It's early afternoon, and the lazy summer sun makes you sleepy. Taoling County ordered Wu Daneng to sit in the hall and sip fragrant tea leisurely, which is the so-called three-point sleepiness when raising his eyes, not as good as a cup of tea in the afternoon. Tranquil and tranquil, as if out of nature.

But there was a knock on the door of the house in this leisurely time.

A housekeeper went to open the door, but he saw a son in white outside the door, Shengxue, his eyes were like stars, and he was handsome and extraordinary. It's not Mo Yiyue, which one is it?

"Master, there is a son outside the door who asks to see you. The old butler came back to report.

"If you don't see it, you can say that the official has fallen asleep. Wu Daneng waved his hand outwards and motioned for him to leave quickly.

After a while, the old butler came back and said, "The man said that he must see you if he has something important." ”

"Presumptuous!" Wu Daneng slapped the table, his eyes were like copper bells, and he pointed at the old housekeeper and scolded: "You are old and dizzy, let him get out quickly, otherwise someone will arrest him." Before he finished speaking, he saw a person flying down in the courtyard, and saluted him: "Mo Yiyue, grass people, meet the county lord." ”

Wu Daneng saw Mo Yiyue's ability, and he was caught by him and did not fall asleep, so he sat down and picked up the tea, glared at Mo Yiyue, and asked angrily: "What do you have to report?"

Mo Yiyue still replied: "It is related to the case of the death of 100 villagers in Heya Village, Taoling County. As soon as he said this, Wu Daneng squirted out a sip of tea several feet away, and then said to the old housekeeper: "You go down first, and I will call you if there is something." ”

After that, he got up and whispered to Mo Yiyue: "Young man, please, let's go into the inner hall to talk." ”

Mo Yiyue didn't guess wrong, obviously, the Taoling County Ya knew about it.

After entering the inner hall, Wu Daneng asked Mo Daneng to sit down and discuss the matter in detail, and Mo Yiyue did not shirk and sat down with Wu Daneng. As soon as he sat down, he heard Wu Daneng ask, "How did Shaoxia know about this?"

"I happened to pass by Heya Village and found a deep pit that had not yet been filled with the body, so I found it here to ask what was going on. Mo Yiyue replied truthfully.

Wu Daneng wiped the sweat from his forehead after hearing this, and Mo Yiyue noticed that his forehead was covered with beads of sweat at some point. It can be seen that he is quite jealous of this matter.

"I see that the young man has a good appearance, and he must have a special identity, I don't know if I can tell the lower official clearly, and the lower official can continue to tell you the details of the case. Wu Daneng rubbed his hands together, showing some nervousness.

Mo Yiyue heard Wu Daneng ask about her identity, so she got up and replied: "In Xia Yunzhou, Mo Yiyue is a teacher of Jiangting. ”

"Ah!" Wu Daneng was in awe when he heard this, and looked Mo Yiyue up and down in detail, and praised again and again: "It is actually a disciple of the ancient emperor Jiang Ting, a young hero, amazing, amazing." ”

"Now can you tell me about the case?"

Wu Daneng beckoned Mo Yiyue to sit down again, and the two sat down again. This time, Wu Daneng breathed a long sigh of relief, and said slowly to Mo Yiyue: "The incident happened suddenly, and the lower officials are still apprehensive about this matter. I wanted to bury the group of villagers as soon as possible, but the master said that the villagers had died in vain, and they were extremely resentful. If you bury it directly, you are afraid that the corpse will change. Because Heya Village is remote, outsiders rarely approach it, so I want to put the corpse of the villager in the pit for the time being, wait for the master to be invited, open the altar, and then bury it together on an auspicious day. When he talked about this, there was really some fear on his face, if what he said was not the truth, it was that the performance skills of this county order were too clever.

"Just three days ago, I received a letter from a villager in Heya, saying that they had caught a strange big fish and wanted to pay the offset tax. I sent someone to Heya Village to find out what the big fish was caught. The people sent ran back overnight, saying that the villagers of Heya Village were infected by strange diseases and became bloodthirsty and violent. I didn't believe it at first, and I sent out two more people, and they came back with general words. When I asked them how they had found out, they replied that they had seen the villagers biting each other at the entrance of the village, and they were so horrified that they hurried back to report it.

At that time, Lu Tianzhang, the leader of the Jiangzhou West Sword League, was in my house, and when he heard about it, he immediately rushed to Heya Village. Because Xia Guan didn't follow him immediately, I don't know what happened in the middle. But when I arrived the next day, Lu Tianzhang had already taken people back to Jiangzhou, and everything in the village was intact, except for the villagers. I sent people to investigate the surrounding area, and when I found countless dead bodies of villagers in the east, I asked my men to dig this deep pit and pile up the corpses in one place.

During this time, I also asked people to count the number of dead bodies, no more, no less, the number of residents of Heya Village. Therefore, there are many suspicious points in the case, and it involves strange forces, and it is difficult for the lower officials to investigate and deal with it, although they dare not press it privately, they also want to wait for some eyebrows to report to their superiors. Who knows, when you come to Shaoxia, you want to hide it, but you can't hide it.

The lower officials have said everything they know, and as for other clues, we don't have a clue. ”

Mo Yiyue's expression on his face was extremely solemn when he heard this, it was not that he doubted Wu Daneng's words, but that now the breakthrough in this case has shifted from Taoling to Jiangzhou. Now, the only one who can give himself an answer is Lu Tianzhang, the leader of the Western Sword Alliance in Jiangzhou.

The words were divided into two sides, Mu Yuncheng carried the Yunyao sword on his back and went out of the town, but he didn't find a place to make money. Seeing that this hour passed in a flash, Mu Yuncheng was also very anxious in his heart.

Why don't you make money in the town, but you have to go to the outskirts of the city? The main reason is that the wages in this town are at least settled on a daily basis, and how can it be settled by the hour? Even if there is, it is impossible to give one or two.

Before he knew it, Mu Yuncheng walked to the suburbs. The scene in front of him suddenly stunned him, the hilly terraces, but he had never seen them. But looking at the terraces built on the steep slopes of the hills, with flowing lines, ghostly shapes, and picturesque artistic conceptions, Mu Yuncheng was really deeply shocked.

What the book says is that you can't see it with your own eyes.

Only see the terraced fields like a chain-like belt, winding from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, the small ones are like snails, the big ones are like towers, and the layers of blue waves are flooded in the summer breeze. Among them, the paddy field is even more unique, looking like a mirror in the backlight. The big ones are like curved ponds, and the small ones are like broken mirrors, bending block by piece according to the mountain, and progressing layer by layer along the slope. It's really beautiful, it's wonderful.

Where does the water come from in the paddy fields in the mountains? Mu Yuncheng knows a lot about the scenery and knows that the water in the mountains flows down from the top of the mountain, and the water on the top of the mountain flows from the grass and trees. Trees and flowers rely on their roots to store water and pull the water level up. Therefore, you can see that there is water seeping out of the highest field, and there are breaches in each of the next layers, from top to bottom, layer by layer. This is also the truth that people often say, "how high the mountains are and how long the water is".

At this time, it was already afternoon, and the heat was steaming, so hot that people did not like to work. Only in the paddy field, there are still a few diligent peasant men who are busy planting rice seedlings.

Mu Yuncheng stood on the ridge and shouted towards the paddy field: "Dare to ask uncle, do you need help?"

When those people heard the sound, they turned around, but they saw Mu Yuncheng dressed as a son, shouting from the side to come down to help.

"I said, Childe, don't be kidding, will you do the work in the field?" a series of voices asked back from the field, accompanied by a few laughs.

"I can learn to do it. Mu Yuncheng shouted towards the field.

As soon as they heard this, those people knew that Mu Yuncheng was not a worker, and asking him to help was purely adding to the chaos, so they turned around and went to work. Only one of them, who was a little older, thought that Mu Yuncheng was here to enjoy the mountains and rivers and feel life in the field, so he asked him to come and try it.

Mu Yuncheng was overjoyed when he saw someone replying to him. Hurriedly put Yun Yaojian on the ground, took off his boots and socks, and went barefoot in the paddy field.

The old man handed Mu Yuncheng a handful of seedlings and asked him to learn to insert them with him. Mu Yuncheng followed behind the old man and learned to plant seedlings with a clear eye. This busy time is nearly two hours, Mu Yuncheng's tired waist can't straighten, at this time the sunset is about to set, looking at the blood-stained water in the field, Mu Yuncheng's mood suddenly improved.

"Childe, you can rest after plugging this, and you don't have to plug it in today. ”

Hearing this, Mu Yuncheng comfortably wiped the sweat on his forehead, wiped his feet clean, packed up his clothes, and waited for the old man to finish his work.

After a while, the seedlings in the old man's hand were also planted, and then he came over and said with a smile: "The work in this field is not done by people like you, Son, how about it? As he spoke, he wanted to pat Mu Yuncheng's shoulder with his hand, but he suddenly realized something, and hurriedly wiped his hand with his clothes, and then smiled at Mu Yuncheng for a while.

"No, that, uncle, look, I'm ...... Is it okay, can you get some, the salary ......" Mu Yuncheng stretched out one hand embarrassedly, but scratched his head with the other hand, a little embarrassed.

The old man was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the crooked seedlings planted by Mu Yuncheng in the field, (which means that he will have to replant them tomorrow.) After blinking, it dawned on him for a while: "Oh, oh, son, come with me." After that, he led Mu Yuncheng to his home, took a watermelon out, handed it to Mu Yuncheng and said, "Take this and quench your thirst on the way." Obviously, the wages that the old man understands and the wages that Mu Yuncheng wants to express are not the same meaning.

"No, me. Mu Yuncheng really didn't know how to explain the salary to the old man, and finally after a fierce struggle in his heart, he had to take the watermelon and hang his head and leave.

The old man looked at Mu Yuncheng's departing figure, and sighed to himself: "Alas, now the sons of this rich family like to go to the fields to have fun, do some farm work, and eat some farm vegetables, and feel very happy." I really don't know if the life in the city is so boring now?" If the old man knew that Mu Yuncheng was paying him a tael of silver, he would definitely sigh and say, "One or two silver, I can't spend this amount even if I hire someone to do the work in the field." ”

"What, admit defeat?" Seeing Mu Yuncheng put a big and round watermelon in front of him, Lu Xiao really couldn't cry or laugh.

Seeing that the last pillar of incense was about to be burned, Mu Yuncheng pulled Yun Yao out of the sheath, and then cut the big watermelon into a few pieces, and gave it to Lu Xiao and said, "Do you eat it?"

Seeing this, Lu Xiao really wanted to punch him in the head, and then said to him, are you really so heartless?

After thinking about it, he took the watermelon, squatted down at the street with Mu Yuncheng, and ate it.

At this time, the people on the street were already sparse. Only in front of a calligraphy and painting stall, there were a few people who stopped.

Mu Yuncheng looked at the calligraphy and painting, and then threw away the watermelon in his hand and ran over there. And turned around and shouted excitedly at Lu Xiao: "You wait, I haven't lost yet." ”