Horses gallop on official roads, through mountains, and across rivers.

The nine people finally came to Pingyi Town before dusk completely disappeared, but when they saw the town in front of them, everyone was also dumbfounded.

If Qubu is said to be ten rooms and nine empty, then the Pingyi Town in front of you has become a ghost town at this time.

The soul-attracting flags of every house in the town fluttered in the wind, and the streets were almost covered with white paper.

Everyone led the horses and walked into Pingyi Town.

The closed wooden doors on both sides of the street were already overgrown with weeds, and even on the walls, you could see the blood stains that had completely solidified and blackened.

There was hardly any sound except for the whine of the wind blowing through the soul-attracting flags, not even the chirping of summer cicadas.

It's obviously summer, but when I see this, the hairs on my body stand on end, and my back is cold, but everyone seems to be in the cold winter moon.

Just when everyone wondered if there were still living people in the town, at the end of the street, an old woman with a lantern and a hunched back walked slowly.

Seeing that there were still living people, Wang Yu and the others also hurriedly greeted them.

But when the old woman saw that there were strangers who dared to come here, she also hurriedly shouted:

"Let's go, get out of here while it's still dark."

The crowd ignored her, but led the horse to the old woman's side.

Among them, Wang Yu took a step forward and asked gently:

"Old man, why haven't you left Pingyi Town yet, isn't this haunted?"

The old woman glanced at the bodies of several people, and immediately understood that these descendants were here for this matter, and immediately lowered her eyes and said:

"My wife has lived for such a long time, and I don't want to toss anymore. Hurry up, this is not something that you can solve in your next life. ”

When the rest of the people heard this, they looked at each other, and they didn't know what to say for a while, but they admired it in their hearts, and the old woman could see it.

"Old man, we were sent by the imperial court to solve this matter, I don't know how to go to the county government here?" Wang Yu continued to ask.

The old woman glanced at these young juniors, shook her head helplessly, and then pointed to the road on the left, and said, "Go straight from here, and when you go to the crossroads, only the left pass is the county office." ”

After saying this, the old woman took the lantern again and left slowly.

He muttered under his breath as he walked.

"Hey, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you, let you leave now but don't leave, you will die here at a young age, it's embarrassing."

When Wang Yu and the others heard this, the corners of their mouths twitched slightly.

However, I also knew in my heart that it was just a piece of kindness from the old man, and it was really not good, so I could only watch her leave helplessly.

Then he walked where she said.

However, when I went to the place where the county government was located, what I saw was a hidden gate. And on the drum next to it, it was full of dust.

"It seems that the people from this county government have already run away, do you still go in to see?"

Yang Pu asked.

The rest of the people looked at each other, but no one spoke.

Wang Yu took a few steps forward, then pushed open the door, looked inside, and then turned around and said:

"There's no one better here, so I'll rest here tonight, and after midnight, I'll see what's weird here."

"It's fine."

Mo Yunqi nodded, and also thought it was a good idea, and several other people did not agree, but they did not object.

After tying the horses, the nine people walked into the county office, and the situation inside was unsurprisingly also full of messes.

After looking at the front yard for a while, I came to the atrium, and was about to go to the wing room in the back yard, when I saw a haggard man coming out of the corridor.

When he saw Wang Yu and the others, his face changed slightly, and he hurriedly said:

"Who are you, if you are a passing scholar, leave this place quickly, and don't spend the night here!"

Yang Pu took a step forward, and Shi Li said:

"Who are you? But the errand of the county government here? ”

"This official is the magistrate of this place, it's almost dark, a few of you leave quickly, otherwise it will be too late."

"Zhixian?"

The nine people were stunned, and they really couldn't associate the bearded middle-aged man in front of them with a court official.

However, at this time, Wang Yu took out the letter from the previous Yang Governor and handed it to the county order in front of him.

The man took the envelope, saw Yang Rong's inscription on it, his expression changed slightly, and he hurriedly opened the envelope to check the contents inside.

After a while, the man raised his head and looked at the nine people in front of him, a dignified seven-foot man, who actually cried like this.

Wang Yu and the others did not speak, but waited for him to vent his feelings.

After a long while, the county magistrate who still adhered to Pingyi Town wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and arched his hand:

"Got a few laughs."

Wang Yu and the others also shook their heads slightly, indicating that they were fine.

After the magistrate returned to calm, several people followed him to the study in the backyard.

From the mouth of this magistrate, Wang Yu and the others also understood what the situation was in Pingyi Town.

The officials in the house left with their families, and the surviving people in the town also left one after another in the past half a month, only some elderly people did not want to leave and stayed here.

Now that this Pingyi town has become a ghost town, the magistrate was originally going to Qubu in two days, and decided to bring some errand soldiers from there to forcibly take away these old people who stayed here.

Unexpectedly, Wang Yu and others came today.

"And where do the rest of these old people live?" Wang Yu asked.

"They all live in the Bodhisattva temple in the west of the town, and they are reluctant to leave no matter how much they are persuaded to say that the Bodhisattva will bless them."

Speaking of this, the magistrate couldn't help but smile bitterly.

If this Bodhisattva can really manifest his spirit, why didn't this Bodhisattva who received incense show his true body and surrender when this mother and son were wreaking havoc on the people in the town?

"A few of us live here tonight, and we want to see all the files that have been handled in this place in the past six months."

Wang Yu said.

Naturally, the magistrate would not refuse this request, and immediately took them to the room where the files were stored in the government office, and pointed out to them the bookshelves that stored all the murders that had occurred in the past year.

"All the files are here, so you can go through them."

Looking at the sealed files piled up on half of the shelves, Wang Yu and the others were not polite, and immediately began to take down these files and start flipping through them.

As for the magistrate, he brought a few candles to light them to make the house look brighter.

The county government of Pingyi Town does not manage many places, that is, the livelihood of the surrounding villages and towns, most of them mediate some trivial matters, and there are not many homicides.

But in a case marked as April this year, Wang Yu smelled something different.