to the posthouse.

Go back to the post house and sit in front of the desk in the temporary study room of the post house.

It was only then that he realized that there was a smell of dead bodies everywhere on his body. Although he would go to watch his autopsy when he was investigating the case before, no one would spit at him after the autopsy, and even openly pulled up his sleeves.

"Come here, prepare water." Originally wanting to take a bath, as soon as water was mentioned, he thought that the disaster-stricken villages around Pu County were all submerged in the water. The matter in between had not been clarified yet, so Wang Xuanzhi waved back The servant who came forward.

Going to the desk, prop up the window lattice, and the bright sunlight pours in.

Wang Xuanzhi took out a piece of white and clean paper from the desk, pressed it with two paperweights, then picked up a pen, and wrote on it the clues he found this time: Pu County, floods, rumors, dead bodies.
When I was about to write again, a drop of ink smudged on the paper.

Seeing the dizzy ink blob, Wang Xuanzhi realized that he was in a trance.

"What kind of connection is there between these people?" Wang Xuanzhi frowned, and kept crossing lines in front of these people, trying to connect them. First of all, there were dead bodies and rumors.

Followed by floods and Pu County, but found that there is still something missing in the middle, and there is still a lack of key empirical evidence.

Putting aside the paper just now, Wang Xuanzhi wrote another one, "According to what Cai said just now, the deceased should have been silenced. And the clothes of the corpse are not cloth from the villagers of Niujiao Village at all."

Before the imperial envoy settled down the suffering people in the villages of Pu County, the most serious one was Niujiao Village. The whole village was washed away, and none of the people survived. Only one survived, but there were still some people alive. .

"So where did this person come from, and why did he come to Niujiao Village?" Wang Xuanzhi tried to figure out the intention of the deceased.

Just at this moment, there were slight ripples in the clear water on the desk.

"Come in." Wang Xuanzhi put down the pen in his hand, brought another piece of snow-white paper, covered what he wrote before, and raised his head.

The person who came was Xiao Tong who had gone and returned.

"My lord, I found out." Xiao Tong replied in a low voice.

Wang Xuanzhi: "What do the villagers of Niujiao Village say?"

Xiao Tong: "My lord, you are amazing, you guessed right, that man is really not a villager of Niujiao Village."

"Have you found out, where did the deceased come from?" Wang Xuanzhi looked at Xiaotong who was talking about Xingdao, and felt that he had overlapped with the little Taoist priest in the prison for a moment, and rubbed his eyes. He was still his confidant Xiaotong.

Halfway through the conversation, Xiaotong saw this and asked, "Is there something wrong, sir?"

Wang Xuanzhi waved his hand, motioning for him to continue.

Xiaotong straightened his figure again, "Where did the deceased come from? The villagers of Niujiao Village have different opinions. Some say he came from the east, and some say he came from the west. In short, there are all directions."

"So, everyone in Niujiao Village knows him." Wang Xuanzhi asked.

Xiaotong: "He settled down in Niujiao Village."

"." Wang Xuanzhi resisted the urge to change his confidant.

Reluctantly asked: "What news did you find out?"

Xiao Tong: "This man's surname is Wang, and people in the village call him Wang Rong.

Wang Rong is often not at home, and he never sees him working. Often, a well-shielded person comes to him. The villagers guess that the source of Wang Rong's life should be from this man. "

Wang Xuanzhi's right hand tapped the desk involuntarily again, and Xiao Tong, who was used to his master's actions, stopped disturbing him, turned around and went out to guard the door.

"Xiao Tong, go and get that Dao Yi out of the prison of the county government." Wang Xuanzhi suddenly opened the door of the study, and ordered Xiao Tong outside the door.

Xiao Tong was a little embarrassed, "My lord, the county magistrate Liu has convicted the man before, and he will release him later. I'm afraid he won't be willing."

"Just say that this person, I need to bring back to Beijing for further investigation, no one else should interfere." Wang Xuanzhi casually made up a reason.

Xiao Tong: Poor little Taoist priest.

"Yes!" Xiao Tong heard his answer.

Daoyi just faced the foul-smelling corpse, finished his lunch in the prison, disgusted all the inmates, and was about to take a rest, when he saw Xiao Tong, who had been in the prison yesterday, came again.

But she just had lunch and didn't want to move, so she sat cross-legged on the straw mat and looked at him.

Looking at this gaze, Xiao Tong suddenly felt a little reluctant to go forward.

At the end of Kui Mo time, he handed over the order transferred from County Magistrate Liu directly to the prison chief. The latter saw it, took the key from the jailer himself, and happily released Dao Yi from the prison .

Seeing her standing inside and not wanting to come out, Xiaotong shouted, "Daoyi, you still don't come out, do you still want to stay inside?"

Dao turned his head to look at the head of the cell, and then at Xiaotong, "This big dead man, can you go out with me?"

Xiao Tong: .
Prison boss, jailer:
Prisoner: .
What a fool!

Xiaotong gave some money to the prison chief, "Please help arrange two people to carry the body to the posthouse."

Seeing Yinzi, the prison chief smiled, and immediately ordered a person to carry the stinking corpse with him.Being able to show their faces in front of officials from the imperial court, the cell boss said that no matter how stinky the corpse is, he can bear it, and it is definitely not for money, they are not that kind.

Dead bodies can also be taken away.

Daoyi happily left Kuimo's cell, and followed Xiaotong to the post house.

As soon as Dao arrived at the posthouse, the first thing he said when he saw Wang Xuan was, "Si Qing, when will my fault come down?"

Wang Xuanzhi cast a sideways glance at Xiao Tong, who looked at his nose, his nose at his heart, the sky and the earth, but he didn't look at him.

He had no choice but to talk to Dao Yi himself, "Dao Yi, don't you know?"

Daoyi looked at this and then that, looking very backward and motivated, "What should I know?"

"Now that you have no crimes and your identity is unknown, we cannot just let you go like this. Go to Chang'an with me to prove your identity, and then you will be released." Wang Xuanzhi always speaks in a simple way, and it is rare to say such a long paragraph.

Dao Yi was overjoyed in his heart, it was really someone who gave him a pillow when he fell asleep.

"Your Excellency, what you mean is that I don't need to go to the place, and I don't need to go everywhere to ask for directions. After two days with you, can I go to the capital?" Dao Yi's concern is not to get rid of the crime, but whether he can go to the capital smoothly .

Wang Xuanzhi choked up, "Yes!"

One was trying to abduct someone, and the other was trying to pretend to be abducted, using all kinds of martial arts, which made the other party believe that they were pulling each other's lame reasons.

"Is there any food along the way?" In order not to let himself continue to say stupid things, Dao Yi started a conversation casually.

"With my official here, I won't starve you." Wang Xuanzhi was so weak that he almost gave up the idea of ​​investigating.

(End of this chapter)