Chapter 224 Call Your Man
The white fox was untied and fell to the ground.
Having lost its inner elixir, it gasped weakly and soon could no longer maintain its fox form, turning into a human form.
Generally speaking, if a demon loses its inner elixir and is unable to maintain its magic, it will maintain its fox form. But Chen Zhaozhi is different. He is the descendant of a human and a fox, and is originally a half-demon. Without spiritual power, it is easier for him to transform into a human form.
Taoist Master Tian did not suspect this, so she did not say much.
No one knew what the human-shaped Chen Zhaozhi had been through. He looked very miserable, his body was dirty, his outer clothes were gone, and his inner shirt was torn in several places, revealing several strong muscles inside.
He was already a handsome man, but now he looked so haggard that I felt pity for him. The onlookers, especially the sisters-in-law, could not help but come forward to take a few more glances at him.
He was just shouting to burn it to death, but now he feels sorry for it, which fully demonstrates the excellent quality of human beings that "three views follow five senses".
Some people who lived nearby even ran back home, took their husband's clothes and threw them on Chen Zhaozhi to keep him warm.
"Hurry up and put it on, young man. You're so handsome, it would be bad if you got frozen."
"That's right, my family made some soup today. Would you like to try it, little White Fox?"
Seeing that everyone was getting close to the monsters, Daju grew bolder and jumped off Xu Chuchu. In front of everyone, he transformed from a cat into a human. He put his hands on his hips and said proudly, "So what? I'm not more handsome than him, am I?"
When the sisters-in-law saw another handsome young man coming, they all covered their faces and smiled: "He is handsome, too. Brother Xiaomao is not bad looking either."
Although I didn't dare to get too close, I still threw a lot of homemade snacks and candies at him.
Daju ran left and right as if he was playing a game, catching a handful of them, and ran back happily to share them with Gigi.
Everyone was busy, only Xu Chuchu was standing alone in the wind, looking disheveled.
She finally understood that without cultivation, she had no say. Without a say, no one would listen to her, and nothing she said would matter.
Soon, someone really brought a bowl of clear soup from home, handed it to the master, and asked her to pass it on to Chen Zhaozhi.
Although the soup was bland, it had a hint of chicken flavor, and chicken was a great tonic for foxes, so Shen Zhaozhi soon regained some energy.
Without the inner elixir, he is no different from an ordinary person, and he and Xu Chuchu become brothers in distress.
"Tell me first, what happened? Weren't you exiled? Why are you coming to this village again?" Xu Chuchu stood in front of him and asked unhappily.
Speaking of exile, Chen Zhaozhi, who had just escaped death, put on a lonely face again.
"I was exiled, but the handcuffs that controlled my spiritual power failed along the way, so I escaped using magic."
Chen Zhaozhi thought that the Grand Master was trying to save him, so he fled all the way back to the capital, but found that the Grand Master was nowhere to be found and the Imperial Observatory was also sealed. When he was trying to inquire about the situation, he was discovered by several high-level physiognomists, who started killing people after a disagreement and chased him all the way out of the capital. He finally escaped with great difficulty.
He had no place to go, so he had to flee back to Fox Mountain to seek shelter from his mother's family.
"Master Xu, since you just came out of the capital, do you know the whereabouts of my master?" Chen Zhaozhi was still worried about the whereabouts of the Grand Master. "It must be that the conspiracy between Master and me for the throne was exposed and the emperor knew about it. I wonder if he is doing well now."
After hearing this, Xu Chuchu just wanted to laugh.
This kid is so out of touch with the news that he still thinks the Grand Master is on his side and helping him seize power and usurp the throne.
"Your master is plotting a rebellion, but he is not doing it for you. He wants to revive Prince Zheng of the previous dynasty." Xu Chuchu told Shen Zhaozhi the truth in a few words, which made him dumbfounded.
"...This is impossible, what evidence do you have?" Chen Zhaozhi expressed his complete rejection.
"Nothing is impossible." Xu Chuchu knew that he would not believe it so easily. "If you don't believe it, wait until this is over and then go back to the capital to see."
She looked at Chen Zhaozhi's pale face and added cheerfully, "By the way, the handcuffs that controlled you were prepared by the Grand Master himself. Maybe he died and they became ineffective, which gave you a chance to escape."
"Oh, there's one more thing." Xu Chuchu said as she remembered a little, "Don't be too disappointed. In fact, your master still cares about you. He specifically asked Zhihai to arrange for people to take care of you along the way, and to find a substitute to replace you when you reach the south, fearing that you couldn't bear the hardship. However, 'taking you back to Beijing' was not part of the plan."
Chen Zhaozhi said nothing, but muttered to himself as if he had gone mad.
In fact, there were some doubts in the past, and he knew about it, but he just couldn't believe it no matter what. Even if someone told him the truth now, he still couldn't accept it.
Taoist Priest Tian came over impatiently and asked, "Have you finished reminiscing about the past? Are you still looking for the murderer?"
"Let's go, let's first check if you're the one who bit the girl to death." Xu Chuchu lightly kicked Shen Zhaozhi's calf, which he was holding together. "If you are, that would be the best. We can just hand you over to Taoist Tian, and there won't be so much trouble later."
She didn't want to go to Fox Mountain at all.
At this time, the villagers had finished watching the excitement and had almost all dispersed. Only Taoist Master Tian, Xu Chuchu and his party, and the village chief's family were gathered together.
The village chief asked cautiously, "Masters, where should we begin to investigate this case?"
Everyone looked at each other, no one spoke. Finally, their eyes fell on Xu Chuchu.
By the way, isn’t it said that this girl always investigated cases and upheld justice in the past? She must have experience.
But Xu Chuchu didn't have much serious experience. He had only seen it a few times with Xiao Yu in the past two years.
She sighed helplessly: "Then let's do an autopsy first."
Soon, the body of the deceased was carried over. There was no professional coroner in the village, and the government did not accept cases of animal bites and refused to send a coroner, so Xu Chuchu had to go himself.
She lifted the white cloth covering the body, and a foul stench hit her in the face.
The deceased was named He Ya, sixteen years old, thin, with a dark complexion, a typical farm girl. She had a visible wound on her neck, the mark of a bite from some sharp-toothed animal. The wound was purple and poisonous.
The person had been gone for three or four days, the wound was severely corroded, and the bite mark was deformed. Xu Chuchu could only barely tell from the location of the wound that it was a frontal attack, but he didn't know what animal had done it, so it was possible that it was a poisonous snake.
At the same time, the deceased looked terrified, and it seemed that he had suffered a great fright before his death.
Xu Chuchu was not good at autopsies, and could only find these clues from the body. However, the way she boldly manipulated the body had already shocked Taoist Tian and the village chief's family.
The girl was young but quite courageous. Yaya had been dead for several days and was so decomposed that even her mother didn't dare to look at her.
"It really wasn't me. This man has been dead for several days. I just came to the village yesterday." Chen Zhaozhi came back to his senses at some point and stood quietly behind Xu Chuchu.
Seeing that she had been fiddling with the corpse for a long time without saying anything, he couldn't help but urge her: "Can you do it? You've been looking at it for so long without saying a word. If you can't, call your man. He's better than you in this area."
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