When I arrived in Shahe Town, it was already late at night, and the only inn in the town was closed, and it took a long time to open, and only one single room remained.

In the dead of night, and there was no better choice, the two of them were not very particular about it, so they booked it directly.

When Lu Tingxiu came back after washing, Xia Qiu had already occupied the bed. After not resting well for a few days, she slept quite soundly, lost weight, and the snoring of the previous sky collapse tsunami was gone.

The house was quiet, and the sound of frogs in the distance was loud.

The floor was cold, and the only futon was occupied by Xia Chubby, and he refused to sleep on the floor.

Lu Tingxiu, who was insomnia and anxious, had no scruples, lifted Xia Qiu, who was sleeping domineeringly, to the inside of the bed, lay down comfortably, and pulled the futon to sleep.

I slept until dawn and was woken up by the noise outside.

Xia Qiu stretched his waist, and his hand hit Lu Tingxiu's face with a "click", so startled that he sat up suddenly, "Who ...... Who wants to harm this official? ”

...... "He has paranoia of persecution, right?"

Sleeping together again? The two looked at each other, Xia Qiu stared at Lu Tingxiu domineeringly, if he wasn't dressed thickly, she would have burned a few holes in his body.

Lu Tingxiu covered his collar and said shyly, "You...... What do you want to do? ”

What can she do to him in broad daylight?

Xia Qiu yawned and stretched his waist, and said casually: "I'm not interested in you anymore." ”

"......" Lu Tingxiu couldn't say anything when he was hit.

What's wrong with him, why is she not interested?

Interest is eaten by dogs?

Xia Qiu was not used to him, so he got up to wash and order food.

Xiao Er brought a sumptuous breakfast to the room, Lu Tingxiu ate it elegantly and nobly, and then returned to the point, "Since they are all here, you plan to hide it from me all the time?" ”

Xia Qiu brewed in his mind, and said in a sentimental tone: "Actually, my father and mother died of this disease. They died so suddenly that I would never have guessed the cause of their death had they not left me a letter on their deathbed mentioning the disease. ”

Lu Tingxiu has investigated, Xia Lao and his wife died violently one after another. After the family of three was expelled from the Xia family, they lived on the edge of the village, and rarely interacted with outsiders, and the truth of their deaths was unknown.

His intuition told him that Xia Qiu was lying.

However, he has no evidence and does not intend to debunk.

"According to my speculation, this plague is not natural, but man-made, as long as the source is found, maybe we can find out who killed my father." Xia Qiu couldn't help but regret it, why didn't she think of this reason earlier? It's so hard to hide from him.

"That's why you're so nervous about the case of Shengji Pharmacy?"

"I heard from my master that my father was a strong martial artist and saved his life at the hands of robbers in the early years. However, as far as I can remember, he was just an honest farmer, no different from the men of the village. Xia Qiu couldn't figure it out, and wondered: "I'm wondering, does he have a dual identity?" Unfortunately, he didn't mention it in his last letter, and it wasn't until the Shengji Pharmacy was exposed that I firmly believed that my father and mother were murdered, and these people still wanted to achieve ulterior motives through this disease. ”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

"Would you believe anything without proof?" Xia Qiu smiled bitterly, "Besides, I reminded you. ”

Lu Tingxiu was speechless, "I have checked, but there are no clues." ”

Xia Qiu believed him.

Lu Tingxiu was faintly worried, did the children who were abducted and trafficked by Feng Yuzhu also end up with the same fate as Mao Dan?

Xia Qiu spread out the map and carefully analyzed it with him, "This is based on Mao Dan's oral description, if the situation is true, there are high mountain cliffs, swamp miasma, and deep mountains behind the swamp, there will inevitably be many dangers." ”

"Why don't you go back?" Xia Qiu couldn't help but worry, "You are the head of a county, but I can't afford to miss anything." ”

"You look down on me?" Lu Tingxiu pinched her face and said unhappily: "You dare to break into the tiger's den of Longtan even a weak woman, and my dignified man doesn't even have this courage?"

Xia Qiu touched his face that was pinched by him, he was afraid that he had some misunderstanding about a weak woman?

"If your speculation comes true, if you don't stop the criminals in time, Lin County will be in danger." Just thinking about it makes people's scalp tingle.

Xia Qiu pinched his face, "Don't worry, I will protect you." ”

Lu Tingxiu felt that it was necessary to let her know his majesty as a man at the right time, and he couldn't always let her look down.

After analyzing the terrain, the two of them replenished supplies in the town and rushed to Maojia Village in less than half an hour.

In the name of looking for rare herbs, Lu Tingxiu found a family and wanted to keep the horse in captivity for a few days.

Knowing that the two were going into the mountain, the villagers hurriedly stopped and said, "You two, you must not go up the mountain, there are unclean things in the mountain." ”

Xia Qiu pretended to be surprised, "This uncle, are there monsters in this mountain?" ”

"It's much more powerful than a youkai." The villagers looked jealous and said in a low voice: "There are evil ghosts in the mountains, who specialize in eating lost people." Half a month ago, the children of the Sanmao family got lost in the mountains, and when they came back, they got a strange disease, and they started to go crazy like a madman, and suddenly disappeared one night, and everyone searched everywhere without a trace, and most of them were summoned back by evil ghosts. ”

What he said was hairy eggs.

"What are you talking nonsense, where are there ghosts in the sky, the Sanmao family is clearly trespassing and not seeing the sky, and was tricked by the primitive Miao people."

The old man who smoked a dry cigarette in the house took a heavy breath and rebuked his son.

Seeing the sky is a mountain, and it is shrouded in black fog all year round and does not see the day, so it is named not seeing the sky.

Lu Tingxiu's mind was lively, and he took a few steps forward and gestured towards the old man, "Old man, my relatives in my family are suffering from strange diseases, and I heard that there is a kind of herb near here that can cure diseases, so thousands of mountains and rivers have been found. I don't know where you said that you can't see the sky, we are far away when we look for medicine. ”

The old man shook the ashes of his cigarette, shook his head and said, "We don't know where the sky is, we don't know, it's all passed down by word of mouth from our ancestors." It is a moving mountain, sometimes in the east and sometimes in the south, and it can be seen near and far, but whoever goes into the sky and does not see the heavens will not come back alive. ”

Lu Tingxiu was puzzled, "Since no one came out, how did you know that there were indigenous Miao people living inside?" ”

The old man glanced at him, "Young man, you're from out of town, aren't you?" ”

Lu Tingxiu said modestly: "Please also ask the seniors to give advice." ”

"We have 100,000 mountains in Liangzhou, the land here is barren, in order to fight for food, hundreds of years of war and chaos, blood does not stop, many Miao people move into the reckless mountains in order to save their lives, they coexist with wild beasts and poisonous insects, and over time they will be able to do Gu magic."

The Miao people are united within themselves, but they are quite repulsive to outsiders, but those who intrude on their territory do not end well.

Lu Tingxiu has read the literature, there are indeed many Miao people in the 100,000 deep mountains of Liangzhou, they live in the depths of the world, and the Liangzhou government and the garrison on the border are respectful of them.

The well water does not interfere with the river water, but it is safe.

The old man gave a warning, and when he saw that the brother and sister still insisted on entering the mountain, they did not stop him anymore, "You must be careful when you go around in the mountains, and if you encounter the sky, you must turn around and come back immediately, but don't lose your life, otherwise your horse will belong to my family." ”