Mu Chen came down from the tree, and the village chief waved his hand to invite Mu Chen to the village, and took everyone away from this dim grove.

Mu Chen still had doubts in his heart, so he continued to ask:

"Why is this Wu Younian hungry and dizzy at night, and he has to cut vegetables in the dark?"

"Oh, Childe, you're a little naïve to ask!"

"You said that this old bastard did that kind of shameless thing before, and it was good that his son didn't kick him out, how could he still cook for him?"

Wu Younian's son and daughter-in-law stopped interacting with him, and his mother-in-law stopped interacting with him, so they built a fence in the middle of their yard, opened a door in the backyard, and separated from him early. ”

"Little boy, you think, in the past, when there was a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law, it was the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who cooked, and he just had to eat. ”

"Now except for this kind of thing, he lives alone, and he must know when he is hungry to cook. ”

"Our village is poor, and the harvest from farming is not enough to pay taxes every year. ”

Besides, cooking and cutting vegetables and cutting his fingers at night happens from time to time, and he is not the first unlucky, but Wu Younian is even more miserable, probably because he has anger in his heart, and he has a lot of strength when chopping vegetables, so he chopped off his fingers at once. ”

"So little boy, you don't have to waste any more time investigating Wu Younian's affairs. ”

"All this is his own sin, Wu Younian, no one can do anything. ”

The old village chief was helped to walk in front of Mu Chen, and finally explained clearly that Wu Younian lost his ears and lost his fingers.

They returned to the village, but Mu Chen still didn't believe the village chief's words, so he wanted to go to Wu Younian's house to see in person, this time led by the village chief, Wu Younian finally opened the door of his house and let Mu Chen go in to check.

In the courtyard behind Wu Younian's house, there was indeed a fence made of wooden sticks and branches, and the strangulation marks of the rope were also new, and it should have just been enclosed.

He turned over the courtyard again and came to Wu Fan's house, Wu Fan was not at home at this time, only Wu Younian's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were at home.

However, they didn't want to hear about Wu Younian, and Wu Fan's wife Yang had just given birth, and the newborn was asleep in the house, crying twice from time to time, and Yang hurried back to the house to feed the child.

Seeing all this, Mu Chen finally shook a little, thinking about whether he had really guessed wrong.

'If things are really as the village chief said, then Wu Younian's anger was caused by him being injured by his son and losing his ears?'

'The anger in the woods behind the village also gathered because the sun did not shine all year round, not because there were demon beasts entering the village from that side?'

He was still thinking about it, but the village chief had already taken him out of the village entrance and said goodbye to him.

Returning to Bayi City in a daze, Mu Chen didn't know how he walked back, but what the village chief said did sound like there were no loopholes.

Although Wu Younian didn't say a word, his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both admitted what the village chief said, so it seems that this matter really has nothing to do with the demon beast, and it has nothing to do with Mu Chen.

He returned to the teahouse where he had first heard about Wu Younian's strange story, but now that it was getting dark, the teahouse was deserted, and the shopkeeper leaned aside and yawned idly, not interested in passers-by.

Mu Chen ordered a cup of tea, and also looked at the outside scenery by the window, watching the pedestrians hurry, and suddenly called Xiao Er on a whim.

"Little Er, do you remember the group of people who drank tea and chatted here in the morning?"

"Childe, I remember, you are going to ask ......"

The shopkeeper bowed down and looked at Mu Chen's wallet, meaning something.

Mu Chen took out one or two pieces of silver and slapped them on the table, smiling so much that his mouth was almost grinning to the root of his ears.

"I just wanted to ask you, why did these people run away when I mentioned in the morning that the strange things in the village might have been caused by monsters?"

The shopkeeper scratched his head and thought for a long time, and then he suddenly realized what Mu Chen was asking.

He didn't answer directly, just smiled and asked:

"This son, I guess your family is probably never short of money to spend. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Don't you know, Childe, that you can't talk nonsense about the appearance of demon beasts?"

"If it is confirmed that there are demon beasts entering the city to hurt people in our Bayi City, the officials will send people to invite the immortals on the mountain to come and kill the demon beasts. ”

"Of course I know. ”

"Don't that boy know that we have to pay for the sacrifice when we invite the immortals to go down the mountain to eliminate the harm?"

“...... Slightly heard. ”

"The money for the sacrifice of this demon *** to the immortal gate can be paid by all the households in the city, and it is divided equally among the households, do you know?"

"I ......"

"Childe, your tea is cold, I think I'll give you a new pot of tea, right?"

The shopkeeper smiled and wiped the tea table in front of Muchen with the white cloth on his shoulder, removed the old tea and replaced it with new tea, and leaned against the door to nap.

Mu Chen looked at the fluttering tea stalks, thoughtful.