The cold wind hunts, blowing the banner of the village and dancing.

A Sai Hung swept through the sky.

Chen Yuan looked up at Guihong, and raised the bronze mirror in his hand again.

The person in the mirror is only in his early twenties, but the corners of his lips have grown a thick mustache, and his face has a three-point vicissitudes of life.

He let out a sudden sigh.

It's the alternating season of autumn and winter again.

Chen Yuan was born in the Chen family in Huaibei.

The Chen family has controlled the Huaiyang Gang, a big gang in the martial arts world, for generations, and has mastered thousands of elite warriors in the land of Pengcheng, north of the Huai River and south of Shandong. Because Huaibei is a buffer zone for the confrontation between the north and the south, the Chen family has always had a high degree of independence after so many years of confrontation between the north and the south.

More than 10 years ago, it was also such a season of autumn and winter. The Qingzhou town guard envoy of the Great Qi Dynasty, who occupied Murong Xue Village, a descendant of the Murong family in the Guanggu area, colluded with the Northern Song Army to attack the Huaiyang Gang.

The leader of the Huaiyang Gang was outnumbered and died on the spot. The Chen family fled in all directions.

At that time, the military master of Beifu was the master of Ma Boyong, the famous "Jiangdong Tiger". That man was extremely belligerent, and despite the fact that he had not yet fully controlled the vast land north of the Yangtze River and south of the Huai River, he rashly sent troops to Huaibei, and as a result, the benefits were cheaper for Murong Xue Village, and the Yangzhou army barely gained an inch of land. This incident made the generals of Beifu extremely dissatisfied, and later Ma Boyong was able to exile his master, which was due to this factor.

It was at that time that Chen Yuan fled to Hedong, and then went to the grassland to be accepted as a disciple by Sheng Xuanhuai, the leader of the Ashina Sect, and sent to work with Ren Yaoxiao, but others regarded him as a native of Bingzhou.

He had already heard that the son of the previous gang leader, that is, his cousin Chen Ruicong, had taken refuge in Ma Boyong in recent years after ten years of wandering, hoping to restore his homeland through the strength of the Beifu Army.

Chen Yuan also had the heart to go south to take refuge, but now that he finally eliminated Ren Yaoxiao, who intended to be self-reliant, and seized this village, how could he be willing to give up immediately?

It's just that the Demon Gate's plan to launch the second Wuhu Chaohua is nothing more than a delusion of a fool's dream in his eyes. How could Chen Yuan be willing to be a small village owner and spend this life?

"Congratulations to the owner, congratulations to the owner. A white-clad scribe with an obscene appearance stepped forward and said.

"What's so gratifying?" Chen Yuan stood with his hands in his hands and said lightly.

The white-robed scribe called the sword. is the second master of the previous cottage, and he is also the deputy of Sheng Xuanhuai, the leader of the Ashina Sect, who personally assigned it to his cousin Ren Xiaoxiao.

Although this person has good facial features and is also familiar with piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, he has an obscene temperament and unbearable speech. He used to use the pseudonym Xiao Jingting. wandered around, trying to hook up with women with his ** words that seemed to be deflated in the market, fantasizing about beautiful women, but he was repeatedly beaten, and he was almost castrated, and he became a laughing stock ever since.

said that the sword is the second master, Chen Yuan is the third master, and now that Chen Yuan is the owner of the village, of course it seems embarrassing.

However, the sword has always won Ren Xiaoxiao's trust, and this time he launched a mutiny and forced Ren Xiaoxiao to fall off a cliff and die. It is said that the sword is in charge. Regarding Ren Yaoxiao's policy of restricting looting, Jian Jian was also dissatisfied, so he colluded with Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan stayed in Hedong for a long time, and introduced Hedong natives Liu Yunjie, Kong Linghua, and Xie Siyuan to the grassland, and became members of the Ashina Sect, and now those three are all powerful figures in the village.

Therefore, Chen Yuan has a great influence in the village, and the sword can only be subordinated to Chen Yuan now.

"With the talent of the master of Chen Zhai, now killing Ren Xiaoxiao and controlling the dream village is exactly the sea wide and leaping. The sky is high and the birds are flying!" said the sword with low eyebrows and flattery.

"You and I have known Ren Xiaoxiao for nearly ten years, and I have watched him grow up. Chen Yuan shrugged his eyebrows. It seems to recall many past events: "With his way of acting, how could he die so easily?"

"But the body has been found......

"A flattened corpse doesn't prove anything. Chen Yuan's voice was calm.

The Chen family in Huaibei is known for its wisdom. Although Chen Yuan's wisdom is not outstanding, he has a quiet temperament.

At this moment, someone rushed in in a hurry: "Report-"

Chen Yuanyi waved his hand. "Say!"

The herald said: "Iron Bull...... Iron Bull scared ...... to death"

Chen Yuan was startled and said, "Scared to death, take me to see!"

Tie Niu, of course, is not his real name, but the nickname of a bandit in the village, this person's real name is Zhao Gongyi.

As his name suggests, Zhao Gongyi is more than two meters tall, and he is good at using two sledgehammers, and one hammer can put down several people hugging a thick tree.

He once caught wild Kodo beasts, grabbed them by the neck, and drove them through the mountains.

But Zhao Gongyi is most famous for his courage.

He had gone into an open tomb and lay down beside a coffin for the night in a stormy time. He also once went to a mass grave after a mass execution in Hedong County, dug up a few pieces of silver and a handful of jewelry from the pile of the dead, and dug out two gold teeth from the mouth of the dying person, and was bitten by someone on his hand.

If such a person dies, he should die on the battlefield in any case, and he will never be frightened to death. He once said: In this world, people who are bolder than me have not yet been born.

But last night, Zhao Gongyi died while standing guard outside the village.

Chen Yuan rushed to the scene with Shuo Jian and a few others to look at Zhao Gongyi's body.

Zhao Gongyi's corpse could not find a single scar, but his face was pale, his tongue was long and spit out, his pupils contracted sharply, and there was indescribable fear in his eyes.

After Chen Yuan inspected the corpse, his first reaction was to look at the sword.

Saying that, the sword couldn't help but shudder.

Chen Yuan didn't speak to him, but ordered: "Find a servant, dissect this corpse and examine it carefully to find out the real cause of death." ”

The bandits replied, "Yes!"

......

The results of the examination were that there was no problem, and Zhao Gongyi was indeed scared to death.

However, the next night, another body was brought back. The death was exactly the same as Zhao Gongyi, and there were no scars on the whole body, and the expression on his face was extremely frightened.

This was followed by the third, the fourth. Even if the two of them are on guard together, they can't avoid the fate of being scared to death together.

Rumors soon spread in the village, saying that the former director of the village died unwillingly, and turned into a ghost and came back to ask for his life.

This argument is very convincing. Everyone knows that there are really ghosts in this world.

For ordinary people, ghosts are often just chatter. But cultivators are more likely to come into contact with the horror of ghosts.

The more advanced a person is, the more terrible it will be if he is affected by the influence of heaven and earth and the qi of the earth to form a fierce spirit.

Fierce spirits have the power to breathe the hearts of the people, and even the most daring people are often killed after encountering great horrors.

Although there have been countless people who have died in vain since ancient times, there are very few who have turned into fierce spirits and asked for their lives. But after all, there was such a record, so the possibility of Ren Xiaoxiao turning into a fierce spirit for revenge cannot be ruled out.

For a while, people in the dream village were panicked. The regular samurai were fine, the militia had begun to disperse, and the recruited homeless people were terrified by the ghost stories, and fled one by one.

In the back hall of the council hall, Chen Yuan looked at the sword coldly.

"Say...... Did you deliberately let Ren Xiaoxiao go, and now he comes back and pretends to be a ghost?"

"This ...... How dare I do that?" said Jian anxiously, "Maybe he has really become a ghost......

"Hmph. Chen Yuan said: "If a person like him dies in vain, he will indeed have the resentment of becoming a ghost." However, there is no murderous land near this stockade, and the possibility of him turning into a fierce spirit and coming back to ask for his life is really very small......"

"But...... You also saw it from afar, Ren Xiaoxiao fell from the high cliff......" said the sword in defense.

"Seeing may not be believing. Chen Yuanhan said.

"Even if Ren Xiaoxiao is not dead, he is pretending to be a ghost in the village...... But ......" said the sword: "You can't say that I took him, the owner of the village......"

Chen Yuan squinted his eyes, and his expression was gloomy: "It's true that there is no evidence to prove that it's you, but if I find out......"

"Small...... The little one swore to the sky......" said the sword in a panic.

"You don't have to swear, this kind of thing only depends on the evidence, what's the use of swearing, you should step back first. Chen Yuan waved his hand.

Said that the sword is the only way to retreat. (To be continued.) )