Taoist Pippi is a coward

Gu Yue City is now at the most bustling time of the day, with all kinds of hawking and selling, very lively.

"Candied haws, delicious candied haws!"

"Please come inside the guest officer! Is the guest officer a top or staying in the hotel!"

"Hey, steamed stuffed bun, freshly baked steamed stuffed bun!"

After the cries of selling, there were some unsociable voices.

"Have you heard that there have been several murders in the city!"

"Yes, yes, many people died!"

"I heard that they all have pale faces and bodies like skeletons, and their death conditions are terrifying!"

"Yeah, I heard..."

The aunt who was buying buns at the side could only sigh after hearing this, "It's so pitiful." She continued to arrange her buns, and suddenly saw a slender but well-knit hand quickly took two buns and stuffed them into her mouth.

The aunt looked at the young man in front of her with picturesque features, eyes like bright stars, dressed in a commoner Taoist robe, raised her eyebrows, spread her hands in front of the young man, and said, "Two buns and four pennies, plus the sixteen you owed earlier. Wen, a total of [-] Wen, pay back the money quickly."

The young man with a gentle face smiled irritably, and said, "Aunt Li, look, I don't have any business! When my business is booming, I will pay you back my capital with interest, hehehehehe!"

Aunt Li glanced at the young man in distaste, and said, "Tell me about you, if you don't learn well, you'll just learn some crooked ways from your cheap old man!"

The boy curled his lips and wanted to change the topic: "Hey, Aunt Li, what were they talking about just now?"

Aunt Li turned her head to look at the gangsters who were gossiping just now, and said, "It's no wonder you didn't know that you weren't in the city before. Many people have died in succession during this period, and the government can't do anything about it." He put his hand next to his mouth, pretending to be suspicious, "I think there is a ghost sucking Yang Qi!"

"Wow, really!" The boy pretended to be surprised while covering his mouth.Aunt Li was very pleased with his reaction, she nodded and said: "You are born beautiful, but your body is thin and weak, and you have to be careful, don't be killed by that ghost."

The young man brushed his hair and smiled: "Aunt Li, although I'm handsome and handsome, but I'm really not a girl, I'm not that delicate. Let's go, I'll pay you back next time."

The boy left after he finished speaking, leaving Aunt Li in place, muttering: "Stinky boy, I don't know who I'm following. She should look like a beautiful girl." Then he started yelling again. .

The young man still had a smile on his face, walking on Gu Yue Street, looking here and there, chatting with this aunt and chatting with that uncle.What are you talking about, it's just that there is a bloody disaster in the family, sickness and disability, buy a talisman to suppress evil, and look like a charlatan.

I don't know if the fooled person bought them because of his young age or something else!Is there special treatment for a good face?

The boy dropped the wallet in his hand, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.Aunt Li told him that there were monsters hurting people and told him to be careful, but he didn't care at all, and he still had to eat and drink along the way.

The sun was setting, and the last rays of light had dyed the earth golden. One day had passed in Gu Yue City, and the prosperity of the day was not seen on the streets, it was quiet and cold.

It got dark very quickly, and after a while, lanterns were hung at the door of every house.

Suddenly, bursts of black smoke filled the street, covering the entire street. The originally bright yellow lanterns turned green strangely and swayed in the black smoke.

At this time, there was a girl running on the street with a terrified expression, running faster and faster, as if slowing down would kill her.

She ran to a door, slammed on the door frantically, and wanted to go in, but there was no response. Her anxious tears had already flowed out. She turned around, "Ah—" a scream resounded through the empty ancient room. Moon Street.

The boy was walking on the street with a cloth bag that had been mended countless times on his shoulder.

He frowned, and muttered: "Why is there such a heavy fog at night, let's go back quickly." He hummed a little tune and continued walking forward.Suddenly, a black shadow flashed behind him, and the coldness on his back made his hair stand on end.

"Who!" He turned around abruptly and shouted, "Don't pretend to be a ghost, I, I'm not afraid of you!"

He said he was not afraid, but the cold sweat on his forehead had already betrayed him.

He looked around, saw no one, took a long breath, turned around and wanted to continue walking.

But when he turned around, he saw a hideous pale grimace with black smoke coming out of its mouth.

"Ghost——ghost, ghost, ghost, help!" the boy yelled, then quickly turned around and ran back, wishing he could grow wings.

As he was running, he heard that grimace speak...

The grimace said: "It turned out to be... a... divine soul! After I eat you, you will become a god and demon, hahaha!"

The boy ran away even more when he heard that the ghost face wanted to eat him, "The blue-faced fangs, black smoke from the mouth, cannibalism, is the Soul Eater! How come I met such a powerful one!"

The young man turned his head and saw that the Soul Eater was slowly chasing him. How dare this uncle treat him as a prey!He stopped, panting, supported his waist, and asked with a grimace: "I asked you about the people who died in the city these days, but you killed them?!"

Seeing that he stopped running, the Soul Eater flew in front of him, and said to him as if the great depression in his heart had finally been vented: "The souls of mortals are mostly filthy, and the stench is unbearable. Persuading myself to eat it? Yes, mortals have always eaten and done everything, but the soul is so hard to swallow."

Dirty?Then you still eat! ! !The boy silently rolled his eyes.

The Soul Eater salivated at him and said: "But you are actually a divine soul. After eating your soul, my skills will greatly increase, and I can become a god and demon. God helped me to meet you! Jie Jie Jie!"

"Ding—" the boy stuck a talisman on the forehead of the Soul Eater while it was still laughing, and the Soul Eater's terrifying laughter stopped abruptly.Seeing that the Soul Eater was fixed, the young man ran out immediately, not daring to turn his head back.

After a while, the Soul Eater was able to move around, and watched the duck fly away. It just wanted to eat the boy's soul as soon as possible to vent its anger!Before it flew a few steps, the trembling from the depths of its soul made it feel afraid.

"Huh! Get out!" A cold voice sounded beside its ears, making it tremble unceasingly. It stared at the direction in which the boy left, and left unwillingly.

The Soul Eater left, and everything returned to normal on the street.

The boy ran into an alley, took a deep breath, poked his head out cautiously, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the Soul Eater hadn't followed.The young man rested for a while, then went out of the alley, and by the dim light of the lantern, when he looked up, he saw a handsome man in black standing in front of him and looking at him, there was doubt and surprise in his eyes. , nostalgia and forbearance.He just wanted to go home quickly, so he bypassed the man and left quickly.

The man reluctantly watched the boy's leaving figure...

The next day,

The boy woke up on a wooden bed in a small shabby house. He couldn't sleep well after a night of nightmares. He got up, washed himself, and then walked towards the street.

"Hey, little Lian'er, what's the matter, are you out of your mind?" Arriving at Gu Yue Street, a mid-spirited female voice stopped him.

Seeing that it was Aunt Li, he ran over quickly, approached Aunt Li and whispered, "Aunt Li, I've told you several times, don't call me that again!"

Aunt Li smiled and said, "Yo, you're shy! Come here, have a steamed stuffed bun!" Then she gave Xu Lian two steamed stuffed buns.

Xu Lian looked horrified at the steamed bun that Aunt Li handed him: "So kind today? I'm afraid it's poisonous!"

Aunt Li's face turned pale, and she was about to take the buns back: "Some people are like this. Caring about him turns into harming him. Oh, good intentions are like a donkey's liver and lungs, tsk tsk tsk!"

Xu Lian snatched the steamed stuffed bun back, and said with a doggy smile to Aunt Li: "No way, Aunt Li treats me the best! How could she harm me? Right hehehehe!"

"Hmph." Aunt Li snorted coldly, and said to him solemnly, "Another baby girl died last night, you really have to be careful!"

He should be worried, he was found last night, that Soul Eater is too scary!Another one died last night, this is a serious situation!

Aunt Li said again: "But this time, the girl fell in front of the Wang family on the East Street. I heard that the government arrested the Wang family directly in order to give an explanation to the court!"

When Xu Lian heard this, isn't this a disregard for human life?

Xu Lian smiled and said, "Thank you Aunt Li for the steamed stuffed bun. I'm going first."

Xu Lian didn't care what Aunt Li said later, and walked directly to the gate of the yamen, which was already surrounded by onlookers, and he managed to squeeze in.Then I saw that the county government was about to start the trial of the Wang family.

As soon as the gavel was knocked, the case of the dead woman of the Wang family was considered to be on trial.

County magistrate: "The hall is the royal family!"

The three members of the Wang family knelt on the ground, trembling, the woman was holding the child and crying, and the man could only silently answer "Yes."

County magistrate: "You are the same as the girl Xiaoxin who killed Huaqinfang on West Street last night, can you admit it?!"

The man became excited when he heard that: "No, no! No! No! No! The villain's family did not kill Miss Xiaoxin, and the villain's family had no grievances with Miss Xiaoxin, so it is impossible to kill her! Sir! Villainous The family is wronged!" The man wanted to rush to the county magistrate to explain, but was pushed to the ground by two policemen.

The county magistrate: "The body of Miss Xiaoxin is right in front of your door, how dare you deny it! Someone come and punish me!"

Xu Lian hurriedly said "Stop!", but everyone looked at him, and he smiled at them embarrassedly and touched his nose.

Why is this mouth so cheap!Bah bah bah!Xu Lian silently slapped himself a few big mouths in his heart.

He had no choice but to walk into the courtroom, bowed to the county magistrate, and said with a smile, "My lord, Xu Lian, I have the latest news about this case, and this man was not killed by the Wang family."

The county magistrate wanted to directly punish the Wang family, sign and charge, but now a troublemaker has come, which is really annoying.

The county magistrate said: "This man was obviously at the gate of Wang's house, so he must have been killed by Wang's house!"

Xu Lian said: "Your Excellency's words are wrong. If I die in this court, am I the one who killed me? If Your Excellency admits it, isn't it also admitting that I killed someone?"

The county magistrate was very impatient with his nonsense, and said: "Then tell me who killed him! Where is the murderer now?"

Xu Lian said: "I'm not afraid of adults' jokes if I say it, the murderer is an inhuman thing! As for where it is now, I can only be sure that it is still in Gu Yue City!"

The county magistrate laughed loudly: "Inhuman things? Are you talking about monsters! How can there be monsters in the world!"

Xu Lian: "My lord, may I ask if the deceased's face was pale, and his figure was like a skeleton, only skin and bones?"

The magistrate said: "You are right."

Xu Lian said: "Including the deceased this time, there are already five such cases in the city. There are adults who expect the Wang family to be the murderers of the deceased. What evidence do you have?"

The county magistrate said: "The body was found at the gate of Wang's house, and there were bloody handprints of the deceased on the door!"

"That's it." Xu Lian turned to face the man from the Wang family and knelt down, "There are bloody handprints of the deceased on your door, did you know that?"

The man quickly shook his head in denial: "No, we only found out this morning!"

Xu Lian asked again: "Then did you hear anything last night?"

The man said: "No, we didn't hear anything last night. It was said that there were ghosts eating people in the city. Our family never went out and went to bed early. We didn't hear anything."

Xu Lian stood up, clasped his fists towards the county magistrate and bowed slightly to salute, "My lord, I read a book of Qiqizhi, which recorded a monster named Soul Devourer, with green face and fangs, and black smoke from his mouth. The black smoke is like an enchantment, isolating its prey from the world, and no one can hear or see the prey. It cannibalize human souls, and after being eaten by it, the prey is no different from the death of the five dead, which also explains Why didn't they hear anything?"

Is this kid here to ruin my position?The county magistrate frowned and said, "How can you draw conclusions based on their one-sided words!"

Xu Lian smiled and said, "Didn't your lord just draw a conclusion from one side of the story?"

The county magistrate was choked by Xu Lian for a long time and was speechless.

"There really are monsters!"

"I'll just say it was done by monsters, how could someone die like that!"

"Bah, you should stop posting it later!"

"You're just an afterthought!"

"Okay! You can shut up and take a good look to see if it is a monster."

Xu Lian listened to the discussion behind him, a smirk curled up on the corner of his mouth, and he said to the county magistrate: "Your Excellency is so honest, please investigate this matter! To catch the murderer as soon as possible for the safety of the people of Guyue City is also to express your honor." Fair and honest, isn't it?"

Hehehe, this kid dared to force me.

County magistrate: "Since you know this monster so well, you must have the ability to subdue it. I will give you one day to catch the monster! No, forget it, just execute it!"

Can he swear! ! !Why did he dig a hole for himself! ! !This dog official! ! ! !

Xu Lian twitched the smile on the corner of his mouth, and said with nothing to love: "My lord, villains don't know how to catch monsters, please take it back!"

County magistrate: "Then you were deceiving me to excuse the Wang family!"

Xu Lian was about to cry, and said: "My lord, this villain is not trying to excuse them, they are innocent!"

County magistrate: "Then you catch the monster back!!"

Ahhhhh! ! !Is it too late for him to run now? !

"My lord, I can catch monsters, let me go with this little brother!" A gentle male voice sounded in the courtroom, and a man walked slowly to the courtroom and saluted the county magistrate.

Xu Lian took a look, my god!Isn't this the man from last night!Can he catch demons?

County magistrate: "You know how to catch monsters? It's ridiculous! You only have one eye to see now, how can you catch monsters!"

The man touched the black blindfold on his left eye, and said lightly: "My eye is because I can see ghosts and ghosts. It is different from ordinary people, so I have to cover it up. If you don't believe me, I can take it off to prove myself, eh?!" The man looked at it coldly. To the magistrate, his eyes wrapped around the magistrate like a poisonous snake.

The county magistrate looked at the man's eyes, and couldn't help feeling a little nervous, "Ahem, cough." Clearing his throat, he said, "No, there's no need, since Mr. has the ability to catch monsters, let Xu Lian catch that monster together. !"

The man nodded to the county magistrate: "Well, I will definitely live up to expectations."

County magistrate: "Xu Lian! I have Mr. to assist you. I will see the monster die tomorrow, otherwise you will be beheaded!"

Um? ? ?Who did he provoke! ! !

Xu Liansheng said without love, "Yes, my lord."

The county magistrate gave a pat on the gavel: "Put the Wang family in prison, and retrial tomorrow! Back out!"

After the Wang family was taken into custody, Xu Lian and this man left the county office. Xu Lian was as lifeless as if he had been taken into custody.

The man looked at the person in front of him and let out a "puchi" laugh, Xu Lian shot towards him with a sharp look.

Xu Lian said bitterly: "What's so funny! If it weren't for you, how could I have received this drudgery!"

The man smiled and said, "Didn't I help you out?"

Xu Lian exploded immediately: "Do I know you? What are you doing? Do I want you to save me?"

The smile on the corner of the man's mouth was almost unsteady, don't you know...?

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xu Lian asked him again: "Are you really good at catching monsters?"

The man managed to keep his smile on the corner of his mouth: "No way!"

Xu Lian asked suspiciously, "Don't you have yin and yang eyes?"

The man smiled and said, "No, it's just blind."

Xu Lian was stunned for a moment, lowered his eyelids, and was almost overwhelmed by his anger. He turned around and left. The man caught up with him and asked, "Why are you leaving? Aren't you going to catch a demon?"

Xu Lian took a deep breath and resisted the urge to curse: "You don't know how to catch demons, why do you talk so much! Don't you know that you don't have to do porcelain work without diamonds?"

The man touched his nose: "Don't you know it!"

Xu Lian exploded: "When did you see me?!"

"I saw you took a talisman last night to immobilize that monster!"

Xu Lian glanced at him and ignored him, and walked straight forward, the man could only smile and follow him.

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The author Xiaomengxin, the writing is not good, please give more comments and take care of me!I hope there is a little angel who loves me and takes care of me!Is my request too much_(:з」∠)_