"It was Fang Feng who reported Huo Xiang for poisoning."

"I'll just say it......" Tu Shi said casually, not understanding the old man's words for the first time, and when he understood, he was speechless in shock.

"Ahem!" Old Man Feng grabbed Tu Shi's shoulder, leaned into his ear and said, "Boy, you must know something." I'll let you see Huo Xiang, but you have to tell the matter as it is, and you are not allowed to hide a word. ”

Tu Shi nodded.

The chief of the security department introduced Tu Shi into the house and said, "You go out and guard the door, and no one is allowed to let them in." ”

The two villagers standing beside Huo Xiang promised and closed the door. The disheveled Huo Xiang was tied to a chair, and the first thing he said when he saw Tu Shi was: "Alas, I really can't think of it." ”

Tu Shi understood what he meant: "Yes, I can't think of it either." You looked for him last night? ”

"Yes...... He denied it at first, until I brought out the 'toad ghee'. He didn't listen to me, and we had a fight and broke up. ”

"You drugged the well today," Tu Shi pondered why this didn't seem to be right, "Was it seen by Fang Feng?" ”

"Fang Feng found me last night and said that someone was going to poison me the next day, so I hid near the well with him in the morning to monitor." The old chief took over the question.

"How could he have predicted your actions!"

"The potion I use only lasts for ten years, and I have to put it in three times a month, and although I try to avoid everyone, he may have seen it a few times." Huo Xiang seemed to think about it, and his tone was neither sad nor joyful. He turned to the chief and said, "Chief Bao, I don't believe in ghosts and gods, so I don't swear in the name of ghosts and gods, but in the name of my father." And then if I tell a lie, my whole body will fester. ”

The ancients still attached great importance to oaths, and the old man nodded solemnly. After listening to Huo Xiang's narration, the old man remained quiet for a while and said, "If there is a big toad in the black water pool, I will release him immediately." ”

"What if you let it go? Isn't it a face-to-face insult and a behind-the-scenes pointer? Huo Xiang smiled.

Tu Shi was really a little panicked, it turned out that Huo Xiang didn't want to open it, but his heart was stuffed, and this heart disease was difficult to treat. He hurriedly volunteered: "Chief Guard, I'll take you to find the toad!" ”

"I'm not done yet! There are rules for everything, if there is nothing in the black pool, Huo Xiang, you can feed the fish. ”

"Feed the fish?!" Tu Shi blurted out.

Feng Youjing used an unquestionable tone: "There is no need to alarm the government. ”

Tu Shi's cold sweat came down. There is a saying that "the mountain is high and the emperor is far away", which is reasonable, in ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, and some remote mountain villages were almost isolated from the world, and in that kind of place, the national law was not as good as the village rules and people's agreement, and some cruel and inhumane lynchings were bred from this. The villagers of Daxinwu Village take their domestic water from the old well, and poisoning the water is likely to lead to the destruction of an entire village, so it is not surprising that Huo Xiang was sentenced to death. Is it difficult to execute Huo Xiang? As the most authoritative person in the village, the chief has this power, and most importantly, no one wants Huo Xiang to live.

But things haven't reached the worst step yet, there must be a big toad in the black pool, this is what Tu Shi saw with his own eyes, and he can't fake it, as long as everyone goes there, things will naturally come to light, and Huo Xiang's grievances can also be washed away. Just find tonight, take the wild boar to kneel there and call "Daxian", and the big toad should come as promised. But this step is too simple, did Fang Feng not expect it when he framed Huo Xiang?

Tonight, the chief will take people to the Black Water Pool.

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After worrying and teaming up with the players to fight the boar in the morning, Tu Shi roughly talked about it in the group at noon and wanted to ask his classmates for help. The first person to come forward to answer was really the calmest and most witty Liu Hanshi: "The people are driven by anger, and if you want to delay time, you must find something that can compete with anger." ”

Tu Shi made an expression with shining stars: "Wow, you are so powerful, what is it, say it quickly!" ”

Liu Hanshi: "As long as you think about it, you can think of it yourself." ”

After an interval of five minutes, Liu Han may have seen that the group did not respond, and said, "Okay, it's fear." ”

Tu Shi: "What? "He didn't think about it at all in the past five minutes, anyway, Liu Dacai won't leave him alone, haha.

Liu Hanshi: "'Poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people'." Due to the inconvenience of transportation, the residents do not care who the ruler is, and there is no concept, and whoever is the emperor is the same, so it is normal to listen to the laws and decrees and not listen to the announcement; And because of the cost of consumption, the rulers are too lazy to waste time in these places, so there is the so-called 'village rules and people's covenant', which is a manifestation of the incompetence of the state. However, these places also represent a mixture of ignorance and insensitivity, and lynching is often associated with the theory of ghosts and gods, as if the execution of criminals was a sacrifice to a god or an ancestor. The act of sacrifice itself stems from the fear of nature, the fear of wildfires, the fear of drought, the fear of torrential rains, and the struggle of human beings to become idealists, imagining a high-spirited, moody god. ”

Sending so many words in one breath must be the information searched on the Internet!

Tu Shi and several people: "Wow, 666." Tu Shi also thought that Chai Hu and Feng Youjing occasionally mentioned the worship of their ancestors, is this also one of the clues?

Liu Hanshi: "Now do you know how to use fear? ”

Tu Shi: "I understand! The source of fear is the 'youkai' of the Black Water Pool! Although it does not exist, it is mysterious and dangerous in the minds of the villagers, and facing it is enough to make people forget their anger! Although the chief of the bao represents the village rules and conventions, he can use feudal superstition to contend with them, and the status of the person who resists him must be the same as him, so it is a double constraint! ”

Liu Hanshi: "Although I know that the derivation process of this method is very simple, I am still surprised to hear you say it in an orderly manner. ”

Tu Shi: "Hey! I'm smart, okay! ”

Liu Han smiled and said nothing.

Tu Shi decided to meet K the other party next time.

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Afternoon. According to the plan, Tu Shi went to find someone who could check and balance the chief of the security - the person with the highest status in the village, but also the most neglected, the village chief Zheng Gushui. The reason why it is said that it is the easiest to ignore is because the old village chief is a kind person, and you can tell a lot of information (including what you don't want to hear) when you ask a little bit (including what you don't want to hear), which is completely different from the cold and cool security chief, just like a love game, the more difficult the object is, the more precious it is, and the importance of the village chief is not as good as that of the chief. Another point is that the information spoken by the village chief is mysterious.,It's all a legend that only children love to hear.,It's not practical.,The player is too lazy to deal with him.,Even if the village chief takes the initiative to talk.,It's the left ear in the right ear.。

However, only the village chief can be the key to turning the tide of events. In the village, he is the most feudal and superstitious, he is the one with the highest status, and he is also the one who has the best relationship with the chief of the guard. As long as he said "don't touch and probe the ghosts and gods", he could prevent the villagers led by the chief from going to Heishuitan for verification, so that Tu Shi would have more time to figure out what Fang Feng was planning.

However, the answer Tu Shi got from the village chief turned out to be:

"Tonight, the little old man will also go to testify. If you anger the monsters in the pond, you have no choice but to offer Huo Xiang as a living sacrifice, praying that the monsters will not vent their anger on us and other small people. ”

"The village chief...... Fang Feng shouldn't have looked for you, right? ”

"Oh? A strong man is like a god. After Brother Feng was arrested, Xiao Lao'er was worried about how to solve this matter, and Fang Feng, this child, just helped me to go to the hidden worries in my heart. The village chief smoked a dry cigarette beautifully, and the toothless shriveled mouth grinned.

Things are even more confusing. Nine times out of ten, Fang Feng's idea for the village chief was part of the conspiracy, he not only wanted to kill Huo Xiang, but also did not allow anyone to delay time. But where did he get his faith? Can this guy say that the big toad should not show up, so that Huo Xiang can't prove his innocence? Toads don't necessarily understand human speech, do they, or they wouldn't be proficient? So what is Fang Feng's purpose? Alas, at this time, Liu Dacai was either going to work or playing "Qiankun", and he couldn't choose to "ask relatives and friends for help"......

That's right!

For a moment when he thought of Liu Han, Tu Shi remembered his sentence "As long as you think about it, you can think of it yourself", so he sorted out his thoughts, and he really figured it out! After figuring everything out, he was in a daze for a few seconds and went to find the Regulus trio.

"At night, the villagers will go to Heishuitan en masse."

"We've heard that." The Dragon God replied. The Xuanyuan Moon Demon on the side had an expression of "This thing is so obvious, even a fool knows, brother, it's not just you and NPCs who are getting close now".

"There's a kind of high-level monster there, a monster that is even more advanced than the boar, but it only refreshes at night. It can be said that Blackwater Pool is a hidden monster farm. ”

"Go on." Not only the Xuanyuan Dragon God, but even the Xuanyuan Moon Demon was interested.

"It's hard for us to trek in the back mountains at night, because it's easy to get lost, and we can also be attacked by bobcats and boars. But this time is different, almost the entire village of men will go to the Black Water Pool, and everyone will take care of each other with torches, making the back and forth extremely safe, which is equivalent to a direct path to the leveling point. The most important point is that NPCs may release quests in the evening, so let's go along, even if we can't defeat monsters, at least we have a guaranteed quest experience. ”

"Sounds like a sure bet."

"I'm just saying what I think, and it's up to you to judge." Seeing the somewhat unhappy looks of the trio, Tu Shi immediately realized that his tone vaguely expressed the concept of "the two sides are equal", which touched the self-esteem of the masters, so he remedied: "Of course, I will look forward to the three horse heads. ”

He has opened an Internet café for a few years, and he has seen many of them, and it is one of the basic skills of a businessman to retreat into advance. He figured it out, even if the Xuanyuan trio showed importance and wooing to him at this stage, it was only limited to the novice period, and it was not out of sincerity. All three of them are arrogant and will never treat the mediocre public as partners. Tu Shi also saw this very openly, anyway, he would not join the so-called Xuanyuan Guild, and naturally he didn't need to prove himself to the three of them.

The thing is already halfway there. If Fang Feng needs NPCs to be present, then Tu Shi simply adds a handful of firewood and lets the players be present as well. Next, you can do something that you haven't had time to do, such as talking to Huang Er.