Chapter 83

He made the cage clatter, but still couldn't break through the shackles.

He simply stopped moving around and quietly observed the situation around him.

This looked like a mansion of a wealthy family, with exquisite houses and clean courtyards.

His sharp wolf ears twitched, and he could clearly hear the melodious zither music coming from the backyard, and the fragrance of wine and meat lingering on the tip of his nose.

Just as he was looking at the situation around him, the door of the room next to him opened, and the orange light instantly hit his body.

He looked up and saw three people walk out.

The leader was the woman in red, twisting her steps as she walked, clearly a fox spirit, but like a water snake. The corners of her eyes and brows were full of charming smiles.

And behind her followed two people, one tall and one short - Damao and Ermao.

"Yo, Lord Xie is awake? Did you sleep well?" the woman in red asked with a smile.

Xie Shouzheng ignored her, a pair of cold wolf eyes staring fiercely at the two people behind her: "Damao, Ermao? You actually colluded with this fox spirit!"

"No!" He suddenly reacted, "You are not Damao and Ermao! Although they are simple-minded, they are loyal to their duties and would never be with evil demons!"

"Damao" and "Ermao" looked at each other, their figures swayed and turned into two thin foxes.

After seeing it, Xie Shouzheng suddenly remembered: "Xuxuhu! How could I have forgotten you?"

The Xuxuhu clan has weak spiritual power and is difficult to transform into humans. But they are gifted, and can imitate the appearance of anyone they see, and can also imitate behavior and manners, lifelike, so they are called Xuxuhu.

Even those with superior eyesight find it difficult to distinguish the true form of a Xuxuhu.

A few years ago, the Xuxuhu caused trouble in Fengxian Prefecture, actually imitating the parents of the Prefect, and lived a comfortable life in the Prefect's house for more than half a year.

Later, when the Xuanjing Division sent Damao and Ermao to the Prefect's mansion to deliver official documents, they happened to run into them.

Damao and Ermao had poor eyesight and relied entirely on their noses to perceive their surroundings.

After sniffing around, they suddenly asked the Prefect in confusion: "Lord, why do you call two stinky foxes father and mother?"

Later, under the full attack of the Xuanjing Division, the two Xuxuhu were captured.

In this case, the Prefect's parents suffered a lot, being locked in a cabinet by the two little foxes, surviving on a little steamed bun and water every day, and when they were rescued after the case was discovered, the old couple were just skin and bones.

The Prefect was so angry that he almost wanted to kill the Xuxuhu.

However, involving strange cases, local officials could not intervene, and could only be handled by the Xuanjing Division.

The main official of the local Xuanjing Division considered that no deaths were caused and the social impact was not great, so he sentenced them to ten years of imprisonment.

Speaking of which, the case was not too big, but the demon species like Xuxuhu were truly special, and the case was also reported to the capital.

At that time, after Xie Shouzheng read the case file, he had a deep memory.

Not long after the case was closed, the two Xuxuhu suddenly escaped from prison again.

Although their strength was weak, the skill of being able to change into other people's appearance at will still existed as a great unstable factor.

Therefore, after escaping from prison, the Xuanjing Division issued a wanted order nationwide. Unfortunately, they were like mud cows entering the sea, and there was no trace of them.

Never expected that these two Xuxuhu didn't run far at all, but were lurking in Fengnian County.

"Strange, why didn't I smell the fox's scent on you before?" Xie Shouzheng was a little puzzled by this.

You know, a wolf's sense of smell is more sensitive than a mole's.

Damao and Ermao were able to discover the flaws of the Xuxuhu by their sense of smell at the beginning. Xie Shouzheng didn't discover it this time, which is really not right.

One of the Xuxuhu waved its claws and said triumphantly: "Learn from your mistakes, having been seen through before, this time we must be more cautious!"

The woman in red said with a smile: "We made such a big noise in Fengnian County, the local government people will definitely go to notify the Xuanjing Division to handle it."

"So I arranged for the Xuxuhu to pretend to meet them by chance on the road that the officials must pass. In order to avoid the scent exposing their whereabouts, they also stole the urine of the mole brothers in advance and smeared it on their bodies to cover up the fox's own scent. They even stole Damao and Ermao's net."

When the only flaw was also filled, even Xie Shouzheng didn't discover the pair of fakes.

Last night, the Xuxuhu brothers, disguised as Damao and Ermao, pretended to be guards of the Xuanjing Division wandering on the street, looking for targets.

Last night, they initially wanted to take Xie Shouzheng, Lin Qingyue, and Dongfang Yan as targets to catch.

Unexpectedly, Xie Shouzheng recognized Damao and Ermao at a glance.

Foxes are naturally cunning, and after a few words of playing dumb, they tricked Xie Shouzheng's identity out. Knowing that he was a high official from the capital, they didn't dare to confront him easily.

So, the Xuxuhu brothers deliberately took them to the county yamen. After witnessing the woman in red killing someone, they pretended to capture her.

They used this method to try to fool Xie Shouzheng away and avoid being enemies head-on.

Unexpectedly, Xie Shouzheng killed his way back halfway, and happened to see the woman in red, following her here.

The woman in red laughed charmingly: "If we fought head-on, the three of us would not be your match. But there is a path to heaven and you don't take it, you just broke into our territory. We used the manifestation hallucinogenic medicine that humans use to deal with monsters, which made you reveal your original form, and your strength was greatly reduced."

"Now..." She kicked the iron cage and said fearlessly, "Lord Xie from the capital, wouldn't you have thought that one day you would become a trapped beast in a cage?"

After Xie Shouzheng roughly figured out the situation, he didn't panic in his heart. Because he knew that Lin Qingyue and the Crown Prince were still outside, and they would definitely be able to discover that he had disappeared.

But he still needed to save himself for the time being.

So he exerted his specialty and patiently persuaded the Xuxuhu brothers: "You two didn't commit any major crimes before, so you were only sentenced to a few years of imprisonment. But this red fox already has blood cases on her hands, and you colluding with her is a major crime! It's not too late to repent now, don't seek your own destruction!"

"Xuxuhu, if you two brothers can make up for your crimes, capture the mastermind, this official will deal with you lightly! At most, you will be locked up for a few years, and you will be able to regain your freedom and be a demon in peace!"

"Abominable!" The woman in red was furious and kicked Xie Shouzheng, wolf and cage, rolling several times, "Death is imminent and you don't know fear, you actually dare to incite my people to rebel?"

As she spoke, she turned her head again, staring fiercely at the Xuxuhu brothers: "You wouldn't have been moved by him, would you?"