Chapter 180: The murderer is too cunning
Zhou Tong had a gloomy face and looked at the group of people from the side branch family in front of him.
Zhou Tong has obviously aged a lot in the past two days, and he doesn't know how he survived.
The most gifted son of the family's generation, the most gifted son, was killed in the Demon Abyss.
Immediately afterwards, the daughter who had just married the old Yuanying family in the door also died in Weishan City.
Thinking of his two children, Zhou Tong couldn't wait to peel off the skin of these wastes.
"Let the heavens stay, let the others go down......"
After listening to the clan uncle's words, a group of elders of the side branch family respectfully withdrew from the house as if they had been pardoned.
Zhou Tian put down and stood there, like sitting on pins and needles.
Fortunately, next, the clan uncle Zhou Tong did not blame him too much.
After all, people can't be resurrected after death, and Zhou Tong has already understood the situation at that time, if it weren't for Yun'er's own opinion, he would not have suffered this catastrophe.
"Let's talk about how to catch the murderer next......
Zhou Tianfang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and then took a deep breath.
"Uncle Clan, Tianfang has an idea, but it needs the full cooperation of the family......
Zhou Tong looked at him coldly, and said gloomily: "You said the same last time, but what about the result......"
"Uncle clan, it's not that the nephew is incompetent, it's that the murderer is too cunning......"
Hearing Zhou Tianfang's words, Zhou Tong waved his hand a little impatiently.
"Okay, I don't want to listen to......"
Zhou Tianfang took a deep breath and said, "Uncle Clan, I judge that the murderer went to the Dongping Kingdom of the mortal realm......"
"Dongping ......"
Zhou Tong was stunned for a moment, if the murderer was really hidden in Dongping Kingdom, with the murderer's cunning, it would be difficult to find him again.
"Uncle clan, my nephew has an idea, it is definitely a foolproof strategy, but it requires the cooperation of the clan uncle to use the secret method of the blood path to determine the approximate location of the murderer."
Zhou Tong said suspiciously: "Dongping Kingdom has a vast territory and a large population, even if the location of the murderer is determined, it is extremely difficult to find him in the vast sea of people. ”
Zhou Tianfang hesitated, and his heart was also at war with heaven and man.
But when he thinks of his sons and nephews at home, he can't care so much.
The murderer must be caught before the monks of the main family arrive, or the descendants of the family will never have a better day.
Zhou Tian was ruthless, came to Zhou Tong's side, and whispered a few words.
"What, how dare you ......"
But at this point, Zhou Tong stopped, and then he closed his eyes when he thought of his son and daughter who died tragically.
"You go down, I'll think about it again......"
Zhou Tian bowed and bowed, and then left the house.
Looking at the other party's back, Zhou Tong opened his eyes and sat there motionless for a long time.
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Dongping country, Luoshui county town.
Luoshui County is named after Luoshui, this big river crosses Dongping country, and its tributaries extend in all directions, which is a very important waterway transportation artery in Dongping country.
Luoshui County is one of the important nodes of Dongpingguo's waterway transportation, and countless ships pass through here every day.
The wharf of the county seat, not far from the city, is on the bank of Luoshui, and it is full of boats along the river.
Merchant ships will inevitably stop here when they are unloading and restocking.
The ships and goods coming and going from the south to the north have brought a large number of floating population and business opportunities to Luoshui County.
Pedestrians are weaving, and cars and horses are dense.
Merchant ships loaded with salt, tea, grain, and other goods were pulled by slender men or rocked by boatmen, and there was no time to stop.
A morning rain in early summer washed away the turbidity and sultry heat between heaven and earth.
A wagon loaded with bales of rice came from outside the city and stopped in an alley in the middle of the city.
A swarthy man in his thirties jumped out of the carriage and stuck his whip on the side of the carriage.
"Gave birth to a child, unloaded ......"
A man who was sitting in the back of the car napping opened his eyes in a daze and jumped out of the car.
Shirtless, his gown draped over his shoulders, and his muscles were cast from steel, he easily carried the two bags of rice on the cart and walked into the backyard of the rice shop.
The two of them moved quickly, and after a while, they finished unloading the rice on the cart.
The swarthy man steered the carriage out of the city.
Su Fan wiped his face with the gown on his shoulder, sat cross-legged in the carriage, and looked curiously at the scenery on both sides of the street.
The streets of Luoshui County are very bustling and lively, full of bustling merchants, sedan chairs and horse-drawn carriages.
The restaurants and tea shops on both sides of the street are full of high-rollers in the rivers and lakes, and there is an endless stream.
Everywhere you can see a rich boy, with a few attendant servants, sneaking around for three or two days with local dogs, with crickets and bird cages to tease and play.
The ladies with oil-paper umbrellas entered and exited the exquisite jewelry shops in groups of three or five, chattering excitedly selecting their favorite accessories and rouge gouache.
Many small vendors carry fresh melons and fruits, shouting and selling them along the streets.
Su Fan looked at the bustling crowd on the street, and enjoyed the lively atmosphere of the market in a comfortable mood.
It's all so vivid.
The carriage drove out of the city of Luoshui County and came to a wharf on the shore of Luoshui outside the city.
There are warehouses everywhere, as well as rice cloth tea and salt trading houses, as well as restaurants, teahouses, and other various shops.
The wharf was full of coolie porters with flat burdens, who stood at the berth before dawn, waiting for the cargo ships to dock and unload their cargo.
Anyway, as long as you have the strength, you can mix a bite of food here.
Su Fan has been here for more than ten days, and he doesn't want to be crowded on the dock with a bunch of bitter hahaks every day, so he found a loyal and honest "cousin" Zhang Wu.
He used his divine sense to implant a memory in the mind of his "cousin", so he became a cousin who came from Zhang Wu's hometown.
Zhang Wu was driving in a warehouse, so he asked someone to recruit his cousin into the warehouse.
The work of the warehouse was not easy, and the two of them were busy all day, and they did not return home until late in the evening.
Zhang Wu is also bitter haha, of course he can't afford to live in the city, so he can only live outside the city.
The vicinity of the wharf is full of cramped, aggrieved mud and wooden houses, and the low streets are crowded with foul-smelling and smelly ditches.
This is the bitter haha on the dock, the place where it depends for survival.
Fishermen selling fish, farmers selling melons, fruits and vegetables, woodcutters selling firewood, and merchants carrying goods through the streets and alleys come and go endlessly, gradually forming a market.
The market is noisy, the vendors are shouting and selling here, and the children who are left unattended are chasing and laughing everywhere.
The two walked through the chaotic market and came to a narrow alley.
Su Fan stopped in front of a dilapidated earthen house, waved his hand at his cousin, and then was about to open the door and enter the house.
"Your sister-in-law stewed fish today, let me ask you to come over and eat ......"
Listening to Zhang Wu's words, Su Fan shook his head and smiled honestly.
"I'm not going, there's still leftover food from yesterday in the house, and if you don't eat it tonight, you'll be spoiled......"
Zhang Wu smiled and said, "Nacheng, when the fish is stewed in a while, I'll ask Xiaozhi to bring you some......"
After he finished speaking, he was afraid of Su Fan's shoulder, turned around and walked into the depths of the alley.
Su Fan glanced at his cousin's back, turned around and opened the door and entered the house.
This mud house is in tatters, leaking everywhere, and it still leaks on rainy days.
The size of the house is only a dozen square meters, and the furnishings are very simple.
Except for the stove at the door, there was only a broken bed and a rickety wooden table, and the moldy and rotten wooden pier next to it was a stool.
To Su Fan, these are nothing.
The only thing that bothered him was that the worldly aura was almost none, and even though he had hundreds of bottles of "Xuanyu Pill" in his hand, his cultivation progress was still slow.
There is no way, this is the case in the world.
Su Fan lit the firewood under the stove and warmed up yesterday's leftovers.
In fact, he was just putting on a show, just to let others see the smoke rising from his house.
With the amount of food he eats, it is enough for more than a dozen families in this alley to eat for a day.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside.
"Uncle, open the door, ......"
Hearing this voice, Su Fan laughed, stood up and opened the door.
Outside the door stood a girl and a child, two children from my cousin's family.
My brother is nine years old, his hair is messy, and he doesn't know how long he hasn't washed it, and he is wearing a patched gown on a small body like bean sprouts, which is obviously much bigger.
My sister is only seven years old, with two pigtails, a pair of sparkling eyes, and wiping her nose with her dirty little hands from time to time.
Both were barefoot, and had just stepped on the mud, and their calves were covered with mud spots.
Brother Xiaozhi carried a large bowl full of stewed fish and showed Su Fan as if offering treasure.
"Uncle, my mother asked me to send you the ......"
Su Fan took it with a smile and put it on the wooden table behind him.
When he turned around, he saw the brother and sister looking at him expectantly.
Ever since the uncle from his hometown came, he would always secretly stuff them with some good things that he had never eaten.
My cousin's family background is average, and it's almost the same as the bitter haha who lives here.
They get up early every day and are busy at night, that is, they can barely feed their families.
The siblings were about the same age as the children of his previous life.
Whenever he saw them, Su Fan would be touched by the scene and think of his daughter in his previous life.
So he was also willing to stay with the two children, and would take out some preserved fruits, candied fruits, dried meat, dried fish, or something for them to eat.
How could the brother and sister resist such a temptation, and would run to the uncle to play every day.
Looking at the expectant eyes of the two children, Su Fan smiled.
As if by juggling, he escaped from his bosom and stuffed two handfuls of preserved fruit into their hands.
Seeing the bright and translucent amber candied fruit, the eyes of the brother and sister suddenly lit up.
My sister's second girl has small hands, and when she took the preserved fruit, she dropped a few, and she didn't feel dirty, so she picked it up from the ground and stuffed it into her mouth.
The brother and sister sat side by side on the broken bed, eating preserved fruit with happy faces, which was probably the best thing they had ever eaten in their lives.
These preserved fruits were all fruits plucked from the fruit trees of the second-order spiritual veins and soaked with spiritual honey.
Not to mention them, even the worldly dignitaries, even the emperors in the palace, can't enjoy such treatment.
In front of his brothers and sisters, Su Fan pretended to deal with a mouthful of food.
Then he moved the wooden mound to the edge of the broken bed, let Erya sit in his arms, and help her tie her braids while telling stories to the two children.
Su Fan doesn't have any talent for storytelling, anyway, he will tell wherever he thinks.
One moment is the legend of the Condor Heroes, and the other is seven gourd babies, and sometimes you can add a little two-dimensional, which is completely nonsense.
But the brother and sister had never heard this, and they stared at it and listened to it directly.
It wasn't until the sister-in-law came over that she took Xiaozhi's ears, took Erya's hand, and forcibly took them away with kicks and scolding.
Looking at the reluctant brother and sister, Su Fan smiled and shook his head.
Since crossing into this world, Su Fan has always had a sense of alienation, and he has always been out of place in this world.
It was when he was with the two children these days that he felt a touch of kindness like a world away.
Su Fan returned to the house, took out a few pot helmets from the ring, chopped more than a dozen catties of meat foam and rolled them in the pot helmet, boiled a large pot of haggis soup, and then ate it in a big gulp.
After eating and drinking enough, he removed the broken bed, revealing a one-meter-square hole.
Ever since he rented this earthen house, he has not been idle, and has been digging tunnels non-stop.
He put the remnants into the ring, and then fixed the cave walls of the tunnel with "fossil charms".
This vertical tunnel was dug by him more than 100 meters deep before he began to dig horizontally, and now this tunnel has been dug by him into the mountains more than ten miles away on the opposite bank.
Moreover, he also arranged dozens of "blasting charms" in the pit, which would blow up the entire pit once it was activated.
Not only that, but the water of the Luoshui River will also be poured into the tunnel in an instant.
The exit of the tunnel is connected to a cave in the mountains, where the forks in the road are complex and the terrain is winding and rugged.
Even if the foundation building realm monk rashly entered, he would not be able to find the direction.
It is often said that there are three holes in the cunning rabbit.
Although Su Fan had cast the "Turtle Breath Method", his aura was no different from that of a mortal.
And he is also mixed in a group of bitter haha, trying to find him in a densely populated worldly country is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.
Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case.
The methods of the Demon Gate are too weird, he really dare not bet.
Su Fan thought about it, so he arranged another retreat for himself.
In the event of an accident, he can also enter the tunnel and quickly escape into the mountains on the other side.
These days, he sent Sister Zhen to completely understand the terrain of the cave and make several escape routes.
Su Fan also made several field trips and followed several escape routes to experience it firsthand.
At least in the winding and rugged cave, even if he was chased and killed by several foundation building monks, Su Fan could take advantage of the complex terrain here to escape.
The next morning, the sky was gray and hazy.
The sky was drizzling, like a layer of mist, shrouding the rain-hazy Luoshui River.
Thousands of wisps of rain fell on the tile surface, and the cool breeze blew, slightly cool.
Su Fan had just finished breakfast when he heard his cousin knocking on the door.
"I gave birth to a child, I went to work, ......"
Su Fan hurriedly walked out of the house and walked towards the warehouse behind his cousin.
Step out of the alley and into the messy bazaar outside.
At this time, it is early in the morning, and the breakfast stalls selling steamed buns, hot soybean milk, and osmanthus cakes in the market, as well as the farmers who have picked up the burden of vegetables and fruits, are all shouting and selling here.
Many people who are rushing to work are dealing with a bite of breakfast in the market.
Su Fan walked slowly forward with the bustling crowd, comfortably feeling the fireworks in this world.
Suddenly, his eyes froze slightly, and then he quietly swept towards the person next to him.
"Cult ......"
There is one more chapter in the evening
(End of chapter)