Lu Qing didn't decide whether to stay or not in the end... From the bottom of his heart, he was moved by compassion for these villagers, but at the same time, he also had to face the real problem: that is, his cultivation was not enough.

Even if he wanted to help them, he couldn't do it, and the last time he fought with the female ghost, if it weren't for the "Zhengyang Mantra" that played a role at a critical moment, God knows what would have happened...

What Lu Qing has to do now is to investigate the secret behind this Yongchang County, and blindly take the courage of the moment is happy, but the final result is very likely to harm others and himself.

Seeing him swaying, Zhong Wanquan finally stood up and said haha, and said to the old village chief that the two immortal envoys needed to rest at this time because they were tired of traveling all the way.

The implication is that don't beep and don't have any of them, and quickly find a place for these two to live.

When the old village chief heard this, he warmly invited Lu Qing and Lin Shiyan to stay at his house.

Lu Qing saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he agreed, and at the same time glanced at Zhong Wanquan, who had spoken out to solve the siege... He always felt as if this square-faced headcatcher had been calculated a long time ago.

As the old village chief arrived at his house and settled down, Lu Qing casually talked to the old village chief, and the old village chief was polite to him because he saw his methods, basically he answered whatever Lu Qing asked.

"Old man, I don't know what to call you?"

Lu Qing first asked the old village chief's surname, on the one hand, it was convenient to call, and on the other hand, he was polite, so that he could carry out the next conversation.

"The immortal has tormented the little old man, my surname is He, the sixth in the family, you can call me He Laoliu. ”

The old village chief showed a frightened expression on his face when he heard this, and then replied respectfully.

After all, this Eastern Continent is the Ancestral Court of the Immortal Dao, and the people who cultivate immortals are still very respected here.

"Then I'll call you Uncle He... Does Uncle He know about Yu Niang?"

Lu Qing didn't take it, and called the old village chief Uncle He in a proper manner, and when the village chief He saw this, he was uncomfortable for a while, and when he saw Lu Qing's serious expression, he agreed after a while, but it can be found that his attitude towards Lu Qing is obviously a little closer..

"Hey, little old man can save it, when that happened, I was only in my twenties, and I heard people from the next village talk about it at that time. ”

"Oh . . . Then why did you say that Yu Niang had killed you miserably?

“... Alas!"

Lu Qing saw that the situation had been opened at this time, so he simply threw out his own question, but who knew that Village Chief He fell into silence for a while, and finally turned into a long sigh.

"Uncle He, isn't there something unspeakable?"

Lu Qing continued to ask while the iron was hot, and after struggling for a long time, Village Chief He seemed to have made up his mind, and finally said in a firm tone.

"This... That's it, in the end, I did something wrong, for the sake of the remaining old and young people in Wujia Village, today the little old man will give it a hand... This matter, immortals, please let the little second child slow down, you should have heard about Lord Fan's private opening of the ore vein in the past few days..."

After sighing, Village Chief He sat by the fire and added firewood to it while slowly telling Lu Qing what he knew.

According to him, half a year ago, since Fan Datong of Zhixian County discovered the spiritual stone mine on Wutou Mountain, he planned to develop it quietly, but because there was no manpower, he summoned the village chiefs of the three nearby villages late at night. And he, as the village chief of Wujia Village, was naturally among them, and he didn't know what this late-night meeting meant to Wujia Village at that time...

That night, Fan Datong demanded that after they returned, they should register the population of the whole village from beginning to end, according to the family unit, and especially focus on recording the young and middle-aged people, and his reason at that time was to rectify the problem of public order in Yongchang County.

The day after he handed over the roster of the entire village's population, someone from the county came, saying that the county magistrate was going to temporarily transfer manpower, and Wujia Village was going to produce 30 young adults.

Because they had a roster in their hands, they just started to bring people after informing the village chief He, although he felt a little abnormal, but in the face of the order of the county magistrate, how could he dare to say half a word.

In this way, thirty of the strongest young men in the village were taken away, and when the village chief He said this, he sighed that he still remembers their expressions at that time to this day. The look of confusion, nervousness, and uneasiness.

Three days passed, five days passed, and there was still no movement from them... The people who had less men in the village came to him every day to inquire, and he could only keep fooling and procrastinating, always thinking that it would be fine in a few days, and they would come back in a few days.

Half a month has passed, a month, two months .. The people in the village are not only anxious, most of them have already discussed going to the county to find their relatives, and the thirty missing people, whether they are dead or alive, they want to ask the yamen for an explanation.

Village Chief He desperately stopped them at that time, he knew that in this case, the emotions of the family members could easily get out of control, and in case of a collision with the government, it would be the villagers who would suffer in the end.

Then he went to the next village to find the village chiefs of the other two villages, and the village chief He knew that in the past two months, people from other villages had also been recruited away, and the number was about the same, all about 30 people.

Nearly a hundred able-bodied laborers in the three villages together have gone missing.

After the village chiefs of the three of them got together to discuss, they went to see Fan Datong together, wanting to ask where the nearly 100 people had gone.

Who knew that Fan Datong just replied to them coldly: These people are very good now, you don't have to worry!

Then he said that the project he had at hand was still short of manpower, and that he asked them to prepare another 100 people from their three villages, and that he would have people collect them in two days.

The three village chiefs were shocked when they heard this, and then begged Fan Datong to hope that he could raise his noble hand, all the old and young men and women in these three villages add up to more than a thousand people, and the old and weak women and children are removed, and there are only more than 100 young men, if these men are requisitioned and transferred, then they will have no way to live at all, and the remaining hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled people will have to starve to death!

But Fan Datong ignored their pleas, leaving a bloated and fat back, and disappeared into the depths of the county office.

After the three village chiefs returned to the village in despair, they lied without exception in the face of the villagers who were looking forward to the return of their families to reunite.

But the reality is cruel after all, two days later, the county government came again, they still led people according to the roster this time, and encountered several violent resistance to the law in the middle, and almost made a big deal several times. In the end, it was Zhong Wanquan who stood up and patted his chest to pack the ticket that made the villagers choose to believe in the yamen again.

Lu Qing heard this, and glanced at Zhong Wanquan with a strange look... He didn't expect this square-faced head-catcher to be so effective.

Later, I also understood that it was precisely because of this that those villagers would surround him just now and inquire about the news of his family.

Zhong Wanquan saw Lu Qing's gaze at this time, his expression was a little unnatural, and he got up and went out for some reason.

Seeing him like this, Lu Qing couldn't chase him out, so he had to continue to listen to Village Chief He patiently.

What happened later is actually very easy to guess, and of course the 100 people who went after that were not alive or dead, and did not see the corpses...

At this moment, an extremely strange thing happened...

About a month ago, among the villagers of Wujia Village who had disappeared, some people actually came back quietly!

Lu Qing was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Where is that person?"

Village Chief He sighed and said, ".. The man was dead, he died the night he came, and he was so mad that he didn't understand anything even if he was alive. ”

"And what else is unusual about him?"

“.. Well, the little old man remembered that he seemed to have been talking about some man in white... The other is the female ghost in red!"

"Oh, the man in white. . . The Lady in Red.. Is it because of these two sentences that you concluded that there is something to do with Yu Niang behind this disappearance?"

"Hmm... Regarding the man in white, Xiao Lao'er doesn't know what it means, but the words of the female ghost in red, according to my guess, should be the jade lady!"

“.. That's right, go on. ”

There's really nothing to talk about next, the man died that night after he came back, and before he died, he kept talking about the man in white and the female ghost in red, which looked extremely scary.

It is also because of this that the people here think that Yu Niang has come back for revenge.

Later, Village Chief He once overheard a gossip that these missing people were pulled by Fan Datong to open a mine, and he didn't know whether it was true or not, but Wutou Mountain was indeed closed, which is undoubted.

So he is more than six points sure about the correctness of this statement.

After Village Chief He said everything, he was obviously much more relaxed, and he was really a little broken down when he was under such heavy pressure alone these days.

Now that the immortal envoy of Qingyun Palace is here, he has a backer, and his wrinkled old face also shows a rare relaxed expression at this time.

But Lu Qing's heart was not easy at this time, after listening to the village chief's story, he found that he had one more problem... That's what happened to the man in white that the young man said before he died.

I thought I could sort out the relationship between Yu Niang and the disappearance case, but who knew that a man in white would pop up again... It's getting more and more complicated these days.

He found that he was getting more and more chaotic now, as if he was stepping into a bureau step by step, and if he couldn't handle it well, not only himself, but also Lin Shiyan, and even the village chief He in front of him, the villagers of Wujia Village would be finished!

...

Lu Qing proposed to the old village chief that he wanted to go around, and he also wanted to go to the spirit stone mine on Aconitum Mountain to check one or two.

When the old village chief heard this, he repeatedly agreed, and called a few young men from the village who knew the way, and asked them to help lead the way for Luqing.

In this way, as soon as Lu Qing arrived in Wujia Village, he started the investigation non-stop, and Lin Shiyan was left in the village by him, on the one hand, she didn't need to go to too many people, and on the other hand, she also asked her to help pay attention to the movements in the village.

The two already had a high tacit understanding at this time, Lu Qing just glanced slightly before leaving, and Lin Shiyan nodded understandingly.

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