Pseudo master, she just wants to live

Chapter 165 The Thing in the Snow
The air was strangely quiet for a moment, and Fan Chen who opened the curtain in front looked over.

Fang Yao looked back at him and blinked her eyes.

"Ah, that's right. Let's just remind the messenger that there are no rooms available."

The postmaster explained with a smile, his expression as usual.

Fang Yao nodded, walked to the side of the carriage, and was about to climb up, when suddenly an arm was half-stretched in front of her.

She remembered that she was playing the role of a well-educated official wife at this time, and hurriedly supported the arm of Fan Chen beside her, and with the strength of his arm, she got on the car gracefully.

Watching the carriage slowly leave, the smile on the postmaster's face gradually disappeared.

"Anyone have the tape on the knocker?"

"Yes, it was taken away in the middle of the night, and I even wiped off the footprints on the door. Boss, why did the official woman ask like that? Does she know something?"

"What can she know as an ordinary girl, even if she is an official, we are doing things for the mountain god."

……

in the carriage.

Fang Yao dug out a bag of pastries from under the coffee table, and slumped comfortably on the cushion while eating. The brazier and incense were lit in the car, this is where people stay.

After eating and drinking, she yawned, moved to the door of the car, and asked, "Don't you think the people in this station are a bit strange?"

She wore a mask at night, and heard the sound of someone opening the courtyard door several times, going back and forth seven or eight times, and each time it was the same person's footsteps.

When she got up in the morning, she paid special attention to it. It must be the bearded postmen who always go out in the middle of the night.

Originally, she didn't think much about it, she just worked hard at the post station, and she had to go out for inspections at night.

But just now when he asked casually, although the postmaster looked normal, the postman's expression suddenly changed.

Fan Chen said lightly: "I heard something before I came here, do you want to hear it?"

"what's up?"

"All the merchants and officials who lived in the post station in Qingfeng County were robbed on the road, and none of them survived."

"..."

The corner of Fang Yao's mouth twitched, "You...why didn't you say it earlier?"

Fan Chen took out a dirty red ribbon from his pocket, and said lightly: "I just want to try it out, whether it is true as rumored."

Fang Yao took the red ribbon with a confused face: "This is..."

"I tore it off at the door at night. Not long after we tore it off, the postman beat the drum and woke us up."

Fang Yao was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened slightly, "You mean... it's not yet five o'clock yet? That group deliberately tricked us out on our way?"

Fan Chen said quietly: "After all, it's a bit too ostentatious to rob the official road in broad daylight."

"I……"

Depend on!
Fang Yao almost swears.

She still overestimated Daxiang's law and order.

I never thought that this official station would actually collude with bandits!
Now that I think about it, I'm afraid that the red ribbon in this hand is the secret code for the people in the station to contact the bandits outside.

No wonder the casual question made the postman nervous.

Fang Yao kneaded the silk ribbon into a ball, stuffed it into her pocket, took out her mask and put it on, and opened the curtain to look around.

There was a vast expanse of whiteness between the sky and the earth, not to mention people, not even a ghost could be seen.

Unlike other places, the official roads in Qingfeng County are sparsely populated, and the snow is deep and thick. Except for the wheel marks of their carriages, there are no personal footprints on the snow.

When the night wind blew, Fang Yao hurriedly rubbed her frozen face, and asked, "Then you take off their red silk belts, so we won't encounter robbers on the way?"

Fan Chen twitched the corner of his mouth, "Don't forget the name of Qingfeng County, the hometown of bandits."

Fang Yao: "..."

Since she might encounter bandits, she must be more vigilant along the way.

"what……"

Fang Yao raised her head.

Strange to say.

Before I arrived in Qingfeng County, I always saw a faint miasma lingering above the sky.

But when I got here, I didn't find anything abnormal at all. Even the miasma above my head seemed to have faded.

"Why do I see Qingfeng's miasma getting less and less? Is the plague monster still here?"

"As soon as we entered Qingfeng County, Xuanjing responded, but we couldn't figure out the exact location." Fan Chen frowned, "I don't know what happened."

Fang Yao supported the door with both hands, the strange smiling face of the Gu Master appeared in her mind, and she suddenly became excited.

This anomaly won't be related to this guy...

Suddenly, the carriage sank heavily, and Fang Yao, who was unsuspecting, was so bumped that her face twisted, she hurriedly raised half of her body, and silently rubbed her buttocks.

"Call-"

Fan Chen stopped the carriage, jumped off, and walked along a crooked snow path.

Fang Yao hurriedly opened the curtain and jumped out, Yang Gao and A Wu who were following behind also stopped.

Yang Gao was walking this way, still cursing, "Damn it, are the people at the station lying to us? Why is it still dark?"

"Brother Yang, the post station is also a place set up by the imperial court, isn't it?" a member of the Li clan asked doubtfully.

Yang Gao clicked his tongue twice: "It's because you have little knowledge. It is said that Qingfeng County is a den of wolves and bandits. People from the official family have to take off their skins when they come in. How can this post in the wilderness be safe and sound?"

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but they were speechless for a while.

As for the front, as soon as Fang Yao jumped off the carriage, she found that the originally flat and thick snow had suddenly sunken in a large area in front, and there were a few messy footprints around it, which vaguely looked like traces after a fight.

She glanced at Fan Chen who was still searching ahead, pulled out the harpoon from the car, and gently fiddled with the snow on the surface.

There seemed to be a very faint smell of blood in the air.

Next to him, Yang Gao and the others also squatted down, imitating her movements and picking up the snow under the wheel without saying a word.

Yang Gao asked while digging: "Master, what treasure are you looking for?"

Fang Yao was speechless for a while, but just as she was about to speak, Yang Gao suddenly stopped her arms, followed by a sudden burst of digging, and said excitedly, "I found it, I found it! Look what good things I found!"

I saw Yang Gao grabbing the thing in the snow and pulling it out forcefully.

A bloody and bloody skull fell on the snow, rolled around a few times, and finally fell back into the pit that Yang Gao dug at first.

The smell of blood in the air was so strong that everyone could smell it.

The atmosphere froze for a moment, and everyone jumped up and scattered in all directions.

Yang Gao also jumped up, shook his hands on the spot, and cursed with embarrassment: "His grandma, who the hell is so immoral, throwing dead people's heads everywhere!"

Fang Yao said with a pale face: "No, this doesn't look...it doesn't look like someone did it..."

Yang Gao silenced, the man had already changed beyond recognition, his scalp was torn open, only a few strands of blood-sticky hair were left messily wrapped around the skull...

As if to test their guess, a howling wolf came from the distant snow field.

"Get in the car."

Fan Chen, who came back from the investigation in front, suddenly returned quickly, "There are wolves nearby, and there are a lot of them."

(End of this chapter)