Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

After a while, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy walked out, wearing Kunlun's uniform school uniform and Taoist robe, but his whole body seemed to be surrounded by fairy spirit, his face was as pale as the ice and snow on the top of Kunlun Mountain, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, high bridge of nose, and pupils. The color is a little pale, he is a very good-looking boy, but he has an inexplicable temperament that is not easy to get close to.

It was Wen Tao, the only disciple of Qingxu Zi Wen Tunan.

Because Wen Tao usually lives in secluded places, he only practiced at the south of Wentu, and only went to the alchemy room once in a while, so not many people had seen him. The Kunlun disciples present all took a deep breath, and the guard gestured loudly, Even Ji Wuwang, who is hard of hearing, can probably tell that this is that fairy-like figure.

The three people in Tubo were also amazed how there could be such an extraordinary person in the world, and they all forgot to find justice for the dead cat.

The young man didn't look sideways, his eyes didn't stop at the Kunlun disciples or the three people from Tubo, he said, "Why did Master ask me to come here?"

The voice fell into the empty valley like broken jade, and I forgot to listen to it.

"Tao'er, the cat of Tubo Songren Gongzan died, and his guard said that you carried the cat yesterday." Ji Wuwang said.

Wen Tao thought for a while and said to Song Ren: "That's right. I usually retreat every year and seldom show up. I happened to see a cute cat Yuxue at the door of the Dan room yesterday. When I squatted down, the cat came to my arms." Here, I hugged it for a moment and then let it go, absolutely no more than the rules."

"But, my cat never lets strangers get close to it." Pine Ren asked suspiciously, "What kind of food did you use to lure it?"

Qingxuzi heard that Tunan coughed lightly and said: "Master, Songren Gongzan, my disciple never violates the rules, please be careful."

Wen Tao also said: "I usually eat vegetarian food and never bring food with me. The cat did come to my arms by itself."

The guard who could only speak Tubo babbled, and another guard translated: "It must be that the Taoist priest looks like a fairy, and he even wants to get close to cats."

Everyone was embarrassed for a while, thinking that there are so many benefits to being good-looking, even a cat and dog can automatically throw themselves into their arms.Song Ren was about to say something, but seeing Wen Tao's fairy-like character and being Qing Xuzi's only disciple, he shut up.

At this time, I don't know which disciple of Zixuzi's family usually prides himself on his looks and talents, but he doesn't think that there is such an outstanding person hidden in Kunlun, so he feels annoyed and whispers: "This junior looks like a fairy, but It's not a god, but one of the suspects who killed the cat, so we still need to investigate it carefully."

Wen Tao pondered for a moment and said: "What I'm saying is that since I touched that cat, I am indeed suspicious." He bowed respectfully to Master and Qing Xuzi, "If you can trust me, don't you?" Hand over this headless lawsuit to me, and give Song Ren Gongzan an explanation."

Everyone felt that Wen Tao was not only of outstanding character, but also of good conduct, and they all nodded in agreement.

Wen Tao, however, turned to Lingxuzi when the crowd dispersed, and said softly with the corners of his mouth: "I need to trouble Master Uncle to lend me a few gray mice."

As soon as Lingxuzi heard Wen Tao's tone, his liver trembled.He watched Qingxuzi grow up as a disciple.Yuxue has been cute since she was a child, but she is not easy to get close to, so he rarely begs someone softly, and no one can resist it.

However, Lingxuzi soon discovered that whenever he begs for help, it must be something that hurts people.For example, when he was seven or eight years old, he asked for Lingxuzi for the first time and asked him to feed his gray mouse for testing alchemy. His heart melted, and he hurriedly agreed, but within a few days, Wen Tao tossed his gray mouse to the brink of death.These mice were carefully selected by him, excluding the weak and sick ones, and ensuring that they were roughly the same size, appetite, and age. It took a lot of painstaking efforts, but Wen Tao got a wild mouse with a similar appearance from nowhere. , I don't know what emergency I had, the mice died one by one all at once, Lingxuzi almost wanted to cry but had no tears.

Later, Ji Wuwang came forward and punished Wen Tao for raising rats in the alchemy room until the number returned to the original level.Wen Tao, however, seemed to be playing in the right hands, bringing in various poisonous herbs and elixirs to feed the mice every day, and also took a small notebook to record the daily conditions of the mice.For example, on the twelfth day of March, there will be two liang of cinnabar, twenty liang of death, and a crooked mouth and nose; on the fifteenth day of March, one liang of cinnabar, twelve liang of death, bleeding from the seven orifices, and so on.Lingxuzi was terrified every day, and the dead mouse couldn't bear to look at it. He wanted to stop him but was afraid that he would provoke more moths.As a result, after a few months, Wen Tao seemed to be satisfied, and began to feed the mice some normal food, plus some herbs that invigorate the spleen and strengthen the body. The number of mice returned to the original level, and they seemed to be stronger than before.

But this incident cast a huge psychological shadow on Lingxuzi.

Therefore, when Wen Tao begged him again this time, Lingxuzi wanted to refuse, but just as he was about to open his mouth, he saw Wen Tao's rare eyebrows and eyes curved, his originally cold expression suddenly seemed like a spring breeze, no one would Can't say a word.Lingxuzi had no choice but to close his eyes and said, "Forget it, just make up for all the dead ones." Wen Tao grinned, and there seemed to be thousands of stars in his eyes.

Wen Tao went back to the guest room with Song Ren and the guards to check on the cat's food, only to see that the cat's food was stored in a brocade bag, and it was all the best dried yak meat from Tubo.Wen Tao cut a small piece with a knife, picked one of Lingxuzi's gray mice and tried it, and saw that the mouse was so full of belly.

"Come and see this mouse tomorrow to make a conclusion." Wen Tao said.

On the second day, the mouse was still alive and kicking, and its vigor was visible to the naked eye. It was obviously not poisoned by the cat's food.

"Cats and dogs are greedy, maybe the cat ate something by mistake?" Wen Tao asked suspiciously.

"No, no, my cat is very picky eater and won't eat anything except beef jerky." Pine Nut shook her head like a rattle.

"The cat walked around the alchemy room a few times, it must be that the things in the alchemy room are not clean." Song Ren's guard who could speak Chinese said.

Wen Tao was thoughtful, and returned to the alchemy room. There were hundreds of medicine raw materials and semi-finished products in the alchemy room, most of which were placed in porcelain vases on the shelves. The floor was very clean because someone cleaned it.Although he followed Wen Tunan all the year round to learn calculation strategies and scriptures, he had been in and out of Lingxuzi's alchemy room since he was a child, and he was very proficient in herbal medicine pills, so he picked out the pills in the alchemy room that might kill the cat one by one. , each filled a little in a small porcelain bowl, and then took it to the separate small room behind his alchemy room.He prepared more than a dozen small wooden boxes in this small room, and every time he experimented with mice, he finished them in the small boxes.So a mouse and a kind of elixir were mixed into the mouse's food and put into small wooden boxes.

After finishing these, it is the climax of the moon.Kunlun is located on the top of the mountains. The snow has stopped at this time, and the dark blue sky is clear. Only a crescent moon seems to be within reach.At this moment, the cold air invaded people everywhere, Wen Tao stood at the door of the alchemy room, his facial features were even more handsome in the cold moonlight.

He has no father and no mother, and he probably spent his whole life in Kunlun like Jing Xuzi's apprentice.Although Qing Xuzi always told him that the world is illusory, after reading the scriptures and mastering calculations, he can understand the world's affairs.But he is only a boy of sixteen or seventeen, and he always wants to see the world under Kunlun Mountain, such as the solemnity of Kyoto, the beauty of Yangzhou, the Shaolin Temple in Luoyang, the Tianji Pavilion in Mingzhou, and even the blue sea outside Quanzhou. The sky is monstrous, and the yellow sand outside Yumen Pass is continuous.Even Tubo at the foot of the mountain, I have never seen it.