A night of lightning and thunder, muffled thunder rolling. The staggered white light in the dark night stayed for a moment, and suddenly the current dissipated and turned into calm, and then another flash of lightning appeared in the sky, carrying the aftermath of a stagnant roar.

Xie Lingxu was disturbed by the endless ringing and couldn't sleep all night, and secretly scolded the sound insulation effect of this broken house and killing a thousand knives, which was simply sorry for the ancestors.

A night of pouring rain dispelled the residual heat of late autumn, but the refreshing air of the early morning did not make Xie Lingxu feel very refreshed.

Pushing open the door, Xie Lingxu burst into foul language with a short sword. I thought that I had been sleepless for two days in a row, and if I continued like this, my unusual endocrine system would probably be disordered, and I had to solve the mess in front of me quickly, otherwise my fragile nerves would soon die.

After eating breakfast in a hurry, Xie Lingxu took a half-eaten meat bun and nibbled on it while walking towards the Yuanyuan Palace.

Seeing the underworld army who was about to leave the palace, Xie Lingxu stuffed the meat bag in his hand into his mouth and waved his hand at Chu Xiu.

King You raised his eyes lightly, and saw Xie Lingxu, who was puffing out his cheeks and chewing something, walking straight in front of him, and the air was mixed with the fragrance of green onions and minced meat.

"Lingxu, you're here." Chu Xiu's face was radiant and full of energy, as if last night's noise had not affected his sleep in the slightest.

"Hmm." Xie Lingxu opened his heavy eyelids, and he was inexplicably a little unbalanced in his heart.

Xiao Qixin's face was full of tiredness, and he turned around and asked Xie Lingxu, "That dead fishmonger is in Beishi, so we'd better set off early." ”

Xie Lingxu saw his somewhat sallow face, and knew that he had finally found a fellow practitioner, and thought to himself that there were still normal people here who were not deaf.

Xie Lingxu crossed his arms and said, "No, we won't go to Beishi." ”

Xiao Qixin: "Why? So where do we go? ”

"I think we're going to have to think differently."

"Do you have a new clue?"

"No, I just think that we should probably start with the first few cases instead of investigating the nearest case."

Xiao Qixin touched his chin: "From the first case?" That is, the beggar who lives on the side of the mountain. But...... It seems like a long time. ”

"Can you still find it?"

"It should be possible, where is the record of the Nine Governors, now go check the specific location?"

"Hmm."

"It's been so long, though...... And at that time, a dispensable little beggar died at home, and the patrol didn't take it too seriously, and the corpse was disposed of when it smelled, and I am afraid that there were no actual clues left. ”

"Whether there are clues or not, we'll have to go and see." Xie Lingxu put aside the next sentence, and suddenly felt that the enthusiasm for investigating the case forcibly injected a hundred points of blood into himself.

After about an hour, including most of the rugged and bumpy mountain road, everyone finally arrived at the rumored broken house on the side of the mountain. Xie Lingxu thought to himself that there would be people passing by this kind of place, which was also very worth looking for.

The low, dilapidated roof was covered with yellow silk vines and creepers, the bricks and tiles were scattered and fell to the ground, and the disgusting smell of decay emanating from the house could be smelled within a radius of five meters.

Xiao Qixin pinched his nose and said, "Is there really anyone living in this broken ground?" ”

Xie Lingxu frowned, and hurriedly said, "Come in." "I thought that this situation had to be resolved quickly, and if I stayed a little longer, I was afraid that I would vomit out the steamed buns this morning.

Chu Xiu, who was covered with dirty work and heavy goods, gently pushed the door full of dirt, and he didn't push it open for a long time, Chu Xiu covered his mouth and scolded vaguely, "Your grandfather's." He used a little more force, but the door fell straight forward with a "click", and the dust and sand all over the ground immediately rose around, and everyone was caught off guard and confused.

As soon as Xie Lingxu smelled the foul smell in the house, he couldn't hold back and scolded three times in a row, "!" ”

Xiao Qixin covered his whole face tightly, "Cultivating such a house in the barren mountains and mountains, is this person lacking in virtue!" ”

Chu Xiu leaned against the wall, immediately bounced up, and opened his mouth to scold, "your grandma, this wall is all grass crawlers, you should be careful." ”

Grass crawlers are ticks, commonly known as ticks, and they are a handful of things in remote mountainous areas.

Xie Lingxu only felt that if he took an extra breath in this ghost place, he would have to live for a year, and the beggar was afraid that he would not suck the haze to death.

With a crossed heart, he walked into the house. The whole roof was surrounded by vines and plants, and there was very little light through, and the room was gloomy and uncomfortable, Xie Lingxu saw a simple wooden bed in the corner of the room, the bed was covered with a thin layer of mattress, and at the other end of the room there was a square square square table with drawers on each side, and there were several stools not far away.

The simple arrangement and installation could not see any clues, Xie Lingxu just wanted to get closer to these objects and was taking a closer look, but unexpectedly heard Chu Xiu shouting

"It's not good, Liu Yi was bitten by a grass crawler!"

Perhaps it was the nature of being a healer, Xie Lingxu hurriedly turned around and said sharply, "Quick, go out first, I want to get the ticks off his body!" ”

Chu Xiu helped Liu Yi and said anxiously, "Didn't you ask you to be careful?" ”

Liu Di: "I didn't expect this thing to suddenly crawl to the back of my neck......" Liu Di's expression was a little painful, obviously having been burrowed into the skin by ticks and sucking blood.

Everyone left the dilapidated house and helped the hideous-looking Liu Yi aside, Xie Lingxu asked with a solemn face, "Where is the place of the bite?" ”

Chu Xiu pointed to the back of Liu Yan's neck, Xie Lingxu half-squatted and moved over, and saw at a glance that Liu Yan's flesh was still sucking blood The wall tick with a swollen body was swollen, and the tick that was swollen and round and earthy gray did not fall off from the human body on its own, this was obviously a hard tick, and the corners of Xie Lingxu's eyebrows couldn't help twitching.

"Wine, who brought it?"

"There's one here." You Wang took off the wine jug hanging from his waist, handed it to Xie Lingxu, the latter did not turn his head, hurriedly swiped his hand back, and when taking the wine, the outline of his little finger inadvertently brushed the back of Youwang's hand, and the cold touch instantly passed along the soft skin of the back of his hand into the nerves.

Xie Lingxu clasped Liu Yan's shoulder and said, "You lean down a little." So saying, he poured the wine from the jug into his neck, and secretly prayed that the wine would be high enough.

Fortunately, the ticks on Liu Wei's body were not too big, and he died after half a pot of wine and then did not move, Xie Lingxu picked up two pieces of wood in the grass room, and carefully picked out the dead ticks.

Liu Mian let out a deep cry, and Xie Lingxu breathed a sigh of relief and slowly straightened up

"We are not fully prepared, and for safety reasons, we will not enter this deserted house for the time being. I don't know if the wound will become infected, so it's important to send him to a nearby hospital for treatment first. ”

Xie Lingxu looked back at the dark and cold room behind him, and let out a long sigh.

Helping Liu Yin, who was a little weak, to inquire all the way, he finally found the famous Zhishi Medical Center in Beishi, the store of the Zhishi Medical Center is not small, and it was formed by the merger of two stores. The interior of the medical hall is simple, there are almost no expensive furnishings, and the whole exudes a pure and simple taste.

There was a long queue of people waiting for treatment in front of the counter, breaking the elegant charm of the medical hall. A group of people stepped into the threshold together with the people who came to see the doctor one after another, only to feel that the strong smell of Chinese medicine in the medical hall instantly entered the nostrels, which inexplicably made people feel very reassured.

The temperament and dress of the Underworld Army were incompatible with the ordinary people around them, and the crowd was in a hurry, so they broke into the medical hall and walked directly past the people in line towards the doctor, and a young man in his twenties and thirties in the store saw this unruly appearance, and walked towards Chu Xiu and the others with a sinking face

"What are you going to do?"

Chu Xiu opened his mouth and said urgently, "See a doctor, can't you see the wounded?" ”

"Don't you understand the queue for medical treatment, first come and then come?"

Chu Xiu's face immediately turned black and showed his waist card, "Underworld Army, treat him first, hurry up!" ”

The young man looked embarrassed: "But ......"

"Less nonsense, let your doctor come and have a look!"

Xie Lingxu pulled La Chuxiu: "Don't be so anxious, if people don't see a doctor for a while, it will be troublesome!" ”

The people in line on the side were talking about it

"Wow...... It's so unreasonable......"

"The people in the palace are amazing, huh? It's more expensive......"

"That is, ordinary people are not people? I still have a toothache that I can't stand it! ”

"Huh...... I'll tell you, if I were a doctor, I'd blast these sideways people out—"

Chu Xiu drew his sword, "Who said that, who said it just now?" ”

Seeing Chu Xiu's angry face, everyone was dumbfounded and silent.

Xiao Qixin crossed his hands on his hips and walked forward step by step: "Didn't you say that whose life is precious and who is cheap, isn't it you people who protect the family and the country in our underworld army?" Saving one is equivalent to saving how many people have been saved, and it makes sense to save our people first at this juncture, right, doctor? ”

A group of people looked at the doctor who was writing the medicine list at the end of the line, and saw that he slowly raised his head, and the shallow fine lines on his forehead sank into the skin with the movement.

"Yes."

Xie Lingxu saw that the doctor was about forty years old, his eyebrows and beard were thick and slender, his face looked very kind and kind, and the work of practicing medicine added age-appropriate white hair to his temples, but between his eyebrows were all like a good doctor who helped the world and saved the people.

"Then the doctor should take a look!" Chu Xiu helped Liu Yi to the side of the hospital bed.

The doctor pulled out of the counter, and saw that the oncoming doctor was dressed in a gray and blue robe, and his body was about the same height as Chu Xiu, about one meter and eight meters tall, and he walked slowly with a calm step, quite a peerless divine doctor's demeanor.

Chu Xiu: "Doctor, how do you see his wound?" Not poisoned, right? You won't get infected, will you? Will there be any sequelae? ”

The doctor leaned down and looked, "Ticks? ”

"Ah, yes, yes......"

"It's not a big problem, I'll just give him some medicine in a moment. …… Patient, you sit down. ”

With that, the doctor got up and went to the pharmacy to get cotton cloth, iodine wine and a bottle of medicine in a brown bottle, and carefully treated Liu Mi's wounds.

Xiao Qixin breathed a sigh of relief, and when he saw Xie Lingxu on the side traveling outside the sky with his head down, he couldn't help asking, "Xiao Jie, what are you thinking?" ”

"Oh......" Xie Lingxu turned around, "It's nothing, it's just ...... I'm thinking, beggar...... Shouldn't it be the kind that calls home all over the world? At least like Xie Shuo, how did he build a house on the side of the mountain? ”

Xiao Qixin touched his chin, "Well, maybe he once made a fortune?" Only...... Got money to build a house? ”

"If you have the money, build a house in that place?"

"Hmm...... Maybe there...... Cheap? ”

Xie Lingxu frowned slightly.

Xiao Qixin: "Then what are your opinions?" Tell me about it? ”

"There is too little information to guess for the time being. I don't think the dead can speak, but we can ask the living, the people of North City have more or less seen the beggar, and maybe they can provide some key information. By the way, I don't know what this beggar is called. ”

"Oh...... Wait a minute. Xiao Qixin took a small notebook from his pocket and flipped through it, then raised his head and said to Xie Lingxu: "I found it, his name is Li Xi." ”