Outside the village, Du Shu and his wife ran westward, crossing the lake and riding the waves, and with each light touch on the lake, they swept up again.

There were several fishing boats on the lake that cast their nets to catch fish under the rising sun, and when they saw Du Shu and the others, they almost suspected that they had seen the lake fairy, and the fishermen hurriedly knelt down and turned their heads in prayer.

Shu Hongsleeves stared at Du Lengqiu and teased: "Du Gongzi, is this the divine sword of the angry bullfight? It doesn't look like it at all." ”

On the surface of this vast lake, there was no one around, and there was no scruple at all, the innate qi gushed out, and the cyan sword body suddenly burst out with a full light, reflecting the blue of the lake.

Du Lengqiu only felt very happy. In the past, the blade made of mortal iron, even if it was a smoke cage and white sand, there would always be a large amount of true qi consumed when the sword body flowed, and I felt very sluggish. At this time, it is unusual.

At the front end of the sword body, the cyan sword rainbow was like a tide, and it was more than eight feet long. What's more, a cool breath feeds back from the sword body to replenish the consumption of Gang Qi!

"Good sword!"

Du Lengqiu was in mid-air, but he suddenly turned around and swung his sword. The sword rainbow soared, tearing like a mirror lake, as deep as ten zhang, until the bottom of the lake was exposed to the sediment.

"Haha, it's worth it. ”

"How much money did you give the boy?"

"Haha, I really can't hide it from you. This kind of divine sword is not something that worldly money can measure, and all the gold, silver, and copper coins on my body are all put in that pile of wood, but it is really not much, so I have to be ashamed of the young man. ”

Shu Hongsleeve asked with great interest: "A good sword can't be without a name, what are you going to call it?"

Du Lengqiu groaned: "The top and bottom of this sword body are all blue, there is no half of the text or pattern, and the real name is obviously not clueless." In honor of this simple boy, well, this sword is called seven bundles of firewood. ”

Shu Hongsleeve's breath suddenly waved, and he almost fell into the lake, even so, he wet the upper of his shoes. Du Lengqiu laughed as he watched from the sidelines, and Shu Hongsleeve said angrily: "You did it on purpose, can't you have a serious name?"

"Hey, I've been serious all my life for the last ten years, and I'm afraid of being seen as a heretic. But here, I'm spontaneous and don't pretend. ”

Shu Hongsleeve snorted, and then laughed himself.

Crossing lakes and rivers, the two of them galloped for most of the day before they met a train formation. From this, it can be seen that the desolation of the three states of the Western Regions.

Two days later, Du Shu and the two came to the outside of Liangzhou City. At this time, the colorful brocade clothes of the two were covered with a layer of yellow sand, and the gray was not slippery, and the original color could no longer be seen. It couldn't be more appropriate to describe the two of them with gray faces.

The city of Liangzhou is as high as five zhang, and it looks majestic and magnificent on the plain, which makes people marvel. Around the city wall, a small building is lined up one after another, constituting the outer city of Liangzhou City.

Du Lengqiu looked at Liangzhou, patted his clothes, and suddenly shook the sky full of dust, causing Shu Hongsleeves to frown and avoid it. Du Lengqiu suddenly said: "Sleeves, do you say we should change our clothes and secretly go into the city to inquire first?"

Shu Hongsleeves said angrily: "Clothes naturally have to be changed, I haven't taken a shower for two days, and I can't wait to soak in the pool and not come out all day." ”

The two shook off the dust and walked into the outer city together.

All the northwest cities must be built according to the water, otherwise the city will be full of people of all ages and difficult to draft, and the city will not be prosperous. This Liangzhou is naturally no exception.

The Tuotuo River flows around the city, nourishing millions of people and animals in Liangzhou. Without the Tuotuo River, there would be no Liangzhou, let alone Liangzhou City.

The two of them first got a bucket of water in the outer city and washed their faces, the river water was cool, which made people feel refreshed.

Shu Hongsleeves cleaned up a little and walked into the downtown area. After getting acquainted with the ancient city, there was really nothing to see, and the two of them were not interested in shopping, and when they were running briskly, they suddenly heard a shouting and scolding not far from the left, and the voice of the stick adult, followed by a burst of crying.

Obviously, this is someone beating a woman.

Shu Hongsleeve suddenly stopped, and Du Lengqiu also hurriedly stopped and looked at Shu Hongsleeve.

Shu Hongsleeve's face was ugly, "I hate people beating women the most." As he spoke, he walked to the place where the woman was crying. Du Lengqiu hurriedly followed.

After walking a few steps, I saw a circle of people around, this gossip to persuade something.

The two squeezed in to take a look, only to see a short-footed mother-in-law in her fifties with a wooden stick in her hand, knocking on a woman in her twenties without a head.

While knocking back, he scolded, "Let you swallow the money privately, my son gets up early and steam it to buy vegetarian cakes, how can you continue to be greedy for ink." Say, did you take it to your mother's house?"

The woman covered her head with her hands, did not dare to look at people, only sobbed, and even said no.

The mother-in-law became more and more angry, and the stick rained down and hit harder. An honest and honest young man stood aside, his face flushed, at a loss, and he didn't know what to do.

Seeing that the woman was red and swollen, Shu Hongsleeves took a step forward. Seeing that she was ready to meddle in affairs, Du Lengqiu hurriedly persuaded: "Sleeve, sister, this business is not easy to manage." You see, even the lighthouse country, which is known as a model of human civilization, is full of domestic violence, not to mention this ancient country where women's rights are weak. If we take care of this, we might even hurt this woman. ”

Shu Hongsleeves snorted, took another step forward, flicked his long sleeves, rolled the wooden stick in his hand, shattered it, and shouted in his mouth: "In broad daylight, beating people indiscriminately, is it an ornament to be the law of the imperial court?"

She is weak and has no intimidating power. But she also had self-knowledge, and with that, she took out the silver medal of the Hanging Sword Division from her bosom and held it high.

At sunset, the silver medallion was engraved with three crossed blood-colored swords, which immediately silenced everyone.

"The Hanging Sword Division is doing things, and the idlers are all scattered. Du Lengqiu had no choice but to support his companions, also took out the silver medal, shook it towards the onlookers, and immediately let these people disperse.

This is the Hanging Sword Division.

The Hanging Sword Division handles demon cases, has huge power, and has always been fierce, and when the old man and his son heard it, they immediately became trembling. Shu Hongsleeve sat down with a golden knife and said, "What is the specific situation, let's hear it." ”

Du Lengqiu hurriedly stood behind Shu Hongsleeve, his back straight, and he looked like a dog. No way, at the critical moment, the companion must stand up, otherwise, is it still a companion?

The old woman hurriedly spoke, "My lord, there are a number of steamed cakes in my house......"

Du Lengqiu immediately interrupted: "Shut up, there are no rules, did I ask you? Shu Hongsleeve smiled approvingly at Du Lengqiu, as if to say, "What a skilled dog-legged demeanor!"

Du Lengqiu rolled his eyes back.

Then the young woman wept and told the story of the incident.

The thing is very simple, this steamed cake stall is the entire source of income for Di Ergou's family, and Liangzhou has a lot of this business, so the profit is meager. The mother-in-law is afraid that her daughter-in-law will subsidize her mother's family, so she secretly records the number of steamed cakes every day to compare the daily income and prevent corruption.

This woman's duties are tight, and there has been no problem for several years, and her mother-in-law has slackened. Unexpectedly, since last month, there will always be a lack of more than ten copper plates, the mother-in-law originally endured not to have a seizure, and wanted the woman to repent on her own, but today there were seventeen copper plates missing, and finally the mother-in-law became furious, and asked face-to-face, but the daughter-in-law couldn't tell the reason, which led to this farce.

Listening to the whole story, Shu Hongsleeve was speechless. She believed that the old woman would not have miscalculated the accounts, otherwise she would not have been safe for several years. When you think about it like this, it can only be the problem of this young woman.

She thought for a moment, took out a piece of silver, threw it to the woman, and said, "Don't make any more mistakes in the accounts." With that, she stood up and prepared to leave.

Although the young woman was a peasant girl, she was not stupid, and she instantly understood what Shu Hongsleeve was thinking. She trembled all over, respectfully put the silver on the ground, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said sadly: "My lord, I have not taken a copper plate without permission, please return my innocence." ”

Shu Hongsleeves were stunned, she had seen too many reports of helping her brother in modern times, and thought that this woman was the same, but she was wrong. But if the woman hadn't taken it privately, where would the copper plate go?

Seeing that Shu Hong's sleeves suddenly didn't move, Du Lengqiu immediately took over the conversation next to him, nodded and said, "Okay." This case was taken by our Hanging Sword Division. In a few days, I will find out the reason and give you an explanation. ”

Saying that, Du Lengqiu hurriedly pulled Shu Hongsleeve and left.

After walking half a mile, Shu Hongsleeve suddenly stopped. Her face was cold, "Lao Du, you go into the city first to see Qin Zhuo and investigate the case." I changed my clothes and hid in the dark. Only by combining light and dark can we be invincible. ”

Du Lengqiu looked at her expression and couldn't help but sigh, "You're here to help that woman, right?"

"Hehe, you can see that. Yes, I don't think either of them is lying, apparently for another reason. I'm going to find out in the next two days and see who's making trouble?"

The two have no subordinate relationship, and they have just met, and Du Lengqiu has no way to restrain her.

In addition to his headache, he can only comfort himself, and he assists each other in investigating the case in the light and in the dark, which is also in the past.

Seeing Shu Hongsleeves leave with elegant steps, Du Lengqiu shook his head and said in a low voice: "Woman, your name is willful. With that, he turned around and strode into Liangzhou City.

Liangzhou is vast and sparsely populated, even Liangzhou City, which is the state city, has not too many people, and it is only a little over 200,000 when it is counted together with the outer city and the inner city.

The roads of the outer city were unattended, full of dirt and yellow sand, while the inner city was paved with stone slabs, and the roads were wide enough for eight carriages to run in parallel. The slate is blue-black, and all of them are quarried from the mountains in the northern part of Liangzhou, where the snow does not melt all year round.

Du Lengqiu walked forward, and couldn't walk a street, when he suddenly saw someone running out of a wine shop, his hair was scattered, the corners of his mouth were salivating, and he shouted, "Dead, all dead." Hahahaha, all dead, haha"

Immediately, someone who knew him grabbed him and asked, "Huang Qi, have you lost your mind and gone crazy? Who died?"

A few people came out of a few shops on the street, looking at the wine shop and talking. Although the voices of these people were not loud, they were enough for Du Lengqiu to hear clearly.

He looked up, and there were four words written in gold on a black background - Huangjia Wine Shop. The green curtain at the door hung down to the ground, blown by the breeze, swaying, and the sunset gave the yellowed window paper of the shop a layer of rose warmth.

"It's really a sin, the only daughter of the Huang family originally agreed to marry, but it was stolen by the demon ape on the day of marriage, this couple washed their faces with tears every day, and even didn't brew wine, this century-old store seemed to be going to close down. ”

"In the past few decades, have the demon apes created fewer evils?"

"Hey, this Qilian Mountain is full of demons, and our Liangzhou has become a sad place. ”

......

Du Lengqiu sorted out his official clothes, strode forward, and generally opened the green cloth curtain, and in the store, a couple hung high on the beam, swaying slightly, and they both hanged themselves.

The blue sky is like washing, and the sunset is as bright as fire. Inside the liquor store, however, it was miserable and desperate.

Outside the store, everyone was frightened by the corpse, gasped, and retreated in a panic. Du Lengqiu stood still, staring at the two dead couples with deep eyes.