The cicada fell into a deep sleep.

He has been sleeping for a long time, starting to sleep a year ago, sleeping on New Year's Eve, and sleeping until now.

After being in a coma for too long, his physical condition is gradually deteriorating, but he can feed some rice soup and broth, and it happens that Tao's family is in the medicinal herb business, so she found a lot of precious medicinal materials from her mother's house, and boiled water with medicinal herbs to hang him.

Wang Qilin went into the house to look at the Tao Cicada lying on the bed, and what he saw was a thin and thin young man.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is skinny and bone, and the limbs are particularly thin, and the arms can only be grasped.

Moreover, his skin was rough and dark, his eyes were big and black, and his body emitted a faint smell, Wang Qilin thought at first glance that he had seen a corpse that was about to rot.

Looking at her husband's appearance, Dow's eyes turned red and she couldn't help but shed tears.

She said with a crying voice: "The sage said that the house of goodness will have afterglow, and the house of unkindness will have aftermath. The slave family knows that the Tao family has been a human being for many generations, and they are not rewarded for doing good deeds, but God can't harm them?"

Wang Qilin stretched out his hand and tried Tao Cicada's nose, and there was still a little breath.

But very faintly.

Eight Meow also stretched out his claws and tried it, and then quickly retracted it, stood by the side of the bed and looked up at Wang Qilin.

Xie Toad said in a low voice: "Seventh Master has found something abnormal?"

Wang Qilin asked, "What about you?"

Xie Toad said: "The young master of the Tao family has indeed encountered a strange thing, his ghost is gone, and his body looks like he has been poisoned!"

When he said the second half of the sentence, he looked at Tao and the others.

Tao wiped his tears and said: "The Taoist chief really looked at him like a torch, my husband was indeed poisoned, but no one poisoned him, he was poisoned." ”

Xie Toad nodded and said, "Yes, it's the poison." It is a medicine that is three parts poison, and you use tonic medicine to hang him, but he takes too much medicine, and there is so much poison accumulated in this body that he can already kill him. ”

Tao wanted to cry without tears: "But what can the slave family do? If he doesn't use tonic medicine to hang him, how can he live?"

The housekeeper carefully brought the tea up, and Xie Toad took a bowl of it, took out a piece of rune paper and stuffed it into the teacup.

The talisman spontaneously combusted without fire, turning into a gossip and slowly turning inside.

The old Taoist priest began to show his potential as the world's top barista again.

Wang Qilin thought of the scene when he first entered the industry last year, when Xie Toad had used this kind of captive to replenish Ding Qingyun's yang qi.

Xie Toad handed the tea to the young woman and said, "Mrs. Tao, please give your family Langjun this bowl of tea to replenish yang qi." ”

Xu Da secretly pulled him and said in a low voice: "Master Dao, you will also give the uncle a whole bowl later, and the uncle also has to replenish the yang energy." ”

Xie Toad also whispered: "You have a good foundation, you don't need this thing, just eat a few roast lamb kidneys." ”

Tao gently and meticulously fed Tao Chan to drink tea, and a trace of ruddy gradually appeared on Tao Chan's snow-white face.

Seeing this, she was overjoyed and exclaimed, "There is a reaction, Brother Cicada has reacted." ”

Xie Toad didn't feel any joy, he circled around the room with his hands behind his back, and muttered, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, what's the problem? This room looks like there's no problem, it doesn't seem to have a problem?"

Wang Qilin said: "Look around in this house?"

Xie Toad couldn't do anything for a while, and said, "Let's take a look first, I hope I can see some tricks." ”

He jumped up and went up to the roof to look for anomalies in the pottery house.

Wang Qilin personally listened to the Thunder God Sword as a pedal for him, and let him fly up two feet, so that he could have a panoramic view of the pottery house at once.

In order to save a good person like Tao Chan, he also worked hard.

Xie Toad stretched out his hand and pointed, and threw out dozens of talismans with a flick of his sleeve.

Many runes fell in the air, and finally landed suddenly, end to end, like turning into a long snake in the courtyard.

Soon it found a hole in a corner, and Wang Qilin thought he had found something, but the long snake of the talisman got into the hole and took out a mouse......

Xie Toad fell, with a sad face: "Immeasurable Tianzun, the Seventh Master is not right, there is no problem in this house, Lao Dao didn't look away at first, the Tao family governs the family with the word virtue and goodness, this is the style of the sages through the ages, as long as the descendants of their family do not do evil, the Tao family's vein is enough to inherit for thousands of years." ”

Wang Qilin pointed to the paper snake and said, "What is this? It seems to have found something?"

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "Have you ever heard of the house snake?"

Wang Qilin said: "Of course, have you been in vain when I study at night? ”

Xu Da also fought at night, he practiced, first practicing dog boxing and then practicing room techniques.

House snakes are relatively common spiritual creatures, not spirit animals, they live in people's homes, eat rats and cockroaches, and protect the main house from pests and beasts.

At the beginning of February, I heard that the Heavenly Prison also handled a related case, and a domestic snake was found to harm people in some places, but a careful investigation found that the snake had become a snake spirit.

It was supposed to bless a family for many years and was quite meritorious.

As a result, this family has relatives of bear children, and when the relatives went to visit during the New Year, the bear children saw this hibernating snake, and they actually disemboweled!

You must know that the house snake will not get used to bear children, it turns into a snake spirit, and it has to take revenge if it fights for Taoism, parasitizing on the bear child, making him climb on the ground, and finally his belly is worn out, and he also dies of disembowelment.

This case was annotated by the Green Dragon King, saying: The evil naughty boy will be punished by God, and the dog deserves it.

It is very difficult for a family snake to cultivate the Tao, and the bear child actually destroys the Tao and kills people out of a momentary pleasure.

The Qinglong King commented that he couldn't get used to this kind of bear cub, he didn't care if he died, and he couldn't beat him first if he didn't die, and he couldn't let him go because he was a child.

Xie Toad said: "In addition to being able to devour the pests and evil beasts that enter the master's house, the house snake can also perceive yin and evil, which is the talent of all snakes. So Lao Dao made a silver snake to this family, if there is evil in the family, maybe we can't detect it, this snake will definitely be able to detect it. ”

At this he sighed and said, "But now you see, this snake is just dragging out a mouse, which means that the greatest scourge in this house is this mouse." ”

Xie Toad took the rat's tail and studied it, there was nothing wrong with it, it was just an ordinary mouse.

Since Daoye's methods were useless, Wang Qilin decided to adopt a stupid method and investigate the case from scratch.

He went to ask Tao, "Did your family Langjun behave abnormally before he fell into a coma?" such as what he bought, what he used, what he obtained, or who he came into contact with. ”

Dow said without thinking: "It's true, he just reads and writes every day, and then eats as usual." ”

Apparently many people had already asked her this question, and she had thought about it over and over again.

After saying her answer, she added: "But because it was the Chinese New Year at that time, he needed to deal with a year's account books, so he stayed in the store all day long and didn't have much time to go home, so if he was a little abnormal, maybe you asked the store guy to know better." ”

Wang Qilin noticed a detail and asked, "Wait, is your family Langjun unconscious in this house, or is he unconscious in the study?"

Dow said in a low mood: "I was unconscious at home." ”

Xie Toad said in confusion: "Immeasurable your Heavenly Venerable!"

Wang Qilin is also confused, this can't be said, the Tao family has been doing good deeds for generations, even if the ghosts of the Bayi are walking at night and the demons are running around, their house can be stable and calm.

If he was unconscious outside, it could be explained that there were demons and monsters at work, and what was it to be unconscious when he returned to the house?

Wang Qilin knew that it shouldn't be like this.

As the saying goes, the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoyed the shade, the ancestors of the Tao family did good deeds and accumulated virtue from generation to generation, their descendants are all blessed people, all have the blessing of heaven, this ancestral house can be said to be a good place for the descendants of the blessing.

If Tao Chan is entangled by demons and monsters outside, then as long as he returns to the house, the demonic aura on his body will be washed away by the blessings in the house, and he will not be harmed by demons and monsters in this life.

He looked at Xie Toad in disappointment and said in a low voice: "I guess it has nothing to do with the evil spirit, I'm afraid we won't be able to handle it." ”

At this time, there was a sound of things falling in the lobby, and then the housekeeper ran out in a panic and said, "There is a strange thing, a strange thing!"

Wang Qilin was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "What's the strange thing?"

Handling cases is like this, not afraid of complicated things, afraid of simple things.

The butler grabbed him by the arm and said, "There is a strange black cat, the black cat is worshiping my ancestors! It is kowtowing to the ancestors! The black cat is kowtowing, the black cat is kowtowing to my ancestors!"

Wang Qilin's joy is gone.

He went to the lobby sickly to take a look, who else could it be if it wasn't Eight Meow?

The descendants of the Tao family are filial, and the ancestral tablets are cleaned up and placed on the offering table according to the ups and downs of the generations.

And instead of putting an offering on the table like most people, there is a small plate of offerings in front of each tablet, some are snacks, some are fruits, some are candied meat, and some are a book.

Eight Meow worked hard and kowtowed one by one.

Wang Qilin dared to say that the descendants of the Tao family did not have the pious energy to kowtow to their ancestors.

But the people were scared, so he had to go up and grab one of Yameow's front paws to drag it.

Like a greedy child seeing the sugar gourd and marshmallow in the market, Eight Meow turned his head to look back, squatted down and dragged his butt back.

Wang Qilin said: "Will I take you to the temple to kneel to the Buddha in the future?"

Eight Meow pointed to the offering table with his other paw: "Meow meow!"

Wang Qilin appeased it and said: "This is not your ancestor, you kneel down to others......"

He was halfway through his words when he saw two little tails crouching on the offering table and winking at them.

Eight Meow put them on it as an offering.

Seeing this, Wang Qilin is also convinced, and Bameow is here to kneel down and make a blood!

He took the little tail away, and Hachimeow squatted on his shoulder and held his hands and grunted Buddha.

A look of resentment.

Xie Toad shook his head and said, "This house is fine, Seventh Master, Mr. Tao's affairs have nothing to do with the house." ”

Wang Qilin said: "I asked, Mr. Tao usually lives with two points and one line, except for the house, that is his study, let's go to the study to have a look?"

Dow was a traditional woman, and after getting married, she was reluctant to show her face, so she asked her housekeeper to accompany her.

Wang Qilin walked on the road, looked at the layout of the shops on both sides of the street, and asked casually: "Did Mr. Tao change his mood before the accident?"

The housekeeper said with a sad face: "No, it's still the same sorrow." ”

Wang Qilin asked, "The same sorrow?"

Zhuang Mengdie said: "Master Wang, students understand this matter, let the students talk to you." ”

"Brother Cicada was originally a very optimistic and cheerful person, but since Uncle Tao's death, his mood has changed. Uncle Tao is a loving father, because his mother went early, Uncle Tao has always been very kind to him, so the relationship between father and son is very good, so after Uncle Tao died, his emotions collapsed. ”

Zhuang Mengdie began to sigh: "Since Uncle Tao died, I haven't seen him smile. ”

The housekeeper said: "Yes, my young master rarely has a smiling face after the old man is gone, and he was happy for a few days before the New Year, but then he began to be sad again, alas. ”

He talked about Tao Chan on the road, but there was nothing abnormal, which made Wang Qilin very distressed.

Bayi is not big, and soon arrived at the door of the study with a plaque of 'Biwu can be sealed'.

The study is quite large, with a special area for the sale of pen, ink, paper, inkstone and books, and all kinds of things are neatly placed in each room, but they are sparse.

The housekeeper explained: "I learned that my young master was infected with a strange disease, and the surrounding students knew that my family spent a lot of money on the young master's medical treatment, so they came to buy it. But the purchase channel is in the hands of the young master, the young master passed out, and the store was not replenished in time, so there was a gap in many goods. ”

Xu Da sighed with emotion: "This Tao family is open enough, a family has such a reputation, it's amazing!"

The housekeeper smiled bitterly and said, "The villain would rather the Tao family have no reputation, as long as the young master is healthy and safe." ”

There were four guys in the store, and he gathered the four of them to introduce the identities of Wang Qilin and others, and then said that the officials and masters should investigate this study in detail and let the big guys cooperate.

This is a very normal thing, but Wang Qilin noticed that the four guys reacted wrongly: some had dry eyes and spittle, some looked at a tall man, and the tall man wiped his nose with the back of his hand.

Problematic!

Wang Qilin didn't want to startle the snake, so he cut into the question from the side: "The Tao family is kind-hearted, how do you usually treat you?"

The tall man said: "Whether the old shopkeeper or the young shopkeeper has nothing to say to us, we are like fathers and sons, brothers, not only to help us solve problems, but also to teach us to read and write, to help us find opportunities for high school, benevolence and righteousness, we and other three generations are difficult to report." ”

One of the middle-aged men said in a low voice: "I have the grace of life, if it wasn't for the young shopkeeper to take me in, I would have starved to death on the way to Chang'an City two years ago." ”

Wang Qilin said earnestly: "The young master of the Tao family is so affectionate to you, if someone does something sorry for him, isn't it a bit of a pig or a dog?"

The middle-aged man suddenly knelt down, and his forehead was sweating: "Lord Mingjian, you Mingjian, we didn't do anything to be sorry for him." The accounts can't be compared to the villain, adult, you believe in the villain, the villain's gratitude to the shopkeeper, if you steal his money, it's really better to be a pig and a dog, then it will be thundering!"

His words became the first card for the dominoes to fall, and the others fell to their knees and cursed, swearing that it was none of their business to be reconciled in the accounts.

The butler was surprised and asked, "The accounts of the study are not correct, what's the matter?"

The big man said with tears in his eyes: "Uncle Yin, you know me, I have been adopted by my master since I was six years old, and I have worked hard in the study all these years, and I have not even taken a piece of paper out......"

The butler interrupted him and said, "Pheasant Mountain, don't panic, I don't doubt you, tell me what's wrong?

The big man said excitedly: "The accounts are in charge of the young master, but he never shy away from us, and he will teach us arithmetic through the accounts, so we sometimes take care of the accounts, and the money collected is in the box." ”

"On weekdays, the accounts are calculated once a month, and the general ledger is calculated once a year ago, and the accounts are correct, we all know this. Then the first month should have to settle the account, but the young master was in a coma, no one counted the account, and accumulated until last month. ”

"After two months of accumulation, the accounts were a bit messy, so the four of us settled the accounts together two days ago. ”

"This is not right, there is less money, there is a lot less, there are ten rhubarbs missing! a whole ten, there are ten in the cash box!"

Rhubarb is the golden baht, the gold baht is larger than the silver baht and the copper baht, and it is beautiful yellow, so it has such a nickname among the people.

When the others heard this, they shouted injustice: "We didn't take it, we didn't steal the money!"

Wang Qilin said: "Don't talk about the accounts in advance, is there only one thing that is wrong in this study?"

The four of them were confused: "What else can happen? It's that the accounts are missing ten big rhubarb, and everything else is business as usual." ”

"Did anything strange happen to you shopkeepers a few days before you fell into a coma?" asked Wang Qilin.

Pheasant Mountain, one of the four people, said: "There is nothing strange, many people have come to ask before, and we have thought about it carefully, there is nothing strange." If you want to say weird, the mood of the young shopkeeper is a little weird, he is sometimes happy and sometimes sad in those days, and he is depressed. ”

Another added: "Yes, I gave the young shopkeeper a cake to eat, but he took the ink as a meat sauce and dipped it in the ink and ate the cake." ”

Wang Qilin smiled happily and said, "After all, it's a bit abnormal, so what is he worried about, you don't know a little about it?"

The four of them shook their heads one after another, and Pheasant Mountain smiled bitterly: "My lord, you don't know, since the old shopkeeper went, the young shopkeeper is like a different person, he began to be silent, and he held everything in his heart." He is good to us, but we are subordinates after all, and we can't ask too much. ”

The middle-aged man asked timidly: "My lord, can you find out where these ten big rhubarbs went? I didn't take it, I really didn't take it, otherwise you will chop off the villain's hand!"

The other three looked at him with eager eyes.

The housekeeper blew his beard angrily and glared: "My lord is here to check the reason why our young master is in a coma, not to check these money, and I will check this money when the young master wakes up!"

The four of them were dejected and depressed.

Wang Qilin also wanted to ask them some details, which required them to cheer up, so he asked: "You said that there are ten gold baht missing in the cash box, and there is anyone else who can move the cash box except you?"

Hearing that he intended to investigate the case of the loss of the golden baht, the four of them immediately came to their senses: "No." ”

"The cash box is locked, and if you have a big son, you throw it in, and it is full of gold and silver baht, and the copper baht is in another box. ”

"I didn't lose the copper baht, but I lost ten rhubarb. ”

"But there is an extra yellow book in it, this can't be ten rhubarbs into one yellow book, right?"

Xu Da was interested: "How yellow is the book?"

Pheasant Mountain said: "It's old yellow, I've never seen it like that." ”

Xu Da looked left and right silently, and said, "Take it out and take a look at it, there may be something wrong with this book." ”

Pheasant Mountain hurriedly opened an iron box and took out a small pale yellow book from it.

Xu Da opened it and looked at it, flipped through the fox and asked, "Where is this yellow?"

"The color. Pheasant Mountain said as a matter of course.

Xu Da took the book to Wang Qilin, and his face was excited: Playing uncle.

After Wang Qilin touched the small book, he felt that the paper of this book was a little different, and it was completely different from the books he had touched before.

When he opened it, he wrote a poem inside, with scribbled handwriting and alterations, and it could be seen that the person who wrote the poem did not have a high level of education:

People in the world need gold to make friends, and gold is not too much to make friends.

Even if you promise to do so temporarily, you will always be on the road.

The poem was just scribbled, and there was nothing else to say, and he didn't see a problem and turned the page and continued to read on.

The following is a poem, this time the handwriting is much more vigorous, and it can be seen that the writer is not the same identity as the previous person:

In the third year of the early Huang Dynasty, Yu Chaojing was the master and returned to Luochuan. The ancients had a saying that the god of water is called Concubine Mi......

This poem is quite long, Wang Qilin quickly swept it and recognized that this was the famous "Luo Shen Fu", and a few sentences in it were so famous that he, a self-taught student of Night University, had heard of it:

Its shape is also, like a frightening flood, graceful like a dragon. Rong Yao autumn chrysanthemum, Huamao spring pine. The hair is like the moon covered by light clouds, and the fluttering is like the snow of the flowing wind. Looking at it from afar, it is as bright as the sun rising in the morning glow, and when you are forced to observe it, it is scorching like a hibiscus rising out of the waves.

The reason why Wang Qilin noticed these sentences was not only outstanding in writing, but also because the handwriting of this sentence on the paper was the most correct, and it can be seen that the writer's attitude has become extraordinarily serious when he arrives here.

It's just that a few words are slightly blurred, like dripping water and paste.

Continue to scroll down to the poems and songs, and turn ten pages in a row to the last piece of paper with handwriting, which reads:

White Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor. The immortals caressed my top, and my hair was immortalized. Mistakenly chasing the happiness of the world, quite poor and chaotic......

Wang Qilin couldn't help pinching his temples when he saw this poem, he had seen this poem when he was solving the case of the disappearance of scholars in Pingyang Mansion.

This is Li Bai's masterpiece, and the title of the poem is very long, and he has not remembered it so far.

So he showed this poem to Xu Da and asked, "Master Xu, what is this poem called?"

Xu Da glanced at it and said, "Haven't we seen it? Have you forgotten?" It's called "After the Chaos and Separation, Tian'en Liuyelang Reminisces the Old Travel Book and Presents Jiang Xiawei Taishou Liangzai". ”

Wang Qilin smiled awkwardly.

Xu Da understood, he immediately frowned and said: "Seventh master, look, when you encountered something that you knew the uncle didn't know, you said that the uncle was uneducated, unmotivated, and not easy to learn, but now when you encounter something you don't know, the uncle won't say that about you, and the uncle will only tell you patiently." ”

Pheasant Mountain next to him can obviously read and write poetry, he said: "Mr. Taibai's "After the chaos and separation, Tian'en Liuyelang remembers the old travel book and gives Jiang Xiawei too shou liangzai"? I also know this poem, a few days ago, my young shopkeeper always read this poem. ”

Zhuang Mengdie, who had followed Wang Qilin to see the yellow booklet, said: "This poem is also the handwriting of Brother Cicada, and he copied it. ”

Xie Toad took the yellow booklet and touched it, and suddenly asked, "Before the son of the Tao family fell into a coma, he used to make sauce with ink and eat it with steamed buns?"

Pheasant Mountain and the others nodded.

Xie Toad looked at the housekeeper and said, "No, your son-in-law is not in a coma in your house!"

The butler said, "Yes, he was unconscious at the door. My young master was pacing sadly at the door that day, and then he called me, and when I went out and asked him what was the matter, he shook his head and said that it was all right, and then he fell into a coma. ”

When Xie Toad heard this, he flicked his sleeves angrily and shouted, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, then why did your wife tell us that your young master was in a coma in the courtyard?"

The housekeeper hurriedly explained: "Because when my young master was in a coma, I quickly put him into the yard, maybe my wife was already in the yard when she saw him, so I thought he was in a coma at home." ”

Xie Toad couldn't help but flick his sleeves again, and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, really Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!"

Wang Qilin heard it, no wonder the Taoists want to say the immeasurable Tianzun, the Buddhists want to say Amitabha, and the Confucians want to say that the people are also talking about it, this thing is actually the grass, the sun, and the dry in the mouths of the common people.

Vent tone with.

He knew that Xie Toad had made a discovery, so he asked, "Dao Ye, what's wrong?"

Xie Toad smiled bitterly: "Now Lao Dao knows what's going on, and he also knows where the young master of the Tao family has gone, and he cultivates immortals in this book!"

He held up the little yellow booklet to show everyone: "This is not an ordinary book, this is a learning genius!"