Chu Xunyu and the three of them stayed in Chaoyang Pavilion in Dongxia Town, and found a different detail, that is, this restaurant has a red rope tied to the wrist from the shopkeeper to the guy, and it has been soaked in cinnabar realgar wine, which is a very strange thing.

The three people who watched it were curious, so they simply had nothing to do, Mu Yuan and Chu Xunyu discussed, and asked the guy, if there is really any monster to blame, let's just take it, and it can be regarded as benefiting the people. Chu Xunyu thought about it for a while, and wanted to invite it to meet by chance, since he bumped into this merit today, he simply did it thoroughly, there are really monsters to make trouble, if the three of them ignore it, wouldn't it be against the principles of heaven, and nodded immediately.

After a while, he called Xiao Er, and after ordering the food, he wanted to ask directly, but he didn't want to answer: "So that a few little brothers know that this red rope is not a monster in the hand, but the boss ordered it, the most taboo in business is to collide with evil things, so let's all tie this thin rope, not only that, but our boss is the same for all the guys in the business, just to paint a colorful head." ”

This answer really disappointed everyone, it turned out to be to ask for a lottery, so he sent Xiao Er away, Mu Yuan pouted and said: "The boss of this house really believes in these, every guy is tied to a rope to beg for a lottery, it's really weird folk customs, it's okay, it's best to have nothing, let's be happy." ”

Chu Xunyu also nodded stupidly, he didn't expect a false alarm, and suddenly saw Wangchen looking around with his brows locked, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "What did the seniors find?"

Forget the dust to look left and right, and asked quite strangely: "Didn't you find that this restaurant doesn't even worship a statue of a god?"

"Huh?" The two listened and looked around, and sure enough, they found that there was no god in this restaurant, which was really strange, it stands to reason that the owner of the restaurant believed in the gift of warding off evil spirits, and should worship the statue of the gods, the God of Wealth and the Lord of the Stove who was in charge of money and business, and the Emperor Guanwu who avoided evil spirits, etc., how could there be no one? Forget that Chen is the predecessor in the end, and he can see the mystery at a glance, and the three of them have been thinking for a long time and can't help but think that this is really weird.

The three of them were discussing, at this time Xiao Er came over again, it turned out to be serving, the orders were all vegetarian, only a plate of braised beef was for Chu Xunyu and Forget Chen, Chu Xunyu picked up the chopsticks and took a bite, feeling that the taste was different, the brine beef was made like braised meat, and he couldn't help but wonder: "Xiao Er, your braised beef is not very good, and the brine is made like braised meat." ”

Xiao Er smiled awkwardly while setting the plate: "Objectively, we are really not good at making beef here, because what we are best at in our store is 'braised snake pieces'." ”

After speaking, they angrily pouted at other people's tables, and the three of them looked back and found that sure enough, there were snake pieces on each table, Chu Xunyu couldn't help laughing: "After making trouble for a long time, it turns out that your family's signature dish is to make snakes, which we don't know the essentials, so let's go back and stay first, and we must try it when we eat at night." ”

"Okay, you use it first, call me if you have something. Xiao Er set up his things and shouted and went back.

The three of them sat there chatting while eating and drinking, and it happened that there were a few merchants chatting at the table next to them, and it was a coincidence that they were talking about the owner of this Chaoyang Pavilion, praising how well he was doing business, and from their remarks, they couldn't help but understand some of the content in this regard.

The owner of this restaurant surnamed Mu, is indeed a big merchant with hands and eyes, operating in the border pass for a long time, the business includes tea, silk, restaurants, and furs, more than 30 years of business has been a small scale, their family is a family-style business, almost everyone in the family is on this, their family is now a small reputation in the local area, business friends all over the north and south of the river, I heard that even Wang Yingtian has their family number there, and it is very powerful.

According to their descriptions, Boss Mu generally lives in Xining Prefecture to take care of business, and these days, Boss Mu happened to return to his hometown in Dongxia Town with his family to talk about his ancestors.

The three of Chu Xunyu couldn't cry or laugh, but they also had to sigh that this Boss Mu was proficient in the art of businessmen, and he could survive in the troubled times.

That night, Chu Xunyu and the three of them stayed in this Chaoyang Pavilion and didn't say anything all night.

But at dawn the next day, there was a sudden noise downstairs, as if something had happened, Mu Yuan sat up from the bed with a carp, and shouted: "I know!" After speaking, he put on his clothes and took the lead in taking the door to go out to see the excitement, which made Chu Xunyu roll his eyes for a while, what a mess, and this kid is looking forward to this day.

Wangchen and Chu Xunyu also briefly freshened up, and when they came out of the lobby, they found that there were many officials and officials in the lobby looking for interrogation, and Mu Yuan stretched out his head and peeked in the crowd, which greatly satisfied his mood of watching the excitement.

Chu Xunyu squeezed over, and asked what was going on, Mu Yuan came down a little earlier, and he had already figured out the matter, so he roughly told what happened, it turned out that early this morning, a corpse was found on the mountain behind Dongxia Town, it was a local splash, and it was discovered by the hunters who rushed to the mountain in the morning, so he reported to the official, no, the government sent a messenger from Xining Prefecture to inquire.

Chu Xunyu asked curiously, "Did you say how you died?"

"That's not true. Mu Yuan shook his head.

As a result, I didn't want a guy in front of me to look back and answer Chu Xunyu with a nonchalant interjection: "It's not a big deal, I heard from a friend in the yamen that he was attacked and bitten to death by a fierce beast, and he ran into the mountains in the middle of the night and was taken by a wild beast, which is really deserved, not unusual." ”

"Running into the mountains in the middle of the night?" Chu Xunyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked again, "Is there any important place in the mountains behind you?"

"Who knows. The man gloated and said, "That splash is a scoundrel in the first place, so it is better to simply die, so as not to have nothing to do on weekdays." ”

"Does he have such a bad reputation?" Mu Yuan was a little surprised.

"Of course. As soon as he asked like this, the guy who couldn't help but reply was full of resentment, and even many passers-by around him looked empathetic, "Guest officer, don't you know, that guy is a distant nephew of the prefect of Shanxi, and he is used to running rampant in the local area, he has always eaten white food, molested good families, bullied and dominated the market, gathered five or six accomplices to do all kinds of evil, we all hate him, this time he was bitten by the beast, it was really God's eyes, he deserved such an end." ”

"Hey, even if God doesn't accept him, he won't be angry for long. Another passer-by made a confident illustration, "I heard that not long ago, this guy somehow provoked Boss Mu, Boss Mu let out a word, after coming back, he will prepare a lesson to teach him a lesson to benefit the township, even if he doesn't die today, he can't escape Boss Mu's means." ”

"Oh?" Chu Xunyu and the three of them glanced at each other, this Boss Mu is really "powerful......