Solution

Chapter 13 Method

The night was long, but half an hour later, through the few words Xue Baoping knew, the one or two syllables that he could only utter with great effort, and Li Wuxiang's extremely patient inference and guessing, he finally roughly figured out the environment he was in.

Jinshui Town was named after the Jinshui River. But Xue Baoping had never left Jinshui, and her parents were also local residents, so she didn't know where Jinshui Town was, where the Jinshui River originated from, where it flowed to, and who was in charge of Jinshui Town.

This last one didn't know, not because she didn't know the superior administrative agency of Jinshui Town, but because there was no such agency at all.

When it came to things like "emperor", "court", and "dynasty", Xue Baoping showed considerable confusion. But fortunately, her parents were from wealthy families in the past, and she was smart when she was a child, so she could vaguely know that a long, long time ago, two or three thousand years ago, there was a person called "emperor" and a "Ye Dynasty".

Today's rules and etiquette in the world, and even the names of most mountains, rivers and lakes, were also determined at that time. But after the fall of the Ye Dynasty and the loss of the emperor, the world only knew that many areas in this world were under the jurisdiction of the "Eight Departments of Xuanjiao" - the greatest gods in the Wonderland passed down the immortal law, and the people who practiced this immortal law were called Taoists or Qigong practitioners. Ordinary people don't know whether they have really seen immortals, but they heard that the world scene within the jurisdiction of Xuanjiao is more prosperous than outside the religion.

After asking several times, Li Wuxiang realized that "outside the religion" is actually a geographical concept. The Eight Departments of Xuanjiao control many areas in the world, but there are more areas that are not touched by Xuanjiao, and are only governed by the city lords and town lords of various places. It's very similar to the warlords in his past, coming and going, fighting, and changing the king's flag on the city head, and Jinshui Town is such a town outside the religion.

More than 30 years ago, Jinshui Town was still very prosperous. At that time, the Jinshui River was much wider than it is now, and merchant ships passed through the town, giving birth to a prosperous atmosphere. But then the "Xuanjiao incident" happened - the Taoist priests of the Xuanjiao clashed with the Qi-refining practitioners who had been stationed in Jinshui Town in previous years. After the fight, many people died in the town. Since then, the Jinshui River has gradually dried up, and only small passenger ships can pass through it, and the town has declined.

The east of the town where the Xue family is located was originally the most prosperous area in Jinshui Town, because there used to be a small dock here, which was used to berth many passenger and cargo ships. After the Jinshui River channel was blocked and the Xuanjiao incident happened, the newly relocated families moved to the west and east of the town, because it was closer to the main road to the nearest Qingjiang City.

Therefore, as Wang Wen said before, now in the mansions along the river near the Zhendong Bridge, only the Wang and Xue families live. Xue Baoping was unable to move away, but the Wang family was different. His family has been hunters for generations, and the new town owner in recent years likes game, and the east of the town is closer to Bishan, so his family also stayed.

"So, a prominent person in the town died here tonight." Xue Baoping heard Li Wuxiang's voice in the dark. She had very good hearing, and she had been trying to hear clearly where Li Wuxiang was talking, but his voice was erratic, as if it was opposite, far away, and behind her.

"And the laws of Jinshui Town seem to be decided by the town owner. If you pursue it, I think you will become the murderer."

These two sentences were like a basin of cold water, which calmed Xue Baoping down. She just realized one thing: someone died in her family... and this person also had a fierce hunter brother and father!

She took a few quick breaths, looked up into the darkness, and spoke with difficulty: "I--"

"Don't do anything." She heard Li Wuxiang say, "You know nothing."

Xue Baoping wanted to make some more noise, or write on the dark ground with her hands, but suddenly heard a bang on the door, followed by Wang Wu's voice: "Open the door, open the door!"

Xue Baoping trembled all over, and immediately turned her face to the darkness and shouted twice. But she didn't hear a response, as if Li Wuxiang had disappeared.

Then there was a loud bang. The bolt of her house had been used for more than ten years, and Jinshui Town always had continuous rain, so it had become rotten. Wang Wu knocked on the door a few times but no one opened it, so he simply raised his leg and kicked it open immediately. He rushed into the yard, carrying a bow and arrow, holding a double-pronged hunting fork in one hand and a torch in the other, and shouted angrily: "Didn't we agree to play together? You did something bad behind my back? Ah? Brother? Brother! Come out quickly, stop playing, the Taoist priest invited by the town master wants fresh tiger bones, and he wants it now!"

The yard was dark, and no one responded, so he rushed directly to the main house. Xue Baoping panicked, not knowing whether she should listen to Li Wuxiang's "don't do anything",

or go to lock the door. But a ball of light had already come in from the crack of the door, and then there was another bang, and she saw Wang Wu's face illuminated by the torch.

Xue Baoping took two steps back, leaned against the wall, and closed her eyes tightly, knowing that Wang Wu would see the mess in the house, the blood on the ground, and the corpse in the next moment.

But after a while, she heard Wang Wu's voice and smelled a foul breath: "Where is my brother!? Where is he?"

Xue Baoping was startled and opened her eyes - Wang Wu was right in front of her. She quickly glanced to the side, using the light of the torch held by Wang Wu... There was nothing on the ground, just a piece of compacted soil, bloodstains, corpses, and even bloody clothes were gone, as if everything that happened half an hour ago was just a dream.

"I'm asking you, where's my brother?" Wang Wu grabbed her face and shook it, then glanced around the room and saw the bowl on the windowsill and the meat inside.

Xue Baoping raised his arm and pointed outside.

"He left? When did he leave?"

Xue Baoping stared at him, looking up, and didn't speak.

Wang Wu frowned and looked at her, and saw that her collar - the buttons had fallen off, and it was torn open. He suddenly hummed and laughed twice: "Okay, sister Xue, I'll come to play with you after I finish this, hum, let you see who is better, me or my brother."

After he said that, he slammed Xue Baoping's face, picked up the hunting fork, and strode out the door, shouting as he rushed: "Brother! Brother! Wang Wen! Where are you? Dad will beat you to death-"

The courtyard door was kicked open with a clang, and fell back. Xue Baoping slid down to the ground, gasping for air, trembling as he crawled to the window and grabbed the tinder on the ground. He blew it several times before it lit up, and then used the light to look carefully at the ground.

There was still nothing, not even the smell of blood. She gritted her teeth, raised the flame, and looked up at the beam -

A few pieces of rags were hanging on the beam, and there was no blood, but she was sure that was the clothes Wang Wen had worn before.

"Li... Li..." She tried to make a sound, but the extreme tension made her throat choke, and she could only write with her fingers in the dark like before - "You eat people?"

She didn't know if Li Wuxiang was still there. But a moment later, she heard a voice behind her: "I don't think so."

Xue Baoping panted briefly and slightly, and was silent for a while, then wrote with trembling fingers: "What should I do?"

"His brother knows that he has been here, so he will always come to ask you again in the end. If it were at my place, they might not be able to do anything to you, but this is Jinshui, whether it is to vent his anger or for something else, he should come to you often in the future." She heard Li Wuxiang smiled behind her, "Then there are two ways, one is that we leave quickly tonight and leave here."

Xue Baoping shook his head immediately.

"Well, that's the second one. Let's go and kill his whole family tonight, then no one will suspect you, do you think it's okay?"

Xue Baoping was stunned, but after a moment, she clenched her fist and made a slight sound: "Huh..."

"Okay? Okay. Then, I need you to do me a favor. Turn around first, I'll be behind you, but don't be afraid of anything you see. Are you ready?"

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