Chapter 41 Firewood is expensive
Lin Ruoran walked downstairs and saw that several men with very thick voices and loud voices were gathering together in the hall on the first floor, chatting about the case of missing people in this town while eating, one of them said, "Boss, I went to Baiyun Mountain yesterday to chop wood, and found that there was a man's robe hanging on a branch, something is strange, I am busy going down the mountain to tell the boss about it, now what are we going to do?"
Another subordinate said vaguely: "Why don't we go to the police and let them thoroughly investigate the truth of the matter." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
A man bumped into another subordinate, signaling to be quieter, someone came over, the person who was hit glared at the man, and then looked at Lin Ruoran who came over and stopped talking.
Lin Ruoran walked to the table next to them and sat down, beckoning to the shopkeeper to come with some breakfast at will.
The man who was called the boss, tall and burly, was drinking millet porridge with his head down, and made a sighing sound, eating very deliciously, he heard his subordinates talking about the word "reporting to the official", stopped drinking porridge, raised his head and said: "Okay, Xiaosi, you can go after eating!" Go and go back quickly, I heard that He Ziming is a good official, maybe this case will end soon! My brother was a little more relaxed. ”
Lin Ruoran listened to some gossip, and after eating, he called the shopkeeper to settle the bill, and the shopkeeper heard that she was leaving, so he handed her the remaining gold and silver without saying a word.
Lin Ruoran walked out of the inn, went to several of the largest shops in the town, bought some items of interest, and hurried out of the city gate.
Lin Ruoran walked out of the city gate, no longer avoided the eyes and ears of the world, and flew to Baiyun Mountain with his body method, after a pillar of incense, Lin Ruoran turned around Baiyun Mountain and did not find anything abnormal, so he jumped on a big tree and closed his eyes to meditate.
The sky is getting dark, a round of bright crescent moon rises high, many stars like cow hair bloom bright flowers on the blue sky, covering the earth with a layer of white light, the lonely mountain began to appear the sound of rustling, all of a sudden the mountain seems to come alive, from time to time there are animal humming and insect chirping sounds, Lin Ruoran let go of her divine sense, and at once the situation of half of the mountain was fed back to her mind, she sat motionless on the tree, quietly waiting for the arrival of pigs.
After Lin Ruoran left, the woodcutter who was called the boss became suspicious of her, a woman who was alone was either excellent in martial arts or had a fight, but he knew the gossip that the disappearance of the population was related to a woman.
Looking at the back of Lin Ruoran leaving, the boss beckoned to a subordinate, signaling him to put his ear over, that subordinate is a delicate person, he has been following the boss for several years, and he is a clever ghost with eyes, otherwise he would not become the boss's henchman, his advantage is that he is good at tracking. The woodcutter bowed his head and whispered a few words in his subordinate's ear, and the subordinate walked out of the inn.
This woodcutter boss surnamed Chai, called Yougui, is a woodcutter in Baiyun Town, since he was a child and his father went into the mountains to chop firewood, Xi is a good martial arts, there is a younger brother who is ten years younger than him, it was his mother who gave birth to him with his life, his younger brother grew up safely to seven years old with the help of neighbors, that year, his father was bitten by a wild beast, raised for a few months or died, this burden was all on Chai Yougui at once, so he in order to make up for his younger brother's tuition, Sell yourself to the only dart bureau in the town, a sign is ten years, get a hundred taels of silver, pay three years of tuition for his younger brother at once, and buy a small servant to serve, a few years have passed, Chai Yougui has become an excellent dart master, in a mission to save a dart surnamed Hua, this surname Chai hair, Hua Dart head saw that he had no father and no mother, there is a younger brother at a young age and also passed the Xiuqi, so he married his daughter to him, this Chai Yougui has a good time' The master's life, there is a group of servants and friends under his hands who work for him, he has long been accustomed to living a life of licking blood with knives all day long, going out every year to guard the body, if it is not for the inexplicable disappearance of the population this time, and the age of his younger brother has reached the age of the weak crown, he will not rest at home for a few months, thinking about catching this harmful horse all day long.
Chai Yougui asked one of his subordinates, where is his younger brother Chai Youfu now? Speaking of Chai Youfu, because he has not been taken care of by his mother since he was a child, he is naughty all day long, and he has always been rampant and domineering in the village, if it weren't for his brother's strict management, he may have become a gangster in the town, since he entered the school, he is smart and studious, but a few years, he was admitted to Xiucai, and got the position of a county master, life is getting better and better, and people are getting more and more motivated.
His subordinates smiled at Chai Lao Dao: "Boss, the second young master is a promising, and the little guy who just came back, Chai Xiaoding, came to report that he would arrive in Baiyun Town tomorrow."
Chai Boss nodded absentmindedly, he wrote a letter last time to ask his younger brother to live in the capital for a period of time, and then come back after this incident, but a few days ago he received a letter from Chai Youfu saying that he had been selected and was arranged to be a county magistrate in this town, and now he had to come back.
That night, Chai Yougui heard Xiao San's return, frowned, waved him down to rest, and then led his men to ride horses all the way to the foot of Baiyun Mountain, they tied the horses to the tree, leaving one person to guard, and the others walked towards Baiyun Mountain.
Chai Yougui with several years of experience in chopping firewood, all the way with the person who found the clothes came to a weedy field, where is a piece of about one meter long tribulus terrestris, it is an annual herbaceous plant, light brown branches, rectangular green leaves, the fruit can be used in medicine, has the effect of dispersing wind, calming the liver, and brightening the eyes.
Everyone held their weapons in their hands, and kept slashing at the tribulus terrestris, opening a way, Chai Yougui was in front, his subordinates followed, suddenly a gust of wind blew, everyone couldn't help but have goosebumps, Chai Yougui scolded in his mouth, "What the hell is the weather, the hands of the old man are trembling!"
Chai Yougui turned his head and asked the person behind him viciously, "Little Liu, where did you say it was, why haven't I found a place to put my clothes yet?" ”
The man named Xiaoliu couldn't say a word in a trembling voice, he pointed behind Chai Yougui and said, "Old... Big, behind you... Ghosts"
After speaking, Chai Yougui was stunned for a moment, and looked at the others, they all looked at him with a look of fear, to be precise, behind him, he felt that there seemed to be a cold thing behind him like a maggot attached to the bone, and suddenly climbed up to his neck, Chai Yougui didn't dare to move, and a sharp light shot at his subordinates, signaling them not to act rashly.
The group of men looked at each other, and they all saw the frightened white faces of the other party, if it weren't for the punishment that they had always been shocked by the boss's strict management, they would have fled in fright by now.
Chai Yougui was about to turn around and slash it, but unexpectedly, a black-robed person appeared in front of him, and he pretended to be calm and said, "Who are you?" What exactly is to be done? ”
It was Lin Ruoran who appeared in front of him, she was shocked when she saw a woman in white appear, her thoughts turned, she wanted to sit on the wall and watch, but in the end she still used her body and flew to Chai Yougui.
Lin Ruoran said to Chai Yougui: "You guys go down the mountain quickly." With that, he flew away.
Chai Yougui was angry by Lin Ruoran's stern scolding, he glanced back and shouted in fright, "My mother!" What's the one in white in front? ”
Chai Yougui grabbed Xiao Liu's arm at once, and said very hard, "Tell me about Lao Tzu just now, if the white clothes were behind Lao Tzu, did you see what it looked like?" ”
The arm of the person named Xiaoliu who was dragged by Chai Yougui hurt very much, and he shouted loudly: "Boss, let go, my hand hurts very much, and it is about to dislocate." ”
Chai Yougui let go of his arm, and saw that Xiao Liu kept stroking his other hand with his hand, and he didn't speak, and the other subordinate couldn't stand it, so he said: "Boss, we just saw a man in white suddenly appear behind you, and he was so scared that he almost peed his pants, and I also saw that the person's face was very white, the corners of his mouth were black under the light of the moon, and his whole body was wrapped in white, and he couldn't see his arms and legs, which was very weird." ”
Chai Yougui took his men with trepidation and hurried down the mountain.
Lin Ruoran followed all the way to a charred manor, and he could no longer see the figure of the man in white.