Notes on Evil Fox

"What happened?" Rong Shiyin asked.

Those few refugees didn't pay any attention to it, especially the woman, who just threw herself at Zhang Zhizhi's feet, crying and shouting, "Master Qingtian, you have to make decisions for me, my child's death is really pitiful..."

Everyone looked at Rong Shiyin, not knowing how to react for a while, but Rong Shiyin didn't care, stepped back to the side, and made a gesture of please to Zhang Zhizhi.

"What grievances do you have, let's talk slowly?" Zhang Zhizhi didn't refuse, he helped the woman up and asked.

The woman stood up and cried for a long time before she sobbed and said: "Mr. Zhao, a woman, used to run a tavern with her husband in Xunan. Unexpectedly, my family was killed in this flood. My son Xiaoyong and I were left alone. This morning, Xiaoyong and I wanted to find some wild vegetables in the field outside the temporary camp. But who knows..."

When Mrs. Zhao said this, she covered her face and cried so hard that she couldn't continue.Zhang Zhizhi was quite patient, and waited for her to calm down before asking again: "What happened?"

"My son," he said with great courage, "my son was beaten to death by an official from Beijing and his attendants, just because my son accidentally soiled his clothes. I was also almost killed by him, but fortunately there were people around at that time, so I was able to escape, I beg you to make the decision for me."

Zhang Zhizhi glanced at Rong Shiyin and said, "But how can you be sure that he is an official from Beijing?"

"He himself said that he came from the capital, and his uncle is the prime minister. No one will do anything to him." The woman wiped her tears.

"Master Rong, what do you say?" Zhang Zhizhi asked bluntly.

Rong Shiyin nodded to Zhang Zhizhi, then turned to Deng Mengzi and said, "Master Deng, what's going on, didn't I ask you to inform all the officials to investigate the disaster today?"

"My lord, is it the lower official? Before leaving this morning, Mr. Li said that he wanted to rest for a day because he was not acclimatized to the environment and his body was unwell. The lower official was negligent for a while, so he forgot to report. But Mr. Li..."

Deng Mengzi still wanted to say something, but seeing Rong Shiyin's face was unkind, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Your Majesty, I will send someone to invite Mr. Li."

Everyone followed Mrs. Zhao to the place where the incident happened, and they saw the corpse of a young man lying in the wilderness.Two bruises on the head, both from blunt force, should have been fatal.

"Such a young child can do it, he is a beast." Zhang Zhizhi cursed angrily with a dark face.

While they were inspecting the scene, Deng Mengzi brought Li Mo over.

Before Rong Shiyin could speak, he saw that Zhang Zhizhi had rushed up, kicked Li Mo to the ground, spat and said, "You just stained your ragged clothes, and you're going to kill someone, you're so serious! It's a piece of human skin that was blinded for nothing."

Li Mo was caught off guard by being kicked, and the attendants who followed him froze for a moment. When he reacted and went to help him, Li Mo had already got up by himself, cursing: "You little county magistrate!" , dare to kick me, you know who my uncle is, he is the current right minister. As long as I am willing, I can make you die without a place to bury you."

"What uncle? My son is on good terms with Wang Xiang's nephew Wang Jun in Beijing. Why haven't I heard that Wang Xiang has sisters or nephews all these years?" Lu Fanan walked up to Li Mo and said slowly .

Li Mo's choked face turned white and turned red, and Lu Fanan was about to say something when Zhang Zhizhi interrupted: "Master Rong, no matter what kind of relative it is, someone died at this moment, I hope you can give an explanation. "

"What kind of explanation does Mr. Zhang want?" Rong Shiyin asked without answering.

"Naturally, it's killing people to pay for their lives, and debts to pay back money."

A group of officials around stood aside and did not make a sound, with expressions on their faces that it was not a big deal to watch the excitement.

"Forgive me." Rong Shiyin said indifferently.Lu Fanan gave Rong Shiyin a puzzled look, but due to the occasion, he didn't say much.

"Master Rong is trying to cover up the murderer?" Zhang Zhizhi forced him.

"I will give it to Mr. Zhang. But I must not give it to Mr. Zhang." Rong Shiyin said sincerely.

"Rong Shiyin, you..." Zhang Zhizhi pointed at Rong Shiyin, speechless in anger.

The woman was about to say something when she saw Yan Xun winking at her, pretending to be in pain and howling: "My son..."

Then passed out.

"Master Zhang, man, I will take it back first." After finishing speaking, he waved his hand to let Deng Mengzi take the arrogant Li Mo down. I hope you will be fine.”

After finishing speaking, he passed by Zhang Zhizhi, and in a split second, said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Trust me."

……

On the second day, Zhang Zhizhi said that Rong Shiyin could not see him because of his illness. He really couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Rong Shiyin sold in his gourd, but the word "trust me" that Rong Shiyin left him was so solemn that he couldn't help but want to be convinced.

But when he thought of the boy's corpse yesterday and Li Mo's haughty look, he became angry.

After much deliberation, it's better not to see him today, otherwise he doesn't know what he will do.Right now, I just hope that Rong Shiyin can be a reliable person.

……

The attendants came to spread the word that Zhang Zhizhi would not come, but Rong Shiyin didn't show much happiness or anger.He just said calmly: "Since Mr. Zhang is unwell, please rest well. Say hello to Mr. Zhang for me."

Rong Shiyin paid attention to Lu Fanan from the corner of his eye, and when he saw Lu Fanan raised his eyebrows in confusion, he knew what was going on in his heart.Shaking his head helplessly.But it's rare that he has held back what happened yesterday and hasn't asked about it until now. According to Lu Fan'an's temperament, it is really difficult for him.

Lu Fanan was really puzzled for a long time. He didn't have a chance to ask yesterday, and finally waited until night. When he was about to ask, Rong Shiyin seemed to be teasing him deliberately, saying that he was tired and had to go to bed early. some rest.

Lu Fanan naturally didn't want to disturb people's dreams, so he kept holding back until today.And he said that if he wanted to believe what Rong Shiyin said, then he had to keep believing.After all, that man also helped him save Qin Ming.

But just now when I saw Rong Shiyin asking his attendant to ask Mr. Zhang how he is on his behalf, he still couldn't help thinking, maybe Rong Shiyin disliked Mr. Zhang for being too straightforward, and it's not easy to do evil directly, so he wanted to get angry It's impossible to kill Mr. Zhang.

Lu Fanan's side was in a trance, but Rong Shiyin's side had already started assigning tasks.Deng Mengzi led other officials to investigate the upper reaches of the Li River, while he himself went to the downstream towns.

Deng Mengzi took the order to leave, and Rong Shiyin looked at the other's back thoughtfully.At this time, Hu Zhong came in with Rong Feng, and said: "My lord, I'm ready. But the road to and from has been cut off, and the carriages and horses can't walk, so I can only walk."

"Based on human footsteps, even if you walk non-stop today, you can only go to two or three towns." Rong Shiyin sighed.

At this moment, Rong Feng poked Hu Zhong suddenly, and gestured at Hu Zhong.Rong Shiyin looked at Rong Feng, tidied up a little, but looked like he was clever.The two children are "chatting" in full swing right now.Rong Feng gestured quickly, and the expression on Hu Zhong's face also changed wonderfully.

After a while, Hu Zhong finally turned around and said to Rong Shiyin: "My lord, Rong Feng said that the roads to each town are not only broken, but also there are rocks rolling down from time to time, which is very dangerous. But he knows a few roads. Paths to walk, he can take us."

Rong Shiyin pondered for a while, and said, "Yes."

Lu Fanan, who had been silent all this time, asked, "How did you understand what he was talking about?"

"I was caught," Hu Zhong stopped suddenly, took a look at Lu Fanan, and said, "Before I was taken in by kind people, like Rong Feng, I was always wandering outside. At that time, I also met people who couldn't speak, and also You know how to communicate with them."

"Okay, then take Rong Feng with us, and we'll set off right away." Rong Shiyin stood up from his chair.

"Yesterday..." Without waiting for Lu Fanan to ask, Rong Shiyin put his finger on his lips lightly, signaling him to keep silent.

Lu Fanan resigned himself to his fate and sighed: "Okay, I won't ask any more, my Lord Rong."

Lu Fanan sighed and was about to go out with Hu Zhong in dejection, but when he was about to take a step, someone grabbed his arm.

Seeing that Hu Zhong and Rong Feng had gone away, Rong Shiyin made sure that there was no one around, so he whispered in Lu Fanan's ear: "Li Mo is just someone who is being used, the one who is really behind the scenes is not the one who wants to kill. The boy, but me. But that person, now is not the time to move."

"But now that I know of his existence, I definitely won't let him get it easily." Looking at Lu Fan'an's slightly worried eyes, Rong Shiyin explained in a good mood.

……

The road is muddy and not easy to walk.But Hu Zhong practiced martial arts, Rong Feng was used to this kind of path, and Rong Shiyin also had some kung fu, so everything went smoothly.Only Lu Fan'an, the noble son in the capital, if he hadn't followed Rong Shiyin to this encounter, he might never have seen such a road in his life.

When he fell and squatted for an unknown number of times, Lu Fanan finally couldn't help complaining: "Young master, I and you all have suffered."

But the pace under his feet did not slow down, Rong Shiyin sighed helplessly, and stretched out his hand to the person.

Finally, he finally reached a town, but there was no such thing as a town.The landslide buried half of the houses at the foot of the mountain, and the remaining half was also riddled with holes by the rolling rocks.

A few houses on higher ground survived, and there seemed to be a lot of people inside.

Rong Shiyin and his entourage came to the house, but they saw that the inside was dirty and dilapidated, only a few old people were leaning on various corners, lying or sitting.In the dilapidated and desolate house, there are people who are like candles in the wind, and the dirty and thin clothes hide the thin bones.

The whole house smelled of decay and decay.And the expressions on their faces were numbness, desolation, and despair as if they had seen death.

Because of the intrusion of Rong Shiyin and Lu Fanan, it seemed that this room that was already on the verge of death had added a ray of life.Everyone looked at them as if they were looking at the fear of aliens, but also as if they saw the hope of living, which was complicated and strange.

The old man nestled in the innermost corner of the wall saw them and struggled to get up, howling, but lost his voice because of being too excited, and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.But in the two old and godless eyes, tears were gushing like springs, and there was almost crazy pain on his face.

After a long time, the rough and hoarse voice finally uttered a sentence trembling and extremely heavy: "Don't let them eat my son."

Lu Fanan's hand that was going to help him froze in the air, but he just heard something like, don't eat his son.

eat human.

People eat people.

He was dazed for a long time, but the old man took Lu Fanan's hand, took out something from under the thin quilt in his arms, put it in Lu Fanan's hand, and said excitedly: "Help him, he It's to save them, otherwise he won't be able to cast a full body in his next life."

A cold object was suddenly placed on Lu Fanan's hand. When he saw it clearly, he found that it was a stiff human hand.