A group of bad people drew their knives and rushed over like chicken blood.

The man sitting on the black horse was calm, and slowly moved his head to look at the crowd.

"Ahh I really don't have a brain! A bad guy shouted.

The others stood still and watched, all with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Qin Mu looked around, and there was a fire under the black gauze hat, and it was really empty and had no head.

"What are you afraid of! Brothers, come on! ”

The man in black wielded a spear and slashed at him with several knives, and he dodged them one by one.

Qin Mu found that this person had no intention of hurting people, but was just circulating, or even a demonstration.

The bad guy ran out of strength, and the black horse rushed towards Qin Mu.

Qin Mu was not in a hurry, and the musket in his hand was ready to go.

Under the illumination of the firelight, Qin Mu aimed at the person on the horse.

After entering the firing range, Qin Mu gently pulled the trigger, and after a burst of smoke, the black horse walked away and disappeared into the night.

"Missed?" Qin Mu looked at the musket.

"It seems that marksmanship still needs to be practiced."

After a while, the sun rose in the east, and the fiery clouds on the edge of the clouds slowly disappeared, and the sky lit up.

Qin Mu looked at his clothes, which were stained black and gray.

The frightened bad guy sighed, and it was clear that the murderer had let him escape in front of him.

Returning to the Yamen, Qin Mu informed Di Renjie of what had happened.

"This person is good at force, and he doesn't hurt anyone, which is clearly a demonstration." Di Renjie analyzed.

"I guess this person should have been a soldier, maybe some petty officer, and his skills are definitely experienced in a hundred battles." Qin Mu analyzed.

"You say he's riding a dark horse?"

"Well, what's the problem?"

"This dark horse is not common, let's just look at the horse politics in each county and check them one by one to find this dark horse."

Qin Mu suddenly realized, "Yes, I almost forgot about this stubble." ”

In ancient times, cattle and horses had corresponding institutional management records, cattle were important production tools, and horses were livestock that were not available for transportation and military purposes.

Di Renjie immediately ordered his subordinates to find the horses in the entire Jiangnan.

In ancient times, there were not many people who could raise horses in the family, so it was found out soon after.

Di Renjie looked at the number of black horses and was worried, "There are fifteen black horses in the entire Jiangnan, three of which are in the hands of several officials and can be excluded, among the remaining three, one is too old and one has just been born, and the remaining one is in the hands of a farmer." ”

"Then send someone to arrest it!" Qin Mu urged.

"Well, it's not far from here, let's go now, and the three ministers can get there." Di Renjie looked at Qin Mu, "You go with me." ”

Qin Mu blinked his eyes and said embarrassedly, "Honestly, I don't know how to ride a horse." ”

Qin Mu, a modern poor dick, saw a horse for the first time when he was a child, and he was a jujube red horse raised by his grandfather's house when he was a child.

As for horseback riding, there is no such condition at all.

The horses in the family are all used to pull goods, but they can't be ridden casually.

Di Renjie looked at Qin Mu in surprise, it stands to reason that literate people can learn to ride horses, but this Qin Mu can't?

"Master Di, I'll go with Xiaoqing, she will take me for a while."

"So be it."

Ten minutes later, Qin Mu rode on the horse, and Xiaoqing sat in front.

"Brother Qin, hold it tight! Drive! ”

Qin Mu hugged Xiaoqing's waist tightly, and only then did he realize that Xiaoqing's figure was really good.

It's just that the long flowing hair didn't fly into Qin Mu's mouth, blocking his vision.

A few hours later the horses came to the farmer's house.

After coming, Di Renjie walked out with a lost face.

"Master Di, don't you read it?"

"I just looked, the horse is indeed a black horse, but this farmer is a ten-year-old man, do you say he wields a spear?"

Qin Mu pushed open the door, "I'll go and recognize it." ”

Di Renjie followed with a hint of opportunity.

The black horse was tied under the stable, the yard was not big and the house was leaking rain, but the barn was very new.

An old man walked over with his waist hunched.

"My horse, I bought it a few years ago, is there anything else I want to see after the adult has seen it just now?"

Qin Mu stepped forward and touched the black horse that was grazing.

It was so smooth that he could feel his muscles throbbing, but he always felt that something wasn't right.

"Bring me an oil lamp."

The old man brought the oil lamp and handed it to Qin Mu, "Slow down, my lord, don't set my stables on fire." ”

Qin Mu took the oil lamp to the right side of the horse and looked at the opposite light.

"No, the color is wrong! The color of this horse is black and shiny, and the black horse I saw last night looks like a shadow! ”

Qin Mu remembered the dirt on his body.

"Master Di! That horse is dyed! ”

"Oh!" This news was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Di Renjie, and the clues he had just obtained were broken again.

Qin Mu carefully thought about yesterday's people.

It stands to reason that the Headless Horseman couldn't say anything, he was thinking that something was wrong there yesterday.

"I thought of it! Master Di! ”

"Say it quickly."

"Didn't I say last night that the man's head was a fire?"

"yes, isn't that a fire without a head?"

"Here's the problem, he doesn't have a head, but he's wearing a black gauze hat, so it stands to reason that the lights will be dimmer."

Qin Mu found gauze to cover the oil lamp.

"It was so bright last night, it felt like..."

"Mirror!" The two said in unison.

"But isn't it easy to see in the mirror?" Di Renjie asked.

"No, Master Di's house, old man, get me a mirror."

The old man was stunned for a moment, "I don't have it at home." Well, I'll borrow it from you. ”

After a while, the old man brought two mirrors.

Qin Mu found the box and put the mirror in the shape of a figure-eight inside.

"Your Excellency, please take a look."

Di Renjie looked inside, "Is there anything here?" ”

Qin Mu knocked on the box, "There's a lot of space in here." ”

Di Renjie suddenly realized, "This is the work of the Jianghu Warlock!" ”

In the current time, it is called magic, and Qin Mu has seen the kind of magic that puts a box on his head to perform a headless magic.

The principle is to use mirrors to give people the illusion.

In fact, there is still plenty of space in the box.

"That's not enough to catch this person alone!" Di Renjie said.

"It's true that the crowd is too wide to search. Unless I hit him with that shot. ”

"You wounded him?"

"I'm not sure, it was too much of a rush."

Di Renjie immediately ordered, "The Lang Chinese Medicine Workshop within a radius of ten miles will go to ask if there are any people who ride horses to get medicine." ”

"No!"

Qin Mu felt that there was very little hope, because in ancient times, it was not too simple to buy things anonymously, and at this time, there was no monitoring, if he didn't hit him, after a while, it would be impossible to catch him.

When he went back, Qin Mu kept thinking about whether he had hit the person or not, and he patted Xiaoqing on the shoulder.

"Xiaoqing, let's not go back first, let's go to the scene to have a look!"

Di Renjie also followed after hearing this.

Qin Mu found the place where he shot and looked for the steel ball.

If you don't hit, you should be able to find it, and the group didn't find it after looking for a long time, but found the student status.

Di Renjie dipped some of his hands into it, "It's not human blood." ”

"Then I must have hit the horse."

"Well, if it's as you say, the horse won't be able to go very far if it's injured, and it's not that easy to deal with the horse."

"Let's go and ask the butcher around here."

The group came to the nearest township and found a butcher, usually there is only one butcher in a small town, mainly because butchers have been unpopular in ancient times, and no one wants to do this position.

"Nope." The butcher chopped the meat and replied.

"Is it true that no one is here to sell horses?" Qin Mu asked again.

"This horse of mine is a dead horse that was just sent today, you can see if you look at it."

Qin Mu walked into the back kitchen and took a look, the horses were all skinned, only vegetable and horse meat were left, and he could still recognize them wherever he went.

Qin Mu looked the butcher up and down, feeling that it was a little boring.

He watched the butcher struggling to chop the horse's flesh, "You're not happy with this knife." ”

"It's been like this for a long time, I'll change it every month."

Qin Mu found that the shape of the cut meat part was very strange, and it was always impossible to cut it with one cut.

"Show me the knife."

The butcher glanced at Qin Mu and slowly handed him the knife.

"Any questions?" Di Renjie on the side asked.

Qin Mu looked at the scars on it, "What kind of hard thing is this, and when did you buy this knife?" ”

"Last month." The butcher replied.

"Oh? Say, what does the man who sells horses look like? ”

The butcher panicked, but quickly calmed down, "My lord, what are you talking about, I'm at all..."

"Do you want me to go to the blacksmith to settle the bill?"

Di Renjie said slowly on the side, "Slaughtering registered horses without permission, and violently killing the whereabouts of arsonists, I am afraid that you will be locked up at the border for the rest of your life." ”

The butcher immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "My lord, I was wronged, as soon as I opened the door early this morning, someone led a horse and asked me to buy it, and if I didn't buy it, I would kill my little one to save my life!" ”

"Do you remember what that man looked like?"

The butcher recalled, "He was wearing a veil at the time, and his accent didn't sound like a local, a bit like the one from Luoyang. ”

"Luoyang? I'm from Luoyang. ”

The butcher immediately replied: "This adult shouldn't be from Luoyang, right?" I can hear that I have a younger sister who married to Luoyang, and I often go there. ”

Di Renjie and Qin Mu glanced at each other to confirm that the butcher was not lying again.

"What else? What are the characteristics of that man. ”

The butcher scratched his head, "It's just that he always walks with his left hand and doesn't swing his right hand much, does that count?" ”

"If his left hand doesn't move, it means that he often carries a sword, but he is playing with a gun, and this person's status is not low."

"It stands to reason that this habit means that he has been a soldier all along, as long as he checks the people who are now in the Jiangnan area, isn't it okay for officers? I think he should be dancing the gun to mislead us, he should not dance the gun often. ”

"Well, there is some truth in your analysis, this person has burned all the way from south to north, and he should be able to meet him in Luoyang."

Di Renjie sighed, "Let's set off tomorrow and go to Luoyang." ”