40. Chapter 40(2/4)
"Taoist Master Bai Lu!" Xiao Huzi heard the sound and ran after him, "What happened?"
Jiang Caishuang was secretly annoyed, "The fish spirit possessed Dong Yueniang. I forced it out and fought with it, but it still escaped."
If it weren't for Dong Yueniang's reminder, she would have subdued the fish spirit.
It's really hateful.
"What?"
Jiang Caishuang took Xiao Huzi back to the main entrance of the nunnery, pulled out the knife from his waist, pried open the door latch, and barged in aggressively.
Huiquan, who was guarding the gate, was startled and screamed and backed away.
Dong Yueniang was sitting in the center of the main hall, looking neither sad nor happy, slowly twisting the string of Buddhist beads in her hand.
Jiang Caishuang quickly ran up the steps, pointed the mahogany sword in her left hand at Dong Yueniang, and asked angrily: "Are you in the same group as that fish spirit?"
Flushing smoke and trembling, he stepped forward. He was obviously very scared, but he still stretched out his arms to protect Dong Yueniang, "Taoist priest, Taoist priest, please calm down. My girl has nothing to do with monsters. We have never seen it before. It must have been used by it just now."
What method did you use to deceive my girl?"
"Nonsense! If Dong Yueniang and the fish spirit don't know each other, why do they put a jade vase in the house? Where did the fish in the jade vase go?"
At that time, water droplets splashed, and the fish spirit must have been hiding in the water.
And Dong Yueniang hurried over, specifically to pick up the fish essence and hide it on her body.
Chuiyan looked back at Dong Yueniang, "My girl just raised a small fish. The one I've seen is only as long as an index finger. You can't even keep such a big fish essence in a jade bottle."
Jiang Caishuang put away the mahogany sword and ordered: "Dong Yueniang kept the fish spirit and instigated it to kill people. The crime is unpardonable. Take it away!"
Xiao Huzi was about to go up to the man, but stopped in front of Dong Yueniang while blowing smoke and crying, "No, my girl can't go with you. You have no proof, why should you take her away!"
"Take her away too," Jiang Caishuang ordered.
"Yes!" Xiao Huzi clasped his fists.
Just as he was about to step forward and tie someone up, Dong Yueniang said calmly: "The Tuan Nu incident happened because of me alone, and it had nothing to do with blowing smoke. She didn't know the existence of Tuan Nu."
Jiang Caishuang winked at Xiao Huzi, who paused his movements.
"Do you admit that you raised a fish spirit and instigated it to kill people?"
Dong Yueniang was puzzled, "Tuannu is my disciple. He is pure in nature and never harms others."
"Hmph, I saw it devouring strangers with my own eyes. How can it be false?"
Dong Yueniang's delicate face was filled with confusion, "How is this possible? Is there any misunderstanding?"
"Let me ask you, can Tuan Nu stay at Qingxin Temple on Chinese Valentine's Day?"
Dong Yueniang recalled, "It went out for a while, but came back soon."
"When it came back, was it injured?"
Dong Yueniang hesitated, "...yes."
"The injury is on the left shoulder?"
Dong Yueniang's heart kept sinking, "...Yes."
Jiang Caishuang returned the steel knife to Xiao Huzi, put the long knife into its sheath, and made a clanging sound.
"That's right. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, Taishe students were holding a cultural gathering in Panlou. Tuannu sneaked into the crowd and took advantage of the chaos to devour a young scholar. I chased him all the way, and the wounds on his body were all caused by me."
Dong Yueniang's eyelashes trembled, and there were huge waves in her eyes.
She still couldn't believe it, "Tuannu, she is just an eleven-year-old child, how could she harm others?"
"Many people were present at the time and saw it with their own eyes. If you don't believe it, you can come with me and ask other people." Jiang Caishuang thought of something, took it out from her arms and put it on the desk, "This one
You should recognize the scales, right? These are the ones that fell off the fish spirit when I seriously injured it that day."
Dong Yueniang picked up the scale and her fingers couldn't help but tremble slightly.
Water mist spread in her eyes, and she murmured as if she had suffered a huge blow: "Tuan Nu... It's really Tuan Nu..."
Jiang Caishuang said coldly: "Not only that, the Tuan slaves also killed five students from Taishe."
Deng Cong's body was found and it was found that he was killed by someone else. Jiang Caishuang did not include him.
In addition to Deng Cong, He Wenle, and Su Tao, five students from Taishe alone were killed by Tuan slaves.
If she hadn't been a cultivator and was sensitive to demonic power, and if she hadn't given her brother a peace charm, then more people would have died at the hands of Tuan Nu.
"What?" Dong Yueniang was shocked, the Buddhist string in her hand was torn off, and the beads rolled to the ground.
But she couldn't care about this and asked nervously: "You said that the Tuan slaves harmed so many people? Are you telling the truth?"
"Yes, it colluded with the old-school students in Taishe and asked that person to trick the new party students into the mountains behind Mingxin Temple and become its prey. You should recognize these articles."
Jiang Caishuang took out a few pieces of rice paper from her sleeve, "These articles were collected from the deceased's room. They are exactly the same as the original manuscripts I found in your room. Only the handwriting is different."
Dong Yueniang looked at the familiar handwriting on the paper, and her heart felt like it was falling into an ice cellar.
Tears fell on the paper, tick tick tick, and the ink stains became smudged.
"It's Tuannu's calligraphy... I personally taught it its calligraphy, and I will never admit it wrong."
"We speculate that Tuan Nu used your article to lure Taishe students and killed them."
Dong Yueniang closed her eyes in despair, unable to believe that such a straightforward and lovely girl could actually do something to harm innocent people.
Even... the article she wrote is used.
There was a buzz in Dong Yueniang's head, and then she lost consciousness and fell softly to the side.
Chui Yan quickly supported her and shook her body, "Girl, girl."
Jiang Caishuang knelt down and felt her pulse, "She just couldn't accept it for a moment and was so frightened and angry that she fainted. She can just rest for a while."
She and Xiao Huzi stayed at Qingxin Temple, waiting for Yueniang to wake up.
"I think Yueniang doesn't seem to know what Tuannu is doing behind the scenes." Xiao Huzi analyzed.
"Yes, I think so too." Jiang Caishuang nodded, "When I questioned her just now, Yueniang's eyes were clear and not angry. She didn't look like a person with hatred."
Moreover, if Yueniang really had a grudge against the New Party students because of Yu Wenqing's incident, and therefore used Fish Farmer as her killer, she could have directly used her own article, which would be more convincing than Tuan Nu's words.
As long as she ordered the slaves to dispose of all the bodies afterwards, no one would know that there was fish essence hidden in her body in this ordinary Qingxin Temple.
Chui Yan came from the back hall and said hesitantly: "My girl is awake. She said...there are some things she wants to ask you."
Jiang Caishuang followed her to the back hall, while Xiao Huzi stayed in front.
Walking into the house, the porcelain tiles and water stains on the floor have been cleaned up. Dong Yueniang leaned on the bedside, her cheeks were pale and thin, and she said weakly: "I want to know who were killed by the group slaves. Can you tell me, girl?"
"It killed all people from Taishe, including He Wenle, Zhou Kang, Su Tao, Fan Geng, Lu Linxin... These five people were all students who supported the new method, and one was the cousin of a student from Taishe. The other one was a student from Taishe.
There was a man named Deng Cong, whose body was found by the river. He was hanged, and we speculate that his death was also related to the Tuan slaves."
The light in Dong Yueniang's eyes dimmed, "Tuannu... why does it want to kill innocent people like this? It was clearly a good boy with a kind heart in the past."
Jiang Caishuang asked: "How did you get to know it? What is your relationship?"
"Actually, I am Tuannu's master," Dong Yueniang smiled bitterly, "I once committed suicide by jumping into a river, and it was Tuannu who possessed me and rescued me."
Chui Yan, who was waiting on the side, couldn't help but call out: "Girl..."
It would have been better if she had been more careful at that time, so that her girl would not have almost died.
Recalling the days when she was just expelled from the Grand Master's Mansion, Dong Yueniang had long since let go, without any resentment in her tone, "Later, my consciousness gradually awakened, and I also knew the identity of Tuan Nu. At first, I was a little afraid of it, but as time went by,
I then discovered that Tuannu was just an innocent and ignorant ordinary child. Although he was a fish spirit, he had lost his parents since he was a child and practiced alone in the Bian River without even a playmate."
"Tuan Nu turned into a human form in front of me. Seeing how innocent and pitiful she was, I kept her by my side without telling Chui Yan and Master Fayun, and accepted her as my disciple. Tuan Nu's parents were killed, and when they died, Tuan Nu
The slave was still very young and couldn't remember anything. She couldn't even remember her own name. So I gave her a name and taught her how to read and write."
Jiang Caishuang couldn't help but feel sad.
I didn't expect Tuan Nu to have such a troubled life experience.
"During the day, Tuannu likes to go to the temple to listen to Buddhist teachings. At night, I carry someone on my back to pour a glass of water, and she comes to my room along the drain. I light up the lamp and teach her to read and calligraphy."
Chui Yan once heard Dong Yueniang "talking to herself" at night, teaching people how to write. In fact, there was another person in the house, a Tuan slave.
"How long have you been teaching her? Has anyone else in the nunnery seen Tuannu?"
Dong Yueniang thought for a moment, "We have known each other for more than half a year. I have not told anyone about the group slaves."
"Have you never seen her even blowing smoke?"
"No. When I was teaching the Tuan slaves, she was attached to my body. Each of us occupied half of the body, one on the left and the other on the right. I held a pen in my right hand to teach the Tuan slaves, and the Tuan slaves held a pen in their left hand to read and write. So I couldn't even blow smoke.
I didn't notice her presence."
Jiang Caishuang suddenly said, "So that's it."
I have always heard that monsters occupy a human body and will suck the energy and vitality of that person.
Unexpectedly, Tuan Nu took possession of Dong Yueniang's body but did not cause any harm to her. The two of them could coexist peacefully in the same body.
"Since no one else has seen Tuannu except you, then who instigated her to target the New Party?" Jiang Caishuang was puzzled.
She turned to ask: "Are you sure you haven't mentioned the old and new party struggles in the court in front of the Tuan slaves?"
Dong Yueniang shook her head, "No, in my eyes, Tuannu is just a child who can't even recognize the words. How could I teach her such complicated things?"
"Who else could it be?" Jiang Caishuang frowned.
But there is a more important question at the moment, "We finally found out where Tuan Nu was hiding, but we let her run away. What if she goes to harm others again?"
Dong Yueniang pinched her fingertips with complicated emotions, hesitated again and again, and said, "Maybe... I can help."
Jiang Caishuang looked at her doubtfully.
"If you take me away, the Tuan slaves will come back to save me if they know about it."
To be continued...