The boat boss came to the bow of the boat and said to Niu Hao and Zhengwen:

"It's almost time to Riverbend. ”

Standing on the bow of the boat and looking at the north bank of the river, you can see several houses peeking out on the river bank covered by weeping willows. There is also a long wooden trestle bridge that juts out into the river.

Zhengwen was arranging his robe, arranging the hair on his sideburns, and his face showed a cold look again.

is hearing Niu Hao, they are all disciples of the court. For those Kongming disciples in Hewan Town, it was a majestic immortal elder.

The big ship leaned towards the trestle, and there was no one to be seen on the long trestle.

The boat boss called out to the boatman and jumped onto the trestle to tie the cable.

Looking along the trestle to the riverbank, there is no figure in sight on the shore.

In the whole wharf, there was no sound except for the big boats on the shore stirring up the waves and the sound of the water slapping on the trestle.

Docks, it shouldn't be like this.

Even if the wharf in Hewan Town is not as busy as the wharf in Qingyang City, there will always be a shopkeeper waiting for the ship to transport the goods, and there will be a force to load and unload the goods.

The boat boss set up a springboard, Niu Hao stepped on the springboard, jumped onto the trestle, and walked towards the town.

Jiangwan Town is not big.

According to the boat boss, there are only 100 households. One main street is connected to the dock at one end, and the other end is out of town.

Jiangwan Town is next to the Qingjiang River, and the residents of the town are naturally engaged in shipping docks. A blacksmith shop for repairing large ships, a carpenter's shop, a workshop for coiling cables, or a trading house for trafficking goods from the north and the south.

Niu Hao walked on the streets of Jiangwan Town, looking at the shops on both sides of the street, and couldn't help but feel strange.

It's a huge town, and there is no one in it.

No voices, no dog barking, no rooster crowing.

It's quiet, and you can't hear a sound. There is uneasiness in the silence, which seems eerie.

When the big ship docked, the boatmen jumped off the boat and wanted to go around town.

Niu Hao waved at the boat boss.

The captain of the ship also saw that something was wrong, and shouted at the boatman to call them back to the ship.

Niu Hao looked at Zhengwen, Zhengwen nodded, and stood in the middle of the street, followed by the big man.

Niu Hao walked towards a shop on the side of the road.

A porridge shop that serves meals. The door was open, and there were six or seven low tables with low stools next to them. The porridge bowl on the low table contains vegetable porridge, and the clay plate contains corn flour nests.

Niu Hao picked up a corn noodle nest and took a bite. Warm, soft and sweet. The description is freshly steamed, and it has not been long since it came out of the pot.

On another low table was a wooden bucket full of porridge, still steaming.

Niu Hao looked at the dining table one by one.

There are at least five customers sitting at three tables, waiting or eating. There was also a bowl of porridge on the table that had not had time to be cleaned up.

But for some unknown reason, all of a sudden, everyone left. I was in a hurry, and I didn't even have time to take a sip of the porridge.

Niu Hao picked up another corn noodle nest and bit it in his mouth, and then walked out of the store with a pottery plate containing a corn noodle nest and gave it to the big man.

You can eat when you smell the wind and drink the dew, but Niu Hao and the big guys can't, they have to eat at once and never eat a lot.

Zhengwen looked at Niu Hao with inquiring eyes, Niu Hao shook his head and walked towards the shop across the street.

Blacksmith's shop. On the ground as soon as you enter the door is a leather apron worn by the blacksmith in front of you. The fire in the blacksmith's furnace was blazing brightly, and the forged iron was red. On the anvil, a hammer and tongs for holding iron pieces are thrown.

Niu Hao stood at the door of the blacksmith shop, and with his imagination, he seemed to have seen everything that had just happened in the blacksmith shop.

The fire reflected the blacksmith in front of the furnace, who held the iron in one hand, struck it with a hammer, and then threw the iron into the fire. At that moment, the sound of the street attracted the blacksmith, who turned to look, then took off his apron on his chest and walked out quickly.

The guests who eat in the porridge shop, the blacksmith in the blacksmith shop. Niu Hao believed that if he continued to look at it one by one, he would find that the residents of the entire Hewan Town had been called away and left in an extra hurry.

Niu Hao walked back to the street, and Zhengwen was still looking at him with a puzzled expression.

Niu Hao shook his head at Zhengwen.

Niu Hao couldn't tell what was going on. The townspeople, for what the hell, all disappeared all at once.

The big man handed Niu Hao a corn noodle nest, and Niu Hao took it and took a bite.

The inhabitants of the town all disappeared all at once, what about the disciples of Kongming Mountain?

According to the boat boss, the disciples of Kongming who flocked to the town made the residents of Hewan Town tired of it, and even did not hesitate to give up their perennial business and go away.

Niu Hao could imagine that the figure of the Kongming Taoist priest was wandering everywhere in Hewan Town, which annoyed the residents of the town.

This kind of thing happened in Baixia Village under the Baishang Ridge at the beginning.

Niu Hao bit the corn noodle nest and walked forward, and the big man followed beside him. Suddenly patted Niu Hao and pointed to the back of a house.

Behind the house, there was originally a dense wood. Poplar willow trees grow on sandy slopes.

Today, the dense woods have been cut down, leaving stumps all over the ground.

The trees that were cut down were cut into poles. The sharpened wooden poles are stacked together and used to make wooden cages.

It is the wooden cage that shipped the mountain ghost forest demon.

It's just that those wooden cages that have not yet been completed have not yet been written into the Dao runes.

Continuing on, there were several finished wooden cages on the ground. The Dao runes were written, and the tarpaulin covering the wooden cage was cut, just waiting for the mountain ghost forest demon to be transported away.

"There. ”

The big guy said suddenly.

Niu Hao and Zhengwen looked in the direction pointed out by the big man.

A broken wooden cage.

Of the six wooden cages, three sides were broken. The broken wooden pole was thrown aside, revealing a large opening enough for the mountain ghost forest demon locked in it to escape.

Zhengwen walked over and picked up a broken wooden pole to inspect it, with runes written on it.

Niu Hao took the wooden pole and examined it.

If the wooden pole is broken, the water will not be wet at the broken place, and the dust will not be visible. Facing the light, you can also see the broken wooden thorns shiny and shining.

Just broken, not even overnight.

There is far more than one broken wooden cage.

More than a dozen wooden cages, all broken from the outside. Some were even completely torn to pieces.

The wooden cage is used to close the mountain ghost forest demon, the mountain ghost forest demon captured by Kong Ming's disciples from Bai Shangling.

The wooden cage was broken.

Broken by whom?

Thinking of the empty Hewan Town, Niu Hao frowned.

Could it be, it was the townspeople of Hewan Town, who finally couldn't stand the Taoist disciples of Kongming Mountain, and cut down trees here to imprison mountain ghosts and forest demons, so they organized a raid on the camp.

Is that really the case?

They attacked the camp, and what happened to those Taoist disciples of Kongming Mountain.

The disciples of Kong Ming relied on the shade of Kong Ming Immortal Mountain, and they would inevitably be a little arrogant, and they would never allow their camp to be destroyed.

Once there is a conflict and there are fatalities, things can be big.