No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

Li Erlang and others hurried home, hoping that everything would be safe at home.

Li Erlang opened the door and everyone rushed into the yard. Sure enough, they saw three unconscious men lying in the yard, their hands and feet were tightly tied.

Muramasa stepped forward to check and found that the three people had suffered varying degrees of injuries. The most serious one had a bloody hole in his head, and blood flowed all over the floor. It looked a bit horrifying, and the murder weapon that injured them like this ——The clothes-pounding stick, with blood stains on one end, was thrown aside.

The yard was in a mess, and it was obvious that there had been a scuffle. The water and clothes in the laundry tub were scattered all over the floor, and there were large dark stains on the dirt, which seemed not to be all water.

Li Erlang looked toward the study along the water stains. When he was confused, he suppressed his panic and chose to wait and see.

Muramasa checked the breathing of these people and found that they were still alive. The person with the wound on the forehead was seriously injured and might be life-threatening. But if they are really all thieves, even if they are beaten to death, they will still be innocent. No one will say anything, and there will be no legal prosecution.

Muramasa was only sixty years old. Due to the war, he suffered very serious injuries on his face, leaving several deep scars. The most serious one went from his lips to below his ears. A straight face could stop the child from crying at night. He He calmly gave the order: "I have notified others to go home quickly to check, and also sent people to the county government to report the case."

Muramasa looked at Xu Qing sharply: "Ms. Li Xu, tell me the whole story carefully."

Xu Qing was in shock, her hands were clasped in front of her belly, her eyebrows were lowered, and her eyelashes were trembling slightly: "Yes. After my family all went out, I saw the sunshine was shining brightly, so I took out all the bedspreads and beddings at home to dry and wash them, and was busy working on them. When I was working inside, three thieves suddenly jumped out, and they seemed to be coming from the backyard. They tried to break open the door of my grain house, but they couldn't, so they forced me to hand over the key to the grain house, but I didn't have the key at all. I handed over the money, and I had to obey to save my life.

Xu Qing took a breath and continued: "I never thought that they would quarrel when they were dividing the spoils on the spot, accuse each other, and get into a fight, and I had the chance to escape. I didn't expect that there was a person squatting on the lookout outside the yard, and I heard the three of them dividing the spoils. But without thinking about him, he ran in angrily and the four of them started fighting in the courtyard."

As Xu Qing said, Muramasa sent someone to check, and it turned out that things were exactly as Xu Qing said.

"There was a wedding happening in the village, and I didn't dare to disturb it, so I hid in a haystack not far from the courtyard. I didn't dare to come back until there was no movement in the courtyard. When I came back, I saw the three of them lying on the ground. One person is missing." Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Muramasa didn't seem suspicious.

No one knew that her back was completely wet.

Muramasa stroked his beard and thought about it. The scene was exactly as she said. There were messy fresh footprints at the base of the wall outside the courtyard, and there were traces of new work on the courtyard wall and the locks of the granary.

The most convincing thing is that the injuries on the three thieves were not something that a weak woman could inflict, so there must be someone else who injured them.

Xu Qing continued to elaborate: "I was afraid that they would wake up and run away, so I tied up the three of them with hemp ropes. When hesitating, I remembered that they had said that they took advantage of a banquet in the village and no one was at home. There were people who came in and stole from the wall. I thought it was not just our family that had trouble, so I mustered up the courage to go to the village to look for Aweng." After she said what she needed to say, she stepped back so that she would not be so conspicuous in the crowd.

While everyone was waiting for the official in the yard, Li Erlang stood up and said, "Muramasa, I have something to puzzle over."

Muramasa: "Oh? Tell me what you don't understand."

"I don't think these three people are from this village. Can Muramasa recognize them? Maybe they are from a nearby village?"

Muramasa shook his head with certainty: "They are not villagers from any village near us. I am afraid they are soldiers who fled and fled here to commit crimes."

This is what Li Erlang was waiting for: "If that's the case, how do they know that there is no one in my home? How do they know that there is a wedding banquet in the village today? If more than one of my family was robbed, how can they know so clearly which family is empty? If it is true, In this way, some of us are colluding with outsiders!!"

"Some people colluded with foreign thieves to steal food. If they really succeed, my family will suffer a big disaster!! I won't let them go lightly, and the person who escaped is just idle around the village without doing farming. He is hiding outside the courtyard and refuses to come in, he must be afraid that his sister-in-law will recognize his appearance!" Li Erlang clenched his fists with both hands, gritted his teeth, and stared at the three thieves who fell on the ground, wishing to stare them out. A hole.

"Xianglang, don't be impatient, and don't be impatient, Old Li Tou! Stealing food is a crime of beheading, and neither I nor the county government will let it go lightly!" Muramasa was also very angry. This has happened to the village over the years. The most serious case of theft.

According to Dali law, stealing food is the same as killing people.

Muramasa asked: "Mr. Xu of the Li family, can you clearly see the person hiding outside the door?"

Xu Qing shook her head gently.

At this time, there were waves of crying and howling in the distance. Someone went home to check and found that his food had been stolen. He ran over crying and shouted: "Muramasa, my food house has been stolen! The food is gone!! I want it!" Kill them!!"

"Ahhhhh!! Oh my god!!! My grain house has also been pried open!!! These three murderers!! Give me back my rice and grain!!" Several irrational villagers rushed in , beating the three thieves, Muramasa quickly asked people to stop them. If they didn't stop them, those few people would be beaten to death by the angry villagers.

"Xianglang, take a quick look at what is missing from your house. We can record it when the officials ask about it. Now we immediately organize the villagers to search everywhere. They lost three people here. They will not be able to transport the food, but will hide it." Somewhere!" The officials haven't arrived yet, and if they don't find something to distract the villagers' attention, they will start beating up those thieves again.

Muramasa decisively ordered, "These three thieves are temporarily detained at Li's house. I will leave two people to guard them. They must not let them escape!"

After such a big event, the festive atmosphere in the village was somewhat dispersed, and a gloomy atmosphere gradually spread. The news of thieves in the village finally reached Li Aniang's ears. She went to look for Li Erlang vigilantly, and found that not only Li Erlang, but also Li Erlang Even Li Sanlang and Li Aweng were missing, so she quickly found Li A'nai and said that she wanted to go home and ask her to take care of Li Tuanlang and Li Jinniang.

Li Aniang hurried home and found many people standing at the courtyard gate. Three strange-looking people were lying inexplicably in the courtyard. When she thought about the thieves stealing food, she suddenly felt dizzy and about to fall to the ground. She leaned on the wall and wailed: "Our family Was it stolen too?!”

Xu Qing quickly stepped forward to help Li Aniang up and explained: "There is nothing wrong with the grain house, but the rice and noodles in the kitchen were stolen."

Aniang Li had already prepared for the worst on the way back. When she heard that it was not the worst case, she breathed a sigh of relief and laughed: "God bless! Fortunately, my father and Lang Jun had the foresight. When I asked someone to open the door of the grain house, I ordered it to be stronger, and the door lock was specially made of black iron. God bless me! God bless me!"

After saying that, she looked at her daughter-in-law who was in shock, grabbed Xu Qing's hand in turn, and asked worriedly: "Mother Qing, are you okay?"

Xu Qing shook her head and said softly, "It's okay."

Li Aniang clasped her hands together and kept rejoicing: "Qing Niang, you and I will go back first! Leave the outside to these men until the official summons us. Let's come out again."

Xu Qing nodded hesitantly, glanced at Li Erlang squatting on the ground, and then followed Aniang Li back to her room with worry.

"Sanlang, do you think the marks on the ground are ink stains?" Li Erlang squatted on the ground and followed the water stains into the study. He found that the water stains extended all the way to the front of the painting, and he couldn't help but feel nervous.

Li Sanlang also squatted down, touched the water stain with his hand, brought it to his nose and smelled it, and sure enough, there was a scent of ink. "It has a light rosin scent, plus musk borneol and other spices. These spices can cover up the burnt smell of the ink itself, and the result is high-quality pine smoke ink. These materials are expensive, and the ink-making process is also It’s extraordinary. Ordinary people can’t buy ink sticks of this grade. How could such ink stains appear in our home?”

Li Erlang analyzed: "These traces seem to be left after being specially washed. Who can handle the scene so calmly in our home?"

Li Sanlang was surprised: "You mean my sister-in-law...?!"

"Just now I saw that the corners of my sister-in-law's eyes were slightly red, and she also changed her clothes. It was different from what she wore in the morning. The collar was much higher..."

Li Sanlang clenched his fists and was instantly furious. He ignored the elegance of the scholar and turned around to stare at the three thieves sharply: "How dare you, Shuzi!!"

Li Erlang sighed. Due to emotions and reasons, they couldn't comfort his sister-in-law, let alone mention it in front of her. "Sanlang, I didn't doubt my sister-in-law on purpose. Do you think my sister-in-law is hiding something from us?"

"Why do second brothers think so?"

"Think about it... My sister-in-law said that four people had a dispute over the uneven distribution of the spoils. One of them injured three of them and then fled. Why did that person only take dozens of kilograms of rice and noodles from the kitchen when he escaped, but not any money? Didn't they just quarrel over the money? That person was probably an acquaintance in the village. Since he was going to run away, wasn't the money needed most during the escape? Why did he have to run away with such a heavy weight of rice and noodles? This is something I have never figured out. "

After listening to Li Erlang's analysis, Li Sanlang felt that it made sense, but as a junior, he could not question his sister-in-law's words face to face. "Tell me, is my sister-in-law protecting someone?"

Li Erlang was silent. He knew who his sister-in-law was protecting, but he couldn't tell.

He looked up at the paintings on the wall, with deep sorrow in his eyes: "Sanlang, it's better not to think like this, you know my sister-in-law won't do it."

Li Sanlang was anxious: "Second brother, you know I didn't mean that!"

"My sister-in-law has suffered enough grievances. What will she do next? If necessary, we will adapt accordingly."

"Ah."

Since they couldn't guess Xu Qing's purpose, the two of them no longer made random guesses without any purpose, but instead turned to the person they wanted to abscond with.

At this time, a large group of people ran into the yard, shouting: "Dear gentlemen, this way! It's these three people!!"

Originally, it would take four hours at the fastest to go to the county to report to the official, and it would be dark by then. But now I happened to meet the policemen in the next village, so I quickly invited them over.

I saw a policeman with five or six servants breaking through the crowd, walking into the yard, and shouted angrily: "Are these three thieves committing the crime?"

Muramasa: "Yes, there happened to be a person who witnessed the incident. Do you want her to come out and ask questions?"

The leading officer held the knife and said, "Let her come out!"

Li Aniang and Xu Qing had heard the commotion a long time ago, and when they heard the summons, they immediately came out to salute: "My wife, Mrs. Xu of the Li family, is following the instructions of Master Cha."

"Muramasa told me the general process on the way. Let me ask you, are you sure that the thieves were four people?"

Xu Qing said calmly: "I'm not sure. I only saw three people climbing over the wall and entering my house. Then four people got into a fight when they were dividing the stolen goods. I don't know how many thieves there were in this group."

The first officer nodded: "Okay. You two, go around and see if the thief has left any traces." The two other servants followed the order and went out. The officer pointed at the thief named Aaron: "He is the least injured. , you two wake him up, I have something to ask!"

"Yes!"

No one cared how nervous Xu Qing was when she heard the officer's words. She clenched her hands tightly in front of her stomach and followed Xiao Yi closely.

Aaron was hit by Ji Qingyue on the hand that was blocking him, and was knocked unconscious later.

Two boys grabbed his head and pushed him into a washing tub full of muddy water. He soon choked on the water and woke up.

"Cough cough cough!! Who are you!!!"

When Aaron saw the person holding him clearly, his expression was startled, then slumped in the next second. After he understood the situation, he stopped resisting and looked like he was ready to be killed or beheaded.

"Did you know that stealing food is a crime of beheading! If you reveal the hiding place of the food now, your life will be spared!" The officer was righteous and threatened Aaron: "Now there are still traitors and absconders among your accomplices. If If you don’t admit it, I will give him the opportunity, and then the three of you will be beheaded!"

Although Aaron's expression flickered, he was still resisting and still refused to speak.

The villagers gathered outside the door were very anxious. Their food had been stolen and was now missing. I wonder if it can be recovered. He cursed angrily: "Bad man, if he is dishonest, I will beat him until he confesses!"

The officer raised his hand to signal the villagers to calm down: "I have learned that the absconding person is someone who is familiar with the situation of the people in the village. If you think about it carefully, is there anyone who has behaved strangely recently and whose character is dissolute and not doing his job? This house is in the village. There are no neighboring houses outside and nearby. Although no one heard anything, the terrain here is flat and there are no houses or trees to block people's coming and going. There will always be someone who is working in the fields and notices it. If the thief wants to sneak in or escape , you can still spot suspicious people by looking at each other from a distance."

After the officer mentioned this, the villagers calmed down and thought about it carefully. Those whose homes had been robbed were eager to ask others to help provide clues.

At this time, the boys who went outside to look for clues came back and reported: "Boss, there are a lot of footprints outside the courtyard corresponding to the grain house, and there are traces of climbing on the wall. Then a person walked along the root of the outer wall to the courtyard gate. You can’t tell the difference after that.”

Suddenly someone among the villagers remembered something: "Oh! I remembered it. I was sowing seeds in the field just now and saw Masan running hurriedly into the mountains, as if he came from this direction! I was still wondering! Masan's My nephew just measured the land, why didn't he go to open up wasteland? Instead, he ran into the mountains from Uncle Cai's house in a panic!"

"Where did he flee to?!"

"Run to the northeast of Lancang Mountain."

The officer asked, "What is he holding in his hand?"

The person who provided the clues thought hard and still had no impression: "The distance was too far. I only noticed that the person looked like Masan, and I couldn't see the rest clearly."

"That's all, Muramasa, please let people pay attention to the news about Masan. If you see this person returning to the village, you don't need to notify me. Capture him first and wait for me to come for interrogation!"

Perhaps because he heard someone recognizing his accomplice, Aaron could no longer hold on and shouted: "Master! I'll recruit! I'll recruit!! But before I confess, I have to reveal something!! This Li Xu family Adultery with an outsider!! We were knocked unconscious by his adulterer!!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone took a breath and collectively let out a "drink" sound.

"Poor Master! He is slandering!!" Xu Qing's voice was so sharp that Li Aniang couldn't hold her back for a moment. She knelt on the ground with a pale face: "No matter what the thief said, I only have one sentence. I am innocent. He is here." To deceive others and confuse the public!!”