Chapter 403: Man in White Paper Hat

"You two are from other places, right?" The bearded constable kindly reminded Lu Yang when he saw that he was not familiar with Huangzhou.

"If you meet someone wearing a white paper hat in the future, be careful. This bastard is committing crimes everywhere and is very cunning!"

"What do you mean?" the two were puzzled.

The bearded constable said angrily, "We have been looking for this grandson wearing a white paper hat for a long time, but we have never caught him. We don't know where he came from, but he has been active in Huangzhou for several years."

"Pick any place in Huangzhou, and you'll find him committing crimes. This time he opened a black shop pretending to be the Qingming Inn. Last time he instigated his accomplices to steal things, causing them to be wanted, and then he caught them and collected the reward. What's even more hateful is that none of us realized that he was the one collecting the reward!"

"The last time, I disguised myself as a corpse and sold myself to a corpse driver. When the corpse driver was preparing to refine it, he found that the corpse moved on its own. The corpse driver was almost scared sick."

"When the man in the white paper hat left, he was still in shock and thought it was a fake corpse. He chanted a spell for several days before he realized he was tricked!"

"Another time, the barbarians reported that someone was doing smuggling business at the border of the wilderness. It was him!"

"This guy will do anything to make money! If we can catch him, we can save five days of work every year!"

The bearded constable got angry whenever he mentioned the man in the white paper hat, and the angrier he got the more he spoke. If the man in the white paper hat appeared now, he would eat him alive.

Capturing the man in the white paper hat is not just his wish, but the wish of the entire Huangzhou.

"There's something strange about this grandson. Several times, he appeared in two places at the same time, as if there were two of him. I don't know if they were twins or what."

"Also this time, we surrounded the inn and you were at the door. Who noticed that he left?"

Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou nodded. With their level of cultivation, the actions of ordinary cultivators could not escape their detection, even if they were habitual thieves.

Being able to escape under such circumstances clearly shows that the man in the paper hat has extraordinary means or a level of cultivation that is beyond everyone's expectations.

"Fairy, did you notice when the man in the white paper hat ran away?"

The Immortal Fairy rolled her eyes, thinking that Lu Yang looked down on her too much.

"He ran westward, but don't expect the constables to catch him. Even with the two of you, it would be useless. It would be a waste of effort. His escape method is very unusual."

"And even if they catch him, it's just a clone, no big deal."

Lu Yang was shocked. The man in the white paper hat was more difficult to deal with than he had imagined, as the Immortal Fairy could make such a judgment.

The bearded detective directed the other detectives to cordon off the scene and see if they could find any clues.

"Don't forget to seal it!" he shouted.

"Boss, does sealing it work? He tears it off every time." The bearded subordinate asked cautiously.

Given the lawlessness of the man in the white paper hat, even if the inn was sealed, he could still tear it off and keep it open.

The bearded constable glared at him and said, "Just put it up if I told you to. It's his business if he tore the seal off. His crime is even more serious!"

"Then we'll take our leave first." Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou said goodbye to the bearded constable.

Before leaving, Lu Yang kindly suggested: "When the man in the white paper hat ran away, I had a feeling that he ran to the west."

The bearded constable looked at Lu Yang in surprise, but didn't say much.

"Huangzhou has many talented people and beautiful scenery. Maybe they can really find a way to break my curse." Meng Jingzhou sighed and felt that he really should go out more often. Look, he just entered Huangzhou and encountered such strange people and things.

"After struggling for most of the day, I still haven't found a place to stay." Lu Yang reminded Meng Jingzhou to take care of the things at hand first.

Meng Jingzhou touched the horse's back and said, "Old horse, can you find a village for us to rest?"

The old horse swept its tail, lowered its head to eat a bite of the tender grass on the roadside, and consciously pulled the cart towards the nearest village.

Soon, Lao Ma pulled the two of them to the nearest village. At the entrance of the village stood a large stone with three big characters "Jianshi Village" written on it.

"Why is it so quiet?"

The two got off the car and wanted to spend the night there, and then they found that every household in the village had their doors closed and oil lamps lit, making no sound at all. Naturally, there was no one on the village road.

In Lu Yang's impression, if there are no entertainment activities, during this period of time, every household in the village should open their doors and visit each other and chat.

"It's like he's afraid of something. What a weird thing." Lu Yang frowned.

Meng Jingzhou chose the family with the largest yard and knocked on the door: "Fellow villager, we want to stay for one night."

Bang—squeak—

Two voices were heard, and the old man opened the door, revealing half of his head, and looked at Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou vigilantly.

"Who are you?"

Please...collect 6...9...books...!

Meng Jingzhou showed a very friendly smile that he had developed in the barbecue restaurant: "We are two travelers passing through here. It's getting late, and we want to stay for one night. I wonder if it's possible. Of course, we will pay."

The old man impatiently drove the two away: "Go away, Jianshi Village doesn't welcome outsiders, leave quickly, or you'll be eaten by the dead!"

"Eated by corpses. Do you have any corpses here? My brothers and I are monks and can help you get rid of them."

When the old man heard this, he became even more annoyed: "No need, just leave!"

Having said that, the old man slammed the door shut.

"Hey, you old man are so unreasonable!" Meng Jingzhou felt that the old man was crazy. He was kind enough to solve the problem, but was driven away instead.

"Is it because there are women in the family that you can't get in?" Lu Yang teased with a sly smile.

"Get out of the way." Meng Jingzhou swatted Lu Yang like he was swatting a fly.

Meng Jingzhou did not give up and kept knocking on the door for others, but they either chased them away or simply refused to open the door.

"Not hospitable at all." Meng Jingzhou muttered.

"What? Continue to change villages?"

Meng Jingzhou didn't want to move anymore: "It's too troublesome. I just saw a place at the entrance of the village. I don't know if it's a temple or an ancestral temple. It's quite clean and should still be in use. We can stay there for the night."

"Okay." Lu Yang didn't want to go back and forth any more. He was rejected at Qingming Inn just now, and was rejected again at Jianshi Village this time. Who knows if he will be rejected at the next village? Instead of going back and forth like this, it would be better to just find a place to stay for the night and investigate the reason during the day.

The two men came to the ancestral temple and lit the oil lamps with the Three Flames of True Fire, and the temple instantly became bright.

“It’s quite clean.”

The two of them bowed to the tablet and said, "I'm sorry, seniors. We will just stay here for one night."

At the end of the village, there is a cemetery.

The stones shook and the graves became loose, as if something was moving underneath.

A dry claw emerged from the soil.

Then, claws sprouted out of the ground like mushrooms after rain, too numerous to count...

(End of this chapter)