Chapter 204: Bounty
After a commotion, the floor below finally subsided.
Ying Wuxin moved his ears and said regretfully: "The butterflies are gone, and there is no need to call anymore." ”
Sun Xiaoman pursed her lips and nodded slightly, she also heard what she said just now.
After the meal, I found three rooms, and several people lived in them to rest, from Taoxi Town to Tube Village for a while, they have been relatively busy, for the cultivators, it affects the mood very much, and they need to find a quiet place to take a certain rest, and now the restaurant in Butterfly Town has become a good choice.
This time it took three days to recuperate.
Three days later, in the morning, several people left the room in good spirits, had breakfast, and walked out of the restaurant to wander the street.
Wang Zhong and the experience of Guanzi Village have reminded several people that even in the remote rural wilderness, there will be people with evil intentions to do evil deeds, and now that they have arrived in Butterfly Town, it is necessary to investigate carefully, whether there is evil or not, whether there is a powerful evil, if there is, then naturally find a way to eliminate it, and return the people here to peace.
I asked passers-by where the announcement was placed, and a group of five people walked through the street.
In the three states and five countries in the world, the towns with relatively concentrated populations will have a place to issue announcements, which is generally in the center of the town, with a relatively large flow of people and fast information dissemination. Because of this convenient condition, it has also become a place for ordinary people to post bounty tasks, and if there are any problems that they can't solve, they can post them through the bounty and ask talented people to help solve them.
In fact, the rewards are more issued to the cultivators, because in this world, the cultivators are the strongest people.
When they arrived at the bulletin board, several people took a look, and the announcement on it was still the one that killed the former county guard, and it has not been replaced, and it seems that the imperial court has not issued any new policies and regulations to the local government recently.
On the wall next to it, there was an area with a lot of paper, most of it was white paper, with a bounty written on it, some of it was yellow paper or simply cloth, and some words were written on it with charcoal or bloodstains.
A few people walked over and read the bounty tasks issued, and couldn't help but feel embarrassed, most of the bounty tasks on this were about fights, and some were looking for lost items or domestic servants, the price was not high, and the highest was only ten taels of silver.
This is simply the price of inviting ruffians and hooligans, and a few people, as Taoists, naturally don't look down on them.
Not to mention the four Dao heroes, even Wang Banxian was very disdainful, "A group of poor ghosts still want to spend money to hire strong people, is this little money enough?"
"Hey, there's a nice bounty here, just in time for us. Bai Miaozhen pointed to the wall.
Everyone looked over and offered a bounty of three hundred taels for the destruction of the demon butterfly.
For silver, Sun Xiaoman doesn't care much.
However, the silver of the bounty task also represents the difficulty of the matter, if it is less and the difficulty is too low, then they basically don't need to make a move, so they don't care how much silver there is, Sun Xiaoman also attaches great importance to the amount of silver in the bounty task.
If there is a lot of silver, it means that the matter is serious.
Three hundred silver, for the average rich man, is a huge wealth, and this amount can definitely show the seriousness of the situation behind it.
"Take it. Li Zhengdao looked at the reward and said lightly.
"A little devil butterfly is a disaster, and I think it should be solved by catching it at our fingertips. Sun Xiaoman smiled confidently and took off the reward.
According to the address left above, everyone found a two-entry house, and at a glance they knew that it was a wealthy family. Under the leadership of the little guy at the door, everyone saw the housekeeper of this house, a fifty-year-old man surnamed Xu, with a somewhat fat figure, gray hair, smiling face, and his eyes narrowed.
"It turned out that the Taoist hero was coming, and he was disappointed, and he hoped to forgive his sins, please inside. Steward Xu greeted with a smile.
After entering the living room of the side room and serving tea, Sun Xiaoman took out the reward.
Steward Xu said with a smile: "Since it is a Taoist who comes, then most of this matter has been settled, I won't say much nonsense, you have seen the reward, you must have understood the situation of the matter." ”
"There are butterflies that have poisoned many people. "There should be no heart.
Steward Xu nodded, waved his hand, and his subordinates went out, and after a while, he came in with a tray with white flowers and silver on it.
"This is a hundred taels of silver for the deposit, and I ask you to accept it. ”
Wang Banxian went over, honestly and unceremoniously took the silver, and put it all into his package.
"Then we're leaving, taking our leave. Li Zhengdao got up and said neatly and simply.
"I wish a few Taoist heroes to go back early, there are still some things to do at home, and Xu will not be far away. Steward Xu stood up and saluted.
"You're welcome. ”
Out of the house, the five of them went straight to the restaurant to return, cleaned up their salutes, and called the shopkeeper over.
"We're going to go to the Valley of the Wind and find a coachman who can lead the way. ”
The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, looked at the long sword behind the back of several people, his eyes lit up, and said: "This requires two people, one to catch the car, and the other to lead the way in the mountains." ”
"That's fine. Li Zhengdao nodded.
Not long after, a carriage appeared at the door, and two middle-aged men bent down to salute and greeted them with a smile.
Both of them are ordinary people, they look honest and honest, and their skin is the same as dark, but the coachman is obviously fatter, and the guide who leads the way is relatively thin, and it is said that they are hunters in the mountains, and they run all year round, and most of them can't get fat.
The five of them got into the carriage, the coachman drove the car, and the guide sat beside him, and after a long time, he left Butterfly Town and drove away to the mountains in the distance.
Watching the dead horses running on the mountain, although the horses driving the cart were not exhausted to death, when they arrived in front of the mountain, it was already afternoon.
A few people got out of the car and ate some food, followed the guide into the mountain, and the coachman stayed in place to wait, the surrounding mountains are relatively desolate, the grass and trees are not abundant, there are basically no large beasts, and he does not have to worry about the horses being attacked.
It is said that this wind back to the valley is in the mountains, and it takes a day and a night to walk the mountain road.
The people didn't know the situation in the mountains, so they didn't dare to travel rashly, and they couldn't waste their natural energy flying by at will, so they had to walk on foot.
In the evening, after walking only a short distance, the guide found a wooden house built in the mountains and said: "This is usually where our hunters settle down at night, and there is some grain and salt in it. ”
The wooden houses are relatively small, but they are all built with very thick planks, which are quite sturdy, and everyone enters them, barely crowded.
The guide went out to get some firewood, and boiled a pot of rice porridge with Wang Banxian, everyone ate baked cakes and dried meat, drank rice porridge, and made up a simple dinner.
There was nothing to say for the rest of the night.
In the morning, he had no intention of withdrawing from the cultivation state, Li Zhengdao also happened to open his eyes, the two looked at each other and smiled, got up quietly, and walked towards the door.
It's just that when the door of the wooden house was pushed open, Ying Wuxin suddenly fell there.
Li Zhengdao's eyes froze slightly, and he also looked outside.
On the ground at the door, there is a green leaf, the size of a fan, and bright red fruits are placed on it, about the size of a pigeon's egg, there are more than a dozen, which looks very appetizing.
"There was no dew, not last night, but this morning, and it certainly wasn't long. "You shouldn't be serious.
Li Zhengdao's face became a little solemn, "We didn't notice it at all, which shows that the other party's infiltration is very clever." ”
While speaking, the guide walked to the door, saw the fruit outside, and said lightly: "I'm here to deliver the fruit again, I'm really diligent." ”
Ying Wuxin and Li Zhengdao both looked at the guide curiously, "What's going on?"
The guide smiled, "I don't know what exactly is going on, but since a few years ago, as long as people who go into the mountains for the night in summer and autumn, when they wake up in the morning, they will find fruits outside the door or next to them, these fruits are actually from the mountains near here, but who sent them, no one knows, someone deliberately kept vigil and investigated, but once the vigil was held, there will be no fruit." The fruit is not poisonous, and it has been washed with water, so everyone is fine when they eat it, so they don't care. ”
Ying Wuxin said: "In this way, it seems that this is still a certain creature in the mountain expressing kindness to the people who enter the mountain." ”
"Hehe, I guess so. The guide went out, picked up the fruit, and asked with a smile, "Have you eaten a few distinguished guests?"
Li Zhengdao shook his head slightly, and the guide did not insist, he took the fruit himself, and walked towards the distance while eating.
"Something is not right with this. Li Zhengdao said in a deep voice.
"If this kind of thing has been happening, it will be fine, but in recent years, something has to happen that has caused this kind of fruit-giving behavior. Ying Wuxin's face was also a little more solemn.
After convenience, the two found a stream to wash their faces, and happened to meet the same guide who washed their faces.
"Angkor, the strange big butterflies of your Butterfly Town are only found in this mountain, right?" Ying Wuxin asked with a smile as he pretended to be casual.
"Ah, only we have this mountainous area here, there are no other places, it is very peculiar, originally these big butterflies are in the deep mountains, we have not seen it, and then I don't know why, they flew out, settled in the valley of the wind, there was a hunter who happened to shoot one at night, when there was no other food, so he dared to eat the butterfly, I didn't expect to find out, it turned out that this butterfly meat is so delicious. ”
The guide smiled proudly: "Later, everyone knew that this butterfly meat was delicious, and they all went into the mountains and were arrested, relying on butterfly meat, the town gradually became rich, and later it was simply renamed Butterfly Town." ”
"When we were having dinner a few days ago, we met a man who went to the restaurant to put butterflies, and there was a conflict with the people in the restaurant. ”
The guide's face was ugly for a while, and he smiled embarrassedly: "People are greedy for money, it's a bit too much to hunt and kill, but it's going to be extinct, it shouldn't be, this thing doesn't live in groups, it's all scattered, and the whole Fenghui Valley is so big, there must be a lot of things that haven't been found in it." And some people speculate that this big butterfly coming out of the deep mountains may only be a small part of a large group, and there should be more in it, and now it seems that someone is forming a team and preparing to enter the deep mountains to investigate. ”
"A few Dao heroes are good, maybe they can participate, I heard that there is a lot of money given. ”
"My generation of Taoist heroes takes it as their mission to kill demons and eliminate demons, and money is something outside the body. Li Zhengdao said solemnly.
The guide was dumbfounded, and Ying Wuxin said, "We're not interested in that." ”