My Lady Is Not A Demon

Chapter 141: Hong Dalang’s Secret!

In the hall, the atmosphere is a bit hot and dry.

A dozen or so little heads of the Xuantian Department gathered together, staring with scorching eyes at Lord Tie who was sitting on top of him slowly drinking tea, and each one breathed heavily.

Finally came the task.

If you don’t come to the task, go to Goulan to relax, you can only hide behind the door and become a Miao Renfeng, brothers are suffering.

These little leaders are led by Qi Delong Dongqiang.

Although the Xuantian Tribe has a large number of people, only these ten or so of them really have some strength.

Unlike the yamen, the Devil’s Division has oil and water to fish at any time.

Especially the restocked Xuantian Department, in addition to a fixed salary, every day can only wait for tasks to earn points and come to support the family.

The pain in everyone’s heart is only known to me.

“Snapped!”

The teacup was placed on the smooth table without lightness or weight.

Master Tie moistened his throat and wanted to speak, perhaps because of his injury, he almost coughed and suffocated him abruptly.

The consequence of holding back is a blush and a thick neck.

Coupled with his poker face, Chen Mu and the others felt that he was very dissatisfied now and wanted to get angry.

Lord Tie’s name is Tiebuzhu.

This name was given to him by Master when he was a child, and its meaning is: to be a man and to do things with cloth as soft, and pile as righteousness!

Of course, there is another meaning, that is-not pretend.

From an early age, the Master noticed that this apprentice liked to pretend.

It was clear that Qi Deviation was about to be required, but he insisted on making a breakthrough immediately, and almost used up all his power.

Obviously ate poisonous mushrooms secretly, but insisted that he did not eat them, and almost died.

Obviously he couldn’t beat the opponent, but he insisted that the opponent was vulnerable and was almost shot out.

Obviously…

So the Master changed this name, hoping that the apprentice would stop pretending.

And Tie Buzhuang also keeps in mind the Master’s teachings, be open and honest, inherit the good virtues of the Master, and never pretend.

“Ahem!”

I really couldn’t hold it any longer, Tiebu Zhuang coughed twice with his fist against his lips, pretending to say something: “Recently, a few mummy corpses were found in Dazewan, North Road District, Beijing. After investigation by the Haotian Department’s investigation team, it was confirmed. By the monster.”

Mummy?

Chen Mu frowned.

Subconsciously, he wanted to say, “Should I do an autopsy” or something, but when he thinks that the opponent is a master hunter in the Haotian Department, he can’t be wrong.

Besides, people have caught more monsters than abalone I have eaten, so I wonder what it is.

“Master Tie, dare to ask what kind of monster it is?”

Qi Delong asked.

Tiebuzhu glanced at him and said lightly: “Fox Demon.”

Fox Demon…

Everyone looked at each other.

A little sleepy leader who had stayed up all night last night heard the word ‘Fox Demon’, and suddenly he was relieved of sleepiness.

Energeticly asked: “Master Iron, how does this Fox Demon look like?”

Tie Bo Zhuang’s eyes sneered: “If I have ever seen it, I am afraid that the one sitting in front of you now is also a corpse!”

The little head smiled angrily.

The iron cloth pile looked around at the crowd and said lightly: “This demon is extremely cunning. We have set two traps and failed to catch it. Those corpses have been absorbed by it, presumably for cultivation. .”

Chen Mu couldn’t help but said, “Since we have set up two traps and have already stunned the snake, I’m afraid Fox Demon will leave the capital.”

“I didn’t stun the snake.”

Tiebu Zhuang slowly shook his head, “The two traps were extremely secretive, but they didn’t attract her to enter.

Moreover, after the murder was determined to be the act of a demon, we placed mirrors of the demon sky at all exits of the capital. Once the demon leaves, there must be movement. ”

Chen Mu secretly vomited: The demon mirror came out.

“So what do you want us to do?” Qi Dongqiang asked curiously.

The iron cloth pile took out a section of the fox’s tail from nowhere, and threw it on the table: “We found this by accident. It should have been a broken tail by Fox Demon. It must have been left by the Fox Demon in order to escape from a previous fight. .

According to the old rules, since there is no way to draw it out, we will find its fox den by using earthen methods. ”

Wenmingren cupped fist: “Understand the adults, we will definitely do it.”

Only Chen Mu looked dumbfounded.

Can you find Fox Demon with this tail docking? What kind of method?

At this moment, he seemed so out of place in the middle of this group of slapsticks, as if a student of excavator suddenly came to the New Oriental Chef Academy.

Sure enough, there is a specialization in the art industry, and he is not suitable for being a demon hunter.

“I’ll leave it to you for the details. Hurry up, and it’s best to finish it within three or four days.”

Feeling that the chest pain is getting worse, and the iron cloth pile doesn’t grind his tongue anymore, he stood up and said.

He had to go to heal his injuries quickly, but he couldn’t stand it anymore.When he walked out of the door, he patted Chen Mu on the shoulder again, and said earnestly: “Practice the young man, that punch is soft and soft like a lady, and you can’t do that next time.”

“My lord, don’t worry, the next official must practice hard.” Chen Mu said solemnly.

“Um.”

Tiebuzhuang nodded in satisfaction, held his chest up, raised his chin, and walked away arrogantly.

Between the gestures, Chen Mu’s eyes were full of mastery.

I don’t know when he can be as strong as the opponent.

“Strange, it seems that a vase is missing.” Wenmingren murmured while scratching his head.

After Tiebuzhuang left, Chen Mucai asked curiously, “What are you talking about?”

Qi Delong took the initiative to explain: “In simple terms, it is to make a potion for tracking down monsters. Through the potion, the map area is reduced bit by bit, and the specific location of the monster is finally locked.”

It turned out to be so.

Chen Mu understood it by and large.

This is the same as the poison ring in the chicken, gradually shrinking from the big map to a small area.

“We now have Fox Demon’s tail docking, so we can use it to make potions. After the production is successful, we need to start spraying potions from the four corners of the capital.”

Wenmingren walked over and explained in detail, “You don’t need to take it step by step. Each drop of potion covers about half a mile. Once it senses the presence of Fox Demon’s Monster Qi, the potion will automatically change color.”

Chen Mu admired: “Awesome, powerful,”

This native method is indeed very stupid and requires a lot of manpower and energy, but it is also the most effective and reliable method at present.

But at the moment he was more interested in the strength of the Iron Master.

Chen Mu blinked his eyes and asked, “Little Wenzi, does this Master Tie belong to the top master in the Vast Sky Department.”

“Generally, the strength ranks around the middle and lower reaches of the Haotian Department.”

Wenmingren thought for a while and said, “The Haotian Department has a list. Whoever kills and captures the most monsters can be on the list, which shows that his strength is very strong.”

“The most powerful thing is…”

“Ximen Cheng, people give the nickname-Baidi Sacred Sword!”

Chen Mu took a cold breath and subconsciously said, “China’s first sword, the Sacred Sword of Baidi?”

“What is China’s first sword?”

Wenmingren looked at him strangely.

Chen Mu realized that he had accidentally joined the stage, haha, and then asked, “How awesome is this Baidi Sacred Sword?”

“This can’t be described to you…”

A strong look of worship emerged on the wheat-colored face of Wenming Ren, “I am afraid that we will never reach his height in our entire life. He is like a myth.”

Chen Mu couldn’t help but become interested when he felt the admiration of civilized benevolence from his bones.

See me another day to see how awesome it is.

“The Baidi Holy Sword…”

Inexplicably, Chen Mu has a strong intuition that this person will be his first stepping stone to the pinnacle of his life.

…

Unconsciously, two days passed.

On the day Tiebuzhu left, Wenmingren and the others made a potion to detect Monster Qi.

Chen Mu also visited the process of making potions.

It is nothing more than decocting with some special herbs, adding some special spells, and then putting the demon fox tail to be boiled.

In the end, six vats were boiled, and they were distributed to the people of the Xuantian Department, and they began to spray the potion.

Chen Mu did not participate in the work of spraying the potion. After all, this work was too laborious, and he had to go to work at six doors, so he threw it all to his subordinates.

Moreover, Fox Demon is just a small side task for him. At present, he still focuses on the cuckoo case.

Du Muqi and his three servants are still in the dungeon.

The people behind the scenes seem to be doing nothing.

As Chen Mu had judged before, Leng Tianying’s protection of Du Muqi was extremely tight, and it was impossible for anyone to kill him.

Chen Mu didn’t worry about this, waiting for Yu’er to take the bait.

“My lord, I have investigated everything you ordered, please have a look.”

Wang Fafa took a stack of white paper and placed it on the table.

This is the background information of Yinlian, Hong Dalang and Wang Po that Chen Mu asked them to investigate two days ago.

It’s strange to say that the Yinlian didn’t take the initiative to seduce him in the past two days.

Even yesterday he deliberately waited at the door for a while, and he didn’t leave until Hong Dalang came back.

And the woman didn’t show up from beginning to end.

Chen Mu was very sure that the other party was at home, and might be watching him secretly, but he didn’t know what the woman was making.

“Her original name is really Pan Yinlian.”

Looking at the information in his hand, Chen Mu was amazed.

Wang Fafa said: “She is a native of Tongzhou County. She was bought as a maidservant in a brothel named Xinghuayuan in the capital when she was 13 years old.

She is not very proficient in poetry, melody and so on, and basically sells meat.

Three months ago, she accidentally burned her body, leaving a big scar on her body. Not many customers visited her, and later Hong Dalang bought it back. ”

scald?

For brothel women who sell meat, this is indeed a big blow.

If it was for this reason, she would sell herself to Hong Dalang as if she was appointed.

Chen Mu looked at the information about Yinlian in his hand, trying to find some contradictory information.

But basically there is no doubt.

The only suspicious point was that the Pan Yinlian he saw was not very much like a woman selling meat and dust, but more like a deep-bowed woman who couldn’t stand her loneliness.

Chen Mu opened Wang Po’s information again.

There is also no doubt.

Wang Po has been living in this neighborhood in the capital, working as a midwife, matchmaker or something, and driving a small tea house left by her husband. She has a very gentle personality.

Neighbors in the neighborhood have a very good impression of her.

The only thing with some rumors is that this old woman likes to find a target for some widows, which has caused some negative influences.

In addition, it is an ordinary common people.

“Hong Dalang…”

Chen Mu gently turned the charcoal in his hand with his fingers, “Forty-one years old, about sixteen years older than Yinlian.”

Hong Dalang has no relatives or friends.

He has lived in this neighborhood in Beijing for 20 years, and has been neighbors with Wang Po, selling steamed buns for a living.

The character is loyal and honest, but unfortunately the appearance problem has never been married.

Wang’s wife had introduced a few before, including the widow, but the woman really disliked his looks, and they all fell through.

In the end Da Lang remained single.

His buns are quite famous, and even some high-ranking officials ask servants to buy them, which shows that the craftsmanship is still very good.

“Um?”

Turning to the last page of the information, a line of information suddenly fell into Chen Mu’s eyes, his eyes condensed slightly.

Hong Dalang turned out to be a servant of Hong Mansion before!

And this Hong Mansion is the Hong Clan that the snake demon lady told him before!

Seventeen years ago, the whole family was slaughtered!

According to information, Hong Dalang used to work as a groom in Hong Mansion, but was later fired because he was drunk and molested the maid.

One month after he was fired, the Hong family was massacred.

He was lucky enough to escape.

Chen Mu’s back was slightly cold:

“How could it be such a coincidence, I originally planned to investigate the Hong family tragedy in some time, but I didn’t expect a Hong Dalang to pop up.”

Chen Mu looked through other information about him again, but unfortunately didn’t find any useful information.

“I don’t know if he has anything to do with the Hong family tragedy.”

Chen Mu’s eyes flickered.

This is a windfall.

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Mu put a smile on his mouth and said to Wang Fafa: “Good job, you have worked hard.”

“It’s all due to Brother Zhang.”

Wang Fafa hurriedly said.

Chen Mu put the information in his hand into the wooden box next to him, got up and said with a smile: “Okay, there is no need for my family to be humble. It just so happens that I am hungry too. Please go eat buns.”

“Eat buns?”

“Yes, let’s see how well this Hong Dalang’s craftsmanship is.”

Chen Mu smiled brightly, but he couldn’t tell the strangeness.

…

Hong Dalang’s booth is in the downtown area of ​​Southern District.

The three of Chen Mu walked through the noisy lanes and quickly found his booth. Judging from the empty stack of steamers, business is still good today.

And the benches in front of the stall and the wooden stakes next to them were full of guests.

“Have you come to eat before?”

Chen Mu asked.

Seeing the arrival of Chen Mu and three people in public uniforms, the guests who were sitting in the booth gave up their positions with interest.

Chen Mu and the three were also welcome, sitting at the table carefreely.

Wang Fafa nodded: “I have eaten it a few times and it tastes really good, but the distance is too far, and I only taste it occasionally when I have an errand.”

“Three officials, what kind of stuffed buns do you want.”

Hong Dalang still looks honest, hunched.

The rough face that has been exposed to the wind and the sun all the year round with a humble smile. From the look of his face, it is not too much to say that he is fifty years old.

Facing the official position, he was quite nervous, and his hunched back became a bit lower.

“Bring me a cage of beef stuffed buns.”

Chen Mu stood the shark tooth knife beside the table leg and said casually.

Hong Dalang smiled apologetically, “I’m sorry, my lord, I don’t have beef fillings here, only pork fillings.”

Of course Chen Mu knew that the other party only had pork fillings.

After all, I saw a pot of minced meat in the kitchen of the other party’s house. There was only pork and no other meat.”Pork filling, where did you buy this meat.”

“I bought it from Guantuzi, absolutely fresh.” Hong Dalang pointed to the’Guan’s Butcher Shop’ not far away, and said with a smile, “They are all time-honored brands.”

Chen Mu smiled and said, “I don’t like meat fillings, so let’s just have some vegetable fillings.”

Zhang Awei and Wang Fafa ordered minced pork.

“Okay, please wait a moment for the three officials. The heat will be good as soon as it gets hot.” Hong Dalang showed a simple smile, swiftly placing the steamer on the earthen stove.

Chen Mu stared at his hunchback for a moment, then looked back and chatted with Wang Fafa.

“Foreman Wang, haven’t you married yet?” Chen Mu asked.

“No.” Wang Fafa scratched his head and smiled sorrowfully. “I plan to save some money and find a matchmaker.”

“Are you afraid that you won’t find a wife on this condition?”

“If I want to find a suitable one, I don’t mean picking and choosing. It always feels like that.”

Chen Mu shook his head: “Being a errand in the yamen all day long, it’s okay if there are no women, this is still not sick? Do you go to the kiln on weekdays?”

“I rarely go, I’m not very interested.”

Wang Fa smiled.

“Come on, I’ll give you a gift.” Chen Mu teased his eyes, and took out a bright red belly pocket from his arms, “Just pass the time at night.”

Not only intentionally or unintentionally, Chen Mu casually threw it away, but accidentally threw it beside the steamer.

“Oops!”

Chen Mu reacted and said to the dazed Hong Dalang: “Sorry, help me get it.”

Hong Dalang wiped his hands hurriedly, and carefully handed his apron back over. He looked a little embarrassed and didn’t dare to touch it more.

And Chen Mu stared at the opponent’s gaze.

“Thanks.”

Chen Mu took his apron and stuffed it into Wang Fafa’s hand, “You are welcome, take it, this is my gift.”

Wang Fa couldn’t laugh bitterly.

I didn’t understand what nerve Chen Mu had committed and wanted to send him a woman’s bellyband.

But after all, it is a reward from the boss and can only be collected.

Looking at the busy Hong Dalang, Chen Mu secretly thought: “From the reaction point of view, it seems that he didn’t know that this was his wife’s bellyband. Maybe I didn’t recognize it, maybe…the two have never had sex at all.”

Chen Mu retracted his eyes and continued to chat with the two.

During the small talk, Chen Mu saw the people passing by from time to time, with a chilling atmosphere, and he was puzzled.

In the past two days, Charon can be seen everywhere on the street, and the atmosphere in the capital is inexplicably tense.

“They are registering their accounts.”

Wang Fafa said. “All babies born in the past few days must be registered, especially those born the night before the baby.”

“Isn’t this supposed to be done by the Ministry of Households?” Chen Mu was a little dazed.

Wang Fafa shook his head: “I don’t know, it seems to be about the stars and things. I asked my friends in the household department, but I don’t know.”

“Stars?”

Chen Mu frowned, and looked at the guards who had gone door-to-door to investigate and registered, and he didn’t care too much.

It has nothing to do with me anyway.

But after a while, the steamed buns are ready.

Chen Mu took a sip. Although it is not as good as the sister-in-law, it is also very good. He stretched out his thumb and praised, “It tastes good.”

Hong Dalang still had that simple and honest smile: “In the future, officials will come often.”

“must.”

Chen Mu took a few bites and asked casually, “What did you do before?”

“Caomin…”

Hong Dalang smiled bitterly, and said quietly, “When the Caomin was young, he worked as a coachman for a large family. Later he committed something and sold steamed buns.”

Very honest.

Chen Mu was a little surprised that the other party was so honest, exactly the same as the information written.

Is it so calm that it has nothing to do with the massacre of the Hong family?

“Where’s the silly dog, get away!”

At this moment, there was a dog barking and whimpering in the distance.

Chen Mu looked for fame. It turned out that it was Guan Butcher in front of the Guan’s meat stall.

The black dog was beaten by the stick a few times and screamed and ran towards Chen Mu.

There is still a bone in his mouth.

“Get daddy away!”

Butcher Guan threw the stick out of his hand and hit the dog. The dog whimpered, fell to the ground, and then turned over and ran away.

Only one bone was left—a chicken claw to be precise.

“This chicken claw is a bit big.”

Wang Fafa glanced, did not care, and continued to eat the meat buns.

Chen Mu waited for a moment and said lightly, “That’s manpower.”

“puff–”

Wang Fafa and Zhang Awei choked.