In the dark sewer, Lu Wu held a torch and stepped on the mud, endured the stench of smoke, and walked slowly forward. There were also a series of yamen runners behind him. Whenever he arrived at a fork in the road, he would separate two yamen runners and mark the intersection at the same time so that he would not be able to find the way back.

"Brother Wu, you can't leave anymore. The torches we brought are going to run out!" At this moment, a yamen runner behind Lu Wu advised him that they had been walking in the sewer for most of the day, and the torches they brought were getting less and less, but they had no gains at all, which made everyone a little depressed.

When Lu Wu heard this, hesitated for a moment before finally ordering: "Retreat!"

With Lu Wu's order, the yamen runners behind him breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the sewer was stuffy and smelly. If it weren't for the investigation of the case, they wouldn't be willing to come down to death. After this day, they felt that their whole body was stenched and their noses were numb. They might not even be able to eat when they returned.

The team of Lu Wu and his team began to return, and the yamen runners who had gone for a fork in the road had already returned because they brought fewer torches and usually started to go back before they were used up. After all, the drainage route is complicated and there is no light. If they lost their direction without the torches, they might have to die inside.

After everyone gathered, Lu Wu called out the number of people again and found that there were not many people to be relieved. Then he asked about the situation of each team. As a result, everyone shook their heads together, and they did not find anything at all. This made Lu Wu curse again and then took people out of the sewer.

"Did you find someone at Lu Bantu?" As soon as Lu Wu came out, a middle-aged man rushed up with red eyes and asked, his face full of hope and despair. This is the entrance of an alley, surrounded by residents living in this alley, and the middle-aged man in front of him was the victim of the case.

Although Lu Wu did not want to disappoint the other party, he shook his head powerlessly. As a result, the old man cried bitterly on the spot. A middle-aged woman behind him fainted on the ground with a "bang". When the people around him woke her up in a hurry, the other party cried "son". The crying sounded throughout the alley, and many people watched them burst into tears, and many people even called the ghost beggars not humans.

It turned out that in the past few days, there were many cases of missing children and women in Tokyo, several of which occurred in Xiangfu County. As the head of the group, Lu Wu was naturally responsible for such cases. He quickly found out that these missing children and women were all plundered by ghost beggars in the sewer. For example, today, a boy was dragged into the sewer by ghost beggars under the nose of someone else.

"Damn the ghost beggar!" Lu Wu cursed again at this time. He was running around for the case of the ghost beggar plundering these days, but in the end he found nothing. This made him doubt his ability. But he couldn't blame him. After all, those ghost beggars were elusive. By the time the incident happened, they had already run away along the sewer and could not find it.

"Go back to the yamen!" Lu Wu didn't want to stay here and watch the mistress crying and ordered again. His yamen runners were also exhausted. When they first came out, they all sat on the ground. Now they heard Lu Wu's orders and stood up weakly.

"Brother Wu, are our car and horse money not collected yet?" But at this moment, a yamen runner suddenly came to Lu Wu and whispered. The wages of the yamen runners are very low. If they rely solely on the little money in the yamen, they may all starve to death. Therefore, when they handle cases outside, they will charge the yamen runners, including travel expenses, food and accommodation, etc., which is also the main income of the ancient yamen runners.

"Get out, you see, they are all crying like this, how can you be embarrassed to collect money?" Lu Wu cursed angrily when he heard this. Today, the victim couple is over forty years old. They have given birth to four of them before. They have finally had a son a few years ago, but now the only son in the family has been snatched away by the ghost beggar. The two of them are almost dying. Anyway, Lu Wu really can't bear to ask for money.

After being scolded by Lu Wu, no one dared to ask for money anymore. Then they all followed Lu Wu silently to go back to the yamen. However, halfway through, Lu Wu said that he had something to leave and asked the remaining yamen runners to go back to the yamen themselves.

It was getting late at this time. After Lu Wu left the yamen runners, he immediately walked through the streets quickly and finally came to the restaurant last time. When he climbed to the box on the second floor, Luo Chongxun was already waiting for him inside.

"You can't fall into the toilet, why are you so smelly?" As soon as Lu Wu came in, Luo Chongxun immediately covered his nose and said.

"You try to drill in the sewer for a day!" Lu Wu said angrily. Then he was not polite, and sat down and started eating. Every time Luo Chongxun came, he would order a table of dishes, which he liked. As the head of the class, Lu Wu didn't earn much money and often pointed to this tooth-beating ceremony.

"Okay, why are you doing drilling into the sewer?" Luo Chongxun stood up and opened the window next to him for a breathing passage.

"The ghost beggars underground are so rampant during this period. More than a dozen cases of children and women being robbed. Today, another child was robbed. We people are following their butts every day, but we didn't even see a ghost shadow!" Lu Wu said angrily at this time. In fact, this kind of ghost beggar robbery happens every year, which is why he hates ghost beggars so much.

"It turned out to be because of the ghost beggar, but let alone you, a few days ago, a palace maid disappeared in the palace. Later, I found out that it was a sewer iron fence that was sawed open. This palace maid was still a person next to Concubine Shu, so she was accused of the empress. Now the empress was furious and let the imperial guards enter the sewer to search for people that night. In the end, there was nothing to find, so she could only strengthen the sewer fence again." Luo Chongxun whispered in a low voice. Because this matter was a scandal in the palace, the palace also issued a closure order, and few people outside knew about it.

"Even they dare to break in the palace, isn't the court unwilling to make up their minds to completely eliminate those ghost beggars?" Lu Wu said annoyed again when he heard this. He could no longer bear these ghost beggars, but he had no choice. After all, he was a small team leader, and at most he could use dozens of people under his command. He couldn't hear the sound of throwing this person into the sewer.

"Of course the imperial court wants to take care of it. In fact, someone submitted a memorandum a few days ago, hoping that the imperial court would send troops to clear out the ghost beggars underground. However, Tokyo City is so big, the underground waterways are well connected, especially those drainage ditches built to prevent floods, which can lead to the outside of the city. If you want to completely clear out such a large place, it is impossible to have 40,000 or 50,000 troops."

Luo Chongxun paused and then said, "The army will spend money when it moves. You know that because of the great troubles over the years, the treasury has been empty, so the court cannot afford to pay. In addition, even if the army is sent down, the ghost beggars can escape to the ground and hide. When the limelight passes, they will still go underground to be ghost beggars, and they will kill them endlessly, so in the end the empress did not agree."

The words "It's so noisy" in Luo Chongxun actually mean that Zhao Heng's Heavenly Book Movement, which has been in the forum for Fengshan over the years, has exhausted all the treasury. Now the Song Dynasty is rich on the surface, but in fact it is so poor that it has become a pants.

When Lu Wu heard this, he was so angry that he slapped the table, but in the end he could only sigh powerlessly. He had been practicing martial arts since he was a child. He once naively thought that everything in the world could be solved with fists, but later he slowly discovered that there were too many things in the world that could not be solved by force. He even learned a lot of martial arts, but he didn't even have a place to perform. In the end, he could only stay in a small county government office.

"Okay, don't be too frustrated. The ghost beggar is like a stubborn disease in Tokyo. There is no way for even the nobles in the court to do anything. Why bother with this?" Luo Chongxun patted Lu Wu's shoulder and comforted him. Although he was a big eunuch in the palace, he was intrigue everywhere in the palace. Usually he didn't even have a person to tell the truth. Instead, Lu Wu had no interest in him. In addition, his personal relationship was very good, so he rarely showed some true feelings at this time.

"I've told you a good thing. The Empress has already said that we will find an excuse to disclose the identity of the father and son of the Li family in a while, and then we will grant them an official position. You don't have to stay in the yamen anymore and worry about these things!" Luo Chongxun suddenly thought of something and said with a smile on his face.

"This..." Lu Wu immediately raised his head when he heard Luo Chongxun's words, and then showed a deep expression of thought. After a while, he said in a deep voice, "Have the Empress said the exact time, what position will be arranged for the Li family and his son?"

"I'm not here, but I guess it's only been in the past or two months. Although I didn't say anything about the official position, I should have no idle positions with real power. After all, the relatives of our Song Dynasty arranged this way."

When Luo Chongxun said this, he suddenly thought of something again, and said again, "By the way, the last time Dangxiang Xizhu was arrested, it was actually related to the father and son of the Li family. The empress already knew about this, and even praised that little sentence."

"Well, he was also lucky. No one expected that the rented yard was actually built by Dang Xiang's detailed work. He accidentally discovered the military deployment map, which made some contributions." Lu Wu seemed unwilling to let Li Zhang attract too much attention, so he tried his best to reduce the connection between Li Zhang and this matter.
Chapter completed!