Chapter 001: Qingyun City
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Qingyun City, the county seat under the rule of the Great Liang Dynasty.
There are thousands of households under the rule, scattered inside and outside the city, villages and villages.
In the city, there are hundreds of thousands of people, all kinds of livelihoods under the hands of the people, restaurants, restaurants, teahouses, vegetable markets, snacks, etc., scattered all over the city, every street, there are endless streams of people coming and going. The shouts of the hawkers come and go, you come and go, a lively scene.
It looks prosperous, but it is also indispensable for beggars and homeless people. There are all kinds of simple and tattered clothes. Everything in the world is in it.
At this moment, it is the rising sun and the sun is shining.
In a restaurant.
A young man in a dark tight-fitting suit sat at the window on the second floor, in front of him, a stack of fried peanuts, a plate of knife-cut cooked beef, and a pot of aged daughter red, just looking out the window, while eating peanuts, sandwiching beef, and drinking wine.
A long knife, horizontal in front of him, the breeze blows, blowing the black hair, uncovering the face, you can see a face as sharp as a knife, not handsome, but not ugly, can only be said to be ordinary, but there is a resolute color, people can see at a glance, you know, such a face, must be a person with a tough temperament.
Faintly, there is a faint pressure.
There are groups of guests sitting together, ordering a few side dishes, serving a pot of wine, and you can also talk hotly with each word.
From time to time, there are eyes on the young man in the power suit by the window, with respect, awe, envy, and pride in his eyes.
"Look, Zhuang Zhutou is drinking again. It is the same location every time, it is said that the position reserved for him by the shopkeeper of Qingyun Restaurant, no matter when he comes, how many guests are in the restaurant, this position will definitely be kept. Specially left for the ancient catcher. A guest spoke.
"Three years ago, Dong shopkeeper got into a murder case, his third wife died in the room, at that time, all kinds of evidence directly pointed to Dong shopkeeper, the government came, and immediately Dong shopkeeper was detained and imprisoned, the situation at that time was already eight or nine not far from ten, this lawsuit, Dong shopkeeper is decided, can't say, he will be beheaded after the autumn, it is Zhuang Zhutou who found that his third wife was strangled to death first, and then pierced the body with a sharp dagger. At that time, the pinch marks on the neck had not yet been revealed, and it was Gu Yukuai who showed it in a special way. It was found that the murderer who strangled the third lady was missing three fingers. The shopkeeper Dong has sound ten fingers, and most of the suspicions have been cleared. Xu Hanshu, an insider, said like a treasure.
"Yes, Zhuang Zhutou followed the clues and found that in the city, there are only three people who are missing three fingers, one of them is an old man, who is lying on the hospital bed, it is impossible to run out and kill people, and the second is a filial daughter, who keeps filial piety for her father, for two years, and there is still one year to complete the filial piety period, and she is also a weak woman, gentle in nature, and is a rare good girl in ten miles and eight towns. The third place is a gambler, who was originally ten fingers sound, but because he lost a bet at the table, he was cut off three fingers. ”
A man said excitedly: "This gambler is Chen Qizhi, a famous bad gambler in our Qingyun City. ”
"No, this Chen Qizhi is a rotten gambler, addicted to gambling, and even his wife was sold into the Qinglou in order to gamble. In order to gamble for money, it is bankrupt and desperate. It's a pity that his flower-like wife, with him, is simply a blood mold for eight lifetimes. This guy doesn't learn and has no skills, that time, he just wanted to go to Dong's shopkeeper's house to steal things, but was discovered by the third lady, and he was scared, so he directly strangled the third lady to death. If it weren't for Zhuang Zhutou, the shopkeeper Dong would really have eaten this lawsuit and suffered grievances. ”
The people in the restaurant were also overwhelmed when they talked about it.
Listening to the sound of conversation in the restaurant, Zhuang Zhutou, who was sitting upstairs, shook his head slightly, didn't care, looked at the street outside, the traffic, the pedestrians, and the shouts of the hawkers came and went, which was really lively. However, if you look closely, you will find that although his eyes are looking out, his attention is not at all.
It seems to fall into a memory, a reverie.
"It's been three years, and it's been almost three years since I came to this world before I knew it. Zhuang Zhou dreams of butterflies, or butterflies dream of Zhuang Zhou. ”
Zhuang Buzhou shook his head and sighed secretly in his heart.
He is not a man of this world, or rather, he has crossed over and been born again.
Originally, he was an ordinary Shengdou small people on the earth, although there is a legend in the family, his own branch, has an extremely long history, is a branch handed down from Zhuang Zhou, the ancestor is Zhuang Zhou, this statement is very absurd, Zhuang Buzhou after hearing it, it is also a joke, after all, among the descendants, everyone wants to find a famous ancestor for themselves, in order to show their own family, inheritance for a long time. The status is remarkable. Speaking out, you can also have more capital to brag and fart.
Just listen to it.
But I can't stand myself Lao Tzu is a convinced of this inheritance, when Zhuang Buzhou was born, he Lao Tzu insisted on saying that he had dreamed of butterflies before, and when he took the name, he decided to name Zhuang Zhou on the spot.
This is terrible, Zhuang Buzhou's grandfather heard it, this is not good, how can he have the same name as his ancestors, isn't this a big disrespect. Therefore, when he was registered, he hid it from his father and added a word in the middle, and Zhuang Zhou became Zhuang Buzhou. In the end, the wood has been completed, and he has no choice but to admit it, in fact, he still wants to change it back halfway, but the household registration book was hidden by his grandfather. Leng didn't let him find a chance.
Later, that's all it can be.
If you don't make a week, you can't do it.
Zhuang Buzhou usually has no other hobbies, but he likes to wander back and forth in the antique street and antique shops, and he is very interested in antiques and antiques. With the intention to study, it really made him a little bit good at antiques. I've been eye-catching, and I've missed it. In the end, there is no loss.
And that day, when he was wandering the antique street again, he accidentally saw a small bronze gourd on a street stall. The gourd looked like a small accessory, strung with a rope, which could be hung around the neck as a jade pendant or something.
At that time, he could see at a glance that the gourd, no matter what method was used to look at it, was an ordinary small gourd accessory, without traces of time, and it didn't look like an antique or antique. But I felt it very much, so I bought it. How much money was spent is second, the most important thing is that it is difficult to buy a favorite, and it is an inexplicable love for this gourd.
Later, I took it for testing and did various investigations, but I never knew its origin, and I didn't even know what the material was.
He is wearing, and his body is still the original body, but in the time and space, the body seems to have been tempered by some kind of magical power, but it has a kind of rejuvenating effect, and the original twenties have suddenly returned to the appearance of eighteen years old. The original small gourd is gone.
Zhuang Buzhou had a feeling that the little gourd should still be in his body, but where it was has not been explored until now.
"Hulu, Hulu, what is your origin, why have you not moved at all for three years. And this world, it's not normal. ”
Zhuang Buzhou sighed secretly while drinking.
I recalled the picture when I crossed over, it was to watch a celestial phenomenon, that day, I don't know what the reason was, it was originally daytime, the time when the sun was hanging high, without warning, the moon also appeared, and there was a strange celestial phenomenon in the sky with the sun and the moon, and it was rare to see it in ten thousand years. At that time, he was on the rooftop, witnessing the process of the sun and the moon shining together.
This is not the most weird, what surprised him was that the little gourd that had been quietly worn around his neck all this time suddenly bloomed with light, frantically absorbing the light of the sun and the moon, and then, in the next second, under the gourd swallowing the light of the sun and the moon, a black hole-like tunnel was strangely formed outside his body, and he was sucked in with the gourd in an irresistible attitude. At the last moment, he only remembered that the gourd turned into a divine light, burrowed into his body, and disappeared.
When I woke up, I was already outside Qingyun City.
Naturally, there was nothing to say about what happened later, and finally entered Qingyun City, became a catcher, and with his own intelligence, he solved several big cases in a row, and rose to the head catcher, and in the city, he can be regarded as having a head and a face.
To say that with these, Zhuang Buzhou does not say that he is rich and expensive, and he can also have no worries about food and clothing, marry a beautiful girl, have children, and have a complete life. However, this world is not an ordinary world.
"Demons, monsters, weirdness, endless. There is an extraordinary appearance, the game is red dust, this world is really familiar and strange. ”
Zhuang Buzhou shook his head slightly, but there was a hint of yearning in his eyes.
He has always believed that Zhuang Zhou's family is the bloodline, naturally has an extraordinary pursuit of all kinds of extraordinary, when he stepped into the antique shop, is to find different traces of the extraordinary from the antiques, but unfortunately, there is not much gain. Until the mutation of the little gourd brought himself into this world, the desire for transcendence in his heart was completely stimulated and he became more unswerving.
The most important thing is that there is a path to the transcendent in this world.
"Curse Master, Paper Tie Master, Fu Seal Master, Onmyoji Master, Beast Master......... It's really desirable. "Zhuang Buzhou has not wasted these three years.
In three years, he became a catcher and could enter the file room, where all kinds of case files could be consulted. The other side of the world often exists in these case files, in which all kinds of strange case files and hidden information are absorbed and extracted by them with hunger and thirst.
Over the years, with his keen observation, he has found some traces of the extraordinary. And know something.
For example, near Qingyun City, every year, there will be an extraordinary ........ Fair.
This is a trade fair between the transcendental, and according to the information he has discovered, the people who can appear in it are not extraordinary, but also have an extraordinary connection with the extraordinary. As long as you can enter it, you have the possibility of becoming transcendent and stepping into another world.