On the official road.

Dust is rolling.

A convoy of horse-drawn carriages, walking on the official road.

Boom.

Boom.

From time to time, the wheels of the car were bumped down by stones.

This fleet.

In total, there were three carriages.

In each carriage, there was a coachman who drove the carriage and a sword-wielding official wearing the uniform of the yamen.

On both sides of the official road, the trees are tall.

Forests of greenery.

The trees were tall and black, and the sun was a little difficult to shine into.

A blue curtain of the carriage was raised, revealing the face of a young man about twenty years old.

The man was born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, white and clean skin, a bit like a rich boy and a scholar. But there is a sharp momentum between the eyebrows and the martial arts people of the rivers and lakes.

The official road of the ancients, to put it bluntly, was a flattened and compacted dirt road.

Outside the carriage was dusty.

Jin An raised his hand to fan the dust outside the curtain of the carriage, and looked at the tall trees and woods outside the carriage with a slight surprise on his face.

"Feng Zhutou, where are we now?"

"We came all the way from Chang County, and it is rare to see such a huge forest on both sides of the official road?"

"I didn't expect such a big forest to grow here. ”

It's like a bunch of trees suddenly popping up in the plains.

It's really eye-catching.

"Where?"

"Where?"

"I'm going to see it too. ”

A big face squeezed over curiously, squeezing Jin An's head away, and the old Taoist priest looked at the tall woods outside the carriage, and shouted in a fuss: "It's really a little brother." ”

The old Taoist priest who didn't know that Jin An wanted to poke and beat people secretly shouted at Jin An with a look of surprise, and a few drops of saliva sprayed on Jin An's face at close range.

A few black lines hung down from Jin An's head.

He wanted to poke and slap someone.

At this time, the sound of Feng catching his head came from inside the carriage.

"There was originally a village here, called Shenjiabao, but later there was a plague, and the whole village died, and Shenjiabao became a dead village with ten rooms and ten empty rooms. ”

"This has happened for too long, the county records are not detailed, and Feng does not know the specific situation of the year. Later, this abandoned empty village, because no one lived in it all the year round, and no one repaired the house, gradually disappeared in the wind and rain, and the specific location could not be found in the old county annals. ”

"Feng had heard the older generation talk about it when he was a child, and when he got out of Chang County, he walked along the official road, and if he saw a large forest, it was the former Shenjiabao. ”

After listening to Feng Zhutou's introduction, Jin An couldn't help but look at it a few more times with curiosity.

It seems that many people did die back then.

These trees absorb a lot of nutrients.

No wonder it grows so tall.

At this time, the sky is getting dark.

The driver who drove the car warned a few people in the carriage carefully.

said that it was not easy to walk at night, and the vision was not good at night, and it was inconvenient to find someone, so he asked Feng Zhutou if he was looking for a place to rest for the night first?

Feng Zhutou felt reasonable, and after asking Jin An and the old Taoist priest for their opinions, he ordered someone to find a place to rest overnight.

"Feng Zhutou, let the people in the yali stay away from that woods, although the plague has passed for a long time, there is nothing wrong with being careful. ”

The injury on his chest was not yet healed, and Feng Zhutou, who could still see the white bandage through the collar of his neck, had a look on his face: "What did Gongzi Jin An see?"

Jin An shook his head.

Say he is just out of prudence, careful consideration.

Feng Zhutou nodded, he didn't think that Jin An was too cautious and left the county seat, this barren mountain and wild mountain should be more careful.

So, at the foot of a hill some distance from the forest, the three wagons formed a small circle, forming a defensive position of horns against the beasts or bandits at night.

Then the officials began to find some dry firewood and hay from the mountains behind them, boiled water on the fire, and distributed dry food.

Three carriages with a total of a dozen people, forming two circles.

A circle, all those ordinary officials, gathered together.

In the other, slightly smaller circle, there were only four people, namely Jin An, the old Taoist priest, Feng Zhutou with an injury, and a forty-year-old rough monk with a few ring scars on the top of his head.

"Monk Pu Zhi, are you sure that those junior brothers of yours are taking this official road?"

"If we go further, we will go out of the boundary of Chang County, but we still haven't found any clues along the way, is it possible to temporarily change the route halfway. ”

Feng Zhutou asked the scar monk.

This scar monk is one of the Yin Dart Masters who went to the Yali to report the case.

According to the mutual introduction of the same car in the past two days, Jin An also knew the origin of the monk with the ring scar, and the monk Pu Zhi was kicked out of the temple because he repeatedly violated the monk vows, and every time he committed the wine and meat precepts and the female sex precepts.

Monk Pu Zhi grew up in the temple since he was a child, and he had no skills, and worked as a dock coolie, but was driven away by the dock gang.

I used to be the guardian of the landlord's family, but I couldn't stand the low voice driven back and forth, so I didn't do it for a long time.

In the end, he became a green forest.

Later, he started a business of walking yin darts with fast money, wine and meat.

Last time, they took over the work for others, but they ran into black and black, and several brothers died and some people were injured, and Monk Park Ji was injured last time. Therefore, this time, the Yin Dart, Monk Park Zhi did not accompany him.

But later, they waited left and right, and never saw the news from the brothers of the dart bureau, and they, the wounded who stayed in the dart bureau, inquired around, and then realized that something was wrong.

After the dart team entered the territory of Chang County, they disappeared mysteriously and never left Chang County at all.

In the end, because of the lack of manpower and the difficulty of finding people, Monk Pu Zhi gave it a try, thinking that they were also doing things for the yamen of other counties, and hoped that the Yamen of Chang County could help them find people and the lost darts for the sake of doing things for the public, so he found the Yamen of Chang County to report to the official.

Facing Feng Zhutou's questioning, Monk Pu Zhi shook his head.

"Whether it's a dart or a yin dart, there is a fixed route, and it is easy not to change the route temporarily. ”

"It's like we bet on yin darts, we have the taboo of not going to see the water, and whatever way we go, we are all carefully considered, and we will never detour for no reason. Because of that accident, you have to face more unexpected situations along the way. ”

Monk Park Ji spoke in a thick voice.

At first glance, he is a monk who doesn't have so many fancy intestines and has a straightforward temperament.

Several people continued to talk around the bonfire, but the old Taoist priest was surprisingly quiet.

Since Monk Pu Zhi followed the convoy, as long as the old Taoist priest was there with Monk Pu Zhi, the old Taoist priest who used to talk a lot in the past would become much quieter.

Maybe the Taoist priest and the monk are really enemies since ancient times?

See each other?

The sun sets, and the vast land is gradually shrouded in night.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the officials sitting in a circle, Feng Zhutou's face sank, and he got up and asked what was going on?

But he saw two officials with painful faces, holding their stomachs and falling to the ground.