After the Huang family settled Zang Yingying, he instructed the good minister not to leave the courtyard before she came back to see Zhan Sui Yu and Zhang Qining.

"Miss Zhang, although I have said it many times, I still want to say it formally. Thank you. ”

Zang Mansion is in charge of Zang Jintian's posthumous affairs, although Zang Chengji's family has left the mansion, but since they are here now, they still have to have the appearance they should have.

Huang was dressed in plain clothes, with a wooden hairpin tied in a bun, and a white hairband hanging down behind him, which was neat and decent, and it was just right for a good wife and mother to use on her. It looks like it's back to normal.

Zhang Qining raised his eyes.

"It's okay, you helped me heal too. Besides, Miss Zang is still a child, so she should be. Zhang Qining paused and said, "Miss Zang is here, and some things are difficult to say. ”

In the face of her daughter's life-saving benefactor, there is no reason for a mother to be so defensive.

"The concubine understands. The girl guessed right, I'm a demon, not a human. ”

Zhang Qining: "Madam, please don't get me wrong, I don't have any prejudice against demons, and I'm not interested in disturbing the lives of others." ”

Huang's eyes flashed, "That girl is..."

"For the sake of my helping your daughter, please tell me the truth. What is in Zang's mansion, why are you telling me about Hu Sheng and pointing the finger at the Wang family? ”

"I..."

"Mrs. Zang." Seeing that the Huang family was still hesitating, Zhan Suiyu stood up, "The yamen just wants to catch the murderer, if you are not willing to reveal your identity, I will not embarrass you, and I can even help you." But just like Miss Zhang said, the current situation is no longer allowed for you to hide again and again, please tell everything you know. ”

"I can say, but I have one request. After I finished speaking, I immediately asked our family to leave Zang Mansion. ”

"Okay." Zhan Sui Yu promised.

"About half a year after I married into the Zang family......"

......

Huang was originally a yellow oriole bird, which Zang Chengji met when he was a child. She couldn't transform at that time, and immediately returned to Zang Mansion to find Zang Chengji after the transformation was successful.

Zang Chengji announced the next day: "I want to get married!" ”

The Huang family is a wild girl in the eyes of the Wang family, and it is just right to match Zang Chengji. Zang Jintian didn't care about these things.

There was some surprise that this marriage went smoothly.

After she married Zang Chengji: "It's not clean here. We said okay, you'll leave with me when we get married! ”

Maybe outsiders don't believe it, but Zang Chengji can baby this new lady. "The old thing won't let me go so easily, unless I leave the house. I also have some savings over the years, and when I arrange all the accommodations, let's leave immediately! ”

Huang thought: She doesn't care, but Xianggong looks weak, and he really needs a sheltered house.

......

"Half a year later, we moved out of Zang Mansion."

Well, what Huang just said, there is actually one thing that is worth paying attention to. Zhan Suiyu asked, "Madam, what do you mean by 'unclean'?" What exactly does the Zang family have? Li Changzai also mentioned that Zang Shuping left a bad thing.

Huang frowned slightly, and said, "My Dao is not high, I don't know what it is, but the ominous aura of that thing is too heavy." ”

Zhang Qining: "Judging from the arm that attacked us, is it underground?" ”

"Quite possibly." Huang nodded, "When we lived here, its qi was sometimes weak and sometimes strong, emitting in the air, and its breath beat like a pulse. However, there was another thing that made me move out at that time. ”

Huang paused, thinking back to the events of that night.

Passing by Hu Sheng's garden, Wang's back was to her, his steps were a little vain, and it seemed that something was not quite right. He kept muttering: "Really dead? Really dead? Ha, who knew it would really work... If you're dead, you're dead, just right. Hu Sheng, you deserve it. Don't want to haunt me even if you're dead! ”

She waved her hand and scattered a handful of cinnabar yellow talismans, the night wind fell at her feet one after another, a few of them floated to the side of the fake stones, the leaves of the magnolia flowers rustled, Wang laughed inexplicably, and the whole picture was extremely weird. However, two blurred black shadows swam in a place where Wang couldn't see, they had no specific shapes, and after Wang left, he suddenly turned his head and glared at Huang who was hiding behind the wall.

"Dark Shadow?"

Huang: "Maybe it's the girl's arm wrapped around today." At that time, it was just a shadow, but now it seems to have taken shape. I was in a hurry to leave back then, first, I knew that it was the Wang family who killed Hu Sheng, and second... After that, I got pregnant. ”

I see, this situation is really not at ease to stay in Zang Mansion.

That would have been about thirteen years ago.

Huang: "That's all I know. When he returned to Zang's mansion, he noticed that something was wrong, and he would be suspicious when he left the official mansion directly, and when he found out the strong malice again, Zang Jintian was already dead. ”

That's why I used Hu Sheng's matter to divert my attention from half-truths. Zhan Sui Yu: They kind of understood.

*

Zhan Sui Yu, Zhang Qining left Zang Mansion. Lively street market.

"The murder of the Zang family is related to monsters, so it will be more troublesome to deal with now." Zhan Suiyu put his hands behind his back and walked side by side with Zhang Qining.

Zhang Qining thought for a while and said, "Zhan Suiyu, you tell me directly, is it possible for you not to meddle in this matter now?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense, no matter how much I say it, I'm also an advisor to the yamen."

"I found another case of serial child disappearance in Suzhou 25 years ago in Yamen, when there were 15 people missing, and all of them were 13 or 4 years old as some time ago.

I went to the tea shed outside the city, where the soul of Lao Yang Tou remained, and the abduction of his grandson had nothing to do with the collector. Twenty-five years later, Zang Yingying is one of the missing children. All of this is related to the Zang family, plus today..."

Zhang Qining looked up at him seriously, and said seriously: "I will think of looking for similar old cases because I don't believe that two things that have an intersection will have no connection." Although it is not clear what the Zang family did, the murder related to monsters is obviously not something that ordinary yamen should be responsible for. ”

Zhan Suiyu raised his hand and rubbed her face with his fingers, and Zhang Qining grabbed his hand and took it aside, ignoring the reassurance that he might be provocative. "If you're not sure, you should plan ahead. It's a big deal to burn it clean, and the Zang family can't leave! ”

"Qi Ning." Zhan Suiyu raised her eyebrows, "What are you anxious about?" ”

Zhang Qining was stunned, let go and turned her face aside, the buzzing sound in her ears kept ringing, and the noise gradually filled her mind.

Have you been affected by the Zang family? Even if the physical injuries are healed, the karma will not disappear? Scold.

Zhang Qining took a deep breath.

"I'm sorry... Just take care of it, not everyone believes in ghosts, and the people can't live by it, and the government can't control it. Half-disabled or seriously injured, at least leave your life behind. ”

"If you can't do it, are you going to divorce me?" Zhan Suiyu looked at her with a smile.

Zhang Qining's deep and moist eyes slowly raised, and in the process of lifting, he made a momentary judgment on his words.

Slowly caressing his cheeks, the warm palms of his hands exuded a mournful chill. In just a moment, Zhan Suiyu felt as if she was looking at something that only belonged to her, lacking the temperature to look at life, but people couldn't take their eyes off it. Next, listen to her...

"Soul, body... As long as it's yours, it's mine even if you die. ”

Before Zhan Suiyu could react, Zhang Qining glanced at a black figure in front of him, withdrew his hand and turned around. "You still have something to do, I'll go first."

"Qi Ning..."

Zhan Suiyu stretched out his hand but didn't even touch the scraps of her clothes, he could only slowly clench his fists and take his hand back.

From time to time, he showed this lonely look, and he occasionally felt a little lonely. is by her side, but she feels very far away from her, so she can't let it go.

*

Zhang Qining hurriedly followed, looking for the figure he had just seen.

"Are you looking for me?" The magnetic and cold laughter, and a pine branch incense sticked, Zhang Qining turned his head and was stunned.

The black robe is dusty, and there is a little sand in the center of the jade eyebrows. Long Xinze held his hands in his sleeve pockets, his lower eyelids were slightly raised, and he looked at her with a smile in his eyes.

"Who the hell are you?"

Long Xinze smiled, "Poor Dao Long Xinze, the girl can call me Long Dao Chief." ”

Zhan Suiyu was inspired by Zhang Qining's words and what happened today, and went directly to see Li Changzai in prison. Li Changzai also noticed that he was different from the previous times, and without saying a word, he first asked people to bring torture tools.

I saw him slowly pacing to the boiling stove, picking up the soldering iron and admiring it, and throwing it back into the hot carbon pile. The moment I put it down, a few sparks popped out of the furnace. In the dim cell, the firelight half shone on Zhan Suiyu's handsome face, and faintly he glanced at Li Changzai with sideways eyes.

"Today, my son went to Zangfu, and there seems to be something unusual underground. Li Changzai, have you figured out what you want to explain to me? ”

As soon as he heard him say underground, Li Chang's heart sank suddenly. No, it couldn't be, he couldn't have known about that!

"There are no cool officials in Suzhou Mansion, but I also want as many methods as I want to torture people. You don't want to toast and eat and drink, and in the end the family will come to collect the body and scare your sister and the child in her belly! ”

"My lord, me!"

Zhan Suiyu waved his hand, and let people come up and beat the board first.

"I don't want to hear a word of nonsense except for being useful." His gaze skimmed over the eighteen torture instruments on the side, Li Changzai was pressed by someone, and he followed his gaze, his body trembled like a sieve, and he really began to be afraid.

"These things are for you, how many can you get by? Hey, why don't you move? Zhan Sui Yuchao glanced at Li Changzai's servant, "Why are you stunned." Beat! ”

The first board came down with enough strength to beat to death, Li Changzai was numb in pain when he was beaten, and even felt that he was disconnected from the place where he was beaten, and his body became two sections, and the violent pain was accompanied by a slight pain like a pinprick in the face, and the next board fell down immediately.

The officials were expressionless and waved their boards as if they were slapping the meat puree. The sound of the board and the flesh, and the screams of Li Changzai filled the entire prison.

"It's Tai Sui! Buried in the ground is Tai Sui—"

Li Chang is recruiting.

Just when Zhan Suiyu waved his hand to let people retreat, and when he heard him say the whole thing, Zhang Qining also learned the truth about the Zang family that had been silent for more than 20 years from Long Xinze.

"Miss Zhang can be called the poor Dao - Long Dao Chief."

"Dao Chief? You? Zhang Qining looked him up and down, "Abduct the child, the demon path is almost the same." ”

Long Xinze shrugged, not minding her to say this, and from the expression of his expression, he gladly accepted this identity. "Is there anything wrong with that girl looking for me?"

Long Xinze looked smiling and cynical on the surface, and Zhang Qining took half a step back. Wang said that she wanted to find a Taoist chief before poisoning Hu Sheng, and it was he who asked Wang to carry Li into the door. Is this person you? ”

Long Xinze sighed, "That incident~ Fourteen or fifteen years ago, if you don't say it, I'll forget it." The old lady insisted on stuffing her son alone, and I only gave a little advice. ”

"What's in it for you?"

"Benefits?" Long Xinze took two steps to the side, leaned on the red bridge and shook off the dust twice, jumped over the Xinrong green willows, and looked at the scenery on both sides of the river. "What good can I do? What benefits do I need? After living for a long time, it is naturally boring, breaking people's money, dismantling people's marriages, doing the right thing for heaven, and eliminating disasters for people... I'd like to plug in if I'm interested. ”

A large amount of sunlight swayed on him, his handsome face met the light, and a random figure was cast behind him. The dust in the air rose and fell, and the corners of his mouth provoked a trace of half-righteous and half-evil arc. "Why are you so embarrassed today? It's okay to be left in the mountains by me. Just ask whatever you want, and I can answer you for the sake of being in a good mood. ”

That Zhang Qining was not welcome.

"What does the Zang family have? What is your purpose in catching those children? What do these two events have to do with the case of the missing child in Suzhou 25 years ago? ”

There are so many questions, so let's go one by one.

"Everything has a cause and an effect. Your order is not right, you should ask the Zang family what they did twenty-five years ago, and what I will do twenty-five years later. ”

Long Xinze: "Do you know Tai Sui's fortune? ”

Zhang Qining: "I know, what does this have to do with the Zang family?" ”

Long Xinze smiled and told her about an old story.

Zang Bocheng, the previous head of the Zang family, is a type who can't open the pot at home and has to fight for righteousness and squandering money, for the sake of his brothers from all over the world, his younger brother, that is, Uncle Zang, has a particularly hard time, so he is extremely disgusted with his eldest brother's personality.

Every time the river rises in the rainy season, the river rises, and the ferry capsizes and sinks. Zang Bocheng volunteered to stand up and raise money to build the bridge, and it was for this reason that he hollowed out the last silver taels in his family.

Fortunately, the ancestral house could not be sold, and he could die in the house in the end, so that he would not be left in the wilderness. But what made Uncle Zang hate was that Zang Bocheng really had this idea, and it was he who ran to his uncle to complain, which made the elders suppress this matter.

In the end, Zang Bocheng was praised for supervising the work, scolded for borrowing money, and contracted illness in the wind and rain. He lay on the bed and asked Zang Shuping to ask for a doctor, Zang Shuping looked at the dying eldest brother on the bed, and a trace of happiness flashed in his heart.

He told the truth: "There is no money, and the doctor is not willing to come." ”

Zang Bocheng was hungry, so he brought a bowl of porridge, which was almost full of water, and there were not a few grains of rice at all. "I'm sorry, big brother, you used to eat and live with the workers every day, but you don't know it, there is no food at home for a long time."

Zang Bocheng held his last breath and looked at Zang Shuping, the man's face was sallow, his cheeks were thin and concave, and he might look better as a dying person. At this time, Zang Bocheng seemed to realize something.

Zang Shuping kept looking at him until he burst into tears, until he finished speaking: "I'm sorry..."

He sneered while holding the bowl, I'm sorry? If I'm sorry and useful, he won't be ridiculed because he was born in a rich family but can't be shackled, and he won't be criticized and judged behind his back because he has a generous and kind big brother. They are all sons of the Zang family, why are they praised by people just because you will spend the family's money, and I can only stay at home and drink the northwest wind, and I have to worry from time to time that I will wake up one day and there will be no place to sleep.

Take one of my rations to help others, and when you stand in the light, I have become a little child.

"Zang Bocheng, you are sick!" Zang Shuping turned around and left the room, leaving his brother's body on the bed, with indifference in his eyes.

You and I are a family, you sympathize with outsiders, and you don't even care about the life or death of my own brother. In that case, then I don't need to have a brother.

... Brother, you deserve to die. Rather than losing in your hands, the Zang family might as well hand it over to me.

"Therefore, when the Zang family was passed into the hands of Zang Shuping, the family was actually empty, but the current Zang family is not as poor as you said even if it is returned more than 20 years ago. I've only heard that Uncle Zang is romantic, could it be that he is still a business wizard? Zhang Qining also leaned against the red bridge.

Long Xinze shook his head, "No, no." Zang Shuping has some brains, but it is far from enough to lay a rich foundation for the Zang family. Farmers farm and eat to see the sky, and businessmen do business to see luck - wealth. ”

"Tai Sui beckons wealth..."Zhang Qining thought: "Zang Shuping doesn't necessarily have to find a Tai Sui, right?" ”

He thought. But the consequence of not having it was that he started to make his own, and as for the materials, you are so smart, you should have thought of it, right? Long Xinze admired the surprise that flashed in Zhang Qining's eyes, and couldn't help laughing.

Everything has a cause and an effect. It's time to ask what the Zang family did twenty-five years ago...

Her first and third questions are the causes, doesn't that mean - the Zang family abducted the child to become Tai Sui?

"What are people going to do with Tai Sui?" She looked up at Long Xinze suddenly, still unable to believe that Zang Shuping could be so frustrated.

Long Xinze: "People are human when they are alive, but who can know when they die?" After reincarnation, enter the six realms, and all things in the world remain unchanged only the soul. Using one soul to reshape another image, I don't know where he learned this evil art. Although it is only a half-finished product, it is enough for him to use. ”

Using the soul to recreate another image, that is to say, he took those children all-

Semi-finished products... It's not Tai Sui, it's evil. The people buried under Zangfu are all children... Corpse.

"Zhan Suiyu wants to take care of this? Look for the dead. Zhang Qining held his head and said in his heart. What's in your business? ”

Long Xinze squinted his eyes in one direction, and said, "I can slowly tell you what I'm doing, but the Zang family seems to be very lively now, you see." ”

Zang family? Zhang Qining looked in his direction and found that a large black and purple demonic aura was steaming above Zang Mansion.

"What's going on? Could it be that the ones underground... There was a riot?! ”

Long Xinze was slightly surprised, ordinary people could see the demonic energy, and the karma was not shallow.

Zhang Qining turned his head and turned back.

"Miss Zhang." Long Xinze called out to her and said, "To Zang Shuping, in addition to not being in line with heavenly principles, do you have any other comments or feelings?" Like anger, joy, even puzzlement? ”

"What do you want to say?"

"Poor Dao wants to say: If you don't feel the things themselves and just act according to common sense, your empty mind will be closer to nothingness, so that even if you get a good result, it may not be a really good result. Without the support of some kind of emotion or belief, people tend to lose themselves more easily, and you seem to be more ordinary in this regard. That's not your business right now. ”

Zhang Qining lowered his eyelashes and covered the look in his eyes, "What do you think... Am I willing? She whispered. Holding one hand behind her back, she hummed: "A demon who left his child in the mountains to fend for himself, how about purifying himself first, and then preaching the Tao?" ”

Long Xinze chuckled, "Whether it's evil or good, Poor Dao has always understood what he's doing." It's a world of difference from you, Miss Zhang. ”

Don't be irritated by him, just sort out your own affairs slowly, and don't be influenced by him. Zhang Qining said to himself silently, turned around and left the red bridge. Long Xinze, who was behind her, looked at the red hairband hanging behind her and smiled softly.

"Three days and moons... Old friend, I didn't expect to see you again. ”

"It's no wonder that I can hold on for so long, and my heart is quite tenacious. But if you don't listen to my business, you will suffer next. He stretched with the whisk. After all, one of those materials is a child of the dryad..."