Pang Maimai has been very distressed recently, originally her burden was only three members of the Asen family, and she had already found two, and she was still short of Asen's mother, but she never expected that all of a sudden, there would be two more goods, Duanmu Fu and Chen Qinglu!

Duanmu Fu and Chen Qinglu are both in the Qi Transformation Period, and it stands to reason that their strength is naturally far greater than that of Pang Maimai himself, but here it is impossible to release spiritual power at all, and secondly, the monks cannot awaken, so there is no way to talk about the word strength.

Three, those two are still babies! No matter how much I told them, they couldn't understand it

And for the residents of the city, the latest major event, except for the sinkhole eating people outside the south gate of the city, is that Qiao Hong'er suddenly got very close to the Bai family.

Qiao Hong'er is a popular figure in the city, and his every move has always attracted attention, not to mention that he has always been high-profile.

It is said that he and Bai Xiao, the young master of the Bai family, first became brothers, and then became godfathers to the twin sons of the eldest daughter of the Bai family, who married out and were widowed.

Speaking of the Bai family, many people here also know that the Bai family is the largest cloth merchant in the city, because of offending the old city lord, the Bai family died more than ten years ago, and the Bai family also fell, most of the shops were annexed, and even the mulberry fields outside the city did not keep two or three out of ten, the old lady of the Bai family worked hard, and she pulled a pair of children to grow up, struggling to support the family business, and finally her daughter married a capable son-in-law, and the son also grew up to become a talent, inheriting the family business.

The daughter of the Bai family married the second son of the Sang family who opened a grocery store, this son was free, smart and capable, and did not want his parents' family business, so he pulled up a caravan and sold goods in the city, and when his father died, the eldest son inherited the grocery store, and the second son moved out to stand on his own.

Because this Bai family has been pampered since childhood, and was born beautiful, he has no children for several years after marriage, and his relationship with his mother-in-law is not very good, so his mother-in-law naturally lives in the old family.

Now that Sang Lao Er has an accident, and the Bai family has given birth to twins, things are like pouring a bowl of water into a hot oil pot and getting hot.

When Mrs. Sang learned of the death of her second son, she scolded Bai Kefu at home, and wanted to leave Bai from the house, leaving only the twin grandsons and letting the eldest uncle take care of them, and the net worth left by Sang Lao Er naturally had to stay.

Bai Xiaoxian's mother was already in bed, and when she learned that her son-in-law had died, her young daughter would not only become a widow, but also be abandoned, and her newborn twin sons and family wealth would be taken away.

Bai Xiaoxian was young and vigorous, so he simply hid his sister and nephew in his own home, rolled up the title deed of his sister's soft house, dismissed his subordinates, locked the courtyard door, and the Bai family and the Sang family were holding their own funerals, and they were fighting against each other.

And in this civil and military battle, Qiao Honger stood up and strongly supported the Bai family, and because of his great help, the Bai family won a big victory in the end:

The Bai family was able to keep most of the family wealth and was widowed with two sons, but they needed to give 300 taels of silver to Sang's mother every year. If one day the Bai family wants to change the price, the family property will be inherited by the two sons, and the Bai family can only take their own dowry, and if the twins are not minors at that time, the grandmother or uncle will still supervise the property.

With such a result, the Sang family is naturally not very satisfied, but they can't fight Qiao Hong'er, who is already rich and has supporters, not to mention that now because of the sinkhole outside the city, Qiao Hong'er is very prestigious in the city, and the head catcher also looked at him differently because he saved him, and he respected him very much.

In the end, the Sang family admitted that they could only spread some gossip outside, such as the Bai family not abiding by women's morals and hooking up with Qiao Hong'er and the like.

No one believed this, Qiao Hong'er is so talented and beautiful, what kind of girl can't marry, why should she value a widow who has just been widowed and brought two oil bottles

However, Qiao Hong'er's behavior is really a bit suspicious: he and Bai Xiaoxian called him brother and brother, and then simply moved to the Bai family to live permanently, and transferred all the tofu Xi Shi Dou Yulan he bought to Bai Xiaoxian. That's not all, he also persuaded Bai Xiaoxian to take Bai and the two children over, and finally made Bai Xiaoxian suspicious, if it weren't for the fact that he had no interest in Bai at all, he just paid special attention to the two children, and really thought that his good brother was in love with his widowed sister.

Pang Maimai didn't care about these gossips at all, and naturally she didn't care about the Bai family, after all, she was just a virtual spirit. She couldn't worry about looking at Duanmu Fu and Chen Qinglu all day long!

The sinkhole in the south of the city has not stopped, it expands three feet every month, and the original cordon has long been unable to surround its dangerous distance in the past few months, and the officials of the catchers have to risk the danger to re-pull the cordon.

Because Li Zhutou was closer to Pang Maimai, he would secretly come to ask Pang Maimai, and Pang Maimai would tell him which of the fast servants could enter the dangerous area and which people couldn't, and he couldn't.

So much so that for half a year, no one was killed or injured in the catch, and Li Catchou had a good reputation among his subordinates.

Because of this, Li Zhutou is also very close to and respects Pang Maimai.

Pang Maimai was friendly with him, originally mainly because he was a monk, and wanted to see if he could wake him up, but at the critical time, he didn't want to break the matter.

However, half a year has passed, and the relationship between the two has grown day by day. Not to mention being a brother, Li Zhutou even cares about Qiao Hong'er's lifelong events, and wants to be a matchmaker for him.

Pang Maimai naturally couldn't laugh or cry about this.

Although life seems to be in no danger for the time being, drinking should still be drinking, and making trouble should still be noisy, but the expanding black hole sinkhole in the south of the city is still a big problem.

Although almost no one was killed because of the dedication of the catchers every month, if this black hole continues to expand like this, it will affect the city gate in twenty or thirty years, and the farmers in the countryside outside the southern city are even more uneasy.

So some people found senior monks to suppress it, some people found feng shui gentlemen, and some people sacrificed day and night, these masters walked into a non-safe distance, some were safe and sound, and some were still dragged down by inexplicable forces

Later, one of the most widely circulated theories was that in this black hole, there was an eight-clawed king, who wanted to eat blood and eat souls, and finally someone funded the construction of a small temple next to it.

It's a pity that the black hole continued to expand, and it was not tolerated because the temple was its own temple, but one night, it collapsed violently

This time the pot was fried, Miao Zhu was safe, and his old man directly said that the eight-clawed king gave him a dream, don't eat these useless incense, eat virgins and boys!

He asked the peasants in the south of the city to send a pair of boys and girls to the king of the eight claws every month.

When Pang Maimai knew, he had already sent two pairs, and the virgin in the first pair was eaten, and the temple said that it was because the boy's family spent a lot of money to buy amulets, which was to buy sin money, so the eight-clawed king let him go.

The believers were convinced, and the families of the second pair of boys and girls who were unfortunately drawn went bankrupt and offered all their wealth to the temple, and the two children were really fine.

For a while, the temple blessed the hearts of the people and collected countless wealth.

Pang Maimai didn't want to care, but this matter was too disgusting for her.

She could already imagine that there would be any more boys and girls in the family who would have an accident even if they paid for it, and Miaozhu would say that it was because the child had too many sins.

Many people who are afraid of the sinkhole will spend money to buy peace charms with the temple blessing, and the temple blessing has a growing appetite, and will specially select children from wealthy families to sacrifice, and all the failed cases can be pushed to the word "sinful".

After all, in this world, the ethereal spirits are the vast majority, and there are only more than five hundred foxes and a dozen monks, so the chance of being devoured is very small in people's eyes.

So the weasel and the monks who died in the end would be considered to be guilty of their own crimes. When they die, their names will be tarnished, and their families will not only be discomforted but discriminated against after the loss of a loved one.

Originally, Pang Maimai felt that these ethereal things were the same as game NPCs, and they weren't worth bothering about, but she finally felt that she couldn't bear this style of painting.

Moreover, the more sacrifices that were actively sent, the more danger there were for foxes and monks, and the chances of being killed by those who were superstitious about the amulet and letting their guard down increased.

Pang Maimai had no choice but to stand up and let Li Zhutou let out a speech, saying that Qiao Hong'er knew which people would have an accident when they approached the sinkhole, because when Qiao Hong'er had an accident for the first time in the sinkhole half a year ago, he let people go in to ensure that there would be no accident, and many people saw it that time, and the catchers also vaguely knew that the reason why their leaders could pick out the catch that would pull the cordon but would not have an accident had a lot to do with Qiao Hong'er, so as soon as this matter got out, it got a lot of corroboration, and it quickly spread.

So the City Lord's Mansion sent someone to invite Qiao Hong'er a few days later after asking Li Zhutou for verification.

Qiao Hong'er happily went.

The city lord's mansion is in the center of the city, this floating town has only a small city and farmland outside the city, naturally the people here don't have the impression of an emperor or anything like that, for them, the world is only so big, and the supreme ruler is the city lord.

The lord of the city does not appear in front of people very often, and it is quite mysterious.

Qiao Hong'er rode a horse and followed the carriage and horse of the City Lord's Mansion into the mansion.

He was received by the general secretary who handles government affairs on a daily basis, and if this place is compared to a small country, then the general secretary is similar to the role of the prime minister.

The chief officer was a white-bearded old man in his forties and fifties, quite kind, and Pang Maimai glanced at him with spiritual eyesight, and knew that he was also a fox weasel.

The chief officer asked him if he knew the origin of the sinkhole in the south of the city.

Pang Maimai had already thought of a good rhetoric, and he owed it at the moment, saying: "The kid doesn't know, it's just that the kid has been very sensitive to aura since he was a child, and he found that this pit is evil.

And that day, the boy was on the side of the pit, and noticed that all those who were dragged into it were people with strong spiritual energy, and I am afraid that there were evil things among them, and they fed on spiritual energy.

These words were originally close to the truth, and after thinking about it left and right, there was nothing to make a profit in it, so he believed most of it, and said: "I see, then Qiao Gongzi judged whether there was danger based on whether the aura was strong or not?"

Pang Maimai nodded and said, "That's right."

The chief pondered for a moment, called a close servant, said a few words to him, and the servant hurried away.

After a while, someone came, and the lord of the city summoned him.

Pang Maimai followed the chief officer and his subordinates to the back of the house, passed a long corridor, and finally came to a small hall.

There was a man with hair in a white garment, sitting cross-legged on a seat.

The man's hair color is extremely beautiful, and outside the pitch black, it is so radiant that it seems to be able to refract a rainbow.

Seeing Pang Maimai and others coming, he raised his head slightly, as if he had just woken up from his meditation, his eyes were peaceful and far-reaching, he looked at Pang Maimai for a long time before he smiled faintly and said, "You are here."

Pang was stunned, she unconsciously observed the man with spiritual vision, and saw a piece of spiritual energy, bright and bright, but on this man's body, there was neither a tail nor a human figure

Neither a ferret, nor a monk, nor an ethereal spirit?

So what the hell is he