The old Taoist priest has an old mansion in this Yunmeng City, which was in the late Qing Dynasty, the old Taoist helped a prefect to do the law, and afterwards the prefect was very happy, so he rewarded this house for his pension.

But Lao Dao has only lived for a few years, and strange things have come, the dead who have just been buried in the city have appeared at the door of Lao Dao's house one after another, at that time, this matter can harm the city full of wind and rain, and everyone is in danger, so that for more than half a month, the people of the city do not go out of the house at night, and even the late night patrol of the street catches fast, but also walks around the old Taoist.

In the end, Lao Dao convened a blind date and cast spells to kill ghosts for his house in front of the people of the city, so everyone was relieved and no longer afraid. After that, Lao Dao went to another country to find relatives and friends, and the house was empty and became empty.

But in the hearts of the people of the city, it is even more of a haunted house......

……

In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, the base of the U.S. Pacific Naval Fleet, and the Pacific War broke out.

At the same time, in Yunmeng City on the coast of Zhejiang......

……

"Three, you jump~"

"It's six~"

"Jump~" Lan Lan, who was bouncing in front of the door, suddenly shouted into the courtyard. "Grandpa, this mouse doesn't move......"

"Eh~" Lao Dao sat under the osmanthus tree in the courtyard, sewing Lanlan's old clothes. "Bring it to Grandpa."

Lan Lan grabbed the tail of the big mouse and carried it to the courtyard.

Lao Dao took the mouse, began to observe it carefully, and sniffed it close to the side of his nose.

"This rat is old, tossed by you, and now he is dead." Lao Dao casually threw it into the dustpan in the distance.

"I'm just hopscotch with it......" Lan Lan said aggrievedly.

"Alas~ Lan Lan wait first, grandpa will catch another one for you." Lao Dao put down his clothes and needlework, got up and straightened his waist, and made a gurgling sound.

Lao ~ Lao ~ Lao Dao sighed in his heart, and at the same time closed his eyes and sank into the dantian.

"The law of man,

Earth Law Heaven,

Heavenly Law Dao,

Taoism is naturally ......"

Lao Dao silently recited the heart formula, and at the same time gradually entered the realm, everything around him began to transform in his heart, slowly, within a sphere with a radius of ten meters, his heart seemed to be able to perceive everything, this is what Lao Dao learned when he broke into the rivers and lakes in his early years - [Insight Field]

The people of the Tao called this spell 'the eye of heaven'. And if this trick is practiced to a certain level, legend has it that the realm can cover a city.

"Hah!" The old Taoist gathered his palms and blasted towards a place in the corner.

Seeing this, Lan Lan ran to the corner of the wall, lifted the floor tiles and rummaged through them, and soon she pulled out a large mouse from the hole in the ground.

"Grandpa, it's caught, it's caught, it's a big one!" Lan Lan screamed excitedly, ran back with the mouse, and handed it to her grandfather.

"Hmm," Lao Dao opened his eyes, sat down next to the tree in front of him, took the mouse from Lan Lan's hand, and began to get lucky. Slowly, a warm current was injected into the unconscious mouse.

"Tsk-tw-twr-" The mouse jumped up and jumped to the ground, as if it had a spirit, and was constantly circling around Lan Lan.

Lan Lan saw that the mouse was moving, and jumped up happily.

"Thank you grandpa~"

After thanking Grandpa, he led the mouse out of the yard and continued to play hopscotch with it.

Looking at Lan Lan's lively back, Lao Dao felt very uncomfortable, other people's children also have a Trojan horse, dolls and the like, and Lan Lan has been playing with mice for nearly ten years, which is really distressing. But it can't be helped, who makes the children in this city all like adults, all learn to be snobbish, and all look down on the children of poor families and don't play with them......

"No matter how poor you are, you have to live......"

Lao Dao had to sigh and continue to sew clothes, but suddenly without carelessness, the thin needle pierced Lao Dao's fingertips.

But strangely, Lao Dao's fingertips did not bleed......

……

months later.

"See if I don't kill you!"

The shouts of men were heard in the streets.

"Eh~ still dare to fight back?" A fat man dressed in gold and silver stood at the corner of the street.

"Why are you keeping up!" The fat man turned his head and yelled at the family behind him.

"Good!" A few men came to their senses and beat up a few people on the ground. "Step ~ da! Da~Step ......"

At this time, Lao Dao led Lan Lan to pass by, and happened to encounter the atrocities here.

But unfortunately, Lao Dao didn't stop it, and he didn't have the ability to stop it. He can only be a passer-by, trying to bypass as much as he can when passing by.

"Phew! Let's see if you dare to steal rice! The fat man spat at the beaten man, turned around and walked towards the house, and did not forget to give orders to the family before leaving. Give me a hard beating, and when you've had enough, get back to work. ”

Lao Dao recognized this man, he was a big landlord in Yunmeng City, with thousands of acres of fertile land, although he had not done anything particularly bad, but Lao Dao knew in his heart that the landlord and the peasants had cheated in their accounts, and he bullied the people for not knowing a few words, and cleverly set up a name to squeeze the people's fat. The people have been kept in the dark to this day, and in the midst of the war, the grain tax has risen, so that more and more peasants in the city are starving and miserable.

“…… Lan Lan, you go back first. Lao Dao let go of Lan Lan's little hand. Grandpa will go shopping again and will be home in a while. ”

"Hmm." Lan Lan nodded, and then continued to walk home. "Grandpa come back early~"

Lao Dao watched Lan Lan leave, until Lan Lan completely disappeared from his field of vision, he finally moved his steps, turned around and walked back.

"Eh~ If it was a peaceful and prosperous world, I wouldn't be so risky......" Lao Dao closed his eyes regretfully.

"The law of man,

Earth, Dharma, Heaven......"

As Lao Dao chanted his heart, the [Insight Field] gradually unfolded, and Lao Dao also began to walk against the wall, carefully exploring the landlord's house......

……

Late that night, Lao Dao got up from the bed, and after getting dressed, he quietly left the bedroom and walked to the second floor.

"All things are born of air...... Ten Thousand Laws Return to the Sect ......" Lao Dao chanted the mantra lightly, luck was at his fingertips, and a wisp of blue smoke slowly rose from Lan Lan's forehead and gathered at Lao Dao's fingertips. Lao Dao immediately waved his hand and pointed it on his eyebrows, injecting the blue smoke into his brain.

"Tsk-tsk-" The mouse downstairs suddenly moved, jumping excitedly under the tree.

"......" Lao Dao gently pulled the quilt for Lan Lan and turned to go downstairs.

At this time, dozens of rats had gathered in the courtyard, all of them were jumping around, and when they saw the old road coming down, they all rushed over, and the scene was terrifying.

Lao Dao actually knew very well in his heart that this was already his limit, if he was young, this [puppet technique] would have to summon thousands of rats, or dozens of human bears. And today, there is indeed only such a scene, and Lao Dao can't help but smile bitterly when he sees it.

"It's a pity~ It's a pity~ It's old, it's useless......"

Lao Dao muttered to himself, but he knew that although it was a pity, it was enough, and Lao Dao immediately made dozens of mice sneak towards the landlord's house.

……

"Ah......" A family member was standing in the courtyard, guarding the courtyard, and the night was getting deeper, he looked at everything in the courtyard boredly, and began to yawn.

"Hey~ Xiao Zhao! Come and see, what is it? Another man stepped out of the shadows and shouted at him, still holding a flattened glass bottle with a black and red liquid flowing from it.

"Uh." Xiao Zhao rubbed his eyes and carefully looked at the bottle in the other party's hand, "I don't know, Lao He, where did you get this bottle, it's weird and beautiful." ”

"This is the old man who doesn't want it, and he threw it in the warehouse." Lao He said proudly, still shaking the wine bottle in his hand.

"Don't want it?"

"Yes, didn't a few foreign devils pass by us a few days ago? , this is the wine they gave to the master. ”

"I remember, that's it...... Reporter? ”

"Yes, but today the master only took a sip, and spit on the ground, scolding the foreign grandson in his mouth. It seems that I won't drink it anymore. ”

"Then it's cheaper for us." Xiao Zhao licked his mouth and looked at the bottle curiously. "I haven't drunk foreign wine yet."

"Don't worry, you go find a cup first." Lao He sent Xiao Zhao to the kitchen. "I'll bring some snacks and snacks back."

"Okay~" Xiao Zhao had no choice but to walk towards the kitchen in the corner of the courtyard.

At this time, the group of rats from the old way happened to steal the account book, slipped out of the study, and bumped into Xiao Zhao, who was about to go to the kitchen.

"Oops!" Lao Dao was using the [Insight Domain] outside the wall with his eyes closed, observing everything in the house, and suddenly noticed that someone was walking towards the mouse, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart.

"Who?!" Xiao Zhao noticed that something was moving in the shadows in front of him, and immediately became vigilant and shouted at the shadows.

This made Lao Dao even more nervous, and hurriedly controlled the rat swarm and jumped into the pond in the courtyard.

"Whoa-" The sound of falling water continued, and Xiao Zhao ran to take a look and found that there was actually a group of rats in the pool.

"Hey, a group of rats who are afraid of death, scare Lao Tzu with a false alarm." Xiao Zhao felt a little bored, so he teased the rats in the pool.

It's so angry that this person doesn't go away? If I continue to play, my rats will all drown, and in desperation, Lao Dao grabbed a stone on the side of the road and threw it into the courtyard.

"Smack! Groov. "Stones flew over Xiao Zhao's head and landed in the pond.

Hey! What a hell of a day today, the rat fell into the water, and the stone also fell into the water! No, this may be a peasant passing by here and throwing stones at it, after all, the peasants outside the city hate the old man.

Xiao Zhao shook his head helplessly and walked towards the kitchen.

But the old rats were still fighting in the pool because he was killed and wounded, and the only dozen or so mice left picked up the wet ledger and crawled towards the hole in the wall.

"Tsk!" Lao Dao grabbed the soaked ledger, put it in his arms, and began to feel annoyed.

It's so old...... I can't even do this little thing, eh......

As the day began to dawn, Lao Dao took advantage of the fact that there was no one on the street and quickly left this place......

……

At noon the next day,

In the government building of the county seat, a plainly dressed and incorruptible-looking official stood in front of the window, with his back to the landlord behind him.

"Xiao Song, come and take a look at this." The county magistrate threw a notebook to his desk.

“？” The landlord walked over and was startled when he saw the book.

Isn't this the ledger I just lost?!

"About this ......," the county magistrate pretended to be deep. What do you have to say? ”

"This ......" the landlord choked, and he didn't know how to explain it.

"For a long time, the people didn't know about our relationship, but this time, the person who sent this account book wants to bring you down."

The landlord scratched his head and suddenly spoke.

“…… Cousin, I can't help it, there was a lot of rats in the house yesterday, and more than a dozen of them died in the pool, and I can't guess that they came to steal the ledger. ”

"Mouse?" The county magistrate looked at the landlord with suspicion.

"Yes," the landlord nodded. "I also saw that this ledger is with you, and I suddenly understood."

"Interesting! I've never seen this trick, it can make a mouse steal something, it's interesting, it's interesting. The county magistrate stroked his beard and laughed.

"Cousin, don't laugh at me. This is ...... in front of you."

"It's not easy to do." The county magistrate frowned and began to think.

"The theft of this ledger means that the man already knows your details, but he didn't hand it over to me in person, which means that he doesn't want others to know that he reported it, in this case, he won't go around talking to people nonsense, so the people in the city should not know the situation now." The county magistrate seemed to have an idea, and turned to the landlord to order.

"I'll give you three days to find out who stole the ledger, and as for what to do after you find it, you don't need me to teach you, right?"

"Of course I know, I know."

"Remember! Don't leak the slightest rumor about this matter. In addition, if this drags on for too long, people will definitely be suspicious, so even I will be planted in it, so I will only give you three days! ”

"I see, thank you cousin." The landlord hurriedly bowed.

"Go back and check it out!" The county magistrate scolded him. "If three days pass and you haven't found it, I'll be in big trouble, and then I don't care who your mother is, I'll send you directly to prison!"

"Yes, yes, I see." The landlord thanked him and exited the county magistrate's office and left the building.

At this time, the landlord had some eyebrows in his heart, and he could roughly guess who stole the account book......