no puppet

As the sun sets in the summer solstice, the edge of the outer layer of the mountain is as red as fire, and the sky has not yet dimmed. There are only a few wisps of light left, illuminating the mountain road ahead.

Just after You Hour, Yin Chun rushed all the way back to the mansion, happened to meet Kang Wen busy in the kitchen, so he asked, "Where is Master?"

Kang Wen didn't turn his head back, he was chopping meat crazily with a kitchen knife in one hand: "Master went to the town to pick up his junior sister, and he won't be back until later. We'll have pork dumplings tonight, brother, go and buy some..."

Before he finished speaking, there was a gust of wind at the door, and when Kang Wen looked up again, there was no sign of his senior brother behind him.

Yin Chun has always been swift in his work and has never been willing to procrastinate. Now that Cheng Daofeng happened to be away, he naturally couldn't delay the safety of the mountain people.

Zuo was nothing more than trivial matters such as casting spells and killing monsters. Even if the master was present, he would only give him some advice-the old man is now old, weak and sick, so he must not be brave enough to rush up the mountain.

After thinking about it, Yin Chu simply went back to the room, swiped his pen, and pinched ten pieces of long strips of talisman paper half a person's height in his hands, then walked quickly to the corner of the bed, and took out the dusty stone sword, Put it on the table, and carefully wipe the edge with a rag.

The stone sword is a sword with a good handle, more than three feet long. Its body is fierce and rough, brown and black, with hidden crane patterns intersecting and interspersed. At the end of the hilt is embedded a dark red jade the size of a cat's eye, which is partially dyed Hanguang, with one stroke at a time, is vigorous and powerful, with the word "Yinzhu" engraved on the top and bottom.

This sword is extremely old, but it was presented by Cheng Daofeng himself.If you count carefully, at least he has been with him for nearly twenty years.

After Yin Chun finished trimming the sword body, he took flannelette and wrapped it tightly from the beginning to the end, and tied it behind his back to prevent it from falling off accidentally.

After all the affairs had been dealt with, he finally let out a long sigh, squeezed the paper talisman and the dagger, pushed open the door, and immediately prepared to go up the mountain——

But at this moment, a pair of cold and slender hands stretched out from behind, almost without warning, slowly wrapped around his chest, silently clasping him tightly.

At the same time, a voice rang close to the ear, faintly: "...Brother, don't go, I'm afraid alone."

Yin Chun's hair stood on end, and goosebumps all over his body.Fortunately, he reacted very quickly, and immediately stretched out his hand to grab it, twisted and squeezed, and instantly folded the person from behind to the front with force.

Immediately afterwards, he quickly pulled a wrist-thick hemp rope from the table, and without knowing who it was, he directly wound it into a knot for him, wrapping it seven or eight times in a row.

Less than half a stick of incense later, Xie Hengyan was tied up and hung upside down by the head of the bed, with a crumpled talisman firmly stuffed in his mouth.

Holding the stone sword in his hand, Yin Chun looked at him coldly and said, "I knew it was you."

Xie Hengyan struggled wildly, but couldn't break free, so she could only look at him with tears in her eyes: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

Yin Chun lifted the stone sword and put it on his neck deliberately: "It's useless, say, why steal something to eat?"

Xie Hengyan twisted her almond eyes, and continued: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

Yin Chun raised his hand and took out a ball of talisman in his mouth, and asked: "Why steal things? Why do you hurt people?"

"No...not stolen." Xie Hengyan said aggrievedly, "Let me down!"

Yin Chun held his sword against him and said, "I'll give you a chance to tell the truth."

Xie Hengyan turned her head, her hair flicked his face: "No stealing!"

Yin Chun's eyes turned cold, and he shouted loudly: "Tell the truth."

Xie Hengyan let out a "woo" and bit his wrist with his mouth open.This guy really looked like a puppy, with a neat row of white teeth stuck between the thin layer of flesh and blood, although he didn't use his full strength, it was enough to make people difficult.

Yin Chun frowned and pulled out twice, but failed to do so, so he slapped Xie Hengyan's big head with a slap, and ordered: "Let go!"

Xie Hengyan glared at him, he would rather die than surrender: "Pear the chest (you loosen it first)!"

Yin Chun pulled it hard again, but in the end he had no choice but to untie him first.Unexpectedly, this guy just finished dressing up as a dog, and he immediately looked like a live fish. As soon as the hemp rope was untied, he sprinted down to the ground with his hands and feet, and ran away towards the gate.

Yin Chun had expected this would be the case, and with a wave of his hand, the door closed in response, only to hear a loud bang for a moment, Xie Hengyan slammed into the crack of the door, knocked his eyes black on the spot, and fell back crookedly.

Yin Chun walked over and picked him up by the back of the neck: "Are you still biting?"

Xie Hengyan's eyes were out of focus, and she shook her head vigorously at the cloud of air next door.

Yin Chun narrowed his eyes, pulled him a little closer, then stretched out his hand, brushed aside the soft and fine hair on top of his head, and had a clear and thorough look from the inside out.

——It is reasonable to say that if ominous things such as vicious and evil spirits are transformed into a complete human form that is fake and real, there must be a hidden imprint on the forehead that carries the power of the whole body.

This thing is equivalent to the heart. For all monsters, once the imprint is damaged, the body will immediately disappear.

The older generation of exorcism masters called this thing the Karma Seal.Since he was a child, Yin Chun knew that to subdue a demon, he had to start with its head.

However, under Xie Hengyan's pitch-black hair, there was only a clean and white scalp, and if he turned it down, his hair would be torn off by him.

Yin Chun tossed back and forth on top of the person's head for a long time, finally stopped in frustration, stared straight at the monster in front of him and said, "I'll give you another chance, tell me honestly."

Xie Hengyan stared at him for a long time, and when his consciousness gradually became clear, he raised his chin and rolled his eyes bitterly.

"It's fine if you don't say anything." Yin Chun grabbed the hemp rope with his hooked hands, and tied his hands and feet tightly together, "When my master comes back later, he will have plenty of ways to make you appear."

Xie Hengyan moved her eyelids: "...Oh."

Yin Chun added: "My master is Cheng Daofeng."

"Slow...slow." Xie Hengyan turned pale, and suddenly shouted, "I... I said, I just said it, don't look for your master!"

Yin Zhen glanced at him coldly, beckoning him to speak quickly.

Xie Hengyan closed her eyes, her heart froze, and she blurted out: "This morning, while you were not around, I groped into the kitchen and ate two steamed buns."

"anything else?"

Xie Hengyan said in great pain: "After half a stick of incense, I'm hungry... I went to get three more."

"and also?"

"At noon, your junior brother boiled a pot of chicken soup and said to save it for your master to come back to drink. I..."

"Well, then?"

Xie Hengyan folded her arms and leaned against the door: "It's gone."

"Ah."

Yin Chun realized later, and it took him a long time to think of something, so he asked him instead: "...is it gone?"

Xie Hengyan said: "Otherwise?"

"Don't lie." Yin Chun pulled away the stone sword with one hand, and his voice became stronger, "Going to make trouble in the houses of the mountain people, casting spells to attack the elderly, and messing up the statues in the ancestral hall! Isn't this all your good deeds?"

"I didn't!" Xie Hengyan's eyes flicked wildly, and she trembled in shock, "I've been staying in your room since last night, how could I go to the ancestral hall?"

As soon as these words came out, both of them were taken aback, and looked at each other for a while, Yin Chun took the lead to ask: "You didn't leave yesterday?"

"No." Xie Hengyan said angrily.

Yin Chun asked again, "Where did you sleep?"

Xie Hengyan buried her head on her knees and said in a muffled voice, "...the roof of your house."

Yin Chun still wanted to ask something, but suddenly there was a slight shock on the top of his head, and there was a quick and urgent knock on the door for no reason: "Senior Brother, Senior Brother! You come out quickly, come out quickly... come out!"

Yin Chun subconsciously pushed Xie Hengyan behind the door, using his body to cover him: "...what's wrong?"

"It's Xiao Zhao's house on the other side of Fuze Mountain. Something happened!" Kang Wen knocked on the door frantically, "Senior brother, come with me to have a look, I don't dare to go alone!"

Yin Chun's expression froze, and he turned his head to glance at Xie Hengyan, who shrank his head back and put on an innocent look.

"Understood, you wait outside the door, I'll come right away." Yin Zhu hurriedly tied the stone sword to his back again, put away the talisman paper, and brought the dagger with him.

Before opening the door, he lowered his head and said to Xie Hengyan sternly: "You just stay here, when I come back, I still have something to ask."

However, Xie Hengyan's whole body was tied up like a twist, and it was extremely difficult to even move a finger.Under the current situation, he could only pray with tears in his eyes, "Then what should I do if I'm hungry...?"

With a "bang", the door of the room was closed forcefully, and all that was left for him was a black shadow from his back.

Not long after the sun set, the mountain road in front of me was already deep and covered with weeds and gravel.

When Yin Chun and Kang Wen first arrived at Zhao Pingshu's home, Zhao's mother was curled up on the straw mat, her face was still black and blue, as if those spells during the day were useless at all.

Zhao Pingshu sat beside him crying, Kang Wen hurriedly went over to help him up, and asked, "Xiao Zhao, what's going on? Don't cry, you have to tell the whole story!"

Zhao Pingshu was still crying, and the more he cried, the more vigorous he became: "She fell down once at noon today. After Brother Chuang came, he said that nothing would happen. As soon as he left, he slipped into our room. Weird things, running very fast, came to hurt my mother without saying a word, and even tore up the talisman paper given by Brother Chu... all torn, ah woo woo woo..."

"What?" Kang asked anxiously, "Speak clearly!"

Zhao Pingshu took a deep breath and said, "No... I didn't see clearly..."

"Hey, useless you!" Kang Wen poked his forehead lightly, "You've been like this since you were a child, and you haven't made any progress when you grow up!"

When Zhao Pingshu heard this, his eyes became even redder: "I...I..."

"Okay, don't bother."

Yin Chun rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, lowered his voice and stopped the two of them, saying: "...I probably know why that 'thing' has visited your home twice."

The two people in front of them were slightly startled, and at the same time cast puzzled looks at him.