My grandfather was a very strange man, harsh and old-fashioned. He taught me and Nan Ya all the skills of tomb robbing, but he stipulated that we were not allowed to rob tombs, or even participate in anything related to tomb robbing, let alone get to know those who robbed tombs.

And folk rumors say that Cheng Fu is the descendant of General Faqiu Zhonglang,

General Faqiu Zhonglang is a tomb robber, and Captain Touching Jin is also a tomb robber, but the official rank is one level lower than that of Faqiu Zhonglang. I think this is also the reason why Uncle Shi is angry.

"Uncle Shi, Cheng Mansion is a matter of General Faqiu Zhonglang, isn't it all rumors, besides, this matter is so strange, you are not impressed?"

Uncle Shi stroked his beard and snorted disdainfully, "Strange? Nine, you are still too tender, when your uncle and I followed your grandfather to the north and south, your father was still wearing open crotch pants, what famous scene have you never seen? This kind of trivial matter is not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning. ”

"Uncle Shi, my father ...... him"

Before I could ask, Uncle Shi hurriedly waved his hand, "It's okay not to mention the past." If you really want to look it up, check it yourself. But Uncle Shi, I have something to say first, if this Cheng Mansion is really connected with tomb robbery, you must stop. ”

I don't know if Uncle Shi wanted to quickly divert the topic of my father before agreeing to me to check the matter of Cheng Mansion.

I didn't continue to ask, and after I promised my uncle, I was worried that he would regret it and left in a hurry.

In fact, my parents are just two names for me.

Nan Ya and I have never seen our parents since we were children, and we have always grown up with my grandfather. And my grandfather told me and Nan Ya that my parents died when we were very young.

People around me have always said the same thing, and no one told us what kind of illness my parents had.

Later, as we grew up, Nan Ya and I gradually got used to living without our parents, and the things of our parents gradually faded in our minds.

When I came out of my uncle's place, the weather suddenly became gloomy, and a large number of dark clouds gathered over Jinling City, and thunder rolled.

After a while, the raindrops as big as beans fell in an uproar.

The torrential rain washed away the heat, and there was a faint fishy smell in the air, a little like blood, but a little bit like it.

I bought an umbrella and hurried to the yamen.

On the way, I saw three white foxes on the roof next to me, jumping around dexterously in the rain, and disappeared in an instant.

I feel like I'm wrong, the white fox grows in the far north, and it can't survive in a very hot place like Jinling, could it be a fox demon?

This thing, according to my grandfather's words, is not mysterious.

My grandfather was a very unique person, he raised a lot of animals and studied them a lot.

For example, grandpa always likes to study why earthworms do not die after being cut off, but become two that continue to live?

Why can cats see things in the dark?

Why can fleas jump so high when they are so small?

And so on and so forth......

A lot of weird things are in the scope of Grandpa's research.

And for the demon, grandpa also has his own opinion. In fact, it is very simple, it is a mutation when you are pregnant.

Some people are born with one less arm, others with one more leg, and the most exaggerated thing I've ever heard my grandfather tell was that he had seen babies with two heads when he was younger.

Everyone calls these strange people monsters.

And there are also people in history who are close to monsters, such as Peng Zu lived for 800 years, and Xiang Yu was born with divine power......

Grandpa said that it was these things that were too far away to completely deny their authenticity, and what if they were?

Whether others believe it or not, I don't care, I believe it, because Nan Ya and I both have a certain ability to be monsters in the eyes of others.

It's far away, and continue to talk about the fox demon problem. Just like a white cat and a black cat give birth to a flower cat, a red fox will give birth to a white fox, but it's just rare, you can't say it won't happen, right?

However, I always felt that I had just seen those three white foxes, and I had a feeling that I couldn't put it into words.

When I came to Yamen, the cloth shoes I was wearing were already soaked, and my feet were wet and sticky, which was very uncomfortable.

I was also a regular guest in the Yamen, and when I told them that I was looking for a cow to work for, they didn't stop me, and let me go in and find it myself.

The ox is called the ox fierce, and the man who grows is tall and the horse is very rough. Originally, he killed pigs, but later, in order to make a living, he learned skills from the old man of the yamen for a few years, and his head was quite smart, so he inherited the mantle of the old man.

Mainly in this industry, timid people can't do it, and the old man can't do it, when he recruited apprentices, Niu Meng signed up alone, so he had to choose Niu Meng.

Niu Meng lived in the northwestern corner of the Yamen, and according to Feng Shui, the northwest corner was heavy and suitable for autopsy.

When I came to the yard, I saw Niu Meng lying on a rocking chair under the eaves smoking, holding a long cigarette pouch and pot in his hand, swallowing clouds and spitting smoke.

This was bought by Niu Meng from the coastal side for a lot of money, and some Qinglou women in Jinling City also smoked, but there were still a small number of people who could smoke, not as many as the coastal side.

Nan Ya is also a lover of smoking, and he told me that smoking helps me think. But since I learned to smoke and choked on my tears, I haven't touched this thing again.

When Niu Meng saw me coming, he hurriedly got up and accidentally spilled the tobacco from the cigarette pouch pot on his body.

In a panic, he discharged the cigarettes on his body and ran out in the rain, "Brother Jiu, on this rainy day, you still came here in person, send someone to tell me something, I will go to look for you." ”

In addition to the ninth son, others also call me very diverse, Jiu'er, Xiaojiu, Ninth Brother, Ninth Brother, Ninth Uncle, Ninth Master, Nine Sons.

I waved my hand, "Okay, okay, don't drench you, go and light a brazier for me, I've come to you for something important to ask." ”

Niu Meng told me to wait and prepare the brazier myself.

I sat down in a chair, took off my cloth shoes, and poured out a shoe of rainwater.

Niu Meng brought the brazier and helped me bake my wet cloth shoes, and I baked my own socks.

"Niu Meng, the case of Cheng Fu, the person who died later, did you handle it?"

"The first few handled it, but then the yamen was troublesome, so they sent the body directly to Uncle Jiu."

Niu Meng has nothing to do with my grandfather, he just saw me call my uncle uncle, so he shouted along.

"What do you think of the first few?"

Niu Meng sighed softly, "What can I think, Lord Fu Yin didn't let him investigate, it was not said that he was killed by a sharp weapon that imitated the claws of the beast, we don't dare to ask."

But...... Brother Jiu, this is very strange. I heard that the eight people who died later were all commissioned by a woman. Now everyone is rumoring that this woman is a fox spirit, and she specializes in absorbing strong men Yuanyang.

Another thing, the file of the Cheng Fu murder case was also stolen. ”

"It's just hearsay, I don't know much about the murder of Cheng Fu, you tell me in detail."

Niu Meng didn't ask much, and told me everything he had.

Chengfu is a well-known family in Jinling City, which settled in Jinling during the Song Dynasty and continues to rely on business to this day.

Before the accident in Cheng Mansion, a strange thing happened in Cheng Mansion. Mrs. Cheng said that she always heard the crying of women on the third watch at night, and she shouted back and forth in just two sentences.

"Let me out, give me my life back."

The next day, Cheng Fu found monks and Taoist priests to exorcise evil spirits in Cheng Mansion. But at night, Mrs. Cheng would still hear the woman's cry.

He went to the Taoist priest again and said that the Taoist priest said that this was a murderous thing, and the Taoism was quite high, and he couldn't surrender, so he suggested that Cheng Fu move away.

In desperation, Mrs. Cheng chose to report to the official.

The yamen felt that this was quite strange, how could a woman cry for no reason. sent someone to check on Chengfu, and it happened that Niu Meng also followed.

That night, as soon as the hour passed, everyone heard the woman's cry.

Niu Meng said, the voice sounded terrible, deep and far-reaching, as if it came from the ground.

Niu Meng was bold, and after hearing the cry, he began to look for the source of the sound in Chengfu.

Niu Meng said that he ran to the courtyard next to Mrs. Cheng and saw a woman in red jump into the well in the courtyard, and then the sound disappeared.

The others said they didn't hear it, not even the sound of falling into the water, and asked Niu Meng if he was dazzled.

Niu Meng was not convinced, tied the rope to his body, and went down the well himself, wanting to find out.

Hearing this, I said Niu Meng, are you stupid, what can you see when you go down in the middle of the night?

Niu Meng said that he didn't think about it so much at the time, thinking that he would be able to touch something when he went down.

As a result, after Niu Meng went down, he didn't touch anything.

Niu Meng said that he seemed to see a miserable white face flashing under the water, and said that it might be his own delusion, after all, he couldn't see anything in the darkness below.

In this way, the people of the Yamen stayed in Chengfu for three nights, and they never heard the woman's cry again.

But on the fourth day, as soon as the people from the Yamen left, something happened to Chengfu.

Of the seventy-three people, only nine bodies were found, and the guards at the gates did not see anyone out of the city that night. Niu Meng and they investigated the surrounding neighbors, but they got a little bit of useful information.

That night, the surrounding people heard the cry of a woman coming from Cheng Mansion, there were no screams and fights, only the cry of a woman.

After the accident, the people of the Yamen turned the Cheng Mansion upside down, but they did not find the rest of them.

Even if I found someone with excellent water properties, I searched in the well, but there was still nothing.

After that, the people of Jinyiwei's Soul Division took over the case and took away the nine corpses of Chengfu, and the yamen found a few people to convict him, Niu Meng said that this was also what Jinyiwei meant.

Later, there were people who went to Chengfu to investigate the case, and one died one by one. To date, eight people have died. All eight of them are perennial martial arts practitioners.

Niu Meng said that what he couldn't figure out was, why do these people always go to investigate at night? Isn't it good to go during the day?

And Niu Meng is an honest man, the Yamen sealed the Cheng Mansion, he mixed up the errand in the Yamen, he was afraid of losing his job, and he didn't dare to go to the Cheng Mansion before he got the order.

Originally, Niu Meng wanted to ask the neighbors around Chengfu to know if the eight people heard anything unusual on the night of the accident, but Zhengyang Street has now moved the entire street and is empty, who to ask?