Summer is like a scorching heat, and the world is like a steamer.

Things in the world are sometimes afraid of something, the sun in the summer seems to always be ghostly, as if chasing after it, as soon as the sky is bright, a blazing fireball that constantly spits out layers of heat waves slowly rises in mid-air, and a few of the clouds that survived the night and listlessness were suddenly baked into a faint cloud of smoke by the sudden appearance of the big fireball!

Waves of heat rolled from top to bottom, like layers of turbulent waves spreading little by little in the streets of Jingshi, almost instantly filling every corner of Jingshi, even every crevice!

As usual, Zhang Xuexue braved the scorching sun that was slowly rising, shaking the folding fan, and slowly paced to a teahouse in the west of the capital.

In fact, the word pedant is just a nickname given to him by his neighbors...... Well, it still seems to be an unchanging nickname handed down from the ancestors...... His family has lived in the Jingshi West Market for generations, and has been running a bookstore in the bustling West Market for generations...... The buildings near the water get the moon first, although there has never been any earth-shattering Wenqu stars in the family tree...... However, the younger generations of each generation can still recognize a basket of words...... Ahem! The short man pulls out the big one...... In this western market, which is full of illiterate peddlers and pawns, his family is also the only scholarly family on this street! His grandfather used to be called a pedant by the people around him...... Later, his father was also called a pedant...... From generation to generation, the reputation of pedantic has now fallen on his head again!

He was called a pedant when he was a man, and a man was called a pedant...... As for now...... Naturally, it's an old pedant who is like a fake!

As the days went by, even he himself seemed to have almost forgotten his name...... Anyway, now that we are in the prime of life, the cultivation is respected, and there are fewer and fewer people who read...... On weekdays, he has two shiny big characters on his head, which are rare and expensive...... No matter what disputes and entanglements there are in the neighborhood on weekdays, or what incurable diseases are involved, he must be asked to come forward to preside over the theory...... Even those who often go south and north, and occasionally act as traitors, also have to look up to him invisibly!

Knowledge is power!

Different from the Jingshi East Market, where the giants gather, the Hualou is lined up, the alleys are full of fireworks, and the gold silk is everywhere, the Xicheng Market is a place where the common people have lived for generations, and the likes are gathered, and the three religions and nine streams from all over the Central Plains, and most of the peddlers and pawns are also gathered here. After a long time, the Jingshi West Market has become one of the most prosperous and lively places in the world, with people coming and going, and shops everywhere, which makes the already somewhat chaotic West Market a little more bizarre and bizarre.

It was still early in the morning, and the various vendors in front of the low houses on both sides of the street had not yet appeared, and at a glance, the street that was always crowded with wind and rain on weekdays was empty, except for a long line of people who were fetching water by the wells in the alleys.

The early bird gets the worm...... Well, not only are there worms to eat, but there is also water to eat...... Zhang Xuejiu is now over half a hundred years old, and after getting older, he naturally sleeps very lightly every day...... In order not to waste a lot of precious time waiting in line with those people to fetch water, he got up every day on the fourth watch day to go to the well to fetch water...... Although he has two sons at home...... But those two descendants were taking care of the bookstore during the day, and naturally they slept very soundly at night, and he, as a father, couldn't bear to wake them up early...... So every day he was the first to fetch water, well, coincidentally, as for the millennium second...... Naturally, it's Mo Ledger!

Mo is the bookkeeper of a dart bureau in the West Market...... looks like he's about the same age, although they are both years and frosts on each other's faces, but I don't know why...... The black hair in Mo Shufang's house was always shiny...... Well, not only shiny...... It's always a special cherish, and you have to wear a big hat to cover it firmly in the summer...... Why wasn't he too hot? Although Zhang Xuexue was curious, he didn't ask the reason...... Ahem, an old and courageous man, he has always believed that everyone sweeps the snow in front of his own door, and does not care about the frost on the tiles of others...... Besides, the world is so big that there are no surprises, and compared with him, a native of him, it is not surprising that there are some eccentricities in Mo Jiaofang, who is accustomed to walking the rivers and lakes! I heard that Mo Jiaofang's parents died, and he left his hometown and wandered around at a very young age, so that he later forgot where his hometown was...... He has been fighting in the rivers and lakes for a long time, although he has not learned any real martial arts, but he has come and gone, patchwork, and hundreds of miscellaneous studies are also half a belly...... He is down-and-out, naturally he has always been a single one of lonely souls and wild ghosts, drifting east and west, and finally came to Jingshimou to live ten years ago...... He has traveled to the north and south for many years, and he is naturally well aware of the customs and customs of various places, and compared with those ordinary people who do not go out of the door on weekdays and do not step out of the second door, it is also a unique advantage...... So he later got a relatively idle job in a dart bureau in the West Market...... In this western market, which is full of peddlers and pawns, he and Zhang Xueji are barely two unique half-hung scribes...... After getting acquainted with each other, they get up early every day to fetch water and go home to wash themselves, and then they will go to the teahouse next to them to sit for most of the day, drinking tea slowly, while chatting from all over the world.

Shortly after the curfew at night, there seemed to be a lingering aura of slaughter throughout the streets...... Just turned a corner, Zhang Xuexue was taken aback...... Although the teahouse is already close at hand, there is a large courtyard next to it surrounded by five steps and a post, and ten steps and a sentry are full of soap-clothed officials!

There are six doors full of big catchers!

And the large courtyard surrounded by clusters...... It is the Tongyuan dart game that Mo accounts in the weekday!

What's going on?

Here's what's going on!

Recently, not only have the big catchers of the six doors often appeared in the lively West Market, but they also deliberately dressed up as all kinds of three-religion and nine-class people...... Although they are so well disguised that they may not be known to the strangers who travel from north to south...... But how could he hide it from him, a native of the country!

He's the only old pedant in the West Market!

It's not just those big catchers who walk around like a marquee every day...... Later, even Jiang Wanhai, the chief catcher of the six doors that he hadn't seen for a long time, appeared out of nowhere...... Well, not only did he suddenly pop up, but a few days ago, he mysteriously pulled him aside and asked a lot of trivial things......

What's going on?

Here's what's going on!

On the occasion of such an eventful autumn, why didn't the six doors always catch those high-ranking Jiangyang thieves, but instead grabbed him, an honest man, and asked about those trivial things!

Besides, what is there to ask about a well! It's really strange! Could it be that before the Demon Saint came to the East, he would have sent the demon spies to poison the well in advance?

No, no one is stupid...... Who is he? He's the only old pedant in this street! Just take 10,000 steps back and say that the Demon Saint wants to poison people...... It is also necessary to poison those big masters first, and the big masters are right...... In that case...... He should have sent the demon spies to poison the well in Dongcheng!

The mansions of those great masters and masters are all located in Dongcheng!

Poisoning a few illiterate ordinary people in the West Market......? Don't be kidding! What's the use of poisoning a few illiterate people? Blind to that poison!

Don't you need money for poison?

Poison is medicine, too!

If it's medicine, it costs money!

It's weird!

It's really incomprehensible!

If something goes wrong, it will be a demon...... I don't know what great news they heard later...... How can they be above board and murderous today!

Could it be that the six doors are not going to catch Jiang Yang's thieves now, but are concentrating on catching monsters?

......

Xiucai met Bing, and he couldn't explain it reasonably...... Almost out of a timid instinct to see behind the natural enemy, Zhang Xuejiu immediately stopped...... Since some time ago, the news that the Demon Clan Demon Saint went straight to the capital from west to east in the market suddenly spread the news, the people in the Beijing division are naturally panicked, not only have to have a curfew every night, but also take everyone with their families every day, and the convoy of dignitaries and nobles who go out of the city with gold and silver is endless.

Although Zhang Xuezhi is courageous, he understands things in his heart, and he is not as panicked as his neighbors...... When the sky fell, naturally there was a tall man who stood on top of it first...... I heard that those big masters and big masters in the capital division are now stationed on the side of Tongtian Peak outside the city, busy building formations and rehearsing formations...... If the Demon Saint comes, there will naturally be those great masters, and the big masters will take it first! As for those high-ranking officials and nobles, businessmen and wealthy families have fled one after another...... He is naturally not surprised that he has long passed the age of not being confused...... When the official is bigger, he has more money, and his life is naturally precious...... It's just the normal feelings of some people.

Everyone is a mortal, and no one is an immortal...... Let's not talk about others, if his house is not a bookstore but a big gold store...... He might be able to run away with all the gold and silver with all the gold and silver with a silent sound!

But the problem is ...... What kind of trouble is that Tongyuan dart bureau causing now? Why was it surrounded by the big catchers of the six doors early in the morning?

Could it be that there is something strange in the Tongyuan dart game?

Is it full of gold and silver?

Or is it a hidden demon?

It's time for me to walk head-on with all the difficulty...... Or should we do more than do less and turn around and run away immediately?

At that moment, the old scholar stood in a daze around the corner of the street, and his whole body was already in a cold sweat!