The Xu family's division of family property was finally completed.

Xu Wuzhi and his mother left the Xu family, and after settling his mother in the new house, he and Li Moyi came to Junlai Building, Xu Wuzhi asked for a private room, and after ordering wine and food, Xu Wuzhi suddenly started to stay, Li Mo knew that he had something to say, so he didn't say anything.

After the wine and food were delivered, Xu Wuzhi ordered that no one should come in and harass him, and when Xiao Er left, Xu Wuzhi personally poured a glass of wine for Li Mo, knelt down to Li Mo one by one, raised the wine glass with both hands and said gratefully: "Brother Li, if you hadn't found out the real murderer and cleared my grievances, I would have been a prisoner today......

"Brother Li's kind, little brother can't be reciprocated, please drink this glass of wine! In the future, this life of the little brother will be yours, Brother Li! ”

"Why are you talking so much, I have my own life, what is the use of your life, hurry up, I can't afford such a big gift." Li Mo stretched out his hand to help, but Xu Wuzhi insisted on refusing to get up: "Brother Li, you drank this glass of wine, I still have something to say, I won't get up if I don't finish speaking." ”

Drinking a glass of wine is a trivial matter, Li Mo took the wine glass, paused, and drank it all in one gulp.

Xu Wuzhi knelt down and poured him another glass of wine, raised his hands high and continued: "Brother Li, this case is all thanks to you, I have today, finally no illness and no disaster, today Brother Li stood up for me again, if it weren't for Brother Li to suppress those people, I am afraid I will not have a chance to prove my ability, I can only be a little guy to spend this life in a mess, this second glass of wine is even more thanks to Brother Li for coming out today!" ”

Li Mo drank it all with a sigh, and then said with a smile: "Good things are not more than three, do you want to entrust Erniang to me to take care of your third glass of wine?" ”

Xu Wuzhi smiled and said, "Brother Li is really like a god, Erniang...... No, my mother stayed at my eldest brother's house, I was afraid that she would be angry, the only person I could fully believe in the official residence of Anqiu Town was Brother Li, you are the son, you can't be with your mother, I am really unfilial, there are 1,000 taels of silver tickets here, 500 taels is a thank you gift for Brother Li, and the other 500 taels are used as a backup, whether my mother or Brother Li you need, you can deal with it. ”

Li Moyi unceremoniously took it and hid it in his arms, and after drying the wine, he patted Xu Wuzhi on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, as long as your mother doesn't have any calamities, there should be nothing wrong." ”

Xu Wuzhi bowed three more times before getting up and returning to his seat, he picked up the chopsticks: "Brother Li, eat, the dishes are cold." ”

Li Mo put a piece of green vegetables in his mouth, chewed it and asked, "By the way, where are you going to do business?" ”

Xu Wuzhi hesitated for a moment, and seemed to be a little unspeakable.

Li Mo understood at a glance, "If you can't say it, don't say it, I just want to remind you that if a person carries so much money, everything must be careful!" ”

Xu Wuzhi Huo Ran said: "I believe in Brother Li, I am going to Suzhou to find Uncle Cheng, I want to go to sea!" ”

When he said the word 'going to sea', Xu Wuzhi's voice was kept to the lowest, and he looked worried that the wall had ears.

Li Mo thought for a while, and then remembered that he had seen the announcement of the forbidden sea on the bulletin board in front of the governor's mansion.

In those years, civilians were strictly forbidden to go to sea, and it seems that the ban on the sea was also very severe.

According to the announcement of the ban on the sea, no one is allowed to go to sea to do business, otherwise they will catch one by one and run another, and seriously raid the family and exterminate the family, which is a headless business.

Xu Wuzhi thought that Li Mo would strongly oppose it, but he didn't expect Li Mo to nod and say after pondering for a while: "It is more dangerous to go to sea, but the profits are indeed huge, alas, forbidding the sea is a big mistake, if the sea is free to trade, not to mention the wealth of the people, the Japanese will be less than ninety, why not?" ”

Xu Wuzhi patted his thigh and said with a look of surprise: "Ah, the eldest brother said that my heart is on the road, in fact, how can I really ban it in the northern country for more than a hundred years?" Not only are there more and more private smuggling boats, but even local governors are secretly smuggling, and the mayor of Suzhou City smuggled four large ships of tea and porcelain to other countries last month, earning 100,000 taels of silver. ”

"Alas, alas, alas." Li Mo shook his head and sighed lightly, and drank a glass of stuffy wine.

"That's it," Xu Wuzhi echoed and continued: "Many people don't have that power, and they don't want to dredge the official residence like flowing water, so they have to dress up as pirates, half-black and half-white, and sometimes meeting these half-adult pirates is worse than meeting real pirates." ”

Li Mo shook his head and said, "By the way, you are going to go to sea to do business, do you know water?" Do you know how to sail a seagoing boat? Do you know where to produce what is produced and where it is better to sell it? ”

Xu Wuzhi smiled and said, "Big brother, don't you know my details?" I don't understand anything, but Uncle Cheng does, I heard that he has a sea map that he bought with a lot of money, and there are many countries and places on which he has never heard of it. ”

Li Mo sneered disdainfully: "What are they called a broken sea map, you can't understand the bag in front of you, so let's go to the treasury of the official mansion to help you find it, maybe I can find a good sea map for you to copy, and ensure that you will cross the ocean from now on and become the most powerful maritime merchant in history!" ”

"Okay......" Xu Wuzhi didn't seem to be very enthusiastic, because he knew where the sea map came from in the official residence, and he heard that even the sea map drawn by a certain great eunuch when he went to the West a hundred years ago had been ordered to be burned by the emperor, how dare he keep any sea map in the governor's mansion.

Li Mo started talking to Xu Wuzhi about what he knew about the overseas world and some basic knowledge that he should have when going to sea, and Li Mo's understanding was quite shallow, but it had opened Xu Wuzhi's eyes and made him suspicious.

"What the fairy told me in my dream, whether you believe it or not, you will know it in the future." Li Moyi didn't have much to explain his question, because according to his usual experience, he couldn't understand it when he explained it carefully, so he understood Xu Wuzhi with such nonsense, and kept his words in his heart.

After a full meal, the two agreed to meet again in three days, and then parted ways.

As soon as Li Mo returned to the governor's mansion, he first went to the mortuary to take a look, Xiao Yang was quite loyal to this kid, and he could actually hold on to this kind of boring work.

"Brother Li, it's been a few days since the case was solved, do you want to continue this research?" Xiao Yangdui said with a smile after seeing Li Mo.

"Of course, I want to continue, I plan to get a few more pigs and study it for more than half a year." Li Moyi joked.

Xiao Yangdui's face turned into a bitter gourd: "Brother Li, this pig is troublesome enough, the corpse has to be washed with medicinal water after it is sent to the mortuary, how can it be so stinky, now even my grandfather does not enter the mortuary, I have to keep guarding." ”

"You have to suffer from hardship, and the adult master is also, come on." Li Mo laughed a few times and walked away, leaving Xiao Yangdui alone to be angry on the ground.

Li Moyi went to the kitchen again, and then came to the signing room.

The Tolerance Room is the office of the Governor's Residence.

In the tolerance room in Anqiu Town, Lord Song and the young governor each have a separate errand room.

The rest of the rooms are the six rooms corresponding to the six departments of the Criminal Department, and now no one is working, and each room has been closed and locked, but there are still many empty houses in the tolerance room, and sometimes when the space in the six rooms is not enough for official business, some scribes who temporarily invite help to work in these empty rooms, so there are all kinds of pen, ink, paper and inkstone inside.

Li Moyi lit the candle flame and spliced the two long pieces of white paper into a square, then took out a knife and sharpened the chicken feathers he got from the kitchen.

Drawing a map with a brush is obviously a wasted effort, and the charcoal (thrush, relatively thick and soft) is not easy to use, and the signature pen and fountain pen are not easy to use, and the quill has become the only choice.

The chicken feathers are short and soft, not as easy to use as goose feathers, but they are okay, after grinding the ink, Li Mo began to write and draw on the white paper with a homemade chicken quill pen.

Li Moyi doesn't know much about the current situation in the world, but he still has a general impression of world geography.

It took three drawings in a row to barely draw a slightly satisfied map of Southeast Asia, and at this time it was already the third watch, Li Mo yawned, packed up his things, and went back to the Buji Inn to sleep.

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The next day.

After settling everything, Li Moyi led Yue'er and Yi Xian to an alley.

I thought that the former residence left by Xu Wuzhi was not much luxurious, at least it had to be a reliable place to stay.

However, Li Moyi's eyes were a different scene.

The narrow and forced streets are filled with sewage, and the bitter haha, who wear hats and robes, move from side to west, and there are also those who lead oxen and drag horses, stepping barefoot on the muddy ground full of animal dung.

What kind of good time is this, it's simply a rotten sore in Anqiu Town!

This place is in a remote situation, located at the top of the south gate street of Anqiu Town, about a quarter of an hour's walk from the governor's official residence.

The low house in front of him is the former residence left by Xu Wuzhi.

On the left and right of the house, profiteers come and go, and people of all colors walk around, their eyes are shrewd and cunning, as if there are business opportunities everywhere.

When Li Mo saw this kind of situation, he could only sigh softly, standing under the eaves of the main hall, quite helpless to "get on the thief ship".

Li Moyi also quickly accepted the reality, although this room is small, the scale is still comparable to the room in the inn.

Life is not going well, and it is reasonable that this house is not the luxurious mansion he imagined.

The house is small and there are four people living in it.

Li Moyi entered the house and looked at the structure inside, there were two couches, one for Yue'er and Xu Wuzhi's mother, and one for Li Moyi and Yi Xian to sleep.

It was raining lightly today, the ground was muddy and dirty, Li Moyi happened to be the last day of vacation, he didn't have to go to the governor's mansion, he stayed under the eaves to avoid the rain, looking at the rain, Li Moyi couldn't help but subconsciously touch a plate of paper in his arms.

There are his writings and guides.

The so-called document is regarded as the household registration book of this year, and Lu Yin should be regarded as an identity document.

In order to get these two things, Li Mo spent a full five taels of silver this morning.

In the past, I lived in an inn and belonged to the floating population, but now that I have a local house, I must have a document and a guide.

Don't look at the people fleeing around at every turn, the victims are everywhere, and the household registration management is still very strict, after all, the people must be guarded against collusion everywhere, so as not to cause people to gather and rebel.

In Anqiu Town, if there is no Wen Mu and Lu Yin with him, he is considered a black household, a thief, and he has been mixed for a while, and if he wants to settle down in Anqiu Town, this identity certificate is somewhat needed.

Fortunately, Anqiu Town is a place where only silver is recognized, and Li Moyi's document and Lu Yin were bought for five taels of silver.

It was not a peaceful year, and in order to prevent the Japanese from mixing among the displaced people, the distribution of documents was also particularly cautious and strict.

However, as soon as Li Mo has money, he still has a way in the governor's mansion, and it is not difficult to get a local household registration.

After successfully solving his identity, Li Moyi can be regarded as officially becoming a member of this world, and the next thing is to work hard for his livelihood.

Li Moyi is also thinking about how to go next.

First of all, he didn't have much idea about becoming an official, because the imperial examination system was very mature in those years, and the imperial examination had almost become the only way to become an official, and he didn't know anything about Baguwen, so it was impossible to gain fame.

Although I still know one and a half poems about ancient poems, it is unrealistic to look at the poetry conference on TV and look at it a few times, but it is unrealistic to rely on poetry to live.

After thinking about it, Li Moyi still decided to continue to do his own guards.

Thinking like this, the rain gradually became lighter, Li Mo picked up the paperwork, cheered up, and went out of the house, wanting to investigate the surrounding situation.

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This is a sweet pastry shop, this thing was a luxury in ancient times, ordinary people have a full meal, who has the money to eat snacks?

The shopkeeper saw that Li Moyi was wearing a coarse cloth robe, and his attitude was very lazy, until he saw the jade plate of the guard on Li Moyi's waist, and he was a little enthusiastic.

Li Moyi didn't come to fill the gap, bought more than a dozen of the cheapest "fruit food", and left the store and came to the shantytown at the east end of the street.

This fruit food is actually a sugar man, with inferior sugar and noodles, pinched into the image of various gods or legendary beasts, is a home travel, pit children must be good.

As soon as Li Mo came to this shantytown, he deceived the child.

He had just noticed when he passed by, there were more than a dozen children in this place, and he had nothing to do today, just wanted to find someone to inquire about the situation in the vicinity.

Because of this, Li Moyi's target was quickly locked on the group of children in the shantytown of Anqiu Town!

These children seem to be orphans living on the streets, like mountain foxes and rats, seeking a livelihood in the area around Anqiu Town, and even the lowliest lowly grass people look down on these sloppy orphans.

But Li Mo didn't think so much in his heart, these children must be reliable to find out the news!

Don't look at these children wandering around naked all day long, but they have not been abducted and sold by anyone, it shows that these children have a strong ability to survive, and they know the roots of Anqiu Town, and even the bottom society of the entire Anqiu Town, they know the most!

Li Moyi also knew that if he wanted to be called the number one god in the world, the most important thing now was intelligence, with intelligence, he would know the roots of the entire Anqiu Town better, and handling the case would only get twice the result with half the effort.

And these children are his source of information!

What's more important is that although these children are smart and strong, they are just children in the end, and unlike other adults, they answer questions at a very low price, with small investment and large returns.

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The shantytown is indeed dirty and messy, as soon as Li Mo walked to a grass shed, he saw a little fat man, who was pouting his ass and shitting, and a hairless soil dog, staring at the little fat man on the side.

"Ahh

The little fat little face was red, and with a loud scream, the red on his face quickly faded, and the eyes of the earth dog lit up, which showed how happy the little fat heart was.

Although Li Moyi came here for the first time, he didn't have so many scruples, and asked Xiaopang: "Who is that, who do you know more?" ”

The little fat man was stunned when he saw someone, and in a blink of an eye he smiled so hard that he only had his eyes slit, and shouted inside: "Brothers, we have a guard with a candy man here!" ”

Li Moyi couldn't help but twitch his face.

At this time, the entire shantytown seemed to be boiling in an instant, and the dirty children didn't know where to get out, and soon surrounded Li Mo.

In the blink of an eye, Li Mo only had half a bamboo skewer and dirty handprints on his hand, and the children who grabbed the sugar man left happily, while those who didn't grab the sugar man came over and kicked Li Mo one or two, muttering and stinging in their mouths, and they didn't know how to buy more.

It was the first time that Li Moyi had been "attacked" like this, but he also knew that these children had no malicious intent, the so-called kicking and beating, but joking, being able to joke with him showed that his heart had accepted him.

The little fat man squinted his eyes, licking the candy man beautifully, and his pants didn't have time to be pulled up, revealing his eggs, but he still pointed to a bamboo grove next to him.

Li Mo looked at the direction that the little fat man was pointing, it should be in the bamboo forest, so he patted the mud handprints on his body and walked to the bamboo forest.

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At a glance from afar, the child who was in a daze looking at the clouds in the bamboo forest looked very thin.

As soon as Li Mo approached and took a closer look, this kid looked like he was twelve or thirteen years old, but his temperament looked extraordinarily old, and his eyes revealed a calmness and wisdom beyond his peers, neither jumping off nor naughty, but with a faint literary atmosphere.

When the old child saw someone, he didn't turn his head, but asked directly: "Hey, you errand guard, what do you do with us homeless orphans, isn't it An's thief......

Li Moyi just walked quietly, but before he could speak, Natural Beauty mentioned his intentions, and the old child suddenly asked, and Li Moyi couldn't help but be interested.

"How do you know that I have a thief's heart?"

The old boy snorted lightly, and replied with some arrogance, "If it weren't for Ann's thief's heart, what would he do to keep an eye on us wanderers, and I would not have been able to avoid it." ”

Li Moyi also shook his head and smiled bitterly, it was the first time he had seen the cleverness of this old child, and he didn't have much to argue at the moment, he just took out ten copper coins from his arms and handed them to the old child.

Li Moyi guessed that this old child was different from other children, and he had an urgent desire for food and clothes, perhaps like those merchants in Anqiu Town, who only recognized silver in his eyes.

Sure enough, the old boy reached out and took the copper coin.

At this time, Li Mo felt that if he asked directly, it seemed that he was too deliberate, and he didn't say anything more, and was about to leave, but the old child suddenly asked.

"Hey, you've also read a book, do you know when this caryophyllus will bloom?"

Li Mo was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean by asking this?" ”

Li Moyi also subconsciously asked rhetorically, but he didn't expect the old child to get angry for no reason, accept the copper coin, and leave angrily.

Li Moyi didn't know where he offended him, and when he saw that the little fat man was still eating candy on the side, he asked, "Who is that, which one is this old child singing?" ”

The little fat man stretched out his chubby dirty hand while licking the sugar man, Li Moyi also gritted his teeth, took out a piece of sugar cube hidden in his arms, and stuffed it into his hand.

This little fat man looks obese, but he is also a shrewd person, otherwise everyone is thin, why is he the only one who is fat?

In Li Moyi's opinion, in terms of wisdom, the little fat man is not as good as the old child, but when it comes to the ability to make a living, I am afraid that the children in the entire shantytown are not as good as the little fat man in front of him.

After the little fat man received the benefits, he lowered his voice and said to Li Moyi: "His name is Ah Tie'er, a stubborn person as his name suggests, an iron-headed baby, sometimes he will talk in his dreams, saying that when his father and mother left him, he once promised that one day this caryophyllum blooms, he will come back to pick him ......up."

When Li Mo heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and his heart was desolate for a while.

You must know that bamboo is an extremely peculiar species, and it takes at least twenty or thirty years for ordinary bamboo to bloom, and this caryophyllus takes sixty years to bloom!

Li Moyi was sighing in his heart, but at this time, the old child named A Tie'er went and returned, maybe he heard the words of the little fat man, he came over angrily, and slapped him crisply!

"Smack!!"

The little fat man's face suddenly had a red palm print!

For a moment, the little fat man who had just been honest and obese had a ruthless look in his eyes.

Although it was fleeting, it still made Li Moyi, who was good at watching, look at it in his eyes.

"What, dissatisfied?"

Ah Tie'er's eyes were like a sword at this time, with a condescending posture, and the little fat man also restrained his fierce eyes, lowered his head, and obediently offered the candy.

Ah Tie'er didn't take the candy cube, but turned his head to Li Moyi and said: "A few days ago, there was a murder on the other side of Jiuweigou, but no one reported it, if you go over now, it is estimated that you can still take advantage of it, don't run here in the future, there is no news you need here!" ”

Li Mo looked at Ah Tie'er with an angry face, but he was a little surprised, this person could see through his intention in a few words, it was really not simple, so he didn't say anything more.

At present, this murder case is the most important.

"Little fat man, you're idle anyway, show me the way." Li Mo said to the little fat man.

I don't care about anything else, I heard that there was a murder case, and now it is most important to go to the scene of the crime first.

However, Li Moyi was not familiar with the place and route, so he had to ask the little fat man to lead the way.

This little fat man is also a smart man, Li Moyi has special treatment for him, he is naturally happy, seeing that Ah Tie'er didn't speak, he knew that he acquiesced, so he took Li Moyi out of the shantytown and went to the direction of Jiuweigou.

Jiuweigou belongs to the suburbs of Anqiu Town.

In these years, all localities are only in charge of internal cases, and in major homicide cases beyond their jurisdiction, the governors of the two places will generally shirk each other, and no one is willing to take responsibility, so no one will accept them, and the case will naturally not be resolved.

Fortunately, today there was an old child A Tie'er to guide the maze, and a little fat man led the way, and Li Moyi finally ran into it.

Jiuweigou is located in the southwest suburbs outside Anqiu Town, it was a small river earlier, connecting Anqiu Town to the river, there is a small wooden bridge called Chang Niang on it, it is the most favored place for wild mandarin ducks, and occasionally there are literati and scholars who hold poetry gatherings here.

It's a pity that in recent years, Anqiu Town has become more and more prosperous, and everyone dumps domestic garbage and sewage into the river in Anqiu Town.

The little fat man was grateful to Li Moyi for just relieving him, and his legs and feet were also diligent, and he soon walked out of the gate of Anqiu Town and stepped on the trail.

However, because the rain had just stopped, the trail was muddy, and as soon as Li Mo walked for a while, his shoes were covered with mud.

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Halfway through, I saw an old man in cloth who was driving an ox cart, the rut had sunk deep into the mud pit, and was whipping the old cow.

"Two little brothers, come over and take a hand and pull this cart out!" The old man saw Li Mo and the two of them, as if he had seen a savior.

The little fat man walked over as if he had seen a nervous disorder, digging his nostrils and muttering, this old man's brain has been kicked by this cow, and if there is no benefit, you still want someone else to contribute to you in vain?

Li Moyi was also in a hurry to rush to the scene of the murder, after all, Ah Tie'er had already issued an expulsion order against him, and he missed this murder, so it would be difficult to get any more information from the children in the future.

Just as Li Mo was about to leave, he saw a box in the car!

Li Moyi is too familiar with this style of box, because he has experienced several murders, and the last time he saw Lao Yang, he was carrying such a box!

"My husband is a fool?" Li Mo couldn't help asking.

The old man was also anxious, and couldn't help but reply to Li Moyi: "Little brother, you are a discerning person, the old man is a man from Linxian County, and what he does is inferior work, and it is not worth mentioning, but there was a murder in front of him, and the old ox cart is already slow, if you go late, you will have to eat the master's board...... I hope that the little brother can drag a ......"

As soon as he heard this, Li Mo immediately understood.

Presumably the person from the county magistrate's mansion next door discovered this murder case and was ready to accept it, Li Mo was also pleasantly surprised, but his face was flat, and he said to the old man with some embarrassment.

"I really don't dare to hide it from my father-in-law, boy, I'm a lively watcher, I love to watch a strange thing, and I can brag about it with my classmates when I go back, and today I heard that there was a murder outside the city, so I rushed over to take a look......"

Li Mo smiled and continued: "It's just that the errand masters don't allow ordinary people to get close...... If you can bring one or two with you, let me get closer to see the excitement, not to mention taking a hand, even if you pull the boss over, I don't have a word! ”

Li Moyi's acting skills are really good, and now he is pretending to be an idler with a strong sense of vanity, which is really full of philistines.

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