Chapter 238: Dead for Half a Month
"It seems that you still don't understand that those who conspired with you did not tell the truth." Li Daoxuan said sarcastically.

When he saw the masked man attacking him, he wiped his eyes lightly.

The Yin-Yang fish that was originally there disappeared, and he took out another talisman from his arms.

"The sky is the image, the earth is the minister. Transform it into a tower, summon the prison commander. Set up the prison gate, transform it into an iron bed. Thousand-pound locks, ten-thousand-pound sticks. Hurry up and obey the command!"

This method of casting evil spells can be regarded as a new method that Li Daoxuan has learned recently.

Then the yellow talisman was seen shaking and suddenly flying out, sticking to the masked man, making him unable to move.

He kicked down a few more yamen runners and jumped in front of the prefect in a few steps.

"Come, come! Someone is rebelling! Rebellion!" The prefect was furious when he saw Li Daoxuan being so rampant.

I thought that since I had handled so many cases, and this time the one I caught was just a young boy, it should be a sure thing, but who knew that it would go wrong.

Seeing that all the yamen runners were knocked to the ground, no one could do anything about the prefect's shouting. After all, there were only so many people in the yamen, and more than ten yamen runners were knocked down by this young man. Who would dare to come up and cause trouble?

Just when the prefect didn't know what to do, he heard a shout from outside the yamen. Everyone looked and saw a group of people who looked like servants running in.

The leader looked at the situation in the government office with a surprised look at first. After a quick glance, his eyes fell on Li Daoxuan in the hall. His face lit up and he said loudly, "Master Li, my wife is here!"

"Madam?" The prefect had first been made a scene in court by Li Daoxuan, and now he saw a group of people breaking into the government office. He suddenly felt that his brain was not enough. When he was at a loss, he saw Madam Yao walk in.

She glanced at the situation in the government office and said, "Master Lin, I wonder how my nephew has offended you? Why did you mobilize so many troops?"

"Oh! It's Madam Yao! I was blind and didn't see Madam coming!" The prefect was startled when he saw who it was. He immediately put on a smile and said in a very flattering manner.

He listened to what Mrs. Yao said, then looked at Li Daoxuan beside him, and immediately knew that he had done something bad.

How smart was this prefect to be able to hold the position of a fourth-rank official in the current dynasty, and in Yangzhou, an important city in the Qing Dynasty?
He quickly bowed and walked to Madam Yao, bowed to her and said, "Madam, you have wronged me. I just want to ask your nephew something. If I knew that this young man was your nephew, how could I dare to be so neglectful?"

As he spoke, the prefect kicked the yamen runners on the ground and said, "You are a bunch of blind people. You dare to hit Madam Yao's nephew? I told you not to stop, but you still won't stop, right? Hurry up and get a chair for Madam."

"Yes Yes"

The yamen runners all got up, patted their buttocks, some moved chairs, some cleaned the hall, some carried pots, some carried cups, and those who really couldn't find anything to do hurriedly stood back in their original positions.

The prefect was certainly not idle either. He was trying to please Mrs. Yao and apologize to Li Daoxuan.

From that humble attitude, Li Daoxuan finally understood what a fickle dog face meant.

Mrs. Yao sat on a chair, drinking tea in the Yangzhou government office. She looked up at the prefect and asked, "I wonder what crime my nephew has committed?"

"A crime? Madam, what are you talking about! No crime! How could I be guilty? This was all a misunderstanding. It's my fault! It's my fault!" The prefect didn't even think twice and just said it was a misunderstanding. He smiled apologetically and spoke humbly, fearing that he would offend Madam Yao and lose his official hat.

The Yao family is a famous family in Yangzhou and they have deep connections in the capital. Don't be fooled by the fact that he is wearing a fourth-rank official uniform. Compared with the people in the capital, it is hard to say whether he will be dismissed from his fourth-rank official position one day because of a memorial.

Thinking that he had actually arrested Mrs. Yao's nephew, the prefect wanted to slap himself a few times.

"Oh? Really? My Lord, please don't help me. If my nephew commits a crime, he should be punished." Madam Yao said with a smile, and then waved to Li Daoxuan, "Daoxuan, come here."

Li Daoxuan walked over and bowed to Madam Yao: "Aunt Yao."

Madam Yao reached out and squeezed his hand, then looked at the prefect and said, "What have you done wrong? Tell me the truth."

"Someone died in my room at the inn last night. The prefect thought I was the murderer, so he summoned me to question me." Li Daoxuan simply stated the incident without adding any exaggeration.

Madam Yao nodded after listening, and then said, "Sir, is what my nephew said right?"

"Yes, yes, that's right. I asked this young master to come over and talk because of this matter." The prefect said with a forced smile. "In this case, you must investigate why my nephew committed a crime. I don't want to be accused of protecting the criminal." Madam Yao spoke in an orderly manner, looking at the prefect with a smile.

"This, this..." The prefect didn't know what to say, he stammered and his face flushed.

Seeing the prefect blushing, Li Daoxuan felt that the time had come. He did not want to embarrass the prefect. In comparison, he was more concerned about the truth of the matter, so he said, "Aunt Yao, please don't embarrass the prefect. He was bewitched by someone, so he did such a thing."

"Being bewitched?" Mrs. Yao was a little curious.

"Yes." Li Daoxuan nodded, then walked up to the masked man.

Pointing at the masked man, he said to the prefect, "Please look, sir."

As he spoke, he pulled off the masked man's mask, revealing a pale and lifeless face.

There were strange lines on his face and his lips were dry and cracked, like a dead body, but he stood stiffly in the same place.

When the prefect saw this scene, he was immediately frightened.

He pointed at the masked man and trembled, "What is this?"

"This is a puppet." Li Daoxuan said, "The so-called puppet is a living dead person refined by evil methods. When someone uses the magic of summoning spirits to possess the body, and then uses magic and medicine to refine it, they can get an obedient living dead person. Although they are alive, they are living a life worse than death. This kind of person has little consciousness, but can open his mouth to speak. The body is difficult to be penetrated by swords and guns, and is not afraid of ordinary magic."

"Puppet?" Mrs. Yao was also a little surprised. She just looked at the frightened prefect beside her and said nothing more.

“It is not possible for an ordinary magician to refine such a puppet. Moreover.” Li Daoxuan said as he walked to the corpse lying on the ground.

He lifted the white cloth covering the body and looked at the charred corpse carefully.

This was the body of a woman. She looked graceful and must have been a beautiful woman when she was alive. However, her skin was burnt all over, like charcoal.

"Besides, you don't know whether the death was caused by magic. I guess the person who talked to you didn't tell you that the woman had been dead for half a month."

"Dead for half a month? This is impossible. I clearly tried to ask the coroner to check. The man died last night. How could he have been dead for half a month?" The prefect was shocked and did not quite believe what Li Daoxuan said.

Li Daoxuan smiled without saying anything. He walked to the heel of the corpse and pointed at its feet with his sword. Then he heard a clang.

A rusty nail fell out.

Then a shocking scene appeared. The dead body placed on the ground was rapidly shrinking, and soon a pool of foul-smelling corpse fluid flowed out and slowly flowed to one side.

Li Daoxuan frowned, took a talisman and threw it into the corpse water, chanted "she", and the corpse water seemed to be sucked by something and rushed into the talisman at a rapid speed.

After the ground was clean, Li Daoxuan looked at the prefect. The prefect's face was extremely ugly at this time, and he stared at the emaciated and shriveled corpse with disbelief.

"Ugh!" The prefect vomited continuously and hurriedly asked someone to bring him water to rinse his mouth.

After the cleaning, his face turned blue.

Li Daoxuan looked at the corpse, then at the prefect, and suddenly understood.

"My Lord, are you with this person?"

"Stop talking!" the prefect scolded. "I never thought he would dare to tease me!"

"I wonder who the person the adults are talking about is?" Li Daoxuan asked curiously.

He now really wants to know who is trying to frame him.

(End of this chapter)