No matter how Huo Zhizhou asked, how he asked, Yin Jin always replied with this sentence, as if he had lost his mind, whether he said this is true or false is debatable, the voice of the voice is surprisingly sharp and harsh, and the sharp sound of broken porcelain slices crossing the stone surface makes people uncomfortable and crazy to hear.

Ma Zhutou shook his head secretly, there is no point in asking this Yin Jin any longer, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this person is afraid that he is completely wasted, and he is just taking a breath more than a dead person.

Looking at Yin Jin, who was crawling on the ground and still stubbornly kowtowing in the direction of the entrance of the village, Ma Zhu had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said to Huo Zhizhou: "My lord, my brother is a mentally retarded person, if he has one thing in his heart, he will never stop until he reaches it, Yin Jin has been chanting 'Divine Tree', isn't this what he is thinking about?" The subordinates want to go to see the "sacred tree" at the intersection, so they should be treated as a dead horse as a live horse doctor, even if there is no gain, there is no loss, and I hope that the adults will approve it. ”

The arrival of King Luo is imminent, he has no results, Huo Zhizhou's depression in his heart is something that no one else can understand, his face is indescribably dark, and his heart is even more sad, and it is difficult to restrain himself, seeing Ma Zhutou say this, he nodded in agreement.

The "sacred tree" in Yin Jin's mouth, but it is more than ten zhang away from the Yin family's three rooms, living at the intersection, where is there the shadow of the tree? The stump of the tree, which was less than two feet long, was bare-bones on the ground, and the stubble was so big that it was not ugly.

Xu is Mingyue preached the concept of "sacred tree" is deeply rooted, the villagers actually tied a handful of newly harvested wheat ears, two red belly pockets, a few red cloth strips on the stump, or pray for a good year, or pray for marriage, and even pray for grandchildren, and in fact, no one knows that this tree is not a god, the spirit is not spiritual, only heard Mingyue say that someone stole the "sacred tree", and saw that the livestock in the village always knelt down here and gnawed the stump, but it was like a "sacred tree" to worship the top, so more and more convinced that it is the sacred tree.

In order to prevent anyone from approaching or stealing the tree again, the villagers spontaneously formed a fence with branches outside the "sacred tree".

With a wave of his hand, he swept away the red belly pocket and the red cloth strip on the stump, and in an instant, the red cloth strip flew up, and if it rained red in the air, he flipped several times in the air, stumbled, and finally disappeared into the distance.

Ma Zhutou looked at the stump nearby, always felt that this stump had many strange things, and suddenly saw the top circle of the stump, if it was bitten by countless teeth, the bite, like a sheep, like a dog, and like a calf, Ma Zhutou couldn't help but open his mouth, comparing these bite marks, what animal caused it? Why do they all come here to bite this stump, and they all say that animals have heavenly spirituality, but this is really a "sacred tree"?

The horse catches his head half-kneeling, his mouth is just level with the stump, and his mouth is open to the size of a bite mark, which looks extremely funny.

In this way, Yin Jin, who was dragging on the ground behind him, stopped doing it, like a bachelor who had robbed his daughter-in-law, screamed and pushed away the catch that was pulling him, although it was a snake moving forward, the speed was not slow at all, and he swam three or two times and approached the body of the horse catcher, and pushed the horse catcher head to the side hard, and the horse catcher fell quickly and fell into a butt pile.

In a blink of an eye, he looked at Yin Jin angrily, only to see Yin Jin hugging the stump, his mouth open, and his teeth biting directly at those bite marks, making a "smacking" sound, like a baby sucking the sweetness of mother's juice and satisfaction.

The catcher stepped forward to drag Yin Jin away, but Ma Zhutou stretched out his hand to stop it, looking at Yin Jin's appearance, his tongue was cracked until his tongue was broken, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, but he still refused to stop.

Ma Zhutou's eyes narrowed slightly, let people drag Yin Jin away, raised his hand and waved a knife, cut off the corner of the stump that was sticky to Yin Jin's saliva and blood foam, cut off a new stump, and put it to his mouth curiously and licked it, and couldn't help but be surprised under this lick.

With a wave of his hand, he excitedly ordered: "This tree is indeed a 'sacred tree', there must be a mystery below, come and dig the tree!! ”

Hearing this news, it was tantamount to giving chicken blood to the catchers who had been silent for two days, and they all rolled up their arms and sleeves and began to dig, not lazy at all, stretching their necks to see what was the mystery below.

Huo Zhizhou and Cheng Hongluo received the notice, and they also gathered around the stump, staring nervously at the progress of digging trees, Huo Zhizhou was excited, and Cheng Hongluo was nervous, if he found a salt mine in Mingyue's house, he didn't make an inch, people, he didn't catch it, and he didn't find it, I'm afraid that even 100,000 taels of silver can't save his "big sin".

The roots of the banyan tree are vigorous and thick, and they will not dig too fast according to the normal progress without damaging the roots, and it will take a day and a night to complete. Most of the roots of the banyan tree hung down in the tunnel, covering the entrance to the cellar of Mingyue's house and the salt mine on the mountain, and some of them were cut off when Chengyue built the middle partition wall, so that the speed of the catchers was invisibly boosted, and when it was close to dusk, most of the roots had risen from the ground, revealing the swarthy hole.

Huo Zhizhou and Ma Zhukuai looked at each other, full of excitement, Ma Zhukuai threw a shovel, picked up a torch, and threw it into the hole, in order to test the air inside, and illuminate the situation inside.

The hole was not too deep, but it was only a foot deep, and the torch fell to the ground, and the flame swayed to one side, and then it seemed to be pressed down by something, and it was extinguished, and the darkness was restored, and it seemed that there was also a "knock" sound, like the death knell from hell, which made people feel creepy.

In order to broaden his horizon more, Ma Zhutou asked his subordinates to move the roots of the banyan tree aside, the long roots are as dense as human hair, and as itchy as a long worm, dense turns, if it is boiled into salt, I don't know how many times more than the stump on the ground, and how much silver will be exchanged for back.

Seeing that someone was going to snatch the tree root, Yin Jin went crazy again, his body flew up like a snake, and he covered the tree root with a chain that pierced his limbs, and his whole body hung on the tree root that was lifted, and muttered in his mouth: "The divine tree is mine, and the root of the divine tree is also mine, and no one can snatch it away......."

It is said that people are stupid and have great strength, and sure enough, a few catchers kicked and beaten, but did not beat Yin Jin, but made Yin Jin get tighter and tighter, swinging around like a swing on the root of the tree, and there was saliva in his mouth, which was indescribably disgusting.

The catchers have always been uncles who walk sideways, and it is common to bully the common people, and they are annoyed and desperately swing the roots of the tree around, hoping to shake Yin Jin away like a disgusting big snot.

After a few rounds, Yin Jin really couldn't stand it, and his body fell straight like a bang, and unexpectedly, the direction of the fall was the direction of the cave entrance, and he watched it fall in.

Ma Zhukuai reacted the fastest, and hurriedly lit a torch and threw it into the hole to illuminate it, the torch flashed twice and then went out, to everyone's horror, there was no trace of Yin Jin in the sight of the torch, and even his sharp voice was not heard!!

What's even more terrifying is that the "knock knock" sound that I just got used to has also disappeared, and I am completely silent in a kind of almost silent silence, but it only increases the fear in people's hearts!!

Cheng Hongluo coughed slightly, cautiously attached his ear, and said to Huo Zhizhou: "My lord, at this time, the sky is close to dusk, and the catchers are tired for a day, and the cave is so weird, it is better to recuperate first, and wait for tomorrow the next official to prepare a cage of sparrows, and then prepare some torches filled with pine oil, and prepare all the things to prevent evil spirits, everything is ready, and then go down to the cave to explore and correct, what do you think?" ”

Huo Zhizhou squinted lightly, stared at Cheng Hongluo thoughtfully, and replied after a while: "Cheng Hongluo, this Yin family is nowhere to be found for no reason, and even the culprit Yin Jin fell into the cave and didn't know whether he was alive or dead. ”

Cheng Hongluo's face was as pale as paper, knowing that what Huo Zhizhou said was true, he came here to help the surnamed Huo arrest the Yin family, but the surname Huo was in the county office, leaving people to look at the Cheng family, which was a great irony.

Cheng Hongluo knelt on the ground, as if humbly pleading: "My lord Mingjian, the lower officials will definitely do their best to help the adults arrest the Yin family, so that the adults have successfully handed over the messenger, and I hope that the adults will speak well in front of the king of Luo, and in the future, someone will be the slave of Lord Huo, before and after the saddle, go to the soup and go to the fire, and do not hesitate to ........"

Huo Zhizhou flicked his sleeves contemptuously, turned around and walked towards the Yin family's three-room bluestone house, and snorted softly in his nose: "Prepare things, Lord Ming will personally catch this Yin family's ghostly ghost, so that they have no shield." ”

On the second day, Cheng Hongluo asked Li Chengyue to prepare the "things", and the twelve points were complete, not only found the "purest" thing in the world, the boy's urine and the "dirtiest" woman Kwai Shui to go to the evil, but also invited the Taoist priest to practice, it took half an hour, and then he got on the right track and began to arrange the things in the cave.

First, a finch was released into the hole, and the finch circled in the hole, and then fell straight to the ground as if it had been badly wounded.

Two of them were released immediately, and the two finches circled in a circle, and like the first one, they fell to the ground like wounds, and they didn't even have time to scream.

Huo Zhizhou glared at Li Chengyue impatiently, Li Chengyue had no choice but to release all the finch, there were more than twenty of them, the finches circled in the hole several times, although a few died like a heavy injury, the rest were either slightly injured, or unharmed, some flew into the hole, and some flew out of the hole.

Ma Zhutou caught one of the slower-flying finch, glanced at it, and then pointed out to Lord Huo: "My lord, these finches are spinning freely in the hole, and there is no suffocation. Judging from the injury of this finch, it was injured by a stone, and the person hidden in this hole should not be an evil spirit, but a person. ”

Huo Zhizhou nodded wisely and said: "Yesterday, the official felt twelve points strange, why did this Yin Jin risk death to break into this hole, not afraid of falling into the hole, it turned out that he wanted to get out of the guards and join the Yin family in the cave, this hole must be the den of the Yin family to hide and sell salt, and the Yin family must also hide in this hole, as long as it is a person and not a ghost, it will be easy to do." ”

Huo Zhizhou bowed slightly to Ma Zhutou, and Ma Zhutou received the order to command the big guy to prepare for Jiasheng as soon as possible, leaving only a few people to watch the entrance of the cave and protect the adults, and the rest of the people were ready to go down the cave.

Cheng Hong involuntarily stopped the figure of Ma Zhutou, and said to Huo Zhizhou in a sneering manner: "My lord, the arrival of King Luo is imminent, I am afraid that it is not appropriate to go down to the hole so recklessly." In case there is a mistake, both people and money, how to account for the king? It's better to wait for the prince. ”

Huo Zhizhou's eyebrows were upside down, and he said in a sly manner: "Lord Cheng, why is your head getting closer and closer to the executioner's hoe?" With such a meritorious service, I don't want to make meritorious contributions, but I delay it again and again, do you not take the official in your eyes, or don't you put the king in your eyes? Or did he protect the Yin family? This official looks at this salt trafficking, I'm afraid you are also involved, right? ”

Cheng Hong was so frightened that he fell to his knees, silent, if he said more, I am afraid that not only will the black veil on his neck not be protected, but I am afraid that the lives of the people in this family will also be lost.

Huo Zhizhou's face darkened, and he waved his hand: "Go down to the cave!! In the event of resistance, it is not a matter of killing!! Including anyone on the ground!! ”