I have to admire Jiao Er's reflexes, every movement is extremely accurate, calm and fast. The kite www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion slowly moved closer to the halo, and the halo flashed, emitting a dazzling light, but it disappeared without a trace in an instant, and it is estimated that the angle of sunlight has changed, and it has become transparent again. So much so that we can no longer catch its traces.

Jiao Er controlled the kite steadily, the wind in the air should not be strong, the two long tails of the kite fluttered slowly, and the body seemed to be still, both of us couldn't take our eyes off it, for fear of leaking small changes. Five minutes passed quietly, and it seemed to us that we had waited an hour.

Soon, without warning, the two tails of the kite suddenly swung horizontally, increasing in amplitude, as if encountering a strong air current. In an instant, the kite disappeared into the transparent space. That's surprisingly fast. When we were stunned, the kite string in Jiao Shuang suddenly tightened, shaking violently up and down. He was immersed in the confusion of the kite's concealment, and he had no preparation in his hand, when the reel broke off and fell to the ground, gliding forward as fast as he could. After more than ten meters, the reel did not stop until it was hung by a small tree, but the violent swing on the rope shook the branches and leaves of the small tree.

At this moment, there was a clear sound, the little tree stopped trembling, and the kite string hung down softly, as if it had been drained of life in an instant. And above the sky, there are no waves, and there is no difference from the usual. In about half a minute, a black mass suddenly appeared in the air, fell downward, and soon began to unfold slowly, and the speed of the fall became slower and slower, and finally it drifted into the darkness at the foot of the mountain, and we all knew that it was the wreckage of the kite.

At noon on the third day after returning from Baiwang Mountain, I sat in the shop of Guo Erye of Liulichang, watching him seriously color the kite. "Second Master Guo, just tell me, which kite can carry the most weight?" I finally couldn't help it, so I leaned up and asked him.

"Didn't I tell you? No, this kite is as thin as silk and as thin as a cicada, and you have to hang something on it to be able to fly? Besides, the wind is high in the air, and you hang something, and when the wind blows, the center of gravity is unstable, and the kite is planted. "Guo Erye didn't raise his eyes when he spoke, I knew that he was angry for the kite I lost yesterday, Guo Erye loves the kite like his life, especially if he made it himself, he didn't let anyone touch it, not to mention that I didn't even find a whole corpse.

"Erzi'er, if you tell me what you're doing with a kite, maybe I still have a way. Second Master Guo stopped what he was doing and stared at me. Before I came here, I thought about it carefully, and I didn't want to tell him about Baiwang Mountain, but I was afraid that he would feel sorry for the kite and wouldn't give it to me. It's not a problem to be stuck here now, so let's just tell the truth.

I poured tea for Guo Erye, respectfully offered it, the number of gifts is indispensable, and moved a small stool to sit next to him, and told Guo Erye what Jiao Er and I saw on Baiwang Mountain. Guo Erye heard that we met the mirror in the clouds, and carefully asked about the posture of the kite flying at that time, the wind direction, and the wind force, and fell into deep thought. After a while, he slowly spoke, "Erzi'er, if as you said, Jiao Er's pigeon was swallowed by the mirror in the clouds, then this must not be a mirror, you use earthworm pigeon dung as bait, and use a kite to lure him out, the kite swallowed it, and spit it out, which shows that the mirror in the cloud is a living thing, but what living thing can float in the air?"

I lit a cigarette, gave one to Guo Erye, and slowly told Guo Erye what I found last night.

After returning from Baiwang Mountain, I had the same confusion about Yunzhongjing as Guo Erye, but I couldn't find any useful clues in the genealogy. I thought of the Chaos Beast I encountered in Shennongjia, and suddenly realized that this mirror in the clouds actually had many similarities with it. The next day I plunged into the Capital Library, and finally had a vague direction. Among the four evil beasts, in addition to Chaos, there is also a 梼杼. The description of the 梼杼 has been chaotic since ancient times, some say that it is a human head and a bear body, some say that it is a tiger body and dog hair, and some say that it is rotten wood and a crocodile spirit, and there is no similarity in various theories, which can only show that either the 梼杼 has the ability to transform into a body, or no one has seen what it looks like at all.

Looking at it carefully, the tiger body dog hair is the statement of Dongfang Shuo's "Western Wilderness Classic", the bear is the annotation of Xue Anqin's "Chinese", and the wood and crocodile are from the "Shuowen Jiezi", these sources are the orthodox statements after Han Dong Zhongshu defined Xuan You as an evil barbarian, and are the result of wanton tampering with the writings of the pre-Qin Dynasty. It's a complete replica of Chaos. So before the Han Dynasty, how did you know about 梼杌?

The statement of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the "Bamboo Book Chronicle" is very simple: "梼杌, 鲧之魄也", which means that the resentment after the death of the Kun is transformed. This resentment is naturally invisible, and later generations have realized what they think is the form of a vicious beast.

In my opinion, ancient mythology has its ethereal places, but there are also many things that people really see, but they can't explain it at the time, so they use a kind of ghost and god theory. How can it float in the air? It is impossible to explain it, and in addition to the fact that it devours birds, seems to be busy and fierce, and has no fixed form, it is thought to be the spirit of the cang. But whatever the name, this floating thing must exist.

After listening to my speech, Guo Erye lowered his head and began to slowly color the kite again, "Second son, are you saying that the mirror in the cloud is the Han Zhu?

I snuffed out the cigarette in the ashtray and asked Guo Erye, "Second master, have you heard of the flower picking robbery case in the capital in the sixth year of the Republic of China?" Guo Erye nodded, "It happened in a few alleys in Xuanwu and Xicheng, I heard the elders tell that it seems that there is a flower thief who has entered the house and ruined more than ten women from good families in a month, but the means are wonderful, and there are no clues." Later, by chance, he was recognized by the police in the West Fourth Archway and shot indiscriminately."

I nodded, and then said: "Second Master Guo, this case is the last case that my great-grandfather participated in when he was alive, and it is actually completely different from what is rumored by the outside world. Speaking of this, Guo Erye suddenly became interested, stopped drawing kites, and listened to me very seriously.

At that time, in the summer of the sixth year of the Republic of China, Beijing was extremely hot. But this weather is much worse than the hot and restless mood of the people of the Xuanwu generation in Xicheng. For more than ten days, the female dependents of seven or eight large families woke up and were stripped naked for no reason, and there were still some fishy and unpleasant stains on the bedding, obviously they were wronged by the strongman, but these female dependents thought it was a spring dream, and it is estimated that there are still many cases, and the victims were kept in the dark and did not make a noise.

The people in these alleys were frightened and went to report to the officials. The patrol officer went to the scene to take a look, but he couldn't find a clue, so he reported it to the Detective Department, but he never thought that the Detective Department was helpless. Because this case is too weird.

One is that all the victims were abused in their sleep, and none of them saw the true face of the perpetrators. Second, after these cases spread in the market, some wealthy mansions knew that the night was restless and heavily guarded, but there were still female relatives who were poisoned. The doors and windows are locked intact, and how the perpetrators get in has become a difficult puzzle to solve. Third, there were no clues about the flower thieves left at the scene, and no items or even footprints were left behind. Fourth, there will always be some rumors in the market for general big cases, and the secret agents of the detective department are all over the capital, and if the perpetrators are hiding in the city, there will always be people paying attention to them when they eat and live in the hotel, but this flower thief is like not eating fireworks in the world, and there is no news.

There is no witness, and there is no physical evidence, so the case is shelved, but the number of women victims is constantly rising. The panic in the city is getting worse and worse, and even the support staff of the police department have sprinkled it, but there are still no useful clues.

At that time, the director of the Jingshi Police Department was Wu Bingxiang, this person was a standard politician, and he had been following Yuan Shikai and flying Huang Tengda, he had a relationship with my great-grandfather when he was an official in Shandong, and he knew that his great-grandfather was in the matter of ghosts and gods, so he privately asked his great-grandfather for help.

Great-ancestor didn't want to get involved in this matter, because two years ago, there was a huge change in Beijing's Haiyan Well, and the Haiyanjing, which had been sealed for a long time, was unexpectedly opened, and Great-Ancestor was busy for a year before he could control the ghost world, but there were still many follow-up things to deal with. But after reading the dossier sent by Wu Bingxiang, Zengzu changed his mind.

Zeng Zu felt that this flower thief was very unusual, no one had seen his real body on the one hand, but all the victims were **** in their sleep, and they had not woken up, which was very strange. Of course, the use of incense is a common way, but there is no trace of incense burning on the scene.

Zengzu also noticed that the flower thieves were concentrated in Xicheng and Xuanwu, and it seemed that they were centered on the Haiyan Well in Zhongyi Lane, and operated within a radius of two miles.

In the last year, the water of the sea eye well dried up, and there is often a saying that the deep well hides gold, and the brave people went down to the well to find the master, but the treasure was not found, but a crystal coffin was found in the tunnel at the bottom of the well. I opened it and looked at it, but there was nothing inside, and the crystal coffin was bought by a wealthy merchant in Nancheng, and now it seems that this crystal coffin may be related to this flower picking case.

In the mouths of the people who fell to the ground, there is a saying that the crystal coffin turns into water. The crystal coffin in a specific temperature and humidity environment, will have a specific effect on the corpse inside, thousands of years later, the coffin clothes are all there, but the bones of the coffin turned into a half coffin of clear water. But the great ancestor knew that in more special circumstances, for example, the crystal coffin sank into the sea eye well, or buried near the Xuanmen, after a long time, it will form a kind of "hidden corpse", that is, a completely transparent corpse, if the deceased has a heavy grudge, it will rise like a zombie, and no one can see it, but the conditions for formation are too harsh and extremely rare.

(Meicun supplement: The case of the flower thief, the case of the righteous thief in the early years of the Republic of China, the water ghost case, and the beast swallowing case are called the four cases in the capital, and many people rumor that the flower thief is a Maoshan Taoist, practicing **** skills, etc., which is nonsense.) Mr. Jiang Shan's "The Merry of the People" is very exciting these days, and you can pay more attention to it. (To be continued.) )