"What, don't want to go?" Gu Shen stretched out his hand and grabbed the thread-bound book in the wooden box, and said with a wicked smile, "You go to fight tonight, and after tonight, I will give you this manuscript of Maoshan Taoism." Seeing that Wu Zhiyuan seemed unmoved, Gu Shen added, "The Maoshan technique recorded in this book is much more refined than the one given to you last time, and it is up to you whether you want to seize this opportunity or not." ”

Wu Zhiyuan was very annoyed in his heart, he was already a disciple of Maoshan Mountain, and he still needed to exchange conditions to learn Maoshan Taoism? But after thinking about it, if the master ordered him to go to the watch tonight, instead of giving away the hand-copied book, he could only obey his fate, and there was no reason to refuse. Thinking of this, I agreed without hesitation.

Gu Shen clapped his hands happily, but there was a mysterious smile on his face, he took Wu Zhiyuan's arm, walked to a coffin next to him, reached out and lifted the coffin lid. Wu Zhiyuan looked inside the coffin and found an old man about fifty years old lying inside.

"This is the husband who just died last night." Gu Shen smiled, pulled Wu Zhiyuan and walked towards another coffin, stretched out his hand to lift the lid of the coffin, he laughed a few times again, pointed to the corpse in the coffin and said, "This is the husband who died the night before yesterday." ”

When Wu Zhiyuan heard this, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, a husband died last night and last night, so if he goes to fight again tonight, will he follow in the footsteps of these two seniors?

Gu Shen glanced at Wu Zhiyuan, a mysterious smile crossed the corner of his mouth, pulled Wu Zhiyuan and walked to the third coffin, and was about to reach out to lift the lid of the coffin, but before his hand moved, Wu Zhiyuan asked: "This can't be the husband who died the night before yesterday, right?" ”

"Clever." The god of grains ate and smiled, and then changed his tone, "But no, the rest of the five coffins are not husbands." As he spoke, he waved his big hand and urged the vitality to open all the remaining five coffins.

Wu Zhiyuan walked to the five coffins in turn, only to see a man lying in each of the five coffins, and there was nothing unusual about all the men lying inside, what was strange was that these five men were all covered with black cloths.

The god of Ceres leaned against the empty coffin at the door, untied the gourd on his waist and took a sip of wine, seeing Wu Zhiyuan's puzzled face, he lazily explained: "The reason why these five people cover their faces is because they are all bandits and robbers who walk the rivers and lakes, and they are the same as the grandson who came to Yizhuang last time to cause trouble. ”

Some gangs or organizations on the rivers and lakes do have rules for masking themselves, and the advantage of this is that only their own people in the gang can recognize each other according to their body shape, voice and other physical characteristics, and outsiders cannot recognize each other. Even if you get into trouble, you are not afraid of being held accountable by the police or your opponents.

Wu Zhiyuan looked around at the seven coffins in the hall and asked puzzledly, "How did these seven people die?" ”

"I don't know." Gu Shen smacked the wine in his mouth, and didn't even look at Wu Zhiyuan, "You have seen all the corpses, and you haven't found any clues?" ”

Seeing the silent appearance of the god of grains, Wu Zhiyuan knew that there was nothing useful out of his mouth, although he probably knew the cause of death of these seven people well. So he didn't ask any more questions, walked to the coffin by himself, and carefully examined the corpses one by one. After reading it, Wu Zhiyuan discovered the problem: the skin of these seven corpses was all dry, and the eyes were black, as if they had been poisoned to death, and they seemed to have been sucked dry of blood and died.

"Okay, it's not too early, it's time for the second watch. Close the coffin lid and go for a watch now. The god of grains swallowed the last sip of wine in his tongue and stretched his waist, and Yu Yisu on the side hurriedly reached out to pick up the wine gourd in the hand of the god of grains, but the god of grains ignored it and pinned the gourd directly to the waistband of his trousers.

Wu Zhiyuan reluctantly lifted the lid of the coffin and covered the seven open coffins one by one, and after all the coffins were covered, Wu Zhiyuan noticed the empty coffin at the door, and was suspicious, so he asked: "Master, why is there an empty coffin here?" ”

Gu Shen was grabbing Yu Yisu's wrist and walking towards the back room, Yu Yisu screamed in pain, and when he heard Wu Zhiyuan's question, Gu Shen replied without looking back: "There is one more to die tonight, this is for him." ”

As soon as Wu Zhiyuan heard this, his back suddenly cooled thoroughly, could it be that the person who was going to die tonight would be himself?

Standing in place for a long time, Wu Zhiyuan was always hesitating to go out to fight, until the sound of rattan whipping in the back room and Yu Yisu's screams pulled him back to reality. Immediately afterwards, Yu Yisu walked out of the inner room with a pile of tattered clothes in his eyes, looked at Wu Zhiyuan, walked to the well outside the door, and began to carry water to wash his clothes by the light of the two lanterns hanging at the door.

Wu Zhiyuan was secretly amused in his heart, understanding that this was the master's corporal punishment of a drop in weight, there were too many similarities between the personalities of the master and apprentice, and now that the two met together, it was inevitable that they would cause jokes. thought that Yu Yisu had been currying favor with his master in every possible way since he first entered Yizhuang, but he still ended up being corporal punishment. Looking at Yu Yisu's grievances in the dark and washing clothes, Wu Zhiyuan couldn't help but laugh out loud. Yu Yisu heard Wu Zhiyuan's laughter, raised his head and glared at him fiercely.

Wu Zhiyuan grimaced at Yu Yisu, picked up the red envelope in the wooden box and ran out of Yizhuang, followed the path he had walked before, and returned to the county seat in the dark.

At this time, it was about the second watch, and it was time to report the change. Wu Zhiyuan grew up in a mountain village since he was a child, there is no such thing as a change in the village, and there is no change of husband, he has only seen a few times in Haiyang and Jinan City, knowing that the second watch of the bang and the gong each struck twice, as if the rhythm of the percussion is also exquisite, but he does not know the details of it, and he is too lazy to explore at this time, so he untied the red envelope, stuffed the burden into his arms, picked up the bang and the gong, knocked twice each, and shouted in his mouth: "The second watch!" ”

In fact, the husband is in order, not looking at the moonlight to guess the time and play the watch at will, generally the husband will guard the drip or incense, with the drip or incense timing, to more accurately grasp the time, and then report the change. But Wu Zhiyuan was only on the pitch and was not familiar with these rules, so he could only guess the time by looking at the moonlight.

At this time, there was no one on the street, every household was closed, and there were very few people with the lights on, and most of them had turned off the lights and gone to sleep. Wu Zhiyuan walked east along the main street, and after walking a distance, he struck the bangzi and the gong twice. Walking all the way to the door of the inn where Moon Shadow Fuxian lived, Wu Zhiyuan looked up at the window of the room on the second floor where he had lived, Moon Shadow Fuxian missed the situation when the two first met, and would definitely choose to live in that room. At this time, there was no light in the room, and she must have fallen asleep.

Wu Zhiyuan didn't knock on the gong and gong, for fear of waking up the Moon Shadow Fuxian, so he walked far away before he started beating the gong again.

Follow the main street all the way to the east of the city, there are very few houses here, but there are many collapsed and abandoned houses, ruined and broken, revealing a little desolation. Seeing that there was no one nearby, Wu Zhiyuan stopped knocking on the bangzi and gong in his hand, turned around and began to walk back. At this time, the moonlight was not very bright, and he began to regret that he had left in a hurry and forgot to bring a lantern.

Just walked a few steps, suddenly a black figure flashed not far in front of him, Wu Zhiyuan was startled, and immediately came back to his senses, at this time the night was dark and no one, the black shadow was sneaky, could it be a rooster and dog thief?

Thinking of this, Wu Zhiyuan had an idea, took out the red envelope of the bag and the gong from his arms, folded it a few times, covered the lower half of his face with it, only his forehead and eyes were exposed, and then quietly ran in the direction of the black shadow.

The black shadow was moving very fast, Wu Zhiyuan thought that he would not be able to catch up with him, and turned a few broken walls, but saw that he was standing in front of the door of an abandoned thatched hut, rubbing his hands gently, and seemed to be a little impatient to whisper lewdly and laugh in the thatched hut: "Beauty, don't worry, I'm here!" ”