Chapter 77: Finding Clues (3000+)
Some people say that it is to be able to go further on this land of rivers and lakes, some people say that it is to have the capital to settle down in this troubled world, and some people say that they hope that one day they can start a sect and establish a sect after great achievements.
And now, there are more answers to this question, because in terms of the current era, martial arts can be said to be quite widespread, compared to the era when martial arts was regarded as a forbidden, now there are more people who can grasp the right to speak on this topic, from Huangkou Xiaoer to Baishu Laosuo, as long as it is a person who practices martial arts, he has the right to speak.
Some people say that they can strengthen their bodies, some people say that it is easier to find a job with martial arts, some people say that practicing martial arts can prolong life, and even a doctor put forward the concept that people practicing martial arts is developing at a higher level, and this concept is accepted by the masses, because the practice of martial arts can indeed bring a lot of changes to people, from the most basic five senses to the most subtle intuition, as if the level of being a human being has been improved by more than one grade, the most intuitive of which is memory.
Guo Ao thinks that his memory is not bad, all the classics he has read can basically be memorized, when he made a mistake and was punished by the head of the family for copying the classics of the master 100 times, Guo Ao only copied the first time, and the remaining forty-nine times have never opened the template and written silently, and the content is word for word, it can be said that it is not an exaggeration to describe Guo Wei's memory in a glance.
But at this moment, Guo Wei began to doubt his memory.
The village is still the same village, but except for the location of the house, Guo Wei can't even find a place that matches his mental memory, if it weren't for the map in his hand, Guo Wei really doubted that he had gone to the wrong place.
Guo Wei walked into the village, and a strong sense of disobedience filled Guo Xian's five senses, and his intuition told him that there was a big problem in this village.
"To find clues, you must first start with the most critical places. ”
Guo Wei's first choice was the inn where he and his senior brother stayed at the beginning, when he came back to look for pigeons, he made a fuss, and the shopkeeper must still know him.
However, when he arrived at the original site of the inn, Guo Wei stood at the door and was stunned, the huge signboard at the entrance of the inn had disappeared, replaced by a huge signboard of the cloth shop, and the newness of the signboard seemed to have been hung on it for a long time.
The guy in the cloth shop looked at Guo Wei and looked up at his signboard, and took the initiative to greet him with a smile on his face: "Yo, this man is very raw, I don't know if you are a batch or a garment?"
Guo Wei looked at the cloth shop guy for a while before he spoke: "This is the second time I've come to the village, last time I remembered that this was an inn, why is it changed to a cloth shop now?"
The guy in the cloth shop scratched the back of his head when he heard Guo Wei's words: "Isn't this master wrong? The small shop is an ancestral business, and this cloth shop has been in the village all his life, which is something that everyone in and outside the village knows." ”
Guo Wei frowned: "Can I go in and have a look?"
The cloth shop guy grinned: "Look at what you said, what is this called, our cloth shop will not neglect the guests if we open the door to do business, please come in." As he spoke, he shouted inside: "Your guest comes to the door!" looks very skilled, and if someone else comes, I'm afraid I won't really believe this guy's words.
Originally, the inn was divided into two floors, the upper floor was the guest room, Guo Wei and Guo Xian lived on the second floor, and the first floor was the hall for eating.
Guo Wei stepped into the cloth shop and carefully looked at the internal structure, the general layout of the room has not changed, except that in the center of the hall are not tables and chairs for eating, but a huge table made up of four or five square tables, on which are placed all kinds of cloth, and some villagers and merchants are standing here to choose their favorite cloths.
Guo Wei pretended to choose fabrics, and took this opportunity to roughly turn the hall around while picking and choosing, but he didn't find any suspicious signs.
Then the next thing is upstairs.
Guo Wai raised his legs and was about to step upstairs, but before he stepped on the second step, the guy in the cloth shop saw it and hurriedly stopped Guo Wei: "Guest officer and guest officer, the best fabrics in our cloth shop are below, what are you doing upstairs?"
Guo Wei frowned: "I just want to know what is on it?"
The cloth shop guy made a smile and said: "Above is the warehouse of our cloth shop and the living location of our shopkeeper's daughter, I'm afraid it's not suitable for you to go up." ”
Guo Wei said: "I'll just go up and take a look." ”
The cloth guy frowned: "Ouch, my guest officer, you can be embarrassed, the shopkeeper's speech, except for the people in the inn, other outsiders are not allowed to go up to disturb, if you go up to the small job, you can't keep it." ”
The movement had apparently caught the attention of the rest of the store, and many of them had started pointing their fingers.
This time I came to investigate secretly, Guo Wei was not easy to make a fuss, so he had no choice but to give up, considering that he had not bought something for so long in the store was really suspicious, so he took a piece of cloth and settled the account and walked out of the cloth shop.
Holding the cloth, Guo Ao followed the path of the village to the entrance of the village, along the way Guo Ao looked left and right, the villagers in the village passed by each other and nodded to say hello, and some of the familiar ones got together to chat about family life, and there were also many villagers who came out of the village with hoes and shovels and other tools on their shoulders to come back from outside the village, which was a scene of the daily countryside.
Guo Wei's eyes looked towards a thatched house near the entrance of the village, if Guo Wei remembered correctly, the second dog who was lazy and ate his own foot and roasted the messenger pigeon in the watchtower lived here.
Guo Wai stood at the door, and before he could knock on the door, a gust of wind blew, and the door opened by itself.
The second dog is a good one to eat, but no matter how lazy he is, he still needs to sleep, right? Guo Wei remembered that when he first entered the house to look for the package, there was a small square table and a hard bed in the house, but now the room was empty and there was nothing, as if no one had ever lived in it.
Guo Wei walked down the street and casually grabbed a villager passing by and asked, "This big brother, why is this house uninhabited?"
The villager replied: "The owner of this house is a hunter, I don't know if something happened, one day I went out and never came back, the village sent people out to look for it, but they didn't find it, a few days ago the village decided to empty this house as a sentry post, so everything in it was moved." ”
Guo Wei asked, "Where did you move?"
The villagers shrugged and said, "Of course it's burned, it's unlucky for the dead." ”
Guo Wei looked for a few more villagers, and the answers were the same, and Guo Wei didn't get any clues after going around the village, so Guo Wei planned to go around the place near the village to find clues.
The village is surrounded by a wild land, the so-called wild land is the wilderness that no one takes care of, these wildernesses were originally taken care of, but later due to the mountain bandits, the people in the village did not dare to go out, and this good land that has been reclaimed is cheaper than those wild flowers and weeds, but the crops originally planted in the wilderness are also a little tough, and you can see some melon seedlings if you look closely, obviously competing with these wild grasses for nutrients.
The mouth of the horse led by Guo Ao was covered with some white foam, and the horse whip almost didn't let the horse rest much, and the horse was tired enough, and Guo Ao himself was a little thirsty, so Guo Ao let go of the horse and let the horse pick and choose from the wild flowers and weeds in the field, and he was ready to pick a melon to taste, who knew that the horse would no longer bow his head to forage for food after snorting.
This horse was carefully bred in the Tibetan Soldiers' Gate, and it must not be very appetizing to come to this wild ration.
"You're spoiled, you brute. Guo Wei scolded with a smile and didn't bother to pay attention to this pampered horse, and pulled a melon vine by himself.
There are also melon fields in the Tibetan soldiers, when he was a child, Guo Ao was not less taken by his own senior brother to spoil the melon in the melon field, although he did not patronize the melon field for so many years, but the ability to touch the melon along the vine is not rusty, Guo Ao picked a melon vine, and I don't know if it is recalled that the childhood memories made Guo Wai playful, only to see Guo Ao pull hard, the melon vine was pulled and flyed, only to see a huge green melon at the end of the melon vine was dragged and flew.
"Yo, it's still a big guy. "I haven't done it for many years, Guo Ao has not controlled his strength well, the huge melon flies high, and the vines behind him are like a huge meteor hammer, Guo Ao put one hand above his eyebrows to make a shed, and visually inspect the location where the green melon falls.
At that moment, a human head suddenly appeared in the field, and the human head was directly below the green melon drop.
Guo Xian hurriedly shouted: "Be careful! Get out of the way!"
The man seemed to be frightened by Guo Wei's voice, and he was stunned for a long time, and then he was smashed by the big green melon that fell from the sky, and the voice fell straight and straight.
"Oops. Guo Wei saw that he had hit someone, so he hurriedly waded through waist-high weeds and looked for the direction where the man fell.
The vitality of the wild grass in the wilderness is originally strong, plus this land was originally prepared to grow crops, the soil is fertile, in this environment, the weeds are crazy, and people are quickly buried by layers of weeds when they fall, it is difficult to find, even Guo Wei can only search in the general range, and it took a lot of effort to find that person.
The man fell face down to the ground, looking like a man, and helped the person up, the man seemed to be still dizzy, his head was hanging down and shaking constantly, and a clear footprint was printed on the front of his clothes, which was quite eye-catching, and for some reason Guo Wei felt a little familiar when he saw this footprint.
Guo Wei helped the man up: "This brother, are you okay?"
The man still hung his head, as if he was stunned, shook his head for a while before he eased up, twisted his head and looked up at Guo Wei: "It's okay, it's okay, my neck is fine, you can ...... if you pay me a dozen or so dollars."
However, the man couldn't speak halfway through his words, and Guo Wei also stared at the man with wide eyes: "Why are you?"
The man was also stunned for a long time when he saw Guo Wei, and then his eyes quickly turned red, and he pounced on Guo Wei's thighs and cried: "Hero, please save me!"