Li Tao handed the white cloth to the thunderstorm, and the thunderstorm got up suddenly, lit the white cloth on the candlestick, and burned it into ashes.

"King Jun, what should we do next?"

"Tonight, let's go explore Nayizhuang again!"

Thunderstorm nodded.

……

Under the gloomy moonlight, the white walls and black tiles of Yizhuang are even more poignant at this time. When he arrived at the door, Li Tao looked around, then leaned down and carefully checked the mud marks on the ground by the moonlight.

"King Jun, what are you looking at?" Lei Yu asked in a whisper.

"In the rainy season in Kuozhou, the ground is wet, and not long after the incident, three thousand soldiers and millions of stones of grain and grass have entered and exited in front of this Yizhuang gate, and it is impossible not to leave clues." Li Tao didn't raise his head.

Sure enough, on the east and west sides of the Yizhuang Gate, several imprints were found on each, and a large number of horseshoe prints, footprints and rut prints were found on a road on the east side of the Yizhuang Gate. All face the gate of Yizhuang.

Li Tao stretched out his fingers, poked into the rut print, and took a little measurement. It's two inches deep. With this in mind, Li Tao walked to the west side of the gate again, leaned down, and observed carefully, and sure enough, he saw some clues.

Li Tao got up and clapped his hands and said, "You see, the rut mark on the west side is less than half an inch deep, but it is facing away from the gate of Yizhuang. And the rut mark on the east side of this gate is two inches deep, towards the gate, it can be seen that it is full of silver money and grain into the Yizhuang, the west side of the rut mark is less than half an inch deep, it can be seen that it is an empty car out, in order to hide people's eyes, the silver money and grain must not have been transported out of the Yizhuang now. In other words, the 3,000 soldiers have been killed in this Yizhuang. ”

But the next day, who was carrying the carriage and horse out of the city to Ganzhou? Since the money and grain and grass were robbed in the righteous village. Where are they hiding now? Since he had successfully robbed the money and grain, why did the murderer drive the chariot and horse again, pretending to be an official and continuing to drive to Ganzhou. Create the illusion of suffering on the way? What exactly is the murderer trying to hide? Pretending to be 3,000 military horses, who is the main messenger behind the scenes, with such a huge force? Who died suddenly in front of the ancient mansion on the official road to Kuozhou? Who ambushed us? ”

After listening to Lei Yu's series of questions, Li Tao's head was in a mess for a while, and he sighed and said: "I hope that all the mysteries can be answered in this Yizhuang!" ”

After that, Li Tao restrained his mind. Entered the Yizhuang.

That night, the moon was sparse, and the white moonlight was sprinkled all over the ground. It's a rare sunny day.

Li Tao took a deep breath of the moisture after the rain, slowly moved his steps, and gradually walked towards the depths of Yizhuang along the ruts on the ground. The dead leaves of the trees have long since fallen to the ground. Blown by the cold wind of the night. Sandwiched by the thick paper money spread on the ground, scattered in all directions, from time to time there were a few hoarse cries of jackdaws, which made the Yizhuang under the night more and more desolate.

After walking along the rut mark for a long time, suddenly a path paved with bluestone slabs appeared in front of me, and the rut mark disappeared suddenly when it reached this place. Li Tao raised his eyes and vaguely saw a dilapidated desolate hall not far ahead. Li Tao said to himself: "Presumably this is the City God Temple, right?" ”

The two of them walked into the temple gate with their feet raised, and raised their eyes to look at the dilapidated City God Temple. The first thing that catches your eye is a few clay sculptures in tatters. On the left is the king of Yama, the son of hell, and on the right is black and white impermanence, sandwiched in the middle is a purple-robed and soapy, blue-faced and fanged evil ghost, with a purple and gold crown and tied hair, holding an account book, holding a red pen upside down, and staring at a pair of ghost eyes. Both sides of the palace door are the clay sculptures of evil ghosts with different appearances and different forms, there are more than ten seats, the color is bright, lifelike. Under the light of the white moonlight, it was very hideous and terrifying.

In this Senluo Palace, walking back and forth a few times, Li Tao couldn't help but think of the sixteen words that the fortune teller stuffed to him - the fire dragon burns the warehouse, the Yin soldiers suppress the grain, the ghost judgment of the drunken capital, who is the master of Yama.

Facing the scene in front of him, Li Tao chewed the meaning of these words repeatedly, and just as Li Tao's eyes inadvertently swept over these clay sculptures, suddenly, a trace of spiritual light flashed in Li Tao's mind.

Suddenly, Li Tao saw the suspicion and said to Lei Yu: "This City God Temple is so dilapidated, the walls are clay sculptures, eroded by wind and rain, and it has long been difficult to distinguish the true face, why are these dozen or so evil ghost statues so bright?" ”

"That's right!"

Lei Yu stepped forward and wiped his finger on a clay statue of an evil ghost, and rubbed a piece of cinnabar. He glanced back at Li Tao, took out an iron ruler from his waist, and put it on the shoulder of the evil ghost clay sculpture, his true qi penetrated, and with a wave of his arm, he cut off a piece of the clay sculpture's shoulder.

Li Tao looked at the gap in the demon's shoulder, and couldn't help but feel a cold air coming from behind him, straight to the top of his head. It turned out that the statue was only covered with a thin layer of mud on the outside, and there was a man standing in the middle, whose shoulder was cut off by a thunderstorm, and his bones and flesh were cut off in large pieces.

Seeing such a scene, Lei Yu tore off the corner of his clothes, untied the wine bag from his waist, poured the old wine from the bag on the corner of the clothes, dipped the cloth in the cloth, and wiped it on the face of the evil ghost statue. The oil paint on the statue is not thick, only after a few wipes, it revealed its original face, with thick eyebrows, no beard under the chin, and a national face, which is clearly Sun Bantou who guided him in the daytime, but at this time he was bloodless pale, with a pair of big eyes, looking at Li Tao, and there was a hint of a sly smile on the corner of his mouth.

Li Tao was taken aback in his heart, and said with emotion: "Sure enough! ”

Lei Yu walked to a clay sculpture of a demon next to him and wiped it, and soon revealed his true face, with a round face, a high nose bridge, a mustache, and still squinting a pair of small eyes, Li Tao was even more frightened, isn't this the Lu Thorn Shi who just drank tea with him?

For a while, Li Tao was too lazy to think about it, took off the robe on his body, took the rest of the wine from Lei Yu's hand, splashed all his brains on the robe and wiped up the clay sculptures of the evil ghost one by one, but he didn't know that while Li Tao was engrossed in wiping the clay sculptures, in a corner of the City God Temple, a pair of eyes were staring at Li Tao fiercely.

After only a while, more than a dozen clay sculptures have been wiped off, and the corpses wrapped in them are all people Li Tao has seen, including Lu Zhizhou who tasted tea with Li Tao, Sun Bantou who led the way, and the accompanying soldiers, the corpse controller who ambushed Li Tao in the ancient house of Ganliang Road that night, the gray-clothed man who died violently in front of the door, and the master of the Zhizhou Mansion who served tea, the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, who was "guests coming", for a while, Li Tao was struck by lightning, and his mind was full of doubts......

Kuozhou official road along the way, what is true? Who is real? Who is the fortune teller? Who is the Thorn in the Assassin's Mansion? Sun Bantou, the shopkeeper, which one is real?

"The fire dragon burns the warehouse, the Yin soldiers suppress the grain, and the ghosts are judged, who is the master of Yama" Li Tao muttered: "What does this mean?" ”

At this time, Li Tao completely fell into a deep thought, took his hands, and paced back and forth in the City God Palace. Thunderstorm watched him quietly from the sidelines, not daring to disturb his thoughts. The bleak moonlight poured into the hall through the dilapidated window lattice, reflecting the clay sculptures of the corpses in the hall more and more hideous, as if they were about to pounce down at any time, and choose people to devour. (To be continued......)