I sell demon meat in the city

Chapter 61 A dark and windy night

As night falls, the bustling town finally quiets down after a busy day.

The dim streetlights shone on the mottled street surface. A dark shadow flashed by, and the light seemed to flicker for a moment before returning to normal.

At the foot of Sanqing Mountain, three kilometers away, Lin Qingquan was drinking and chatting with Zhang Jinwu, accompanied by Ji Yu.

"Uncle Zhang, was it really true that only monsters appeared here ten years ago, and no cultivators?"

Upon hearing Ji Yu's question, Lin Qingquan paused, his hand holding the wine glass still. Thinking of the storage bracelet and other treasures in his daughter's hand, he lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Zhang Jinwu had heard some of the rumors circulating outside, after all, the Sanqing Temple, now reduced to ruins, gave people a very strange feeling.

Behind the Taoist temple is a secret chamber used for worshipping the abbots of the past. Although the walls around the chamber have been damaged and collapsed, the bluestone floor in the center remains intact. The intricate patterns carved on it are undecipherable; some say they are array diagrams, while others say they are not.

In short, we still haven't figured out what it is.

There was a talisman pasted on one of the remaining walls, which was also taken for research, but who knows what the result was.

These things are secrets, but they can't be kept from this circle of people who can barely call themselves cultivators now.

Zhang Jinwu chuckled, turned to look out the window, pointed to the dark Sanqing Mountain outside, and asked Ji Yu, "Did you, like these people, also secretly go up there to search?"

With his keen senses, he could easily pinpoint the few people who were secretly climbing up the mountain.

Ji Yu chuckled, "I hadn't even had a chance to go up before my uncle dragged me here to you, Uncle Zhang. Why don't you tell me, is there really a dragon in the Dragon Pool on the mountain?"

He automatically skipped the previous question because he could tell that Zhang Jinwu didn't want to talk about it.

"I don't know if there are any dragons, but that sound was definitely very strange."

This is something that can be told to Ji Yu. Zhang Jinwu described in detail what he saw and heard when he went up the mountain to find the rabbit demon and the black rat demon that day.

"A large patch of dark clouds gathered above Jiaolongtan, and the sound coming from it was indeed similar to the dragon roars heard on TV. I brought everyone down from up there and had two drones go down to Jiaolongtan to check. But it was really dark there, and not only could we not see anything, but one of the drones also froze and went out of control. After about two hours, the dark clouds dispersed, the sound disappeared, and then it was calm and quiet all the time."

Ji Yu listened without blinking, her face filled with shock. "So, there really is a dragon hiding in the Dragon Pool?"

"I didn't say that," Zhang Jinwu quickly denied. "It's true that there's something inside, but whether it's a dragon is another matter."

He had once thought of getting the contents out of there, to prevent any unforeseen complications that might arise and cause further harm.

Unfortunately, no matter what explosives were thrown or what, apart from creating a few meters of splash and blowing up some rubble, the thing remained firmly hidden underwater and wouldn't come out.

In the end, the only option was to place cameras around the perimeter for surveillance.

But it's also very strange there; some cameras were installed and then frozen to death within two days, covered in snowflakes, and you couldn't see anything.

From the only remaining camera, a dark shadow could be vaguely seen flashing by, with faint glints of scales visible. It was unclear whether it was a real dragon!

Upon hearing this, Ji Yu became genuinely interested. "Then, could I..."

"You're nothing!"

Before he could finish speaking, Lin Qingquan slapped him on the back of the head. "Don't believe everything you hear. If you want to go to Jiaolongtan, you can come with me. If you dare to go by yourself, I'll break your legs."

After saying that, he turned to Zhang Jinwu and said, "Get this kid a temporary position. He's studying at university in Jeju. You guys figure out how to arrange things."

Zhang Jinwu's eyes lit up. "You're really joining? Jeju is short of people, and Lao Zhou has been complaining about it several times."

Then Zhang Jinwu called his colleagues in Jeju and told them to report back after Ji Yu returned. At 10:30, Lin Qingquan took Ji Yu out, planning to go back to town to take a look before returning to rest.

Although Shulan and her daughter Xiaoqi are capable, they lack experience. With so many people in town, they are afraid of encountering some treacherous and cunning individuals.

"Uncle, was your arm really bitten off by the wolf demon?"

Because he had a prosthetic arm, Ji Yu didn't realize at first that his respected uncle-master only had one arm left. It wasn't until he went to Zhang Jinwu's place and was asked that he found out.

Ji Yu became even more dissatisfied with the Xiao family.

"I'm not trying to be mean, Uncle, but your master is really useless and unreliable. He arranged your marriage without your consent, leaving you with a reputation for seducing and abandoning Xiao Yuehua. He even made your aunt a mistress. How unfair is that!"

Lin Qingquan stared intently out the window, saying nothing.

"Going to the Grand Canyon again? He went, fine, but he dragged you into it. Was it worth it to end up like this? Uncle, I'm not trying to sow discord, but this Longshan..."

"I have already left the sect."

"Really?" Ji Yu patted the steering wheel excitedly. "They should have retired a long time ago. Putting aside the quality of the Dragon Mountain Sword Technique, the Xiao family members are truly getting worse with each generation."

"Light rain!"

Ji Yu's voice stopped abruptly. At the same time, she quickly turned off the headlights and reduced the speed of the car, but did not stop immediately. Instead, she slowly moved forward.

They were still 500 meters away from Qingshui Town. The countryside lacked the bright lights of the city, and at this time, apart from the sparse and dim streetlights, it was almost pitch black.

A dark and windy night is the perfect time to do bad things.

"Uncle, is that person digging a hole?"

There's a scrap yard on the way from Qingshui Town to Sanshui Village, and beyond that are fields. When spring arrives and flowers bloom, almost every household has a pile of manure at the edge of their field, just waiting for the right time to spread the compost.

Ji Yu was not a spoiled brat who knew nothing about farming. His family owned houses and fields in the countryside, and every year his great-grandfather would force him to go and farm.

Therefore, he knew that the fertilizer was mostly fermented animal manure from his home. It wasn't particularly smelly, but it still had a odor.

At this moment, I was very curious about what those two figures, one tall and one short, were digging in front of the manure pile in the middle of the night.

Meanwhile, Lin Qingquan, sitting in the passenger seat, stared at the short figure, his eyelids twitching.

how to say?

Even in the dead of night when it was pitch black and he couldn't see the other person's face clearly, he could still recognize that it was his own son just by looking at the shadow!
Since the shorter one is Xiao Qi, then the taller one must be his wife.

What are you two doing here in the middle of the night?

"Xiaoyu, wait in the car, I'll go check on you."

After the car had traveled a short distance, Ji Yu stopped it to avoid alerting the two people who were digging a hole in the ground. They were now about two hundred meters away.

"Uncle, I'll go with you."

Without saying a word, Ji Yu got out of the car with Lin Qingquan.

I went out to play today. Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone!
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(End of this chapter)