On this day, the stall was out as usual.

Xu Guangling is no longer with him, and there are only Tian Hao and Xu Tonghui.

"Please serve it well, be careful of scalding!" Tian Hao skillfully handed a bowl of soup and two cakes to another customer, but when he handed them out, he was stunned.

This old man, it seems a little unusual?

But it was only a matter of a moment, and then one after another, customers poured in like water.

The old man, whose temperament was obviously different from that of the surrounding crowd, carried the bowl, and after walking a short distance, like everyone else, he ate at the vacant place behind some stalls on this street.

Specifically, it is to drink and not eat.

He completely ignored the two cakes, and he just drank the soup in the bowl.

The other customers were drinking slowly because it was hot.

He was also drinking slowly, but if one looked closely, they would find an indescribable strangeness.

On the first sip, he frowned a little.

On the second bite, a smile appeared on his face.

In the third bite, the smile turned to doubt.

After three sips, he stopped drinking, but looked into the bowl as if it were not a bowl, but a bottomless black pool.

As he looked at it, a pensive look appeared on his face.

After a moment of deep thought, he took a fourth sip, and this time, frowning, smiling, and confused, almost mixed across his face.

"I see!"

"Strange!"

"No, who would dispense medicine like this?"

"Burning grass is used for no reason!"

Drinking the soup slowly, often after a sip, the old man waited for a longer or shorter time before continuing to take the next sip, and at the same time, he would mumble to himself like this, and at one point he would mumble to himself once after taking a sip.

"The cook is an ordinary person. ”

"It's really strange that the one who maintains the situation is a cultivator, or a channel. ”

"Those who will set up stalls in this place must be casual cultivation, and casual cultivation has reached Tongmai, what kind of background is it? At this age, Tongmai is also very promising, how can he come here to do such idle and useless things?"

"I can't figure it out!"

"I'm still going to have to look into it!"

After drinking the soup slowly, the old man casually handed the cake to a "eater" not far away, and in the man's little doubt and joy, like the other customers, handed back the bowl, and left.

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Another day, a butler-like man with a proud look and his head held high came to the stall.

Under the opening of the way by the two entourages, he came to the front from the back of the crowd, and was about to say something when he saw Xu Tonghui.

Xu Tonghui moved his left hand and his right hand, as if he was waving his hand casually, but when his hands were waving quickly or slowly, the crowd opposite him was passively and very well orderly.

"This is a cultivator!"

"And...... The level is not low!"

The butler-like man's eyes shrank.

Then his head bowed, and he changed from looking up to looking at him, and the look of arrogance on his face changed to a modest smile.

Without squeezing any further, he honestly lined up, and then, together with his two retinue, each asked for a soup cake.

(Exception marker, second.) ）

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A lot of unusual customers came to patronize this stall, even if there was too little awareness or knowledge in some aspects, Tian Hao slowly felt that something was wrong.

Then one day, on the way back to the courtyard after closing the stall, he asked Xu Tonghui: "Lord Xu, there is a person today, how can I look like a monk?"

Xu Tonghui smiled.

You just found out?

I don't know how many of them are!

"What is so strange that the monks also eat and drink. He said.

"I still think it's a little weird. Tian Hao muttered, "Isn't it ......"

"Don't guess, you still have to keep your mind on those dishes!" Xu Tonghui said coldly.

The topic was discontinued.

In other places, the topic of the stall has been going on these days.

Of course, it is not the discussion in the streets, about which, as early as the first day of the stall, began as early as the first day of the stall, and then only spread, and the discussion gradually decreased.

The county watchman's house.

The county guard Xu Yishan came back from Dongshan.

The attendant told him about the stall.

Later, when I got the news of his return, the people from Zihua Pavilion and Medicine Master Hall also came.

Zihua Pavilion is considered a power of the imperial court, and it is also the largest sect in the Kun Kingdom, and here in the county town of Annan, it is only a small branch of Zihua Pavilion, but even so, it is also a master of the Enlightenment Realm who sits in the Pavilion.

However, the enlightenment realm is only the culmination of human steps.

Xu Yishan, who is a great man and a great man, is far worse than Xu Yishan, who is a great man at the land level.

Therefore, whenever there is anything, this pavilion master will come to the door in person to show respect.

Of course, it's not just respect, the human-level monk is close to the earth-level monk, maybe a certain sentence of the earth-level monk can become a great guide.

If Zihua Pavilion is the power of the imperial court, then Yakushitang is the power of the county guard of Annan County.

It has been more than 1,000 years since Yakushido started from scratch and took root in Annam-gun, and for more than 1,000 years, it has been in a relationship with the county watchman.

However, after so many years, the Yakushitang is not all the people of the county guard, and some large and small families and scattered cultivators in Annan County have also infiltrated it, from less to more, and gradually, "outsiders" even account for as many as seventy or eighty percent.

So in a sense, it is a comprehensive neutral force, and in idle situations, it does not need to take sides, and even a big storm that occurs in Annam-gun usually does not affect it.

With a bit of "detachment".

The county guard Xu Yishan, the branch master of the Zihua Pavilion Ye Nanping, and the master of the Medicine Hall are willing to follow.

In the courtyard, the three of them sat behind a small table.

A few maids poured their tea, then stepped aside and stood with their hands bowed.

"The investigation is clear, a group of three people, who came to the county town about half a month ago, now live in an alley near the street in the east of the city, they rented a small courtyard and paid the rent of sixty taels for half a year. ”

"One cultivator, two ordinary people. ”

"The cultivator's name is Xu Tonghui, he is about forty-five years old, and he is from Qingshui City. ”

Ye Nanping sipped tea and spoke slowly.

"Qingshui City?"

Hearing this, Xu Yishan asked.

Whether it is Ye Nanping or Gan Congshi, they all know why he asked this question.

"Yes, Qingshui City. Ye Nanping said, "Qingshui City is scattered, and I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the dealer for the time being." ”

"Did any of the cultivators from Qingshui City come to the county town before?" asked Xu Yishan.

"On this point, I also asked people to look it up. It may be a relatively long distance, there are indeed not many people who come here from that side, in the past ten years, only about three scattered cultivators have come from Qingshui City, and the time has been extended to twenty years, and there are only five. ”

Ye Nanping replied.

"Have you asked those five people?" Xu Yishan said again.

"Only two of them are still in the county, and they have asked. Ye Nanping said, "It just so happens that one of them is in the Medicine Master Hall. ”

Hearing this, the Medicine Master Hall Master Gan Congshi smiled slightly, and continued: "I didn't get any information, it was just a small scattered cultivation in the Qi Condensation Realm. ”

"The other one is also only a casual cultivator of the Qi Condensation Realm, and he only has a cultivation of two or three levels of Qi Condensation. Ye Nanping said, "From these two mouths, I didn't get any information, but this can't be used as a basis for judgment." ”

"In other words, this Xu Tonghui may be a loose cultivator, or it may be the outpost of the dealer?"

After a little silence, Xu Yishan said.