Chapter 12
Peck of Rice Immortal Fate Chapter 12
2020-11-07
Chapter 12 Going to the city to inquireFang Dou solemnly vowed the promise, and the second day failed.
He took a back basket, packed Guo San's head and waist knife, and wanted to go to the city to inquire.
"Master Chicken, I'll be back when I go!"
Fang Dou walked forward and greeted Master Chicken.
After fighting side by side that night, Fang Dou and Rooster's relationship advanced by leaps and bounds, he truly regarded him as a trusted elder.
The rooster gu gu croaked a few times: quickly go and quickly return, come back to cultivation.
Before leaving, Fang Dou groped under the white rice in the rice vat, took out a gold ingot, and hesitated for a moment.
Gold is a good thing, but unfortunately it is too dazzling. He, a 'monk' living in a ruined temple (in the eyes of outsiders), hastily took out such a large piece of gold, and the trouble is not small.
Hesitantly, Fang Dou swiped his nails and cut off a bean-sized corner.
There are too many places where money is used. This time Guo San attacked, and a violent fight destroyed a lot of things.
The wall is damaged, and a mason is required to come back to repair it. The cost of materials and labor will add up to at least tens of thousands of dollars.
I also need to buy needles, threads, brains and other trivial things.
Fang Dou opened the rice jar and estimated that it contained a hundred kilograms of rice, which was packed in a straw bag.
In the past, Fang Dou set off from the broken temple and went to the county town to go to the market, carrying a maximum weight of 50 kilograms of rice.
However, since the cultivation Golden Rooster Pile, Fang Dou's physical strength has improved greatly, and he has no problem walking a dozen or more li with a hundred catties of rice on his back.
“en?”
Fang Dou was on his way this time and found that something was wrong along the way.
In the farmland by the roadside, there were a few lines of crooked footprints, trampling the seedlings to a pulp.
Looking further afield, several lines of black smoke rose into the sky, not like cooking smoke, but like someone deliberately set fire to it.
The urchins who were running and playing were also gone. The road was deserted, and no pedestrians passed by.
Fang Dou slightly frowned, Guo San escaped from prison and caused such a huge impact?
It wasn't until the county seat that Fang Dou knew what was going on.
The two sides of the gate were originally empty, but now seven or eight officers and soldiers stood with their hands on their hands, knives slung around their waists, and the long spear leaned against the corner of the wall.
“Who?”
The officers and soldiers saw Fang Dou trying to enter the city, and the murderous-looking stopped him.
Fang Dou said politely, "Several soldiers, I came from a ruined temple ten miles outside the city, and I came to the county to buy it."
The eyes of several officers and soldiers fell. On Fang Dou's head, he saw the iconic short hair, a clear look.
"It turned out to be a monk, let's go in!"
When they saw Fang Dou dressed up, they looked like a poor monk, and they didn't have the heart to wipe it out, so they waved to let him go.
Fang Dou didn't rush to leave, he asked with a small smile, "The soldiers have never seen each other before. Could it be that something big happened in the city?" Take out a few copper coins, all of which are good money.
An officer and soldier took the copper coins and explained it in a kinder tone.
It turned out that it was Guo San who escaped from prison. This man was as fierce as a wolf and cunning as a fox. After killing all the jailers, he also released many thieves from Jiangyang who murdered and escaped.
The felons burst out of their cells, killing people and setting fires all over the city.
Although the county magistrates quickly dispatched and killed a group of prisoners, more cunning people fled the city and hid in the countryside.
County Magistrate issued an order to invite two hundred officers and soldiers to guard the county seat, and their subordinates would go to the countryside to capture fugitives.
"This morning, the county government has posted a notice."
"Any fugitives should be rewarded."
"The first offender in this case will be Behead Guo San, a reward of 15,000 yuan!"
Fang Dou heard this, and felt that the basket behind him was a little heavier.
……
Farewell to the officers and soldiers guarding the gate, Fang Dou entered the county seat.
“zi!”
Fang Dou found that the city looked devastated, with many familiar houses collapsed and charred.
Beside the street, can be seen everywhere The ashes that have not been extinguished, the black smoke rising continuously.
“Wu wu!”
“Father, mother!”
In front of the ruined houses, covered with sheets of white cloth, all were fugitives Killed good people.
The survivors were wounded and hung up on the corpse, crying bitterly, one after another.
Fang Dou looked depressed and wished to chop Guo San's corpse into minced meat and feed it to the dog.
"Master, let me go!"
Fang Dou came back to his senses, and saw a group of mourners dressed in white clothed and tied with jute, standing in front of yourself.
It turned out that this was a funeral for a family, and was blocked by himself.
"No offense!"
Fang Dou bowed and stepped sideways to the side of the road.
Fang Dou didn't get up until the funeral class had passed before rushing to his destination.
At the gate of the county office, two lines of capable officers and soldiers are stationed. They are more alert than the gate.
"The county office is heavy, come and stop!"
Fang Dou removed the basket behind him, moved the rice bag away, and took out the blood-stained waist knife and head.
"hua! ”
The officers and soldiers were horrified when they saw this, and regarded Fang Dou as a fugitive who came to the door to provoke. .
Fang Dou can become a hornet's nest in the blink of an eye.
"Wait, I broke the temple outside the city, I found the head of the fugitive Guo San, and this knife, I came here specially to hand it over to the yamen!"
The leader of the team looked at Fang Dou suspiciously. They came from out of town and didn't know Fang Dou's name.
"If you don't believe me, go to the county office and ask!"
The officials in the county office are familiar with the local situation.
"Wait!"
The leader of the officers and soldiers turned around and went back. After a while, he walked out with Master Chen from the county government office.
Master Chen is County Magistrate's confidant. When he walked out of the county yamen, a pair of eyes first landed on Guo San's head.
Although there are no two eyeballs, and there are bloody holes in the eye sockets of the head, the general outline of the face can be seen.
even more how , Guo San's portrait was drawn by Master Chen urging the artist to draw it. Naturally, it is very familiar and recognizable at a glance.
"Okay, death row prisoner Guo San, he's already subdued!"
Fang Dou handed over the waist knife, "Beside this head, there is this waist knife, please check it out!"
Master Chen swept his eyes and shook his head, "Don't look at it, the sword is five feet long. This is the waist knife of the government, and it was stolen by Guo San after breaking out of prison."
"This Master, But it came from a broken temple ten miles outside the city?"
Fang Dou nodded, "Not bad!"
Master Chen nodded towards him, "Come in with me!"
When he spoke like this, the officers and soldiers guarding the county office naturally did not dare to stop him, and watched Fang Dou walk into the county office.
Master Chen took Fang Dou into the county yard, turned a corner, and sat down in a tiled house with bright windows.
“Master, where is the Lanruo cultivation?”
Lanruo is a temple, this is asking about the origin of Fang Dou.
Fang Dou touched his hair embarrassedly, "I'm not a monk!"
Unexpectedly, Master Chen nodded, "If the Master says no, then it's not."
Fang Dou doesn't feel comfortable with him being so reasonable.
"According to the Master, you picked up Guo San's head and the stolen waist knife?"
Fang Dou seriously nodded, "I picked it up in the grass in front of the ruined temple. Arrived!"
Master Chen stroked his goatee with a clear look.
"It must be this Guo San, who wanted to destroy the temple and assassinate the Master, but Heavenly Dao had eyes and killed him by lowering the Divine Punishment."
This brainstorming is a bit far-fetched, what? Can Divine Punishment make people fall to the ground?
However, the officialdom pays attention to concealment.
(end of this chapter)