polar demon

Chapter 46

Yangcheng county government office was dark and silent, only the study room was still lit with candlelight.

Zhou Cunjian sat at the desk and wrote vigorously.Today, there are too many things for him to deal with.

The county government in Yecheng will be merged into Yangcheng tomorrow.The placement of relevant personnel is a big and heavy problem.

Originally, the [-] defenders of Yecheng would also be merged into Yangcheng, but today they received news that they would not come again, so they were merged into Dongchongjun's Yibing on the spot.

This made Zhou Cunjian feel that he had been humiliated.

The army of the imperial court has never been merged into the private soldiers of the emperor. Is this the suspicion and distrust of his ability by the superiors?

But he is just a small county lieutenant, and he is the powerful Dong Chongjun.No matter how dissatisfied Zhou Cunjian was, he could only swallow it in his stomach.

He just didn't understand why the higher-ups made this decision.

As Ye County became Dong Chongjun's food town, it meant that the strength of the Lan family would become stronger.

The reason is not something that Zhou Cunjian is qualified to know because of his position.Maybe the star watcher knows, or maybe he is not qualified to know.
"Bah!"

There was a knock on the door, followed by a voice:
"grown ups."

Zhou Cunjian recognized the voice of the yamen servant in charge of the pigeons, and he replied:
"come in."

As the door opened, the servant came in.

"Haven't the pigeons from the East and West Pass defenders arrived yet?" Zhou Cunjian asked.

The yamen servant respectfully replied:

"Back to the adults, the little one has been guarding by the pigeon coop, and no carrier pigeons have come."

Zhou Cunjian frowned deeply upon hearing this answer:

"I haven't come yet. I gave an order earlier, and I have to return to the situation every day. But now, I haven't come yet!"

The homing pigeon, which should have arrived earlier, has never heard of it.

There are only two possibilities for such a situation. One is that the defenders in the east and west directions are completely wiped out, and even the carrier pigeons have not had time to send them out.The second is that they received other, higher-level orders.

Both situations are undoubtedly not good news, but Zhou Cunjian is most worried about the latter.

If the defenders are wiped out, then they can retreat if they can't do it.And if it is the second case, it means that there is no way for me and others to escape!
Zhou Cunjian only felt upset, and he handed the letter written on the table to the yamen servant:

"Immediately pass this letter to the prefect with a pigeon!"

The yamen servant received the letter and was ordered to leave.

With the candles brightly lit, Zhou Cunjian sat in front of the table and was stunned for a while.

Finally, he spread out a piece of letter paper again, raised the brush and continued writing.

Too many letters had to be delivered in a timely manner, and things were already going wrong.

"Bah ah!"

The knock sounded again.

A familiar voice came from outside the door:

"My lord, please see me."

Zhou Cunjian was slightly puzzled when he heard this voice:
"Jiang Yuan? It's already this time, why is he here?"

After another hour, it will be the time of Dianmao.If something really happens, we can wait until midnight to talk about it.

"Jiang Butou, come in."

Zhou Cun said without raising his sword head.

The door opened with a "squeak!", and then closed again.

Footsteps also came to the table, and then stopped.

"Jiang Butou," Zhou Cunjian put down his pen and raised his head, "At this moment——"

Zhou Cunjian's voice suddenly stopped, and his heart was beating wildly.

There is no one in front of the table!
A cold sweat drenched his clothes.

He clearly heard Jiang Yuan begging to see him, and he clearly heard Jiang Yuan walk in.

However, at this time, he was the only one in the entire study.

"Tick!"

The sweat from his brow dripped onto the letter paper, causing the ink on it to spread.

"Jiang Yuan?"

He opened his mouth, but he felt his voice was hoarse and dry. No one answered him in the room.

Zhou Cunjian only felt his hands tremble slightly, he twisted his neck firmly, and shifted his gaze to the saber hanging on the wall.

Then, his whole body suddenly rushed towards the saber.

At the same time, all the candles in the study were extinguished.

The surroundings suddenly fell into boundless darkness.

The crooked moon hangs in the sky, and the moonlight shines on the weedy hills.

A half-person tall stone tablet appeared in sight, one side of it was obscured by moonlight, and the other side was shrouded in dark and deep darkness.

Jiang Yuan came to the stele, passed the stele, and not far behind was the legendary fierce place.

On the top of the stele, there are four striking characters:
"Strange people stay away!"

On the bottom, there is engraved with someone who disappeared or died here in a certain year and month.

Jiang Yuan bypassed the stele and ran quickly down the hill.

Below the hill is a flat grassland.

The grass was thick and soft, and there was a rotten smell in it.

Jiang Yuan moved on, his eyes looking around in the open grass.

Finally, at the end of the meadow, among the low bushes on one side, Jiang Yuan saw a person.

It was a slim figure, which seemed to be a woman.

"Girl!" Jiang Yuan greeted, then walked forward.

As she approached, she saw that the woman was wearing a long linen skirt, with a delicately carved wooden hairpin inserted in her hair, and she was holding a pipa painted with Di flowers in her arms.

The woman kept her head down quietly, and slowly raised her face as Jiang Yuan approached.

It was an extremely terrifying face, half of the face seemed to have been burned by a fire, and it was covered with scars.Half of the lips were also burned off, and the teeth could be faintly seen even with the mouth closed.

The burns to the eyes were particularly severe, the eyelids of both eyes collapsed, the whites of the eyes were thick, and there were no pupils.

Jiang Yuan frowned and asked:
"Girl, are you standing here in the middle of the night to scare people?"

The woman's pale eyes turned to Jiang Yuan, her face was ugly, but her voice was pleasant:

"Am I ugly?"

Jiang Yuan nodded:
"As far as appearance is concerned, it is very ugly at present."

The woman asked again:
"Scared you? Why do they call me No Salt Girl?"

Jiang Yuan lost interest in talking to her.

He walked around the woman, intending to move on.

The woman suddenly said:

"Don't go any further! If you go any further, you will lose your life! Go back!"

Jiang Yuan turned around and asked:

"Have you ever seen a middle-aged man?"

The woman shook her head:

"Before, my younger sister brought a child over, and I scared him away."

Jiang Yuan felt that talking to this woman was a waste of time.

So he kept going.

The woman's body suddenly trembled, and her expression seemed to become very frightened, which made her appearance even more terrifying.

Just listen to her sadly say:
"Why don't you listen to me and you will be eaten"

Jiang Yuan continued to go deeper without looking back.

He climbed over the bushes and headed further.Over there, there seemed to be a flicker of fire.

The woman became more and more sad. She sat on the stone, nodded her head and lowered her eyebrows, her fingers were long and crystal clear, while stroking the Dihua pipa, she sang softly:
"The bright moon has no light, and the ghosts are swaying in the wind. When you go home, you will be in trouble. Worship the moon late at night, don't look at it, don't look at it! The living are dying, and the blood is pouring."

The pale eyes are full of sorrow, the tortoiseshell fake armor presses the strings, the five notes of the pear pipa are all lost, and the wilderness suddenly becomes clear.

Jiang Yuan has gone further and further away.

The light of the fire also began to become clear, and a small village appeared in front of his eyes.

It seems that a celebration is being held in the village, the lights are bright, and the voices are full of people.

Jiang Yuan walked into the village and saw the villagers gathered on the rice field.

A bonfire was lit in the paddy field, an earthen altar was set up, flags were planted around it, and some utensils were placed on the altar.

Soon some villagers noticed Jiang Yuan, and a girl greeted her with a smile:
"It's really rare for a distinguished guest to come here at night. It coincides with the moon festival being held in the village. Since the distinguished guest is here, why not be happy."

The girl was only twenty-eight years old, but she was extremely beautiful.

The surrounding villagers also gathered around, holding a pot of rice and milk in their hands, and warmly invited them.

Jiang Yuan said to the girl:
"I'm here to find someone, a middle-aged man, have you seen it?"

The girl took Jiang Yuan's hand and walked towards the final earth altar in the paddy field:
"The sacrificial offering is about to begin, honored guests are welcome!"

Jiang Yuan shrugged helplessly and said to himself:

"Didn't you hear me?"

At this time, the surrounding villagers suddenly cheered loudly.

Amidst the shouts of the crowd, two middle-aged men were brought to the earth altar by villagers wearing pure white masks.

The two middle-aged men were bound by the hemp rope and knelt on the ground, their faces were full of horror, and they kept struggling desperately, but it was of no avail.

The villagers wearing pure white masks began to dance around the two middle-aged men. Every time they waved the hook sacrificial vessel in their hands, the villagers under the altar always got thunderous applause.

Jiang Yuan rushed to the girl beside him and said:
"I met someone over there just now, her face."

"That's my sister."

As the girl spoke, she wrapped her hands around Jiang Yuan's neck, and her soft body just clung to Jiang Yuan's body.

Her big eyes looked at Jiang Yuan longingly:

"Little brother, I like you!"

Jiang Yuan hugged the girl's slender waist:

"I like you too."

The girl smiled brightly, licked her cherry lips with her tender tongue, and said ambiguously:

"I really want to eat you right now."

Jiang Yuan grinned and showed his white teeth:

"Me too"

At this time, another change occurred on the earth altar.

I saw that the villagers wearing pure white masks had stopped dancing. They grabbed a middle-aged man and tied him to a wooden frame. Then, wielding a sharp hooked sacrificial vessel, they cut open the middle-aged man's clothes, exposing his chest .

The middle-aged man became more and more frightened and kept yelling crazily.

Jiang Yuan pushed away the girl in his arms, and asked loudly to the two middle-aged men on the earthen altar:

"Which of you is Xiaolong's father?"

The man tied to the wooden frame was still screaming crazily.

But the middle-aged man kneeling on the ground glared at Jiang Yuan, struggled and said angrily:

"You are not allowed to hurt my children! Come at me if you have the guts!"

Jiang Yuan locked on the target: "It seems to be him."

Then, he pulled the girl next to him into his arms, and sniffed the fragrance from the girl's neck for a while, which made the girl giggle.

At this moment, a villager wearing a white mask pierced the chest of the man on the wooden frame with a hook, and then cut it open continuously.

Blood flowed horizontally, and the surrounding villagers screamed even more frantically.

There were vertical and horizontal ravines on the ground, and the blood pooled and slowly poured along the small ravines into a deep hole as thick as an arm on the earthen altar.

Kneel down with them, shout to the bright moon hanging high in the sky, and then keep kneeling.

The man on the wooden frame was bleeding slowly to death in this strange atmosphere.

The villagers wearing white masks picked up the kneeling middle-aged man and tied him to the wooden frame.

(End of this chapter)