The monster that was demonized by Nie Xiaoqian's curse is a human being, so no matter what monster the body has become before, after death, the corpse will still only appear as a human.

Although he was very sad, Pu Weihai still decided to hide the cause of his wife's death, so early the next morning, after Pu Weihai burned the bedding stained with blue blood, he went to the government to report the case, claiming that three robbers had broken into the house and robbed the house last night, broke into the door and killed his wife. Because Pu Weihai was very popular, it was reasonable to be targeted by robbers, and it happened that the bedroom door was kicked and destroyed, so the government believed Pu Weihai's statement, and after a careful investigation, of course, it was impossible to solve the case and finally closed it.

Pu Weihai also unified his statement to Xu Mengtao's mother's family, neighbors, and the two sisters who married far away, and told a big lie to the world.

Pu Weihai also made up his mind that he would not tell his son about the true cause of his mother's death in the future, and even the two of them were the descendants of Pu Songling, as well as monsters, purification messengers, etc., so that Pu Zixuan could grow up physically and mentally as an ordinary child, and then see if he would tell the truth when he became an adult.

Pu Zixuan is a two-year-old child in the end, Xu Mengtao is extremely dependent on his mother when he is by his side, but less than half a month after Xu Mengtao's death, Pu Zixuan's happy expression of jumping up and down at home told Pu Weihai that he had completely forgotten his mother, which made Pu Weihai feel relieved and infinitely sad.

Jerome fell into deep self-blame for Xu Mengtao's death and wanted to say goodbye to Pu Weihai, but Pu Weihai repeatedly emphasized that this matter was not his fault, hoping not to affect the brotherly relationship between the two.

After all the aftermath of his wife was taken care of according to the normal process of the world, Pu Weihai and Jerome recovered some positive emotions, and went to the government to ask for the real culprit to be caught as soon as possible, but began to use their own resources to explore the truth behind the incident.

The appearance of the banshee and Xu Mengtao's demonization occurred on the same day, and the two judged that there must be some kind of connection between the two. Pu Weihai thought of what the banshee said before casting the witchcraft: "Later, Childe may be in a trance for a while, but after taking the cheats, I will lift the curse and restore Childe, and it will not hurt you and your family." ”

From this point of view, a certain curse was cast on him, but he couldn't lift it because the banshee fled in a hurry, so Xu Mengtao's demonization must have been caused by this curse.

Combined with the banshee's purpose to snatch the "Mixed Moon Jue", even if she doesn't know the function of the cheats, it may have existed since Pu Songling's time, and she didn't want to hurt the Pu family, she must also be a monster with some humanity, so she suspects that most of this banshee has been recorded by Pu Songling in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".

Because of the beautiful appearance of the banshee, Pu Weihai suspected that the banshee was a fox demon at first, but then he thought that the vine that entangled him at that time did not look like a fox characteristic, but rather a monster related to plants - this kind of monster is not common in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai".

Moreover, when the banshee casts a magic spell, it is a kind of seduction to ask herself if she thinks she is beautiful.

Combining the five characteristics of banshee, plant, charm, demonization of human beings, and human nature, Pu Weihai became more and more suspicious that this banshee was the female ghost written by Pu Songling - Nie Xiaoqian.

It's just that Nie Xiaoqian is not a plant-type monster in the original text, her grandmother is, and in the original text, Nie Xiaoqian directly demonized herself, not her relatives. But considering that Pu Songling wanted to talk about the excitement of the story, it was normal for him to make some artistic adaptations, so he locked the banshee as Nie Xiaoqian.

Later, Pu Weihai found a manuscript of Pu Songling called "Ten Thousand Demon Spectrum" in the bookcase, which recorded the true prototype of the monster in "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", which was not published publicly, but directly circulated in the family.

This time, Pu Weihai finally found the exact same monster in the book, saying that Pu Songling learned in the exchange with Yan Chixia, a friend of the purification messenger, that Nie Xiaoqian was actually changed by a part of the small leaf red bean branches and leaves separated from the body of the tree demon Grandma Ghost Yasha, and his demon art was to demonize the most important person in the heart of the cursed person, and the cursed person would die of lovesickness. However, if the demonized person dies in time or the two people are separated by a sufficient distance in time, the lovesickness will be lifted.

Reading this, Pu Weihai was already relieved, but who knew that the following would give Pu Weihai a heavy blow: "If you are not dead by thinking about evil, ten years later, the curse will recur, and the second heaviest will be demonic, and so on, you can't live all day." ”

Pu Songling writes the language very literally, but it is not difficult for Pu Weihai to understand the meaning: if the person who is seduced is not dead, ten years later, the curse will strike again, and the second most important person in his heart will continue to demonize.

His wife has passed away, and now Pu Weihai is the only person in the world who can't let go, and he can only be his son Pu Zixuan, if this curse cannot be lifted, then, by 1856, Pu Zixuan will be twelve years old, and if the two of them still live here, it will be the time when the son becomes a monster!

Pu Weihai gasped and called Jerome to discuss countermeasures. Jerome was already guilty, so he immediately thought that if he hadn't beaten Nie Xiaoqian away that day, Nie Xiaoqian might have taken the initiative to lift the curse, and the tragedy at night would not have happened.

"Not only did I keep the curse with my own hands, but I also killed my sister-in-law with my own hands, Brother Pu, I ......" Jerome felt ashamed of Pu Weihai, and even his words and titles became polite.

Pu Weihai smiled tolerantly at Jerome and told him that Nie Xiaoqian was in Jinhua Mansion in Zhejiang Province, and if he could get rid of it, the curse would be lifted, and he asked him to explore Nie Xiaoqian's demonic aura first.

However, the monster that Xiaoye Hongdou turned into would not be detected unless he took the initiative to release the demonic energy, but Jerome felt a great responsibility, so he cultivated the power of purification every day in order to detect the demonic energy that was getting farther and farther away.

By the winter of the second year, Jerome's mana was not the same as it was at the beginning, and he was finally able to detect the demonic qi in Zhejiang from Yunnan, and searched day and night, and finally in the territory of Jinhua Mansion, he repeatedly detected a demonic aura in the same place at night and quickly disappeared, so he judged that this was the same as the treatment of Pu Weihai that day, and charmed the passing men in Lanruo Temple.

Now that the target has been locked, we have to find a way to get rid of Nie Xiaoqian.

In the next two years, Pu Weihai and Jerome went to Zhejiang twice to find Nie Xiaoqian, but every time they entered Zhejiang, they had to encounter the active attack of Xiaoye red bean monsters.

"David, it's not that I don't want to help you, for you, I can even give up my life, but there are too many enemies, we can't even enter Jinhua Mansion, what's the point?"

"In that case, I can spend some more money to take care of some more purification messengers and go with me."

"No, David, and whether the Purifying Messenger is willing to do this, even if he does, how many people will you have to hire to be sure of success, given your financial resources? At that time, if you end up with both people and money, it will really be a catastrophe. It seems that after another year of study, Jerome has been able to master idioms such as "people and money are empty" and "there is no return".

Pu Weihai took out the ancestral amber of the Pu family on his neck, played with it, and sighed: "Pity me, as a descendant of Pu Songling, and have such a holy thing to help, but after all, I can't awaken the power of purification and fight side by side with you." Jerome, what else do you suggest? ”

"I studied at the University of Cambridge, one of the top universities in the UK, and I know some cutting-edge science. Since Newton's discovery of gravitation, scientists have gradually realized that there are different forces in the different motions of everything, Thomas Young named this force 'energy', and Robert Mayer proposed the law of conservation of energy, that is, energy is neither created nor disappeared out of thin air, it is just transformed from one form to another, or from one object to another, and the total amount of energy should remain the same. This string of terms Jerome explained with great difficulty, and it took Pu Weihai a rough idea of it in a bilingual mixture.

"Just say it, what can we do?"

"I think that the mana of the elves and our magicians is just a kind of energy, as long as the science converts and stores, some advanced weapons and equipment can be invented, and the mana can be stored in the weapons, so that ordinary people will have a powerful magic weapon to fight with the elves. In this way, labor costs will be much reduced. ”

"When you say this, I realize that our understanding of the world is much behind that of your country. But how do I invent such weapons? ”

"Technical things, I'll do it enough, you are very rich, you can take advantage of the trend of the British Industrial Revolution, invest in companies in Britain, secretly produce and sell such weapons for use by various countries, and realize a virtuous circle of wealth. As for how to set up and run the company, I can ask my father for help. ”

"However, I have to take care of Xuan'er, and I don't have time to go to the UK, so I will leave all this to you."

The two hit it off, and Jerome left China when Pu Zixuan was almost five years old, returned to the United Kingdom, and established the "Willow Spring Group" under the name of Pu Songling at the request of the financier Pu Weihai. ”

At this time, it was less than eight years before the second episode of the curse.

But how easy is it to invent such an advanced weapon? Year after year has passed, Pu Weihai is still struggling to run the cold weapons business in Lijiang, although the Liuquan Group can still support it, but the equipment that can convert mana has not been developed for a long time.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng, 1856 finally arrived. At the beginning of the year, Jerome brought his father and a few British colleagues to Lijiang again to meet Pu Weihai.

"David, good news, our Willow Springs Group has had a huge influence among governments around the world, and has made a lot of money by selling weapons, and the response is very good, those weapons are indeed the nemesis of elves!"

Pu Weihai said happily: "So, we can rush to Zhejiang to eliminate Nie Xiaoqian this year?" ”

At this time, Pu Zixuan was almost 12 years old, and in order to prevent him from understanding what everyone was saying, both parties chose to communicate in English.

"No, I don't think it's time yet, although we have made a breakthrough in energy conversion technology and produced weapons, but today, Nie Xiaoqian is probably already an elven army. Therefore, we must not only have weapons, but also armor to avoid unnecessary sacrifices. We're working on a cloak that can dissolve demonic power, and it's a much more difficult cloak, but trust me, we don't expect to be able to do it in less than ten years. ”

"Ten years ......," Pu Weihai sighed, "but this fall, this curse will strike again." ”

Jerome's father, James Daniel, said: "I'm sorry Mr. Pu, that's why we're here in Lijiang, and we cordially invite you to live in the UK for a while, both to protect your father and son, and for you to come to the company to encourage your employees to speed up development." ”

On that day, Jerome, who was thirty-four, met twelve-year-old Pu Zixuan at Pu's house and gave him a globe as a gift.

On the first day of July of that year, in a light rain, Pu Weihai handed Pu Zixuan into the hands of his friend and Youlan, asking him to take care of Pu Zixuan until he was eighteen years old, and handed over the ancestral amber he was wearing to his son.

Subsequently, in Pu Zixuan's sad cry, the memory left by his father to Pu Zixuan ended in the sound of horses' hooves that were drifting away......