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Explore the uninhabited village at night

But it was said that Li Pojun came out of the camp in the middle of the night with a group of guards, but Li Pojun had always had a doubt in his heart, why was there no one in that small village, sleepless late at night, and he was going to find out, and discussed with the generals, and the generals were strongly opposed, how could the main general go out alone late at night, not to mention that this is still in the enemy's territory, if the main general is lost, it will be over, not to mention that the current main general is the prince of a country, how can he let him go.

After a lot of "bargaining", Li Pojun finally came out, but he had to bring someone with rich experience in the rivers and lakes like Zhai Changsun, which was unexpected.

Out of the camp gate, the scout took Li Pojun and Zhai Changsun and other cadres to the north, and after walking only three or five miles, he saw a small hillside.

The young scout paused and said directly to Li Pojun: "General, that small village is under the hillside."

Li Pojun raised his eyebrows when he heard this, looked at the bare hillside, and couldn't help but pull the corners of his mouth, "The hillside is bare, and I'm not afraid of mudslides and landslides."

"General, what is a mudslide landslide?" In front of Li Pojun, the former prime minister of a country became full of curiosity.

"Well, I'll talk about this later, let's go, go up and have a look." Li Pojun snorted and got up directly and said.

Everyone seemed to be walking casually with weapons, but they surrounded Li Pojun tightly, so that even if there was an emergency, Li Pojun would be unhindered for a while.

Entering the small village, Li Pojun also felt a little panicked, the name was in the sky, the stars were twinkling, accompanied by wisps of autumn wind, there was only such a small village within a radius of dozens of miles, but this small village was silent and uninhabited, it was really a bit like a ghost village.

Seeing that the doors of several houses around him were all open, Li Pojun frowned, and the scout saw that he was busy and said, "The doors of the houses here are all open."

Li Pojun raised his eyebrows and walked in, this is a three-room thatched hut, with a hall in the middle, and several desks, all of which are rough furniture, not exquisite, but standard furniture for ordinary people at the moment.

Li Pojun went over with great interest, only to see that there was still a kettle on the table, and a few missing clay bowls next to it.

Picked up the kettle, a layer of dust on it, opened the lid to see, it was a musty smell out, turned on the light, only to see that there was no water in the kettle, but there was a lump of dry black soil, Zhai Changsun looked, his eyes moved, and he said: "This is...... Tea soil is the worst quality tea foam."

Li Pojun nodded, this is the tea that the common people drink, but the tea has been evaporated and dried.

At this time, I only heard an exclamation, "Huh? Your Highness, do you see this? Li Zhen's voice sounded in the next room.

Li Pojun raised his eyebrows, walked over, and saw it

Li Zhen was carrying a large cauldron lid, and another soldier was holding a lantern on the side, looking at the pottery kettle in front of him.

"Your Highness, you see, there is a prepared meal here, but you haven't had time to eat it." Li Zhen pointed to the pottery kettle and said to Li Pojun.

Li Pojun stretched out his head to look, and he saw pieces of shriveled and long-haired things.

Zhai Changsun also fixed his eyes, nodded and said: "This is boiled beans, the fire below is burned, and the water is boiled dry and has not been eaten until it rots and shriveles like this."

Li Pojun frowned when he heard this, and said: "Looking at the situation in this house, it should be the last few months, the last few months have been a famine, and food is in short supply, seeing that this family is not a rich family, why do you make a meal and don't eat it?" ”

When the words fell, Li Zhen said again: "Well, indeed, this bean should be the last food for this household, there is nothing in this grain tank, and this grain spoon is here." Place a grain spoon next to the stovetop.

Li Pojun thought for a while, and said bluntly: "It should be that this family has cooked a meal, but before they have time to eat, they have something to go out, and they have never come back."

With an idea, Li Pojun said directly: "Let's go, disperse, and go to other rooms to see if the door is open, and there is food in the kettle."

The personnel were scattered, and in less than a moment, dozens of households were investigated.

Li Zhen also frowned, "Your Highness, thirty-eight households, of which basically the doors are wide open, more than twenty households, like the first one, have prepared meals but have not eaten, so that a few families have eaten dishes and chopsticks on the table and have not yet cleaned up, and a few cases seem to be eating, and there are half eaten meals on the table." Your Highness, this is too strange, isn't it? ”

"yes, it's like it's the middle of the meal, or in the morning or in the evening, and the whole village is missing." Zen Master Yuwen also touched his chin and said, it seems that he is very interested in this kind of strange thing to detect.

Why do you say that the evening and the morning, the people should only eat at these two times, the people at this time are generally only eat two meals in the morning and evening, that is, morning food, evening food, only the rich and noble people will eat anytime and anywhere, look at the appearance of this small village, there is no rich and noble family anyway.

"It's morning". Li Pojun said firmly, and then raised his legs and bent down to pick up a shriveled willow branch at the door.

When a few people looked at it, they also nodded, looking at the peeled willow branches, they should be rinsing their mouths.

The Tang Dynasty gargle was generally used willow branches, toothpaste and toothbrushes were only available in the Song Dynasty, peel off the willow branches, rub the teeth with the plant fibers inside, in order to achieve the effect of cleaning teeth, the rich and noble people also use this method, but the rich and noble people will use green salt, and ordinary people use the peeled willow branch brush to brush it.

But then Li Pojun looked at the willow branch in his hand and frowned again, and then squatted down and looked carefully at the ground with a horse lamp.

"It's not good, the people of this village were forcibly dragged away during the morning meal, and they should have been taken away, but there was no fighting." Li Pojun frowned and said straightly.

Several people were stunned when they heard this, "Why?" Why was it forcibly taken captive? Is there really no resistance and no fighting? "Although Zen Master Yuwen is a little clever, he hasn't turned around for a while.

Zhai Changsun and the others didn't react for a while, and looked at Li Pojun, Li Pojun pointed to a few marks on the ground with a bad face, "You see, these are two deep drag marks, it should be the people who are gargling their mouths, they were forcibly dragged away by the two of them, and their legs struggled on the ground."

And, look, this willow fiber...... Well, the willow branches are as good as new, they should have just been peeled off, and they are still new, and although the willow branches are easy to obtain, the willow branches of whose gargle are thrown away once in one go, let alone this poor family."

The generals squatted down and looked carefully, thinking carefully about what Li Pojun said, and nodded one after another.