Chapter 2: The Mu family is destroyed, and the master is missing
Tong County.
An ordinary small county town, only about a day and a half away from the Daze Gang, the small county is not big, but it is quite humane.
Wei Xiwan and Master settled in a small inn, and the boss heard that they were from elsewhere and greeted them warmly, and arranged them in the guest room on the second floor.
Seeing that it was still early, Wei Xi ran to the door of the master's room next door and knocked on the door and proposed to go out for a walk, "The master has written a letter to the Mu family and sent it to the Mu family, and I will visit tomorrow, I am afraid that you will doze off again at that time, so it is better to rest early." Zhou Zexian responded in the room.
"Oh, then Master, I'll go back to my room and rest. Wei Xi walked back to his room lazily and opened the window of the room to look at the scenery.
Tong County is indeed a small county, Wei Xi's inn just happened to be the only lively street in Tong County, the more people came and went, the more they looked at it, the more they couldn't sit still, they simply didn't sit, and got up and walked out.
"Hey...... Girl, where are you going?" Xiao Er, who was walking outside the corridor, asked when he saw Wei Xi going out late, and Xi Wan smiled: "Go shopping" disappeared.
Nothing can stop a curious and playful heart, not even Master, when she first arrives, all gadgets have some infinite attraction to her, this look, that play, it's fun.
And Zhou Zexian, who was watching from a distance upstairs of the inn, looked helpless, he knew that she would not really rest, there was only one street here, and she would not run to other places.
Zhou Zexian was just about to turn around, but he inadvertently caught a glimpse of two figures on the street, and the keen intuition of people who practiced martial arts knew that these two people were not ordinary people, and they were not normal or simple. In order to prevent accidents, he used the Daze Spirit Stone to summon Wei Xi to come back later.
Wei Xiwan was having a good time, but suddenly noticed that the spirit stone she was wearing in her left hand had a strange light, and she knew that the master was looking for her.
This Daze spirit stone is her way of contacting her master, as long as she wants to find the other party, she can use internal force to shake the spirit stone, and there will be a response between the same pair of spirit stones, which will produce a strange red light.
But when the master found out that she had gone out and had something to call her back, she hurried back to the inn to wait for criticism. When Zhou Zexian saw her come back, he didn't scold, but said with a serious expression: "Don't go out after dark." ”
After dark, Tongxian was silent, pitch black, and the families had already rested. Only occasionally there was the barking of dogs and the barking of wild beasts in the mountains and forests in the distance.
Wei Xi couldn't sleep when she first arrived at a place, remembering that today's master used the spirit stone to call her back, but she just told her not to go out after dark, and didn't explain much. I didn't ask much at the time, but now that I think about it, I really want to know why, Master's expression at that time didn't look like he just asked her to come back.
So what the hell is going on? Wei Xi tossed and turned in bed at night, and simply got up again to light the candle and open the window.
This time outside the window, there is no lively street market during the day, only boundless darkness and silence, the early autumn night breeze blows in from the window coolly, Wei Xiwan suddenly felt panicked, and was about to close the window quickly, at this time, suddenly from the roof came a trace of movement.
Wei Xiwan, who was so frightened that she didn't dare to move for a while, thought that she had heard it wrong, but when she listened carefully, faint footsteps came from the roof, from the left side of her roof, slowly pacing to the right, and suddenly, stopped in the middle of her roof.
If it weren't for light skills, walking on the roof, the movement would definitely not be so small, and it can be concluded that this person's martial arts should not be weak, and he might be able to slap himself to death with a slap.
Wei Xiwan hadn't had time to close the window just now, and now he didn't dare to close it rashly, for fear of startling the people on the roof, so he could only cautiously walk to the table and blow out the faint candles in the room.
Unusually quiet, Wei Xiwan, who quietly lay on the bed like a thief, didn't dare to close her eyes, looking at the window that let in the faint moonlight, listening carefully to the movement of the roof, she was afraid that the person on the roof would jump into her room from the window in the next second, then she Wei Xiwan had just come to this world for less than three months, wouldn't it be a whimper.
After about a quarter of an hour, the footsteps of the roof finally sounded again, until they disappeared to the right of her roof, and seemed to have left.
"Whew~" Wei Xiwan breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to close the window again, when suddenly there was movement on the roof again, this time it was not one person, it was a lot of people! Yes, Wei Xiwan heard the footsteps of many people walking on her roof, the footsteps were light and neat, and when she heard it, it was a well-trained group of people.
If it was in her sleep, ordinary people would never be awakened by such a slight footstep, but it just so happened that she was not asleep. Walking alone on the roof, she was afraid that she was a perverted murderer with high martial arts, but a group of people, Wei Xiwan was not so afraid.
A group of well-trained people who act at night must have a goal, and she is definitely not the target of this group, after all, she has never left the Daze Gang to offend others.
Wei Xiwan probably guessed that there are more than 20 people in this group, and there are more than 20 people with strong martial arts in such a small county, and things must not be simple.
When the sound of the roof disappeared, she immediately went to the master's room next door to find the master: "Master! Master!" Wei Xiwan knocked lightly on the door, but there was no response, so she pushed it open with one hand, and the master was not inside.
I saw a piece of paper on the table that said: Don't run around!
Zhou Zexian's martial arts are also excellent, he woke up the moment he stepped on the roof with his first foot, left a note and left.
Zhou Zexian's martial arts self-preservation is not a problem, Wei Xi didn't worry too much about it late, and was going to sit directly in the master's room and wait for the master to come back, but after waiting, he fell asleep on the table because he was too sleepy.
When I woke up again, I was woken up by the noise of people outside the house.
There seemed to be a lot of people outside the street, the sound was mixed and a little panicked, Wei Xi opened the window in the master's room to look out, the sky was still not bright, but the originally dark and silent street was already full of people, holding torches to come and go, and carrying buckets in their hands.
Where was the fire, Wei Xi thought about it late and ran to the downstairs of the inn to inquire, only to know that it was the largest wooden family in the county, and there was a fire.
In the blink of an eye, the southeast of Tong County, which is also where the Mu family is located, has been on fire. Wei Xiwan ran to the Mu family with the flow of firefighters, and stood far away, she already felt the heat of the fire scorching her skin, she didn't move forward, and neither did everyone, such a fire, anyone knew that it was powerless.
The fire engulfed the Mu family unscrupulously, and after a whole night passed, a sudden rain in the early morning extinguished the smaller fire, but this is the Mu family is already in ruins, and there is nothing to burn.
Wei Xiwan stood nearby all night, she thought that the master would come, because the master said that the head of the Mu family was his best friend, and she had promised to come to visit the Mu family today, but now, the Mu family disappeared overnight.
The people from the government came, and after the fire was extinguished, they went into the ruins of the Mu family and brought out a corpse that had been burned to the point of not being human.
But the people from the government asked people to go back after a while, and they were not allowed to stay nearby, so she had to go back to the inn first and wait.
Back at the inn, Wei Xiwan looked at the Daze spirit stone she was wearing in her hand and felt powerless, she had only learned a little martial arts but did not have a trace of internal force, she couldn't use the internal force to shake the spirit stone to find the master, so she could only wait like this.
It's past noon, the master still hasn't come back, he hasn't slept all night, Wei Xi, who should be sleepy, has no sleepiness at this time, who can still sleep when she encounters such a thing, she can't sit still and decided to go downstairs to inquire about the situation.
"It's so miserable, the thirty-seven people of the Mu family were all burned alive!"
"Why can't any of the thirty-seven people escape?"
"Hey, I've heard that some of those people weren't burned, some were killed first, even if they were scorched and there were knives in their necks!"
Everyone on the first floor of the inn was talking about it, after all, it had been a long time since something so big had happened in this peaceful little county.
"You said that the Mu family is usually not bad, but who did you offend and was destroyed. ”
"You must have offended someone, otherwise you look at the families next to the Mu family, but the house didn't burn at all. ”
Wei Xiwan sat quietly on a table drinking tea, dictating the conversation of the people at the next table, "Girl, do you want to eat?" Xiao Er saw that Wei Xiwan was sitting and didn't call him, so he came to inquire himself.
"No, I'm thirsty, just come down and have some tea. After saying politely, she put down the teacup and walked out, she wanted to go to the Mu family again, after all, the master might be there.
But no, Wei Xi turned to the night near Mu's house at night, and then returned to the inn, when there was no one on the street, and as soon as he returned to the room, Xiao Er, the shopkeeper, came to knock on the door.
"Is there something wrong?" Wei Xiwan was puzzled, "Could it be that my master has come back?" By the way, she forgot to ask Xiao Er about this just now.
"Alas, girl, get out of here quickly, this happened to you and your master as soon as they came to our county, and many people said that it was your master who set fire to the Mu family. ”
"How is this possible! The Mu family is my master's dear friend, and we came to Tong County this time to visit the Mu family. Wei Xiwan couldn't believe it, after all, she believed in the master's person, so she never thought in this direction.
"Oh girl, I believe you are not a bad person, you were in our inn on the night of the fire, but I can't guarantee your master! Your master has not come back since he disappeared that night, this is really suspicious, why don't you stay to take the blame for him!"
"Impossible!" Wei Xiwan directly denied Xiao Er's speculation, she believed in her instincts, and she was definitely not a master.
"Okay, even if it's not your master, but now that he's gone, I can't tell clearly, girl, you'd better leave quickly, and someone from the government may come to arrest you tomorrow morning." ”
The shopkeeper Xiao Er sighed: "Alas, I came to tell you to leave because I saw that you don't look like a bad person, if you don't leave, forget it, alas......" Xiao Er shook his head and went downstairs.
I didn't expect her to go out for a walk today, and when she came back, people had such a ridiculous speculation and slandered her master.
But then again, Master and her are outsiders, and Master suddenly disappeared that night, so it's no wonder that the people in the county town think like this, since it's not clear for the time being, let's leave first, if we are arrested, it will be very troublesome.
After thinking about it, he packed up his things, and after thanking Xiao Er, he left with a lantern in the night, and Wei Xiwan decided to go back to Daze Gang first, maybe the master had already gone back.