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cpa300_4;Chang'an, under the night, the streets are deserted and alleys are empty, except for the patrols that occasionally pass by. Now it is a curfew. If anyone dares to walk on the street and is held by the patrol team, they will be peeled off even if they don't die.≯≯＞

Of course, this is not a problem for the powerful. As long as they make little noise, the soldiers who are patrolling at night will consider it as if they didn't see it after asking about their identities. There are high-ranking officials and nobles everywhere under the feet of the emperor. No one will make trouble for themselves.

There are other people who dare to disobey the curfew, the city foxes and the clubs. They have figured out the patrol routes of the night patrol soldiers through various channels, so they dare to pluck out to "find food". Of course, the intersections between the various buildings will be blocked and cannot be like walking during the day, so flying eaves and walls is common.

Wu Ming is a member of the night walk. Today, he and his companion Jia Niu went to investigate a house and accidentally fell into a trap set by the other party. Fortunately, he ran quickly and escaped. To be cautious, he did not meet immediately but waited until night before taking action.

It has been months since I arrived in Chang'an. Wu Ming and his companions are familiar with this world-famous big city and no longer as panic as they did when they first entered the city. They also deeply understand what the guard leader Zhang Ding meant when they left.

Having seen the world, the mission was almost completed. Wu Ming was huddling in a corner and staring at a yard ahead. He had been staring at the yard for more than an hour to confirm whether there was any abnormality. Wu Ming and Jia Niu escaped separately. Although they escaped successfully, they did not know whether the other party fell into the opponent. Therefore, necessary precautions must be taken.

The signs placed at the gate of the courtyard meant that everything was normal. Wu Ming carefully observed the surroundings and confirmed that there was no sign of ambush, so he walked up to the corner of the wall and learned a few rat cries. After a while, he heard the cat crying inside three long and two short times and then climbed up to the wall and flipped in.

One of them waited for him to land and leaned forward: "Aming, I thought something happened to you!" The person who spoke was Jia Niu. Wu Ming glanced at the other party and confirmed his expression naturally, then smiled apologetically and said that he was afraid that you would be caught and set a trap here, so he observed for a long time before coming in.

"Hey, we are not doing anything in vain on weekdays. If we say that we may not be able to beat it, but we may not be able to run away." Jia Niu said indifferently, "Besides, most of those people are chasing you, I'm afraid you will be killed."

The two whispered for a moment and decided to rest in the yard as planned until tomorrow morning before going out to meet with their companions. The yard was not their territory, but was used as a refuge if no one was found in advance.

The guards of Xiyang County Duke's Mansion are not only guard dogs but also cats for catching mice. Various training programs have made them eventually become mice that know how to hide and cat. Wu Ming and others, who have three attributes, are among the best ones, otherwise they would not have been sent to Chang'an.

The night is long, and the two of them take turns to work night to avoid business accidents. Jia Niu is the first half of the night, Wu Ming is the second half of the night, so that he can take turns to rest and then go out in time when there are not many people outside in the morning to avoid being regarded as a thief.

Wu Minggang slept with Yi and suddenly woke up because he heard a woman's crying. Although the crying was not loud, it could be vaguely heard because it came from the next yard. The crying sound intermittently and vaguely was particularly vulnerable in this dilapidated and civilian house.

He stood up and looked at it, but saw a vague fire shining next door. Jia Niu, who was on the night, leaned over and whispered that there was a woman next to him burning paper money. For some reason, it seemed that he was afraid that people would hear it but couldn't help crying, so he made such a scene.

"Every family has a difficult sutra to recite." Wu Ming sighed. He walked around his master since he was a child and saw many things in the world. The two of them were about to hear it but they couldn't see it, but the next door began to get lively.

They secretly looked from the wall but saw a middle-aged woman whispering to a young girl. The girl was standing next to a pile of ashes with some paper money in her hand, lowering her head, and she was a crying person who burned paper money. The middle-aged woman was holding a basin in her hand, as if she had put out the burned paper money.

"You can't even get rid of the problem at home, and you still have free money to make paper money to cook!!" The middle-aged woman said in a bad tone, and she frequently lit the young lady with one hand as if she was so angry.

"My mother, I cut these paper money with waste paper and don't spend money..." The young lady whispered. She seemed to be afraid of the other party, so she spoke in a sad tone. "He is lonely, I just want to burn some paper money..."

"It's your business again! Now we can't get through now. Who will pity us?" After the middle-aged woman said that, she pulled the young lady into the house, "It's a disaster for people to see it!"

"My mom, I'll burn the paper money first..."

Before the young lady could finish her words, she slapped the paper money in her hand scattered on the ground. She covered her face and sobbed in a low voice while the middle-aged woman sneered: "Do you think it's the past? You dare to talk back!"

Seeing this scene, Wu Ming shook his head at Jia Niu and then the two of them returned to the yard. Even if the government came, they had a headache. They could not help with this kind of housework. Besides, they were also "borrowing" and there was no one here.

I thought it was just like this and I didn't expect something else to happen next door in the middle of the night. Soon after Wu Minggang and Jia Niu handed over, he heard footsteps on the road outside. He thought he would be a steal, so he picked up a wooden stick to wait for the rabbit, but the footsteps stopped outside the next yard.

A faint sound of the door slap sounded for a while and he heard the slight creaking of the wooden door in the next yard. Wu Ming felt that something must be strange when he came out in the middle of the night, but he decided to pretend that he didn't hear it so as not to cause trouble.

But the movement in the next yard made people restless. It seemed that someone was chanting some spell in a low voice. Wu Ming felt strange as he listened and looked carefully from the corner, but he saw two women in the yard, one of whom was a middle-aged woman, the other one was an old woman.

The old woman placed a table in the yard with a bowl on it and then muttered something. She held a spoon and tapped the edge of the bowl. Wu Ming listened to the other party's chant but couldn't listen less. She saw the middle-aged woman standing aside with a nervous expression.

I don't know how long it took, but the old woman suddenly stopped murmuring and stood up suddenly. Wu Ming then looked over and saw that his eyes were dull and his face was blue. His whole body suddenly walked forward stiffly, as if he was being pulled by something. Seeing this, the middle-aged woman's face changed and couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's possessed, the cat ghost possessed."

‘Cat Ghost?’ Wu Ming felt aroused when he heard this word. He lived in Chang'an for several months and collected various news with his companions. Among them, there were legends about Cat Ghost.

It is said that after a cat dies, it will become a ghost like a human, that is, a cat ghost. There are secret techniques among the people that can drive cat ghosts to do things. If a person who is proficient in this method raises cat ghosts and performs sacrifices every midnight, the zodiac sign of the child is a rat, so it is just right to choose this time to worship cat ghosts.

The cat ghost can be released when it is kept for a certain period of time, and the cat ghost owner can manipulate it to harm people. The victim will be sick inexplicably and die suddenly and his property will be transferred to the hands of the cat ghost owner.

However, Wu Ming didn't believe in such things. He watched how things were going, but he saw the old woman who was "cat ghost possessed" suddenly speaking, saying in a hoarse and weird voice, "bring the thing."

When the middle-aged woman heard this, she came back to her senses and took out a package when she was about to open it. When the door behind her opened, she rushed out and pulled the package tightly. Wu Ming looked closely and saw that the young lady had begged and was pushed to the ground by the middle-aged woman.

"My mother, this won't work!"

"Stop it! Otherwise I will break your legs!" The middle-aged woman cursed fiercely. Wu Ming felt a little angry when he saw the young lady sitting on the ground with her head loose and covered her face sobbing, but he still held it back.

The middle-aged woman opened the package and took out a piece of clothing. The old woman stiffly reached out and took the clothes to her face like a cat. She smelled it hard and then screamed and then fell to the ground.

After a while, the old woman stood up and said that the matter had been finished. The man would not live long. The middle-aged woman quickly took out a small cloth bag and handed it to the old woman. The two of them whispered for a while and said goodbye and left.

After leaving the yard, she quietly walked on the dark street, but before she could take a few steps, she was stopped from behind. Before she could even shout, she was crossed by a sharp knife and then the man behind her whispered: "Give the money."

The old woman knew that she had met a thief and was helpless to obey her orders. After handing over it, the other party still did not let her go and said murderously: "You call the cat ghost to harm my husband's life, and now you can pay for your life!"

Hearing this, the old woman was so scared that her feet trembled and said that she was just a lie to make a living, and that she was just pretending to be a fool and wanted some money to make a living.

"Let me know that you pretend to be a ghost and harm others and cut your throat!"

As soon as the old woman finished speaking, she felt a heavy blow in the back of her head and then fell to the ground and unconscious. The man behind her disappeared quietly in the shadow.

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In the early morning, the rooster crowed, and the early people were already cleaning the yard. Jia Niu and Wu Ming were about to slip away while the few people outside were signaled by the other party to wait for a while. Not long after, he climbed up the wall from the corner and looked at the next yard.

The door opened and a young lady walked out. She picked up a broom in the corner to clean the yard. Not long after, she saw something on the open space in the yard and was so scared that the broom in her hand fell to the ground and then ran back to the room with her mouth covering her mouth.

There was a chirping sound inside, as if two people were talking. After a while, the door opened again. The young lady and a middle-aged woman walked out of the room and went to the yard to watch the things on the ground.

Jia Niu looked at the ground with a small cloth bag lying next to it. When he was confused, he saw the middle-aged woman carefully picking up the small cloth bag and looking at it. Then he panicked and threw the dead cat out of the yard and then ran back to the room.
Chapter completed!