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"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, and 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 didn't refuse either, and brought the seven wounded to Zhou Pingchun's relatively spacious home to observe them together.

As for the rest of the villagers, they 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 stay in Shatao Village, or go down the river and look for it?"

"Stay another night in Shatao Village."

Cheng Juxiu said: "Whether it is a sand boy, a raccoon dog, or a rhinoceros dog, they all have no intelligence.

After eating the meat of domestic animals and tasting human blood, I can no longer give up this taste, and I will come back after running too far.

Chief 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 Weizhou Town for reimbursement. "

"No, no, no, how dare the villain bother the Shangguan."

Zhou Pingchun nodded obsequiously, turned around and went out, and asked the butler to do it, "Butler Gan"

After he left, Li Ang picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, raised his eyebrows a little surprised, "I never imagined that such a wealthy family would have good tea."

"The fat of the people and the anointing of the people."

Cheng Juxiu said indifferently: "The oil mills, mills, powder mills, and dyeing mills in the village are all owned by 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 Chang'an's expensive house. Talents have pets with free time and money.

Landlord and squire? 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, "Risheng didn't drink less these two days, right?"

"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, "A businessman always wants to be able to make connections."

Li Ang rolled his eyes, "They are bold, and they are not afraid that I will fail 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 they fail the exam, for those businessmen, what they 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 than this.

Subsidize a few more, and there will always be someone 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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The group 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 feast for everyone, but the town governor had a rule that when he was out chasing monsters, he would give priority to eating the dry food he brought and not accept the food provided by the villagers.

This is not out of self-consciousness and reserve, but there are too many bloody lessons, which prove that one million points of vigilance must be raised when dealing with monsters.

A bowl of rice, a piece of meat, a piece of fruit, and 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, an innate warrior comparable to a monk in the Xunyun Realm,

He is brave and good at fighting, and his soldiers are not disarmed. In the past thirty years, he has killed hundreds of demons.

I have to wear armor to sleep at night, and I just wipe it with a wet towel every time I take a bath.

Due to 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." .

Along the way, the team went smoothly to his hometown of Fenzhou. 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. He took off his brocade clothes and took a bath in the river.

As a result, as soon as he took a few steps in the water, his head exploded.

From the broken neck, countless blood-red centipedes the size of fingers climbed out, and in the blink of an eye those centipedes jumped into the river and disappeared.

It was only after that that we received news that when he first joined the Zhenfu Division thirty years ago, he was parasitized by the demon——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

That kind of evil spirit will continuously lay eggs in the body of the parasitized person. Once the body of the parasitized person is immersed in water, thousands of eggs will immediately hatch and burst out.

The Zhen 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 showed no expression on his face, "Since then, no one in the Zhenfu Department has dared to eat the 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?"

"Next is Orion King 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 turning pale.

Li Ang glanced at Wang Liubao's right hand, and said casually, "Twisted your finger?"

"Yes, I was reluctant 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 Li, Mr. Li Xiaolang, you can set bones."

"Bring it."

Li Ang sighed softly, pulled Wang Liubao's right hand, pulled and tugged, 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, Shan, did the monsters on the mountain become beasts?"

Wang Liubao said, "The villain is a hunter. He has hunted many wild animals. He is afraid of retribution."

"It's possible."

Cheng Juxiu thought for a while and said: "Aliens don't come out of thin air, everything has its root.

Just like a dye, if it drops into water, it will produce two, and two will produce three. As long as it has been in contact with a different kind, it may mutate.

For example, Sha Haier came from a beast that came into contact with a demonized locust tree.

The rhinoceros dog is a dog whose carcass is buried in the ground and polluted by Yin Qi.

Werewolves, it is because they have absorbed too much bewitching moonlight.”

"What about that person?"

Wang Liubao nervously asked: "Can people also become monsters?"

"Those who change from 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 apologized to Li Ang and the others flatteringly, "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 own houses at night, lock the doors and windows, and don't walk around casually."

Cheng Juxiu frowned and said,

Even though he traveled all over the world and met many squires who flattered him, it was the first time he saw a squire like Zhou Pingchun who was "enthusiasm and proactive, and beat snakes with sticks", and it gave him a headache.

"Hey, I'm going here, kid."

Zhou Pingchun smiled obsequiously, turned his head and snorted coldly at Wang Liubao, who immediately apologized and left tremblingly.

When he walked out of the yard, Wang Liubao silently stretched out his hand into his arms.

Inside his clothes was a lock of pure white and flawless hair.

dog hair.