Taoist chanting

Chapter 117 There are clues by the river, not like ghosts

Zhang Wenfeng stood up and said, "It's not too late, I'm ready to go."

Chen Qingqiao listened silently at the side, and the two of them talked without avoiding him, the newly joined law enforcement guard of guest officials. I can still do errands."

Others were afraid of taking trouble, so he actively recommended himself.

Wu Ganping looked at Zhang Wenfeng and asked for opinions with his eyes, indicating that since the case was trusted and handed over to Brother Zhang, he would not interfere too much.

"Chen Guanzhu is humble. With Chen Guanzhu's help, I believe this case will be cleared up soon. Please read the file first to understand the case. I will go and get some items used to handle the case."

Zhang Wenfeng did not refuse, and handed the file to Chen Qingqiao who took the initiative to do something.

Affected by the clues of the Xiheshan case, his first impression of this impeccable demeanor, conversation, and demeanor, Chen Guanzhu, was not very good, but he could not deny a person with prejudice.

He also saw that Dean Wu wanted to employ people, and he wished that the more people he could use, the better.

So, it's a mule or a horse, pull it out for a walk.

He went out for a while, came back soon, and bid farewell to Principal Wu.

After leaving the gate of Daolu Branch, he discussed with Chen Qingqiao, and they split up.

Chen Qingqiao went south, while he went west.

By the way, I bought a lot of cotton fruit, tangerine, pomegranate and other fruits from the shop on the street, as well as cooked food such as stewed meat, dry food, etc. After leaving the city from Ximen, I put a few bags of fruits and food into the storage bottle as I walked along the path.

This is called "carry an umbrella when it's sunny, and bring food when you're full." He has this condition now.

Moreover, the food stored in the Nawu bottle will not be rotten and deteriorated for several years.

He deliberately went back to the Taoist temple, said hello to the second senior brother, called the donkey, and asked the black donkey to set off with the baby badger who was sleeping during the day in a bag.

In the case of Xiahe Village, if a ghost is at work, a donkey can help you find clues and save some effort.

I was not in a hurry on the way, but it took me half an hour to arrive at Xiahe Village.

Zhang Wenfeng showed his badge to the policeman who came forward to inquire, and asked, "Where is Lord Yun now?"

The catcher hurriedly smiled, bowed and stretched out his hand to ask, respectfully said: "Master Yun is at the villager's house, I will take you there."

A wooden barrier was set up at the east entrance of the village, and several police officers from You Xi and the county government guarded it. Before the murder case was found out, people in the village were not allowed to run out. This was an order from the superior yesterday.

In front of the village is a small river about ten feet wide, which is a tributary of the Gaoxi River flowing through Xihezhou Town. This place is about twenty miles away from Xihezhou Town.

Zhang Wenfeng walked into the village and observed all the way.

The doors of every house are closed tightly, and yellow talismans to exorcise evil spirits are newly pasted on the top of the firewood gate.

A peasant man peeked out from behind the low courtyard wall, and when he noticed his gaze, he hurriedly jumped down to avoid it.

Walking to the gate of a courtyard where a white cloth was hung, the donkey walking quietly and dumbfounded suddenly said:
"There is a monster here!"

It probed to the crack of the door and sniffed, and said via voice transmission: "It's a monster, a very faint fishy smell, which is different from the watery monster of the water monkey last time, and it smelled like earth on Lu Huan's body." The smell is even more different."

Zhang Wenfeng stopped.

Is it because of monsters, not ghosts?No wonder he didn't notice the slightest ghost aura along the way.

The fishy smell is demonic, it is a water demon.

He glanced at the dry water river under the slope of the vegetable field in front of him.

Catching water monsters is more troublesome... He looked thoughtfully at the policeman who led the way and stopped, and said, "What's the situation here?" He pointed to the white cloth hanging on it. Ask Taoist priests to do things.

A woman's suppressed crying could be heard from the yard, rising and falling.

At such a fatal time, no Taoist priests who dare to do things are invited, and moreover, irrelevant people are not allowed to enter or leave the village.

The policeman whispered: "The man from this family was murdered in his own bed in the early morning of the day before yesterday."

After more than a day, there was still the smell of a monster. Zhang Wenfeng asked again: "When did you come? Which Taoist priest was invited in the village to do the practice, when is the Taoist priest, and where did the accident happen? Please tell me carefully."

The dossiers he had read were written in scribbles at the end, without specifying the location. They only said that "two Taoist priests practiced hunting ghosts in the village and died in the middle of the night."

The policeman's face changed, he glanced at the front and back, leaned forward and said in a low voice: "I received a report early in the morning the day before yesterday, and we followed Mr. Xiao to come at noon. After seeing the deceased, we felt that something was wrong, it was too evil. , Head Xiao wants to go back and report to the county captain to transfer the case to the Daolu branch, and the village chief and the village elder have already invited the Taoist priests from the nearby Yingshan Temple."

Zhang Wenfeng slowed down and motioned for the articulate policeman to continue.

Seeing that the adults listened attentively, the arrester continued: "Two Taoist priests took the magic weapon and wandered around the village looking for it. When the sun was about to fall into the water, they said with certainty that the river in front of the village was not clean, and the souls of those who fell into the water were still lingering. Became a drowning ghost, went ashore to look for the dead ghost, so the dead will be left with sweat-like slime and stench, must do a three-night water ceremony to send the wronged soul away."

Take your eyes to the direction of the river, for fear that the drowning ghost will climb up.

"Where do you do it near the water?"

Zhang Wenfeng asked, in broad daylight, on a clear day, the water demon would not easily go ashore.

"...The Dharma altar is built on the stone pier hundreds of feet away. When the two Taoist priests practiced until the third watch, we were all on the shore at that time. We heard two 'plops', and several old men in the village shouted, " The Taoist priest has fallen into the water, hurry up and save him with a bamboo rake.” Some of the villagers who watched the scene on the shore shouted, “The ghost who fell into the water catches people,” and ran away in fright.

Later, it was our head Xiao who had the courage to call us together, light the torches, ring the copper basin and iron utensils, throw firecrackers to the water's edge, and fish people out of the water with a rake, but the people were already dead, and Died exactly the same as before. "

He didn't say that it was almost half an hour before he went to rescue the person.

Zhang Wenfeng walked to the fork in the road to the river, didn't ask any more questions, and said, "I'll go to the pier to have a look, you wait here for a while."

Ignoring the catcher who backed away a few steps in fright, he turned and walked towards the pier, followed by the donkey at a leisurely pace.

One person and one donkey walked to the stone-paved pier that slanted down to the water.

The altar of the day before yesterday was still not dismantled, and the arrangement was very simple. There were two door panels to set up an altar, and the sacrifices of the little three animals were placed.

The censer was overturned, chicken and duck incense candles and glutinous rice money paper were scattered everywhere, and a fish as a sacrifice was soaked in the water below, turning its belly.

"It has the same fishy smell here."

The donkey walked down the pier to the river, sniffed the messy waterside with countless footprints and drag marks, and said through a voice transmission: "This water monster is very stupid, making such a big noise, I'm afraid others won't know it, don't worry about it. Is someone coming to clean it up?"

Zhang Wenfeng confirmed that it was done by a monster.

Unlike the Chaxi Heshan case last time, several groups of forces were involved and almost got the wrong direction.

"Do you think all monsters have brains like you? Most of the monsters who have just awakened act on instinct. They don't even know that there are experts in the outside world.

They instinctively regard the villagers and livestock on the land as food that can be supplemented at will.

Monsters that have a brain and can think have lived long enough. Therefore, when we find monsters, our Taoist attitude is to capture them immediately or kill them on the spot. "

Slaying demons and killing evil spirits is the basic function of the existence of the Daolu branch.

The donkey is very popular according to the viewer's evaluation of it.

Well, the biggest difference between it and those idiots is that it has a brain, it can understand human speech and learn.

Zhang Wenfeng looked from above, and found that there seemed to be marks left by something sliding on the mud, about the thickness of an arm, and said via voice transmission: "Stand still, I'll go down and have a look, don't step on the marks."

With a light jump, he landed on the river bank two feet away, and squatted down to observe carefully.

There were too many footprints interfering, and it was impossible to analyze whether it was left by a monster or dragged with a stick, and the traces disappeared in the water.

Zhang Wenfeng thought silently, glanced at the withered grass on both sides of the bank, estimated the direction of the trace, gestured with his hand, and said via voice transmission: "You walk along this area to the grass above, and smell it."

The donkey sniffed carefully, walked about five or six feet away, and stood in front of a shallow pit covered with weeds.

After sniffing along the pit for a while, he said via voice transmission: "It's the smell of the water demon. It crawled through here and left mucus. This smell... is like the sticky smell of eels. It is different from the smell found by the stream before. It smells a bit like an eel from here."

"Eel?"

Zhang Wenfeng murmured silently.

The "moon-watching eel" recorded in the classic "Monster Collection Overview Volume" collected in the secret room, "has star spots on the forehead, likes to look at the moon at night and absorb the moonlight". ,brutal.

As for whether the moon-watching eel was causing trouble, we still need to go to the deceased's house to check and verify on the spot.

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(End of this chapter)