"Dad, why did you die so miserably...... Leaving us orphans and widows, how can we live......"

A woman's cry resounded throughout the alley, adding a gloomy atmosphere to the alley.

This made Li Hugo's footsteps a lot heavier, he walked over step by step, there was an old couple on the side of the road, on the left was a poor old man, his clothes were ragged, his shoes were mended and mended, the old man's face was full of vicissitudes, and he was blurry.

The old woman on the right is wearing a head full of silver hair on her head, her black and yellow face is full of wrinkles, wearing a tattered gray apron, a few strands of silver hair falling down swaying with the north wind, and wearing worn slippers on her feet, which seems to tell her bitterness in the cold wind.

Both of them had very cloudy eyes, and Li Hugo's arrival did not attract their attention.

The road suddenly became damp, and I don't know if it was urine or water, which gave the air a foul smell.

Li Hugo's steps were very slow, and he also looked at the houses around here, the houses here were very dilapidated, some of them were patched with seams, and they were all forced to read the holes in the walls with hay.

A few scrawny wild dogs crouched in the corner, seemingly no longer able to bark, and next to them were a few children with their chests against their backs, playing a game of throwing stones.

The desolation on the side of the road made Li Hugo go faster and faster, this place was too crippled, and it was not proportional to the prosperity of other places in the capital.

Maybe it's because this place itself is very remote, even if it was Li Hugo, if it weren't for Niu Dingtian, he wouldn't have come here.

At the entrance of the mourning hall, Li Hugo hesitated for several minutes, because the death of the husband in this room was likely to have something to do with him.

After all, this murder case can't be so coincidental, plus Wang Sili is in the matter, and the prince is here again, can it be said that the prince knew in advance that there would be a murder here?

This must have something to do with the prince, and it has something to do with the prince, which means that the prince has a purpose, and the prince's purpose is nothing more than the three highnesses, and the three highnesses are cooperating with themselves, so if you count it, it can be regarded as nepotism.

Li Hugo came to the mourning hall, and at this time, the widow of the husband saw him, and she said, "This lord is ......."

"I'm from the court. Li Hugo said.

As soon as these words came out, the widow's face turned bad, and she said, "The people of the court, we, we don't know......"

"I haven't asked yet, why do you say you don't know? In fact, you must know something, but you just won't say, ma'am...... You can tell me generously what you know, I just want to investigate the case now, are you willing to let your husband's death be so inexplicable?" Li Hugo said.

The widow bowed her head and said, "We really don't know." ”

Li Hugo took out the silver, put it in the hands of the child next to the widow, invited three sticks of incense and worshiped towards the mourning platform, since the woman refused to say, he naturally didn't want to be too tough, but what he didn't expect was that when Li Hugo finished worshipping and was about to leave, the five or six-year-old child followed out.

Because he was a little kid, no one paid attention, but Li Hugo found that he followed him, and he seemed to have something to say.

At a young age, he was wearing filial piety clothes, and he looked very sad and pitiful, and in the future, he was destined to depend on his mother, maybe he would have a stepfather, but the stepfather was very repulsive to a certain extent, not his own children, so his future was not very open.

"You don't have to send it, hurry up and go to your mother's side. Li Hugo said.

"My lord, my mother would like you to come to the backyard...... the child said, and then ran back in a panic.

Li Hugo was very surprised, but when he saw the child leave, he waited until the evening, in the backyard of the family, an oil lamp was lit, but there was a coffin lying inside, the coffin had not yet been buried, and it was also because the body had to be parked for three days before it could be buried, which was the local custom.

When Hugo came to the courtyard, the woman got up and said, "Your Excellency...... There are many offenses during the day, and I hope that adults will bear with me. ”

"If you have anything to explain to me, just say it immediately, I am a person from Tongming Temple in the imperial court, and I am directly subordinate to the current saint, and I will not favor anyone, as long as you have grievances, you can tell me directly. Li Hugo said that the name of Xindao Tongming Temple is still quite useful.

The woman knelt on the ground, held her child, and said, "My lord, you are the master of our mother and son...... Our family of three is helpless here, life is not good or bad, barely have something to eat, but ......"

"Could it be that your husband is not ......" Li Hugo stretched his voice, because according to the previous news, the husband died of a sudden illness on the way to work.

But now it seems that there is more to this matter.

"It is the head snake of our street, Zhao Lao Wu, who is known as Kutoutuo, this Kutoutuo is very powerful...... He killed my husband, and though he gave us money, my husband died of illness, and we were in harmony with our husband, and I was so unwilling to let him die like this...... "The woman said.

Li Hugo thought about it and said, "Do you know how to do laundry?"

"Your Excellency, you are ...... What do you mean?"

"If there is no way to live here, if you go to the Li Mansion in the north of the city, you will say that you are a hired laborer, and we will also give you a good salary at that time, so that your mother and son can live at least without worry, as for the matter of Kutoutuo, you don't have to worry about it, I will make him pay the due price." Li Hugo said.

The woman was grateful and thankful.

And Li Hugo has come to the deeper part of this street. This street is called "Bitter Street", which is also in line with the style here, because the life of the people here is indeed very miserable.

At the end of the bitter street, there is a City God Temple, but the City God Temple has been abandoned, and it seems that it has become a dwelling.

Around the City God Temple, there are some black gambling houses, as well as black kilns, this is a three-no zone, full of disease, poverty, blood and pain, several poorly dressed women were driven out of the City God Temple, and a rude voice came from inside: "Get out, fucking Lao Tzu get out, you can't serve people, you can't dance, you can't sing, Niang Xi has a bar, and it really can't be compared with the girls in Huanjie." ”

The rough voice of the fire bull was like the roar of a wild beast, and Li Hugo also heard the sound and walked straight over.

"Who is it? Do you know what this place is?" Two men in ragged clothes like beggars stopped Li Hugo at the gate of the City God Temple and prevented him from entering.