The shopkeeper pushed Xiaoer aside: "Go, go, go and serve the girl a pot of good tea!"

Xiao Er glanced greedily at the Ye Mingzhu on the table, but went to the side to make tea.

The shopkeeper picked up the Ye Mingzhu, rubbed it cherishedly, and put it in his arms carefully: "Listen to me and explain it to you in detail."

"Actually, we are not saying that you must not go out at night, but it is too dangerous to go out at night. Generally, only the disciples of Tianshanmen will go out at night to maintain the safety of the city."

Chu Jinsui took a sip of tea: "Oh? What's the danger at night?"

The shopkeeper faltered: "Well... Actually, I don't know too well..."

"Crack!" She placed another Ye Mingzhu on the table.

The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, he grabbed Ye Mingzhu, and looked around: "Closed, closed! Go and close the door!"

Xiaoer immediately ran obediently and closed the door of the inn. There were no customers at this point in the store, only Chu Jinsui was alone, so after sending Xiaoer away, the shopkeeper also sat down at the table nervously.

"Girl, you just came to us, so you might not know about it." The shopkeeper said, "Originally, these things cannot be told to other people. Generally, even if there are guests from far away, we will only tell them not to go out."

He swallowed: "I'm an honest man, you give too much, who of us who runs a shop is just begging for food, these things shouldn't be said in the first place."

As he said that, the shopkeeper poured a cup of tea for Chu Jinsui himself: "This matter started a long time ago."

"This is a story handed down from my ancestors, you just take it as a story."

He recalled: "When I was young, I heard from my grandfather that when he was a child, this place was originally an ordinary small town, far less prosperous than it is now."

"At that time, there were several years of drought, and the crops in the fields were not harvested. My grandfather had no food every day, so he could only gnaw on the bark, and the bark was also eaten up."

"Everything that flies in the sky, crawls on the ground, bugs, and mice are all eaten up, so they can only eat dirt."

"Oh, it's really hard, that soil, after eating it, it's all in the stomach, and some people just eat the soil so hard that they suffocate themselves to death."

"My grandfather was lucky. There were not many people in the family, and he survived with one or two extra mouthfuls of bran."

The shopkeeper stared at the Ye Mingzhu in his hand: "Just when everyone thought that this drought would kill everyone in the city, a god suddenly came!"

"He said he was a cultivator, and when he waved his hand, a bowl of water came out!"

Chu Jinsui nodded, motioning for him to continue.

Summoning water is not a very advanced spell, but the water in summoning water obviously cannot save an entire town, unless the opponent can call wind and rain.

But at least Nascent Soul is required to practice these techniques.

Sure enough, the shopkeeper went on to say: "But even a little water can't save people or crops!"

"Then the monk said that the drought here is actually caused by monsters. As long as we find out this medicine and kill it, the drought will stop."

"He left some talismans for self-defense, then taught the smarter children a few spells, and then left. After that, everyone in the whole city was looking for that monster."

"It took a lot of effort to find that monster."

The shopkeeper is mysterious: "Guess what that monster is?"

Chu Jinsui was not interested in this kind of guessing, and shook his head: "I can't guess, what is it?"

The shopkeeper slapped his thigh: "It's a little girl!"

"It took them a long time to find it, because the little girl hid, and her family thought she had run out and starved to death, but they found the little girl in the mountains."

"You say it's not evil. The trees on the mountain are all dry, there is no water, and there is no food. She, a little girl, has been hiding for several months. Isn't this a monster or something!"

"And it's said that that little girl... no, it's a monster!"

The shopkeeper changed his words: "When that monster was found, it actually learned sorcery!"

"She wounded several people with black magic and was finally caught."

Chu Jinsui asked: "Why don't you think that the monk who appeared at the beginning is a monster, using sorcery, but you think a little girl is a monster? Isn't the monk who appeared at the beginning more suspicious?"

The shopkeeper was stunned by the question, "How is that possible! If it weren't for that monk, everyone would have starved to death at that time. You must never say that outside!"

"That little girl is definitely a monster. Her parents said that her temperament has changed drastically. She used to be a sick little girl. After running to the mountains for a while, her whole body was refreshed. This is not a monster!"

Seeing his serious face, Chu Jinsui had no intention of arguing with him: "And then?"

The monk who appeared at the beginning just gave them an illusion of a bowl of water, and everyone respected him extremely, and he was what he said.

Later, the little girl didn't do anything, she stayed on the mountain well but turned into a monster.

Chu Jinsui recalled in his mind that there were creatures that could cause drought, but after thinking a few times about existences like female demons, he felt that it was unlikely.

There are only a handful of strange beasts that have caused widespread drought for many years, and they should not appear in ordinary towns.

The shopkeeper continued: "Then the monster was executed at that time!"

"That's why I'm so sure that she is a monster! After the monster was burned to death, it rained heavily that day!"

"The drought ended immediately, and the crops, trees and grass all grew up!"

"It must have been caused by this monster. Otherwise, how could the drought end immediately once she died?"

Chu Jinsui did not express his opinion, and then asked: "Then what does this have to do with not being able to go out at night?"

She subconsciously thought of it, it was the girl's grievances who stayed in the town to take revenge.

What the shopkeeper said next was similar to what she thought: "That's because, after this monster died, he never wanted to let everyone go!"

"It seems that she still has witchcraft left in the city. At night, the city will become very unsafe."

Chu Jinsui heard him ambiguous: "Unsafe? What kind of unsafe? Will something appear in the city?"

The shopkeeper's face showed embarrassment: "To be honest, I really don't know, because I have never gone out at night. Our small shop closes at dusk, and the windows don't even open at night."

"I don't know what's going to happen tonight."

"Not enough. I've heard strange noises a few times before..."

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