Eighty miles away from Hexi City, Ping'an Village, the houses in the village are scattered, a small stream in front of the village flows slowly from the entrance of the village, and a wooden bridge connects the two banks.

The village, where smoke should have risen, is now deadly silent. There are many scavenging birds entrenched on the trees in the village, staring at the ancestral hall of the village with wide eyes for tax profits.

The silent mountain village attracted a group of Skynet members riding a velociraptor head, each of them was a cloak and hat, equipped with an embroidered spring knife, a short crossbow hung on the forearm of the left hand, and several short knives loomed at the waist.

Everyone stopped at the bridgehead and looked at the situation around Ping'an Village, and saw a pool of black and purple blood clots at the bridgehead, and the village was in a mess, with messy horseshoe prints, discarded farm tools and burned grass houses everywhere.

All present were the most elite members of Skynet who had experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and they had seen all the tragic scenes, so they were not afraid, and said in a deep voice: "Ping'an Village, where is Li Datong?" ”

"Come here, come here." There was a commotion at the back of the team, and a middle-aged man in sackcloth was brought over and said, "Commander, Li Datong brought it." ”

Ghost Li pointed to Ping'an Village and said, "Is this Ping'an Village?" ”

Li Datong, who looked honest, bent over and resigned, with a crying voice, said: "My lord, this is our safe village, the clansmen in the village have been killed by those damn horse thieves, and I hope that the adults will avenge them!" ”

As he spoke, Li Datong knelt down in front of Ghost Li in pain, hugged Ghost Li's legs and begged: "My lord, our Ping'an Village has always been kind to others, why did there be such an encounter, I hate it!" My lord, you must help us get revenge. ”

Ghost Li bent down and dragged Li Datong and comforted: "Okay, stop crying." Lord Taishou arranged for us to come here to avenge the villagers, but where are the corpses of the villagers now? ”

Li Datong wiped a handful of tears, pointed in the direction of the ancestral hall, and said: "The villain asked the people from the neighboring village to come over to help, temporarily place the corpses of the clansmen in the ancestral hall, and the little one will go to the Taishou Mansion to report the case,"

Ghost Li nodded, turned his head to the Tyrant Tiger and Caidie behind him, and said, "Tyrant Tiger, Caidie, you two take some of your subordinates to search the surroundings and see if there are any clues?" It is better to find the route of the horse thief's march. ”

"No." The two of them clasped their fists in response. "Come with us in part."

"Enter the village." Ghost shouted.

A group of people drove the velociraptor to the ancestral hall, only to see more than a dozen middle-aged people gathered outside the ancestral hall under an old tree to rest, chat, and guard the corpse that was covered with sackcloth with a door panel not far away.

Ghost Li jumped off the velociraptor and walked to the nearest corpse, lifted the sackcloth and briefly looked at the wounds of the corpse, looked at several corpses in a row, and shook his head slightly in his heart.

The ghost fox stepped forward and asked in the ear of the ghost li, "What did the commander find?" ”

Ghost Li opened his palm, only to see a bone arrow of an animal in the palm of his hand. The ghost fox's pupils shrank, lowered his voice slightly, and said, "My lord, could it be the hand of the Huns?" ”

Ghost Li put away the arrow and put it into his sleeve, and sighed: "I don't know, it may be a Hun horse thief, or it may be a horse thief cooperating with the Huns, or it may be a Hun disguised as a horse thief to test the lord." ”

The ghost fox touched his beard, squinted his eyes and thought about it, and said, "Commander, no matter what, we should send a message to the lord and let the lord be on guard." At that time, even if the Huns attacked in a big way, they would not let the lord panic and deal with it calmly. ”

A cold light crossed Ghost Li's eyes, and he sneered: "If the Huns really dare to do it, it will be fun, the lord has already laid a net in Hexi City, just waiting for the Huns to get in." ”

While the two were talking, Tyrant Tiger and Rainbow Butterfly walked quickly together.

Ghost Li turned around and asked, "What did you find?" ”

Caidie arched his hand and said: "The leader found a large number of stoves and messy horseshoe prints in the west, although the horseshoe prints have been reduced a lot, but from the remaining traces we deduce that the horse thieves came from the west and retreated from the west. ”

"It seems that this group of people is not ordinarily bold, they don't even sweep the retreat route, and they are not afraid of us at all." Ghost Li sneered.

Turning his head to look at the villagers who were silently watching a few people on the side, Ghost Li walked over, hugged his fists and asked: "This official army Sima Ghost Li, dare to ask you before and after Taiping Village was looted by horse thieves, did you find anything in each village?" ”

Several people lowered their heads and thought about it, shook their heads and sighed: "My lord, we really don't know anything, if Datong hadn't come to our village to ask us for help, we wouldn't have known that Ping'an Village was slaughtered by horse thieves." ”

Ghost Li was not disappointed, he had already guessed that these villagers didn't know anything, but he just had the idea of getting something in case, and said, "By the way, do you often make trouble with horse thieves?" ”

The eldest of them smiled bitterly and said, "My lord said that we are all bitter croppers, let's put it this way, we haven't had a horse thief for four or five years, and the poor don't even want to patronize the horse thief." ”

Ghost Li couldn't help but feel strange when he heard it, since the poor people here didn't even want to come over, why did the horse thieves come to Ping'an Village? It stands to reason that horse thieves should also know the truth of the long stream, how can they slaughter the village?

The suspicion of the Huns gradually increased, and he turned around and prepared to continue tracking in the direction of the horseshoe prints.

At this time, a young man behind him whispered to the oldest middle-aged man and muttered: "Third uncle, I recently found out that Ma Leper has a big fish and meat every day, has he done something lacking in morality?" ”

The ghost moved with a whim, turned to look at the young man with sharp eyes, and said, "What's your name, little guy?" Can you repeat what you just said? ”

The young man had some frightened eyes, and subconsciously took a step back and shrank back, hiding behind the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man hurriedly said: "Back to the adult, the little one is called Shen Qi, he is the nephew of the villain's own family, Shen Ming, he is not sensible and looks forward to the adult Haihan." ”

Ghost Li looked at Shen Qi with indifferent and ruthless eyes, and said, "Don't worry, this official doesn't bother with him for this little thing, I just want to inquire about the horse leper in your mouth." ”

Shen Qiqi didn't dare to take the ghost's words seriously, who didn't know what this person thought in his heart, if he and the others didn't explain it, I'm afraid he wouldn't give up.

"Ma Letou is a villager in our village, he joined our Anle village about five years ago, and he has been spending money lavishly and has no work.

But he went out every three months, more than a month or two, and as little as ten and a half days, and each time he came back with a large sum of gold and silver, and then gambled everywhere.

He didn't go out for the whole year, and the village began to lose a little thing, and everyone thought he stole it.

A few days ago, Ma Letou went out again, brought back a large sum of gold and silver, and played in the casino in the county all day. ”

The ghost pondered for a moment and said, "You take me to find this horse leper head." ”

"My lord, this.... He's not going to be fine, is he? Shen Qi couldn't help but worry.

Ghost Li shook his head and said, "It's hard to say, you take me to find someone." ”

Shen Qi responded with a wry smile, and took the ghost Li and his party to the county seat to find Ma Leper's head.