Chapter 321 There is something wrong with the disappeared Xianzhuang
"Let me see that whistle."
"Sir, please take a look."
Huang Yue Niang took the silver whistle off her neck and handed it to Ji You.
This silver whistle is extremely finely crafted, but the sound is not transmitted through the whistle itself, but rather from the vibration of the reed inside it.
Whenever air flows through, the reed will vibrate continuously, thus emitting a high-frequency vibration sound.
However, there is nothing useful to be found on this silver whistle alone.
Ji You observed carefully for a long time, then looked up at Tan Huizhi: "Does anyone else know about your affairs?"
"Those who had previously joined us in our search for relatives knew we were looking for someone, but they gave up halfway through and therefore never went to the corpse cave with us. Those who knew about this are all here now."
"Did you find anything else unusual while investigating the Bu family? For example, someone unrelated to the Bu family?"
Tan Huizhi thought carefully and shook his head. "We didn't stay at the Bu family branch for too long. Apart from the workers there, we didn't see anyone else."
As soon as he finished speaking, the ceramic lid of the medicine jar began to vibrate, and then an even stronger medicinal smell emanated.
Hearing this voice, everyone looked sideways, and at the same time looked at Ji You, observing his attitude.
Ji You didn't say anything, but returned the whistle to Huang Yue Niang, then stood up and walked to the eaves at the door.
Seeing this scene, everyone immediately stood up silently and began to pour medicine out of the medicine jars without saying a word.
Ji You didn't know what medicinal herbs they used, he just felt it was spicy and pungent.
When the medicine had cooled down a little, they carried the porcelain bowls and walked into the yard.
In the early morning, there was a drizzle, a layer of white mist was floating over the distant mountains, and there was a chill in the air.
Everyone gathered at the corner where the evil seeds were trapped. Some were responsible for holding them down, while others were responsible for gently pouring water into the mouths of those transformed from the evil seeds.
As the wine was being poured, an old woman who had been silent until now suddenly burst into tears.
In fact, they had persisted for so long, tried all kinds of prescriptions, and had long known that this was not a disease, but they still clung to this hope and were unwilling to let go.
After searching for so many years, the people were finally found. Their appearance had changed, but they were still alive and well. Who could really think that they were dead?
Ji You looked around silently, and when he saw a two-horned stone peak in the east, he couldn't help but frown slightly.
So he leaped up, headed towards the top of the mountain, and landed on the top.
He just felt that it looked familiar, and only now he realized that the east side, separated by only a mountain, was one of his breakthrough points.
At that time, he never thought that such a situation would occur just across the mountain.
When he returned to the courtyard, the three bowls of medicine had been poured in, and Huang Yue Niang was gently wiping the corners of the evil Li Ruilin's mouth with a handkerchief.
"He couldn't even give you the status of a concubine, and you kept looking for him for so many years?"
"I was saved by him."
Huang Yue Niang wiped the corner of his mouth and whispered, "Ten years ago, my family couldn't pay taxes, and my father was beaten to death by officials. The county magistrate wanted to sell my mother and me to a brothel to pay off the debt. He happened to save us when he came by. I will never be able to repay him in my lifetime."
After hearing this, Ji You was silent for a while: "Immortals are just human beings, some are good and some are bad. It's just that many immortal cultivators forget that they are human beings when they practice..."
"Young Master, your opinion is profound..."
"But you'll get yourself killed."
Huang Yueniang lowered her head after hearing this: "Yueniang should have died ten years ago."
After hearing this, Ji You fell into silence, staring at the overcast sky for a long time without saying a word.
Who are those people and what is their ultimate goal? These questions are like dark clouds hanging over his head, and they can never dissipate in his mind.
At this time, Tan Huizhi walked out of the house, taking two young men with him, carrying buckets of water, and went to repair the wall that Li Ruilin had smashed when he escaped.
After looking at him for a while, Ji You suddenly said, "Master Tan."
Tan Huizhi turned around when he heard the voice and asked, "Sir?"
"I have only been in the Immortal Sect for a short time, so please don't mind if some of my words are not correct."
"You say so."
Ji You looked at his aged face and asked, "Why have I never heard of the Tan family, or even seen anyone with the surname Tan?"
Tan Huizhi was stunned for a moment, then sighed: "My Tan family is actually a declining family. It has been dwindling for five hundred years. Although I am the head of the Tan family, besides my son and me, there is only my grandson. Now... I don't even know if my grandson can still be considered a human being."
"No wonder you sent your only grandson to serve at Xian Manor."
"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, sir."
Ji You turned around and glanced at Tan Xun, who had transformed into a demonic corpse. "I forgot to ask which immortal village he was in before he disappeared."
After hearing this, Tan Huizhi said, "It's a fairy village in Fengzhou, called Fengxian."
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"Young Master?"
"It's actually an old acquaintance."
When Ji You heard this long-forgotten name, his eyes became unusually deep.
The reason why he entered Tianshu Academy back then was actually because of Fengxian Villa.
Seeing his suddenly serious expression, Tan Huizhi couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that you know about this immortal manor?"
"What a coincidence! This Xianzhuang is near Yuyang County, where I was born. But as far as I know, it moved away four years ago."
"yes……"
After Tan Huizhi finished speaking, he suddenly fell into silence.
Ji You stared at him for a long time: "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Young Master, your mention of Fengxian Villa has aroused some of my earlier speculations. Regarding their departure from Fengzhou, I don't think it was a relocation."
"Tell me in detail."
"After my grandson went missing, the first place I checked was Fengxian Villa, hoping to find someone familiar with him there to inquire about his whereabouts. But later I discovered that my grandson wasn't the only one missing; it could even be said that all of them were lost."
"It's just that those who joined the Immortal Manor were originally marginal figures and were not valued by the family. In addition, cultivators are inherently cold-hearted, and they have many children, so many families are still unaware that they have lost someone."
Although Tan Huizhi's cultivation level is not high, he has lived to this age and his mind is still extremely meticulous.
At first he thought that Ji You was just passing by and happened to find Li Ruilin, so he was curious why their families turned into evil corpses.
But it was not until he asked several times just now that he realized that Ji You did not seem to be just out of sudden curiosity, but was actually investigating something.
In fact, he also wanted to know who had caused his family to become like this, neither human nor ghost, and he also wanted to find the enemy and take revenge.
But after so many years of searching, their sixth sense told them that the matter was extremely complex and they could do nothing with their low level of cultivation.
Now that he knew that Ji You also seemed to want to find that group of people, he told them all the doubts he knew.
Hearing this, Ji You's eyes began to become deep.
Some things don't need to be said too clearly, as long as the listener has doubts, they will be able to figure it out.
Tan Huizhi's words imply that perhaps there is something wrong with the entire villa.
"Where is Ajun's brother? Which fairy village is he in?"
Ji You had just compared the information from the missing person and asked about the identities of the missing persons one by one. He found out that in addition to Tan Huizhi's grandson, the swordsman Ajun's younger brother was also a descendant of Xianzhuang.
Seeing this, Tan Huizhi looked up and said, "To answer your question, Alang is also in Fengzhou, at a fairy manor called Ziyun."
"What a coincidence."
After hearing this, Ji You held back and whispered.
When he first established his family in Fengzhou, he conducted a census of the population and the number of immortal villages in the territory for three consecutive years.
If I remember correctly, Ziyun Villa was also one of the families that suddenly moved out of Fengzhou.
At that time, he thought that because he had cut taxes, many noble families could not get a share of the profits and so they looked to him for help, but now it seems that things are not that simple.
At the hour of Chen, the sun began to rise slightly.
Smoke rose from the yard and mixed with the white mist in the mountains.
Ji You stepped out of the courtyard and walked into the mountains through the humid forest.
Different perspectives lead to different attitudes towards the same thing.
It was just like those elders who were about to die, when they saw the Bu family, they felt it was a divine connection and a chance to prolong their lives.
But they never thought that in the eyes of others this was the destruction of a family and the separation of life and death.
But there was nothing he could do about this kind of thing.
Just like Huang Yueniang, since she has already made up her mind to die with him, then persuasion or comfort is meaningless to them.
The most important thing now is to use the Xianzhuang line to see if we can find out what those people hiding behind the scenes are doing...
After the Fairy Tour, it was already early summer. A few light rains fell and the cicadas began to chirp.
Here, the crops in Fengzhou are growing very well, and looking from a high place, the blue waves are like the sea.
On the Renwu day, Yuyang County, Fengzhou.
The county magistrate Fang Zhongzheng, his wife, concubine, and several maids were waiting in front of the door, looking towards the south.
Not long after, a carriage came slowly from the south and then stopped in front of the city gate.
Then, the curtain was gently lifted.
Fang Ruoyao came out of the car, looked at her family and said softly, "Dad, your daughter is back."
Fang Zhongzheng stepped forward and helped him down: "It's good that you're back, it's good that you're back."
"I heard that my eldest brother came back a few days ago. Is he still at home now?"
"He went out again a few days ago. This kid clearly knew you were going to come back."
Fang Ruoyao smiled faintly: "Brother is busy with work, Ruoyao does not blame him."
Fang Zhongzheng nodded and then said, "Is there any immortal village that would like you to go and offer sacrifices..."
Hearing this, Fang Ruoyao's eyelashes trembled slightly, and then she shook her head gently.
The five-year term for the disciples of the Tianshu Academy is approaching. Those with strong backgrounds will naturally return home, while those with lesser backgrounds will choose to serve as worshippers in the Immortal Manor.
But even being a worshipper depends on one's realm. Fang Ruoyao has been in the hospital for five years, but she is still only at the upper level of the subtle illumination realm and has not received any invitations.
She got off the carriage and couldn't help but look towards the city gate.
It was from here that she and that man left Yuyang and went to Shengjing. Now, only five years have passed, and everything has changed.
Seeing his daughter shaking her head, Fang Zhongzheng sighed softly: "How long will you stay this time?"
"About three to five days. I have to go back to the academy at the beginning of the month to see if I can join the academy as a traveling disciple."
"Being a walking disciple is not bad either. Wasn't Fairy Pei who came to our house before also a walking disciple? Her status was also very high."
Fang Ruoyao could tell that this was just a word of comfort, but she still nodded slightly and followed her family into the city.
But the changes in the city surprised him.
The dilapidated adobe houses on the edge of the city have disappeared, replaced by neat and tidy blue brick houses, and the dirt roads between the houses have been paved with bluestone slabs.
In the heart of the city, there is a huge building with a plaque with the word "school" on it.
The most noticeable thing is that the people on the street are no longer so skinny, and there are even a few chubby children.
After watching quietly for a while, Fang Ruoyao returned to the county government with her father.
Before she entered the house, she saw a long queue in front of the mansion gate. When she walked to the front hall, she saw the lawyer sitting in front of the hall, meeting the people one by one.
One person comes after another, and the master keeps writing.
"What are you doing?"
Fang Ruoyao looked at her father in confusion.
Fang Zhongzheng stopped in his tracks when he saw this. "A few days ago, a letter arrived from Fengzhou Prefecture, saying they wanted to compile all the information about the nearby Immortal Manor over the past eight years. They also wanted to investigate some people who had contact with the Manor. I don't know the specific reason for this."
"Is it related to taxes?"
"When you mention Xian Manor, it must be related to taxes. However, the questions Fengzhou Prefecture ordered to ask are indeed a bit strange, and I, your father, am a little confused."
Fang Zhongzheng murmured, somewhat confused.
However, it was not only Yuyang County that received the letter. A few days ago, he attended a gathering among colleagues and heard from others that other counties were also receiving the letter.
But what puzzled everyone was that the letter asked them to investigate not those immortal villages that were still there, but those that had already moved away.
He came to his senses and then took his daughter to the mansion behind the government office.
Master Niu continued to write according to the people's oral accounts, with a sense of death that was full of the flavor of the class, and he wrote them down in detail.
This incident lasted for two whole days and ended at dusk on the second day.
On the morning of the third day, as the morning glow burst out from the sky, another carriage came towards this place on the official road of Yuyang County.
However, the carriage did not enter the city, but turned west along the cobblestone road outside the city.
And the person on this speeding carriage was Ji You.
After leaving Qingzhou, he returned to Fengzhou Prefecture, checked the situation in Fengzhou, and found that everything was fine.
Agricultural activities developed rapidly, wealth accumulated very quickly, and the transportation of spirit stones remained stable.
He had previously proposed guiding the establishment of trading markets to accelerate the flow of money. Two years later, Fengzhou already had many large-scale markets.
In addition, their spiritual seedling cultivation has begun to show results. Even if the output cannot keep up, at least the first step has been taken.
At this time, Ji You was sitting upright in the carriage, holding a letter in his hand and reading silently.
The letter came from Tsundere, telling him that he had returned to the mountain, and briefly talked about the movements of the major immortal sects since they left the Immortal Tour Meeting.
Just as they expected, the Immortal Sect continued to open the ruins, even some small ones were not spared, and brought out many fruits.
As of now, there are only three large ruins that have not been opened.
One is the one in Lingzhou, which belongs to Lingjian Mountain and is the one that makes the three main peaks eager to move.
The other one is on the east side of Yunzhou and is controlled by Tianshu Academy.
As for the last one, it is located on the Yuepo Plateau in the southeast of Qingzhou, bordering Yuzhou.
Logically speaking, this relic should belong to the Chen family of immortals, but according to reports from the sect outside Lingjian Mountain, the Wendao Sect has sent a large number of disciples to guard around it.
Similarly, the Chen family's immortal clan has also been making frequent unusual movements in recent days.
In addition, people from Shanhai Pavilion also appeared nearby from time to time, and they all seemed to be interested in getting involved. There was an atmosphere of brewing that a war was about to break out.
If he had not met Huang Yue Niang and her group, he probably would not have felt worried about the contents of the letter. After all, Youxian would observe for several days, and he was probably sure that there was nothing wrong with the fruit.
But when he knew that the Bu family was actually the one transporting corpses, and that there were people hiding behind the scenes and making constant moves, he always felt uneasy.
After a long time, the carriage slowly stopped and stopped in front of a huge house.
This house is built on a hill, with numerous buildings and flying eaves and corners, and its former grandeur can still be seen.
However, the wild grasses everywhere under the courtyard wall and the dense spider webs under the door plaque tell us that no one has lived there for a long time.
Ji You put the letter away, then got out of the car, glanced at the four big words "Fengxian Villa", then pushed the door and walked in. After looking around the yard, he waved his sleeves and gathered the spiritual energy to open all the doors upstairs and downstairs.
There were so many scattered items in the house that at first glance one would think they were simply the result of someone leaving in such a hurry. But if they hadn't left, there might be another explanation.
He looked at each room one by one, and his eyes fell on a wall covered with scratches. The sharp and hard claws of the evil species flashed in his mind.
Since returning to Fengzhou, this was the eighth fairy village that he had personally visited that had suddenly left, and Tan Huizhi's guess seemed to be confirmed little by little.
There is something really strange about these immortal villages that disappeared from the land of Fengzhou.
Especially the Ziyun Villa where he visited the day before. There was a secret room in the owner's bedroom. The walls of the secret room were covered with bloody claw marks, like purgatory.
"Turning humans into evil species might be an experiment to achieve some purpose..."
"Be it Li Ruilin or the disciples of Xianzhuang who disappeared out of thin air, they might all be test subjects. Fengzhou has no immortal cultivators, so naturally, there is no monitoring. This is a perfect testing ground."
"Qingyuntianxia has experienced two zombie tidal waves, with a large number of them. It seems that we can find the source of some of them."
Ji You looked around and couldn't help but say something silently.
He left Yuyang County and entered Tianshu Academy, then established a noble family, reduced taxes, organized immortals to participate in farming, and cooperated with the Sixianjian to establish a new spiritual stone transportation route.
But in fact, he didn't spend much time back in Fengzhou.
Because in his opinion, the storms in Fengzhou came from external factors, and he alone was guarding against those external factors, so Fengzhou would naturally be quiet and peaceful inside.
But he never imagined that there had always been hidden troubles within Fengzhou that never stopped.
He left the room and went to the incense hall of Fengxian Villa. After searching for a while and finding some scattered pieces of paper, he stepped into the air and landed in Yuyang County, then walked into the government office.
Fang Zhongzheng had known that he was coming, and was waiting for him here with the officers from the yamen gate.
Ji You was in deep thought and did not chat with them, so he went to Fang Zhongzheng's study.
At this time, the case files transcribed by the legal advisor based on the oral narration of the people around Ershilipu had been placed in the study, and he opened them after he sat down.
"There are roars at night..."
"The cow was bitten to death..."
"After the rainstorm, the mountain was filled with a heavy smell of blood..."
"The dog has gone crazy, barking wildly at night..."
(Seeking monthly tickets, seeking monthly tickets, seeking monthly tickets)
(End of this chapter)
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