In the Tang Dynasty, the messengers in charge of detectives and arrests were called 'bad people' or 'bad people', and their commanders were called 'bad marshals', who were mainly in charge of the investigation and service.

Of course, this is just a difference in name, and there is basically nothing wrong with directly seeing them as catchers, servants, or soap officials, because they are just one name, probably a group of officials in charge of criminal matters in the feudal empire.

However, the 'bad people' of the Tang Dynasty were much more ambiguous and larger than imagined in terms of their powers at the grassroots level, after all, they were a group of messengers in charge of detectives, arrests, public security or other miscellaneous matters under the command of the chief officials of various counties and prefectures, whether it was arresting, detecting, maintaining law and order, patrolling the streets, running errands, or acting as a guard when the officials traveled, etc., as long as there were orders from above, they all needed to do it, and they could do it!

Basically, the 'bad guy' can barely be regarded as a 'civil servant' in the Tang Empire, the kind that eats imperial food and has an establishment.

Of course, they must not have any grade, because they are just three religions and nine streams wearing a layer of official skin, because they are at the bottom and well-informed, they are better at and understand the affairs of the market than those upper-class people in the government who do not eat the fireworks of the world, so for the needs of governance, they have been absorbed into the sequence of the government, and have become a link and bridge for the officials of the government to manage and monitor the people.

Recently, I don't know why, such a group of 'bad people', or officials, have been ordered to disperse in groups to various towns and villages outside the jurisdiction of Hangzhou, inspecting household registration, tracking down drifters, and performing some work of detecting and arresting thieves.

Several of them happened to find a village near the house that Li Bai bought today.

'Plum head! ’

After checking here, I didn't find any problems. ’

We've checked it too, and it's fine! ’

'I don't have any of this, there must be no situation in this piece, look at the sky is not early, there may be some delay on the road, Li Tou...... Why don't we just go back to the city and get back to our lives? ’

'Yes, Saburo, let's go back?' ’

After tossing and turning in this village for half an afternoon, half a day passed in a blink of an eye, and found that nothing had been found out in vain, and there was no oil or water to fish, so that the few officials who were now hungry became a little impatient.

“……”

However, the leader of the bad guys, surnamed Li and called 'San Lang' by his companions, did not rush to answer, but looked hesitantly in the other direction on the edge of the West Lake.

There was a dense forest, and there was a field full of willow trees, and there was only one path leading to it, and for some reason, on weekdays, even in the daylight like this, few people walked there, and there was no farmland or orchard left there, so that it was sparsely populated, and it felt a little eerie when viewed from a distance?

"Where's that over there?"

"I think there seem to be a few more families over there, have any of you been there to check?"

After looking at it for a while, Li Sanlang, the leader of the bad guys, pressed the short knife on his left waist with one hand and pointed in the direction of the willow forest with the other hand and asked.

"Over there?"

"Ahh

"Li, Li Tou! It's where the goblin lives, who would dare to go there?! ”

"That's it!"

"Last time, one of the brothers saw that white shadow drifting from the canopy of the tree, but fortunately it was sunny in the daytime, and he would not have been scared to death at night!"

"Don't talk about it, I panic when I think about it!"

"Isn't it?"

"Don't say it, it's really unlucky!!"

Li Sanlang didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as he talked about the willow forest, the unscrupulous officials around him were so frightened that they were waved aside one after another.

"Huh?"

"Calculate the time...... It's been almost half a year, what's the matter, that goblin is still entrenched over there and hasn't left? ”

No one wanted to deal with a monster who didn't know what it was, and the bad guy Li Saburo obviously didn't want to, so he just asked casually, and then hurriedly changed the conversation without waiting for his companion to answer:

"Alas!"

"Okay, let's not talk about her yet."

"Look at you thieves!"

Regarding the performance of these companions under his subordinates, Li Sanlang looked a little dissatisfied.

"Can I not know that there's a leprechaun over there?"

"I didn't say that you have to check on her, as long as she doesn't cause trouble on our land, we have the right to be invisible! It's just that...... What I want to ask you is, are there any other suspicious guys over there? ”

Li Sanlang did hear that the floating wave household was the same as him, and his surname was Li, but he came from Yizhou, and he couldn't remember the specific household registration, after all, it was just Wang Ren's casual talk, he was so busy all day, how could he have the time to remember such a trivial matter?

"I've heard Wang Ren say it once, it is said that a floating family who escaped from Shu rented his troublesome house, and he took the opportunity to blackmail a sum of money for food and drink, so no one of you asked about the situation?"

Anyway, Wang Ren said at that time that there was only one non-compliant and outdated 'public inspection' on the other party's body, and the 'pass' issued by the local government in Yizhou must be none, and the other party has been staying in Hangzhou for at least more than a month, and it seems that he plans to stay for a long time, so even if he has a place, it must be expired.

Because of this, in his Li Sanlang's mind, the other party is either a fugitive slave or a wanderer, if they are ready to do business, they can directly go and interrogate the other party, and then tie up and send them to the government and sentence them to exile.

And a person like that, a floating household like that, is of course within the scope and authority of their investigation today.

"I don't want to ......"

"I'm not going either!"

“……”

"Hey!"

"You bastards, you won't go to me!!"

Seeing these subordinates so cowardly, Li Sanlang was annoyed, so he was ready to go and see the situation by himself.

"Oops!"

"No!"

"Li Tou, you can't go!!"

At this time, seeing Li Sanlang's footsteps hesitating slightly, as if he was waiting for something, a bad man's face changed, and then he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed their leader Li Sanlang and persuaded him.

"Let it go!"

"I'm not going to find that female monster, why can't I go? Tell me, why is that? ”

“？？”

"Li Tou, don't you know?"

"What do you know?"

"You really don't know?"

"Stop talking nonsense, tell me about it, what the hell is going on?"

"That's fine!"

"But I don't know if it's true or not, so let's talk about it!"

"This is what I heard from one of Wang Ren's prodigals when I was eating wine a while ago, and I can't tell if it's allowed or not......"

Since it was Li Tou who was waiting for himself and others to ask, the official naturally didn't dare not say anything, so under the eyes of everyone, he heard all kinds of things about the 'Li Xiaolangjun' from a certain minion under Wang Ren, such as the other party was not afraid of female monsters, and he also had a fight with female monsters, and finally 'won or lost' and was so bold that he dared to live next to the female monsters, and even bought the house to add fuel to the fire.

“……”

"That's about it."

"So Li Tou, that person is not something that a character like us can afford to provoke, so we just have to turn a blind eye, and he didn't commit any crimes, right?"

After explaining the situation clearly, the bad guy used his strength again, and pulled their plums back, which can be regarded as giving the other party a step down.

"I see!"

Li Sanlang naturally knows something about the rumors that there is a group of strange people in the world who can subdue demons and subdue demons, as well as mysterious immortal cultivation sects and martial arts sects.

However, he has never seen such a group of people with his own eyes on weekdays!

This can't be helped, because it is said that most of those people have great magical powers, and he, Li Sanlang, is just a small leader of bad people, and here in Hangzhou is just a small soap official, naturally he can't touch some of those existences.

Therefore, when he suddenly heard his subordinates say that there was such a strange person here in West Lake, he couldn't help but be a little curious.

At the same time, he couldn't help but be a little nervous in his heart, because they happened to have a tricky matter here that they couldn't handle, if the other party was really like what that subordinate said, then could he go to visit and find out first?

"...... so"

"That Li Bai, that Li Xiaolangjun, he is not an ordinary wanderer, but a strange person with strong martial arts?!"

"Who knows?"

"Oh, Li Tou, don't look at me like that, anyway, that's what Wang Ren's subordinate said at that time, that person should indeed live next door to the female goblin's house now, I don't know if he has a big ability, at least he has a lot of courage!"

"That's ......"

"That's right!"

"Li Tou, I've heard about this too."

"That man sold fish at the morning market in the west outside of Hangzhou a while ago, and I met him once, he was very young, very handsome, and he looked like he was fourteen or fifteen years old, and he looked gentle and elegant, like a person who had read a book, and I took a few looks at him at that time, and I didn't bother with him."

"That's right! Enemies! ”

"I also saw it once, he has always had a long sword hanging from his waist, and he can carry several fish weighing about 100 catties in one hand.

“……”

Seeing that someone had started to do so, these unscrupulous officials, who were already in charge of the nearby area and who knew more or less about certain things, began to make noise and tell them what they knew.

"That's it! Come on! ”

"Shut up, y'all!"

After thinking for a while, Li Sanlang, the leader of the bad guys who was still a little hesitant, became more and more curious and impatient in his heart after listening to the explanation of his subordinates, and he had never seen such a number one person, so he finally gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

"Let's go!"

"It doesn't matter who he is, we just have to go and see it!"

“！！”

"Li, Li Tou, are you really going? But I heard that it's very evil there, and the most important thing is that there is still a female monster living there! ”

"That's it, let's not go, right?"

"Yes, Li Tou, that person didn't cause trouble, it doesn't matter if he is a strange person or a wanderer, we are just begging for food, can we go so hard?"

"That's right......"

"Li Tou, I want to go to you, I won't go anyway!"

"I'm not going either!"

As soon as they heard that they were going to investigate in the strange and gloomy willow forest, the group of bad people who had been able to speak vigorously shrank back again, saying that they would not follow their Li Tou for anything.

"You guys!!"

"Humph!"

"Look at you!"

"This blue sky and white sky are clear, what are the monsters to be afraid of? Besides, don't you know very well that the female monster is very honest and has never eaten people, what are you afraid of? ”

Seeing the reactions of these individuals, Li Sanlang was a little annoyed, and planned to forcibly order these guys to go with him.

“！！”

"Li Tou, a monster that doesn't eat people is also a monster!"

"That's, that's it!"

"Shemales have different paths, let's not go up and send them to death, right? I still have a wife, children, and an old mother at home! ”

"Yes!"

"Li, Li Tou, my stomach suddenly hurts, I really can't walk, or you go first, don't wait for me......"

“！！”

"It's not good, I'm also a little dizzy, I must be hungry, I'll go find something to eat first......"

"I'm going to ...... too"

"Brother, wait for me, brother will take you to find food and find a thatched house!"

"The ......"

"Third brother, we are waiting for you in the west of the village, if you don't come back like this, we won't wait for you, and we will definitely take care of your sister-in-law for you!"

Finally, this group of unscrupulous officials who had found various excuses and did not want to go with them did not wait for their Li Fa to speak, and they scattered one after another, and ran towards the west of the village they said in a daze, not daring to stay for a moment, and disappeared after a while.

"Humph!"

"A group of bad goods, isn't it just a female monster, and she doesn't come out often in broad daylight, what are you afraid of?!"

Although he said that, Li Sanlang was still a little stunned when he looked at the forest in the distance.

“……”

"Tsk!"

"It shouldn't come out, right?"

In the end, after looking at the scorching sun above his head online, he gritted his teeth, and after picking up his waist knife to strengthen his courage, he resolutely strode towards the forest where not many people dared to approach.