Fulefang is a residential area of ​​the gentry in Fushui County. The famous one is Chen Yuanwai. The lacquered and copper buckles the courtyard gate. Two stone lions outside are squatting. Beside the door above, the word "Chen Mansion" is written in the golden character.

Opposite the streets are separated by plaques. Below are the nearby people gathered, holding several small circles, secretly looking over there, whispering to each other, and whispering.

"I heard a scream from Chen Yuanwai's house from afar this morning. Guess what? This time, three people died, including Chen Yuanwai's concubine."

"How powerful? Could it be that the evil spirits are causing trouble?"

"......I heard from Wang Ban on the Biao Street that he was talking nonsense that it had hit the Tai Sui God and caused trouble."

"I don't know how the person inside lives... Alas, the left captain is opening!"

In the mixed whispers, someone shouted, and everyone looked back, and then moved away from the sound of horse hooves approaching from afar. On the horse's back, the man was stuck in two long-handled knives with a high nose and wide mouth, a small chin and a short beard, and a majestic and solemn look.

After passing through the archway, he stopped outside the Chen Mansion with a "whistle" sound, glanced at the people watching over there, and attracted several constables.

"Dispel everyone and don't get close to here."

The four constables took the order and ran over, shouted loudly at the crowd of people watching with the hilt of the knife, and pushed the cordon out of the door sign.

The left captain turned around and took his deputy and ten constables up the steps, knocked on the door a few times, and soon, Qihong's door creaked and opened the gap slightly.

Half of his old face was revealed, which was the gatekeeper of the Chen Mansion. Seeing a group of public men outside dressed up, he hurriedly opened the door.

"Where is your Mr. Chen?" The left captain took off the cloak behind him and handed it to his deputy, and walked in.

The old man in the concierge followed two steps under the eaves.

"Returning to the left captain, the official was frightened and was resting in the bedroom."

The left captain nodded and continued to move forward. On both sides were potted plants for pine trees to welcome guests. They extended all the way, and crossed the Feng Shui wall painted with mountains, rivers, forests and fields, and then arrived at the front yard.

At this time, many people in the mansion gathered in the front hall, most of whom were dependent relatives. When the left captain brought people over, he could hear noisy sounds outside. There were also children playing on the stone steps outside the door. After walking a little further, they were hugged by the adults at home and brought back to the hall.

A bold boy sat on the stone steps, playing with the stones, heard footsteps, raised his face and shouted: "Hello uncles."

The left captain stroked his head and strode into the hall to start.

"Everyone, you are the head-catching officer in Xiafushui County, Zuo Zhengyang."

There was such a thing at home. Most of the people in the hall looked bad, and the women and children looked nervous and frightened. When they saw someone coming from the yamen, they thought to themselves that they had seized their hopes and flocked to them.

"Captain Left, if you want to find out the strange things in the mansion, I don't believe it's a sneaky one."

".....Left Captain, why don't you help find a mage and help everyone calm down first."

The person who was scrambling to speak had no right to discuss matters. After being scolded, an old servant in charge came up to greet him.

"Catcher left, please come here. The official has already gotten up and is waiting for you in the side yard."

"please!"

Zuo Zhengyang nodded and made a gesture of inviting him to the side courtyard with the manager. This is a courtyard with three in and three out, a long corridor and water pavilion, and a rockery flower garden. However, it seems to be a bit gloomy at the moment.

At the yard door, from a distance, an old man in a gold wire and copper coin robe was supported by two maids, and there was also a young man in his early twenties, wearing a scholar's robe and a paper fan. He was elegant and handsome, like a scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam.

"Official Chen!" Zuo Zhengyang went over to see him and asked his deputy to take someone in to check the body first.

The old man was a little excited, and his white beard was shaking slightly.

"I heard that the left captain is about to be promoted and can still come this time. I am so glorious that I am so grateful!"

Seeing that Mr. Chen said thanking each other twice, Zuo Zhengyang did not make much politeness. He walked in and said, "Zuo can only find out the reason as soon as possible, give Mr. Chen and an explanation to the deceased."

"The left captain." Chen Yuanwai suddenly asked in a low voice: "Everyone is saying that I have provoked Tai Sui for this birthday... or something like sneaky, do you think..."

Zuo Zhengyang waved his hand and passed by the old man.

"Zuo does not believe in gods and ghosts"

When I walked up, there were three bodies covered with white cloth in the side yard. The deputy who had checked them came up to me.

"Boss, these corpses have no scars on their bodies, their faces are blue and their lips are white. They are not poisoned, but they seem to be scared to death."

Zuo Zhengyang went over to uncover the white cloth. He was Chen Yuanwai's concubine. He was young and beautiful. Unfortunately, his face was twisted at this time, his eyes were wide open, and blood vessels could be seen around the corners of his eyes.

"I'm trying to hold my fingers and raise my elbows. I think I want to block my face and don't want to see anything, but I didn't have time..."

He touched the deceased's arm and other parts, and checked the other two bodies, namely the night patrol and the guards in the mansion.

"It's the same as the previous corpses."

The left captain covered the white cloth again and asked his subordinates to take the body back to the yamen for further autopsy. Then, he returned to Chen Yuanwai's side.

"Whenever the opera singer appears, someone will die?"

Chen Yuanwai looked at his son beside him and spread his hands: "That's true. Even if we move to a village in the suburbs, we will follow us."

“When will it appear?”

"How do you know this old man? Sometimes he comes the next day, sometimes he doesn't show up for three to five days."

Over there, the head of the Zuo head looked dark. Looking at the three corpses being carried away, he seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment, he raised his hand: "Zuo will be in the yamen these days. If the opera in the mansion appears, I will immediately send someone to find me."

"Left captain! Left captain!"

Mr. Chen kept trying to keep him, but Zuo Zhengyang just waved his hand and walked out, probably to summarize this matter in advance and report it to the county magistrate, and first suppress the words circulating outside.

The noisy courtyard gradually became quiet, and the gate closed again. The young man next to the old man walked back and forth with his hands in his arms, looked at the side courtyard from time to time, walked back and stopped in front of the old man.

"Dad, this is not enough. The people from the yamen are waiting, but we can't wait."

Speaking of this, there was a fine cold sweat on his handsome face. At one moment, he didn't want the paper fan anymore. He grabbed Chen Yuanwai's hand and knelt down with a bang.

"If your son's life is not long, you will be mourning for a hundred years, and you will be mourning for you, and you will be crying and crying for the end of your life, Dad! Think about a way, and the Chen family will be broken in the future, and no one will give you this big business."

"You!!" Chen Yuanwai was so angry that he trembled all over. He broke away from the maid's hand and thrashed the young man's head twice. "It's not a good thing you, a dog, did."

The young man knelt on the ground and took two steps, holding the knocked hand.

"Dad, why did you scold me too? Let's find a way. If you can't get a list outside, please invite some mages with high magic power?"

The maid kept calming the old man's hands. After a while, Chen Yuanwai recovered, sighed, lifted his hand weakly, and waved it.

"Please the bill..."

At the same time, outside the Chen Mansion Gate, Zuo Zhengyang looked at the two big characters on the door plaque.

The deputy brought the horse and approached him: "Boss, why are we leaving?"

"If you don't leave, would you sit there and wait?"

Turning around, Zuo Zhengyang took the reins, "The Chen father and son are afraid there is something to hide, so they don't want to tell us that since that's the case, then wait for them to suffer some more."

After saying that, he turned over the horse, shook the reins, and shouted: "Go!" He took his subordinates straight away from Fulefang, and ten constables followed closely behind.

On the bustling long street, a group of nine people sat there under the eaves and were thinking about how to solve the problem in the village.

In the distance, the sound of horse hooves and footsteps passed by. 6 Liangsheng stood under the eaves and watched the figure with a double-handled weapon on his back riding over, with a little enviousness in his eyes.

In the package, the voice of the Toad Taoist suddenly sounded.

"You entered the Tao directly, but he walked for a long time before he faintly became a tendency to enter the Tao. What's there to envy?"

6 Liangsheng turned around and saw half of the toad face exposed in the gap in the wrapping. He quickly looked around and saw that no one around noticed it, so he spoke in a low voice.

"Can those who practice martial arts enter the Tao?"

The toad narrowed its eyes and its eyes passed through the wrapped gap. The narrow sky of the street, white clouds were like trunks, and the birds slid across the bottom of their eyes, and then they responded softly to their apprentice's words.

"Why not? Look at the bird, you may have spiritual consciousness one day, and you can enter the gate of practice. There are many spirits and ghosts in the mountains in the world, let alone people? The carving stonemason will be enlightened over the years and will be able to attain enlightenment. The monk who sits cross-legged in front of the Buddha and chant scriptures, and the writers who write books may also write a great spirit one day. The winery who sends love to the mountains and rivers may also be hermits and masters. It is not unusual to enter the Tao with martial arts."

After the words stopped, the Toad Taoist turned his head and suddenly spoke up to something else.

"Liangsheng, I will teach you the formula for practicing with the moon, so don't practice it anymore. I have another formula for you here."

6 Liangsheng didn't realize that the word "suitable" was a bit heavy, but he said something jokingly.

"Why don't the disciple start over again?"

The toad looked at the sky and recalled something.

"What's wrong with starting over? I don't know how many people want to start over in the road to practicing Taoism."

Speaking of this, my eyes turned to the long street, and some people ran, and then someone followed behind and shouted loudly.

"I've seen a good show. Chen Yuanwai has made a list of talented people. Who can get rid of the sneaky secrets in the mansion and reward 500 taels of silver--"
Chapter completed!