Fox demon: Carry my piano music with me forever

"Well...it's indeed my first time. I used to communicate with informants in the human world at Tushan, but I've never been here in person."

"Then you have to be careful. I tell you, this place is not like Tushan. There are bad guys everywhere. They like to bully delicate girls like you."

"It's possible that you could be cheated of your money and sex if you're not careful."

Fu Changsheng deliberately described the situation in an exaggerated way, and immediately put on the educating attitude of an elder.

Hearing this, Tushan Rongrong just smiled slightly.

"Really? Then I will have to rely on Mr. Fu's protection~"

Tushan Rongrong laughed in agreement, and inadvertently hugged Fu Changsheng's arm tightly, and naturally moved her body closer, looking like a well-behaved young wife.

Two figures walked side by side on the busy street, just like the ending of a fairy tale, strolling among the paintings of Along the River During the Qingming Festival.

But this beautiful scene did not last long, as it was broken by a burst of tragic crying from not far away.

"Ooooh!...Mom!"

A child's sharp cry sounded in front, breaking the lively atmosphere on the main city road.

The people around him were all attracted to him.

Fu Changsheng and Tushan Rongrong couldn't help but pause.

Walking forward, I saw a group of people gathered in a circle in front of a small vegetable stall.

Inside, a woman in tattered clothes and with messy hair was kneeling in front of a man dressed as an official.

The woman grabbed the man's legs and feet and cried, "I beg you, don't take Amon away, this is my only son!"

A colleague was standing next to the man, holding a five-year-old boy in his hands, and stood by indifferently, urging his companion to leave quickly.

"I beg you... I will hand it in as soon as possible... Please give me a few more days."

"I've already reminded you that if you don't pay the tax, I'll use your son to offset it. Yesterday was the deadline!"

"Don't let go yet!"

The man shouted coldly and kicked the woman away.

Turning around, the two men picked up the boy and left without looking back.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..Mother..."

"Amon! Aaaah! Amon!"

The miserable cries of children and women became farther and farther away until they disappeared at the end of each other's sight.

The people standing by and watching this scene couldn't help but sigh, but they could do nothing about it.

There was no trace of emotion on Tushan Rongrong's face, but Fu Changsheng beside her could not help but frowned.

"Brother, may I ask what happened?" Fu Changsheng turned his head and glanced at a rough man next to him.

"Oh, I remember this woman. She came to Daotian City with her husband to fight, but her husband was accidentally beaten to death by drunken soldiers in a tavern."

"Later, she and her youngest son were the only ones left in Daotian City, barely making ends meet by selling vegetables. As a result, because they could not pay the taxes, the government forced her son to be used as tax deduction."

After saying that, the rough man couldn't help but shook his head.

“If you can’t squeeze money out of the people, you take their children to pay the taxes.”

"Have the government gone mad?"

After listening to the rough man's story, Fu Changsheng's face turned dark almost instantly.

"Tsk, there's nothing we can do. Just accept our fate when something like this happens." The rough man waved his hand, turned around and left with his hoe.

A bartender nearby couldn't help but add a sentence: "At least this child has a chance to survive, which is better than being captured and eaten by a monster!"

"Are there demons and evil spirits in Daotian City?"

"Huh? You don't know?"

"Recently, children in many places have mysteriously disappeared, not just in Daotian City."

"I heard that they were all captured by monsters."

"..."

Hearing this, Tushan Rongrong and Fu Changsheng exchanged strange glances, as if they could see the confusion in each other's hearts.

Although it is almost universally acknowledged that monsters eat humans, they only have the opportunity to attack humans in the wilderness.

If it were in a town, he would definitely be wanted and hunted by the local Taoist alliance.

What's more, this is Daotian City.

At the feet of the emperor!

Which monster dares to come here and make trouble?

"The court doesn't care?"

The servant waved his hands repeatedly: "How dare I!"

"If it was just some small monster, it would be fine, but that was the Tushan Fox Demon! Even the Taoists dare not offend him casually, let alone the imperial court!"

"Who?!"

The moment the other party finished speaking, Fu Changsheng's eyes widened, wondering if he had heard it wrong.

Tushan Rongrong, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but raise her eyebrows when she heard the name of Tushan Fox Demon, but she didn't say much and just listened quietly.

"Tushan Fox Demon!"

"Hey, you look like you're unfamiliar with the place, so you'd better be careful. The Tushan fox demon is very cruel, so it's best to run away if you see it!" As the servant spoke, he deliberately lowered his voice to remind her.

After a while, almost everyone around had left.

Only Tushan Rongrong and Fu Changsheng were left standing there.

Fu Changsheng glanced sideways at Tushan Rongrong and found that she had been looking in the direction where the two yamen runners who had kidnapped the boy had left, with her eyebrows drooping slightly, as if she was thinking about something.

After a long time, Fu Changsheng asked in a low voice: "Do you have any clues?"

Tushan Rongrong shook her head.

"It's hard to say. I've never heard of such a thing in Tushan, but I won't guarantee that all Tushan fox demons won't do such a thing."

Tushan Rongrong spoke in a low voice. Even though her demon body had been hidden, her simple clothes could not conceal her unparalleled elegance.

If it were any other time, according to Tushan Honghong's personality, she would just take the blame for no reason. It wasn't the first time anyway, and Tushan Honghong didn't bother to care about what these people said.

But now it involves the peace between humans and demons, and they need the support of the rulers of the human race.

There are rumors that the Tushan fox demon is kidnapping children under the emperor's feet. If we do nothing about it, it will definitely become a hidden bomb.

"Check."

As she spoke, Tushan Rongrong's eyes and eyebrows opened slightly, and a strange light flashed in an instant.

Chapter 132 Bait? Isn't there one here?

After dusk, Fu Changsheng and Tushan Rongrong found an inn nearby to stay temporarily.

The sky gradually darkened, and the orange candlelight in the house swayed gently from time to time with the breeze outside the window.

Fu Changsheng sat at the table, staring at the information he had just bought from the news dealer.

"Eight young children in Xinping City disappeared on the seventh day of the first lunar month."

"Fourteen boys were abducted from Jinming Town."

"Three consecutive cases of missing children have occurred in Liangyu City."

Looking at the pieces of information in his hands about the recent missing children, Fu Changsheng's brows were always furrowed, and he seemed a little confused.

So many disappearances happening at the same time are clearly premeditated.

"Could it be a gang of human traffickers?" Fu Changsheng thought.

That's not right. The logic behind human traffickers kidnapping children is probably similar to that of monsters eating humans. Most of them like to attack small places in the countryside with poor security.

However, all of these recent disappearances occurred near the imperial city.

Which human trafficker is so bold as to act so presumptuously under the feet of the emperor?

As he thought about it, Fu Changsheng's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he couldn't help but become a little absent-minded.

敷~

"What are you thinking about?"

In a trance, a soft voice came from his ears, and Fu Changsheng suddenly felt his shoulders sink.

"Huh?" Fu Changsheng finally came back to his senses.

I saw Tushan Rongrong quietly coming behind Fu Changsheng at some point, hugging his neck from behind and putting her head on his shoulder.

The moment I turned around, what came into view was Tushan Rongrong's beautiful profile. Her fair skin looked like a glutinous rice dumpling under the candlelight, making people want to take a bite.

"Sorry, did I scare you?"

Fu Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"Why do you always like to hug me from behind without making a sound?"

"Since you're so focused, I don't have the heart to interrupt you. So, do you have any idea?"

"I just checked and felt that this matter is a bit strange." Fu Changsheng shook his head.

"Logically speaking, the imperial court should take such a large-scale disappearance case in the imperial city very seriously."

"But the result is that the imperial court, the government, and the Dao League all turned a blind eye to this matter."

"Um?"

Tushan Rongrong took the information from Fu Changsheng's hand and glanced at it. Her eyes flickered and it was unknown what she was thinking.

"It is a bit similar to the incident with Mu Tiancheng." After thinking for a moment, Tushan Rongrong blurted out.

"Why do you say that?"

"With so many cases breaking out at once, it's impossible that they were done by some ignorant little monster who wanted to eat people."