The light rain turned into a torrential rain, hitting the brick houses with a crisp sound, and the rain flowed down the eaves and joined the water lines.

At this time, Yi Fan was drenched by the rain, Yi Fan ran into an alley, and saw that there was a family at the end of the alley with the lights on, so he ran over.

The house looked a little dilapidated, even the eaves were leaking, Yi Fan walked to the door and knocked on the door, "Master, can you open the door?"

Yi Fan screamed a few times in a row, and a voice came from the room, "Who are you, what are you doing so late?"

"Oh, can I come in and take shelter from the rain? Yi Fan hurriedly said.

There was no movement in the house, Yi Fan thought that he had been rejected, and was just about to leave, but then the door creaked, and a gap was opened, and the people inside looked out through the crack in the door, and saw Yi Fan standing outside soaking wet, shivering with cold.

The door opened, and a middle-aged man stood in the doorway, "Come in, it's raining so hard outside." ”

Yi Fan walked in, the room emitted a pungent smell of medicine and mold, an oil lamp was placed on the table, emitting a faint light, and there were several basins scattered on the ground, and the basins were followed by the rainwater leaking from the roof, making a dripping sound of water.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late. Yi Fan said tremblingly.

"Alas, I said why didn't you come home so late, alone outside, and it's still raining so hard, and, what's going on with your eyes?"

"I came from other places, I originally wanted to come to the county seat to seek refuge with relatives, but when I arrived in the county seat, I couldn't find where they were, and the money on my body was used up, so I could only wander on the street, but it was raining heavily tonight, so I could only find a place to shelter from the rain, you can rest assured, I will leave early tomorrow morning. As for my eyes, there was a bit of sand in and I was a little uncomfortable seeing the light, so I closed them. "Yi Fan is making up lies and saying, this is really a scoundrel, I can't directly say that I am being hunted down and killed now, hide from you.

"Well, then wait a minute, I'll get you a set of clothes to change, otherwise you'll definitely catch a cold." ”

The middle-aged man said and walked into the house to get his clothes, and when he handed them to Yi Fan, he said, "This is my clothes, you will wear them for one night first, change your clothes and I will take them for you to hang." ”

Yi Fan changed his clothes, looking at the clothes he was wearing, which already had a lot of patches, he didn't dislike it, although it was a little shabby, it was very clean.

"Ahem, ahem. ”

At this time, a violent coughing sound suddenly came from the room, and the middle-aged man immediately ran to the room as soon as he heard the coughing sound, and Yi Fan also followed.

In one of the small beds in the room lay a frail old man, the old man was skinny and his face did not look bloody, and the old man was coughing at this time.

"Dad, come, drink the medicine, slow down. ”

The middle-aged man helped the old man up from the bed, patted the old man on the back a few times, smoothed out, and then picked up a bowl of medicine on the chair next to the bed and fed it to the old man.

"What kind of illness is this old man?" Yi Fan asked.

"This is an old problem, Lang Zhong has also seen a lot, but it can't be cured, and he said that he was infected with wind and cold, and he could only take medicine to relieve it, and they were all quacks. The middle-aged man said with a sad face.

The old man drank the medicine and said to the middle-aged man, "Child, my father is sorry for you, for my illness, he used up all the money in the family, and asked you to boil medicine for me in the middle of the night, I dragged you down." ”

"Dad, why do you say that, these are what I should do, you lie down, don't talk, and have a good rest. ”

The middle-aged man helped the old man to lie on the bed and said to Yi Fan, "Little brother, you can go to my house to rest tonight, I have to stay here to take care of my father." ”

"Thanks, excuse me. Yi Fan said and bowed to the middle-aged man.

After the middle-aged man took Yi Fan to his room, he went to take care of his father again, Yi Fan lay on the bed, thinking about what happened today, especially Dongfang Jin's punch, the imperial qi realm he said, and the Lingwu Academy that Huang Lao said.

"It seems that this world can really be cultivated, then there must be some unexpected things, it seems that I have to find a way to understand these things, and then see if there is a chance to contact that group of people, and then join them, then when I can also cultivate, there is hope to go back." So what should I do now? By the way, what Huang Lao said about the Lingwu Academy, it seems to be very extraordinary, so start there, go to the Lingwu Academy first. But there should be conditions to join those people, and there are ...... , Alas, why do you want to do so much now, I don't know where the Lingwu Academy is, let's wait until tomorrow to run out of this county seat. ”

Yi Fan fell asleep thinking about it, and on the other side, the two people who chased Dongfang Jin were sitting in the county government at this time. Led by the old man, there are four people sitting here, the old man and the middle-aged man, as well as the magistrate, and Yang Yun's father Yang Yi is also here, but now the middle-aged man looks pale, very weak, and his speech seems to be a little lacking.

"I don't know what happened to the two of us called us so late?" asked the old man with a smile on his face.

The old man didn't speak, he didn't even look at Zhixian, and the middle-aged man on the side said, "I called you two here so late, there is something for you to do, I know that there are many people in the entire Lingyang County, and tomorrow you gather all the people you can gather and find something for us." ”

The middle-aged man said and took out a piece of paper from his arms, on which a red tower was drawn, if Yi Fan saw it, he would be surprised, wasn't this tower the one he had seen in the cave.

"This, a tower, well, we'll have someone look for it tomorrow. The magistrate didn't ask much, and agreed directly.

"By the way, let's see if we can meet these three people, and if so, let us know immediately. The middle-aged man said and took out another piece of paper, on which were the portraits of Yi Fan and the others.

"These two people. Yang Yi looked at Dongfang Jin and Yi Fan on the portrait and muttered suspiciously.

"Why, you know these two. The middle-aged man heard Yang Yi's muttering, looked at him and asked.

"It's not an acquaintance, but I've met twice, these two people have only come here in the last few days, and they stayed at my inn for one night before, and then they left, and yesterday they injured my boy, and now my boy is also looking for him. ”

"Well, let's do it first, and tomorrow you will mainly go to this tower, focusing on the temples. Let's go look for those three people, and if you meet them, don't disturb them, tell us at once, they are not for you to deal with, okay, so be it. After the middle-aged man finished speaking, he walked out with the old man.

"Brother Song, who are those two people, I still haven't figured it out?" Yang Yi looked at Zhixian and asked.

"The middle-aged man is said to be a celebrity next to a big official in the dynasty, as for the old man, to be honest, I don't know his identity, but looking at the middle-aged man who is respectful to him, the old man must be a person in a high position. ”

"You don't know. ”

"Hehe, Brother Yang, no matter what the identities of these two people are, but they are certainly not simple, do you see that during the imperial examination before, did the above send such people down? Isn't it all for our counties to manage and supervise by themselves, so this time there must be a big deal for the above to send such two people down, and they also let us help find people to find things, then we will cooperate, in short, we can't offend them, and when they go back, even if they mention us above, it will also be good for us." ”

"In that case, then I'll go back first, and gather people early tomorrow to do things. Yang Yi said and walked outside the county office.