"You, where did you come from?" Lao Yi Cheng asked the yamen official tremblingly.

The officer looked at him like this and felt baffled. He thought that although it was completely dark now, it was not yet midnight, so there was nothing wrong with calling the door. Secondly, this was an inn, and it was originally a hotel.

It is normal for officials to come and go to rest at any time. What is there to make a fuss about?!

He took out the badge of Ti Xing Si and showed it to the old postman: "Ti Xing Si, please go out with our Lord Ti Xing. We are going to Yiling County, Shezhou for business. We are passing through here. It's getting late. We need to take a break temporarily. Please call me quickly.

Men prepare food for men and fodder for horses!”

When the old Yi Cheng heard this, he quickly responded obediently, opened the door of the post station to welcome Yuan Mu and others, and then ran to collect food and fodder, waiting for Yuan Mu and others to settle down.

Before these things could be arranged, Yuan Mu called a yamen officer to go over and see what was going on. The yamen officer came back soon and reported that there were only two people in the post, the old postmaster and a young postman.

Yuan Mu frowned. This post station is a must-go place after crossing the river. This means that if the officials coming and going here want to take a rest, give their horses some water and some fodder, they must go here.

Come to the inn.

The size of this inn is not small. At least there are so many people coming out this time, it can't be accommodated here. There are also many places to tie horses in the stables. Obviously, there shouldn't be only two people guarding them.

Yuan Mu thought for a while and called Yuan Yi: "Go and pick a few yamen who are kind, talkative, and smart, and go to the kitchen to help the old Yi Cheng, and chat with him by the way, and see if you can

We can't come up with anything to talk about."

Yuan Yi understood immediately, gave Yuan Mu a fist, exited the room, and went outside to find someone.

With the help of people, food for people and horses were soon ready. Old Yi Cheng and the little post boy had been busy for a long time. When they were eating, Yuan Mu invited them to eat together, and the two of them had a look on their faces.

They were flattered. After all, for them, a fourth-grade official of the imperial court was a relatively rare high-ranking official in the inn. They didn't expect him to be quite approachable.

After dinner, the yamen who were keeping vigil for the night were left behind, and everyone else rested separately. Yuan Jia, Yuan Yi, and Mu Liuyun came to Yuan Mu's room.

"Have you inquired clearly before?" After closing the door, Yuan Mu asked Yuan Yi.

"Sir, I have found out everything." Yuan Yi nodded, with a strange expression, "There are only two people, an old man and a young man, guarding this inn. It can be related to our trip to Yiling County this time.

It’s related to the previous point.

Previously, we had only heard that strange things had happened recently in Shezhou. People often fell ill with strange diseases for no apparent reason. In fact, there is another thing we have not heard about here, that is, in a village under the jurisdiction of Yiling County, a group of villagers

The well that had always been filled with water suddenly burst into bloody water overnight, which was so oozing that the locals were frightened.

This matter caused quite a stir. Some people thought that the government's mining on the mountain behind the village had ruined the entire feng shui of that area, thus attracting evil spirits and turning the originally clear and sweet well water into

Blood.

Some people say that this is because they have offended the gods, so they are being warned. This time it is the Dragon King who has shown his power and turned the well water into blood. If they are not alert and think of ways to offer sacrifices and beg the Dragon King for forgiveness, then

Once it happens, there will be disaster."

"This sounds quite outrageous, but because of this, did all the postmen in the post station run away?" Mu Liuyun asked doubtfully.

"That's not true," Yuan Yi shook his head, his expression seemed to be slightly angry, "The one who made the most fuss about this matter at first was that mining destroyed feng shui and attracted evil spirits, so they hired many witches.

The holy men tried to ward off evil spirits, but to no avail. Not only in that village, but also in several surrounding villages, blood began to leak from the wells.

So the local people began to think that the evil spirit was not credible. Instead, the theory about something that offended the gods and the dragon king showed its power became more and more popular and spread more and more widely. Later, it was made up that it had a nose and eyes, and the fake one was also spread.

Really.

I don’t know who brought it up later, saying that according to ancient law, in this case, if you want to ask for forgiveness from the gods and calm the Dragon King’s anger, the only way is to offer sacrifices to heaven.”

"Sacrifice to heaven?" Yuan Mu frowned when he heard these two words.

What the people call "sacrifice to heaven" is naturally not the same thing as the "sacrifice to heaven" that the emperor, as the destined emperor, has to do every year. Although the emperor is a real dragon, the ritual of offering sacrifices to heaven is also very special.

It's complicated, but the sacrifices used are only three animals.

But if something unusual happens among the people and they start clamoring for "sacrifice to heaven", it's hard to say what they are going to sacrifice. This kind of thing has happened before.

"Then how do they plan to sacrifice?" Mu Liuyun also had an ominous premonition. If there wasn't something very disturbing, those post soldiers wouldn't have run away. After all, no matter how small the post soldiers were, they would

An official position is not something to be played with!

Yuan Yi sighed: "They said that at this time, there is no other way. Only by using boys and girls to sacrifice can we appease the dragon king's anger and the anger of the gods. Otherwise, if God ignores the warnings, there will be a disaster.

Got it!"

"That's nonsense!" Yuan Murao, who usually showed no emotion or anger, frowned when he heard this, with anger in his tone.

Mu Liuyun was so angry that he laughed and snorted: "Interesting, it's really interesting! From ancient times to the present, whenever something happens, no matter whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, there will always be someone.

He jumped out and said he wanted to sacrifice, and then he started thinking about using boys and girls as an excuse!

It’s only been a few years since my little baby was born. Who did he offend? Why would Reenhuo go to harm someone if there was some kind of natural disaster? They were both raised by their mother and father, so why should they be so precious?

Those children have to be used to cause harm, but they themselves are never willing to make trouble for themselves!

Besides, since God is a god, he certainly won’t be like a man-eating monster, asking other people’s boys and girls to do whatever they want! It seems to me that some people want to use the topic to their advantage, pretend to be gods and ghosts, and at the same time, they have to bully the weak and avoid the strong.

Otherwise, when have you ever heard of people clamoring to capture all the bandits and sacrifice them to heaven? Aren't they just because the bandits are so fierce and fierce, they are afraid, but the boys and girls are small and weak, how can they handle it!

"

"What the promoter said is that those people bully weak children to make themselves appear to be powerful." Yuan Yi sighed, "The old postmaster said that all the people in the posthouse who have families, wives and children, are afraid of
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