In the afternoon of this day, Huang Yong, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, came in person.
"Li Changshi!" Huang Yong took the civil official named Lianhao and a porter, picked up a lacquer box, and sent it to the courtyard of the Exorcism Department. Li Jinglong was suffering from a hangover and headache, with disheveled hair and deeply locked brows. Come out to meet guests.
After the case of the imperial examination, Dali Temple no longer dared to roll its eyes at Li Jinglong. After all, he had made great contributions to the country and was favored by the emperor. Huang Yong smiled and said kindly, "Haven't you gotten up yet? This is too presumptuous." , you exorcists must go out to catch demons at night..."
"Inside, please." Li Jinglong took Hong Jun back after three poles in the sun. He was lying on his back and almost fell apart, and his eyes could hardly be opened. He said tiredly, "Jinglong is taking the liberty, let me change clothes..."
"Sleep!" Huang Yong hurriedly said, "This is a case transferred to you by Dali Temple, so let's let it go."
Li Jinglong woke up completely at once, looked at the box, didn't come back to his senses for a long time, Huang Yong said: "If you have something to say, you can talk to Lian Hao."
Lian Hao hurriedly said yes, and fled like Huang Yongfei.
Li Jinglong was shocked, and opened the box, and there were more than two hundred files piled up in a mess inside.
After everyone woke up that day, they all looked tired. When Hong Jun came out to wash up, he was still singing "Spring River Tide Water Even Sea Level..." Everyone still talked about the brothel music workshop last night.
"Let's go play again at night, hehehe." Qiu Yongsi said.
Artest said: "Anyway, I don't have much money, and the three thousand two hundred taels I advanced last time have not been returned to me yet."
"I have it, I have it." Hong Jun said, "Let's go and buy that cherry puff pastry."
Mo Zhigen said: "Okay! This store..."
"Investigated the case." Li Jinglong said with a loveless expression, "Still playing? Disband."
After lunch, Hong Jun looked at the pile of files on the table, and everyone was dumbfounded.
"We just found a cat." Mo Zhigen said, "What about it?"
Li Jinglong threw a scroll by himself and said: "This is a difficult case accumulated in Dali Temple. Let's screen all of them first, and then investigate separately tomorrow."
"Is this all about monsters?" Hong Jun asked.
"Where are there so many monsters?" Qiu Yongsi smiled, "It must be because we are favored in front of His Majesty and the imperial concubine, so we threw all the people who dare not offend and the cases that we couldn't handle."
Li Jinglong replied: "As long as it has nothing to do with monsters, all of them will be approved as 'check no demon spirit' and returned to Dali Temple, regardless."
Hong Jun glanced at the scroll in his hand, and said, "Doesn't it matter that the peddler surnamed Qin died suddenly at home in the middle of the night?"
Li Jinglong took it, glanced at it and threw it aside, saying: "The one who was murdered was not a monster."
Artest said: "On the second night of the first day of November, four hanging money disappeared from my home..."
Qiu Yongsi laughed, and replied: "It's stolen by the children at home and spent."
"The child's night cry is not only suspected of being possessed by a ghost..." Mo Zhigen said while holding another case file, "I should go to the police, what are you going to do with the exorcist?"
"The mule who went out of the city was frightened and ran away and suspected of seeing a monster... Rolling..." Li Jinglong just wanted to take his men down to bulldoze the Dali Temple.
Hong Jun picked up the dead man's scroll and said, "What will we do if we don't check it?"
"That's the responsibility of Dali Temple." Li Jinglong replied, "Go back, they have to investigate."
Hong Jun said: "According to what you said, if Dali Temple can't afford to offend the murderer, wouldn't this case be impossible to investigate?"
"Then we have to sink." Qiu Yongsi replied.
Hong Jun picked up the death case and put it aside. Li Jinglong sighed and said, "Forget it, I'm idle anyway. If you want to investigate, just go."
Hong Jun picked up the scroll and went out.
Mo Zhigen wanted to accompany him, but Hong Jun waved his hand to signal that he didn't need it, changed his clothes and went out.
"Let me go and have a look." Li Jinglong fidgeted and got up and said.
The rest of the people hurriedly said that it is, Chang Shi, you should go and have a look, Chang Shi, you must go and see.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong sat down cross-legged again, folded his arms, and said seriously: "Three, I think we need to talk in detail. Do you have any misunderstandings about me taking special care of Hongjun?"
Hong Jun walked through several squares and came to Guiyi Square, where the poor in Chang'an lived. The walls of the courtyard were dilapidated, the houses were next to each other, and there was still sewage flowing in the alleys. The courtyard of a single-family house is full of sundries sold by the peddler, and the inside is quiet. Hong Jun picked up the rattle scattered on the ground, and rang it a few times, and a young man's voice said inside: "Take it if you like it, throw the money in the jar."
Hong Jun pushed the door open, and what caught his eyes was a poor family in Chang'an. The windows were pasted with paper, and a pair of armor was thrown at the door. The armor was very familiar. It was the armor of the Longwu Army that Li Jinglong had worn.
A young man who looked not much older than Hong Jun was sitting by the couch, wiping a sword in his hand. Hearing the sound, he looked up at Hong Jun with a little confusion in his eyes.
"The exorcism company is on business." Hong Jun showed his waist badge and asked, "Who is the dead salesman?"
It was the first time for Hong Jun to investigate the case, and he learned that the boy's name was Qin Wu, he was nineteen years old, and he happened to be a colleague of Li Jinglong.
Qin Wu put the sword in his hand aside, frowned and said, "Exorcism Division? Isn't it Li Xiaowei's government? What are you doing here?"
Hong Jun said blankly: "Didn't it happen that the peddler Qin surnamed Kui Yebao, Bao... had an accident?"
"My father was murdered." Qin Wu stood up, stared at Hongjun, and said, "It's none of your business, let's go."
Hong Jun sat down by the couch, hesitantly said: "Let me sit with you for a while."
Qin Wu said: "There is nothing at home to entertain you, how is Captain Li?"
Hong Jun replied yes, the two sat opposite each other for a while, Qin Wuchang sighed, and Hong Jun asked again: "Who killed him?"
"It belongs to the Yang family." Qin Wu said, "Yang Guozhong's family was the second recruiter. He conspired with my stepmother and strangled him to death at night. There is no way, my family is too poor."
Hong Jun thought that it was the same as what Qiu Yongsi guessed. The murderer Dali Temple didn't dare to offend, so he pushed it to the Exorcism Division. It seemed that it was for nothing.
"What's your name?" Hong Jun couldn't bear it, and asked again, "Let's go to Dali Temple again."
Qin Wu didn't answer, but instead looked at Hongjun and said, "I saw you that day on the school field outside Longwu Army. How is Lieutenant Li treating you?"
Hong Jun didn't know why he turned to this irrelevant topic. After thinking about it, he replied: "Chang Shiren is great."
"Well." Qin Wu replied, "Cherish it well, so that he doesn't have to worry about me."
Hong Jun: "???"
Hong Jun wanted to ask again, but Qin Wu stood up to see off the guests, Hong Jun had to go back, Qin Wu was too calm, if it was Hong Jun himself, he would never be able to do this.
It wasn't long before Qin Wu sent Hong Jun away, but the door was pushed open again. He was about to retrieve his sword, but when he looked back, it was Li Jinglong, who suddenly stood up. The two faced each other silently in the dark room. At the end, Qin Wu said: "Li... Captain Li..."
"When Hongjun got the case, I guessed it was yours." Li Jinglong sighed, sat down, and asked, "Where's your aunt?"
"Mourning." Qin Wu replied, "forty-nine days, and married as soon as the end of the seventh day is over. Now I rent a house outside."
Li Jinglong sighed, and said: "The Yang family has been powerful these years, so you can only swallow this breath first."
Qin Wu didn't speak, and Li Jinglong finally said: "I'm a colleague, so I would like to persuade you this way. I will take this case to heart, but the time has not yet come."
"The Yang family covers the sky with only one hand, and the dog fights the power of the people." Qin Wu said, "Bullying the market, occupying good land, beating women and children, embezzling the Sixth Army and the frontier army, how long will I have to endure them?"
Li Jinglong said: "There are always many grievances in a person's life, but there will be a day when they will be resolved. Don't be too hard on it. I will take this case to heart, that's all."
After finishing speaking, Li Jinglong got up and left, Qin Wu just stared at his back in a daze, when Li Jinglong went out, Qin Wu suddenly said: "Li Xiaowei, you are still the same as before."
"It's different already." Li Jinglong turned his head and said, and then left the Qin family.
The next day, a new case came again.
"Why are there so many?" Hong Jun hadn't even finished reading yesterday's, and everyone was convinced.
Li Jinglong said: "Lian Hao! Stop!"
"There is a murder case today!"
Lian Hao put down another large stack of files and ran away in a hurry. Everyone was bored watching the case, so they started shifts. In the morning, Atai Morigen and Qiu Yongsi read the files, and in the afternoon, Li Jinglong, Hong Jun, and the carp demon sat in the town. .
"Qin Wu asked you." Tian Hongjun said when he checked the case.
"What are you talking about?" Li Jinglong said casually, and cast a glance at Hongjun from under the file.
Hong Jun asked curiously: "Were you friends before?"
Li Jinglong replied: "That's right."
Hong Jun looked into his eyes, Li Jinglong couldn't help but said again: "When Xiao Wu joined the Longwu Army, he was about the same age as you."
Li Jinglong served as a lieutenant in the Longwu Army back then, and his martial arts skills were quite admired by his subordinates. But in the second year of joining the army, something happened, which happened to be related to Qin Wu.
"You must have been betrayed." The carp demon buried his head in the case and said.
Li Jinglong said "hmm" and said: "Later, there was a promotion in the Longwu Army. Qin Wu's family was too poor, and he wanted to seize this opportunity. It was also because I got closer to my subordinates that Qin Wu carried it on his back. I said something to my colleagues, and my reputation in the ... Army was damaged."
"People who are almost twenty years old are not married." The carp demon said, "Flirting with young men all day long, it's hard for people not to want to be wrong."
"You..." Li Jinglong's heart almost stopped, and Hong Jun hurriedly followed him, asking: "What reputation is damaged? Where is it damaged? Why can't I understand?"
Li Jinglong hesitated to speak, but the carp demon kept looking at Li Jinglong and asked, "Is it true?"
"How could it be true?" Li Jinglong said, "I am innocent and have done nothing to him!"
Although they were all young men when they served in the army, and there are many handsome children in the Sixth Army, it is natural for young men who have never married to get close. But those who join the army should focus on practicing martial arts. Being a soldier is a duty. In times of crisis, one must wield arms and die for the country.
On weekdays, the Longwu army is under the eyes of the emperor, and they must not fight. Training, competitions, competitions, ranging from traveling with the emperor to hunting, down to the routine drills of the first and fifteenth graders of each team. Under the sun, he stood fully in armor for four hours.
With such intensity, when you return to the camp every day, you immediately fall asleep, how can you have the strength to do it? Once he drags the whole team down, he might be beaten by his colleagues with his head covered in the middle of the night. If there are rumors of broken sleeves, it will definitely drag down the whole team and become the laughing stock of the whole army.
It just so happened that Qin Wu had been strictly trained by Li Jinglong, and he felt somewhat dissatisfied. In addition, he wanted to be promoted and squeezed Li Jinglong down, so he made such a fuss. It happened to be at the age of eighteen, so the brotherhood and marriage were all wiped out.
"What kind of enmity is this!" Only then did Hong Jun understand that what Qin Wu said today should be due to guilt. According to Li Jinglong, Qin Wu was also promoted later. After Hu Sheng heard the rumors, he transferred him to another team. In the following days, the soldiers under Li Jinglong's command would get along with him indifferently. .
Li Jinglong replied: "Forget it, it's my fault for talking lightly and deeply."
"Hey—?" The carp demon seemed to hear something, and the whole fish immediately became vigilant and looked at Li Jinglong.
When he said this, Li Jinglong couldn't help looking at Hong Jun again, but Hong Jun was still aggrieved by this matter. But with what Hong Jun knew and heard, he wouldn't have thought of so much.
"Then do you like Qin Wu?" Hong Jun asked again.
"I don't like it." Li Jinglong said bluntly, "Just because he is young, and... and... and..."
Li Jinglong lowered his head and said to himself: "The family is poor and pitiful, so I took special care of it. You don't have to complain about me. I have already seen this matter. Now that I am in the Exorcism Department, everyone is like a fish in water. Naturally, I won’t take it to heart.”
Hong Jun thought for a while, and his final comment was: "Oh."
Li Jinglong pondered for a moment, and when he raised his eyes to look at Hong Jun, Hong Jun turned to the carp demon and said, "I thought 'that' could only be done between male and female. It turns out that male and female can also be 'that'."
Carp demon: "..."
Li Jinglong: "..."
Carp demon: "But the male and the male 'that' can't have children. I don't want to have a male 'that'."
"How did you fish 'that'?" Hong Jun was very curious.
The more I said this, the more embarrassing it became. Li Jinglong just wanted to find something to divert quickly, but the carp demon said again: "Don't worry about it, what do you know so much? But then again, it doesn't matter if you really like it." Ways, some love 'this', some love 'that', the world is all-encompassing, even if Li Changshi loves men, so what, there is no need for others to worry about it. By the way, Hongjun? Before you Don’t you also like that little fox?”
"I don't like him!" Hong Jun said, "I just feel sorry for him.".
Li Jinglong immediately picked up the scroll, threw it to Hong Jun, ended the topic, and said, "Take a look."
The fifth day of November in the twelfth year of Tianbao.
Exorcist case: caravan killed (homicide).
Difficulty: Herringbone
Region: Pingheliang
Involved in the case: Twenty-two caravans from Kucha in the Western Regions
Case: On the fifth day of November, a caravan from Qiuci passed through Pingheliang, a branch of the Qinling Mountains, and was attacked in the afternoon. Twelve members of the caravan were slaughtered.
Remuneration: Kucha businessman, Han Guolan, the resident merchant envoy of Chang'an, thanks for the interview.
"Look and go."
"It's too late, let's do it tomorrow." Li Jinglong said.
It was dark and the autumn night was cold, Mo Rigen and the other three had also returned, so they sat down and ate separately, and began to exchange information.
"Where did you go to play again?" Seeing that everyone couldn't eat, Li Jinglong asked calmly.
"I encountered a case of murdering a wife." Mo Zhigen frowned, picked up a glass of water, and said, "The blacksmith quarreled with his wife, and hammered him to death with a chisel and a hammer. …on the wall, on the couch…”
"Stop it!" Qiu Yongsi and Artest immediately stopped Mo Zhigen from repeating the process, and they forgot it with difficulty.
Hong Jun was drinking a bowl of crab roe soup without any interference. Artai also said: "There is another case. A patient had a wind-heat cough and went to the doctor. The doctor was a barefoot doctor. He bled him and let him die. The doctor escaped, and his family members were carrying the coffin outside Chunlin Hall. trouble."
"Hmm." Li Jinglong was still thinking about the attack on the caravan, and asked, "What else do you know?"
"From the beginning of the month to now, there are only a few murder cases." Artest said.
"From the beginning of November to now, have so many murders happened?!" Li Jinglong put down his chopsticks and asked.
Mo Zhigen replied: "I don't know if there were frequent murders in Chang'an in the past. Is this normal?"
Qiu Yongsi said: "Correction, these murders happened yesterday and today."
"Three attacks in two days, including the caravan, fourteen people died." Li Jinglong frowned, "So serious?"
Artest: "Don't forget, the demon king doesn't know where he is hiding yet."
Hong Jun: "Is this a provocation?"
Li Jinglong took a deep breath, frowned again, and did not answer, motioning everyone to go to bed first, and then go out to investigate the case early tomorrow morning.
In the middle of the night, Hong Jun squatted by the well to rinse his mouth, and the carp demon emerged from the pond and said, "Hong Jun."
Hong Jun turned his head, raised his brows, and signaled that he would speak if he had something to say.
Carp demon: "Have you ever met someone with whom you wish to spend your whole life?"
"What do you mean?" Hong Jun rinsed his mouth and sat by the pond.
"It means that you want to be with her all your life, you don't want to jump into the dragon's gate anymore, you stay together until you grow old, and when she dies, you also want to be with her." The carp demon opened and closed his mouth and said in a daze.
"Yes." Hong Jun smiled.
"Who?" The carp demon asked.
Hong Jun: "Father, Qingxiong."
The carp demon said: "That's not what it meant, forget it."
The carp demon wanted to go back to sleep, but Hong Jun grabbed it by the tail, dragged it out, and asked, "What's going on? Tell me."
The carp demon said: "It's just that you want to be with her all the time, and when you're by her side, you always feel at ease with nothing to say, and you don't have to think about anything..."
Hong Jun replied: "Li Changshi."
Carp demon: "I am!"
Hong Jun replied: "Chang Shi is always reliable and kind. Just leave everything to him, right? Zhao Zilong, what's wrong with you? I feel weird today."
The carp demon said: "I'm in love with a koi."
"Ah?" Hong Jun asked, "What do you mean?"
"I want to marry her." The carp demon said, "Never separate."
"Aren't you going to jump the Dragon Gate?" Hong Jun asked in surprise, "You don't want to jump anymore?"
The carp demon rested one hand on the bank of the pool, held the fish's head, spat out two bubbles, and said: "These words are just to comfort myself. In life, there must be a dream, right? Even if this dream can never be achieved. ?”
Hong Jun scratched his head and asked, "What does love mean?"
"Oh, you don't understand." The carp demon dived into the water, looked up at Hong Jun from the bottom of the water, and stopped talking.
Hong Jun was about to pick it up and continue to ask, but there was a sudden knock on the door outside. When the door was opened, suddenly a man covered in blood rushed in and said in a trembling voice, "Save me... save me... captain... I'm sorry for you... save me..."
"Qin Wu?!" Hong Jun was shocked.