In the wine shop under the towering tree at the entrance of Shuangzhong Village, Ye Yinfeng and the other four people sat quietly inside and waited for the food of the woman and the farmer man in the wine shop. For a while, everyone was waiting for all kinds of scoundrels, and the surroundings at this time were very quiet, and the silence was a little bizarre, which made people feel weird.

Li Xiaoyao turned the teacup in his hand boredly, looking indifferent, but his stomach rumbled and betrayed him. He turned the teacup in his hand, put it down again one moment, and then felt the scoundrel grasp it in his hand and turn it again.

Li Congjia, who is not fat, did not have the embarrassment just now, he was looking around, and found that there was nothing interesting, and his eyes returned to the fat Taoist.

The old man sat motionless, like a monk in a state of flux, and his demeanor was as if he were a scoundrel.

The same small village, in Ye Yinfeng's eyes, how could he feel that this village was less angry, he didn't understand why he had such an idea. But the wine shop that appeared and the family of three in the wine shop here still couldn't dispel the doubts in his heart. There was not even a single dog barking around, except for the white crane they had seen flying high on the lake, and he had not seen any animals in the village at this time, and this strange phenomenon could not help but make him a little puzzled.

After waiting for less than half an hour, the woman and the peasant man came out of the kitchen, and the food was ready.

A few side dishes were served one after another, although it was not rich, but it was exquisite. It seems that this farmhouse dish has a different taste.

It's just a pity that there is no wine, and the peasant man explained with a smile on his face that something happened in the village a few days ago, and every family's wine was stolen, so now there is no wine to entertain guests.

At first, everyone didn't care, and they didn't hear what the man said, and everyone looked at the steaming dishes and thought about how to get rid of them.

After everyone gobbled it up for a while, the dishes on the table had already been exhausted, and everyone was satisfied with burps.

When the woman saw that everyone had eaten enough, she stepped forward to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and she was quick with her hands and feet, and in a while she cleaned up the table.

"This strong man, you said that something happened in the village recently, and the wine of every household in the village was stolen by others, what the hell is going on?"

Li Xiaoyao was very curious about this matter, and after eating, he remembered the words of the peasant man, and he couldn't help but ask the other party. He had heard of stealing money and treasures, but he had never heard of someone stealing wine, and this was the first time he had heard of someone who did not steal money and steal fine wine.

Ye Yinfeng and Li Congjia also remembered what this man had just said, and they also looked at this man with a curious face, waiting for each other's answer.

The woman neatly cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and returned to the kitchen, and she stayed in the kitchen for a long time and did not come out. And the three-foot boy was nowhere to be seen at this time, and he didn't know whether he was playing in this courtyard.

The big man cleared his throat and spoke slowly.

There is a dragon king temple in front of this village, a few days ago the villagers found that the offerings in the dragon king temple suddenly disappeared, the villagers panicked for a while, thinking that the dragon king appeared and ate those offerings. The villagers in the village put their food as offerings in the Dragon King Temple, but a few villagers went to check it out, because these villagers were more daring, and they wanted to know how the Dragon King in the Dragon King Temple ate these offerings. This was already disrespectful, and he was scolded by several old people in the village, and those people were a little restrained.

But everyone is curious, especially the young people in the village, they don't care about the dragon king's apparition or anything like that, they want to find out. One night a few days ago, a few young men stood guard in the temple of the dragon king, and they really found the one who ate the offerings. It turned out that it was not the Dragon King, but a strange person, and they didn't see it clearly when it was too dark that night, and what they saw seemed to be a man wearing a Taoist robe, with a cloak and a dirty body.

"The person wearing the Taoist robe, is that a Taoist priest?" As soon as Li Xiaoyao heard this, he hurriedly interrupted him and asked anxiously.

"I don't know if it's a small one, but I just heard what the people in the village said, and I can't say if it's a Taoist priest or not. After all, it was too dark that night, and no one saw the truth. And he was disheveled, and he couldn't see his true face at all. ”

The man smiled helplessly and explained, his tone not seeming to be lying.

"Xiaodao is in a hurry, please don't be a strong man." Li Xiaoyao knew that he was a little anxious, and hurriedly apologized to the man.

The man waved his hand, indicating that it was all right, and continued.

At that time, the young people in the village returned to the village and explained the matter to the villagers, and the villagers were furious when they heard this. Early the next morning, the whole village gathered together and said that they would catch the blasphemous thief. When the villagers rushed into the temple of the dragon king, they found that the person who had stolen the offerings had long since disappeared.

Later, the villagers no longer placed offerings in the temple of the Dragon King, who knew that the dogs of every household suffered again, and almost one or two dogs were missing in the past few days, and the wine of every household also disappeared. The villagers had organized personnel to catch the thief many times, but the thief was as cunning as a fox, and every time the villagers gathered together, they returned empty-handed.

So now there is not a single dog in the village, and the villagers' wine is almost gone, and even this shop is not immune.

So that's the case, Ye Yinfeng suddenly realized in his heart, no wonder he didn't even see a dog in this village, and strangers didn't even bark when they entered this village.

"Then you have reported to the official." Ye Yinfeng asked the man, he felt that the villagers could not solve the matter, so the government should send someone to deal with it.

"I reported it, why didn't I report it to the official, the day before yesterday, the officials of the government came to arrest them, and they came fiercely, but in the end, I didn't even see the shadow of the thief. But yesterday they came again, and it seemed that they still saw the man in the Dragon King Temple. However, this group of people in the government were beaten by the thief, and it is said that all of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and the government no longer cared about this matter. Although the thief stole offerings, dogs, and wine, he really didn't kill anyone. It hurt those people from the government, but the villagers of this village did not hurt a single one. So the villagers couldn't catch him, and now it's not going to make trouble. ”

After the man finished speaking, he obviously had some sense of schadenfreude about what happened to those people in the government. This kind of dissatisfaction with the government made the little fat man Li Congjia embarrassed, he didn't expect that this government was so incompetent, and he couldn't even catch a thief who stole dogs and wine. But fortunately, everyone didn't notice him, and they all heard what this man said.

"Daddy, I'll be back," said the boy, who appeared beside them like a ghost, and walked up to the man with a timid expression, as if he felt that he would be beaten and scolded by his father if he was too late to play outside.

"Where have you been, why are you playing so late?" The man looked at each other with kind eyes, and his hands couldn't help but caress the back of the boy's head. The boy seemed to struggle to escape, but gave up, allowing his hands to caress the back of his head.

The extremely intimate actions of the father and son at this time seemed a little strange to Ye Yinfeng. First, their movements were obviously a little rusty, second, why did the boy avoid his father's intimate movements, and third, why did the boy have a timid expression towards his father.

These things are in Ye Yinfeng's eyes, but he can only hide them in his heart, it's not that he doesn't trust this family of three, but that all this looks a little weird.

"Just now I played with a yellow dog that this fat uncle brought with them, and I gave it a lot of food, so I haven't played until now." The boy looked timid, and said with a pout.

Ye Yinfeng finally knew why his yellow dog didn't come in with him, it turned out that the boy had taken some food to feed it, no wonder he even left his master behind. It's just that Ye Yinfeng still has a trace of doubt in his heart, why this boy can get close to it, and it still eats the other party's things. Although the question just started, it was quickly forgotten by him.

The man sent the boy himself to the woman and ask for some food, and then took the four of them to the guest room.

Walking back through this house, I saw a backyard, and this backyard was an elegant environment. The nine-curved covered bridge winds to the front, and the small pond rockery next to the covered bridge is built. The thin layer of ice in the small pond is clearly visible of the dead lotus and broken branches at the bottom of the pool, and there is still a little residual snow on the rockery that has not completely melted. The mottled remnants of snow lay in the strange rocks, and under the faint light of the lanterns lit around them, they looked like monsters with teeth and claws.

In front of the nine-curved covered bridge are two rows of small houses, which may be the guest rooms in this wine shop.

The man led the people to the two rows of houses, and asked how many rooms they needed, for they were now empty, and there were enough rooms for them to stay.

Li Congjia looked at the two rows of rooms in front of him, there were eight rooms in total, four in a row, and the doors were lined up. He turned his gaze to Li Xiaoyao again, hoping that he would pay attention.

"Just two, two is enough, and more is a waste."

Li Xiaoyao opened his mouth and only asked for two rooms, and they wanted these two rooms on the right side of the producer, because from those two rooms, they could see everything behind the courtyard, and even the windows in the attic of the wine shop.

The man took out the key and opened the two rooms, lit the incense candles in the room, and the faint light of the candles illuminated the whole room at once.

Li Congjia and the old man chose a room, they chose the second room, and Li Xiaoyao and Ye Yinfeng were the first rooms. The man had arranged for the people, and then withdrew, saying that if there was anything, it would be enough to scream, and the courtyard was relatively small, and the shouting could be heard at any time.

Ye Yinfeng and Li Xiaoyao looked at this house through the faint candle river, and the furnishings in this room were also neat and orderly. The bed and futon were neat, and in addition to the bed, there was a small table with a tea set on it, and two bamboo rattan chairs beside the table. The tables and chairs were spotless, and there was not a trace of dust in the whole room, not even a single cobweb on the roof. It looks like this should be a regular place to stay, and the owner of the shop also cleans the room a lot.

Li Xiaoyao looked a little thoughtful, walking around the house with his hands in his hands, and his fat body kept dangling in front of Ye Yinfeng. It was so dazzling that Ye Yinfeng couldn't help but feel some troubles.

"Fat Taoist, what kind of dangling back and forth like this?" Ye Yinfeng couldn't help but ask Li Xiaoyao in front of him.

"Don't you think there's something wrong here?" Li Xiaoyao asked the other party with a serious face, and he looked at the other party with a pair of puzzled eyes.

"There's something wrong." Ye Yinfeng held his chin in his right hand and said thoughtfully.

"Tomorrow I'm going to check if the drunkard he said is from our sect." Li Xiaoyao said categorically, this made Ye Yinfeng stunned, he didn't expect that this fat Taoist priest cared about the thief who stole wine and dogs. Didn't he see other weirdness, this can't be, this fat Dao has more experience in the rivers and lakes than he doesn't know, can't he see this.

He was about to open his mouth to ask, but was unexpectedly stopped by Li Xiaoyao's look, he stretched out his index finger to his mouth and made a silent motion, and at the same time pointed to his ear, meaning to ask Ye Yinfeng to listen carefully.

Ye Yinfeng nodded to show his understanding, he listened quietly for a while, only to hear a snoring sound next door, presumably the little fat man Li Congjia was already asleep. There was still a trace of slender breathing in the room, which must have been the old man, and I don't know if he was asleep.

But he also heard a faint imperceptible breathing sound that came from the side of the nine-curved covered bridge. One of them was hiding in the rockery, eavesdropping on their conversation. The sound of breathing blends into the vast night, and it is really difficult to detect if you don't listen carefully.