I was an alchemist in those years

Yue Qianling didn't intend to let me go to the appointment alone, let alone Fang Yanan's appointment.

More than two weeks have passed since the incident at Longquan Lake. Fang Yanan wanted to treat me to a meal immediately after he was discharged from the hospital. Fang Yanan said on the phone that he would not thank me for his kindness. No matter how you look at it, the meal was normal.

But Yue Qianling only remembered that Xiao Lianshan came back and told her how I took out the red thread in Fang Yanan's throat with my mouth. As for the result, Yue Qianling didn't care, but she didn't tell me about this process for a whole week In a word.

So while I readily went to the appointment, Yue Qianling followed me without saying a word.

It was a very ordinary meal, and there was even Hu Zhiwen as a companion. Xiao Lianshan didn't come because he was going to pick up Gu Anqi at the airport.

When Fang Yanan was not in uniform, she looked beautiful no matter how she looked. She was a little less bold, but more charming. She was discharged from the hospital not long ago, and her body had not fully recovered. I feel pitiful.

I kept looking around and didn't go to see Fang Yanan. Although the situation in Longquan Lake was critical that day, I had no choice but to do so, but after all, I had a skin-to-skin date with Fang Yanan. I never thought about going to other places, not at all.

If the heart is not right, the sword will be evil.

But sitting here, I always feel that there is an eternal iceberg beside me, and you can feel the biting coolness without touching it.

Yue Qianling obviously didn't think she was superfluous, she sat very close to me intentionally or unintentionally, the smile on her face was as warm as the spring breeze in March, but in my eyes, it was completely a kind of coldness of the autumn wind.

"Qin Yan..." Hu Zhiwen broke the awkward silence of the dinner and said while holding a teacup. "In the past, I was preconceived. I missed and offended many things. I am on duty today, so I can't drink. I use tea instead of wine. I hope I don't take it personally."

It turned out that Hu Zhiwen could also laugh. It was the first time I saw him without a bad face. I was not used to it, so I quickly raised my teacup.

"You are business-like, and there is nothing you can't offend. Let's forget about it after drinking this cup of tea."

Fang Yanan sat in silence for a long time, then picked up the teacup.

"This year's meal is to thank you for saving your life. However, I am a policeman and treat everyone equally. If you do something you shouldn't do in the future, I will also arrest you."

Yue Qianling glared at her, and was about to explode when she found me clapping her hand below. I was not surprised that Fang Yanan could say such a thing. Black is black and white is white. I appreciate it, otherwise Fang Yanan would not have invited me to dinner today in casual clothes.

"What Police Officer Fang said is that one yard is equal to one yard. If I really commit crimes in the future, Officer Fang will just act according to the law."

"Okay, then I will respect Brother Qin for this cup of tea. I won't thank you for your kindness. I, Fang Yanan, owe you my life for what happened in Longquan Lake last time." Even though Fang Yanan was wearing casual clothes, he still spoke in a womanly tone.

Yue Qianling suddenly realized that her existence was completely unnecessary, like air, and put a chopstick of food into my bowl.

"This is your favorite mapo tofu."

In the end, Yue Qianling deliberately said the word "tofu" very heavily, and I understood it, and smiled nervously.

"There is something I forgot to tell you." Hu Zhiwen put down his teacup and took out a file from his bag. "After Officer Fang was rescued, we searched around Longquan Lake to see if there were any clues left by the murderer, and found a piece of incomplete clothes. Later, the police dogs found the person wearing the clothes based on the smell on the clothes."

"Have you caught the murderer?" I looked a little uncertain.

Hu Zhiwen and Fang Yanan looked at each other and said with strange expressions.

"I don't know if it's a murderer?"

"How can you police be so abrupt in handling the case? Yes, yes, no." Yue Qianling finally had a chance to interject, and said dissatisfied. "Don't catch the wrong person again, it's better to ask clearly."

"The person I found...has no way to ask!" Hu Zhiwen looked a little embarrassed.

"Officer Hu, what can't I ask?" I also looked confused.

"Based on the smell on the clothes, the police dogs tracked them all the way to the morgue of the hospital." Fang Yanan said in a low voice. "The clothing fragments matched exactly what was worn by one of the corpses."

"Corpse?!" Yue Qianling dropped the food from the chopsticks. "You mean... you mean that the corpse in the hospital... kidnapped Fang Yanan?"

I opened the file bag, and in the photos inside, I could clearly see the holes in the clothes on the corpse. The corpse was a man in his thirties, very thin, but the clothes he wore were very wide. I suddenly remembered what the administrator said that day , The two people who came down from upstairs were very fat, but their heads were not big, they looked very uncoordinated, and they walked like puppets.

"This corpse should have been dead for no more than seven days." I said calmly. "And also died of drowning."

"How do you know?" Hu Zhiwen pointed to the corpse in the photo and said. "We looked through the hospital records, and the deceased drowned because of a heart attack while swimming."

"There are holes the size of a little finger on the chest, joints of the limbs, between the eyebrows and the top of the head." I put the photo back into the file bag and said calmly. "The seven orifices have black mud, right?"

Hu Zhiwen and Fang Yanan looked at each other in fear, and nodded without saying a word.

"He was made into a corpse puppet!" I said solemnly.

Yue Qianling doesn't have any appetite now. After seeing that photo, Yue Qianling's stomach turned over, but she still asked curiously.

"What is a corpse puppet?"

"Hehe, the two police officers won't believe this, so let's not talk about it, anyway, the matter is over." Seeing Yue Qianling's ugly face, I said with a smile.

"I didn't believe it before...but since what happened in Longquan Lake." Hu Zhiwen said with his head down and a sip of tea with lingering fear. "Many things that cannot be explained cannot be considered non-existent."

"What's going on, you know a lot about this, maybe you can provide us with clues." Fang Yanan asked curiously.

"After a person dies, the soul is attached to the bone. On the seventh day, when the sky and the earth rush, the soul is agitated, so it walks away from the bone. This person died in the water and had resentment towards the water. Dog blood can suppress ghosts and souls, sealed in the seven orifices of the corpse, the soul cannot leave the body, and then icicles are inserted into the chest, limb joints, eyebrows, before the icicles melt, the corpse will be at the mercy of others, this is a corpse puppet!"

Yue Qianling swallowed her saliva, hearing it with horror.

"You mean the corpse will move?"

"Of course not. Exorcising corpses has actually been around for a long time. This is a Taoist Maoshan spell. In fact, the principle of expelling corpses in Xiangxi is exactly the same as this. It's just that expelling corpses is to guide the body and soul back to their hometown, but there is something wrong with being a corpse puppet. It is against the law of heaven to force the soul not to leave the body in order to achieve the purpose of driving the corpse to do something."

"So the person who actually kidnapped and wanted to murder Fang's police officer has this ability?" Hu Zhiwen asked frightened.

I nodded and said calmly.

"It's easy to make a corpse puppet, but it's impossible to drive a corpse puppet without superb skills. This person is more powerful than I imagined."

Hu Zhiwen suddenly thought of something and said in a panic.

"The murderer has not been caught yet. Although Officer Fang is safe for the time being, according to what you said, he can continue to murder Officer Fang at any time. What should we do?"

"Hehe, you don't have to worry about this, Officer Fang will be fine in the future." I smiled and said with certainty.

"Why...why? This person has been planning for so long to want my life, but you saved me, why will I be fine in the future?" Fang Yanan asked puzzled.

"With this person's skills and Taoism, why do he do so many things if he wants your life?" I suddenly smiled lightly at myself. "Because I miscalculated your birthday, I almost killed you. If this person hadn't saved you, how could you still be alive today?"

"This... this person saved me?!"

I nodded and said calmly to Hu Zhiwen.

"Do you still remember that when you came to arrest me that day, you said that you found my fingerprints in Officer Fang's house?"

"Yes, but later I asked Police Officer Fang, you have never been to her house, the fingerprints must have been left on purpose by someone to put the blame on you." Hu Zhiwen nodded and said.

I shook my head with a smile and said calmly.

"The person who left the fingerprints didn't want to blame me, but wanted me to take you to save Fang Yanan!"

Yue Qianling became more and more confused as she listened, she tilted her head to look at me and asked.

"Since this person is going to kill Fang Yanan, why does he ask you to save her?"

"This person obviously knows me. At least this person knows that I am proficient in the five Taoist arts. If I leave my fingerprints, the police will definitely find me, and I can figure out where she is when I arrive at Fang Yanan's house."

"There is always a purpose. What good does he do?" Yue Qianling still asked doubtfully.

"I didn't think about it at the beginning, until later..." I looked at Hu Zhiwen who was opposite me and said calmly. "After your colleague reported to you that the police station in your area was stolen, I suddenly realized."

Fang Yanan raised her head suddenly and said in surprise.

"I understand, let you find out where I am, and then everyone will follow you to save me. There are only a few people left in the police station, and the other party can just go to the police station to steal!"

"Yes, this person's purpose is not to harm Police Officer Fang, but to use Officer Fang to distract the policemen in the police station, and to repair Chen Cang secretly on the plank road. This person's purpose is in the police station!"

"The police station was stolen? What is there to steal from the police station, and it's not a bank?" Yue Qianling blinked and said to Hu Zhiwen. "Did you take stock of anything missing afterwards?"

"That's even more strange. At first we all thought that the gun was stolen, but the gun room was still intact and no one had entered it. The thing that was stolen was the evidence room, which was turned into pieces, but it didn't look like it was for money. In the evidence room, there were seized drug funds and gambling funds, which totaled more than [-] yuan, but the money was thrown all over the floor. After the final count, there was a lot of money. As for other things, compared with the files, the same Nothing was lost."