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Chapter 471 Raising Snakes (please subscribe and vote monthly)
He looked outside and saw no one was looking over before continuing: "Raising snakes? No wonder Qingzhu said it sensed the auras of many similar species. Every family in the town actually raised snakes!
It seems that they are not allowed to kill snakes because they raise them. That’s not right! So what happened to those people who died because of killing snakes? Were they the ones who killed him? "

Chou Chou said: "Those are not necessarily true, maybe they are fabricated specifically to prevent outsiders from killing the snakes they raise. Isn't this nip in the bud?

I have observed the feng shui and luck in the town, and there is no evil spirit, which means there are no evil spirits. The legendary snake demon does not exist. I did not sense any evil spirit.

Although some abandoned yards or grass will have some snakes hiding in them, those that are raised are all in the basement, mostly in darker and damper areas of the yard. You can tell at a glance that they are specially built for snakes.

However, some basements are empty, and there are no snakes. There are only many snakes shed inside, and I don’t know where those snakes went. "

Only snake slough? Qingyan suddenly thought of something and said: "You said that almost every household in that town raises snakes. The town is quite big, so there should be a lot of snakes.

Is there a possibility that those missing snakes were recruited to the county town by the county magistrate's wife who knew how to control snakes? That's where those snakes passed yesterday. "

Now think about it, even if the county magistrate's wife can control snakes, where did the snakes come from? It can't be wild in the mountains, right? Yesterday, there were thousands of them. The mountains in the county town are not very deep. Even if we attract all the snakes, there may not be that many snakes on the whole mountain.

Although this place is not very close to the county seat, it cannot be said to be far away. Of course, it would take a lot of time for those snakes to crawl to the county seat. After all, it was already noon when they walked here from the county seat in the morning.

Although it took some time to get out of the city, it still took more than an hour to get here.

But what if only part of it is raised here, and the other parts may be raised in the county town, or in the mountains. Anyway, it cannot be that the other party also has a space for living animals.

Chou Chou looked at Qing Zhu, "You should be able to communicate with those snakes. Go into the space and find a place to release them. Ask if they were raised by people from Qushui Town."

There is no way to ask now. There is no contract in the underground palace space. The snakes are all sleeping and there is no way to communicate, let alone on the carriage. With so many snakes, who knows which ones are here.

We can only go into the Jinyang space first, find an open place, get out all the snakes, and ask them together so that nothing is missed.

Qingzhu nodded and dodged directly into the space.

Qingyan continued the previous topic with Chou Chou, "Then raising snakes in the town can explain the prohibition on killing snakes, but what about not being able to open restaurants and inns?
You said that there was no evil spirit in the town, which meant that there were no evil spirits or ghosts causing trouble. But once or twice, it could be said to be an accidental coincidence. It would be a little unreasonable to say that it was like this five or six times. "

Chou Chou nodded, "This is indeed strange, but this is not something that happened recently. I can only see the current situation of this town, so if there were any ghosts and ghosts here before, it's hard to say. If There are no relics like Qinian Village or Changshou Town, and there are no traces left after many years.”

Qingyan nodded, "It's really hard to find the reason. It doesn't have much to do with us anyway. I'm just curious. It's best if I can find out. If I can't find it, it doesn't matter."

After talking about other things for a while, Qingzhu came out of the space. It took almost ten minutes from entering to coming out.

As soon as Qingzhu came out, he didn't wait for them to ask, and just told him what he asked himself.

"Half of those snakes came out from here, not last night, but on the mountain over there before, the mountain three miles away from Yongning County.

There are several caves on the shady side of the mountain, just right for them to live there. They were sent there at the beginning of this month.

According to those snakes, a batch will be sent to the community every two or three months. Then a group of societies will be brought back. Just rotate it like this. Mainly those snakes on the mountain. Many snakes are used to being raised and have to find their own food. Many snakes have very low abilities without training, so they often starve to death. In this way, the hunting dogs who come to the mountain in rotation will consume it, and they won't lose too much if they don't know how to carry it.

I also asked them about the county magistrate's wife who could drive them. They didn't know these things. They only knew that they were trained to obey unconditionally as long as they heard that voice.

In fact, when the sound comes out, they can't resist. When the sound comes out, they will subconsciously follow the corresponding command, and they don't know anything else.

However, this was the first time I heard them talk about a large-scale dispatch like yesterday. Before, the woman went to the mountains to train them, and they didn't know much about anything else. "

Qingyan nodded, thinking that this was probably the so-called raising an army for a thousand days, and using the army for a while. These snakes should be the ones that the county magistrate's wife kept for herself.

I just don’t know when Qushui Town started to cooperate with the county magistrate’s wife. Although it is said to be the closest town to Yongning County, it takes more than half a day to go back and forth. It cannot be the county magistrate’s wife. Do you run back and forth every day?

There must be someone contacting the two sides. Of course, it is also possible that the mayor or other managers of Qushui Town are subordinates of the county magistrate's wife and follow her orders.

It's just that this is not normal. Even if there is no such electoral system for mayors now, they can be rotated every few years, so they can't be held for a lifetime.

Moreover, it is difficult to make everyone in the town obey orders. With so many people, there are always a few rebels. If they are all so obedient, there is only one reason, coercion and inducement.

If the benefits are big enough, it is indeed not impossible. Just like those poor villages in later generations that are originally difficult to manage, they may not be willing to ask the entire village to engage in breeding, but as soon as they see huge benefits, they will all do it. , even if it is stopped, it cannot be stopped.

So as long as there is really money to be made, everyone is motivated, and no one has spoken against it. It's just about who gets the benefits.

Although the county magistrate's wife does not look like someone who is short of money, it is not a small sum to keep so many snakes for a long time and pay wages to so many people. These snakes should have other uses. .

There is also the issue of the inn and restaurant. Qingyan guessed again: "Do you think the inn and restaurant were also set up by the county magistrate's wife?
If restaurants and inns open in the town, more people will stay overnight or enter the town. Snakes are nocturnal animals. Although farmed snakes can be kept in basements, some will inevitably escape. When you discover these clues, you will definitely have some associations. One household, two households, or ten households, let’s say, it’s all over the town, so it’s inevitable that people won’t have bad associations. This is to keep the town’s secrets, so the other party doesn’t allow restaurants and inns to open. , it is even possible that the five or six fires before, and those people may have been arranged by the county magistrate's wife, just to put on a show for those who were interested.

Just to put an end to their thoughts, as for burning people to death, who knows, maybe those were just for show, and the people had quietly left here when the fire started.

After all, they were all burned to ashes, so there’s no way to find the body, right? "

Chou Chou nodded and said to them: "That's it for now. Then I'll keep an eye on these two sides to see how they are connected and whether there are any other secrets.

I don’t know what the situation is now, but it’s really not possible. If they want to do bad things, I will come back again and collect those snakes into the space.

Anyway, if the underground palace space is stationary, it should be piled high if it is piled high. If it is not possible, it can be placed in the Jinyang space or my space.

Most of the snakes taken in before were not poisonous, but some of the ones bred there were poisonous, and the ones left there were actually more dangerous.

However, the purpose of the other party is unclear now, so it is not appropriate to be too arbitrary. Maybe they are selling snake wine. "

After saying this, Chou Chou was surprised that he seemed to have made a mistake. How could he talk about using snakes to make wine in front of Qingzhu, a snake? As expected, Qingzhu's face changed a little.

Chou Chou quickly comforted him: "Since the county magistrate's wife asked people to raise them, they shouldn't be used for this purpose. Don't worry, if they really do this, I will take back all those snakes when the time comes. You can place them wherever you like.

It is best to be in a place with no human habitation in the deep mountains and old forests, so that you will not be persecuted again. "

Qingzhu nodded and smiled gratefully at it, "Thank you. In fact, these snakes have nothing to do with me. Although they are the same kind, they really don't have much to do with each other. I am very grateful that you can consider my feelings. Okay, actually I just hurt some animals, and I don’t really want to protect all snakes under my wings.

There is a saying among you humans that I think makes sense. Individuals have their own destiny and fate. I cannot change others with my own thoughts. Maybe I think it is good for them, but they may not agree with it. "

Qingyan and Chou Chou nodded happily when they saw it thinking this way. That's right. It was because they encountered this incident and were worried about Qingzhu's thoughts that they thought of releasing the snakes elsewhere. .

If you, Qingzhu, were not here, to be honest, they would not mind such nosy matters. At most, they would just investigate out of curiosity.

Just like what Qingzhu said, things harm their own kind, and sometimes it is easier to be soft-hearted among the same kind.

Just like sometimes when you see people who abuse cats and dogs, it seems that many people will feel very angry. People who have cats and dogs at home will feel distressed, or they feel that such people do not deserve to live.

But they are also furry, and many people wear coats made of mink and fox fur. Doesn't being skinned alive mean they are tortured and killed?

The same goes for snakes. When stewed into vegetables, some people will kill a snake directly when they see it in the wild. They even cut off its head and smash it with rocks to prevent it from biting again. Isn't it right at this time? Killing? To put it bluntly, they are just treated differently.

The distance of several miles is very fast, and it takes less than half an hour to reach Qushui Town.

Before arriving at the entrance of the town, the first thing we arrived at was the collapsed Fengyuan Temple.

It is located less than a hundred meters west of Qushui Town. The roads here are wider than elsewhere and can accommodate four carriages traveling in parallel. The ground outside the Taoist temple was previously paved with stone slabs, like Like a small square.

It can be seen that Mr. Li put a lot of effort into building this small Taoist temple. At least the surrounding land is not flat. He must have spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to consolidate the place. It must have been filled in. It was built after the soil was transported from other places.

I don’t know if the basement was built in the same period, because the upper part has collapsed. I can only see that it was made of bricks. There are no tiles in the basement, and the bricks are different. The ones below are made of large stone bricks. That's why we can't be sure whether they are from the same period.

When they were about to pass by, Chou Chou sent a message to Jin Yang to call it out and let it come out to see if there was any formation here.

Now Chou Chou and Huang Jin were sitting outside the carriage. Jin Yang came out and sat directly in the carriage. He said hello to Qing Yan and then stretched out his consciousness.

It probed directly into the basement below, then pulled it back and said to them: "I didn't find any place isolated by the formation. The underground stone chamber is indeed that big, and there is nothing special about it."

Now that I came out, I also explored Naqushui Town. Unexpectedly, it actually discovered a place with a formation.

It was an abandoned courtyard with two and a half entrances. At the end was a garden with a small lotus pond that was almost filled in. The formation was in the lotus pond.

It can be seen that before the yard was abandoned, it belonged to a wealthy family. After all, ordinary people do not know how to build gardens and lotus ponds.

There is also a dry well in the middle courtyard. There is even a human skeleton in the dry well. It seems that it should be a man's. It has turned into white bones and must be quite old.

There was no water in the well. It had dried up and was covered with a stone slab. There was already a layer of about two centimeters of soil on top of the stone slab. If it hadn't used its divine sense, it really wouldn't have been able to detect it.

Hearing this, Qingyan and the others all followed the direction it said. Of course, everyone except Chou Chou discovered something. They couldn't detect the formation or the ground.