At midnight, on the outskirts of Kyoto, in a remote farmstead, there are two large trees, one is a large locust tree and the other is a ghost willow tree. On the branches of the moon, several figures were obliquely reflected on the brown ground, and the strange thing was that everyone was half a meter above the ground, suspended in the air, and they were actually trapped by ropes at their ankles, and they were hanging upside down on the locust tree one by one. According to the number of figures, there are exactly eighteen people, nine men and nine women, and they are obviously the croppers in the farm.

At this moment, a tall man in black was busy in the courtyard, carrying a wooden bucket in his hand, and he didn't know what it contained, and it was arranged in an orderly manner in the courtyard. In a few moments, a strange yin and yang Taiji diagram is revealed, saying that its weirdness is that the bottom of the Taiji diagram is a huge blood-colored linen, and the two fish eyes of the Taiji diagram are the two big trees, the big locust tree is in the yin fish eye, and the ghost willow tree is in the yang fish eye.

After a short meeting, the Yin and Yang Taiji diagram was arranged, and the tall man in black walked to the ghost willow tree with a scepter, looked at the moon in the sky, and shouted outside the courtyard, "You can start." ”

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh."

Counting the figures jumped over from outside the farm, four of them stood to the four corners of the Taiji diagram, no one took out a flag, and there were words in their mouths, "There are four dogs in the sky, there are four elephants on the earth, take the earth as a prison, shield the four corners, and ...... urgently" Then the four people threw the flags in their hands into the air, and after a burst of light, the four flags fell on their own, and they fell into the ground, forming a shielding array.

At this time, the black-clothed man holding the rain-covered sword walked out, holding a wooden box in his hand, and through the gap, an emerald green light appeared, which was the lost night pearl in the imperial city.

I saw that the tall man in black turned out the wooden box, slowly opened it, took out the night pearl inside, and then took out the scepter in his hand, put the night pearl into one end of the scepter, and the strange thing was that the night pearl and the scepter were incomparably compatible.

Under the ghost willow tree, there was a sacrificial platform, and the man in black walked to the front of the stage and held his scepter high, waved his hand, and signaled that he could start acting. Then the rain sword Qin Yueming flew back and forth and stabbed a few swords on the crop man hanging on the big locust tree, "Ah......" Several miserable cries sounded in the night sky, and bright red blood slowly flowed down the upside-down hair to the ground, and flowed into the Yin Fish Eye along the 18 notches on the ground.

The black-clothed priest held the scepter in his right hand, drank a bowl of scarlet things in his left hand, and then sprayed it on the night pearl at the top of the scepter, and in an instant, the night pearl that still emitted an emerald green light was covered by the scarlet thing, emitting a strange crimson light.

The black-clothed priest had words in his mouth, "Zhan Zhan's blue sky and purple clouds open, and Zhu and Li Erxian send their souls." The three souls come back to the body, the seven spirits come back to protect themselves, the Green Emperor protects the soul, the White Emperor serves the soul, the Red Emperor nourishes the qi, the Black Emperor passes the blood, the Yellow Emperor is the master, the gods are insurmounted, the living soul comes quickly, the dead soul goes quickly, and the ...... is urgent" Then, holding the scepter in both hands, holding it high above the head, at the eye of the yin fish, 18 croppers hanging on the locust tree let out a miserable cry, in a trance, there was a ghost, it turned out that the souls of the 18 croppers were being dragged out by this magic array, and they were absorbed by the strange night pearl, The white night pearl of the past is dark and turbid at the moment, which is still the night pearl, which is clearly a strange soul devouring pearl.

"Knock, knock, knock" three watches have arrived, Zhou Boxing is beating the gong and continuing to patrol the workshop, "The weather is dry, be careful of the candle!" ”

A carriage came slowly from the city gate, the people who drove the car hunched their backs, bent over, and the shopkeeper Zhang had to rush back to prepare the wonton meat filling tomorrow morning, when passing by Zhou Boxing's side, Zhou Boxing reminded, "Zhang's shopkeeper, the pig is freshly killed, and the blood has not yet been shed......

The next day, Zhang's wonton shop still opened at six o'clock, and it was still overcrowded, which was the inexplicable magic of the century-old store.

Xu Jianping surrounded this century-old shop with many yellow characters in the Imperial History Mansion, and then Xu Jianping walked into this century-old wonton shop, looked around, and found that Shangguan Ling was also here, so he walked straight over, "Brother Shangguan, what an appetite." ”

Shangguan Ling, who was eating the third bowl of wontons hard at the table, raised his eyes to look at Xu Jianping in front of the table, and said vaguely, "Brother Xu is also here today, so he said that there is no one who comes to Kyoto and doesn't eat wontons." ”

Xu Jianping put the wooden box in his hand on the corner of the table, and said slowly to the hunchbacked old man who was busy: "I want to eat fresh meat-stuffed wontons, I don't know if you have one?" ”

After hearing this, the hunchbacked old man said politely: "Guest officer, the wonton stuffing here is fresh, and it was slaughtered this morning." ”

Xu Jianping shook his head and said slowly, "Fei Ye, Fei Ye, I'm talking about fresh pork stuffing, not your human meat wontons!" ”

The hunchbacked old man reacted instantly after hearing this, and slowly stood up, "Interesting, dressed in embroidered clothes, looking at the face, dare to ask which adult is the Imperial History Mansion?" ”

Xu Jianping realized that the hunchbacked old man was really tall, and he was even taller than himself, "No, Xu Jianping, I took the liberty to come here today, and I want to invite Zhang Lao to go to the Imperial History Mansion." ”

"Truly, young man now, so arrogant, just because you want to keep me?" After that, he laughed to himself.

Xu Jianping felt the disdain in his words, but he didn't care, because the person next to him had already gotten up.

Shangguan Ling was eating with relish, and the conversation between the two was a little confused, and then he pointed to the few wontons that were still left on the table, and asked with a blank face: "Brother Xu, where did you get human meat wontons?"

Shopkeeper Zhang looked at Shangguan Ling with a playful face, and tilted his neck, obviously the daily disguise was really uncomfortable, and after standing up straight, his neck was a little unnatural.

Xu Jianping stretched out his right hand and knocked on the table, signaling that the wontons on the table were.

After the shopkeeper finished his activities, he said to Shangguan Ling: "Lord Shangguan, I don't know if the human meat wontons made by the old man are delicious or not, and I have to thank Lord Shangguan for his love over the years." ”

Shangguan Ling had mixed tastes in his stomach at the moment, and hurriedly stretched out his right index finger, put it in his mouth and pressed it vigorously, "vomit", as if he wanted to empty his entire stomach.

The shopkeeper said to Xu Jianping: "How do you know?" ”

Xu Jianping tidied up his cuffs and said slowly: "I came here yesterday and took away a wonton, and there is the same one in the corpse in the Criminal Prosecution Department. ”

Shopkeeper Zhang's face was calm after hearing this, because he knew that this alone could not be done, but Xu Jianping's next words made him feel like he was falling into the abyss.

Xu Jianping reached out and took the wooden box at the corner of the table, and said lightly: "General Zhang Xiang, hello!" ”