Chapter 323: Frontier Town

The Far North region.
It is always freezing cold throughout the year.
In winter, the temperature drops further to minus twenty or thirty degrees.
Wu Fu is much stronger than an average person physically, but staying in this place for a long time is definitely unbearable, unless he breaks through to the realm of a saint like the Great Sword Ancestor in the past. At that point, he can ignore any natural factors and even enter an uninhabited state in ice or fire.
Unfortunately.
现在的韩昊离那一步还太遥远。
每隔一段时间，他都会去离极北之地最近的小镇上，采买一些生活用品，其中必不可少的，就是取暖用的木炭。
Despite his wanted posters being posted in every county within the Northern Yuan territory, Han Hao, who had not had any contact with anyone, had no knowledge of the situation outside. He even thought about settling in a small place in the Northern Yuan after a few years, when the situation calmed down, and dedicating himself to cultivation, solely for ascension.
After soaring in the sky for half a day,
Han Hao finally landed outside an unknown small town on the border of the Northern Yuan. He walked into the town and weighed the silver coins in his arms, secretly thinking to himself, "I've nearly run out of money. I'll have to find a way to kill a few people and get some cash on me before coming back next time."
Han Hao walked slowly into the town, completely unaware that there was a wanted poster with his portrait on the wooden pole at the entrance of the town. The poster had been there for several days, and after enduring wind and weather, it was now quite inconspicuous.
After walking a few hundred steps forward, there was an unmarked small tavern on the right. It was run by locals, but hardly any tourists visited this town, so they didn't make much money. As a result, there was neither a signboard nor anyone welcoming customers outside the tavern.
不过这个时候。
在里头喝酒的人还不少。
韩昊蓬头垢面的走进去，扫视了一眼酒馆的人，最后选了张角落的椅子坐上，喊道：“老板，来壶酒。”
The boss, who was chatting with someone, heard a noise and quickly went to the counter to get a jug.
"Sir, here's the drink you requested."
As Han Hao's accent was different from the local accent, when the boss placed the drink on the table, he deliberately glanced at him. Han Hao also happened to look up at him, their eyes met, and the boss suddenly remembered that wanted poster. His expression changed abruptly. Please note that the expression "老板勐地想起那张通缉令" was difficult to translate directly, so I have reformulated the sentence to convey the intended meaning.
韩昊微眯眸子，冷声问道：“除了酒，别的都不用。”
"Yes, yes, understood."
老板连忙回过神来，他挤出笑容说道：“客官，听你口音不像是这边的人，这么冷的天，你来我们这做什么？”
韩昊愣了一下，回道：“我姐嫁到了这边，我来寻亲。”
“原来如此。”老板呵呵一笑，招呼道：“那客官你先喝着，有什么事招呼我。”
Han Hao nodded.
The boss turned around and left, but there was a gleam of delight on his face.
It's him!
Definitely him!
虽然画像上没有长胡子，但五官一模一样，而且身上还有两把刀，一千两黄金，一千两黄金呐，我要发财了。
老板并没有把这事告诉小镇上的其他酒客，他可不想和人瓜分这笔钱。
他走到后院，从后门离开，正要去报官时，半步路上却被自己的婆娘撞见：“老家伙，你这是要干嘛去啊？”
The boss covered his wife's mouth and whispered, "Stupid woman, why are you screaming? We're about to strike it rich! Shut up!"
The woman stammered and couldn't say a word.
The boss could only tell the story to his woman once, and when he saw her widen her eyes, he let go of her hand.
"I will go to report to the official now. With one thousand taels of gold, we won't have to live in this small tavern anymore. You go and stabilize that person in the front hall, don't let them suspect anything. I'll ride over on horseback and bring some people back, it will take at most half an hour."
"You go ahead, I'll take care of the tavern." Thinking that she would soon get one thousand taels of gold, the woman was even more anxious than the boss.
The boss reached out and felt the two mountains in front of her.
He hurriedly left through the back door.
In the front hall.
The local customers continued to drink and chat together.
韩昊并没注意到老板已经走了，他一口口的抿着烈酒，一壶酒喝完，他仍觉得不尽兴，于是又喊道：“老板。”
这次过来的不是老板，而是老板娘，他听到声音就端着一壶酒过来，放在了桌子上。
韩昊也不在意是谁拿来的酒，他继续喝着。
In the middle of the tavern hall, there is a table with seven or eight locals drinking and getting more and more excited as they chat.
"Hey, what do you think this person wanted by the capital has done? It's created such a big commotion. The wanted notice has even reached our small town."
“这谁知道，小皇帝刚登基不久，我听说他这皇位可得来不正，兴许是要清剿之前和他作对的人吧。”
“一千两黄金呢，足够几辈子吃喝不愁了，也不知道谁能有那么好的命。”
Is it really?
“……”
Hearing them discussing this topic, the boss lady was also extremely nervous. In order to interrupt them, she quickly brought a plate of peanuts and changed the subject, saying, "Old Xu, is it true that your daughter-in-law is expecting a baby recently?"
"It's only September, how can you get pregnant so quickly?"
"Maybe I remember it wrong."
"Come, come, come, this plate of peanuts is on me, take your time drinking." Reply: Thank you for the peanuts! I appreciate it.
“嘿，我说嫂子，今天你怎么这么大方？”
“老徐，瞧你这话说的，我平时有那么小气嘛。”
“嫂子，老祥哥呢？”
"Heh, I woke up a little early this morning and now I feel a bit dizzy. I think I'll go back and lie down. This is just my luck, getting switched around like this."
"Weren't you perfectly fine just a moment ago?"
“……”
Han Hao turned his head to look at the guests sitting at the table. His brows furrowed as he pondered for a moment, then he picked up the bottle of wine and stood up, preparing to leave.
Seeing Han Hao about to leave, the landlady hurriedly approached and said, "Sir, it's freezing outside. You can finish your drink before leaving."
"I still have things to do."
韩昊没有搭理老板娘，继续往外走。
Seeing this, the landlady could only step forward and said, "Sir, but you haven't paid yet."
Han Hao then stopped and took out a broken silver coin from his pocket and handed it to the landlady. After receiving it, the landlady smiled and said, "Two pots of wine amount to a total of fifty wen, I'll go find some copper coins. Please wait a moment, sir."
"No need to look anymore."
"Master, this won't do, our..."
老板娘话还没有说完，确定她是在故意挽留自己的韩昊直接拔刀，一刀下去直接划破了老板娘的喉咙。
Blood splattered.
The boss lady stared for a while and then fell to the ground with a thud.
那群喝酒的小镇百姓看到这一幕，一个个都跳起了起来，大喊大叫道：“不好了，杀人了！杀人了！”
The town itself is not large.
With this shout, the people in the town rushed out of their houses.
Han Hao slammed the wine jug onto the ground and charged into the crowd with his sword.
For a cultivator at the Hollow Yuan realm, killing these ordinary townsfolk was as easy as cutting cabbage. In just a few breaths, dozens of bodies were lying outside the tavern's entrance. Translation:
The regulars at the tavern trembled in fear, looking at Han Hao as if they were seeing the King of Hell himself.
Covered in blood, Han Hao reentered the tavern and said in a cold voice, "Where is the wanted notice you were talking about earlier?"
A few people swallowed their saliva eagerly. "
There is a poster stuck on the pillar next to the archway."
After saying that, Han Hao continued to draw his sword. In the blink of an eye, the ground was covered in corpses.
(Note: The "
韩昊迈步往小镇牌坊的位置走去，一部分后知后觉的小镇百姓只要一出门，就会被韩昊立马杀死，从酒馆走到牌坊不过几百步的路程，却死了上百人。
老人、小孩、女人、男人，无一幸免。
当韩昊看到通缉令上自己的画像时，他气得浑身颤抖，他一把撕下通缉令，回头看了一眼地上的尸体，面色阴冷地凌空走了。
……
“大人，那人现在就在我的酒馆里，我一定不会看错。”
“他有没有察觉到什么。”
“没有没有，我让我婆娘守着他呢……那个大人，那一千两黄金，那人若真在你的酒馆里，一千两黄金自然会给你，只是本官在这大冷天的跟着走这一趟，uu看书 www.uukanshu.comAre you also saying you have to show your support?
The boss naturally understood the meaning behind the county magistrate's words. In his heart, he cursed the corrupt official, but on his face, he smiled and said, "If this humble one truly received a reward of 1,000 taels, I would be willing...willing to offer 200 taels to the esteemed individual."
"Two hundred taels?"
"Three hundred taels?"
"Five hundred taels! This is not a gift to me, but a donation. I will use this money to repair another road for the people in the county. By donating money and me repairing the road, both of us can accumulate virtue and do good deeds."
Dog Official!
Dog Official!
Dog Official!
The tavern owner cursed County Magistrate a thousand times in his heart, but he kept a smile on his face and reluctantly agreed, suppressing his heartache.
A group of people were about to reach the town.
A soldier suddenly stepped forward and said, "Sir, there seems to be a smell of blood."
"A smell of blood?"
The county magistrate sniffed the air and also detected the faint scent of blood wafting through the air. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Everyone, move faster and go take a look."
"Yes!"
A team of horsemen hurriedly arrived at the entrance of a small town. When they saw the miserable scene on the main street, each one of them froze in shock.
All the people in the whole town were dead.
Blood flowing on the ground, staining the snow red.
With round eyes and severed limbs, punctured intestines and piles of bodies, the scene on the long street resembles a hell.
"Ew!"
Many people saw this scene and immediately started retching.
The tavern owner, however, stood in shock for a moment before suddenly running towards his own tavern, screaming and crying. He saw his wife's tragic death in a pool of blood, and this elderly man in his fifties began to wail and cry loudly.
县老太爷意识到事情已经不是自己能掌控的之后，连忙派人去通知上面人了。
……