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This hidden blade is perfect for assassinations.
"Give me half of the reward for recommending me?" Chen Mu said calmly.
With a turn of his wrist, the dagger disappeared into his sleeve.
"Let's eat some watermelon." Jiejia picked up a piece of iced watermelon and took small bites of it, not mentioning anything about joining Zhuyi Pavilion.
This melon was just bought by Chen Mu.
In order to have something cold on a hot day, he spent several days studying medicine and finally found a natural mineral similar to the saltpeter in his previous life.
It absorbs heat when it comes into contact with water to make ice.
"Can you tell me who paid to kill me?" Chen Mu sat down and took a bite of a piece of cool watermelon.
"Okay." Jie Jia said lightly.
"Aren't you killers supposed to keep secrets for your employers?" Chen Mu was surprised.
Jie Jia rolled his eyes and glanced at Chen Mu.
Chen Mu immediately understood and nodded: "As long as the money is enough, it's fine, right?"
"Want to know?" Jie Jia put down the watermelon, stared at Chen Mu and asked.
"I don't want to." Chen Mu said immediately, taking a bite of iced watermelon with a look of enjoyment on his face.
Jie Jia: “…” I don’t want to know what you are talking about.
Chen Mu ate melon happily.
We're all dead anyway, so it doesn't matter whether we know or not.
After eating the watermelon, Chen Mu cleaned up the table and took a short rest, then hid under the shed to continue practicing his dagger.
The physical training allowed him to initially become immune to cold and heat, so he could still endure this hot weather.
But moving around in the sun not only generates heat outside the body, but also generates a huge amount of heat inside the body.
It's really painful when both sides get hot at the same time.
It is much more comfortable to practice the hidden sword under the shed.
It’s not too late to practice the body shape technique when the sun sets in the evening.
"There seem to be more and more ghosts haunting the city recently." The dagger in Chen Mu's hand suddenly appeared and disappeared: "Do you know the reason?"
"It shouldn't be like this." Jie Jiacuo paused as he collected the silver beads, with a puzzled look on his face: "With the evil-repelling mirror, there shouldn't be so many fish that slipped through the net."
But in fact, over the past few months, although evil incidents have not occurred one after another, they have always existed.
Chen Mu couldn't help but stop practicing sword.
"Maybe there's something wrong with the evil-repelling mirror." Chen Mu was worried.
"Very similar." Jiejia thought for a moment and nodded, "More than ten years ago, I encountered this once in Jiuyang County, Yanshan Prefecture. The evil-repelling mirror was stolen in the city, and as a result, the number of haunted spirits suddenly increased."
"How did you solve it later?" Chen Mu asked quickly.
"It's very simple. The higher authorities have sent us another evil-repelling mirror." Jie Jia said lightly.
Chen Mu frowned.
Now the whole Daliang is plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters, and has become a mess.
The Qingshan County magistrate had been missing for more than half a year and no one cared.
Rather than saying that Qingshan County belongs to Daliang, it would be better to say that it belongs to the county magistrate Li’s family!
There is no such thing as a higher government.
After taking a look at the calm Jie Jia, Chen Mu became more and more certain that this old man must have some way to deal with ghosts.
Looking at the silver beads in the other person's hand, Chen Mu shook his head helplessly.
He can't afford this big bodyguard.
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 36 Let go
Evil incidents occurred frequently and Chen Mu had no good solution.
During the day he stayed close to Jiejia, and at night he hid next to Zuo's house.
Both of them are capable of dealing with ghosts.
At the same time, he also worked hard to improve his proficiency in the form of martial arts.
Jie Jia once said that if one has achieved great success in practicing the art of physical form, one will have some ability to fight against ghosts.
……
At night, a sudden scream woke Chen Mu from his deep sleep.
The voice was full of fear, as if someone had encountered something extremely terrifying.
Chen Mu immediately got up and ran to the window to listen.
But outside it was completely quiet, without even the sound of insects chirping in the summer night.
Ghost?!
So close?!
The scream just now was not far from him.
Otherwise it wouldn't sound so clear.
How dare Chen Mu sleep?
Get dressed and sit at the door, ready to run away at any time.
I stayed there in fear for the whole night.
It was not until dawn that he carefully walked out of the room.
On the way to the house in the west of the city, Chen Mu met a group of soldiers from the yamen.
They blocked off a small alley to block the curious people around.
Chen Mu couldn't help but look over.
The alley was completely dark, as if there had been a fire.
Chen Mu's heart suddenly tightened.
He walked past here yesterday afternoon and the alley was fine.
The fire was quite big and the whole alley was burned black.
But he sat there from midnight to early morning last night and saw no fire nor heard any movement.
Thinking of this, his heart suddenly tightened.
Could it be a ghost?
He didn't dare to look any longer and left quickly.
Before leaving, I saw the eldest son of the Zuo family in the crowd.
The other person had a serious expression on his face, staring at the dark alley.
Chen Mu became more and more nervous.
Young Master Zuo is so serious, it seems that this matter must be related to evil spirits!
Aren't ghosts supposed to only scare people and possess them? How can they set fires silently?
……
"Ghosts also have strong and weak points." Jie Jia said lightly behind Tianyi Zhai in the west of the city.
Chen Mu smacked his lips, feeling uncomfortable.
He didn't know how to deal with ordinary ghosts, and now a powerful one has come.
"That County Magistrate Li doesn't want to think of a solution? Now Qingshan County is the territory of their Li family, right?!" Chen Mu said with some annoyance.
"The direct descendants of the Li family have all been sent to Nanyang Prefecture." Jie Jia said lightly.
"Can he be willing to give up such a large fortune?" Chen Mu couldn't believe it. Is he going to run away secretly? !
"He didn't leave on his own." Jie Jia glanced at Chen Mu and said calmly.
Chen Mu calmed down and thought: "This County Magistrate Li has something to rely on, but this reliance is not very safe."
Jie Jia nodded and said, "He has offered a reward to all the secret channels in Qingshan County, including Zhuyi Pavilion, to find a large treasure to ward off evil spirits. There is no news yet."
"The Qingfeng Temple outside the city also has some means. In times of crisis, it can handle it for two days."
"Qingfeng Temple?" Chen Mu immediately remembered it in his mind.
When he first came to this world, he woke up in Qingfeng Temple.
His previous life died inexplicably in Qingfeng Temple, so he always kept his distance from the temple.
I didn't expect that the other party actually had a way to deal with evil spirits.
Even though County Magistrate Li was responding actively, Chen Mu still felt uneasy.
He didn't want to rely on others for his safety.
"Is it safe in Nanyang Prefecture?" Chen Mu suddenly asked.
At this moment, he had the idea of leaving Qingshan County.
"It's relatively safe, but the road is not easy to walk on." Jie Jia said.
Chen Mu looked at Jie Jia in confusion.
"Nowadays, Daliang is plagued by natural disasters and man-made calamities. Bandits are everywhere in the wilderness, and there are ghosts lurking on the road. The road is really difficult to travel on." Jiejia explained patiently.
"Can't we follow the caravan?"
Although Qingshan County is remote, there are always one or two caravans that dare to go to Nanyang Prefecture for business.