"By the way, master, what are you waiting for? For the last three days, you have locked me and my sister in the contract space, and we are not allowed to come out in any way. And as soon as he summoned me, he put a breath-holding charm on me, so he must have discovered something, right? ”

"That's right, ha, Qingfeng, I found that you are getting smarter and smarter, and sure enough, you are a wise and martial master, I taught it well, and I can actually train your rotten elm lump to the level of half a genius, I am really a genius." I bragged about myself and tried to hide that I wasn't in high spirits, but I failed.

Qing Feng looked at me with both eyes and said softly, "Master, your mental fluctuations are a little chaotic. ”

I pondered for a long time, and finally shook my head, lowered my tone, and said slowly: "Qingfeng, do you know what a hedgehog is?" ”

"I don't know, it's not a demon. I'm afraid it's a youkai that has only bred in the last tens of thousands of years, right? Qing Feng asked.

"Yes, that's pretty much it." I sighed again: "The so-called hedgehog, also known as Xie Di or Xie Zhi, is a strange beast in ancient legends, the big one is like a cow, the small one is like a sheep, similar to a unicorn, the whole body has thick dark hair, the eyes are bright and bright, and there is usually a horn on the forehead, commonly known as a unicorn. It has a high level of wisdom and understands human nature. Its eyes are wide open, it can distinguish between right and wrong, it can know good and evil, and when it finds an evil official, it touches him down with his horns and eats his stomach. When people have conflicts or disputes, unicorns can point their horns at the unreasonable party, and even put their horns against those who deserve to die, making the offender shudder. Emperor Yao's criminal officer Gao Tao once kept a hedgehog, and all the difficult and unresolved matters were known to the hedgehog's ruling, and they were all accurate. So until now, the pig is the embodiment of justice in law enforcement.

In the past, the word "law" was written as "灋", and "廌" was a pig, and the word "廌法" was combined into one, taking its meaning of justice, so from the water, take the meaning of law flat as water. In this way, the status of the pig as a legal symbol was recognized. From "灋" to "法", although the character 廌 has been hidden, the traditional Chinese legal culture it symbolizes has not disappeared.

But even so, no hunter has ever seen what a hedgehog looks like, some think it looks like a deer, some call it a cow, and more often say a sheep. In addition to the relevant ancient books such as the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the Treatise on Heng, and the Five Miscellaneous Groups, the Hunter's Bazaar also found that the hedgehog in the cultural relics before the Qin Dynasty was in the shape of a horned sheep, and the ox-shaped hedgehog appeared after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Legend has it that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, King Wen of Chu once obtained a pig, according to its shape made of a crown and put it on his head, so the upward and downward effect, the crown became fashionable in the Chu State. The Qin Dynasty's law enforcement imperial history carried this kind of crown, and the Han Dynasty and Qin system were no exception. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Gao pottery statue and the picture of the pig became an indispensable ornament in the yamen, and the crown of the pig was named the crown of the law, and the law enforcement officer was also called the pig, and this habit has been continued. In the Qing Dynasty, the imperial historian and the inspection envoy and other supervision and judicial officials all wore a hedgehog crown and a supplementary uniform embroidered with the pattern of "hedgehog". ”

"According to your meaning, this hedgehog should be a kind of Rui Beast." Qingfeng understood: "But master, why did you mention this thing?" ”

"Of course I have my intentions. Haven't you always been weird? I ignored the girl's pain like that, not because I didn't want to pay attention to it, but because it wasn't my turn to pay attention to it at all. I paused, and said one by one, "Because I found a hint of the smell of the pig in that woman." ”

"What!" Qingfeng was surprised: "But I can't feel anything." ”

"Nonsense, is the smell of a pig so easy to detect? Especially when it executes justice, it doesn't emit aura, and even if it stands right under your nose, you, as a demon, won't notice anything at all, just think it's just an ordinary guy. Until its horn pierces you through the unknown. So no one has ever seen the real appearance of the hedgehog, because the people who have seen it have already died. ”

"Then why did it leave a smell on Miss Zhao Ningxiang? Did you want to punish her? No, it can't be, according to your master, the pig should only punish the wicked. ”

"Whether the wicked are or not is just a relative statement. In fact, there is no real evil person in this world, in your standpoint, a person may really be extremely evil, but to his relatives and children, he is very likely to be an excellent person. Therefore, in fact, the people punished by the pig are only the wicked people it considers. I looked out the window, looked through the window opposite, fell on the beautiful figure who continued to groom, and sighed deeply: "But unfortunately, this time the person who will be punished by the pig is her." The hedgehog will only leave a smell on the person to be punished. ”

"How is that possible?" Qing Feng was very puzzled: "How can a girl in her early twenties like her do heinous things, don't you human women rarely go out all your lives?" How could she have a chance to do it! ”

"To be honest, I also want to know why the pig chose her." I shrugged my shoulders slightly: "The person the pig wants to kill, and no one else can kill it." So before it was punished, Zhao Ningxiang was very safe. But you're different, as soon as the pig smells the demon, it will go crazy and attack desperately. That's why I put a breath-shielding charm on you. Be careful yourself. ”

"When will the pig be punished?"

I looked at the sky: "Tonight." It was the time of her marriage. ”

May 1st, the time of the year.

The moon at night is very bright, and many people say that there are no stars on a bright moon night, and that person must not have seen tonight's night. At night, the moon is dotted with stars, and you can even see the Milky Way. In short, everything is very abnormal.

In the three days I've been in Blackwater, I've investigated a lot of things. Tiankeng, the Bad Luck Ghost, Zhao Ningxiang, and the natural disaster that destroyed Blackwater Town twelve years ago.

In fact, as I gradually gained knowledge about the natural disaster 12 years ago, the so-called earthquake, I became more and more skeptical about the possibility that it was really a natural disaster. It's just that this investigation has gradually proved his suspicions.

The earthquake didn't destroy anywhere, it just shook the entire town of Blackwater. The earthquake was so complete that there was not a single normal house in Blackwater after half a moment, and then the Blackwater Lake poured out and flooded everything.

It stands to reason that an earthquake of this magnitude should have caused heavy damage elsewhere.

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