Taoist chanting

Chen Qingqiao went south, while he went west.

By the way, I bought a lot of cotton fruit, tangerine, pomegranate and other fruits from the shop on the street, as well as cooked food such as stewed meat, dry food, etc. After leaving the city from Ximen, I put a few bags of fruits and food into the storage bottle as I walked along the path.

This is called "carry an umbrella when it's sunny, and bring food when you're full." He has this condition now.

Moreover, the food stored in the Nawu bottle will not be rotten and deteriorated for several years.

He deliberately went back to the Taoist temple, said hello to the second senior brother, called the donkey, and asked the black donkey to set off with the baby badger who was sleeping during the day in a bag.

In the case of Xiahe Village, if a ghost is at work, a donkey can help you find clues and save some effort.

I was not in a hurry on the way, but it took me half an hour to arrive at Xiahe Village.

Zhang Wenfeng showed his badge to the policeman who came forward to inquire, and asked, "Where is Lord Yun now?"

The catcher hurriedly smiled, bowed and stretched out his hand to ask, respectfully said: "Master Yun is at the villager's house, I will take you there."

A wooden barrier was set up at the east entrance of the village, and several police officers from You Xi and the county government guarded it. Before the murder case was found out, people in the village were not allowed to run out. This was an order from the superior yesterday.

In front of the village is a small river about ten feet wide, which is a tributary of the Gaoxi River flowing through Xihezhou Town. This place is about twenty miles away from Xihezhou Town.

Zhang Wenfeng walked into the village and observed all the way.

The doors of every house are closed tightly, and yellow talismans to exorcise evil spirits are newly pasted on the top of the firewood gate.

A peasant man peeked out from behind the low courtyard wall, and when he noticed his gaze, he hurriedly jumped down to avoid it.

Walking to the gate of a courtyard where a white cloth was hung, the donkey walking quietly and dumbfounded suddenly said:

"There is a monster here!"

It probed to the crack of the door and sniffed, and said via voice transmission: "It's a monster, a very faint fishy smell, which is different from the watery monster of the water monkey last time, and it smelled like earth on Lu Huan's body." The smell is even more different."

Zhang Wenfeng stopped.

Is it because of monsters, not ghosts?No wonder he didn't notice the slightest ghost aura along the way.

The fishy smell is demonic, it is a water demon.

He glanced at the dry water river under the slope of the vegetable field in front of him.

Catching water monsters is more troublesome... He looked thoughtfully at the policeman who led the way and stopped, and said, "What's the situation here?" He pointed to the white cloth hanging on it. Ask Taoist priests to do things.

A woman's suppressed crying could be heard from the yard, rising and falling.

At such a fatal time, no Taoist priests who dare to do things are invited, and moreover, irrelevant people are not allowed to enter or leave the village.

The policeman whispered: "The man from this family was murdered in his own bed in the early morning of the day before yesterday."

After more than a day, there was still the smell of a monster. Zhang Wenfeng asked again: "When did you come? Which Taoist priest was invited in the village to do the practice, when is the Taoist priest, and where did the accident happen? Please tell me carefully."

The dossiers he had read were written in scribbles at the end, without specifying the location. They only said that "two Taoist priests practiced hunting ghosts in the village and died in the middle of the night."

The policeman's expression changed, he glanced at the front and back, leaned forward and said in a low voice: "The day before yesterday!

We received the report early in the morning, and at noon we followed Mr. Xiao. After seeing the deceased, we felt that something was wrong. It was too evil. Mr. Xiao wanted to go back and report to the county captain to transfer the case to the Daolu branch. The Taoist priests of the nearby Yingshan Temple have been invited. "

Zhang Wenfeng slowed down and motioned for the articulate policeman to continue.

Seeing that the adults listened attentively, the arrester continued: "Two Taoist priests took the magic weapon and wandered around the village looking for it. When the sun was about to fall into the water, they said with certainty that the river in front of the village was not clean, and the souls of those who fell into the water were still lingering. Became a drowning ghost, went ashore to look for the dead ghost, so the dead will be left with sweat-like slime and stench, must do a three-night water ceremony to send the wronged soul away."

Take your eyes to the direction of the river, for fear that the drowning ghost will climb up.

"Where do you do it near the water?"

Zhang Wenfeng asked, in broad daylight, on a clear day, the water demon would not easily go ashore.

"...The Dharma altar was erected on the stone pier hundreds of feet away in front of us. When the two Taoist priests practiced until the third watch, we were all on the shore at that time. We heard two 'plops', and several old men in the village shouted, " The Taoist priest has fallen into the water, hurry up and save him with a bamboo pole and rake.” Some of the villagers watching the excitement on the bank shouted, “The ghost who fell into the water catches people,” and ran away in fright.

Later, it was our head Xiao who had the courage to call us together, light the torches, ring the copper basin and iron utensils, throw firecrackers to the water's edge, and fish people out of the water with a rake, but the people were already dead, and Died exactly the same as before. "

He didn't say that it was almost half an hour before he went to rescue the person.

Zhang Wenfeng walked to the fork in the road to the river, didn't ask any more questions, and said, "I'll go to the pier to have a look, you wait here for a while."

Ignoring the catcher who backed away a few steps in fright, he turned and walked towards the pier, followed by the donkey at a leisurely pace.

One person and one donkey walked to the stone-paved pier that slanted down to the water.

The altar of the day before yesterday was still not dismantled, and the arrangement was very simple. There were two door panels to set up an altar, and the sacrifices of the little three animals were placed.

The censer was overturned, chicken and duck incense candles and glutinous rice money paper were scattered everywhere, and a fish as a sacrifice was soaked in the water below, turning its belly.

"It has the same fishy smell here."

The donkey walked down the pier to the river, sniffed the messy waterside with countless footprints and drag marks, and said through a voice transmission: "This water monster is very stupid, making such a big noise, I'm afraid others won't know it, don't worry about it. Is someone coming to clean it up?"

Zhang Wenfeng confirmed that it was done by a monster.

Unlike the Chaxi Heshan case last time, several groups of forces were involved and almost got the wrong direction.

"Do you think all monsters have brains like you? Most of the monsters who have just awakened act on instinct. They don't even know that there are experts in the outside world.

They instinctively regard the villagers and livestock on the land as food that can be supplemented at will.

Monsters that have a brain and can think have lived long enough. Therefore, when we find monsters, our Taoist attitude is to capture them immediately or kill them on the spot. "

Slaying demons and killing evil spirits is the basic function of the existence of the Daolu branch.

The donkey is very popular according to the viewer's evaluation of it.

Well, the biggest difference between it and those idiots is that it has a brain, it can understand human speech and learn.

Zhang Wenfeng looked from above, and found that there seemed to be marks left by something sliding on the mud, about the thickness of an arm, and said via voice transmission: "Stand still, I'll go down and have a look, don't step on the marks."

With a light jump, he landed on the river bank two feet away, and squatted down to observe carefully.

There were too many footprints interfering, and it was impossible to analyze whether it was left by a monster or dragged with a stick, and the traces disappeared in the water.

Zhang Wenfeng thought silently, glanced at the withered grass on both sides of the bank, estimated the direction of the trace, gestured with his hand, and said via voice transmission: "You walk along this area to the grass above, and smell it."

The donkey sniffed carefully, walked about five or six feet away, and stood in front of a shallow pit covered with weeds.

After sniffing along the pit for a while, he said via voice transmission: "It's the smell of the water demon. It crawled through here and left mucus. This smell... is like the sticky smell of eels. It is different from the smell found by the stream before. It smells a bit like an eel from here."

"Eel?"

Zhang Wenfeng murmured silently.

The "moon-watching eel" recorded in the classic "Monster Collection Overview Volume" collected in the secret room, "has star spots on the forehead, likes to look at the moon at night and absorb the moonlight". ,brutal.

As for whether the moon-watching eel was causing trouble, we still need to go to the deceased's house to check and verify on the spot. .

Chapter 116 There is another mystery under the bed

Led by the policeman, he walked to the front of the village Zheng's house.

The courtyard door was wide open, and Chen Qingqiao was sitting in the main room, talking with Yun Qiuhe, who was wearing men's clothes. Two old men and a middle-aged man in policeman's uniform were sitting beside him. Seeing Zhang Wenfeng stepping into the courtyard threshold, Yun Qiuhe Qiu He stood up and greeted him.

The others got up quickly and followed them out.

"Master Yun."

"Master Zhang!"

The two greeted each other with smiles and clasped fists, and called each other adults, with a slight sense of ridicule among acquaintances.

In front of outsiders, make adults look more formal.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, under Yun Qiuhe's introduction, Zhang Wenfeng clasped his fists with the haggard-looking village official, village elder, and Xiao Butou to salute. Immediately, Yun Qiuhe greeted Zhang and Chen into the separate wing on the west side. Don't talk about it in front of outsiders.

Without too much courtesy, Yun Qiuhe took out a stack of files from his bag and handed it to Zhang Wenfeng, saying, "Look at it first. I went to the village yesterday afternoon and led the staff to search for clues. I made some arrangements at night, but the murderer still had to wait. The thing quietly murdered a villager's life."

Zhang Wenfeng flipped through the smeared pages, handed them to Chen Qingqiao who was sitting across from him, and asked, "What do you think made the case?"

Several key points about the murderous creature have been blotted out with ink.

He guessed that Yun Qiuhe had found some useful clues.

Yun Qiuhe glanced at Chen Qingqiao, then at Guanzhu Zhang, shook his head and smiled wryly, saying:

"That thing is very cunning. Yesterday, I asked a few men who were proficient in drawing talismans to make a batch of exorcism talismans. I pasted yellow talismans on all the fronts and backs of more than 50 houses, and sprinkled realgar on the front and back of the yard and outside the threshold. , glutinous rice, cinnabar and other things, only three houses were left unfurnished, and I led people to ambush in those three houses, and as a result, I waited all night for nothing, but failed to stop the evil things from harming people."

Zhang Wenfeng asked: "Do you suspect that ghosts did not commit the crime?"

Yun Qiuhe rolled his eyes at him, and said: "There are no outsiders here, Guanzhu Zhang, you are an expert in catching ghosts, so don't pretend, you know what I'm guarding against with my arrangement? There are no ghosts in the village, and the yellow talismans are posted to appease you." villagers.

I used a weapon to investigate and found out that it was a monster. I just don't know what kind of monster it is?

I specially used the hunting dog I brought to find the smell by the river and those few houses. The hunting dog was frightened and barked and couldn't find out where the monster was hiding. "

Zhang Wenfeng nodded in agreement, and said, "It's indeed made by monsters."

Seeing that Chen Qingqiao had finished reading the draft records, he suggested: "Let's go to investigate the scene of the three crimes together, starting with the one that was murdered last night, looking for clues, confirming the type of monster, and then making arrangements for it."

Yun Qiuhe's various arrangements last night were not wrong, and they seemed to be comprehensive.

But if it was the moon-watching eel demon he guessed, these conventional methods would not work.

Guanzhu Zhang, who came over with Yun Qiuhe's doubts, spoke with such certainty. Seeing Zhang Wenfeng open the door and go out, he suppressed his doubts, followed him out, and called Shangcunzheng, the village elder and Xiao Tutou to join him.

A group of seven or eight people and a donkey came to the yard of a family in the east of the village where the white cloth was hung.

The village elder knocked on the closed chaimen.

The person who opened the door was a fourteen-year-old and a half-year-old boy, dressed in linen and mourning, his eyes were red and swollen, he muttered "Second Uncle", then knelt down to the side and kowtowed his head to the ground.

The village elder hurriedly stepped over the threshold, supported the young man, and said, "My condolences..."

A woman's cry came from the main room, making it even more miserable.

An old man with a hunched back and a short brown patch, came out of the main room, clasped his fists and bowed to a group of people who came, the wrinkles on his face were miserable, and there were tears in his old eyes.

The village elder and the village are going forward to support the old man, said a few words of comfort, and made way for him.

Zhang Wenfeng and Chen Qingqiao, two serious Taoist priests, walked into the door of the main room, took two sticks of incense and burned them, and instead of inquiring about the case immediately, they stood in front of the simple mourning hall and chanted the scriptures on saving lives.

Chanting scriptures is their duty as Taoist priests, and investigating cases is their duty.

Yun Qiuhe is a Taoist monk, and she is not good at exorcising the law, so she will not go in the yard. This case makes her feel quite depressed.

In the back, there is no crying, only scriptures, accompanied by the smoke from incense sticks and paper money, so that the psychology of the living who suffered from indiscriminate disasters can be comforted.

It is the souls of the dead who are rescued by rituals, but they are actually comforting living people.

The donkey strolled around the dilapidated yard with the sleeping badger cub on its back and the priest's bamboo hat.

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p;? ?It sniffs this person, and leans close to that person to smell it. No one will be wary of a donkey that is harmless to humans and animals.

After reciting the scriptures, the Buddhist priest took off the white cloth and inspected it.

The children, old people, and women in the hall all came out and waited in the yard. The woman went to the kitchen to boil water for the guests, and when she passed by the donkey, the donkey sniffled.

There is a demon in this woman.

The donkey followed to the kitchen door, and carefully checked with the magic eye technique, but found no signs of the woman's cultivation.

It's really strange, could it be the evil spirit left by the woman's contact with the dead?

It sniffed the people in the yard one by one, and the old man also had a faint evil spirit, but the others did not.

Transsion told its discovery to the temple master who was busy in the main room.

Zhang Wenfeng wiped the inner sockets of the dead man's elbows and the crevices between the five fingers with a cloth strip, and there was a little fishy-smelling mucus left on it. Hearing the donkey's sound transmission, he put the cloth strip as evidence into a small porcelain bottle, and put the cork on it. Cover the dead with a white cloth.

Yun Qiuhe watched Guanzhu Zhang finish his work.

"Which room is it?"

Zhang Wenfeng glanced at the deceased and asked.

Yun Qiuhe led the two of them into the bedroom on the east side. She had just checked this morning, but found no clues.

Zhang Wenfeng uncovered the patched thick cloth quilt, and there was a human-shaped wet print on the cloth mat facing outwards, which was not completely dry, so he pulled the cloth mat away, inspected the straw for a moment, restored it to its original shape, and circled the bed again He checked back and forth, and finally got down and looked under the bed.

He saw a hole, about the size of two fingers, at the back of the bed.

"Come on, Chen Guanzhu, give me a hand, let's move the bed."

The bed frame was rather worn out, and he pushed it alone, worried that it would fall apart.

Although Chen Qingqiao was older than the two of them, he didn't talk nonsense, and hurriedly stepped forward to work with Zhang Guanzhu to carefully move the bed away, exposing the hole.

Yun Qiuhe looked at the line of still-dried mucus left on the edge of the hole, understood everything, and gritted his teeth angrily. The monster bypassed her arrangement and came in from the ground to harm people.