"Dad, the Chinese New Year is so wonderful, there are so many delicious foods!"
Liujin held the freshly fried hot fruit in his hand, eating it with sweetness.
The so-called fried fruits are fried sweet noodles.
Perhaps this is the nature of children. No matter how delicious the food at home is, it is never as fragrant as the food outside. And the food outside is the most attractive because of these unclean things.
Almost every child on the street, regardless of gender, holds this thing in their hands and eats it deliciously.
The crowds at the temple fair were huge, almost shoulder to shoulder, and people were squeezing each other. It was a bit like a certain subway line in later generations, and you would not fall down even if you fell asleep while standing.
But there was still a lot of space around Zhu Yunxi, because there were several circles of strong guards in front of him, completely isolating the two of them from the crowd.
"Dad, why can't you make such delicious fried fruits at home?" Liu Jin took the last bite of the hot fried fruits and asked.
"You're such a hot pot smeller!" Zhu Yunxi smiled, looked down at Liu Jin, and saw that his oil-stained hands seemed to have nowhere to put them, and continued, "Don't wipe it after you eat it, otherwise your mother will be verbose when you get home.
Got it!"
"Son, I know!" Liujin responded obediently.
Suddenly, Xiao Fu'er, who was riding on Deng Ping's shoulders, pointed to the distance and shouted, "Brother Hei, there are roasted chestnuts over there!"
"Where?" Zhu Yunxi stretched his neck and looked into the distance.
Liu Jin, who had nowhere to put his hands, took advantage of his father to talk to Xiao Fu'er and quickly touched his waist with his hands.
His hands were clean, but there were several oily twist marks on his lower back.
At this moment, He Guangyi, the commander of the Jinyiwei, came through the crowd sweating profusely.
"Master, we can't go any further!"
Zhu Yunxi wondered, "What's wrong?"
"There are too many people, it's a traffic jam!" He Guangyi was also dressed in casual clothes, but at the moment his clothes were in a very messy state, with his collar and hat crooked, and his fine lambskin boots full of footprints.
If you think about this journey, you will either be stepped on or squeezed by others!
"Something happened up front!" He Guangyi wiped the sweat from his head, "All the officers from Yingtian Mansion have passed!"
Before Zhu Yunxi could speak, Liujin asked with big eyes, "But there are criminal thieves?"
He Guangyi paused and said, "As for the young master, that's not the case!"
Zhu Yunxi glared at Liujin and asked, "What's going on? Why are the guards even dispatched during the Chinese New Year?"
He Guangyi swallowed, "At the temple fair in front, we caught a child thief!"
"Yeah!" Xiao Fu'er exclaimed and opened his hands for Zhu Yunxi to hug him. Liu Jin's eyes lit up and his ears stood up.
Zhu Yunxi took it, comforted him, frowned and said, "Speak carefully!"
"Two young couples took their son to the temple fair, and while walking around they discovered that their son was missing!" He Guangyi said quickly, "But where can I find them in this huge crowd? It is said that they are lucky!"
"There was an old man selling candy over there. He saw an old woman holding a child, and the child was crying..."
He Guangyi said again, "That old man sets up a stall here every year. He has seen many cases of missing children, so naturally he has become more cautious!"
"Because other children cry because the adults don't buy them anything. Besides, as a normal elder, who would want their children to cry during the Chinese New Year? Even if the children cry, buy something quickly to save outsiders from laughing!"
"Besides, the child is wearing new clothes and has a silver collar around his neck. He looks like a child from a well-to-do family. But the old woman is wearing an old cotton robe. She doesn't look like the child's grandmother, let alone the child's wet nurse!
"
Liujin became impatient and said loudly, "Tell me how you caught the trafficker who stole the child!"
"Yes, yes!" He Guangyi said hurriedly, "The old man selling the candy man saw something strange, so he teased the child with the candy man and said, "Stop crying, little kid, ask your grandmother to buy you a candy man to eat."
....”
"The child cried and howled, not the grandmother... and then! The old woman covered the child's mouth... and the old candy seller started shouting, are you stealing the child?
?”
"Just after I finished shouting, a man suddenly came out from the side and scolded the old sugar seller, saying that was his son. The old sugar seller always talked nonsense without knowing anything, so be careful with your tongue, etc..."
"That old man who sells candy has been around the world all his life, and no one has ever seen him! These facts further confirmed that the old woman and the man were child-stealers, so he grabbed the old woman and shouted, and the neighbors testified, now
Go and report to the official."
"If the little old man admits his mistake, kowtow to them and admit his mistake! If he doesn't admit his mistake, he cannot let go of this trafficker who has killed thousands of people!"
He Guangyi continued to speak quickly, "The onlookers cheered and surrounded me. At this time, someone shouted, there happened to be a lost child over there, and the Yamen were looking for it all over the street. They said it was a boy with a collar...
.”
"When the old woman and the man saw what was going on, they threw the child away and ran away. But they were held down by the neighbors!"
"That's a good thing!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile, "Only in times of peace and prosperity can people have simple hearts! That old man selling candy should be rewarded by Yingtian Mansion!"
"It's a good thing, but it's also a bad thing!" He Guangyi whispered, "I don't know who took the lead, but... the people and neighbors who were watching actually gave the old woman and the man to
Beat him to death in the street!"
"Beat him to death!"
Zhu Yunxi weighed the little Fu'er in his arms. The little girl was now heavy and her arms were a little tired.
The final outcome of this matter should be nothing more than the officers of Yingtian Mansion collecting the bodies and closing the case.
The law does not punish the public, and the person who was beaten to death was a child thief. If Ying Tianfu really wanted to arrest the neighbors who participated in this kind of thing, just wait for the Chinese New Year tomorrow and have people pour excrement at the yamen gate!
Ordinary people may not dare, but there is no shortage of such rich and wealthy playboys in the capital who are not afraid of trouble.
"If you can't make it, let's go!" Zhu Yunxi weighed Xiao Fu'er again, "Let's go for a stroll elsewhere!" After saying that, he looked at Liu Jin who seemed to be thinking about something, and asked with some consideration, "Da Ming law, stealing
What is the sin of children?”
"Death penalty, Ling Chi, is not included in the amnesty of the world!" Liu Jin opened his mouth about the legal provisions, but the next second he said, "Being beaten to death is not good!"
"It is indeed not good to be beaten to death by neighbors," Zhu Yunxi said, "but the people's indignation is also out of good intentions!"
Liu Jin suddenly said seriously, "My son means that if we beat them to death, their accomplices won't be able to catch them, right?"
Zhu Yunxi kept his steps steady and said with a smile, "How do you know you have an accomplice?"
"My son heard from Commander He that at first it was an old woman holding the child, but then because she was stopped, a man came out to scare people!"
"Then if you can't scare me enough to use force, will someone else come out? My husband has said that thugs are the best at bullying the few and using force to instill fear in people's hearts!"
"It can be seen that there are definitely more than one or two human traffickers. Furthermore, if they steal the children, where will they place them? The place where they are placed is a den of thieves, and there must be accomplices!"
"After resettlement comes resale, and resale requires buyers and someone to help find a way."
"Although my son is young, I have heard from gentlemen that children are lost every year in the capital. So were these people responsible for the previous cases?"
"If they had not died and been captured alive, perhaps the whole story, how many people were involved, and where the children were resold would be clear to everyone!"
He Guangyi, who was standing by, immediately gave a thumbs up and said, "Congratulations, young master!"
Zhu Yunxi was also a little surprised. He didn't expect such a young child to be so thoughtful.
The words are not only logically clear, but also imply reasoning, which is clear and well-founded.