No taboos

Chapter 176 Mr. Xu is my blessing

The tofu seller was cut into two halves by Shi Ba Ding's "Box Sword Qi". The skin on his face changed strangely and sucked the corpse dry.

When Xu Yuan went to chase Ming Xiu, Shi Ba Ding had already led people to deal with the monster.

When I came back now, there was no more weirdness in the yard.

The captains searched the entire yard again.

Three bodies were dug out from next to the donkey shed.

The skin of the corpse was peeled off.

But it was easy to determine that the deceased were the original owner of the yard, Qin Taichen, and a middle-aged woman.

Other captains also rushed over and knocked on doors and searched every house.

It was soon discovered that the middle-aged woman at the end of the street had died at home.

Like the fourth brother, she was ordered to perform rituals and offer sacrifices to the heavens.

The captains then found a carriage in the woman's house.

This is enough to prove that the information provided by the Iron Boat Gang is correct. Four people did indeed hire a carriage and came to Qingyu Township from Champa.

But these four people are obviously not the four thieves who pretended to be from the Extermination of Filth Division.

Xu Yuan muttered, "Where on earth did those four guys hide?"

If Xu Yuan had not discovered that the four people were impersonating him, they might have been the four of them, and he would not have pursued them so relentlessly.

"Have the souls of these people been captured?" Xu Yuan asked Jia Yi.

The latter shook his head and said helplessly: "The soul of the tofu seller was eaten by the dough. The fourth brother and the woman were ordered to perform a sacrifice to the heaven, and their souls were also sacrificed along with them.

As for the life cultivator himself, his soul had been infected after the strange transformation and had become turbid. He could only let Inspector Di burn him.

There is no way to examine their souls, and there are no other traces left in the yard, so there is no way to figure out the origins of these four people and their purpose of coming to Qingyu Township.

Shi Ba Ding saw Xu Yuan's regretful expression and advised, "Don't overthink it. Let alone a strange case, even many ordinary cases in this world can only be classified as unsolved cases.

This time, we were able to catch these four thugs and kill them, preventing them from causing further harm, which is considered a success."

Xu Yuan nodded, but what he was thinking in his heart was that he should go back and ask Senior Qu to do the calculation to see if he could find some new clues.

The Qin family was in dire straits, and Qin Taichen was murdered by a villain without even realizing it.

The whole family cried loudly.

Some members of the Extermination of Impurities Division originally lived in the Qin family, but now it is not convenient for them to stay there any longer.

Xu Yuan ordered: "Clean up the two scenes and stay here tonight.

Tomorrow morning, find a guide and we'll set out directly to search the four village temples."

The captains under his command immediately took action and cleaned the yards of the tofu seller and the woman with all their might, and rested in the two yards respectively tonight.

The houses were not big, so the captains squeezed together to make room for Xu Yuan and Shi Bading.

There was no room for the two inspectors to stay in each room.

Xu Yuan didn't care about these things at all, and Shi Ba Ding, a martial artist, was even more carefree.

Before going to bed, Shi Ba Ding said to Xu Yuan a little embarrassedly: "Xu brother, you go to sleep first. Hey, brother, I snore a little loudly. If I go to sleep first, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep."

As a result, in the middle of the night, Xu Yuan was still woken up by Shi Bading's snoring.

Xu Yuan smiled bitterly and started practicing.

He practiced the "Five Cauldrons Cooking" for more than an hour.

Xu Yuan checked his level of life cultivation again.

After Qin Ze condensed his destiny, Xu Yuan found that his level of destiny cultivation had improved a little.

After absorbing the ashes of that life cultivator today, I have made significant improvements.

"I'm about to be promoted to the seventh rank!" Xu Yuan was secretly excited: "I'm about to get the third destiny!"

"But it seems to be missing a little bit, and it's a very critical point."

Because there are very few destiny cultivators and most of them are supported by wealthy families, there is very little information about destiny cultivators circulating in the world.

Therefore, among the stories of the Seven Great Sects that his father had told Xu Yuan, there wasn't much about life cultivation. How to practice and how to advance were just a few words.

Xu Yuan still has to figure it out on his own.

The life cultivator I met today was naked when he crawled out of the donkey skin, and it was obvious that he didn't bring any life cultivator cultivation methods or anything like that.

Xu Yuan later had the yard searched again, also hoping to find something like the life-cultivation notes.

Unfortunately nothing was found.

Before I knew it, it was daybreak.

Xu Yuan heard Shi Ba Ding still snoring loudly, feeling uneasy. He shook him awake and said, "Inspector Shi, it's time to get up."

Shi Ba Ding has the kind of physique that allows him to fall asleep as soon as he lies down and feel energetic as soon as he opens his eyes.

Almost all martial artists are like this.

"Oh, let me see today's taboo."

Shi Bading got up, rubbed the eye boogers from the corners of his eyes, and took out an almanac.

It's not a pocket-sized edition like Fu Jingyu's, but an ordinary almanac.

He was tall, and the almanac in his hand was about the same size as the pocket version in Fu Jingyu's hand.

Today's ban:
Walking at night, circling, shouting in the mountains, dreaming during the day.

"Oh, daytime dreaming is forbidden today. Luckily, Brother Xu woke me up early." Shi Ba Ding was very grateful.

I secretly felt that everything went smoothly for me with Brother Xu, he brought me good luck, and I should interact with him more often in the future.

Xu Yuan said seriously, "My foolish brother was indeed worried about the taboo of 'daydreaming', so he woke up Brother Shi on purpose. We, the people of the Exorcism Department, must be even more careful."

"Brother, you have a point."

Xu Yuan opened the door and came out. Lang Xiaoba had been waiting outside. He quickly stepped forward and poured the well water that had been drawn long ago into the wooden basin.

"The water is boiling, would you like to wait a moment, sir?"

"No need." Xu Yuan washed his face and mouth quickly.

Lang Xiaoba added, "There's a breakfast shop on the street. I've already asked someone to buy some."

The food in the village restaurants may not be very good, but it is better than what the officers in the Extermination of Filth Department cook.

After Xu Yuan and Shi Bading had breakfast, Di Youzhi had already found a guide.

"It costs one or two taels of silver to hire him." Di Youzhi thought it was expensive, but no one else was willing to go.

Xu Yuan jumped on his horse and said, "Let's go!"

……

In addition to Huangya Village, there are four other villages in Qingyu Township.

Only one village actually worships its ancestors.

This village is the farthest from Xiaoyu Mountain. There are only two mounds outside the village, and the natural conditions are the best.

In the other three villages, the temple keeper in one village was an obese, slow-moving old woman.

She always wears a triangular flower scarf on her head.

If you pull the turban away, it will reveal its true form: a talking toad.

He is full of lies and can deceive travelers and merchants passing by.

There are hundreds of disgusting bumps on its back, and at least three wronged souls are imprisoned in each of them.

In the village temple of the second village, there was a yin earthworm hidden underground.

It is ten feet long and eats everything.

The area three miles around the temple has turned into a swamp. No matter what you step on, there is no way out.

In the last temple, there is a nest of weasels.

(End of this chapter)