When we returned to the house, the food was already cold. Xie Zhe came in first, followed closely by Ling Huan. Han Chang had something covered by a dustproof cloth in his hand. Needless to say, it must be a Ruan.
The rain outside the window was still falling continuously. They had already planned to find the entrance to the cellar directly in the house, allowing Ruan Xiang to identify the path and escape. In this way, we should be able to avoid the eyes of those black-clothed guards. But first, they had to fill their bellies. Han Shan was a little thirsty, so he gently put down the wrapped ruan, and just picked up a bowl of cold soup and brought it to his mouth. Suddenly he looked serious, and at the same time he shouted sharply at Ling Huan who picked up the chopsticks:
"lay down!"
Ling Huan's hand shook and his chopsticks almost fell to the ground.
"What are you doing..."
She just couldn't pick up a bean easily.
"Is there poison in the rice?"
Xie Zhe reacted quickly and Han Chang nodded. Fortunately, neither he nor Ling Huan swallowed it. Han Zhang just smelled it and smelled something that did not belong to this bowl of soup.
"She must have been given a sweat medicine. It can make me smell it, and I put a lot of it. I'm afraid it's in the soup and vegetables. This woman is really vicious. I'm afraid she wants to knock us all down and take away Miss Ye's xun." . Although he didn’t intend to poison us to death, taking too many drugs will make us stupid. Tsk, tsk, it’s really cruel.”
Ling Huan put down his chopsticks with a click. The richer meals in front of him were even more unappetizing than the previous two meals. There is no other way, just go hungry, otherwise what else can you do? But at this moment, someone came to collect the dishes. They spent too long on the third floor. Logically speaking, they should have finished their food by now and were about to faint from the sweat medicine. In other words, the people here are not here to collect food, but to check on their situation.
As soon as the black-clothed guard walked in, he saw several pieces of food that were not touched at all. He tilted his head slightly and saw Ruan who was covered by cloth. Although he didn't know if he could guess anything, he immediately took a step back and prepared to leave the room. How could they let this guy go and report the news? Xie Zhe had already prepared. As soon as he raised his hand, the charm left on the door caused the door to slam shut, and the black-clothed guards were trapped here. Although the treated straw is not necessarily fire-resistant, the cloak looks like just ordinary cloth. Before he could react, Han Chang snapped his fingers, and the corners of his clothes lit up with flames. He came towards them, not to attack them, but to break out of the window. When he passed by Xie Zhe, he grabbed the black-clothed guard's fluffy hood and pulled it off along with his torn cloak. At that moment, they were surprised to find that the man had no face. His entire face was like a scarecrow in the field, consisting of a row of black straw poles tied together vertically.
It's fast. Just when it was about to push open the window, Ling Huan pounced on it, grabbed its hind legs, and pressed it hard to the ground, almost using all of his own weight. A puff of black smoke exploded with a "sound" and quickly dissipated. Ling Huan found that the person he was holding down was gone, and there was only one hand holding down a palm-sized baby.
Straw doll.
Ling Huan suddenly bounced up as if it had been burned, and Xie Zhe stepped forward to pick it up. He and Hanshang looked at it repeatedly and determined that it was just a harmless bundle of straw. The cloak that Xie Zhe grabbed earlier also turned into a small piece of rag. There was nothing special about the scarecrow. Han Chang took it over and smelled it, but he couldn't tell what kind of medicine he was soaking in. After all, he didn't understand. But before these straws were soaked in the potion, they were probably just ordinary yellow rice straws. There are several thin blue threads connecting its five strands to its hands, feet and head. A small cut was made horizontally with a knife on the side of the head to serve as the mouth.
"Let's go quickly. If we delay any longer, it will be difficult to deal with more people."
Xie Zhe said and started to pack his luggage, and the others also got busy. Ling Huan thought about it again and again, but still put the xun close to her body. After packing up their things, they quietly left the room and prepared to walk downstairs. But just when they reached the edge of the stairs, Ruan in Han Sheng's arms suddenly "spoke".
"There is a second person in Fei's room."
"Is it her shikigami?"
"It's a male, a male among monsters."
The magistrate of Pi County really has dealings with monsters. Xie Zhe wanted to inquire quietly, but Ling Huan and Han Shang both wanted to leave as soon as possible. So they asked Ruan Fang for her opinion, but she had no idea. She actually didn't know much about the affairs of Pi Magistrate County, so she just let others make the decision. Xie Zhe said to the two of them:
"Pi Zhixian can be said to cover the sky with one hand here. Miss Ruan has told us that all the peace here is just an illusion, and the people are oppressed and exploited intentionally or unintentionally - and all this is just to satisfy this person's pocket. If that's the case, I can still advise myself that we can't take care of the whole world... But you also heard, Miss Ruan said, that is a monster. If the magistrate of Pi County has any dealings with monsters, I'm afraid it will hurt the lives of ordinary people. Now that we already know about this, how can we just sit back and do nothing and just run away?"
"You are so kind!" Han Chang cursed in a low voice.
"I didn't ask you to help me either. Just take Miss Ye and Miss Ruan and leave first."
After saying that, Xie Zhe walked towards the magistrate's room. Ye Linghua asked anxiously: "What should you do?"
"I have my own way."
Xie Zhe didn't look back, waved his hand in the corridor and left. Han Chang rolled his eyes and said, "He has a trick," but he also chased after him. Ye Linghua felt that Xie Zhe's words were reasonable at first, and then he had no other choice, so he naturally followed him. The three of them crouched and quietly approached the door.
A woman's shrill voice came from inside.
"You came just in time." Magistrate Fei held a letter between his fingertips, "In that case, it's up to you to deliver this letter to the Pavilion Master for me. If you don't want to take it with you, just send a message. This way, I don’t have to make a temporary imitation and trick them into delivering the letter for me.”
"You really don't want to suffer at all."
The man's voice sounded like that of a young man, but his appearance was unclear. Han Chang stretched out a finger and gently pressed on a paper grid on the door. A small hole slowly spread out of the paper grid, and it was burned through. He and Xie Zhe squeezed their heads, trying to get a clear look at the unknown monster.
The line of sight is limited anyway. They could only see the tan and olive green long clothes worn by the young man. Only after he finished speaking and sat down on the chair did he see his face clearly. He always kept a smile, his eyes narrowed together, which made the smile look very deliberate.
"Only fools are the ones who suffer losses. As long as something goes into my pocket, you can't even pull out a hair. Unless there is something better to replace it with."
"Isn't it worthwhile to carry a message for you? Think clearly, there is no such store after this village."
After saying this, the young man stretched out his hand and rested his elbow on the small table to the left of the chair. On the left side of the table, there is another chair on the right side, and the magistrate is sitting on it. The magistrate of Feixian frowned, took off a jade ring from his hand, and clasped it together with the letter in the young man's palm. Although she was still smiling, she deliberately expressed a hint of dissatisfaction. The young man happily accepted the ring and the letter together.
"You are so shrewd, your bank must have made a lot of money."
"How can you do that? How much money can you get and how many things can you do?" The corners of the young man's eyes narrowed, "But as I said before, I don't know whether Amber is still in Death Shadow Pavilion or not. After all, I have been guarding Jinsha Manor all year round. Here. As for the letter getting into Lord Satsuki's hands, whether she is willing to negotiate terms with you or not is none of my business."
"I know, you're the only one who talks a lot."
Compared to when they met the "male version" of Magistrate Fei before, the woman in the room looked like a completely different person. It would be more convincing to say that she was really Magistrate Fei's vain wife. However, her clothes were no different from before, except that she wore an extra necklace around her neck. The pendant was a red jewelry as big as a fingernail, surrounded by a circle of exquisite hollow patterns. They couldn't see clearly what kind of mineral it was. They just felt that it was not as transparent as gems, but not as turbid as beeswax.
There is a sewing box on the small table, and some black straw is scattered on the ground. The woman named Fei was holding straws and skillfully tying them into what she wanted. There were some tattered rags on the side. After wrapping a straw doll, she grabbed a black rag and wrapped it around it, clasped the scarecrow's head like a hat, and then tied them together with the last blue thread. Her hands were very fast and she pulled hard, as if she was strangling someone to death.
"The hand speed is pretty good." The young man sighed.
"You are not as good at counting money, right? Your Excellency Kari Gong."
The young man known as "Your Excellency Kari Gong" laughed through his nose and didn't care. He then said:
"I'll just keep the prescription. You'd better have the last payment ready."
"If you came up from the mine tunnel, you should have seen the cart of broken silver."
"Oh, you are really good at making things difficult for others, and you don't know how to fuse them together."
"Stop talking nonsense, you won't be tired even if you follow the spiritual veins." Li glared at him, "If you want people to find out, I, as the county magistrate, should not become a county magistrate. This little money is enough to squeeze out of those poor people. It’s a waste of time. People are getting smarter and smarter these days. It’s harder than ever to get someone to pay for more money. That’s all... when there are enough puppets, I won’t have to huddle in this little Lanling County. .”
The young man pursed his lips and thought for a while. He seemed to have something in mind to say.
"Speaking of which, although I don't know where you learned about amber, why do you want to get it? Do you think it can listen to the words of all things in the world and break through the restrictions of race, or do you think it has unlimited power to repair the body? About it? There is no definite conclusion yet on the effectiveness of those magic weapons, and they may have many special powers."
"I'm not interested in those things. I only know that it looks good." Li stretched out his hand, stretched out his fingers like green onions and looked at them carefully in the light, "I think we can make some finger rings, pendants, and earrings." Something like that, it just goes with that custom-made sky silk skirt..."
Kari Gondo touched his chin and asked, "Well...don't you feel it's a pity?"
"What a pity? Why?" She blinked and asked.
