Volume 2: A sudden change in the prison, a red-clothed man goes out to find a thief Chapter 222 Your skin is so smooth
Li Si returned to Qianjia Tower. After all, he did not take Yan Ziqing's matter to heart. He just thought it was a little girl playing around. After all, there was a big age gap between them, so it was impossible for him to have any thoughts about it.
After a busy day in the building, in the evening, Xiao Cao started talking about the monster that Zuo Liangping had mentioned.
Li Si lazily lay beside the table, too lazy to care. He was already exhausted from the day's work.
Now he only hopes that the strange old man can behave himself for the next few days and not cause any more trouble so that he can have less worries.
However, his idea is obviously not so easy to realize. There is always a huge difference between reality and ideal, and there may even be bipolar performance.
It's strange that the old man has no time to rest during this period of time, because he is about to make a breakthrough in his puppet making skills.
In Li Si's memory, the strange old man could manipulate more than twenty puppets at the same time.
Now, this old man who holds a doll all day long has made new progress. He has deduced a new method of controlling puppets. If he can master this method, he may be able to control more than a hundred puppets at the same time.
This method was named "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons" by the strange old man.
For this reason, he has been staying in his shop recently and has not left the house, making new dolls day and night.
Wada Mamoru knew about this, so he was the one guarding the nearest puppet shop.
On the surface, the puppet shop mostly displays some cloth puppets and small wooden puppets.
This also made Zuo Liangping not make too many associations about this, and he did not connect the puppet shop with the monster he had seen before.
The real life-sized dolls are all placed in the back room of the doll shop.
It was dimly lit inside, with figures scattered around, and all kinds of strange-looking dolls standing quietly there.
If ordinary people barged in rashly, the scene alone would probably scare them half to death.
It’s strange that the old man can still work there with peace of mind. I don’t know what kind of mentality he has.
Since he was in the city, it was impossible for the strange old man to practice his puppetry during the day, so he adjusted his practice time to the night.
This is why he cannot rest during this period of time. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be puppets coming in and out of Mingzhou City at night for a long time afterwards.
Li Si doesn't know about this yet. If he knew, he would probably curse the strange old man for giving him five taels of silver as a hush money, saying it was not enough.
With such a grand ceremony, did he think that everyone in Mingzhou City was blind? And the night parade of hundreds of ghosts, if only a few people saw it, the news would spread all over the city the next day. Mingzhou City no longer needed to be called Mingzhou City, but could be called Ghost City instead.
In addition, Zuo Liangping would not give up the investigation so easily. By the time the news came in and out, the people from the Six Gates would be able to arrive in a few days.
If there is a city lockdown and curfew, and every household is checked, life will be unbearable. He hasn't received his salary for this month yet!
Unfortunately, it is obviously impossible for Li Si to know the strange old man’s plan now.
It is even more impossible to know how lively Mingzhou city will be in the nights to come.
Fortunately, he also didn't know Zuo Liangping's identity.
Because he has not yet returned to the unit and the official documents have not yet been signed, Zuo Liangping cannot be considered an official constable of the Six Gates. Apart from his connection with Yan Tingzhi, he has no way to seek help from the Six Gates.
In addition, Yan Tingzhi knew that Li Si was now hanging around in Mingzhou City, so he basically planned to give up on him.
He believed that Li Si would handle any problem. Anyway, he had already asked this person to take care of Zuo Liangping. He was still very busy in the capital and didn't have the energy to take care of so many things.
Therefore, the situation where the Six Gates would surround Mingzhou City in three circles inside and outside should not occur.
But the strange old man’s Night Parade of Hundred Demons will not stop just because of this.
This person is used to being alone, and never cares about the consequences of doing things. For him, he just does whatever he thinks of, and there is nothing to worry about, anyway, no one can do anything to him.
This is also the reason why Monk Yuanji doesn't like him very much. This old ghost is fine when he is quiet, but once he starts making trouble, Li Si can't beat him.
When he was young, because the monk Yuanji wanted to kill his enemies, the strange old man accompanied him to kill for three days and three nights without saying a word. He did not stop until Yuanji stopped. He killed all the way through the sect, and then he looked at Yuanji to ask if he was satisfied.
From that time on, Yuanji knew that this man was a lunatic. But from a certain perspective, Yuanji himself was not a good person either, so the two of them could get along so closely.
From this point of view, Li Si was brought up by these two people and did not grow up astray, which can be said to be a steadfast character.
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In the middle of the night, everyone in Qianjialou finished washing up and went back to their rooms to rest.
Li Si spread the bed in the hall, yawned, and lay down in the quilt with his eyes closed comfortably.
This was much more comfortable than wandering outside . At least he had a bed and quilt, and didn't have to sleep on the roof in the wind and cold. The more he got used to the life in Qianjialou, the more he felt that living in the rivers and lakes without food and shelter was not as good as such a stable life.
He covered himself with the quilt and closed his eyes, not caring about the wind and rain outside. All the trivial matters had nothing to do with him.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind the door curtain of the hall.
"Brother Si, Brother Si." Xiao Cao poked his head out from behind the door curtain and waved to Li Si.
"Have you slept yet?"
"Huh..." Li Si lay on the table, let out a long breath, opened his eyes helplessly and answered.
"I'll go to sleep if you don't bother me."
"Oh, what time is it now? I haven't even slept yet, why are you, a grown man, sleeping?"
Seeing that Li Si was still awake, Xiao Cao hurried out with a smile, looked around, tiptoed to Li Si's bed, lay down beside the table and said excitedly.
"Hey, what do you think? How about we go find that monster tonight?"
"..." Li Si didn't say anything. He just lay there, looking at the girl in front of him as if she were a fool. After a long time, he asked back with an expressionless face.
"What do you think?"
"Of course!" Xiao Cao lowered his voice and shouted with shining eyes.
"Pa." Li Si raised a hand and slapped himself on the face weakly. As expected, he shouldn't have had any unnecessary confidence in this girl's self-knowledge.
"Who gave you the courage to go find a monster that even Zuo Liangping couldn't deal with?"
"You." Xiao Cao said as a matter of course.
In her opinion, although Li Si had a bad temper, his martial arts skills were definitely top-notch. Not to mention one monster, even if there were ten... he could still escape.
Li Si didn't want to talk anymore. After staring at the excited girl lying beside his bed for a long time, he buried his face in the pillow weakly, stretched out a hand from under the quilt, pointed at the door in front of the hall, and said in a muffled voice.
"I want to sleep. If you want to find a monster, go find it yourself by crawling through the crack of the door. But let me tell you first, if you dare to go out, I will hang you on the door."
"Hey, don't worry, Brother Si, just take me out for a walk, and we'll come back after a walk, really, Brother Si~"
Xiao Cao continued to shake Li Si twice, but seeing that Li Si didn't react at all, she could only pout her lips.
But suddenly, her eyes turned again, as if she had thought of a solution.
She lifted her sleeves and smiled at Li Si. Then, she thrust her cold hands into Li Si's quilt at lightning speed and started to grab the person inside.
"Look at my Ice Palm!"
"Me!" Li Si was so frightened that he jumped up. Then he turned over and grabbed Xiao Cao, pressed him on the table, and said with a dark face and a low voice.
"Aren't you little girls nowadays ashamed to crawl into a man's bed in the middle of the night?!"
"Hehe, anyway, I'm not the one who suffers. Brother Si, your skin is really smooth. " Xiao Cao, who was pinned down, acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. He smiled shamelessly and stuck out his tongue.
"If you make trouble again, I will hang you up right now." Li Si felt a headache. What was this? A young girl flirting with an old man?
Is there something wrong with this world?
"Okay, okay." Seeing that Li Si's tone was wrong, Xiao Cao immediately shrank his neck and said timidly.
"I won't make a fuss anymore."
"Hmph." With a helpless groan, Li Si let go of Xiao Cao, tidied his clothes, and lay down again. Then he directly covered his head with the quilt, as if he had no intention of getting up again.
Xiao Cao curled his lips, knowing that he would not be able to go out tonight, so he had to quietly run to the door and look outside through the crack.
