Regardless of whether there is any treasure in the longevity lock, it belongs to the Tao family. We are just gossiping and hearing about it. In the future, when Tao Abao grows up, he will have his own ideas and decisions.
On the contrary, I am more interested in Tao Wuye, who was very wary of people day and night after he returned to his hometown.
I was also a victim of the great calamity of Yuancheng. How could I have the time to see what was happening in the various sects, sects, and shops in the city?
The Wanbo Guard Bureau took the order but did not deliver it. It was equivalent to the food delivery boy returning home with the customer's lunch box.
With his character, it is impossible to do such a thing.
There must be a hidden secret in this, and it may be the reason why he was brought to ruin.
When the guard Jia Baoguan came back, it was already dark. He looked bad and was holding back his anger.
"What's wrong?"
When he entered the hospital, he first drank a ladle of cold water and sat down on the small bench angrily.
The old couple had just finished dinner. I saw that their family was not rich in food, so I only asked Tao Abao to join in for a few bites. I assumed that I had the habit of not eating after lunch, so I didn't eat dinner.
"These people are so abominable!" Guard Jia clapped his fingers and made a crackling sound with his joints, as if he was preparing to punch someone.
"People from the government?"
"Who else could it be? I reported the crime with good intentions, but they were lucky. They went to Taojia Village and couldn't find the murderer. They actually wanted to arrest me and hold me in prison to confess. How can I bear this? I beat them up and ran away."
"Then I'm afraid... you're absconding out of fear of crime." If the government wanted to catch someone at random and beat him into committing crimes and admit the crime of massacring the village, then if he ran away, he would definitely be absconding out of fear of crime.
"Don't run away? Is it possible for them to arrest me and put me in jail to serve my sentence? I'm not stupid. They don't care about the truth at all."
"It's not that I don't care, it's probably that I don't dare." I had learned about the public security situation in Huacheng before coming here. From the city to the countryside, I have never heard of any local/official being so ignorant.
Although we make small mistakes, we dare not make big mistakes.
Guard Jia said to report to the government, but the old couple didn't stop him. Apparently they still trusted the government.
For such a big thing as the massacre of a village, the witnesses were arrested and confessed without any investigation. How eager was it to close the case?
According to the description of the guard Jia, the murderers were very professional, one at a time, just to kill, not like a vendetta.
Among the children, the one with Heartbreaker died the least painfully.
The nurses, servants, and servants of Tao Wuye's family also died in the same way, no different from the villagers.
Tao Wuye himself had exhausted his internal strength and took poison. He probably had not fought with anyone before his death.
The murderer plowed through all the rooms and land in the Tao family.
Obviously looking for something.
Generally speaking, the government does not care about armed fights between rival families or sects.
The government officials should have noticed that this was not an ordinary case of family extermination.
It’s not surprising that the government refuses to take care of it.
If you can kill Tao Wuye, a man with a whole family of general bodyguards, how difficult is it to kill the official and his family?
Whether the superiors are in charge or not, whether the city lord is willing to become an enemy of the martial arts forces and is determined to find the murderer is a matter of course. No one wants to be the one who dies first.
Similar incidents often occurred before the collapse of Yuancheng. At that time, Yuancheng had people who were responsible for these cases, and local governments did not need to intervene.
Now that Yuancheng has collapsed, the martial arts alliance has disbanded, and the departments responsible for such cases have also been withdrawn. If such an incident occurs again, whether the government will take care of it depends on the personal choice of local officials.
"The people of the Jianghu are responsible for the affairs of the Jianghu." Guard Jia said this boldly.
I glanced at him sideways: "It's not a big deal to watch the fun."
He also wants to take care of the matter of annihilating the whole family and massacring the village. I think he doesn’t know the limits of the world.
The old man didn't know our identities and thought that the guard Jia was young and energetic, so he followed and advised: "Yes, young man, those gangsters are not easy to catch. They are different from ordinary bandits and water bandits. The officers and soldiers are afraid of them, let alone us ordinary people. Thousands of people are afraid of them." Don’t ever get into trouble.”
"Old man, I'm just saying, I don't have the courage and ability. It's just a pity for a hero like Tao Wuye."
"Yes, in this small place like ours, no one can emerge in hundreds of years. It's a pity..."
If the government didn't care, there was no need for us to stay. We stayed at the old man's house for one night and left early the next morning.
There are no welfare homes in this world. If a child loses all his relatives, he can only live on the streets as a beggar, or he will be abducted by others and sold to an unknown place.
No matter which way out, Tao Abao's silver collar may not be saved.
"It's considered a homeless situation anywhere, why not let this little guy live on a deserted island." Guard Jia looked at me expectantly and said.
"The killer didn't find what they were looking for. If I'm not wrong, Tao Wuye may have hidden the secret with him. Taking him back to the island means bringing him into trouble at any time, which will attract a group of killers."
"Can you find me?"
"There is no airtight wall under the sky."
"What kind of secret can such a young child keep? He doesn't know martial arts, and he can't speak well. I think Tao Wuye committed suicide just to take the secret into the ground. As for this little baby, he should be lucky enough to survive. It's really pitiful. where."
With Tao Abao here, our plan to go to the countryside has been temporarily cancelled.
The Tao family was wiped out, and Tao Abao's parents were killed as early as the Yuancheng catastrophe.
It would take some time to find his relatives.
Of the eight brothers Tao Wuye, only five and eight lived past the age of twenty.
Tao Wuye also has a younger brother, Tao Laoba. The fifth master is dedicated to his career, but his younger brother is dedicated to playing.
The two brothers had different views and separated early to live alone.
Tao Laoba is ten years younger than Tao Wuye. As long as he doesn't play too much and overdraw his life in advance, he should still be alive today.
At that time, people said that Tao Laoba was more talented in martial arts than his seven brothers, but he just didn't like to practice martial arts, and practicing martial arts seemed to cost him his life.
After being beaten and scolded, he refused to practice martial arts or work in the escort agency. Tao Wuye had no choice but to let him go.
Although Tao Laoba doesn't like to practice martial arts, he loves magic. With a few magic tricks he is good at, he has performed in palaces in various countries and performed for many kings and queen mothers.
The original boss saw Tao Laoba's performance in the palace when he was a child. Because it has nothing to do with court affairs or Jianghu affairs, the original person remembers such a thing and such a person, but he usually doesn't think of it specifically.
Tao Laoba's nickname in the magic world is "Yungong Immortal". He can use illusions to create images of the heavenly palace, and he can also fly up there.
Later, during a performance, he fell from the sky. Although his life was saved, his legs were broken and he quit the magic stage. No one knows where he went.
"In this case, it's too difficult to find Tao Baye. It's better to send Tao Qi'er back to the island to raise him first."
I saw that the guard Jia really liked this little Tao Qi, and even called him by his nickname.
Maybe they were destined, so they didn't stop him anymore and asked him to take Tao Abao back. It doesn't take two people to give birth to a child together.
However, the situation was far more serious than I thought. We stayed at a country inn and planned to stay one night before they set off back to the island tomorrow.
As a result, someone broke into the inn in the middle of the night, found Room A and Room B where we were staying, and blew smoke into the room through the crack in the door.
(End of chapter)
