A scholar of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

"What the hell! What are you doing!" shouted Qiang, the leader of the team, looking up to see the blue will-o'-the-wisps floating silently on the street, and fell to the ground with a soft plop under his feet, "Ghost... Ghost... ghost fire!"

The originally quiet city of Chang'an became noisy in the middle of the night, and an official from Dali Temple came to Di Renjie, "Shaoqing, something has happened!"

Putting down the file in his hand, Di Renjie was puzzled.

"Shaoqing, there are... there are will-o'-the-wisps outside!" The official was trembling as he spoke.

Di Renjie stood up and walked all the way to the outside of Dali Temple. The faint blue will-o'-the-wisps floated in the street, and he was surprised and even a little frightened.

In the early morning of the second day, Li Er's complexion was very bad. There was a will-o'-the-wisp in Chang'an.

"A thorough investigation!" Li Er ordered immediately.

Fang Xuanling noticed that Li Er's complexion was very unsightly. From the previous folk discussions to the current incident, it was alluding to the Xuanwumen back then, and it was just a taboo in His Majesty's heart today.

Li Er's decree made the whole Dali Temple nervous.

In Chang'an Outer Taoist Temple, Gu Qing got up after the sun was already rising, and looked at Di Renjie at home, "Didn't you say that you should keep an eye on the head of the Lu family during this time?"

"Teacher." Di Renjie nodded and said, "Last night there was a will-o'-the-wisp in Chang'an City, shaking the hall!"

"Woman's fire? Gu Qing said doubtfully, "What's the reaction from the man in the palace. "

"A thorough investigation!" Di Renjie replied, "Teacher, are there really ghosts and gods in this world?"

"No!" Gu Qing said with a sneer, "From the previous public opinion to the current will-o'-the-wisp, it seems that someone wants to save the life of the head of the Lu family and allude to Xuanwumen? How bold."

"The teacher means..." Di Renjie's mind was clear as the breeze blew, "The teacher means that someone is playing tricks and wants to use the situation to protect the head of the Lu family?"

"It's probably like this." Gu Qing took a bowl of porridge from a servant at home and ate it.

"But, if someone really did this, how did the will-o'-the-wisp do it?" Di Renjie was puzzled again.

"Phosphorus, a very flammable thing." Gu Qing ate the porridge, "Phosphorus is in the incendiary bombs I made. I extracted it from urine. Someone used phosphorus to make will-o'-the-wisps."

"Students should start their investigations, students have never seen phosphorus before." Di Renjie said.

"Su Dingfang has seen phosphorus before. It's white flakes and somewhat powdery." Gu Qing thought in his heart, "This thing won't burn for too long, and it must be near Chang'an to make it look like last night. Last night's wind direction, starting from the first person who saw the will-o'-the-wisp, there should be some clues."

"The student understands." Di Renjie left immediately.

Watching this kid leave, Gu Qingchang sighed, the Lu family has already existed in name only, so what's the use of doing these things, what's wrong is to touch the thorn in Li Shimin's heart.

Di Renjie led people to start an investigation, Dali Siqing watched Di Renjie busy up and down, can the ghost fire really be investigated?Confused in his heart, he grabbed Di Renjie and said, "Di Renjie, the most important thing right now is to appease the people."

"If you find out the truth, the people's hearts will be settled." Di Renjie cupped his hands and said to Dali Siqing, "If there are ghosts and gods, I want to see what the ghosts and gods look like."

Di Renjie took the eunuch of Dali to interrogate Chang'an to find the beater who first saw the ghost fire. The first time he saw the ghost fire was in Qujiang Pond.

The officials of Dali Temple near Qujiang Pond are looking for clues here. There are indeed some suspicious footprints. Qujiang Pond is next to Furong Garden. As Qu Jiangchi was walking, Di Renjie stopped and found some white powder at his feet.

Chapter 268

"Is this phosphorus?" Di Renjie picked up some powder and observed it. Some of the moisture should be wet from dew.

Picking up some powder, Di Renjie put the phosphorous powder in the sun to dry, and when the phosphorous powder dried up, it actually started to burn. Looking at the faint blue flame, he stood up in a daze.

In the Ganlu Hall of the Imperial Palace, Li Er was discussing with Fang Xuanling and Cen Wenwen how to appease the people, and was discussing Wang Qin coming to report, "Your Majesty, the young minister of Dali Temple, Di Renjie, is asking to see you."

"Di Renjie?"

Cen Wenwen said, "Your Majesty, Di Renjie was investigating the will-o'-the-wisp case last night."

"Meet Di Renjie!" Li Er said.

Di Renjie, who had been waiting outside the palace gate, finally waited for Li Er's summons, and walked all the way to the outside of Ganlu Hall, "My lord, Di Renjie pays his respects to His Majesty."

"Come in." Li Er stared at Di Renjie, "Have you found out?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I found out." Di Renjie took out a small black clay pot from his cuff, "Your Majesty, the things in this pot are so-called ghosts and gods!"

Li Er's eyes were cloudy, and Fang Xuanling was also surprised.

Di Renjie opened the mouth of the clay pot, poured white powder out of the bottle, and came to a candle, "Your Majesty, watch!"

Holding the white powder in his hand, Di Renjie sprinkled it on the candle, and as the powder burned, a blue flame suddenly appeared, followed by wisps of faint blue flames floating and falling until they fell and extinguished.

"Ghost fire!" Cen Wenwen's eyes widened.

Even Li Er stood up and was short of breath.

"Your Majesty, this is the will-o'-the-wisp from last night." Di Renjie poured out some phosphorus powder from the pot and said, "This was found in Qujiang Pond, and it was also the place where the will-o'-the-wisp first appeared last night. Your Majesty, this is not a ghost, but a ghost." Someone is doing something to incite the hearts of the people."

Li Er sat down again, took a deep breath and figured it out all the time, "Pass the decree! The head of the Lu family, Lu Tianyuan, and all the children of the Lu family will be punished without pardon!"

Wang Qin bowed and stepped back.

Di Renjie also understood in his heart that someone wanted to use public opinion and the taboo in Li Er's heart to protect the Patriarch of the Lu family. Li Er quickly cut through the mess, but doing so just pushed the Patriarch of the Lu family to the guillotine. He wanted to find out. who did it.

Outside the academy, Xu Jingzong covered his nose and mouth with a piece of cloth, "Master Hou, what's the matter? You have to boil the urine."

The villagers who passed by bypassed one after another, seven or eight large pots were boiling human urine, and the wind stinks ten miles away.

Until the evening, when Gu Qing came to the academy belatedly this time, the urine in several large pots had been boiled dry. Now it is autumn, and compared with midsummer and dry autumn, phosphorus is easy to burn, and its ignition point is also very low.

"Master Hou, everything is ready." Xu Jingzong said.

Right now it was the time when the academy students were leaving school, Gu Qing picked up a stick and beat it on the boiled cauldron, kicked up some powder, and suddenly a faint blue will-o'-the-wisp floated away.

"Wild-o'-the-wisp!" Xu Jingzong yelled in fright.

"You try too?" Gu Qing handed the stick to Xu Jingzong.

"This..." Xu Jingzong took the stick and hesitated.

"Scared?" Gu Qing looked at Xu Jingzong with great interest.

"I'm not afraid!" Xu Jingzong said, and he also hit the cauldron with a stick, and suddenly some will-o'-the-wisps appeared.

Li Tai took Li Zhizheng out of the academy and saw this scene. Li Zhi looked at the blue flame and said, "Brother Huang, is this a ghost fire?"

Smiling lightly, Li Tai pulled Li Zhi into the carriage, "Let's go, let's go back."

After the Chang'an will-o'-the-wisp rebellion, the night in front of the academy was also full of will-o'-the-wisps floating around, and the villagers looked at it one after another, knowing that it was Gu Qing who had tossed it out, and they didn't mean to be afraid, it was a bit of a novelty.

The faint blue will-o'-the-wisp lingers in the academy. The flame has no temperature and cannot burn other things. It is very interesting, like fireflies in summer.

A brat in the village urinated and looked at it carefully. Is there a will-o'-the-wisp in the urine?