Chapter 35 Alienation
"Wow, woof!"
The fine dog sniffed the fishing net for a while, then barked immediately, and dragged the Zhenfusi soldiers to run eastward.
Cheng Juxiu left 20 soldiers in Shatao Village, he and Niu Wenshu led the rest, took Wang Liubao as a guide, and followed Xigou.
Li Ang stayed in the village to take care of the wounded.
The noon sun was getting fiercer, and the village chief Zhou Pingchun seemed to have heard of his identity, and obsequiously invited Li Ang to his house to rest.
Li Ang did not refuse either, and brought the seven wounded to the relatively spacious Zhou Pingchun's home for unified observation.
As for the rest of the villagers, they all went back to their homes and lit fires to cook.
An hour and a half later, Cheng Juxiu led the team back to Shatao Village with a puzzled expression on his face.
"No trace found."
Cheng Juxiu shook his head and said to Li Ang: "The smell left on the fishing net disappears in the mountain stream. It is suspected that it dived into the water and swam a long distance."
"Then what to do?"
Li Ang frowned and said, "Should we continue to stay in Shatao Village, or go down the river?"
"Stay in Shatao Village for another night."
Cheng Juxiu said: "Whether it is a sand boy, a raccoon dog, or a rhinoceros dog, they all have no intelligence.
Having eaten the meat of domestic animals and tasted human blood, you can no longer give up this taste, and you will come back after running too far.
Mr. Zhou. "
Cheng Juxiu looked at Zhou Pingchun, "Do you have any pigs, sheep, or cattle waiting to be slaughtered?"
"some."
Zhou Pingchun smiled flatteringly and said, "Xing Xun, do you want meat for lunch?"
"No, catch the demon."
Cheng Juxiu said indifferently: "In the evening, two large livestock were slaughtered, blood and internal organs were collected, packed in barrels, and opened at the head of the village without a lid.
Zhen Fusi and I will live in a house near the head of the village, turn off the lights, and wait for the monster to come to the door by itself.
As for the money for the livestock, you can report it to Judge Niu later, and you can go to the Fusi of Yunzhou Township for reimbursement. "
"No, no, no, how dare a villain bother Shangguan."
Zhou Pingchun nodded obsequiously, turned and went out, and asked the butler to do it, "Butler Gan"
After he left, Li Ang picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip. He raised his eyebrows in surprise, "I never thought that such a wealthy family would have good tea."
"It's nothing more than people's fat and people's anointing."
Cheng Juxiu said indifferently: "The oil mills, mills, powder mills, and dyeing mills in the village belong to his family, and more than half of the land in the village and the surrounding mountains are also listed under his name.
Half of the villagers are sharecroppers of his family.
If not, he would not be able to live in such a good house, with so many servants, and so many hounds and pet dogs in the yard, even Gaochang's Fulin dogs and Ba'er dogs - this is a noble person in Chang'an Pets with free time and money.
Landlords and squires? Regardless of the soil, it may be richer than the big families in Chang'an and Luoyang.
By the way, speaking of tea,"
Cheng Juxiu smiled and said, "Did Risheng drink less these two days?"
"Hi."
Li Ang spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Those river merchants and sea merchants are too 'enthusiastic', they bring things box by box. They don't accept expensive jewels and corals, but they send pots, pans, sauces, vinegar tea, everything .”
Cheng Juxiu curled her lips and said, "Businessmen always want to be able to build relationships."
Li Ang rolled his eyes, "They are bold, and they are not afraid that I will not pass the exam."
"Yi Risheng, you are smart and quick-witted, you can pass the exam no matter what."
Cheng Juxiu said with a smile: "Even if you don't pass the exam, for those merchants, what you pay is only a few boxes of belongings.
And if you can pass the exam and form a good relationship, you will be rewarded a hundred times and a thousand times in the future.
There is no better investment in the world.
Subsidize a few more, and there will always be one who can pass the exam. "
Venture capital, right? Are there any angel investors?
Li Ang shook his head and smiled wryly.
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A group of people in Weizhou City had a hasty dinner and lived in a bungalow at the head of the village.
Zhou Pingchun originally planned to let his five daughters-in-law and servants prepare a sumptuous banquet for everyone, but the town governor had a rule that when chasing monsters outside, he would give priority to eating the dry food he brought instead of the food provided by the villagers.
This is not out of self-consciousness and reserve, but because there are too many **** lessons, which prove that one million points of vigilance must be raised when dealing with demons.
A bowl of rice, a piece of meat, a piece of fruit, or even a glass of water may all be alienated objects influenced by demons.
"I have an old friend in Hedong. He is a veteran of the Zhenfu Division and an innate warrior comparable to a monk in the Xunyun Realm.
I have to wear armor to sleep at night, and I just wipe it with a wet towel every time I take a bath.
Because of his outstanding achievements, he even received a reward from His Majesty. "
In the small house, Cheng Juxiu, Li Ang, and Niu Wenshu chatted casually. Niu Wenshu took a sip of the wine in his wine bag and said lightly: "The deputy commander pitied him for his old age and frailty, and allowed him to return to his hometown in a splendid manner." .
The whole journey was calm and the team arrived at his hometown of Fenzhou smoothly. When driving on the mountain, because of the hot weather, he asked the team to escape the summer heat in the woods by the river, and took off his brocade clothes to take a bath in the river.
As a result, just after taking a few steps in the water, his head exploded.
From the broken neck, countless finger-thin blood-red centipedes crawled out. In the blink of an eye, those centipedes jumped into the river and disappeared.
We only received the news after that. It turned out that when he first joined the Zhenfu Division thirty years ago, he was parasitized by the demon-2-115.
That kind of evil spirit will continuously lay eggs in the body of the parasite. Once the body of the parasite is immersed in water, thousands of eggs will immediately hatch and burst out.
The Town Fusi had to block the entire river, catch and burn all the river fish, lest someone accidentally eat the river water, causing the next round of centipede to spread. "
Niu Wenshu took another sip of his drink, honestly, Fangzheng's face remained expressionless, "Since then, no one in the Zhenfu Department has dared to eat food and water provided by outsiders."
Cheng Juxiu sighed: "The head of the mountain once said that we have never fully understood the heterogeneous, and we need to be in awe and vigilance at all times."
Boom boom boom.
The knock on the door interrupted the conversation, and Li Ang shouted out: "Who is it?"
"This is Orion Wang Liubao, the Orion who met all the superiors during the day."
"Wang Liubao? What is he doing here?"
Li Ang frowned slightly, and opened the wooden door, only to see Wang Liubao holding his right wrist, his face pale.
Li Ang glanced at Wang Liubao's right hand, and said casually, "Did you twist your finger?"
"Yes, I was not willing to light a candle when it was dark, and when I went to close the donkey shed in the dark, I was caught by the door."
Wang Liubao stammered and said: "I heard that Li, Mr. Li Xiaolang, you can set bones."
"Bring it here."
Li Ang sighed softly, pulled Wang Liubao's right hand, pulled and pulled, and straightened his fingers.
"Hiss, thank you little man, thank you little man."
Wang Liubao gasped in pain, thanked him constantly, and did not leave.
"Why are you still standing?"
Li Ang asked casually: "Is there something wrong?"
"Uh, the villain wants to ask, the mountain, are the monsters on the mountain transformed from wild beasts?"
Wang Liubao Qiqi Ai said: "The villain is a hunter. He has hunted many wild animals, and he is afraid of retribution."
"It is possible."
Cheng Juxiu thought for a while and said: "Aliens will not emerge out of thin air, everything has its root.
It’s like a dye, when it drops into water, it will produce two, and two will produce three. As long as it has been in contact with a different species, it may mutate.
For example, Sha Haier, the beast came in contact with the demonized pagoda tree,
The rhinoceros dog is a dog whose carcass is buried underground and polluted by Yin Qi.
The werewolves are because they absorbed too much strange moonlight."
"What about that person?"
Wang Liubao nervously asked: "Can people also become demons?"
"The changes of human beings should be classified as demons,"
Cheng Juxiu said casually: "For example, corpses are transformed into ghouls and zombies because of strong resentment.
However, the conditions for the production of demons are much harsher than those of demons, and the number of sightings is relatively less.”
"Wang Liubao!"
Zhou Pingchun led more than a dozen servants from his family who were carrying quilts, mattresses, candles, oil lamps and other sundries, and shouted to Wang Liubao angrily: "Didn't you see that Shangguan is about to rest? Get out of here."
Zhou Pingchun asked the servants to carry the quilts and mattresses into the house, and smiled flatteringly at Li Ang and the others, "The conditions in the mountain village are poor, and the superiors laughed at them.
If the superiors need anything, just ask the villain. "
"No need, Village Chief Zhou asked the villagers to stay in their houses at night, lock the doors and windows, and just don't walk around casually."
Cheng Juxiu frowned and said,
Although he has traveled far and wide and met many squires who flatter him, but this is the first time he sees a squire like Zhou Pingchun who is "enthusiasm, active, and cunning".
"Hey, the villain is going now."
Zhou Pingchun smiled obsequiously, turned his head and snorted coldly at Wang Liubao, who immediately apologized and left tremblingly.
Until he walked out of the yard, Wang Liubao silently stretched his hand into his arms.
In his clothes, there was a bunch of pure white and flawless hair.
Dog hair.
(end of this chapter)