Hearing that Li Huowang didn't believe it, the salesman's face suddenly showed a hint of embarrassment.
"Then I also heard from the old man in the village. I heard that the ghost wanted to reincarnate, so he stole many children under the age of one, and because he had been in the underworld for a long time, he came to harm the eldest daughter of Huanghua." "That is to say, children have been lost in Cangshui County, and many women have been defiled, right?"
"Hey, that's right! Being a Taoist priest is really awesome. That sentence can speak louder than what I can say."
Li Huowang frowned. His children were stolen and women were defiled. If this was really the case, the local county magistrate should have sent arrestors to arrest the people instead of notifying the Supervisor. There must be something involved.
, this peddler doesn’t know.
Li Huowang swung the riding whip in his hand and hit the horse's buttocks, causing the carriage to start running immediately.
Just before the city gate was closed, Li Huowang finally arrived in Cangshui County. The gatekeeper saw the Supervisor Tiansi waist badge that Li Huowang took out, and hurriedly called for the arrester to escort Li Huowang to the county magistrate's house.
"Whoa, whoa, whoosh!" The messy footsteps sounded from beside Li Huowang from time to time.
Looking at the young men hurriedly passing by with torches from the carriage, Li Huowang asked the head catcher leading the horse: "Who are these people?"
The catcher cupped his fists with both hands and said, "I'm telling you! These are the vigilantes the county magistrate pulled out from the county! Nowadays, people in Cangshui County are panic-stricken and a curfew has been imposed. Anyone who dares to wander outside will be captured immediately!"
Li Huowang nodded clearly and said nothing.
"Ugh..." The unfamiliar environment seemed to make the steamed bun feel uneasy, and it kept pushing its big black nose towards Li Huowang's arms.
However, Li Huowangzi kept scanning the deserted streets, but found nothing unusual.
Soon, Li Huowang arrived at the Cangshui County Yamen. The county magistrate obviously knew that Li Huowang was coming, and he and a group of people were waiting at the door with the two big stone lions.
"I've seen you, sir!" As the magistrate in neat official uniform saluted, the master, county magistrate, chief minister and envoy behind him also bowed their heads and saluted at the same time.
Li Huowang looked at the county magistrate from under the carriage. He looked to be in his forties, a bit too short, and stood out among the crowd.
"Stop talking, let's go in. Business is important." Li Huowang said and walked in first, and the others quickly followed.
"Wow~wow~" the sound of flipping paper kept ringing in the hall, and a group of people bowed at the same time, carefully looking at Li Huowang who was flipping through the files.
When the tea on the table next to him stopped steaming, Li Huowang put down the thing in his hand. "Nine children were lost, and five yellow-flowered girls were defiled?"
The magistrate on the side quickly took a step forward. "I believe that the number of women who have been defiled is far more than this, just because they are too shy to report to the official, so..."
"Is that all? Is this the only thing?" Li Huowang's eyes were fixed on the magistrate's eyes.
A drop of cold sweat slipped from his forehead. He first arched his back toward Li Huowang, then turned to the others and said, "You all go down, Mr. Zhou, and have people surround the Yamen."
The clattering footsteps faded away, and only Li Huowang and Zhixian were left in the whole house.
"Xiaguan's surname is Lou. Although he is not from Cangshui County, Xiaguan's hometown is Jiangnan Road. As a parent official, seeing the people so frightened and uneasy makes my heart twist like a knife! I hope you can save the people from the fire and water.
!" Lou Zhixian, with tears in his eyes, knelt down to Li Huowang as he spoke.
This gift is a bit heavy. Judging from what happened last time, the magistrate and Li Huowang are not in a superior-subordinate relationship.
I just don’t know if what I said is true, or if I’m just pretending to show it to Li Huowang. “If you have something to tell me, besides these things, what else happened in Cangshui County.”
"There are still some thefts, but these things are insignificant! Sir, please take a look." As he spoke, Lou Zhixian took out a map from the table next to him and slowly unfolded it in front of Li Huowang.
This is a detailed map of the entire Jiangnan Road. Next to Jiangnan Road, there is Yinling City and Zongra Road where Niuxin Mountain is located.
There are six beams in total, some are big and some are small, Jiangnan Road is the smallest one.
"Sir, look." Lou Zhixian pointed to some small dots on the map with his finger, "This kind of thing doesn't just happen in Cangshui! There are fifteen counties in total including Pingcheng, Anshan and Panshui around Cangshui.
, the same thing happens!"
Li Huowang looked at the dots on the map, and he finally understood why Tuoba Danqing had to take action on such a trivial matter.
No matter how small things are, as long as they accumulate into many, they are no longer small things.
Li Huowang picked up the map and looked at it, "There are so many places, how many children will be lost?"
"There are fifty-seven people in total, and the number is still increasing. The lower officials have strict control. Cangshui County is not bad, but there are already some people in other places who are using this to cause trouble."
"What are you going to do with stealing children who are under the age of 10?" Thinking of what he had experienced in this world, he always felt that those children would end badly.
"Sir, I hope you can save the people from the fire and water!!" Lou Zhixian bowed his head deeply again.
"Don't worry, didn't you say that some women were defiled? Find them and let me take a look." Since these two things happened at the same time, it was natural to ask what was going on.
Soon a confused woman appeared in front of Li Huowang. However, when faced with Li Huowang's inquiry, the other party could not explain.
It’s unclear who defiled her or when. If her parents hadn’t discovered something was wrong, they probably wouldn’t have reported the crime if it had been her.
For a moment, Li Huowang felt like he had no idea what to do.
The so-called specialization in the art industry, Li Huowang is really not very good at this kind of thing.
"No, I may not be able to do anything about it."
Looking at the woman's leaving figure, Li Huowang thought for a while, took out the talisman book from his arms, flipped through it, and turned to look at Lou Zhixian aside, "Are there any bones here? A wider one."
Since Chen Xiazi said that this talisman can predict divination, maybe you can try it in this situation.
"Human... human bones?" Although he didn't know why, Lou Zhixian still ordered the arrester to look for it.
When the sky gradually turned pale, the human bones that Li Huowang wanted arrived. It was a skull.
"Sir, don't worry, they are definitely human bones, just dug out of mass graves." The detective who brought the skull looked flattering.
Li Huowang held it in his arms with one hand, pulled out the turmeric paper, bit open his fingertips with his mouth, and quickly scratched on it.
"I'm busy running around, the lunar calendar is impermanent, I'm following the order of taking photos, and I'm chasing divination to avoid famine!"
A copper coin was pressed against the skull along with the painted talisman, and with a crunching sound, the skull cracked with bone seams.
Li Huowang, with a solemn expression, looked at the cracks on his skull and began to interpret the hexagrams based on the records in the talisman book. "Well...this hexagram represents..."