Li Luodi and a few people walked out of the prison, with mixed feelings.

In this way, it seems that the murderer must be someone else, as long as Hou San and the two sedan chair men are found, the truth is not far away.

But what is this murderer? Just to frame his eldest brother Li Ping? But this framing is not very clever, if it is not linked to the Red Lotus Sect, as long as it is investigated carefully, Li Ping will clear his grievances, so is this murderer deliberately framed or is it a coincidence?

Just as Li Luodi was pondering, a middle-aged man with a rich and ruddy face walked in front of him, and when he saw Xiao Yao next to Li Luodi, his anxious face suddenly surged with joy. Immediately stepped forward quickly, whispering softly in his ear.

"What is the one in the palace who called me?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yao frowned and muttered to himself.

Seeing that he was still pondering and contemplating in place, the middle-aged man was anxious and urged, "Wang ...... Master, let's hurry back... Go ahead! ”

"Good!"

After being interrupted, Xiao Yao gently rubbed the tip of his forehead, and then said to Li Luodi with a little apology, "Brother Li, I have something at home that urgently needs me to go back, you see......."

"Brother Xiao, please, I'm tired of you today, and when my side of the matter is dealt with, I will definitely come to visit!"

Seeing this, Li Luodi hurriedly replied politely.

They have nothing to do with him, but they only helped him a little, but Xiao Yao just helped him in prison, and he kept it in mind.

Li Luodi is such a person, as long as he treats him well and helps him, he will try his best to make up for it afterwards.

Seeing this, Xiao Yao didn't say anything, nodded, and left quickly with the middle-aged man.

When leaving, the middle-aged man also glanced at Li Luodi, there are not many people who can make his master so polite.

Seeing Xiao Yao and the two leaving, Li Luodi looked at Liu Zhutou on the side, arched his hand slightly, and said, "Liu Zhutou, have you found any traces of Hou San?" ”

"For the time being... Not yet! ”

Hearing this, Liu Zhutou was a little embarrassed, and his rough face was slightly red.

Now it seems that the person not only caught the wrong one, but also seems to have let the suspect go.

"However, my brother below seems to have found a clue, and I think there will be news soon."

Hearing this, Brother Li Luo couldn't deny it, then thought about it and asked, "I heard my eldest brother say that the two palanquin drivers were hired by someone last night, and they didn't even carry the sedan chair back when they left." I think this employer must have confessed something. ”

Seeing Brother Li Luodi ask like this, Liu Neng knew what he meant, so he replied, "The selection criteria for the sedan chair husband of the Ming Dynasty are first, there is a file, no criminal record, the second is over forty years old, the third is more than five feet seven inches and five points tall, the four eyes are good, and the legs and feet are good." ”

After listening, Li Luodi suddenly asked, "That Liu Zhutou, I want to ask, is there a fox smell or peculiar smell in the selection criteria of this sedan chair driver." ”

Hearing this, Liu Zhutou looked weird, and said slowly, "I just said the first four, and the last one is that the sedan chair man must not have fox smell." ”

"This ......."

When he was in prison, Li Luodi quietly asked Li Ping about the physical characteristics of the two palanquin men that night.

Li Ping's reply to him was that both of them were rough men, with mediocre appearances, basically no different from ordinary sedan chair drivers, but one of them, when he poured water for the two of them, Li Ping could clearly smell a smell as bad as salted duck eggs and some pungent smell.

At that time, he resisted the urge to vomit, and after the two of them left, the lobby was still filled with this smell.

Seeing that Li Luodi was thinking, Liu Neng said, "In Shangjing, after the sedan chair is generally selected, he will be arranged in Tongxiangzhuang or Songzhuang, and wait for the employer to choose, depending on whether it is in the form of buyout or lease. ”

"If you don't meet the standard because of a certain assessment, where do the eliminated sedan chairmen go?"

"It's the Great Bazaar, and it's full of laborers, but most of them are frail and disabled, old and even children. Young adults were all recruited by those big mansions. ”

Dahe Bazaar,

Li Luodi and a servant named Xiao Si were strolling around the market, this little four was arranged by Liu Neng to come to assist Li Luodi, as for him, he went to the pear garden to learn about all the whereabouts of this Hua Dan last night and the people he came into contact with.

In the bazaar, there are crowds of people, shoulder to shoulder, there are simple stalls, all kinds of vegetables and fruits, hawkers everywhere, there are also septuagenarians selling themselves, there is also a force, can help clean the courtyard, and there are parents with their children to those rich and noble families who are dressed extraordinarily, helplessly sell their children.

Especially seeing some poorly clothed children being bought at a cheap price, seeing that his parents were helpless and swallowing tears, Li Luodi felt uncomfortable.

"Hey, Li Shusheng doesn't have to be like this, these children were bought by the rich, although they have no freedom, but they can solve the daily food and clothing, but they follow their parents, not only is it a burden, but they may not be able to survive."

Seeing Li Luodi's emotion, Xiao Si said softly with relief.

He has seen a lot of scenes of selling children and daughters.

"How can there be so many parents selling their children in this bazaar? Since Emperor Wu of Zhou ascended the throne, the people have divided the land and reduced taxes, why are they still unable to support their children like this? Brother Li Luodi gritted his teeth and said.

"Hey, Li Shusheng doesn't know, this successive wars have made the seemingly prosperous Great Sunday poor, I heard that the treasury is empty, and the dignitaries above should eat and drink, and they will not be affected at all, but it is always the people below who suffer. The people you see are all fleeing from the border pass, dying on the way here, and when they arrive in the capital, they have no relatives and no entanglements on their bodies, so they can only fall to the point of selling their sons and daughters. ”

Xiao Si was very helpless when he said this, how strong the Ming Zhou used to be, and many countries came to bow down and pay tribute. But Emperor Wu of Zhou was warlike and happy, and the successive wars made the treasury profitable, coupled with the recent rise of cults such as the Red Lotus Sect, which made the Ming Zhou worry about external troubles.

"Then these people who fled didn't care?"

"How? The people above are all reporting good news and not bad news, more things are better than less things, as long as it is not linked to their own interests, who cares about the life and death of these people? Hearing this, Xiao Si said disdainfully.

I heard that Li Luodi was in a complicated mood, he participated in the imperial examination, on the one hand, to investigate the disappearance of his parents, and on the other hand, he was also a hot-blooded young man with a burning passion to serve the country.

At this time, a girl with pigtails and the size of a fruit held a straw stack full of rock sugar gourds that was taller than her, and said timidly to Li Luodi and the two, "Big brother, do you want rock sugar gourds?" ”

Seeing that the haystack was full of rock sugar gourds, and seeing that the little girl was thinly dressed, Li Luodi's eyes were full of pity, and he hurriedly squatted down and asked softly, "How is this sold?" ”

"A penny for a bunch!"

Seeing Li Luodi squatting, the little girl seemed a little timid, took a small step back, and plucked up the courage to say.

"A penny?"

Li Luodi was shocked.

Seeing Li Luodi exclaiming, the little girl seemed to be frightened, took two steps back, and whispered, "If it's too expensive, you can pay two strings for a penny, otherwise no matter how little, there will be no money to buy medicine for your mother's treatment." ”

Seeing that the little girl seemed to be frightened by herself, Li Luodi hurriedly comforted, "How many skewers do you have here, I want them all, buy them all at three cents." ”

"No, no!" Hearing this, the little girl's head shook like a drum wave, and said, "My mother and brother taught me that I can't be greedy for other people's small gains, so I sell them for a penny, and even if you are a big brother, you can't eat so much." ”

"Big brother has a family, and they all like to eat sugar gourds, and they can finish eating!" Li Luodi smiled lightly, "It's just that they sell a bunch of three pennies outside, little sister, can you get back your capital by selling a penny?" ”

The next little girl's words almost made her cry, "I went to Beishan early in the morning to pick the hawthorn, and the syrup was boiled at home by my mother, and I sold it for a penny. ”

"Then you work hard to pick hawthorn on the mountain, why don't you sell it more expensive, and sell Sanwen outside!"

"Because many uncles and uncles in this market are very good to me, and the people here are not very rich, I want them to spend less." The little girl said very seriously.