Abduct a shadow guard to investigate the case

The sun moves westward, the afternoon sun begins to weaken, and the hot weather gradually cools down.

The fact that Shen Yao was the investigator of Qingji Pavilion of the Wulin League quickly spread throughout the villa.

Guard Li stood at the gate of the courtyard where the medicine man lived with a bitter face.

He returned to the courtyard a little later than Xuan Qi, and he didn't want to meet Xuan Qi at all, and he was a little afraid of meeting Xuan Qi.

Fortunately, he was on the day shift today, and Old Rome would come to change shifts in the morning.

Lao Luo had a loud voice, and as soon as he came to the gate of the courtyard, he said to Li Shouwei, "You kid was in the limelight today, and you sued a medicine man to the execution hall, but he was saved by the investigation envoy of the Wulin League, haha——"

"Keep your voice down!" Li Shouwei hurriedly covered Lao Luo's mouth.

"Why, did you do something wrong?" Lao Luo Ruo looked at him meaningfully and smiled.

"What is this matter in normal times?" Li Shouwei rolled his eyes and said, "Forget it, forget it, I don't want to talk about it, I'll go back first."

"Well," Lao Luo snorted, suddenly remembered something, and shouted to Li Shouwei, "Are you going to the canteen to eat? I was eating there just now, and I saw Chunyue scolding the investigator."

"Huh?" Li Shouwei turned his head and looked at Lao Luo in surprise.

"Hehe, it seems that the investigator wants to catch mice in the kitchen. Chunyue, you know that when you get angry, it doesn't distinguish between people. Some people say that there are mice in their kitchen, can she be merciful, and put the investigator I was so scolded that I was stunned for a while, haha, I laughed to death!"

Li Shouwei seemed to have imagined that scene, he grinned and said, "Oh, I'm going to eat now."

Shen Yao stood disheveled outside the kitchen, reached out to wipe the saliva that Chunyue sprayed on his face just now, and sighed, "Hey, mouse, mouse—"

"My lord wants to catch a mouse?"

Xuan Qi's voice sounded not far behind him, Shen Yao turned around quickly, and saw the slender figure of the man, his tall and straight silhouette with wide shoulders and narrow waist wrapped in tight black clothes, standing against the light, his hair There is a soft halo in the silk, and the handsome features are a little unrealistic.

"Xuan Qi, why are you here?" Shen Yao walked over with a smile.

"I heard the guard in the wooden house say that you were catching mice in the kitchen, and..." Xuan Qi paused, and said, "So come and have a look."

"They didn't make things difficult for you when you left the yard, did they?" Shen Yao asked, seeing Xuan Qi shaking his head.

"Why do you want to catch mice?"

"This..." Shen Yao was hesitant to explain, so he listened to Xuan Qi, "Xuan Qi understands, if it's inconvenient for you to say it, you don't have to. Let me help you."

"You know how to catch mice?" Shen Yao hurriedly asked, suddenly felt that this sentence was a bit strange, Xuan Qi is not a cat, how could he ask someone if he could catch mice.

Fortunately, Xuan Qi just nodded, and didn't seem to think much, so he led Shen Yao to the place where there was a drain at the back of the kitchen.

"There should be mice there." The two walked lightly for half a circle, Xuan Qi pointed to the wall not far away and said.

Shen Yao saw a furry animal at the base of the wall. The animal had a fat back, pointed ears, and black and white patterns all over its body. He blinked and said, "I really want to see a cat instead of a cat." Rat..."

"It's a cat." Xuan Qi said.

"..." Shen Yao raised his eyebrows.

"Mice like to dig into gutters, and cats like to catch mice. If they find a place where mice often appear and cannot chase them for a while, they like to sit by and wait to see." Xuan Qi explained solemnly.

"Cats are really boring." Shen Yao said, "So we just need to sit here and wait for the rabbit, oh no, just wait for the mouse in the ditch?"

Xuan Qi nodded and said, "I'll get the cat away first."

He walked silently, took a few steps forward, approached the cat, squatted down, imitated a mouse and made a "squeak" sound, the cat turned around, Xuan Qi stretched out a finger to it, the cat ignored it He turned back again.Xuan Qi didn't let go of his finger, and once again used the "squeak" sound to attract it to turn its head. This time, the cat twisted and walked over, sniffed his finger, and rubbed it with its head and mouth.

The sun was slanting to the west, the man in black and the soft and warm hairball were cast two shadows on the ground by the sun, one long and one short shadow, creating a wonderful and harmonious feeling. Looking at it, Shen Yao felt like there was a piece of light feather Brushed over the tip of my heart.

At this time, Xuan Qi stretched out his hand to grab the base of the cat's forelegs and held it up. Because of the ingenious posture, the cat kicked up with its hind legs but missed him. Xuan Qi took a few steps away from the ditch. Put the cat down, push it forward lightly, and shouted, "Let's go."

The cat spread its paws and ran away.

Shen Yao stepped forward and said with a smile, "I can't see that you are quite familiar with the habits of cats. When you grabbed it just now, did you take the opportunity to touch it? Do you like cats?"

"..." Xuan Qi remained silent, turning his head slightly.

Shen Yao found that every time he was embarrassed, he liked it like this, so he couldn't help but smile even more happily.

"Is there anything to eat, Young Master?" Xuan Qi brought Shen Yao back to the topic.

"no, what happened?"

"We need to put some bait next to the ditch to lure the mice out."

"Then I'll go back to the cafeteria and get some delicious food, how about bacon and sausage?"

"Actually, peanuts would be better." Xuan Qi said.

"Oh?" Seeing Xuan Qi's serious face, Shen Yao said, "Well, listen to you. By the way, do I need to set up a trap? Like catching birds in the snow when I was a child?"

"When I was young, I caught birds in the snow?" Xuan Qi asked rhetorically.

"That's right, it's the trap of setting up a sieve." Shen Yao said casually, but seeing Xuan Qi's strange look, he asked, "Didn't you play like this with other children when you were young?"

Xuan Qi shook his head, he actually has almost no memories of his childhood, because after being admitted to the shadow hall, they would all take medicine to wash away their previous memories, and the memories of their early years were all occupied by harsh training and cruel survival tests, so He was so sure of catching the mouse... But these things don't need to be mentioned to Shen Yao.

"..." Shen Yao seemed to have thought of something, wanted to ask Xuan Qi but didn't know where to start.

Xuan Qi said at this time, "If you set up a trap, it will be difficult for the mouse to get the bait. You only need to get a slightly larger bowl from the kitchen. When the mouse appears, I will throw it over and catch it."

"That's right," Shen Yao clapped his hands, "Your kung fu with hidden weapons is very good."

"..." The two of them simultaneously thought of the rainy night when they first met, and Xuan Qi felt a little embarrassed.

However, Shen Yao smiled at Xuan Qi quite amusedly, and quickly fetched the bait and container as he said.

A few fragrant peanuts were scattered on the ground beside the ditch.

Xuan Qi and Shen Yao hid behind a tree not far away, waiting quietly.

Standing behind Xuan Qi, Shen Yao saw him staring intently at the direction of the ditch, as if he was performing some important task.The breeze blew, and Xuan Qi's hair tipped to his face, scratching the tip of his nose, Shen Yao suddenly remembered the feeling of rubbing Xuan Qi's hair before, Xuan Qi's hair was clean and slightly dry, just like he gave People feel the same, but there is a stubbornness under the obedience.Shen Yao stretched out his hand to brush the hair from his face, and couldn't help circling his fingertips.

Xuan Qi suddenly turned around to look at him, and made a "hush" gesture to him.

There was a rustling sound, and a fat gray mouse suddenly jumped out of the ditch. After looking left and right with a pair of glowing black bean-like eyes, it jumped to the side of the peanuts, holding it with its two front paws. One of them opened his mouth and gnawed.

Sooner or later, a big bowl swirled towards the sky. The mouse heard the wind and threw the peanuts and was about to run away, but the big bowl seemed to have calculated its path, and accurately buckled it upside down. Half of the tail is outside the bowl rim.The bowl didn't shatter when it fell to the ground, it was just slightly shaken by the rat rushing to the top.

"Caught it!" Shen Yao gave Xuan Qi a thumbs up, and saw Xuan Qi's mouth curled up slightly.

The two quickly came to the ditch, Xuan Qi stopped in front of Shen Yao, said "I'll come", bent down first and grabbed the mouse's tail protruding from the bowl, and lifted it upside down.

The gray mouse made a frightened "squeak" sound, struggling and twisting its fat body non-stop.

Shen Yao hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, the mouth of the porcelain bottle was tightly plugged with a cork, Shen Yao said, "Xuan Qi, hold your breath."

Xuan Qi was slightly taken aback, then followed suit.

Seeing that he was ready, Shen Yao used his internal force to heat the body of the bottle. After a while, he pointed the mouth of the bottle to the mouse's head and pulled out the cork.

Xuan Qi looked carefully, and it seemed that a light red smoke came out of the bottle, smoked on the mouse's face, and was inhaled by it into its nose.

Almost at the same time, the mouse stopped struggling violently, and its limbs began to slide slowly in the air, like walking among the clouds.

Shen Yao pointed to the ground with his hand, signaling Xuan Qi to put the mouse down.

When the mouse landed on the ground, instead of running away, it seemed to be drunk, swaying its body on the spot, as if walking a leisurely dance.

Shen Yao fanned the surrounding air vigorously with his sleeve, and then let out a breath, and said to Xuan Qi, "It's fine."

Xuan Qi also breathed out again, he looked at the mice on the ground, and asked, "What's going on?" Immediately, he thought of a possibility, and continued, "Young master, are you catching mice to test the medicine?"

"Well, that's right, but I can't tell you where the medicine comes from just yet, sorry." Shen Yao pursed his lips.

"Is it related to Vice Hall Master Shi's case?" Xuan Qi asked.

"Not sure yet." Shen Yao said.

Xuan Qi was silent for a while, and said, "Actually, you can let me try it, so that you can understand the effect more clearly."

"How can that be done!" Shen Yao categorically vetoed, "Besides, the dose of the medicine I collected is so small that the human body may not be able to test the results."

"Yeah." Xuan Qi nodded.

Shen Yao suddenly felt a slip of the tongue, and hurriedly said again, "I didn't mean that, even if the dose of the medicine is enough, I won't take you to test the medicine."

"Xuan Qi understands." Xuan Qi looked down at the mouse on the ground.

Shen Yao glanced at him, saw that there was no expression on his face, and didn't know whether he really understood or pretended to understand, feeling quite depressed in his heart.

After about half a cup of tea, the mouse that was walking in place seemed to suddenly come to its senses, stabilized its body, shook its head left and right, and flew out with a "chirp", escaping without a trace.

The two stared blankly.

Xuan Qi asked, "Did you get the result of the test?"

Shen Yao said, "It's basically consistent with what I imagined."

There was a trace of relief in Xuan Qi's eyes.

Shen Yao said, "I'm going somewhere now, you go back first."

"Yes." Xuan Qi replied.

Shen Yao turned around and left, took two steps, couldn't help turning his head, seeing Xuan Qi who had just turned around, his heart suddenly moved, and he called "Xuan Qi", Xuan Qi turned around and looked at him quietly , Shen Yao walked up to him with strides, raised a hand to wrap around his shoulders, and said, "Thank you just now!" After speaking, he immediately let go of him.

Xuan Qi was stunned, he looked at Shen Yao's face and said, "Young Master speaks seriously, this is Xuan Qi's business." While speaking, there was a flash of light in his eyes.