Nightwatcher

Cut off!

Xu Qi'an's eyes froze, and his spirit instantly tensed up. This short sentence aroused a strong sense of crisis and urgency.

Why did Jingxin and Jingyuan catch Chai Xian so quickly? This is unreasonable.

After the small village extermination case, Chai Xian became more cautious. Even I, with the dragon energy radar, couldn't find Chai Xian's hiding place. .

Not to mention the purification of heart and fate, it is impossible for them to see through the dragon energy host in the vast crowd.

"I must have overlooked something, or Jingxin and Jingyuan know some secrets that I don't know"

After calming down, Xu Qi'an said lightly: "I see."

Li Lingsu immediately said: "I'll go and stare at Xing'er first, what's your plan, senior?"

"Protect yourself."

The corner of Li Lingsu's mouth twitched, nodded, and disappeared through the cellar door.

As soon as the Holy Son left, Xu Qi'an immediately bared his teeth, feeling troubled.

"Pure Mind and Pure Fate are the pinnacles of the fourth grade. The combination of a Zen master and a martial monk can basically suppress any system of the same realm. I am afraid that only the fourth grade of Confucianism can counter the precepts of Buddhism with words.

"The old monk Pagoda doesn't allow me to use the pagoda to suppress and kill Buddhist disciples. It's okay to use it to protect myself, but now I want to be a Buddhist monk, so I can't count on the Pagoda of Buddha.

"Chai Xian is one of the hosts of the Dragon Qi of the Nine Paths, and must not fall into the hands of Buddhism. Fortunately, the enemy is in the open, and I am in the dark. They don't know my existence"

Xu Qi'an made a decisive decision, cut off half of the snakes, insects, rats and ants, and manipulated the remaining half to continue exploring the Chaifu ancestral hall.

The spare soul is used to manipulate the orange cat.

Outside the cellar, the lazy and soundly sleeping orange cat opened its amber eyes with dim pupils. It raised its proud little tail and shot out like a sharp arrow.

In the dark night, Chai Xing'er did not bring any attendants, nor did she inform the Chai family members.

Walking alone in the corridor, the cold wind howled, the lanterns hanging on both sides under the eaves swayed, the red halo illuminated her delicate face, reflected in her pupils, bright as gems.

After walking for a while, I saw the inner hall, and bright candle flames came out from the doors and windows.

Outside the inner hall, there were more than a dozen monks from the Western Regions, who seemed to have marked the surrounding area as a restricted area.

Chai Xing'er came closer, pushed open the door of the inner hall, and saw Jing Xin and Jing Yuan brothers sitting on chairs, standing alone in the hall, bound by dark golden ropes.

"Chai Xian!"

Chai Xing'er's eyes were wide open, her plain and pretty face was distorted by anger, she took two quick steps, and without saying a word, she slapped Chai Xian with her palm.

"Killing is forbidden!"

Jing Xin cast the precepts at the right time, dispelling Chai Xing'er's thoughts of attacking.

"My benefactor, Chai Xing'er, don't be impatient."

Jing Xin got up, put his hands together, and said in a calm tone:

"I have already questioned Chai Xian with Buddhist precepts. He is not the real culprit who killed Chai Jianyuan, nor is he the one who caused chaos in Xiangzhou during this period of time. The real culprit behind the scenes is someone else."

Chai Xing'er's eyes fluttered, and she saw that the three of them were all staring at her.

"What does Master Jingxin mean by these words?" Chai Xing'er frowned slightly, "Could it be that you suspect that I wronged him, that it was the Chai family who wronged him, that it was the heroes of Xiangzhou who wronged him?"

Wu Monk Jing Yuan then stood up, stepped forward with a forceful manner, and said indifferently: "It is precisely because of this incident that we waited to return here. The Buddha does not punish innocent people, nor will he spare any sinful people."

"It seems that in the eyes of the two masters, my Xing'er is the one who has sinned."

At this time, the door of the inner hall was pushed open, and Li Lingsu, who was wearing a black robe and handsome and flawless, stepped across the threshold.

Li Lingsu. Jingxin and Jingyuan looked at each other, knowing his true identity, but deliberately ignored his existence.

It's almost defiant, if this holy son was in his heyday, he would hit you both with ease. Li Lingsu felt that he was being ignored, so he muttered to himself.

He glanced at Chai Xian who was not far away, and said with a smile: "Brother Chai Xian, long time no see."

When he and Chai Xing'er dated back then, he had acquaintance with this Chai Xian a few times.

Compared to before, Chai Xian seems to have experienced a lot of vicissitudes.

In addition, Li Lingsu was keenly aware of the location of Jingyuan Station, which happened to be the fastest place to "support" Chai Xian.

And Jing Xin always puts his hands together, and is always ready to perform the precepts at any time.

The defense is very tight, even with Xu Qian's secret tricks, it is difficult to snatch Chai Xian and Li Lingsu's unchanging thoughts in front of the two of them.

"It's you!"

Chai Xian obviously recognized Li Lingsu, and suddenly said: "A few days ago, I thought my aunt was dissolute and depraved, but it turned out to be you."

Chai Xinger glared at Chai Xian viciously, and could only compromise in front of the two eminent monks, took a deep breath, and asked:

"What do you want to do?"

Jing Xin said: "It's very simple. The poor monk questioned you with precepts. If you can stand the test, you are innocent. If you can't"

He didn't go on, but the meaning was self-evident.

Now that the Dragon Qi host has been captured, there is no need to worry about Chai Jia and Chai Xing'er. With their cultivation base, not to mention Xiangzhou, even Zhangzhou can push.

Wu Monk Jing Yuan stared at Chai Xing'er with a bit of aura.

When everyone was talking, an orange cat stood under the window, leaning against the outer wall, pricked up its ears, and made a gesture of attentive listening.

"After capturing Chai Xian, the Buddhist sect no longer needs to worry about anything, and this arrogance is immediately revealed." The orange cat shook its ears to identify its position by listening.

I found that Jingxin and Jingyuan are very close to Chai Xian.

"Even if the main body comes and robs people by jumping in the shadows, I'm afraid the monk Jingyuan will find out before he shows up. Tonight doesn't seem to be the time to rob people."

The cat's face showed a humanized scowl.

In the hall, Chai Xing'er nodded slightly, "Okay, just ask the master."

Hearing this, everyone present, as well as Xu Qi'an outside, held their breath almost at the same time, waiting for the answer.

Jing Xin clasped her hands together: "Thank you, benefactor, for your cooperation."

He immediately exercised the precepts, and said in a deep voice: "Did you kill Chai Jianyuan?"

After the words fell, an invisible but majestic force was exerted on Chai Xing'er, making her feel that people should be born sincere, and those who tell lies are not worthy of being human.

In such a state, unable to tell any lie, she replied:

"I didn't kill it."

Chai Jianyuan was not killed by her. This, this is different from what I thought. Could it be that she poisoned, then quickly killed Chai Jianyuan, and then lured Chai Xian to go over, framing Chai Xian?

Jingxin has already questioned Chai Xian with commandments, he doesn't need to lie about this matter, but if it wasn't Chai Xing'er or Chai Xian who killed him, then who would it be?

Xu Qi'an's thoughts were floating under the window, and he suddenly realized that the case was more complicated than he imagined.

Jing Xin and Jing Yuan looked at each other and frowned.

It wasn't Xing'er who killed him, I knew Xing'er wouldn't do such a thing, so who killed Chai Jianyuan? Li Lingsu frowned while rejoicing, feeling that the case had become more complicated.

Jing Xin asked again in a deep voice: "Is it you who killed people and refined corpses all over Xiangzhou?"

Chai Xing'er shook her head: "It wasn't me, it was Chai Xian who did it."

Under the spell of "discipline", she can only tell the truth and never tell lies.

"If it's not you, who else?"

Chai Xian was furious and lost control of his emotions: "You still have accomplices, you still have accomplices."

Jing Xin's eyes lit up, and while the precept spell was still there, he asked: "Who is your accomplice, did your accomplice do it?"

Chai Xing'er said calmly: "I have no accomplices, I didn't kill the eldest brother, and I didn't do the murders outside."

Not lying, Jing Xin and Jing Yuan looked at each other, seeing surprise and bewilderment in each other's eyes.

At this point, it can be basically concluded that Chai Xing'er is innocent, neither murdered nor accomplices, it is impossible to be the person behind the scenes.

But the case also fell into a new impasse.

Chai Xian murmured: "This is impossible, this is impossible"

He seemed unable to accept such an ending.

Xu Qi'an under the window pondered. If it wasn't Chai Xing'er or Chai Xian, then Chai Lan was very likely. But the problem is, this girl has never appeared from the beginning to the end, and there are too few clues to make a judgment. .

Xu Qi'an felt that he had returned to the time when he was in the capital, facing various cases, painstakingly worked so hard that his head became bald.

Li Lingsu said suddenly: "Where's Chai Lan? Have you forgotten Chai Lan?"

Hearing Li Lingsu's words, Chai Xian broke free from the confusion of muttering to himself, and glared at each other:

"Xiaolan has disappeared long ago, you can make false accusations whatever you want."

Chai Xinger said:

"I don't know why the precepts are useless to Chai Xian, but the eldest brother was indeed killed by him, and the Xiangzhou murder case was also committed by him. This was witnessed by everyone in the Chai Mansion, and there are many outsiders who witnessed his perpetrators. Why doesn't Master believe it? .”

Pure heart way:

"It is impossible for Chai Xian to resist the precepts of the poor monk. He really did not lie. In addition, there are many doubts about your words, benefactor Chai Xing'er. Chai Xian is not a person with the most evil nature. How could he do it for the marriage of benefactor Chai Lan?" , Kill the foster father who is as kind as a mountain?

"Compared to this, isn't it safer to elope?"

Clever, this monk and Xu Qian wanted to go together. Li Lingsu nodded slightly.

Chai Xing'er sighed and said:

"I was hiding something. In fact, Chai Xian, he, he is my elder brother's illegitimate son."

These words were like thunder, ringing in everyone's ears, Jing Xin and Jing Yuan were slightly moved, very shocked.

What Xu Qian said was correct, Chai Xian was really Chai Jianyuan's illegitimate son. Myolie knew about it as expected. Li Lingsu was not surprised because he already knew this secret.

As for Chai Xian, his pupils shrank violently as if encountering a strong light, and his face was as stiff as a stone sculpture. From his dull eyes and blank expression, it could be seen that his mind was chaotic and unable to think.

Chai Xing'er continued:

"He had an extreme personality since he was a child. My elder brother was afraid that he would not be able to accept this fact, so he kept it secret and raised him as a adopted son. As he grew up, he gradually developed a love for his younger sister.

"Brother has no choice but to marry the Huangfu family and marry Xiaolan as soon as possible.

"I didn't expect Chai Xian to be resentful because of this, and he killed his eldest brother. His character is so extreme."

"You're talking nonsense!"

A loud shout interrupted her, and Chai Xian's forehead was bruised with anger, obviously extremely angry:

"Chai Xing'er, don't talk nonsense. Both my parents died when I was young. My adoptive father saw me as pitiful and talented, so he adopted me. You can just slander me, but slander him too. You vicious woman."

Monk Jing Yuan frowned and asked Chai Xing'er: "What evidence do you have?"

Chai Xing'er looked sideways at the door and said, "Here comes the evidence."

Immediately afterwards, the monk guarding outside the hall scolded: "Who is it?"

Jing Yuan looked in the direction of the gate and said loudly: "What happened."

The monk outside the door responded: "Brother Jingyuan, there is a walking corpse approaching."

Jing Yuan glanced at Chai Xing'er and said, "Let "him" in."

The door of the inner hall was pushed open, and a person in gray clothes came in, his eyes were dead, his skin was pale and bloodless, like a walking dead.

It was Chai Jianyuan who had been dead for twenty days.

"Father."

Chai Xian's lips trembled.

Chai Xing'er manipulated the walking corpse into a seat and asked him to take off his shoes to reveal his left foot.

Everyone took a closer look and found that Chai Jianyuan had six toes, but what does this mean?

Chai Xing'er said: "Chai Xian also has six toes."

Li Lingsu, who purifies the heart and purifies the fate, looks at Chai Xian in Qi Shushua, but sees that his eyes are already dull, staring at Chai Jianyuan's left foot in a daze, and the blood on his face fades little by little.

The handsome Zen master asked: "Blesser Chai Xian, do you have six toes?"

Chai Xian's lips moved, and his jaw convulsed, as if he had lost his language function.

Jing Xin and Jing Yuan understood, and the latter questioned Chai Xing'er: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Chai Xing'er shook her head sadly: "The eldest brother died at the hands of his adopted son, and the Chai family still has face, but died at the hands of an illegitimate son. When such scandals spread, how can the Chai family gain a foothold in Zhangzhou? The two masters are outsiders after all, how can I Tell you the truth. If the matter had not reached this point, I would definitely not make it public."

No, just because of his extreme personality, why don't you tell him? The orange cat under the window frowned.

Jingyuan nodded, accepted Chai Xinger's explanation, and said puzzledly:

"But Chai Xian passed the test of precepts, the murderer is not him"

"No!" Jing Xin shook her head and said, "It's him."

After all, under the confused expressions of everyone, the fourth-rank Zen master stared at Chai Xian and said:

"I haven't asked the benefactor about something. You said you went to Sanshui Town to track down the person behind the scenes. Then, how did the benefactor know that the person behind the scenes would attack Sanshui Town?"

Hearing this, Chai Xian seemed to have been hit on the top of the head with a stick, his pupils instantly dilated, and he lowered his head.

"How do I know, how do I know"

He stood there blankly, lowered his head, and kept muttering to himself.

This process lasted for about ten seconds. Suddenly, low laughter sounded, gradually became louder, and finally turned into wild laughter.

Chai Xian raised his head, Qingjun's face was distorted, his eyes were full of crazy malice, and his laughter was high-pitched and hoarse:

"How do I know? Because I'm the one who killed you!"

In an instant, he seemed to be another person.

"That's right, I killed Chai Jianyuan, and I also did the murder in Xiangzhou. I did everything."

He laughed nervously:

"I have no father since I was born, and my mother was depressed. In order to raise me, she worked too hard and died. I became a beggar since I was a child, was bullied, and suffered a lot. He deserved his death.

"Do you know how I got here in those years? My life is worse than a dog. But it doesn't matter, as long as Xiaolan is still with me, I can put aside the past. But he even took Xiaolan away from me.

"Shouldn't such a person deserve to die? Shouldn't he die!"

At this time, Chai Xian was completely different from that gentle and handsome image.

Dementia? Li Lingsu suddenly realized: "It turns out that he has the disease of leaving the soul."

Schizophrenia? ! Xu Qi'an under the window also suddenly realized.

He finally understood why the case was so chaotic, and conflicts arose at every stage, because there were two Chai Xians.

Of course, the normal Chai Xian had no motive to kill Chai Jianyuan, but another Chai Xian who knew his life experience had this motive, and he was an extremely paranoid person.

The normal Chai Xian believed that he was innocent, and someone behind the scenes framed him, so he insisted on refusing to leave Xiangzhou, trying to find out the truth.

But in fact, the person behind the scenes is himself, another personality.

This creates inconsistencies in the case.

He was also responsible for the murder case in Xiaoshan Village. Xu Qi'an finally understood that Chai Xing'er had an alibi, and it wasn't necessary.

At first he felt strange, if it was Chai Xing'er who killed the family of three, why didn't he take the opportunity to ambush Chai Xian? There is no point in killing a few innocent villagers.

But for the other personality, it is necessary to prevent Chai Xian from participating in the Demon Slaying Conference, because the murderer is himself, and he did all the murders, so he is not innocent at all.

Going to the Demon Slaughter Conference is a dead end, just like it is now.

"Hey, there is progress in the ancestral hall." The orange cat closed her eyes.

In the cellar on the other side, Xu Qi'an received a feedback from a mouse. The mouse "told" him that there was a secret room under the ancestral hall, and it sneaked into the secret room through a hole in the ground.

Inside and outside the ancestral hall, all the snakes, insects, rats and ants lost control at the same time.

The mice start to catch the bugs around them, and the snakes that wake up from hibernation follow the instinct of eating to catch the mice.

"The secret room under the ancestral hall is really rewarding." Xu Qi'an gave up on them and focused on controlling the orange cat and the mouse that found the secret room.

This relieved his load all of a sudden, and the headache disappeared.

In the slightly dull air of the secret room, there were a few oil lamps in the recessed part of the wall.

In the depths of the secret room, a disheveled woman was sitting on a pile of straw that gave off a rotten smell, with her limbs bound by iron chains.

Her mouth was blocked by a leather muzzle, her head was pulled aside feebly, her chest rose and fell slightly, her breathing was fairly steady, as if she was asleep.

Chai Xing'er came to the South Courtyard the night before yesterday and met this woman?

Chai Xing'er locked her here?

The mouse walked through the dim halo of the oil lamp, stopped in front of the woman, and said:

"wake up!"

The woman's head moved and she slowly woke up. When she saw the mouse in front of her, she was obviously stunned and did not respond for a long time.

The mouse said, "Who are you?"

"woo woo woo"

Under the woman's messy hair, her eyes lit up suddenly, as if a hopeless person saw hope.

She struggled violently, extremely excited, and the iron chain she was struggling with made a "squeaky" sound.

"Who are you?"

The mouse asked again. It looked down at its two small front paws, and said, "You can write."

The woman's fingers tremblingly wrote two words on the wall:

"Chai Lan!"

PS: I will finish writing this plot tomorrow, and it will only take one or two chapters.