Kaifeng Monster

Chapter 5 Dolls
Now, Zhan Zhao goes to Duanmu Thatched Cottage frequently.

In fact, every time he went, Duanmucui might not be there.When Duanmucui was away, Zhan Zhao would sit down at the table in the courtyard and pour himself a cup of Dukang.There is only one cup, and the small wine jug, after pouring out this cup, can't pour out half a drop.

A few times, Duanmucui came back just in the middle of drinking, and said with a smile, "I'll have a drink too."

When I stretched out my hand to pour it, the jug poured out fine wine again.

Duanmucui asked: "Is the life-suppressing talisman still effective?"

Zhan Zhao nodded: "It works. Every time I come in, the ghosts in this hut become ordinary things, they don't speak, they don't speak, they don't make trouble."

Duanmucui said: "It's just that every time you turn around and leave, they wink and wink at each other, maybe they will comment on you and chatter endlessly."

Zhan Zhao felt chills down his spine, and said, "Stop talking."

Duanmucui couldn't help but say, "If you turn your head now, you might see the wine jug on the shelf, with two soft feet growing out, walking back and forth on the shelf..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhan Zhao had already fled tens of feet away.

Duanmucui bent over with a smile.

After several times, Zhan Zhao was no longer scared.

Another time, Zhan Zhao asked Duanmucui: "I often hear that people from Xihualiu are arresting people. Where does the disciple of Xihualiu live?"

Duanmucui said: "Of course they live with me."

Zhan Zhao didn't believe it: "I've been here many times, but I haven't seen any of them."

Duanmucui pointed to the inner room: "If you don't believe me, go in and have a look."

When he saw Duanmucui for the first time, the chirp that had appeared as emerald jade came out of the inner room, and then returned to the inner room, so Zhan Zhao always felt a little apprehensive and apprehensive about the inner room.

Duanmucui's eyes turned lightly: "You don't dare?"

Zhan Zhao didn't answer, but strode over, raised his hand and opened the curtain.

It's just an ordinary long and narrow inner room, without even any furniture.

On the wall to the right, there is a layer of partitions every five or six inches. The partitions are densely packed and filled with dolls of various colors.

There are those who wear red, those who wear green, old, young, male, female, beautiful, ugly, those who hold knives, those who hold swords, those who play the piano, those who play chess, those who fish, those who sleep soundly, all kinds, And so on.

But the wall on the left side is covered with large and small yellow talisman papers. Zhan Zhao doesn't recognize any of the talismans drawn with cinnabar.

Zhan Zhao came to a sudden: "There is no such thing as a fine flower Liumen, are they all spirits driven by you?"

"Yes," Duanmucui replied with a smile, "All walks of life, only I can't think of it, and I can't do it without it."

After that, when Zhan Zhao went to look for Duanmucui again, he would often bring her one or two dolls.Most of them are bought when they like it when they are patrolling the streets.

Duanmucui didn't say anything at first, but then she lost her composure.

"Zhan Zhao, don't buy these Jade Emperors, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattvas, pig spirits and monkey monsters again. Aren't they going to scare a lot of people to death when they go to the streets to grab people?"

Zhan Zhaohun didn't seem to hear it, and when he comes next time, it will still be ghosts and goblins.

Duanmucui let out a long sigh and let him go.

That day when Zhang Long and Zhao Hu came back from arresting the criminal, their hats were crooked, their hair was loose, and their clothes were torn.

Zhang Long spoke first: "Master Zhan, isn't that woman named Duanmucui amazing?"

Zhan Zhao's heart skipped a beat, he raised his head, his gaze stayed on Zhang Long's face for a while, and then turned to Zhao Hu's face.

"It's not very remarkable, but when you meet her on the road, it's best to avoid her."

Zhang Long seemed to tremble a bit, Zhao Hu was also a little dumbfounded.

"Then, if we're not careful... I mean not being careful..." Zhao Hu carefully considered the words and Zhan Zhao's expression at the same time, "Break down her house..."

Zhao Hu didn't continue talking, because whoever saw Zhan Zhao's face now would not make fun of himself.

"You two are so bold," Zhan Zhao said without a word, "Why didn't you think of smashing Grand Master Pang's house?"

On the way to Duanmucui, Zhan Zhao kept thinking about how to apologize to Duanmucui.

According to Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, the two chased the fugitive near Duanmu Caolu in the western suburbs, and subdued the fugitive after a fierce fight, which inevitably brought disaster to Chi Yu.

This "chiyu" refers to the Duanmu thatched cottage.

Therefore, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu are "official", and it is an "unintentional mistake" to bring damage to Duanmu thatched cottage. I hope Miss Duanmu is "a lot of adults", so don't "take it to heart".

Duanmu Cuiqiao stood at the end of Duanmu Bridge, looking at Zhan Zhao who was walking quickly with a half-smile.

Zhan Zhao went to see the Duanmu thatched cottage first. Fortunately, he thought that the Duanmu thatched cottage might have been "razed to the ground" so badly, but now it seems that it was only broken and the pots and pans were dropped, which is not as imagined. So horrible.

"Okay?" Duanmu Cuiliu raised his eyebrows, "Zhan Zhao, you really don't feel backache while standing and talking."

While speaking, with a light flick of the finger, the "Suppressing Huo Talisman" in Zhan Zhao's arms seemed to be alive, and Shi Shiran floated out.Duanmucui brushed the talisman with her hand again, the talisman gradually turned and wrinkled, a flame ignited from the center of the talisman, within a short time, only ashes remained.

"Look and listen for yourself, is it okay?"

There was a dead silence in the courtyard at first, and then there was an endless stream of groaning and groaning. Those ordinary things were like living creatures waking up from hibernation. They slowly turned over, stretched their limbs, supported their bodies, and looked around blankly.The gate of the fence was bowed, and the sparse and scattered fence strips were tangled together, resembling a painful human face. Seeing Zhan Zhao looking at it, he suddenly opened his mouth and complained: "Zhang Long kicked me so hard."

Zhan Zhao was startled, and took two steps back subconsciously, but he heard an ouch under his feet, and when he looked down, it was a blue and white porcelain bowl with a cracked mouth, and he opened two mung bean-sized eyes, first took a look at Zhan Zhao , then Didi Liu looked around, and murmured: "The front tooth, I broke my front tooth. Excuse me, let me get out of the way."

All of a sudden, there were moans and complaints inside and outside the thatched cottage. Some had lost their waists, broken their legs, and broken their arms. Those pots, pans, brooms, and teapots were indeed as Duanmucui said before, " grow soft feet", hobbled, swayed three times, walked around, bumped into each other occasionally, and chattered endlessly.

Zhan Zhao was still horrified at first, but after seeing it, he was a little dazed, feeling that the disgruntled pots and pans in front of him resembled all beings resentful and dissatisfied.

Duanmu Cui said: "All living beings are just appearances. Zhan Zhao, I think these things are more human than those hypocritical and despicable people." He leaned over and picked up a piece of broken porcelain, and threw it at the blue and white bowl: "Catch it your teeth."

Looking around, the blue and white bowl had already reached the gate of the fence. Upon hearing this, Gululu rolled back, stretched out two arms as thick as matchsticks, happily took the front tooth over, and placed it solemnly on the gap. .

Zhan Zhao heard that there was no sense of blame in Duanmucui's tone, his heart relaxed a little, and he said with a smile, "Is it all right?"

"Is it all right?" Duanmucui was still indifferent, "It's a serious matter, you go to the inner room to have a look."

As he clapped his hands lightly, the noisy and chaotic things in the courtyard immediately turned around and returned to everyone.The broom stood back in the corner in an orderly manner, and the pots and pans lined up and returned to the stove.The blue and white bowl was at the end of the line, and he didn't forget to turn his head and say to Duanmucui: "Thank you..." Before the gap closed, Zhan Zhao almost laughed out loud.

The inner room looks the same, the dolls are lined up on the partition, and they don't have arms and legs like pots and pans and grin their teeth.

Zhan Zhao looks at Duanmucui suspiciously, and Duanmucui pouts at Zhan Zhao, signaling him to look harder.

So he looked again, and then looked again, and finally Zhan Zhao spread his hands together: "Zhan Zhao is stupid, please give me some pointers."

Duanmucui stretched out her index finger, and tapped an empty space on the right side of the second-floor partition: "Here, one is missing."

Zhan Zhao was angry: "Some of these dolls are closer, and some are farther away. I thought they were arranged in this way. How can I see that there is one missing?"

"I didn't say that you will be punished if you guess the prize. Why do you care so much?" Duanmucui glanced at Zhan Zhao, but it seemed that Zhan Zhao had a small belly.

Only women and villains are difficult to raise. The ancients were sincere and did not deceive themselves, and Zhan Zhao slandered.

"What's missing? So what?" Zhan Zhao was puzzled.

"I'm going to ask you guys in Kaifeng Mansion." Duanmucui said with a showy expression, "Baba'er, the guard of Kaifeng Mansion, sent a pig monster, and Zhang Long and Zhao Hu sent the pig monster to Zong out..."

"Pig demon? Got out?" Zhan Zhao suddenly felt bad.

"Yeah, those who knew it were they were hunting fugitives, those who didn't know thought they were going to open up the world, slashed left and right, yelled, knocked over dolls, and broke a lot of talismans. Fortunately, only one pig got away Monster, if all the ghosts and ghosts you sent run out, just wait and see Kaifeng's demons dancing wildly."

"The pig demon...can haunt everywhere?"

"How can you call it a demon, but this pig demon is very shallow, and three or five people can send it to heaven with three or five sticks."

"Pig demon...can eat people?"

"As far as I'm concerned, pigs don't like human flesh very much, but humans are more interested in pork." Duanmucui said solemnly.

Zhan Zhao has an urge to beat someone up.

After all, I dare not.

"I'd like to ask Miss Duanmu to give me some pointers. Where will this pig demon go?"

"Well, it depends on where the pig likes to go the most." Duanmucui shrugged, as if it had nothing to do with her.

Pigs, of course, like to stay in the pigsty the most.

This is the answer given by Mr. Gongsun.

"What do you think?" Zhan Zhao asked Zhang Long.

Zhang Long nodded.

"What do you think?" Zhan Zhao asked Zhao Hu.

Zhao Hu nodded fiercely.

Very well, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu do not need to investigate the case or patrol from now on. They will each bring a team of yamen to check the large and small pig pens in and around Kaifeng City, and special attention should be paid to pigs that "behave abnormally".

"Why, why is this?" Zhang Long really wanted to buy a piece of tofu and bump his head to death.

Zhao Hu took a longer view: "Guard Zhan, are there any criminals who may be hiding in the pigsty?"

Well, it seems that the same can be said, Zhan Zhao nodded.

Sure enough, there are all kinds of eccentrics and hobbies in the Jianghu, Zhao Hu thought to himself.

Of course, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were not the only ones who had doubts.

Your Zhan guards suddenly dispatched these people to check the pigsty, so you have to report to Mr. Bao, right?

"This matter is related to Xihualiu, and my subordinates are helpless."

It turned out that upon hearing Xihualiu's name, Bao Zheng didn't even bother to ask any further questions, and waved his hand: "Guard Zhan will arrange it by himself."

After the inspection on the first day, there were no abnormal pigs, but Zhang Long and Zhao Hu each returned with several skewers of pork.

"What can I do?" Seeing the displeasure on Zhan Zhao's face, Zhang Long spoke convincingly, "Those peasants turned pale with fright when they saw us all carrying knives and staring at the pigs in the pigsty. The pig will just leave, and we have to give the pork to us, and if you don’t take it, you won’t let it go..." At this point, I suddenly thought, "Brother Zhan, you asked us to check the pigsty, isn't it because you want to eat pork?"

Zhan Zhao's joy and anger are not obvious: "I will go tomorrow, remember to pay the meat money, it will be double."

Then came the second and third day, inside and outside of Kaifeng, it was still the same as usual, and there was no case of pigs scaring people to death.Zhan Zhao was puzzled, and ran to Duanmu thatched cottage a few times, but Duanmucui hadn't gone out these few days, thinking hard over a rusty kitchen knife.It is said that this is Pao Ding's Niu Jie Knife, if he can manage to summon the spirit monster in the knife, Zhan Zhao will be lucky to see Pao Ding's Niu Jie knives in the past.

"I'm really not interested in unraveling the cow now. I'm all about catching the pig demon."

"Oh." Duanmucui shrugged and gave a helpless expression.

Zhan Zhao suddenly became suspicious: "Why are you so careless? Could it be that the pig demon didn't escape, and you just took the opportunity to vent your anger and torment the Kaifeng mansion?"

"If you think that way, I can't help it." Duanmucui didn't lift his eyelids, "Then you call Zhang Long and Zhao Hu back."

recalled?Putting it lightly, the question is: Do I dare to take the risk?
Zhan Zhao was furious in his heart, and said again: "If the pig demon is caught, will someone be sent to inform you to subdue it?"

"There's no need to troublesome people." Duanmucui suddenly thought of something, took out a piece of talisman paper from his bosom, and tore it into a butterfly shape with his hands.

"Does it look good?"

How can the torn butterfly look good?Just as Zhan Zhao was about to choke her, Duanmucui had already picked up the butterfly on his fingertips.Strange to say, the butterfly stood on the fingertips without falling down. Suddenly, the butterfly's wings trembled.

Zhan Zhao thought he had seen it wrong, rubbed his eyes and looked again, the rough yellow butterfly had already revealed mottled colors, its tentacles were lightly trembling, its wings fluttered again and again, and suddenly fluttered up, flying lightly in front of Zhan Zhao dance.

Zhan Zhao had an unbelievable expression on his face, and was about to praise the exquisiteness of the butterfly, Duanmucui raised his palm, and slapped the butterfly flat on Zhan Zhao's right shoulder.

"You, you, you..." Zhan Zhao almost jumped up seeing Duanmucui being so charred as a "creature".

"What am I, what am I?" Duanmucui stared at Zhan Zhao, "This is Xindie. If you find the pig demon, tap it three times, and it will call me to go."

Zhan Zhao lowered his head, there was no butterfly on his right shoulder, and when he looked carefully, he found a dark red butterfly outline on the red official uniform.

In another two days, Mr. Bao will interrogate the fugitives Zhang Long and Zhao Hu captured when they made a fuss in Duanmu Thatched Cottage that day.

It was not easy for Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to find someone, and they really wanted to sit in on the case. They had just walked a few steps to the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion when they heard guard Zhan coughing in a meaningful way.

Forget it, let's continue to check the pigsty, Zhang Long's face wrinkled into a bitter gourd.

Zhao Hu was yawning profusely.Last night, the yamen guard who stayed behind in the pigsty rushed to inform him that he found a pig behaving strangely. After Zhao Hu arrived at the scene, he found that the pig behaving strangely was just out of an ignorant impulse to marry a male college student.

The lobby of Kaifeng Mansion.

Bao Zheng was sitting behind the desk, and he slapped the gavel: "Lead people into crime!"

The criminals who were brought into the lobby included those who regarded death as their own home, those who fought with two strands, those who were arrogant and domineering, and those who were tearful and aggrieved, but like this one, he was brought into the hall by two government officials. The buttocks are high, the neck is retracted, the eyes are blurred, the mouth is pouting, and the mouth is drooling, which is really rare in my life.

Bao Zheng frowned: "Why?"

The two yamen servants put the prisoner down, and one of them had a frowning face: "My lord, I don't know why. This fugitive escaped from prison a few days ago, and after being captured by the two adults, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, his temperament changed drastically. He yelled all day long. When he was hungry, he was given more than a dozen steamed buns and bowls of rice batter for each meal, and he curled up in a ball when he slept, and recently he couldn't even speak human words, and he was chaotic everywhere..."

While speaking, the man made a whooping sound from the bottom of his throat, and he arched back and forth at the Yacha's ankle, and his mouth kept drooling.

The yamen servant wanted to give him a kick, but he was afraid of being presumptuous in front of Mr. Bao, so he kept moving aside.From the perspective of outsiders, it seems that they were pushed away by the prisoner several feet away.

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce looked at each other for a long time, and Gongsun Ce sighed: "This is not a person, this is clearly a pig..."

Zhan Zhao stepped forward bravely: "My lord, according to my subordinates, I'm afraid I'm going to invite Miss Duanmu, who is very beautiful, to come over to talk about it."

Bao Zheng suddenly said: "Since this is the case, please hurry up."

Zhan Zhao retreated outside the door, looked around for no one, patted his right shoulder three times, the colorful letter butterfly fluttered its wings lightly, and went over the wall.

Fortunately, this pig demon's knowledge is still shallow, so he won't stir up trouble.Fortunately, this pig demon was attached to the prisoner and was locked up in the Kaifeng Prison all the time, so that it would not become a monster among the people.

Seeing Xindie fly away, Zhan Zhao felt a little scared.

Duanmu Cui stepped out of the thatched cottage, the butterfly circled a few times in the air, and then turned back.

"Did they finally know that the pig demon was attached to the prisoner?" Duanmucui smiled slyly, and looked back inside the hut, "This time a little punishment will help you avenge yourself." He opened the door and walked into the city go.

The thatched cottage is still as quiet as before, only the fence gate suddenly grinned, contented.

(End of this chapter)