17-The Thriving Sophora Tree

The moon hangs in the sky.

There was silence in the mud tile alley.

There were slight footsteps coming from the darkness, and the sound seemed to be lowered on purpose.

The footsteps stopped in front of the gate of the small courtyard.

The old cow in the courtyard raised its head slightly to take a look, then continued to lie down and rest with its eyes closed.

After a while, a figure appeared on the outer wall of the door.

It was too dark to see his face clearly, but he could tell that he was thin.

The figure crept up to the old cow, first glanced at the old cow, and then lay down on the door to observe.

At this time, the old cow with closed eyes has opened his eyes, quietly staring at the thin figure. Seeing the figure slowly take out a knife from his body and insert it into the door, a sternness flashed in Lao Niu's eyes.

The body lying on the ground slowly got up, and the huge body stood quietly behind the figure.

The figure didn't notice it, and he didn't think a cow could have any problems.

Slowly inserting the knife in his hand into the door and turning it around, the figure was slightly happy when he heard a sound, it seemed that he was going to get there first.

The figure stretched out his hand and was about to push the door open, but he felt a gust of wind behind him, and then he flew out and hit the wall without knowing anything.

Xiao Ling's old voice came from the back room: "Old Niu, be quiet."

"Moo!"

The old cow mooed back as a response.

When everything was quiet, the old cow walked up to the figure, bit his collar with his mouth and dragged him slowly to a corner of the yard.

There is a locust tree in the corner that is growing upright, but it is not growing very well. It should be because the small courtyard has been empty for a long time.

The old cow dragged the figure to the locust tree, and used his hooves to dig the soft soil under the tree.

Time passed slowly, and the old cow finally dug a big hole out of panting.

Then he picked up the collar of the figure and dragged him to the big pit to put him down.

There was no fluctuation in the bull's eyes, and a "click" sound sounded in the courtyard as the cow's hooves fell slowly.

The bright moon hangs high, and the courtyard is

rustling.

Xiao Ling is still practicing, and the feeling of breaking through the second layer of gas production is getting stronger and stronger.

He estimates that it should be these two days.

During this period of time, he ate a lot of the small silver fish in the storage bag, but he always missed the time when he held the spirit stone in his hand to practice.

If he had the spirit stone in hand, he would probably have broken through long ago.

During this period of time, the outside has been calm and calm, but there are occasional strange noises at night, Xiao Ling thought it was the old cow exercising.

After all, it has been locked in the small courtyard all the time, so it must not be as good as when it was in Fulong Mountain.

So Xiao Ling just let it be a little quieter, and didn't come out to check.

...

The atmosphere in Mud Tile Alley is a bit wrong these days, because several people have disappeared one after another.

Although most of the missing people are petty thieves on weekdays, they always make people feel uneasy.

After all, no one knows who will be missing next.

So at night, many people try not to go out, even if they need to go out for something, most of them go together.

Hall of no shadows.

At this moment, several people are sitting together discussing something.

As a small gang living in the Niwa Lane of Shangyi City, they know most of the situations in Shangyi City like the back of their hands.

Originally, the disappearance of a few people was nothing to Wuyingtang.

It is not surprising that there are people missing in Shangyi City all year round.

However, Wuyingtang is located in Niwa Lane, so if something unreasonable happens if it is very close, it will be very conspicuous.

Therefore, the matter of several people missing in one place in a row in Niwa Lane was brought up.

"You said this is already the fourth person?"

The person sitting in the chair of the conference hall asked doubtfully.

"Yes, hall master. At first Liu Wu took advantage of the night to investigate, but no one came out until the early morning of the next day."

"The brothers thought he might be fooling around somewhere, so they didn't take it seriously."

"The second time the old dog used to be the same, no one knew what was going on inside."

"Someone reported this to me, so the third time I called two people over."

"Both of them are usually smarter. Logically speaking, there shouldn't be a problem, but they still haven't been able to get out of there."

"After thinking about it, I still think I can tell you, the hall master, to see what to do next."

"Should we continue to send people there, or?"

The person in charge pondered for a moment before asking:

"What is there? Is it worth sending someone over

there?"

There was a brief silence in the hall, and then there was a voice to tell the known information together.

"That is to say, an old man who may have died and an old cow will cause me to lose four people in Wuyingtang?"

There was a hint of anger in the voice, and the

questioning tone was self-evident.

The atmosphere in the meeting hall was serious, and no one dared to speak casually.

"Deacon Luo, take someone over there to have a look!"

Just go there directly, find out the situation first, and then talk about it, the reasons are all your own.

Zhaozi show me the highlights, don't make trouble for me and come back.

In the end, it was the master of the Wuying Hall who spoke and settled the matter.

A figure in the conference hall stood up and bowed slightly, accepting this task.

The door of the room that had been closed for more than a month finally opened, and Xiao Ling walked out from the door.

The sun poured down from the sky, so he couldn't help but block it with his hands, and it took him a while to get used to it.

The small courtyard is still the same, there is no change, the only change is that the locust tree in the courtyard seems to be growing well.

He didn't know what was going on, but he clearly

remembered that the growth was not good when he moved in, so he even watered it once.

Unexpectedly, the effect is not bad.

The soil under the locust tree looks very new, someone should have turned it over, but who could it be?

Could it be the person who delivered the fodder?

If you can't guess the result, just don't guess, it's not a big deal anyway.

Now that he has entered the second floor of Qi

Gathering, his body and spirit are completely different.

After a month of penance, it's time to relax and take a break.

Those established plans should also be put on the agenda, so he is going to go out for a meal and then go to the talisman paper market.

After closing the door, Xiaoling took the old cow and walked out of Niwa Lane.

It was time to eat when noon was approaching, and he was tired of eating dry food and water for more than amonth.

It's time for a change, and Lao Niu probably wanted to go out for a long time.

It didn't take long for one person and one cow to leave, and Deacon Luo of the Wuying Hall brought people over to the small courtyard.

Standing in front of the door and hesitating for a while, Deacon Luo turned his head to look at the people following behind him, and knocked lightly on the closed wooden door.

After knocking several times in a row, no one came to answer the door.

From the crack of the door, the courtyard was quiet, so Deacon Luo winked at the person behind him.

I saw one of them take a few steps back, and turned over into the wall with a run-up.

Deacon Luo and the others were waiting outside. After a while, the wooden door opened from the inside, and the man shook his head slightly at Deacon Luo.

Several people filed in from the outside, their eyes scanning everything in the courtyard.

Someone took out a knife and inserted it into the crack of the door to open the door easily, while someone else entered the room to check the situation.

Except for a pleasingly growing locust tree, there is nothing else in the small courtyard, and it seems that there is nothing wrong.

People who entered the house to search also came out one after another, and Deacon Chao Luo shook his head at the same time.

A hint of doubt appeared in his eyes, shouldn't there be an old cow here?

Could it be that the old man was afraid of being

retaliated by them, so he ran away with the old cow?

Thinking of this, his courage gradually grew, his eyes scanned every inch of the place like eagle eyes.

They searched all the places, but did not find any clues, until someone set their eyes on the refurbished locust tree.

Soon the four corpses were dug out by them, and they were all in different degrees of decay.

There was no obvious trauma on the corpses. After careful inspection, Deacon Luo concluded that all four corpses had been severely impacted.

The fatal part is the neck crushed by something!

Arrange for someone to go back and notify the hall master.

Deacon Luo and several people wait in the small

courtyard.

Xiao Ling didn't know anything about it, he was going to the talisman paper market now.