Bai Juyi and Monk Kukai finally set off to find the watery forest mentioned in Abe's diary, as well as the ancient tombs deep in the woods.

What happened to Yang Guifei?

Thirty years ago, the public case is now only the last piece of the puzzle.

They didn't inform Qi Zihuan.

Kukai said that they were not going to catch cats, they were just looking for the truth.

Although Qi Zihuan hid a paper figure near Bai Juyi's residence for surveillance, until they left the city gate, Qi Zihuan, who hesitated for a while, still did not follow.

He just went to Qinglong Temple to donate a large amount of merit, and drank tea and chatted with the monks for a long time. Now he is sitting at the head of the bridge in the West Market, holding a thin wicker in his mouth, humming a little song while entertaining himself, while waiting for someone.

Not long after, the entertainer walked slowly carrying the folded bamboo frame.

He glanced at Qi Zihuan, and did not greet him, but sighed.

Qi Zihuan's eyes narrowed, and he said with a smile: "I seem to give you a reward every time." ”

"Yes, it's a lot every time."

"Then why don't you seem to want to see me?"

"Because you can always see through my illusions."

"Well, that makes sense."

Also, doing magic with an audience that won't be fooled by you at all is the same as playing with an opponent who knows your hole cards.

The least interesting.

"And you're verbose." The entertainer kicked away a few stones from the open space at the bridgehead and slammed the bamboo frame on the ground.

Qi Zihuan wanted to give a laughing and crying expression.

"Hey, after watching your tricks so many times, what's your name?"

"Yan Rong."

Very common name.

"Oh, do you know Yellow Crane?"

"Who is Yellow Crane?"

"Jiangnan Leather Factory Owner."

"I don't know."

"Oh." Qi Zihuan propped his chin, and the wicker in his mouth was curled.

Yan Rong didn't bother to look at him at all, lowered his head to untie the rope, and unfolded the bamboo frame one by one.

"Don't toss, I'll pay for today's drink, you can make me a different trick."

Yan Rong stopped his hand and asked suspiciously, "What do you want to see?" I can't change the dead into life or something. ”

"Turn into a cat and come out and see."

"Then you're going to have to talk." Yan Rong turned around slowly, and when he faced Qi Zihuan, he had already taken out a cat from his wide sleeves.

"Uh...... I said you are a man who runs the rivers and lakes, why are you such a cute kitten? ”

He was holding a pure white Persian cat in his hand, which looked to be only two or three months old, like a cute little pom-pom.

"I've seen a rich lady hug such a cat, it seems to be called a Persian cat, and I think you must like this kind of precious cat."

"Don't like it...... You can turn me into a black cat, just the kind that is common on the street, but the nose is a little lower, the body is a little longer, and the eyes are yellow. ”

"It's a black cat."

Yan Rong gently threw the kitten in his hand, and it had already turned into a yellow-eyed black cat when it landed quickly.

Qi Zihuan tilted his head, staring at the black cat wandering around the open space for a long time, and suddenly laughed happily.

"Yan Rong, do you provide door-to-door service?"

……

Bai Juyi and Monk Kukai are shuttling through a coniferous forest.

There was a puddle in the forest, just above knee height. They were laboriously dripping in the water, and their robes were almost soaked.

At the end of this way, a huge stone tomb appeared in front of me, quaint and vicissitudes, and the huge stone was crawling with vines.

There is an entrance directly ahead, and the stone door is open.

"How could it be open? Anyone has been here before? Bai Juyi frowned and asked.

He took out a lantern that he had prepared earlier, lit it with a fire breaker, and led the way into the dark corridor.

Maybe it's because the door isn't closed, maybe it's because there are other vents, but in short, the air in the corridor doesn't feel stuffy, except for the smell of rotting leaves, grass and trees.

After walking for about ten meters, the two entered the real burial chamber.

In the middle is a sarcophagus carved with auspicious clouds, and the surrounding walls are painted with murals of ladies, but they are mottled and mutilated because of weathering.

"Someone has touched the sarcophagus." Kukai leaned down and pointed to the junction of the coffin lid and the coffin body, "It is impossible to be careless to bury a noble concubine so careless that the top and bottom are not aligned." ”

The two of them hurriedly pushed the heavy coffin lid away a little.

In the coffin, there was nothing.

"Maybe we're all wrong! The autopsy Dafa is true, Xuanzong really came here to welcome back the concubine. Bai Juyi was a little excited and shouted loudly.

Kukai ignored him, and simply climbed into the coffin and fell asleep.

"You help me close the lid of the coffin." Kukai lay in the coffin with a wick in his hand and said lightly.

"Huh?" Bai Juyi was a little confused.

"Hurry up, I want to know how the concubine feels inside."

Bai Juyi could only do as he was told.

But only a moment later, I heard a thumping sound from the sarcophagus, and Kukai banged loudly on the lid of the coffin inside.

The lid of the coffin was opened again, and Kukai, whose head and face were covered in dust, coughed and fled.

"What's wrong?"

Kukai pursed his mouth, tears flashing uncontrollably in his eyes, and his hands were shaking.

He did not answer, but used all his strength to push the lid of the coffin completely open.

Boom!

The heavy lid of the coffin fell to the ground, and the dust lifted up, and it took a long time for it to slowly dissipate.

The inside side of the coffin lid has brown marks on it.

"What's that?"

Kukai was silent for a long time before he said in a deep voice: "Blood, the blood marks scratched by the noble concubine's fingers." ”

"You mean...... She's not dead? Bai Juyi also reacted, "She tried to open the lid of the coffin from the inside, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't open it until all ten fingers were ground into a bloody blur?" ”

"Yes, the demon cat said, bury it alive."

Bury alive.

These two words seemed to smash into Bai Juyi's heart, smashing him from the ground into the ice lake, and his whole body only felt cold and piercing.

A person wakes up in the sarcophagus, without a glimmer of light, without the slightest sound, and the desire to survive makes her desperately clasp the lid of the coffin, trying to move even a little.

But this sarcophagus is too heavy......

"You guessed it, Kukai, Niangniang knew that it was a death hoax, and she willingly cooperated with Xuanzong to complete this drama together......"

A black cat walked in from the corridor and jumped onto the sarcophagus.

"You are Yellow Crane's apprentice White Dragon?" Bai Juyi speculated tentatively.

According to Abe Nakamaro's diary, the only one who was possessed of illusion at that time and had a deep love for Yang Guifei was the boy named White Dragon.

The black cat ignored him, pacing above the narrow coffin wall as he continued at Kukai, "But Niangniang didn't know that she would wake up, and she didn't know how long she would have to wait before she died. ”

Kukai's originally reddened eyes were now staring straight at the black cat, without saying a word.

"What about the concubine? Is she still alive? Bai Juyi asked.

The black cat glanced at Kukai and said in a deep voice: "Bailong loves Niangniang, and returned to this cemetery with Danlong afterwards, and after opening the sarcophagus, he found that the concubine with blood on her hands, although her face is still the same, but she has no breath. The white dragon took Niangniang away, used an ice bed to make her never rot, and turned into a demon cat to avenge Niangniang's grievances. Right, Kukai? ”

Kukai, who has always been light and likes to smile, frowned and asked softly, "Why did the white dragon become a cat?" ”

"Maybe it's because Danlong told him that Xuanzong already knew that the so-called autopsy Dafa was just a door-closing kung fu, and he would naturally wake up in a day or two...... Danlong couldn't see the deception of these people, and secretly put Gu poison in Niangniang's last wine, so that she could die quietly. It's just that I didn't think that before the Gu poison attacked, Niangniang had already woken up, and finally suffocated to death......"

Kukai turned his head, and then the black cat's words continued: "After hearing this, the white dragon was extremely angry, broke with the Danlong, in order to prevent the Gu poison from damaging the concubine's body, he sucked out all the Gu worms with his mouth, so he was poisoned, but at the last moment of his life, he transferred the soul of the black cat...... Since then, he has become a demon cat. ”

Bai Juyi looked at the person and cat in front of him and told a strange story out of thin air, and was dumbfounded.

A voice rang out from the entrance.

"It's miserable!"