It turned out that on the wooden bed in the corner of the stone house, there were clearly two brown and black "monkeys", glaring at everyone with bared teeth. But if you look closely, these two so-called "monkeys" don't look like monkeys at all, but like children of seven or eight years old, but they are indeed covered with monkey fur, and there is a long tail behind them, and their appearance is extremely strange.

Looking at the wooden bed, there was a naked little boy, but there was a hairy piece on his back, but someone had sewn the monkey's fur on his back, and the corners of the monkey's fur were still clearly visible, and pus was oozing out. Behind the wooden bed, a pile of stripped monkey corpses emitted a foul smell.

I only listened to Shang Bu and explained: "This is called 'Monkey King', which is to sew monkey skin on the child's body and dress it up in the form of a monkey, so as to deceive under the guise of 'spirit monkey' and 'divine monkey'. It is said that after the Song Dynasty crossed to the south, some people presented Emperor Gaozong with a monkey that could speak human words, thus predicting the rise and fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was derived from this craft. ”

Speaking of which, Shang Bu did not abandon this and then told the whole story. It turned out that he was "painting" the stolen monkey at Cao Yuanwai's house that night, and it was determined that this so-called "monkey" was actually a living person. As for why a person would become a monkey, Shang Bu gave up handling countless cases, and naturally he was well-informed, and immediately thought of the craft of "harvesting and cutting" by the beggars, so as to solve the mystery of "Lanzhou ghost monkey". Although Xie Yixiang and Xian Jingyue have also heard of "harvesting and cutting", they are too young and have never experienced it personally, so they have never thought about it from beginning to end.

Because Shang Buqi always likes to play tricks, he didn't break the matter to the two of them at that time. After separating from the two, he found acquaintances to connect with the people in Lanzhou City, and on the other hand, he inquired around outside Cao Yuanwai's mansion. Because most of the "monkeys" that were stolen from Cao Yuanwai's house that night escaped from the beggars, and they were afraid that they had been arrested by the beggars, so the den where the beggars held the "monkey" must have been near Cao Yuanwai's house. So Shang did not give up all the way and finally found this place.

After listening to Shang Bu's speech, everyone looked at the "monkeys" in the corner, all of them were colorless, and they didn't know what to say. Then the star priest took out two black-robed women from the stone house and said coldly: "In the past few months, I have been performing in the south of the city, and children often disappear in the crowd when performing tricks, and the murderer has never been caught. I didn't expect it to be the beggar gang!" "Look at the black-robed woman on the left, it is the tooth man who had met Xie Yixiang and Xian Jingyue that day.

At that moment, Shang didn't give up and tore off the black robes on their bodies, and sure enough, like those "monkeys", a large piece of monkey skin had been sewn on their bodies, and at first glance, they looked like two apes. Xie Yixiang wanted to interrogate him strictly, but unexpectedly, the two women were speechless, but their throats were already burned. According to Shang Buqi's explanation, the reason why the beggar gang wanted to make the two women who stole the children look like monsters was to prevent them from having different intentions and waiting for an opportunity to escape, and secondly, because they could use this appearance to scare people and get away when they were caught.

In this way, the whole thing is clear, whether it is Ning Cui's so-called "Lanzhou ghost monkey", or the tooth man that Xie Yixiang and Xian Jingyue bumped into, from beginning to end, it was all done by this beggar to help Lanzhou rudder, in the final analysis, it is the four words "picking and cutting"; and this "picking and cutting" is the means of the beggars to make a living for thousands of years. Therefore, Master He and Father Monkey insisted on refusing to let Xie Yixiang and Xian Jingyue investigate the matter, and even did not hesitate to kill them, naturally because they were thieves.

Looking at the monkey father who was exhausted, his face was still full of fierceness, and he couldn't see the slightest remorse. Xian Jingyue was furious, and his murderous intent suddenly rose, and he wanted to untie the glaive knife behind him and kill the old beast on the spot. Unexpectedly, as soon as he had the intention of killing, his right hand was grabbed, and when he turned his head, it was Ayi, the sister of Prince Na Geshu.

I saw Ayi shake his head and said in awkward Chinese: "Poisoned, you can't fight." Three days. After that, she smiled at Xian Jingyue and said, "I'll help you!" As soon as the words fell, the short knife under her arm was immediately slashed, and where the blade passed, the monkey father's two legs and one arm fell off his body, and the broken place was bleeding like a spring. Mr. Namu hurriedly stepped forward to stop the bleeding for him, and said angrily: "In the end, the matter here still has to be handed over to the yamen of Lanzhou Mansion to deal with, so that the beggars can be wiped out." This monkey daddy is a human witness, don't mess around!" Na Ayi stuck out his tongue and said with a smile: "Keep a hand and confess your guilt." ”

At this time, Xie Yixiang had basically come back to her senses, and couldn't help sighing: "I thought that although the beggar gang was both good and evil, there were also many heroes among them, who knows...... Who knew that these beggars would eat dog meat, and they would do such a hurtful act. Shang Buqi next to him sneered: "Heroes, aren't they, this monkey father and the Qin village lord who rose up in Lanzhou City back then, desperately fighting against the alien races of the previous dynasty, how can they not be heroes and heroes of the Han people? Daddy Monkey, don't you want to say something?"

The monkey father was already dying, and he relied on the elixir of Mr. Namu to hang him, but his face was still fierce. Hearing Shang Bu give up this, he immediately shouted: "Ignorant child, rare and strange! If a person with sound limbs begs, who will be willing to give you charity? When you have really become a beggar, come and tell me these great truths!"

After saying that, he glanced at the crowd present again, and said hatefully: "According to our arrangement last night, we originally wanted the 'Jingyue Yixiang' to clean up you lustful people, and it is best to defeat both sides and end up together." Who knew that these two little dolls, as Han Chinese, actually teamed up with the Semu people to deal with my beggar gang, and they didn't even recognize their ancestors. Hmph, since ancient times, there is no need to say more! Tonight, my monkey father fell into your hands, but I beg to die quickly!"

Seeing that Father Monkey was so stubborn, everyone present was full of anger, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say angrily: "It doesn't matter if it's a Han person, a Semu person, or even a foreign race from the previous dynasty." No matter which dynasty or generation, 'harvesting and cutting' is a move of common anger of people and gods, but only death!"

Prince Na Geshu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and said lightly: "Prince Jingyue, don't dare to do this." Since ancient times, Hu and Han have not been separated, and we have saved the lives of your brother and sister, and we already regret it. Now that you have made this great gift, you naturally want to ask me, a man of lust, to do things for you. That seems a little inappropriate. Before Xian Jingyue could answer, Ayi next to him had already rushed to say, "What is the matter? I'll help you." Prince Na Geshu glanced at her and snorted coldly: "He wants to ask our Semu people to take action and exterminate the beggars to help Lanzhou rudder!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone present agreed in unison, and even Xie Yixiang and Shang Buqi nodded yes. Prince Na Geshu's eyes were just staring at Xian Jingyue, and he asked slowly: "Prince Jingyue can think clearly, if you exterminate the beggars to help Lanzhou divide the rudder, from now on, this Lanzhou City will be the world of my lustful people." ”

Xian Jingyue went straight to Prince Geshu's gaze, competed with him, and said in a deep voice: "Han men, more than just a beggar. The enemy of the Han will be punished by my generation. Prince Na Geshu was silent for a while, and immediately said, "Okay!"

At that moment, Prince Geshu asked several of his subordinates to stay here to guard, and asked someone to escort Father Monkey to the Yamen of Lanzhou Mansion to find a servant to arrest the head to deal with the case. It turned out that Deng and Yu in the yamen of Lanzhou Mansion had colluded with the beggar gang, and the servant Gu was from Prince Geshu's side. Then everyone came out of the underground stone room and tied up the old Han couple who were guarding the entrance to the secret passage. Xie Yixiang was so angry that he almost killed these two people on the spot as Shang Buqi said before. In the end, everyone still forcibly suppressed the killing thoughts in their hearts, and one of them gave them a slap in the face.

Then everyone went to the lair of the Lanzhou branch of the beggar gang in the north of the city overnight, under the leadership of Prince Geshu, which was a camp on the outskirts of the city. When everyone arrived here, they found that there was no one alive in the brightly lit camp.

I saw that there were forty or fifty beggars in the camp, but they were all killed on the spot, but they were broken up by strange methods, and one of their faces was torn apart along the corners of their mouths on both sides, and the appearance was very terrifying, and the whole camp was like a slaughterhouse. Walking to the tent in the depths of the camp, the corpse of Lord He Duo was even more miserable, it was actually chopped into seventeen or eighteen pieces, and the head of Lord He Duo in the corpse was torn apart on his face like the beggar outside, and the wound extended from the corners of his mouth to the left and right temples; at first glance, it seemed that the head of Lord He Duo was cracking and laughing, but his eyes clearly revealed the color of horror.

Next to the corpse of Lord He Helm, four lines of big characters were drawn on the ground with a hard object, writing: "Xie Yixiang is kind and soft-hearted, first compete for the benevolence of the moon woman, and do not abandon the timid as a mouse; ”

(End of case)