Chapter 10 The Fish That Slipped Through the Net

About an hour later, a petite figure hurried back to Yuxi Village. It is clear in the moonlight that this person is actually a small bead!

It turned out that in the morning, he had vigorously gone up the mountain with Shanzi to hunt, and Ding Yu went to the waterfall to practice, and there was only Xiaozhu Nan left at home. When she thought that the monk master was leaving, she felt sad again, and couldn't help but run to a forest at the foot of the mountain. There was a large hollow tree that she had discovered while playing with her brother, who had turned the hollow into a "secret nest" with hay and debris, and came here from time to time to play. Later, when Shanzi got older, he no longer played this game of "playing house" with his sister, and the tree hole here became the secret of Xiao Zhunan. Whenever she was sad or unhappy, she hid in it, sometimes for a whole day.

This time it was the same, and she cried in the hollow of the tree, and then curled up on the haystack and fell asleep, and when she woke up, she found that it was the top of the moon. She was afraid that her father would be angry, so she performed a light skill and ran back to the village in one go.

As soon as she entered the village, she found that there were many people lying on the ground, and when she looked closer, she found that they were all dead! And all of them had broken bones and tendons, and the death was so terrifying that she was so frightened that she shouted "Dad!" and "Brother!" and rushed home. But what she didn't expect was that there were actually five or six dead people in the family! Xiao Zhunan was suddenly frightened: Could it be that something had happened to her father and brother? This worry temporarily overshadowed her fear, and she lit the oil lamp, forcibly endured her fear, and looked at the future in horror.

In addition to the sticky blood stains everywhere in the house, there were five dead people. She didn't recognize four of the adults, only the child's body, although it had no head, she could barely recognize it, it was Aunt Yun's daughter, Xiaoying. Xiaoying is the same age as her, and they often play together on weekdays. Aunt Yun treats Xiao Zhunan very well, and every time she makes clothes and shoes for her daughter, she makes an extra copy for Xiao Zhunan, so she can recognize it from the clothes.

Looking at the miserable body of her friend, Xiao Zhunan's tears rolled down her cheeks, but the whereabouts of her father, brother and master are unknown, and now is not the time to be sad. Holding an oil lamp, she went from house to house, crying the names of the three as she searched. After tossing and turning for half the night, she was horrified to find that all 29 families in the village had been killed, and only her father, brother and master were missing.

"No matter who killed the villagers and kidnapped my father, brother and master, it must have something to do with these strangers! And so many people have died here, maybe they will come back to clean up, the village is no longer safe, I can't stay for long!" Maybe it's the disaster that makes people grow, maybe it's the tenacity buried deep in Xiaozhunan, and after she was hurt, she quickly figured out the situation. She first went to the small cabinet where the money was hidden, and took all the silver taels, which were about a hundred taels, and then she took a small hoe and ran to a lying cow rock at the foot of the mountain. The monk master once told her and her brother that he had left them a gift that he had pressed under the Lying Cow Stone, and that one day they would be high enough to overthrow the stone, and the gift would truly belong to them. Until then, it must not be taken out. She wanted to keep this promise, but thinking that she might not be able to return for a long time, she didn't feel comfortable leaving this gift here.

Xiao Zhunan began to dig from the mud next to the Woniu Stone with a hoe, until it was dug to the bottom of the middle of the stone, and the "empty" sound, the hoe touched a hard object, she used the hoe to pull out the hard object, and found that it was a wooden box, and after opening it, it was a book wrapped in oiled paper, and the cover was written with the words "Nine Yin True Scripture". She looked at it, and she didn't recognize many of the words in the back, but the first few paragraphs were clearly the "Easy Muscle Forging Bone Chapter" taught to her by the monk master.

This "Nine Yin True Scripture" (not the complete version) was specially left by Ding Yu to Shanzai's family. He had only taught them the first three formulas of the Yi Muscle Forging Bone Chapter, and because he was worried that they would be greedy for merit, he hid most of the "Nine Yin True Scripture" under the Lying Niu Stone. When the Shanzi brothers and sisters have practiced the first three sections, then the two of them can work together to overturn the boulder and take out the follow-up exercises to continue practicing. Xiao Zhunan could only roughly guess from the monk's previous advice, this book of martial arts was a great thing, and she treasured it in her arms, and there was only one thought in her heart - after practicing the martial arts in this book, I would be able to become as powerful as the monk master, and I would definitely be able to find my father, brother and master back when the time came! I would definitely be able to avenge the villagers!

Yangcheng is located at the mouth of the Pearl River, and has a smooth official road that has been built since the pre-Qin period, which can be described as both land and water. Therefore, it has been a thriving commercial city since ancient times, and not only merchants from the north and south gathered, but also merchant ships from the South Seas. However, in recent days, Yangcheng has been more lively than usual, not because it has just passed the Midyear Festival, nor because the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, but because of the excitement aroused by the notices posted all over the city.

"Ding fisherman, river and ocean thief. Thirty-eight of the good people in Luofu Mountain fled without a trace. He was eight feet tall, broad-shouldered, and bearded and hairless, or dressed as a monk. Those who knew his whereabouts were immediately reported to the Yamen, and once it was verified, they were rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver, and those who captured them were rewarded with 30,000 taels of silver, whether they lived or died. "The back is also stamped with the seal of the Guangdong government.

As soon as this sea fishing book was posted, it attracted the attention of the whole city, the streets and alleys, teahouses and restaurants are all kinds of inside information, and within two days, even the storyteller also temporarily "stopped" the Westward Journey to the Water Margin, and changed it to "bloodthirsty monks slaughtered with hot hands, and the blood flowed in the Luofu Mountains".

On this day, in the Pearl Building. As soon as the two old gourmets sat down, they summoned the running buddies and said, "Xiao Er, let's have a siu-mei platter, Baiyun pork knuckles, half a white chopped chicken, steamed anchovies, a hundred flowers and fish maw, two cups of old fire stewed soup, and a pot of fragrant slices." The guy smiled and agreed, and while reporting to the back kitchen in a loud voice, he quickly brewed a pot of hot incense tablets for the two of them. While waiting for the food to be served, the two took a sip of fragrant tea with pickled pepper phoenix feet and salted peanuts, and couldn't wait to talk about the hottest topic recently - the tragedy of the Luofu Sword Sect.

One of the middle-aged men wearing a Confucian scarf said, "Brother Maoyi, have you ever heard of the Luofu tragedy?"

The "Brother Maoyi" is also dressed as a Confucian student, shaking an ink paper fan in his hand, as soon as he heard the words of the Confucian scarf man, he immediately closed the paper fan and knocked it in the palm of his hand, and said: "In the past few days, the streets and alleys are full of rumors about this matter, but there are different opinions and do not know the reason, I heard that there is a storyteller in the Pearl Building, and he talks about this case five times a day, so the younger brother specially invited Brother Zhiyuan to explore together!"