Li Tao looked at the little dwarf and smiled, opened his mouth and said, "It seems that I guessed correctly." This spirit is still moving, let me ask you again, who instructed you to come, and what is the connection with the case in Kuozhou? If you don't tell the truth, I'll destroy your spirit!" ”

I saw that the little dwarf's face was full of pain, his eyes were rolling, he thought for a long time, and opened his mouth to say: "Don't do it, I have something to say, I also take people's money and am employed by others." Okay, I said, it's ......."

As soon as the word "yes" came out, I saw that the little dwarf's head and neck were crooked, Li Tao hurriedly stepped forward, stretched out his fingers, and was no longer breathing. Then he turned the little dwarf over, and saw that behind the little dwarf, a silver needle was inserted into the cervical vertebrae.

Lei Yu suddenly got up on the side and shouted: "What a demon, pretend to be a ghost!" ”

I floated up to the roof on tiptoe and scanned the entire ancient house, but I didn't find anything, so I had to turn over and go down. Lei Yu shook his head at Li Tao, Li Tao was annoyed, and smashed the reed pipe in his hand, only to hear a crackling sound of muscles and bones, and the spirit was also paralyzed on the ground, the muscles and bones were shattered, and the runes on his body gradually darkened and disappeared without a trace.

At this time, when the sky was bright, Li Tao and Lei Yu led the horses, clamped their legs, and galloped straight to Kuozhou along the official road.

After walking for a long time, I have seen the head of Kuozhou City in the distance. In this half-day trip, Li Tao walked all the way, and what he saw along the way was that the hungry people were in charge, starving all over the wilderness, and there were even more hungry people who had no way to survive.

In fact, before the locust plague in Guozhou, Ganzhou, the imperial court had already transported relief grain, and first went to Ganzhou for relief, and Zhou Tingfu, a third-class guerrilla general from Wupin, ordered a forbidden army of 3,000 from Zhou Tingfu, a sixth-grade Zhaowu lieutenant. Escorted all the way to the border of Kuozhou. Stayed overnight for one night, the second day. On the way to Ganzhou, passing through a desert Gobi, the leading general and 3,000 soldiers disappeared along with grain and silver, and since then the world has evaporated and disappeared. Kuozhou City is located in the northwest, is the gateway of the Tang Dynasty, the fortress of soldiers. Now that the food for disaster relief is missing, hungry people are everywhere, and sooner or later there will be chaos. Therefore, Li Tao rushed to Kuozhou with a thunderstorm. Investigate the case and recover the money for the grain.

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Two personal soldiers, a squad leader surnamed Sun, and four officials took Lei Yu and Li Tao through the streets of Kuozhou City. That Sun Bantou is already in his fifties, don't look at his figure. And hunchbacked. But he grew up in Kuozhou since he was a child, and he has been on an errand in the public gate for 30 years, so he knows this state well, so he was sent by the assassin to assist Lei Yu in investigating the case.

Sun Bantou led the two of them to a room at an inn called "Guest Lai" in the east of the city, and then walked towards the scene of the crime. Although walking among the streets and alleys of Kuozhou, the screams of the hungry people outside the city still echoed in Li Tao's ears. Li Tao understood in his heart. If you want to help the victims, you must find out the truth. Recover the money for the grain. While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard a long sigh behind him, which was clear in his ears.

Li Tao followed the sound, turned around and looked, only to see a person walking not far behind him, looking at the dress, it seemed to be a fortune teller, dressed in a blue and white Dao spores, his face was like a crown of jade, three locks of long hair, wearing a pair of green cloth and linen shoes, carrying a bamboo cane, and a white flag was carried on the cane, on which were crookedly written four big characters - the immortal pointed the way, and the clothes and belts were fluttering, quite a bit of fairy bearing. At this time, he was looking at Li Tao, shaking his head and sighing.

Li Tao stepped forward and arched his hand, and asked softly: "Old man, I don't know if you looked at Fang, shook your head and sighed, but why?" ”

The fortune teller said loudly: "Alas! I see that the two brothers have a black face, and the Yin Tang is black, which should be a sign of bad luck. But don't worry, there is a poor road here......"

Just as he was about to say more, Sun Bantou, who led the way, rushed forward and said, "Li Zhuku, don't pay attention to him." This old man didn't know when he came, and he wandered around the market in this area, and he was used to being abducted and deceived, and he was idle. ”

When the fortune teller saw the official come forward, he immediately changed his face, and said with a smile: "It's the big brother of the team!" The little clumsy eyes, the collision, the collision, the mistake, the mistake. Alas, I'll take a closer look, oops, this brother Tai is full of heaven, the earth is round, and there is a purple aura lingering between his eyebrows. Slow down, slow down! The villain will get out of the way! His expression was panicked and panicked.

Li Tao turned around and wanted to leave, but who expected that the fortune teller's feet were empty, and one stumbled and fell down, and hit Li Tao directly. Li Tao's eyes were quick, his left hand stretched out and put it on the fortune teller's shoulder, and with force, the fortune teller took advantage of the situation, arched his hand again and again, and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

Seeing that the official was glaring, he was so frightened that the fortune teller crawled and walked away, and was seen by a group of military officers, laughing nonstop.

Only Li Tao looked at the back of the fortune teller, frowning, as if thinking about something.

The official behind him saw that Li Tao was stunned, and shouted: "Li Catch quickly!" ”

Hearing the call of the officials, Li Tao came back to his senses, and the group continued to walk forward, turning the two street corners in front of them, and a courtyard appeared in front of them, with white walls and black tiles, the gate was closed, and two white paper lanterns were hung in front of the door, swinging in the wind. The walls of the house were so high that they obscured the view and could not see the scene in the courtyard, except for pieces of paper money floating out of the courtyard from time to time.

Li Tao secretly said "strange", and asked Sun Bantou beside him: "That night, the army that held the grain, but spent the night here?" ”

When the official heard Li Tao's question, he hurriedly replied: "If you go back to Li to catch quickly, yes, the army will be stationed here that night!" ”

Li Tao asked again: "What kind of place is this?" Whose house? ”

The head of the Sun squad replied: "What kind of house is this! In the early years, this was a city god temple. Later, it was abandoned, and this waste was abandoned for many years. The year before last, the new Lord Thorn Shi ordered that this place be changed into a righteous village. ”

Li Tao listened to Sun Bantou's answer and pondered.

Lei Yu then asked: "How can the army be stopped in Yizhuang for the night?" ”

Sun Bantou heard Lei Yu's question, thought for a while, and replied, "Fang Zhutou, what about the matter, it's like this." Not long ago, Lord Assassin Shi ordered a group of disaster victims to be put in, and all these victims were placed in the Assassin's Mansion, and grain was allocated from the granary of the state capital for relief. Unexpectedly, more and more people entered the disaster, not only was the Assassin Mansion overcrowded, but even the camp of the garrison in the city was also full of disaster victims, how could there be such a big place to live for the army of grain for a while, not to mention that the 3,000 army and the grain and grass could not be parked separately! For a while, Lord Thorn Shi was also helpless, and originally wanted to move the victims of the Thorn Shi Mansion or the garrison camp to Yizhuang to make room for the grain army, but when Lord Thorn Shi told General Qiu who led the troops the reason for this matter, General Qiu was also a kind-hearted good person, and immediately ordered the army to march into Yizhuang, stay overnight, and then lead the army to leave. Unexpectedly, on the way to Ganzhou the next day, there was such an incident. (To be continued......)