Pseudo master, she just wants to live

Chapter 167 I Can Act
Almost at a glance, Fang Yao recognized that the silk ribbons hanging on the wall were the things used by the post station to report messages.

It's just a different color.

She was about to walk over to take it off to have a look, when the owl with the thin iron chain suddenly flapped its wings and rushed towards her!

"Ouch!"

Li Dazhu rushed to catch it, but Fan Chen was even faster. With a wave of his right hand, the owl uttered two screams of "scratching", and then fell to the ground with its wings folded. The eye that was not blind was staring at Fang. The silk ribbon in Yao's hand.

"This night owls will scratch people's faces with their claws when they are tied to iron chains." Li Dazhu quickly caught the owl and took it out.

Fang Yao and Fan Chen glanced at each other, and they probably understood something in their hearts.

In fact, the two of them have always wondered that the distance between the post station and the village was nearly thirty miles, and it was really difficult to report the letter in time when it was snowing heavily.

It turned out that in order not to run away, the family raised an owl in the village to report the news.

As long as you come out and fly around in the evening, you will know if anyone has checked into the post.

Fang Yao was speechless. The nameless skull she met on the way must be the villager who went to the post station to find out the news.

The two searched the house all over, and besides the silk ribbons on the wall, they also found a porcelain jar in the cabinet, and a note with the word "offer" was pasted on the outside.

When the lid was opened, there were some silver hairpins, earrings and other women's jewelry inside, which were not worn by women in the village at first glance.

Fang Yao knew in her heart that most of these things came from robbery.

She told Fan Chen what she heard the old woman say in the kitchen last night. The latter looked extremely ugly. After putting away the jar, he followed her to search other houses in the village.

It turned out that almost every household in the village had such a pot, with different patterns and shapes, but the word "offer" was pasted on the outside, and there were also women's jewelry inside.

"Who are these jewelry... for?"

Fang Yao couldn't help wondering, as she spoke, she suddenly saw a [-] meters away to the northwest of the village, there was a wooden house with cinnabar red paint that was incompatible with those rammed earth houses in the village.

"It's an ancestral hall, and the door seems to be open."

Fan Chen followed her gaze and took the lead.

The snow in the village has been trampled in a mess, but the snow outside has already reached Fang Yao's thighs.

In order to save effort, she naturally followed Fan Chen's path.

"Hey... this snowy path..."

Fan Chen suddenly uttered a doubt, Fang Yao poked her head out from behind him, and was surprised to find that there was a deep snow path on the snow in the large open space in front of the ancestral hall, extending all the way to the outside of the village.

Naturally, it is impossible for people from the village to enter. Someone must have entered from outside the village, and then left along the previous trace.

There was no snow in the second half of the night, and these marks were still obvious.

The two of them walked over, barely squatting down, and saw a row of messy animal footprints, one after another.

"These are the footprints of wolves, and there are many of them."

Fan Chen recognized it at a glance.

Fang Yao paused, she suddenly understood why she could always hear wolves howling, but couldn't see wolves.

These wolves are likely to be lying on this kind of snow road all the time!
Because the snow is too deep, she doesn't stand high enough every time, and she can't see the place below the snow line at all if the distance is a little farther away!
So, the group of wolves who followed them all the way from Changli County never left.

Fang Yao looked ugly.

Except for TV and zoos, she has never really come into contact with wolves, but she also knows that wolves do not follow their prey so far.

This is almost 80 miles away.

Moreover, Yang Gao and the others said that the number of wolves last night probably reached more than [-]. Such a large wolf pack is also very rare.

"Go ahead and have a look."

Fan Chen got up and walked to the ancestral hall, "The door of this ancestral hall...was opened by someone."

Hearing this, Fang Yao lowered her head to check the snowy road carefully again. There were many footprints, but no human footprints were found.

Over there, Fan Chen had already opened the door and entered, she also stood up and patted on her clothes, and was about to follow in when suddenly a flash of inspiration came to her mind.

She quickly took out the booklet and turned to the latest page.

Damn, nothing!

"Why haven't you come in yet?"

"I'm coming!"

Fang Yao quickly rolled up the booklet, stuffed it into the inner jacket, turned around and walked in quickly.

There are not many people in this village, but the ancestral hall is very magnificently built.

It is ten feet square, and there are not many tablets on the tribute platform. The largest tablet in the middle is particularly eye-catching, with red lacquer and gold border, and the word "Mountain God" is engraved in the middle.

A small incense altar was placed on the altar, which was full of incense ash. It can be seen that the villagers are very concerned about this place on weekdays.

What surprised Fang Yao even more was that the portrait of the ancestor hanging in the center of the ancestral hall was actually a young girl riding a mountain beast.

"This is... the mountain god?"

Fan Chen nodded: "These people claim to be descendants of mountain gods."

"Did the descendants of the mountain god treat human life like this?"

Fang Yao sarcastically said, suddenly a horse's hoof neighed from far behind.

"It should be the people from the Qingfeng County Yamen."

The two looked at each other and turned to go out.

On the way, the two chatted quietly.

"Remember what I told you?"

"Don't worry, I can act."

"..."

The remaining old and weak women and children in the village were locked in a room. When Fang Yao and Fan Chen rushed over, the government officials had just arrived.

Yang Gao rushed out of the room, winked at Fang Yao, and reminded in a low voice: "Madam, where have you been, Mr. Huang is waiting for you inside."

In an instant, Fang Yao knew that Yang Gao was reminding herself that the county magistrate Huang had also come in person.

She and Fan Chen beside her glanced at each other, before they had time to speak, a hoarse crying sound came from the room.

"My lord! It's them! They're the ones who attracted the wolves! They're the ones who killed the men in our village!"

"My lord, you must take revenge for us!"

Fang Yao heard it absurdly outside. From where she was standing, she could just see the ferocious-looking old woman from yesterday, kneeling and hugging the thigh of a man in official uniform, crying miserably.

She rubbed her eyes vigorously, making her eye sockets and eyeballs bloodshot and red, and then pinched herself viciously, the pain made her tears flow out, and she entered sideways.

"Officials~~~"

Her voice was shrill and melodious, and everyone in the room was startled, including Fan Chen who followed outside the door, his body was stiff.

Huang Zhixian in the room was even more frightened and turned around, "You..."

Fang Yao also paused for a moment, she thought that Huang Zhixian would be an ugly person with a fat head, but unexpectedly he was a young man with elegant appearance.

But soon, she was stunned, endured goosebumps, and shouted even more aggrieved: "Officer?! It's really you... official..."

As she spoke, she was about to pounce towards Huang Zhixian, who had an uncertain expression on her face, when a violent coughing sound came from behind her.

Everyone looked towards the door silently, Fan Chen covered his mouth, bent over, and coughed so hard that it was heart-piercing.

Fang Yao seemed to have just discovered that there were other people in the room, and lowered her head with a blushing face, but soon raised her eyes slightly with tears in her eyes: "Officer, I... I have been looking for you so hard... "

(End of this chapter)