Chengde Fang, County Zhu Yamen, two halls.

Zhu Gaojing, the county of this county, looked at the fur merchant Lu Dayuan with a blank face, and cried with a handful of snot and tears.

“...... Although the grass people have received a thousand skins, how do they know that scholars can deceive people! The poor little family has a seventy-year-old mother and a three-year-old child, and their daily income is meager, which is only enough to support their family, and all the income from full-term is in this skin. Now where do you dare to ask for this skin? It's just a matter of compensation, just pity the lives of the grass people's family, Wanwang County wishes the old man to save one or two!"

Hearing this, Gao Jing didn't bother to poke him at all, but he smiled and asked, "Why is it in the way of your family's lives?

When Master Lu heard this, he immediately said: "The fox fairy master is all the same spirit, and the most ruthless by nature, it is said that someone once accidentally shot a fox fairy master, but later, not only ......"

Gao Jing asked directly: "Which county? Which county? When did this case come out? Who is the sufferer? This official wants to take a look, is there really a fox fairy in this world?"

"Uh...... Belch...... The grass people are all ...... I heard about it, and I didn't know it was ......."

"If you don't know, you dare to talk nonsense?

"Uh...... Damn the grass people! Damn the grass people!"

"The nonsense of a bunch of rural villagers dares to come to the official's hall and talk nonsense! A dead fox, how dare you say what kind of fox fairy it is? You are called a fallacy to confuse the public! Come on......

"In!"

"The county wishes the lord spare his life! The county wishes the lord spare his life...... Grass Folk ...... The grass people ......" Lu Dayuan's eyes rolled slightly, and suddenly thought of the words, and hurriedly said: "The grass people just heard that this fox fairy is harmful to people, so they were afraid in their hearts, and suddenly remembered that the county Zhu master is able to pass through ghosts and gods, and even the dragon king master has to listen to you, you want him to rain, he will not dare not rain, so he will ask to come to the ya......"

Gao Jing grinned, coughed, slowly turned his face, and said with a little gentleness: "It's not surprising that you are ignorant and confused by rumors, so ...... That fox, stay in this office for the time being, what about you, don't talk nonsense to the outside world after you go back, but if you encounter something similar in the future, just remember to come and tell this official in time!"

"Yes, yes! The villain wrote it down, the ...... of the villain's family."

"Ahem......"

Gao Jing suddenly coughed heavily, and immediately blocked Master Lu's words.

At this time, he said seriously: "Your case, this official has taken it! I will definitely find the scholar who sold the fox and you!" As he spoke, he glanced to the side, and when he saw that Du Yi nodded, he patted the wood in surprise and said, "Retreat!"

............

Outside the second hall, Du Yi, who was in charge of playing another role, said it simply, and Master Lu suddenly turned pale with fright again-

"In other words, it is really the corpse of a fox fairy master?"

Du Yi nodded.

Senior Lu subconsciously raised his sleeves to wipe his sweat, and asked again: "......Then what did the county master Zhu say just now?"

"Gao Xianzhu has already responded to you, he took this case!"

"Oh...... Oh oh oh! grass people get it! grass people get it!"

"It's good to understand! It's just that you also have to know the hard work of the county master, and this matter should not spread. If the news spreads out and annoys the county master, do you know the consequences?"

"I know, I know, I don't talk nonsense......! If the fox fairy's family came to seek revenge from the grass people, the grass people would ......"

Du Yi smiled when he heard this, and said, "And it's not your turn! Isn't there a scholar in front of you? As long as we find that scholar in advance, when the fox demon's clan comes to take revenge, we will directly catch them all, and you, and your family, will not be safe?"

"That's true!

"Then let me ask you, if you see the scholar who sold you the fox again, will you still recognize him?"

"Yes, yes, yes!"

"Okay! Tomorrow morning, you will follow me to recognize people!"

............

At noon the next day, Gao Jing came to Banzai Fang again.

He dismounted at the gate of the gate, handed the reins to the guards at the door, and took them, and he himself sat down again in the official office at the gate at the warm invitation of Fang Zheng.

In mid-to-late April, Lingzhou Mansion is already a little hot, especially at noon, it has gradually had a summer feeling.

The main thing is that I feel depressed.

Early this morning, Director Du Yidu had already taken the fur merchant Lu Dayuan to the door of the workshop to identify him, and confirmed that the scholar he said about selling the fox was the scholar he had seen yesterday afternoon.

But this is only to confirm the source, what the real roots are, and it remains to be slowly dug up.

Was it the scholar? Or was it someone else?

The informants reported that the scholar Zhou Ang left the south gate of Lingzhou early in the morning, traveled about three or four miles, and suddenly went up the mountain, and then disappeared - it is said that he used to take this route every day.

I went early in the morning and didn't return to the city until noon.

Go empty-handed, go back empty-handed.

What did he do in the mountains, and why did he suddenly disappear?

As a blessing for a place, there are monsters and evil in their own jurisdiction, so it is natural to find out and get rid of it, which is where the duty lies, but there are other cultivators, especially if the other party is still a master, then even if the other party is just passing by, even if it is done, he has the responsibility to find out.

As a county minister, as an extremely special official in the system of the Tang Kingdom, of course he knows many things that are not known to ordinary people-

The world knows that there are many legends of ghosts, foxes and spirits in the folk, but the legends are just legends, stories are just stories, everyone says that there are noses and eyes, and the words are conclusive, and almost no one among the people does not believe it, but in fact, except for a very small number of people who are personally involved, no one has really seen what a monster looks like.

But he's seen it.

And I've seen it I can't remember how many times.

The world says that there is a dragon king in the water and the sea, and those foolish men and women of the people are often keen to talk about what emperor Lao Tzu is powerful or the dragon king is powerful, and who cares about whom, but in fact, no one has really seen the dragon king - so, of course, faith is also faith, but in fact, legends are still legends.

But he knew that there really were dragons in this world!

Those are all mysterious beings hidden beneath the surface of this ordinary world!

They, including themselves, including all the Taizhu, Junzhu, and County Zhu in the Tang Kingdom, as well as other Han, Zhongshan, Qi, Wu and other relevant forces in the six countries in the world, including the four demon courts that are incomparably powerful in the legend, together form this unique and mysterious world.

This world has its own unique operating rules.

And ordinary people, etc., are mostly ignorant of this.

Of course, what mountain gods, what city gods, what land lords, it is purely a god made up by the common people themselves, the government is just a guide due to the situation, in fact, I know very well in my heart, there are monsters, there are dragon kings, there are sects of cultivation, and there are special forces like themselves that only belong to the imperial court, and there are also them, but there are really no immortals, and there is no Jade Emperor!

It's just that when a cultivator reaches a high place, he can really have monstrous mana, although moving mountains and reclaiming the sea is not enough to describe, and it is indeed quite similar to the gods imagined by fools and foolish women.

But they are still not immortals!

The vast majority of cultivators, no matter how advanced the method is, are only 100 years old, and they still have to die!

At most, it's just a few decades longer than ordinary people, and where is the real immortal.

As for the very few special beings in this world, it is another matter.

They are really very close to the legendary immortals.

............

From the perspective of the imperial court, it is the official of the imperial court, and from the perspective of the mysterious world, or "rivers and lakes", it is the lord of a place.

No matter from which point of view, he had to deal with the scholar named Zhou Ang.

He only hopes now that the other party's origin is not too big.

If you can't take it yourself, you can only report it, and when the time comes, you will have to look at the face of the county again.

............

It was just past noon, and none of the accidents in the speculation had happened, and the scholar Zhou Ang, as they had found out, entered the city on time and went straight to the Banzai Fang.

As soon as his traces were found at the city gate, the people arranged by the county Zhu Yamen immediately rushed back to tell him, so with the order of the county Zhu Gaojing, everyone hid and waited quietly.

Although Zhou Ang seemed to go to the same gate every day, they didn't dare to slack off, and they also laid out people at the other three gates.

Then, Zhou Ang arrived.

He entered the door of the workshop with a comfortable demeanor, and went home with a relaxed demeanor.

This is simply the best-case scenario.

So, less than a quarter of an hour after Zhou Ang returned home, Zhou Ang carried a cloth bag containing the fox's corpse in his hand, and personally went over and knocked on the courtyard door.

"Dare to ask, but Brother Zhou's house?"