Without waiting for Hong Tuo and his party to be shocked by the sudden appearance of the third corpse, the fourth, fifth, and sixth bodies were found one after another, the entire Jiankang City fell into a strange panic, and the people did not dare to go out easily even during the day, and they went out in groups of three or five, not to mention the night, and people were panicked for a while.

Di Gua is like an anomaly, under the inquiring sight of passers-by all the way to Beggar's Alley, there are still many beggars on the road outside Beggar's Alley, each of them occupying their own territory, sitting here numbly.

Digua's gaze wandered among the beggars, and finally stopped at an old man, who looked to be seventy or eighty years old, with cloudy eyes and a rickety body, not to mention the tattered clothes, which faintly revealed his skinny hands and feet.

After finding the target, Di Gu walked over and threw a copper coin into the bowl in front of the beggar, and the old beggar looked at him and said thank you uncle without any energy. Di Gua was not annoyed, got up and went to the nearby steamed bun shop with the door open, bought a few meat buns and walked back, squatting down in front of the old beggar under the eager gaze of the beggars around him.

The rich aroma of meat made the old beggar feel refreshed, and the eyes that looked at Di Gu were a little more flattering, Di Gu smiled and asked kindly, "Old man, can I ask you some questions?"

The old beggar looked at the buns, the meaning was obvious, Di Gua handed the buns to him, and watched the old beggar devour them, but he didn't eat them all, but left half of them carefully into his arms.

He also noticed the beggar eyes around him, and reminded kindly: "But if you have to take it well, don't be robbed." ”

The old beggar paused for a moment, hesitated for a moment, took it out again, and continued to eat it, and the sight around him gradually dissipated.

After filling his stomach, the old beggar was in a lot of spirits, and very politely asked Di Gua what he wanted to know.

Di Gua looked around: "How long have you been here, do you know every family and even every beggar here?"

Old beggar: "The old man has been asking for food here for nearly ten years, and every family knows it very well, and of course these ill-intentioned people also know. ”

"Then do you know that there are people in the neighborhood who have been lost recently?"

The old beggar is also shrewd, the biggest case in recent times is the heart-gouging case, it is not difficult to guess when Di Gua asks this, when he even said: "The official on the street did not stop in the middle of the night last night and early this morning, and now the identity of the second corpse has not been found, and now the third body has come out again, I am afraid that it will take some time to investigate......"

"Haven't found it yet? Are there any beggars in the neighborhood?"

The old beggar's cloudy eyes flashed with a gleam: there are indeed two young men who have disappeared recently, and there used to be, but they probably feel that they have a new place to go when they are young, and they don't care much, after all, they are beggars, and if they are gone, they will be gone, no one will report to the official, and the government will naturally not know ......"

Sure enough, the old beggar knew something, and Di Hexagram continued to ask, "When did those two beggars disappear?"

The old beggar squinted his eyes and thought, "One was about three or four days ago, and the other must be more than half a month old." ”

"When was the last time you saw them?"

"Half a month is too long, the old man can't remember clearly, and when he reacts, he hasn't seen him for several days, and the other one doesn't seem to be anything special, but he was not very diligent in begging during that time, and he often avoided us, and I don't know what a person is doing secretly......"

"You're saying he behaved a little erratically during that time?"

"We call him Monkey Baby, he is different from ordinary beggars, he has nothing to do some errands, so as to make money, he has always wanted to save money to buy a decent clothes, and then go to inns, taverns and teahouses to find a job, he seems to want to get rid of the identity of a beggar and live a normal life, so he is the most diligent among us, and he is indeed lazy in those days......"

"And what kind of person is the other one?"

"Another?" the old beggar scratched his head and thought for a long time: "Another old man, I heard others call him Ergouzi, I don't know the specific character, and he seems to be unwilling to be a beggar, but he didn't seem to have this idea at first, he was born in a beggar's nest since he was a child, and he has long been accustomed to begging for food to live, and he also began to help people run errands for a period of time before disappearing. ”

It sounds like these two people don't want to be beggars all the time, they are trying to live this normal life, it is not difficult to tempt them, and since they can run and lift, it means that their bodies are strong enough, and such people's hearts are also full of life.

Di Gua's heart was cold, these two beggars were probably killed, if this incident hadn't happened, maybe they would have finally lived a normal life through their own efforts, but unfortunately the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes.

Back at the inn, the little yellow bird didn't know where he went, Di Gua didn't care about the little yellow bird according to what Wu Gui said, and used a spell to pass on the news to Hong Tuo and the others.

Hong Kuo and the others, who received the news, were gathering around the table, and Ah Sheng was telling the other three about the news he had inquired about.

"This is what I heard outside the city lord's study, the second body is still unclaimed, and the third body is not from the Yang Mansion, the time of death is more than half a month, it is a man, about twenty years old, Master Yang said that he did not know, and suspected that it was done by the people in his own house, and the county order has sent people to surround the Yang Mansion and is interrogating them one by one. The fourth body was also found in the well in the backyard of a large family in the east of the city, and the lord of that family was a sensible person, and he personally went to the county government to report to the official, so the county government was also very face-saving and did not arrest him, but still surrounded his mansion and interrogated him one by one. The fifth body is still a male corpse in his twenties, but it has been dead for five or six years, and it was found in a dry well in an abandoned alley in the north of the city, and it is already a skeleton with bones, and nothing can be seen, and the sixth body is similar, it was found in a dry well in a deserted courtyard in the south of the city, and it has been dead for three or four years, and it is already rotten......"

Ah Lu was puzzled when he heard this: "How were these discovered, and how did you see that only the bones were left?"

Ah Sheng scratched his head: "It's weird to say, because after the first three bodies were found, the entire Jiankang City patrol was very strict, even the Jiankang City Lord also excluded the guards on his house, it is said that when patrolling to those two places, he heard a fierce dog barking, which made people feel uneasy, and many people nearby complained that the patrol officials had to go in to see, and the dog didn't see it as soon as he entered, but he saw a dry well, thinking of what happened recently, those officials didn't dare to take it lightly, and they stretched out their heads to the well to take a look, and found the corpse. ”