Chang'an, under the cover of night, the streets are deserted, all the streets and alleys are empty, except for the occasional passing patrol, there is no one, now it is a curfew, if anyone dares to walk on the street, they will be caught by the patrol team, and they will not die, but they will also shed their skin.

Of course, this is not a problem for the magnates, as long as they make a lot of noise, then the soldiers on the night patrol will treat it as if they didn't see it after asking their identities, and there are dignitaries everywhere at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and no one will find it for themselves.

There are also some people who dare to defy the curfew, that is, the city fox society rats, they have figured out the patrol route of the night patrol through various channels, so they dare to come out to 'forage', of course, the road junction between the squares will fall off the gate, it is impossible to walk in the daytime, so it is common to fly the eaves and walk the wall.

Wu Ming is a member of the night walker, today he and his companion Jia Niu went to explore a house, accidentally fell into the trap set by the other party, fortunately ran fast and escaped, for the sake of prudence, he did not immediately go to the meeting place to meet, but waited until night to act.

It has been a few months since they came to Chang'an, Wu Ming and his companions are familiar with this world-famous big city, and they no longer have the panic and anxiety when they first entered the city, and they also deeply understand what Zhang Dingfa, the head of the guards, meant when he set off to see the world.

Having seen the world, the task was almost completed, Wu Ming was shrinking in a corner and staring at a courtyard in front of him, he had been staring at this courtyard for more than an hour, in order to confirm whether there was anything abnormal, Wu Ming and Jia Niu escaped separately, although they escaped smoothly, but they didn't know if the other party fell into the hands of the enemy, so the necessary precautions must be there.

The sign placed at the gate of the courtyard indicated that everything was normal, Wu Ming carefully observed the surroundings and made sure that there was no sign of ambush, so he gently stepped forward and learned a few mouse calls in the corner of the wall, and after a while, he heard the cat barking three long and two short times inside, and after several times, he climbed the wall and climbed in.

One waited for him to land and leaned in: "Amin." I thought something had happened to you! "The person who spoke was none other than Jia Niu. Wu Ming glanced at the other party and confirmed that his expression was natural, and then smiled apologetically, saying, I am afraid that you will be caught and set a trap here, so I observed for a long time before coming in.

"Hi. We don't practice in vain on weekdays, if you want to fight, maybe you can't beat it, but you can't run, but you may not be able to run. Jia Niu said nonchalantly, "Besides, most of those people are chasing you, I'm afraid that you will be poisoned." ”

The two of them talked in a low voice for a moment, and decided to rest in this courtyard until the next morning, and then go out to meet their companions, this courtyard was not their territory, but was used as a shelter when no one was explored in advance.

The guards of the Xiyang County Mansion are not only watchdogs but also cats that catch mice, and a variety of training programs make them finally become mice who know how to hide from cats, and Wu Ming and others, who have three attributes in one, are the best among them, otherwise they would not have been sent to Chang'an.

The night was long, and the two of them took turns to be on duty to avoid accidents, Jia Niu in the first half of the night, Wu Ming in the second half of the night, so that they could take turns to rest, and then go out in time in the early morning when there were not many people outside, so as not to be a thief.

Wu Minggang had just slept in his clothes, but he suddenly woke up because he heard a woman's cry. Although the cry was not loud, it was faintly audible, because it came from the courtyard next door, and the cry was intermittent and absent, and it was particularly permeating in this dilapidated civilian area.

He got up and looked, but saw a faint fire shining next door, and Jia Niu, who was on duty at night, also leaned over and whispered that there was a woman burning paper money next to him, and for some reason, he seemed to be afraid that people would hear it, but he couldn't help crying, so he made such a scene.

"Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read." Wu Ming sighed, he had followed the master around since he was a child, and he had seen a lot of things in the world, and the two of them were about to hear but not see, but the next door began to be lively.

They peeked over the wall and saw a middle-aged woman whispering at a young girl, who was standing beside a pile of ashes with some paper money in her hand and her head down, who had always been the one who cried when she burned paper money, and the middle-aged woman held a basin of water in her hand, as if she was extinguishing the burning paper money.

"I can't open the pot at home, you still have spare money to get paper money to burn!!" The middle-aged woman's tone was not good, and she frequently pointed at the young lady with one hand and seemed to be angry.

"Ah Niang, these paper money are cut by myself with waste paper, and they don't cost money," the young lady said in a low voice, she seemed to be afraid of the other party, so her tone was sad. "He's lonely, I just want to burn some paper money"

"What's your business again! Now that we can't get by, who will pity us! After the middle-aged woman finished speaking, she dragged the young lady into the house. If you see it, it's a disaster! ”

"Auntie, I'll burn the paper money first"

Before the young lady finished speaking, she slapped her, and the paper money in her hand was scattered on the ground, she covered her face and sobbed in a low voice, while the middle-aged woman sneered: "Do you think it's still the same as before?" I dare to talk back! ”

Looking at this scene, Wu Ming shook his head at Jia Niu, and then the two returned to the courtyard, this kind of housework is a headache when the government comes, where can they help, and besides, they are also 'borrowed', where can they see people here.

I thought it would be like this, but I didn't expect that in the middle of the night, there was a moth next door, Wu Minggang and Jia Niu handed over not long after they heard footsteps on the road outside, he thought it would be a sneaker, so he picked up a wooden stick and prepared to wait for the rabbit, but the footsteps came to the next yard and stopped.

A faint knock on the door sounded, and after a while, he heard a slight creak of the wooden door in the courtyard next door, Wu Ming felt that it must be strange for him to come in the middle of the night next door, but he still decided not to hear it, so as not to cause trouble.

But the movement in the courtyard next door made people restless, as if someone was whispering some incantation, Wu Ming listened to it and felt strange, so he cautiously looked from the corner, but saw two women in the courtyard, one of them was a middle-aged woman from before, and the other was an old woman.

The old woman set up a case in the courtyard, and there was a bowl of things on the table, and then she said something in her mouth, took a soup spoon and tapped the edge of the bowl, Wu Ming listened to what the other party was reading, but she couldn't hear it, and saw the middle-aged woman standing aside with a nervous face.

I don't know how long it took, the old woman suddenly stopped muttering and straightened up suddenly, Wu Ming then looked over in the moonlight, but saw that her eyes were dull, her eyes were straight and her face was blue, and the whole person suddenly walked forward stiffly with her hands and feet, as if she was being pulled by something, and the middle-aged woman's face changed when she saw this, and she couldn't help but exclaim: "Possessed, possessed by a cat ghost." ”

'Cat ghost? Wu Ming heard this word, and then his heart moved, he lived in Chang'an for several months, and on weekdays, he and his companions went around collecting all kinds of news, including legends about cat ghosts.

It is said that after the cat dies, it will become a ghost like a person, that is, a cat ghost, and the folk have a secret method that can drive people to do things, if the person who is proficient in this method is to raise a cat ghost, he must sacrifice every midnight, and the child is a mouse, so he can sacrifice the cat ghost at this time.

The cat ghost can be released after a certain period of time, and the owner of the cat ghost can manipulate it to harm people, and the victim will become inexplicably ill and finally die violently, and his property will also be transferred to the person who raised the cat ghost.

However, Wu Ming didn't believe in this kind of thing, he watched how things progressed, but saw that the old woman who was "possessed by a cat ghost" suddenly spoke, and said in a hoarse and strange voice, "Bring the things."

When the middle-aged woman heard this, she came back to her senses and took out a package, and was about to open it, when the door in the back opened, and then a person rushed out and grabbed the package, Wu Ming fixed his eyes and saw that it was the young lady from before, only to see him pleading, and was pushed to the ground by the middle-aged woman.

"Auntie, you can't do this!"

"Shut up! Or I'll break your legs!" The middle-aged woman scolded viciously, Wu Ming saw the young lady sitting on the ground with her hair scattered, covering her face and sobbing, and felt a little resentful in her heart, but she still held back.

The middle-aged woman opened the package and took out a piece of clothing, the old woman stiffly stretched out her hand and took the clothes in front of her, sniffed it vigorously like a cat, and then screamed and fell to the ground.

After a while, the old woman got up and said that the matter was over, and the man would not live long, the middle-aged woman quickly took out a small cloth bag and handed it to the old woman, and the two whispered for a while, and the old woman said goodbye and left.

After leaving the courtyard, she walked quietly down the dark street, but before she could take a few steps, she was restrained from behind, and before she could shout, she was held in front of her by a sharp knife, and then the man behind her whispered, "Give me the money." ”

The old woman knew that she had met a thief, and she complained bitterly in her heart, but she had no choice but to obey her obediently, but after handing it over, the other party still did not let her go, and said murderously: "You call the cat ghost to harm my master's life, and now pay for your life!" ”

Hearing this, the old woman was so frightened that her feet trembled, and she said that she was just deceiving people, eating and eating, where to raise cats and ghosts, but she was just pretending to be a ghost and fooling people to ask for some money to make ends meet.

"Let me know again that you cut your throat by pretending to be a ghost and harming people!"

As soon as the words fell, the old woman only felt a heavy blow to the back of her head, and then fell to the ground unconscious, and the person behind her disappeared silently into the shadows......

In the early morning, the rooster crowed, and the people who got up early were already cleaning the yard, Jia Niu was about to slip away with Wu Ming taking advantage of the lack of people outside, but was signaled by the other party to wait for a while, and it didn't take long for the two of them to climb the wall from the corner and look at the yard next door.

The door opened, a young lady walked out, she picked up a broom in the corner to clean the yard, but not long after she saw something in the open space in the courtyard, and then she was so frightened that the broom in her hand fell to the ground, and then she covered her mouth and ran back to the room without looking back.

Inside, there was a chatter, as if two people were talking about something, and after a while, the door opened again, and the young lady and a middle-aged woman walked out of the room, came out of the courtyard, and looked at the things on the ground in a daze.

Jia Niu looked at the ground was a small cloth bag, and there was a dead cat lying next to it, just when he was confused, he saw that the middle-aged woman carefully picked up the small cloth bag and looked at it, and then threw the dead cat out of the hospital in a panic, and then ran back to the room.

When the two women entered the room, Wu Ming motioned for Jia Niu to leave, and when he heard Jia Niu ask what was going on, he smiled and said, "The method is self-defeating", and the two of them quickly climbed out of the wall and walked on the road, Wu Ming turned his head and looked at the courtyard, muttering to himself: "It's enough to have such a mother on the stall" (to be continued.) )