Suddenly, a few young ladies came, and the others looked at each other curiously, and these people sat down, a little out of place with their surroundings.

Xiao Er brought two large bowls of soup, "A few aren't locals, right?" ”

"Who's to say no, we're locals." Lu Taotao used chopsticks to clamp it, and the tofu was broken.

Xiao Er handed over the spoon and said with a smile: "Where is it, such outstanding characters as you, if I have seen them, I will definitely not be able to forget them." ”

Lu Taotao didn't speak, Lu Anran asked, "Have you been setting up a stall here for a long time?" ”

"My ancestral craft, I followed my father's stall before, and I grew up in this stall since I was a child." Whether it is opening a shop or setting up a stall, he relies on his mouth to entertain people, and he talks endlessly, "It's not to blow to you, I know better than anyone how many squires are in and out of this city." ”

Yun Qi pushed away the jade bone fan with a snap of his thumb, and his eyes turned and said, "We heard about something on the way here. ”

Xiao Er put the soup on it, added water to the pot, and said without raising his head: "Childe, you say, if I don't know, it is estimated that few people in this county will know." ”

"Yaksha kills." Yun Qi propped his chin and said lazily, "Have you heard of it?" ”

The little second-hand paused, and hurriedly waved his hand, "I can't say it, I can't say it." ”

Lu Taotao wiped his mouth full, "What is there to say, I am still going to catch one and keep it at home." ”

The vendor Xiao Er opened his mouth in shock, "Girl, you're kidding, be careful that Yaksha heard that he was looking for you at night." ”

"Isn't he in the woods, he's going to go to people's homes?"

"The Zhou family knows, right?"

Yunqi and Lu Anran glanced at each other and shook their heads, "You say." ”

"You are out of town, you don't know normal, this week's family is a well-known rich family in our local area." At this time, the business was not busy, and the vendor Xiao Er chatted with everyone: "At first, the Yaksha was active in the area of Qitianling, and Miss Zhou made an appointment for a family affair, and on the day of marriage, she happened to pass through that place, and some people advised them to take a detour to the waterway, but Master Zhou said that he didn't believe in Yaksha, there was really such a thing, so he asked him to come to me." ”

Lu Taotao thought it was quite strange, "Yaksha heard it, did you go to their house?" ”

"That's not it, the yaksha turned into Miss Zhou, and she also gnawed the human maid alive." Xiao Er, a street vendor, shook his head, "Poor Miss Zhou is like a flower, but now she is half-crazy, and her family affairs are also yellow." ”

Yunqi propped his chin and nodded: "It's a pity." ”

"Now the Zhou family is worried, a few days ago, I asked the Taoist priest of Fuxingguan to set up a dojo for three days."

"It's not the right direction." Mo Yan squatted on the bench, snorted and drank a bowl of soup, and said, "Yaksha is a ghost and god, and it should be surpassed by Buddhism." ”

The vendor Xiao Er smiled contemptuously: "In these years, who still builds a Buddhist temple." He pointed to the east, "You are also here to see the Royal Dojo, Dongyue Zhenren is a true heavenly master, and he has attained the Tao and Earth Immortal." ”

Lu Anran shook his head in his heart, the original intention of Buddhism was not to compete in the world, but the world wanted to divide the good and the bad because of various desires.

Yunqi chuckled: "You are really well-informed. ”

The vendor Xiao Er said proudly: "Small things, if you can't get in, remember to come to my side, I have a way to handle it for you." ”

Yunqi turned around and patted him on the shoulder with a jade bone fan, "Thank you first." ”

"No, just give silver, one hundred taels per person."

Lu Taotao shouted: "You rob the money." ”

"You can't say that." Xiao Er, a vendor, threw the rag on his shoulder, patted his chest and said, "I rely on my ability to make money." ”

After drinking a bowl of soup for one person, it is really not Xiao Er's boasting, the taste is delicious and sweet, the whitebait is small, the whole fish body is eaten, tender and elastic, fragrant and refreshing.

"Whitebait only grows in the eighteen pools, and the lake water there absorbs the essence of heaven and earth all day long, so the fish meat is more delicious." The vendor Xiao Er took the money and said, "But ordinary people can't catch it, I have ancestral craftsmanship, or you can take a look, there is a second one in the town that sells this?" ”

Lu Taotao's eyes rolled, "I don't believe it, I'll catch two for you tonight." ”

The vendor Xiao Er's face was a little strange, "I can't go these two days." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Someone just died there!" The vendor Xiao Er covered his mouth and lowered his voice, "When I was discovered, Yaksha only had half of his body left. ”

Lu Tao Tao forked his waist: "Okay, you dare to sell the fish caught in the lake that has died." ”

Other people have a bit of a bad taste in their stomachs.

The vendor Xiao Er hurriedly waved his hand: "Girl, don't talk nonsense, I caught these fish a few days ago and kept them in a bucket, and we businessmen also have a conscience to make money." ”

Yunqi asked, "Do you know the dead man?" When did you die? ”

"A villager in Songxi Village, his family said that he went into the mountains to hunt, and when it was dark, no one came home, and the next day he found someone in the third of the eighteen parks."

Lu Anran looked at Yunqi, "I want to see it." ”

Lu Taotao crossed his arms and nodded: "I really want to take a look." ”

The intuition of watching the moon silently followed, and the things that these two people were going to see were probably not the same thing.

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Yuyue eighteen berths, one berth after another.

The sun goes down, the sky is not completely dark, the lake is like a mirror, and the sunset in the west is reflected on the lake, which is beautiful and like a fairyland.

The evening breeze blew gently, blowing the surface of the lake, and a few naughty fish jumped up from the lake, throwing out a little splash, like falling flowers.

"It's beautiful." Lu Taotao sighed, flew up, stepped on the small half circle of the lake and flew back, "It's still living water." ”

Lu Anran looked into the distance, "The eighteen berths here are blocked by different hills from the outside, but in fact, each of the berths below is connected and leads to the groundwater. ”

Mo Yan squatted on the ground and picked up small pebbles, "Good looking is good-looking, serious is useless." ”

Lu Anran looked at a place, "The third berth is there." ”

"Well," Yunqi said as he stood beside her, "the body is gone, so let's go there and take a look." ”

Lu Anran nodded, feeling a little regretful in his heart.

It stands to reason that the body of the person who just died should be placed in the county office before the case is finally decided, but Guanyue ran and said that the body had been cremated.

"Those who die normally according to common sense will be suspended for seven days, and then buried in a coffin." Guanyue received a message from the county office and replied: "But there is a local custom that is different from other places, they have serious physical damage here, and even those who are mutilated, they will make up for it with paper, and then cremate them together within three days, so that after the deceased goes to the underworld, his body will be complete." ”

Lu Taotao scoffed, "Anyway, the paste paper people, just the whole family is pasted, and the reunion goes to the Hades Palace to report." ”

"You owe this mouth, be careful of going out and being beaten." Mo Yan said sarcastically.

Lu Taotao disagreed, "I think my dignified fox fairy broke from south to north, and I have never bowed my head to anyone." ”

Yun Qi had a long end and a long voice, "Your antidote is gone this month." ”

"Hey, you can't be Lu Anran's master." Turning back to Lu Anran's gaze, he widened his eyes and shouted, "Aren't you, do you really listen to him?" ”

Lu Anran said lightly: "You are too noisy." ”

Lu Taotao stomped his feet behind everyone's backs, twisted his face with his hands, and hummed: "Dog men and women, adulterers and adulteresses." ”

"What did you say?"

The corners of Lu Taotao's mouth on both sides pulled upward, "Little sister, you are beautiful, kind-hearted, and temperamental, just like a fairy in the world." ”

"Poof-" Mo Yan laughed maniacally, "It's the first time I've seen someone more shameless than our son." ”

offended two people with one sentence, and received two pairs of cold eyes.

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The third park is similar to the other lakes, except that there is a red maple forest in the southeast corner.

Unlike other places, the maple trees here are still fiery red on a summer day, and from a distance, they look like half a mountain is burning, and the flames are dancing enthusiastically under the mountain breeze.

"People die in this position." The moon looked at the opposite direction, and it happened to be the outermost part of the red maple tree.

Lu Anran squatted down, picked up a few maple leaves and smelled them, and looked around again.

Wufang came back in a circle, "There are no beast footprints." ”

Lu Taotao was lying on an extended branch, and the branch was bent by her and almost fell to the ground, but it was still tenaciously not broken, "I said that the Yaksha, you can fly, what footprints do you want." ”

Yun Qi flicked the jade fan pendant with his index finger, "It seems that there is a little little blood." ”

Lu Anran stood up, raised his head and looked around, "Well, this is not the place where the first crime occurred. ”

"No, you can pick up a few handfuls of dirt and find out?" Lu Taotao held his chin with both hands and tilted his head.

"No matter what the Yaksha is, if the deceased is eaten and dies, when the stump tears and the skin breaks, there will naturally be blood flowing out, and the blood will flow and drip into the soil to seep down, even if the dead leaves and dirt can cover up, but the blood-stained soil will not disappear in a short time." Lu Anran narrowed his eyes and said: "I have smelled the soil here, and there is no bloody smell at all. ”

Lu Taotao wrinkled his nose, "Lu Anran, you are so disgusting, you smell the mud where the dead man has been lying." ”

Yun Qi tapped his palm with a fan and pondered: "When a person dies, he throws his body here, and the blood has coagulated, so there is not much blood, and it is impossible for it to flow into the mud. ”

Lu Anran nodded: "Yes, it's a pity that there are dead leaves all over the ground." ”

Mo Yan didn't understand, "What's wrong with the dead leaves?" ”

"If it is a beast of prey, it weighs heavier, and even if it steps on dead leaves, it will leave a mark, but ......" The night darkened, and Yunqi's eyes also sank into the depths, "Lu Taotao, let you pass through this maple leaf forest, will you leave footprints?" ”

Lu Taotao turned over and sat up, "Who do you look down on?" ”

She blinked, smiled playfully, flew lightly into the air like a harrier, climbed the top of a tree and slid down, her feet rustling on dead leaves, but she didn't leave a single mark on the ground.

Guanyue suddenly said, "The prince is saying that if someone is a little better, it can be done, maybe it is not a Yaksha cannibalism at all." ”

"This is a kind of speculation, after the fox fairy snatched his relatives, this son always felt that the 'monster' was not so smart."

Lu Taotao raised his head, and a red maple leaf was placed on his nose and blown away, "Your words are very pertinent." ”

Lu Anran asked Guanyue, "What is opposite the red maple forest?" ”

"There are many mountains here, and the red maple forest is backed by the mountain, and there is no road behind." Guanyue asked, "But do you want to investigate?" ”

Yunqi said: "It's dark today, you go again tomorrow." ”

When a few people returned to the city, Lu Anran said to Yunqi: "So far, it seems that only Miss Zhou has escaped by luck. ”

Yunqi immediately understood, "Do you want to go to Zhou's house?" ”

"All the original people are missing, and I still don't know if I live or die, since Miss Zhou's accident, the Yaksha eater has surfaced." Lu Anran half-lowered his eyes, his dark eyes were calm, and he said slowly: "The next few people are all as miserable as Miss Zhou's maid, like a beast eating it." ”

"Perhaps, the Yaksha really eats people, but not the first few?"

Lu Anran tilted his head, "The prince suspects that there are two cases in this?" ”

Yun Qi put his hands behind his back, and the jade bone fan knocked on his back, "It's hard to say, if you want to know the strange thing, you have to meet this Miss Zhou Pei." ”

It was agreed at the moment, but until the next day, before he went out, he was shocked to hear about it.