Volume 3, Chapter 21: The Ghost-Faced Thief (1)
The words say: The road ahead is like a lot of confusion, and the sword is out of the sheath to kill the dragon and tiger. There is no stability in Jizhou City, and ghosts and ghosts are hidden.
Jizhou City, the place where tigers and wolves were entrenched during the Three Kingdoms period.
The characteristics of being easy to defend and difficult to attack continue to this day, and during the Sui and Tang dynasties, forces such as Li Yuan, Wang Shichong, and Dou Jiande were eyeing it.
Decades later, the world was unified, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, the city of Jizhou was very high and the walls were strong, and the thieves in the mountains on the outskirts did not dare to burn and loot, and the foreign forces had no ambition to invade.
But before January, a strange incident occurred in the city of Jizhou, which has always been stable and wealthy, and the children of the people in the city were stolen one after another, and no one knew who stole it?
Since then, neighbors have been suspicious of each other, and they have strengthened their precautions against foreign population, and such a trivial matter has now become a major disaster in Jizhou City.
The loss of the child in the Chang'an City Palace ordered the Jizhou City Government Yamen to investigate the matter thoroughly, but never found out what the clue was, and the people in the Great Wall of Heaven were afraid to go out, and they were also afraid of the world outside.
Qin Feng and the four of them came to Jizhou City one day after leaving Pingyuan City, and the four of them saw the people fishing, drinking, and doing farming on the way to Jizhou City, and they lived a good life.
On the way, I often heard people talking about the harvest, and everyone laughed when they looked at the silver taels in their hands and the golden harvest of rice in the wheat field.
Qin Feng was very happy to see this scene, and said: "Jizhou City is different from the previous cities we have seen, we have seen smiling faces along the way, we haven't encountered such a scene for a while, right?"
Siyu laughed softly: "Miss Ben may not see, what you see may only be on the surface, if you have not entered the city, why do you think that the city will be comfortable? Maybe there are thieves rampant in the city, you are still like this, you must not only look at the surface."
Qin Feng was stunned for a moment, and said, "Why don't I find someone here and ask how the situation in the city is?"
Zhengqing saw the two bickering, and he already knew what to do in his heart.
When Qin Feng pulled a slender branch from the branch beside him, he was talking to the local people in Jizhou City in front of him early in the morning, trying to find out the specific situation in the city.
The resume in the rivers and lakes, Zhengqing is much higher than him, and the purpose of Xinyunsanren's apprenticeship is to make the apprentices become first-class characters in the rivers and lakes, and then often let the apprentices go to the rivers and lakes to experience various deeds to hone one or two.
At this time, the little brother standing in front of him was skinny, wearing a yellow hat, a brown cloth shirt, and a very cute image.
Zhengqing asked: "This city ahead is Jizhou City"?
The little brother replied: "Exactly, Jizhou City is more than 20 miles away from here, the city wall is high, and it has the name of the first city in Hebei."
Before Zhengqing could respond, the little brother asked: "You and the other four are all from a foreign country, why did you come to Jizhou this time?"
Zhengqing was surprised: "Could it be that there is something wrong in the city this time? Or is it not peaceful in the city for a while?"
The little brother sighed deeply, glanced at Zhengqing, and then left the place.
Zhengqing didn't care about the little brother's departure, but the little brother's sigh before parting gave him a lot of pressure.
"Hey, Tang Zhengqing, can we still enter Jizhou City?" Chu Ting looked at him cutely.
"I think it's better to think about this matter in the long run, the little brother looks weird, I feel that there must be a mystery in this Jizhou City, maybe Takeo is ambushed and waiting for us to enter the set!" Zhengqing always felt relieved when he thought about it, looking at how natural it was for the pedestrians around him to enter and exit from Jizhou City, and that natural feeling made him feel a little afraid.
Seeing Zhengqing's suspicious demeanor, Qin Feng's heart was also confused, and he always remembered the last time Takeo designed Xuzhou City to arrest them.
He didn't want to continue to cause trouble in Jizhou City, and he didn't want others to trouble them, so he suddenly came up with a plan, and the four of them walked all the way west along the barren land next to Jizhou City, and it only took two days to bypass Jizhou and go directly to Youzhou.
The area of a barren land next to Jizhou City is very small, only one person can pass through a road, and there are swamps in many places, and it is necessary to go through many tests if you want to pass this place smoothly.
Zhengqing walked at the forefront, and Qin Feng behind him had to keep an eye on Siyu and Chu Ting's every move to ensure their safety.
Qin Feng turned around and turned around, and then let out a loud roar, "Quick, we must pass through this muddy swamp before the night, otherwise it will be dangerous to act after the night comes."
At this moment, a roar of exhaustion in front of the gate of Jizhou City attracted the attention of the four people, only to see in the distance a ghost-faced man wearing a long black ornament holding a child who had just reached the age of the moon in his hand and rushing into the city at a flying speed, while the middle-aged woman behind him burst into tears, as if chasing the ghost-faced man in front, but unfortunately he was tired and failed to catch up with the man in front.
The middle-aged woman's shouts, hoarses, and helpless cries for help, and even the sound of the last kneeling fall, the four of Qin Feng were very angry.
Siyu, who had always been the kindest and gentleest of the four, was the first to fly away with the fastest light skill when he saw this situation, and the rest of the people also flew to ask one or two.
Siyu picked up the middle-aged woman and asked, "Auntie, why are you so embarrassed to be here this time, what is the matter?"
Qin Feng hurriedly rushed over, stood at the gate of Jizhou City and looked around, and saw that the ghost-faced man who snatched the child had already disappeared, and the door was still as stable as he had just seen.
Zhengqing and Chu Ting kept an eye on the hawker stall at the door, as the saying goes, a woman's sixth sense is very accurate, in Chu Ting's opinion, the ghost-faced man who snatched the child will also come here again, if he comes here again, it will not be difficult to catch him.
The middle-aged woman got up and walked to a hidden place at the door, and said: "This person is a demon in Jizhou City, this person specializes in eating children, and many children have died at his hands, and the old woman has failed to recover the child this time, so I am ashamed of him."
The middle-aged woman sighed and shook her head again and again, frowning her brows and her complicated face to show that she was also very helpless now.
Siyu looked at Qin Feng and accused: "Miss Ben just said, don't just look at the surface when looking at things, maybe there are thieves rampant in the city, you see, there are child eating demons in the city, how can this be good?"
Zhengqing responded: "What else can I do, enter Jizhou City, no matter what, we must find out the identity of the ghost-faced man, otherwise the children in Jizhou City will not be sacrificed in vain."
Qin Feng nodded, he was very suspicious of the identity of the ghost-faced man, why did he want to eat children? What is the motive? If he can't find out, as Zhengqing said, even more children in Jizhou City will die at his hands.
If you want to know the story of the next chapter, please pay attention to Chapter 22 of the Legend of the Sword of the Fairy Cloud Volume 3 "The Ghost Thief (2)"