The slightest hint of late spring breeze and the faint fragrance of crabapple.
Lin Jue stood under the tree admiring the flowers, with the spring breeze blowing on his face. He felt that the Xifu Begonia was a bit more delicate than the Silk Begonia, and the Silk Begonia was a bit more unique than the Xifu Begonia. They were both beautiful.
I don’t know why this tree actually bloomed two kinds of flowers. Maybe these two trees grew together, or maybe they were grafted. This is probably the reason why one tree gave birth to two spirits.
"There is a saying that 'begonias are no longer ready for spring'. I'm afraid there won't be many trees still blooming in the capital at this time, right?"
Lin Jue seemed to be talking to himself.
There was a breeze beside me, and with a glance from the corner of my eye, I saw a white shadow on the stone table. The fox raised his head and stared at the begonia flowers with him.
The sound of Luo Gong's footsteps came from behind again.
When he saw the begonia flowers blooming, with new green on the branches, and Xiaolei hiding a few red dots, he didn't say anything, he just said with a smile:
"This tree has indeed become a spirit."
Not long after, another line of egrets flew across the sky, and one of them turned down for some unknown reason and flew directly to Lin Jueyuan.
The egret circled around the crabapple tree. It seemed that it also felt novel, thinking and hesitating, and then carefully landed on the crabapple tree, as if it was afraid of startling the spring.
"Ah~"
The egret turned its head and looked at Lin Jue.
"It opened last night. Long time no see." Lin Jue said, "Fellow Taoist came just in time. I really want to trouble you now."
"Ah~"
The egret called.
Lin Jue then walked back into the house, took out a bunch of letters, and put them on the stone table: "There are six letters here. I just put them in yesterday. I would like to ask fellow Taoists to help me bring them to my junior sister."
The egret didn't say much. It just flew to the stone table, lowered its head, picked up an envelope, flapped its wings, and climbed into the sky.
These six letters will take six flights.
Lin Jue wanted to continue admiring the flowers, but suddenly he remembered something, so he went back to his room to get a small bottle of elixir and handed it to Monk Luo:
"Gong Luo, this is the giant elixir I newly refined on the mountain. If you still have some use for it after eating it, you can continue to eat it. If it doesn't work for you, you don't need to eat it anymore. I'll write to you next time.
Then I’ll ask my senior brother if he has any elixirs suitable for warriors.”
"Thank you." Luo Monk took the elixir, "Don't worry so much, my martial arts is already complete."
"This is what we agreed on." Lin Jue smiled, thinking about the silver-eating ghost's food, and asked him, "Are there any ghosts causing trouble in the capital recently?"
"The capital is so big, how can there be no demons and ghosts causing trouble? It's just that there are so many people in Juxian Mansion. Even if we get rid of those idiots, it's not your turn to be the little demons and imps."
"this……"
Lin Jue was a little stunned.
Is it wrong to create a reputation for myself?
Luo Gong glanced at him: "But there is indeed something happening in the capital recently. It has caused quite a stir. Just by the discovery, several lives have been lost. Yesterday and the day before yesterday, family members and servants of the deceased came to the gathering.
Go to the official office of the Immortal Mansion and ask the officials of the Ministry of Rites to quickly invite the strange masters from the Juxian Mansion to eliminate the demon. There are also agents from the Yamen who have gone out to investigate the case."
"No wonder when I came back yesterday, I saw someone coming to the Juxian Mansion's official office." Lin Jue frowned and asked, "What happened?"
"Some women were sucked into mummies and exposed in the wilderness." Luo Monk said, "It is said that they all believed in an evil god in the mountains outside the city. They wanted the evil god to help them lose weight, so they secretly went to worship the god, and when they went there, they
He never came back, and when he was found, he was already a mummy."
"The evil god outside the city?"
Lin Jue's brows furrowed more and more tightly.
Isn't this what I met on my way back? The evil god seems to be in Maple Mountain.
It's very close to the Red Leaf View.
"Those who died were all women. Some were wives and concubines of wealthy families. Because they loved beauty, they wanted to please their husbands, but most of them were women who lived in brothels and smoke willows and relied on their bodies to make a living. The weather is getting hot and it's time to show off your body.
It's time for abdominal distension
, these days, even those who like plumpness have to be fat where they should be. I heard that this monster has this ability. If you give enough tribute and make a wish sincerely, you can think of it.
Wherever you lose weight, you lose weight."
Luo Monk is in the capital. Although he is wanted, he obviously has reliable sources:
"I originally wanted to go out to the city to have a look, but you are not in the city. It is not that convenient for me to go in and out of the city alone. I don't know if you have any valuables in the house, so I didn't go."
"I met these people on the way back. Yesterday morning, there were many people going to worship the evil god." Lin Jue said, "The evil god seems to be in Fengshan Mountain as well."
"Also in Fengshan? It seems to be over there."
Luo Monk answered the latter sentence first, then thought about it before answering the previous sentence:
"This is normal. There are not many capable people in the yamen in the capital. After I leave, I am afraid that there will not be many people who dare to investigate the matter of monsters and ghosts. I heard that the police only started to investigate there two days ago.
It is estimated that it has not been confirmed yet, and the news has not reached these people."
Luo Monk said and paused:
"And I heard people say that the monster has been doing this for more than a day or two. It has never done anything like this in the past two years. It has always had a good reputation. It is also very low-key and never publicizes its abilities. It relies entirely on those
People who have been there spread word of mouth, and more and more people come there because of its reputation. Even if word spreads, there will still be people who take risks until it is confirmed."
"Good reputation?"
"Indeed."
Luo Monk also nodded, his expression calm.
Lin Jue glanced at his expression, and in view of his familiarity and understanding, he asked: "Duke Luo, do you think there is something fishy?"
"It's indeed a bit suspicious."
Luo Monk didn't show off and said directly:
"There are two doubts:
"It's not the first day it has done this kind of thing. If it wants to harm people, why wait until now?
"Secondly, it takes human oil. Although I don't know what it does, it has always been unfavorable to men and women, but the ones who died recently were all women."
After listening to this, Lin Jue felt thoughtful.
It seems that before he came back, Luo Gong had already learned something about this matter.
He is worthy of being a county captain in Jingcheng.
This also saved him a lot of effort.
"I have to go check it out!"
"I know it. Don't worry, I heard people say that the monster is also quite powerful. Not many of the miscellaneous fish in Juxian Mansion would dare to trouble it. I heard that the capital fisherman was ordered to investigate yesterday and wanted to kill it in Juxian Mansion.
The Immortal Mansion invites an 'expert' to accompany you, but the expert is either busy and in retreat, or he is in a bad mood and doesn't want to go out." Luo Monk said, "If the officials of the Juxian Mansion know that you are back, there is no need for you to take the initiative to invite him.
Look for it and it will naturally come to you.”
"Are there family members of high officials among the dead?"
When Luo Monk heard this, he was a little surprised at first, and then laughed: "Congratulations, Taoist Lin, you have arrived in the capital."
If not, the trappers would not dare to go to Fengshan.
"By the way." Luo Monk reached into his arms again and took out four taels of silver, "This is your offering money for the first two months, a total of four taels. They gave it to me when you were not in the capital."
"Thank you."
Lin Jue accepted it.
Things turned out exactly as Luo Gong said -
Not long after, Wu Lingshi from the Ministry of Rites came to the door.
"Hey, the flowers outside are gone, but there are still blooming crabapples in the courtyard?"
Although it was a matter of vital importance to human life, these officials, for the sake of grace and calmness, still immediately paid attention to the begonia flowers in Linjue Courtyard.
"It only opened last night." Lin Jue said, "It's not the New Year's Day, so Wu Ling came to see me. There must be something important, so please just tell me."
"A real person knows things like a god."
Wu Lingshi bowed and then said:
"To be honest, there have been strange things happening around the capital recently. This matter is related to a 'god' in the mountains outside the city who is worshiped and sought after by many women. Several women went to worship the god, but they never came back.
, when he came back, he had become a mummy."
"Have you had an autopsy?"
A voice came from the side.
Wu Lingshi looked over and saw that it was Zhenren Lin's protector. Although he was wearing a bamboo hat and could not see his face, he knew that this protector was also very capable and was probably better than many strange people in Juxian Mansion.
Therefore, he did not dare to neglect and replied quickly:
"Tested."
"Are there any signs of being violated?"
"No."
"Is there any property missing?"
"This..." Wu Lingshi was embarrassed, "The bodies of those women were all exposed in the wilderness. It was not known who reported them until they were discovered. Naturally, there will be no traces of their property left."
"Um……"
The protector stopped talking.
Wu Lingshi glanced at him, then at Lin Jue, and continued: "The day before yesterday, when the Duke of Juxian Mansion heard about this incident, he went to the mountain in a hurry. Originally, the lower official thought that since all the Dukes had gone, they should make a decision.
We were able to find the monster, but Wan Gong never came back to this day.
"The lower official has no choice but to worry about the public.
"But I have asked several experts in Juxian Mansion who are good at fighting, but they all have other things to do and are inconvenient to go. Otherwise, they would not come to Master Lin."
When Luo Monk heard this, he snorted mockingly.
Lin Jue asked calmly: "Why would you not come to me if this were not the case?"
"Zhenren Lin has great abilities. Even Master Fan Tianshi respects Zhenren. If there is no big deal, it would be hard to bother Zhenren Lin."
"That doesn't make sense."
"this……"
Wu Lingshi was a little unsure for a moment. Didn't everyone think so?
"What the real person means is..."
"We have taken care of this matter." Lin Jue said, "There is nothing trivial about the lives of the people, and my abilities are different from those of Fan Tianshi. From now on, whenever there is such a thing, as long as I am in the capital, Wu Lingshi, please come to me
, even if I am not in the capital, as long as my protector is there, I can still find him."
Wu Lingshi was immediately stunned, and his eyes froze.
In Juxian Mansion, he had not heard of this for some time.
Those who had said such things before had either gone to the northwest or northeast of Qinzhou at this time. They were no longer in the capital, and their lives and deaths were uncertain.
Wu Lingshi took a long time to calm down and looked at Luo Monk again:
"this……"
"His name is Zhang Dao. You can call him Zhang Gong. Zhang Gong is extremely talented. He uses martial arts to enter Taoism, and his sword skills can penetrate the gods. He can kill evil gods and righteous gods at the top, and treacherous and villainous people at the bottom. In the middle, there are monsters, monsters and evil-minded people.
Monks and Taoists are all dead souls under his sword."
"hiss!"
Wu Lingshi was shocked.
I can't imagine that a Taoist protector can kill gods. What kind of skills does this real person have?
He had no choice but to bow down and salute: "Mr. Zhang! It's polite for you to serve as a lower-ranking official!"
"No need!" Luo Monk said in a deep voice, "Send a few good and upright trappers from Wan'an County who are not afraid of monsters to help me hunt down monsters!"
"well……"
Wu Lingshi couldn't help wiping his sweat for a moment.
Good skills, not afraid of demons and ghosts, and righteousness. These requirements may seem simple, but after searching the entire capital, I'm afraid I can't find a few of them.
Silently, an egret flew over lightly.
Now there is the last envelope on the stone table.
The egret has a graceful figure and a snow-white crest on its head. It picks up the envelope and spreads its wings again, not knowing where it is going.
Wu Lingshi and the two clerks stared blankly.
Baihe delivers the letter...
It turns out that there is a legend in the wells of the capital that cranes often visit Fan Tianshi's residence. It turns out that the person visiting is not Fan Tianshi, but a messenger for this real person.
After bowing deeply, they left.
Lin Jue and the others did not waste any time. After packing up their belongings, which were nothing more than magical weapons, swords and horses, they left the capital.
Chapter completed!