The old store of the Dong family has reached the end of the day.

In the distance, a large group of people came to the official avenue.

The wind swept the dust, and the people shouted and the horses neighed.

Looking closely, I found that this team was clearly divided into two teams. The first team is a yamen catcher wearing a black soap suit, each with a waist and crotch and a horizontal knife to show off their might; The other team was more formidable, all solemn soldiers in armor and halberds.

The blade of the iron halberd held high still had dried blood red on it.

In the center there are two people riding tall horses, and on the left is a middle-aged man about forty years old, wearing a green official robe and a fish bag hanging from his waist. On the right is a young general with his hair tied in armor and a red robe, with bows and arrows and halberds hanging on both sides of his saddle.

"Li County Order, there should be the Dong family's old store ahead, right?"

The young general was a little impatient, kept looking at the sun in the sky, calculated the current hour in his heart, and then asked the county commander on the side.

"Commander He doesn't have to be anxious, there is the old Dong family shop in front of him. Didn't the Spirit Officer say that we should not be here until the time of the hour......"

Li Xianling was not arrogant or impatient, he twisted his beard and looked like an old god.

The Lingguan Lord in his mouth was referring to Xia Zhicicada. According to Xia Zhiciao's instructions last night, they wiped out all the bandits hidden in the mountains.

"Oh, I'm not afraid that if it's too late, the thieves will run away."

Commander He clutched the reins of his horse in his hand, and his left hand pressed the sword at his waist. The scabbard struck the side armor with a clanging sound.

"No, brother......"

Li Xianling is older, and unlike the generals like Commander He, who are only in the military camp, he is very familiar with all kinds of things in the Great Qi court.

When Xia Zhician came to his county office, as soon as he took out the golden seal representing the spirit official, Li County Ling knew that the other party's origin was not simple. Regarding the five-colored spirit officer, he only knew a little about it, but he understood that the other party must not be a mortal man like them who could not subdue demons and subdue demons.

"Brother, the five-colored spirit officials are not just an official position, they are all immortal cultivators who can fly to the sky and subdue demons, not comparable to you and me......

"Tsk, I don't believe it. The peaceful and prosperous world of my Great Qi relies on us soldiers who are not afraid of death, and I don't know where the Jianghu warlocks come from, that is, they will change their tricks to deceive people......"

Commander He pursed his lips disdainfully, he never believed in any demons and monsters, let alone those charlatans who carried the banner of subduing demons and subduing demons.

"Oh, Brother He, you...... It's okay to say this to my face, but don't say it in front of Lord Lingguan......"

Li Xianling waved his hand like a rattle, and he persuaded him bitterly, but seeing that Commander He looked indifferent, he could only sigh and stop talking.

"Okay, Li County Order, I've already arrived at the Dong family's old store."

Commander He said, urging the horse to take the first step.

The officials and soldiers in front of them had already surrounded the entire Dong family's old shop.

"Report to the General, I found several stiff corpses at the door that had been dead for a long time......"

Commander He grabbed the reins of the horse, and he waved his horsewhip and pointed to the old store of the Dong family, and shouted in a deep voice:

"Let me go in and search, not even a rat can be spared!"

When the soldiers heard this, except for the soldiers stationed on the periphery who could not move, the rest of the soldiers rushed in with sharp blades in their hands.

It didn't take long for them all to run out, all of them turning pale, and some of them began to bend over and retch. Only one of the calm veterans walked up to the horse of Commander He, clasped his fists and saluted:

"Back to the general, the inn lobby is full of tragically dead corpses, it is estimated that there are more than thirty or forty corpses."

"Oh?"

At this time, Li County ordered Shanshan to come late. He looked at the team of soldiers with crooked faces and pale faces at the door of the Dong family's old store, and felt a little funny in his heart, but it was not revealed on the surface:

"How's it going?"

"There were dead people outside the house, no less than forty corpses."

As soon as these words came out, Li Xianling felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse. Generally, as long as there is a homicide within the jurisdiction of the county order, it will affect the official's evaluation of himself.

Such an extremely horrific massacre is completely enough for Shangguan to dismiss him.

"Then are there any living people, have they all been searched in the inn?"

Li County Commander stabilized his mind, after all, he has been a county commander for many years, and he is much more familiar with many things than a general who only knows how to command troops.

"We haven't searched all yet, the inn lobby is full of dead bodies, and we can't get in......"

A servant next to him said.

"Don't you all have legs! I won't get in through the back door, but I can't go through the wall......"

Those officials were scolded by Li County's order, and then hurriedly went to find the back door of the inn.

After a while, the officials broke open the back door of the inn.

The whole group rushed in, and even the soldiers followed.

"Ghosts! Ghosts! You're all ghosts......"

With a few screams and screams, a man was dragged by two officials to the front of Li County Ling and Commander He.

The man was in tears, his eyes empty. He shouted hoarsely at every sight of a person, and at the same time clawed wildly into the air, and a trail of water oozed from the hem of his pants and shirt, accompanied by a foul stench.

"I'm not crazy, is it?"

Li Xianling pinched his nose, and then waved his hand at the officer. The officials understood and dragged the man farther away.

"Come on, bring over two of the captured bandit captives, let them take a look, and see if they know this person."

Immediately, the soldiers escorted over two bandits, and they recognized them at a glance, the man who seemed to be crazy was their second master and military advisor, and he was also the shopkeeper of the old Dong family's store.

"Then do you recognize the corpse at the door?"

"I don't know."

"What about the corpses in the house?"

"They seem to be the brothers who were chosen by the big boss yesterday to go down the mountain to do 'business'......"

Speaking of this, Li Xianling and Commander He glanced at each other. The hanging heart was suddenly relieved, because if all the dead in the house were bandits, this matter might still be a good thing.

"Alright, bring all the bodies back and arrange for an autopsy ......"

Li Xian Ling turned his horse's head and was about to leave, but Commander He on the side blocked the long knife at his waist in front of him.

"If you take all the corpses away, then my brothers and I won't all work in vain."

"Oh, Brother He, why are you in a hurry, I'll take the corpse back first, and after the inspection is completed, there is no major problem. You and I jointly signed a letter, and it was enough to say that we would destroy all the bandits. ”

Li Xian Ling smiled and pushed the scabbard in front of him away, then stretched out his finger and pointed at himself and Commander He, and continued:

"Isn't the credit for this to you and me......"

"Hahaha, I see, that's He reckless, how offended, please don't be surprised."

"Brother Xian, don't be polite, go, Brother Fool invites you to drink."

"Thank you, Brother Li!"

……

The group hurried to noon, and Xia Zhicicada and the two were stunned that they did not meet a town, but became more and more desolate as they walked.

"Hungry ......"

Nan Er walked behind, holding the knife in his arms, his eyes full of resentment staring at the back of Xia Zhicicada not far in front of him.

"I'll eat when we get to town."

Xia Zhicicada suddenly stopped walking and walked, he looked around, and found that he had probably strayed into the deep mountains.

"Before I found Zhendian, I starved and first......"

Nan Er also looked around, he longed to go downhill, and when he turned a corner, he could see a town, preferably with fragrant wine and delicious food.

Gollum –

Thinking to myself, my stomach is getting more and more hungry.

Well?

Suddenly, I saw a fruit grove planted under the hillside not far away, and those small red, green, and green fruits were hanging on the branches, swaying left and right with the autumn wind in the mountain forest.

It's tempting.

Nan Er wiped his saliva, stomped his feet on the ground, and the whole person flew into the fruit forest.

As soon as he grabbed the trunk of the fruit tree with both hands, he climbed between the branches and forks full of fruits in three times and two times, hung the burden behind his back on a branch fork above his head, and then directly picked the fruits that had ripened to redness and stuffed them into the baggage.

It wasn't until I felt that the burden was stuffed with a lot of fruit, so I took off the burden and carried it back behind me, first gently checked it to make sure that the fruit in the burden would not fall out, and then flew to the ground.

"Why did you go?"

Xia Zhician watched Nan Er come out of the forest on the side of the road with a lot of burden on his back. Seeing his happy look, he asked with a frown.

"I went and plucked some fruit, and I was hungry. Come on, come on, you taste. ”

Nan Er grabbed a handful from the baggage, and those small red, red, green and green fruits appeared in front of Xia Zhicicada.

The fruit is shaped like an apple, but it is the size of an egg.

Xia Zhicicada stared at Nan Er's fruit, and his expression was in a trance. When he was a child, he went to Sleepy Dragon Mountain, and then he studied in the backyard, and he read for ten years.

In the mountains, his elder brother often went to chop firewood, and when he came back, he would often bring some wild fruits that grew in the mountains to his senior brothers.

Some are sweet and sour, some are bitter, but every time I and the second senior brother and the third senior brother rush to eat.

Now there are many years of not eating the wild fruits on the Sleepy Dragon Mountain, and there are no more brothers in the small farm yard on the top of the mountain.

I didn't know why for a while, but I was full of emotion in my heart.

"Hello? Do you eat or not, what are you doing in a daze......"

Nan Er chewed the fruit in his mouth and looked at Xia Zhicicada with a puzzled expression.

"It's fine."

Xia Zhicicada took a handful of fruits, and he threw one into his mouth without looking at it.

The wild fruits in the mountains are already ripe, and there is a little sweetness and sourness in the mouth, but of course there is still some bitterness in the mouth.

"Let's go, there's a town not far ahead."

"How do you know?"

"Guess."

"Xia Zhicicada, you ......"

……

Three days later, Xia Zhician and the others finally found a larger town.

But as soon as I entered the town, I saw a group of people not far in front of me gathered in front of a billboard, talking nonsense.

"Look, look, the Zhao family has posted a notice again."

"Yes, I don't know how much money I gave this time, but I got 10,000 yuan last time......"

"My God, 10,000 dollars, that's what our brothers can't earn in their lives."

"You're wrong, you can't earn it even if you add it in the next life."

A few people were talking to each other when they heard a crisp gong sound. Then a voice shouted:

"Ladies and gentlemen, our Boss Zhao is willing to pay 30,000 yuan this time! Just to find someone who can subdue demons and subdue demons......"

Hearing this, Nan Er stopped first. He turned his head sideways and glanced at Xia Zhicicada next to him.

The other party ignored him, and planned to go directly to the town.

Nan Er rolled his eyes, squeezed directly into the crowd, and then took down the notice he had just posted without looking.

"Alas! You're a ......."

Nan Er had already come out again, he was running in front, and the person who had just posted the notice was chasing after him.

"Xia Zhi Cicada!"

Nan Er let out a loud shout, and stuffed the notice he had just grabbed in his hand into Xia Zhiciao's arms.

When the latter opened the notice with a puzzled face, he frowned when he saw the handwriting on the notice that read "Heavy money to catch demons and ghosts", and he didn't have time to say anything.

I saw a bunch of people running behind me, who looked like slaves and servants in a big family.

Nan Er stretched out his hand and pointed:

"He'll catch ghosts!"

Xia Zhicicada: "......"

Servants: "......"