When I arrived in Qixia Town again, the sky was over, and along the way, no one in the crowd dared to play torches, trembling at every step, and looking nervous when there was a wind and grass. Most of them haven't recovered from the horror just now.

The whole team looked like a group of moving ghosts, and even the coughing sound was kept to a minimum, except for the creaking of the wheels and a pair of green eyes that glittered like ghostly fire.

There is no moon tonight, and the coolness in the mountains dilutes a lot of the scorching heat during the day, making people feel refreshed.

At this time, every household in Qixia Town has been lit up, and from a distance, it looks like a broken sporadic gem on the curtain, which is charming.

But a good situation still requires a good mood, and Xu Hao is not in a good mood to enjoy the night view of this mountain village at this time.

Just outside Qixia Town, Xu Hao called the team to stop. instructed the crowd to wait on the spot, and he and Qiu Fatzi entered the town on foot.

It's still Jia Ren's small courtyard, and the lights are sprinkled through the windows, scattered. Xu Hao stepped forward and knocked on the courtyard door.

After a while, Jia Ren opened the courtyard door with his shirt squeaked like an old farmer, and when he saw Xu Hao and the two, he was surprised.

"Young Master Xu, why did you go and come back? I don't know what the matter is with the old decay?"

Xu Hao arched his hand to Jia Ren first, and briefly said the meaning of the intention straight to the point.

After Jia Ren frowned and listened to Xu Hao's words, he didn't say anything, and directly let Xu Hao and Qiu Fatzi into the courtyard and introduced them into the house.

There is no one else in the house. There wasn't even a maid who made tea and poured water. The house is fairly clean. A set of Huali houses is also quite ancient.

After leading the two of them into the seat, Jia Ren personally brewed two cups of tea and brought them to Xu Hao and the two before taking a seat.

Xu Hao took out the two hundred taels of silver that had been prepared and stacked them in front of Jia Ren.

As soon as Jia Ren wanted to speak, Xu Hao said: "Please ask Bao Chang Jia to buy some food for the villagers who came with us outside the town, today I have promised that the chief Bao sent us a car of food, if I don't know what to do, it will be difficult to explain it to my uncle's ears, and I ask the chief to refuse." ”

Jia Ren nodded and did not shirk, after all, the cost of three or four hundred people is not a decimal.

"I don't know if there are any big empty houses or barns in the town to settle these villagers, but today I am indeed frightened, and I am afraid that there will be another accident after spending the night outside the town. And then we might have to be in town for a few more days. Xu Hao continued.

"There is really no such a big house, but there is a dilapidated temple in disrepair at the west entrance of the town, which occupies a large area, and the incense was still prosperous before the war, but in recent years, many people have gone out to take refuge, and the incense in the temple is not good and it is dilapidated. However, it can still shelter people from the wind and rain. Jia Ren replied.

"Otherwise, I'll send someone to pick up the villagers now, and I'll send food over later."

Xu Hao nodded in thanks, turned back to Qiu Fatzi and said, "Fatty, you go over with Jia Baochang, and come back after settling down." ”

The fat man wanted to refuse, but after being glared at by Xu Hao, he went out with Jia Ren.

After a while, Jia Ren returned.

"I've already brought my little brother to settle down. ”

Xu Hao nodded and said, "Why doesn't Bao Chang Jia even have an errand boy at home, and he has to do everything himself?"

Jia Ren smiled bitterly, "It's not this damn Da Zhou, my mother-in-law fled to Xuancheng's mother's house with her two daughters before the war started, and the maids and maids in the family were also dismissed by me, leaving me with the old bones in Qixia Town to take care of the town's affairs." ”

Xu Hao nodded and didn't know what to say.

"Don't talk about that. Jia Ren waved his hand.

"I heard Xu Gongzi's description just now, this gang of horse bandits should be from the Sunset Mountain Riding Cloud Gang in the northwest of Qixia Town. ”

Jia Ren got up and poured himself a cup of tea and continued, "The Qiyun Gang is different from the ordinary bandits, the general bandits have one or twenty horsemen is already very remarkable, and the gang has about three hundred gangs of almost one rider, coming and going, and they are all good at riding and shooting, it is the largest bandit within a radius of 100 miles, the gang leader Qin Tian is rumored to be an eight-rank martial artist, and he is still moral, he has never heard of attacking civilians before, and their financial resources mainly rely on the worship of the past caravans and dart bureaus, and sometimes act as the caravan guards. Caravans guarded by the Cloud Gang are generally coveted by no one, and of course the remuneration paid is also quite considerable. ”

"Brother Xu, I'm back. Just as he said this, Qiu Fatzi panted and pushed the door in.

"They are cleaning the temple, the place is really big, but a few King Kongs look quite terrible. The fat man said after drinking half a cup of tea in one go.

Xu Hao glanced at the fat man who had no interest.

Jia Ren got up and helped Qiu Fatzi refill the tea.

The fat man thanked him and sat down.

"Brother Xu, where are you talking about?" the fat man looked concerned.

"I'll talk to you later, Bao Jia, please continue. ”

Jia Ren took a sip of tea and moistened his throat and continued: "However, due to the war at the border pass, the caravan and the dart team have not moved here for a long time, which invisibly interrupts the wealth of the Qiyun Gang. That's probably why they're targeting civilians now. ”

"Then what should we do, have we heard that Jia Baochang and the bandits here have incense love?"

As soon as the fat man spoke, Xu Hao knew that something was wrong, this dead fat man, can he talk nonsense about this? Bandits, no matter which dynasty is beheaded according to the court law.

"Idiot, idiot, idiot!" Xu Hao scolded the dead fat man in his heart.

Sure enough, Jia Ren's old face instantly stiffened.

Xu Hao glared at the fat man fiercely, and immediately got up to make amends.

The fat man also realized that he had said the wrong thing, and his eyes wandered around as if he were innocent.

"Dead fatty, your eyes are all floating before they are good, floating to death!" Xu Hao cursed secretly.

Jia Ren replied after a while, and raised his hand to signal Xu Hao to sit down.

"This little brother is actually right, Xu Gongzi must not blame him! The old man is just a small security chief, in this Chu land where bandits are rampant, it is not easy to protect the peace of a town! There is a Yasi Prefecture pastor, and there are bandits and horse gangs, and I dare not offend anyone. ”

Jia Ren said a few words about the vicissitudes of the world, and even the fat man was in awe when he heard it, and stood up respectfully to apologize.

"Then what can Jia Baochang do to save my brother's mother and sister?"

"I have had a relationship with Qin Tian, the leader of the Cloud Riding Gang, so let's do it, it's late today, tomorrow morning, I will go to Luoxia Inn with Xu Gongzi to visit Xia Hongye, but it is said that this person is the most difficult to talk to, and I have never dealt with him. Xu Gongzi has to prepare early!"

"Okay, let's say goodbye today, and the fat man and I will come to the chief tomorrow morning!" Xu Hao got up and said goodbye.

Xu Hao refused Jia Ren's bid to get up and send him off, and walked out of the courtyard gate with the fat man and walked towards the temple in the west of the town.

On the way, Xu Hao roughly explained what Jia Ren said to the fat man.

The fat man also listened to the fifteen buckets in his heart, seven up and eight down. Sighs and sighs along the way.

Back at the temple, the huge temple was lit up. The food has been delivered, because Xu Hao has not returned, and the refugees have to look at the food but no one dares to move.

Xu Hao didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, so he went to visit the monkey first, and saw that the wound had already scabbed, so he told the monkey to call the refugees to eat together. There was something in his heart, Xu Hao didn't have much appetite, so after eating a few bites, he found a secluded place in the temple and spread out the quilt and clothes purchased by the monkey and lay down.

But I didn't feel sleepy after tossing and turning, so I simply sat up and stopped thinking about tomorrow.

Still sitting cross-legged as before, concentrating and calming, after a while, he will fall into the emptiness, and the whole body will be irritable. But the nine rounds of blood moon in the body are still the same, and those points of light are still unhurriedly repairing the cracks on the blood moon, the only slight change is that it seems that the small cracks on the blood moon are missing. But at this rate, all the cracks on the blood moon will be repaired, and it will take eighty years if not a hundred years.

In fact, whether you meditate or not, whether Xu Hao eats or sleeps, those points of light are tinkering with the blood moon all the time, but every time after meditating, Xu Hao can always feel that the strength in his body has increased.

Nothing was said all night.

When Xu Hao opened his eyes, the sky was already bright, and he stretched out comfortably, refreshed. Xu Hao can basically integrate into this world now, and it is not a problem to dress and speak, thanks to his liberal arts grades in his previous life, the only thing he is not used to is that he has no toothbrush available every morning, and he has been thinking about when to use his own toothbrush.

found the fat man, and he was still snoring with the quilt in his arms, and half of his stomach was revealing a piece of white fat outside.

I don't know if he's really in a hurry or if he's in a fake hurry.

Xu Hao kicked on the fat man's buttocks, and the fat man woke up immediately with a shudder.

With confused eyes, seeing that it was Xu Hao, he had to swallow his anger.

"Fatty, get up, you can still sleep, get up and wash up, okay, let's go to Jia Baochang's house." Xu Hao said.

After the fat man washed up, Jia Ren came to the door by himself.

"Master Hong, brother is here, see who you are!" Xu Haofeng was light.