Holding a stack of papers in his hand, Hong Jun entered Jinchang Fang with a fish on his back. Early in the morning, Zhao Zilong was still sleeping behind his back, Yu opened his mouth and yawned.
"Do you think it's useful if I post the cat hunting notice?"
"Who can tell that your ghostly talisman is a cat?" said the carp demon.
Hong Jun looked around, took advantage of the few people in the early morning, threw out the hook rope, flew up to the eaves, and then climbed up the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, leaping step by step, to the top of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and sat down with his knees hugged.
Blue and white clouds, thousands of tiles in Chang'an, bathed in the morning breeze. In the land of China, the human race actually built such a luxurious and magnificent city, which made him feel relaxed and happy.
Hong Jun looked down at the stack of cats painted in front of the door in his hand, thinking that it would be good if he was in Yaojin Palace. Qingxiong and Chongming would both talk to the birds, and sending two falcons to find them was much faster than himself.
"Let's go back after blowing some air." The carp demon said, "It's always dry outside in autumn, and it's not very comfortable."
"It feels like he's miserable." Hong Jun said, "It's not easy for everyone, I'd better help him find it."
The carp demon said: "Compassion cannot be flooded."
Hong Jun said: "If the cat is found, will those officials in the future treat him better?"
Hong Jun roughly learned from the carp demon last night that there are strict ranks in the human world and the reasons why Li Jinglong was unsuccessful. Although he can't fully digest it, it is basically understandable. It is because the emperor and the officials They don't want to see him.
"Don't be stupid." The carp demon said, "People's prejudices are hard to get rid of. Once some people go all out, they will do more vicious things than the monsters. Who would admit that Li Jinglong has the ability, not to beat himself Mouth? I think it will just let him continue looking for cats and dogs."
Hong Jun suddenly thought, and said to himself: "Why did this cat run away? What scared it?"
"You think the same as I do, I'm afraid you saw something you shouldn't have seen." Li Jinglong's voice suddenly came from the highest floor of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, Hong Jun was startled and almost slipped down.
He and Li Jinglong had the same thought, they both climbed to the highest point in Chang'an, thinking about the scenery of the whole city. Hong Jun lowered the hook rope and asked Li Jinglong to climb up and sit on the top of the tower.
"When did you come?" Hong Jun had a ghost in his heart, and kept looking at Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong replied: "Start with 'I feel so miserable'."
Hong Jun was extremely embarrassed, but Li Jinglong frowned and said: "I went to Mrs. Qin's mansion just now. That night, the cat saw something and was frightened. Cats have a peculiar spirituality towards evil bodies, and they can't easily accept food." Move the nest, how many houses in Chang'an City are better than Mrs. Qin's mansion? So I guess, this incident is very frightening for the cat, which makes it not want to go back."
"Maybe I got lost?" Hong Jun asked.
"It's unlikely." Li Jinglong shook his head.
"Hidden?" Hong Jun said again.
"Who is so unafraid of death to hide Mrs. Qin's cat?" Li Jinglong said, "The six armies searched for a full ten days before, and even offered rewards everywhere. What should be known has long been known... If there is no accident, it must be hiding in the cat. Somewhere in the city, I guess it's a place close to the Qin State Mansion, let's go."
Hong Jun suddenly felt that Li Jinglong seemed very smart.
Li Jinglong climbed down to the top of the tower, but Hong Jun turned around and threw the hook rope, and dropped from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to the nearby roof, and then pulled Li Jinglong up, and the two walked along the roof, and jumped over when they reached the end.
"Do you think there are many monsters in Chang'an?" Hong Jun had a whim, and asked Li Jinglong who was walking in front.
Li Jinglong replied: "The demon atmosphere and ghost fog have long been out of control. Whenever the demons dance in the middle of the night, it is not like Chang'an in front of you."
"How do you feel it?" Hong Jun himself felt a little bit, but it was not as strong as Li Jinglong. After the three thousand evening drums were played every night, the whole Chang'an seemed to have changed. It seemed that something happened in the It's happening somewhere he doesn't know.
Li Jinglong patted the sword at his waist, but did not answer.
"Did this sword tell you? How many monsters do you think there are in Chang'an?" Hong Jun asked again.
"Tens of thousands." Li Jinglong glanced back at Hong Jun.
Hong Jun remembered what Chongming said when he was parting, that the monsters were entrenched in Chang'an City, but after coming for so long, he didn't find the monsters. Did they hide too well, or was he too dull
"Monkey." The carp demon behind Hongjun said suddenly.
"what?"
Both Li Jinglong and Hong Jun were at a loss, standing on the roof outside Dongshi, something suddenly flew from the side and hit Li Jinglong in the face. They were startled, and they turned around at the same time, but only heard "ji Chi Chi" sounded incessantly, a little monkey squatted on the roof of Bihuatang outside Dongshi, looking at the two of them.
"This..." Li Jinglong was about to go forward to chase him away, but Hong Jun suddenly remembered that he had released a monkey who was being tricked in the market that day, and said with a smile: "Ah! It turned out to be you!"
Hong Jun waved to the little monkey, and the monkey ran over dragging the iron chain. After escaping from the monkey tricker, his complexion seemed to be better, and occasionally he got some food from the kind people, holding a moldy steamed bun in his hand, and kept passing it to Hong Jun for him to eat.
Hong Jun had no choice but to accept the moldy intention, and broke it off to feed the carp demon, who was not happy, and said, "This steamed bun..."
"Just eat." Hong Jun stuffed bits and pieces into the carp demon's mouth, then took out the throwing knife, and pried off the shackles on the little monkey's neck.
Li Jinglong said: "The monkeys brought by the monkey man can understand human language. Since they have been running around for a few days and are wandering around, you can ask it if you have ever seen that cat."
Hong Jun thought: Yes! Quickly looking at the monkey looking for the cat-hunting figure drawn in his hand, Li Jinglong said: "This cat you drew... Is this a cat you drew?!"
Li Jinglong almost fell off the eaves again, and what Hongjun drew on the paper were three big traps and small circles, with a crooked, bug-like tail, two pointy ears, and a monster like.
The monkey tilted his head, "jittered" a few times, motioned for Hong Jun to come with him, and ran away in a hurry.
"No way!" said the carp demon, "I really understand it!"
Hong Jun hurriedly picked it up, and followed the monkey with Li Jinglong, all the way to Depingkang, where the East Market opened, and it was already bustling. Li Jinglong was still a little psychologically shadowed, avoiding people from a distance, and bowed to avoid being seen.
As soon as the monkey stopped, Hong Jun saw it and said "ah".
Between Liuying Chunxiao and Yishilan brothels in Pingkang, at the end of the eaves, there is a white mass, like a duster, motionless, lying on its stomach basking in the sun.
"Is it it?" Hong Jun immediately turned his head.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous!" Li Jinglong never expected that he found it! It can be seen that Hong Jun's luck is simply too good. After catching this cat, it's not enough to be elated, but it can be slapped in the face of Liu Jun... But, the matter that can't be solved by searching all over the city, it actually fell into his hands, so it was solved so easily? It made him unbelievable!
"Do you want to call Mo Rigen and the others?" Hong Jun asked, "What if it's not?"
Li Jinglong himself said earlier that if he is lucky enough to find it, and don't startle the cat, he will be notified first, who knows
But I just went to the Qin State Mansion to know that this cat is expensive, and I must search all over Chang'an City, and I may not be able to find a second one.
"No need." Li Jinglong said in a low voice vigilantly, "Most of them are also being lazy, catch it first and then talk about it. I don't care if it is. I will go around to the back. Are you carrying it with a net from the front?"
"Yes, yes." Hong Jun also became nervous when he said it.
"Don't disturb the pedestrians below." Li Jinglong instructed again, "So as not to run away again."
Hong Jun nodded blankly, only to see Li Jinglong made a gesture, pressed down, and then bowed and walked around.
"You don't need to run so far." The carp demon said, "It's just a cat."
Hong Jun: "You wait a while..."
Carp demon: "Don't talk about it! I won't accompany you to outflank! Have you forgotten who I am?!"
Hong Jun remembered that the fish demon is also a fish, and he seemed to have a natural fear of cats and bears, so he had to give up. I saw Li Jinglong making a huge turn, so that Hong Jun couldn't see anyone, and then from nearly fifty steps away, he turned into a small black spot and slowly approached.
Holding the net, Hong Jun approached cautiously, trying not to make a sound, while the master was still looking lazy, basking in the sun on the eaves.
Getting closer, getting closer, getting closer, the cat in the middle is motionless, its body undulates slightly with breathing, as if it is sleeping.
Li Jinglong was less than a foot away from the cat, stopped and gestured towards Hongjun. Hong Jun bowed, with his hands stretched out to the net, and walked over step by step...
Suddenly the cat opened its eyes and saw Li Jinglong. The two sides were stunned for a moment, and then Li Jinglong shouted: "Do it!"
Immediately afterwards, Li Jinglong rushed forward, while Hong Jun opened his net and rushed forward.
In Li Jinglong's ideal state, the cat should be frightened by him, and it would pounce towards Hong Jun, who happened to be caught in the net by Hong Jun. However, the cat suddenly turned into a swift shadow, turned sideways, and slid down from Li Jinglong's crotch.
Li Jinglong: "!!!"
Immediately afterwards, Hong Jun also turned sideways, gliding quickly, and then slid from Li Jinglong's crotch.
"Don't run!" Hong Jun was holding the net, and when he was about to catch the cat, he stepped on a loose tile, and a thought flashed in his mind—
This cat is so cunning! They're all perfect!
The next moment, Hong Jun left Liuying Chunxiao, and fell hard towards the downstairs leaning on the poetry column. The food stalls below were all newly opened food stalls. However, Li Jinglong grabbed him and pulled him away. dragged up.
Hong Jun glanced at the alley, facing a big soup pot of a noodle stall, and instantly felt very dangerous. If he falls like this, he may not be in trouble, Zhao Zilong can only stay in that pot forever.
"Hush." Li Jinglong took Hong Jun to hide, only to see the cat jumped into the third floor of the poetry column, slipped through the open window, and disappeared.
Hong Jun panted and said: "I tried my best..."
"It's okay." Li Jinglong said, "It's easy to know where it is, let's go!"
The two leaped over and flipped down from the eaves lightly. Hong Jun whispered: "Let me come, you are not afraid of being..."
"It's not so unlucky." Li Jinglong whispered.
Yishilan is the favorite brothel for Chinese people in Chang'an City, and the courtyard is also very elegantly decorated. After entering the window, the landing point is a narrow corridor, and inside the narrow corridor are the doors connecting one room to another. The door numbers are engraved on the outside, such as "Jiangjinjiu", "Chunxiao", "Yutaichun" and other poem names.
"Look separately." Li Jinglong said, "Zhao Zilong also helped, and monkey, Hong Jun, please tell me."
The carp demon originally refused, but Hong Jun had already put it down, so it could only hold the fish head in a falsely concealed door and look in. The monkey responded to Hong Jun's pointing, immediately understood, and went to another place. a room.
"After you find it, you will come out lightly." Hong Jun said, "You don't need to catch it." Then he stuffed the carp demon in.
"You left, I'm right." Li Jinglong whispered.
It was three poles in the sun, and the girls in the poetry column had gone, so Hong Jun also entered a room, looked around, and smelled the tangy smell of powder, and the decorations in each room were elegant and luxurious. The girls are all red cards, and Li Jinglong's guess was right, the cat really found a place close to the Qin State Mansion.
The carp demon entered a room. The steamed buns he ate earlier were too dry and he choked a bit, so he ran to a basin to drink water. He felt a little strange while drinking, and said "water for washing feet, bad luck" and stopped drinking. . When I looked around, I suddenly saw a painting on the wall, which was Zhang Xuan's "The Picture of Koi in the Spring Stream". In the painting, the koi was vivid and the willow branches were swaying.
"Beauty! Beauty!" The carp demon moved closer, his saliva almost drooling.
At this moment, the sound of claws scratching the wooden board suddenly sounded from behind it, and the carp demon suddenly froze, its scales and leg hairs stood up, its mouth made a soft noise, and it looked back in fear.
The lion cat was squatting on the top of the tall cabinet, its eyes were green and golden, and it stared at it maliciously.
The carp demon suddenly lost his mind and shouted: "Come here!"
In the next room, Li Jinglong and Hong Jun heard noises from the middle room at the same time, and immediately rushed over like a gust of wind.
The lion cat jumped from the top of the cabinet and went straight to the carp demon! Terrified, the carp demon burrowed under the couch and hid in.
When Hong Jun and Li Jinglong pushed the door and rushed in, the cat slammed into the bed with a "meow", and the carp demon screamed wildly, and came out from the other side of the bed, and ran desperately, flapping its tail to hide. Into the cupboard.
"Found it!" Li Jinglong turned around and closed the door, unable to escape now.
Hong Jun crawled to the bottom of the couch to grab it. However, this wooden couch was different from the one he usually slept on. It was made of precious mahogany, with its back against the wall, and the three sides facing the outside were erected and sealed, leaving only a few wooden rails. , Hong Jun has seen the cat hiding in the darkness, looking at him with two yin and yang eyes.
Li Jinglong stretched his arm in to catch the cat, but the cat hid further inside. Hong Jun said beside him, "What should I do?"
Li Jinglong's elbow was too strong and got stuck in the railing.
Hong Jun: "..."
Li Jinglong: "..."
Hong Jun stretched his hand in, but the cat looked calm, licking its paws, completely ignoring the two of them.
"I lifted the bed up."
"It ran away as soon as it was lifted." Hong Jun said, "You open a gap, and I will go in and catch it."
So Li Jinglong tried his best, shouted "Get up", and lifted the big couch weighing more than 400 kilograms, revealing a gap that only one person can enter, and Hong Jun immediately rolled on the spot and rolled in.
The space under the couch is not large, and there are piles of wooden pillars and picture scrolls wrapped in cloth. The cat exploded in an instant and wanted to run away. Hong Jun reached out and grabbed its paw, saying, "I caught it!"
Li Jinglong said: "Hold it firmly! Don't let it run away!"
At this moment, a voice came from outside.
"I can't come at night, so I have to see you during the day..."
Li Jinglong turned his head instantly, the man's voice was very familiar, and his pupils shrank violently in an instant. Immediately, he stretched out his hand suddenly, and immediately pulled out his elbow forcefully.
Hong Jun hugged the cat, supported the top of the couch with his knees, and tried his best to prop up the wooden couch.
"Chang Shi, lift the bed again so that I can come out..."
However, it was too late and then too soon, Li Jinglong rolled on the spot, and got in, while supporting the couch, and put it down carefully.
Just as Hong Jun was about to speak, Li Jinglong hugged him from behind, and quickly covered his mouth with his hand, telling him not to speak. As soon as the wooden couch was put down, the door was pushed open. The man's footsteps were steady and powerful, and he entered the room accompanied by the girl's laughter.
The two sat on the couch, only to hear the man say again: "That guy Li Jinglong went to Liuying Chunxiao for a walk, which caused Long Wujun to be read by Yushitai. He can't come for a few days, really Let me think about it."
Hong Jun opened his eyes wide and glanced sideways at Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong slowly let go of his hand, made a booing motion, and then pinched the mouth of the cat in Hong Jun's arms. Hong Jun hugged the cat, while Li Jinglong hugged Hong Jun from behind, squeezed under the small couch. Hong Jun felt Li Jinglong's heart beating very violently, his chest was broad and powerful, and his body was extremely hot.
Li Jinglong had a hostile expression on his face, because the person who came to visit the Yishi column was his former immediate boss Hu Sheng in the Longwu Army, the president of the Longwu Army. At the beginning, it was precisely because he didn't believe in himself that he was ridiculed by everyone in the army, and even ridiculed by Yang Guozhong.
At that time, Hu Sheng hugged the girl on the couch and yelled "Jin Yun".
Hong Jun's heartbeat also suddenly accelerated. He has been untouched for 16 years, and he was hugged by Li Jinglong from behind here. The two hugged each other in an extremely ambiguous posture, and heard a scene that had never been touched before. That voice was a huge shock to him, and Hu Sheng came up with all kinds of tricks, which made him blush.
What was even more embarrassing was that he felt that Li Jinglong, who was holding him behind his back, was breathing heavily, and the thing was still firmly against him.
Hong Jun swallowed fiercely, Li Jinglong hugged Hong Jun unconsciously, his arm tightened a bit, and Hong Jun's hand holding the cat also tightened a bit, the cat was strangled so uncomfortable, its two paws grabbed hard, constantly struggle.
Hong Jun was worried about making a noise that would disturb the two people on the couch, so he grabbed the cat's paw and held it down. Unexpectedly, the cat's claw caught the sackcloth piled up on the bottom of the bed and pulled it over.
As soon as the linen was torn away, a dead man's head was revealed in an instant. Hong Jun suddenly leaned back and cried out.
Hong Jun: "Ah!"
Li Jinglong: "!!!"
At that instant, Li Jinglong first covered Hongjun's mouth, then his eyes, and held him tightly in his arms.
Just at this moment, Jin Yun on the couch was also shouting loudly, his voice overshadowed Hong Jun's, and Hu Sheng was in full swing again, but he didn't realize it yet.
Hong Jun was horrified. It was the first time he stared at a dead face at such a close distance. He was almost frightened. After recovering, he only panted wildly. Li Jinglong was shocked and couldn't believe it. Jun don't be afraid.
On the couch, Hu Sheng was also panting, obviously finished, and still talking to Jin Yun.
Hong Jun looked at the dead man's face, and found that the dead man seemed to have been placed here for a long time, with his mouth open, the skin on his face had already turned dry and black, and his eyes were hollow. Li Jinglong stretched out his hand lightly, untied the cloth, and saw the mummy curled up, wearing a white cloth, huddled in the innermost part of the bed with a frightened movement.
Hong Jun touched Li Jinglong's arm, and Li Jinglong also had goose bumps on his hands.
Hu Sheng smiled and said, "Let's go now."
"Are you leaving now?" Jin Yun said reluctantly.
"I'll see you another day." Hu Sheng held Jin Yun in his arms, kissed her cheekily, put on his clothes, and pushed the door to go out. Jin Yun also sent Hu Sheng out.
Not long after, the two got out from under the couch, Li Jinglong couldn't help panting, and looked at Hong Jun, their eyes were full of bewilderment.
Hong Jun said: "What should I do?"
Li Jinglong thought for a moment, and said: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, the matter is of great importance, so don't alarm them."