Li Hao sat on the edge of the bed, just about to undress and sleep, Li Yuanzhong suddenly reported outside the door, Lin Dingkun asked to see, Li Hao hurriedly got up and came to the front yard, Lin Dingkun knelt on one knee and saluted, and said excitedly: "My lord, it's done!" ”

Li Hao's eyes lit up: "Did Cao Tian really send someone to burn grain?" ”

"My lord!" Lin Dingkun nodded vigorously, "A total of fifteen people came, fourteen of them were killed, the leader was captured, Commander Lu interrogated a few words, this guy was very hard-mouthed, and refused to say anything." ”

Li Hao smiled heartily: "Go!" Take me to see it! ”

Li Hao took a group of right guards to the compound of the Longchang granary, only to see fourteen corpses lying in the courtyard, all wearing night clothes, and the only one was also injured, kneeling there with a lot of flowers.

Seeing Li Hao coming, Lu Yun stepped forward and saluted, "Young Master, my arm has been saved." ”

Li Hao smiled indifferently and didn't say anything, but stepped forward and kicked the man in black to the ground, the man in black screamed in pain, gritted his teeth and said, "Dog officer, I won't say anything, I'll kill me if you have a kind!" ”

Li Hao raised his eyebrows: "I won't kill you, and I won't let you say it, because I know who is behind the scenes, Cao Tian really disappointed me, completely took Lao Tzu's words as a deaf ear, I am very unhappy, Lu Yun, what do you say I should do if I change?" ”

Lu Yun smiled slightly: "The young master can eat anything, but he can't suffer losses, he wants to burn grain, let's burn it back." ”

"The children can be taught." Li Hao patted Lu Yun on the shoulder with a smile, and said, "You go to Cao Tian's house and set fire to it, burn it bigger, otherwise he won't be able to remember the lesson, and he will bring as many people as he wants, and he doesn't need to report to me." ”

"Yes!" Lu Yun heard that he could go to Cao Tian's house and set it on fire, not to mention how excited he was, he felt that he had never been so happy in his life, and it would be better if he could burn Cao Tian to death together.

Lu Yun only took Jin Li and the six of them, and went to Cao's house to set fire, Li Hao stopped his eyes on the man in black again, and asked with a smile: "You're not afraid of death?" ”

"Naturally not afraid!" The man in black stalked his neck with an arrogant face.

Li Hao asked again: "Then what are you afraid of?" ”

"Lao Tzu is not afraid of anything!"

"It can't be." Li Hao paced slowly with his hands in his hands, and said slowly, "No one is afraid of anything, some people are afraid of water, some people are afraid of heights, some people are afraid of insects, and some people are afraid of poisonous snakes...... Although the final result of all this is death, some people are obviously not afraid of death, but they are afraid of these things, and the process and the result are often two different things. ”

The man in black snorted coldly, his face was full of disdain, Li Hao was not annoyed, turned his head and said to a right guard: "Escort down, send someone to strictly guard it, and serve it with good food and drink, huh...... Every day I go to the satisfaction building to find a girl to enjoy for him. ”

"Huh?" Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they thought they had heard it wrong.

"Don't doubt your ears." Li Hao raised his eyebrows and said indifferently, "Do as I say." ”

"Yes!" Several right guards were ordered to escort the man in black down.

In the middle of the night, a rapid gong suddenly sounded in Tingzhou City, and then someone was heard shouting: "Go to the water!" Let's go to the water! Caofu is walking in the water......" The cry is getting louder and louder, more and more, and the lights of every house in the city are lit up.

In just a moment, the courtyard of Caofu in Tingzhou City was already on fire, and the streets were full of people, looking in the direction of the fire, and some people ran there, wanting to see the excitement.

Suddenly, a large number of men and horses rushed out of the Thorn Shi Mansion and rushed towards Cao Mansion, and the people along the way avoided one after another, and they also knew that these soldiers were going to fight the fire, and they could not be delayed.

Three hundred right guards surrounded the gate of Cao's mansion, but did not come forward to put out the fire, Cao's mansion was already very busy, all saving people and things, shouting to the sky, people kept rushing out of the mansion, Cao Tian's son Cao Qingyun just rushed out of the courtyard door, saw a large number of people standing at the door, but did not go in to fight the fire, so he stepped forward and asked: "Why don't you go in to help put out the fire!" ”

Peng Hai, who was the leader, said coldly: "Lord Assassin Shi has not arrived, without his order, we can't make claims!" ”

"You ...... Are you here to see the excitement......" The people of Cao Mansion were half angry, piled up at the door and kept insulting Peng Hai, Peng Hai didn't hear it, and he didn't even bother to clip his eyelids.

After waiting for a long time, Li Hao finally rode over slowly, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Yo, what a big fire." ”

Just when Cao Qingyun saw Li Hao coming, he shouted loudly: "Lord Assassin Shi, quickly let your soldiers go in to help put out the fire." ”

Li Hao looked at the raging fire in the courtyard, and asked with a look of embarrassment: "There may not be a drop of water in this three-zhang deep well in Tingzhou City, how can you put out the fire without water?" ”

Cao Qingyun was stunned when he heard this, Li Hao was right, Tingzhou is located on the edge of the Gurbantunggut Desert, with perennial drought and little rain, and there is really no water to extinguish a fire here, so now the people in Cao Mansion are rescuing property, not fighting fires.

But Cao Qingyun was too anxious, so he didn't care whether there was water or not, and said loudly: "Then can you just watch the fire burn, you can go in and save people!" ”

"That's what you said." Li Hao raised his eyebrows, showed a sly smile, and was about to wave his hand to let the right guards in.

At this time, Cao Tian suddenly strode out and said loudly: "No need! ”

Li Hao turned his eyes to look at Cao Tian, only to see that his hair and eyebrows had been burned a lot, his clothes had been torn, his face was covered with sweat, and he looked very embarrassed.

Li Hao looked at Cao Tian with a sly smile on his face and asked, "Don't drive Cao, don't you really need help?" ”

Cao Tian's face was gloomy as mist, to be honest, he couldn't wait to step forward and bite Li Hao to death now, he hesitated for a moment, he suddenly said: "Lord Li, if you really want to help, please send someone to draw water from Kunyue Lake in Xicheng, send it to the door of the lowly house, and help put out the fire." ”

Kunyue Lake is in a wasteland in Xicheng, covering an area of about five acres, it is quite deep, the people of Tingzhou rely on this lake for water, but Kunyue Lake is a little far away from here, not to mention there are five miles of road, draw water from so far away to fight the fire, no matter how you listen to it, it makes people feel that "far water can't save near fire".

Li Hao also saw that Cao Tian didn't want to let him help at all, which can prove that Cao Tian's family really had some ulterior secrets, such as a huge amount of treasure or a large amount of rice and grain.

Since Cao Tian said so, Li Hao naturally wanted to cooperate with him, nodding and smiling: "Okay!" Then he turned around and said in a loud voice, "Everyone obeys the order, carries buckets, and goes to Kunyue Lake to draw water!" After he finished speaking, he secretly glanced at Peng Hai, and the meaning was very simple: "Just make a show, don't take it seriously." ”

So Peng Hai took three hundred right guards to Kunyue Lake to draw water, and when they arrived at Kunyue Lake, Peng Hai ordered everyone to sit down and rest, and by the way, chatted with those right guards who were guarding the cornfield here, Li Hao's cornfield was here, and there were right guards guarding it day and night.

After resting for half an hour, Peng Hai felt that it was almost over, so he asked everyone to carry half a bucket of water and go back, and rest for a while every mile, he had to strictly implement Li Hao's instructions, which meant it, don't take it too seriously.

When they returned to the door of Cao's house with buckets, it was already an hour later, and the fire was almost burning, although Cao's house was big, but it couldn't help but be engulfed by such a fire, and after another half an hour, the flames gradually became smaller, the eastern sky was red, and the sun slowly climbed out of the horizon, and when the sun completely jumped out of the ground, there was no fire in Cao's mansion anymore, only the ruins of white smoke everywhere remained.

Li Hao was still waiting outside the gate of Cao's Mansion, and it didn't take long for Cao Tian to walk out of the courtyard gate with his family and hundreds of families, sort out the embarrassed description, and then salute: "Thank you Lord Li for worrying about your humble duties." ”

"You're welcome, you're welcome." Li Hao replied with a smile on his face, and then asked in a low voice, "Don't drive Cao, can you take a step to speak?" ”

Cao Tian was stunned, nodded and said, "Naturally." ”

"Come with me." Li Hao took him past the crowd, walked to the east side of the street, and stopped nearly a hundred meters away from the crowd, then turned around and looked at Cao Tian with a smile. ”

"How dare I command you." Li Hao grinned, "I'm afraid you'll stab me in the back again." ”

Cao Tian frowned, pretending to be confused: "What the adults say, I don't understand the lowly position." ”

"Yes!" Li Hao raised his eyebrows and glared, "Didn't you arrest the son of the shopkeeper Li?" Didn't you send the person who went to Longchang Grain Store last night to set fire to it? ”

Cao Tian saw that he had torn his face, so he didn't bother to pretend anymore, and said coldly: "This fire in the humble family must be the masterpiece of adults, right?" ”

Li Hao waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's not a masterpiece, it's a little pretentious to say that it's trivial, so it's mediocre." ”

Cao Tian's forehead was bruised, he hadn't been so angry for many years, he wanted to kill someone so much, he clenched his fists, making a galalaing sound, Li Hao raised his eyebrows and chuckled when he saw this: "What?" Angry? ”

"Don't dare!" He gritted his teeth and glared at Li Hao, although he didn't dare, his expression told Li Hao that he was very angry.

"You think you're going to be angry?" Li Hao suddenly smiled, stared at him, and said coldly, "Do you think that the official has no temper, the official said, let you stay obediently, don't make any small moves for me, you seem to take the official's words as a deaf ear, but it doesn't matter, the official has the means to deal with you, presumably you also think that the open gun is easy to dodge and the dark arrow is difficult to prevent, don't be afraid to tell you clearly, no matter if you have a clear gun and a hidden arrow, the official will follow, but ...... Next time, if you annoy the official, it's not as simple as burning the house. ”

After Li Hao finished speaking, he threw up his sleeves and returned to the front of the right Xiao guard team, and said loudly: "Go, go home!" After speaking, he took three hundred right Xiaowei Hao to stab back at Shifu, Cao Tian looked at Li Hao's arrogant back, his forehead trembled, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Li Hao, you wait, I will tell you to survive!" You can't die! ”

On the same day, the Longchang grain shop resumed business, and the price of rice and noodles also dropped by two percent, the price of grain in Tingzhou was many times higher than that in Guanzhong, and the discount was a great deal, the people of Tingzhou were overjoyed when they heard the news, and they came to buy grain, and the Longchang grain shop was therefore prosperous, and sold more than 800 stone rice noodles in just one day, the business was too good, and the shopkeeper Li had to personally go to the shop to help.

There is an old man in the city, is a famous old man in the city, he is more than seventy years old this year, more than ten years ago, Cao Tian was just a Tingzhou Sima, Zhu Sulao's son Ren Tingzhou Thorn History, and later because the three horse thieves joined forces to attack Tingzhou City at night, Zhu Thorn Shi personally led the troops to the enemy, and finally repelled the horse thieves after a vicious battle, and Zhu Thorn Shi was also injured, and later died in office because of wound infection; Zhu Su Lao is also a well-educated person, opening a school in Tingzhou, teaching students, if he meets a poor student, he does not charge literary fees, and burns his last life for the construction of the Tang Dynasty, so he is highly respected by the people in Tingzhou City, and it can be said that he is highly virtuous.

Zhu Su Lao also came to buy food today, Li shopkeeper saw him coming, personally greeted him, the two chatted a few words, Zhu Su Lao asked: "Li shopkeeper, why did you suddenly close your business for no reason, but it can cause the people in the city to have a false alarm." ”