Dongning County is divided into nine districts, which are under the jurisdiction of two counties. In addition to the inner city in the center of the county seat, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the county guard, the other eight districts are under the jurisdiction of Dongze County and Ningzhong County.

Tang Yi did not go to the inner city where the county guard was located, but went to Ningzheng District, which was under the jurisdiction of Ningzhong County. First, he was afraid that he would meet the chief catcher of the Extreme Martial Realm again, and secondly, the Spring Hunt was over, and Li Lao really raised people, and he was still the first Xie Yuan.

Now Li Lao has taken a ferry to the capital to prepare for the autumn exam, and his two children have also been taken to the capital. If Tang Yi wants to find Li Lao, he must rush to the capital, but he can take a carriage to the capital, which will take at least half a year.

Tang Yi doesn't even have a hundred taels of silver on his body now, where can he find a jade coin?

In desperation, Tang Yi had no choice but to stay in Dongning County first, firstly to find Chen Mengxue's traces, and secondly, to complete some pursuit tasks assigned by ghosts.

Since Fan Cheng said goodbye, Chen Mengxue seems to have disappeared from the world, even if the county guard has posted a wanted notice throughout the county, but still no trace of Chen Mengxue has been found.

Even the power of the government couldn't find Chen Mengxue, Tang Yi naturally didn't think that he would be more powerful than the government, so he didn't have much hope.

The ghost cha knew where Chen Mengxue was, but no matter how Tang Yi coerced and begged, the ghost cha just refused to say half a word, just let Tang Yi do the task with peace of mind, saying that he would naturally encounter it when the time came.

In desperation, Tang Yi had no choice but to put his mind on the pursuit mission released by the ghost.

People in the world say, 'The king of Hades told people to die for the third watch, and never left people until the fifth watch', but this is not the case. The law of the underworld stipulates that 'only after the death of the living, the ghost can hook the soul', that is to say, even if the person's yang life is exhausted, as long as he does not die for a day, the ghost cha will not be able to hook the soul for a day.

After people's yang life is exhausted, the good fortune of the world will leave the body, and then there will be three disasters and six misfortunes, and under the three disasters and six misfortunes, most people will die after a few days of resistance. But there are always exceptions, and some people, for various reasons, did not die under the three disasters and six misfortunes, and successfully survived.

Of course, the three calamities and six misfortunes do not mean that they will be gone after one round, and they will come again every once in a while, and the frequency will increase with time. It stands to reason that even if no one carries out the hunt, these people will die sooner or later.

But now that life and death have been determined in the book of life and death, it is always good to be able to detain the dead one day earlier, so the underworld will issue some pursuit tasks.

The population of Dongning County is not large, after all, there are no high-rise buildings in Wanluojie, and most of the people live in red brick and tile houses, so there are only more than one million people in the huge county town. Compared to the metropolises of the previous life, the population density of Dongning County is extremely low.

However, this also happened to be convenient for Tang Yi to carry out the pursuit mission.

Tang Yi has now completed three pursuit missions, but the merit value earned is pitiful, and the three of them together are only one hundred and twenty points.

The rewards for the pursuit quest are not based on the cultivation of the pursued target, but according to the time they have been outside the book of life and death. The base reward is 20 points, and the merit value of the reward increases by 10 points for every additional 10 years.

Tang Yi's reward for killing that ordinary person in his first mission was quite high, a full seventy points of merit! However, the last time he killed that mid-Yuan Martial Realm martial artist, it was much lower, only twenty points of merit.

Not to mention the reward, he was also injured a lot, and was almost caught by the yacha of Dongze County. Since he was almost caught that time, Tang Yi has not dared to leave the inn for more than ten days.

The ghost cha has issued a new pursuit mission for him, and the target lives in the same Ningzhong District, named Chu Ling, who is a powerhouse in the middle of the Yuanwu Realm. This person ran out of longevity more than 20 years ago, and it happened that his son apprenticed to a certain sect and got a pill from the sect, so he lived for more than 20 years.

Tang Yi lay on the rocking chair of the inn, poured a pot of wine for the ghost on the ground, raised his glass to the ghost on the bed, and then raised his head and drank the liquor in the glass.

"Can't you give more tasks to kill ordinary people? especially the kind with high rewards. This kind of strength is about the same as mine, not to mention the hard work to kill, and the reward is low. ”

After lying on the bed and rolling his eyes, the ghost cha drank wine and ignored Tang Yi. The underworld is not a store, and you have to choose what to buy, these tasks are mandatory, which one is sent, you can't pick the fat and the thin!

However, Tang Yi only complained about it, after all, although the merit value of the martial artist rewarded was not much, but there were other gains, for example, after killing that Yuan Martial Realm martial artist, he got a jade coin and a silver ticket of thousands of taels.

If it weren't for these extra gains, they wouldn't have drunk at this time, and I'm afraid they would still be living in the firewood house.

After Tang Yi drank the wine in the wine jug, he stood up and moved his muscles, pouted his head and said to the ghost: "Ghost Urging, are you sure this is the last task in Dongning County?"

This ghost is the most annoying for others to call him a narrow ghost, when he was in the underworld, he was called a narrow ghost, and now he has only teased Tang Yi once, and he is called a narrow ghost, and he is naturally a little resentful. Therefore, after he heard Tang Yi's title, he glared at Tang Yi hatefully and ignored him.

Tang Yi saw that the ghost almost didn't speak, picked up the hat on the table and put it on his head, and with a bamboo leaf on his back, he stretched his waist and said, "After completing this task, I can finally go to the capital to see my son." Well, Shodoudou. ”

As a ghost, he didn't dare to visit the existence of the martial saint, and he couldn't see it, but Xiao Doudou and Niuniu still had no difficulty. Therefore, when he heard Tang Yi's words, he immediately seized the opportunity to avenge the 'narrow ghost'.

"I'm afraid I'm going to see Niu Niu, right? I won't even let go of a little girl, beast!"

There are not many people wearing hats in Dongning County, especially those who like to wear a ragged clothes and an old straw hat, and then walk on the streets of the county town with a sword, thinking that this is chic.

Although Tang Yi's clothes are better, his hat is newer, and his sword is more weird, this dress is no different from those Jianghu people. Therefore, when Tang Yi went downstairs, whether it was the shopkeeper or the guest, they just glanced up, and then lowered their heads and didn't care.

Only the shopkeeper came over and asked with a smile, 'Do you need help to call Liuyu', and after getting a negative answer, the shopkeeper smiled and said that the guest officer walked slowly, and then turned around and went to work on his own.

There are many martial artists in Dongning County, but there are not many real warriors, and most people learn martial arts just to find a stable and well-paid errand like a handlebar.

However, no matter how few people in the rivers and lakes are, there are still some after all. Tang Yi only walked for half an hour, and then met more than ten people wearing hats.

However, walking the rivers and lakes, caution is a must, so even if the county town is not allowed to fight, and there are often yamen patrolling the streets, everyone meets each other or unconsciously bypasses each other.

Of course, Tang Yi didn't know about these rivers and lakes, so most of the time others bypassed him.

Of course, there are also some heroes who are not weak in strength and not low in reputation, and when they see that they refuse to take the initiative to take a detour, they will draw their swords and ask, 'Can you dare to fight?'

At this time, Tang Yi would shake his head and smile, and then quickly dodge. After Tang Yi walked away, the other party would spit a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground, and then said, "The clothes and hats are so new, at first glance, he is a rookie who has just come out of the rivers and lakes!"

However, at this time, Tang Yi would look at the hero who was fined silver by the government and ordered to disturb the hygiene, and showed a trademark smile.

Chu Ling's mansion was indeed not too far away, and Tang Yi took a slow walk, and it took more than an hour to reach the outside of the mansion. However, Chu Ling's mansion was huge, and he shook it for another hour before he walked to the front of the mansion.

Fuqian Street is extremely lively, with a lot of traffic and people coming and going, and there is a world of difference between Fubian Street with only three or two pedestrians.

"Are you sure this is the Chu Mansion?" Watching the streams coming in and out in front of the mansion, Tang Yi asked with a slight frown. After hearing the affirmative reply of the Devil, Tang Yi walked slowly towards the gate of the mansion along the corner opposite the mansion.

In front of the house, in addition to the streamers coming in and out, there are also people dressed in handlebar style walking into the house gate or out of the house. On the street opposite the mansion, there are mostly small food stalls and small wine shops, and there are also a few tea houses, but the scale is not large.

There is no decent restaurant outside the mansion, after all, on the nearby street, there is only this one rich and noble courtyard, and the rest are mostly small courtyards. Relying on a house to support a decent large restaurant, although it is not impossible, but the profit is too small.

Tang Yi sat in front of a noodle stall not far from the gate of the house, and after ordering a bowl of noodle soup, he took the opportunity of the shopkeeper to deliver the noodle soup and inquired about the 'Chu Mansion' opposite.

"Chu Mansion?" The shopkeeper looked Tang Yi up and down a little confusedly.

Tang Yi is not a person who pays attention to dressing, so the clothes on his body are just coarse cloth clothes bought when he was in Fan City, and the style is very different from the clothes popular in the county town.

After the shopkeeper swept his eyes and realized that Tang Yi was a chivalrous man from a foreign country, he glanced at the shopkeeper behind him, and when he found that the shopkeeper did not look at it, he chattered with Tang Yi.

It turned out that the opposite side was not 'Chu Mansion', but 'Chen Mansion'. This 'Chen Mansion' is not another 'Chen Mansion', it is the mansion of Chen Zhengfeng Chen, who made a fortune with public opinion. At this time, the door is in and out of the handlebar type of shifts.

"Those heroes love to say, 'Kill people and set fire to the gold belt, build bridges and pave roads without corpses', but if you want me to say, it's the gate without vision. After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he remembered that Tang Yi was also dressed as a chivalrous man, and hurriedly remedied: "The little one doesn't mean you." ”

Seeing that Tang Yi didn't care about signaling him to continue, the shopkeeper continued: "Isn't this Old Man Chen a well-known good man? Not to mention the people of our Ningzhong District, the entire Dongning County, which county has not received the favor of Old Master Chen?"

"Building bridges and paving roads, giving soup porridge and giving medicine are commonplace, even if anyone has a difficulty, as long as they go to Old Man Chen's mansion and say it, they can immediately get a hundred taels of silver. The shopkeeper sighed and praised Master Chen.

As soon as the shopkeeper opened the conversation, the diners around him couldn't help but praise.

Most of these diners are handlebar and people in the neighborhood.

A coarse linen shirt said: "A few years ago, there was a locust plague, if it weren't for Master Chen's pity on us farmers, I don't know how many people would die in the entire Ningzhong County." Anyway, our family got a stone of grain and ten taels of silver from Master Chen. ”

Another down-and-out scholar said: "Last year, I came to the county town to take the exam, and I lost my coil, but Master Chen gave me a hundred taels of silver." ”

"Alas, it's a pity that the field was disappointed, and the person who failed to win the promotion was not up to Master Chen's hundred taels of silver. I thought that Mr. Chen would be to blame, but guess what? When I went to the house to apologize, who knew that Mr. Chen not only did not have the slightest intention of blaming, but gave me fifty taels of silver, comforting me to return to my hometown to study quietly and take the exam again next year. ”

When everyone heard the scholar's words, they all showed a trace of disdain, and said, "Isn't this very common? For a down-and-out scholar like you, Master Chen has rescued not eight hundred, but one thousand." ”

When Tang Yi heard this, he almost squirted out a mouthful of noodle soup. It was the first time he had heard that there were not eight hundred, but one thousand, but no one thought it was inappropriate, whether it was the scholar or the other diners.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded beside Tang Yi.

"Maybe the surname is Chu...... Oh, maybe that Master Chen is just buying people's hearts. is a good person on the surface, but he doesn't know what dirty things he is doing behind his back!"

When everyone heard this, they glared at Tang Yi viciously.