For Qing Wu, sending Xie Ling's soul back into his body was just a piece of cake.
There was no fancy preparation at all. She blew a breath into her hands, pressed the talisman paper with her thumb, and slapped Xie Ling hard on the forehead.
With a slap, a red slap mark appeared on Xie Ling's forehead.
“All done!” Qing Wu waved her hands.
The room was silent. Lady Dingguo was dumbfounded. "Is this all right?"
It’s not that she wants to question Qing Wu, but... isn’t this too casual?
When Na Baimei invited the fox demon to possess her son, she spent a long time practicing with the talisman paper and peach wood sword.
A soft 'hmm' drew everyone's attention.
Xie Ling's originally dull eyes regained their vitality. Although he still looked a little dull, his eyes were clear when he looked at people.
He seemed to have just woken up. His eyes wandered around the people in the room, and finally fixed on the wife of Duke Dingguo. He called softly:
"mother……"
Lady Dingguo felt a pang in her nose and rushed forward: "Ling'er, it's really my Ling'er... It's you, right?"
Xie Ling nodded in confusion and called out to others: "Daddy, Big Brother..."
Xie Yun's eyes also turned red, and he took a few deep breaths: "It's good that you woke up, it's good that you woke up."
Xie Ling stared blankly at Qing Wu and Xiao Chenyan, opened his mouth and said, "I remember you..."
He tilted his head again, looking left and right as if looking for something.
Seeing this, Lady Dingguo asked hurriedly, "Ling'er, what are you looking for?"
Xie Ling gestured, "Brother...Brother Yulang..."
The others looked at each other.
Qing Wu smiled and said, "He has returned to his parents. Do you still remember him?"
Xie Ling nodded and looked straight at Qing Wu: "Sister, you killed the monster and saved me."
"And brother..." He looked at Xiao Chenyan and spoke slowly but clearly: "Thank you."
Lady Dingguo was so happy that she cried, "Ling'er can say so many things. It's great for our Ling'er."
Xie Ling's brain was damaged in the past, and his intelligence was about the same as that of a child. He also had difficulty speaking and it took him half a day to utter a single word.
The Xie family was naturally surprised that Xianxu could speak a complete sentence.
Qing Wu asked something else: "Xie Ling, do you remember why your soul left your body?"
Xie Ling blinked blankly, and after a while he said: "I saw gold, a lot of gold. Monkeys with one foot carried boxes of gold into the Taoist temple. They...they found me...and kept chasing me..."
Upon hearing this, the wife of Duke Dingguo turned pale.
Xiao Chenyan looked at Qing Wu thoughtfully, "The monkey he mentioned is a mandrill?"
"It should be." Qing Wu nodded and asked, "What Taoist temple is he talking about? Where have you been before?"
Lady Dingguo said in a trembling voice, "Izumo Monastery, I took Ling'er to live in Izumo Monastery for a while, and he had an accident on the way back."
Qing Wu and Xiao Chenyan looked at each other.
The clues are connected again.
'Windfall' is here too!
"It seems that Xie Ling broke something and was targeted."
Lady Dingguo was sweating profusely. She never thought that she was the one who killed the child. She was shocked and angry.
"Why didn't that ghost come after me, but chose to attack my child? What does Ling'er know?"
"I can only say that you are lucky, Madam Dingguo." Qing Wu laughed faintly, "Mandrills are vindictive and will not leave anyone alive, unless someone lures them away before they attack."
Qing Wu looked at Xie Ling's somewhat dull but unusually clear eyes and said with emotion: "Madam has a good son."
Having said that, how could everyone not understand the truth?
Xie Ling's soul left his body on his own in order to attract the gibbon and allow his relatives to return home safely.
Throughout the whole process, the wife of Duke Dingguo knew nothing about it.
Some of Qing Wu's doubts were also solved. No wonder it took so long for Xie Ling's soul to be caught by the green-headed fly pretending to be a ghost. It turned out that he had been hiding all along.
Now that the truth was revealed, Lady Dingguo was filled with fear and hated the Izumo Monastery in her heart.
"The Chuyun Temple is a popular place, but I never thought it was a place of filth and corruption. Why would they raise a mandrill to kill my son?"
"It's not just Xie Ling who was killed." Qing Wu said in a faint tone.
Xiao Chenyan spoke at this time: "I came here today, not only to help Xie Ling return his soul, but also to discuss this matter."
Xie Yun's expression became serious: "Let's go to the study."
I cleaned up the study.
Because it involved human lives, Xie Shuzi also came. He was currently the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, in charge of various major criminal cases.
If multiple lives were involved, such a major case would definitely not be reported to him.
Xiao Chenyan first gave them a list, which was the one that Mu Ying presented last night.
In addition, there are also account books of Yun Houxing’s corruption.
After reading it, the father and son looked solemn and their eyes inevitably turned to Qing Wu.
Xie Shu was very perceptive. He could see the mystery just by looking at the list and the account book. He said directly:
"Did these two families collude to kidnap children?"
"It's not selling, but killing." Xiao Chenyan said in a cold tone as he talked about the corpses of children found on Henglu Mountain (Shiying Mountain).
"My men have counted them and found that there are more than a dozen children who were victims."
"How can this be possible!" Xie Yunbo was furious: "Yun Houxing and Wang Sheng are so careless about human life, what on earth do they want to do!"
Xie Shu was even calmer. He pondered and said, "Any clues as to where the stolen money that Yun Houxing embezzled went?"
After saying this, Qing Wu glanced at him and then at Xiao Chenyan.
Xiao Chenyan's expression remained unchanged: "Some of them have been found, but the whereabouts of most of them are unknown." He paused, a sharp light flashed in his eyes: "But now, we should know where they are."
"You mean the gold that Brother Ling and Izumo saw?"
Xie Shu's eyebrows were frost-stained. "The Queen of the Clouds collected wealth and sent it to the Chuyun Monastery. They kidnapped children and killed them to feed the spirits. The Chuyun Monastery was also the one driving the spirits."
"What on earth is this Izumo-kan trying to do?!"
"Isn't this obvious?" Qing Wu put down the cake and said lazily, "Kidnapping children and raising monsters is nothing more than some crooked ways. As for money... You don't think only living people are greedy for money, do you?"
The three of them looked at her.
Qing Wu smiled and squinted her eyes, her expression teasing: "As the old saying goes, money makes the world go round."
"Whether in the underworld or in the world of the living, money is a good thing."
Qing Wu's words contained a lot of information, and both the Xie family father and son frowned.
They can take care of the affairs of the living, but they are beyond their reach when it comes to matters involving ghosts and the dark side of the world.
Qing Wu patted the crumbs on her hands and said, "You guys handle the affairs of the living world, and I'll take care of the affairs of the underworld."
"But you can't do it for free, you have to be paid."
After saying that, she didn't care about the looks of the three people, she stood up and asked, "When is lunch? Will uncle provide the meal?"
Xie Yun's expression broke for a moment, but he quickly recovered. It was just a lunch, so how could he ignore it? Not to mention, Qing Wu also saved Xie Ling's life.
"No need to eat." Xiao Chenyan stood up and said, "If you stay any longer, it might arouse suspicion."
After all, on the surface, the Duke Dingguo's Mansion and the Prince Yan's Mansion have already severed ties.
Qing Wu showed disappointment, she really disliked the cooking skills of the chef in Prince Yan's mansion. She remembered that the cooking skills of the chef in Xie Shu's family were quite good, especially the cakes and pastries, which were no worse than those in the imperial kitchen.
Since she couldn't stay for a free meal, Qing Wu had no intention of staying for long. However, she asked someone to take Baimei and the little fox away.
Just before leaving, a servant came quickly over carrying a box of snacks.
Although the snacks were given to Xiao Chenyan, Xiao Chenyan was not greedy for food now. He opened the lid of the food box and took a look. The snacks inside were definitely the same ones that Qing Wu had eaten in the study before.
There was also a note in the box, with the words "Duan Fang Gong Jin" written on it, which read: This is a humble gift, I hope you will keep it.
Inside the carriage, Qing Wu pulled the note from the man's fingers, looked at it carefully, and praised: "The handwriting is like the person. Young Master Xie's handwriting is as beautiful as he is in person."
After saying that, he added: "You are quite considerate and thoughtful."
She folded the note and put it in her purse, feeling the gaze of the man beside her was somewhat scorching.
Qing Wu looked at him in confusion: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Xiao Chenyan had a blank expression on his face, his pair of auspicious phoenix eyes were dark and unfathomable, "You treat Xie Shu quite badly."
"Who made Young Master Xie look so likable?" Qing Wu said with a tut, "Unlike some people who always have a stern face, as if I gave him hundreds of thousands of taels."
There was an instant of dead silence in the car.
"Come to think of it, do you have something else that you haven't given me?" Qing Wu stretched out her hand: "Where is the written agreement?"
Xiao Chenyan looked at her two different faces when facing him and Xie Shu, and looked away indifferently, "No."
Qing Wu’s beautiful eyes opened wide. “You’re so bad, Xiao Yantai, are you still playing tricks on me?”
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