Because as colleagues who are good friends on weekdays, they have helped find it together, so they know.

Lu Bai's heart moved, "Oh? Do you want to help His Highness Qingxin drill a hole so that the child can be exchanged?"

The artisan nodded.

"What about the others? The other children who were taken away by the ogre won't be able to come back?" Lu Bai asked.

Now he became suspicious, wondering if the ogre and the person who kidnapped the craftsman's child were not in the same group, or the ogre itself was a monster?

Li San shook his head, "I didn't hear that it could be retrieved before, but there is a theory in the past few years."

"What do you say?"

Li San first told Lu Bai that he didn't know if the legend was true, but he just inquired about the news vaguely when he was helping his companion find the child.

"The son was taken away by the ogre. As long as you sacrifice four children, you can exchange your own children." Li San said.

Chapter 426

"What!" Lu Bai was startled.

With such a thing, isn't this going to cause chaos in the world?

Lu Bai felt more and more that the water was getting muddy. The immoral idea of ​​just exchanging these four for one was similar to the pyramid schemes he had seen in his previous life, and it was even more ruthless. If we all do this, sooner or later the world will be messed up.

"When did this rumor come out?" Lu Bai felt that if the rumor was true, it was definitely not as simple as an ogre causing trouble. There were at least other tricks in it, and nine out of ten it was done by people in the palace.

Li San shook his head, they didn't know either.

Lu Bai secretly wrote it down, and decided to go back and check it out.

If this rumor is widely spread, it must be put into practice. If it is successful, Lu Bai can follow the clues.

As for going back and checking it out?

Lu Bai believes that if this rumor is true, as long as there are many involved, there will be a record. Lu Bai does not believe that all those who kidnap and traffic children to exchange their own children will do it flawlessly.

Thinking of this, Lu Bai and the others quickly arrived at the southern suburbs of the city.

There is a river in the southern outskirts of the city, drawn from the Ningjiang River, which serves as a moat and also irrigates the fields in the southern outskirts.

Because of this river, the southern suburbs of the city are very prosperous, and there are many shops along the street.

When he walked to Luogu Lane again, Lu Bai saw many people around the entrance of the alley, and Hu Wanwan's heartbreaking cry came from inside, which made people cry.

The people in the alley whispered, feeling sorry for Hu Wanwan, but also terrified.

When Lu Bai came to inquire about the news, the servant was also at the alley.

Seeing Lu Bai approaching, he shrank subconsciously - he thought Lu Bai was the murderer, because Lu Bai was the last person who inquired about Hu Wanwan's house and entered his house.

The boy was hesitating whether to tell the government or not, but when he thought about Lu Bai's identity, he thought it would be better if he rotted in his stomach.

"Hey, brother, come here." Lu Bai waved to him.

The boy became more and more panicked, he thought that Lu Bai was going to kill someone to silence him.

"Why are you hiding? Master Ben is the Jinyiwei who investigates the case. I didn't do anything to his family. I saved Hu Wanwan's life!" Lu Bai was helpless.

He asked the craftsman to pull the boy over, and said: "After Hu Wanwan calms down, you tell him that if you want to take revenge, come to Li San's house to find me."

The boy just nodded.

Lu Bai led Li San away.

Li San's home is not far from Luogu Lane, at the entrance of an alley directly opposite a stone bridge. As soon as they returned to the alley, an old woman sitting at the door in the alley greeted her, "Li San, Li San, hurry back Go home, your child is lost!"

Although Li San already knew the news, when he heard that it really happened, he still let out an "ah".

The old woman said: "We all searched inside and out, but we didn't find your baby. Your wife is almost crying her eyes out now."

Li San froze for a moment, then thought of Lu Bai next to him.

The powerful Marquis is now his only hope.

Lu Bai nodded slightly, "Go to your wife first, and find out how the child was lost."

"Yes, yes." Li San hurriedly led the way.

His body was trembling now, so much so that he almost fell while walking on the flat ground. When he entered the door, Li San's daughter-in-law was crying feebly from the room.

"Damn it, why did you lose the child?" Li San ran in anxiously.

He was still waiting for Lu Bai to find out the clues and bring the child back in time.

Li San's wife was already crying so weakly that her heart was broken, but when she saw Li San, she didn't know where the strength came from, so she cried loudly again: "You god damn it, you are finally back, Baner throw No, I'm not alive anymore."

Then there was another cry.

Li San was worried, and shouted: "Don't cry, tell me quickly, why did you lose the child!"

Mrs. Li San was bursting with tears, but when he yelled at her like this, she immediately held back and hiccupped, and then cried out choked up.

The sky is still gloomy today, and there is a drizzle that is about to boil people down.

Mrs. Li San was busy mending clothes, but her child, Baner, was disobedient and yelled to go outside to play

The ogre demons flooded the southern suburbs of the city a while ago, and many families lost their children. Although there are fewer of them now, those who have children dare not take it lightly. Naturally, Ban'er is not allowed to go out to play.

Ban'er was not happy, so he started crying at home.

Mrs. Li San was annoyed by his crying, and the boy who sold dried fruit happened to be shouting outside, so Mrs. Li San took out a few pennies to buy a portion of fruit for Baner, and asked Baner to sit in front of the threshold to eat.

Ban'er sat in front of the door, looking at the street, pinched the dried fruit with his fingers, first took a bite in his mouth, waited until the sweetness was almost gone, and then ate it up, then sucked his finger again, and sucked up the sweetness on his fingers , and then began to eat the next one.

Mrs. Li San was sitting in the pavilion in the yard watching him, and she was relieved to see that Baner was eating with peace of mind.

It happened that the thread she was sewing in her hand was gone, so she put down the basket, and wanted to go back to the house to get the ball of thread when the board was safe, but just entered the house, before she got the ball of thread, she heard someone screaming outside. He shouted loudly: "Ban'er, ghost! Ghost——"

It was the voice of the neighbor's wife.

Mrs. Li San ran out in a hurry, and saw the concubine rushing to the other exit of the alley, shouting and waving her hands, but a black shadow flashed at the entrance of the alley, she didn't see clearly what it was.

"It looks like a big black dog." Mrs. Li San added, crying.

When she chased to the entrance of the alley, the thing had long since disappeared, and the housekeeper was also leaning against the wall outside the alley panting, her face full of horror.

Outside the alley is a field, there are almost people here and there, and it is spring when the grass is near but there is no one. There is no way to hide people in the field, but Mrs. Li San hasn't seen her child after searching for a long time.

She also searched separately from the neighbors who heard the movement for a long time, but she didn't find any trace.

Li San took out a shoe from his pocket, "These shoes the child wore when the accident happened?"

These are a pair of red cloth shoes with a silly tiger head embroidered on them.

Mrs. Li San saw it and snatched it over, "Yes, that's right, these are the shoes. He clamored to wear this new pair of shoes yesterday, so I changed them for him."

This pair of shoes was bought by Li San and Mrs. Li San when they were shopping with their children.

Li San had almost finished asking, and looked back at Lu Bai.

Lu Bai pondered for a while and asked, "Who is the housewife?"

The old woman who was waiting for them in the alley came up and looked at Lu Bai timidly, "I, I am the housewife."

Lu Bai measured her up and down, and saw that the old lady was tidied up, her body was straight and straight, she really looked like a door panel, no wonder she was called a housewife.

Chapter 427 An acquaintance commits a crime

The housewife tidied up very cleanly and looked very energetic.

It's just that the years have left deep marks on her face, and a layer of age spots has been applied on her face, so that even if she tries to stand upright, she still looks a little dying.

Lu Bai smiled at the doormaid.

He led the sect into the alley, looked left and right, and saw that Li San's family was in the middle of the alley, almost close to the entrance of the market on the left and the alley of the fields on the right.

"How did you find out that Ban'er was arrested?" Lu Bai asked while looking around for traces.

This alley is in the southern suburbs.

Although the outside of the city is very prosperous, it is outside the city after all, the streets are paved with dirt, and now it is muddy when it rains, there are puddles, there are mud pits, and there are large and small footprints on the wet and soft soil.

Although some dust was placed on it, it was of no use.

"Ah, I saw it when I went out to pour water." The doormaid said in a very strange tone, like a frightened old hen, when she spoke, she was shocked and frustrating.

Her home is diagonally opposite Li San's house, near the alley of the market.

The doormaid said as she walked to the front of her house, gesturing to splash water.

"As soon as I came out, I saw a big black dog running past the door. I wondered what it was. When I came out, I saw the monster grabbing the board in its mouth and running out the other side. .” Said the doormaid.

There was excitement in her eyes as she spoke, and a trace of sadness on her face.

"I dropped the pot and chased after him." The lady-in-law ran past Lu Bai.

"But the monster ran too fast, and it reached the entrance of the alley in the blink of an eye. When I got to the entrance of the alley to look, the monster had disappeared." The door lady turned back with a look of regret.

Lu Bai pondered for a while, "So, after you left the alley, you didn't even see where the ogre went?"

The door lady nodded, "This eater is haunted by ghosts, it's too evil."

After she finished speaking, she clapped her hands together and let out a long sigh, "Master, to tell you the truth, I tried my best to chase after this ogre. To tell the truth, I really wanted to catch him, my godson's son!" It was captured by the ogre three years ago."

Then, the housewife scolded the ogre, "This damn bastard has killed countless people and ruined many families. Why doesn't God take this disaster away?"

Lu Bai ignored her.

He walked slowly towards the entrance of the alley near the field.

When he was halfway there, he turned his head and asked the concubine, "Where did you go, that ogre went out of the alley and disappeared from your field of vision?"

The doormaid hesitated for a moment before saying: "Just, when his mother Ban'er went out and saw me."

Lu Bai understood.

He glanced out of the alley again, and turned to greet the doormaid. After she came over, Lu Bai asked her where she saw Ban'er's shoes.

The doormaid hurriedly pointed to a piece of ground on the left, "It's right next to the mud pit."

Lu Bai has nothing to ask now.

He just bent down to look left and right, then bent down to carefully examine the footprints on the ground, and returned to Li San's home the same way.

The doormaid asked curiously: "Young master, you, are you from the yamen?"

Lu Bai chuckled, straightened up and clapped his hands, "I'm from Jinyiwei."

Snapped!

The gatekeeper's face changed drastically in fright, and she took a step back and stepped into the mud puddle.

Lu Bai smiled at her, "Are you scared?"

The concubine was at a loss and was trembling, not knowing where to put her hands for a while, "Well, my lord, stop talking and joking, Jin, Jin Yiwei, no one is afraid."

Lu Bai nodded, "It makes sense."

He stood at Li San's door and called Li San to bring him a bowl of water. Before Li San agreed, he walked into Li San's house, "Hurry up..."

Before the words fell, his body shook.

The housewife only felt a shadow disappear, and thought she was hallucinating, so she rubbed her eyes involuntarily.

However, Li San had seen Lu Bai's supernatural powers, and couldn't help opening his eyes wide in the courtyard.

Then, the doormaid saw a ghost, saw Lu Bai holding a dagger in his hand, put it on the neck of a man in a green cloth shirt, and escorted the man into the alley from the adjacent market.

The doormaid hurriedly looked inside Li San's door, and saw that there was also Lu Bai there, waving to him.

"Ghost, ghost!" the gatekeeper yelled in fright.

Lu Bai escorted the driver and drove the carriage to the doormaid. He ignored the doormaid and asked Li San, "Who is this driver? Do you recognize him?"

Li San looked anxious, and shook his head after glancing at the driver: "No, I don't know him."

"What about you?" Lu Bai asked the housekeeper again.

There was a little panic on the doormaid's face, but she shook her head.

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