Wangjiagou is only five miles away from Tai'an Temple. They moved here and settled in their early years. Their main means of income was to grow various vegetables and sell them to Tai'an Temple to make a living.
When Lin Canglan came to Wangjiagou with three teams, most of the villagers in Wangjiagou were working in the vegetable fields, watering, fertilizing, and weeding.
Wangjiagou is surrounded by a river about ten feet wide. The entire village is built on the mountainside. There is only a stone bridge that is the only way to enter Wangjiagou.
The arrival of Lin Canglan and his group of ten riders immediately attracted the attention of the villagers working in the vegetable fields.
"Xu."
Beside the stone bridge entering the village, Lin Canglan pulled the reins and forced the horse to stop.
"Old man, is this Wangjiagou?"
Lin Canglan looked at an old man who was fishing by the stone bridge and asked loudly.
The old man was wearing a thin raincoat, his face was dark and furrowed, and his body was stooped and thin, like old bacon that had been smoked for many years.
Hearing Lin Canglan's inquiry, the old man glanced at everyone and said, "This is Wangjiagou. Who are you looking for?"
"As long as it's Wangjiagou."
Lin Canglan continued to ask: "Do you know which family the village chief of Wangjiagou belongs to?"
"When you enter the village, the tallest house you see is the village chief's home," the old man said.
"Let's go."
Lin Canglan got the answer he wanted, and led three teams across the stone bridge and headed towards Wangjiagou.
A group of ten riders stopped at the house with the best construction in Wangjiagou.
It is said that the house is the best built, but it is only made of bluestone bricks and capped with tiles.
As for the houses of other villagers, they are built with yellow mud and thatched roofs.
This is the current situation of ordinary people's lives, and they work hard just for three meals a day.
Suddenly, a group of well-dressed people riding tall horses came to the village. Immediately, a group of playful children came over and watched secretly from a distance.
"Master, what are you doing?"
A middle-aged man came over and said with a flattering face: "I am Wang Qing, the village chief of Wangjiagou. I wonder if you officials have suddenly visited Wangjiagou. What's the important matter?"
"Just last night, a convicted criminal absconded. His Majesty ordered the Zhenwu Division to make every effort to bring him to justice!"
"The location of Wangjiagou may be a place where criminals escaped and hid."
Lin Canglan looked at Wang Qing and said calmly: "Have strangers come to Wangjiagou in the past few days?"
"Definitely guilty?"
Wang Qing shook his head and said, "To tell you what to say, Wangjiagou has not noticed any outsiders coming and going."
"There is no best!"
Lin Canglan said: "However, I still need to order people to conduct a thorough investigation from house to house. You should immediately summon everyone in the village and inform them of the escape of the prisoner."
"The crime of this beast is extremely heinous. If he were hiding in Wangjiagou, he could wipe out all the chickens and dogs in Wangjiagou with just a cup of tea!"
Hearing Lin Canglan's words, Wang Qing's expression couldn't help but change, and he said in a trembling voice: "Don't worry, sir, I'll call someone over right away."
For ordinary people, they are content with the status quo and do not want to cause more trouble.
Lin Canglan said that the escaped criminal might appear in Wangjiagou, which would undoubtedly be a huge change for Wangjiagou.
From time to time in the world of martial arts, warriors would sneak into wealthy merchants at night, massacre their entire family, and then plunder all their belongings in order to seek profit.
Therefore, Wang Qing firmly believed in Lin Canglan's words.
No matter whether the criminal is in Wangjiagou or not, calling everyone over and searching house to house can ensure that everything is safe.
When Wang Qing came forward, within just a moment of burning incense, a group of women, children, and old people stood in front of the village chief's house.
It is daytime now, and the young and middle-aged people in the village are working outside, while the women and children are busy doing some needlework at home.
"Sir, except for those who work outside, everyone in the village is here."
Wang Qing came up to him and said respectfully.
"Um."
Lin Canglan nodded and looked at the three teams behind him.
"Ji Longcheng, your team is searching the east end of the village, Gong Kaiwen, our team is searching the west end of the village, Owen Jie, your team is searching the south end of the village, search from house to house, don't miss any corner!"
Lin Canglan ordered.
"yes."
The nine people clasped their fists and went to their assigned areas.
Su Yuze followed Ji Longcheng, and the three of them came to the east of Wangjiagou and searched every house.
For such ordinary people, there are no valuable things at home. Almost as soon as they enter the house, they can see everything in the house at a glance.
Every household built a firewood house to store large amounts of firewood.
For Jingzhou in the north, firewood is needed for heating in winter, otherwise the cold in winter can freeze people to death. Firewood is the best way for ordinary people to keep warm.
Even when there is a food shortage, many people will carry firewood and go to the streets to sell it to earn enough food.
In years of great famine, two villages would even fight over the rights to cut firewood in the mountains...
There were about thirty households in the east end of the village, and it took less than a stick of incense to search them all.
"Cousin, tell me, where will Chu Xuan escape to?"
Coming out of a villager's home again, Chen Beijiang couldn't help but ask.
"How could I know that?"
Ji Longcheng shook his head and said: "As long as they don't appear in Wangjiagou and Shilipu where we searched, then thank God."
If he could live well, he didn't want to mess with someone like this who possessed the Heavenly Dao Jade.
During this time, there was a lot of commotion in the world, but Chu Xuan was still able to live well, which shows how amazing his skills are.
Especially since there were rumors that he had been seriously injured every time, but he could escape every time.
It is not certain whether a character like this is seriously injured.
Zhenwu guards like them would definitely fall into trouble if they met Chu Xuan.
Maybe those guys in the world deliberately spread the news and misreported that Chu Xuan had been seriously injured, and then made others believe it was true, and went to search for Chu Xuan's whereabouts, and then got the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.
Chen Beijiang rubbed his hands and couldn't help but said: "Cousin, didn't Mr. Huo say before that as long as Chu Xuan's traces are discovered and a signal flare is fired, once Chu Xuan is arrested and brought to justice, we will be able to obtain the fifth level of merit and be promoted to Hundred Households... …”
"Snapped!"
Before Chen Beijiang could continue his whims, Ji Longcheng slapped him on the forehead to stop him from continuing his fantasies.
"Cousin, why did you hit me?"
Chen Beijiang straightened his hair and looked at him with a resentful expression.
Ji Longcheng glanced at him and said calmly: "If you want to die, don't drag your cousin and I'll bury him with you. Your cousin hasn't lived enough yet."
"It's not a good thing for us to meet someone like Chu Xuan."
"Do you believe that you discovered his whereabouts a second ago, and before you could take out the flare to notify others, you would be killed by him?"
"I really don't know what to say about you, you actually dare to dream of being promoted to a hundred households."
"Do you think you are a big shot like the third princess?"
"Looking at the entire Zhenwu Division, have you ever seen anyone who is a Body Refining Realm warrior promoted to a hundred households? Why do you think you can take the position?"
"On this point, you have to learn from Brother Su, he will never dream!"
Su Yu, who was walking out of the woodshed after searching the firewood shed, couldn't help but twitching when he heard this, but didn't say much.
Ji Longcheng was timid and afraid of death, and he could understand it.
Which rich person is not afraid of death?
It's just because I have money, and I don't want to end up having troubles when I haven't spent all the money.
For the poor, the main reason why they are not afraid of death is because they are poor and living is suffering anyway.
But if a poor person enjoys good food and clothing, his life will be corrupted, and he will be greedy for life and afraid of death.
People are like this. When they don't have it, they won't look forward or backward or be timid.
But once you have it, you will become greedy for life and afraid of death, and afraid of losing it.
"Then cousin, what if, I mean just in case, if this Chu Xuan appears in our search range and is found by us, what should we do?"
Chen Beijiang couldn't help but say.
"just in case?"
Ji Longcheng was startled when he heard this, then shook his head and said: "Your assumption is not valid."
"If this Chu Xuan appears in the scope of our search and is discovered by us, then in order to prevent us from leaking information, he will definitely kill the three of us, as well as the other Zhenwu guards who came to search together. Try to escape before other Zhenwu guards arrive."
"In front of a warrior who possesses Tiandao Jade and is an Iron Bone Realm warrior, the three of us have almost no chance to resist."
"Of course, even if what you said happens does happen, then we will turn a blind eye and pretend that we didn't notice it. We will just come out to make up the numbers. There is no need to risk our own lives."
Hearing this, Chen Beijiang nodded in agreement.
"Let's go. There are still two households. After checking, we can go and hand over the errands."
After Ji Longcheng finished speaking, he went straight to the next house.
"Um?"
Just when Su Yu followed Ji Longcheng to the next house, a bamboo tree outside the woodshed caught Su Yu's eyes.
Because of the sunlight, the bamboo leaves of the bamboo tree glowed with a bright red luster.
"That is?"
Su Yu's pupils shrank suddenly, and huge waves arose in his heart.
"That's blood!"
