When Xu Ran heard this, he straightened his face.

Shi Changsheng said: "Actually, that day...... He made a bet with Xiao Er, you know that children of this age are more fun......"

"What bet?"

Li Wuyuan was in no mood to listen to him do too much foreshadowing.

Shi Changsheng hesitated for a long time and said, "It's a very simple competition...... It's just a matter of climbing faster than anyone else. ”

Xu Ran said casually: "It's indeed a simple gamble, but I guess your son Shi Cheng should be a more competitive kind, so I guess he may have won Fan Xiaoer, right?" ”

A straightforward child who can bury his head in eating when he sees a stranger approaching, and who asks the other person why he is wearing the clothes of his relatives, must be spoiled by his parents for a long time, and is usually self-centered, and his self-esteem and competitiveness will not be low.

Sure enough, Shi Changsheng hesitated and nodded:

"Yes...... He won. ”

Qi Lei listened with a puzzled face, as if he felt that this conversation was a little out of bounds.

"But...... Xiao Er is also a stubborn child, in order to catch up with Xiao Cheng, he only cares about burying his head in speeding up. Shi Changsheng said with an embarrassed face.

Xu Ran seemed to hear a hint of shirk from that sentence.

"Just care" is not a good word.

The competition between children may not be as simple as Shi Changsheng dictated, especially young boys.

No one can guarantee that Shi Cheng did not use words to encourage Fan Xiaoer at that time, and no one can guarantee whether he laughed at Fan Xiaoer at that time.

So how much the actual situation on the scene was erased by Shi Changsheng's words, no one knows.

"That's why that happened...... After Xiao Er went, Xiao Cheng was also injured, and I didn't hide it, Officer Xu, I asked Daoist Zhang Siyang to come over, because I was afraid that Xiao Er would be angry about this matter, but ...... But you can't blame Xiao Cheng! The game was promised by Xiao Er, Xiao Cheng didn't do anything! Shi Changsheng was anxious.

Xu Ran nodded: "It's a good thing that you can tell the truth, but I also have to tell the truth, this matter may just be your own thinking too much." It's not just your family's Shi Cheng who was injured, other children were also injured, so I don't think Fan Xiaoer is targeting your son. - Also, it doesn't do anything for you to hire a half-hung Taoist casually, it's just a waste of money. ”

Zhang Siyang was so angry that he tore the talisman in his hand, glared at Xu Ran and scolded: "Do you say it again?" ”

"Why don't cultivators accumulate some virtue in their mouths?"

"I'll make a shit for a little white face like you!" Zhang Siyang said as he rushed in front of Xu Ran.

Qi Lei blocked him, touched the pistol behind his waist, and said in a serious tone: "Mr. Zhang, please stand back, we haven't sorted out the attack on the police last night." ”

Zhang Siyang was timid, stared at the round eyes and snorted angrily, and stopped rambling. walked to the side, found a stone and sat down, and smoked the dry tobacco that had just been brought out of the Shi family.

Shi Changsheng: "But Officer Xu...... My little Cheng is the most seriously injured! And...... And he was also the first ...... to fall and get injured."

Shi Changsheng's words made Xu Ran fall into deep thought.

Could it be that he really guessed wrong, Fan Xiaoer after his death is so eager to repay him?

But so far in the investigation, he hasn't even seen half of Fan Xiaoer's ghost, how can he be sure?

Qi Lei stopped Zhang Siyang, turned to look at Xu Ran and said:

"Then you told me for a long time last night and pointed the finger at Shi Cheng, what is it for?"

Xu Ran said lightly: "Just for this unspoken truth,—— otherwise?" Do you think I'm going to suspect a schoolboy of being waiting for an opportunity to kill? ”

Qi Lei thought about it and felt that it seemed to be such a truth, and he had nothing to refute.

"But at least for now, it seems that we have learned some truths about Fan Xiaoer's death, although this game between children is not the direct cause of his death, but the role of this tragedy is undeniable, right, Mr. Shi?"

Xu Ran tilted his head slightly, interviewing Shi Changsheng with a cute look.

The other party looked at him crampedly for a long time, lowered his head, and his eyes flashed:

"Yes......"

Xu Ran: "It's good to admit it, but I have to remind you that when it's time to say it, don't rot in your stomach, everyone has to be responsible for what they do, and it's not an exaggeration for you to be a young child." ”

"Even if it wasn't directly caused by him in a subjective sense, he should be let know how he didn't have a good friend, and whether he should have lived so comfortably after the death of this good friend."

The reason why he respectfully called Shi Changsheng "you" can be regarded as a kind of respect for his honesty and kindness.

But Shi Changsheng didn't hear any sense of glory from it, but after Xu Ran finished speaking, his face was hot for a while.

"What's that?"

Li Wuyuan, who was at the back of the crowd, suddenly muttered softly.

For some reason, Xu Ran almost subconsciously looked in the direction she was looking, as if there was some kind of power that was silently attracting him.

For a moment, Xu Ran's gaze suddenly traveled a distance of tens of meters at an extremely fast speed, carving the short figure hidden behind a tree into his eyes.

He is usually mildly short-sighted, and to have such an extraordinary time shows that he is not seeing people.

"Ghosts."

Xu Ran gently spit out such a word, a little indifferent.

Even Qi Lei and Shi Changsheng were confused by his light tone, and they didn't have the slightest sense of horror when they hit a ghost.

Zhang Siyang smoked a dry cigarette, glanced at the mountains and forests opposite, and snorted:

"Listen to him blow, the cowshed in Lao Tzu's house can be full!"

Li Wuyuan slowly lowered the hood on the top of his head, revealing his long hair tied slightly loosely, and said:

"It's so far away that I can't see the exact location."

Zhang Siyang rolled his eyes and continued to talk cheaply: "It's like a thing." ”

Xu Ran glanced at him a little helplessly, and decided not to be quick to talk about it, arguing with such a bad old man, so he found a place to sit down unhurriedly.

"Forget it, that's not Fan Xiaoer, you can't catch up, and you can't catch up if you catch up."

Qi Lei's back was cold when he heard this, he looked at the opposite side for a long time, and said, "You guys...... Earnest? ”

Xu Ran's hand in his trouser pocket suddenly touched half of the pencil - probably due to occupational disease, but he forgot when he brought it.

"Anyway, being idle now is idle, so why don't I show you some 'things' in my eyes."

Xu Ran said, took out a pencil, lowered his head and touched it for a long time, but finally frowned.

"Damn...... I didn't bring any paper. ”

Shi Changsheng hurriedly took out a crumpled piece of yellow striped paper from his trouser pocket—he had torn it from Shi Cheng's homework book.

"When I came out, I thought the police officer would ask me to write a review or something...... Shi Changsheng explained with a dry smile.

Xu Ran's eyebrows jumped, took the paper, and commented: "The consciousness is very high." ”

Qi Lei couldn't help but lean over: "What do you mean by something 'something' in your eyes?" ”

"Yin and Yang Eyes, have you heard of it?"

Xu Ran raised his head and smiled at him, and then while Qi Lei was still thinking thoughtfully, he lowered his head and began to write, and the glasses frame slid slightly with his movements.

Zhang Siyang, who was smoking dry cigarettes on the side, paused and glanced at him in slight surprise.

Xu Ran's painting is almost done in one go, with a high degree of completion, and the time is not too long, but because it is only a temporary painting for recreation, it is not so detailed.

After about a quarter of an hour, Genie gradually saw a low, strange figure on the painting.

It's not a human figure, but a small monster with limbs, a bit like a human child, about three years old, with big fangs and big eyes, a pair of long pointed ears, and a messy hair.

There is no other color to draw with a gray pencil, and there is only so much that can be seen on the paper.

Qi Lei tilted his head suspiciously: "Mountains and Seas Monster? ”

Shi Changsheng is an honest man, and he smiled honestly: "It's quite like the kind of painting book I used to see in Zhong Kui killing ghosts." ”

Xu Ran paused for a moment and glanced at him meaningfully.

Shi Changsheng shut up.

Xu Ran tapped the drawing paper in his hand with the tip of his pen and said, "This is the shadow I just saw." ”

"......?"

A small voice abruptly landed in the gap between Xu Ran's finished speaking.

"Daochang Zhang, have you seen it?" Shi Changsheng was the first to speak.

Zhang Siyang just slipped over secretly because of curiosity, intending to take a look and leave, but he didn't expect to be caught.

He felt embarrassed for a while, but after seeing Xu Ran's somewhat surprised eyes, he immediately concluded that this little white face was shallow, and he didn't know what the painting was.

"Boy, is this little man you see with red eyes and black skin, and his demeanor is similar to that of a child?"

Xu Ran's eyes lit up slightly, and he forgot about the blood feud with Zhang Siyang for a while, and nodded:

"Yes! Not only that, but he also speaks. ”

Li Wuyuan, who was speechless on the side, glanced at Zhang Siyang thoughtfully, as if he didn't expect this old Taoist to have two brushes.

Zhang Siyang: "What did he say?" ”

"Take me home."

Xu Ran blurted out, and after speaking, he was also stunned.

This is a phrase that every injured child has heard.

"That's it, the dragon clan is one of the hundred ghosts, the earliest dragon ghost is the second son of the third son of the Zhuan clan, who is incarnated after his death, generally lives in the mountains, and is good at learning to speak to confuse people......"

Zhang Siyang said as he spoke, took a puff of dry smoke, patted his thigh, and suddenly realized: "Damn!" It's a rare thing! If I catch it, I won't be able to fight and become famous! ”

Li Wuyuan frowned and hesitantly repeated: "Wang Liang ......"

Although the transliteration was consistent, Xu Ran knew that she didn't know these two words when she heard it, so she wrote the word "魍魉" under the portrait one by one.

"魍-魉-"

Xu Ran pointed and read it to her word by word.

Li Wuyuan glanced at him, and buttoned the hood on his shoulder to the top of his head, covering half of his face above his nose.

“……”

Xu Ran silently withdrew his hand, it seemed that the stupid cat was still angry with him.

As soon as he blinked his eyes, his pupils shrank slightly:

"It's not a small amount of courage, but you dare to come over." Xu Ran said in a low voice.

In the layers of dense forests that everyone can't see. A small, red-eyed and fanged figure stood motionless among the branches of the tree, spying on everyone's movements.

Zhang Siyang quietly opened his eyes with great effort, but he didn't see anything.

Not only him, but also Li Wuyuan, who was lowly in Taoism, could only see a faint black shadow in the form of a certain spirit, but that tiny black shadow was mixed in the woods, and it was too difficult to find out.

Although Zhang Siyang wanted to grab the merit in his heart, his Taoism was limited, and after looking at it for a long time, he still felt that Xu Ran was pretending to be a ghost, and he shook the dry smoke impatiently.

"Don't even look at it, it's all."

Unexpectedly, a small cluster of sparks shook down and happened to land on the drawing paper in Xu Ran's hand.