not possible

The way down the mountain was in a hurry, and it took an hour or two to arrive.

Li Yixing didn't find anything wrong when he first entered this village, and it was no different from other villages, but when he was going to ask the villagers here to ask about the situation here, he found some clues.

……

The villagers are also busy with their own affairs. When they see Li Yixing and Han Lingzi, they will look at Li Yixing and Han Lingzi, but Li Yixing doesn't care too much.

An old woman was sorting clothes by the door. She and other women had made an appointment to go to the stream to wash clothes together. She remembered that she hadn't picked up the soap powder and was about to go back to the house to get it.

"Excuse me, ma'am, do you know where Tangmen is?"

The old woman stopped what she was doing, and slowly raised her head to look at Li Yixing. When she looked at Han Lingzi behind him in a blink of an eye, she obviously showed a frightened expression on her face, but she immediately regained her composure and said, "I don't know, Not here."

The old woman turned around and entered the house, not talking to them anymore.Li Yixing and Han Lingzi looked at each other, each of them understood.

Li Yixing is also speechless, why not cover up better?People from other places used to ask 'Where is the Tang Gate? 'The answer is all' I don't know or I heard that I was stepping in so-and-so (where so-and-so)? ’ But the direct answer is ‘not here’, I don’t understand, tell them there is a problem here?

In this way, Li Yixing and Han Lingzi visited all over the village, asking everyone they met, but they all got the same "don't know" answer.From the beginning of the village to the end of the village, no valuable clues were found. Li Yixing was surprised that this place must have something to do with the Tang Sect. Could it be that he missed something?

After walking for a long time from this morning to now without resting, Li Yixing casually found a slightly larger stone on the rocky soil and sat down for a while, but as soon as he sat down and turned around, Han Lingzi disappeared.

Li Yixing: "?"

Many thoughts suddenly flashed in Li Yixing's mind, and fell ill again?But how could I not notice it.Could it be that he was kidnapped and started running?This is even more impossible, Han Lingzi has been behind him all the time, Li Yixing was taken aback suddenly, Han Lingzi walked silently and was behind him all the time without being in his field of vision all the time, the more Li Yixing thought about it, the more flustered he became, Han Lingzi would not What happened?

Looking back along the road, many people gathered together and saw the black color in the crowd at a glance. Li Yixing let out a long sigh of relief and finally let go of his hanging heart.

"Can you tell me when you leave?" Li Yixing caught up and patted Han Lingzi on the shoulder.

Han Lingzi didn't say a word and watched the front with other villagers. Li Yixing also took a look. It's just a group of people embracing a well to dig water, nothing unusual.

Li Yixing: "What's there to see here?"

Han Lingzi said lightly, "Don't you think it's strange?"

"What's strange?"

"Usually the water from the well is tied to a wooden barrel with a long rope, and the water is salvaged up after the barrel is delivered to the well."

Li Yixing nodded in agreement: "Yes."

Han Lingzi: "And the few of them formed a group and worked together to fetch water with long bamboo."

I saw a few young and strong men among them, leaving the long bamboo that had been chiseled out at the bottom, exploring the bottom of the well to absorb water into the tube, sucking water from the top of the well, and directly pouring water into a pot outside the well.

Li Yixing nodded: "Yeah, what's so strange about that."

Han Lingzi: "?"

"It's not surprising that the water is so small and so useless."

An abnormal behavior has to make people suspicious.Could there be something wrong with this well?

Li Yixing retorted: "This is well salt."

"Well salt" Han Lingzi was stunned, "What is well salt?"

Li Yixing scratched the back of his head and explained: "The water pumped out of it is called brine, and then the brine is picked up and boiled (take it to boil), and the salt is obtained by filtering and crystallizing."

"Dig a well to get salt..." Han Lingzi nodded thoughtfully.

"However, they didn't drill the well correctly, and it may not last long."

Han Lingzi frowned slightly before he knew it, and asked again: "The imperial court's control over salt is extremely strict, you can't do it privately..." Han Lingzi looked at Li Yixing, and slowly silenced.

Li Yixing also said bluntly: "The price of official salt is higher than that of this place, and it is not easy to get it. The price of private salt is low and easy to get, but it is not easy to track down. But if the imperial court finds out the private salt here, I am afraid that the whole village will have to ask for it."

"Ah."

"What? You want to report it?" Li Yixing asked while clasping his hands, and Han Lingzi turned around with a whisk, but walked away. "No way, are you really going?" Li Yixing chased after him.

Han Lingzi stopped and turned his head to look at Li Yixing: "You say that the government is not suitable for investigation, so why should I say more, if there is no doubt that Tangmen is still looking for it?"

Li Yixing smiled, and hurriedly said: "Yes." As soon as the words finished, a child in front of him was playing and playing with his companions, and rushed to Han Lingzi, one of them couldn't dodge and fell in front of Han Lingzi.Han Lingzi leaned over to help the child up, and the child didn't cry when he got up and looked up to see Han Lingzi's face, he was stunned for a moment, then he seemed to realize something and suddenly screamed and immediately threw off Han Lingzi to help him hands.

This cry attracted everyone's attention, and the villagers showed expressions of disgust, panic, and horror, and they ran away and some stayed behind closed doors.

……

The dark clouds cover the bright moon in the sky lightly, revealing the bright moonlight.It was a bit cold at night, so Li Yixing heated up the fire even more.

No one dared to accept Han Lingzi and Li Yixing, so they found a place in the surrounding woods and spent the night like this.Fortunately, there has been no rain these days, otherwise it would be difficult.

Judging from the performance of the villagers today, the Tang Sect must have been related to this place and Han Lingzi before.Li Yixing inadvertently thought of what Su Guansheng said earlier, saying that there was a village attacked by the Tang Sect Poison Gu and that Poison Gu looked the same as Han Lingzi, could it be this village?In this way, Tangmen is not far from here, or in other words, it is around

Li Yixing suddenly thought of something and stood up, looking at the surrounding terrain.This place is in the shape of a basin, with this village as the center surrounded by high mountains, where should the Tang Sect be located and in which direction should it be looking?

"Han Lingzi, is it possible that this village is the Tang Sect?" Li Yixing turned his back to Han Lingzi, still standing and observing his surroundings.Li Yixing himself said it casually, and Li Yixing was also taken aback when he said this. Could it be... maybe... it is possible

Han Lingzi behind him didn't answer either, and the more Li Yixing thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.Turning around to see Han Lingzi, he was staring at the fire in a daze, and suddenly Han Lingzi also stood up with a look of vigilance.

Li Yixing also said nervously: "What's wrong (what's wrong)?"

With a flick of the whisk, Han Lingzi instantly extinguished the burning fire in front of him.

"What's the matter?" Seeing this move, Li Yixing asked cautiously again.

Han Lingzi said with a solemn expression: "There is corpse energy."

"Moisture" Li Yixing sighed, what else should he do.The land of Shu is inherently humid, so there is no need to make a fuss about it.

Li Yixing waved his hands and said, "What's the humidity, just go back and make a cupping pot."

Han Lingzi: "???"

The so-called corpse gas is the rancid smell after death. Han Lingzi has already smelled it, but the smell is more obvious and not one or two, which means that there are many corpses moving.

Could it be that there are burials around here?

Han Lingzi Lingshen sensed the corpse aura in the air and judged its direction. The corpse aura was flying towards the village. The corpse...

The talisman was infused with spiritual power, guiding Han Lingzi in the exact direction in the air, and Li Yixing followed behind.

Seeing the crowd, Han Lingzi took back the talisman and stopped.Li Yixing also saw that there were about [-] or [-] people lined up neatly in two rows, and the whole team was led forward by a tall and thin person in front.

All of them were wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats, and it was impossible to see their appearances clearly in the dark night.

Han Lingzi and Li Yixing didn't dare to get too close, they leaned against the cover of the trees and watched from a distance, seeing that they were heading towards the village.

Li Yixing lowered his voice, "Why are so many people entering the village late at night?"

"These are all dead people."

"What?!" Li Yixing almost exclaimed, a little in disbelief, "Could it be a fraud?" Li Yixing suddenly thought of something. It is said that there is a thing in the southwest called driving corpses. People who are in other places are sent back to their hometowns, and those who walk in the front ring bells and throw paper money to make way for their corpses, which are called morticians.

Could it be that they met the corpse-hunting team?

Li Yixing and Han Lingzi followed them all the way into the village. Every household had already turned off the lights and went to sleep, so they couldn't hear the noise outside.

Walking in and looking at Li Yixing for a little bit, I felt that there was something wrong there. The person walking in the front would occasionally look up at the road to see the surrounding situation, but that person neither rang the bell nor scattered paper money and walked as usual. Will follow independently like an accompanying guard.

Walking all the way and seeing that they were about to reach the end of the village, the team suddenly stopped.Han Lingzi and Li Yixing stopped after them, did they discover them?Han Lingzi quickly pasted a talisman behind Li Yixing, each of them held their breath, not knowing what the other party was going to do so it would not be easy to expose.

The person in the front looked around, looking at the well beside the road.

That well, Li Yixing remembered, was the salt well that Han Lingzi watched today.The person in the front didn't say a word or give any instructions, and the corpse behind him walked towards the salt well.

When Li Yixing saw the corpse approaching the salt well and thought he was going to do something, the corpse suddenly squatted down and dug a hole by the well.

Without a cup of tea, two pots were dug out in the soil. The corpse took out the two pots, put some stones, and filled the pit.

The corpse returned to the team with two jars in its arms, and the person in front of him raised his foot before continuing to walk forward.

Li Yixing felt that this was too weird. The corpse moved very flexibly like a living person, and knew that after digging and filling the hole, it had self-awareness?

If it wasn't for the fact that the corpse was digging too much, Li Yixing saw through the moonlight that his forearm was exposed under the coir raincoat, the entire skeleton of the forearm, with tendons at the elbow and a piece of rotten flesh attached, Li Yixing really thought it was alive people.