"No, just get here, let's go in by ourselves. "There should be no heart.

Wang Banxian went to pay for the car, carried the wooden box on his back, and stepped forward and asked, "Little Daoist, the area of this town in front is not small, why don't we take the car in." ”

Ying Wuxin glared at him angrily, "What do you say, do you really think that you are the master who came to visit the Qinglou, and you will not attract the attention of others if ......you are swaggering through the city in a carriage?"

Wang Banxian, who said this, nodded again and again and admitted his mistake.

"The deceased was dressed in linen clothes that ordinary peasant families often wear, and she must have been an ordinary peasant woman, but looking at the buildings here, it didn't look like a poor peasant family could live. Sun Xiaoman wondered.

Bai Miaozhen glanced around, pointed to the field next to him and said: "The land here is scattered, it should be the field of a small farmer, I believe there should be a village nearby." ”

"Let's go find it. Li Zhengdao pointed to a relatively high dirt ramp on one side.

The group climbed the dirt slope, the sun had begun to set, and the town of Red Mansions was submerged in the light of the sunset under the afterglow, faintly feeling a little illusory.

Ying Wuxin said: "This place is not far from Taoxi Town, it is so prosperous, it is really hard to believe, just that red building, if you want to build it, the money you need to spend is probably a huge number." ”

The afterglow of the sunset, the fiery red sunset, the red mansion in the distance is more and more colorful, the wooden building as high as ten zhang, like a skylight tower, towers on the earth, showing a panic atmosphere, the surrounding buildings are dotted, like the stars holding the moon and guarding the red mansion, which shows its nobility and outstanding.

Li Zhengdao also nodded approvingly, "Yes, we have also stayed in Taoxi for a while, why is it so prosperous here, but the people of Taoxi Town have never mentioned it, ordinary people are just ordinary people, among those who participate in the Spirit Monkey Festival, there are many talented people, and many are rich businessmen and magnates, they will inevitably come here as guests, and there will definitely be some information about this place in the words and jokes, but we don't seem to have heard of a little information." ”

Ying Wuxin said: "I have performed the technique of listening to the wind, and I have heard a lot of secret conversations between merry people and rich businessmen and magnates, although there are many people who talk about Fengyue women, but what they say is about the county and provincial capital, as well as the royal capital, and there are some people who discuss Taoxi, but there is nothing about Honglou Town." ”

"This is strange, how can such a town named after Qinglou be unpatronized, or do you need to keep some secrets here?"

Ying Wuxin's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Half Immortal, your idea is good, maybe there is really such a rule here, you can't discuss things here outside, then it can be completely explained." ”

There are many demons and monsters in the world, there was a dragon god in the past, the world attaches great importance to faith, for integrity and certain laws, will also strictly abide by, which can maximize the safety of themselves and their families, so there are some special taboos in many places, these taboos will even become taboos at some times, even if the merry genius and the rich businessmen and magnates have no one in their eyes, they are bold and reckless, for the rules and taboos, they will still honestly abide by it.

So if there is such a rule in Red Mansion Town, outside, how many people who have been here to be happy and happy will not say half a word, unless they are drunk and lose their words, or they are taken advantage of, but such opportunities are very rare.

"As a Qinglou, I don't want to be talked about outside, there must be some secrets here, and most of them are unseemly, it seems that we really came to the right place this time. Ying Wuxin smiled.

Li Zhengdao also nodded solemnly, "Yes, there may be a lot of secrecy here, but we still have to start with the headless corpse first, which may be a more critical clue." ”

Ying Wuxin nodded in agreement, and everyone continued to look for nearby villages, and finally in the afterglow of the setting sun, Bai Miaozhen pointed to a forest in the north and said, "Look, there is cooking smoke behind it, it should be the village." ”

In fact, there is also cooking smoke in the town of Red Mansions, and it is when dinner is cooked, and there is cooking smoke rising from many of the houses inside, but this is obviously not the goal of everyone, so they directly bypass it at the moment and run to the woods to the north.

Crossing a poplar forest on the sandy land by the river, a village in front appeared in front of me, because the village was relatively high, on a high slope, the sky was already dark at this time, and everyone could not see how big the village was, but there were more than a dozen houses seen from the periphery, and it seemed that the village was at least not too small, and it must be much larger than Sanliuzhuang.

The group quickened their speed, and when they reached the entrance of the village, the sun completely converged its last rays of light, and the earth fell into a darkness, and the sky was not completely dark, so everyone quickened their pace and walked into the village.

Both sides of the village road are loess walls, which are uneven and eroded by wind and rain, and some places are only three feet high, children can easily climb over and cross the earthen wall, but they see piles of firewood in the small courtyard inside, as well as dustpans, flat poles, wooden barrels, wheelbarrows, stone mills and many other farm tools, and a donkey is eating forage under the grass shed, shaking its head from time to time, shaking its big ears to drive away mosquitoes and flies.

Outside the low thatched hut on one side, a loess chimney was rising in the air with white smoke, and there was the sound of people talking inside.

"Where are we going to ask?" Sun Xiaoman said.

Ying Wuxin glanced ahead, in the dim evening, the road ahead came to an end more than fifty meters away, blocked by a courtyard wall, and the road went in another direction. I don't know how long the road is or how many families there are in the village.

"Shall I just ask? Is there anyone in the neighborhood who is missing? "There should be no heart.

Li Zhengdao also nodded in agreement, and took his junior sister to a family at the entrance of the village to inquire, Ying Wuxin took Wang Banxian to walk slowly into the village, listen to the wind technique, and listen to the words around him.

There are men complaining about tiredness, there are men washing their bodies and wiping their backs, there are the sounds of children laughing, and there are women chattering while stir-frying, all kinds of sounds are full of the fireworks of life.

Walk to the end of the village road, should be unintentional and Wang Banxian turned around, continue to walk inside, after this entry only to find that the village is not small, in front of a pond covering an area of about ten acres are all households, there are more than a dozen households, a village road stretches into the distance, both sides are also houses and courtyards.

Walking around the pond, Ying Wuxin and Wang Banxian met a few croppers who were hurrying home, and looked at the two of them curiously.

Ying Wuxin gave a look, Wang Banxian took out a few copper coins and walked up, and greeted with a smile: "Old buddy, I want to ask you something, have you ever heard of a woman missing in this village or nearby?" ”

An old man with dark skin and as thin as the bark of a tree in front of him took the copper coin and said, "You are strangers." ”

"Ahh Wang Banxian nodded.

"At first glance, you are a foreigner, wearing such a good cloth of clothes, it is definitely not from our village, you ask the woman is missing, is it that ugly bastard who has started killing people again? This bastard who has been stabbed with a thousand knives, if it rains and thunders, he will not kill him, how many men in the village are still beating singles, he always stares at women to kill, his heart and eyes are very bad, he belongs to the kind of bastard who has sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet. The old man took off the straw hat on his head, put the hoe on the ground, and cursed.