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"It's over!"
……
Shanglinfang, Chen’s house.
Chen Mu, wearing a pair of sheepskin waterproof gloves with mottled blood spots, skillfully cut open the belly of a big fish and removed the organs.
While busying himself, he asked Jie Jia, who was rubbing silver beads in the pavilion, "Old man Jie, do you know what the protective aura is?"
"The missing young man from a noble family of the Jinghong Gang, could he be related to you?" Jiejia couldn't help but raise his eyelids a little.
"There are descendants of noble families in the Jinghong Gang?" Chen Mu was stunned, and then rolled his eyes: "What a joke! How can a lowly person like me be related to the descendants of noble families?"
Jie Jia lowered his eyelids and said, "Indeed, you don't look like you can master Jia Po."
Chen Mu paused. What does that mean?
"A young master from a noble family disappeared last night, and the Jinghong Gang searched the entire city this morning."
"The target is in his forties, with the strength of Jiapo, and possesses a magical instrument called a bell, which can shake souls and capture spirits."
"The Jinghong Gang promised that they could name any price they wanted. They only wanted people, not magic weapons."
Forty years old, Jiapo, bell-shaking instrument...
Sincerity?!
It was clearly me who killed him. The Jinghong Gang actually blamed Cheng Yi for Si Kou Yu's death? !
Chen Mu: “…”
Is there such a good thing?!
"Old man, I'm in a good mood today. Just order whatever you want to eat!" Chen Mu said generously with a wave of his hand.
Jie Jia glanced at Chen Mu and said, "Even so, if you want to know the information about the protective aura, you still have to pay."
As he spoke, a bright white light flashed in his eyes. His eyes were fixed on Chen Mu's chest.
Chen Mu: “…”
I put all the silver in the Five Ghosts Bag, and you still found it?!
It’s really yours!
(End of this chapter)
Chapter 87 Willow Tree
Nanyang Prefecture, Ninglang County, outside Daliushu Village.
In the evening, Kuituo walked to the entrance of the village with more than a dozen strong men.
"Captain, what are we doing in this village?" asked a dark-faced man with a scar on the right side of his cheek.
"I'm not doing anything. I'll just stay for one night and then leave." Quito stroked his full beard, looking confused.
When he got up in the morning, he received an order from the head of the family, Zhang Ye, asking him to bring more than ten people to Daliushu Village to stay overnight.
He didn't say he was going to kill anyone or collect protection money, but told him to be careful and pay attention to safety. He kept telling him for half an hour before letting him go.
It still leaves him confused.
"I hope nothing happens to this village?" a long-faced man behind me asked worriedly.
"I heard that a lot of people died inexplicably in Tianqi Hall a few days ago."
"It is said that they went to some strange places."
Everyone couldn't help but feel nervous when they heard this, and they stood at the intersection and looked towards the village.
Under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, five or six old men gathered leisurely to play chess and chat.
Seven or eight snotty-nosed kids were playing around.
One of the little boys, wearing a patched shirt and naked butt, walked to a small pile of soft mud, lifted the hem of his shirt and urinated.
Before I finished peeing, a little fat boy rushed over, grabbed the wet mud on the ground and ran away.
While peeing, the little brat yelled to the fat boy, "Goudan, come back quickly! That thing hasn't been soaked through yet and has no shape!"
Kuituo and a group of big men: "..."
What's so strange about this shabby village?
"It is indeed not formed." The scarred man said with an experienced look on his face.
Everyone immediately turned their heads and looked at Scarface with strange eyes.
"Is it true that it wasn't watered thoroughly?" The big man looked aggrieved.
Kuitu: "..."
What kind of player is this?! Why are you studying pee and mud?!
As if noticing the movement at the entrance of the village, the peeing child stared at them blankly.
Kuituo grinned at the little boy, his face full of beard and ferocious look, which immediately scared the little boy to tears.
"Haha! Let's go into the village!"
……
"Heroes, are you here for something?" a skinny old man at the entrance of the village asked with a bow.
"We're just passing by." Kuituo said casually, "Where can we stay for one night?"
The old man smiled and glanced at the crying boy: "No one in the village dares to take you in."
Kuituo also knew that he and his people looked ugly, and ordinary people would not dare to let them in.
"Is there no inn in the village?" asked the man with the scar.
"There is a small shop by the bridge east of the village, but unfortunately it can only serve food and wine. If you want to stay overnight, you can only go to the land temple north of the village for one night." said the old man.
"Then live in the land temple." Kuituo said casually.
He didn't care about the bad environment. As long as he could make it to tomorrow morning, the mission would be completed and he could rest for a while.
"Let's go and eat first. It's my treat!" Kuituo waved his hand and called his men.
"The captain is so generous!" More than a dozen men cheered.
……
Two quarters of an hour later, Kuituo and his men came to the land temple, with a somewhat unhappy expression on their faces.
The rice consisted of rough-tasting whole-grain pancakes mixed with grass roots.
There was no shortage of meat, as an old sheep had just died yesterday. Unfortunately, it was not handled properly and was old and smelly.
Wine is just like vinegar, it makes people’s teeth fall out and it completely loses their appetite.
Kuituo sighed, missing Brother Chen for several days...
Without eating much, everyone left in a hurry and went to the land temple to rest.
The land temple has only one main hall with mottled and dilapidated walls.
Fortunately, the ground is relatively clean. In the middle is a sculpture of a kind old man.
Kuituo arranged for a few people to find some hay to spread on the ground, and asked people to find firewood to light a bonfire, and then arranged the order of night watch. Then he walked to the window at the entrance of the main hall and lay comfortably on the newly laid hay.
I originally just wanted to rest my legs, but I didn't expect to fall asleep while resting.
I don't know how long I slept when I was awakened by the sound of lively chatting.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a bonfire burning in the open space in the middle of the land temple.
More than a dozen big men sat in a circle around the campfire. It seemed that someone had told a joke and several of them were laughing.
A skinned goat was being roasted by flames from head to tail, with oil oozing out of its charred skin.
"Captain, are you awake?" The long-faced man just happened to see Kuituo sitting up and raised his hand to greet him.
"Almost ready, Captain, come and have something to eat." The scarred man held a palm-sized curved knife in his hand, and kept cutting the roasted lamb and sprinkling seasoning on it. An enticing aroma immediately filled the small land temple.
Next to the campfire beside Scarface, there was a pile of skeletons that surprised Quito. Looking at the sheep skulls piled diagonally on top, he couldn't help but laugh and curse: "You didn't call me when you had food?!"
"Don't blame me. They just don't believe in my cooking skills and insist on tasting it for the captain first." The scarred scoundrel laughed and cut a piece of tender and crispy mutton from the leg of lamb and handed it to Quito who was approaching.
I hadn’t eaten well to begin with, and when I smelled the aroma of roasted lamb, my stomach started growling.
"I didn't realize you have this skill." The tempting aroma kept entering his nose. Kuituo was full of surprise.
"This is a trick passed down from my ancestors. Excuse me." Scarface laughed.
Kuituo brought the meat to his nose and sniffed it again, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's almost as good as Brother Chen's cooking skills."
As he said this, he was about to put it into his mouth.
But suddenly it stopped.
He sniffed the roasted lamb leg carefully and asked, "Why does it smell so much like Brother Chen's cooking?"
He had eaten Chen Mu's roasted lamb leg. It was far better than Sihailou's. That's why he shamelessly went there again and again to eat for free.
Since we are all paying for the meal, of course it is more cost-effective to go to Brother Chen's place for a delicious meal.
But this is a run-down village in the suburbs. How could Brother Chen come here to barbecue for him?
Thinking of this, my mind suddenly became clear. It was as if my eyes, which had been covered by a black cloth, were suddenly opened. Only then did I feel something in my chest getting hot.
He suddenly remembered that he and his men had camped and barbecued more than once. But Scarface had never used his hands before! How did he suddenly have such a superb skill at this moment?
He looked up in confusion, only to find that more than a dozen of his men were looking at him with the same smiling expression without saying a word.
"Captain...eat." Scarface held up a small scimitar, looking kind and amiable.
Kuituo's whole body suddenly stiffened and his scalp suddenly exploded.
The object on my chest suddenly became hot, like a red-hot iron!
"I'm feeling uncomfortable holding my pee. You guys eat first, I'm going to go pee!" He said as he quickly rushed out of the land temple.
After running seven or eight meters away, I couldn't help but look back.