In the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, in 1846, Pu Zixuan was two years old, Pu Weihai was twenty-five years old, and Pu Zixuan's mother Xu Mengtao was still in the world.

In that year, Pu Weihai's weapons business was already very prosperous, coupled with his kindness, good neighborhood relations, and also quite prestige in the eyes of the officials and people of Lijiang.

It was also that year that Jerome Daniel, a 24-year-old Englishman, had been in China on and off for three years, and because of his love for Chinese culture, not only did he rarely return to England, but because of his hot fight with Pu Weihai, he simply rented a cottage next to the Pu family mansion and settled down. said that he rented a house to settle down, but in fact, he often came to Pu Weihai's house to have fun and eat, and sometimes he simply lived in Pu Weihai's mansion for many days and did not want to return.

Pu Weihai knew that he was the descendant of Pu Songling at that time, and he also knew that there were monsters and purification messengers in the world, and now there is a purification messenger Yang brother who is proficient in Western studies and loves Sinology.

The room at home is enough to live, although the chubby Jerome advocates freedom but does not lose etiquette, honest but wise, and can also bring her husband a lot of new vision and help, Xu Mengtao is also welcome to this foreign guest.

The two like to spend the night after Xu Mengtao coaxed Pu Zixuan to sleep, taking advantage of the dead of night, chatting in the study until midnight, the topic is both glamorous and Western science, and they often spark ideas, and the two also learn each other's language, and in the long run, Pu Weihai's English and Jerome's Chinese proficiency have improved to a certain extent.

Interestingly, Jerome always insisted that supernatural life forms like those born from the essence of nature should not be called "monsters", because there is no corresponding word for "monster" in English, such as Monster means "monster", Demon means "demon", if it must be translated, it can only be called Spirit, so Jerome also refers to monsters as "elves" when speaking Chinese. Pu Weihai, on the contrary, believes that there has been no elf culture in China since ancient times, and that words such as "little elf" and "ghost elf" in Chinese are all endearing, and even if he has to use the word Spirit when speaking English, in Chinese, he must be called "monster" to be comfortable. As for the titles of "Purification Messenger" and "Magician", the two are even more scholarly, and they can't convince each other no matter what. In the end, the two still said their own words, and they could convey the meaning, which not only did not affect the relationship between the two, but made the two find the joy of cross-cultural communication.

The most gratifying thing is that at the turn of summer and autumn that year, Xu Mengtao found out that she was pregnant with a child again, and Pu Weihai was immediately overjoyed. Due to the influence of Western culture, Pu Weihai does not have the idea that children and grandchildren are blessed like traditional Chinese, and there is no prejudice against sons and daughters, and often says to Xu Mengtao and Jerome: "There are not many children in essence, if I have another daughter, my Pu Weihai will be complete in this life." ”

In order to pray that God would give him a daughter this time, Pu Weihai even bought a small padded jacket for the baby girl to wear in advance without knowing the sex of the fetus, and asked Jeromtor to bring him some girl toys such as dolls from England.

However, happiness is always so short-lived, and in the autumn of that year, the sudden visit of an uninvited guest brought this originally harmonious and beautiful family to the abyss of no return.

Pu Weihai will never forget, that day is the ninth day of August in the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, after dinner, a gorgeous rainbow appeared in the sky after the rain, Xu Mengtao took the two-year-old Pu Zixuan to the street to see the rainbow, Jerome did not come to the house for the time being, and Pu Weihai was left alone at home to learn English by himself in the study.

A knock on the door aroused the attentive Pu Weihai, and when he looked up, he saw a beautiful woman standing at the door of the study.

At that time, the gate was not closed, and with such a beautiful woman visiting, Pu Weihai was stunned for a moment and asked, "What is the girl doing?" ”

This woman is none other than Nie Xiaoqian, who was sent by the Red Yaksha to the Pu family to seize half of the "Mixed Moon Formula".

Nie Xiaoqian had no malicious intent when she first appeared, and said: "I came to your mansion just to get one thing, if it is given to me, I will leave immediately, and I will not disturb Pu Gongzi too much." ”

"Oh? What does the girl want? ”

Nie Xiaoqian glanced at the long bookcase and said, "That secret book called "Mixed Moon Jue" is in this study, right?" ”

Pu Weihai suddenly became vigilant, and politely refused: "If you want some money and material donations, I, Pu Weihai, will not be stingy, but the "Mixed Moon Recipe" is my ancestral thing, and there is no possibility of giving it to others, and I hope the girl understands." ”

"But I'm entrusted with it, I have to get the cheats, since the son doesn't give it, it's okay, I'll take it myself. Later, Childe may be in a trance for a while, but after taking the cheats, I will restore Childe and will not hurt you or your family. Nie Xiaoqian had already expected that the cheats would not be easy to get, so she didn't bother to talk much, but she had respect for Pu Songling for writing as a good demon and didn't want to hurt Pu Weihai.

Pu Weihai suddenly understood that the person who came was not good, and was about to get up, but found that his body had been frozen and motionless.

"Childe, do you think I'm beautiful?" Pu Weihai couldn't see the demon power, in fact, Nie Xiaoqian's body was already glowing red, and Pu Weihai was also covered with demon power.

Although Pu Weihai could hear the other party's words, he felt that his brain couldn't think normally as if in a dream, and blurted out: "You, so beautiful!" ”

"So, am I the most beautiful woman in the world?"

"Yes, you are the most beautiful woman in the world."

"So, apart from me, no matter his lover, parents, brothers, or friends, can he no longer tolerate others?"

"Yes, in my heart, I can no longer tolerate others."

Nie Xiaoqian suddenly stretched out a vine on her forehead, wrapped Pu Weihai's chest, and asked, "If someone else breaks into your heart again, how will you treat it?" ”

"Then I should squeeze him out in my heart, and I will die to make my will."

At the very moment of this conversation, Nie Xiaoqian was already rummaging through the boxes and cabinets in that row of studyes.

Nie Xiaoqian hadn't found "The Mixed Moon Jue" yet, but Jerome was coming to Pufu to find Pu Weihai at this time, and when he arrived at the door of the study, he wanted to suddenly appear Pu Weihai, who was startled and concentrated, but when he saw the red light emitted from the house, he suddenly wondered.

When I entered the door again, a woman was hurriedly flipping through the bookcase, throwing one unwanted book after another on the ground, but Pu Weihai on the side was surrounded by demonic energy and vines, standing with a dull gaze, and suddenly used the power of purification, shouting: "You elf, what are you doing?" ”

Nie Xiaoqian turned around in a panic, looked at Jerome's style, and said suspiciously: "Purification Messenger? Or a foreigner? Suddenly his face became fierce, and his nails became extremely sharp, and he grabbed Jerome.

“Wonderland!” Jerome summoned a splendid river and mountain, and the head and tail of the umbrella stretched out a sharp weapon to fight with Nie Xiaoqian.

At that time, Jerome's purification power was mediocre, but Nie Xiaoqian, as an ability monster, had extremely poor combat ability, and the two fought less than ten rounds, and Nie Xiaoqian's abdomen and shoulders were scratched by the splendid rivers and mountains.

Nie Xiaoqian knew that she was difficult to defeat her opponent, so she launched the wall-piercing technique, and it happened that Pufu was a wooden house, so she easily escaped with injuries, but left behind Pu Weihai, whose curse was unsolved.

Pu Weihai got out of control, came back to his senses, and said in shock: "I didn't expect my Pu family to finally be targeted by monsters!" Thanks to your timely appearance, otherwise, my family's ancestral inheritance would have been taken away! ”

"That elf must have sensed the mana on the magic book, I heard that Xiaoye Red Bean or Xiaoye Rosewood can isolate mana, you can give it a try."

Pu Weihai packed the bamboo slips of "Mixed Moon Jue" in a small leaf red sandalwood box that night, and hid it in the dark room under his bed, and discussed with Jerome not to tell his wife about today's events, so as not to cause panic. But neither of them could have imagined that Jerome's appearance, although it protected "Mixed Moon Jue", brought irreversible tragedy to the Pu family.

That night, Jerome stayed in Pufu in order to protect Pu Weihai's safety, and Pu Weihai's family of three slept in the master bedroom next door.

That night, Pu Weihai felt a headache, but Xu Mengtao felt itchy, at that time, of course, they couldn't understand the principle of Nie Xiaoqian's witchcraft, Xu Mengtao just thought that Pu Weihai was suffering from a severe cold, and the good wife and mother who was pregnant for six months also endured the itching of her body, and conscientiously took care of her husband.

So, after growing up, Pu Zixuan had a memory of his mother's moment, that is, at a certain moment, his mother suddenly grew a pair of black wings, and her appearance became extremely hideous, pressing Pu Weihai on the futon and stuck her neck.

Pu Weihai was already critically ill and powerless to resist, looking at Xu Mengtao, who had become a monster, and shed tears of despair. On the side, two-year-old Pu Zixuan had already woken up and cried at a loss.

The cry alarmed Jerome in the next room, Jerome turned over and got out of bed, mobilized the power of purification and went straight to Pu Weihai's room, banging on the door and shouting: "Pu Weihai, open the door!" Hey, open the door, Pu Weihai! ”

Seeing that no one opened the door, but Pu Zixuan kept crying, Jerome knew that the situation was critical, so he didn't care about the etiquette, kicked the door open, and saw that Pu Weihai was pressed to the ground by the "monster", his life was in danger, and he immediately materialized the splendid rivers and mountains.

Pu Weihai had mildew spots on his body at this time, and weakly shouted in Chinese: "Jerome, be merciful...... men"

At that time, Jerome, although he knew some Chinese, was quite unfamiliar with difficult words and phrases such as "mercy to his subordinates", and before he had time to think about it, he had already stabbed Xu Mengtao three times with the spike of the umbrella tail.

Xu Mengtao fell on the futon in a wail and returned to its original shape. The blue blood soaked the bedding in an instant.

Almost at the same time, Pu Weihai, who was cursed in his body, stopped squeezing Xu Mengtao, the mildew and illness disappeared, and the whole person recovered as before, then he sat up and looked at Xu Mengtao's bulging stomach blankly, in pain.

After stabilizing a little, he informed Jerome of what had just happened.

Because everything came so suddenly, Pu Weihai did not blame Jerome and silently endured all this.

It's just that night, Pu Zixuan cried until the fourth watch, and it was also that night that Pu Weihai lost his beloved wife forever, and Pu Zixuan lost his mother forever......