There was darkness around him. Li Zhang jumped up and touched the stick that had been prepared long ago and was about to go out. However, he stopped again, turned around and groped on the table for a while, found the flint, lit the oil lamp on the table, and then he held out the door with the oil lamp. Because it was too dark outside, he was worried that Lu Wu would suffer because he couldn't see clearly.

When Li Zhang held out the door with an oil lamp, he immediately saw Lu Wu fighting with a black guy. The other party was not tall, at least two shorter than Lu Wu, but his movements were extremely fast and powerful. He waved a thick wooden stick and fought back and forth with Lu Wu. With Lu Wu's martial arts, he couldn't take him down for a while.

"Don't come here!" Lu Wu also looked at Li Zhang holding the oil lamp and shouted suddenly. The monster in front of him was extremely powerful and as fast as the wind. Ordinary people would be seriously injured when they touched him, so he did not let Li Zhang get close.

Li Zhang also knew his weight. Because of his long-term malnutrition, he was thinner than children of the same age. In addition, the injuries on his feet had not healed well, so he would only help others when he went up. It would be better to stand by and illuminate Lu Wu, so he stood there immediately and tried to lift the oil lamp in front of him.

Lu Wu is very skilled in martial arts, but before he suffered a loss that he could not see clearly in the darkness. The monster in front of him was not affected, and his body was fast and powerful, so he was able to tie Lu Wu. But now with the light, Lu Wu immediately showed his power. An official sword was not penetrated by the wind and rain, and the monster could not be blocked. Finally, he was hit by Lu Wu with a knife.

"Ao~" As a result, the monster screamed, threw away the wooden stick in his hand and turned around and ran away. Although he was injured, his movements were still extremely fast. He ran into the wall like a stream of black smoke, and then jumped high and outside the wall. Lu Wu couldn't catch up even if he wanted to chase him.

"Uncle Wu, it's too dark. Let's chase it until dawn!" Li Zhang saw Lu Wu turning around and trying to chase it, and immediately shouted and stopped it.

Lu Wu was also a little worried, because it was too dark outside. He was punched by the other party in the dark just now, and his chest was still hurting so much, so he stopped when he heard Li Zhang's words. However, he turned his head and looked at Li Zhang with a serious expression, "The other party is a human!"

"Human?" Li Zhang was not surprised when he heard this answer, because he had just observed it carefully. Although the darkness was not very real, the monster's figure was indeed like a human, and he was wearing ragged clothes. He was just moving too fast and he couldn't see his appearance clearly.

"Not only human, but also not old, but I can't even take him with a strange power. Fortunately, he was injured. We will go and find him after dawn. We must catch him, otherwise we may come back to take revenge in the future. Then you brothers and sisters will be in danger!" Lu Wu said seriously again at this time, and he didn't say one thing, that is, the other party seemed to be able to see it in the dark. He just suffered a loss because of this.

Li Zhang nodded when he heard this. Lu Wu injured the other party. This Liangzi was considered a matter of being a foregone conclusion. In the past, he might only steal things but not hurt people, but it will be difficult to protect him in the future. Therefore, he still has to completely solve this problem, otherwise he will not be able to sleep at night.

It was already the fifth day of the sky, and it was the darkest moment before dawn. After this period, a slight yellow appeared in the sky in the east, and there was no longer a darkness around him. Lu Wu was about to set off immediately. He was worried that the other party would not be able to find it if he ran too far. Li Zhang was worried that he would go alone, so he called Douzi and the others to take care of Li'er, and then he followed Lu Wu out with a cane.

Lu Wu injured the other party, and it was also very injured. The ground where the other party jumped over the wall was covered with blood. Following the blood dripping on the ground, Li Zhang and Lu Wu followed the blood dripping on the ground, but finally found that the blood had entered Bianhe Town. When they entered Bianhe Town, they found that the direction of the blood was heading towards the dock, which surprised Li Zhang and Lu Wu.

However, before the pier was reached, the blood was gone. In fact, the blood was getting less and less before. It was probably because the other party had stopped the blood. However, Lu Wu was very experienced in tracking prisoners. Even if there was no blood, he could find the direction of the other party's escape from some clues on the road.

Finally, Li Zhang followed Lu Wu to the dock. At this time, there were already many people at the dock, including working coolies, breakfast vendors, etc., but this also brought about a problem, that is, when there were too many people, the only clues on the ground were destroyed, which made Lu Wu lose the clues to track.

"What should I do if Uncle Wu?" Li Zhang looked at the vast dock in front of him and frowned. The clues were lost, and the dock was so big, it was probably impossible to find the other party again.

However, Lu Wu seemed very experienced. He touched the short beard on his chin and thought for a moment, then smiled calmly and said, "Who do you think will run to your charity house in the middle of the night, and just to steal a few cooked cakes?"

"This... beggar?" Li Zhang hesitated for a moment and guessed that he could not think of any other possibility except beggars.

"Do you know there is a beggar's nest nearby?" Lu Wu asked again with confidence at this time.

"Xitan!" Li Zhang also showed an ecstatic expression when he heard this. He and Douzi used to be in Bianhe Town, and even occasionally played a guest role as a beggar to ask for some money to spend, so he was very familiar with the distribution of beggars around him.

"Let's go to Xitan and have a look, there should be a harvest!" Lu Wu nodded, and Xitan was just west of the pier. There was a mudflat filled with all kinds of garbage, some floating from the river and some dumped in the town. It can be said that it was a big garbage dump, and most people would not go there, but it has become a good place for beggars of all kinds to live in.

Now Li Zhang and Lu Wu left the wharf and walked along the Bian River for hundreds of meters to the west beach. As a result, after walking a few steps, Lu Wu suddenly squatted down and looked at the ground. Li Zhang also came over to watch it, but found that there was a barefoot footprint on the ground, and the footprints were extremely large, exactly the same as the footprints he had seen in the hall where the corpse was parked.

"It's him, this kid has indeed run into the West Beach!" Lu Wu pointed to this huge footprint. When he fought with the other party before, he found that although the other party was not tall, his feet were extremely large and he was not wearing shoes. He had seen the same footprint outside the wall of the charity village before.

After rediscovering the clues, Lu Wu and Li Zhang were also excited. At this time, the sky was already bright. I saw piles of garbage everywhere on the river beach in front of me. A gust of river wind blew, and Li Zhang immediately felt a stinking smell. Fortunately, the weather is still cold now. If it is summer, the stench here can float to the dock.

I saw that there were beggars with no clothes everywhere in the garbage dump on the river beach. Although Li Zhang and the others had been beggars before, they could only be considered amateurs. These are professional beggars in front of them. Some of them were a little more particular. They would use finding some branches from the garbage, building a broken shed from the garbage, and sleeping in it themselves, while others were not particular. They just slept in the garbage. Anyway, the weather is getting warmer now, and people can't die of freezing at night.

Although Li Zhang had known that there were many beggars here in Xitan, when he saw them with his own eyes, it still gave him a great impact. In particular, most of these beggars were skinny and numb. If they were not for their ups and downs, they would probably be regarded as dead people. There were also children with slender limbs and extremely old belly lying with adults. Li Zhang had seen too many such children in Africa, especially when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, such big-bellied skeleton dolls everywhere in Africa.

Looking at the scenes in front of him, Li Zhang couldn't help but sigh. This was the Song Dynasty, which was known as the most economically developed. However, no matter how developed the economy was, the upper class was only the upper class, and the lower class was still poor. Although the coolies on the dock not far away were a little better than the beggars here, they could not accumulate any property. When they got old, they might become these beggars in front of them.

Compared to Li Zhang's sentimentality, Lu Wu turned a blind eye to what he saw. Perhaps he had long been used to the scenes in front of him, so he is just observing these beggars one by one, trying to find the guy who was cut by him.

"Woof woof woof woof ~" Suddenly a wild dog jumped out of the garbage dump next to him and barked at Li Zhang, which scared him. Compared to ghosts, Li Zhang was more afraid of dogs, because he was chased by dogs when he was a child in his previous life. Although he did not bite him, it left a considerable psychological shadow on him, and he has been shadying his dogs forever.

"Get out!" Lu Wu kicked a stone on the ground away and hit the dog's head in one go. As a result, the dog immediately whimpered and fled to another garbage dump. As a result, several more dogs jumped out, and the injured dog bit each other.

"Look at these beggars, just like these wild dogs, no one knows that they die. A few years ago, Kaifeng had a severe drought, and even beggars killed each other and then shared food, but even the yamen would not care about such things!" Lu Wu might have noticed the strangeness on Li Zhang's face, and pointed to the beggars in the garbage dump and said, as if in his opinion, these beggars were not worthy of sympathy.

"They are all poor and homeless people!" Li Zhang sighed at this time.

"Pity? You have never seen them hateful. The ugliest and most vicious thing in this world is done by these people!" Lu Wu snorted coldly at this time and retorted. Judging from his appearance, he seemed to have any prejudice against beggars?
Chapter completed!