Uncle Du's son, Du Pre, is the eldest of all the brothers and Du Ruo's elder brother. He has now been promoted to the county lieutenant of Anfeng County, Zhaoyang County, because Anfeng County has been mentioned to Shang County, so this county lieutenant has also risen from the eighth rank official to the seventh rank official.

Although the official is not big, he is a real "official", which is completely different from the "official" who catches the head, and there is a world of difference in salary and treatment.

According to the law of the Great Chu State, the county lieutenant has three main duties, the first is to arrest bandits and maintain law and order, the second is to inspect illegal and stable places, and the third is to select and train soldiers to prevent war. Among these three duties, the most important and irreplaceable is naturally the last one, but Du Yu has been a head catcher all the year round, developed an occupational disease, and stayed in the yamen fishing fast room all day long, but he was rarely seen in the barracks.

But today he was not in the fast house, because he went out with a dozen people to hunt down a group of robbers who had escaped from a neighboring county.

"County Lieutenant Du went out early in the morning, so he should be heading east." An errand officer who knew Wu Xie said respectfully, "If Master Hou goes after him quickly, he should be able to meet him halfway back." ”

"Oh? You have so much faith in him? Wu Xie was a little happy.

"We don't have much confidence in him, we have confidence in Mr. Xiao." Another big-mouthed officer said with a smile, "We don't know Boss Du's temper yet, so he just buries his head and rushes forward." But Mr. Xiao is really powerful, the slightest clue can be seen in the famous, since he came to our county, the robbers and thieves in this neighborhood have been caught! ”

Wu Xie raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked a little curiously: "What kind of character is this Mr. Xiao?" Can you tell us about it? ”

"Mr. Xiao is a poor scholar from other places who stays in Taoist temples outside the city. usually sells calligraphy and paintings, and lives a tight life. He claimed to have learned a little fortune-telling skills, but unfortunately he couldn't make a living from it...... Anyway, he always said that he had no ability, that is, every time there was a difficult case, he could always find clues. ”

Wu Xie suddenly became interested when he heard this-this Mr. Xiao looks a bit like a hermit!

"And who is his name?"

The officers look at me, I look at you, and shake their heads.

"Huh? We don't even seem to have asked his name......"

"Yes! Why did you forget to ask? ”

At this time, an old officer smiled, walked up to Wu Xie unhurriedly and replied: "Hou Ye, this Mr. Xiao is a native of Nanke County, Donghai County, and is now twenty-four years old. ”

"Huh? Old Wang, how do you know the way? When did you ask? ”

The old king laughed twice, and pulled out a thick dossier from the cabinet next to him.

"I have long advised you to drink less alcohol and read more books. As long as outsiders come to our county to live temporarily, they must be registered! ”

Wu Xie Ha Lu Ha smiled, took the file, and found the short record under the guidance of the old king.

On a certain year, Xiao Buyi of Nanke County, Donghai County, came to live in this county temporarily, and there were documents from the local government as evidence.

At the back of the record, there is a line of words written by Xiao Buyi himself: Nan Ke Xiao, who went out to study, because he saw Anfeng Wuhua Tianbao and a thriving trend, so he temporarily lived here to wait for the opportunity.

Calculating the time, this Xiao Buyi has been living in Anfeng County for almost two years.

Wu Xie looked at the line of words carefully, and only felt that there was a lot of article in these words, and there was a special momentum faintly revealed between the strokes, which looked quite familiar, but he didn't remember where he had read them.

"Huh? This man is also a monk? Jasmine saw the fame, "The intention is in the words, the qi is condensed in the pen, this person is either profound, or specially cultivated the talisman, so it is inadvertently revealed when writing." ”

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood where he had read these words—in his talisman book printed with the twenty-four talismans commonly used in the Daomen, every stroke was quite similar to what this person had written.

However, if you look back and compare carefully, it is actually just quite similar. The twenty-four runes on the talisman book, whether the strength of the strokes or the wishful nature of the turn, are much stronger than the words written by this person, and they can even be said to be worlds apart.

"Your talisman is a treasure made by Patriarch Huandan to save the lives of his disciples, he just wrote it casually, how can it be compared?" Jasmine smiled, "What's more, he knew at a glance that Lu Dao was a loose cultivator, and his ability was limited, so he didn't have anything to care about." ”

"Loose cultivation? How do you know for sure? ”

"It's very simple, the rune requires a special 'divine text' talent, unless there are people with that kind of talent in the general sect, they won't learn the rune at all, anyway, someone else has drawn the rune for them to use. Only casual cultivators practice talismans regardless of whether they have talent or not, because talismans are easy to use and can save lives at critical moments. ”

"However, this doesn't mean that he is a casual cultivator."

"Alas...... Master, is there anyone in your group of disciples who has learned talismans? ”

“…… I don't think I've heard of it. ”

"That's right, drawing talismans requires a lot of mind, there is not enough cultivation, the sect will not let the disciples practice at all, once they start practicing, unless they reach a fairly high level and can protect themselves, they will not let this special disciple go out - you see that his ability is limited, but he lives outside for a few years, in addition to casual cultivation, what else can it be?"

Wu Xie suddenly realized this, and couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart.

Compared with their disciples of the sect, the moral level of casual cultivation is generally not high, and it is commonplace to commit treachery and kill people and sell goods. If this Xiao Moran is really a loose cultivator, then he is a problem person......

"Fourth, you're thinking too much. If he really wanted to harm my brother, he would have done it a long time ago, so why wait until now? Du Ruo wasn't worried at all, "I think he may just think that our Anfeng County is a good place and has aura, so he will live for a while." ”

"Where do we get the aura here?"

"There are two immortals in a county town, don't you think it's very aura?"

“…… That should also be our Wu family set to have aura......"

"Don't worry about the details, they're pretty much the same anyway."

Being disturbed by Du Ruo like this, Wu Xie also felt that he seemed to be worried, but he was still a little uneasy, and after all, he still ran away in line with the principle of being careful and not making a big mistake.

It's just that he didn't pay attention, and when he left, the faces of those servants who were still discussing Xiao Buyi before stiffened suddenly, and their eyes showed a look of confusion.

After a few moments, they came to their senses and talked about other things as if nothing had happened.

Old Wang Tou looked at the book that he didn't know when he opened it, touched his head in confusion, and muttered, "Huh? Who took this out? He picked it up and put it back in the cupboard.

And the record about Xiao Buyi in the book has disappeared without a trace.

At the same time, a group of young men in long robes showed a slightly nervous but expectant look as they rode back to the county seat.

"Noble people help each other...... Noble people help each other...... It's just that I don't know if this noble man is willing to help me? ”

They walked for less than a quarter of an hour, and there was a faint white light flashing in the sky, and then they soon saw a young man carrying a medicine box walking slowly from the road, although the pace was obviously not fast, but the distance between each step was very large, and they walked in front of them in a blink of an eye.

The leader was taken aback, and hurriedly reined in his horse, and was about to ask about the other party's intention, but the county lieutenant Du Yu quickly got off his horse and ran over, and Da Lu said with a smile: "Fourth! What is the wind that is blowing you? Looks like I've grown up! Shouldn't you really become a god? ”

Wu Xie smiled and nodded, and Du Yu's eyes suddenly widened and he opened his mouth.

"I'm just kidding...... Have you really become a god?! ”

"In general terms, it's pretty much counted." Wu Xie was vague, but he did not deny it.

Du Yu was so happy that he almost jumped up, and after a while, he laughed and shouted: "Let's go!" When I returned to the county, I invited everyone to go to the restaurant, and I didn't get drunk and didn't return! ”

Everyone cheered together, but Wu Xie smiled slightly and said, "Boss Du, this is not right, if you want to have a treat, naturally I should invite everyone." ”

"Aren't we all the same......, brothers?"

"It's different." Wu Xie took out a palm-sized model of a restaurant from the medicine box, recited the magic formula, and put it on the side of the road, "Change!" ”

The red light is shining, and in an instant the model has turned into a two-story restaurant, although there is no half-person half-table food in it, but the big banner is waving in the wind, and the colorful glazed tiles are shining in the sun, which is really beautiful.

This thing was given by a casual cultivator who came to visit when Wu Xie was in Sichen Town. That loose cultivator had a deep enmity with the Great Octopus Ten Thousand Evil Beasts and the Thousand Army Daoists, and tried his best to refine a few powerful magic weapons, intending to die with them. As a result, they learned that they were burned into two lumps of charcoal by the disciples of Qingyangguan because they wanted to kill the people of Sichen Town, so they specially came to thank them and sent this thank you gift by the way.

This platform is barely at the level of a quasi-magic weapon, but it can neither attack nor defend, and cannot even be used for storage, just a plaything. The loose cultivator felt that there was nothing that could be handled in front of the disciples of the famous sect, so he made a special trip to find such a magic weapon, and it took a lot of thought.

Wu Xie led everyone into the restaurant, secretly urging the ghost ring, and the four spirit ghosts flew out of the hall silently, turning into four shopkeepers and coming to greet them.

Everyone sat down, and then all kinds of wine and food were delivered, and in less than half an hour, good wine and food were placed on several tables.

"Ahh Fourth, you have really become an immortal! Du Yu shouted and picked up a pot of wine, poured himself a glass, and saw that the thin celadon wine glass was green and fragrant. He drank it impatiently, although the taste of the wine was slightly thin, but there was a cool feeling in his chest and abdomen, and the heat suddenly disappeared, and he was extremely happy.

"The wine and food of the fairy family are really extraordinary! How do you do that? ”

Wu Xie smiled and didn't answer, but kept persuading everyone to eat and drink more.

These drinks and dishes are actually transformed by the "Immortal Banquet Fu", one of the twenty-four talismans, which is a trick to get food directly from the Xianmen Canteen, and its purpose is to provide logistical support for the disciples who are outside the door. Those few magic weapons have vast magical powers, not to mention a dozen people, even if they have to prepare meals for thousands of people, it is as easy as a breeze.

Where do everyone know the truth of the truth, they just bury their heads and eat Haisai. They went out early in the morning to surround the swaggering thugs, but when they arrived at the border, they found that the robbers had been caught by the militia in a neighboring county, and they had run away in vain under the sun, and they were really thirsty, hungry, and tired enough. There are so many good wines and good dishes at the moment, where can I care about anything else!

Wu Xie saw that everyone was eating happily, and his face was full of smiles, but he just looked at Mr. Xiao Buyi Xiao with the corner of his eye.

I saw that Mr. Xiao ate some food, drank some wine, sighed slightly, and showed a bit of self-deprecation.

Without waiting for the banquet to end, he stood up and sighed to Wu Jiezuo: "The methods of the Xianmen are really unpredictable, Xiao admires it so much!" ”