Xiao Ziyang was very depressed in his heart, he risked his life to save this woman's life, and what he gained was disdainful, which made him embarrassed, since he took off his dark and rough skin after cultivating "Purple Jade Smoke", he has always been complacent about his appearance, but today he has been hit hard!

This can't blame Wenxiu for having no vision. The genes of the Wen family are very good. Wenxiu was used to seeing handsome white-faced scholars in Wenfu, so although Xiao Ziyang's appearance was not ugly in his eyes, her tall and sturdy figure and cold and hard face couldn't help but make her feel a little vulgar.

I heard that she was going to marry a wanderer, which was far from the good son-in-law in her mind - a talented man who read poetry and books, so naturally the more she looked at Xiao Ziyang, the more she hated it.

Although Xiao Ziyang was depressed, he was used to seeing other people's eyes since he was a child, so he naturally didn't take this kind of thing to heart. He pretended not to see Wenxiu's dissatisfaction with him at all, and regretfully refused to be retained by the clerk.

When the clerk heard that he was in such a big trouble, he naturally didn't say anything anymore.

Xiao Ziyang bowed his hand to the clerk, "Outside the clerk, there is also a reluctant request below, I don't know if the clerk can help." ”

"Wu Daxia, but it doesn't hurt to talk about it. ”

"The clerk can know that the red silk guest has ravaged the rivers and lakes for nearly ten years, and has harmed countless rich ladies, and there are countless people in the world who have offered rewards to arrest him, and there have been good deeds who have calculated, these rewards add up to 300,000 taels, and the 150,000 taels of the 300,000 taels of silver are the rewards of the government, if it is someone else, it would be good if the reward of the government can get half of it, but if the staff goes outside to receive it, the 150,000 taels of silver must be mostly in hand. ”

In fact, most of the so-called rewards offered by the government are not rewarded by the government, but the bitter lord will hand over the silver to the government, and the government will reward and arrest them. The vengeful bitter lord still cares about money.

"What, does Wu Daxia want me to help you unblock the joints and receive the reward? There is no problem with this, I can at least give you 120,000 taels of silver. ”

"Yes, the news that I killed the red silk guest has spread, and if I go around to receive the reward, it will be like inserting a bid and selling the head, and it will definitely attract the attention of my enemy, so I want to ask the clerk to send someone to collect the reward everywhere on my behalf, and I plan to leave this place as soon as possible, and after a while, after a while, the rumor will pass and come back to withdraw the money, and no matter how much money I receive at that time, Master Wen only needs to give me half of it." ”

The clerk thought about it for a while, and called Wudutou to inquire in detail about the reward of the red silk guest, and after finding that Xiao Ziyang did not have half a lie, he agreed, "Okay, I will arrange people to go to various places tomorrow to receive rewards." ”

Then he instructed Wudu to take off the head of the red silk guest, pickle it with lime, and put away the red silk guest's clothes and the soft sword.

After the order, he asked someone to bring pen and ink, and set up a note on this matter and handed it to Xiao Ziyang.

"It's really troublesome for the clerks. Xiao Ziyang put away the notes, excused himself from the banquet, and left Shuangping Town.

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The continuous autumn rain has been falling for three days, and there have been no pedestrians on the official road for three whole days.

It is no wonder that Nanba County, as a remote county in the southernmost border of Chuzhou, although the area is more than ten times that of ordinary counties, most of the places are mountainous, and the population of the county is not more than 10,000.

According to the practice of Xiliang State, 200,000 people are upper-class counties, 100,000 people are medium-class counties, and 50,000 people are low-class counties.

It is said that more than ten years ago, although Nanba County was not a big county, the population of the county was 70,000 or 80,000, which was far from being as desolate as it is now. At that time, Nanba County was one of the largest medicinal herb producing areas in Chuzhou.

More than 10 years ago, the medicinal materials produced in Nanba County accounted for more than 10% of the output of medicinal materials in Chuzhou, and at that time, horse-drawn carriages transporting medicinal materials on this official road were constantly coming and going. In Nanba County, there are several people who collect medicine for a living than those who farm in the county, and there are many times more people in the county town than those who farm the fields, and there are many wine shops and prostitutes in the county, for these perennial medicine pickers who shuttle through the mountains to occasionally go out to the mountains for recreation.

As a result of years of uncontrolled picking, there were fewer and fewer medicinal herbs in the mountains, and the herb pickers had to go deeper into the Miro Mountains further south, and they needed more and more time to enter the mountains once, and the chances of being in danger in the mountains were also getting higher and higher, until the disappearance rate of the herb pickers was unbearable more than ten years ago.

Herb pickers often need to go hundreds of miles deep into the uninhabited mountains in the south to make a harvest, and it often takes months to enter the mountains once.

It is said that at that time, for every ten people who entered the mountain, one disappeared. So the rumors began to spread slowly. At that time, the most ferocious rumor was that there were monsters infested in the deep mountains of the south.

Due to the scarcity of people in the deep mountains in the south, hundreds of thousands of years of precious medicinal materials have been found from time to time, although it has become very dangerous to enter the mountains, there are still people who risk their lives to enter the mountains, hoping that the luck of getting rich overnight will come to them.

As the herb pickers went deeper, the appearance of precious medicinal materials worth 10,000 gold became more frequent, and at this time, Nanba County suddenly became more prosperous and more chaotic.

This prosperity was like the return of the dying and did not last long.

It is a group of quacks who promote and end this prosperity, a group of greedy and murderous quacks. These people went into the mountains with the herb pickers, but they did not go into the mountains to collect medicines, but to plunder the herb pickers who returned with a full load, so the mountains in Nanba County were suddenly filled with the smell of blood.

Finally, a terrible catastrophe has struck!

I don't know if it was because I was attracted by the smell of blood, or because I was angered by the hustle and bustle of humans, the monsters that only existed in legends suddenly came to the mountains of Nanba County, and they hunted and killed humans everywhere, whether it was the herb pickers or the vicious Jianghu people, they were all wiped out.

Some of these demon beasts are infinitely powerful and invulnerable, some can breathe fire and spit ice, some can fly into the sky, and some can escape to the ground. Humans, even those with strong martial arts, are as powerless as babies in front of these monsters.

It seems that overnight, Nanba County has become quiet, but at the same time decaying. Fortunately, the monster beast quickly returned to the deep mountains, and did not further attack the human villages and towns. Frightened people fled one after another, medicine pickers, people fishing in troubled waters, merchants buying medicinal materials, and overnight, a huge county town almost became a ghost town. Only the indigenous people who have lived here for generations remain.

Today, there are still herb pickers in Nanba County, but they are less than one-tenth of what they were at their peak. The output of medicinal herbs is no longer worth mentioning, after all, except for those who are poor and really can't survive, how many people are willing to come to this mountain infested by demon beasts to fight for their lives.

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