When he heard the news, he rushed home almost insanely, only to receive nightmarish news......

He's dead......

All dead......

Even their own houses have been washed away by the floods, and they have become puddles and ruins......

Although the only girl who was rescued picked up a life, she almost fell into a very serious illness because she almost entered the ghost gate. On weekdays, if you walk a few more steps, you will be dizzy, your hands and feet will be weak, and your body will be extremely weak, and you must take bitter herbs every day to save your life.

And the most important thing is that her current body is completely insufficient to support her to have children.

A year later, despite the advice of others, he resolutely married the girl. In addition, although he still got the champion position, he was named "rude and unfilial" because of some actions he did in order to rush home as soon as possible, and because of his own temperament, he began to be targeted by some unsympathetic old pedants, and since then he has begun a long and dull official career.

In the end, because of some things, he came to this poor country that can be said to be exiled by officialdom, which can be regarded as the final verdict. In the eyes of most people in the imperial court, not only is there no oil and water to be fished in a place like this, but even spending their old age in peace is a luxury, and if you don't pay attention to it, it will be difficult to protect yourself. The treatment of officials is a very cruel punishment.

"Xianggong, what's wrong?" The wife seemed to be aware of his low mood, although her face was as usual, but she could detect her husband's strangeness from some subtle places, after all, the husband and wife had been married for more than ten years, and their bodies and minds had long been integrated.

"It's nothing, it's just some little things in the yamen."

He smiled with a hidden concern.

He would never tell her about those things, and he could bear some difficulties himself, so why bother to worry her.

The wife was sensible and didn't ask much, but remembered one thing, took him into the house and walked to the edge of the windowsill, and pointed to a wild pheasant that had died on the edge with some joy and said: "Xianggong, you see, when you were not at home before, the fox we rescued came to give us something, this must be repaying the favor, and sure enough, there are still good people who have good rewards!" ”

"The fox?"

Hearing this, Zhou Shize was slightly stunned, remembering that a long time ago, when he first took office, he met a red-haired fox whose leg was bitten by a wild beast on the road, and was being teased and played with stones and branches by several children, and he was about to die.

His wife was so kind-hearted that she couldn't bear it, so she asked him to save the little fox and take care of it for a while, and then let it go back into the forest when it had healed its leg.

At that time, when the fox was released, the fox still turned back three times with great spirituality, as if to deeply imprint the appearance of the two in his mind. His wife once joked that he might come to repay the favor, but he only laughed at the time and didn't take it to heart. Now it seems that there is indeed some possibility.

Could it be that these beasts in the mountains also know how to repay their kindness?

He couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart, but he didn't care much about it. He smiled, stepped forward and picked up the pheasant and said, "That's not bad, it looks like we have something delicious to eat in the evening!" ”

Most of his food is used to buy medicine, and the food on weekdays is still a little restrained, not to mention that this kind of game is quite rare, and it is rare to be able to open meat.

In the middle of the night, in the dead of night, there is only the occasional barking of dogs nearby. The clouds and mist in the sky obscured the moonlight, and the earth was not bright.

In the house, Zhou Shize took care of his wife to sleep, but he did not go to bed together, but sat at the table and looked through a dossier.

It is a record left by a former official, including the customs and culture of the place, as well as some difficult cases.

Murder is not under the control of the government here, and it is more by the mountain people here who use knives, guns, and fists to solve it themselves.

There are factors that you don't want to manage, and there are factors that you can't manage.

But since the imperial court has set up an official government here, it has to do something after all. How could an ambitious official be willing to watch murderers go away with it?

He can't get past this level of his own heart.

He wanted to see how far he could go on his own......

Just looking at it, I don't know when, a wave of sleepiness swelled up, but my eyelids became heavy. He tried to wipe his eyes, but it still didn't work, his vision gradually blurred, and he slowly lay down on the table and fell into a deep sleep.

Long.

"Engong...... Eun Gong ......"

It seemed that a woman's soft call lingered in my ears.

He slowly came to his senses, but when he slowly looked up, he found that he was already standing outside the house at some point, surrounded by a gray mist, only a faint glow flowed faintly along the mist, making people barely able to see the ground under their feet.

Not far in front of him stood a slender girl in red, looking at him with a smile, beautiful and moving, with a bit of strange charm.

"Eun Gong, you're finally awake!"

She called softly, delicate and happy.

"You...... You are? Zhou Shize's head was in chaos at this time, and he couldn't remember where he was just now, where he was now, and who was the girl in front of him who called himself Engong?

"You don't remember me? I'm the fox you saved! The girl covered her mouth and chuckled, saluted slightly, and said respectfully, "If it weren't for you and your wife, the concubine would have died in Huangquan, and now she is here to repay her kindness." ”

His intuition was a little wrong: "I saved a fox, how can it be a human?" ”

But the girl didn't explain much to him, but showed her hand and danced gently, and saw him become lilt, and flew in one direction with her.

He glanced out of the corner of his eye, but he was surprised to find that there was a fluffy fox tail behind the girl, which did not look like a fake.

It's just that his mind is in chaos now, and he can't analyze this terrifying scene from common sense.

The flight didn't last long, only to see a cyan light gradually appear in the distance, and when the two of them flew closer, they found that it was a temple.

It's just that this temple is not like an ordinary temple at all, not only did the Buddha statue not see a single one, but there were people with hippie smiling faces and strange faces squatting on the left and right altars, and the incense was also flourishing in front of the stage, and the pale green smoke slowly rose around the temple but did not disperse, forming the cyan light he had seen before.

And standing in this temple were not pilgrims, but more than a dozen men with confused faces similar to him, their bodies shrouded in a layer of light gray mist, which looked a little illusory.

Zhou Shize glanced down at himself, and sure enough, it was the same.

"What is this place?"

His mind cleared up a bit, but he still couldn't comprehend what was going on.

Is it a dream? Or is it a hallucination caused by being too tired?