Lao Liao, who was on a Japanese parade, was very efficient in his work. Before Qin Shaoyou and others arrived at the post station in the east of the city, he turned back.

"My lord, I inspected the county town just now, and found that every family's children are locked at home and are not allowed to go out, and are not allowed to visit by the windows or doors. Even some big families in the county town have made wooden and iron buildings. Cages, and locked their own children in it."

Before Qin Shaoyou opened his mouth, Monk Ma, who also heard Lao Liao's report, frowned and asked in surprise: "Is there such a thing? Why do they lock up their own children? Is this place here for sex, or is there someone else?" Darkness is causing trouble?"

With more refugees, all kinds of illegal and criminal incidents also increased, among which the cases of abduction and trafficking of women and children were the most.

On the one hand, the kidnapped women and children can be used to blackmail their families in exchange for food and property.

On the other hand, for some very hungry people, women and children are not envious of sheep and rotten bones.

In the luggage, Lao Liao's voice came out: "It is not clear whether it is a human being or a ghost. People in the county are very taboo about this matter. It seems to be afraid that once this matter is discussed, they will be the next to suffer."

Zhu Xiucai raised his eyebrows: "There is such a thing? Is there something in this county that is watching the people?"

Lao Liao said: "I also had such suspicions at first, but after careful inspection, no suspicious person or thing was found."

"It's not Pat Hanako, it's a ghost."

Cui Yougui, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke in an affirmative tone.

"How do you know?" Qin Shaoyou asked curiously.

He has not found too many clues in this county, and Su Tingyu has not smelled the smell of ghosts. How did Senior Brother Cui find out before them?

This discovery... is it plausible?

Cui Yougui didn't hear the suspicion in Qin Shaoyou's words, and said rather proudly: "I did a fortune-telling just now, and I got two sentences, one is cloudy, and the other is that weeds will not grow."

"Overcast?"

Monk Ma raised his head and looked at the sky. Although night was approaching, the sky was still clear, at least it was not covered by overcast clouds.

Cui Youxuan said angrily: "What do you think the sky is doing? Is this sentence from my divination referring directly to the weather? Superficial! Too superficial! You have to know how to discover its deep meaning. The dark clouds in these words , obviously referring to the aura of ghosts, which means that there are not only ghosts haunting this place, but also some powerful ghosts, otherwise the cloudy air cannot cover the sky."

"However, there is no cloudy air covering the sky this day." Monk Ma muttered.

Cui Youxu was choked for a moment, and then he hated iron for nothing and said: "Metaphor, do you understand the metaphor? I didn't mention the ghosts here, they are so arrogant that they dare to let out their breath directly to cover the sky... the government here, For the common people, the town demon master is nothing but heaven? But they failed to catch the evil ghost, so it is equivalent to being covered."

Monk Ma nodded: "Although this explanation is blunt, it still makes sense, but what does the following sentence mean?"

Sun Xianzong was also at a loss.

Seeing that they didn't understand, Cui Yougui smiled and waited for an explanation.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Xiucai spoke before him:

"This sentence comes from the same contract. There is another sentence before it: How can the eyes of a fish be pearls. The two sentences combined mean: How can the eyes of a fish become pearls? It is impossible for a weed canopy in the wilderness to become a pearl." Tea tree... Hey, this sentence seems to be saying that there are things in this place that are pretending to be real."

Monk Ma, Sun Xianzong and the others nodded their heads repeatedly, but Cui Yougui kept frowning. He couldn't understand that Zhu Xiucai, a Confucian scholar, didn't treat Confucian classics well, and didn't read more **** pornographic books. Why did you still read the contract of participation? This is a Taoist classic!

It's not that senior brother Cui has a sect opinion and forbids people from other schools to read the Taoist classics. He was angry because Zhu Xiucai made him so hard and failed to pretend. not come out.

Sun Xianzong murmured: "Could it be that the one at the back is misrepresenting the real one as the real thing? The old man guessed wrongly. It's not the ghosts who are doing things in this place, but people pretending to be ghosts?"

"Don't say it, it's really possible." Zhu Xiucai nodded.

Monk Ma proclaimed Amitabha, and felt that Sun Xianzong's guess was very likely.

Even Cui You was ashamed of himself, after being stunned for a moment, he couldn't help scratching his head.

Although he didn't say anything, he was muttering in his heart: "Could it be that I interpreted the hexagram wrongly?"

Only Qin Shaoyou did not rush to draw conclusions.

Regardless of whether it is a human or a ghost, there is at least one thing that is certain. In this county, there are really evil spirits at work!

"What are you going to do?"

Su Jianqing, who was riding on horseback, asked in a low voice.

Qin Shaoyou thought for a while, and said: "Go to the post station to settle down first, and then call on the town monster here to see if there is any need for help."

"Aren't you going to expose your identity by doing this? Will it cause trouble?"

Qin Shaoyou was a little hesitant at first~lightnovelpub.net~ but when he thought of the divination words given by Cui Yougui before the trip, the little hesitation in his heart disappeared in an instant.

He said in a deep voice: "If we don't bump into this kind of thing, it's all right. If we bump into it, we can't ignore it, otherwise we don't want to be night watchmen... As for the trouble, Senior Brother Cui's previous hexagram said that this trip should be indomitable! So you can't be afraid just because you might get into trouble. If there is trouble, then go up to it, bump into it, and crush it to pieces!"

Everyone nodded in unison.

Just like what Qin Shaoyou said, if this kind of evil people who are specially targeting children just run into them and ignore them, they might as well take off their night watchman robes and go back to their hometown to sell sweet potatoes.

Soon, a group of people arrived at the station.

After showing the road citation documents and giving money, they asked for several guest rooms in the station.

They are all Datong shops.

But Su Jianqing, Su Tingyu, Wenzhu and Cen Biqing must live separately from the rough old men.

It's just that Qin Shaoyou might have to temporarily stop Miaobi tonight.

While everyone was unpacking their bags and feeding the horses, Qin Shaoyou and Zhu Xiucai were asking the postmen in the post station about the situation.

Before Zhu Xiucai went to inquire about the news, he found out the Shangshu and boasted to himself: "I am approachable to the people".

Then I went to chat with the postmen, and quickly became friends with them.

It's a pity that even though Zhu Xiucai has already hooked up with the postmen, called them brothers and sisters, and even made an appointment to go to the sand dance theater together some other day, when these people heard him ask about the situation of the children in the county, they waved their hands repeatedly and refused Talk too much, but don't dare to talk too much, for fear that your own children will suffer because of it.

In the end, it was Qin Shaoyou who, relying on his sharp tongue, pried open his mouth by talking about Tong Yicheng.

Chapter five hundred and ninety second