In the market, in a small teahouse.

Xu Baijiu, who was drinking tea and thinking about something, suddenly raised his head, but saw a person walking close and sitting down, the moment they looked at each other, the person who came smiled, casually put a round package oozing blood on the corner of the table, and opened his mouth to ask the guy for two catties of cooked meat and a jar of old wine.

"Do you think I'm going to never come back?"

Of course, it was Gu Chaoyun, he asked casually, and he didn't look at Xu Baijiu's expression, and devoured it by himself.

Staring at the wounds on his shoulders and chest, Xu Baijiu's face turned inexplicably pale. The reason why it was white was because he had already smelled the blood and a stench coming from the package.

He didn't have to think about it, he knew what was wrapped inside, it was nothing more than Bu Yuan's head.

He guessed wrong.

Gu Chaoyun ate very quickly, and he didn't refuse, but just swallowed wildly, and the cooked meat and old wine in front of him were already visible to the naked eye.

Xu Baijiu secretly swallowed his saliva, as the only noon in the county, he was not afraid of the dead, he was just afraid of Gu Chaoyun's indifference to life and the coldness of cutting people's heads like pulling weeds.

"Although your breathing is longer than that of ordinary people, your temples are slightly bulging, your arms are full of muscles and bones, and you have an amazing amount of food, you should practice some kind of foreign kung fu that pursues qi and blood."

Xu Baijiu's eyes were like torches, and he glanced at the knife on Gu Chaoyun's waist without a trace, and finally his hands.

"Although you are wearing a sword, your hands are wrapped in cloth belts, and they are hidden deeply, and you should be hiding a killer weapon, and you will kill the enemy with one blow if you take it by surprise."

Gu Chaoyun buried his head in eating, rolled his eyelids, glanced at Xu Baijiu with a black hole that was almost invisible, and said with a smile: "Didn't anyone tell you that it would be better to hide something in your heart than to say it?" Misfortune comes from the mouth, knowing more is not necessarily a good thing, and if you have to say it again, good things will become bad things. ”

He swallowed the wine and meat in his mouth, and the muscles and stomach of his entire abdomen began to squirm, recovering the essence he had lost.

Xu Baijiu wiped his mouth, "No, you're wrong, I just want to say that since you practice external skills, you shouldn't drink." Alcohol will make your qi and blood active, which may aggravate your injuries and slow down the speed of your wound recovery, which is harmful. ”

Gu Chaoyun pursed his lips and pointed to the package, "Do you want to open this package and take a look?" You'll be amazed. ”

Xu Baijiu's expression was complicated, he shook his head, and greeted the guy reluctantly: "Check out!" ”

Without too many greetings, Xu Baijiu led Gu Chaoyun back to the yamen and said: "I heard that Bu Yuan was ugly since he was a child, so he was coldly looked down upon and ostracized, so that his personality was distorted. ”

Only then did he look at the head in the package, and then wrapped it up again without changing his face.

"You didn't fight the Seventy-Two Earths on this trip?"

As he spoke, he shifted the topic to the "Earth Demon Sect" again, as if he was curious that Gu Chaoyun could collide with it.

Gu Chaoyun raised his chin towards the head in Xu Baijiu's arms, "Well, isn't this it, it's still the flesh and blood of the Earth Demon Sect Master." ”

Seeing that Xu Baijiu was puzzled, Gu Chaoyun simply briefly explained the general situation of the matter, except for the so-called Xixia relics and the tattoos on Bu Yuan's body, there was almost no concealment.

"How can there be such a thing? It seems that those Qiang people have indeed lost their humanity. ”

The two of you said word by word, and when they came to the yamen, they saw the eyelids of the messenger guarding the door jump, and greeted Gu Chaoyun timidly: "Master Gu, are you here to redeem the reward again?" ”

Hearing Gu Chaoyun's "um", the errand said to Xu Baijiu again: "By the way, Brother Xu, someone from Liujia Village came just now, saying that there was a eucalyptus there, and a villager accidentally killed a robber who broke into the village, so let you go over for an autopsy." ”

"Okay, I got it."

Seeing Xu Baijiu turn around and walk away, Gu Chaoyun turned his head and asked softly to the messenger, "Do you know what that villager's name is?" ”

The messenger looked at the murderer in front of him, how dare he slack off, and thought for a few seconds with a crying face, before he said with an affirmative face: "I heard that Liujiacun errand runner mentioned, his name is Liu Jinxi." ”

"Is Liu Jinxi happy? Oh, got it, thank you! ”

patting the other party's shoulder, Gu Chaoyun carried Bu Yuan's head into the yamen.

The county magistrate was squinting and resting at this moment, looking at the middle-aged age, with a long robe and short coat, cut off the braids, his hair was meticulously combed, shiny, and his mouth was snoring.

Hearing someone coming in, the county magistrate opened his sleepy eyes impatiently, but when he saw Gu Chaoyun's approaching fox eyes, he trembled all over, as if he had been struck by lightning, he stood up and woke up instantly.

"Yes...... It's you! ”

But soon he realized that he had lost his temper and forced himself to sit back down.

Seeing Gu Chaoyun carrying the package in his hand, the county magistrate's face was bitter and he knew what he was here for.

"Who is it this time?"

Gu Chaoyun pressed the body he wanted to stand up, and smiled at the other party's suspicious eyes: "Don't worry, I just want to discuss something with you." ”

As soon as he heard the word "consultation", the county magistrate glanced at him suspiciously, "What is it?" ”

Gu Chaoyun put Bu Yuan's head down, lowered his body, and leaned forward, "I want to borrow two muskets from you to play." ”

"What? Muskets? Two more shots? The county master's lips twitched, and his reaction was even more intense than just now.

But his voice died down for a moment.

Gu Chaoyun's eyes narrowed slightly, and while laughing, he stuffed the silver tickets from his arms into the other party's hands, "What's the panic, didn't you hear that it was borrowed." ”

Seeing that the county lord's eyes were hesitant and hesitant, Gu Chaoyun smiled, and casually stuffed another handful of things. When the county looked down, his whole face turned red, and it turned out to be a golden bean the size of a soybean.

"I'll lend you another cannon."

The county magistrate just wanted to put the things in his hand in his arms, but when he heard the latter words, he almost didn't slow down in one breath, "Are you going to war?" Return the artillery, that's going to kill the head. ”

Gu Chaoyun smiled, "Seventy-two Earth Evils have been a disaster for many years, as a parent official, you turned a blind eye and let them kill wantonly in the fish and meat township, but you are a little incompetent." ”

The county magistrate smiled bitterly, how could he not know the murderous name of the seventy-two evils, but what could he do, "You think I don't want to, but those seventy-two people are all first-class masters without exception." Especially the sect leader, known as 'the Golden Buddha is not bad', the musket can't hurt him in the slightest, and the last county commander died tragically in their hands. ”

Gu Chaoyun rolled his eyelids angrily, "I didn't let you come forward, not to mention that this is a great credit." If things don't work out, they'll just look for me, but if it happens, think about it, leaving this poor mountain and bad water is only a secondary thing, and maybe you can get promoted and get rich. ”

The county magistrate was really a little moved when he heard this, and he re-examined Gu Chaoyun, "Are you really sure?" ”

Gu Chaoyun didn't speak, but just stuffed him with a handful of golden beans.

The county magistrate cautiously looked left and right, and no longer concealed it, he was busy collecting the money, and said, "Come to me tonight." But I have to add one more condition, if you succeed, you must solve the 'Black Dragon Gang' and the 'Thirty-six Tiangang' together. ”

Gu Chaoyun smiled.

"Don't worry, the seventy-two hells will die, and the rest of them, I will see one and kill one for free!"