Jing Yu, who was doing exercises in the morning, was disturbed by a sudden knock on the door. He stopped and opened the door, and found a peasant woman standing in front of the door, looking haggard.
"What's wrong?" Jing Yu stepped forward and asked.
As if grasping a life-saving straw, the peasant woman cried loudly: "Sir, you have to help me. I haven't slept for three days, and I am seriously ill. I will go to the underworld soon."
"Slow down and tell me in detail so I can help you solve it." Jing Yu supported the crying peasant woman.
"Sir, the thing is like this. A few years ago, I raised five hens and one rooster at home. I bought that rooster for breeding and cannot sell it."
"Is there something wrong with the rooster?" Jing Yu shrugged.
The peasant woman knelt down on the ground and grabbed Jing Yu's trouser legs: "Yes! But the strange thing is that this rooster will start singing every midnight, and the singing rhythm is weird. Then I was awakened in the middle of the night, and got up to check , and found that the rooster not only sang, but also danced at the same time.”
The peasant woman trembled: "I have never seen that kind of dancing in my life. It is not something that a chicken can jump out of. I was frightened that day and fell seriously ill. I stayed in bed for three days and I still haven't regained my energy."
Why did Jing Yu feel that the two keywords of this chicken and dancing were a bit familiar? He suppressed his laughter and continued to ask: "Is that all? Did it hurt you?"
"No." The peasant woman shook her head and then began to nod again. "It made me sick and hurt me."
Jing Yu comforted him: "It's definitely not a big deal. Don't worry, it will be taken care of by us."
…
In the afternoon, Jing Yu called Ning Qu and Huang to the peasant woman's house.
The peasant woman's house is located in the outer city, with a small piece of farmland and a chicken pen.
They checked all the hens in the chicken pen and determined that the hens were not the factor that attracted the rooster to sing. Then when Jing Yu was about to check the rooster, the rooster kicked him over and almost blinded Jing Yu's eyes.
It was obviously wary of people from the government. Could it be that it had been caught by the government before... Jing Yu thought.
"Are you also dissatisfied with my dead fish eyes?" Jing Yu was angry and was stopped by Ning Qu.
The peasant woman came over with short legs and asked, "Sir, have you found anything?"
"No, apart from being aggressive, this rooster is not qualified to dance and sing by himself in the middle of the night." Jing Yu shook his head regretfully.
Since the key to the problem cannot be found during the day...
So, he activated Ding Mingsi's secret skill - crouching.
Jing Yu asked Ning Qu and Huang to lie down on the roof, while he squatted in the chicken pen, smelling the smell of corn and chicken feces until dark.
Sure enough, the rooster first observed that there was no one around, and then started to sing and show off its singing voice.
Jing Yu understood the rhythm, which was very similar to the pop music in his previous life. Then the rooster began to make human sounds, and every word was pronounced clearly. When the song reaches its climax, the rooster begins to dance, with its legs jumping back and forth, and then its waist twisting gracefully.
"Roast chicken." Jing Yu sighed.
Huang and Ningqu pounced at this moment, one released an ice pick, and the other exposed his steel claws and clamped the rooster's neck.
The rooster was too frightened to move, and its singing suddenly stopped.
"You...what are you going to do?"
Jing Yu pretended to be serious and said: "Ding Ming Sicheng is handling the case and has come to arrest the chicken demon and bring him to justice!"
The chicken demon was frightened and collapsed on the ground: "It's unfair, I didn't kill anyone! How could you take me away?"
"Pfft, who said you killed someone?" Jing Yu couldn't help laughing.
The chicken demon was puzzled: "Sir, are you laughing?"
"I'm not laughing, I just think of happy things. We have received professional training and generally don't laugh unless we can't help it." The more Jing Yu looked at the rooster, the happier he became, mainly because the rooster could also speak human words.
"Sir, please listen to my explanation, I just couldn't help myself!"
"No, I can't help it anymore, hahahaha." Jing Yu turned his back and started laughing.
Ningqu and Huang withdraw their spells.
The chicken demon lowered his head: "Actually, I was just an ordinary chicken demon, but one night, I suddenly saw a black shadow entering my body. Then I seemed to be controlled by something, and I started dancing and dancing. Sing."
"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Jing Yu raised his eyebrows.
"Sir, you must believe me! I am really being controlled, not because I want to dance! It's all because of that hateful mysterious black group that made me lose all face in front of the hens, and now they don't care about me. ." The chicken demon shed a few tears.
"Okay, I'll help you investigate and clear your name." Jing Yu accepted the commission with a smile.
…
Jing Yu found the peasant woman and asked, "Before you moved into this house, which other family lived here?"
The peasant woman raised her head, thought for a long time, and replied: "It seems that there is a young man living there, but what does it have to do with the rooster singing and dancing?"
"It's like this. This rooster is behaving abnormally. We suspect that it is possessed by an evil spirit, and we plan to start with the previous owner of this place." Jing Yu explained.
The peasant woman suddenly realized: "I know this. That young man has a bad reputation in our area."
She approached Jing Yu and said in his ear. This action made Ning Qu frown at the side.
"The young man was young and energetic, and he was always clamoring to participate in some singing and dancing competition. Isn't that something for older girls to participate in? Why would a young man get involved. As a result, he practiced singing and dancing every day. The key is that he was very ugly, and the neighbors I don't understand it at all. Guess what? He drowned!"
"Drown?" Jing Yu's eyes widened.
"One day, he might have attended a drinking party and was very drunk. It happened to be midnight. In order to be brave, he probably started singing and dancing again. He accidentally slipped and fell into the river. No one was paying attention, and he drowned. "The peasant woman whispered.
"I understand, your problem is easy to solve."
Jing Yu released the gilded bowl to exorcise the chicken demon. He judged that the ghost of the young man was possessed by the chicken demon, so at the same time, the chicken demon would sing and dance uncontrollably.
Along with a shrill scream, a black energy floated away from the chicken demon's body, and the chicken demon suddenly felt that he was fine and light.
"Thank you, sir! We are grateful to you!" The peasant woman burst into tears of gratitude.
The same goes for the chicken demon.
However, it could not escape the fate of being sold in the end. Jing Yu didn't know whether it was served to the dining table or returned to nature. In short, this incident was very absurd.
Therefore, there is a joke circulating in teahouses in the capital: a rooster sings and dances in the middle of the night, and the result is that the soul of a young man is possessed.
Some people even performed this thing specifically and named it "Midnight Chicken Soul".
All this is due to Jing Yu. He walked around the streets and alleys, eager to tell this story. (To be continued)
