Chapter Ninety-Three: The Suspicious Case of Hiring a Cat (8)
"Detention ...... Soul Arrest? ”
"That's right, back then, the family teacher analyzed with Xue Siye that this beast-making magic can make a living person covered in donkey skin look like a real donkey, and it should be to use demon methods such as soul detention to temporarily detain the victim's soul, and then detain the soul of a donkey to attach to this person's body.
In this way, the possessed victim walks on all fours like a real donkey. ”
Yang Congxun told Hu San that this kind of soul arrest technique is somewhat similar to what the folk usually call a bumper, which is to let an alien spirit control the victim's body.
If the warlock who performed the soul arrest spell was able to control the soul he had captured, then it would be very easy to manipulate the soul to control the victim to do something in the warlock's favor.
This is why Qingyang Daoist thinks that Miss Liu's mysterious disappearance is not a simple animal creation.
Miss Liu, his own father, Master Liu, is in charge of the general sentence of the Chengdu Government Prison for arresting and stealing, how can there be a reason not to be hated and retaliated against by the gangsters?
For the sake of the safety of the family, even if the safety precautions of this Liu Mansion are not the first class in the whole city, it must be a strict curfew, and there are guards and guards day and night.
If you want to sneak into Miss Liu's embroidery building under such circumstances, the possibility of drugging her is almost zero.
Taking a step back, even if the demon was very lucky enough to sneak into the embroidery building and start to make Miss Liu livestock, then how did they transport the made livestock out of Liu's mansion without alarming the night patrol family?
Therefore, Miss Liu was not drugged to create animals, she just waited for the night patrol to leave, pushed open the door of the embroidery building, and sneaked into a storage room stacked with sundries to hide.
It is true that Miss Liu has no reason to do this, but the question is whether the 'person' who slept in the embroidery building that night was really Miss Liu?
"Brother Yang, I'll make you confused now, isn't this person in the room Miss Liu? Those maids and servants who serve meet every day, can they still recognize the wrong person? ”
"Third brother, you think badly, what you mean for brother is that the body of the person in the embroidery room is naturally still Miss Liu's body, but the soul above this body is not necessarily."
Listening to Yang Congxun, Daoist Qingyang felt that the most suspicious thing in the whole case was the old woman who hugged the cat and asked for employment.
As a family that makes a living by hiring cats, I don't know if the cat I brought has been tamed to the wild?!
Once the kitten suddenly stretches out its claws and scratches those high-ranking ladies and ladies, how much silver do you have on a cat old lady enough to compensate?
Therefore, Qingyang Daoist felt that the old woman who hired the cat was probably a demon who knew how to detain souls in disguise.
In order to get a chance to get close to Miss Liu, this demon made Qian go to the countryside and collect eight rare Jianzhou four-eared cats.
"The family teacher said that this basket of four-eared cats is the biggest flaw exposed by the old woman who hired the cat!"
As mentioned earlier, this Jianzhou four-eared flower cat has always been a tribute to the palace because of its dexterous and pleasing body and good at catching rats at night, but it is only worth a lot of money.
However, these high-priced cats are not only suitable for the nobles in the palace.
Once the cat misses and scratches the concubine Gege in the palace, how many heads does the official in charge of offering the royal cat to the palace have to be cut off?
Therefore, this Jianzhou four-eared flower cat has always been bought and tamed, until the cat is tamed to the point that no matter how it is petted, it will not stretch out its claws to scratch it.
At this time, you have to carefully file every nail on the cat's paw with a file to ensure that nothing goes wrong.
After these conditions are all in place, the old lady will carry this Jianzhou four-eared flower cat in a basket and go to those big households to sell and sell this four-eared flower cat.
If a cat can't be tamed anyway, then the old lady who bought the cat can only consider herself unlucky, and dispose of the cat at the price of an ordinary flower cat to those who need to buy cats and mice.
This is very few people who can even buy eight cats, if these eight cats can't be domesticated, then the old lady who bought the cat will have to lose the coffin!
It is also a coincidence, under the stroking and teasing of Miss Liu, only one of the eight undomesticated flower cats fought back with a wave of their claws.
If four or five cats move their claws together and scratch Miss Liu's wrist with a bloody blur, then the old cat girl will be thrown into prison by the general judge.
Therefore, the old woman who hired the cat gave Miss Liu was not a wound medicine at all, it was a kind of medicine that could make people lose their souls!
Anyway, there is no label on the lid of the box, and it is okay to say that it is a wound medicine, or it is an ointment for whitening, beauty, hydration, moisturizing, deep nourishment and meticulous care.
As long as Miss Liu tries to wipe her face, she will naturally be tricked, and she will be at the mercy of those soul-detaining demons in the future...... Something strange seems to have gotten in again?
"According to the tutor, that day he first used his strength to run, kicked on the wall and jumped, and then used a few tricks of 'gecko swimming wall', and then climbed the wall of the Liu family.
After entering Liu's Mansion, the family teacher avoided the night patrol housekeeper, carefully walked around Liu's Mansion for half a circle, and finally touched the back kitchen of Liu's Mansion where there were still lights and people's voices at the moment. ”
"Hey, you actually went to someone's back kitchen? Could it be that Daoist Qingyang hasn't eaten dinner yet, and he wants to find something for a supper? It seems that the Taoist chief is also a member of my generation. ”
"Hu San, what do you want? The tutor is here to wait for someone! ”
"Wait for someone? Waiting for whom? ”
"Naturally, it's the next person who came to the room to get food and ashes."
It turned out that among the big families at that time, there was often a custom of "offering to the gray family", that is, the leftovers that could not be eaten in the house every day were sprinkled in some remote and empty corners of the house, so as to attract the rats in the family to go there for dinner.
The intention is nothing more than to stop rats from eating the furniture and clothes in the house.
I have to say that there was a certain reason for people to do this at that time.
Just because of the rich families at that time, they built large mansions covering an area of six or seven acres at every turn.
In this way, the layout of the mansion is indeed magnanimous, but there are also many empty houses that have been uninhabited and can only be stacked with some idle sundries, which are good places to breed mice.
There are so many places for rats to hide, and it is impossible to catch them just by keeping a cat in the yard or mobilizing the people in the house to catch them.
Therefore, some people have an idea, and if there are rats in this house, then there will be them, as long as these rats don't bite the expensive furniture and clothes in the master room.
Well, find some food to lure them to a secluded place to feed them, and there are cats in the owner's room anyway.
As long as the mouse is not Jerry, it won't go to the master's room when it's full...... Something strange seems to have gotten in again?
Thus, the custom of "offering to the gray family" arose.
As the saying goes, 'Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are starving bones on the road'.
The last thing that this big family lacks is leftovers, so every night after the fire is sealed, there will be people on duty who come to the room to get leftovers and go to a secluded place to "offer ashes".
And the Qingyang Daoist just wants these subordinates to guide him.
The secluded and uninhabited 'ash offering place' is also the warehouse where Miss Liu is hiding, after all, this is the only way to get food without alarming the family in the mansion!
In this way, under the leadership of Liu's subordinates, the Qingyang Daoist smoothly found the secluded and unmanned 'ash offering place'.
Shortly after the servant who offered leftover food left, the door of an empty house nearby suddenly "creaked", and a head with scattered sideburns poked out of it, which was Liu Sujin, who had been missing for two days.
What made Qingyang Dao Chang's eyes stare was that Liu Sujin, who poked his head out, actually landed on the ground with his chest and abdomen, his limbs spread wide, and he crawled out like a big palace.
What's even more weird is that she still has a colorful cat in her mouth that is constantly struggling!