A few roosters crowed outside the window, the sky was dark, and Zheng Dong, who was in Sangzi County, Chunzhou Prefecture, opened his eyes from his sleep, to be more precise, he was startled by a rapid knock on the door.

Picking up the waist knife placed horizontally at the head of the bed, a carp jumped out of bed, his feet ** and toes were tightly pressed to the ground, his left hand held the scabbard, his right hand held the knife handle, and his whole body leaned forward in a bow-shaped shape, Zheng Dong asked in a deep voice: "Who is outside?"

No wonder Zheng Dong is so vigilant, Xu Gong is already among the lower nine ranks, his social status is extremely low, and he is an offending business, he must be plotted to seek revenge, his father Zheng Zhi was on the way home at night, encountered a stuffy stick, and was beaten badly, and died violently after lying down for a few days at home.

"Brother Dong, I am Xiao Pan, there was a big case in Qingshi Town, the county lord ordered, except for Xie Tou with a team of people to stay, the rest of the fast officials rushed to Qingshi Town, the county lieutenant Zhao came out before a pillar of incense, he said before he came out, all the officials who did not arrive before the time will receive twenty killing sticks each. ”

When he heard half of it, Zheng Dong opened the door, revealing a white and fat figure outside the door, and beads of sweat were dripping down the other party's face.

"Okay, I know, let's take a break and drink saliva first, and when I get dressed, I won't have the strength to carry you halfway through the road after you pass out in a while. Casually putting the waist knife on the bed, Zheng Dong began to change clothes unhurriedly.

Zheng Dong is only eighteen years old this year, but since his father died five years ago, he began to inherit his father's business, although he is young, but he is also an old official, and when the world is in turmoil, there are more than a dozen major cases that he has personally experienced, and even killed a well-known Jiangyang thief, and it is also by virtue of this merit that he has become one of the three major leaders of the Sangzi County Ya, second only to Li Zhaofeng, the head catcher.

After picking up the purple clay pot on the table and pouring a large mouthful of herbal tea into the spout, Pan Shaochang burped for a long time, looked around at the old wooden furnishings in the house, smacked his lips and said: "Brother Dong, I really don't know what you think, it's not that you lack silver, you don't have to decorate your home so shabby, and you are not the county master, why bother to make this kind of incorruptible appearance!"

"Do you know what it means to go up and down? Even the county magistrate knows how to do façade work, and if we people at the bottom can't keep pace with the above, we will be unlucky sooner or later. Zheng Dong replied with some disdain.

As he spoke, he had already dressed, and he wore a flat-topped square hat with feathers inserted in the brim, and a green robe with arrow sleeves, and a brown leather belt around his waist, with a steel ring embedded in it, and a waist knife with a bronze polished sheath hung on the buckle.

"Alright, let's get out. After Zheng Dong said this, he had already walked out of the door first, anyway, there was nothing valuable at home on the surface, and he usually left the door unlocked.

"Brother Dong, it's wrong, Qingshi Town is in the east of the county, we have to go out along the east gate, why do you go to the west. Pan Shao hurried a few steps to catch up with Zheng Dong, and his men subconsciously wanted to drag him, but they still didn't dare after thinking about it.

"What do you know, Qingshi Town is more than thirty miles away from the county seat, and now at this hour, I want to arrive before the time, I'm afraid that I don't want to run and vomit blood, of course I have to find a means of transportation. Zheng Dong said as he walked towards the mule and horse market in the northwest of the county.

After spending five cents of silver, hired a pack horse cart, the red sun was tall, and when there was still a quarter of an hour or so left from the time, Zheng Dong and they finally saw the shadow of Qingshi Town, as the car continued to approach, Zheng Dong's heart was suddenly shrouded in a thick haze, and he always felt that Qingshi Town in the distance was like a huge monster, waiting to swallow him in one bite.

In early summer, it was the season of vast sunshine and full of vitality, but at this time, Qingshi Town seemed a little bleak.

On the bluestone road of the town, there are hundreds of mutilated corpses lined up, the death is extremely miserable, the bluestone slab has turned dark brown under the soaking of blood, and a rich bloody gas is scattered in the air, smoking!

"Wow......" Pan Shao, who had never experienced such a tragic situation, squatted on the ground, and even spit out the overnight wine and food, and finally vomited nothing, all that flowed out of the corners of his mouth was pale green bile, but no one in the audience laughed at him, because before him, more than half of the people had vomited first, and the filth all over the audience clearly proved this.

Only Zheng Dong did not change his face in the face of the corpses all over the ground, and even squatted down and began to inspect one body, untied the waist knife, and rummaged the corpse with the scabbard from time to time, after inspecting more than a dozen corpses, Zheng Dong showed a little puzzled look on his face.

"Zheng Bantou, what do you think of this earth-shattering tragedy. An official wearing a green official robe, a gauze hat, and a red face about forty years old, looked at Zheng Dong and asked in a low voice.

"Hui County Lieutenant's words, judging from the wounds of these deceased, it seems that they were torn apart by their claws, not by sharp weapons, but ordinary beasts obviously cannot slaughter hundreds of people, and the most bizarre thing is that the hearts of the deceased have been ripped out. Zheng Dong said to Zhao County Wei Yaoyao.

"Hmph, a bunch of rubbish, even the rhetoric is the same, no matter what reason you have, use all your strength to check for me, before dark, I must get the result, otherwise the official's position is not guaranteed, and one or two of you don't want to be comfortable. After snorting heavily, Zhao turned around and walked into a teahouse on the side of the road, obviously sitting here all the time waiting for news.

"Dongtou, Li Zhutou called you over. A helper in a gray linen suit walked quickly to Zheng Dong and said with a smile on his face.

Follow the gang to a hundred-year-old banyan tree in the town, where there are already more than 20 people seated, from the perspective of clothing, they are all the county's in-service official catchers, sitting in the middle, wearing a big red cloak, it is the county's third class chief catcher, the opening of the mountain Li Zhaofeng.

Sangzi County Ya set up a head catcher, under the jurisdiction of three classes, each class set up a team leader, commanding ten officials, each officer is equipped with five to eight people ranging from five to eight people, the head catcher Li Zhaofeng is now Chinese New Year's Eve five years old, is in the prime of life, practiced iron sand palm for more than 20 years, can crush the bluestone with bare hands, as the head of the 12 years, killed seven Jiangyang thieves, got the nickname of the opening palm, Sangzhi County around the small can be said to be frightened, Li Zhaofeng's name, in the county can even stop children crying at night.

With the arrival of Zheng Dong, the officials sitting there got up to say hello, and Wang Bantou, who was sitting in the lower right position of Li Zhu's head, also nodded to him, but Li Zhaofeng sat there expressionlessly, and after seeing Zheng Dong sit down on his left, he said in a low voice: "Everyone is here, then I'll talk about it, this murder is estimated to be committed by a monster!"

"What?monster?" Li Zhutou's voice all the way, suddenly provoked a burst of exclamation, even Zheng Dong, frowned, although there have always been legends of fairies, demons and ghosts in the land of Yanzhou, but not many people have seen it, most of them are regarded as nonsense.

"It's not nonsense, I was lucky enough to see it once seven years ago. When Li Zhaofeng spoke, he subconsciously touched his lower back, there was a hideous scar there, which was left at that time, whenever he thought about it, he couldn't help but be afraid.

"That time I offered a metaphor, with ten county masters, and other catchers in the thirteen counties under the jurisdiction of Chunzhou Prefecture, under the leadership of Mr. Zhou, went to the neighboring Hekou County, to investigate a big case, that time Hekou County also died a hundred and ten villagers, the death was miserable, the same heart was gouged out, under our investigation, finally found a cave according to the clues, met a fox demon. ”

"That monster looks like a fox but has the size of a calf, not only acts like the wind and the claws are sharp, the most terrible claws slash through, will release a wind blade, whether it is a giant tree hugged, or a sophisticated treasure knife, can be broken in one qiē, the moment of contact, we have suffered heavy losses, the good hands in the county, except for me, all died, and finally thanks to Mr. Zhou's head catcher took out a spirit talisman given by the immortal, turned into a flying golden knife, and killed the monster. ”

In the process of telling, Li Zhaofeng completely fell into the memory, his whole face was pale, sweating through heavy clothes, his fists were clenched, and his fists were clenched white and unconscious.

"It turns out that Sun Xiaoliu and they died in the hands of demons, miserable, miserable, we are just a group of ordinary people, and there will be no immortal spirit runes, if it is really a monster, aren't we sent to death with these few pieces of material? Li Tou, let's withdraw it, a big case like this is still left to Dongzhidao, the adults on the Chunzhou Mansion to worry about. An old catcher with gray temples stood up in a panic and shouted.

Everyone was moved by the words of the old catcher, and everyone turned their attention to Li Zhutou, Li Zhaofeng said his own calculation, that is, he wanted to tie everyone together, everyone picked together, and the county magistrate board would not hit him alone, after all, the law does not blame the public, and the near-death seven years ago made him completely lose the courage to face the monster.

Just when Li Zhaofeng made up his mind and planned to take everyone to complain to the county lieutenant, the whole ground suddenly shook violently, and at the same time, a sharp sound of horses' hooves came from outside the town, Li Zhaofeng stomped his feet, the whole person jumped five or six meters high, grabbed a tree trunk with his palm and turned over hard, the whole person had climbed the old banyan tree, and before he could stand firmly, suddenly the figure flashed in the corner of his eye, and he was taken aback at the moment, and turned around to take a look, but now Zheng Dong was standing on another branch not far from him.

The two nodded tacitly, and looked outside the town together, and now the two black dots were approaching the town at a very fast degree, and they were still thousands of meters away a moment ago, and a few breaths were less than 100 meters away from the town, and they were able to see the whole picture of the people who came.

Both riders are dressed in the same way, with a black brocade robe, embroidered with a bright silver moire on the cuff collar, wearing a high crown of black iron, embroidering a "patrol" character with silver thread in the center of the front of the robe, and embroidering a "Jian" character in the center of the back, and a huge rectangular wooden box diagonally behind the back.

The horses they rode were twice as tall as ordinary horses, with patches of scales looming under their tan fur, and their muscular thighs left a shallow pit on the ground every time they stepped down, and the sharp fangs in their mouths could be seen when they raised their noses.

"Survey the sky, Xuan Tiewei" After seeing the two of them dressed up immediately, Li Zhaofeng suddenly exclaimed, and then he seemed to remember something, subconsciously covered his mouth with his hand, and looked left and right Zheng Dong looked at him with an inquiring gaze, and finally he didn't say anything, shook his head, and slid down the trunk with a gloomy face.

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