Zhong Kui entered the south room and closed the door. He originally planned to rest here for the night. But after seeing the tall black figure, he changed his mind.

What is that tall black shadow? This question must be clarified as soon as possible, otherwise something big will happen.

When Zhong Kui returned to the ruined temple in Donghua Village, the children were already asleep. Gently pushing open the door of the ruined temple, he looked at the sleeping children, and the tall black figure he had seen in Old Man Xia's house popped up in his mind, and his heart was filled with excitement.

Feeling inexplicably uneasy.

Zhong Kui leaned against the wall of the ruined temple, looking warily at the dark threshold, not daring to relax at all. He had to wait patiently for the arrival of dawn, and had to find a way to put the children in place, otherwise he would be caught in the dark shadow.

I found that the consequences are conceivable.

Because Zhong Kui slept day and night while in a coma, and now he had something on his mind, his brain was completely blank and he was not sleepy.

Zhong Kui looked at the sleeping child and always felt that something was wrong, but he could not get rid of this strange feeling.

After a long time, Zhong Kui realized that this feeling was actually strange why these children were so quiet after they were asleep. They didn't make a single sound.

The weak Zhong Kui really didn't have the energy to find out why the children were so quiet. He leaned against the wall, lay down on the silk thatch and closed his eyes to fall asleep.

In the dead of night, not only Zhong Kui in the ruined temple could not fall asleep, but Zhiqing and Liu Wengen in the county guest house were also tossing and turning.

A few minutes ago, Zhiqing and Liu Wengen had discussed and decided to return to Old Man Xia's house to check again tomorrow to finally confirm Old Man Xia's true identity.

Zhiqing had such a preliminary guess about Old Man Xia; according to Old Man Xia's oral account, he did not seem to be involved in the Menling Village incident. If he was not involved, then who is this Xia Zhi'an?

This Xia Zhi'an was like a shadow, suddenly appearing on the list. Zhiqing and Wengen visited many people, but they all shook their heads as they did not recognize this person, and they had not heard of this person's name.

If you take the liberty to ask Zhong Hansheng, it will undoubtedly scare the snake, but will arouse his vigilance.

Zhiqing was most worried about Zhong Kui. During the secret visit to the people stationed in Menling Village, he and Wen Gen made many inquiries from the side, but had no way of getting any news about him.

Zhiqing turned over and wanted to close his eyes to rest, but Zhong Kui's honest and stubborn face appeared in his mind. He couldn't sleep even more, and he couldn't rashly go to Menling Village again. Thinking about everything that happened before, it was clear that someone

He deliberately encouraged the ignorant villagers to cause trouble. When they picked up the corpse, the villagers were frightened and ran away. Then several strangers lurking nearby appeared. These strangers were definitely not by chance. They must be

Come prepared.

At that time, he and Zhong Kui were in the open, while the people who were peeping at them were in the dark, and they always showed up unprepared to attack them. When testing Zhong Hansheng, he couldn't tell from the other party's sophisticated and cunning face.

What's the flaw?

Zhiqing's stirring sound caused Wengen on the other bed to also start to stir. The bed made a slight squeaking sound, and then Wengen's violent coughing sound was heard.

"Master, are you not asleep yet?"

"No, you still haven't slept!" Zhiqing replied with a wry smile in the dark.

In this quiet night, two grown men were talking to each other across the bed. Because it was night, the sound was particularly clear and three-dimensional.

"I'm thinking about something, and it's a bit strange."

Hearing that Liu Wengen also had insomnia, "What's the matter?" Zhiqing asked casually. He thought, it seems that Wengen is also thinking about Zhong Kui, Menling Village and Lao Xia!

"I heard one thing. It said that the wife of the Minister of Arms died. It seemed that she was strangled to death by a thief."

When Zhiqing heard this, he was secretly surprised. He hurriedly leaned over and looked at the bed where Zhongwengen was sitting and asked, "When did it happen?" He had a question in his mind, that is, when they went to Zhong Hansheng's house early in the morning, did Zhong Hansheng talk about his wife?

Are you sleeping? How could he be dead?

"Just after we went there, it seemed that around noon, the minister was having a meeting. Something happened at home. It seemed that a man named Zhang San caught the thief."

"What a coincidence?"

"master."

"Um."

"guess what?"

"What?"

"This thief is the murderer who robbed the manure farmer outside the south gate for three yuan and a few cents, then murdered him and absconded."

"Oh! What a coincidence! What a coincidence."

"Yeah! I'm thinking about this too."

"Alas! In this world, the people handling the case don't investigate?"

"After checking, the prisoner confessed. I heard he was executed. The execution site is over the river beach in Menling Village."

For a villain who kills people and sells goods, death is enough. But Zhiqing felt that this incident was too absurd.

Liu Wengen's next words seemed to confirm Zhiqing's doubts.

"A few days after my wife died, Zhong Hansheng held a big banquet in the guest house restaurant, eating and drinking. I also heard that he had a very beautiful young woman by his side."

"You scum, you are simply smearing the Ministry of Armed Forces." Zhiqing cursed angrily.

"Master, you said this world is unfair. We have worked so hard to conduct surveys, but no one cares about our interests, and we are inexplicably asked to stop. I don't know how many years or months it will take to stop this.

Job done.”

"Alas! There is nothing fair or unfair in this world. Unfair things of this kind happen no matter where you are. Go to sleep! Get up early tomorrow and go to Old Man Xia's house. By the way, let's check the little clock.

Kui’s whereabouts.”

"Oh, okay." Zhiqing glanced at Wengen's squirming darkness, turned over and fell asleep facing the door. His mind was always stuck on looking for Zhongkui. He didn't know what the child's current situation was.

Like?

The cold crescent moon flickered and drifted in the clouds. The night insects stopped chirping, and it was pitch black outside the ruined temple. The cold wind slowly penetrated through the cracks in the dilapidated door, floating wantonly in the messy temple space.

The even breathing of the children could be heard in his ears. Zhong Kui stared at the clay statue of Bodhisattva standing coldly in the silence. There were three clay statues of Bodhisattva. The big one was in disrepair due to years of disrepair and various damages, and its features were beyond recognition.

They were all moved due to the beating. The ears were missing, the left side of the face was sunken, and half of the chin was missing.

The two small statues were not too damaged. When Zhong Kui looked carefully at the two slightly shorter clay statues of Bodhisattva, he mistakenly saw a flash from the corner of the clay statue's eyes, as if something was rolling down.

Seeing this scene, Zhong Kui immediately stood up, walked to the clay Buddha, stretched out his finger and gently scratched the corner of the clay Buddha's eyes.

"What are you doing?" Po Kong asked, so shocked that Zhong Kui immediately retracted his outstretched hand.

"Hey!" The clay Bodhisattva suddenly spoke, and Zhong Kui took a step back nervously in astonishment.
Chapter completed!