Chapter 054 Backing Mountain Town
The strong man sighed, took the kitchen knife and began to clean up the piece of meat on the board, saying as he worked.
Gushan Town was originally a small village, because it was close to Tianyin Mountain, and there were many herbs in the mountain, so many people went to the mountains to collect medicines, and in this way, the foreign population increased, and the permanent population of Gushan Town continued to increase.
Up to now, there are hundreds of households, and there are many merchants coming and going, and the development is getting better and better.
But a few months ago, the red sedan chair appeared, and then there were accidents one after another, which made people panic, and people began to run out, and the result became the way it is now, and the matter is very simple.
The strong man's surname is Lu, he is a butcher, his life is getting better and better, but now everyone has run away, which makes the butcher Lu very angry, he has nowhere else to go, so he stayed, it may be that the butcher is murderous, and their family lives here without accidents.
"Are you sure someone saw this red sedan chair?" Ye Xu asked.
"Someone saw it! The red sedan chair only catches men, women don't, many women faint when they meet the red sedan chair, those women said after waking up. Butcher Lu said.
"Does this red sedan chair appear on the fifteenth day of every month?"
"This is not clear, but the first woman who saw the red sedan chair was on the fifteenth of the month, as for whether it happened before, it is not clear, after all, the flow of people in the backing town is also very large, and a person suddenly disappeared, and everyone couldn't notice anything, they all thought that they had gone out to do business, so the time was not sure which day it was." The butcher took a knife and chopped the pieces of meat.
"Where did it come from?"
"Perhaps, it just appeared on the street."
"Oh, I see, aren't you afraid? Why stay? Ye Xu asked, everyone else ran away, why didn't the butcher run?
"I don't believe in evil, I don't want to leave home, I don't want to go anywhere else." Butcher Lu slashed the knife the board, hatred in his eyes.
"I wanted to cut down the red sedan chair, I went out at night a few days after the accident, I wanted to see what was going on with the red sedan chair, but I didn't touch it." A burst of evil aura erupted from Butcher Lu's body, which was produced by his perennial social animal himself.
"Are there a lot of people in the town who haven't left?"
"There are quite a few, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, there is nothing else to go, and they are not afraid of death, so they stay!" Butcher Lu said.
"Oh, I see, we went to an old woman's house in the north of the town, but she couldn't hear her behind her ear." Zi Ying listened carefully.
"Yes, that's Mrs. Liu, who lives alone, behind her ears, and can't hear what others are saying."
The butcher's daughter-in-law had already boiled the water and carried a porcelain pot to pour water for everyone, while the little boy hid from a distance and watched the group of people, he had never seen so many gorgeously dressed and so beautiful women, hiding and peeking aside.
"If you want to get rid of this red sedan chair, you must be careful, the people from the Mingyue Sect came before and wanted to get rid of the red sedan chair, but the next day, the four people they came all disappeared." Butcher Lu reminded.
"Thank you! We'll be careful. Ye Xu said.
"Which sect are you from? Let's see if my little hero can cultivate? After talking to Ye Xu and the others for a while, seeing that Ye Xu and the others were very talkative, without the arrogance of other monks, Lu Butcher dared to speak.
"We are from the Pingyang Sect, let me see if this little brother has the qualifications to cultivate." Ziying answered immediately, she was very enthusiastic about the increase in staff.
Zi Ying came to Xiao Xia'er's side, and the little boy ranger shrank in fear, looking timidly at the beautiful young lady in front of him, he had never seen such a beautiful young lady.
Zi Ying touched Xiao Xia'er's body decently, nodded from time to time, and shook her head again.
"Yes, it's okay, but the qualifications are limited, and it's difficult to achieve Tongtian cultivation." Zi Ying touched her chin like an adult and said.
Butcher Lu looked at Zi Ying with suspicious eyes, feeling unreliable, why did he let a little girl go to see it, shouldn't it be Ye Xu who went to see it himself?
He thinks highly of Ye Xu, and now Ye Xu's function is still incomplete, and he can't verify whether a person's qualifications are good or not, even if he lets him see it, he can't understand it.
"This is our Deputy Sect Master of the Pingyang Sect!" Miao Xin spoke, and she could see Butcher Lu's suspicions.
"Deputy Sect Master?" Butcher Lu was surprised, such a young girl turned out to be the deputy sect master, isn't this a little girl, an old woman who has lived for hundreds of years? It is really powerful to be able to maintain a childlike appearance, and Butcher Lu has frequent inner activities.
"When we open the mountain gate to accept disciples, you can take him to our mountain gate." Zi Ying was already thinking about opening the mountain gate to accept disciples.
"I don't know where your sect's mountain gate is?" Lu Butcher was very happy, it would be great if his own children could cultivate, and it would be an ordinary person's dream to become a monk.
"Severed Head Mountain!" Ziying said proudly.
"Severed Head Mountain?" Butcher Lu was dumbfounded, isn't this place a forbidden place? These people aren't here to fool me!
"Broken Head Mountain is no longer a forbidden place, and now it is the mountain gate of the Pingyang Sect." Miaoxin began to explain.
"Oh, okay, I don't know when your sect will open the mountain gate?" Lu Butcher hurriedly asked.
"This is not clear, when we are done with this period, we will announce it to the world, and when you hear the news, you can go to Xiaoxia'er." Zi Ying took out the deputy sect master's style and said with a serious face.
"Can you apprentice now?" Butcher Lu wanted to establish the relationship immediately.
"This can't work, we still have things to do now, and besides, Xiao Xia'er's qualifications are not high, so it is impossible to directly worship the sect master and deputy sect master as teachers, you just wait for our news." Zi Ying said very politely.
"Alright! Thank you, all the immortals. "Lu Butcher doesn't know who the sect master is, he is still afraid of the monk in his heart, he doesn't dare to ask more, he really wants his son to go to Qingxu Mountain, but Qingxu Mountain's requirements are too harsh, and other sects are not easy to enter, and now when he meets a sect that says he can accept his son, he still hopes that this sect is powerful.
"Everyone, stay at my house tonight! I would like to entertain you all. "Butcher Lu intends to set it closely.
"This won't bother Brother Lu, we have to check around the town to see if we can find some clues." Ye Xu and the others were going to take a walk around the town.
Lu Butcher didn't dare to force it, Ye Xu and the others went out, wanting Lu Butcher to thank him, and a group of people walked on the empty road in the town.
It was getting dark, there was nothing in the empty street, it was very silent, only the call of a nightingale could be heard in the distance.
Ye Xu and the others found a few more families who hadn't left yet, and probably inquired, which was similar to what Butcher Lu said.
"Big brother, what should we do? Just waiting outside? Ziying is very concerned about this, and she really wants to see the red sedan chair as soon as possible.
"Let's go to the inn in the middle of town!" There was an inn in the middle of the town, but there was no one anymore, and the shopkeeper had long since left.
Ye Xu and the others opened the door of the inn and prepared to rest in the hall on the first floor of the inn, Ye Xu didn't dare to disperse the people, in case the red sedan chair was really weird, so it was better to be together.
It was dark, Ye Xu lit the lights of the inn and used the kitchen of the inn to make dinner, after dinner, Ye Xu sat in the hall on the first floor as the shopkeeper, Zi Ying sat at the counter and installed Mr. Bookkeeper, and the others sat together to chat, and moved a few beds from upstairs, if they were tired, they would rest here.
The night began to be deep, Ye Xu was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed, and Zi Ying was very energetic, wandering around the room, did he come to the door to take a look.
"I'm a little sleepy!" Li Yuning and Wu Siyan were a little tired.
"Rest! I'll just keep an eye on it! Ye Xu closed his eyes and spoke, although it was okay if they didn't sleep, but they would be very lacking in spirit.
"Alright! Let's sleep for a while! Wu Siyan and a few people rested.
"Why haven't you come yet!" Ziying was tired of waiting.
"You sleep!" Seeing that Zi Ying was a little tired, Ye Xu said.
"Alright! I'll lie down for a while! I'll let the little crescent accompany you! Ziying lay directly on the big chair behind the counter and summoned the moon gold wheel.
It was already midnight, only Ye Xu was sitting there drinking wine in the inn, accompanied by a moon golden wheel like a crescent moon, the dim candle flame swept away the black, and Ye Xu's shadow was reflected in the window of the inn.
The whole town is pitch black, only the inn in the middle of the town is lit, which is very conspicuous in the dark night.
The wind was blowing, and the fallen leaves in the streets were rolled up and made a hula sound, and this wind blew from one end of the town to the other, blowing through every street.
Ye Xu raised his head and looked at the closed door, there was wind.
The wind blew rapidly, blowing the leaves outside and the window paper of the house, and the candles flickered slightly.
The wind came and went quickly, and after a loud hula sound, it calmed down, and there was no longer a trace of movement outside, and it was surprisingly quiet, the nightingale was not crying, and the insects were gone.
"Are you coming?" Ye Xu stared at the door and muttered to himself.
The moon golden wheel made a slight golden sound, as if to warn.
"Ziying!" Ye Xu shouted, but Zi Ying slept very deeply and did not wake up.
"You protect them, I'll go out and have a look!" Ye Xu said to the Moon Golden Wheel.
The moon golden wheel shook and began to slowly spin back and forth in the inn, and began to carry out the protection mission.
Ye Xu gently opened the door, walked out, and closed the door casually.
There was half a full moon in the sky, and the moonlight sprinkled on the earth, and even though it was night, it was still possible to see in the moonlight.
The inn is in the center of the town, at the northeast corner of an intersection, Ye Xu looked at the north and south streets, there was nothing.
Looking at the east and west streets again, there was no east, and looking back at the west, the corners of Ye Xu's eyes wrinkled slightly.
I saw a lamp emitting red light slowly drifting from west to east on that road, and when I looked closely, I found that this lamp was hanging above the curtain of a red sedan chair.
The sedan chair seems to be very slow, but it seems to flash, and every time it shakes, it suddenly appears a few meters in front of it.
Although Ye Xu was confident, when he saw this, his hairs stood up, and his scalp was a little fried, after all, there were a lot of ghost stories in Lanxing, and things were not terrible, but the atmosphere was a little panicked.
After settling down, Ye Xu walked to the crossroads with his hands behind his back, looking at the red sedan chair that was getting closer and closer.
The red sedan chair stopped when it was still a few feet away from Ye Xu, and Ye Xu saw clearly that the lamp was a red lantern, emitting red light, and the red sedan curtain was even more bright red under the illumination of the red lantern, and the red sedan bar seemed to be stained with blood.
Ye Xu stood there motionless, staring at the red sedan chair, and the sedan chair didn't move, only the red lantern shook from time to time.