The Qaidam Basin is a place forgotten by time, which sleeps in the arms of the Altun Mountains, Qilian Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, and has not woken up for hundreds of millions of years.

There is a lake in the basin, which is called "Crook", which means a place of abundant water and grass. She is like a blue eye, forever gazing affectionately into the sky.

Under the sky, on the shore of the Ping Lake, the smoke curls up, and the pastoral songs smell each other.

A young shepherd leans on the hillside, sheep graze beside him, yellow dogs lazily stick out their tongues, and he looks at the white clouds.

The breeze blows, and the sea of grass rolls up the waves, and whispers softly.

The shepherd took a deep breath and felt only that he was the happiest person in the world.

But just then, a thick smoke as black as ink streaked across the sky and fell on the other side of the lake.

The shepherd sat up abruptly, rubbed his eyes, and muttered, "What was ......it?" I'm not mistaken, am I?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the opposite shore burst out with a red light that covered the sky and the earth, reflecting the lake water like blood. The shepherd covered his eyes with his arms, and after a few moments, the red light dissipated and everything was back to normal.

But the shepherd cannot pretend not to see. His curiosity was piqued.

He stood up with his cane and said to the yellow dog, "Ah Huang, let's go and have a look on the other side." But Ah Huang, who had always been obedient, suddenly roared in a low voice. It clung to the shepherd's trouser leg and would not speak.

The shepherd was a little angry, and tapped his cane on the dog's back, and scolded: "Unfortunate beast, let go!"

The yellow dog was beaten, relented, and followed the shepherd. The man and the dog walked to the other side.

The further he went, the more wrong he felt.

It's summer, the season when everything grows at its most luxuriant. But for some reason, the weeds on the shore of the lake seem to have entered autumn in advance, becoming yellow and shriveled. The temperature is also getting a little colder. Suddenly, the shepherd shuddered, and a layer of frost had formed around him.

He cautiously moved forward, only to see Ah Huang suddenly swoop forward, barking wildly at a pile of low bushes.

The shepherd gently pushed the bushes through the bushes with his cane, and he saw a sheep.

A beautiful ewe.

It was slender on all fours and graceful, lying cross-legged on the ground, looking at the shepherd with pitiful eyes. It was as if the eyes were not sheep's, but human.

The shepherd shook his cane at the yellow dog, and the yellow dog shut up in amusement.

He stepped forward and took out a little salt and wiped it in his hand. When the sheep smelled it, they leaned their heads on his trouser legs affectionately and rubbed them against each other.

The shepherd was overjoyed and asked, "Will you come home with me?"

Of course, the sheep could not speak, but it bleated happily. The shepherd took it back.

Along the way, the yellow dog jumped and barked unusually, and the shepherd was secretly angry, and said to himself: Isn't this dog crazy? If it tosses like this again, I will take it to the town and sell it!

This beautiful ewe became the shepherd's new possession.

He liked the ewe so much that he even built a separate hut for her, and the fodder was the freshest.

The shepherd was already happy, and now he is even happier.

But the happy days didn't last long. For the shepherd had a large chicken coop with hundreds of chicks, and he sent them to dwindle day by day.

At first he thought it was just a mistake, but then he found out that it wasn't, because the whole chicken shed was already empty.

The shepherd was so angry that he grabbed Ah Huang and beat him without saying anything.

In this family, only Ah Huang eats meat, so he is the only suspect. Is it tolerable or unbearable?

Even if it wasn't Ah Huang's doing, it didn't take a good look at the home, and it was a dereliction of duty to let the wild cat in, and it still inevitably beat it badly.

As a result, Ah Huang lost the right to move freely at home, with an iron chain around his neck, and his range of motion was controlled to a small area the size of a palm.

But the chicks are still decreasing every day, which doesn't make sense.

So one day he pretended to go out, but he secretly hid on the roof of the chicken shed to see what had stolen his chickens.

After a while, the door creaked open. The shepherd's heart was beating faster, and beads of sweat were seen on his forehead, and he held the knife in his hand even tighter.

But he saw an unbelievable scene: it was the beautiful ewe that he had rescued that had come in.

I saw it look left and right, walked to the chick, stretched its neck and swallowed a chick, the movement was so fast that it could not imagine that it usually eats grass.

The ewes chew on the chicks' bones, creaking and creaking, and the shepherd's heart is creepy. What kind of monster did he bring back?

At this time, he saw that the ewe's coat gradually brightened, and became as red as blood, the same red light he had seen that day.

The ewes ate about thirty chicks, and were satisfied, and bleated.

It didn't matter, the shepherd saw the fangs crisscrossing its mouth.

The shepherd was frightened and unsteady on his feet. He fell from the roof with a thud and fell with a bruise, and the knife was thrown aside.

The ewe looked at the master, opened her hooves, and walked gracefully.

The wooden man was in severe pain, and said in a trembling voice: "Sheep, sheep, I usually treat you well, you won't take revenge, right?"

He did not expect an answer to this statement, because it is well known that sheep cannot speak.

But unexpectedly, the sheep spoke, in a soft female voice: "I am grateful that you saved me, and I don't want to do this." But ......"

Her voice suddenly became vicious: "I'm so hungry!"

The howls of the shepherds and the barking of the yellow dogs echoed through the courtyard, and soon fell silent. The ewe leaps out of the courtyard wall with graceful steps. It shook off the blood on its body and walked forward, there were dozens of families in this mountain village.

Jinguan City, in Daci Temple.

Lu Heng leaned behind the bookcase to listen to the clerk's report on the important things that had happened recently. Every time the affairs officer said a few words, he would secretly raise his eyes to look at Lu Heng's expression, but unfortunately, he couldn't read anything from this sect master's face.

He seemed to be smiling faintly all the time.

The clerk spoke for an hour, and his mouth was dry. Lu Heng suddenly said, "Why don't you sit down and drink saliva, and then talk slowly?"

The clerk was on his first day on the job, and he didn't notice that there was a chair behind his ass. He muttered, "This ...... In front of the suzerain, there is no place under him. ”

Lu Heng said: "You sit and speak, I sit and listen, it is reasonable." Why shouldn't there be a place for you?"

The affairs officer hesitated for a while, clenched his fists and said, "Then thank the sect master for giving me a seat." ”

The little monk Aji brought a pot of herbal tea, and the clerk poured it down in one gulp—he was really thirsty.

Lu Heng suddenly asked, "How much more do you have to say?"

The clerk flipped through the thick stack of folds in his hand and said, "There are six items related to the livelihood of the people, four items related to the training of the whole army, and one item related to counter-insurgency......

Lu Heng said: "When you finish speaking, I'm afraid that today will also pass." This is your first day in office, and I don't blame you. But remember to pick up the important things in the future, and make your own ideas about irrelevant small things. ”

The clerk was sweating profusely: "Yes, my subordinates understand. ”

Lu Heng smiled faintly and said, "You don't have to be nervous. Just follow the rules, whatever you like is up to you, I won't interfere. ”

The clerk breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly remembered the rumors about this sect master.

Everyone said that Sect Master Lu believed in the study of Huang Lao and paid attention to the rule of vertical arches, that is, he did not manage blindly and did not toss; he had indeed had a good reputation since he took power for half a year.

But on the other hand, some people call him "King Lu Yan".

For if anyone breaks his rules, he is not far from death. This is not a metaphor, or a literal "death".

The county order of Pixian County was corrupt and bent the law, and the local bullies beat the people who complained to death, and the people's resentment boiled for a while. After Sect Master Lu heard about it, he didn't say a word, rode a fast horse and rushed over, nailing the county lord who was still sitting in the hall under the plaque of "Mirror Hanging".

While people were watching, two more heads were thrown into the wall, both of which belonged to local bullies.

I heard that the cheers of the people at that time were about to overturn the county government, and many people burned incense to worship the Buddha and prayed for Sect Master Lu to live a long life. He has done similar things three or five times, and although the adults are still secretly rubbing to make money, no one dares to be as blatant as before.

Originally, this new affairs officer was still a little unconvinced, but as soon as he saw Sect Master Lu's steady momentum and the bright sword on the table, he knew that the rumors were true.

I just don't know if anyone has ever been killed in the chair he was sitting on.

The clerk swallowed nervously.

At this moment, a monk walked in from the outside, thin and fierce, with a poisonous scorpion tattooed on his neck. He was stunned when he saw the affairs officer, and said to Lu Heng with a fist: "The poor monk doesn't know that you have someone here, so I will leave first." ”

Lu Heng said: "It's okay. Yuan Jue, you wait for a while, and he will finish speaking immediately. With that, he smiled and glanced at the clerk.

The affairs officer was furious in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Sect Master, the subordinates are fine, let's retire!"

Lu Heng nodded: "Okay." ”

As soon as the officer's ass left the chair, he suddenly remembered something, and muttered, "There is something that my subordinates don't know whether to talk about or not......

Lu Heng said: "Someone told me that if someone asks you this, it means that you shouldn't say it." ”

The clerk was sweating profusely, and said continuously: "The subordinates have lost their words, retire, retire ......"

But at this moment, the four-foot-long sword that lay horizontally on the table suddenly buzzed and trembled, making a dragon-like sound.

Lu Heng was stunned for a moment, flipped over his hand and picked it up, and said with some surprise: "It seems that there are always exceptions to things." You say, the more detailed this time, the better. ”

The clerk said, "Yes." Does the Sect Master know about Crook Lake?"

"Yes. It is one of the few freshwater lakes in our White Tiger Fan. What's wrong?"

The clerk replied with a slight wording: "Ten days ago, it was discovered that the village of Sweetwater by the lake seemed to have been attacked by some wild beast, and all the villagers were slaughtered, and even the bones were in a mess......

Before the words fell, Lu Heng suddenly opened his eyes and said, "That's right, another one of them is here." ”

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Chapter 169: The Devouring Sheep