It is said that in heaven and earth, there is a difference between immortals and mortals, immortals are high, far away from upside-down nirvana, and the world has its own flavors and sorrows, and thousands of customs.

For example, the top of the Royal Dragon Mountain, the dwelling place of the immortals, has not changed for thousands of years, looking down on the good fruits of the vast world, and cutting off all suffering, this matter is true.

Seeing that there are all living beings in this world, but for decades, they camp and fight, good and evil, begging that life will not bring death and not take it, and cross the sea of suffering, this situation is empty and unreal.

Convenient way: There are stories between the virtual and the real, and there are virtual and real in the story.

Li Hongyi pasted a few strands of fake beard, looked for a fireworks willow alley, and found a few eye-catching, Hu Tianhu wandered for three days, he didn't tell the truth before, the case has long been closed, and the Qinghuang will naturally not investigate deeply, the reason why he clings to it, is that he is a little worried about Li Zhengqi, and plans to straighten it out and leave, among which he himself wonders, why is he lonely for half his life, but he is so concerned about a so-called "brother"?

And secondly, for the sake of his wealth and ambitions, he always felt that there was something else hidden in this file. Inexplicably, a strange force was pushing him forward, and he didn't want to give up, but he was at a loss and found nothing.

It's like if you wake up one morning and suddenly feel that you must meet someone who is very important to you today, and then you rush out of the door and walk all the way to loneliness. Then I suddenly realized that I had forgotten which way I met that very important person.

So he couldn't help it, and he wanted to continue to investigate, not only for the future, but also for the inexplicable throbbing.

Before he could alarm the above, he used Li Zhengqi to get a few helpers from the government and asked for leave from the Forbidden Affairs Bureau at that time, and now that he counts the time, it is time to cancel the leave.

Throwing some gold and silver out, he saw a group of fireworks women looting all over the place, he dressed up, went out, and found a secluded place to rip off his disguise. It's refreshing again.

Without saying anything all the way, Li Hongyi came to the forbidden affairs bureau in the north of the city, and saw the vermilion platform door under the eaves and arches, and the sergeants were lined up at the door, among which stood a general, and on both sides were the couplets of the imperial pen himself, and the font of the knife and axe was engraved from top to bottom.

On the right is: Qingtian Zhaojian has a clear law.

On the left is: Fear of all and punish with righteousness.

Whenever you walk here, you will be greeted by a calm atmosphere. Li Hongyi climbed the stairs, took the waist card for inspection, entered the bureau, first went to cancel the fake, and then took the file of the prince's case, and went to his official room, intending to look through it again. Suddenly, someone in front of him reported that someone from the government had come to ask to see him, and he was called Huang Shangwen. So he stopped thinking and called someone in to speak.

Huang Shangwen came in and bowed, still shouting loudly, and by the way, he took out the sorted documents, and said: "I have checked everything, and the seventeen people are all guilty of capital crimes, and they are not connected with each other. ”

"What happened to the thief who was caught by the sea?" Li Hongyi was more concerned about this thief, because the things on this person were a little unclear.

Huang Shangwen opened the booklet, pointed to a newly added entry and said: "That thief is called Ma San, the famous Ma Junwu." He was a deserter, captured from the Southern Barbarians, and was charged with leaking military information and collaborating with the enemy. Interestingly, the military department finally sold such a crime as collaborating with the enemy. What's even more interesting is that it was sold to the Li family back then, in other words, these seventeen were a group of people back then, I don't know what Ma San has been doing in the past few years, but he came back to steal in the garden on the day of the crime. ”

Li Hongyi opened his mouth, thinking that this kid was really a talent, and heard Huang Shangwen say:

"In addition, I found an old man from the Li family to inquire about it, the Li family bought far more than seventeen, and then something happened, the third child of the Li family, the one named Li Xiu'an, is gone, I don't know what happened, I don't know if it's dead or alive, the government has checked it for a while, by the way, it's your hand, right, after all, only these seventeen were left after those servants. Anyway, they don't dare to escape, this kind of buyout of people and goods, if they escape and get caught again, they will be killed on the spot. ”

He paused, then explained:

"That Ma San ran away on his own in the back, and the sea fishing warrant is still hanging in the yamen. As for the sixteen, they were supposed to be sold, but they were stopped by the eldest young master Li Xiuyuan, and then raised in the South Garden, and they were given food on weekdays, which was considered to be alive, but these few were not anything, they didn't dare to go out, and found some ruffians to pretend to clean the garden, ventilate and report the news, and then deceive some goodness to go in to gamble, but there are really so many stupid people, who were suppressed by the big family, ran in to give money to people, and went bankrupt, but it is rare. ”

"So, none of these people have had the opportunity to contact Zhou Bufan?" Li Hongyi frowned, this was not the result he wanted.

Huang Shangwen was stunned: "Zhou Bufan? no, there is no relationship with the side, only that Ma San, who has been missing and dealt with Zhou Bufan in the past few years?"

"It doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense, it's too far-fetched, it doesn't make sense, even if Ma San offends Zhou Bufan, what does it have to do with those sixteen? Li Hongyi scratched his head, very irritable.

Thinking of the annoyance, he grabbed the dossier, didn't want to just turn a page, and dropped a piece of paper out, he picked it up and saw that it was a portrait of a fine brush, quite expressive, it was the prince Qinghuayun.

Li Hongyi thought about it together, and thought of Zhou Bufan's forcible killing of those sixteen people, there is always some unclear relationship between this matter and the prince's case, and he can't find the key to it even if he wants to break his head, but just in case. What if these people are in touch with the prince?

When it is decided, he immediately thought of a countermeasure, and said to Huang Shangwen: "Take it and run again, go to the sixteen, ah no, go to the yamen where the seventeen people and goods were first put on the case, and ask if you have seen the person on the painting." You don't care who this person is. Just ask. Come back and report to me, or give you three days. How?"

"Enough. Huang Shangwen is full of confidence, this is a good opportunity for him to show his face, how can he show his timidity?

The god catcher was very relieved: "Go, go, go." ”

As he spoke, he sent a few people out. He felt that he was crooked, he found a good seedling, and cultivated it a little, but was he another Li Zhengqi?

Speaking of Li Zhengqi, I don't know how that kid has done, but after experiencing the previous life and death events, this second ancestor of the gentleman, seeing that he is calm and sophisticated, has been able to carry the façade, but it is not in vain that he has cultivated for so long.

Smiling and ignoring it, the god catcher began to deal with his daily business.

When the new official took office, everything was fresh, and it took only two days to come and go.

This Li Hongyi is a practical person, and he does not return home, he sleeps in the official room and clothes when it is late, and in the early morning of this day, Huang Shangwen has not returned, but he remembered another incident, so he went to the depths of the forbidden affairs bureau.

The fox demon case in front of him was like a meteor, and it became very ordinary to be topped by the prince's case, but after all, he relied on this case to hang up the waist card of the god catcher, so he still had to greet him. After looking around, it was still early, the sky was bright, and there was no one in the bureau, only a guard stood at the middle gate, so he went up to ask and found the evidence office.

The person in charge was an old acquaintance, an old bachelor, who also lived in the bureau, and when he saw him coming, he was overjoyed: "Yo, this is not a god catcher, is it here to repay the money or what?"

"Old man Niu, you fart, you said that you borrowed it, and I will return the broken car to you when I go back, but I don't have any money. Li Hongyi scolded with a smile, he borrowed a car in front of him, and every time he was caught by this old man, he had to pay back the money like a reminder, which was very annoying.

"Eh, my car is made of fine iron, but it looks like an ordinary frame from the outside, such a good baby, how many people rush to come with me, but you don't want it, just a thousand taels, you are a dead pick! That is to save your life!" The old man Niu raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes, and his face was not angry.

"That's for catching fox demons, now that the world is peaceful, I'm crazy to live in such a big iron car? a thousand taels, ho ho ho, I can't even take out a hundred taels. Okay, okay old man, find time to pay you back, come on, don't talk nonsense, what's wrong with the fox demon. Li Hongyi was triumphant, anyway, he couldn't come up with the money, and if he was great, he owed the debt, and it was not a lump sum or two.

The old man Niu did not recall the old accounts, and he lacked interest:

"What else, your government Shuangbao has made a splash this time and successfully lured the fox demon out. Tut-tut, you didn't keep up later, those scenes naturally can't be seen, fifty-something brothers, cutting melons and vegetables are generally killed more than half, if it wasn't for Zhou Bufan's action, he wouldn't have been able to come back at that time. ”

"I already knew, I read the case record at the end of the previous period. I'm asking how the fox demon is doing now?" Li Hongyi disdainful, Zhou Bufan has become a dead ghost, what are you still worried about?

Old man Niu said: "I was cut off by Zhou Bufan's two swords, and my head was chopped off with another sword, and the cut off turned into water on the spot, and it was gone, and the rest of my body was moved back with an iron box, and it has been melting, and it is estimated that it will be finished in the past few days." What are you going to do? ”

"Look at it, it's a thought. Li Hongyi casually grabbed some gadgets on the table of the old man Niu, he was inexplicably obsessed, but it was difficult to say it clearly.

"You're sick. I love to look at half of my body. It's no wonder that I don't have a wife. "Old man Niu has been friends with him for many years, knows the roots, and his words are unambiguous.

Li Hongyi scolded with a smile, dragged the old man Niu to the evidence center, looked left and right, and saw that there were all kinds of objects everywhere, clean and clean, and asked casually: "I'm here early today, and I don't see anyone?"

"Yo, what you said, we are here as a evidence office, to put it bluntly, it's a pile of debris, who will come?"

Li Hongyi laughed and said: "Then I will come often in the future, and accompany you to be widowed and lonely, strange and pitiful." ”

As he spoke, he walked through a pile of objects and came to a hall, which was very large, full of objects on all sides, large and small, with two iron carriages, and a small tree with a shining bronze luster, and some wrapped in leather, each of which was pasted with a note, with the name of its origin written on it, and so on.

"Is that the one?" Li Hongyi looked around and saw a table in the middle of the hall, on which a huge iron box was placed in all directions.

Seeing the old man Niu nodding his head, he walked over by himself, the iron box was just a box, no lid, one foot square, one and a half feet deep, Li Hongyi stretched out his head to look, and saw that it was smooth and slippery inside, he sighed, eh, the thought is gone, it is a pity that he is a few days late.

He knows that he is a very utilitarian person, people are valuable in self-knowledge, and he attaches great importance to the honor of catching gods, which is the step of entry and the source of wealth.

And this fox demon is the biggest and thickest stepping stone on his way.

So he had an obsession in his heart, as if a voice in his heart had been urging him to take a look, to see, and then he decided to come and see.

Now that I see it, I can't help but be a little disappointed.

"Don't be disappointed~It's not too late~"

A faint voice sounded, as if it came out of his heart, and Li Hongyi was stunned for a moment, thinking that he was probably hallucinating.

He shook his head and looked at the old man, no one came here anyway, so he thought about going out and borrowing a table to deal with a nap, the first two days were a little too crazy.

"You're here~ I've been waiting for you for a long time~" At this moment, the voice sounded again, far away in the sky, close in front of you.

It was the old man Niu who spoke, with a smile on his face, his skin and flesh shaking incessantly, but his mouth was saying strange things.

The voice was ethereal, gradually becoming solid, and the illusory lines on the neck began to spread, and the color was jet-black, like a spider's web, meandering and crawling.

Li Hongyi felt a basin of cold water poured from head to toe, cold to the bone.