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Chapter 522: Extradition Envoy (asking for monthly ticket)
"Sir, this is Xishafang."

Yang Su stepped into the pale white, translucent snow mud and pointed to the village located in the valley and beside the river not far away.

Xu Shu nodded and looked up.

The entire Xishafang is composed of a large number of wooden stilt houses built along the river. These buildings are arranged in a staggered manner at different heights, with clear river water flowing underneath.

At first glance, it seems that the entire village is built on the river, with the water, village and mountain connected into a line.

Rather than calling it a village, it would be more accurate to call it a village.

This should have been a very beautiful scene, but what made Xu Shu feel regretful was that the large number of vacant, crooked houses and dense and oddly shaped hanging objects made the entire Jiangnan water town-like painting suddenly filled with clutter and dilapidation, completely destroying the original beauty and emitting the sour smell of poverty everywhere.

What's even more regrettable is.

I, the county magistrate Liu, have personally come to this small village on the hillside to inspect the people's conditions. Instead of welcoming him with joy, the local villagers even dare to close their doors and windows?
The timid villagers simply pretended to be dead, while the brave ones peeked through the crack in the door from time to time, but would immediately look away as soon as their eyes met Xu Shu's, and had no intention of coming out to say hello.

This made Xu Shu frown immediately.

Excessive!

It's too much!
He simply doesn't take me, Mr. Xu... Oh no, he doesn't take me, County Magistrate Liu, seriously at all!
"Go call your village chief, I want to interrogate him personally!" Xu Shu said angrily.

"Ahem, that's enough~ Let's go investigate on our own." Xiaoya secretly poked Xu Shu's waist. She thought to herself, you're cheating these orphans and widows on the way, but why do you really want to go to court here? It would be simpler for you to just kill all these hundred households.

"I feel like this place seems very hostile to outsiders." Thinking of this, Xiaoya added.

As she spoke, she pointed to one of the few houses with open doors not far away.

There lived a middle-aged couple in their forties, working together to grind the cooked beans into paste using a millstone.

The millstone consists of two round stones, the upper one can rotate.

There was also a brother and sister nearby, who put the cooked beans into a stone mortar and crushed them with a wooden pestle, repeatedly pressing them until the beans became a paste.

The older sister looked to be in her early teens, while the younger brother was only about five or six years old. They were both skinny and had dark skin. Their actual age should be older than they expected, but it had a negative effect, so they looked much younger.

At this moment, the couple in the middle of the mill were staring at Xu Shu and others with a very vigilant and even hostile look.

It seemed that if they were not careful, the man and woman of the house would grab the rake and hatchet at hand and rush out to fight them desperately.

Such a look naturally caught Xiaoya's attention.

Xu Shu stroked his chin and said thoughtfully: "Red bean paste? The stream sand you mentioned is actually such fine sand... Is your local accent a bit heavy? Eight rollers!"

"Ah? What...what road rolling?" Yang Su was stunned for a moment and couldn't react to what Xu Shu was saying.

Xiaoya rolled her eyes secretly and felt very annoyed.

This person...how should I put it, is he mentally ill?
Sometimes he is very serious and can show his eye-opening behavior. His impassioned speech just now made my eyes wet. But sometimes he is so... so...

Xiaoya was stunned, and Xiaolei's eyes were wet.

As a knowledgeable "mechanical expert", she was actually at a loss for words and could not find the right adjective to evaluate Xu Shu. She could only curse him in her heart.

Are you reliable or not?

Xu Shu ignored Xiaoya's suspicion and whispered to her, "Sister Xiaoya, did you notice?"

"Hmm?" Xiaoya, who was secretly angry, was slightly startled by the question, "What did you find?"

"This little widow is lying again."

Xu Shu chuckled, quietly looked at Yang Su and her daughter, and then said, "Didn't she say before that the people in the village were very kind to her and often helped her? I don't think so. Look at the family grinding bean paste, their hateful eyes are clearly directed at her!"

"what?"

After hearing what Xu Shu said, Xiaoya became serious and used her unique skill, "Observe Carefully".

Then, she discovered the secret. At first glance, the two people's eyes were staring at Xu Shu, but in fact they were not focused on him at all. They were indeed rolling their eyes at Yang Su intentionally or unintentionally.

"It's actually true...how did you find out?" Xiaoya asked.

“I saw it with my eyes.”

Xu Shu looked at Xiaoya with some confusion, thinking, "How did I find out? I was wondering why you didn't find out!"

I am confused, isn't this Chief Superintendent Ouyang Suxian, the think tank of the Judgment Department?

I haven't seen you for a few days. You look so shabby! You can't even see this? You really grew such a pair of... ahem, those big eyes of Carmen in vain!

With this in mind, Xu Shu rolled his eyes and gestured to Yang Su, saying, "Okay, next, this county magistrate will go deep into the people and secretly investigate their sentiments. If there is nothing else, you can go home."

Yang Su asked in surprise: "County Magistrate Liu, don't you want me to lead the way for you? This place is a bit messy and not easy to walk around..."

"No need to say more. I will make the decision. I will send you back." Xu Shu's tone did not allow for refusal.

Seeing this, Yang Su could only nod and lead the way.

As they walked along the way, Xu Shu noticed that every household around them had their doors and windows closed while secretly watching them through the cracks in the doors.

Although the movements varied in size, they naturally could not escape Xu Shu's "spiritual perception".

It can be seen that the looks in everyone's eyes are the same as those of the Red Bean Mud couple before. Their hostility towards Yang Su is quite obvious and deep-rooted.

"There is indeed something wrong with this widow..." Xu Shu nodded silently in his heart.

Perhaps he also sensed the hostility around him, so Yang Su hurried with his daughter and soon reached the top of the entire village.

This is the most remote but also the largest stilt house.

"Sir, my home is right here. If you don't mind, why don't you come in and have a cup of tea?"

Yang Su bit her lip and opened the door. Because the light was blocked, it was pitch black behind the door, exuding the dark smell unique to old houses.

She didn't know what mental preparation she had made, as if inviting Xu Shu in for tea was something that made her shy.

Xu Shu waved his hand and said, "No need. This county magistrate has important matters to attend to. If I need anything later, I will come to you again."

Upon hearing this, Yang Su's face suddenly turned red: "Okay, okay!"

Xu Shu went out of the door and after confirming that Yang Su and her daughter were not paying attention to him, he jumped onto the roof, swooped down a few steps, found a hidden gap in the house, and crawled in.

He took out the small jade Buddha and placed it on the ground, facing the widow Yang Su's house from a distance.

"Keep an eye on them and don't let them get away, but don't kill them directly." Xu Shu stretched out his hand and wanted to touch his chest, but after thinking about it, he knocked on the top of his head as a reminder.

"Nirvana~"

The little jade Buddha made a strange air vibration and pecked Xu Shu lightly with its illusory big mouth as a response.

Xu Shu nodded in satisfaction, and without staying any longer, he left immediately. After turning several corners, he returned to an intersection.

Xiaoya was waiting for him here, and asked in confusion: "Where were you just now? Why did you take so long?"

Xu Shu chuckled and said, "I put in a real eye."

Xiaoya craned her neck and said, "Huh? What's the core of the formation?"

Xu Shu didn't talk about this topic any more, and instead said, "This woman is so poor that she begs for food on the street, and her daughter is so hungry that she looks pale and skinny, but she lives in the best house in the village. Don't you find it strange?"

Xiaoya said seriously, "Do you need me to tell you? I don't know if you noticed that there is a lotus tattoo on the back of her neck, which exudes a faint... uh, I can't tell what kind of smell it is. It doesn't seem to be eroded by curse power, but it is definitely not the smell of ordinary people. This woman is very strange. As you said, she is probably not a human. In my opinion, it is better to capture her directly and torture her."

She waited for Xu Shu to make a decision, after all, he had to be the thug in this kind of thing.

But he found that Xu Shu's tone became suspicious: "Lotus tattoo on the back of the neck?"

"You really didn't see it?" Xiaoya was stunned.

"Damn, the front is too big. How can I have time to see the back of her neck?" Xu Shu muttered softly.

"What was that?" Xiaoya didn't hear clearly. "I said I was too careless before." Xu Shu coughed and quickly changed the subject, "Lotus tattoo, could it be the Seven Treasures Lotus?"

Xiaoya said, "No, it's too different. The correlation is not high. It should be something else. But we can investigate it properly. So I asked you, do you want to arrest her directly? This woman is full of lies. She must be hiding a big secret from us."

"Humph, I've seen that she has a big secret. It's true that the more beautiful a woman is, the more likely she is to lie! But it doesn't matter. There's no rush to arrest her. Let's start with the investigation at the grassroots level."

"Oh. Do you have any idea? People in this village don't seem to be very welcoming to outsiders." Xiaoya asked.

"It doesn't matter, I have a solution."

As he spoke, Xu Shu took the lead and jumped onto the corner of the stilt house, turning into a pool of thick blood. After all, they were comrades who had been through life and death together (Xu Shu was born, Xiaoya died). Xiaoya had already witnessed the power of "Blood Sky Cang".

Therefore, there was no need for Xu Shu to hide anything. He just used his skills openly and moved silently on the roof.

Seeing this, Xiaoya didn't understand why, but she still followed.

Her methods are different from Xu Shu's, which seem very metaphysical and strange at first glance.

Although she was a living cultivator, Xiaoya hid the fat dog and the goshawk and instead took out a fist-sized prism.

This disturbed the surrounding space, distorted the light, and disappeared in a flash.

Xu Shu noticed a faint flash of white light in the snow, and then he could no longer see Xiaoya's figure, but through "spiritual perception", he could notice a strong group following him from behind.

"Tsk, is she using optical invisibility? If I didn't have spiritual perception, I wouldn't be able to see her at all. This kind of invisibility is invincible... She was able to use the principles of mechanics to make me fall before.

"Interesting. Could it be that the characteristics of the 'prodigy' pathway can distort, amplify or manipulate these scientific principles? This is truly a scientist, an extraordinary scientist... Can she make a nuclear bomb with her hands? Unfortunately, because 'alien' can absorb nuclear radiation and mutate and evolve, this kind of high-powered weapon is banned."

There was not much time left for Xu Shu to express his feelings.

After a while, he returned to the entrance of the village and to the home of the villager who was grinding red bean paste with the most excitement and courage.

The brother and sister were still pounding bean paste, but Xu Shu didn't see the couple at the millstone.

As the door was pressed tightly together, there was a slight creaking noise coming from inside.

Xu Shu seemed to be lost in thought, his blood flowing freely. He came up, lifted up a piece of the roof and looked down.

When he saw two people stacked on the bed, he suddenly realized.

It turned out that they had just ground the bean paste but were still not satisfied.

Nowadays, everyone is living in such a difficult situation, but they cannot save some energy. It really shows that the world is going downhill and people’s hearts are no longer as they used to be.

However, the man seemed to be venting his anger mostly, so after a while, he got up to pack up the tools and clean up the work site.

While he was sorting things out, he suddenly kicked over a bench and shouted angrily, "Fuck that bitch! She stayed here for quite a while and looked at us for so long. I have never seen that man before. He must not be from the town. He must have brought an elder from the county with him. She brought him here to pick the sacrifice herself! She has set her sights on our Lele and Fangfang!"
"I've long said that this bitch is an ungrateful bastard! Has she forgotten who was so kind to help her family with the funeral when her husband died? Now she dares to do this, she is truly a beast among beasts!"

The woman put on a linen skirt, hugged her husband, and said with tears on her face: "What should we do?"

"What else can we do? Lele and Fangfang both have that damn mustard on them. They definitely can't be saved this time. But as soon as it gets dark, I'm going to kill that bitch! I'll take her with me to be buried with me!" the man said gritting his teeth.

"But she is a witch and is blessed by the old mother's body. How can you defeat her?" said the woman.

"But I..."

"Lele Fangfang is definitely going to die. If you are gone too, how will I, a widow, survive? Wuwuwu~"

The two hugged each other and cried.

After a while, the man said, "Ah, this damn world is like this, why don't we have another child?"

"Hey, the boss? Wow~"

Without waiting for the woman to finish her words, the man started working for a living.

The king’s flags on the city walls changed.

The fierce woman from Hedong is delicate and weak.

At this moment, a man's voice suddenly interrupted

"Awesome! You two can do this, you are really awesome! How come your two children are really like cabbages grown in the field, don't you feel bad when others pick them?" Xu Shu said in amazement.

At this time, Xiaoya had already been standing outside in disgust, not wanting to come in to see this scene as she found it too disgusting to the eyes.

"Oh!"

"Who?"

Suddenly a stranger appeared, and the couple was frightened and fell down on the spot.

They hurriedly got dressed and looked around the room before they saw Xu Shu sitting leisurely on a round stool watching the live broadcast.

"It's you!" The man's pupils shrank, and he immediately recognized the tall and burly young man in front of him, as the "man from the county town" who was with Yang Su just now.

At this point, the man's guess was completely confirmed. The black-hearted widow really wanted to replace her daughter with her own child!
To be honest, he had already given up resistance and was prepared to lose his children.

But this time, when he saw the other party coming directly to his door, he felt different. The last bit of blood in his bones surged up.

"I'm going to fight you!"

The man picked up a bench nearby, rushed forward like an angry beast, and crashed into Xu Shu.

With a bang, the man seemed to have hit an iron wall. The bench in his hand broke into pieces and he fell to the ground with blood all over his palms.

Xu Shu patted his shoulders and brushed away the wood chips.

He had just heard the other party's whispers at the bedside, and heard words like sacrifice, children, and old mother extradition envoy, and he already had some idea of ​​the situation here.

Needless to say, it is nothing more than the kind of drama of worshiping wild gods and asking for protection.

Small sacrifices offer chicken, duck, fish and meat, while large sacrifices offer young boys and girls.

Xu Shu knows everything about this matter!
Still have to ask in detail though.

"I am Liu Yuan, the new county magistrate who has come to Luling County to take office and restore order!" Xu Shu said with a flourish, "Tell me what happened, and I will redress your grievances!"

"The new county magistrate?"

The man got up trembling, and looked at his wife, both seeing confusion and suspicion in each other's eyes.

However, the aura of the man in front of him was too strong.

He just sat there, like a towering mountain, pressing people down to the point of suffocating!

This... this is definitely not an ordinary person!

After hesitating for less than a minute, the man pulled his wife down, half walked and half crawled to Xu Shu's feet, knelt on the ground, and bowed his head.

"Mr. County Governor, please give us justice!" the couple shouted together.

"I'm here to give everyone justice! Stand up! Don't... um."

Xu Shu was about to reprimand and educate them to have human dignity, not to kneel, and to promote correct and grand core values.

However, the pungent floral scent that suddenly wafted through the air reminded him.

He immediately saw them kneeling in front of his toes, so close that if they stood up they would probably touch him. He saw the man's untied trousers and the woman's linen skirt with fresh stains on it.

"..."

Even someone as strong as Xu Shu fell silent for a moment.

After five seconds of dead silence, he rolled his eyes and said, "Forget it, both of you should kneel down first. Tell me in detail what happened!"

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(End of this chapter)