"Sect Master, Second Sect Master, she's gone. Qing Pei whispered softly outside the door, as if she was afraid of alarming something.

After a few breaths, there was a sound of a cup breaking in the room, the door creaked open, and Qing Pei involuntarily took a step back.

Su Wuji's face was expressionless, and her voice was a little cold: "She really still wants to find that." She glanced at Qing Pei, who was pale with fright, and her tone softened a little, "Pass the order, and bring it back to me immediately when you see Qin Shaoxi, if you want to live, if you can't bring it back alive, you can also break your hands and feet." Don't let Su Bai know. ”

"Yes. Qing Pei breathed a sigh of relief and left in a hurry.

The anger on Su Wuji's face slowly condensed, and the invisible murderous aura gradually spread, the lotus flowers in the surrounding pool trembled, and the water surface rippled.

"Second sister, I'll save you one last time. ”

Qin Shaoxi's hands changed, purple light flashed from him, he suddenly opened his eyes, his face suddenly turned red, and slowly returned to normal. Since he woke up from the temple, his body was extremely weak, and even his luck was difficult, he always felt that his body was different, but he really couldn't say what was the blame.

Seems to have forgotten something.

There was a knock on the door, and a child's immature voice came from outside the door: "Uncle, my mother said that I would invite you out for dinner." ”

The boy outside the door was no more than five or six years old, with a cannon in the sky, and his cheeks were fleshy when he laughed, which made people want to pinch it.

The room was filled with the smell of decay, and a wooden board was placed near the window, and an old man sat on it leaning against the wall, his cloudy eyes half-open, looking at Qin Shaoxi.

There were a few black dishes on the crooked wooden table, and I couldn't tell what it was, the bowl of porridge that the boy served to Qin Shaoxi was thick, and the other two bowls couldn't even see the rice.

"Grandma, it's time to eat. The boy put half of the steamed bun in a bowl, soaked it in hot water, and handed it to the old man.

"Didn't sister-in-law see her eldest brother today?" Qin Shaoxi asked.

"Seeing it, he has lost weight again, and the river trough has not been dug yet, and he cannot come back yet. It's been half a year, is this family still the same?" spoke to an old woman with hey-skinned skin, her hair meticulously combed, wrapped in a square turban, and a bitter face.

"Sister-in-law, don't panic, I'll go to the Quhe River to have a look when I recuperate for a few days, and I'll definitely bring my eldest brother back." ”

The old woman's face suddenly changed, and she said hurriedly: "Don't, the city guards are arresting people everywhere to dig the river trough, if you go to the Quhe River, you won't be able to leave." ”

"Sister-in-law's words are out, I fainted in the woods, if you hadn't rescued me, how could I still be alive. Don't worry, I'll bring my eldest brother back. ”

The old man sitting in the corner of the room suddenly had a light in her eyes, and she dragged her hoarse voice and said excitedly: "Shaoxia, Shaoxia, the old man's son is called Li Erdan, please Shaoxia must bring him back." ”

Qin Shaoxi glanced at the old man and nodded, "Okay." ”

The sun was dazzling and unusually hot, and the water of the Quhe River was also warm.

The city guards walked around with swords in hand and armor, and the laborers were shirtless, their trousers rolled up high, wielding shovels, sweat dripping into the mud.

The original flow direction of the Qu River was blocked by sand and gravel, and most of the river water was diverted to the newly dug trough, and some of the river water was still soaked through the sand and gravel, maintaining its original course.

Qin Shaoxi approached one of the defenders and said, "Master Jun, I've been hungry for several days, and I want to find a job here and eat some food." ”

The defenders looked Qin Shaoxi up and down, nodded and said, "Follow me." ”

The other working men stopped their hands one after another, looking at Qin Shaoxi like a monster, this place where they wanted to escape but couldn't escape, someone actually took the initiative to send it to the door.

"You're like them, digging ditches here for ten pennies a day, taking care of three meals, and if you're lazy, you're going to be whipped. The military master picked up the shovel and threw it to Qin Shaoxi and walked away.

Qin Shaoxi glanced at the people around him, their eyes made him very uneasy, since he approached Quhe, he felt very strange, but he couldn't say what was weird.

He jumped into the pit with a shovel, and the mud flooded the instep of his feet.

"Brother, I'll ask you something, do you know a person named Li Erdan?" Qin Shaoxi dug into the mud and asked the man next to him softly.

The man suddenly raised his head, looked at him with a pale face, his eyes were very frightened, he moved his dry mouth, and ran away with a strange scream.

The people around looked at the place, not understanding what was going on.

Qin Shaoxi frowned slightly, lowered his head and continued to dig, he secretly thought in his heart, something must have happened here, and Li Erdan had an accident.

After staying up all morning, when it was finally time to eat, the four city guards picked up two large buckets, one for steamed buns and the other for porridge.

The laborers swarmed up, grabbed the steamed buns and squatted aside to eat, and in the blink of an eye, a bucket of steamed buns bottomed out, seeing them gobbling up, Qin Shaoxi's brows furrowed even more, scooped a bowl of porridge and sat on the stone to drink.

"It's not going to be easy, young man. An old man as thin as dry wood sat down next to him and gave him the steamed buns he had snatched.

Qin Shaoxi shook his head with a shallow smile and continued to drink porridge.

"Young man, don't be reckless, this is not a place for people to stay, if you don't eat enough, where will you get the strength to work, the whip of the military master will go to half a life. You said that you were young and that it was not good to find a job to go anywhere, but you ended up here. Iniquity, iniquity. ”

Qin Shaoxi shook his head with a bitter face when he saw the old man, and asked, "Uncle, is there anything wrong with working here?"

"You don't know, it's dirty and tiring to do this work, and you can't eat enough, these are trivial things, and the terrible thing is," the old man looked around, and no one paid attention to them, so he lowered his voice and said, "There are monsters here, and people often die." ”

Qin Shaoxi's face changed, revealing a little horror.

The old man sighed and continued: "In the past six months, there have been eight deaths, more than a dozen deaths at a time, all of them were pale, and they died violently overnight, and seven more people died last night, and the defenders of the city blocked the news, and they are still arresting laborers everywhere. Young man, you said you were young, how did you come here? ”

"Uncle, is there a person named Li Erdan among the dead people?"

The old man glanced at Qin Shaoxi and said, "Do you know Erdan?"

He ...... It's my brother, and that's what I'm here for. ”

The old man shook his head, looked sad, and said, "He had an accident last night." Lad, let's mourn and change. I heard that his family is old and young, and he is so poor that he can't open the pot, but he has an accident again, alas, God doesn't open his eyes. ”

Qin Shaoxi sat still, not knowing what to say, and suddenly asked: "Uncle, there is nothing abnormal in Quhe, why do you suddenly want to dig a canal?"

"I heard the military master say that it was the King of Jin who was napping one day, and a white-clothed immortal gave him a dream, saying that there are thousands of treasures buried under the Qu River, and as long as the Qu River is led away, the treasures can be dug up. Therefore, the defenders of the city went around arresting people to dig the river trough, and now they have been digging for half a year, and they should be ...... soon."

Smack, before the old man finished speaking, a whip was drawn on the stone next to him, and smoke and dust were everywhere.

One of the defenders looked at them with a whip and shouted, "How long are you going to eat?

Qin Shaoxi pulled the old man, grabbed the whip he whipped, and looked directly at the defenders of the city: "You are the defenders of the city, you are to protect the people, not to oppress the people." ”

The whip was dragged by Qin Shaoxi, and the defenders couldn't pull it back, their faces couldn't be hung up, and they said angrily: "Do you want to rebel?"

The old man patted Qin Shaoxi, motioned for him to let go, and said with a smile: "Master Jun, he just came, he doesn't understand the rules, you don't remember the villain, don't be like him." ”

"Get out of here and get to work. ”

Seeing Qin Shaoxi's unhappy face, the old man pulled him away and said in a low voice: "If you offend the military master, there is no good end, you and I are ordinary people, and I will be a little angry and forbearant." Work hard, and remember to hurry up when you eat in the evening. ”

The clouds reflect the sunset, the sky is red like drunk, setting off the deepening twilight, and the evening breeze carries the coolness of summer, with the twilight layer of the forest.

Even Qin Shaoxi, who had worked under the scorching sun for a day, was dizzy from the sun, but fortunately, when night fell, he was ready to leave.

The sound of insects came and went, the laborers who had been tired for a day fell asleep, and the city guards who kept vigil took off their armor and gathered together to drink and laugh.

Qin Shaoxi walked out of the camp tent lightly, and suddenly looked back at the place where the defenders of the city were.

A white gas seemed to drift towards it, and the defenders were still laughing, but no one noticed.

Qin Shaoxi didn't have time to think about it, he dodged in front of the defenders, flipped his hands, the purple light skyrocketed, and the ethereal white qi shrank back like lightning.

The defenders didn't know what was going on, and they were frightened by Qin Shaoxi one by one, and the latter withdrew his hand and chased after Bai Qi.

The white gas turned into a few wisps and burrowed into the thin mud, and Qin Shaoxi stopped and found himself chasing into the canal.

The river flooded to his ankles, I don't know if it was because the night was too cold, even through his shoes Qin Shaoxi felt that the river water was bitingly cold.

A strange force was hovering around, and Qin Shaoxi didn't dare to act rashly.

"Over there, it's just that he's going to run away. The city defenders with lanterns chased after them, Qin Shaoxi's face changed, he flew up, and a wisp of white gas came out of the water and wrapped around the chasing city defenders.

Qin Shaoxi pushed his right palm, and the purple light covered several people, and the white qi suddenly became a little thicker, and several people's faces turned pale, their eyes were wide open, and their bodies fell straight down.

The white gas turned into a vague figure and rushed towards Qin Shaoxi, Qin Shaoxi pinched the trick with both hands, and the fire roared out, and the white gas turned around in the air and drilled back into the Qu River.

The faces of the defenders who fell to the ground were stiff and lifeless.

Qin Shaoxi returned to the Qu River, which was still flowing quietly, and there was no abnormality.

When it was dawn, Qin Shaoxi bought rice and grain at the market and returned to the Li family's thatched house.

The house was quiet, still filled with the smell of decay, Li's mother was still asleep by the window, and Li took her children to farm.

Qin Shaoxi sat at the door to recuperate, when the sun was the most sunning and poisonous, Li came back with the boy, Li saw Qin Shaoxi, and a smile appeared on his sallow face.