Chapter 0538 The Odd Case of Shaohe Town
The next morning, Guan Heng and others got off Suiyan Mountain and rushed north, but in the morning they met forty or fifty hunters and merchants who formed gangs were hurriedly running from the other end of the mountain road.
When the group of people ran past him in a hurry, Guan Heng, who was quick-witted, grabbed one's arm and asked, "Hey, man, where are you going in such a hurry?"
"Isn't a local brother? Of course you won't know." The man was a strong man over 50 years old, dressed in a hunter, but he was kind. He smiled and said, "Walking forward for seven or eight miles, something strange happened in a place called 'Shaohe Town', so everyone rushed over to watch the fun after hearing the news."
"Oh?!" Hearing this, Shang Tianlin and Ruotao, two girls who like gossip, suddenly became interested. They asked in unison: "What is the lively thing that actually attracts everyone to come?"
"Hahaha, I heard that ghosts appeared in Shaohe Town a while ago. Thanks to a strong red-qi man from the Bainan tribe of Shiqianshan passed by and wiped out those ghosts."
The hunter replied at this time: "In order to thank the strong man for his righteous help, the great elder in the town decided to betroth his beautiful only daughter to others. This is to repay the kindness and find a backer for Shaohe Town. Who knew that something strange happened."
Hearing this, even Guan Heng, who was originally careless, couldn't help but ask, "What a weird thing?"
"Hey, this matter is really weird."
At this time, the hunter saw that the rest of the people had gone away, and he was also in a hurry to go to Shaohe Town, so he said hurriedly: "I have never seen the specific things with my own eyes, but I heard that the strong man who wanted to be a groom was plucked away by some monster on the night of the wedding!"
As soon as this sentence was said, the hunter had already carried his two-stranded fork to chase his companions. He also shouted: "The elder whose son-in-law has died is now offering a reward to investigate the truth of the matter. If you want to know more clearly or watch the fun, come to Shaohe Town."
"Wow, you can't ignore this fun." After hearing the hunter's words, Ruotao and Tianlin's hearts were like wild horses that had been rid of their reins, and immediately shouted that they were going to Shaohe Town.
Guan Heng and Agou looked at each other and smiled bitterly. After looking at the sky, Guan Heng said at this time: "Okay, at noon, we must have passed by Shaohe Town. Then we will go and see the fun, so that you two girls will always be thinking about it."
"Okay..." Shang Tianlin finished speaking these two words when she heard the cry of a snake-like bird suddenly coming from the air opposite: "Guaga, Guaga—"
"Hey, I'm here." Guan Heng waved to the elephant snake bird, and the other party immediately landed on his wrist.
After smiling, Guan Heng asked immediately, "How is it? Are you feeling better when you go out and fly around?, Let me tell you, beautiful birds are everywhere, why hang yourself on a tree? At worst, you can show mercy everywhere..."
"Young Master, don't instill some strange thoughts on the elephant snake bird." Ruotao said with a laugh and cry at this time: "You will teach it badly."
"Ahem, I'm just teaching it some common sense." Guan Heng cleared his throat and immediately changed the topic: "Okay, let's go to Shaohe Town quickly."
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At this moment, Shaohe Town was almost in trouble, and the house of the elder in the town was even more noisy as if it were a hot kiln.
The eldest elder's daughter, who weighs about 300 pounds, was shaking her father's shoulder and crying and shouting: "Dad, I'm not going to rely on her. I finally found a good man and died inexplicably. I don't care. You must find the murderer. I want to tear the other party apart in person!"
"Bang!" After saying this, the elder daughter slapped the desk beside her with a palm, and immediately broke the thing into pieces. She shouted loudly: "Did you hear it?"
At this time, the elder said with a bitter face: "Hey, good daughter, please let go of your father first, my old bones will be shaken by your brute force."
"I don't care, I don't care." The fat daughter let go of the elder's shoulder and shouted again: "Even if you can't find the murderer, you have to pay me a husband. I, 'Guo Ping', must marry myself this month!!"
"Okay, actually my father has already figured out a countermeasure." Elder Guo rubbed his shoulders and said, "It's because of this that I asked everyone to spread the news and offer a high reward to capture the murderer. If there is a real thing, the murderer can't catch him, you can also choose a husband among the people who come to apply for it. What do you think?"
"Hahaha, I'm worthy of being my good father." Fat daughter Guo Ping was so happy that she slapped her father on the shoulder, almost knocking the other party to the ground. She smiled and said, "Then I'll wait for your good news."
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At noon, at the door of the eldest elder’s house in Shaohe Town.
The manager shouted at the top of his voice: "Everyone, the heroes who come to conscript the murderer, please line up in two rows. Those over forty years old, with their wives and children standing on the left, those under forty years old, with a decent appearance standing on the right..."
When the general manager said this, some guys in the crowd immediately became unhappy. Someone shouted: "Hey, are you asking someone to catch the murderer or choose a son-in-law? Why do you still have to divide the people into two columns?"
The manager was embarrassed and immediately made a speech: "Uh... this brother doesn't know anything. Our master is worried that the older man will be unable to do it. In order to avoid everyone's injuries, the older person will go back first."
Seeing that many people looked unhappy, the manager immediately said, "But, our master is kind-hearted and it is impossible for everyone to go for nothing. A hero over forty years old can immediately take away fifty shells from me as a car fee and then leave. What do you think?"
"So that's it. There are fifty shells to get. Who else can find a murderer? Hurry up and go home and hug your wife." There was a commotion in the crowd, and immediately dozens of people in their 40s and 500s walked to the general manager and each took a bag of shells to carry them away.
At this moment, Guan Heng, who was standing outside the crowd, said to Ruotao: "It should be right here. Look, the light in the bamboo basket began to flash again."
It turned out that when everyone came outside Shaohe Town, they unexpectedly found an abnormal bamboo basket. Guan Heng concluded that there must be the whereabouts of Qing Huang, the remnant soul of Qing Huang. "Brother Guan, then so to say that, are we all going to search the elder's house?"
Shang Tianlin was curious at this time and wanted to enter the elder's house to see what the murderer who killed the strong man in Hongqi and also cut off the heart was like.
Guan Heng said, "Well, I have to do this. In my opinion, the murderer must be strange. Let's stay here, first, to visit the whereabouts of the remnant soul, and second, to eliminate this harm by the way, so as not to endanger other people's lives."
Chapter completed!