Zhang Yuguan looked at Chang An in surprise and thought to himself: This Chang An is even proficient in my Taoist magic. He should not be underestimated.
Then he nodded and said
"This puppet was left by Xiao Cui during his lifetime. Using my Taoist Celestial Eye Technique, I might be able to see through some secrets."
Chang An pondered for a moment, looked at Zhang Yuguan and shook his head.
"Brother Zhang, this puppet is so precious to you, there is no reason to destroy it easily."
Zhang Yuguan Lengdao
"You said this thing is very precious to me?"
Chang An patted his shoulder
"Brother Zhang's Taoism has been passed down from Taoism for a long time, but it has been more than a month since the tragedy in Zhoujiacun, and now he is using this puppet to spy on the secrets of heaven. If this puppet is not very precious to Brother Zhang, why wait until all other methods are used? I decided to use this puppet only after I had no clues."
Zhang Yuguan looked down at the puppet and said
"Now that things have come to this, what else can be done?"
Chang An smiled
"Everything you do must leave traces. How about Brother Zhang and I join forces to investigate this case."
Zhang Yuguan's eyes lit up and he immediately said
"Okay, I just want to compete with you."
Chang An laughed and said again
"Since we want to join forces, Brother Zhang must tell me everything he knows without reservation."
Zhang Yuguan's expression changed, and then he realized that he had fallen into Chang An's trap.
"Okay, you, it turns out that you have been going around for so long just to trick me."
Chang An's face straightened and he said seriously
"Brother Zhang, I have admired the Taoist sect for a long time, and I definitely sincerely want to join hands with Brother Zhang to investigate the case."
Zhang Yuguan sat down on the bed and thought for a long time.
"That's all, you would have asked these questions from others sooner or later."
Chang An found a chair, sat quietly and said
"Brother Zhang, please tell me."
Zhang Yuguan said slowly
"Actually, I know very little. In just one night, the whole village of Zhoujia Village was killed. The next day, the third son of the Liu family went to Zhoujia Village and found that there was no living person in the village."
Chang An asked
"The third youngest of the Liu family? Where are they?"
Zhang Yuguan shook his head
: "I fell to death last month."
Chang An looked at Zhang Yuguan with a half-smile, and said lightly
"What a coincidence."
Zhang Yuguan smiled bitterly
"I know what you want to say. I've also checked this matter. The Liu family is a hunter. Liu Laosan is so talented that ordinary people can't get close to him. If he is killed by someone, he must have some skills to get close to him. The person in the body.”
"But he jumped to his death while hunting in the forest."
Chang An said doubtfully
"How do you say this? It can't be that he doesn't want to live anymore?"
Zhang Yuguan said
"Since Liu Laosan came back from Zhoujia Village, he has been talking about wall ghosts all day long. People in the village thought that he had suffered from amnesia and was haunted by evil spirits from Zhoujia Village. But Liu Laosan did not talk about anything else. It’s quite normal. You should hunt and eat every day. If you look closely, you will see that it is the same as before, and no one paid much attention to it at that time.”
Chang An looked at him and smiled.
"Brother Zhang must have paid attention to him."
Zhang Yuguan smiled confidently
"That's right, when it comes to things like ghosts and gods, my Zhang family will always be more cautious. What's more, I told Liu Laosan's fate a few days ago."
Chang An said
"It seems that it is definitely not a good divination."
Zhang Yuguan nodded
"It's a sign of great danger, which makes me worry about him even more."
Zhang Yuguan looked at Chang An, but found that he was looking at him in surprise, so he asked
"Brother Chang An, don't you believe in this divination thing?"
Chang An said apologetically
"That's not true. Brother Zhang, please continue."
Zhang Yuguan continued
"After several days of my tracking, it seems that Liu Laosan is very afraid of Zhoujia Village. Every time he passes by Zhoujia Village, he hides far away. But other than that, I really didn't find anything else unusual."
Chang An asked again
"Have Brother Zhang ever gone to Zhoujia Village to investigate?"
Zhang Yuguan said
"I've been there. The whole village was sealed off by the government in the first few days. Later, the officers and soldiers left, but the village has been cleaned up. I didn't find any useful clues, but..."
Chang An asked
"Just what?"
Zhang Yuguan thought for a while and said
"I found that there was a large open space in Zhoujia Village. It seemed that someone had turned it over, and the soil had been turned up."
Chang An frowned
"A clearing?"
Zhang Yuguan nodded
"Besides that, I also smelled a strange smell in that open space."
Chang On Road
"It seems that Zhoujiacun is hiding something secret this time."
He changed his mind and suddenly asked
"By the way, Brother Zhang, are you sure that no one in Zhoujia Village was spared?"
Zhang Yuguan was stunned, not knowing why he asked this, but this incident reminded him. Thinking back carefully, he had never considered whether there were still people alive in Zhoujiacun.
"I really haven't thought about this. According to what the official said, people in Zhoujia Village are all fatal with one move. It must be done by masters in the martial arts world, and few people in Zhoujia Village practice martial arts. , how can there be any survivors?”
Chang An recalled the letter Yan Sihai sent him, which mentioned a child named Zhou Xi'er, and asked
"Brother Zhang, have you ever heard of a child named Zhou Xi'er?"
Zhang Yuguan frowned
"Xi'er? I've heard of it, but that child is from Zhoujia Village. His parents are both farmers. Brother Chang, how do you know about him? Could it be!"
Chang An nodded slightly
"As far as I know, he is probably a survivor of Zhoujiacun."
Zhang Yuguan felt excited, grabbed Chang An's sleeve and said
"Where is he now?"
Chang An lowered his head slightly and sighed.
"He died in the capital."
The hope that had just been ignited in Zhang Yuguan's heart was shattered in the blink of an eye.
"well……"
Chang An suddenly looked at him strangely and said
"Brother Zhang, do you remember anything unusual happened here a year ago?"
Zhang Yuguan said
"That's true for you to say. A year ago, just before the Gu family in that city was wiped out, there was a boy's disappearance case."
"What!"
Chang An suddenly stood up. This was so unusual. The same case as the one in the capital had actually occurred in the remote northern region. A year ago, wasn't that when the case of missing boys in the capital began?
The same case happened at the same time in two different places?
Zhang Yuguan was startled by Chang An. Seeing his ferocious expression, he said timidly
"What's wrong?"
Chang An couldn't hear what he said at this moment, and his heart was already turned upside down. If the same case happened in the north a year ago, could it be that the Magpie Bridge also appeared here?
No, even if they summon Magpie Bridge, without Li Qingchou, what's the point?
But while Chang An was deep in thought, he was startled by the cry of a pigeon outside the house.
He hurriedly ran out of the house, took off the letter paper from Bai Ge, opened it and saw that it was a letter from his home in Qingzhou.
"Liangzhou!"
Chang An slapped his head
"Yes, how could I forget that family?"
He turned around and asked Zhang Yuguan again
"A year ago, were there any Jianghu people here?"
Zhang Yuguan didn't know why Chang An was so excited. He thought about it for a moment and was about to answer when he saw Chang An looking at him with a strange expression again. He patted his head and said with a bitter smile.
"I'm confused, how could it not be?"
"Brother Zhang, I'm going to Zhoujia Village to investigate. I'll leave this place to you."
With that said, Chang An jumped up high and quickly left the village without waiting for Zhang Yuguan to react.
Zhang Yuguandao
"You bastard, you even said we were going to investigate the case together, and then you ran away after finishing the conversation."
He thought about it again, but was unwilling to do so.
"No, I have to go over and take a look, I can't let him take the lead."
With that said, he also ran out.
Outside Zhoujia Village
A gust of cool breeze blew across his face, and Zhang Yuguan subconsciously felt that the cool breeze was like a cold palm, constantly rubbing his chubby face.
"A whole village of people died. This ghost place is so evil."
Zhang Yuguan pinched the Taoist formula with his hand and calculated it gently. Even he, an upright Taoist sect, couldn't help but break into a cold sweat.
He plucked up the courage and walked slowly inside. The village was silent. Since that night, few living people dared to go here.
In fact, he had been to Zhoujia Village many times, so he was quite familiar with Zhoujia Village. After a while, he found the plowed open space.
"Chang'an, Chang'an."
He shouted in a low voice, as if he was afraid that his voice would be louder and those wronged souls would hear him.
But he shouted for a long time, but no one responded to him. He frowned and said to himself
"Where did this guy go?"
But at this moment, he suddenly felt a cool breeze blowing from the back of his neck, and he turned his head in shock.
"who!"
But when he turned back, there was no one there, and his face became more and more nervous. The cool breeze just now was clearly stirred up by someone passing quickly behind him.
"Chang An, is that you?"
Zhang Yuguan said timidly
"Stop joking, Chang An, come out quickly."
But the next moment, his face turned pale, and his mood suddenly went from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
He saw a puppet standing quietly not far away, smiling at him!
Moreover, he recognized the puppet at a glance. Xiaocui had made many puppets, but he could never forget this one because it was herself.
"Xiao Cui!"
Zhang Yuguan exclaimed, of course he already understood at this moment that it was not Chang An who was joking with him at all, but he just didn't have the time to take care of Chang An now.
What frightened him even more was that the next moment, the puppet actually moved!
However, the puppet suddenly rose into the air, then flew away out of thin air!
Zhang Yuguan only felt his pants getting cold, and he was so frightened that he peed.
He stood there blankly, still in shock after a long time. He looked around and saw a gust of wind blowing again. He was so frightened that he crawled out of the village.
When he ran outside the village, he sat down on the ground, sweating and breathing heavily.
After a long time, he slowly recovered, but he still couldn't help but shudder every time he thought of the infiltrating puppet.
"Is it possible that there really is something like that Liu Laosan said?"
At this moment, he recalled what Liu Laosan said about the ghost on the wall, and he couldn't help but the chill ran through his body again. He shook his head vigorously, but he still couldn't get the scene out of his head.
Instead, memories that seemed to be almost forgotten came to mind again clearly.
The Ghost on the Wall is a legendary story in Xiaocui Puppet Show. It is said that there is a scholar Liu Guanren who is timid and afraid of ghosts by nature, but he also loves to listen to ghost stories.
And this Liuguan man heard a story about the Ghost on the Wall from a friend. This ghost haunts the night and likes to hang out with beautiful women. If he sees a stranger blowing on him, he will cover his face with his sleeves and will also Walk around a stranger so that he or she loses direction. If you encounter this ghost, you can use urine to force him away.
Zhang Yuguan looked at his lower body and peed on his pants, and said suspiciously
"Could it be that my urine scared away the wall-crawler?"
Then he patted his face
"What nonsense am I talking about? I am an authentic Taoist sect. How can I be afraid of these demons and ghosts? I want to become a ghost exorcist."
When he said this, he wilted again. Although he was a descendant of the Taoist sect and had learned the ability to exorcise ghosts, let alone him, not even his master, his master's master, and his ancestor had ever seen a real ghost. ?
Normally, he just used what he had learned to calculate people's fortunes and predict good and bad luck. But now, he was completely confused and had no ability to exorcise ghosts.
"That's all, let's go back first and make a long-term plan."
He could only comfort himself like this, and then ran back dejectedly.
The sun gradually set and the sky became darker. After Zhang Yuguan returned to the village, he waited for Chang An at the entrance of the village for a long time, but still did not see Chang An return. He thought of the puppet he saw during the day and suddenly felt a little panicked.
"Chang An won't encounter that ghost scratching the wall. The ghost won't be able to get out."
The more he thought about it, the more panicked he became. He really wanted to go take a look, but when he thought about the situation during the day, he stopped suddenly.
"Forget it, let's go tomorrow. Since Chang An is very skilled in martial arts, there won't be any danger. I'd better worry about myself."
Zhang Yuguan comforted himself.
With that said, he walked back.
He is such an optimistic person who can always think about things and put all the troubles behind him.
late at night
"Dong dong dong"
A burst of noise woke up Zhang Yuguan, who was already asleep. Zhang Yuguan was about to get angry, but the sight in front of him extinguished all the anger in his heart.
The puppet that looked exactly like Xiao Cui was actually covered in blood, standing right in front of him!
But he saw that the puppet's mouth slowly opened, with blood still dripping from the corners of its mouth. What was even more horrifying was that the puppet actually let out a shrill scream.
"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"
Zhang Yuguan suddenly shouted
"ah!"
He suddenly woke up and looked around, only to find that it was pitch black and there was nothing there. He touched his neck, but his hands were covered in cold sweat.
"It's a dream again..."
Zhang Yuguan frowned and looked out the window. The moon was sparse and the shabby Taoist robes were hanging quietly on the bedside.
He walked slowly to the window, his face a little worried, and the master's words suddenly echoed in his mind.
"Jade Officer, our ancestor said that our lineage has six senses, and we always have some sense of strange things."
He thought to himself: Could it be that my frequent dreams recently are a sign of synesthesia? If that puppet is Xiao Cui entrusting me with a dream, then Xiao Cui, what do you want to say to me?
