"This is the small fenced courtyard where the fake tax collector appeared in the tip?" Yutu sighed as he looked at the desolate surroundings.
"This is it." Tong Bo walked into the courtyard and saw the bodies of Xiaodou and two other little girls lying on the ground.
"The body has been rigor mortis. It has obviously been more than twelve hours since death." Tong Bo stood next to Xiaodou's body and examined it carefully: "Huh? This injury was not caused by the Black Eagle Blade?"
"Guard Tong, I see that this little girl's wound is in an arc from shallow to deep. It seems very similar to the weapon of the fake tax collector just now?" Yutu also looked at the other corpses.
"But this boy's wound is different? Jade Rabbit Guards, please take a look." Tong Bo pointed at the scar on Xiaodou's neck, which was like a small hole the size of a bean, and thought to himself: "And it seems that Wang Ma is missing. body?"
"It seems that this fake tax collector is not just one person?" Yutu closed the wide-eyed eyes of the children with his hands: "Guard Tong seems to have some knowledge of the skills of the fake tax collector he was fighting with."
"Bo Ye just made a guess after seeing his skills. It remains to be verified." Tong Bo deliberately avoided the topic: "Bo Ye wants to ask Guard Rabbit a question?"
"What's the problem?" Rabbit Guard looked at Tong Bo and blinked.
"What kind of person is Li Shu?" Tong Bo stood up, sighed softly, and stopped looking at these corpses.
"Why did Guard Tong ask about this person?" When Yutu heard Li Shu's name, a look of disgust appeared on his pretty face.
"Ha!" Tong Bo observed the words and immediately understood what Jade Rabbit meant: "It seems that this person's moral character is indeed not worthy of being the first of the twelve guards in the zodiac, so the possibility of him framing An Dafang is very high."
"I've also heard about the matter in Ye Mansion. It's fair to say that our chief security guard is blind, and he deserves to be reused." Yutu looked unhappy.
"I wonder what hobbies this Li Shu usually has, or who he is close to?" Tong Bo looked at Yumian's expression and shook his head helplessly.
"Hmph! I don't want to say more about this person. If Guard Tong is interested, you can go to Wujian Music Studio to inquire." After Yutu said this, he never mentioned this person again.
In a small cave three miles away from the fence courtyard, water drops were dripping from the top of the cave. There was no light in the dark space. Two men in tax collector's clothes were touching the firewood they had picked up in the dark. Gathered one by one.
"Pfft." One of the men gently hit a few with two black carbon stones, and a few sparks fell on the firewood pile, illuminating the cave.
"Brother, you said that the area west of Jinling City is so depressed and we can't gain much here, so we might as well go back early." The man who started the fire sat down next to the fire, took out two pieces of dried meat and skewered it with wooden sticks. Sprinkled with salt and roasted on fire.
"We will discuss this matter when the third child comes back." Another man sat cross-legged, threw the package on his back aside, and frowned: "Let the third child go get some water, why did it take so long?"
"Brother, it's not like you don't know what he is like? He's irritable, irritable, and lustful." The man turned the barbecue in his hand and evenly sprinkled the salt on the bottom of the dried meat: "I killed those few days ago. The child had an unexpected incident; Bao Qi met some beauty again today, and the romance went away happily."
"This third child is getting more and more outrageous." An angry look gradually appeared on the face of the cross-legged man: "Although we are not afraid of the government, there is no need to cause trouble everywhere."
"Big brother, second brother, little brother is back." While the two were carrying him, the burly man ran into the cave happily and sat down next to the barbecue man: "It smells so good! I happen to be hungry too, first. Let’s have some to satisfy our hunger.”
"Want to eat meat? Where's the water you got?" The barbecue man deliberately moved the two pieces of barbecue away from the burly man.
"Water?" The burly man smiled and touched his forehead: "Second brother, look at my memory, I actually forgot about fetching water?"
"Third brother, what on earth have you done?" The cross-legged man clenched his fist with a loud bang, and the anger on his face became even more intense.
"Eldest brother, calm down. The younger brother just met a beauty on the road and forgot about it." The burly man saw his elder brother getting angry, and his face changed with fright, and he quickly confessed: "You also know that the younger brother has not eaten meat for many days. "
"Brother, you see I'm right." The barbecue man added even more jealously after hearing this.
"This area to the west of Jinling City is so desolate. Where did the women come from?" The sharp eyes of the cross-legged man stared at the burly man almost to the point of leaving his body.
"It's true, brother! That woman is dressed in fancy clothes, and she doesn't look like an ordinary woman." The burly man was so frightened that he quickly begged for mercy: "Brother, please spare me this time."
"Third brother, did you succeed this time?" the barbecue man joked while eating the roasted dried meat.
"We were about to succeed, but it's a pity that Cheng Yaojin came out and rescued her halfway." The burly man suddenly slapped his forehead: "Brother! This man is very good at concealed weapons, and he can see my skills at a glance. Telling me where I came from, I think he probably came from there too."
"Fortunately, everything here has been sorted out. We'll leave immediately." The cross-legged man suddenly stood up from the ground, pointed at the burly man and cursed: "You bastard, I'll settle the score with you when I get back."
The hour had just arrived, and the birds on the branches were already chirping non-stop, and the guards of Xuanwu Courtyard were starting to change their shifts one after another. However, An Dafang was sleeping peacefully on the couch with his feet in the air, smelling heavily of alcohol.
"Brother Da Fang, get up." Liu Ningshi came to the courtyard where the head guard of Xuanwu Courtyard was staying early and knocked loudly on the wooden door of the hut.
"Sister Ningshi?" Huan Yu's voice came from behind: "Stop screaming. Chief An didn't come back until the fourth watch last night. I'm afraid I won't be able to wake her up."
"Hmph! What did Brother Da Fang do? Didn't we agree yesterday that we would go find Snow Horse and Jade Rabbit together today?" Liu Ningshi's face was full of displeasure: "How much did he and Brother Ren drink last night?"
"The Snow Horse Guard and the Jade Rabbit Guard have also gone out to perform their missions and have not returned. Is my sister afraid that the trip was in vain?" Huan Yu pulled Liu Ningshi's arm: "Although Guard Tong repeatedly told us not to talk about this matter for the time being, Yu'er I still feel that I shouldn’t hide it from my sister.”
"Huh? What happened?"
"Sister and Yu'er will find out when they come."
The two of them walked towards Huan Yu's room.
"Yu'er, why are you here?" Yu'er had put on a pink silk shirt at this time, and her hair was combed into a high bun; she was seen leaning on the table, holding the wolf hair in her hand attentively. The pen is a copy of the elegant calligraphy of Zhang Henyun, a famous contemporary artist.
When Yu'er saw Liu Ningshi, she quickly dropped her pen, ran over and hugged Liu Ningshi, with tears welling up in her eyes: "Sister Ningshi, Yu'er misses you so much."
"Sister Ningshi, except Yu'er, Wang Ma and the other children were killed by those fake tax collectors." Huan Yu looked at Yu'er holding Liu Ningshi, and his own eyes became a little moist.
"Yu'er, is what Yu'er said true?" When Liu Ningshi heard the bad news, her body was shaken, and the blood in her body seemed to have solidified.
"Sister Ningshi, Yu'er was not discovered by those people when she hid in the thatch behind the house?" Yu'er sobbed softly: "If Brother Xiangyun hadn't saved me later, I'm afraid Yu'er would never see her again in this life. No more sister."
"Xiao Tudou, my sister promised to teach you phantom footwork next time we meet, but I didn't expect that it would be the last time we met." Liu Ningshi looked up at the ceiling, trying hard not to shed tears: "Wang Ma, Xiao Tudou, also With Hong'er and Qing'er, my sister will definitely avenge you."
"Sister Ningshi, if you want to cry, just cry. Don't hold yourself back." Huan Yu gently pulled up Liu Ningshi.
"Yu'er, Yu'er! Don't worry, Ning Shi is fine." Liu Ningshi recovered, gently stroked Yu'er's hair, and smiled at Huan Yu: "Yu'er, please take care of Yu'er. It’s been a while.”
"Sister Ningshi, where are you going?" Huan Yu saw that Liu Ningshi not only did not cry, but instead smiled, he felt uneasy and grabbed her right hand: "Those fake tax collectors don't even let the elderly and children go. , so cruel, I wouldn’t trust you to investigate alone.”
"Yu'er, don't worry, Ning Shi will meet with brother Xiang Yun first before making any plans." Liu Ningshi gently patted Huan Yu's hand with her left hand, then shook off Yu'er's hands and rushed out of the door.
"Sister Yu, sister Ningshi, don't worry; Yu'er really wants to grow up quickly so that she can share the worries of her sisters." Yu'er looked at Huan Yu innocently.
"Yu'er, be good. Sister Ningshi will be fine." Huan Yu calmed down and said, "We can't count on An Dafang. By the way! Guard Tong once said that he can be used to stay in case of emergency. Thousands of miles of sound transmission to deliver the news."
Liu Ningshi walked for nearly two hours before An Dafang stretched and yawned and walked out of the house: "Huh? Ningshi should have said that they would check on the snow horse and the jade rabbit together today, but why are they missing?"
"Who's coming?" An Dafang shouted loudly.
After a while, a Xuanwu guard trotted up to An Dafang, cupped his fists and said, "I wonder what Chief An's orders are?"
"Has Miss Liu been here today?" An Dafang shook his slightly aching head with both hands and kept turning his neck.
"Miss Liu was here before, but she was called away by Miss Huan Yu later." The guard reported to An Da Fang truthfully.
"Hmph! What the hell is this Huan Yu doing? Ning Shi came to see me, why should she interfere." An Dafang said angrily.
"Report!" Another Xuanwu guard trotted up to An Dafang, cupped his hands and said, "Chief Protector, there is a Zhou Litigator who wants to see you."
"Master Zhou? Which Master Zhou?" An Dafang could not think of anything else besides Liu Ningshi at this time.
"He said that he defended you in the Tingwei Hall that day." Xuanwu guard conveyed Zhou Ling's words truthfully.
"Oh! I remembered that something like this happened. Please invite him in." An Dafang ordered another guard: "Go and get some water, wine and food. I want to thank him properly."
