Chapter 42: Strange Things
Li Xingxin said that it seems that the prince did suffer a lot before.
Even Beiliu Village didn't even know a grain of grain.
It seems to be a bad memory, so I decided to send out an invitation. "I didn't expect Brother Jiang to know Beiliu Village, why don't we go together?"
When Jiang Hong heard this, he seemed to think of something bad, and his head shook like a rattle.
"Don't go, don't go, the statue and the Taoist temple are almost finished, I need to keep an eye on it, you go back quickly, don't delay the opening ceremony of the Taoist temple."
"By the way, how is that Chen Kang's interrogation?"
Li Xing suddenly remembered that the deacon of the Heavenly God Sect, after being taken away by Jiang Hong, there was no news.
"I handed it over to Ouyang Xiong, he is good at interrogation, he hasn't reported the specific situation yet, I'll go back and ask later."
When Jiang Hong spoke, his eyes didn't dare to look at Li Xing.
When Li Xing saw Jiang Hong's appearance, he knew that he was lying.
But it was not debunked.
"He gave it to you, you can just keep me a copy of the interrogation results."
After Li Xing finished speaking, he got into the ox cart.
Li Gou'er was about to catch the car, but Jiang Hong grabbed Li Xing, almost dragged him out of the car, stretched out his head, and whispered in Li Xing's ear: "That village is haunted, don't stay overnight." ”
"I am a dignified court official, a county's order, and a great saint Dao Dao Dao monarch, how can I be afraid of ghosts? Brother Jiang, you underestimate me too much. ”
Li Xing suddenly said such a sentence as if someone was crazy, and he couldn't fix it directly to Jiang Hong.
He reached out and touched Li Xing's forehead, and then touched his own forehead.
muttered, "No fever!" What nonsense. ”
"You're talking nonsense! Too lazy to tell you. ”
Li Xing originally wanted to say that there are no ghosts in the world at all.
But thinking that such an outrageous thing has happened when he crossed over, it is better not to say something too full, lest this world full of hatred really conjure up one for him.
"Dog, go."
Li Gou'er whipped and the ox cart set off.
Sometimes I have to admit that the ox cart is really stable, but the long distance is really slow.
They set off in the afternoon, but in the evening they didn't even go to Beiliu Village, so they had no choice but to stop at a small inn in a town thirty miles away from Beiliu Village.
Although the inn is small, it is also clean and hygienic.
If there is a downside, it is a bit of a cow.
Because when they got up the next day, after washing, and the three of them were about to pay the bill, when they were hurrying to the cart, they found that the cattle were gone.
I found the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper, but I didn't know what to ask.
Li Xing asked when the time came, but Li Gou'er's eyes kept staring at the shed where cattle and horses were tied to the inn.
He found that there were not a few horses here, and even a few of them were good breeds.
It stands to reason that if it is a thief, it must be a horse first, not a cow.
After all, stealing cattle in Daxia is a capital crime, and few people dare to sell the stolen goods, so there are not so many restrictions on horses, and after being caught, it is only a whipping.
"Young master, something seems wrong."
Li Gou'er expressed his doubts.
"It's really unconscionable."
Li Xing agreed with Li Gou'er's words.
He saw it too.
Even in the questioning of the shopkeeper and the boss just now, he had ruled out the possibility that the two of them committed the crime.
"Young master, there is a bell on the cow, unless it is a master, as long as the bell rings, the dog can wake up and find it."
Li Gou'er was very cautious this time, after all, when he was out of the house, such a strange thing happened.
"Since you are a master, there must be difficulties in stealing cattle, so you don't have to look for it."
Li Xing didn't want to delay too much here because of this matter, and his primary purpose now was to identify the coal mine.
If the cow is lost, it is lost.
So Li Xing looked at the shopkeeper, prepared pen and ink for me, and then hired a carriage.
"Yes."
The shopkeeper answered and instructed Xiao Er to put the horses in the store in place.
The shopkeeper invited Li Xing to the house and asked him to use the pen and ink on the counter.
Li Xing picked up the pen and paper, but left a word: "Borrow the cow to be a master, you must have difficulties, after using up, the ploughing cow does not have to be returned, just ask not to slaughter, let it benefit the people." ”
When you're done, hand the paper to the shopkeeper.
"If someone returns the cow, give this to the person who returns the cow, and if no one returns the cow, write a few more and post them in a conspicuous place in the inn."
"Yes, sir, the little one will do it."
Seeing that Li Xing had no intention of holding him accountable at all, the shopkeeper secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The carriage was set, Li Xing asked Li Gou'er to give the boss the money to rent the carriage, and the three of them set off for Beiliu Village.
It's just that when they were walking to a village, they saw an old Taoist pulling a cow that they were familiar with, and was plowing the field with the people.
The reason why Li Xing recognized them at a glance was entirely because this area, just this cow, was too conspicuous.
"Young master, do you want to catch that old way?"
Li Gou'er also saw it and asked Li Xing.
Li Xing looked at the field and said with a smile: "It's not doing evil, but doing good, this cow is also considered to be the best use of things, just don't do it." ”
After saying that, their carriage went away.
But they didn't expect it, just as their carriage was leaving.
The old man in the distance stroked his beard, nodded with satisfaction, and looked at the direction of their departure with a charitable face.
The carriage was much faster, thirty miles away, and it took only an hour and a half to arrive.
Entering Beiliu Village, it is indeed desolate everywhere.
Almost all of the houses in the entire village were intact and almost all of them collapsed.
When you enter the village, you will smell of decay if you don't pass through a house.
It is the smell that occurs after death and is not buried.
Ever since the old man entered the village, his mood had been very low.
At this time, Li Xing and Li Gou'er didn't know how to persuade them, so they could only move forward in silence.
"My lord, I want to go home and have a look, can I?"
Just as he was about to reach the foot of Black Mountain, the old man, who had been depressed, suddenly spoke.