The horse's hooves stepped on the bluestone ground, splashing with bursts of water, and Li Guolou raised his voice: "Gao Yao catches the head, can you see the traces of the thieves!" ”

The road ahead of the march was high and cloudy, and without looking back, he beckoned: "Head, keep up, five thieves, five horses, you can't be wrong." While speaking, the group had arrived at the Fucheng Gate in the west of the city, and the tense and rigorous atmosphere filled the city gate.

Lan Ling, the chief of the city gate, took a row of guards to guard the city gate and sent a group of people out of the city, and these city gate guards also had to be punished, and they did not recognize Prince Gong's "Red Rabbit Rouge Beast", and it was also a big crime to release the thieves out of the city.

Li Guolou and others braved the rain to go out of the city gate, the road was not as good as the city, the muddy loess road, full of car wheel prints, human footprints, animal beasts left footprints, Gao Yao dark clouds wanted to find out the "red rabbit rouge beast" among the many footprints to leave footprints, the speed was slower than the speed in the city, but everyone did not complain, riding horses to eat dry food, drink a few sips of water, stop and go to the west.

Time passed minute by minute, Li Guolou led a team of people, three or four hours later than the previous group of people sent by Prince Gong's mansion, and when they marched to two o'clock in the afternoon, they didn't even meet the first team of people, don't want to see five horse thieves.

The light rain is intermittent, in addition to leading the team Gao Yao dark clouds, the others do not say a word, maintain a strict formation, there are few pedestrians on the road, green grass and willows can be seen everywhere, a curved river accompanies the side, curious passers-by pay attention to these catches, and some people also wave hello to Li Guolou and others.

From being full of confidence when he set off in the morning, to following and chasing him boringly, Li Guolou became more and more unconfident in this arrest operation, and dared to steal Prince Gong's horse thieves, who were bold thieves, would he not have thought that someone would follow and pursue, attracting them to the outskirts of the west of the city, so far away, I don't know when it is, what is the purpose of the wilderness.

If there were no four guards from Prince Gong's Mansion to follow them, Li Guolou would have to be a shopkeeper a long time ago, and there was little hope ahead, but now Li Guolou only had one way to go to the dark, gritting his teeth and stiffening his teeth, his dashing and dashing was far away, and the strong man would not look back, and it seemed that he would not know where to sleep tonight.

Gao Yao jumped off the horse to check the horses' hoof prints and horse manure, and if the weather was fine, she would also touch the hot horse manure to estimate how far the horse thieves were from their group, but now the horse manure was wet, and she couldn't tell how far the five horse thieves were from them.

Li Guolou was patient, he didn't lose his temper with his subordinates, and said dryly: "Gao Yao catches the head, what's so good-looking, now I am also a veteran of tracking, and I will not be wrong to go one way to the left!" ”

Gao Yao said in a hurry: "Head, there is an inn on the right, we can continue to drive, the horses are not good, we must feed the horses and rest for half an hour, otherwise these war horses will be rained and will be sick, and they will not be able to run tomorrow!" ”

Gao Yao Wuyun has no confidence in catching horse thieves today, it is not easy to say clearly, he can only find an excuse for the horse first, follow the horse thief, Gao Yao Wuyun is experienced, this is the moment to test the perseverance of the catch, lonely, lonely, hidden deep in the depths of the soul, sleeping in the wilderness, dirty living conditions, the four full guards are afraid that they will not be able to adapt, and they don't even have much sense of accomplishment, catching the criminal is just a horse thief.

Li Guolou glanced at Chen Rong, the head of the guards of Prince Gong's Mansion, and saw that people were pretending to be deaf and dumb, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry.

"Well, Gao Yao's head catcher is orderly, the official agrees with her proposition, and now the official ordered, turn right, enter the inn to rest, and let the war horse rest for half an hour." Li Guolou beckoned his subordinates to enter the inn first, and he led by example to enter the inn first.

Li Guolou's war horses were cooked by his family, Ding Batel, and he and the four guards of Prince Gong's palace sat in the lobby, drank hot tea, cursed the ghost weather in their mouths, complained in their hearts that it was thankless, and looked forward to the coming storm, so that the traces of the horses' hooves on the ground could be washed away, and they could justifiably end the tracking of horse thieves.

"Hey, when will this rain stop?" "I don't know where the team of Huang Guards in front of me has gone." "Eight lambs, why do you want to come to find death, this dead horse thief." "Donkey balls, if I catch the horse thieves, I will whip them forty lashes first!"

A group of people used violent language to vent their inner dissatisfaction, and the people in the inn stayed away from this group of angry eyebrows, bypassing this group of officials with dirty words.

Li Guolou raised his voice and said: "Boss, what is there to eat here!" ”

The shopkeeper probed softly: "Official, after the meal time, is it okay to eat leftover food at noon!" ”

"Oh boss, it's hot, bring it all, we have a rice bucket here." Li Guolou had eaten dry food, and he was calling for Battle.

The big pot of leftovers and leftovers was brought to the table, although everyone didn't have much appetite, but it was a hot meal, no matter how unpalatable, a group of people ate a few bites, as for the leftovers, but seeing that Battle was alone, one person snorted and wiped out half a pot of leftovers and leftovers.

Chen Rong, the foreman of the guard, frightened Batel with the amount of food, and said suspiciously: "Captain Li, this is really your family, can you afford it!" ”

Li Guolou smiled and said, "Chief Chen, you haven't seen Battle show his skills, he is only half full!" ”

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm doing two people's work alone." Battle boasted about himself, boasting of his merits.

"Battle, you don't have a cow, you don't farm, what kind of work do you do?" Gao Yao's dark clouds exposed the lies of half of his fellow countrymen.

"Feeding the horses, walking the horses, washing the horse trough, and the horse shed in the house, I do it all by myself." Battle said proudly.

Gao Yao Wuyun glanced and said, "Then you tell me, there are a few horses in the head family!" ”

"Hmm······ The guests came, and I also helped, and the horses in the sleeping stables were now considered two. Battle had no choice but to tell the truth, causing laughter in the lobby.

Li Guolou is also looking for something for Battle to do, so he has two horses, he likes to hire horses to train horses, one-stop service does not have to worry about labor costs, has the unique simplicity of Mongolians, has a slave experience Battle, will you cherish the hard-won life, looking at this high-ranking family staring at the lady in a flowered dress, Li Guolou knew that after he returned home, he would find a big washerwoman for Battle to be his wife.

More than half an hour later, when leaving, the innkeeper did not dare to come to beg for money, but asked the proprietress to come forward and gave a seven-fold discount, and a group of people only spent one hundred and thirty copper coins to eat horses.

Li Guolou's thoughts changed three times a day, he was full of food and drink, and he came up again, he was refreshed and led the way, the wet and slippery muddy ground was full of footprints, and there were special horseshoe footprints, extending forward, he was a god with a pair of sharp eyes, excited to be a scout member, and Gao Yao Dark Cloud walked side by side, humble and studious, if you have any questions, ask questions, and steal Gao Yao Dark Cloud Tracking Technique.

"Head, it's so strange, those horse thieves steal horses on rainy days, it should be when it rains heavily, or the weather is sunny, so that the pond will cover the footprints, or the grass will not leave footprints, and now it is raining lightly, just leaving horseshoe prints, even if you can't follow the magician, you can see the horseshoe prints on the ground, I'm afraid that those horse thieves will deliberately lead us astray, and the future is not good." Gao Yao Wuyun glanced at the large army behind him and secretly said what was in his heart.

Li Guolou nodded and said: "Hey, it's a big deal, the five horse thieves are veterans, how can they let us succeed, just go home empty-handed, if there is no harvest tomorrow, we will turn back, draw a picture and write the red rabbit rouge beast bounty, see who is lucky!" ”

Clever horse thief, replace the horseshoe, the red rabbit rouge beast coat color is dyed in a different color, as for the horse's buttocks can also be changed, there will be no "red rabbit rouge beast" in the world.

"Head, it is to be considerate of your subordinates." Gao Yao snickered and snickered, and he was not in a hurry to hurry, and it was expected that the two groups of officers and soldiers who arrested the horse thieves would find nothing.

A group of people left the avenue at the intersection and walked towards the sheep intestine path, the rain and fog drifted in the air, Li Guolou took out his pocket watch to look at the time, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, the spring breeze was blowing, the green grass was undulating like blue waves, the fields were gray, and the dark sky did not know when the rain would stop.

This kind of light rain is troublesome to wear a hat, Li Guolou took off the hat on his head, let the fog drift in the sky, and his face was foggy, and suddenly a figure popped out on the slope of the river bank.

But not far away, a man stumbled and ran on the path, the rain gear had been half off, the hat flew up from his head, and was caught by the hanging line around his neck, and then tightly strangled the middle-aged man's neck with the momentum of detachment, and he didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and the coat on his body had been blown open in half, and rolled from his left shoulder to his right shoulder.

The man saw a group of officers and soldiers galloping on the trail, and shouted: "Official, there is a corpse, just below the riverbank, it's too scary!" ”

Li Guolou's brain burst out of a fire, there was a murder case, and he didn't care about the "Red Rabbit Rouge Beast Theft Case", the horsewhip pointed at the other party, and shouted: "I am arrested by the Criminal Department, take me to check!" ”

"Hey, I'll lead the way, there is still my servant under the embankment looking at the corpse, we are the villagers of the Chen family here, and the official looks very familiar." The middle-aged man had some impressions of Li Guolou, but he didn't dare to boldly identify it.

Li Guolou jumped off the horse and fought, got a little closer to the middle-aged man, looked at it a few times, and recognized that it was the accomplice of Bao Tong's public trial of his mother Chen Luo's son Chen Zhonghe's "unfilial piety case", Wan Er smiled and said: "Oh, Murazheng Chen Yajun, we have met in court, I was standing next to you at that time, I didn't speak, I shouted a few times, this official Li Guolou, Han Zan Lilang of the Criminal Department, is responsible for criminal investigation!" ”

Chen Yajun laughed a few times, everyone was relatively bad in the past, and sighed: "Has Chief Li been promoted, but I am standing still, this time Chen Cun was killed, I was unlucky again." "A crying face, the mourning star came to the door, and he couldn't hide, so he walked towards the scene of the crime.

"Head, we're not ·······" Gao Yao Wuyun wanted to speak and stopped, reminding Li Guolou of his official life.

Li Guolou waved his hand and said: "Human life is at stake, I'll check it out first!" ”

Walking along the riverbank, there is a small river under the slope embankment, Chen Yajun's old servant stands under a willow tree on the bank of the river, guarding a female corpse, and there are some men, women and children watching the excitement on the embankment, looking down at the female corpse at the scene of the crime, curious villagers keep running from afar, and people continue to join the ranks.

Li Guolou first instructed his men to disperse the crowd and carefully walked down the slippery slope down the embankment.

The female corpse was soaked in the river water, and was pulled up to the river bank by the old servant, and the wet old servant said: Sir, this female corpse is not from our Chen Village! ”

Li Guolou nodded and said, "Thank you, uncle." After speaking, Li Guolou squatted on the ground and checked the body.

Turning over the female corpse, the corpse was undressed, a distorted and deformed face, it didn't look like it was more than thirty years old, her hair was messy, her hair was cut short, her face was not swollen, it shouldn't have been drowned, looking at the abdomen of the female corpse, Li Guolou's expression changed greatly, there were three knife wounds on his chest and ribs, which had been sewn up by medical needles and threads, the knife edge was straight, and the wound was sewn neatly and finely.

Li Guolou had a flash of inspiration, and before the Criminal Department had yet cracked the criminal file, there were several cases of "cases of prostitutes abandoning corpses", wasn't it that the corpse was disemboweled, and he also took out the case file and studied it carefully, never expecting that he would run into the scene of the criminal's murder today.

Li Guolou's eyes were on fire, and he finally let him get what he wanted, and he had the opportunity to show his skills, so he lowered his voice and said: "Liu Yu, bring it as a tool, I want to open the corpse and take a look." He also said: "Gao Yao catches the head, go to the trail to see, there are no traces left by the wheel, this kind of car is roughly as wide as a horse car, it is a manned carriage, it may be pulled by a horse or it may be pulled by two horses, it is possible that two horses are pulled, it is not an ox cart in the village, show me carefully, if there is, report to me immediately!" ”

"Pierce." The enthusiasm for arresting has come up, and even Gao Yao's dark clouds have changed their fatigue, and they strode onto the embankment in high spirits.