Li You looked at Wu Xie. "Wu Xie, now only this official can help you save Liu Niang, do you still want to continue to be obsessed?"

"My lord, I said." Wu Xie finally lowered his head.

"Like Zhao Wu, I fled to Shengtang County from Shandong." Wu Xie said this, his face was sad. "Harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, war is in chaos, there are wars everywhere in Shandong, if it is not for the fact that they can't survive, no one wants to leave their hometown."

"After coming to Shengtang County, because we are outsiders and are bullied everywhere, Brother Wu and I made up our minds to get ahead. Later, Brother Wu began to help others do white things, bathing the dead, carrying the corpse into the coffin, and pretending to be not afraid of heaven and earth all day long. When Wu Xie said this, his voice was a little choked. I didn't dare to touch the dead, so I just messed around on the streets, I couldn't live anymore, so I went to Brother Wu to borrow a little money, although Brother Wu always scolded me for being unproductive, but he would help me every time. ”

"Ten years ago, Brother Wu came to me and said that there was something he wanted me to help him, but this was a big crime of killing his head, and asked me if I dared. Without him, my life would have been gone, and of course I said yes. Wu Wei said this, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes.

"Wu Xi, Zhao Wu's crime was originally a capital crime, but even so, it should be judged by the imperial court and punished according to the law." Li You looked at Wu Evil with awe. "Therefore, as long as this culprit is caught, this official will definitely judge according to the law!"

When Wu Xie heard this, he showed a grateful look for the first time. "If we could meet a parent like an adult as soon as possible, Brother Wu and I might not have come to this point." Wu Wei sighed. Brother Wu said that he will participate in most of the white things in the county now, and he knows which family is rich and which family is rich in funerals. If we steal these companion collections and sell them to other places, we won't have to worry about spending money in the future. ”

"As soon as I heard about tomb robbing, my heart trembled, Brother Wu said that he knew that I was afraid of the dead, and he wouldn't let me rob the tomb, as long as I helped sell the goods, I immediately agreed after hearing it." Wu Xie said this, looking up at Li You. "After that, I was in charge of selling goods until now."

After listening to Wu Xi's narration, Li You couldn't help but be stunned for a while. No matter how hateful a person is, he has a good side. This Zhao Wu was tortured to death, and anyone who knew what he did would surely applaud him. However, there will be people who weep for him.

"Wu Xie, in this way, you don't know whose grave Zhao Wu and the others dug up?" Li You sorted out his emotions and asked.

"I don't know." Wu Wei shook his head.

And so it was! This is exactly what Li You expected. If Wu Evil participated in the tomb robbery, the murderer would naturally not let him go. Now that he is safe and sound, it is naturally because the murderer does not know that there is still Wu Evil in Zhao Wu's tomb robbery gang.

In today's situation, it is completely impossible to determine the scope of the murderer by locking the home of the tomb robber, so there is only one other way.

Ay! It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but that's the way it can be.

Li You couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this, but after thinking about it again, his eyes suddenly lit up. "Wu Xi, this official wants to give you a task, I don't know if you can complete it?"

"Mission?" Wu Evil looked suspicious.

"If the mission is completed, the murderer's fox tail will also be revealed."

"Good!" Wu Wei agreed. "I have one condition, though..."

"Liu Niang is already waiting for you." Li You didn't wait for Wu Xie to finish speaking, and clapped his hands outside.

A moment later, Liu Zhong led Liu Niang in. Wu Wei looked up and down eagerly, but found that Liu Niang was uninjured all over her body, her face was calm, and she didn't look like she had been tortured at all. Wu looked at Li You in puzzlement, and Li You laughed.

"Since he knows that she is innocent, how can this official torture her."

"Your Excellency!" Wu Xie only felt a warm current in his heart, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Only by catching the real murderer can Liu Niang clear her grievances."

"Even if the villain gives up this life, he will not live up to the trust of adults!"

………

Southwest of Shengtang County, at the foot of Wanshan Mountain.

At the foot of this mountain, there is a courtyard. In the center of the yard are three thatched houses, surrounded by a fence made of bamboo poles, and a peach grove under which flocks of chickens run around. These chicks are golden, their eyes are red, and they run as fast as lightning, making people feel like golden water.

Ouyang Jian was in front of the thatched house, but he had been kneeling on one knee, not knowing who was waiting for him.

A moment later, an old woman dressed in coarse cloth came out of the thatched hut. The old woman had a ruddy face and kind eyes, and held in her hand a dustpan containing golden grass seeds.

"Bobo!" The old woman called out to the chicks, who immediately gathered around them. The old woman grabbed the grass seeds and sprinkled them on the chicken, which bowed its head and ate it as if it had been hungry for a long time.

Sou!

A blue light flashed, and Ouyang Jian immediately showed a panicked look. "Qing'er!"

"Forget it, Qing'er also has some credit this time, so let's take it as a reward for her." The old woman laughed. "Hurry up."

Ouyang Jian stood up at this time. "Master, there are two demons in Shengtang County, one cat and one fox, if the apprentice expects it to be good, this cat demon is good at illusion, and the fox demon can control people's minds, so this ability is by no means an ordinary demon. Moreover, this fox demon is still a white fox..."

"Don't worry! Don't worry! Hehe. Ouyang Jian's face was eager, but the old woman shook her head at him. Everything has a certainty, everything has variables, and the old rules of a thousand years may be broken because of this. ”

"Master, the apprentice doesn't understand." Ouyang Jian's face was confused.

"It's just not the right time." The old woman looked at Ouyang Jian lovingly. "What do you think of Li You?"

"It's fine." When Li You was mentioned, Ouyang Jian's words immediately decreased.

"I can let you have such an evaluation, it seems that Gaotao does have the talent to know people." The old woman looked up into the distance. "I can't stay here for long."

Not far from this yard, a group of workers are busy with something. Around these workers, a circle of courtyard walls has been built.

"After this case is settled, you must let Li You come to see me." The old woman turned to Ouyang Jian.

"Obey orders!" Ouyang Jian hurriedly nodded.

"By the way, Yan'er is coming."

"What is she here to do!" Hearing this, Ouyang Jian immediately frowned.

"She's out of the customs, it's time to go out of the mountain to go through the experience." The old woman looked at Ouyang Jian with a smile. "Do you want her to run around the world by herself?"

"I know." Ouyang Jian's face was helpless.

………

Li You sat in front of the bookcase, looking at the household registration book on the bookcase, and Yang Ming, the main bookkeeper, stood beside Li You with his hands down.

"My lord, in the past ten years, a total of 663 people have died in Shengtang County, and 120 young women, and the details of the family are also recorded in it, please take a look." Yang Ming explained to Li You, who nodded and flipped through them one by one.

Zhao Wu began to rob tombs ten years ago, and since the murderer was retaliating for the tomb robbery, the time when the stolen person died was in these ten years. According to Zhao Feng's statement, Zhao Wu was frightened because she was dressed in red, and shouted loudly that he didn't mean it, although Li You couldn't understand this, but combined with Edamame's statement, Li You deduced that the deceased should be a young woman, and the murderer was most likely a relative of the deceased, so this murderer was among the families of these one hundred and twenty people.

One hundred and twenty! Let's rule them out one by one. Li You pondered secretly.

"My lord, there are other commands." Yang Ming saw that Li You was focused on the case file and no longer talked to himself, so he had the intention of retiring.

"Ah, no." Li You hurriedly raised his head. "Master Yang, thank you!"

"Your kindness, my lord. There were no other orders, and the subordinates took their leave. Yang Ming clasped his fists and saluted Li You.

"Okay." Li You nodded to Yang Ming, then lowered his head and continued to read.

Yang Ming saw that Li You was concentrating on copywriting again, and a trace of surprise appeared on his face, and finally turned his head and left the lobby.

In fact, Li You could have issued a proclamation ordering the people who had invited Zhao Wu to do white things to the yamen to confirm. However, in this way, Zhao Wu's tomb robbery will inevitably be exposed, which will not only startle the snake, may lead to the murderer absconding, but also bring ruin to Zhao Wu's family. Moreover, Li You couldn't be sure whether Zhao Wu only attacked the people he had handled. Therefore, after thinking about it, Li You chose the most troublesome, but also the most foolproof method - to investigate one by one.

Li You buried his head in the copywriting, and unconsciously, it was dark in the lobby. "Miao'er, palm lamp!" Li You was just about to call Wang Miao, but suddenly remembered that he asked Wang Miao to go back and report to his mother that he was safe.

Li You stood up and wanted to look for the oil lamp, when the back of a child suddenly appeared in the center of the lobby, which looked very familiar. "Edamame?" Li You tried to call, but the kid glanced back at Li You, turned his head and ran out of the lobby.

"Edamame, come back!" Li You remembered that Maodou was in distress before, and while calling loudly, he raised his legs and chased after him. However, Edamame had no intention of turning back at all and continued to run forward.

"Edamame!" Li You didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and chased after him at full speed. However, in the blink of an eye, the edamame ran dozens of meters away. "Edamame! Come back! Li You was even more anxious, and continued to shout loudly while chasing.

Perhaps hearing Li You's call, Edamame gradually slowed down, and finally stopped, raised his head, and seemed to be talking to someone. Li You looked at it carefully, and secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good. In front of Edamame, a man wearing a red cloak and a scarf around his head was standing.

"Edamame! Dangerous! Li You continued to speed up his pace while staring closely at the man in the red cloak. The man was talking to Edamame, who seemed to be attracted by its words, and looked up and listened intently. As he spoke, the man raised his hands and slowly placed them on Edamame's shoulders, moving them little by little towards Edamame's neck.

Li You couldn't wait to fly to Edamame's side immediately, but no matter how he ran, he always felt that the distance between him and the two had not changed. What's going on? Could it be that I have fallen into some evil spell?

Just when Li You wanted to call for the measuring ruler, the man's hands had already grabbed Edamame's neck, but these hands did not stay as Li You expected, but continued to move to Edamame's head, and gently ** Edamame's face and head. At this time, Li You also suddenly came to the side of the two.

"Stop!" Li You scolded loudly.

The two looked up at Li You, edamame pouted, with a puzzled expression, although the person in the red cloak couldn't see the facial expression, but through his eyes, he could see that he was looking at Li You with a smile.

Li You didn't care too much, and reached out and pulled off the scarf on this person's head. However, to Li You's great surprise, what appeared in front of him was the face of an old woman with a ruddy face and a kind face.

"Li You, don't forget Gaotao's teachings."

After the old woman said this, her body glowed with dazzling light, Li You only felt that his eyes lit up, and when he came back to his senses, he was still sitting in front of the bookcase, and the hall was full of light.

Is Nan Ke a dream? However, everything just now is still vivid.

"The teacher's teachings? Teacher's teachings?" Li You repeated this sentence, and for a while he couldn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

"Sir! Master! Good news! Good news! ”

At this time, Liu Zhong ran in from outside the lobby. Li You had to temporarily retract his thoughts and looked up at Liu Zhong, only to see that he was sweating profusely and his face was excited.

"Liu Zhong, what's the good news?"

"The murderer you asked your subordinates to find, your subordinates, found it."

Li You heard this, remembered Nan Ke's dream just now, and finally realized the problem.

What a clever murderer, this official was really led away by you!