The Daily Life Of Mei Furen Doting On Her Husband - Chapter 37

Two officers were escorting a shabby middle-aged man, who was kneeling and trembling. When he saw them coming, he immediately cried out, “I really have nothing to do with these two dead people! I just came here to move a few tiles back to repair the roof, but I smelled a foul odor as soon as I came in, and I thought there were dead stray dogs and cats here. I came over curiously and saw this… These deaths, I really didn’t do it!”

Mei Zhuyu glanced at him and said, “I understand, be quiet.”

Upon hearing it, Ma Pan immediately stopped talking and huddled aside. Mei Zhuyu called the coroner to examine the body, asked the clerk to record it, and walked over to the body to check it out.

The two people died in a miserable state. They were basically no longer in human form, with their limbs scattered around, as if they had been torn into pieces by some large wild animal. When the old man was examining them, he kept muttering something about how it definitely couldn’t have been done by a human, because how could a human have so much strength to tear a whole person into pieces.

Deputy Minister Tao stood outside the door with his hands behind his back, took a glance inside, and turned his head away, looking like he couldn’t bear to look directly at the body and couldn’t stand the stench. Seeing Mei Zhuyu squatting next to the body, he couldn’t help but call out, “Minister Mei, isn’t it smelly when you’re so close? You’d better come outside and wait until they finish checking it out.”

Anyway, it wasn’t done by a human. In the end, it was a case of a stray dog eating a man, and the dead weren’t important people, just two homeless beggars. If Minister Mei hadn’t offended Minister Xu, he wouldn’t have been sent here for such a small matter, Tao Yuan thought to himself.

Mei Zhuyu stood up and looked around the lobby again. The lobby was empty, with mottled marks on the walls. Ordinary people couldn’t see them, but in his eyes, there were black claw marks everywhere.

The claw marks were filled with monstrous energy and looked like they were from a dog, but much larger than an average dog. The fragments of the two bodies were also filled with the stench of dog saliva.

When the coroner saw the broken body, he quickly checked it and asked the soldiers to gather the bodies and prepare to carry them out.

Mei Zhuyu looked at the sky outside and said to the people who were cleaning up, “Hurry up, get out as soon as you’re done.”

The others didn’t want to stay any longer, so after hearing what he said, they quickly quickened their pace to pack up. Seeing that they had finished packing, Mei Zhuyu said, “Mr. Tao, you go back first. I’ll stay here and check it out again.”

Tao Yuan groaned, obviously not understanding why he wanted to stay alone in such a gloomy place for a long time, but thinking that Minister Mei was always eccentric, he did not ask any more questions and only said politely, “It’s still a little dangerous for one person, why not let two people accompany you?”

Mei Zhuyu said briefly, “No need, you go first.”

It was just as strange as what others said, Tao Yuan thought, and asked everyone to leave together, leaving Mei Zhuyu alone.

When everyone left, only Mei Zhuyu was left. The cold wind in the house seemed to get stronger all of a sudden. Even though the sun hadn’t set yet, things in the shadows in the house were already stirring. The whole house seemed dim. It was extremely quiet all around, without any human voices, except for the soft thump-thump-thump sound of Mei Zhuyu’s footsteps.

“Squeak…” Mei Zhuyu walked through the lobby to the backyard. A window on the second floor behind him suddenly made a long squeak and slammed shut. From the dark windows on the second floor, sticky eyes were fixed on Mei Zhuyu, and something was whispering.

Those were dark things that had grown in the old house that hadn’t been inhabited for a long time, but they were not a big deal and couldn’t kill anyone, so Mei Zhuyu didn’t take them seriously. Therefore, he turned a blind eye to everything around him and just walked in one direction, where the things really needed to be dealt with.

Deep inside the house, a man wearing a veil noticed Mei Zhuyu approaching. He smiled gently and patted the head of one of the vicious dogs beside him. “I wasn’t ready to kill him yet, but he came to me on his own. He really wants to die. Forget it, go ahead and eat him.”

“Oh, and don’t bite his head off. His face needs to be recognizable. Wu Zhen needs to see how the man she chose looks terrified when he dies.”

After the man finished speaking, the ferocious dogs surrounding him all stood up. When they stood up, each dog was a head taller than the man. They had ferocious expressions and blood on their mouths. 

Mei Zhuyu sensed the evil spirit in the backyard, but when he reached the courtyard, he paused and quickly raised his hand to point forward. A white and gray vicious dog appeared in the air, and Mei Zhuyu hit its head in the middle. Its whole body seemed to have been hit hard, and it fell heavily to the ground and died in the blink of an eye.

Mei Zhuyu didn’t care about the one on the ground. He turned sideways to avoid the sound of wind by his ears and quickly pulled his hand into the air, pulling out a sharp claw from the air. With a click, the claw was broken by the hand that looked weak and harmless, which was only suitable for holding a pen.

Mei Zhuyu found and killed all five vicious dogs one after another. The last one sensed the danger and wanted to run away but was kicked out by Mei Zhuyu and hit a wall on the right, causing the entire wall to collapse.

Mei Zhuyu moved his lips slightly, took out several yellow talismans from his sleeve, and hit the corpses of several ferocious dogs. The yellow talismans burned on the corpses, and the originally huge bodies suddenly shrank to the size of an ordinary domestic dog.

Mei Zhuyu took a look, frowned even more, and continued to go to the back house.

These vicious dogs were turned into monster dogs, but they were not naturally monsters; they were fed too much human flesh by people with ulterior motives, which made them monsterized. These dogs, catalyzed by feeding on human flesh, had no reason and only knew to eat people. They were cruel and brutal. If they were released, many innocent people in Chang’an would die.

The man wearing a veil in the backyard found that his ferocious dogs were all dead and was surprised. “This Mei Zhuyu is not an ordinary person? How could he know Taoist techniques?!” He had checked Mei Zhuyu before, and he was clearly just an ordinary man. Before he took action, he did not notice anything wrong. But as soon as he took action, the man with the veil felt something was amiss. The man was not only a Taoist but probably had quite high cultivation.

He originally thought that dealing with Mei Zhuyu would be a trivial matter, but suddenly he discovered complications and several things did not go as smoothly as expected. The man was in a bad mood and was not going to continue wasting time. He had been careless and underestimated the enemy. He would meet Mei Zhuyu again when he was well-prepared next time.