Jiu Ji couldn't be sure of the young prince's temper anyway.
However, it was not Jiu Ji who was embarrassed by him, but the supervisory censor.
At this moment, the censor's face turned pale and pale for several breaths, and finally he spoke.
"You guys at Dali Temple are really calm when handling cases."
His words contained yin and yang, Zhong Heqing looked unmoved, and other officials of Dali Temple ignored him.
When the censor saw that no one was paying attention to him, his face became even worse. Unexpectedly, he glanced at the thief and said suddenly.
"Then let's let this man confront the demon face to face. With the new witness, the demon may... be willing to admit his guilt."
*
In the dungeon, the darkness was like an invisible monster. A small lamp was lit, and the weak flame shivered and trembled in front of the monster.
Quan Lang was imprisoned here without seeing the light of day, and it is no longer known when.
Suddenly, someone came with several high lamps, and Quan Lang quickly raised his hands to cover his eyes.
Someone was pushed towards him. It was a thin man whom he had never seen before.
But the thin man pointed to him with trembling hands.
"It's him! It's him! It was him who lay on top of the old gentleman and bit him to death!"
"You're talking nonsense!" Quan Lang immediately moved forward, but his ankle was tightly held by a cursed chain, "I didn't bite Mr. at all! I was just checking on Mr.'s injury!"
As he spoke, he spoke to Zhong Heqing again.
"I didn't kill anyone! I didn't kill sir! This man is lying!"
The thief flinched, but in the dark dungeon, few people saw his expression.
The two men faced off, but no one gave in.
Liao Chun recorded all this in a book and shared it with the supervising censor.
"Wang Yushi, the dog demon has not confessed, and this thief is a thief after all. His words cannot be regarded as complete evidence."
At least Li Ling only saw Quan Lang lying on the old gentleman, but he didn't see Quan Lang biting him.
Censor Wang Xiu was silent.
The thief suddenly spoke again, this time he stretched out his hand and pointed towards Quan Lang.
"Anyway, I saw you bite Mr., and not only did I see you bite someone, but when you ran away, you were swept away by a few long vines that suddenly appeared!"
After the thief finished speaking, Quan Lang's expression suddenly froze.
The thief kept talking.
"You were the one who killed Mr. Du. If it wasn't you, it was someone else, or it was the two of you who did it together!"
Zhong Heqing had a panoramic view of the thief and Quan Lang's expressions. At that moment, Quan Lang's stiff face was twitching in pain.
Wang Xiu, the supervisory censor, spoke at this time.
"Kill to pay for your life, don't implicate others, plead guilty as soon as possible, and face the law as soon as possible, otherwise you will be a monster and you will be tortured."
The dimness swallowed up the light, flickering on and off Quan Lang's face.
Zhong Heqing frowned and took a step forward. He was about to reassure Quan Lang and told him to just tell the truth.
But he didn't expect to see an expression that seemed to be smiling or crying on the young man's face.
The young man's chapped lips trembled, he slowly raised his head and spoke.
"Don't you just want me to plead guilty? I... I plead guilty, so you can kill me."
*
There is a special barrier in the dungeon. Through the barrier, Jiu Ji cannot hear what is going on inside even if she uses her hearing.
It was a pity that she didn't expect Zhong Heqing and others to come out of the barrier.
Jiuji heard the supervisory censor ask.
"Zhong Shaoqing, the dog demon has confessed his crime. Now the case can be finalized in Dali Temple, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Jiu Ji was taken aback.
She listened carefully to Zhong Heqing's response, but the man didn't answer. It was Liao Chun who said something from the side.
"Without bothering the censor, Dali Temple will handle the case as soon as possible."
The censor snorted and walked away.
As soon as he left, only Zhong Heqing and Liao Chun were left.
Jiu Ji concentrated her mind and was about to hear what Quan Lang's confession was about, when she heard the man make a sound.
"The thief mentioned in front of Quan Lang just now that a long vine appeared and swept away Quan Lang. Did you remember it all?"
Liao Chun quickly noted it down, and as he spoke, he began to question.
"The thief suddenly came forward and mentioned the long vine. The implication was that the vine was also a spirit and was involved in the case. Quan Lang had not mentioned a word about this before. As soon as the thief mentioned it, Quan Lang changed his attitude. It’s a sin.”
Liao Chun couldn't help but said.
"Sir, there is obviously something hidden in this! It's just that Quan Lang refused to say any more."
Demons always have such a terrifying image in the eyes of mortals, not to mention that now, there are still people pressing on him, forcing him to confess his crime.
Zhong Heqing remained silent and closed his eyes.
In the dining room, Jiu Ji heard these words and immediately stood up, said a word to Guan Xing and left Dali Temple.
*
Tokyo Yaobang.
During the day, the yang energy is too strong, and most people are reluctant to go out. There are only those restaurants with good reputations on the streets, and there are always people coming and going in front of the doors.
Jiuji walked all the way to Shisan Lane, where An's family was located. When she was halfway there, she saw a girl with a locust flower in her hair in front of the door of a large restaurant built next to a pool of water. She was giving her hands to the restaurant. The demon Xiao Erdi inside put the food box on the table.
Yao Er opened the food box, took a look at it, and quickly paid her a sum of spiritual stones.
The girl put the few spiritual stones into her pocket, lowered her head and left the restaurant.
Jiu Ji followed her and saw that she had not gone far when she was stopped by the demon boy who suddenly ran out.
Unfortunately, it was Quan Rui, Quan Lang's younger brother, who stopped her.
"Sister, my mother asked me to invite you to my house for dinner."
She shook her head, "I'm not going, I'm going home."
But Quan Rui held her back, "Sister, don't do this, you always have to eat! Mom asked me to call you, let's go, let's go!"
Quan Rui pulled her all the way to An's house, which was in an alley not far away.
Jiuji also followed and saw An Sanniang greeting the girl, filling a bowl full of rice and stuffing it into her hand.
If An's family is not rich and cannot afford spiritual food, it will be the same as what ordinary people eat in their homes.
She stuffed the girl with rice and then took her to sit down to eat, but the girl just lowered her head and refused to eat.
An Sanniang was about to persuade her, but she saw Jiu Ji standing at the door.
"Is this news from Quan Lang?!"
She spoke, and all three members of the family looked over.
Jiu Ji nodded and glanced over the three of them.
"Some people said that they saw Quan Lang murder with their own eyes, and that when Quan Lang escaped, he was swept away by a vine that suddenly appeared."
As she spoke, her eyes fell on the face of the girl with a locust flower hairpin.
"When Quan Lang heard this, he confessed."
"Ah!" Xiao Quanrui shouted, and An Sanniang also took a breath.
As for the girl with a locust flower hairpin, the bowl in her hand fell down and smashed into pieces on the ground.
She suddenly turned around and ran out the door.
"How can you plead guilty?! Alang can't plead guilty. If you want to arrest me, you should arrest me. It was me who harmed him and it had nothing to do with him!"
Her tears fell loudly, and she rushed out of the door.
An Sanniang hurriedly tried to pull her but failed. Instead, Jiuji's figure disappeared and stopped her from the door.
"If he pleads guilty and you plead guilty, maybe the mortal court will sentence both of you demons and neither of you can escape." Jiuji said.
An Sanniang also ran over at this time and held her tightly.
"Huailin, it's not you who caused Xiaolang, it has nothing to do with you!"
Just when An Sanniang said this, the tears in Huailin's eyes seemed to be broken, and they all fell to the ground.
"But aunt... I was the one who asked him to go to the mortal world to learn how to read. It was I who forced him to go to private school. It was I who said that if he didn't study, I would ignore him... .If it weren’t for me, how could anything happen to him..."
... ...
Huai Lin is a Sophora japonica spirit, and her parents used to be demons in the Tokyo Yaofang. Her family used to be wealthier than the An family, and they had several businesses in the Yaofang. However, since the appearance of Weasel Jade, the Huai family's life has plummeted.
Dryads like Huai Jia are not like birds and animals that can move at will. Moving their tree bodies consumes a lot of spiritual energy. The Huai family discussed with the other tree spirits and asked the Jade Rat Cave Palace to keep their bodies under the jade tree. At most, they would get some money for repairs.
The Jade Rat Cave Palace agreed to their proposal, and it was suitable for both parties.
All the tree spirits thought they had finally found stability, but they couldn't bear the fact that their lives were not as good as before.
But a few years later, everyone's health gradually became worse, and they couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with the body under the jade tree.
However, people were not allowed to enter and exit the Jade Rat Cave Palace at will. A group of tree spirits searched back and forth for a long time before they were able to enter once.
This is an incredible sight. Their originally lush and leafy bodies seem to have lost the nourishment of spiritual energy since this place was assigned to the Jade Mouse Cave Palace. Every tall tree in the entire forest has dead leaves and branches. Lush again.
The tree spirits were shocked and immediately gathered in the Jade Rat Cave Palace to ask for an explanation, but they were kicked out by Shu Lu, the palace chief.
Obviously, the Jade Rat Cave Palace allowed Weasel Jade to absorb their spiritual energy, but the Rat Clan was so powerful, how could they compete with the Rat Clan?
With no choice but to move the body out from under the emerald tree in a hurry.
It's just that the body, which was already damaged, quickly moved out and something went wrong.
In order to protect the safety of his wife and daughter, Huailin's father failed to take care of himself. He severely injured his meridians when he moved out of the main body, and passed away in less than half a year.
Huailin's mother was already in poor health, and she was even more devastated after her husband died. Huailin spent almost all her savings to treat her mother's illness, but her mother only managed to survive for five years before she passed away.
The Huai family has declined, leaving only the empty courtyard and the little girl with no way to make a living. Seeing that the little girl was alone, An Sanniang felt very pitiful, so she often asked Quan Lang to help her.
It wasn't until Huailin grew up that she learned to make spiritual food and drinks and sold them to big restaurants, and her life became easier.
But the older they grow, the more spiritual energy they need to maintain the demon elixir.
The spiritual energy of the demon workshop is limited, and any place in this world with abundant spiritual energy has been occupied early. Ordinary demons can only earn more spiritual stones and refine the spiritual stones to replenish the needed spiritual energy.
But how can they, demons without much ability, earn more spiritual stones?
That day, there was a breeze blowing on the hillside outside the workshop, blowing away the fog in the mountains, leaving behind the lights in the workshop like stars.
Someone ran up from the dimly lit place and ran under the old locust tree in one breath. He looked up at the girl sitting among the intertwined branches of the locust tree.
"Arlene, I don't want to be called Da Lang Er Lang. Don't you like to listen to books written by mortals? Give me a name like you!"
As soon as he said that, the girl thought of something.
"It's similar to me. It seems to have a very good meaning."
When the young man under the tree heard this, he jumped up and squeezed into the branch with her.
"What is it? Tell me quickly!"
He urged, but the girl shook her head.
"If you are willing to read yourself, you will naturally know."
The young man frowned, "You asked me to study again? It's hard to learn human words. Not everyone is as patient as you, Arlene."
When the girl heard this, she asked Long Huai to push him down.
"If you can read and read, you will know a lot of truths. Maybe our current difficult life will be better. If you don't want to read, you can still ask your Dalang Quan to go."
After she finished speaking, she turned away and ignored him.
Quan Dalang became anxious.
"Read, read, I promise you just read, don't ignore me! I'm going to find a gentleman who is willing to teach us!"
He did what he said, and it didn't take long before he found an old man who was willing to collect the herbs for bundles.
Huailin was so happy that she took him to study with the old gentleman.
After reading the book for half a year, he changed his name to Quan Lang. Walking on the street in Fangli, when he met people, he said that he had read a book and changed his name, and asked everyone to call him by his new name.
"Linlang, Linlang." The young man deliberately glanced at her sideways, "Is Arin satisfied with my reading of this book?"
The girl's cheeks turned red, but the boy hugged her to the branch of the old Longhuai tree. He looked up at her.
"Arlene, after I study for two more years, understand the truth, develop skills, and make money and live a good life, shall we get married?"
His eyes were full of stars and moon, "Didn't you say that our husband is the best husband in the world? When we get married and we have a baby, if it is a baby, we will send him to his house to look after him. In the courtyard, if it’s a small locust tree, plant it in the yard of your husband’s house. People who are influenced by it may be able to endorse it even if it’s not transformed!”
He smiled and said as he looked at the girl carefully. The distance between them was getting closer and closer. Old Longhuai dropped his branches and leaves, and the two of them were surrounded by no one.
The stars and moon are like the mortal characters they learned, densely illuminating each other's appearance.
His kiss was hot and hot, falling on her lips.
"Arlene, thank you, thank you for urging me to study. I will make progress."
... ...
But reading, reading, did you get such a result?
The girl's eyes were red and her expression was dazed.
"I should be honest, I should be peaceful, I shouldn't study at all, why do people like us dare to dream..."
