Weinan County, noon.

Li Qiang and Zhou Fa finished their first wave of street sweeping, and whispered in the room to exchange their harvests.

"The streets of Weinan County are not wide, there are not many pedestrians, and occasionally a few people walk by, and they are in a hurry. ”

"The streets are empty and tidy. The shops on both sides of the road are decorated with red lanterns. ”

"The loess is like no one has stepped on it, and after walking all morning, the shoes and body are clean. ”

"Half of the shops on the street are not open, I don't know why. ”

"The private houses in the city are also closed, as quiet as if no one lives in them. ”

"Yes, there are red lanterns hanging in the private house too. ”

Li Qiang and his entourage arrived last night, and they only felt that it was normal for the store to fall in the dark, but they didn't expect it to be the same even during the day.

Chang'an City is lively, usually cars drive people, everywhere is dusty, and there is no dust on the body when you walk here for a day.

All industries in the city are not prosperous, and every house is hung with red lanterns, so every family can't be marrying relatives and daughters, right?

Everything in this county is weird.

"What day is today?" Li Qiang suddenly asked a question that seemed to have nothing to do with action.

"What's wrong with the seventh day of September?" replied Zhou Fa.

"The seventh day of the first month....... Li Qiang thought for a moment: "In the past few days, we will run around the city again and go to those alleys and shops." On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, we went to see Weinan County to worship the river god. ”

The ninth day of the Lunar New Year is the Double Ninth Festival, and it is also the day of worship to the river god in Weinan County, as long as you wait for two more days.

Qi Xu hurriedly said: "Shouldn't we go to the county government in advance and rescue the child who sacrificed to the river god first?"

Li Qiang shook his head and said, "No, this may startle the snake." ”

Act rashly and alert the enemy?

Seeing that a few people were puzzled, Li Qiang paused word by word: "This county town has a demonic spirit!"

Today, he was the first of several people, leaning on the rocking chair in the courtyard to take a nap, and saw the demonic aura wafting from the north of the city along the early morning mist. From the side of Weishui to the city, this monster is at least more than a thousand years old, and may have turned into a human form.

The crowd asked, "Is there a demon?"

Li Qiang shook his head again: "I can't see it, but this place is a few miles away from the Wei River, and if the demonic energy can be transmitted here, it must not be an ordinary monster." ”

There is a monster in Weinan County, and the matter of sacrificing to the river god must be related to this monster, and the disappearance of the caravan and scout may also be counted on the monster.

The day after tomorrow is the Double Ninth Festival, the day of the river god in Weinan County, and when the time comes, we will go to the scene to watch the ceremony. When the monster comes out, destroys it for the people of the county, and then finds the whereabouts of the scouts and caravans, this trip to Weinan County will be complete.

However, before the ceremony of worshipping the river god begins, the streets and alleys have to be taken around again to see if there is any information missing.

"Smack"

The courtyard door downstairs was kicked open, and it was particularly loud in the quiet city. More than a dozen shirtless big men rushed in, each with a sickle in their hands, and shouted: "Old immortal, come out quickly, when do you want to hide!"

The old couple of the shopkeeper walked out tremblingly, and read in their mouths: "A few more days of grace for a few more days......

"Old thing, kick your nose in the face. The big man led by the two old men was pushed to the ground: "It is natural to repay debts, now that this day has come, don't let my brothers run one by one!"

"But your profit is too high, when you borrowed it, you only had ten taels of silver, but now you have repaid more than a dozen taels, but this account is rolling more and more......" The old man fell to the ground, his face was bitter, his voice was out of breath, and he didn't know whether it was pain or resentment.

The men behind him saw that the two old men did not immediately take out the silver, and had already begun to smash it in the courtyard. As long as they could see the pieces of things, those wooden horses, wooden chairs, wooden stools and other objects, under the kicking knife, the broken pieces of wood were scattered everywhere, and occasionally one or two fell on the old couple's body.

"Don't smash ......"

The old man clutched a piece of broken wood in his hand and shouted weakly.

The old grandmother beside her was crying to herself, sobbing and choking, unable to say a word, and a few tears rolled down from her eyes and slipped into the furrows of her skin.

"Less nonsense about his meow, when I borrowed it, I said it clearly, I signed the contract and pressed my fingerprint!" The big man dangled an IOU in his left hand, and waved a sickle in his right hand, "If you don't pay it today, you will either accept your inn or take your daughter-in-law to the account!"

"Don't, don't ......"

When the old man heard that the strongman in front of him was going to attack the inn and his daughter-in-law, he couldn't care about the objects in the yard, so he took out a few pieces of broken silver from his arms with a shake, which Li Qiang gave him in the morning.

"If you have the silver, don't take it out sooner!" The big man snatched it arrogantly, checked it, the amount was not enough, and he touched the old man's arms again: "This is still far away!

"It's gone, it's gone!" the old man's voice brought out a crying voice, and his legs kicked helplessly on the ground.

The big man touched it around, touched a hard object, and said happily: "Old thing, still say no!"

But when he took it out, it was a wooden Luban lock, and he smashed the Luban lock to the ground in anger: "What kind of thing! Old man, you said that you are fooling around with these broken things every day!

Dahan didn't find the silver, so he was still angry after quenching it, and stepped on the Luban lock.

"Ouch!"

Although the Luban lock was wooden, it was very hard, and the big man was wearing cloth shoes, and he didn't step on it, but he grinned at his aching teeth.

Why did the big man take this breath, pointed to the old man and greeted the men around him: "What are you stunned about?

This is also too deceitful, but it is just to ask for accounts, but it fights against two old people!

"I see who dares!"

Li Qiang stood at the window and drank and flew downstairs, and Zhou Fa jumped down after him.

"Who are you who dare to meddle with our business?" The big man glanced at the two of them, looking at the clothes they were dressed up, like the son of a rich family, and he seemed to have kung fu on his body, so he didn't make a rash move, and asked Li Qiang where he came from.

"Brother Zhou, you go and help the old man get up. Li Qiang ignored him and asked Zhou Fa to help the old man who fell to the ground, staring at a few big men by himself.

"The boss asks you something, what are you pretending to be!"

Li Qiang didn't answer, and a guy on the opposite side couldn't stand it, so he scolded and slashed at the same time.

This guy is just an ordinary street gangster, who is Li Qiang's opponent. The wrist holding the knife was grabbed by Li Qiang at once, and then he was hit with a heavy punch in the door.

Li Qiang didn't use too much strength, but the fist seemed to have taken root and smashed into the flesh.

"Ah......h

The little guy lost the knife and fell down after only shouting half an "ah".

Qi Xu and the four of them also ran down the stairs and stood behind Li Qiang.

......

"Let's be reasonable!" The leader swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said awe-inspiringly: "It is natural to repay debts and money! No matter how big the fist is, it can't be reasonable!"

Saying that, he waved the IOU in his hand: "This is the truth, if the two old ones can't pay back today, I will have to take over the building." ”

Li Qiang asked, "How much do they owe you?"

The big man checked the broken silver that he had just snatched from the old man, and calculated in his heart: "I still owe twenty-two taels of silver!"

"Okay, I'll pay for it. ”

"We want cash!"

"I know. Li Qiang said, took out three ingots of silver from his arms, ten taels and one, and threw them to the big man.

This time I came to Weinan County, the distance was not far or close, and it cost money to go out, Zhou Fa and Li Qiang each brought a lot of silver taels, which came in handy now.

"Hey, it's true. The leader took the silver, knocked on each other, took a bite from each other, and the sound and tooth marks were right, and he happily put it away. He took out a handful of broken silver from his arms and gave it to Li Qiang: "We are all reasonable, we are not greedy for your cheapness, these are for you to find a head!"

After speaking, he tore up the IOU and said to the other big men: "The money has been received, let's go." ”

More than a dozen big men lifted the fainted one together and went out of the door.

The old grandfather and grandmother are no big problem, thank the benefactor for their kindness, and a storm has passed.