"Um?"

The boy paused and nodded obediently waiting for him to speak.

Seeing that several students outside had walked away, Zhou Shize slowly squatted down and looked straight in the boy's innocent eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Ning Xin, do you still remember the sister who lives next to your house?"

"Sister?" The boy was slightly stunned, and then he seemed to remember something and smiled a little, "Is it Sister Bai? Of course I remember, my sister once gave me a lot of delicious food, which was nice to me..."

"Then you know, what happened to her?"

The boy's smile was stagnant, and the little face that was not good at concealing showed some uneasiness and entanglement, and hesitated but dared not speak.

Zhou Shize's heart moved and he was just investigating it. Now it seems that it is really possible to ask for some clues.

The girl named Bai once taught a class with him. She is well-behaved, cute and easy to learn. Although she is a woman, she has a good talent and is very appreciated by him.

But a month ago, she suddenly didn't come to class.

He went to her house to ask, but the answer he got was that he had a stick mixed with it, and there were a few bruises on his shoulders.

He realized something was wrong at that time!

After that, he secretly observed that the girl seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never saw her again. However, her family had no intention of reporting the case, but she was a little more silent on weekdays.

After that, he studied the case left by his ex and found that every few years a girl suddenly disappeared and could not find her whereabouts. At first, someone would report the case, but soon the person who reported the case disappeared and then left nothing.

"There must be a conspiracy behind this!"

With his keen intuition, Zhou Shize judged this point. There was a lot of dark and dirty hidden in this barbaric and backward small town. If it weren't for the government office that had no power here, he would definitely come to investigate!

Now, he can only investigate the truth secretly, and be careful not to be noticed by those who are interested. Otherwise, this secret organization may not care about the life of a small county magistrate.

The boy in front of him was hesitant. He took the pastry made by his wife from the table beside him and handed it to the other party: "Come on, the teacher will never tell anyone. As long as you say it, you will be given this pastry..."

Perhaps unable to withstand the temptation of pastries, the boy took it carefully, then approached his ear and whispered: "It was eaten by the mountain god..."

"Mountain God?"

Zhou Shize showed a little shocked face, and looked at the boy jumping away outside the door, and gradually fell into deep thought.

I have been here for a while, so he naturally knew the existence of the so-called mountain god.

It is probably the custom of the people in the mountains. From ancient times, they regarded some wildfires, thunders, mountain torrents and other natural disasters as the wrath of gods, so they imagined that there was a mountain god in charge of the mountain range. As long as they dared to have a slight disrespect to the mountain god, they would send disasters to destroy the villages and towns.

There is obviously no way to investigate whether there is a precedent in this. However, there is still a temple dedicated to mountain gods built in this town that relies on the mountain to eat. Ceremony activities will be held there during festivals. On weekdays, hunters will go to hunt incense and worship early, praying that the mountain gods will bless you to gain something on this trip.

Even when a new official takes office, that is, when Zhou Shize takes office as a county magistrate on the first day, he must worship the mountain god, called "See the mountain god", so that he can become an official rightfully, otherwise no one will recognize you.

It can be seen that the people here believe in the mountain god.

But this belief is true, but at most everyone is spending money to renovate temples and buy incense, and sacrifice to living people. I have never seen it before. What is going on with this "eating by the mountain god"...

The doubts in his heart were even more serious. Zhou Shize wanted to ask more, but unfortunately the child didn't know more. He just vaguely heard some words from his parents.

Knowing that there must be a greater hidden feeling in this, Zhou Shize felt a little hesitant at this time.

"Should you continue to investigate?"

The sense of justice in his heart is naturally true, but the current situation is extremely serious.

Just from some clues he investigated, we can see that there is a huge whirlpool behind the case, and if you are not careful, you may swallow him alive.

At this moment, he was just a county magistrate with only an official position and had no one under his command. How could he fight against these enemies?

I'm afraid in the end I will only bring disaster to myself and my wife...

But if he doesn't investigate, he will not be able to pass the threshold in his heart if he dies for no reason...

He studied hard for more than ten years. Was he just an official for the imperial examination? The words of the sages in the book are still vivid in his mind, which makes him never dare to relax.

This thought was always in his heart, and he was also worried when he returned home, which made his wife see something was wrong at first glance.

But she was smart and didn't say it clearly, but just took care of him with a little more gentleness. She leaned against his shoulder until she went to bed and whispered: "Mr. I don't understand the big things about you guys, but please remember that no matter what happened, Yu'er will always be by your side..."

Zhou Shize's heart was touched, and he held hands and stroked her soft hair, and he had already made a decision in his heart.

He will check it out!

In order to be worthy of the black hat on his head and the sage books he had studied hard for so long, he would definitely seek justice for those innocent dead people!

In the hazy night, there was a heavy fog in the town at some point, and the fog was filled but not too thick. Only a trace of cold moonlight above the head was scattered through the fog, adding a bit of quiet and profound mystery.

At the middle of the night, the guest walked alone in the dark alley, beating the gong and shouting a few words like "Be careful of fire candles when the weather is dry". His throat became hoarse for a while, and he coughed a few times before he got better.

Those who are always brave in being a resuscitator, otherwise they wouldn't have swayed on the street in the middle of the night. Seeing that there was no one around, there was only the "whimpering" wind around, and the timid ones were afraid that they could not walk at all.

I took out the small wine pot tied to the belt and drank two sips of wine. The updater smashed his mouth and felt a little warmer, so he moistened his throat again, shouting and continued to walk towards the next street.
Chapter completed!