Day and night tour

Chapter 203: The Coroner
Yun Ziliang has always known that the feng shui of Dongshi Street is strange. Even a dragon hunter like him cannot see through the foundation of this street.

"Old Ancestor, let me tell you, there is not only the Dongshan Fox Lady in this street, there are other monsters - they all fled to Dongshi Street."

"So many of our neighbors have important backgrounds." Zhou Xuan thought of something, but he just laughed it off and said, "Why are you arresting the fox lady?"

“I don’t know the details, but I heard from my master that she stole a treasure from our dragon hunting expedition,” Zhao Wuya replied.

"Since you can't find the fox girl on the street, hurry back to the sect and report."

Zhou Xuan urged Zhao Wuya to leave, but Zhao Wuya was unwilling to leave. He said that since it was confirmed that the Fox Lady of Dongshan was still in Dongshi Street, he would keep an eye on her in the street. After a long time, the Fox Lady would definitely reveal herself.

Of course, you can’t just wander the streets every day, you have to find a store and do some business.

"What kind of business can you do? Sell donkey meat hotpot?" Zhou Xuan looked at Zhao Wuya's black donkey that was bleating "Ah-e, Ah-e".

"We Taoist priests who seek dragons are proficient in Feng Shui, and can occasionally tell fortunes and divinations. I will open a Feng Shui shop."

"That's great. I have a store that I'm not using right now. Would you like to rent it to you?"

Zhou Xuan thought of his old painting studio and asked.

"Is it spacious?"

"I've lived in there for ten years. Tell me if it's spacious or not." Yun Ziliang got angry when he saw Zhao Wuya.

"Then I'll rent it."

Zhao Wuya said this straightforwardly, without asking about the specific location of the store.

Business was secondary to him. His main purpose was to find a fox girl in Dongshi Street. He didn’t care about the location of the store.

"Then sign the paperwork, one thousand dollars a month."

……

Zhou Xuan and Zhao Wuya had just signed the document in black and white and sealed it when they heard Aunt Niu shouting outside the door.

"Boss Zhou, your guest's donkey has done something terrible. It has fucked Qian Mazi's big yellow dog to pieces."

Zhou Xuan: “…”

Zhao Wuya: “…”

Zhao Wuya ran out in a hurry, cursing his donkey as he ran: "Dahei, you are so blind, you are not even of the same species."

By the time he ran to the street, the big black donkey had already pinned the yellow dog under it. The dog was grimacing in agony.

The black donkey squinted its eyes comfortably and called "Ah-e-ah-e" in a coquettish way.

Zhao Wuya quickly led the donkey away and gave eighteen yuan of compensation to the owner of the yellow dog, "Qian Mazi".

"Don't let me see your donkey again next time... or I'll castrate it. Look how it ruined my Da Huang. My Da Huang has never been in a relationship before."

Qian Mazi, like Sister Liu, also jumped up and down and cursed.

Zhou Xuan stood aside and laughed until his stomach hurt. This donkey really should be castrated. It had caused trouble twice in the early morning just because of that useless merchant.

After taking Dahei away, Zhao Wuya and Yun Ziliang went to the old painting studio to look at houses and buy some daily necessities.

As the ancestor of Xunlong, Yun Ziliang may scold Zhao Wuya, but he has a "sharp tongue but a soft heart". He helps the younger generation to clean up the store and familiarize himself with the environment of the street.

A bit like what?
"It's like an old father sending his youngest son to study in another city." Zhou Xuan had a strange sense of déjà vu.

After Yun Ziliang and Zhao Wuya left, Zhou Xuan went to Cui Jie's snack stand.

"Sister Cui, give me a bowl of pork belly noodles."

Zhou Xuan hasn't had breakfast yet.

"well."

Sister Cui was a little absent-minded. The topping for the noodles was originally pork tripe, but was replaced with beef. She quickly scooped the beef into a small bowl to give to Mu Hua as a snack later, and then put the pork tripe on the top and brought the noodles to Zhou Xuan's table.

Just as she was about to leave, Zhou Xuan reached out and pulled her back, whispering, "The Taoist who was looking for dragons came to this street to find the fox lady from Dongshan..."

"I...I..." Sister Cui was a little incoherent.

Zhou Xuan gently patted the orange hair on Cui Jie's shoulder with his left hand and said, "You better be careful in the future. Don't hang around the fox sellers, or the Taoist priest will mistake you for a fox girl and capture you."

"Brother Zhou, thank you...thank you..."

Sister Cui's eyes were red and her voice was faintly tearful.

Zhou Xuan continued to eat noodles, as if the scene just now had never happened.

When the Taoist priest talked about the fox girl, Zhou Xuan had already vaguely guessed who she was.

Zhou Xuan once noticed that there was animal hair on Cuijie's clothes. Cuijie said at the time that she got it from an old man selling foxes.

Later, Zhou Xuan absorbed the obsession memories. One of the obsessions was an old man from Dongshi Street. From his memory, Zhou Xuan saw the scene when Cui Jie had just moved to Dongshi Street.

At that time, Sister Cui also had fox hair on her clothes.

"Muhua is the Hundred Ghosts of the Tattoo Ancient Clan, and Cuijie is the Fox Lady of Dongshan. Dongshi Street is really full of hidden dragons and crouching tigers."

Zhou Xuan did not expose Cui Jie's identity to her face. His idea was very simple. She had been hiding it for nearly twenty years, so she might as well continue hiding it for the rest of her life.

As for Zhao Wuya's plan to take Cui Jie away,

Of course that's not possible.

Cuijie has been taken away, who will take care of Muhua?

Sister Cui was taken away. Where can we eat such delicious pork belly noodles?
……

Near noon, Liu Qingguang took his disciples to "Qingfeng Tower" for a drink.

He was in a very good mood today. To be more precise, he had been in a very good mood since last night.

As the head of the "Thief" sect, Liu Qingguang not only instructs new disciples on how to burn incense every day, but also manages the place for the sect.

He is in charge of Mingjiang Qingtian Cinema and Mingdong Grand Theater.

However, there were always people who came to cause trouble for the kidnapper, and the one who annoyed him the most was "Ying San'er".
Ying Saner is an extremely talented person among the "Kuaizi" gang.

The first incense stick of the kidnapper is called "Wind on Flat Ground", and the second incense stick is called "Leaving No Trace on the Grass".

The former makes the lame man have better leg strength and run faster; the latter makes the lame man run without any sound.

The combination of these two makes the kidnapper extremely capable of sneak attacks.

"Ying San'er" lived up to his name. He showed off his skills in the first two incense sticks. Once he started using them, he had a style of "coming without a trace and going without a trace".

He often caused trouble for Liu Qingguang and would frequently break into the Sunny Day Cinema and the Grand Theater to attack the patrolling disciples of the Thief's Gang.

Today this disciple had his leg stepped on and broken, tomorrow that disciple had both hands crippled, making Liu Qingguang's disciples panic.

But Liu Qingguang had no way to deal with Ying Saner. His gourd-shaped eyes were naturally magical and could see extremely mysterious things, even obsessions.

But his eyesight was not quick enough, and he could not keep up with the "shadow-like" Ying San'er, so he could only watch helplessly as he was bullied by the other party.

However, a few days ago, Zhou Xuan gave him an "eye" tattoo, and the situation changed.

For several days, he had been waiting for Ying Saner to show up. Last night, he finally showed up and broke the hands and feet of two of his disciples.

This time, Liu Qingguang went into an alley alone, used himself as bait, and lured Ying Saner to kill him.

Ying Saner was not afraid of Liu Qingguang. He would naturally not miss such a good opportunity and really entered the alley.

But he didn't know that there was an "eye" tattoo in the alley.

With the third eye, Liu Qingguang knows exactly where Ying Saner is.

When Ying Saner showed his speed, sneaked behind Liu Qingguang and slashed him in mid-air,
Liu Qingguang suddenly turned around and, using the same method he used to steal the third incense stick, stole Ying Saner's right ankle bone.

Ying Saner, who had lost a foot, was a little flustered. He didn't know how Liu Qingguang saw him launching a sneak attack.

"This Liu Qingguang, I used to treat him like a fool, but today he suddenly became smart?"

Ying Saner wanted to run, but since he had lost one ankle, it was not that easy to run.

Liu Qingguang's hands moved quickly, and he first used "Fuhuo Qiang" - the fourth incense stick method of the thief, to temporarily cut off the connection between Ying Saner's secret realm and his body.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Qingguang launched a series of thefts and took away Ying Saner's two tibia bones.

Ying San'er's legs were boneless, so he was like fish at the mercy of anyone.

In order to vent his past anger, Liu Qingguang no longer used his tricks and sat directly on Ying Saner, punching him in the face again and again...

"That Ying San'er tried to sneak attack me, but the tattoo that Xiao Xian gave me showed him clearly. I turned around and pinned him down."

Liu Qingguang saved his face and was in a good mood. Under the influence of alcohol, he naturally started to brag.

"Brother Liu, I heard that you are serving the young master. I heard that the young master is treated as a distinguished guest by the hall master and Madam Duan. You are going to be very proud."

"Of course, Brother Liu is lucky this time."

After drinking and bragging, and finishing a pleasant meal, Liu Qingguang and his disciples left the restaurant.

Liu Qingguang's plan is very leisurely: go home to rest, and go to the cinema or theater to work at night.

But as he walked, Liu Qingguang could no longer relax. He saw two people walking on the street. As they walked, the two people actually merged into one person.

The synthesized "person" continued on his way.

"Brother Liu, what are you looking at?"

"You guys go do what you need to do, I have something to do."

Liu Qingguang has not forgotten how he got the tattoo. It was the "deposit" Zhou Xuan gave him.

Zhou Xuan said that if Liu Qingguang saw any "strange person", he should inform him immediately.

Isn't this what we have met?
"Strange man, where is he going?"

Liu Qingguang's gourd eyes trembled as he followed closely.

That "strange person" had a vague figure. Not only could he walk on the road, he could also pass through walls and houses. If you followed him normally, you would never be able to catch up with him.

Fortunately, Liu Qingguang was a skilled thief with the skills of a "gentleman on the beam". When he passed by an alley, he stepped on the brick wall and climbed up.

After several consecutive pedalings,

Liu Qingguang went up to the roof, and then ran and jumped on the roofs of various houses on the street, just to catch up with the strange man.

The chase almost spanned half of Mingdong District and all the way to Kaisheng Garden. The strange man walked towards a woman standing in front of the garden. The distance between the two people became shorter and shorter until they completely overlapped.

The strange man seemed to be swallowed up by the woman's body.

"Combined again?"

Liu Qingguang said.

After the fusion, the woman stood in front of the garden, looking towards a mansion.

"This woman is very strange. Give Mr. Xiao a call."

Liu Qingguang went to a nearby big hotel, borrowed the hotel's phone, and called Zhou Xuan.

"Hello, young sir, I'm Liu Qingguang."

"Old Liu, what's wrong?"

"I saw a very strange woman..." Liu Qingguang told Zhou Xuan what he saw and heard along the way.

After listening to his story, Zhou Xuan knew that what Liu Qingguang encountered was obsession.

"Obsession" is usually a combination of many people's thoughts.

The two "combinations" Liu Qingguang mentioned are actually the mutual blending of thoughts.

"Where did you see it?" Zhou Xuan asked for the address.

"Kaisheng Garden, Mansion No. 1."

"I'll be right away."

Zhou Xuan hung up the phone and called Lv Mingkun, who was basking in the sun at the door of the store: "Fifth Brother, come out with me."

"okay."

Lu Mingkun put on his hat and got into the Macon sedan at the door.

……

When Zhou Xuan drove the car and stopped in front of the gate of No. 1 Mansion, the Talisman of Cleansing Wrongs on his chest suddenly vibrated.

At this moment, Zhou Xuan saw the strange woman Liu Qingguang mentioned through the windshield.

The woman was similar to the obsession Zhou Xuan had seen before. Her face was divided into many blocks of color, like small pieces of mosaic pieced together.

But despite this, Zhou Xuan recognized her at a glance.

"Sister Xia?!"

He was reluctant to believe that the woman in front of him was Lin Xia, but his eyes could not deceive him. "Dong, dong, dong."

Liu Qingguang, who had been waiting for a long time, tapped lightly on Zhou Xuan's car window.

Zhou Xuan didn't hear the knock on the window and stared at Lin Xia with a dull look.

"How could that be? She was fine yesterday."

Lin Xia and Zhou Xuan had just agreed yesterday that the Liaogui Hall would be under Zhou Xuan's control, and Zhou Xuan would teach Liaogui how to maintain his teeth. Yet, in just one day, they were separated by the Yin and Yang?

"Junior brother..." Lu Mingkun saw that something was wrong with Zhou Xuan and patted his shoulder gently.

"Fifth Senior Brother, you and Liu Qingguang can go find a cafe and sit down. I want to do something by myself."

Zhou Xuan just wanted to calm down in the car alone for a while.

Lu Mingkun nodded, got out of the car, put his arm around Liu Qingguang's shoulder, and walked towards the street cafe.

Zhou Xuan lowered his head, rubbed his face with his hands, and sighed.

"Fate is unpredictable. It really is unpredictable."

The talisman for cleansing injustice was shaking, which meant that Lin Xia had suffered a great injustice.

According to Zhou Xuan's previous experience, he was able to communicate with the talisman to redress his injustice and his obsession with redressing his grievances led to his death in a very miserable way.

This means that when Zhou Xuan clears his name, he will have to relive the process of Lin Xia's death.

The emotional torment of seeing an acquaintance die is too great.

While rubbing his face, Zhou Xuan was preparing himself mentally. Finally, when he felt it was almost done, he raised his head and saw Lin Xia's lips moving. From the shape of her mouth, she was saying, "My benefactor, redress my grievances."

"Clear the wrongs."

Zhou Xuan gritted his teeth, and as his mind moved, four more words appeared on the scroll of clearing injustice - extracting bones and clearing injustice.

"Sister Xia's obsession is called bone pulling..." When Zhou Xuan saw this name, he had already guessed the cause of her death.

Lin Xia felt that Zhou Xuan wanted to help her clear her name, so she walked towards Mansion No. 1.

Zhou Xuan got out of the car and followed Lin Xia to the gate of the mansion.

Lin Xia walked through the door and entered the house. Zhou Xuan reached out to turn the door handle, but it wouldn't open because the door was locked.

Based on past experience, Zhou Xuan could just wait for Lin Xia to "stretch out" a hand from the door panel. As long as he shook hands with Lin Xia, he would be "led" into the house.

But Zhou Xuan was in a terrible mood at the moment. He didn't have the time to wait and kicked the door lock twice.

The door was kicked open, and two or three passers-by saw it and looked at Zhou Xuan as if he were a "robber".

"What are you looking at? Go your own way." After glaring at the passers-by fiercely, Zhou Xuan went into the house and slammed the door to block out all the noise.

He walked into the room and saw Lin Xia standing in front of the telephone cabinet. The wire connecting the microphone to the base had been cut off.

Needless to say, this is where Lin Xia died.

Zhou Xuan took out the scroll for clearing injustices, unfolded it, and unscrewed the pen. He and Lin Xia grabbed the pen together and wrote on the scroll - No. 9 Mansion, Mingjiang Mansion, September 7.

A white light flashed, and Zhou Xuan entered the gap in time and space, witnessing the scene of Lin Xia having her fangs pulled out and her throat ripped out by the painful scholar.

Every word spoken by the suffering scholar fell clearly into his ears.

"The man who killed Sister Xia is also an old man. He even used his daughter to provoke Sister Xia. You are really a beast."

Zhou Xuan looked at the bonnies that cut the telephone line and recognized that the murderer was a bone old man.

But he didn't know who this old man was.

Zhou Xuan did not know the scholar of suffering.

He had only seen the Scholar of Pain once, at the Bone Elder Gathering, and even that time he was wearing a priestly mask.

"Old Gu, you won't survive today."

Zhou Xuan punched through the gap in time and space and returned to reality.

Lin Xia's obsession, like other obsessions, knelt down towards Zhou Xuan, and then fifteen people walked out of her body.

Among these people, Zhou Xuan recognized Feng Xigui and Liaogui Hall Master...

"The fang ghosts were all killed by that old bone man."

Zhou Xuan was filled with rage.

"This old man is not an ordinary old man. He killed so many fang ghosts because he had his eyes on the fangs of the fang ghosts and wanted to give them to his godson to burn for seven incense sticks.

Who is the old man who has a seven-stick-incense-stick-incense-stick-incense-stick-son?"

Zhou Xuan decided to find out the identity of Gu Lao first. He sat cross-legged on the ground and entered the secret realm of Feiyue.
"Old Li, I am coming."

"High Priest, I am ready to come."

After a flash of light, Zhou Xuan entered Li Chengfeng's body.

"Old Li, the domino pattern is a scholar with festering wounds all over his body. Whose domino is this?"

"The Scholar of Pain."

"Does the Scholar of Pain have a godson?"

"I haven't heard of my godson, but I heard that he is very close to the master of the City God Temple."

"Where is the Master now? Where is the Scholar of Pain now?"

"The master of the temple is in the main hall of the city god, and the scholar of suffering is usually at home during the day."

"Where is his home?" Zhou Xuan asked.

"The Scholars' Manor in Shijiupu." said Li Chengfeng.

Zhou Xuan thought about it quickly and said, "Old Li, can you control the City God's Qingfeng?"

"It wasn't possible before, but it is possible now." Li Chengfeng is now a divine scholar, and his prestige and power in the Bone Elders Association have increased significantly.

"Send Qingfeng and the Night Watchman to keep an eye on the abbot. Once they're done, go to the Scholar's Manor and kill the Scholar of Pain with me."

Zhou Xuan’s idea shocked Li Chengfeng.

"High Priest, why did you kill him?"

"He killed all the fang ghosts last night, I want to retaliate." Zhou Xuan said.

"Okay, High Priest, wait for me at Scholar Manor."

Li Chengfeng was clear about the relationship between Zhou Xuan and Liaogui. When they were in Dongshi Street, Zhou Xuan stood up for Liaogui.

"See you at the manor."

Zhou Xuan exited the descending state.

Li Chengfeng has been called upon to help, but one Li Chengfeng may not be enough.

Zhou Xuan first reached out his hand towards Lin Xia's obsession.

After Lin Xia's obsession attached itself to the talisman of cleansing injustices, Zhou Xuan went out, went to the coffee shop, borrowed the store's phone, and called the Metropolitan.

"Hello sir, this is the Metropolis, I am..."

"My name is Zhou Xuan, looking for your boss Gu."

Zhou Xuan interrupted the caller's self-introduction.

"OK, wait."

The telephone operator went to inform Gu Ling.

Two minutes later, Gu Ling's voice came from the microphone.

"Hey, young sir, where are you calling me from?"

"Café. Reiko, how is your relationship with the Scholar of Pain?"

Zhou Xuan first wanted to find out clearly that if Gu Ling had a good relationship with the Scholar of Pain, he would find other helpers.

"No, I don't." Gu Ling got angry when she talked about the miserable scholar, and said, "This guy is a snob. During the time when my incense was extinguished, he was always bullying me and always trying to make me look bad."

"That's great. I'll wait for you at Scholar Manor."

"Isn't that the home of the Scholar of Pain?"

"This is his home. Today I will kill the Scholar of Pain." Zhou Xuan said, "He killed my friend. I will repay him in kind."

"See you later." Gu Ling also responded readily.

If she killed other bone elders, Gu Ling would still have to consider the impact, but killing the scholar of pain? She would only consider which way to kill him would be more venting.

……

With the help of Gu Ling and Li Chengfeng, and the support of the fifth senior brother, it is more than enough to deal with a suffering scholar.

At this time, Liu Qingguang and Lv Mingkun were drinking coffee. Zhou Xuan walked to the table and said, "Old Liu, you helped me a lot today. If you are free tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, come to my shop. I will give you a thank you gift."

"Thank you, young sir." Liu Qingguang became excited when he thought of the thank-you gift.

"Fifth Brother, let's go to the Scholar Manor."

"it is good."

Lu Mingkun didn't ask for the reason, he just went wherever his junior brother said.

……

Scholar's Manor is opposite the Shijiupu Wharf.

The Nineteen-Pu Wharf is the distribution center for water-borne cargo in Mingjiang Prefecture, so it is naturally bustling and prosperous.

Zhou Xuan and Lu Mingkun sat in the teahouse opposite Zhuang Yuan, drinking tea, waiting for people, and watching the people coming in and out of the manor.

"Sister Xia is unlucky."

While drinking tea, Lu Mingkun listened to Zhou Xuan's story about Lin Xia's death. He felt a little sad and felt sorry for Lin Xia and Feng Xigui.

The two lived a colorful life in Pingshui Prefecture, and all the nightmares began when their daughter was abducted by kidnappers.

"The kidnapper deserves to die." Lu Mingkun said hatefully.

"Let's not talk about the kidnapper first. Fifth Brother, look at that man. Is he the old knife handle?"

Zhou Xuan pointed outside the window and called out to Lu Mingkun to identify the person.

"Eh? He's really an old knife-holder. He looks like a skinny bamboo pole that could be blown down by a gust of wind. I can recognize him."

Lao Daobazi was also from Dongshi Street. He opened a cleaning shop on the street. His craftsmanship was very poor and he liked to drink.

But his shop has one advantage, the prices are cheap, only half the price of Zhou Ji Jingyi shop, so his business is pretty good.

As they were both in the same business, working in the Jingyi shop and doing business in Dongshi Street, Zhou Xuan and Lu Mingkun would usually greet Lao Daobazi when they saw him.

At this time, the old knife-holder had already walked to the iron gate of the scholar's manor and bowed to the gatekeeper.

The old man and Lao Daobazi seemed to be very familiar with each other. Not only did he open the door, he also grabbed Lao Daobazi's hand and exchanged warm greetings.

Not long after, the old knife-holder walked alone towards the depths of the manor.

"Why would the old knife-holder appear in the scholar's manor? This is the home of a suffering great scholar?" Zhou Xuan fell into deep thought.

One is a ritual craftsman who earns small money in Dongshi Street, and the other is one of the four major priests of the Bone Elders Society.

These two people who had nothing in common unexpectedly met in the manor.

"Could it be that the old knife handle went to the home of the suffering scholar to perform the purification ceremony? Impossible, his skills are so advanced that even families with a little bit of financial resources would not look down on him."

Zhou Xuan was guessing the true identity of Lao Daobazi. Suddenly, he thought of a possibility.
"Fifth Senior Brother, you perform the Cleansing Ceremony, and Old Knife Handler also performs the Cleansing Ceremony. Could it be that both of you are coroners?"

"Um...are our coroners' knife skills that bad?" Lu Mingkun said.

"Perhaps, the old knife holder is deliberately hiding his incompetence. If he is a coroner, he is still qualified to enter the Scholar Manor. Then his identity is obvious... He is the head of the coroner's hall."

When Zhou Xuan said this, Lv Mingkun slapped the table with a "bang", stood up suddenly, and growled,
"The head of the Coroner's Office has been in East Market Street all along? How come I never noticed it?"

"They are hiding there, and I heard from Zhao Wuya this morning that Dongshi Street is a very strange place.

The spirits living in the streets can conceal their aura without any tricks, and even the dragon-hunting instruments cannot detect them. Dongshi Street is a very strange place."

"That's good. We can kill the suffering scholar and the old knife-holder together, so we don't have to run around."

Lu Mingkun's murderous intent grew stronger and stronger. He wanted to end the years of hatred today...

ps: Good brothers, I updated a big chapter, muah.

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