Xu Ling's decision to go has been decided.

Xu Ping Xu An couldn't persuade him and wanted to go with him.

Xu Ling refused.

"Rest assured, I will be careful in my actions in the future. You accompany your sister-in-law back, and you should be careful on the way, and wait for me to come back at home. ”

Xu Ling looked at Gu Zhen, Gu Zhen's eyebrows were full of sadness, but he didn't dissuade him anymore.

Running away late at night, Xu Ling sweated, and now the cold wind is blowing, and his body is cold.

"Go back quickly, tell Brother Daliang not to sell the land."

Xu Ling looked at her heavily, left this sentence, pulled the empty cart and turned around and ran towards the dock again.

"Brother!"

Xu Ling didn't pay attention to the shouting behind him, he was afraid that if he hesitated, he would lose the idea of working hard.

The moon shone on the river and the mountains and forests on both sides, reflecting a piece of silver light, Xu Ling glanced back before getting on the boat, and saw a slender figure standing on the stone, waving at him incessantly.

Xu Ling went and returned.

As soon as I got off the boat and arrived at the pier in Lingbao Town, I noticed that the atmosphere today was different from usual.

Pedestrians stood together in twos and threes, exchanging yesterday's big news.

"Have you heard? Yesterday, a murderer escaped from death row, released many prisoners, and killed the county magistrate's mansion! ”

"I heard that the county magistrate was also killed by him, cut off his head and hung it on the plaque of the yamen, scared people to death!"

"What kind of thief is this, how did he come to our realm?"

"Then who knows, but I've also heard that this kind of thing happens in other places, many people can't survive, they just fall into the grass, I don't know how long this peaceful life lasts!"

"Shhhh The companion hurriedly stopped him: "You dare to say this, don't die!" ”

"In my opinion, it's not that bad. The thief killed the county master, how many people are waiting to be officials in the court, how can the position be vacant, maybe there will be a new county in the near future, let's worry about ourselves! ”

"I don't know what the next magistrate is, don't even give this stupid pig magistrate, then we'll be unlucky!"

People die and the tea is cold, and the people were originally secretive about the county, but now he has not passed the first seven years, so he dares to call him a stupid pig.

"Maybe it's even more greedy than this! Did you know? Someone was robbed of the boat last night, and all the good things on the boat were moved from the county lord's mansion! Three ships were loaded! There are even one or twenty beautiful women who are young and watery! ”

"Really?"

"What do you say? The robbed ships belonged to the Wei family and the Lin family, which was really unlucky! ”

Xu Ling stopped and listened for a long time, until he couldn't hear any information, and then pulled the cart and left.

He went to the tea shop again, and almost everyone everywhere he went talked about what had happened last night.

Xu Ling summed up the information he heard, the scald man was not alone, but a premeditated gang crime, and there were at least ten people.

A group of people broke into the death row and robbed the prison, a group of people answered outside, and after killing the jailer, they went straight to the county governor's mansion, took advantage of the county's unpreparedness, pulled him out of the bed, asked where the treasure was, cut off the dog's head with a knife, and hung it on the county government plaque.

Later, these thieves robbed the gold and silver treasures, fled to the dock, robbed the Lin family and the Wei family three boats, and fled to the river with the money and disappeared.

In addition to the magistrate, the main book of the county government and the county don't know whether they are dead or not, but compared with the thieves robbing the prison and killing the officials, the unlucky ghosts who escaped from death row have few attention.

This means that Xu Ling will not be in any danger in Lingbao Town.

No, no, he wasn't sure where Wang Zhu was at the moment, and if he bumped into Wang Zhu, he was afraid that another conflict would start.

Thinking of Wang Zhu, Xu Ling thought of Liu Niang.

I don't know where Liu Niang's bones are buried.

Xu Ling walked around the city, took advantage of the lack of people to put the cart into the space, changed into clothes, and then wandered around.

Matou Street is still very lively, and the murder of the tea shop in the other courtyard has not affected the livestock trade here.

Xu Ling blended in with the merchants, pretending to be looking at the livestock, but in fact he wanted to inquire about the tea shop in the other courtyard.

Soon, I heard someone discussing.

It turned out that after the murder, the family in the backyard quickly moved away, and the originally good courtyard became a murder house, which could not be rented out for a while, and the price became low.

But Wang Zhu, who was killed by that lady, was infatuated, and he still lives in it.

Xu Ling pretended to be curious and stepped forward and asked, "Then isn't he afraid of ghosts?" ”

"Haha, he owes dozens of taels of silver to the gambling house, and he has nowhere else to go for fear of ghosts!"

It turns out that Wang Zhu is a good gamble! Xu Ling's eyes sank, and he chatted with people in a few words in a hurry, and then wandered away.

As the night deepened, the merchants of Matou Street dispersed, and the originally noisy tea shop was empty, the autumn wind rose, the fallen leaves swirled, and the cold wind drilled straight into people's trouser legs.

Wang Zhu was drunk, staggered and took out the door key, couldn't stop the keyhole a few times in a row, and hurriedly knocked on the door and shouted: "Sister Liu!" Open the door for me! ”

After shouting a few times, he realized that something was wrong, and opened his throat and began to cry.

Xu Ling was anxious to wait in the dark, and scolded Wang Zhu, a thief, over and over again in his heart.

The cat cries rats, false compassion.

Wang Zhu cried outside the gate for a while, causing the dog to bark incessantly. I finally got up and continued to open the door.

The dark red door slowly opened, and he turned to bolt the door, just then, a large stick fell from the sky, knocking him into the eye.

"It's... Who? Wang Zhu had a thought in his heart, turned his head and looked, who was the little white face behind the door who was not Xu Ling?

Xu Ling saw that he hadn't fallen down with a stick, and he waved the stick one after another to hit Wang Zhu's head, his adrenaline soared, and Wang Zhu, who had been hit directly, fainted to the ground, his heart was beating nonstop, and his eyes were white.

Then he stepped over Wang Zhu's body, bolted the gate, and locked the two in a courtyard where there was no one else.

When Wang Zhu woke up, his head was in severe pain, the oil lamp in the room was dim, he slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his eyes was Xu Ling's familiar face.

Dengshi's heart was shocked, "Xu Ling!?" How did you get out of jail! ”

Xu Ling stared at him intently, and when he was unconscious, he checked the furnishings in the room, and finally found dark blood stains in the corner of the pedal in front of the bed.

"Liu Niang was killed by you." Xu Ling said coldly.

For some reason, Wang Zhu only felt that Xu Ling tonight was not at all different from the usual appearance of a good old man, and he found that he was tied to the chair by the rope, and the more he moved the rope, the tighter it became, and the fear in his heart had risen to the top.

"I... I didn't mean to! That slut did a good thing for me, and wanted to reconcile with me, I didn't want to reconcile with her, but I accidentally slapped her! ”

Wang Zhu laboriously explained.

Xu Ling's expression darkened, and he was not far from what he guessed.

"The last question, where was Liu Niang buried by you?"

"Righteousness... Yizhuang. She hasn't been buried yet, I don't have any money, I think I'll bury her if I win the money, Xu Ling, you let me go, tomorrow I will go to the government and tell them that you have been wronged! ”

Xu Ling took a deep breath and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

It seems that Wang Zhu is addicted to gambling money and does not know what happened last night.

That's fine, a dead man doesn't need to know so much.