Since leaving Tong'an City, Feng Zhiling absentmindedly dragged her legs for two days before slowly recovering a little from the pain and loss of consciousness.

The poison in her hand had healed herself, and she couldn't think of any reason.

On this day, she passed by a rich and prosperous place - Jicheng. It is several times larger than Tong'an County, and the houses and buildings are also very rich and big.

Jicheng is built according to the river, the river is wide and the water flow is abundant, the water flow is introduced into the city and divided into many small tributaries, a dense network of water flow is woven in the city, the people in the city can walk, drive and horse in the wide and smooth streets, and can travel by boat, the traffic is very convenient. The suburbs are also full of grain and rice, and life is comfortable.

In the troubled times, it is really a blessing for the people here to have such a place of prosperity and well-being, and the officials on this side must have put a lot of effort into governance.

It was getting late, and Feng Zhiling found a clean inn to rest here for the night, and then set off tomorrow.

When she was staying in the hotel, the shopkeeper repeatedly told her not to go out in the middle of the night, no matter what sounds were made outside.

Feng Zhiling didn't plan to go out at night, but was reminded by the shopkeeper, but she became curious, could it be that there are still ghosts in the middle of the night?

She hadn't rested much in the past few days, so she went to bed early before it got dark today.

In her sleep, Lan Yuan kept asking her, "Why do you want to avoid me, why don't you recognize me?"

"Why do you want to go to the Demon Realm, why do you want to kill so many Taiyi disciples?"

A terrible cry woke her up, and she broke out in a cold sweat. Lan Yuan's questioning echoed repeatedly in his mind, and the crying continued.

She thought it was someone crying in a dream, but after waking up for a while, she found that the cry seemed to come from the street downstairs of the room, it was a girl's voice, poignant, very terrible.

She got up and pushed open the window and watched as four big men carrying a sedan chair were hurrying down the street below.

"In the middle of the night, how could there be a little girl crying in the sedan chair?" she felt strange, if she was usual, she might not care too much, but when she thought of the shopkeeper's words, she felt that there was something strange about this matter. So he gently opened the door and went downstairs, went out of the inn, and quietly followed the four men carrying the sedan chair.

After walking for more than half an hour, she followed the sedan chair bearer out of the city, and arrived at a desolate place outside the city, looking at a small ruined temple in front of her from a distance. The sedan chair bearers stopped in front of the broken temple and carried out the people in the sedan chair - it was like a little girl who had been tied hand and foot, crying all the time - they pushed open the temple door and carried the little girl into the temple.

Then the people came out empty-handed, closed the temple door, and lifted the empty sedan chair and walked back quickly.

Feng Zhiling hid behind a large tree nearby, waiting for them to slowly walk away before walking towards the small broken temple.

She gently pushed open the door of the temple, and in the darkness she probably saw that there was an idol of the god inside, an offering table was placed, and the incense burner was readily available, and the temple was not big, and she looked around the statue a few times inside, but she did not see the little girl crying. Under the table, the statue pedestal, I carefully looked at it several times, but there was no shadow of the little girl.

It's just weird.

If it hadn't hurt when she pinched it, she would have thought she was still dreaming.

She had no choice but to go back to the hotel and go back to sleep.

When she woke up the next day, she opened the door and saw the shopkeeper who was passing by her door, so she dragged him and asked, "Little Er, let me ask you, I heard a little girl crying all the time last night, do you know what's going on?"

"Little girl, you probably heard it wrong, didn't we?" said Xiao Er.

"No way. Feng Zhiling said, "Around midnight last night, I was crying very much, and I heard the voices of a few men scolding." Didn't you really hear that? Could it be that your shop is haunted?"

Xiao Er hurriedly said: "Ouch girl, this can't be nonsense, how can our store be haunted." ”

"I'm not afraid of being haunted. Feng Zhiling said, "I'm an immortal who specializes in catching ghosts. ”

"Girl, you're young, but you can really laugh, it's useless to catch ghosts, we don't have ghosts here. ”

Feng Zhiling smiled and gently removed the hat, revealing her red hair and pupils.

The shopkeeper was so frightened that he was about to shout for help, Feng Zhiling hurriedly "shh Don't be afraid, I don't eat people. I just want to know what happened to the little girl in the sedan chair last night. If I don't tell the truth, I'll ......"

After speaking, Feng Zhiling put on an evil and cruel expression, with her bewitching red hair and red eyes, she did have a bit of demonic aura.

The shopkeeper couldn't stand the fright, and hurriedly said: "The gods spare their lives, I said." ”

Feng Zhiling introduced Xiao Er into the room and closed the door, the Xiao Er was a little nervous and scared, and quickly talked about the reason for the incident.

"Last night you saw the little girl in the sedan chair, which was given to the red-haired demon as a sacrifice. About a year ago, a very terrible monster began to appear in our city, that monster is very fierce, full of red hair, extremely powerful, looking, ugly and terrifying - fairy, I don't mean to be disrespectful to you, you just showed your face I almost thought you were the red-haired demon, but the red-haired demon is strong, and its appearance is extremely ugly, you are much better looking than the monster, so I think you must not be ......"

"Don't talk nonsense. Feng Zhiling said.

"Oh, good. Xiao Er continued, "-That monster destroys and hurts people everywhere every time it enters the city, and it collapses the shops and residents along the street, and every time someone is injured and killed, just our store, most of the face of the previous door was swept away by the monster...... These are not the most terrible, this red-haired demon every time he comes, he will definitely take away a few little girls, the age of the little girls is generally about ten years old, after the abduction, after ten days and half a month, someone will see the bodies of those girls in the wild cemetery outside the city, all over the scars, the blood on the body has been sucked dry, the death is really a miserable ......"

Later, someone invited a few Taoist priests to get rid of the demon, but it was useless, and they were all eaten by the red-haired demon. Later, there was finally a Taoist priest with a little ability called Tianyi Zhenren, the Taoist priest fought with the red-haired demon and drove away the red-haired demon, but he was also seriously injured, he said, the monster he can't beat, but there is a way, that is, to build a temple for the red-haired demon, every seventh day of the month, to the red-haired demon to offer a little girl, as a sacrifice, so that the red-haired demon will not come to the city again. ”

"At first, no one agreed, who was willing to take their own girl as an offering to the red-haired demon to eat it, and then a rich family, their baby daughter was taken away by the red-haired demon, and the family bought a girl from the outside and sent it as a sacrifice. In this way, it stopped for ten days, and ten days later, the red-haired demon came again. ”

"Everyone also believes a little bit what Tianyi Zhenren said, after all, those Taoist priests were taken away and eaten by the red-haired demon as soon as they came, and Tianyi Zhenren was the only one who could survive. Therefore, later, every ten days in our city, on the seventh, seventeenth, and twenty-seventh days of the first lunar month, we picked out a female baby and carried it to the monster temple in the middle of the night. ”

"Isn't that going to kill three innocent girls every month? This bad idea of a stinky Taoist priest is simply inhumane. After listening to the shopkeeper's story, Feng Zhiling felt that it was ridiculous.

"Goddess Fairy, can you really catch ghosts? Although the idea that a real person came up with that day was not good, but it worked, the red-haired demon had not entered the city for two months, if it really entered the city, we little people would have to suffer, and there was no way to do it." So we all have to thank Tianyi Zhenren. The shopkeeper was also helpless, but he was not angry, he said, "Goddess Fairy, if you can catch that monster, all of us in the city will have to worship you and kowtow to you!"

"I don't need you to kowtow, and I'll find a way to catch that monster. Feng Zhiling said, "Thank you, little brother, you can get busy." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly opened the door without touching his feet and got out of Feng Zhiling's room.

Feng Zhiling unconsciously thought, could this matter have something to do with the Demon Realm?

She walked slowly back to the Demon Realm like this, if she hadn't returned to the Heavenly Demon Palace for a long time, Ling Xiao might come out to find her and drag her back.

But she can't let the red-haired demon harm people and leave it alone. She now hopes that either Lan Chengyi or Bo Yan Jingqiu can do it, so that she can still have a helper.

- Whatever. If Ling Xiao comes to her, come on, just ask him if he is a ghost from the Demon Realm.

She decided to stay in Jicheng until seventeen.

Feng Zhiling casually ordered breakfast and ate it in the guest room, put on her hat and went out, strolling along the street along the river. There are many large and small pleasure boats coming and going in the river, and there are many shops of all kinds along the river. A particularly delicate and beautiful boat on the river caught her eye.

It is a three-story painting boat, with vermilion lacquer and blue lacquer, cornices and corners, gorgeous decorations and atmospheric hull that overshadow the cruise ship next to it.

She heard the beautiful sound of the lute coming from the boat, accompanied by the beautiful singing of the woman, and was about to enjoy the beautiful scenery again, when the sound of the lute and the song suddenly stopped.

I saw a girl about ten years old on the big ship, with messy hair, falling out of the cabin and staggering on the bow deck, as if crying loudly, but I couldn't hear it clearly. She heard the shouting and dissuasion in the cabin, and then a little servant rushed to the bow of the boat, punched and kicked the little girl, and dragged her by the hair without pity.

Those who saw this scene on the shore gathered on the streets on both sides of the strait to point fingers and talk for a while, and then they all dispersed.

In broad daylight, this kind of thing happened?

Feng Zhiling looked very indignant, at this time, the painting boat slowly leaned towards the shore, a woman in purple in her twenties held a pipa, led the little girl who fell just now, kept apologizing, hurriedly got off the painting boat, and went ashore.

The little girl was probably frightened and kept sobbing, but she didn't dare to cry loudly, and as soon as she came ashore, the older woman in purple hurriedly wiped her tears and comforted her a few words, and the little girl was aggrieved and silent.

Seeing this, Feng Zhiling walked over in three or two steps, only to see that the little girl had a lot of bruises on her face and hands, blue and purple, like a dye shop, guessing that she must have been beaten in the cabin just now. She stepped forward and asked the two people: "Why is this little sister so seriously injured? Who dares to beat people like this in broad daylight? It's just too rampant!"

At first glance, this Jicheng looks full of flowers, how can there be so many dark things.

The older woman in purple said softly: "This girl is quiet, these people are not easy to mess with, and it will be troublesome if they are heard." ”

Feng Zhiling took out a medicine bottle from her baggage, handed it to them, and said, "I have some medicine powder here, little sister take it and use it, this medicine powder will be good if you wipe it a little, it will work." ”

The woman in purple said, "We don't know each other, why are we embarrassed to take the girl's medicine?"

Feng Zhiling said: "It's nothing, I'm a traveling doctor who knows a little about medical skills, and when I see an injury, I will habitually come forward to help." Take the medicine. ”

She insisted on stuffing the medicine into the purple-clothed woman's hand, and the woman had to take it and said, "Then I'll give you the money for the medicine......"

Feng Zhiling waved his hand and said, "There is no need for medicine money, I just want to ask, who is bullying you?"

"It's someone we can't afford to mess with. The woman in purple said, "This sister, I see that you are a good person, if you are willing, go back to my house with me to sit down, we have a good acquaintance, how about it?"

"Good. Feng Zhiling knew that the woman in purple felt that it was inconvenient to talk on the street, so she agreed to her invitation.

The residence of the woman in purple was not too far away, and after walking in the direction of the outside of the city for about two minutes, they came to the door of a small courtyard with a single family, and the door plaque read the words "Bosom Friend Fang".

Pushing the door in, I saw several teenage women in the yard playing and practicing silk and bamboo musical instruments, and their faces were quite delicate.

"Miss Jinyun is back?"

"What's wrong with Xiaozhu?

"Why did you hurt so badly?"

It seems that this woman in purple is Jinyun, and the little girl is Xiaozhu.

Jinyun said: "Hmm. Xiaozhu is a little seriously injured, so I'll give her some medicine. ”

Jinyun didn't introduce Feng Zhiling, and everyone didn't ask, just smiled politely and nodded, which was a sign of welcome.

After a stick of incense, Jinyun rubbed medicine on Xiaozhu's injury, and also explained to Feng Zhiling what happened.

It turned out that the beating was the eldest son of an official eunuch here, when Jinyun and Xiaozhu were called by them to perform in the painting boat, who knew that during the banquet, the son suddenly started to drink crazy, and actually wanted to do something wrong to Xiaozhu, Xiaozhu resisted a few times, so the later scene happened.

After Feng Zhiling heard this, her eyes widened with anger, Xiaozhu, Xiaozhu was ...... Ten years old, right?

Jin Yun made a pot of check, poured a cup for Feng Zhiling, and gently persuaded: "Don't be angry, girl, let's take a sip of tea." This is this year's spring tea, Quancheng Green. ”

Feng Zhiling was a little puzzled, witnessing this kind of thing happening, Jinyun could still make tea so calmly, and persuaded himself in turn. She nodded, thanked her, took a sip of the teacup, and asked, "What is the name of the boy who beat people that Miss Jinyun said?"

Xiaozhu replied on the side: "That person is the eldest son of the county guard, Han Renguang." ”

Feng Zhiling scolded: "It turned out to be the son of the county guard, hum." Beast. ”

Jin Yun served tea for Feng Zhiling, and asked politely: "I don't know what this sister is called?"

Feng Zhiling replied, "My name is Lan Xi. Miss Jinyun, have you ever encountered such a thing as Xiaozhu before?"

Jinyun nodded and said softly: "I see that Sister Lanxi is pure-hearted, so I am willing to talk to you about this." In my bosom friend workshop, most of the women who have been bullied by those powerful people have been taken in, although I have encountered a lot of things like Xiaozhu today, but there are very few people who dare to do this in the cruise ship in the blue sky and daytime like today. Today's incident was my carelessness, I shouldn't have listened to them in the first place, and brought Xiaozhu over. ”