According to Liu Xianren's confession, his original name was Liu Taiyan, a native of Yangzhou, who was originally a half-hung man who ran the rivers and lakes.

Originally, he lived a painless life, couldn't eat enough and couldn't starve to death, but one day, something suddenly happened that changed his fate.

About two years ago, one day he passed through Xu County, he couldn't afford to live in an inn and hurried overnight, when he passed through a forest, because the night road was too dark, he was afraid that he would get lost in the forest in the wrong direction, so he simply climbed a tree, ready to sleep until dawn and then hurry. He is also used to eating and sleeping in the open, and he is not afraid of any thieves when he is poor.

Liu Taiyan quickly fell asleep, and that night, he had a very strange dream.

In the dream, he saw a half-man, half-bird, with chains all over his body, and said to him, "Help me get out of the house, and I will make you rich!" ”

Liu Taiyan asked him, "How do you let you go?" ”

The man said to him, "There is a black stone under the tree where you are sleeping, and if you push the stone away, you will see a charm underneath, and you will burn the charm, and then you will dig down about three feet deep, and you will see a nail with a chain, and you can □ the nail and you will be done." In return, you take the nails and the chains, both of which are pure gold.

When Liu Taiyan woke up from his sleep, the sky was already dark.

As soon as the morning breeze blew, he also sobered up a little, thinking that he might be crazy about money, and shook his head and climbed down from the tree to continue his journey...... But at a glance, I saw that there was really a black stone next to the root of the tree.

Originally, black stones were common, but that stone looked quite smooth, and he wouldn't have noticed it if he had been in normal times, but because of the dream last night...... Liu Taiyan's heart moved.

He walked over and reached out and pushed the stone...... And the stone rolled away, and looked again...... I saw weeds and mud under the stones, and faintly, there was something like a yellow skin in the mud.

Liu Taiyan picked up the dirt and really pulled out a palm-sized charm written on the cowhide from the ground.

He'd never seen the talisman on it, and he didn't know what it meant, but ...... He didn't care much at this time, he only knew that if the dream was true, there was gold under the ground!

Liu Taiyan took out the fire fold, burned the charm of the skin, and then took out a broken knife he brought with him to dig the mud, digging nearly three feet or so, and really heard a "ding" sound, and the broken knife hit something hard.

He threw the knife and dug again, and dug out a large golden chain that was about three feet long and as thick as a wrist, and he dragged it for a long time, but the gold chain could not be pulled out, as if it had grown in the ground. Then he dug for a while, and he really dug out a huge gold nail. Liu Taiyan is almost crazy, this is called flying windfall! So he pulled out the whole nail with great effort.

Liu Taiyan didn't care about anything else, shook off his burden, picked up the gold nails and chains, and quickly ran home.

After returning home, he weighed that the nails were four catties and six catties of iron chains, a total of ten catties of gold, so Liu Taiyan made a fortune!

Liu Taiyan melted all the gold, made it into a small gold bar of one or two, and decided to marry a daughter-in-law to live the rest of his life, and he didn't want to be a Taoist priest.

It's just that...... On the night when Liu Taiyan fell asleep with the golden pillow, he dreamed of the half-bird, half-human monster again.

This time, Liu Taiyan saw it more clearly than the previous time, he found that the monster was tied to four chains, of which the chains of his left foot and right hand had been loosened, but his right foot and left hand were still entangled in the chains of the Death Cup, and the chains were embedded in the ground, trapping him and unable to move.

The monster told Liu Taiyan that this bit of gold would be used up, and there was still endless wealth in the world.

So, the monster taught Liu Taiyan in detail how to use the cult to deceive people, and everything Liu Taiyan did was taught to him by the monster.

……

After listening to Liu Taiyan's confession, everyone instantly cried and laughed, this guy blamed all the sins on the monster who appeared in the dream. Dare to love this monster into his dreams every night, and then teach him how to make a fortune by deceiving people.

However, Liu Taiyan has committed too much of a crime this time, instead of pushing it to the ghosts and gods, it is better to drag a few more people into the water to be useful to him, and pushing it to the ghosts and gods is equivalent to carrying all the charges by himself. Based on the lives of the people he killed, he will never be able to escape from killing his head.

After all, Mr. Bao has tried countless cases and has rich experience, so he always feels that this case is a little strange from beginning to end. So he didn't rush to cut Liu Taiyan, and asked people to detain him temporarily, and then let him be sent later.

When Liu Taiyan was escorted down, everyone began to look at the small Buddha statue.

"Taishi." Zhan Zhao asked Pang Taishi curiously, "Is it the same as in your dream?" It's different from the one on the gold medal. ”

Taishi shook his head again and again, "That's not what I saw in my dreams...... It felt very different. ”

Bai Yutang picked up the Buddha statue and looked at it, half human and half bird, just a small porcelain Buddha statue, and felt that the workmanship was very rough.

Bai Yutang took the porcelain statue and weighed it in his hand, frowning.

"What's wrong?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

"It's not like new porcelain." Bai Yutang said.

The crowd looked at each other.

"If what Liu Taiyan said is true, then this porcelain Buddha statue should have been made in the past two years." Bai Yutang said, "The porcelain industry in the Jianghuai area is very prosperous, and now the porcelain fired in any workshop is much thinner than this." And looking at the glaze, this should be a craft from a long time ago. ”

Tianzun leaned over, picked up the porcelain Buddha and looked at it carefully, "Huh? It feels so old, like something that came out of a porcelain kiln when I was a kid! ”

"It's like glazing from the previous dynasty." Taishi also took it over and tasted it carefully, and then nodded again and again, "It should be some years." ”

Zhao Pu asked the county order to invite a few old craftsmen from the porcelain kiln to come, and after a few people saw it, they all said that this was burned by the method used one or two hundred years ago, and it could not be called an antique, and their grandfathers used this method to glaze. It's just that now I'm afraid I can't find it, and no one should use this soil method to make things anymore.

The crowd looked at each other.

Zhan Zhao frowned, "But just now Liu Taiyan clearly said that he made this Buddha statue according to the appearance of the monster in his dream." ”

Pang Yu leaned over and came up with an idea, "This kind of thing, isn't it the year that can be written and where the kiln came out, etc., it's better to cut it open and take a look." As he spoke, he pointed to the giant que in Zhanzhao's hand, "Don't chop it, it's a big deal to cut it in half and stick it back." ”

Everyone looked at Mr. Bao.

Bao Zheng nodded, to judge whether Liu Taiyan's words were true or false, this Buddha statue can be said to be the most direct evidence.

At the same time that Master Bao nodded, everyone saw Zhan Zhao's knife flicker...... Juque flashed coldly, and when everyone understood, it had already been returned to the sheath.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and gently broke the Buddha statue on both sides...... The Buddha statue is really divided into two, and the cut surface is so smooth that there is no notch at all, and the seams can't be seen when you put it together.

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched, and they looked at the giant que in Zhanzhao's hand - this sword is still so sharp.

Bai Yutang looked at the inside of the Buddha statue and frowned slightly.

Bao Yan asked, "How?" Is there a word? ”

The white jade hall showed the interior of the Buddha statue to everyone, and saw that it was written on one side - five years of opening.

"Five years into the opening...... Gongsun pinched his fingers and calculated, then nodded, "It's been nearly two hundred years." ”

Just as everyone was frowning, Bai Yutang asked them to look inside the other half of the Buddha statue, and they saw a vertical row of small characters written - Evil Feather drove down the Sixth Misha Rosh.

The crowd looked at each other.

"What's it?" Zhao Pu was puzzled.

"What is Misha?" Lin Yehuo was also curious, "I've heard of Maitreya and Rakshasa, but I haven't heard of Misha." ”

"Tsurosh means Dream Demon."

At this time, Gongsun spoke.

Everyone looked at Gongsun and said in their hearts - I really know the way!

Bao Yanzi asked himself to read a lot of books, but this Luo Shi is really unheard of, I can't help but admire, it is really Gongsun erudite!

Zhao Pu was very satisfied, and nodded, as long as it was something that was written, his best nerd knew it.

Master Bao was also puzzled, "Dream Demon? ”

Gongsun smiled, "I know that this thing is all because of a coincidence. ”

And they all listened attentively.

"When I was young, about a teenager, I saw an old man, who was seventy or eighty years old at the time, and he had insomnia, and he described him as haggard and in poor health, and his spirit was also very weak. People, sometimes you can survive for ten days without eating or drinking, but if you don't sleep, you will go crazy in four or five days. ”

Everyone nodded.

"I heard him muttering and muttering that he was dreaming, and he was ......dreaming," Gongsun said, "Later, I found out that he couldn't sleep because of the blockage of his blood and muscles, and when I cured him, I asked him curiously what 'Tsurosh dreamed', and he told me that Tsurosh was a dream demon." ”

When everyone heard this, they all seemed to grasp the key, "He's not from the Central Plains, right?" ”

Gongsun nodded, "He is a native of the original Bohai Kingdom, and after the Bohai Sea was destroyed by Liao, he came to Middle-earth. ”

"Oh......" Zhao Pu nodded, "Bohai Country!" Da Zuorong, the king of Bohai County, was the first emperor, right? ”

Everyone also nodded, it turned out that it was from the Bohai Kingdom.

"The fall of the Bohai Sea is actually not long in coming." Gongsun said, "It was originally a country within a country in the Tang Dynasty, what a beautiful time it was, when it was the strongest, Shangjing was known as Little Chang'an, but unfortunately it still declined after the worst." ”

Master Bao touched his beard, "What about Misha?" ”

Everyone looked at Gongsun, and Gongsun also shook his head and said, "I don't know what to do about this." ”

Everyone sighed, and even Gongsun didn't know what to say...... Just when he was helpless, he waited on the side to speak, "Misha is the meaning of protecting the Dharma. ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at Yin Hou.

Yin Hou crossed his arms, "Shan Luoshi, Yu Luoshi, Jia Luoshi, Qi Luoshi, Quercus Rosh, Bo Luoshi, and Ban Luoshi are the seven protectors of the Evil Feather. It is also seven factions, to gather millions of believers, and there must be enough gods, in the later stage of development, the form of the cult is similar to that of ordinary gangs, and the seven protectors have their own followers, each of which is different, and the biggest leader of everyone's envelope is Evil Feather. ”

"Oh......" Everyone nodded, I see.

Then, everyone looked at Yin Hou again, what did it mean—how did you know the Tao? When you saw the Buddha statue just now, you said you didn't know it.

Yin Hou saw everyone looking at him, helpless, "I just heard the elders talk about it when I was a child, but in fact, it's the first time I've seen the real thing." ”

"What is the saying of the Bohai Kingdom?" Bai Yutang was curious, "Could it be that the evil feather was also passed over from the Bohai Sea?" ”

"More than 200 years ago was the most prosperous period of the Bohai Kingdom, and Bohai not only had a good relationship with the Tang Dynasty, but also had frequent exchanges with some surrounding vassal states and even overseas countries. It may have been spread from outside and spread to the Central Plains through the channel of the Bohai Sea, so the saying of the Bohai Sea is used. Tianzun said.

Everyone nodded, I see.

After some explanations by the two elders, everyone was puzzled, and sure enough, there was an old man in the family who was like a treasure, and they were too old, and they ate more salt than they ate rice, and they also had more knowledge.

Gongsun and Bao Yan both sighed - there are still not enough books to read!

"So I can basically determine that Liu Taiyan is a liar." Zhan Zhao said, "He seems to be misleading us. ”

"It's like she's covering up something." Bai Yutang nodded.

Zhao Pu looked at the Buddha statue of Na Luo Shi, "Since there are seven Dharma protectors, there may be people in the other ones...... If Liu Taiyan carries it down, he will not expose his companions? ”

"Covering up the truth and misleading us in other directions." Master Bao frowned, "It feels like it was premeditated." ”

"I'll ask him again." Zou Liang felt that he could pry something out of this Liu Xianren's mouth, so he left with the two shadow guards.

But Zou Liang walked less than a cup of tea, frowned and came back, and said two words, "Dead." ”

Everyone was shocked.

Gongsun jumped up, "Dead? ”

"It's weird to die!" Zou Liang couldn't help but say.

The crowd ran to the tent where the prisoners were held in the barracks.

Because Liu Taiyan was a very important prisoner, he was held very carefully, and Zhao Pu's military camp had a temporary prison for prisoners, and there were iron cages in the tents, which were heavily guarded outside, so he couldn't enter at all.

However, when everyone arrived, they found Liu Taiyan lying flat in the cage, his face was gray, his lips were purple, his eyes were straight and he was looking up, and he was already very dead.

Gongsun frowned, "It looks like it's suffocating!" ”

The shadow guards carried the body out, and Gongsun checked it and tilted his head, "It's weird!" ”

Everyone waited for Gongsun to tell him the cause of death.

Gongsun narrowed his eyes, reached out to pick up Liu Taiyan's shirt, put on the silk gloves, and reached out to take out a knife as thin as a cicada's wing from the medicine box, and stabbed it......

The corners of everyone's mouths twitched, and when they came back to their senses, Gongsun was already familiar with Liu Taiyan's "disembowelment", and reached in to take a look at his lungs.

Bai Yutang silently turned around and waited outside, and the fourth son pointed to Liu Taiyan's lungs in Gongsun's hand, "Oops, it's suffocating, that's right!" ”

Everyone looked at this lovely baby helplessly, it's like this now, and it's going to be a ...... when you grow up This group is usually so timid, but it's not afraid of corpses, it's strange!

Gongsun took out another bottle of potion, applied some with a brush to Liu Taiyan's nose, cheeks and neck, waited for a while, frowned, "No one covered his mouth and nose, and no one stuck his neck...... He showed no signs of poisoning, and there was nothing strange about him...... He suffocated himself to death. ”

The crowd looked at each other.

Zhan Zhao asked, "Suffocate yourself to death?" Is it just holding back and not panting until you suffocate to death? ”

Gongsun nodded.

The crowd was shocked, "Can this be done?!" ”

Gongsun frowned, "It's quite difficult. ”

Zhao Pu asked the guards, "Did anyone else go in or hear strange noises?" ”

The guard shook his head, they were outside the tent, not to mention people, not a single fly flew in, and Liu Taiyan didn't move inside, knowing that Zou Liang opened the tent and went in, he found that the person was dead.

"Unless......" Gongsun stared at the corpse for a long time, and suddenly thought, "You guess, if someone chokes the neck in the dream, you can't wake up...... Will it be strangled to death? ”

Everyone subconsciously looked down at the Buddha statue in Zhanzhao's hand that was divided into two halves, and then looked at the upright corpse, and couldn't help frowning.