Nightwatcher

Chai Xian didn't answer right away, he spoke for a while, and said:

"Both my parents died when I was young, and I had no one to rely on. I lived by begging in Xiangzhou. Later, my adoptive father adopted me, and he treated me very well, even more than his own son. Therefore, the three elder brothers hated me, Hate me..."

"Only Xiaolan treats me sincerely and never looks down on me because of my past."

Speaking of this, Chai Xian was in a daze, as if he had returned to many years ago, that hot midsummer, when the little beggar was led back to Chai's mansion, and the girl hiding behind the screen poked her head out and looked at it quietly. In contrast, he bowed his head in inferiority.

The girl smiled brightly.

Listening to Chai Xian talking about the past, Xu Qi'an was in a daze, thinking of Wei Yuan.

Empress Shangguan was like a ray of bright light, shining into Wei Yuan's miserable youth life.

"That day, after dinner, the servants in the house sent a message that the adoptive father wanted to see me. I knew it was because of Xiao Lan. Before that, we had several disputes over Xiao Lan's marriage.

"I love Xiaolan, and I want my adoptive father to marry her to me, but my adoptive father feels that I am a member of Chaifu, and I am destined to work for Chaifu. Xiaolan marrying me is just icing on the cake, marrying the Huangfu family It's more in the family's interest."

Orange Cat Ann laughed "hehe" and said, "There's nothing wrong with that."

Chai Xian's eyes dimmed slightly, and he continued:

"After dismissing the servants, I went to see my adoptive father. Halfway through, I noticed a fight in the foster father's room, so I hurried over.

"I was one step late. When I arrived, my adoptive father had already been killed in the room, and the murderer had disappeared. I was sad and angry. At this time, my aunt arrived with her family.

"She accused me of killing her adoptive father without saying a word, and wanted to clean up the house. I explained everything, but they were indifferent, and no one believed me. In desperation, I had to call Iron Corpse and fight all the way out of Chaifu.

"Although I didn't kill the adoptive father, my hands were indeed stained with the blood of many Chai family children that night. After escaping from Xiangzhou City, I hid here to recuperate. That family has received my favor and is always willing to believe I didn't think I was a murderer because of the gossip outside."

Orange cat Ann interrupted: "Did you snatch Xiaolan away?"

Chai Xian shook his head: "Afterwards, I was worried about Xiaolan. I sneaked back to the Chai Mansion secretly, but I didn't find her. I asked the servants of the Chai Mansion privately, and only then did I know that she disappeared as early as the night of the foster father's death. I suspect that she is in danger."

Orange cat's heart moved: "You sneaked into the cellar where the corpse is hidden tonight, are you looking for Xiaolan?"

Chai Xian nodded, with joy in his eyes: "I didn't find her."

Jumao An asked again: "In Zhangzhou, who is the villain who creates murders everywhere and refines corpses?"

"I have no idea."

Chai Xian's face was ashen, with hatred in his tone and expression:

"Someone pretended to be me to kill people everywhere and create murder cases. This is to drive me to a desperate situation, and I can't turn over. At first, some people from the Jianghu were killed, and then some small gangs, and now even the common people are not released. pass.

"This demon slaughter conference is the result they want."

Ju Mao'an tentatively asked, "Why don't you run away?"

Chai Xian asked back: "Why did I run away? My adoptive father's death is unknown, Xiao Lan's whereabouts are unknown, the murderer who framed me has not been found, and he is doing evil everywhere outside. Why should I run away?"

Brother, your temperament is a bit extreme. Xu Qi'an suddenly thought that if the real murderer behind the scenes knows Chai Xian's temperament well, then the purpose of doing all this is to force him to stay.

Conspiracy and Yangmou are well used!

Chai Xian suddenly sighed: "During this time, I have been going out to track down the real culprits behind the scenes, looking for places where murders often occur, but all I caught were Xiao Xiao who used my name, robbed houses, or refined corpses. generation."

Orange Mao An said: "In your heart, there must be someone who is suspicious."

Chai Xian hesitated for a while, and said, "I suspect that my aunt is setting me up."

The orange cat showed a humane expression, clicked his tongue, and said, "Tell me."

There was a brief silence in response to the orange cat, and then Chai Xian sighed:

"Except for my aunt, who else could be? The eldest brother died young, and the second and third brothers are mud that cannot support the wall. If the adoptive father dies, only Xiaolan and I can threaten her. This incident, kill three with one stone." Birds aren't they.

"Before tonight, although I had always suspected her, I had no confidence or evidence. But tonight, I sneaked into the Chai Mansion and heard her having fun with a wild man on the bed in her yard.

"Auntie, she has changed. She was definitely not so slutty before. Desire made her ugly."

Ah, this! You probably know that wild man, he was Li Lingsu by the Daming Lake back then. The orange cat Anan complained silently in his heart.

Except for the wrong assessment of "wild man", Chai Xian's judgment basically coincides with his guess.

There is a basic point of view in criminal investigation: in a criminal case, whoever benefits is the suspect

In the Chaifu case, Chai Xing'er was the only beneficiary, so she had a motive for committing the crime. Of course, this is not absolute, so she is a "suspect".

However, according to the subsequent development of the case, "Chai Xian" committed murders repeatedly in Xiangzhou and other places in Zhangzhou, which did not conform to the normal behavior of a criminal.

Xu Qi'an was puzzled by this before, but until now, seeing Chai Xian, the disappearance of Xiao Lan and the framing of the murder case were all to keep Chai Xian?

So there must be another prerequisite here, that is, the murderer behind the scenes knows Chai Xian's temperament like the back of his hand, and people who are not familiar with it cannot do this kind of operation.

"Thank you for telling me. I already understand what happened. If your Excellency is really wronged, I will try to find out and return your innocence."

The orange cat said.

But before that, you have to give me back the dragon energy. Just as he thought about it, Chai Xian said in a low voice:

"Thank you, Your Excellency told me so much, you are waiting for the main body to arrive."

The orange cat's face was stiff, and it almost made a "meow", and the cuteness passed the level.

Chai Xian sighed: "Sorry, I don't believe anyone now. If you really want to help me, you can. Let's use this place as a contact point. If you have any progress or need to contact me, you can give the letter to Erya."

In this way, no matter whether I am good or evil, I will not be able to harm this family for the time being. The orange cat An said: "Okay!"

As soon as the words fell, Chai Xian popped out an air machine, which stunned the orange cat.

A quarter of an hour later, Xu Qi'an's body hurried over, appearing in the alley like a ghost in the darkness.

Except for a fainted orange cat, the alley was empty and there was no one there.

Xu Qi'an jumped onto the roof of a yellow mud house and looked around, but he didn't sense the dragon's breath, which meant that Chai Xian had already moved away from this area.

"Be careful!"

He landed lightly, picked up the fainted orange cat, squeezed the space between his eyebrows, and walked away slowly.

Mind Gu controls animals in two modes, one is "influence", which can make swarms of beasts work for themselves. One is "possession", in which a ray of soul is immersed in it, using animals as substitutes.

In layman's terms, "influence" is a large-scale skill. Possession can only exert influence on a single animal, or two or three animals, depending on the strength of the soul.

He was able to manipulate the orange cat to run so far, all relying on the toughness of the third grade primordial spirit.

In addition, the way the corpse voodoo manipulates the walking dead is similar to the "possession" of the mind voodoo. The difference is that Heart Gu needs its own primordial spirit as its driving force. Corpse Gu is to implant child Gu in the corpse, which consumes little in itself.

As he ran, the shadow jumped, and finally returned to the inn.

Mu Nanzhi and the little white fox had already fallen asleep. The upper body of the little white fox was buried in the bed, with its two hind legs sticking out of the bed. When Xu Qi'an jumped back to the room in the shadow, he happened to see its two hind legs kicking a few times like twitching.

Ten seconds later, he kicked a few more convulsively.

After repeating this several times, Xu Qi'an guessed that it might be hypoxic, so he lifted its head out of the bed.

Sure enough.

the next day!

In the early morning, wearing a light blue cotton robe, silver-patterned boots, and jade hairpin, the suave Son of Tianzong came to the inn.

He stepped into the lobby, glanced around, and quickly locked on to the table by the window.

There were mediocre-looking men and women sitting beside the table, and on the table was a little white fox drinking porridge. It looked up at Xu Qi'an from time to time, and then lowered its head to drink porridge.

"Why do you always look at me?" Xu Qi'an asked blankly.

This little fox has been looking at him with weird eyes since he got up in the morning. In the black button-like fox eyes, there are three points of hostility, three points of fear, three points of grievance, and one point of pity. Well, in short, it is this kind of complicated Feel.

The little fox said softly:

"I dreamed yesterday that you took revenge on me and wanted to strangle me to death. I begged for mercy like you, and you never let me go."

It showed an aggrieved expression.

Isn't it because your sleeping position is too bad, and your head is buried in the bed and you lack oxygen? The corner of Xu Qi'an's mouth twitched, and he asked:

"Why do you have such a dream? To be precise, why do I want to take revenge on you. It's not because you did something bad last night and you feel guilty."

The little fox was too young to speak, and whined twice.

Li Lingsu approached quickly, sat down at the table, rubbed his waist, and said with a smile:

"What bad thing did this little thing do last night?"

Mu Nanzhi said coldly: "What bad things can it do? Unlike some men, it's okay to be lewd and flirtatious, and it's okay to be a ladyboy. Sometimes, life and death don't matter."

Li Lingsu and Xu Qi'an's expressions suddenly became stiff.

"That's what madam said." Li Lingsu laughed dryly, and said: "There are monsters who like monsters, and we can't classify good and evil by race. Besides, what do you mean by life and death?"

Tuk Tuk!

This guy has a guilty conscience, does he still have friends from the Yaozu? Xu Qi'an knocked on the table a few times and said, "What do you want?"

Li Lingsu immediately lowered his voice, "Senior, I'm in some trouble."

Paused, as if a little ashamed to say it, the voice became lower and lower: "I have fallen in love again, you are a master of Gu, can you pull out the love Gu for me?"

Don't provoke sick and delicate women, Xu Qi'an said: "The Gu planted by Chai Xing'er?"

Li Lingsu nodded with a look of grief on his face.

At this time, the shop waiter came closer, bowed and asked, "Guest officer, what do you want to eat?"

Li Lingsu looked at Mu Nanzhi and Xu Qian's eating, thought for a while, and said:

"All the dishes in the store that invigorate the kidney and strengthen the yang are brought up."

The waiter gave him a weird look, "Okay, okay"

His eyes immediately fell on the little white fox, and he praised it flatteringly:

"It is really energetic, unlike the cat raised by our shopkeeper, it is not energetic at all today, it seems to be sick."

No, it was just hollowed out. Xu Qi said in peace.

After the waiter finished speaking, he withdrew.

Mu Nanzhi gloated and said:

"I think you are a murderer by fate. First, you were imprisoned by the Dongfang sisters for half a year, drained your body, and then you were planted with love by Chai Xing'er. Tsk tsk, you will die in the hands of women one day."

Hey, Mrs. Xu seldom mocks me like this. Is it because she is jealous? Ah, my damn charm is impossible for us. Li Lingsu smiled politely and kept a distance from this plain-looking Mrs. Xu.

Mu Nanzhi didn't know Shengzi's inner drama, otherwise he would spit on him.

"But since you have followed him, you can ask him for advice on how to deal with conflicts between women. This guy is just like you, he has a lot of love affairs, and those women are far better than your lovers regardless of their status, status or appearance." Mu Nanzhi Cynicism.

A whole body of peach blossom debts? The appearance, status and status are far better than my confidante? Shengzi glanced at Xu Qian and didn't believe it.

Looking at Mrs. Xu's appearance, he knew what kind of taste Xu Qian was.

If this guy sees Mu Nanzhi's true face in the future, he doesn't know how he will feel. Well, the time agreed with the national teacher seems to be approaching. Xu Qi'an took a sip of porridge and said in a deep voice:

"Be careful with Chai Xing'er, I met Chai Xian last night."

"What?!"

The Son's voice suddenly rose.

Mu Nanzhi also looked over.

Xu Qi'an briefly talked about what happened last night. Of course, the sex scene between Shengzi and Chai Xing'er was hidden, not to save face for the scumbag, but to make "Xu Qian" look bad.

While rubbing her waist, Li Lingsu said seriously:

"I still don't believe that Myolie would do such a thing, but as the senior said, she is indeed the most suspect. But the suspicion is just a suspicion. If there is no evidence, it cannot prove that she is the real murderer behind the scenes.

"Everything that Chai Xian said is his own side."

Xu Qi'an gave a "hmm", chewed the soft steamed buns, and said:

"So the key person now is Chai Lan. Whether it's life or death, we must find her. In addition, you go to Chai Mansion and ask about the night when the incident happened. Chai Xing'er's words, Chai Xian's words, and Chai Mansion The disciple's remarks were compared by the three parties to see if any clues could be found.

"Tomorrow is the Demon Slaying Conference, so let's wait and see what happens."

The Buddhist monks represented by Jingxin and Jingyuan also intervened in this matter, so his priority now is not to find out the truth of the case, but to find Chai Xian and extract the dragon energy.

Otherwise, once Jingxin and Jingyuan discover that Chai Xian is the host of dragon energy, he will definitely be taken into Buddhism.

With his current cultivation base and the power of the Buddha Pagoda, he can only say that he is 50 to 50 to deal with this group of monks.

The other party can't do anything to him, and he can't kill the other party.

The point is that Jingxin and Jingyuan may have a way to contact the Difficult King Kong. If it is delayed for too long, he may face a third-rank or even an arhat.

"By the way, the Demon Slaying Conference will be held in Xianghe outside the city tomorrow." Li Lingsu said.

PS: I know I owe you a chapter, and I haven't forgotten it, but I really can't add more recently, and it's hard to get up quickly when writing a case. After this episode, I will definitely pay back. Don't scold, don't scold!