Chapter 48.

Shock wood, also known as wake wood, boundary square, and stroke ruler.

A rectangular piece of hardwood with corners and edges.

Raised and slapped on the table, play the role of deterring prisoners.

Sometimes also used to vent, so that the hall under the idle people quiet down, to play the effect of solemnity and majesty.

The hall was already quiet, the shock wood a beat, coupled with Chen magistrate this loud shout, kneeling at the bottom of the old man shivered, scared.

“My lord, I am the village chief of Qingliu village, my name is Wang Bolt, this time I came to say something big.”

The old village chief Wang Bolt was so frightened by the shocking wood, where would he dare to hide anything?

He quickly spilled out his identity and the purpose of his visit.

“My lord, yesterday night, all the children in my village disappeared. I have searched thoroughly all night without finding them.”

“I really had no choice but to come here to the county office to bang the hall drum, I know that the hall drum can’t be banging indiscriminately, but this matter is already a big deal for my village.”

“If Your Excellency wants to chastise, please chastise the little man, but be sure to help the village find those missing children.”

He explained the truth of the matter one by one, and everyone present listened to it.

Zhou An stood by the side with an expressionless face, but inwardly, he pondered carefully.

The disappearance of children all in one night, this matter was a big case.

And it was still a big case that appeared at this time.

There was really no harm in banging the hall drum in a case like this, but this timing was a bit off.

Zhou An glanced at Magistrate Chen, whose expression was truly ironic.

Now that it was the time when the Inspection Division was inspecting, if they knew that something had happened on his side, then it was self-evident how the outcome would be.

By then, if he couldn’t even pass the first hurdle, even if he was strong in the literature test, he wouldn’t have a chance at selection.

Magistrate Chen’s face became more and more green, and in the end, he was already visibly angry, the beard at his chin trembling slightly.

Master Xu also stood aside, although he was beaten twenty slaps, but when it came to such a big event as beating the drum, he was enduring the pain to stand.

And hearing the village chief under the hall speak, Master Xu naturally had thoughts.

He received gifts privately, has offended the county magistrate, although the magistrate just hit him plate, but inevitably some must.

At this time is the opportunity to perform.

“My lord, now that it’s the time for inspection, why don’t we let Sheriff Sun and these constables, go over and check it out first.”

Master Xu was also a smart person, how could he not see what Magistrate Chen meant at this time?

Just now, he hit the board, but did not remove his post, and Constable Sun is still the constable.

The meaning would be very simple, since there is a shortage of people and it just so happens that the wood has been turned, then continue like this.

Now is the time to need to use people, the hall of the county magistrate, can not personally go to the Qingliu village to check.

Master Xu came up with this ploy, and it just so happens that he can get the credit for it.

County Magistrate Chen pondered for a moment and said, “That’s fine, just pick up some constables and go to Qingliu Village to investigate and find out which people, exactly, dare to cause trouble in Anding County.”

Master Xu hurriedly answered and came to Sheriff Sun, “What are you still standing here for? Hurry up and choose someone to go to Qingliu Village with me!”

Sheriff Sun also stood by the side with his teeth bared, not daring to slack off in the slightest.

Now that he heard Master Xu speak, he hurriedly nodded his head and prepared to choose someone.

The constable had to keep a portion of them, this time it was a past investigation, and originally didn’t need too many people.

But the area involved is too large, Sun sheriff chose half of the constables to stand by.

Chen magistrate looked at Sun sheriff’s teeth bared and felt upset, waved his hand and told them to hurry up and investigate.

Sun sheriff didn’t have any nonsense, and even dared not to say more, sending two constables to carry Wang village head on the ground, and left the county office.

Coincidentally, it was not Zhou An’s turn.

When Sheriff Sun was selecting people, he thought that since he was going to investigate this time, he had to choose the smarter ones.

Normally, Zhou An is very low-profile, so in the constable belongs to the small transparent kind.

That is, when everyone is chatting and chatting, will take a mouth, so Sun sheriff naturally ignored him.

Zhou An is also happy to be idle.

He felt that if he wanted to find out about this matter, the level of twists and turns in it was not low.

What kind of place was a village?

In the Great Chu Kingdom, a village was a very magical thing.

Although the village is small, but whether it is the surrounding neighborhood or the end of the village, everyone can be familiar with it.

Some villages are very united, when one side is in trouble, all sides will support it, when something happens at the head of the village, the people at the end of the village will come over to help.

Qingliu village so many children missing, not only the interests of others are damaged, even their own interests are damaged, how can you look for a night can not be found?

To put it more seriously, it is not certain how exactly they disappeared.

Zhou An felt that this investigation was estimated to be the moon in the water and the flowers in the mirror.

“Old Zhou, I’m leaving.” Yu Hang had a helpless face.

Zhou An was not selected, but he was selected.

Sheriff Sun knew that he was busy with exams on weekdays.

Someone who could go to the imperial examinations was more useful than them, the martial artists, anyways, so he took him with him.

Zhou An waved his hand and waited until Sheriff Sun left with his men before continuing to go inside the kitchen to liver proficiency.

He didn’t continue to liver Butcher’s Knife.

After reaching level four, he would have to change his tricks again.

He planned to liver all of the Dragon Steps and Bumping Objects to level four before proceeding to the Butcher’s Knife.

He already had an idea for developing new skills, but he still needed to continue refining them a bit.

Nowadays, he had attack, speed, and had strength.

But when he thought about it carefully, there were many things missing.

What was most lacking right now was a defense skill.

This golden finger of his was different from the others.

Inside the novels of his previous life, he had seen a protagonist who practiced everything very quickly.

For defense skills, he chose something like Golden Bell Shield and Iron Cloth Shirt.

But he couldn’t do this one!

He had to pick life skills.

“What can I choose to be considered a life skill of defense?” Zhou An had an idea, but what exactly to choose was quite a headache.

“Liver first, think about it as we go.”

After making up his mind, Zhou An went to the kitchen and started practicing Upside Down.

“I’m the one who has a person living in my liver.”

Zhou An thought as he upended the iron pot.

While Zhou An’s side of the liver proficiency, Yu Hang and the others also arrived at Qingliu Village.

Qingliu Village was not far from Anding County.

Passing through a wilderness, it only took an hour to reach their destination.

It was a small village.

Normally at this time of the day there was also smoke rising from the cooking fires, but after Yu Hang arrived here, he felt a coldness that enveloped the entire village.

Before he even approached, he was able to faintly hear crying.

Village Chief Wang, who was already old, showed sorrow in his eyes and sighed, “Everyone is quite sad without a child, all of you adults, please follow me.”

He led the way in front.

A dozen or so constables filed in.

When Yu Hang walked in, he inexplicably felt a chill.