The first person to report the case was the wife of a hunter in Manzigou Village, Baishu Township, whose husband had entered Nantai Mountain four months ago to hunt, but had not returned for three days.

So Orion's wife and many clansmen in the village went into the mountains to look for it, but they couldn't find it for nearly three days, so Orion's wife came to Yamen to report the case.

Su Hao went on to look through a few files, basically they were all the same, no one was born, no body was dead, and those businessmen were similar, they hadn't gone home for a long time, and their families came to report the case.

"Ding Zhutou, only these clues? I once heard the county lord say that Ding Zhutou once led people into Xiaowutai Mountain to search, I wonder if Ding Zhutou has any other gains? ”

After looking at it for a long time, Su Hao frowned, there were too few clues, and there was no value at all.

"There are no clues."

Hearing this, Ding Xian had a bitter face, shook his head and said: "We searched the entire Xiaowutai Mountain, and we didn't even find any traces of fighting, and those people seemed to have disappeared out of thin air." ”

"How is that possible!"

At this moment, Su Hao's eyebrows were completely wrinkled, you must know that there are not only two Buddhist and Taoist cultivation paths in the world, but also Confucianism, martial arts, and the Eight Hundred Side Sect Left Dao.

Now the world is not peaceful, whether it is those merchants or hunters, there will be more or less one or two crops by their side, even if they are in the martial arts, especially those merchants, they basically hire guards, even if he and Fu Bo make a move, there is no guarantee that they will not leave any traces.

From the travelogues of the ancestors of the Su family, he also has an understanding of the rules and realm of martial arts, which are divided into people in the rivers and lakes and families of Jiangmen.

The lowest level of martial arts in the rivers and lakes are those who have only practiced three or five years of unpopular martial arts such as iron cloth shirts or iron sand palms, and those people can only be ruffians and the like at most, and then practice until about ten years, before they can be matched to perform on the streets, play a chest broken boulder, a silver gun to lock the throat, and swallow a sword, which can be regarded as truly entering the martial arts.

Skill practice to 20 years, this is the first hurdle, after practicing that even if it is a small success, it is a third-rate master with a little name in the rivers and lakes, and he can't starve to death wherever he goes, especially if he practices martial arts, he has a dart bureau to be a dart master, and a wealthy family recruits you as a nurse, and he can also be a small leader of bandits in the crooked green forest.

Further up, sixty years of skill is a second-rate master, he can already be a head in the small martial arts hall, there are many martial arts halls in the north, he can be a head in the county, he is already a figure with a face in the county, and he can also be a village master in the crooked green forest.

And the hundred-year-old skill, is already a rare first-class master in the martial arts of the rivers and lakes, belongs to the respected strong in the martial arts, can be regarded as a mixed head, wherever he goes, he is a guest on the seat, and he has a reputation in the rivers and lakes, that is, he wants to enter the officialdom, and there is a way out.

However, this hundred-year skill does not mean that you must practice for a hundred years, but it is a standard, and those who cultivate high-quality martial arts and those who do not cultivate martial arts cannot be compared.

For some disciples of the great sects of the rivers and lakes, the superior martial arts inherited from the small cultivators, plus the drugs that assist in cultivation, can afford to spend their blood, and some geniuses can have a hundred years of power before thirty.

However, ordinary martial arts have no doorway, no resources, they can't find the essentials by themselves, there are bottlenecks everywhere, and they may not be able to practice this century-old skill after practicing hard for a lifetime.

On top of this is the master of martial arts, this level needs to practice an internal skill to the peak of the realm, can reach this level, basically are the heads of several top factions on the rivers and lakes, to this level, even a prefect will also be regarded as a guest.

If you are willing to step into the officialdom, the future is also bright, but after practicing martial arts to this level, you are famous and beneficial in the rivers and lakes, and you are willing to enter the official road, and there are few people who work for the imperial court.

On the next level, there is also a martial arts master, which is spread on the rivers and lakes, if the martial arts master can comprehend his own martial arts road, and then go one step further and become a martial arts master, it will be a new world, because this realm also has another name, the innate grandmaster!

However, the ancestors of the Su family have never seen a person of this level, and they have only occasionally heard people on the rivers and lakes say it.

In addition to martial arts, the children of the Jiangmen family also have to read military books and learn strategies, martial arts are only a part, and the martial arts inheritance of the Jiangmen family is mostly horizontal martial arts, practicing to the extreme, invulnerable, and infinitely powerful.

After pondering for a long time, Su Hao spoke: "I'm going to explore Xiaowutai Mountain once, and I want Lao Ding to lead the way." ”

According to what Su An said before his death, Ding Xian has barely stepped into the realm of second-rate masters, and thirty or fifty people may not be able to win Ding Xian.

The risk is undecided this time, if Ding Xian is pulled together, it can also be a little less risky, and Ding Xian has searched Xiaowutai Mountain several times, and he is more familiar with the terrain of Xiaowutai Mountain, which can save a lot of trouble.

"Don't worry, the head of the Su family, I will do my best!"

Hearing Su Hao's words, Ding Xian did not refuse, and Zhang Jiatao asked him to do his best to assist Su Hao.

At this time, a catcher walked in and said, "Ding Tou, the carriage has been arranged." ”

"Ding Zhutou, let's go first, and we'll talk about the rest of the way."

Seeing that the carriage had been arranged, Su Hao spoke.

"Okay."

Ding Xian nodded.

A carriage stopped outside the yamen, Su Hao and Ding Xian got into the carriage, and the other four catchers were driven by one person and three on horseback, and Wei County's proximity to the border was not like the lack of horses in other places.

"Ding Zhutou, you've also been to this Cypress Township, what was the unusual situation before those Orions disappeared?"

Enduring the bumps of the carriage, Su Hao asked again.

"No, according to the wives of the hunters, the hunters went into the mountains in groups, as they usually do, and then dispersed when they reached a suitable place for hunting."

Ding Xian said with a bitter face: "But I didn't see them come out again when I entered the mountain,"

Forget about these hunters, there are many wolves, insects, tigers and leopards in the mountains, and it is normal for the hunters to disappear, but the disappearance of those merchants is a troublesome thing, the big squires in Wei County are all doing business, if the trade arteries of Xiaowutai Mountain are not opened, once those big squires make trouble, Zhang Jiatao will have a big head.

Zhang Jiatao has a big head, he has to be scolded, if they can solve it, Zhang Jiatao can save a lot of money, after all, Zhang Jiatao's price for asking Su Hao to make a move is not low.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, Su Hao closed his eyes and began to recuperate, and then he didn't know how long he would stay in Xiaowutai Mountain.