"There is one that meets your requirements, but although no one has planted the barren slope of this West Mountain, there is an acre of land connected to Lihua Village, if you want to take it all, you have to talk to the village chief over there."

Chu Xinyun thought about it for a while, this barren slope near the west has few people on weekdays, and most of them are sand and gravel, if he wants to plant crops, he must have to fertilize and cultivate them from the new, if he really wants to take it, he must fence it all around to prevent human destruction.

What makes her more excited is that this wasteland is connected to the acres where she used to plant peppers, and it will be much more convenient to plan planting when the time comes." ”

After lunch, she took Yan Qinchang and set off to Lihua Village, and when she heard that she was looking for the village chief, some enthusiastic villagers took her to the village chief's house.

The village chief of Lihua Village is surnamed Li, who is about the same age as the village chief of Chu, and there are frequent exchanges between the two villages on weekdays.

So after hearing that she was from Chujia Village, Village Chief Li's face eased a lot, Chu Xinyun mentioned that he wanted to buy the wasteland in the west, Village Chief Li was stunned for a moment, and asked, "This wasteland is powerful and sandy on weekdays, and the soil is not fertile, what did the little lady buy it for?"

"It's me who wants to try to grow some new crops, I bought it from a businessman, I don't know if the village chief can cut love, I graciously offered the price of ten taels of silver."

These ten taels of silver are the result of her discussion with Yan Qinchang on the road, after all, most of this land is in Chujia Village, only more than half an acre is in Lihua Village, and basically no one cares about it on weekdays, so it is already a big advantage to be able to sell ten taels of silver.

Hearing the ten taels of silver, Village Chief Li's eyes widened slightly, and he asked in disbelief: "The little lady is very willing to give ten taels of silver?"

"This is natural, if the village chief agrees, I can settle it today."

Where else is there to disagree with this? It's just a lot of money!

Village Chief Li looked like he was afraid that she would regret it, so he immediately ordered someone to get the title deed documents, handed over the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other, and the matter was completed in only half an hour.

Chu Xinyun, who originally thought that he was going to grind it, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After finishing it here in Lihua Village, Village Chief Chu naturally took out the title deed and sold the entire acres of land on the western slope to her at a price of twenty taels of silver.

Chu Xinyun carefully put away the title deed, and called Aunt Wang to ask her to find a few men who could do manual work, and she had to hurry up and turn over all the acres of land that had not been planted for a long time, and now there are only a few months left before the day of sowing.

Sixty wen a day also includes one meal, this kind of good work cannot be found anywhere.

Immediately after Aunt Wang released the news, a large number of people came to inquire, but Chu Xinyun only needed five people, and Brother Dalong came to help screen and picked out five hard-working and honest men.

Yan Qinchang originally wanted to go to the ground, but Chu Xinyun was willing to work so hard for him, and now that she was not short of money, she just let him be a supervisor on the side.

The next morning, the five of them came to the door on time, and Chu Xinyun took them to the west slope and divided the workload of the first day for them.

"Today is to turn over all the acres of land in this area, and then divide two people to carry water, and the other three people go to Aunt Zhao's house to pick up some cow dung to cover the fertilizer, I have said hello, you can find me at any time if you have any questions."

"Hey!" The men responded one after another, picked up the hoe and started to work hard.

Chu Xinyun nodded with satisfaction, and went to the acres next to him to explore and make a simple plan.

Just as she was about to go back to buy vegetables and make lunch, she passed by the ridge and saw a man with a hoe turned over and dug up a lumpy object that she didn't know what it was.

"What is this?" She stepped forward to check curiously, and the man was also a little confused, scratched his head and said, "I don't know, Brother Niu, they have all dug up a lot, and they are all piled up there." ”

Dig up a few? Chu Xinyun was a little puzzled, and looked in the direction pointed by the man, and found that she had indeed dug up a number of them, and she twisted one with her hand and shook the mud on it, and looked at it carefully, and found that it seemed to be something like bone.

There is a large forest not far from this western slope, could it be the animal bones inside?

She didn't care too much about it for a while, let the men gather together and bury them if they dug up, and then went back to prepare to cook In the yard, she met Yan Qinchang who was repairing the table, so she said about it by the way, and after hearing this, he frowned and asked, "Are there a lot?"

"It's a lot, but it's all covered in mud and I didn't look closely at what it was."

He thought for a moment and said, "I'll go over later, and I'll take a look when the time comes." ”

At noon, as soon as Chu Xinyun finished cooking, a working man came to shout with a anxious face: "Oh no, little lady, there's an accident on the Xipo side!"

"Something's wrong?!" Chu Xinyun was taken aback, and hurriedly followed along.

I thought it was a worker who was injured, but when I arrived at the scene, I found that the matter was much more serious than that!

At this moment, the four men were standing on the edge of the ridge and discussing, while Yan Qinchang piled up the gray things together with a serious face, and picked up one from time to time to check.

What surprised her the most was not this, but the five terrifying white bone skulls that approached the back!

Chu Xinyun looked shocked: "This ..... How can there be human bones here?!"

Could it be that the things I turned over today are all bones?!

The thought of this fact made her stomach churn.

Yan Qinchang said: "I have already asked people to go to the yamen to report the case, presumably it won't be long before Lord Sun will send someone here." ”

"Is it all that?"

"Yes, and judging from the size and color of this skeleton, these skeletons should all be children's."

Hearing this answer, Chu Xinyun couldn't help but gasp, and the back of his neck felt a chill.

She suddenly remembered the words of the old birthday star before, and said, "Do you think these things were all done by that wandering Taoist priest?"

After all, the old birthday star was also led astray by him, believing in some nonsense about nourishing yin and replenishing yang, and now it is a coincidence that so many children's bones have been found here...... It's really creepy to think about, and it's scary to think about!

Yan Qinchang nodded after listening to her analysis, he also hated the demonic Taoist priest, if it was really the case committed by the Taoist priest... Judging from the bones that have been ossified, it should have been at least half a year ago.

In other words, since last year, some people have started to perform this kind of child-eating longevity.

After hearing the news of the discovery of the bones, Sun Xianling immediately ordered the officials to go, and it was already half an hour later when he arrived in Chujia Village.

Along with the officials, he examined the bones in the same place, and simply restored them to some conclusions.

"The bones of the five bodies were all six or seven years old boys, and the cause of death was a blow to the back of the head, and the specific time of death should have been more than three months."

Then he packed it up and brought it back to the county office, and Chu Xinyun and Yan Qinchang also went with them as the first people to find it.

On the way, Chu Xinyun couldn't help but think about it, and only then did he say that the death time of these children was more than three months, that is to say, it was at the end of last year, but at that time, there didn't seem to be any human trafficker incidents in Yunlai County, so doesn't it indirectly indicate that these five children may not be from this county?

She told Yan Qinchang her reasoning, and the latter nodded approvingly: "Xiao Yun is very smart, I have already asked Xiao Wu to go to Yongjia County next door to check the file, and there should be a result tonight." ”

After arriving at the county office, Sun County Ling personally received the two of them, and after finding out that it was Chu Xinyun and others who found out about it, he couldn't help but have some liver pain, and several incidents in a row were basically inseparable from the two of them, if it weren't for their true innocence, he really had to wonder if these two people were secretly manipulating.

Chu Xinyun also saw that Sun Xianling's face was not very good, and he was a little helpless in his heart.

This matter really didn't mean for her to get involved, after experiencing the incident of the old birthday star, she looked very calm on the surface, who knew that she had been having nightmares for several days in a row, if she could, she really didn't want to go through this kind of thing.

And today, she turned over the ground and was able to turn out the white bones, but it seemed that some big case was involved, which made her want to cry without tears.

Yan Qinchang arched his hand and said: "My lord, this incident did come a little suddenly, just after the autopsy, he said that these are the bones of children, and they have been dead for more than three months, I wonder if adults have encountered reports of lost children last year?"

Sun Xian Ling straightened his face, thought for a while and said: "There was no report of missing children last year, and this human trafficker case also started this year. ”

"Did the county government next door ever have one?"

Sun County Ling is worried that there is no way to solve this matter, and at this moment, he was mentioned like this, even if he came to the spirit, "I have to ask about this matter to find out, you go back first, and the official will notify you when this matter is clear." ”

After sending the two away, he couldn't wait for people to prepare the car, and before he had time to eat lunch, he immediately went to the county prince surnamed Ma in Yongjia County next door, and it is said that he has an inextricable relationship with the above, and the background is much more powerful than Sun County's order, so he is also arrogant.

"Yo, isn't this Lord Sun, what kind of wind blew you here today?" Although the pot-bellied Ma Xianling was complimenting, his slightly squinted eyes were a little impatient, and he was a little unhappy about Sun Xianling's innocent disturbance.

"Master Ma, I'm here to bother me because I have something to ask."

"Oh? What's the matter?"

Later, he told him about the discovery of children's bones near the villages and towns under his management, and asked if there were any cases of children missing in Yongjia County last year, but in exchange for a cold remark from the Ma County Order.

"What kind of case of the child's disappearance, Yongjia County is much more stable than Yunlai County, this official can tell you clearly, no!"

Master Sun, who had eaten a gray nose, had to go back in good spirits.

He didn't get any useful information, but Xiao Wu, who sneaked in in the middle of the night, turned to the case file of finding the child's disappearance, checked the number, and sure enough, it was five boys!

He immediately copied the information in the case file, and then brought it to Yan Qinchang.

Where did the two of them who had experienced this incident still feel sleepy, and immediately analyzed the case file brought by Xiao Wu.

Chu Xinyun looked at the case file thoughtfully, and suddenly remembered something and asked, "You said that this Taoist priest didn't want to use this child to refine the pill, right?"

After all, Taoist priests and the like all rely on alchemy to make a fortune, and what kind of rune water is there to coax the people, and there are many of these means, so this possibility cannot be ruled out.

Xiao Wu, who was standing on the side, suddenly said: "Boss, at that time, when we were not transferred to investigate this matter, I accidentally saw an ancient book on His Majesty's desk that cultivated immortals and asked questions, which seemed to record a lot of prescriptions for alchemy. ”

"Huh?"

"One of the medicinal conveniences is made by using five boys and five virgins, plus ginseng, Polygonum multiflori, snow lotus, tiger bones and other noble medicinal materials for 7749 days, and it is said that eating this pill can prolong life."

In fact, the closest person to Emperor Wei should be Yan Qinchang, but now that his memory is damaged, he can't remember many things, and some things can only be mentioned by himself.