[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Yuan, the third day of the fourth month, the future, Tsing Yi Wei]

After Xu Ke had lunch at the Sanssouci in the south of the city, he returned to Tsing Yi Wei to continue his duty.

He thought back to the little flower cat that had disappeared in an instant, and he still didn't find it very interesting in his heart.

"Cat, cat, you're free from now on, but I, Xu Ke, may be in a cage!"

Xu Ke couldn't help but laugh at himself.

On the afternoon of this day, three groups of people came to visit Xu Ke.

The first one was Song Jinhua, the new Langzhong of the Criminal Department.

When the guards came to report, Xu Ke was still a little unconvinced, and when he saw that Song Jinhua had already walked through the door, Xu Ke got up and hugged his fists and said:

"How could Brother Song have time to come to Tsing Yiwei today?"

"What, Brother Xu, after not seeing you for many days, you don't recognize me as an old friend?"

"Where, where! Brother Song can come to see me, I'm too late to be happy!"

"Brother Xu has been promoted to the position of a thousand households, I haven't made a special trip to congratulate him, Brother Xu won't blame me, right?"

"Where is Brother Song, Brother Song has been promoted to the fourth rank of Langzhong, haven't I always come to congratulate?"

"Hehehe, then our brothers don't want these worldly rituals......!

The two sat down in Xu Ke's official room, drinking tea and chatting casually.

Song Jinhua came here, naturally expressing concern about whether Xu Ke could catch the cat demon within three days. Seeing that the three-day restriction was about to expire, Song Jinhua asked, does Brother Xu have a good way to deal with it?

Xu Ke just smiled and said Brother Song doesn't need to worry too much, it's a big deal, he will live in the edict!

Next, the two talked for about half an hour, and Xu Ke got up to salute Song Jinhua for Song Jinhua's act of disobeying the will of the officials and struggling to save Yao Zibei from the court.

Naturally, Song Jinhua also returned the salute very politely, and the two were polite again.

After what should be said is roughly finished, Song Jinhua got up to say goodbye, and Xu Ke was sent to the gate of Tsing Yi Wei.

Not long after Xu Ke returned to the official room and sat down, the guards hurriedly came to report, saying that the seventeenth princess was here again!

Xu Ke's buttocks were not yet hot, so he hurriedly got up to greet him, only to see that Lingyu Princess Li Qi was walking like the wind and had already walked into the official room.

Li Qi came, just like Song Jinhua, and asked him if he had a strategy to catch the cat demon?

Xu Ke shook his head and said, the cat demon really can't catch her!

Li Qi said anxiously, then it's better to go to Tianbao Pavilion! Find Murong Gongzi and Sister Xiaoyan, everyone think of a way together, maybe we can catch the cat demon!

Xu Ke still shook his head, and said, whether it is Murong Gongzi, Xiao Yan, or you Commissioner Xiaoqi, aren't you all members of the Beijing trial team? Everyone is investigating cases all day long, and they are catching demons all the time, but until today, they still can't catch the cat demon, even if they go to Tianbao Pavilion at this moment, what's the use?

Li Qi felt that what Xu Ke said was also reasonable, and her heart became even more anxious, she asked again and again, Brother Xu Ke, what should you do? Do you want her to go to her father to intercede?

Xu Ke shook his head even more, and said resolutely, don't go to the emperor to intercede! That cat demon killed King Han, and as a deputy envoy of demon hunting, he was originally guilty of dereliction of duty. It is also reasonable for the emperor to limit him to take the cat demon within three days. If you really can't catch the cat demon, you can only resist the crime!

Li Qi saw that Xu Ke was still so light in the face of such difficulties, and he was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, but Xu Ke kept saying comfort, so that she didn't need to worry about it, the emperor's dictation to him was just to take office and go to prison, not Ling Chi's beheading......

Li Qi sighed a few times, but had no choice but to leave, and Xu Ke was sent outside the official room.

Soon after Li Qi left, Xu Ke handled official documents in the official room, and when it was time to be on duty, Nangong Bu finally came to the door in person.

The previous time, for the sake of Mingyue, Nangong Buyu and Xu Ke broke up unhappily. However, in the past few days, Nangong has been worrying about the deadline for Xu Ke to catch the cat demon. He saw that tomorrow was the day of the Son of Heaven to hunt demons, but Xu Ke had nothing to gain from the cat demon, and he was worried that he would not hesitate to lower his face, or come to Xu Ke's official room in person.

Xu Ke saw that Nangong came silently, and he was very grateful.

The two chatted for a while, and Xu Ke's answer to Nangong's question about the cat demon's strategy was still the same as the previous two.

Nangong sighed silently, he was not unprepared for the current situation, and at that moment, he offered a plan to Xu Ke:

"Brother Xian, if in the opinion of the foolish brother, by noon tomorrow, you really can't pay the difference, it is better to offer a dead cat to the emperor!"

"How can a dead cat be a cat demon?"

"Brother Xian, whether it is the emperor or the Manchu Dynasty, no one has ever seen what the cat demon looks like! Let's insist that it is the dead cat demon, what can the emperor do?"

"Brother Nangong, the emperor's sacred heart is like a torch, how can he not distinguish the truth of the cat demon?"

"Brother Xian's words are wrong! The emperor's sacred heart is like a torch, but even if he sees that it is a fake cat demon, how can he prove that it is fake? If that cat demon dies, won't he become a dead cat?!"

"But...... After all, the cat demon is still outside, if the cat demon harms people again, what explanation should I have?"

"Brother Xian said, there is more than one cat demon, kill one, and come again! Anyway, there are demons in Muzhou!"

"But ......"

"Brother Xian, if Brother Fool is not bad, that cat demon will not come out to harm people in the future!"

"Oh, Brother Nangong, how can this be seen?"

"First, the cat demon has killed a king of Han, she saw that I was already indignant in the capital, and she didn't dare to commit a crime, and then hurt people at will;

Xu Ke remembered that this morning, Zhou Beiju secretly led him to the inner hall of the Chang'an County Ya to investigate the case, and felt that Nangong's words were quite reasonable.

He thought about it carefully, and now the departments in charge of the cat demon case are none other than Chang'an County, Jingzhao Mansion and Tsing Yi Wei. If Jingzhao Mansion doesn't report it, there will only be Tsing Yi Wei.

And Tsing Yi Wei is responsible for acting the cat demon case, isn't it Xu Ke and Nangong who are silent?

As Nangong said, even if the cat demon will continue to kill people in the future, if these yamen are all concealed and not reported, or as Xu Ke told Zhou Shouju today, they only said that they died of a sudden illness and blamed the cause of death elsewhere, then who knows that there is a cat demon outside?

"But...... The little brother thinks it's still inappropriate!"

"Brother Xian, then do you think there is another way?"

"No more!"

"Isn't this just that? Take 10,000 steps back, in the future, even if the emperor finds other dead corpses, we can also push the culprit on the heads of other monsters! There are more demons in this world! Where is there only one cat demon? There are also dog demons, wolf demons, rabbit demons, and lion demons...... All beasts can become demons, right? Maybe, so many men in Chang'an City died innocently, it was originally done by other monsters? You first get a dead cat today, and pay the current difficulties first, and then say, if there is any monster case in the future, it will not be too late to find a way in the future!"

Listening to Nangong Bu's seductive words, Xu Ke couldn't help but nod frequently when he heard it. Instead of sitting and waiting to be imprisoned, it is better to think of a way to overcome the difficulties in front of him! Besides, King Han committed suicide and died, but the emperor wanted to be angry with the cat demon, since he was unreasonable, why should I be serious about him?