A person came out of the forest on the side of the road, it was Fang Yan. He changed his clothes, led his horse, and did not carry any weapons.

Li Bochen looked at him and said, "You're going to throw the corpse?"

Fang Yan looked a little uneasy, and said in a low voice, "Hmm." ”

Li Bochen sighed lightly and said, "Okay." Fang Yuan, what I said before was a bit heavy. ”

Fang Yan frowned, looking like he was about to cry. Li Bochen was stunned, he didn't expect him to care so much about his opinion of him. This made him feel a little uncomfortable, so he said in a deep voice: "You are not a bad person, you just did something wrong. Half of this is wrong. I'm not good at teaching you what to do and what not to do, but if you're willing to listen, I'll say more. ”

Fang Yan immediately said, "General Li, you say." ”

Li Bochen said: "For example, today's incident, I also know that if you don't kill these two people, there will be trouble in the future." You don't want that trouble, you kill people. But in a lifetime, some troubles are indispensable. For example, your mother - she was sick before, and you have to take care of her, and she is causing you problems. But can you not want this kind of trouble?"

"It's the same with taking people's lives. I also have a lot of lives on my hands, but before I kill someone, I always ask myself, does this person deserve to be punished?" Speaking of this, he remembered the government army who was killed by himself in the Zhangcheng Mansion, so he shook his head, "Actually, even I can't do this all the time. It's just that if people don't have some restraints in their hearts and let go of all their troubles, then how different is it from demon beasts? When it comes to cultivation, you have also entered the path of demons. ”

Fang Yan said: "You're right, General Li. ”

Li Bochen didn't know if he genuinely agreed with his views or out of gratitude and respect for himself. But he knows it's hard to convince a person. The truth in a person's heart is the result of his own experience, and it is almost impossible to make people turn their backs on what is in their hearts in a few words.

He sighed: "If this matter is revealed, you can come to me if you are worried about your life." I'm in Mengjiatun. ”

Fang Yan raised his hand and wiped his eyes, and after a while, he said, "Hmm." I went back...... I still have some savings in my hand, so I went back and found a suitable opportunity to compensate the two families. ”

Li Bochen waved his hand: "Okay." Let's go. ”

When he drove to town, the moon had already risen. Walking home from the town, you have to pass more than a dozen households on the way. On the way, I saw several people surrounded in a courtyard, and there were still women and children crying in the house, so I said that it was time for the husband and wife to quarrel, and I didn't go to my heart.

When he returned home, Lin Qiao was pleasantly surprised when he looked at the newly bought car. Li Bochen's heart warmed, thinking that she had seen all the rare things before, and now that she was so happy, it should be because of herself, so she was a little happier.

He brought Lin Qiao some fruits from the middle street, and the two of them ate, and unloaded and put away the miscellaneous items in the car before they were idle. He sweated profusely, and then took a shower again. Lin Qiao took the newly bought tea cup and tea leaves and made him tea according to his taste, and Li Bochen sat on the threshold with the tea cup.

Lin Qiao washed the stove, sat down and leaned against him, and after a while, said, "What's wrong?

Li Bochen sighed lowly, and still told the matter of cutting the Golden Pavilion.

Lin Qiao didn't make a sound for a while, Li Bochen finished drinking the tea, handed her the teacup, and said, "I'll cut some grass and feed the horses." ”

Lin Qiao said: "Hmm." ”

He walked out of the courtyard to the edge of the vegetable garden, where there were some wild grasses mixed with new shoots. He hugged two bundles, and could faintly hear the cry of a woman in the distance. When he returned to the courtyard, he cut the grass with a guillotine and fed it to the horse, and saw Lin Qiao still sitting on the threshold with a teacup.

Li Bochen didn't know if she was blaming herself for the death of those two people, so she said, "What's the matter? ”

Lin Qiao said in a low voice: "I'm thinking about that Fang Qi. Ah Chen, in fact, he doesn't blame him. ”

Li Bochen was stunned: "Huh?"

"Listen to you, he has had a bad life since he was a child, and he was bullied. Nine times out of ten, people who grow up like this will become the bad guys you say. But this Fang Yi knows how to repay his kindness, and his essence is not bad. It's rare for him to look like this now. ”

Li Bochen thought for a while and sighed, "Yes." So I didn't do anything about him, it's a big deal that I won't see him in the future. ”

Lin Qiao said in a low voice: "But Ah Chen, he has become like this, and he can't help himself. If it had been ...... has his parents pampering him, and others are good to him, maybe Fang Qi will become a good person like you. If you ignore him in the future, his path will become more and more crooked...... It's also pathetic. ”

Li Bochen was silent for a while. Poor, right...... There is pity for those who hate them. Lin Qiao is also reasonable, Fang Qi's experience can still be so affectionate and righteous now, it is indeed very unexpected. It's just that the hardships he has suffered since he was a child have made his mind too narrow-minded.

He smiled, "Okay." If I have the opportunity to meet him again, I will advise him a few words. ”

Lin Qiao was happy and walked into the house with a teacup. After a while, the room lit up, and it was she who lit the talisman lamp that Li Bochen bought.

Li Bochen washed his hands and walked into the house, and saw that the calligraphy and paintings in the hall had been hung up, and the cups and cups were complete, which looked very decent. He breathed a sigh of relief, and went into the east room again, and saw Lin Qiao hanging a tent on the bed, so he picked up a feather duster, swept all the corners and corners, and asked, "When I came back, I saw a family crying below, what happened?"

Lin Qiao said: "I heard Sister Meng say that she brought someone to our house at noon to dig the well—that man went into the mountains to collect medicine and didn't come back for several days. Later, they reported to the official—that is, Zhu Hou's person—and they went to the mountains to look for it, and they found it. ”

"When he said that he had been dead for several days, from his shoulder to his stomach, there was a big gap. Are there a lot of people around down there? They have been around for a day, and they all say that the demon beast did it. ”

Li Bochen was stunned, demon beast?

"What did Zhu Hou's people say?"

"Sister Meng said, but Zhu Hou's people said that it was not a demon beast. But the man had made a feud. She said that the man was Lang Zhong in the town, and he had treated a child in the past, but when he died, he made a feud. Isn't this man dead, and the man who has been with him for the past few days is not there, and they guess that the man killed him. ”

Li Bochen nodded, but he didn't believe all these words. Maybe it's a vendetta, but ...... What if not? During the day, the blacksmith also said that many mountain people who ran from the mountains said that they had seen demon beasts. If it's really a monster, it's not a trivial matter.

He thought for a moment and said, "Xiaoman, I'll go to his house to take a look." ”

Lin Qiao was stunned: "What do you think...... What a monster?"

Li Bochen regretted it a little, and said in her heart that she should be scared when she heard herself say this. Then he smiled: "I'll know it at a glance." Don't be afraid, there is still the Chang family in the north. Even if it's true, even if it comes over tonight, everyone in the Chang family has magical powers, and it's not difficult to subdue it. You can rest assured. ”

Lin Qiao said: "That...... You can come back soon. ”

Li Bochen nodded, wanting to bring a knife. But he realized that this was not another place, and everyone would feel strange when he walked around with a knife in this tun, so he only brought Yaohou with him.

He went out in the dark, walked to the door of the courtyard of the house, and saw that the courtyard door was open, and there were more people in the courtyard. At this time, many families have nothing to do, and they are rushing to see the excitement.

Several women whispered in one place, and several men said something with their hands behind their backs and solemn faces. The family seems to be in a bad family, the house is low, there is only one lamp in the house, and the courtyard is also dark. Therefore, Li Bochen walked in, and no one noticed him.

He leaned over to the door of the house and looked inside, and saw a woman and a boy dressed in linen and filial piety, and were crying on a mat, and he guessed that there were corpses under the mat. At this time, I could hear a familiar voice in the hall, which seemed to be Meng Niangzi.

So he moved to the side, and look, it was.

Listen to Meng Niangzi said: "...... Don't talk about this, use it first, and mourn people first. ”

Another old woman was crying and saying something thankful for herself, but she didn't know where the dialect she spoke, and Li Bochen couldn't hear it clearly.

Meng Niangzi is here, this is great. Li Bochen retreated to the side and waited for a while, and Meng Niangzi walked out. He said in a low voice, "Sister Meng." ”

Meng Niangzi turned her face to see him and was stunned: "Brother Chen, why are you here?"

Li Bochen took two steps back, and Meng Niangzi followed. He whispered, "I heard that he was killed by a demon beast, so I came over to take a look." ”

After thinking about it, he added: "I thought I had gone to the north of the Sui Kingdom and ran through Shang, and I had seen someone killed by a demon beast, I wanted to see if it was." ”

Meng Niangzi was taken aback and wanted to say something. But seeing Li Bochen's solemn face, he thought for a while and said, "You ...... All right. Do you really want to see it? Then I'll go in and talk about it. ”

He whispered again: "Look carefully, don't dare to say nonsense." ”

She believed in herself. Li Bochen felt a little moved, so he said, "Don't worry, eldest sister, I know the severity." ”

Meng Niangzi said hello again, turned around and walked in the door. After a while, she walked to the door and beckoned, "Brother Chen, come." ”

Li Bochen also walked in the door. Meng Niangzi closed the door on the side and said a few words to the mother and son, and the old woman came over and wiped her tears while holding the two apart with Meng Niangzi.

Li Bochen first walked to the confession and took the oil lamp, then walked to the corpse and lifted the mat.

It doesn't smell good, and it's been a few days since then. The corpse had not yet had time to be decorated, and it was almost the same as before death. He saw a huge wound extending from his collarbone to his lower abdomen, opening at both ends and shattering his collarbone.

He immediately realized that this could never have been done by a human being, at least not by someone who had not practiced before. If you want to make such a wound, you may be able to use the magic knife to force out the knife and cut it out with all your might.

But this man is a villager, who would do that?

Looking at this angle, it is not cut head-on, but more like it was scratched diagonally by something huge, such as sharp nails. A chill arose in his heart—demon beasts.

But he couldn't be sure for a moment which kind of demon beast did it. Looking at this wound, the size of the demon beast should be extremely large. The large ones he had seen in the northern plains included more than a dozen species such as camels, swollen heads, muddy armor, and brute armor. But none of these have claws to create such wounds.

There is a kind of flying demon called Scythe Song. But that thing is big, but it's not good at long-term strength. Although this place is already considered to be the north of the Li Kingdom, there are at least hundreds of miles of mountains between it and the Northern Plains, and the sickle bend cannot fly. Even if it did, it would have been discovered a long time ago.

Could it be some other big demon I haven't seen before?

It seemed that seeing that his face was not very good, Meng Niangzi came over and held her breath, and said in a low voice: "Brother Chen, can you see it?"

Li Bochen covered the straw mat, secretly offended the corpse, and glanced at Meng Niangzi. Meng Niangzi was stunned and whispered, "...... Really!?"

Before he could reply, the door was kicked open, and a man shouted, "What nonsense? Who taught you that!?"

Li Bochen turned his face and saw that it was a man wearing black cloth and white-edged clothes. Thin and thin, with a knife at his waist. This costume is the same as the street patrol seen in the town during the day, it should also be someone under Zhu Hou's hands.

This person strode into the house and shouted, "Zhou family, what are you talking nonsense? What kind of demon beast? Didn't you say that it was a vendetta?"

The deceased should have been surnamed Zhou. It should have been the woman he asked.

When the woman heard his question, she was immediately so frightened that she could not cry, but the boy cried even louder. When this person entered the house, he saw Meng Niangzi, his tone softened, and said, "Oh, Meng Niangzi is also there." ”

Meng Niangzi frowned and said, "Sun Cha, why are you so scary? ”

The man sneered: "Meng Niangzi, isn't this kind of nonsense disturbing the people's hearts? When it reaches the ears of General Zhu, it is indispensable to take people to prison." I'm not doing it for their good. ”

He stared at Li Bochen again, and then looked at the woman: "Zhou family, don't talk nonsense." The people outside also listened, this is a vendetta. Our people are still looking for Feng San, and if they find it, it will naturally come to light. ”

Xiaoman said that the deceased was Lang Zhong before his death, and he had killed the children of a family. Feng San in this Sun Cha's mouth should be the father of that child. They suspected that Feng San had killed him.

But didn't they see the gap in the corpse? Li Bochen thought about it, and felt that he understood a little more. The rumor that there are demon beasts in the mountains should indeed be the wind released by Zhu Hou's people...... Perhaps, as the blacksmith Yu Meng said, it was to make people come out of the mountains and come here.

But if there is a demon beast right now, it won't be good. The demon beast appeared to hurt people, Zhu Hou really wanted to be an official in a place, so he had to send someone to suppress it. But if you ask him to go to the mountains to deal with the demon beasts, I am afraid that he will have to take dozens of lives, and he may not succeed.

So, it's better to "vendetta".

This is a very stupid approach, but Li Bochen also feels that it is not incomprehensible. Zhu Hou is essentially a mountain bandit, and he will never really "love the people like a son" -- even those who are serious and have official status, how many people can do it? Death could not shake the foundation of the villagers, and the death of the soldiers under his command made it painful to death. It would be best if the demon beast went away on its own in a few days.

Li Bochen sighed lowly. He originally thought that if it was confirmed that it was a demon beast, he would report it to the local steward. But now looking at the appearance of this Sun Cha, I'm afraid I can't count on it.

He was going to leave first. But as soon as he moved his foot, Sun Cha stared at him again and said, "Who are you?"