A month passed, and the witchcraft case that caused a sensation in Jiankang failed to solve the case, and the government did not make decent progress.

I was unable to catch a thief, nor could I find any evidence anymore. The thiefs who intended to curse the emperor and the queen disappeared without a shadow.

However, in order to find out the traitors, the government spread his eyes and searched everywhere, which made the public security in various places much better.

The playboys who are domineering in the city on weekdays have become much more restrained, and the beggars or nameless dead people who have fallen in alleys are soon properly disposed of.

For ordinary people, the witchcraft case is just a topic of conversation during casual conversation. The government searched the city day and night in order to catch the traitor. Although it disturbed the people, it made the city peaceful.

The playboys and the evil servants were much more restrained, and the lives of the people were much quieter. As for the traitor who cursed the emperor, although the government offered a reward, ordinary people did not have the ability to get it.

As time goes by, people gradually lose interest in the strange half-skeleton man in the witchcraft case, but something that caused this case is becoming more and more circulating:

It is said that the emperor's concubine Zhang was not the daughter of Fan Yang Zhang.

The young lady who almost became a "sacrifice" in the witchcraft case seemed to be the real Zhang girl.

At that time, his father Zhang Zhang stepped down as the governor of Xiangzhou. When he went to Yongzhou, his family was separated from each other halfway.

Later, Zhang Zhang passed away and the lost family returned to the Zhang family. Perhaps it was during this period that the young girl was lost. In order to have a support, his concubine's mother replaced her with another girl.

More than ten years later, the girl who replaced her grew up and entered the palace to become a concubine.

The real Zhang family was raised by their godmother and became concubines, but in the end they became "sacrificial".

One is true and one is false, both true and false.

Of course, this statement is just a rumor, and the specific situation is unknown.

In the palace, the empress dowager heard the ministers report on the progress of the witchcraft case. Li Li was present. As the "Rat King", he was listening to a group of cats analyzing how to catch the "Rat King", and felt a little embarrassed.

This case is impossible to solve, unless officials seek someone to take the blame. If this is the case, it is equivalent to stepping into a trap. Next, he will take the blame.

Now, the case has not made any progress, and the case handlers do not seem to have any intention of finding a few people to make up the numbers. Li Li was so happy to watch.

Seize the opportunity and fan the flames.

Some people want to use the Zhang woman from a famous family to highlight the humble origin of Queen Li Ping'an (family). Well, he directly stung the emperor's heart (think that the Zhang family might have lost his bag).

Once this spike occurs in the future, it will be enough to make Zhang lack confidence in a possible palace battle.

However, the emperor would have many women, and Queen Li Ping'an could not defend against one or a group of them.

For Li Li, this kind of thing does not require any trouble. As long as the young emperor stays in Huaiyin smoothly, the situation will develop in the direction he expects.

After that, it doesn’t matter whether the daughter can give birth to a prince or not.

He thought in his mind that after listening to the report, the Empress Dowager felt quite regretful:

The thief who knows magic tricks is hiding now. What if he does another trick and intends to harm the emperor's life on that day in the future?

Seeing that the Empress Dowager was solemn, Daqian, Jiangxia, knew that he was dissatisfied with the progress of the case. Although he was anxious, he felt helpless.

Because people cannot be caught and more physical evidence cannot be found, how easy is it to solve the case?

Not to mention the rumors caused by the case.

The rumors about Zhang Guiren's identity outside did have some bad effects. As the "recommendor" of Zhang's palace, he was disgraced.

If he just deals with the matter, he can actually arrange it and get a few beggars to make up for the numbers, become a traitor, and settle the case.

However, when you make trouble, will there be someone who "yellow birds are behind"?

This is a question that Daqian Xiao has been thinking about. He doesn't want to reveal flaws, so he would rather have no progress in the case than rashly make trouble, which leads to the instructor.

After the officials finished the report, Xiao Daqian was about to speak, but Li Li asked: "Is the talisman drawn by the thief a hexagon in the circle? There are triangles in the hexagon?"

This question made everyone's eyes focus on Li Li: Could it be that you have seen it?

The Empress Dowager quickly asked someone to hand over the file to Li Li for a look. Li Li looked at the piece of paper with strange patterns on the scene, "thinking".

This made others more curious: Do you think it looks familiar?

Seeing Li Li like this, Daqian Xiao was actually looking forward to it: Maybe, can you see some clues?

"This is, it seems... the human body is refining a formation."

Li Li suddenly said something. It was the first time he saw the case information, and "the first time" he saw the on-site talisman pattern painted on the information.

This is heard in the ears of others, like thunder: What? The human body is refined into a formation?

Just listening to the name is a bit weird!

"The human body is refining a formation, which is a name that the empress knows about this pattern."

Li Li said to the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager widened her eyes and looked at Li Li with shock: "Li Qing, is this?"

I couldn't help but feel a little expectant: Mr. Pengcheng might be able to help solve the case!

Others, including several Shangshu, looked at Li Li as if he had seen a monster: No, do you even know magic?

Seeing that everyone was looking at him with complicated eyes, Li Li began to act.

"My father died early, and I miss you all the time. One day I was visiting the grave, and suddenly I met a Taoist who was traveling around... At that time, I was still a servant of Yuliang, Poyang."

The Queen Mother nodded, looking at listening with her ears in her eyes, and so did the others.

Li Li told a story about the past:

"The man had a long hair and a young face. He said there was a secret method that could bring the dead back to life. He asked the minister if he wanted to give it a try and let the dead father come back to life."

"I was young at that time and missed my deceased father, so of course I was willing to do it, so I prepared some items according to the Taoist's request, and planned to do it some day."

"There are two conditions for resurrecting the dead. One is to summon the soul, and the other is to restore the body. Only in this way can the soul possess the body and come alive."

"However, the Taoist method does not make the dead bones produce flesh, but uses the five elements to directly refine the dead body."

"That is, draw a talisman pattern, place the five elements in it in a specific way, and then do it, and you can refine the five elements into the human body just like smelting iron."

"The pattern of this talisman is very complex, like a formation diagram, so it is called the 'human body refining array'."

"The Taoist was afraid that the weak minister would not believe it, so he specially set up formations and cast spells, and refined several branches and reeds into a wooden man, jumping around, but he could not speak."

Li Li raised the paper with the pattern and raised it: "I probably remember that the pattern of the human body refining a formation is similar to this pattern."

At this moment, everyone present was dumbfounded: This is too strange!

"What then?" Xiao Daqian asked, eager to know the result.

Li Li replied: "The Taoist said that if you practice this magic and refine it into a wooden man or a stone man, you only need the five elements of the object. If you want to refine it into a human body, you must be guided by a living person."

Now, the audience felt a chill on their backs: Taking the living as the guide, this is indeed an evil technique!

The Queen Mother was a little nervous: "What about?"

Li Li replied: "The Taoist said that nine young children must be used as guides, so that I can bring the children in the village so that I can cast the spell. After casting the spell, there will be no trouble for the person who leads the spell."

"I missed my deceased father at that time, and didn't think much about it, so I went back to the village and wanted to bring some of my friends over."

"But I soon realized that this is a kidnapping child. If you want to kidnap children, the person must have accomplices. When the empress brings his partner here, he will be kidnap together."

"So he found Lisi, who took Qingqiang with Weichen to capture the Taoist, but the Taoist was gone and never showed up again."

When the Queen Mother heard this, she was relieved like everyone else: So that's it!

Li Li put the paper in his hand and expressed his opinion:

"I think there are many demons in the world, and I can do some incredible magic. What I saw back then may not be kidnapped, but evil ways."

"He may know magic and can refine the human body, but it is not what he said, which can revive the dead, but..."

Li Li took the file and took pictures: "But, he used a living person to transform into some kind of monster and do ghostly things."

This made the witchcraft case seem more and more cunning. The Queen Mother remembered the half-armored skeleton reported by the official, and felt a little cold on her body.

Some past events came to mind again.

In the early years of Datong, a demonic Taoist, Xian Yuchen, in Poyang, Jiangzhou, caused chaos, captured the county town and killed officials.

Later, Jiangzhou Ancheng and Liu Jinggong made a rebellion, which also used magic to confuse people's hearts. The riots once swept through most of Jiangzhou's territory and surrounded Nanchang.

Although these two demons and their followers were immediately wiped out by the official army, they inevitably had their remaining parties to survive. Therefore, it is not surprising that Gong Pengcheng encountered the demonic path when he was young.

The Empress Dowager sighed in her heart: Mr. Pengcheng’s experience shows that there are indeed magic tricks in the world!

It turns out that there is a demonic way! I want to use demonic magic to harm my son’s life!

Xiao Daqian was frightened and couldn't help but glance at Li Li, and a thought came to his mind:

Could it be that you are the mastermind behind the scenes?

This is not impossible, but it is precisely because of this that it is impossible.

He thought about it and thought that Li Li had no need to jump out by himself, and made up a story to disturb people's hearts because it was not necessary at all, so...

So the thief really knows magic. Who can stop this?

Li Li looked at the people in front of him with different expressions, but he remained silent.

The reason why he took the risk himself was to muddle the water that was about to be clarified again.

There is no doubt that when he talks about "past events", he will make people doubt the motive and then suspect that he is the mastermind behind the witchcraft case.

But the suspicion of doubt is "negative negative and positive".

Not to mention the vassal kings, other officials who can be at the level of prime minister are all intelligent. The characteristic of intelligent humans is that they are prone to excessive association, so "a gentleman can deceive him by the way."

Only when he "appears to speak" himself can the Empress Dowager be frightened and stir up the water even more.

Because in this era, the theory of gods and ghosts has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the unheard of "human body refining into a formation" is enough to arouse people's curiosity.

and fear of unknown things.

Once a person is afraid, he is prone to dealing with difficulties.
Chapter completed!