From the Valley of the Wicked to the Town of Demons

"I told you to come on horseback, but you must listen. It's all over now. Look, it's still more than a dozen miles away, and I can't walk anymore."

Beside the official road, several people were resting under the shade of a tree, and one of the young people chattered endlessly, as if complaining, it was Lin Xiaochuan, the fish scale guard of our town demon division.

"I'm talking about Lin Tiewei, so please don't say a few words. From Zhangyu to Dongjiagou, we need to walk twice by water. If we ride a horse, we need to go around hundreds of miles, which is much slower than now."

Wang Yu said from the side that he was too tired and kept drinking water.

This Yizhou has many mountains and rivers, so not only the roads are difficult, but also the river needs to be crossed frequently.Moreover, the ferry boat at the ferry crossing was rather small, and it would be very difficult for them to cross the river on horseback, so they had to walk instead.

Coincidentally, the sun was scorching and the weather was muggy in the past few days. They couldn't walk very far, so they had to stop to rest and take a few more breaths.

While Lin Xiaochuan was nagging, a donkey cart came in the distance, and the back of the cart was full of melons and fruits. Immediately, Lin Xiaochuan swallowed his saliva, stood up, and went to buy some fresh melons to quench his thirst.

"Old man, how did you buy this melon? Is it ripe?"

Lin Xiaochuan stopped the old man driving the car, picked up a melon, and weighed it with his hands.

"Of course it's ripe. This melon is big and sweet. It only sells for ten cents a piece."

When the old man saw the business, he immediately said with a smile.

"Ten cents? This is too expensive."

Lin Xiaochuan's face immediately collapsed. They didn't wear official uniforms, and the steel knife was wrapped in cloth, so the old man was not afraid, and said:

"This year's weather is hot, and the supply of these fresh melons is in short supply. In the city, they are sold for fifteen cents apiece. Seeing that you have a hard time traveling, I only sell them for ten cents. If you go to the county town, you won't have the price."

The old man said with a smile, seeming quite confident. Their melon farmers have caught up with a good year this year. Because of the hot weather, the business is not to mention easy.

Lin Xiaochuan refused to be reconciled, and immediately started bargaining with the old man. The two argued for a long time, but neither one would give in.

In the end, it was Yi Xing who came over and bought ten melons at the old man's price, that's all.

"Old man, how far is this Dongjiagou?"

While asking his subordinates to pick melons, Yi Xing asked the old man, but the old man looked at Yi Xing with strange eyes.

"You probably don't know where Dongjiagou is."

Seeing that the old man didn't speak for a long time, Lin Xiaochuan made a sarcasm. After all, he lost this battle. They traded for ten cents a melon, so he was a little upset.

"How could I not know Dongjiagou, to tell you the truth, my surname is Dong, and I can be regarded as a collateral clan of Dongjiagou.

But I advise you not to go, the people in Dongjiagou are all weird now, and I don’t know if they have practiced the kung fu wrongly, and they have ruined their brains. "

The old man shook his head while talking, at this time Yi Xing couldn't help frowning, and said:
"I would also like to ask the old man, what happened to Dongjiagou?"

After hearing Yi Xing's words, the old man sighed and said, "I didn't hear anything happened in Dongjiagou, but someone came back from there recently and said that the people over there are acting strange now, not only Dong, Even the people with foreign surnames who went to practice martial arts became neurotic. They guessed that there might be something wrong with the Dong family's kung fu.

To be honest, I am a collateral branch of the Dong family in Dongjiagou.However, Dongjiagou's kung fu has always been passed down to the direct line of the Dong family. If a foreign surname wants to learn from a teacher, they must change their surname to Dong and enter the family tree of the direct line.

Hehe, I just don’t want to learn, our collateral is just a collateral, if you don’t learn martial arts, it’s not a big deal, life is not the same as living comfortably..."

The old man chattered endlessly, and seemed to have a lot of resentment towards Dong Jiagou. He seldom praised him, but mostly sarcasm. It seemed that he had indeed received a lot of anger from Dong Jiagou.

"I would also like to ask the old man, why is the person in Dongjiagou so neurotic, and whether he has any symptoms."

After experiencing the incident in Beiling County, Yi Xing is now very sensitive to abnormalities, especially collective abnormalities, but the old man only briefly described it, which roughly means that people in Dongjiagou are suspicious and suspicious of outsiders. , seems to be quite hostile, even relatives who come to see each other frequently, their attitudes have changed a lot.

Seeing that they couldn't find anything, they picked out the melons and sent the old man away.

Watching the donkey cart go farther and farther, Yi Xing held the melon in his hand and kept touching it lightly, as if he was thinking.

"This Dongjiagou, there must be nothing happening. The old man is not from Dongjiagou, so he may not know the details. If Dongjiagou is hostile to outsiders, I'm afraid we will go there and find out nothing. .”

Li Tong opened his mouth, and after speaking, he took a bite of the melon, then quickly lowered his head and looked at the fresh melon.

The old man didn't lie to them, this melon is indeed very sweet.

"This old man is not from the martial arts world, so he probably doesn't know much. Something happened to Dongjiagou, but I don't know what happened."

Yi Xing was in a bad mood. He felt that nothing good had happened since he took this case. First, Beiling County was delayed for a long time. If there was another disturbance in Dongjiagou, they would not know when they would be able to return to Beijing. .

The most important thing is that this case was sent by His Majesty the Emperor himself. If there is no progress and the Emperor is angry, they may not be able to bear the consequences.

The person from the God Catcher here murmured, but Lin Xiaochuan didn't take it seriously. He just heard him say: "No matter what happened, we will know when we enter the village. What's more, something happened in Dongjiagou , it may not be related to the case, if we don't need to intervene, why waste time and energy to manage it."

Lin Xiaochuan's words somewhat violated Yi Xing's taboo, and Yi Xing was about to say a few words about him, but Wang Yu spoke first.

"Lin Tiewei's words actually have some truth, as long as it's not something that endangers the court and the people, whatever the martial arts people want, then so be it.

Our God-Catching Sect only investigates the case. If Dongjiagou has nothing to do with the case, then we don't need to bother to intervene. After all, there are rules in the world, and their Dongjiagou affairs will eventually be handled by themselves. "

Wang Yu's words were obviously helping Lin Xiaochuan, and Yi Xing had to swallow the words of reprimand that he was about to utter.

In fact, Yi Xing also knows that Lin Xiaochuan's words are reasonable. There are rules in the world, and there are also solutions in the world. As long as it does not touch the taboo of the gods, then the affairs of the world should be handled by the people in the world.

"Forget it, no matter how much you worry, it's useless. It seems that we are not far from Dongjiagou, so let's go."

Yi Xing shook his head, thinking that what happened to Dongjiagou would not be known until he got there.

After hearing Yi Xing's words, everyone hurriedly ate the melons in their hands, cleaned up briefly, and set off again.