Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Fox Demon Wins Laurels
Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang followed the owner of the wine shop to the innermost box on the second floor, and after closing the door, all kinds of noise were isolated.
The owner of the wine shop picked up a few wine cups that were upside down on the table, picked up a pot of warm wine and poured them into the wine cups, and pushed two of the glasses of wine to Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang, "The wine in the small shop is good, you two can try it." Oh, don't stand, sit. ”
Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang were not in a hurry to speak, and each sat down side by side in a position close to him.
The owner of the liquor store sat down across from them.
After sitting down, he spoke, "I don't know what the two of you are talking about investigating the case?"
Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang were just trying to find an excuse not to alarm the guests here to meet the boss, and they didn't want to pretend to be some official from the government all the time.
Su Huaizhang first replied half-truthfully, "We are Taoist priests who are practicing, and we heard that there are often monsters in this area that hurt people recently, so let's take a look." I passed by the wine shop and found that there was a demonic atmosphere here, so I came in. ”
"It turned out to be a Taoist master. The owner smiled at him and spread his hands, "But I'm just human. ”
Lan Yin on the side still didn't speak, just reached out and knocked on the wall of the wine cup, and took out the silver hairpin that she rarely wore on her head from the cloth bag she carried with her, and inserted it into the wine cup.
The silver hairpin slowly turned black.
The face of the liquor store owner also gradually darkened.
Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang didn't speak immediately, they wanted to give him time to explain themselves, but he didn't say anything.
In the end, it was Lan Yin who spoke, "The second little man of the shop invited you from the warm pavilion on the first floor, and you have been with us since you saw us, this poison can't be from you." In that case, why don't you explain?"
The embarrassment on the face of the liquor shop owner gradually dissipated, and he smiled.
"If you don't explain, you've seen through it, so why explain. Indeed, from time to time, our small shop will do some business that the government does not allow, and when I heard that the government people were coming, I panicked and asked the other errand runners in the store to add some ingredients to the wine. But now you're lying to me - you're not from the government, and it's not a human business, isn't this just a joke. ”
Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang glanced at each other, and Xu Huaizhang asked him, "You want to say that you don't know anything about demons?"
"Of course. He spread his hands again, "I told you that I was just a human being. ”
"Since it's a human being, where did it come from? Lan Yin spoke, his voice was not loud, but every word was knocked on the weakness of the owner of this wine shop, "It seems that you can't survive today, I'll tell you the truth, we are not Taoists, we are immortals." Human poison can't harm me at all, so my hairpin can't detect human poison either. What is in this wine is demonic poison. ”
The owner of the liquor shop finally lost his composure, his face turned red all of a sudden, and he stood up, trembling and pointing at Lan Yin with his finger, "What do you mean that I can't live today? You mean that the demonic energy on my body will kill me? You are talking nonsense, you are talking nonsense! She will not harm me!"
Lan Yin lowered his head and sneered.
"I think you may have misunderstood, but I want to say that you will die at my hands. But now it seems that he knows something. ”
She hadn't planned to kill him, she just wanted to scare him, and she really didn't expect him to react like this.
It seems that although he is a human, he actually colludes with demons.
"Now that this is the case, why don't you go out and clear your guests?"
The owner of the liquor store stood, and Lan Yin sitting, but although she looked up at him and asked, the look in her eyes was completely looking down on a person.
He froze in place for a moment, then went out in despair.
"Looks like I guessed right. After the owner of the wine shop left, Xu Huaizhang said silently.
"What?" Lan Yin asked as he turned his head.
"He is married to a demon, so there will be a demonic aura lingering on his body. ”
Hearing his words, Lan Yin's eyes widened. "How is it possible? The people of the Southern Barren Mountains hate the demon so much, how can anyone marry the demon?"
"Seeing how confident you just looked, I thought you were guessing the same way. ”
"I just guessed that he had collusion with the demon, no ......"
Before Lan Yin could finish speaking, the door of the wing room was suddenly pushed open.
The demon wind poured in along the open door, and Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang both squinted their eyes to look in the direction of the door, only to see a woman in a red dress standing there, her face had slightly appeared in the shape of a fox, and only her body retained her human form.
Thinking that there was going to be a fight, Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang both stood up with their weapons in their hands, but they didn't want to, the fox demon woman pounced and knelt down for them.
"The grass people knocked on the two immortals. ”
"Grass people?" Lan Yin asked her rhetorically, "Since you have already manifested your demon form, why do you still want to be so pretending?"
The fox demon fell to the ground, his thin shoulders shaking from sobbing. When she raised her head again, her face changed back to a human appearance, a face that could be described as beautiful at best, and had nothing to do with beauty.
At this time, the owner of the liquor store, who had dismissed the guests, went upstairs in three steps and two steps, but Zhegui raised his hand to cast a barrier and isolate him from the wing.
Then, she continued to say to Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang, "I am a fox demon, but I have never harmed anyone in my life, I just want to live a safe and stable life with Hua Shen." I know that there have been rumors of fox demons harming people in this area recently, but the two immortals Mingjian, that really didn't happen to me!"
After she finished speaking, she kowtowed to Lan Yin and Xu Huaizhang.
Lan Yin was still frowning and thinking, and Xu Huaizhang was already a little unbearable. He turned his head to look at Lan Yin, as if he was asking her with his eyes - there was indeed no blood on this Zhegui.
Lan Yin also thinks so, just looking at Zhegui's human form body is so weak and her appearance is not beautiful, she knows that she has not harmed anyone, and she really lives in a human way.
However, was that rumor really just a false rumor? They followed the rumor and found a fox demon?
Could it be that coincidental?
"You get up first. Lan Yin opened his mouth to Zhegui, and his voice was gentle. Seeing that Zhegui still didn't get up, she spoke directly, "Then let me ask you, since you haven't harmed anyone and are not weak-hearted, why did you poison us again?"
"Suddenly I felt a strong immortal aura, and I panicked. Zhegui was still crying, looking very sincere and pitiful. "My demonic power is low, and that poison is nothing at all. But if the immortals care, Zhegui is willing to be punished. ”
“......”
Lan Yin looked at her like this and remembered her eldest sister, Lan Glaze also deceived her pitifully like this at the beginning. So now she feels that she can't think about it well, and she is worried that she has wronged a good demon, so she will leave this matter to Xu Huaizhang for the time being. He said to him, "Come and talk to her." ”
"You start first. Xu Huaizhang said to Zhegui, "There is no difference between immortals and demons, if you don't hurt others, there is no reason to bow down to us." ”
"You get up first, we can talk slowly. ”
After Xu Huaizhang persuaded again, Zhegui finally got up slowly. She turned her eyes to Li Huashen, the owner of the liquor store who was isolated by the barrier, who was shouting something and slapping the barrier urgently.
"But let him in?" asked Xu Huaizhang.
After Zhegui nodded, Xu Huaizhang raised his hand and easily removed the barrier.
Li Huashen fell in, and then hurriedly grabbed Zhegui's hand, as if asking her with his eyes-Did they bully you.
Lan Yin didn't look at them, just looked thoughtfully at the two glasses of poisoned warm wine, and stood silently.