Chapter 46 The strange case
Bian Gui hesitated, not knowing whether to say it or not, but the two fellow villagers who were walking with him had already spoken: "He is going to Yu County to find his younger brother."
"Tell him, so that he can be careful."
Looking at the puzzled look on Su An's face, Bian Gui sighed and said, "I heard that twenty or thirty people have died in Yuxian this year."
"What?"
Su An exclaimed: "Why are so many people dead?"
"You can speak quietly."
Bian Gui spoke quickly and looked around at the same time. Seeing that there was no other road ahead, he breathed a sigh of relief: "The murderer can't be caught."
"Some people say that something happened in Yu County, specializing in eating people's souls."
Since the Immortal Dynasty cultivates immortality, there are naturally also sayings about souls, especially among the people, there are countless rumors about souls, monsters, ghosts, etc.
The case in Yu County lasted for a year and someone had been killed, but Yu County had never been able to catch the murderer, and there were inevitably rumors of ghosts and monsters causing chaos among the people.
"There is still such a thing?"
Su An was shocked: "I haven't heard of it before."
The fellow villager who was walking with Bian Gui smiled and said, "This is what we know about in our village with relatives in Yu County."
"This involves ghosts, who dares to talk nonsense?"
"cough."
Bian Gui coughed hard and glared at his fellow villagers.
"There are not many people on the way today."
Bian Gui's fellow villager seemed to have realized something, and he made a fuss and changed the topic.
Su An's face was gloomy, but he forced a smile, making others feel that he was worried that his younger brother who had not sent someone to send a letter home in Yu County for half a year.
After a while, Su An's expression became much more stable, and he asked Bian Gui and others for some information. However, they were not clear about the specific news about Yu County, and they all came from hearsay.
Su An sighed slightly. He, the immortal official, knew more than ordinary people, which was really sad.
But this is also impossible. The people are afraid of officials. Many things, even if they are talking about them, will be kept by the immortal officials and will not let them hear them.
From Gui'an County to Yu County, it took two days to walk from Su'an.
In fact, he also wasted a lot of time in the middle, and he was asking others about the situation in Yuxian.
Among them, more than 60% of them knew that dozens of people died in Yu County were killed, but these people were like Bian Gui who Su An first met, thinking that there were ghosts or evil ghosts who committed the crime.
In response to this, Su An could only shake his head and smile bitterly. If there were evil ghosts or ghosts, even if they could hide the eyes of the immortal officials, they could not hide the eyes of the Yuxian County Master.
As soon as he stepped into the gate of Yu County, Su An could feel the desolate atmosphere.
Yu County is not much different from Gui'an County, and the prosperity of the two is somewhat similar.
But now, when you step into the city gate, most of the pedestrians on the street look frightened, and you haven't seen a single stall on the street.
The doors of the shops on the road are only half opened, and the rest are blocked by the door panel, or they are not opened even if they are opened.
"Is there one less person walking alone?"
Su An only took a stick of incense to find this problem and frowned. Most of the city were two people walking together, and one person was walking alone, and they were all in a hurry.
Only he is not only walking alone, but also walking slowly. No wonder others look at him strangely.
"Shopkeeper, what happened to your county?"
As if she knew nothing, Su An walked into the teahouse sideways, put his arm on the counter, and asked curiously.
"Are you from another place?"
The shopkeeper, who was already a little sleepy, yawned, wiped his face with his hands, and squinted his eyes and spoke.
"I came from another place."
Su An nodded: "You give me a pot of tea."
If you want to inquire about the news, you can't go to that stop and ask in plain words.
"Okay, please sit down."
“Store tea.”
The shopkeeper was in a state of great enthusiasm. While greeting Su An happily, he called the waiter to serve tea.
"Shopkeeper, you haven't said that, what happened to your county?"
"Since I just entered the city, I always felt something was wrong."
Su An asked again.
"As soon as you hear what you said, you know you are from another place."
The shopkeeper spoke with a smile on his face and sat down on the chair next to Su An: "In our Yu County, more than 30 people have died in this year. Is it normal?"
"What?"
Su An was shocked and almost stood up from the chair, making the first time he heard this: "More than thirty people?"
"A year left?"
"How is this possible? Do the yamen don't care?"
The series of questions fully proved Su An's shock and made the teahouse shopkeeper feel satisfied.
"The immortal officials are looking for the streets day and night, but they are still dead."
"Isn't this? Another one died last night, and it was the shopkeeper of a shop."
"It's not far ahead, the shopkeeper of that garment store."
"I didn't know what to do when I opened the door, so I died in front of his shop. I was discovered early this morning."
The teahouse shopkeeper sighed and looked a little scared: "I don't know what's going on. Every time I die, I'm on the street."
"Three months ago, only a dozen people died, but in these three months, more than a dozen people died."
"But someone else opens the door to go out at night."
Su An frowned, but he didn't expect the case to be more serious than what Song Heng said: "Can the murderer do this on purpose after killing someone?"
The shopkeeper of the teahouse shook his head: "The immortal officials found out that they all ran out by themselves, and even stopped their families, but they insisted on coming out by themselves, but they died like that."
"Everyone says that there are ghosts who are practicing with the lives of our Yu County."
The shopkeeper of the teahouse was originally talkative. At this time, there was no one else in the teahouse except Su An, so he didn't hide anything and told everything he knew.
In fact, there is no need to hide this. Most people in the entire Yu County know, and even some people know more than he knows.
"Customer, your tea is here."
The waiter shouted, carried the porcelain teapot, held the cup, trotted over, put the cup down, and slowly added a pot of tea to Su An, and then retreated elsewhere.
"Please, please!"
Su An raised his hand and signaled the shopkeeper to drink a cup of tea: "I'll let the shopkeeper say so much, otherwise he might have gone out at night and become an unjust tomorrow."
"Your guest stay in the inn, and don't go out if the sky falls at night."
"In the day, there has never been a murder."
Chapter completed!