Zhang Ji declined Ji Jingyang's arrangement, and still chose to place an order in the Mingyue Temple on the outskirts of Beijing.

He has been in the capital for a few days, and although he has experienced a lot of turmoil, he has no clue about this mandrill baby snatching case. Although the "mandrill" was arrested, it also implicated a group of black-clothed people in the ghost market, and even knew that this strange case was greatly related to the Baiyue Yao clan.

However, now the context of the case is difficult to clarify, and the mastermind behind the scenes is still hiding in the shadows, which always gives people a sense of uneasiness that the mountain rain is coming.

Mingyue Temple is a relatively large Taoist temple in the capital, and the current abbot is a dust-free Taoist who has some relationship with the Zhang family. Although the Taoist chief is now old, he also participated in several major demon battles in his early years, and he is also a well-known figure in the rivers and lakes. It is said that inviting him to come to Mingyueguan as a host is to suppress a big snake demon in Beijing. But these are just folk legends.

The affairs of the bright moon view are busy, and there are several rounds of the big dojo every day, plus the interpretation of the words and reading the hexagrams, breaking the spell and praying for blessings, and the incense is very prosperous every day. It's just that although Zhang Ji wants to visit the dustless Taoist, he has never had the opportunity to meet.

Zhang Ji was writing a clear basket in his room when he heard a knock on the door.

He sighed and put down his pen.

Ji Cunyan outside the door said: "Zhang Ji! Open the door! It's me, I have a clue to the mandrill baby snatching case! ”

Zhang Ji had no choice but to open the door, and saw a little Taoist priest standing beside Ji Cunyan, and said to him: "Master Zhang, Miss Xiao Ji said that she was your good friend, and Senior Brother asked me to bring her to see you." ”

Zhang Ji said: "This Xiao Ji girl is indeed my good friend, and she is tired of Taoist friends. ”

Ji Cunyan also said to the little Taoist: "I'm tired of Daoist! ”

Zhang Ji waited for the little Taoist priest to leave, and then turned back to Ji Cun and said, "What clues do you have?" Don't touch my four treasures of the study, I write talismans. ”

Ji Cunyan was sitting at the desk, picked up Zhang Ji's brush stained with gold dust, drew a small flower on the yellow rune paper, and then said, "Why are you still writing talismans in other people's Taoist temples?" ”

"Write to exchange money, do you think the pending orders are all for nothing?" Zhang Ji said nonsense.

"The first view in the capital, you won't be so stingy, right? My family pays a lot of money for the incense and candles of Mingyueguan every year. Let you stay in the inn and you don't stay. ”

Zhang Ji walked to Ji Cunyan's side, looked down at the pattern she drew on the rune paper, and said, "Why are you drawing a turtle on my rune paper?" ”

"This is obviously a small flower!"

"You call this a little flower?! You see, the turtle shell, the turtle head, the turtle's four claws, lifelike! Where does this look like a flower? ”

"What a turtle head, these are petals!" Ji Cunyan put down the pen angrily.

"What else do you say, everyone's ladies have to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, painting! Draw! Draw! ”

"Die! Laugh at me again, I'll paint the turtle on your face! Ji Cunyan picked up the pen again.

When the dustless Taoist was led to Zhang Ji's room by the little Taoist, Ji Cunyan was poking Zhang Ji in the face with a pen.

The little Taoist priest looked at them helplessly, and then coughed lightly twice.

Ji Cunyan and Zhang Ji found that there were still audiences outside the door watching them play.

The dustless Taoist leader stroked his beard and smiled

Ji Cunyan stuck out his tongue, and then put the pen down.

Two more little Taoist priests brought snacks and tea. The three of them sat down at a table of eight immortals in Zhang Ji's room.

"It's really inconsiderate these days, Xiao Zhang Tianshi, please don't blame the poor Dao for being slack." The dust-free road is long.

"Where's the word, all the Taoist friends have taken care of you diligently these days, so I'm quite embarrassed. It is an honor to be able to place orders in the bright moon. Speaking out, he can boast about it in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years. Zhang Ji said.

The Dustless Dao Chief laughed and said, "I don't dare to do this." But it turns out that Xiao Zhang Tianshi still knows Miss Ji. ”

Ji Cunyan grinned.

Zhang Ji said: "Huh? Dustless Dao is such a person, do you still know this little girl? ”

Ji Cun said: "Phew! I came up with my name after consulting the Taoist! ”

Wuchen Dao said: "Poor Dao has some relationship with the Ji family, and I have watched Miss Ji grow up." ”

Ji Cun said: "The dustless Taoist is still my third brother's master." ”

The dustless Taoist said with a smile: "I don't dare to take this one." However, when the third prince was a child, the poor Taoist taught the third prince a few tricks of superficial kung fu. After finishing speaking, he put away his smile and said, "I heard Xiao Zhang Tianshi say that this time I came to the capital for a tricky case?" ”

Ji Cunyan said: "Yes! It is the most terrible mandrill baby snatching case in the capital recently. ”

"Oh? Mandrill? The capital is prosperous and prosperous, and there are demon slaying enchantments everywhere. It stands to reason that many mandrills live in isolation and cultivate in the deep mountains, how can they do evil in the capital? ”

"Actually, it's not the mandrill who committed the crime. It's a monster that looks like a human and a demon. Ji Cunyan said again.

"Huh? In this way, this case is quite interesting. It's better for the two of you to tell the ins and outs of this case and listen to the poor road. ”

So the two of you didn't say a word, and told the dustless Taoist about the case of the mandrill taking the baby.

The dustless Taoist stroked his beard and said, "This case ......"

"Isn't it weird?!" Ji Cunyan hurriedly said.

"Decades ago, it happened." The dust-free road is long.

Now, it was Ji Cunyan's turn to be surprised by Zhang Ji.

The dust-free Taoist leader led Zhang Ji and Ji Cunyan to a scripture pavilion in the backyard of Mingyueguan, and then led the two to a corner full of scrolls. He narrowed his eyes and searched carefully in front of the dusty scroll before pulling out a scroll. Place it aside on a table dedicated to the book scrolls.

The dustless Taoist chief said to Zhang Ji: "Little Zhang Tianshi, you can pull this painting scroll apart and take a look." ”

Zhang Ji pulled the scroll apart, and the first thing that appeared on the scroll was a man's face. I saw that the man's cheeks were deeply sunken, very lean, and his eyes were slightly convex, as if he was sick and weak, and even so thin that his whole face was hideous.

Ji Cunyan looked down at Zhang Ji's hand and said, "This person is so thin, it seems that he is sick." Is it a Taoist friend who seeks the Tao in Bigu? ”

However, Zhang Ji saw that this person had a dead look between his eyebrows and eyes, and he was not at all like a person in the yang world. He said to Ji Cun: "This is going to become a ghost, and I still ask for the Tao." ”

When the scroll slowly unfolded, a pair of beast claws of this person appeared in front of the three of them.

Ji Cunyan exclaimed: "This lizardhand is the same as that mandrill monster!" It turns out that this kind of monster has appeared a long time ago?! ”

Wuchen Dao said: "Since you have all seen these hands, it must be that the man-eating monster of decades ago has reappeared in the rivers and lakes." ”

Ji Cunyan asked Wuchen Dao Chang: "Dao Chief, what's going on?" Can you tell us about a case from a few decades ago? ”

Wuchen said: "All the painting scrolls on this wall are left by the previous hosts. It is the treasure of our view of the town, called 'Hundred Demon Spectrum'. And this portrait is special, because the person in the painting is not a demon, but some hosts, and they don't think it can be selected into the Hundred Demon Spectrum. It's just that this portrait has nowhere to put it, so it is placed here along with the portraits of other monsters. In fact, Poor Dao didn't personally experience the case a few decades ago, but the case was really strange, and this portrait was controversial, so Poor Dao had some impressions of this matter. ”

So the three of them went back to a pavilion in the backyard of the Taoist temple and sat down.

Only then did the dustless Taoist chief say: "The story of this case is only heard by the poor Dao. It is said that decades ago, a man-eating monster appeared in the capital, with claws on both hands and a mask on its face, specifically to catch babies who were less than half a year old in the middle of the night. Every night, he breaks into the door, snatches the baby from the baby's mother, and disappears into the night. If it is discovered, the monster will strangle the baby with its own hands and hide it again. This happened in the capital, which naturally alarmed the imperial court. At that time, the Tianlong Guard, together with the Qin Heavenly Prison, laid a net to catch the monster. Who knows, except for a pair of claws, the monster is no different from a human in other places. I don't know what the origin is, even Xiao Yan's "Bai Ze Supplement" doesn't have any clues about the monster. After everyone hunted down the monster, there were no more clues in this case. ”

Zhang Ji listened and said: "Then this seems to be no different from today's case." It's just that when we were searching for clues to that monster, we accidentally met a group of black-clothed people from the Yao clan. ”

Ji Cunyan said: "Dustless Dao Chief, back then, Mingyue Guan also sacrificed all kinds of magic weapons, and couldn't find out anything abnormal on that monster?" ”

Wuchen Dao said, "According to the records, all kinds of methods have been tried. Demon mirrors, talismans, pathfinder incense, and so on. No matter how you look at it, that thing is a person except for a pair of hands. ”

Zhang Ji said: "Was your tongue also cut?" Can't speak? ”

Wuchen Dao said: "But I don't know if I was cut off my tongue, and now there are very few records left, only one can not speak." ”

Zhang Ji sighed.

Ji Cunyan said: "Concubine Ning said that this person may not be evil or something else, but poisoned." ”

Dustless said: "Poisoning? ”

Ji Cunyan nodded: "That's right." It is said that if the poisonous powder is applied to the person's hand, the poisonous powder can corrode the skin, make the skin hard, deteriorate, and finally become like this. ”

The dustless Taoist chief stroked his beard and said, "This makes sense. This Concubine Ning is well-informed. ”

Ji Cunyan said: "Concubine Ning is a saint of the Dian Kingdom, so she naturally has a wide range of knowledge. ”

Wuchen Dao said: "The capital is full of enchantments, and there are many capable people. Monsters can't do evil so arrogantly, thinking about it this way, it's the poisoned and controlled 'medicine man', which makes the most sense. But why, and who is it that makes this medicine man? What is their purpose? ”

Zhang Ji said: "I don't know if there is a big event in the capital after Tianlong Wei and Qin Tianjian arrested and killed that person?" ”

"Decades have passed, and what happened after that is unknown. However, I heard that there was still one person alive who killed the monster back then. You can go and ask him. ”

Zhang Ji and Ji Cunyan glanced at each other, and Zhang Ji asked Wuchen Dao Changdao: "I don't know where this person is now?" ”

The person mentioned by the Dustless Daoist is now guarding the imperial tomb in the suburbs of Beijing.

"Why are you old enough to run to the grave?" On the way to the imperial mausoleum, Zhang Ji said to Ji Cun, "I heard that the war achievements are great, how can I return to my hometown in fine clothes and bless my descendants." ”

Ji Cunyan pursed his lips and looked at Zhang Ji and said, "Maybe people are loyal?" ”

"That's not going to happen......"

"Alas, who knows. When the time comes, when you see General Ye, ask him yourself! ”

While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the entrance of the imperial tomb.

Here, the two met an old acquaintance.

Jian Shaolin of Qin Tianjian.

"Master Jane?" Ji Cunyan was a little surprised, "You...... What to do at the Imperial Tomb? ”

"Maybe the corpse in the imperial tomb has changed." Zhang Ji said.

Ji Cunyan glanced at him and said, "Don't talk nonsense, there are palace guards everywhere here, if someone hears it, your head will be chopped off unsteadily." ”

Zhang Ji said: "Otherwise, you ask Lord Xiajian, does the imperial tomb often mutate?" Those corpses with pearls in their mouths embalmed, after a long time, absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon in the feng shui treasure cave, and crawled out of the coffin without paying attention. Otherwise, why do you think the imperial tomb should be guarded? Do you think tomb robbers? ”

Zhang Ji said it very well, but he also frightened Ji Cunyan. She looked at Jian Shaolin suspiciously and asked, "Huh?" …… Are you sure? ”

Jian Shaolin said helplessly: "Don't listen to his nonsense." ”

Zhang Ji smiled: "Fun with you!" How can there be a feng shui treasure cave that will be transformed. ”

Jian Shaolin looked at the two of them and said, "Did you also come to find General Ye?" ”

Ji Cun said: "That's right! Master Jane is really well-informed, and she has found a place with us! ”