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Zhou Village is not far from Tai County, but the place is extremely remote. Xie Qiao rode a fast horse for a day and finally saw the stone tablet at the entrance of Zhou Village.

It was just after evening and it was getting dark, so Xie Qiao decided to go to the village to find someone to spend the night. He was leading the horse and was about to enter the village when he saw a man coming out of the bamboo forest at the entrance of the village to stop him.

The man was tall, dressed in coarse sackcloth and undisciplined, with a bamboo hat on his head, Xie Qiao couldn't see his face clearly.

"Don't go into the village. If you are passing by, you'd better bypass this village. If you want to stay, there is a wooden house in this bamboo forest. I won't be here tonight. You can live there. I won't charge you." The voice was hoarse and Rough.

Xie Qiao's heart trembled, but he didn't show it on his face, he just smiled and said, "Why can't I enter the village to stay?"

The man finally raised his head, revealing a pair of dull and chaotic eyes. He glanced at Xie Qiao and said, "Someone in the village is sick. If you want to die, go."

Xie Qiao's pupils shrank, and he held his hands hidden in his sleeves. He pretended not to care and asked again: "What is the disease like? Will it cause death? If it is not serious, I still don't want to sleep in the wild."

The man looked difficult to get along with, but he seemed to be patient. Xie Qiao, a stranger, asked so many questions for no reason, and he didn't make a bad face. He just answered the question flatly: "People will die. Those who have that disease , First you will have vomiting and diarrhea, and finally you will die from stiffness all over your body. The death condition is extremely terrifying. If you are not afraid of death, just go."

"I'm afraid of death, so I thank you." Xie Qiao clasped his fist at the man, who nodded, turned and left.Xie Qiao looked at his back with solemn eyes: The source of the disease in the last life was actually Zhou Cun. I didn’t expect that the disease started at this time... I heard that person describe that the disease has only started to spread now, I just hope It's not too serious.

Xie Qiao counted the time, the slowest time for Lu Jue to come here was only two days, during these two days, he can also make some preparations.With a plan in mind, Xie Qiao entered the bamboo forest in the direction the man pointed out to him just now, and after walking for a short distance, he saw a wooden house.He approached the wooden house, and just about to open the door to enter, he saw a mound of earth in front of the wooden house. When he got closer, he found a wooden plank standing in front of the mound——Xie Qiao realized that this was a grave , but the board is blank.

Xie Qiao looked at the mound solemnly, then turned and entered the house.cherry

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two days ago.Moss County.

After Lu Jue came out of the inn, he went directly to the Tai County Government Office.It was noon at that time, and there was nothing in the yamen. The yamen servants were yawning with water and fire sticks. As soon as Lu Jue stepped into the yamen, someone waved at him and said, "Go, go, come back later, I don't see you Are you sleepy?"

Lu Jue didn't have the patience to argue with those people at all, so he showed a gold medal in front of that person, and said coldly, "I'm looking for Li Zhonglian."

Although the yamen servant was illiterate, but when he saw the gold medal and saw that this person dared to call them by his name directly, his heart shivered, and he knew that the other party had a lot of background.So he hurriedly said with a smile: "Master, you, you sit down first, and the villain will go and call us adults for you now."

When Li Zhonglian came out from the back of the hall, when he saw Lu Jue and heard Lu Jue reveal his identity, his eyes almost fell off.No matter what, he never thought that Lu Huaiyu, who was famous all over the world in Jinling City, would come to the little Tai County.

With a quick smile on his face, he stepped forward and said, "I don't know, what is Mr. Lu doing in Tai County?"

Lu Jue frowned slightly, and was not in the mood to flirt with the other party, so he went straight to the point and said, "Your son tied up a man on the street two days ago. That is mine. Where is he now?"

Li Zhonglian was stunned for a moment, and his heart trembled: His son often went to the street to kidnap people to play with. He seemed to have heard a servant say he had kidnapped one the other day. He seemed to have heard a servant say that that person hurt his son's wrist. He knew his son well. , his son would not let that man leave the house alive... He knew that his son was used to getting into trouble, but he never thought that his son would kidnap Lu Jue's people and come back one day...

The expression on his face was fleeting, and he quickly put on a more ingratiating smile and said, "Nothing, nothing, how could the officer allow the dog to kidnap someone casually? Master Lu must have heard it wrong."

"Oh?" Lu Jue narrowed his eyes, his face was full of coldness.This person is obviously a slippery and ruthless person. He didn't reveal Xie Qiao's identity because he was afraid that the other party would jump over the wall and hurt Xie Qiao if he found out.He doesn't have any man in his hands now, so he can't directly enter the mansion to search for people, so he can only use his identity to pressure this person and bring him into the mansion to find someone.

"It's really nothing!" The smiles on Li Zhonglian's face piled up, and they were all a little hideous: "If you don't believe me, I called the dog to ask you yourself! Someone, go and find my useless son!"

A yamen servant at the bottom said "yes" and trotted to find someone.

Li Zhonglian's residence was very close to the yamen, and the yamen servant had only been out for an incense stick, so he brought someone back with him.

That man was wearing brocade clothes, he was short and fat, with a sluggish complexion, and he was overindulgent at first sight.Li Zhonglian looked at his son, pretended to be angry, and shouted: "Nizi, don't kneel down yet!"

Li Huaizhi had just seen a jade-like beauty sitting in the hall, and he was distracted, when he heard his father's cold shout, his knees softened, and he knelt down.Then Li Zhonglian coughed, squinted his eyes and stared at his son and said, "This is Mr. Lu Juelu from Jinling. Your lord heard that you arrested someone two days ago - that's your lord's business, but there is such a thing ?!"

Li Huaizhi's heart trembled when he heard Lu Jue's name. He never thought that what the man said was true, that he was really Lu Jue's best friend—but the man beat him up that day and never The mansion disappeared, and he hated him so much that he kept it from his father and searched for the man through the county government for several days but failed to find him...

"No...no..." He shook his head subconsciously.At this time, he saw his father looking at him with deep meaning, and asked word by word: "Is there such a person in our house now?!"

With a chill in his heart, he came to his senses and hurriedly said, "No, no!"

Li Zhonglian breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, then smiled and said to Lu Jue: "Look, Master Lu, no... Your Excellency has been exhausted all the way here in Tai County, do you want to go to the mansion to rest and go to the dust? The county is staying at the Xiaguan's house for a few days, how about it?"

Seeing the man say "no", Lu Jue's heart trembled, but no matter how worried he was now, he had no other choice, he could only go to this man's house first, and look for clues from Xie Qiao.The crime of the county magistrate should be punished generously, until Xie Qiao is found.

"Okay. Then I'll trouble Master Li." Lu Jue clenched his fists tightly with his hands hidden in his sleeves, but he didn't show anything on his face.Seeing that Lu Jue agreed, Li Zhonglian was completely relieved. He tried his son just now, and that person is no longer in his house. As long as Lu Jue can't find anyone in his house, this person will have nothing to do with him in the future I think the other party is just Lu Jue's pet, if he can't find it, he will give up, and if he pays Lu Jue more... then this matter will be over for good.

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Therefore, Lu Jue suppressed the anger in his heart and followed Li Zhonglian and his son into the gate of the county magistrate's mansion.

The author has something to say: The next chapter is the county magistrate's bento~