I can strengthen infinitely

Speaking of which, Antong County is also strange. Everyone I saw on the road was either holding an umbrella or wearing a bamboo hat, and everyone's face was listless and lifeless.

Qin Yuesheng couldn't help feeling worried about the situation of the water ghosts in this place. What a terrifying water ghost it must be to scare the people of a county so out of control.

The center of the county seat is a square completely paved with stone bricks. A thick and big tree stands in the center of the square. The dense branches and leaves grow extremely densely, like a canopy.

A few children with braids were squatting under a big tree and playing cricket fights. Qin Yuesheng was thinking that he didn't know the situation in Antong County.

So Qin Yuesheng walked towards the big tree, wanting to ask a child to be a guide to lead him the way.

"Bite it, bite it."

The two crickets faced each other in the bamboo bowl, jumping out and colliding with each other from time to time, the fight was quite fierce.

When Qin Yuesheng came over, only one child raised his head and looked at Qin Yuesheng with puzzled eyes.

"Son, are you interested in earning some money?" Qin Yuesheng took out a silver ingot: "With this money, wouldn't playing dog and cock fights be more interesting."

"Dog fighting?"

"cockfighting?"

But they had never heard of this kind of game, and several children immediately expressed their strong interest, and they all got up and asked, "What is dog fighting and cock fighting?"

Qin Yuesheng said: "Each of you raises a dog and a chicken. When they grow up, they will be locked up and fight together. It's similar to a cricket fight, but it will be more intense."

The child nodded again and again: "Okay! I want to make money, and I want to play dog ​​and cock fighting."

Qin Yuesheng handed him the silver ingot: "I just came to your Antong County, and I'm not familiar with the terrain. If you take me to these places, the money will be yours."

As he spoke, Qin Yuesheng spoke out the names of the residents recorded on the paper.

"Aunt Wang's house, I know, I'll take you there."

"I also know the homes of Grandpa Li and Widow Zhao, as well as the homes of Grandma Zhang and Uncle Zheng."

"I know……"

"I know……"

Seeing these children speak enthusiastically, Qin Yuesheng touched the head of one of them and said: "Don't worry, let's come one by one, let's go to the first family first."

When Qin Yuesheng withdrew his hand, he saw several strands of hair inexplicably growing between his fingers, and he couldn't help but wondered: "Do children nowadays start to lose their hair so early? I didn't use much force."

These children picked up the windmill that was placed on the ground next to them, and immediately happily ran out of the shadow under the big tree, towards an alley in the distance.

"It's really innocent." Qin Yuesheng secretly said, and immediately followed.

Following these children all the way through the streets, Qin Yuesheng came to a dilapidated house in a short while. He saw that the tiled roof of the house was messy and the window frames were dilapidated. room.

"Aunt Wang! Aunt Wang! A brother is looking for you." The child knocked on the door and yelled.

However, there was no response, and no one came out to answer the door.

Qin Yuesheng said: "You guys wait here first, I'll go in and have a look."

He jumped up, jumped onto the roof with ease, and jumped in from the broken hole in the roof.

There was a musty smell in the whole house. The tables, chairs, bowls, chopsticks and pans were neatly arranged, but there was a lot of dust accumulated on them. It was obvious that no one had lived here for a long time.

Qin Yuesheng went to the backyard and opened the door. The backyard was surrounded by mud walls. The vegetables in a small vegetable field were yellow and black on the ground. The dried fish and spare ribs were already smelly and rotten, and many flies were buzzing around the fish.

"Hmm..." Qin Yuesheng pondered, and then went out of the room again.

"Brother, is Aunt Wang here?" A child raised his head and asked.

"Well, not here, let's go to the next place to see." Qin Yuesheng nodded in response.

At this moment, he suddenly noticed the longevity lock on the child's neck. On the lock surface, several cracks were clearly visible, and some black solids remained in the cracks.

Before Qin Yuesheng could look any further, the group of children ran towards the next house, their faces still happy.

After checking several houses in a row, they were all in exactly the same condition. There was no one in the house, and there was dust everywhere.

According to the young man from the pawn shop, these places were the places that the seven-star prison officials would go to check. First, the seven-star prison officials disappeared first, and now it is discovered that all the residents who have encountered water ghosts have disappeared.

Immediately, Qin Yuesheng's heart was shrouded in a cloud of suspicion.

Will there be any relationship between the two?

When the last place on the paper was also found, Qin Yuesheng reluctantly stuffed the paper into his arms, and said to the children, "Thank you for making you run for so long."

"Brother, these uncles, aunts, and mothers-in-law are not at home, so you don't want to take your money back." The child asked with some reluctance holding the silver ingot.

"Don't worry, the money is still yours, do me one last favor now, take me to the county government office in your Antong County, and you can leave there." Qin Yuesheng said.

Now that the only clue in his hand is useless, Qin Yuesheng had no choice but to meet the local county magistrate first, and maybe he could learn something about the officials of the Seven Star Supervision from him.

Whenever members of the Seven Star Supervisor go to a place to do business, they first go to the local yamen to settle down and let the local officials fully cooperate. This is an iron rule. Bai Hao and Zuo Zonghao did this in the past.

The group of Seven Star Supervisor officials who came here to investigate had no reason not to visit the county magistrate here.

Under the leadership of this group of children, Qin Yuesheng soon arrived outside the county government office of Antong County.

The dilapidated grievance drum is covered with fallen leaves on the ground, and there are two listless gatekeepers. The entire Antong county government office reveals a dilapidated atmosphere.

As soon as Qin Yuesheng walked over, a yamen servant immediately stopped him with a wooden stick in his hand: "What are you doing, go beat the drums first."

"I'm not here to complain, I'm here to see your magistrate."

"Master County Magistrate, you can see him right away? What is your identity?"

"Go and report to your lord that an official from Qingyang City has arrived." Qin Yuesheng took out a tael of silver and handed it over.

For Qin Yuesheng, it would be great if things could be settled with money. There was no need to waste time with this kind of low-level people who were arrogant and had disputes.

Sure enough, people are blinded by money. When Qin Yuesheng handed over the silver taels, he immediately reached out to take it, and even his tone became polite: "It's easy to say, little brother, you wait first, I'll give you money now." Go and report to the county magistrate."

Seeing the surprise on his face, from cold and disdainful to humble and obsequious, Qin Yuesheng couldn't help but nodded with a smile. The happiness of rich people is often It's just so unpretentious and boring.

Soon, the man ran out quickly, nodded and smiled and said, "My lord, please come inside."

After learning that Qin Yuesheng was an official from Qingyang City, he even changed his verbal address. Qin Yuesheng walked directly into the yamen and was led by this person to the side hall. At this time, there was an ordinary-looking big man sitting at the desk Later, as soon as he saw Qin Yuesheng coming in, he immediately got up and asked, "Uncle Ninghou, the magistrate of Xia'antong County, who is your lord?"

Qin Yuesheng took out his copper toad official order and held it in front of him. Originally, Qin Yuesheng had two copper toad official orders, but in order to pay for the pills, he bet the one that Zuo Zonghao gave to himself with Xu Chang and returned it. There was no time to redeem it.

"This is?" Ning Houbo was taken aback, puzzled.

"You don't know this official order?"