When I got home, it was almost dawn.

Zhou Qing, who was not sleepy, set up a horse step in his front yard with the sound of chickens.

As in the past, after tying his horse, he meditated for an hour as the sun rose, and then practiced the floating cloud walk in the front yard.

When he was done, he washed his face, ate some food, and then returned to the hall to read the book, he did not delve into Liu Banxian's motives last night.

The main reason is that his entry into the Tao is too short, his cultivation is still shallow, and with his ability, he is not able to ask for an explanation for himself, so he can only put up with this matter for the time being.

As the saying goes: can bend and stretch, can advance and retreat, and endure what ordinary people can't bear, only then is Junjie.

Originally, Zhou Qing came to this county town, and he just wanted to practice with peace of mind and not to cause trouble, but after what happened last night, he also realized a truth.

Before you are strong enough, even if you do something small unintentionally, you may bring trouble to yourself.

In the afternoon, when Zhou Qing was reading a book in the house, he heard a knock on the door outside the house, because of last night's incident, he did not go to open the door, and did not pay attention to it, and after a while, the person who knocked on the door outside the house left.

In this way, another four days passed, and people would come every day, but Zhou Qing ignored it.

It wasn't until the morning of the fifth day that when Zhou Qing got up and walked into the kitchen to cook after exhaling the aura for an hour, a loud slamming sound sounded outside the house, accompanied by a rough scream.

"Daoist, please open the door. ”

Standing at the door of the kitchen and glancing at the courtyard door, Zhou Qing didn't pay attention to it, and after a while, the voice sounded again.

"I know that Dao Chief, you are at home, please open the door, I am Mo Fei in the county seat, and I am looking for you in an emergency. ”

The second sentence from outside the door came into the kitchen, and Zhou Qing threw a piece of firewood into the earthen stove, then patted his hand that was stained with a little dust, and walked through the front yard to open the courtyard door.

Outside his door stood a dark-skinned, sturdy man, about thirty years old, dressed in a dark blue servant costume and holding a long knife in his hand.

"What's the matter?" Glancing at the man named Mo Fei, Zhou Qing opened his mouth to ask.

"The chief of the trail is polite, and I am ordered by Lord Jin, the county official of this county, to ask the chief to go to the government office. The catcher named Mo Fei also glanced at Zhou Qing, and then replied in a polite tone.

Seeing Mo Fei's posture, Zhou Qing roughly guessed what Lord Jin had invited.

Judging from his rather polite demeanor, it should be something happened to Lord Jin's family that made this request.

"I can't take a break from the grape, please forgive me. ”

"Xiaodao Chief, when we came, Lord Jin explained, we must invite you to go, and he also said that if you can promise to help this time, you can be rewarded with two hundred taels. ”

Two hundred taels is a lot of wealth in this world, but Zhou Qing is unmoved.

Judging from the meaning of the words, it was really not bad as Zhou Qingshi expected, he waved his hand and said, "Xiaodao is really urgent, you better invite someone else." ”

After finishing speaking, Zhou Qing closed the courtyard door, turned around and returned to the kitchen, Mo Fei outside the door saw this, but he did not leave, and reached out to pat the door.

Zhou Qing in the house didn't pay attention to it, ate breakfast by himself, and practiced in the front yard again.

"Trail Chief, please come with me......"

When Zhou Qing was practicing, Mo Fei's shouting outside the house still didn't stop, until he practiced for almost an hour, and Mo Fei was still shouting outside the house.

Unable to stand the disturbing shouts outside the house, Zhou Qing walked to the courtyard gate and opened the door.

"Don't catch quickly, isn't there anyone else in this Jinling County? Why do you have to disturb my tranquility?"

"My lord has commanded, please be sure to go, if you don't go, I can't complete my lord's order, and I can only rely on your door. ”

"Well, if you want to scream, then call it a good one. ”

After closing the courtyard door once, Zhou Qing walked back to the house, and after drinking a cup of tea, he took out a book and was about to flip through it, but Mo Fei's shouting outside his house still did not stop, which couldn't help but make him a little annoyed.

Putting the book he had just picked up on the table, Zhou Qing thought about it, if he didn't go with the catch outside the door, he would definitely not be able to live in peace today.

In the end, he sighed lightly, opened the courtyard door for the third time, and followed Mo Fei to the official office of Jinling County.

Coming to this county town for half a year, this is also the first time Zhou Qing came to the official office, when he first arrived at the gate of the yamen, he saw the drum of resentment placed outside, on both sides of the gate behind the drum, there were two officers on duty, they saw Mo Fei, and said hello to him.

Subsequently, Zhou Qing entered a side room in the ya, led by Mo Fei, and after the latter beckoned him to sit down, he went to invite Lord Jin, the county official in the county.

Not long after, a fifty-year-old man in civilian clothes came to the room, and after he saw Zhou Qing, his face showed a moment of surprise, and then he raised his hand and saluted Zhou Qing.

"The Taoist chief is polite, the official Jin Nianhua has long heard of the prestige of the Taoist chief, and it is really presumptuous to ask for it today, and I forgot to forgive me. ”

This kind word came into Zhou Qing's ears, and he couldn't help but smile slightly, and immediately asked straight to the point, "I don't know what Lord Jin is looking for me?"

"The trail is long and fast-talking, which really makes the county admire ......"

Like most literati, Jin Nianhua said some flattering words before he talked about the purpose of inviting Zhou Qing to come.

More than 20 miles southwest of this Jinling county, there is a Baihe village, and the night before yesterday, a monster that eats 'people' appeared in that small village.

Overnight, the entire village, both humans, animals, and poultry, was almost wiped out, and only a few people fled to the county seat.

Yesterday, several people who fled from Baihe Village to the county seat came to the government to report to the government, and after thinking about it, Jin Nianhua invited Liu Banxian, who was quite famous in the county, and eight arresters to go to Baihe Village to investigate.

Just last night, the monster appeared in Baihe Village, seven of the eight catchers were killed, and the remaining catchers and Liu Banxian fled back to the county seat.

Therefore, Jin Nianhua invited Zhou Qing here.

"I heard from the people in the county town that the little Taoist is the reincarnation of an immortal, and the Taoist cultivation is unfathomable, so this official took the liberty to invite you to come and solve the trouble. ”

After explaining the whole story, Jin Nianhua looked at Zhou Qing.

"Man-eating monsters, southwest direction, could it be a fierce ghost born of resentment?" Hearing this series of information, Zhou Qing thought of these in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "Lord Jin, the monster you said in your mouth has a cyan body with two horns?"

"Yes, Xiaodao Chief, how did you find out?" Jin Nianhua asked puzzled.

If you want to talk about the appearance of this monster, except for the few surviving villagers in Baihe Village, only Liu Banxian and some people in the government know. After those villagers came to report to the official yesterday, they were arranged by Jin Nianhua in the ya, and he also explained to the arrest in the mansion, so he couldn't spread the matter to the outside world, so he asked this question.

"I just guessed, I didn't think it was. Zhou Qing responded, "The cyan two-horned ghost, also known as the fierce ghost, was hatched from resentment, and its source should be connected to the person who died in vain in the Yong'an Alley in the west of the city not long ago." ”