It's obviously a life skill, but you developed it into a magical skill

Zhou An tried to move around and found that he was completely fine.

Everything around me is lifelike.

This scene aroused Zhou An's curiosity.

The current state is like watching an immersive movie.

Zhou An touched his hand on the tree beside him and passed through it easily.

He remembered what Ye Shuang had said to him just now.

In the memory of this people, he is just a spectator, unable to change anything.

Thinking of this, Zhou An gave up his curiosity to explore.

He focused his gaze on the child in front of him.

The child doesn't look very big, but he is holding a book in his hand and reading it seriously.

Next to the children, there are several adults enjoying the shade.

Zhou An heard the adults talking.

"Oh, the little puppy holds a book and reads it every day, and sooner or later he will become a nerd."

"Keep your voice down, this is something his father left for him."

"But his parents are dead, so we can't possibly see him become a nerd."

"There's nothing we can do about it. His father is just a nerd, and he relies on his mother to support him. Now his mother has become ill from overwork, and his father has died from depression. We can only do our best."

"Yes, his mother is quite good. Children who grow up eating hundreds of meals will grow strong in the future."

The words of these adults reached Zhou An's ears one after another.

Zhou An quickly sorted out the important clues.

First, this child’s parents died young, and his father was still a scholar.

Secondly, the child’s survival is entirely due to the fact that he eats the food of hundreds of families in the village.

Third, this child is the name that was crossed out on the household registration, Li Gouwa.

In this era, people in the village were very simple, so it was normal for this kind of thing to happen.

Zhou An continued to read.

The child was reading the book seriously and murmuring, and his serious look made people feel distressed.

Time gradually passed, and it was afternoon in a blink of an eye.

Throughout the afternoon, the child did not move, always staring at the book.

Until a man shook the cattail leaf fan and called the child away.

"Gou Boy, it's time to go home for dinner. Let's go. Stop looking."

This person's appearance is somewhat similar to the person chosen by Zhou An, probably when he was young.

Li Gouwa put down the book, said softly, took the man's hand, and walked towards a room.

Zhou An followed behind.

Soon, he came to a room.

The house was very simple and very poor.

A man and a woman were busy.

In a short time, a few simple dishes were ready.

Besides them, there was a little girl sitting at the table.

The food can only be described as average.

Li Gouwa and the little girl ate very well.

"Gou boy, let's learn farm work tomorrow." The man said while eating.

Li Gouwa fell into silence.

The man continued: "Although you are not old, it doesn't matter if you learn a little. When you get older, you can help share the burden. Don't always hold this book. Food cannot grow in the book."

Li Gouwa raised his head and said crisply: "Uncle, I want to get some fame when I grow up."

As soon as these words came out, the room fell into silence.

After a while, the woman next to him shook her head.

"Your father has failed the test so many times. Don't think about it. We can't play with that thing."

Li Gouwa fell into silence.

The little girl next to him interjected: "Mom and dad, let Brother Gouwa take the exam. Brother Gouwa is different from us. He can read!"

"Alas..." The woman sighed.

"Young dog, you have to grow up and realize..."

She wanted to persuade her, but Li Gouwa shook her head.

"I want to take the exam."

The tone was firm.

The two adults looked at each other, and in the end no one said anything.

In front of Zhou An's eyes, the scenery began to gradually change. In the blink of an eye, he was no longer in the room and appeared at the entrance of the village again.

At this time, a man appeared in front of him, wearing common clothes and carrying a baggage behind him.

The man turned his back to Zhou An.

A woman is sorting a man's clothes.

"Brother Gouwa, remember to come back after the exam, don't be too late."

Next to the woman, there was a man and a woman standing, both of whom were already middle-aged.

The man carrying the cloth bag nodded and left the village.

The woman looked at the man's back and said to herself...

"Brother Gouwa, you must pass the exam. If you pass the exam, you will come and marry me."

The middle-aged woman stepped forward, put her arms around the young woman's shoulders, and advised, "He has already passed the exam twice. Don't wait any longer and get married as soon as possible."

"You are so stupid. You do farm work every day and buy books for him. Why bother?"

The young woman heard this and shook her head.

"Brother Gouwa has this talent, and I don't want him to be sad."

The scenery in front of Zhou An changed again.

This time, it is no longer a sunny spring, but a rustling autumn day.

Something strange happened in Qingliu Village.

The villagers were gathered in the open space in the middle.

A man was standing in front, ringing a bell in his hand.

"From now on, Li Gouwa disappeared when he was a child. You have never seen him since then."

As the man spoke, he shook the bell, and the sound of the bell spread throughout Qingliu Village.

Among the villagers, the women's eyes became more and more confused.

Until finally, all the villagers fell into sleep.

The man put away the bell and sighed.

He turned slowly.

At this time, Zhou An finally saw the man's face clearly.

When he saw this face, his whole body froze, as if he had been struck by lightning.

If you add a beard to this face and make this face a little older, he looks like a human being.

——Magistrate Chen!

At this moment, Zhou An seemed to have thought of something and connected everything together.

The man behind the scenes is County Magistrate Chen!

"That makes all sense."

"Why was I transferred to Chunxiao Tower that night? He lured me away on purpose."

"Also, why the troupe found Anding County is also related to him."

Zhou An was like a patient who had suffered from rhinitis for many years. His nose suddenly became clear and he felt a sense of relief.

But it wasn't enough, he planned to continue watching.

After County Magistrate Chen finished all this, he came to the young woman and touched her face.

"Xiaohua, I'm sorry for you."

he muttered to himself.

At this moment, several figures flashed past.

Three women appeared behind Magistrate Chen.

Each of these three women has their own look.

Two of them Zhou An knew, namely the Fire Prayer Master and the Insect Master.

Zhou An guessed that the other woman should be the first wife.

The first wife had a trace of pity on her face, while the other two had a look of indifference.

The fire praying master sneered: "Now that you are the county magistrate, you are still focusing on a peasant woman?"

County Magistrate Chen turned around and remained silent.

The insect master said: "If the eldest lady hadn't wanted to hide, these people should have been killed."

The first wife, who was called the eldest lady, gritted her teeth and said, "My husband has fulfilled his wish, so don't commit any more sins, as it will harm the peace of the world."

The other two women said nothing that made County Magistrate Chen speak. Only after the eldest lady's words came out, Magistrate Chen spoke.

"Not enough, far from enough!" County Magistrate Chen said in a gloomy tone.

The eldest lady hesitated and said: "Husband, you must not indulge in this anymore."

"You don't understand!" Magistrate Chen's tone became more and more gloomy.

"This world is unfair!"

“How am I going to move up if I don’t continue?”

"As you have seen in this imperial examination, I am far more talented than others. It's just that I didn't cross the threshold of being a scholar, so I was transferred to this remote county."

"That idiot went to a prosperous place instead!"

Magistrate Chen took a step forward with a sinister look on his face.

"I have great ambitions, but no platform to display them. Only by constantly improving my strength will I be recognized by the emperor and be able to display my ambitions!"

The eldest lady didn't say a word. She obviously knew that speaking at this time would cause greater conflicts.

When Zhou An saw this scene, he couldn't help but clap his hands.

"Good guy, I have a purpose now."

It turns out that after becoming an official, Magistrate Chen is just an ordinary person.

Moreover, since the imperial examination, he had never competed with those real scholars, so he harbored hatred and learned the water burial method to simulate the abilities of scholars.

Zhou An understood everything.

Before my eyes, the scenery changed again.

This time, everything was restored.

Zhou An opened his eyes and found that he had arrived at the cell.

Beside, the talisman paper in Ye Shuang's hand was burned out.

Zhou An noticed that both Zhang Sixian and Xie Captou were staring at the sky. Looking subconsciously, he saw that the last scene was dissipating.

"So you are still watching the scene."

Zhou An was speechless.

Fortunately, he didn't do anything inappropriate inside.

As Zhou An regained consciousness, Zhang Sixian and Xie Captou also returned to normal.

"Now, everything is revealed." Zhou An said.

Zhang Sixian was silent for a long time, then turned around and prepared to leave.

"What are you going to do?" Zhou An asked.

Magistrate Zhang took a deep breath: "Being able to practice the water burial method to such an extent means that you have a lot of lives in your hands. What's more, more than 20 children died in Qingliu Village."

"This is a blood debt. I don't want to wait any longer. I have to let him die without a burial place."

Zhou An winked at Xie Captou: "Stop Mr. Zhang."

Xie Captou didn't know what happened, but somehow he got in the middle.

Zhang Sixian frowned.

He couldn't understand what Zhou An meant.

At this time, Zhou An said: "Then, you go over and have a fight with him in the downtown area. It's okay if he can beat you. If he can't beat you, he will kill at will in the city. Can you stop him?"

Zhang Sixian fell into deep thought.

Indeed, as Zhou An said, a person who does not take human life seriously will threaten other people's lives.

Most of the people who can enter the town of Guisi are rough and have the blood of the people of the rivers and lakes.

Just now Zhang Sixian was full of energy and blood and wanted to get rid of this scumbag, so he didn't calm down. Fortunately, he was stopped by Zhou An.

Zhou An said slowly: "If you want to deal with him, the first thing you have to do is lure him away."

"How to lead?" Zhang Sixian asked.

He also knew that after leading him away, he could let it go, but the problem was how to lead him away.

County Magistrate Chen has never left Anding County.

Especially in this extraordinary period, how can we lead away?

"Isn't that just bait?" Zhou An looked at a cell.

In the cell, there was a woman huddled in the corner, her face full of fear.

Seeing this scene, Ye Shuang said coldly: "It's so dark."

The corners of Zhou An's mouth rose, and a plan formed in his mind.

…

Time gradually passed, and a few days passed in the blink of an eye.

Over the past few days, Zhou An has been living according to a routine.

Every day is about liver proficiency, ordering, eating, dispensing, continuing to liver, and sleeping.

As if nothing happened that night.

In fact, Zhou An had already planned it.

But he had to wait a few days. After all, he had just come out of Suppressing the Spies, and the plan was already implemented, so it was obvious.

Hunt snakes, but not grass.

After a few days, that is, yesterday, the Zhenguisi released the people in Qingliu Village.

The reason is that no clues were found.

Moreover, Zhangsi County apologized step by step, making it known to everyone in Anding County.

Zhou An heard the news and knew that everything was progressing steadily.

He waited patiently, like a dormant hunter.

In recent times, his cooking skills have also made great progress.

[Pao Ding’s knife skills (speed +2, accuracy +2) lv.4: 3158/60000]

Of course, these joys are small, and he is waiting for the big surprise at the end.

"The news should have been passed on."

Zhou An put down the long knife in his hand, lay on the bed and closed his eyes.

…

Two more days passed.

In the county government office of Anding County.

The inner courtyard is where the magistrate lives.

At this moment, County Magistrate Chen was holding a piece of paper in his hand, trembling slightly.

There is only one sentence on the paper.

"Brother Gouwa, I seem to remember a lot of things. I miss you."

Magistrate Chen's eyes were evasive.

Looking at the words above, he thought of a lot.

Especially when I think of that small village and my childhood.

"It seems that although the people who suppressed the secret did not find out the news, they seemed to have revived her memory a little."

Magistrate Chen burned the paper in his hand to ashes and looked at the rising smoke with a ruthless look in his eyes.

"I'm sorry, I love you very much, but the selection is coming soon. I haven't participated for several years just to prevent others from seeing the water burial method. I can't give up this time."

He took a deep breath, looked at the night outside the window, and went out.

…

Qingliu Village.

As usual, nothing changes here.

But in the dark, Zhou An, Ye Shuang, Xie Captou, Zhang Sixian and others were quietly waiting.

"Zhou An, I never thought he was a lover, otherwise I wouldn't have married so many people. He won't be here tonight, right?" Zhang Si County looked up at the moon in the dark clouds and asked.

They have been waiting here for a long time, just the four of them.

Others did not take action because they did not want Magistrate Chen to notice anything unusual.

If there are too many people, it will easily cause flaws.

After waiting for so long, there was still no one, so Zhangsi County had this question.

Zhou An said strangely: "Who said he is a lover? If he were a lover, he would not attack his first wife."

"Then you still..." Zhang Sixian said strangely.

"His identity is about to be exposed. He has worked hard to hide his history, but now history cannot be hidden."

Zhou An explained.

"Think about it, if it were you, would you take action? Besides, does he still have the manpower?"

"Taking a step back, if someone else comes along, they're just a replica of Zhang Xiuxiu. We can hook the bait again."

Zhang Sixian thought about it and found that it seemed right.

He said no more and waited patiently.

At this moment, a figure appeared at the entrance of the village.