Chapter 122 Can't Go Back

After chatting with Wan'er about the situation in the city for a while, Kong Ning decided to go out for a walk.

However, as soon as he walked out of Huaishu Alley, he saw many bamboo baskets and gifts piled up at the entrance of the alley, as high as a hill.

There are also guards next to it.

Seeing Kong Ning coming out, the people were all excited and stepped forward one after another.

"Captain Ning, you're out of customs!"

"Thank you Ning, you saved the lives of seven members of my family!"

"Ning catcher, thank you..."

Soon, Kong Ning was besieged at the entrance of Huaishu Alley, and many nearby residents who heard the news of Kong Ning's exit came one after another, expressing their gratitude to Kong Ning excitedly.

And the pile of various bamboo baskets, gifts, and local specialties piled up at the entrance of the alley, as high as a hill, were all sent by the residents of the city during the time when Kong Ning was in retreat.

The enthusiastic villagers made Kong Ning feel a little embarrassed, so he dealt with it hastily. Seeing people running on the street in the distance, it seems that more and more people are rushing here.

Kong Ning hastily made an excuse to go back to continue retreat, and then fled back to his home in Huaishu Lane.

In the yard, Wan'er said happily, "Ning Butou is very popular. After you retreat, everyone cares about you. Even without me talking, some of them spontaneously guarded outside the alley to prevent others from disturbing you." .”

"Even the few families in the alley have temporarily lived outside these few days, saying that they are worried that it will affect Ning's retreat."

Kong Ning knows the characters of these villagers in Shanlan County very well, after all, he has lived here for more than ten years.

It is indeed honest and honest.

But what they did made Kong Ning a little embarrassed.

Standing in the yard, Kong Ning sighed and said, "It seems that I have to keep a low profile for the next few days."

Kong Ning doesn't really like the feeling of being surrounded wherever he goes.

Especially these enthusiastic villagers who surrounded him were all his former neighbors and fellow villagers.

Now these familiar faces and familiar people all regard him as a great savior, a reincarnated god, and everyone is fanatical, grateful, worships and respects him.

This made Kong Ning feel complicated.

And a little melancholy.

This Shanlan County will probably never come back.

If you continue to live in the city, there will only be endless troubles. Wherever you go, you are surrounded and admired. What is the meaning of such a life?

Kong Ning is not a magic stick with a strong desire to show off, and he doesn't want to be a high-ranking fairy teacher.

In the next few days, Kong Ning lived in seclusion and basically didn't go out for a stroll.

He was dealing with the chores that still needed to be settled in Shanlan County one by one.

Pull out the accounting book at home and pay off the money owed. I paid back the debts of favor that I would not be able to move around in the future, one by one in advance, without leaving any regrets.

Then I went to the home of the county grandfather in Shanlan County.

After Wan'er relayed the death of the county magistrate, the people in the county government already knew about it.

Kong Ning went to help sort out the relics of the county magistrate, and saw the family letter sent by the county magistrate's daughter.

It was indeed mentioned in the family letter that the county magistrate's daughter was going to get married soon.

But he didn't invite the magistrate to watch the ceremony, but simply informed him about it.

Because after the county magistrate's daughter was born, magistrate Liu came to Shanlan County to take office.

Since then, the county magistrate has never left Shanlan County again.

The living people in this city are all livestock raised in captivity.

Relying on the power of the blood streamer of all spirits in the locust tree, Xue Gu confuses people's cognition, making the residents of the city willing to be livestock, and extremely ignorant of everything, living happily and happily.

And County Magistrate Liu, as an important role in the city, has been subjected to the most serious degree of brainwashing and control.

Most of the mortals in the city are just confused.

County Magistrate Liu was ruled by Xue Gu, just like those monsters, he also succumbed to Xue Gu's control.

Therefore, magistrate Liu knows more than ordinary people.

But because of this, he couldn't leave Shanlan County.

He didn't go home for sixteen years, and his parents died of old age, and they never went to the funeral. The wife even took her daughter to remarry someone else, and there has been no correspondence for many years.

Only the daughter who has never met each other sends letters home every year.

But when Kong Ning opened the box that County Magistrate Liu had carefully treasured, he could clearly see that as time went by, County Magistrate Liu's daughter sent fewer and fewer letters from home.

In the end, there were not many letters in a year.

Before this letter notifying County Magistrate Liu of her upcoming marriage, the most recent letter was sent in the twelfth lunar month of last year...

Looking at the well-preserved but extremely rough letter paper in the treasured small box, Kong Ning sighed in his heart.

These letter papers are so rough, I don't know how many times County Magistrate Liu secretly read them alone in the dead of night.

However, under Xue Gu's enslavement, he couldn't go home at all. Even though he misses his relatives in his hometown, he can only watch helplessly as the parents in Hejian Mansion grow old, his wife remarries, and his daughter grows up.

... Also unlucky, there is the county magistrate's brother-in-law.

This young man who came to the county with his brother-in-law and wanted to make a fortune through his connections was stuck in Shanlan County and never returned home for 16 years.

When he came here, he was a handsome young man, but now he is in his thirties, alone, without even a wife. The only thing I can do now is to help clean up my brother-in-law's belongings, and explain the situation to my sister and niece who have remarried at home after returning home.

Kong Ning clearly remembered County Magistrate Liu's begging before he died.

But there is the county magistrate's brother-in-law to do it for him, so he doesn't need to go in person.

Then Kong Ning went outside the city.

Miss Xu San's tomb has been moved from the simple earthen bunker to a new geomantic location.

Kong Ning and Wan'er brought the head of the cat demon that had been hanging in the backyard for half a month to the tomb of Miss Xu San, burned the head of the cat demon to ashes, and then sprinkled it into the mountains .

A real setback.

Although Miss Xu San didn't have any regrets to go, but Kong Ning had promised to bring the head of the cat demon to her grave to pay homage to her, so she still had to go through the necessary ceremony.

After all, the cat demon's head has been treated with lime and hung under the eaves to dry for so long, it would be a waste not to go through the process.

After paying homage to Miss Xu San, Kong Ning went back to his home in Huaishu Lane alone.

Ready to pack up and leave tomorrow.

There are not many things in the room, after all, he is only one person.

After opening the closet, except for a few sets of his own regular clothes and a change of police clothes. The majority are women's dresses.

Although it has been washed, the dresses that Su Yan once wore seem to still carry her fragrance.

When Kong Ning opened the closet, he smelled a faint, familiar fragrance.

There was a slight pause in the movement.

In the end, the dresses worn by Su Yan and the sheets and quilts that the two of them slept on were all piled up in the yard by Kong Ning and burned.

It is not good to distribute these things to the neighbors, nor is it good to keep them.

In the end, it can only be burned.

In the yard under the afternoon sun, curls of black smoke rose.

Kong Ning, standing by the fire, looked at the familiar dress burning in the fire, and exhaled slightly.

Complex expressions.