Chapter 13: Stirring Up the Storm
Just as the woman told everything she had experienced, Nong Anning, the deputy general of Saimen City, also hurriedly led the team to the place where the incident occurred. As soon as he left the city, he saw the black smoke billowing from a distance, Nong Anning opened the map of Saimen City to see, the place where the smoke rose should be where the third daughter said, so he personally led the agile probe horse to hurry to the place where the incident occurred, and ordered the general to lead the team to follow closely behind.
When I came to the place where the incident occurred, I saw thick smoke billowing from the high walls. When I entered the manor, I saw that the houses in the manor were burning, making a crackling sound, accompanied by the sound of the houses collapsing from time to time.
Nong Anning came to the manor, found the collapsed stable at a glance, opened the ruins, and clearly saw the entrance to a cellar, opened the entrance to the door, and went down four or five feet to block the way by a gate made of King Kong. Nong Anning instructed the soldiers to look around for the key, but there was no gain, fortunately, the padlock was outside the door, and there was no need to destroy the entire King Kong Gate to enter, as a master of the True Yang Period, how difficult is this, he pulled the lock with his left hand, raised the big knife with his right hand, poured the true yuan of the whole body into his right arm, raised the knife in his hand, split the padlock in two, and then opened the door and broke in.
Just as the soldiers behind him were about to follow in, Nong An'an retreated like lightning, and ordered to retreat quickly, "The cellar is pitch black, and the smoke is billowing out, so let's talk about it when the smoke clears." After another full hour, he took the torch and went into the cellar again, this time with some preparation, and after careful observation, he began to order the soldiers to carry out all the corpses in the cellar, and after one by one, there were six human beings and one troll, a total of seven corpses.
It was also found that the blood pool used to make the blood demon drink and the knives used for slaughter were also found, the ten acres of fertile land brought by the manor, and there was no planting, after Nong Anning carefully checked, the land under the grass ash seemed to be turned over often, so he ordered the soldiers to dig carefully, and a shocking scene appeared, under the ten acres of land, there were large pieces of corpse bones, piled up into a mountain, and it was impossible to distinguish the specific number, it seemed that most of them were human races, and there were also a small number of demon bones mixed in them.
Nong Anning gritted his teeth and resented after seeing it, and looked back at the blood demon who had become a corpse, Kourek, and scolded, "You bastard! "I went up and slashed a few more times before I was stopped by the soldiers. Nong Anning saw that the general had already led the team to arrive, and gave him a general explanation of the situation here, and ordered him to stay and clean up the scene, while he rushed back to the city lord's mansion to report the situation.
When he came to the outside of the lobby, he saw the three women facing the three beasts that the painter had seen, and it looked like they were going to look for the portraits.
When he came to the lobby, he only heard the city lord ask, "Deputy General Nong, how are you checking?" ”
Nong Anning replied: "What the last general saw is exactly what the three women said, and I also found two corpses in the cellar covered with hunting nets, as well as charms and other things, but these don't seem to be used by demon beasts, especially this spell is superficial but seems to be part of a large array, the general really can't understand this, maybe there are other masters in it to help, you see, this is the spell pattern recorded by the general, oh also, the general also found a large number of bones in the manor, It should have been left behind after refining the Blood Demon Drink, and I have already ordered my subordinates to step up their reconnaissance and excavation. ”
Chang Fengmao asked Ding Qingkun coldly: "Ding Yuanwai, Ding Laoyuanwai's manor is yours, it's better for you to see how this matter should be explained, otherwise you can just save some trouble, I will send someone to send you back to the capital, and you will personally explain to the court and the emperor and his old man." ”
Ding Qingkun hurriedly waved his hand, "Don't scare me, city lord, listen to me, this matter has nothing to do with me, five or six years ago, the blood demon clan's Kou Leike came to my mansion, saying that he had taken a fancy to my garden outside the city and wanted to buy it, but the imperial court had already made it clear that foreign clans could only live in my dynasty and could not have a title deed, so they had been dragging it out without handing it over." But this matter also has a guarantor and a clerk, I also asked the three elders and four young men of our Ding family and the superintendent Ma Guanyu to do the insurance together, although this matter is a bit against the regulations of the imperial court, but, Lord of the city, I am not the only one who does this, you know this. Ding Qingkun looked at the city lord pitifully with a look of wrongedness.
Chang Fengmao didn't reply, but glanced at the prison army Ma Guanyu, Ma Guanyu smiled awkwardly, and said: "It's true, and I really didn't see that the Blood Demon - Kourek would behave like this beforehand, and he was negligent and negligent. However, in recent years, the number of lost people reported in our city is not more than in previous years, it seems that these dead people should have been caught by it from other places, not local people, or maybe there are not many people in our tribe, and monsters may account for the majority. ”
Ding Qingkun also hurriedly agreed, "That's it, I have to bother the deputy general to carefully check it out." As he spoke, he threw his eyes for help to the deputy general Nong Anning, but he only heard a "hum".
Ding Qingkun also took out the document from his arms and handed it over, "City Lord, you see that the three girls saved this time were only insulted, it seems that the Blood Demon-Kourek may not make it into a Blood Demon Drink, and the three beasts that saved them are demon beasts, from this point of view, they should mainly use demon beasts to make the Blood Demon Drink, maybe they only occasionally plundered some foreign population." Chang Fengmao snorted: "Except for Old Member Ding, you should keep these words and write them on the chapter and tell the court." ”
Ma Guanyu stepped forward and said: "Lord City Lord, then Hou Tang seems to be good at driving spirit beasts and demon pets, and you see that this time, didn't Deputy General Nong also bring back the spell pattern?" I also think that this should not be the monster beast, do you think it will be that the troll clan caught a large number of demon beasts to make blood demon drinks, which caused the dissatisfaction of the Later Tang Dynasty, so he sent his subordinates to take revenge with demon pets"?
Chang Fengmao couldn't help but groan for a long time when he heard this, and then spoke: "It seems that this possibility cannot be ruled out at present, so let's first investigate the scene clearly, and then play the court according to the facts, or ask the court to make a decision!" ”
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In the Ding family's mansion, Ding Qingkun returned to the house and asked his subordinates, "Is Ding Wendong's brute back?" Tell him to get me in. After a while, Ding Wendong entered the house from the outside, and Ding Qingkun asked him to close the door.
As soon as Ding Wendong turned around after closing the door, he was slapped in the face by his father, and roared angrily: "You little brute, I let you take Pei Yuan Dan to refine and increase your strength, you are good, even a pill can be stolen, if you really let it be stolen by those masters, it will be just a matter of letting a fox prostitute and the little beast who was born without even transforming into a shape, or stealing it under the protection of the so-called big array, so you are embarrassed to look for it all over the city, do you think that our Ding family's face has not made you lose enough to do it?" ”
Ding Wendong covered his face and didn't dare to say anything.
Then I heard Ding Qingkun ask again: "I'll let you take care of the blood demon drink business of the demon clan, you keep telling me, there is no problem for me to rest assured, did you see it, just three beasts messed up this matter, do you know?" The six family members in the manor and the Blood Demon - Kourek are all dead, so let these three beasts die, I spent a witch doctor from the Blood Demon Clan who can refine the Blood Demon Drink, do you know how much money it took for my family? It's all over now, I'll tell you to be careful, take precautions, you just won't listen. Ay! Do you want to be angry with me? ”
As he spoke, he slapped the four portraits on the table, "Can you take a look?" It's these three beasts, and the girl in them is the demon fox who has changed. ”
Ding Wendong clutched the portrait of the fox and held on, "That's right, it's really true, it's this little beast who stole my Pei Yuan Dan." Daddy, you hurry up and call Mother Wu from Tianxiang Pavilion and let her take a look. After a while, Wu's mother was called, she only glanced at the portrait, and then she insisted that it was it, it was Hu Shishisheng's little beast, called "Little Furball".
Ding Qingkun called the old housekeeper Ding Fu, "This matter is too big, you go and prepare a big gift to send to Ma Jianjun, and prepare another big gift, this one is afraid that there will be a little more blood, what rare elixir and Lin Ma and other things exchanged from the troll clan should be brought, I will write the matter into the chapter in a while, and you go back to find a reliable person to send it to the capital." ”
Ding Wendong was a little unwilling, "Can Daddy use such a fee?" Isn't it a bit too much? Ding Qingkun turned around and yelled at his son, "What do you know, there are not a few people who are staring at our family now, once there is a chance, even Ma Guanyu will not hesitate to pounce on us and bite us to death." ”
When Ding Qingkun said this, he found that the old housekeeper did not move, but stared at the portrait with his eyes, Ding Qingkun asked, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? The old housekeeper Ding Fu shook his head and said, "I don't see anything wrong, but I heard about the fox a few days ago, but I don't know if it's related to this one." ”
When Ding Qingkun heard this, he sighed, "Hey! I don't know if I collided with a fox senior, why I came and went, I always fought back with the fox. Ding Wendong touched his head and stomped his feet and said, "Oh, Fubo, you should hurry up and say, what's the matter, now this little beast is about to get into trouble, you should say it quickly!" ”
The old housekeeper Ding Fu said: "Oh! Don't worry, this is the case. Two days ago, the four rune windows of our Xingshun restaurant and the puppet selling wine in front of the door had just been installed, and in less than a morning, a fox saw through the mechanism, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he quickly removed the four flower windows. ”
"Ahh The father and son of the Ding family exclaimed together. "Where is the fox so smart, isn't this one?" Ding Wendong asked hurriedly. The old housekeeper Ding Fu said: "Is this one I didn't see on the spot, this is to listen to the shopkeeper said, the girl who brought it is surnamed Hu, what is the name, it seems to be a girl in which home." The old butler was still reminiscing,
I saw Ding Wendong step forward and shout: "Is it called Hu Shishi?" The girl of Tianxiang Pavilion is not right? The old housekeeper seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes, I heard the shopkeeper say that it seems to be this name, he said that he felt that this fox was a little unusual, so he specially used the beef of the century-old Xichuan black-veined cow to make friends with them, and wanted to find an opportunity to test it in the future, what else would that spirit fox do, and whether it would be of some help to us in the future." ”
After hearing these words, Ding Qingkun sent the old housekeeper down. When he turned around and was about to discuss this matter with his son, the family in front of the door came to report that he had obtained the rune patterns in the cellar from the soldiers of the Red Lie Cavalry, and I heard them say that judging from the residues of the lower grade spirit stones discarded around, it may be a rune directly drawn with the lower grade spirit stone, and there are blood stains in the middle of the rune, which may have been made with blood to attract the spirit talisman.
Ding Qingkun grabbed the rune pattern and sat back on the chair, speechless for a long time. After a while, he asked softly, "Could it be that this matter is really related to the Later Tang Dynasty, what do you think of Wendong?" ”
Ding Wendong replied: "If you want to say that this is a miscellaneous beast that has not even transformed into a shape, even if it steals my Pei Yuan Dan and succeeds in transforming by luck, with its strength to the sky, it is only equivalent to the strength of the Qi refining period, with this strength can draw this kind of rune, I don't believe it, will there really be a master behind the ghost?" But the Shadow Fan Killing Array in the Shuangxiu Residence where I am is is indeed destroyed by it and that bitch Hu Shishi without a sound, which is also so strange. ”