The shopkeeper of the bone broth shop led in front, Lu Xiaoxian and Lu Xiaoyi followed each other, and soon left Langzhong Shop all the way.

By the time they stopped again, they had apparently left Kusagawa Town.

Lu Xiaoxian was about to speak, but he saw the shopkeeper of the bone broth shop waving his hand and said, "It's not safe here, let's get out of here first!" ”

Several people ran all the way, and walked for more than an hour, and when they arrived in front of a thatched house, the shopkeeper of the bone broth shop said, "Let's go and rest first!" ”

With that, he walked in first.

Lu Xiaoxian and Lu Xiaoyi glanced at each other, and followed in.

At this time, it was getting late, and it was very dark in the thatched house. As soon as Lu Xiaoxian and Lu Xiaoyi entered, they heard the sound of a fire sickle, and the room suddenly became bright.

Although the hut is not large, it is very clean.

The bone broth shopkeeper pointed to a bed in the corner of the house and said to Lu Xiaoyi, "Let's put him there to rest first!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi glanced at Lu Xiaoxian, and Lu Xiaoxian nodded at him.

Lu Xiaoyi put Xu Zuo on the bunk according to his words, perhaps because of the rush all the way, Xu Zuo had already fallen asleep at this time.

Lu Xiaoxian didn't speak, just looked at the bone broth shopkeeper.

The bone broth shopkeeper didn't mind the hostility in Lu Xiaoxian's eyes, and said lightly: "Don't worry, no one knows about this place, it's safe here!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian said word by word: "Aren't you going to say something?" ”

"I have no ill will!" The bone broth shopkeeper said slowly, "You know, without my help, you can't save him at all!" ”

"I don't want to know this, now I just want to know, who are you?" Lu Xiaoxian's face was expressionless.

"My surname is Zhang, and my name is Zhang Tang!" The bone broth shopkeeper sat down slowly, as if he was recalling something, his eyes became blurry, as if he was talking to himself, "Wild Wolf Valley is about ten miles away from Caochuan Town, and I have lived there since I was a child. When I was eighteen years old, I said goodbye to my family, left the Wild Wolf Valley where I had lived since I was a child, and came to the back hall of a restaurant in Qinzhou as an apprentice. Later, I became a cook in the back hall, and I would save up my monthly income, and when I came home at the end of the year, I would give all the silver to my father and mother! Seeing Daddy and Auntie burst into tears, I don't want to mention how proud I am! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Tang's face suddenly showed sadness: "Three years ago, when I went home again, I found that Wild Wolf Valley had been blocked by officers and soldiers. From the notices posted in the town, I learned that many people had died in the Wild Wolf Valley due to the haunting, and in order to prevent innocent people from entering the valley by mistake and dying, the government sent troops to block the mouth of the valley. I remembered my family, I was so anxious that I couldn't care about it so much, so I slipped quietly into the Wolf Valley through the path in the dark. After entering, I found that the thatched hut at home had been reduced to ashes, and Daddy and Auntie and the only younger brother were gone. Back in town, I went crazy and asked about their whereabouts, but no one knew. ”

"Why didn't you report to the police?" Lu Xiaoxian's voice softened a lot.

"Why didn't you report to the officer?" Zhang Tang smiled bitterly, "The people in the government told me that many people in the haunted Wolf Valley are alive and dead, and my family may have been killed, and they also said that if there is any news, they will notify me as soon as possible!" ”

"It's a fart!" Lu Xiaoxian couldn't help but scold, "Where the hell is there in this world, what is this prevarication from the government?" ”

Zhang Tang nodded and said, "I think so too, how could a big living person disappear for no reason like this." So, I opened a bone shop in the town, obviously to make a living, but secretly to find my family! ”

"Did you find it?" Lu Xiaoxian felt a little sympathetic to Zhang Tang.

"Nope!" Zhang Tang frowned and said, "But I found that there are often people in the valley!" ”

"Who?"

"It's the Red Dragon Gang!"

"The Red Dragons?" Lu Xiaoxian suddenly remembered that the gang of people who came to ask for Xu Zuo outside Langzhong's shop before claimed to be members of the Red Dragon Gang.

"What does the Red Dragons do?" Lu Xiaoxian asked a little strangely.

"I hadn't heard of the Red Dragons when I left home, they had only appeared in the past two years, and before they appeared in Caochuan Town, which was just a small place in the middle of nowhere. Since the arrival of the Red Dragon Gang, this barren land has undergone amazing changes, and the name of Caochuan Town has been called, and it has become richer and more prosperous day by day. Because of this, the county government also turned a blind eye to what they did. I feel that the disappearance of my family has nothing to do with them! ”

Lu Xiaoxian was stunned in his heart, thinking of what Xu Zuo said before, he couldn't help muttering a little, he asked: "Are there often young men missing around Caochuan Town!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Tang nodded, "Not only near Caochuan Town, but even when outsiders come here, many people have disappeared out of thin air!" ”

"You guessed it right, this Red Dragon Gang is definitely not that simple!" Lu Xiaoxian seemed to remember something, and then asked, "What is the origin of this person from the Wind Ridge?" ”

"The people of Swift Wind Ridge are a group of grass robbers who occupy the mountains as kings, and no one knows where they came from! Not long after the Red Dragon Gang arrived in Caochuan Town, they appeared. Although they are robbers, they never rob houses and houses, and only can't get along with the Red Dragon Gang. The two groups of people fought and killed, and it never stopped. ”

Is the shocking secret told by Xu Zuo, a young man who escaped death, true or false?

Why did the lawless Red Dragons appear in Grass River?

And why did the mysterious strongman of Swift Wind Ridge have trouble with the Red Dragon Gang?

This difficult mystery made Lu Xiaoxian realize that this Caochuan Town was far more simple than he imagined.

At this moment, Xu Zuo woke up, and his hoarse voice came: "Water, water......"

……

In the backyard of the county government in Jingning County, the county magistrate Feng Gui is meeting a mysterious visitor.

Feng Gui glared and asked, "Didn't you say that you can't even fly a fly out in the Wild Wolf Valley?" How did you let a big living person run away? ”

"Alas! The valley is heavily guarded, and I also want to know how this guy got out, and I'm investigating! Alas, it was You Tao, the leader of the Red Dragon Gang, who sighed.

Feng Gui said impatiently: "What else to check, the top priority is to find someone quickly, if we are going to be leaked, we will only have a dead end!" ”

"If it weren't for the gang of Windwind Ridge, I would have chopped that kid into meat sauce a long time ago." You Tao hated and hated.

"Alright, let's not talk about that!" Feng Gui admonished, "I haven't reported this matter to the higher-ups, but I can't hide it for long, you hurry up and find a way to find people, whether they are alive or dead." In a word, if he is alive, then only we are dead! ”

"Got it!" You Tao nodded: "I'll go back and immediately mobilize all the manpower, even if I dig three feet into the ground, I have to dig him out!" ”

At this time, a figure outside Feng Gui's house flashed and disappeared into the backyard in an instant.

……

The first five miles east of Caochuan Town is a dilapidated village called Wulipo, where Xu Zuo's home is located.

Wulipo Village is not small, but the population is not large, only a few dozen households still live in it, there are many empty houses in the village, the people living in them are very poor, and these families are all raising girls without exception.

The ancestral hall of Wulipo was built not far behind the empty house in the village, and the small ancestral hall was full of people, and dozens of families almost came.

Lu Xiaoxian and Zhang Tang, as well as Xu Zuo who was carried by Lu Xiaoyi, were standing in the ancestral hall at this time.

Xu Zuo'a Niang is not young anymore, her lips trembled, tears couldn't stop falling, and she cried tremblingly: "My poor son......"

The other elderly women in the village also wiped away tears.

A white-bearded old man suddenly said at this time: "Zo'er, mother, you can't keep him!" ”

The person who spoke was the patriarch of the village, who was also the village leader, and his voice was not high, but it was categorical.

Xu Zuo's A-Niang turned her head in astonishment, the patriarch was expressionless, and repeated: "You can't keep him!" Leaving him behind will bring disaster to our village! ”

There was silence in the village.

Lu Xiaoxian said: "Why can't you keep him, didn't you see that he was beaten to the point that he only had one breath left?" If you drive him away again, what difference will you make from killing him with a sword? ”

The patriarch said in a sullen voice: "You are a foreigner, you don't know the rules here, he is now a fugitive slave, if we take him in, his master will find the village sooner or later, and the village will suffer!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian stared at him coldly, and said for a while: "Coward, seed!" ”

Lu Xiaoxian saw that the villagers in the village seemed to be shocked by the old man's words, so he said to Lu Xiaoyi and Zhang Tang: "Let's go!" ”

Xu Zuo's aunt showed sadness on her face, and she watched Lu Xiaoxian and the others go away.

Lu Xiaoxian sneered contemptuously when he went out, as if he stayed in the ancestral hall and lingered, lingering in everyone's hearts for a long time.

Not long after Lu Xiaoxian and the others left, dozens of families in Wulipo were gathered in front of the ancestral hall again.

A few horsemen rode the red dragon to help his subordinates, controlled the reins, slowed down their steps, and slowly circled around the crowd. More than a dozen gang members unsheathed their swords and arrows were wound, and a leader stood on the steps in front of the ancestral hall, looking coldly at the people below.

"Where was that fugitive just now?" The leader asked with a sneer.

The patriarch plucked up his courage, took a few steps forward, and said to the leader: "Ladies and gentlemen, he came to the village, but he left quickly, we really don't know ......"

The leader cut off the words stiffly, and said with a ruthless look in his eyes: "Let me ask again, where is he?" ”

The patriarch avoided the fierce glint in the leader's eyes and said with a wry smile: "We really don't know......"

Before he could finish speaking, the leader jumped down from the steps, drew his sword and slashed the patriarch to the ground, and stepped forward to step on the patriarch's head. The knife fell, and a bloody ear, with a layer of implicated cheek flesh, trembled and held it in his hand.

The leader raised his ears in his hands, and the Red Dragon Gang cheered left and right.

The leader gave another hard look at the crowd, and the crowd tightened.

Under the knife, he was frightened and angry, but he never dared to speak.