Seeing the old man who ran the Wangyuelou shop come back, one of the waiters who was familiar with him walked out of the shop, walked up to him and asked with a smile:
"Shopkeeper, how much money did Xue Da pay our family for sending poisonous eels this time?"
"Compensate? Bah!"
The shopkeeper spat all over the waiter's face and pushed him away angrily.
The waiter wiped the old phlegm on his face and secretly cursed his bad luck. It was only because it was too late that he couldn't see the other person's expression, but he still had a smile on his face. He distanced himself and asked behind:
"What's going on? That guy is cheating and you don't have any money to pay?"
After the shopkeeper gave him a helpless look, he stopped in front of the restaurant door, looked around, and then lowered his voice and said to him:
"Then Xue Da has disappeared. I think he ran away out of fear of crime. Where can I find him to pay for the money?"
"Ah? No, Xue Da's ancestors all made a living by fishing locally. Where can they escape?"
"That's right. In my opinion, this Xue Da... Sigh! It's just that he has lost his trace, but it's a shame for our restaurant. If he really can't be found, that high-ranking official won't be able to bring us here if he doesn't follow us.
Top cylinder."
"Ah! Then why are you coming back alone, and where are the two gentlemen who have grown old with you?"
"Those two gentlemen asked me to come back first. They must have gone to look for Xue Da. It's so weird when I think about it. Those two gentlemen..."
When the shopkeeper said this, he suddenly realized that he had talked too much. He slapped the waiter on the forehead and scolded him in a low voice:
"Stop asking around randomly. It's better not to know about this matter than to know it. And you must not tell others about it, otherwise it will rot in my belly."
"Natural, natural."
The waiter nodded and agreed. When he saw the old man walking into the store, he did not follow him. Instead, he quietly turned around on tiptoes and trotted towards his home under the moonlight.
After two glasses of wine, the sound of doors closing and closing could be heard from the direction of Wangyue Tower.
……
"Brother Cheng, that person with purple energy at the door of the restaurant just now is from the royal family?"
Jia Fei had just hid far away, and his hearing was not as good as Cheng Yu's, so he didn't hear the boy's whisper. At this time, he vaguely heard the shopkeeper and the waiter talking, and then he remembered to ask.
"Well, it's your highness."
Cheng Yu nodded and said. After finishing speaking, he drank a glass of wine by himself, looked at the reflection of the full moon on the rugged lake, and thought to himself:
What happened tonight is indeed a bit strange. First of all, His Highness came here to admire the moon, but there was no local official accompanying him, and he even mentioned auspicious things in front of the restaurant.
Secondly, there was an accident involving the moon-worshiping eel, and two people were injured.
The most suspicious thing is that Xue Da, who was delivering the eels, suddenly disappeared. Could it be that he knew that what he was delivering was poisonous eels, so he made preparations in advance and ran away in advance?
Otherwise, the response would not be so fast.
"Brother Cheng, look."
Cheng Yu looked at the moon in the water and thought to himself. Hearing Jia Fei's reminder, he followed her gaze to the lake and saw a person hanging three feet above the water.
This person is far away, and his face and clothes are hard to see clearly, but he does not have the three soul fires on his body.
Drowned souls?
Why not go to the Yinsi Confucian Temple?
"Whoosh!"
Two cold breaths passed by in succession, and two armed judges came to the lake from the southwest corner of the inner city.
"Crash!"
One of the martial judges threw out the soul-binding lock in his hand without saying a word, and the soul-fixing awl at the head of the chain flashed cold light and rushed towards the dead souls on the lake.
"Buzz!"
When the soul-fixing cone was only three feet away from the dead soul's head, it suddenly stopped motionless, as if blocked by a soft membrane.
After the two martial judges looked at each other, the one who made the move raised his hand to pull back the soul-detaining lock, muttering curses in his mouth, and pulled out the soul whip from his waist with his backhand, as if he was about to rush forward and arrest him personally.
The person next to him with quick eyes and hands quickly stopped him and looked intently at the dead soul on the lake.
After observing for a while and whispering a few words to their companions, the two military judges did not do anything else and just stood quietly by the lake and watched.
Judging from the situation, it seemed that the military judge who blocked him was not the first time he had encountered this kind of thing, and there was a bit of joy in his eyes.
When Cheng Yu saw Jia Fei opposite him winking at him, he immediately understood and connected with his Qi.
With the help of her magical vision, she could look towards the lake and see clearly that the deceased soul was a man, around thirty years old, dressed like a fisherman.
There is a touch of yellow flickering under its feet, which is a talisman.
A translucent magic circle emerged from the talisman like a chicken egg, covering the standing dead soul, blocking the soul-binding lock of the martial judge just now.
A trace of dark black aura emerged from the surface of the magic circle, slowly floating up, like an egg with black hair sinking in the water.
Suddenly, the breath trembled for a while, and then it condensed into a ball and floated to the other side of Qianyuan Lake.
Cheng Yu turned around and looked, and there was a person controlling the magic circle on that bank, but because he was too far away, he couldn't even see clearly with his magic eyes.
After the magic circle shook, the dead soul slowly opened its mouth, but Cheng Yu didn't hear any sound.
After a few breaths, the magic circle shook again, and the dead soul opened its mouth again, but with Cheng Yu's ear power, he still couldn't hear the opponent's voice.
Presumably the sound is sealed inside, and only the one who controls the magic circle can hear it.
After several repeated operations, the dead soul finally shook its head three times in a row. After a few breaths, the magic circle suddenly shook for a while and collapsed.
The magic circle disappeared, and Cheng Yu was suddenly able to clearly see the face of the man on the other side of the lake. It was the old man in black next to His Highness. It turned out that he had not been able to see him clearly with the help of the cat demon's magical power. It was not because of this.
The distance is too far, but the magic circle has a way of blinding it.
The old man in black on the shore slowly stood up, his right hands pointing like swords, and he muttered something silently.
"Bang!"
With a soft sound, the yellow paper talisman at the feet of the deceased soul on the lake burst into flames. After just one breath, it burned into a puff of blue smoke, which floated to the head of the deceased soul, but it condensed and did not disperse.
The old man in black stared at the dead souls on the lake, and suddenly turned to look at Cheng Yu.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
The Bu Ming Jian, which was always attached to Cheng Yu's wrist and did not dare to leave his body, suddenly felt an unkind aura coming from it. It buzzed twice. If it had not been bound by the sword reins, it would have flown to the other side of the lake.<
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‘Hold your demonic aura! Go back to the mountain first!’
Cheng Yu held down the sword and sent a message to Jia Fei.
Jia Fei nodded, and while holding back the demonic aura from leaking out, he also did not forget to put all the food and wine on the boulder into his bag.
But he didn't dare to use the Five Elements Escape Technique anymore, and instead turned around and quickly walked away in the opposite direction of the bamboo sea hill.
In the blink of an eye, the cat demon's figure was hidden in the night. Cheng Yu also took advantage of the situation to return his soul. A small sparrow spread its wings quietly and flew to the top of a big tree branch more than ten feet away, watching quietly.
Below.
Just a few breaths after he had just stood firm, there was a surge of breath on the lake somewhere near the shore. The old man in black emerged from the water, starting from his head, and stood on the shore in the blink of an eye, without a drop of water falling from his feet.
Fall.
Almost at the same time, the soil on the ground next to him was turned from the inside out, and the old man in yellow also stood in the field. After the two looked at each other, one was on guard and the other was spreading talismans to form a formation.
After the formation was completed, the old man in yellow looked in the direction of Jia Fei in just one breath.
Then he chased after him first, and the old man in black kept a distance from him, and pursued him one after the other.
"Hey..."
A breeze blew across the lake, ruffling the moon shadow on the lake, raising the willow branches and swaying, and the area near the pier became quiet again.
The two Yin Division martial judges standing by the lake paid no attention to the affairs of the world. After the magic circle covering the souls on the lake disappeared, they waited quietly for a while before one of the martial judges took action.
With a "crack!" sound, the soul-binding lock entangled the dead soul and dragged it to the shore of the lake, along with the green smoke from the burning talisman on its head.
After the two martial judges looked at each other and smiled, they both twitched their noses, and saw that the green smoke after the burnt talisman on the head of the dead soul split into two streams, which were divided and inhaled by the two of them.
"Hiss...ah! It turns out that this is Jin Wuwei's yellow talisman. It feels so comfortable. I have to follow my brother on this errand. Otherwise, I won't know. If I just rushed over rashly, I wouldn't get such benefits. Maybe I would still
You will suffer some losses."
The martial judge who took the lead said with a satisfied expression.
"Brother, what are you talking about? I just had the good fortune to meet you when I was on duty in the capital a few years ago. But I am not afraid of brothers' jokes. I have only seen this yellow talisman. Today is the first time I have tasted it. It can be seen that you and I are partners.
, they are considered a lucky couple."
While chatting, they dragged the dead soul through the wall and toward the inner city.
When they were far away from Wangyue Tower but not yet under the inner city wall, they suddenly saw a white-robed gentleman in front of him blocking the way. He bowed his hands and said:
"You two have a hard time."
The two military judges were far apart at first and did not recognize Cheng Yu. When they saw someone blocking the road ahead, they secretly took precautions.
When he arrived, he saw the bright silver sword on the opponent's wrist, and then he recognized that this person was the most talked about person in the entire Wujun Palace at the moment.
It is rumored among the military judges and officials in private that this white-shirted young master Wen Sheng is the one Lord Wu is seeking to marry as a match for the Yinshen couple.
What made them even more embarrassed was that this person actually declined the respected Lord Wu.
At this moment, seeing this person who had been passed down by word of mouth saluting in front of them, the two martial judges felt flattered and hurriedly clasped their fists in return:
"I don't dare, I don't know, sir, why are you here?"
Cheng Yu held the sword inward with one hand and pointed towards the dead soul with the other hand and asked:
"Just now, Mr. Cheng was at the lakeside and saw that this deceased soul seemed a little strange, so I came here to ask if it would be convenient for you two."