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Chapter 74 There is a Snake Spirit in Chang'an City

"It's this tall man..."

Mo Li dodged to the side, giving way to Kong Qing who was behind him.

"Real Master Qingwei, who is in charge of the Chang'an Qingdu Temple, is a truly master of Taoism, Ambassador Li, have you heard recently that the marriage between the eldest daughter of the Yang family, Yang Mudan, and Ying Guogong's warrior Xun was arrested by a Even if the expert knows clearly before he has achieved it, it is he who did it!"

"The marriage of the eldest lady of the Yang family, Peony..."

The salt and iron made Li Xunzhi open his eyes tremblingly, looked at Kong Qing carefully, and nodded in a murmur.

"The old man seems to have heard of this matter."

And the pretty young woman sitting on the other side, Li Huang's wife, even forgot to cry when she looked up and saw Kong Qing.

But she seemed to react quickly, and continued to lower her head and cry mournfully.

"Ambassador Li, please don't see that the tiny Daoist is young, but he is by no means comparable to ordinary Taoist priests." Mo Li, with a lot of tongue, strongly recommended. "The little real person sells fortune-telling in front of the gate of the Zhuangyan Temple near a certain house, and he hits a hundred hits. It can be said that he is straight-forward. Even the masters of the Zhuangyan Temple can only bow down."

"where……"

Kong Qing shook the whisk in his hand, raised one hand, and nodded slightly at Li Xunzhi.

"Moli's words are too much praise for the poor Taoist. In fact, it's not that the poor Taoist's fortune-telling skills are better than those bald... headed monks in the Zhuangyan Temple, but that they specialize in skills. It is the afterlife, so it is too...negligent about the present life."

"Little real, you don't have to be too modest, I have heard about the matter of the Yang family's eldest lady..."

Li Xunzhi waved his hands, turned his head to look at Li Huang who died in a miserable state, and said bitterly.

"Besides, the old man swore before my son's body that no matter who it is, whoever can help Huang'er find the murderer who killed him, the old man will immediately offer a hundred gold. If anyone can avenge Huang'er, That old man is willing to reward you with a thousand gold!"

"it is good!"

After hearing Li Xunzhi's words, Kong Qing's eyes lit up instantly.

"Ambassador Li, let Pindao take a closer look..."

"please……"

Li Xunzhi lowered his head, looked at his son who died in a miserable state, then covered his face with his sleeve, let out a whimpering sound, and stepped aside.

Holding the fly whisk in his hand, Kong Qing took a step forward, and began to look at the deceased Li Huang on the bed.

That's right, just like what Moli said, the unlucky Li Huang who died on the bed only had a piece of skin left in his body, except for the skull, the rest of the bones disappeared without a trace.

Kong Qing stretched out his hand, touched Li Huang's body, and threw an identification technique on it.

Snake slough disguised as human skin:

This is a snake slough cleverly disguised as human skin. After it is filled with water, it can be remotely controlled by the caster and disguised as a living human being.

Hiss!
Kong Qing took another breath...

Snake skin puppet, what kind of underworld setting is this?
To be honest, before using the identification technique, Kong Qing really did not expect that the so-called human skin left by the unlucky Li Huang that Mo Li said was not human skin at all, but snake slough, or a human skin that could be used as a puppet. To use the snake slough.

So……

Kong Qing stretched out his hand and turned over the head of Li Huang, who was disguised as a snake slough, and dropped another identification technique on the skull inside the snake slough.

Li Huang's skull:
This is the only remaining skull of a man named Li Huang. From the mottled corrosion marks on it, it can be seen that he seems to have been soaked in some kind of strong acid.

"strong acid?"

Looking at the appraisal panel, Kong Qing frowned hesitantly at first, and then suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Could it be..."

Then, Kong Qing's hand moved along the position of the snake slough disguised as Li Huang to the slightly damp bed next to it, and then his fingers shimmered.

Solutions that have not yet evaporated completely:
This is some solution that has not been completely volatilized. Its main components are water, amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleosides, biogenic amines and metal ions, some toxic molecular enzymes and toxic proteins, snakes Stomach acid.

"really……"

Kong Qing raised his head, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"This unlucky ghost named Li Huang has already been swallowed by a large snake, and finally some indigestible things and this skull were spit out... No, the skull can be digested. Spit it out on purpose."

Kong Qing stuck the fly whisk in his hand behind his back, picked up Li Huang's body and shook it with both hands as if he were carrying clothes, and then turned over his clothes.

That's right, there is no trace of corrosion on the clothes...

In other words, this Li Huang was eaten by a large snake without any clothes on, and then the snake used its own slough to fill some water to make a lively Li Huang, and returned to the Li Xunzhi's house...

The reason why it spit out Li Huang's skull again and put it into the body of this puppet is probably because the Li Huang it created just by relying on its snake slough doesn't have the real Li Huang's breath!
Kong Qing nodded, and silently put down the snake slough in his hand.

It should be like this, that's right, this unlucky Li Huang probably encountered a large snake-like animal in Chang'an City... maybe it was a snake spirit like Bai Suzhen, and then... the snake spirit hiccupped.

But here comes the problem...

Since this snake spirit ate Li Huang, why did he spend so much time getting a doll of snake slough to replace him and go back to Li Huang's house, and then arrogantly let Li Huang die in front of so many people? Miserable...

What is it drawing?
No matter how Kong Qing thought about it, he felt that this approach was definitely harmful and not beneficial to this snake spirit.

Then the situation is easy to explain. After eating Li Huang, this snake spirit deliberately replaced him with a snake slough. There must be some intention behind it. It must be plotting something.

But it didn't expect that when it just returned to this room, the puppet's spell was destroyed due to some accident, and the puppet was exposed.

So what is it plotting?And what caused it to be exposed?

Kong Qing stood up and glanced at the furnishings in this room...

"How about it, little real person..."

Li Xunzhi, who was standing aside, watched Kong Qing stand up, and asked cautiously.

"Can we start to count the murderer for Huang'er now?"

After hearing Li Xunzhi's words, Kong Qing suddenly realized that by the way, he is a master of Taoism, a living god who can know the world's major events with just one lesson, not the kind of detective who needs to piece together clues everywhere... Hurry up ...

"Ahem... Ambassador Li, please rest assured, Pindao was just looking for the breath of the son on the remains of the son, and now he has captured one or two..."

As he said that, Kong Qing swung his sleeves, made a posse that was out of the air, quickly activated the skill of Liurenshu, and nimbly pinched and counted with his fingers. "Now Pindao will figure it out and see what happened to your son."

The next moment, when Li Xunzhi and the others were attracted by Kong Qing's flying fingers, Kong Qing's other hand quickly threw an identification technique towards other things in the room:
A few valuable cases:
This is a table made of nanmu. The master craftsman under the Ministry of Industry carved exquisite patterns on it, and also painted it carefully. It is very valuable and is a treasure that can be passed down from family to family.

Carved display rack:

This is a shelf for displaying valuables fixed on the wall, made of pear wood with exquisite patterns carved on it.

Carefully Carved Coral Tree:
This is a coral tree dug up from the bottom of the sea. It has been carefully carved by craftsmen to make the branches and leaves more natural, which can be called a priceless treasure.

……

"This is not, this is not, this is not..."

With the light tap of Kong Qing's finger, one item after another in the room was identified.

At the beginning of these items, without exception, various prefixes are added, such as precious, exquisite, and elaborate words, which makes Kong Qing, a master of Taoism and a gentleman of morality, almost moved his heart.

How much money did Li Xunzhi embezzle, so that he could afford so many luxuries for himself?
"Wait, what is this?"

When another identification technique of Kong Qing landed on an unremarkable bronze mirror on the wall, Kong Qing's eyes lit up at the brief introduction that appeared.

"That's right, the reason why Li Huang's puppet that this snake spirit used her own snake slough to appear so abruptly here is because of this..."

　Strictly speaking, the official position of salt and iron envoy should have appeared in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and there was no such official position in the early Tang Dynasty.In fact, the story of Tang Legend Li Huang should have happened after the mid-Tang Dynasty, but Mengxin moved it to the early Tang Dynasty directly. In order to reflect the original flavor, Mengxin did not change its settings.

　
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