The second team and the third team of the county government, under the leadership of Lao Chen and Lao Zhang, are still around Xinyang County, visiting everywhere to find the traces of bandits.

Jiang Zhixian arranged Jiang Hong to be an errand under the hands of his master Zhu Shuo, Jiang Hong and Zhu Shuo couldn't get used to each other, so both of them did their own thing, Jiang Hong checked the household registration of Xinyang County, and Zhu Shuo looked at the previous information and files of the Xinyang County Ya.

After all, Hua Feng was only sent to help, and he didn't contribute to the work, so he could ask him to help deal with the uneven things, as for how to find these bandits, it was not his responsibility, but he was not idle, wandering around Xinyang City all day long. However, I arranged for Yuanhao and Zhu Shuo to check some information together, and when they came back in the evening, they would report to him.

Ding Xiaowu, monitoring the movements of the Yiyang Gang and Zhang Yayi, did not relax at all. On the second day of Ding Xiaowu's surveillance, he found that two groups of people had gathered at the gate of the Yiyang Gang. A group of people is led by Guo Renjie, and the other group of people is led by Guo Zixiong, and there is money around them, these two groups of people have left Xinyang City, Ding Xiaowu chased them outside the city, and saw that these two groups of people were going in the direction of Xiaolin Town. It was inconvenient for Ding Xiaowu to chase more, and when it was too late, Zhu Shuo and Jiang Zhixian came to the place where Ding Xiaowu was hiding. Ding Xiaowu told Zhu about this, and Zhu said that he was puzzled and felt that they must have some bad actions. Jiang Zhixian and Zhu Shuo discussed it and decided to wait and see what happened.

Zhu said that at this time, he said a recent discovery of his own, "I checked the previous information, and the current Guo Mansion was built after buying the houses of several people. In the past, the backyard door of the Yiyang Gang was originally separated from the previous houses of the common people by an alley. Now the backyard of the Guo Mansion has blocked the alley, and the backyard of the Yiyang Gang is now closely connected. As long as their backyards are connected, the Yiyang Gang and the Guo Mansion can shuttle freely. ”

After Jiang Zhixian heard this, he said: "That is, the original place of the Yiyang Gang has been expanded. ”

Zhu Shuo nodded and said, "En." I also found out that Li Chunlin's family had built a new house at that time and was unwilling to move out. As a result, it didn't take long for Li Chunlin to owe Guo Zixiong money. At that time, the magistrate of the county sentenced Li Chunlin to return Guo Zixiong's money, Li Chunlin had no money, so he had to use his house and land to pay off his debts. But if this is true, why did Li Chunlin take the initiative to report to the official when he knew that he owed Guo Zixiong money? ”

Ding Xiaowu was also a little puzzled after hearing this, "Master Zhu, what do you think?" ”

Zhu said: "Perhaps, the money was not borrowed by Li Chunlin, but forced by others to borrow it." ”

Jiang Zhixian said: "It's very possible, so Li Chunlin was not convinced, so he reported to the official." But the magistrate at that time was a confused official, so he sentenced Li Chunlin to return the money to Guo Zixiong. ”

"It's all our conjecture now, and we still lack evidence," Zhu said. Besides, since the money was borrowed, where did the money go? Zhu Shuo rubbed his temples and said, "It would be nice if I could find Li Chunlin himself." ”

Jiang Zhixian said regretfully: "Originally, he had already been caught, but who knew that he was rescued again." ”

Ding Xiaowu blamed himself: "I'm sorry, my lord." If I could have been a little stronger, I wouldn't have let those thieves escape. ”

Zhu said: "Okay, now is not the time to blame yourself. I can only hope that others can find some clues. Xiao Wu, you continue to monitor, tomorrow is still this hour, we will meet again. After speaking, Zhu Shuo and Jiang Zhixian left.

Ding Xiaowu continued to monitor, and after nightfall, he saw these two groups of people and horses returning to the Yiyang Gang one after another, among which Guo Renjie also pulled a few iron boxes when he came back, and he didn't know what was inside. Early the next morning, Ding Xiaowu went to the door of the county government to report the incident. But he is no longer a member of the county government, and he does not dare to make a public announcement. had to wait at the door, but Zhu Shuo and Jiang Zhixian didn't come out for a long time. Just when Ding Xiaowu was anxious, he saw Zhang Yashi walking out with a smile on his face. Ding Xiaowu immediately followed him and found him walking in through the side door of Guo's mansion. Ding Xiaowu looked at the wall, jumped up, and then leaned on the wall, watching the movement inside. Sure enough, the relationship between the Guo Mansion and the Yiyang Gang has indeed been opened, and a person with Zhang Yashi walked to the Yiyang Gang through the Guo Mansion. When Ding Xiaowu was about to continue monitoring, he was discovered by Guo's subordinates, who immediately jumped back out of the wall and ran away. Then, he hurried back to the place where he was going to meet Zhu Shuo.

As for our Second Young Master Li, under the supervision of Master Tiwu, he still fetched water in the morning, although in the past two days, he has never filled these eighteen jars of water on time. However, for the sake of Li Yu's insistence, he only scolded him a few words and told him that he must fill the remaining water tank. After Li Yu filled the water tank, he would practice martial arts and internal skills in the bamboo house courtyard, and when he came back in the evening, he would continue to teach Li Yu new martial arts.

In the afternoon of this day, Li Yu ate the lunch sent by his master, relieved his spirit a little, and planned to fill the remaining jar of water, take the wooden bucket, and go down the stairs briskly. Just as Li Yu walked down the last step of the bamboo house, suddenly, he saw a black shadow in the distance outside the bamboo courtyard, as if it was a big black ball, and it was jumping from time to time, like a monkey. Li Yu thought it was some kind of animal, so he immediately became vigilant, put the wooden barrel on the ground, and then hid behind a tree and observed it carefully. The black shadow stopped and stopped, raised its head from time to time, as if smelling something, and then walked slowly towards the bamboo house, as the figure slowly approached, Li Yu saw clearly that this was a person, but it was not like a normal person, how could a normal person walk like that. Moreover, the black clothes on his body were tattered, all of them were covered in pulp, and they were shiny black, and the man walked on all fours, and from a distance it looked like a moving black briquette. When Li Yu saw this person's face clearly, he was taken aback, and immediately walked to the person's side and asked, "Dadong?" Why are you here? It turned out that this person was Chen Erdong and Chen Sanniu's mentally incomplete brother, Chen Dadong.

When Chen Dadong saw Li Yu, his face was full of excitement, and his mouth was babbling and shouting, Li Yu didn't understand what Chen Dadong meant, so he asked, "Dadong, are you hungry?" There is still some dry food in the bamboo hut, I'll go get it for you. With that, Li Yu used light skills, ran back to the bamboo house, took some steamed buns, and said, "You eat something, and when I finish drawing water, I'll send you back." ”

Chen Dadong took the steamed bun handed by Li Yu and threw it to the ground angrily, his tone was more anxious, his expression was more excited, and he was about to take him away by pulling Li Yu's arm, but with Li Yu's steady efforts, how could a crazy Chen Dadong pull it. Chen Dadong saw that Li Yu was not leaving, tears were about to flow out, three fingers were stretched out with his left hand, and then one finger was stretched out with his left hand, and he kept pulling horizontally on the three fingers, as if he was sawing these three fingers with a knife. Li Yu frowned, learning from Chen Dadong, he also stretched out three fingers, and the other hand was drawn on it, and his mouth muttered: "Fingers? Three? Three chicks! Li Yu immediately came to his senses and asked eagerly, "Something happened to the third girl?" Seeing that Li Yu understood, Chen Dadong nodded again and again, pulling Li Yu to leave. Li Yu no longer hesitated at this time, picked up Chen Dadong on his back, and immediately rushed towards the small village where he had stayed.

After Li Yu arrived at the entrance of the village, it was still the dense woods, blocking the road into the village, Li Yu tensed his nerves, turned on the switch to enter the village, and hurriedly walked into the village. However, the scene in front of him made his eyes widen. The village was a mess and empty, and it was clear that the people here had put up a hard fight, and there were signs of struggle everywhere. Some of the chickens raised by the villagers were flying around, pecking at some blood and food on the ground. Li Yu watched blankly, and slowly walked towards the village, at this time he hoped that someone would come out and tell him what had happened. When he walked to Xiong Pan's house, he saw that Xiong Pan's body was thrown to the ground in a large shape, and there were still some scratches on his body, which should have been his mother calling for help from him. Chen Dadong jumped to his home, squatted on the ground, looked at the smashed home with tears on his face, and babbled.

Li Yu looked at Xiong Pan's corpse and asked, "Big Bear!" Do you know what's going on? "Xiong Pan has been dead for three or four days, and it's summer, and his body is already emitting a foul fishy smell. Li Yu, who smelled this smell, also knew at this time that he was just seeking a trace of comfort in his heart, so he put Xiong Pan's body back on the bed, picked up the white cloth on the ground, and covered Xiong Pan's body.

Walking out of Xiong Pan's house, Li Yu thought of Zhang Haiwei, so he immediately ran to Zhang Haiwei's thatched house, but the strange thing was that Zhang Haiwei's house was not damaged in the slightest. "Do these people know that Zhang Haiwei is an orphan? No relatives, no reason, no father and no mother. Li Yu thought to himself. walked to Chen Dadong's house, and subconsciously wanted to ask Chen Dadong, but he knew that it would be useless to ask, Chen Dadong was not a sane person at all, and it may be because he was not a sane person, so he was not arrested. But Li Yu can clearly know one thing, someone has been here before, and all the people here have been taken captive. Chen Dadong tugged at Li Yu's clothes and looked at Li Yu with tears on his face, as if begging Li Yu to save them. Li Yu looked at the messy village, clenched his fists, and said, "Even if they loot everywhere, their families are innocent, how can they be taken away together!" At this time, Li Yu has no clue, even if he wants to save it, but where to save it? With complicated feelings, Li Yu took Chen Dadong back to the bamboo house, this time and again, it was already dark, and Ti Wu was already sitting in the bamboo house. Li Yu said to Ti Wu: "Master, disciple... ”

Before Li Yu's words were finished, Ti Forgot interrupted: "That gang of bandits has been arrested. ”