Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 28
Seeing this big empty box, Li Xiuyuan knew that it was definitely not the steward Qian who took the silver taels inside, it was definitely a monster or a ghost.

Of course, it is also possible that some cultivators used methods.

However, the possibility of being a cultivator is very small. The most taboo thing for a cultivator is cause and effect. He took away 1 taels of silver like this. Among the causes and effects, it is enough to ruin his path of cultivation. Therefore, it is definitely not done by people who practice Taoism.

"Take a look around." Li Xiuyuan held up a lantern and began to patrol around the warehouse.

See if you can find any clues.

"Master, it's gloomy here, and this slave is a little scared, so let's go out quickly." Xiaodie said a little scared.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Wait before leaving, let me check first."

After he turned around here, he didn't find any clues, everything was normal, and he didn't find any clues.

From this point of view, the loss of the 1 taels of silver is likely to be caused by ghosts.

Only ghosts and ghosts can pass through the wall freely, and can easily take away the silver taels.

"It seems that I have to go to the master to ask."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head slightly, intending to take the time to go to Xiahe Village to see if his master could figure out anything.

"Come on, let's get out of here."

Just as he was about to leave with Xiaodie, suddenly there was a creaking sound from the warehouse behind him.

It's a mouse.

There will be mice in the warehouse.

You must know that the money bank of the Li family was extremely hard when it was built. The walls around it were all made of large bluestones, and the soil used to build the walls was also made of clay mixed with glutinous rice, fish glue, etc. It is extremely strong, enough to be as strong as the city walls of the capital, and it is impossible for mice to drill holes in it.

However, there must be demons abnormally.

Li Xiuyuan immediately turned around and went back to the warehouse to take a look.

At this time, he saw a white-haired mouse, which was actually climbing onto a box, picked up a piece of silver and stuffed it into its mouth.

A silver ingot the size of an adult's palm was actually stuffed into the mouse's stomach abruptly, and the mouse's stomach did not show any signs of swelling, it was still very flat. The mouse seemed not satisfied yet, and continued to He picked up the silver ingot and ate it. After eating a full three ingots, he became a little alert. Turning his head, he saw Li Xiuyuan striding towards him.

"Squeak~!"

Immediately, the white mouse yelled, jumped down from the box in a rustling manner, then quickly ran away along the corner of the wall, and finally slid its head down into a crack in the stone that was only as thick as a finger.

The white mouse actually got into such a small gap abruptly, and soon disappeared.

When Li Xiuyuan arrived, he happened to see one of the mouse's tails disappearing into the crevice of the stone, and he couldn't catch the mouse.

"This mouse has become a sperm."

What he was most concerned about was not the loss of the three ingots of silver, but more about the white mouse itself.

Obviously, being able to eat a silver ingot as big as his own body in one go and get into such a small crevice of stone is definitely not something that ordinary mice can do. It must be a monster with Taoism.

"This white mouse has at least 200 years of Taoism, but even if it has Taoism, the white mouse has not turned into a human form, so it should not know the use of silver. To it, silver is a stone, which cannot be eaten or used. Garbage, so It stole the silver from my house definitely not for its own use, but for others, only people know the benefits of gold and silver."

Li Xiuyuan pondered.

I feel that there is someone behind this white mouse, or someone has pointed it out.

However, for such things as stealing, people who practice Taoism will commit karma, and it must not be done by people who practice Taoism.

So who instigated this white rat?

After thinking about it for a while, Li Xiuyuan decided to investigate thoroughly, but this investigation locked the murderer.

Not the money steward, but the white mouse.

Mice are the best at digging holes, and the mice with Taoism are even better. They can drill through the cracks in the bluestone, and indeed only the aliens can do it.

"Let's get out of here."

With an order, Li Xiuyuan quickly left the warehouse with Xiaodie.

After returning, he roughly told his father about such things.

Li Dafu's eyes widened immediately: "There is such a thing, my Li family's tens of thousands of taels of silver were actually stolen by a white mouse."

"Yes father, my child has seen it with my own eyes. The white mouse swallowed three ingots of silver without distending its belly, and it was able to escape through the crevices of the rocks." Li Xiuyuan said, "There is no doubt about such ability, the mouse has the ability to do so. Ghost, to be targeted by such a ghost, not to mention tens of thousands of taels, will be emptied of all the money in our Li family's treasury at that time, so Steward Qian is innocent."

"Then, what should we do now?" Li Dafu hesitated for a while, "Since it's a spirit and monster causing trouble, let's ask the Taoist priest to go down the mountain to catch the monster."

Li Xiuyuan's mouth twitched again when he mentioned his master, Daoist blind.

He said: "Master is building the road. I'm afraid I don't have time. The most urgent thing now is to seal the stone gap in the warehouse so that the silver will not be lost again. As for the money steward, let him go out and give him a sum of two taels of silver." Let him retire to the old age."

"The stone gap is easy to deal with, but since Steward Qian is innocent, he should apologize for his father and ask him to continue managing the treasury. Why did he dismiss Steward Qian?" Li Dafu wondered.

Li Xiuyuan said: "After this incident, Butler Qian's loyalty must have been shaken. I'm afraid it's not safe to let him take charge of the treasury. Besides, Butler Qian is not too young. Let him retire and return to his hometown to enjoy his old age."

"Hehe, my son really deserves to have a delicate heart, with a delicate mind, insight into people's hearts, and handling things so skillfully. As a father, I am very pleased." Li Dafu said, but then he saw Xiaodie behind him, and couldn't help immediately It stopped again.

He almost forgot that the news of his child's exquisite heart cannot be leaked out, otherwise there will be no peace in his life.

"Ahem, the money steward's matter has been resolved, but the matter of the money bank is still worrying for my father. It's easy to seal the cracks in the stone, but what if the white rat comes again?"

"There should be a cat at home. If there is a cat patrolling the warehouse, then you can rest easy." Li Xiuyuan said.

Li Dafu's eyes lit up immediately: "It's reasonable, it's reasonable, mice are most afraid of cats."

"However, a cat that is waiting for nothing can't control a mouse that has a good character. My child needs to make some preparations." Li Xiuyuan cupped his hands, and then left again.

"Young master, wait for this servant." Xiaodie followed behind Li Xiuyuan like a small tail.

After Li Xiuyuan came to the backyard, he told a servant girl, "Where did that black cat in the backyard go?"

"Big, young master." The maid hurriedly saluted, and then said: "The black cat is probably taking a nap in the garden."

"Go catch it, I need it urgently." Li Xiuyuan said.

"Yes." The maidservant responded and quickly trot away.

After a while, the maid came back with a black cat in her arms.

The black cat is domesticated, not afraid of strangers, and is held by people obediently.

"Xiaodie, take the black cat to my study." Li Xiuyuan said.

After Xiaodie took the black cat from the handmaid, she followed him to the study.

"Let's think about it, let's think about it, how did you draw the Enlightenment Talisman?"

Li Xiuyuan polished the ink, took out the brush, and laid out a piece of rice paper, recalling something that his cheap master had taught him in his mind.

Spirit Enlightenment Talisman!
As the name suggests, it is to open up the spiritual wisdom of living beings. This is a relatively advanced talisman.

A cultivator of Taoism cannot perform without certain Taoism.

But Li Xiuyuan is a different kind.

With seven orifices and an exquisite heart, he has the ability to never forget, and immediately recalled the drawing method of the Enlightenment Talisman in his mind.

Like the blind Taoist in the past, Li Xiuyuan took the lead in his brushwork, and soon he drew a Taoist talisman that even he couldn't understand.

(End of this chapter)