The next day, after everyone met at the south gate of the county, under the leadership of Wang Jin, who was more familiar with the road, they rode quickly to Fengle Village, after all, there were seventy or eighty miles away from there!

"Everyone work hard, you must arrive before noon, otherwise you can only enter Fengle Village the next day!" Wang Jin shouted from the front.

After hearing this, Wang Xiaohu and everyone in the back also waved the whip harder, making the horses under the seat run faster.

"Fortunately, it's not a sub-healthy physique in the previous life, otherwise you would have to take half your life just to ride a horse!" Wang Xiaohu, who is riding on a horse, is very satisfied with his current physical fitness.

Half a day later.

"My lord, there is Fengle Village in front!" Wang Jin, who was in front, pointed to a village not far away and shouted loudly.

"Okay, everyone rest in place, and after half an hour, light the torches and enter the village," Wang Xiaohu commanded loudly to everyone as he sat on his horse.

"Yes..., my lord!"

The crowd began to dismount and eat something to replenish their energy.

Half an hour later,

"My lord, I sent someone in to check on it just now, and found that there was no one in the village," Wang Jin walked up to Wang Xiaohu's face and said with an uneasy expression.

"Well, is there no one in such a big village?" Wang Xiaohu said with some surprise.

"Although there was no door-to-door search, but more than a dozen houses were empty, my lord, do you see us?"

"Well, Tian Wu, you take a team of people in to search again, no matter what happens in half an hour, you need to return here" Wang Xiaohu looked at the village in the distance and instructed Tian Wu.

"Yes, my lord," Tian Wu led the people, lit torches and entered Fengle Village to check again.

"My lord, why do you still light the torches at noon, what if we run out of them at night!" Wang Jin next to him looked at the sun in the sky and asked suspiciously.

"Oh, nothing, just in case! By the way, you send someone to collect some dry firewood nearby, and put it in the upwind of the village. ”

"Yes, my lord", some puzzled, Wang Jin took people to collect some dry firewood and put it in the north of the village, not far from the entrance of the village.

Wang Xiaohu always felt a sense of disobedience when he looked at Fengle Village not far away, which was why he did not rush into the village.

Half an hour later, Tian Wu withdrew from the village with his men one after another.

"My lord, my subordinates went in and searched from house to house, and I really didn't see a single person, and I saw that most of them still had some food on their tables, and the time to see them should not be more than half a day, which made the subordinates feel very strange, like eating and suddenly disappeared, what do you think, sir?" Tian Wu told Wang Xiaohu about some discoveries in the village and waited for his decision.

"Well, got it! Let's go to the north of the village, Wang Jin should be ready! With that, he rode around the village to the north, and the others hurried to follow.

When Wang Xiaohu arrived to the north of the village, he saw that Wang Jin had already piled up the dry firewood he had found.

"My lord, the dry wood is ready!" Seeing Wang Xiaohu bringing people to arrive, Wang Jin hurriedly stepped forward to report.

"Okay, start setting fire to the village!" Wang Xiaohu said to everyone with a cold face.

"Ahh My lord, this burned the village...", everyone was shocked, they didn't burn the village, but they were a little surprised by Wang Xiaohu's ruthlessness, he started to set fire to the village at such a young age, and he paid it back when he grew up.

Wang Xiaohu looked at everyone's reaction coldly: "Hmph, what's the matter, there is no one in the village, what's wrong with the burning!" Why don't you go in and look for it! ”

"The subordinates don't dare," Wang Jin said cautiously, and then shouted loudly: "Don't you go and prepare to set fire to the village, do you want to go in and have a look again?" ”

Then Wang Jin and Tian Wu began to instruct the people to start putting dry firewood at the base of the walls of some houses at the entrance of the village, and began to set fire to the village.

Because in ancient times, most of the houses in the village were wooden structures, so soon the hula flames began to spread to the village with the help of the wind, and everyone was afraid that something would jump out of the fire.

"My lord is smart, it's daytime, even if there is anything to be burned in the sea of fire," Wang Jin looked at the sea of fire and said to Wang Xiaohu flatteringly.

"Hehe, that's, I didn't understand when I used to read books, why do you have to set fires at night, now the sun is in the middle of the day, it's a good time to set fires, even if there are any changes, you can also react to it, only people with sick brains can set fires at night, and there is nothing bad now," Wang Xiaohu said with some pride.

Wang Xiaohu's words were heard in a cold sweat in everyone's hearts: "Damn, this is a ruthless person, what he said about setting fire to other people's villages is so justified."

After burning for an hour, Fengle Village was basically burned!

"My lord, look, there is movement," the sharp-eyed Tian Wu pointed to the direction of the ancestral hall of the village and said to Wang Xiaohu.

"Well, there is indeed movement," Wang Jin also said loudly.

Looking at the direction of the ancestral hall, it seemed that something was struggling, constantly destroying the burning houses around it, trying to extinguish the flames.

Wang Xiaohu took out his bow and arrows, pulled the bowstring vigorously, and shot the arrow in his hand violently after aiming.

"Whoosh...", and soon shot a moving black shadow in the sea of fire.

Seeing that although he shot the black shadow, the black shadow was still struggling and shaking, Wang Xiaohu kept in his hand until he shot a pot of fine iron arrows.

"Adults are good at archery" Everyone admired Wang Xiaohu's archery skills, and they saw clearly just now that the arrows hit the black shadow.

"Phew..., alright, it's less than two hours before dark, Wang Jin!" Wang Xiaohu took a deep breath and said.

"The villain is here!"

"Take us to a nearby village to rest for the night, and come back tomorrow at noon to check on the situation," Wang Xiaohu instructed Wang Jin.

"Ah, my lord, why don't we wait for the fire to go out and check it out?" After Wang Jin heard the order, he couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

Wang Xiaohu couldn't help but roll his eyes and said: "When the fire is over, it will be dark, if there is anything abnormal inside, the life of the big guy is not life!" Lead the way ahead, go! ”

"Ah, the little one is confused, so I'll lead the way," he said, running in the direction of the road as he rode his horse back and forth.

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Xiaohu's group came to a village, and seeing some villagers walking around in the village, Wang Xiaohu's heart suddenly relaxed.

"My lord, this is a small fishing village, we can rest here tonight," Wang Jin said, pointing to the village in front of him.

"Okay, then let's rest here for the night, but remember not to disturb the villagers, understand?" Wang Xiaohu said in a serious voice, and at the same time his eyes swept over everyone.

Feeling the seriousness in Wang Xiaohu's eyes, everyone's hearts tightened and hurriedly responded: "Yes, my lord."

"My lord, then I'll go and call the village chief out first, so that we can arrange our accommodation!" Wang Jin asked for instructions.

"Well, call the village chief, I just asked about something," Wang Xiaohu nodded and said.

Taking advantage of the time when Wang Jin went to find the village chief, Wang Xiaohu carefully inquired about what Tian Wu found after entering the village.

A moment later, Wang Jin came to Wang Xiaohu with an old man.

"My lord, Zhao Li, the village chief of the small fishing village," Wang Jin said, pointing to the old man behind him.

"My lord, little old man Zhao Li, as the head of the small fishing village, welcome the adults to come to the small fish village, please stay for a few more days!" The old man said with a smile on his face.

Wang Xiaohu looked at the village chief with a strange expression, and said: "That's okay, stay for two more days", noticed that the old village chief's body was tight, and laughed: "Haha, just kidding, stay for a day tonight, and set off tomorrow morning, this is the fee, take it!" After speaking, he threw a silver ingot of five taels to the village chief.

"Ah, my lord, how can I ask for my lord's money! ...", although he said so, his hand was tight.

"What are you talking about, the adults give you silver because they can afford you, hurry up and take us to rest!" Wang Jin said impatiently when he saw the village chief who was about to resign.

"Yes, yes, little old man, I'll take you adults to rest", after speaking, he carefully led everyone into the village.

The village chief arranged for Wang Xiaohu and them to rest at his own house and a neighbor's house respectively, and they temporarily lived in the homes of villagers in the same village.

"Old village chief, do you know the Fengle Village next door?" Wang Xiaohu sat in the courtyard of the former village chief's house and asked about Fengle Village.

"Alas, my lord, I know this, after all, it is not far from our village, and there are usually some contacts, but the strange thing is that the people in the whole village disappeared in an instant three days ago, and I don't know where they went. Later, I reported the case, and then I didn't reply, until today, sir, you come over," the old village chief sighed, maybe Fengle Village also has his relatives!

"Oh, did you send someone to look for it?" Wang Xiaohu continued to ask.

"I sent the descendants of the village to look around, but I found nothing! It's not strange that if the whole village moved, it would be impossible for the whole village to move without a little movement, and there was no sign of moving! ”。

Wang Xiaohu listened to the words of the village chief, fell into deep thought, and thought: "What the hell is going on, judging from the results of the investigation by the village chief and Tian Wu, the villagers of Fengle should still be in the village, but no one can find it, and what is the black shadow seen in the fire today, it seems that I can only enter the village tomorrow to search it."

"There is Lao Lao Village Chief, we will go to Fengle Village tomorrow to check", and then motioned for the old village chief to leave.

"My lord, the little old man will go back first", after speaking, he walked out of his house and walked to the villager's house not far away.

Wang Jin looked at the village chief who was leaving and said, "My lord, what the village chief said just now is similar to what we saw at noon, but I don't know what the black shadow in the fire is?" ”。

"While it's still early, Wang Jin, you send someone to Fengle Village to take a look at the situation, don't remember, you must watch from a distance, don't enter the village for 500 meters, do you hear? And must be back within an hour! Wang Xiaohu said in a deep voice.

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will bring a few brothers in person!" After speaking, he walked outside and called a few people to ride horses together and set off to Fengle Village.

Seeing that there was still more than an hour before it got dark, Wang Xiaohu thought in his heart: "I hope tomorrow will be a good weather!" ”。