Chapter 306 The village chief of Zicun.

Pei Ling felt his heartbeat accelerate uncontrollably. He looked around quietly and looked at the eight furnaces standing still holding his breath. He always felt that he had forgotten something?

I couldn't even think about it, but there was an inexplicable idea in my mind: at the critical moment, take out the female corpse in the storage bag to save her life.

Female corpse?

Save your life?

Pei Ling frowned. What a mess...

There are two female corpses in his storage bag, and one of them is not anonymous, and the other one is Su Zhentian's disciple.

And Su Zhentian’s true legend Qiao Ciguang has been wandering around for thousands of times during this period, just to avenge his fellow disciples!

So at the critical moment, remove the female corpse, let alone save her life, it would be good not to urge her to death.

Shaking his head, Pei Ling decided to continue his plan just now, so he ordered: You stay here and guard the house, I'll go out.

Master... The furnaces and tripods were about to speak, and when they saw Pei Ling's face slightly dark, they immediately did not dare to pester them, and said: Yes!

Pei Ling then stood up, tidied up his lower robe and walked out.

As soon as he walked out of the yard, he noticed that someone was staring at him in the dark.

Pei Ling's expression did not change much. He had already recognized it. It was the aura of those casual cultivators.Most of them were the casual cultivators who were afraid of the title of the natural sect and sent someone to observe his every move.

At present, he still has important things to do, so he ignored the casual cultivators. Seeing a villager passing by nearby, he walked over directly: This old man, how dare you ask where the village chief is?

The villager stood firm and sighed: The young master has been away for too long, why have he even forgotten such a thing?

Then he pointed him in a direction, and you go there, there are seven pine and cypress trees in front of the door.

Thank you, Mr.After Pei Ling thanked him, he did what he said.

After a while, he indeed saw seven tall pine and cypress trees. Behind the pine and cypress is a solemn mansion built.

It is tall and majestic, and there is also a carved stone lion guarding at the door, but the stone lion seems to be old and has a strange shape.

In general, this mansion is very incompatible with the surrounding huts.

If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I could not imagine that there would be such a deep courtyard in such a village.

He observed the surroundings and then stepped forward and knocked on the door.

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Azu Village.

In front of a house next to the river, it is bare and nothing, and a yard made of stones, but it is as tall as the chest. Standing outside the yard, you can directly see the situation in the yard.

At this moment, there was no one in the courtyard, but there were some firewood and the like scattered.

Qiao Ciguang looked around and knocked on the gate of the courtyard.

After a while, an old man with white hair and beard walked out of the house. He was wearing a relatively new short brown dress, with a woven hemp rope in his hand.

Standing under the eaves, through the simple gate, after seeing Qiao Ciguang, the old man's expression changed slightly, and he immediately returned to normal. He walked over and opened the door and said with a whisper: I, the village chief of Naizi Village, a foreigner, what's the matter?

Although his expression changed for a moment and quickly covered it up, Qiao Ciguang was innocent and could not escape her eyes any subtle movement.

This old man must know something!

Thinking of this, Qiao Ciguang bowed and said calmly: I came from afar, thanking you for your stay in the village, so I was so grateful, so I came to offer some thoughts.

While speaking, she reached into the storage bag, found a piece of ore, used the change of the Five Elements, and pointed it into gold, then took it out and sent it to the old man. If you were to bother, please forgive me.

Seeing Qiao Ciguang take out a piece of golden thing, the old man frowned first, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while before he recognized that it was gold.

He shook his head and said: My village is located in a remote place and the caravan hasn't been here for a long time.Usually, we barter from the village. Although gold is good, it is useless to us.The girl's heart is appreciated, but the gold is still taken back.

Hearing this, Qiao Ciguang narrowed his eyes slightly.

This old man is old and almost doesn't even recognize gold. He thinks that this entire Zi Village has been isolated from the world for a long time.

So she put away the gold and said sincerely: We came from afar, and we carried a lot of them to travel. If my father-in-law is willing, we can trade with you like a caravan, but we don’t know what you need?

The village has always been self-sufficient and there is nothing short of anything in it.The old man pondered for a moment and then said, at most, change some snack toys for the children.

However, there is a funeral now, and everything is missing...

The one that is missing the most is the drummer.

But I see that the girls are dressed well, and they must be noble people. They can't be condescending and doing this cheap karma. Alas...

Qiao Ciguang took advantage of the situation and asked: When he entered the village, he heard that the village would hold a funeral tomorrow. According to the customs of our hometown, we should go and say annoyance, but we don’t know whose family the victim was. What was the statement when we went there?

It is the old Xu family in front of him.When the old man heard this, he sighed and said, "The Xu family is young... I never thought that they would win the lottery this time."

Draw lots?

Qiao Ciguang's face changed and he immediately asked: Draw lots?

This is a rule passed down from ancestors.The old man said slowly, whoever draws the lottery will be the funeral of his family.

I dare to ask, when will the lottery be drawn?And how to draw lots?Qiao Ciguang asked in a deep voice, what would he do if no one of the family he was drawn had passed away?

The old man asked irresponsible: I see that there are many young and strong girls with me, but are there anyone willing to help with the funeral?Although my village has no money to treat as a reward, it is also a bit polite and talks about its feelings.

Qiao Ciguang thought about it and said: If my father-in-law is willing to answer my question, I will discuss with my companions and help you. How about it?

Hearing this, the old man simply shut up, said nothing, and just shook his head.

Qiao Ciguang asked for a while but failed, so he had to change the question: When did Zicun settle down here?Why did the ancestors pass on the rules of drawing lots to hold funerals?

But when the old man shook his head and said nothing, she frowned slightly and continued, "What do the rules in the village mean?"

This time, the old man finally spoke, his eyes were dark and he said word by word: This is also passed down by his ancestors. If it violates it, the curse will come.

...Just as Qiao Ciguang was talking to the old man, Shi Wanli had already asked and came to the door of Lao Xu's house as the villagers said.

A piece of white cloth was hung on the door of this house.

What made Shi Wanli take a look at it was the Spring Festival couplets on this house. Although they were also green, they were particularly bright, as if they had just been posted on it, which was a bit out of place with the people around them.

The Spring Festival couplets should have been posted in the twelfth lunar month. It is more particular and will be replaced on New Year's Eve.

No matter which one it is, normally, the degree of depreciation of Spring Festival couplets in a village should be about the same...

What's going on with this family?

Shi Wanli pondered, walked forward and knocked on the door.

For a moment, no one answered.

After hesitating for a while, Shi Wanli watched around and saw that no one had passed by, so he took a step back and blew his breath gently. The door that was originally closed opened silently.

He glanced at him and had already confirmed that there was no one in the main house, so he quickly flashed into it, and with a backhand move, the door closed again.