"Please get up with me, sir."

Xiao Wenfu came on a horse, looked at the people who were facing forward, turned over and dismounted, said lightly, then looked at Xue Dinggan who was standing in front, and smiled slightly:

"It's time for the prefect Xue to come out of the city to welcome him."

"Mr. Xiao came to Xingqing Prefecture on the order of Your Majesty, just like Your Majesty, and the lower official, as the prefect of Xingqing Prefecture, is here to welcome him from now on."

Xue Ding smiled dryly, glanced at the people of the Demon Suppressing Division behind Xiao Wenfu, and said, "I wonder which one is the Deputy Envoy Li of the Demon Suppressing Division?"

Xiao Wenfu frowned slightly: "Shidu Li separated from his official in Huai County and rushed to Xingqing Mansion first. At their speed, he should have arrived long ago. Haven't he arrived at the prefecture yet?"

Xue Dinggan's eyes tightened in an instant, and she thought to herself: I have already made a step forward. It is said that she should have arrived a long time ago, but she hasn't come yet. It's obvious that she is going to investigate secretly.

Li Xiuran has a close relationship with the Lin family, and Lin Yanjiang's eldest son Lin Fengtai is the governor of Dingzhou. If he wants to investigate secretly, he will probably go to Dingzhou, right?

Xue Dinggan's mind turned sharply and instantly guessed Li Xiuran's movements. Then he sneered in his heart, for fear that you would waste your efforts.

"Is that so? Maybe something has been delayed. The subordinate has not seen Deputy Envoy Li yet." Xue Dinggan recovered as usual, dodged his position, raised his hand and invited:

"Mr. Xiao and you all came from afar. Thank you all the hard way. Let's go to the city first. The official has ordered people to prepare a banquet and welcome you later."

...

The disaster was even more serious than expected, and it was urgent to eliminate demons and provide disaster relief. Li Xiuran did not stay in Dingzhou for too long. He rushed to the city with Yang Wenxin, Chi Qingwan, Xiang Kun and others the next morning.

One day later, at noon.

After a day and a half, the group finally approached the city.

Li Xiuran stopped the horse, looked in front of him, looked down at the map, and said, "There should be Longxian ahead, and after passing Longxian, it is the Fucheng. After rushing for a long time, everyone has worked hard. Stop and rest first, and then set off later."

The demon guards immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Although they were all monks and the elites of the demon guards, their physiques were far beyond ordinary people, but from the capital to now, they had been traveling for eight days in a row, and they were really tired.

Hearing this, he dismounted one after another, stretched his muscles and bones, took out dry food to replenish his energy, or picked up a kettle, and drank it neatly and "ton ton" and drink it.

Li Xiuran also got off the horse, looked around, and frowned slightly.

Yang Wenxin also took out the kettle and drank a sip of water. Seeing this, she asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Xiuran frowned and said, "Have you noticed that we have not met a single corpse demon since we set out in the morning."

Yang Wenxin was stunned, then his brows suddenly frowned: "I really didn't meet you."

Chi Qingwan also raised her eyebrows: "I didn't pay attention before. It seems that you said this to me, and I haven't encountered it today. It seems that since I left Dingzhou yesterday, I rushed all the way, the closer we got to the city, the fewer corpse monsters we encountered."

Xiang Kun thought about it carefully, and then frowned: "It seems that this is true. According to what Lin Fengtai said, hasn't the corpse monster already affected the entire mansion and been flooded with disasters?

Why did we see completely differently from what he said along the way?”

The situation is a bit abnormal... Li Xiuran is full of doubts.

Huai County, far away from Xingqing Prefecture, was affected by corpse monsters. After entering Xingqing Prefecture, they also encountered many corpse monsters on their way to Dingzhou. They even saw with their own eyes that the entire city of the prefecture was besieged by corpse monsters. If they had not arrived in time, they would have been afraid that Dingzhou City would have been attacked by corpse monsters and the people in the city would have been slaughtered.

Everything we see and hear is a serious disaster and the situation is almost out of control.

Why has the situation suddenly changed since he left Dingzhou? I encountered fewer and fewer corpse monsters yesterday, and I haven’t encountered any of them today. It’s completely different from what he saw before. No matter how he looked, it didn’t look like a serious disaster.

Could it be that Lin Fengtai is lying?

But what he saw in Huai County and Dingzhou with his own eyes that corpse monsters have indeed become rampant, and this is never false.

Moreover, Lin Fengtai personally led people to guard the city the day before yesterday. If they hadn't arrived in time, he would have died tragically under the hands of the corpse demon. He wouldn't have joked about his life, right?

Or... Xue Dinggan knew that the emperor sent them to investigate the matter, so he urgently sent someone to clean up the corpse monster?

Li Xiuran was secretly pondering in his heart. He looked at an old man passing by, quickly stepped forward to stop him and asked, "I dare to ask this old man, I heard that Xingqing Mansion has been making corpse monsters recently. I wonder if you have heard of it?"

Seeing that the old man was wearing a group of strong men, he was already trembling with a knife on his body, but suddenly he was stopped by Li Xiuran and suddenly shivered. He didn't even hold the farm tools in his hand and fell to the ground with a snap.

However, seeing that Li Xiuran was still quite polite, his face calmed down a little, and he said nervously: "I had a corpse demon a while ago, so I lived nearby, so I naturally heard of it."

Li Xiuran asked, "Is the situation serious? Are there many people attacked? You said that the trouble was a while ago, but has it calmed down now?"

"The rumor is quite serious. I heard that several people died. After the government found out, it sent people to find them for several days before they caught the corpse demon. Then I didn't hear that there was a corpse demon. It should have been calmed down."

Several people... Are you kidding? It's serious if only a few people die? You're afraid that you don't know how many people died in other places... Li Xiuran was so excited that he heard the first half of the sentence, and felt that the truth was about to come out. As a result, after listening to the second half, he felt a little cold in his heart and continued to ask:

"Are you sure that only a few people died? Have you heard of the situation elsewhere?"

"What's uncertain about the things like dead people can't hide? I heard that there was a corpse monster in Lin County. Several people died. I don't know any further away."

OK, it seems that you can't find anything if you ask... Li Xiuran was a little disappointed and said, "Thank you for your advice."

Seeing that he had finished asking, the old man quickly picked up the farm tools and left as if he had escaped, without any indication of his age.

Yang Wenxin frowned and said, "I didn't meet the corpse monster. Maybe it was because I knew we were coming and I was afraid that we would find the handle. So Xue Dinggan sent someone to clear the corpse monster in advance, but the disaster could not be hidden. If he didn't lie, the disaster nearby would be really not serious."

Chi Qingwan said: "It cannot be ruled out that he was banned. Since he wanted to cover it up, Xue Dinggan would naturally not leave such obvious loopholes. However... since leaving Dingzhou, we have not seen many corpse monsters along the way."

Xiang Kun frowned and said, "Did Xue Dinggan not conceal the disaster, but the situation is really not serious?"

"How to explain the disaster in Huai County and Dingzhou? This is what we have seen with our own eyes, and there will never be any false." Li Xiuran asked back.

Xiang Kun was speechless.
Chapter completed!