"There are high and low spells in any spell, and this puppet technique is naturally the same." Xing Ruyi explained: "It is easy to manipulate people's bodies, but it is not easy to manipulate souls. In addition to the birth date that needs to be controlled, the soul also needs some things such as the essence blood and hair of the person being controlled. Therefore, when casting spells, the items needed may be more than just a scarecrow. But the current situation is a little incomprehensible. ”

"Can't figure it out?" Chang Tai asked.

"What my mother means is that if this caster wants to obtain a person's birth date, essence blood and hair, it is not difficult, but the difficult thing is that she has obtained so many people's birth dates, essence blood and hair."

"What if the caster isn't mortal?" Chang Tai hesitated and asked, "If the other party is not a mortal, is it easier to obtain these things, and maybe even she can cast spells without using these things at all?" ”

"Not mortal!" Xing Ruyi thought about it in pieces, and looked carefully at Miss Zhou and the people in front of her who had fallen into the puppet technique: "But if the other party is not a mortal, what will she be?" And for what purpose did she target the general's wife? Perhaps, she was not targeting the general's wife in the first place, but the general himself? ”

"Ruyi, what are you talking about?"

"Oh, I'm wondering, what is the main purpose of this spellcaster, and who is she targeting?"

"Against whom? Isn't it us? ”

"Naturally, it's not us!"

Xing Ruyi got up, pulled Chang Tai aside, and then instructed Yin Yuan to see if he could solve the spells on these people.

Her wishful rouge shop is also quite a noticeable place in the Yunjiaji, especially today when these women who have been tricked by puppetry have been making a fuss in the shop for so many times, she guesses that it will not be long before the families of these women will hear the news. If you enter the door and see this person lying on the ground, all kinds of rumors will come one after another, and maybe the county magistrate who had just accompanied the general's wife in the morning should come again with many officials.

Yin Yuan naturally had to use some extraordinary means to solve the puppet technique, and Xing Ruyi deliberately didn't let Chang Tai see this, so he used the excuse of helping him sew and mend his clothes, and directly dragged him to the backyard.

"Ruyi, what do you mean by that? You said that the caster was not coming for us, but for the general's wife or even the general, what is the matter? ”

"The general's wife and the county magistrate came to our Ruyi Rouge shop in the morning, and you were in charge of receiving it, Brother Chang?"

"I was in charge of the reception. At that time, you and Ah Niu went to your husband's house to help see a doctor, and Li Mao hurriedly came to report that the county lord was accompanied by a noble lady. Yin Yuan is still young and not suitable for picking up customers, so I can only come forward. It was also after I went out that I learned that the county lord was accompanied by General Li Yanli's wife, and she and the general arrived at midnight last night. Because when they came, it was already late, and it was inconvenient to alarm the left and right, so except for the county lord who accompanied them, no one else knew about the Yun family. ”

"Where did the women in the shop get the news?" Xing Ruyi's question stopped Chang Tai.

Chang Tai shook his head: "This matter still needs to be investigated." ”

After Chang Tai paused for a moment, he looked into Xing Ruyi's eyes and said, "There is another thing, since I came back, I haven't found a chance to talk to Ruyi." I am also an old friend of this General Li Yan, and after learning that he had returned to Beijing due to illness, I also visited him many times, hoping that he would recover as soon as possible and return to his military camp.

You also know that the longer people with our character stay in the capital, the more uncomfortable they become. As for me, it's just a small catch, even if I don't fit in, even if I feel a little stuffy in my heart, just vent it. Because the officials are small, no one will notice. Li Yan is different, he is a member of the Li family, and he is the person with the surname that the female emperor is taboo in his heart. In the past, he was not surnamed Li, and he was far away at the border, so the empress could be tolerant of him, and the people in the court could also be regarded as if he did not exist. But now that he is back, even if he comes back because of illness, he has military merits and fame, whether it is someone from the Li family or a person from the martial family, for various purposes, it is difficult not to pay attention to him and not care about his every move.

Ruyi, you are in the people, walking in the rivers and lakes, so you don't understand the dangers brought about by the changes in the situation and interests. I know that if Li Yan stayed in the capital all the time, even if he was not tortured to death by his own illness, he would be used by the people of the Li family and punished by the people of the martial family for various reasons. In addition, the imperial doctor was already helpless about his condition, so I recommended you.

This time to escort Siniang back to Beijing, I went to the general's mansion again and told him about your medical skills. Li Yan is a smart person, and he understands in his heart that when I persuade him to leave Beijing, I am not simply persuading him to seek medical treatment from you. Therefore, he did not hesitate, even if he called the general's wife over, on the one hand, he wrote to the empress, and on the other hand, he simply packed up some bags, brought a few close servants, and went out of the divine capital with me.

I told him that after leaving the capital and arriving at a safe place, I will chase you and Yin Gongzi quickly, and after the foothold is determined, I will fly the pigeon to pass the book and wait for him to come. It's just that I didn't expect that you would open such a rouge shop in this Yun family, and I didn't expect Li Yan and his wife to arrive so soon. ”

"Yin Yuan has told me all these things. As for General Lee's condition, I will go over and take a look after the matter of the husband is settled. Xing Ruyi's words made Chang Tai's heart settle down a little.

"The puppeteers you just talked about......"

"Actually, I don't know what the details are, what I just said is just my speculation with Yin Yuan." Xing Ruyi said, pulling Chang Tai's sleeve: "Yin Yuan told me that these people who fell for puppetry came after the general's wife and the county magistrate went to the rouge shop, and the general's wife once let out a word, saying that she wanted to help the general take a concubine." Originally, I was just curious, if these people are all coming for the concubines of the General's Mansion, why are they entangled in my rouge shop, and the person around them is still Brother Chang? ”

Chang Tai's eyes widened, obviously he didn't know that the general's wife wanted to help the general take a concubine, but he was simply curious, why he had never been prosperous with peach blossoms, and when he arrived at Yunjiaji, it was as if he had suddenly encountered spring, and the peach blossoms were blooming, although they were all inexplicably rotten peach blossoms.

"It was Yin Yuan who reminded me. He first reminded me of the unusual smell in the rouge shop, and then reminded me that the women around you are all very strange, not only in their strange postures, but also in their movements. ”

"Strange movements? I don't remember any strange movements of these people. I just think they are very verbose, and the same sentence is constantly being said in my ear. If it weren't for my good temper, I would have been angry. ”

"It turns out that Brother Chang, you have already discovered this. That's right, in addition to repetitive words and very verbose, these people will also make the same action when they are unconscious. Xing Ruyi said and made a light sniffing motion: "They will all subconsciously smell the smell of Brother Chang's body." ”

Chang Tai frowned, lifted his sleeve, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed it lightly.

"Brother Chang, although you are a very good man, and you are full of heroism, I don't think these people are attracted by your masculinity. It would be unreasonable if only those women were fine, but the families of those girls who had not yet married also made such unsightly actions.

But if they weren't attracted by Brother Chang's own aura, why would they make such an unsightly move? The answer is the fresh fruity fragrance that suddenly appeared in the rouge shop, that is, the smell that originally did not belong to Brother Chang.

Brother Chang is a good man, and he will be a good husband and father in the future, but such a beautiful quality, Ruyi doesn't believe that these women can see it just by looking at it today. Thinking of the previous events, it can be inferred that they all came for the concubine position of the General's Mansion on the surface, but in fact, they were secretly manipulated by someone to assassinate them under the pretense of pretending to be the concubine of the General's Mansion.

Those seven-inch wooden nails, although I haven't carefully studied what secrets are hidden, should be the murder weapon, as for whether it is aimed at the general's wife or General Li Yan himself, it still needs to be investigated. As far as we can see, the women are being manipulated in the shadows, but they rely on smell to identify them. It's just that they came late, and when they came, the general's wife had already gone back, and Brother Chang, you were contaminated with the fruity fragrance of the general's wife, so they were regarded as the target of encirclement and attack. ”

"I said that the words of those people were reversed, and it didn't sound quite right. If you really like me, you can explain your mind to me directly, but you keep saying that you don't mind, and you just want to be a concubine. I have not yet taken a wife, so how can I take a concubine? When you said this, Brother Chang understood, it turned out that it was not me who looked at those people, but the general. ”

Although Chang Tai's tone of voice was a little joking, his expression was very serious.

"In this way, the person behind the scenes should also be targeting the General's Mansion, but using this kind of unsightly puppet technique, it shows that the other party's mind is extremely dark, and even some of them are not on the stage."

"But the more villains this kind of, the more difficult it is to guard against. Since Brother Chang already knows the inside story, he might as well go to the post house and give the general or his wife a reminder, and he can be somewhat guarded. Xing Ruyi thought for a while, and added: "If you see Li Mao, let him stay in the post house to take care of him, and he doesn't have to come back for the time being." The person behind the curtain used puppetry, and he would definitely not act on the surface. Brother Chang and the general are both upright people, and they are not good at guarding against these spells that are only carried out in secret. Li Mao, he knows a little bit about this kind of thing, and if he stays in the post house, Brother Chang, you can feel at ease. ”

Chang Tai's eyes lit up, and he raised his hand at Xing Ruyi, but he didn't say anything.

(Education 123 Literature Network)