Li Changan followed the three of them to a remote courtyard.
Seeing the two men pressing the young man into the door, they went out and left.
After the two people walked away, Li Changan walked towards the small courtyard.
As soon as he walked to the door, a suppressed crying woman's voice came from inside.
"You unfilial son? Why do you want to provoke that Niu Bancheng?"
"Mom, I just..." The boy's voice was still a little excited.
"Just what... just want me to watch helplessly again, are you sent there too?"
Then, I heard the young man Nono's reply.
"Mom, don't be angry, I just couldn't hold it back for a moment."
The woman sighed.
"You have to endure it if you can't help it. We are two lonely people who are no match for the Niu family."
The young man's voice was silent for a while, then slowly sounded again.
"It would be great if there were chivalrous people like him in Pingshu in Qi County who were willing to help others."
"There is no such thing as a righteous man in this world."
"Why not?" The young man immediately retorted, "There is a hero named Taoist Priest Xuanxiao over there in Yulin!"
While listening to the wall, Li Changan suddenly heard his name. Li Changan was a little embarrassed for a while, and he knocked on the door.
The quarrel inside the door suddenly disappeared.
Soon after, the courtyard door opened.
A thin woman walked out, her eyes were reddish, her face looked vaguely pretty, but she was wearing a thorn hairpin skirt, and only the concentric ring on her hand was more unique.
She opened the door and saw a Taoist priest at first sight, but she wiped her eyes and said with a wry smile:
"Don't be surprised, Taoist priest. My family is too poor to survive. If you want to become a vegetarian, please go to another family!"
After saying that, he was about to close the courtyard door, but Li Changan hurriedly held it back.
The woman's face suddenly changed color and she asked, "What does the Taoist priest mean by this?!"
"Madam, don't blame me." Li Changan quickly explained, "I just want to ask something about the Weaver Girl."
Unexpectedly, Li Changan's explanation made the woman look even more panicked, and she forced the door to close.
"We have nothing to say."
"Madam, don't panic."
Li Changan glanced inside the door. Hearing the noise, the young man rushed over with a firewood stick. He smiled at his mother and daughter.
"I just heard someone at the door talking about the word Xuan Xiao. What a coincidence. The poor Taoist's Taoist name happens to be Xuan Xiao."
"If you don't believe it..." He took out a note from his pocket, "...this is an ultimatum for a poor man."
"Clang."
The mother's face was dull, and her son's stick fell to the ground.
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"That Niu Bancheng colluded with the demons and killed my father and fellow villagers. Please help me take revenge!"
As soon as he entered the yard, the young man knelt down in front of Li Changan, threw his neck away and smashed his head on the ground. Li Changan hurriedly supported him, but the young man was too stubborn to survive, so he had no choice but to let it go.
He turned to the woman beside him.
"Why do you think Madam Weaver is a demon who harmed your husband?"
The woman knelt down and bowed down, but then started talking about her family's circumstances from the beginning.
"My husband's surname is Niu. I have read some books and help people read and write letters on weekdays. I also make some nuns at home to support the family. Although life is a little tight, I can still get by."
The woman looked confused, as if she was immersed in memories, but she gritted her teeth in a blink of an eye.
"But Niu Wu, that is, Niu Bancheng, suddenly claimed that immortals had come to the mountains and wanted to send people there to enjoy their fate as immortals. No one believed it at Chuchu, so he kidnapped some people and sent them to the mountains, including my husband. Once I left, I never came back..."
"If that's the case, why aren't others in the city suspicious?"
Li Changan frowned and asked. He also asked some people in the city. Except for outsiders, the locals all said that the "Weaver Girl" was good.
"That's because..." The woman opened her mouth, seemingly unable to finish her words, "...Taoist priest, come with me."
After saying that, he ordered the young man to guard the house and led Li Changan out.
This road went directly out of the county town and arrived at a tidal flat by the river.
"Taoist Master, look."
She didn't need to say anything, Li Changan had already seen a row of small boats lying across the river.
There were two people standing on each small boat. The one standing on the bow held a long bamboo pole in his hand. He put it into the water and stirred it. When he took it out, the bamboo pole was already wrapped with a circle of white silk thread. The person at the back of the boat quickly pulled off the silk thread and put it into the boat. The person on the bow of the boat stretched the bamboo pole into the water again.
"This is... Yun Huansha?"
Li Changan was a little surprised. The outside world said that this Yun Huansha was so mysterious that even the 'Xiansuo' was spread. Unexpectedly, it was fished out of the water. Feifei will probably be disappointed when he sees this scene. No matter how clever the thief is, he can't steal the water back from the river.
"This so-called 'Yun Huan Sha' is the handiwork of the demon." The woman said coldly, "Qixian County is rich today because of this 'Yun Huan Sha'. Except for those whose relatives and friends were killed, who would say that the Weaver Girl Where are the bad words?"
Li Changan looked at everything on the river, frowned and asked: "So, this Lady Weaver can be considered a blessing, why does she insist that she is a monster?"
"The Taoist Master doesn't know that fishing for silk doesn't happen all the time. Only by sending a group of people to the 'Weaver Girl' can we fish for silk on the river."
"Niu Bancheng said this was a blessing from an immortal..." The woman sneered, her words becoming more and more excited, "But where does the blessing from an immortal act like a business?"
Li Changan nodded and said nothing, but carefully observed the river surface.
"Huh?"
He suddenly saw that although the mist was rolling on the river, it could not diffuse the position of the boats. The river seemed to be separated by invisible objects. On the side near Qi County, the sky was sparkling and clear, but on the side near Yunluo Mountain, there was thick fog.
When I looked more carefully, I was shocked to realize that those silk threads grew out of nothing in the water. They were clearly formed by mist melting into the water and condensing!
This fog is weird!
On the other side, the woman continued to say bitterly:
"Every once in a while, Niu Bancheng would collect some unscrupulous outsiders and send them across the river. In order to conceal others, they would occasionally choose some locals from small families, but none of their own children would be sent in! "
"Taoist Priest, if the person opposite is really an immortal, why doesn't he Niu Bancheng let his family go to this immortal fate?"
Hearing this, Li Changan asked curiously: "Isn't your family also a descendant of the Niu family?"
"My husband-in-law is indeed surnamed Niu, but my family fled here from disaster and has nothing to do with the Niu family in Qi County. However, my husband-in-law was forcibly dragged into the family tree by Niu Bancheng, falsely claiming that he was a member of the Niu family and was sent there. In Yunluo Mountain."
Li Changan nodded, feeling a little clearer in his heart.
He had never thought that the Weaver Girl was really a deity, and this pungent evil spirit could not be faked.
He just wanted to find out the specific circumstances of the matter and why the evil spirit filled the city, but now that he saw the man fishing for silk on the river, he probably knew the reason.
Now it seems that the monsters are not active in the city, and the monsters in the city are contaminated by the silk fishermen.
He pondered for a while and suddenly asked:
"You said you would send people to the other side every once in a while. When will you send them?"
"Today is the day!"
