Shortly in the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers went deep into the streets and alleys at various market entrances. They only asked one thing about people they met: "Have you been robbed at home in the past few days?"
"Being a thief? The family is poor and has nothing of value. Only rich families recruit thieves. Even our thieves look down upon it. Welcome to read. "
"Are you being robbed? That's true. Wang Er next door steals firewood from my firewood pile every day and goes home to light the fire. But if you want to pick him up, there's no need to take him. Wang Er's feet are disabled and there is a blind old lady at home, so he just steals.
, there is no need to arrest him, it’s so pitiful.”
"Thief? Just talking about it makes me want to laugh. The winter before last year was also the same. It was freezing. A little thief came to my house to steal something. That day, my wife blamed me for losing 500 coins in gambling yesterday.
At night, I put a mallet under the quilt to prevent me from going to bed. I had no choice but to make a bunk and sleep on the floor. Unexpectedly, a thief came at night. He opened the door latch and stepped in. He just guessed that my arm slipped.
, Bing Ye, guess what? Hey, Bing Ye, don’t leave, I haven’t finished speaking yet, these Qiu Ba, why did you leave when I just got addicted to telling stories? "
Bing Ye didn't listen, but the people next to him became interested: "Tell me, what happened next?"
"What happened next? The thief hit the edge of the bed with a bang. The girl in my family thought it was me who secretly crawled onto the bed. She swung the mallet and hit the little thief blindly, beating the little thief all over his head.
In the end, the one who cried for father and mother ran away, that was so miserable...tsk, tsk, tsk."
The eyes of the onlookers were dancing on the ground: "That old woman in your family is very cruel. Brother, you must have eaten a lot of sticks. It's hard for you to still be alive and kicking."
"Go, go, you guys know nothing. Hitting means kissing, scolding, or love. Besides, my girls are also very measured in their attacks. They only hit the forehead and never hit the vital points. She knows that my forehead is harder than iron.
If you share it, you can bear it."
"Tch...!" Everyone dispersed in a hurry, bragging was too much.
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In this afternoon, the soldiers did not find out anything, but they listened to a lot of stories, but they were all stories that had nothing to do with the past few days. Occasionally, someone claimed that there had been a thief in their home in the past few days, but they lost their gold.
The silver and copper coins are completely different from the type of thief that the envoy told me to look for.
The sun was turning to the west, and the soldiers came to the Yamen one after another to report to Su Jin. When someone came, Su Jin's heart sank, because what he brought was not a clue.
Seeing that at the end of Shenshi, the sky was getting dark and the yamen was about to close, Su Jin finally got up in despair and walked to the inner hall of the yamen dejectedly. After tossing so many brothers out all afternoon, he ended up with a lot of petty theft cases.
, the master sitting in the yamen hall asked uninterestedly: "The envoy is really clever, he can actually know that thieves and thieves are prevalent in Yangzhou City without leaving home. After this improvement, our Yangzhou City will be a peach blossom garden where we don't close our doors at night and don't pick up things on the road. I admire you."
,admire."
Su Jin was furious, stretched out his hand and stuffed a pile of petty theft cases into his master's arms and said: "Thanks to your Lord Song, we have solved them one by one. The world of Yangzhou Qingping will depend on you. I have done my best to be benevolent and righteous."
The master was dumbfounded. Mr. Song didn’t know what was going on these days. He was lying in bed, sighing and not even sitting in the lobby of the government office. These cases probably fell on him. Big cases are easy to handle. These cases are easy to handle.
I'm afraid this trivial case will not be investigated until the Chinese New Year. It's really unlucky.
Su Jintie had just passed through the Yamen with a livid face when he heard the thumping of footsteps behind him. He turned around and saw Zhao Hu running over, panting heavily, and loudly said: "Sir, walk slowly, I have heard some news."
Su Jin hurriedly asked: "Why didn't you come back until now? Didn't I ask you to go nearby to inquire?"
Zhao Hu said: "I asked all over the area, but couldn't find anything. So I went all the way to Nancheng to ask around the Tugangzi in the southeast corner. Finally, a family said that their family had lost things recently."
Su Jin cheered up and said, "What was lost?"
Zhao Hu said: "They were an old couple. The mother-in-law was ill and couldn't walk, and the husband had a deaf ear. He was talking to me in a completely wrong way, which made me almost jump out of my skin. I asked for a long time before I finally figured it out."
Su Jin rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, yes, thank you for your hard work. Tell me what you lost?"
Zhao Hu swallowed and spit, "That thief stole the cold rice dumplings from that kitchen for several days in a row. He came again last night. Not counting the rice balls, he also took away my father-in-law's old cotton trousers. How pitiful.
My father-in-law only has a pair of cotton trousers at home, and the two of them take turns wearing them. Now it’s great, the two of them are sitting on the bed with their buttocks naked and can’t get up.”
Su Jin frowned and said, "Why didn't my father-in-law report to the official a few days ago?"
Zhao Hu said: "My father-in-law thought it was a wild cat that entered the house. Besides, the place is remote, almost reaching the base of the city wall in the southeast corner. The old couple originally planted several crops of vegetables on the hill, but they were afraid that they would be destroyed by pigs and dogs.
, so I set up my house on a small slope and keep it under guard, far away from the streets in the city."
Su Jin vigorously patted Zhao Hu on the shoulder and said: "Good brother, this is how to do things. You are now different from what you used to be. You are both rough and fine. Not only can you fight, but you are also becoming more and more reliable in doing things. I feel so happy."
Make a note of your merit; the information you learned is very important; we will prepare immediately and set off."
Zhao Hu was embarrassed by Su Jin's praise and said coyly: "I learned it all from you, where are we going?"
Su Jin said: "Let's go to the old couple's house and ask someone to bring some rice, oil, money, and by the way, find some cotton clothes and trousers to take with us. We can't go to the father-in-law's house empty-handed."
Zhao Hu said: "Are you going to catch a thief at night?"
Su Jin said: "That's not true. At the end of the day and at night, the thief's stomach will be hungry again. I hope he is Long Zhen. If it weren't for him, I would jump into the river in a hurry."
As night fell, on a remote Nancheng trail, five riders slowly approached the small thatched house Zhao Hu had mentioned. At the foot of the hill, Su Jin dismounted, and the four generals of the Dynasty, Ma Han Hengha, also dismounted and tied their horses.
Down the slope, a few people quietly came to the thatched house carrying rice oil and new cotton-padded jackets and new cotton trousers.
Su Jin gently tapped the door of the room, but there was no sound at all in the darkness. Su Jin thought for a moment that the old man was hard of hearing and might not be able to hear, so he stretched out his hand and pushed.
The door was pushed open with a creak. Just when Su Jin was about to open his mouth to ask, he heard the sound of wind blowing in his face. With quick eyes and quick hands, Wang Chao stretched out his hand and pulled Su Jin to the side. A steel fork pierced Su Jin's ribs with a whirring sound.
Immediately afterwards, a short old man with gray temples rushed out angrily with his lower body naked, holding a steel fork and shouted loudly: "You are a damn little thief, you just stole our food, even the old man
I also stole my cotton trousers, give me my cotton trousers, give me my cotton trousers.”
Only then did everyone realize that the father-in-law regarded him as a thief. Zhao Hu hurried forward, stuffed the few cotton-padded clothes and trousers he was holding into the father-in-law's hands, and said loudly: "I, father-in-law, do you still recognize me? I have this afternoon.
Been here."
The old man couldn't hear what Zhao Hu was saying at all, but he still recognized Zhao Hu's face. He also saw Zhao Hu handing over a pile of cotton-padded clothes and trousers. Several others were carrying rice oil on their backs, and one person was also carrying a
The fragrant roast duck, but I still didn't understand that these people were here to help me. I threw away my fork in a hurry, handed over my cotton clothes and trousers with my hands, and my face turned into a smile.
Everyone lowered their heads and entered the house, poured oil into the oil lamps and lit them. Su Jin looked around and felt a little thump in his heart. This was not a place where people lived.
In addition to a bed in the house, there were a few tree stumps on the ground, which seemed to be benches; a raincoat was hung on the wall, and a straw curtain blocked the corner of the house, revealing a corner of an adobe bed. The house was full of stench.
I simply couldn't breathe.
The life that poor people live in is simply hell. There is such a big difference between people's fates. The luxurious houses and silk clothes are something that the old couple may have never seen in their lives. They have been busy all their lives and their families are surrounded by walls. It really makes people feel sad.
The old man tremblingly scooped out a bowl of water from the earthen pot in the corner of the room and brought it to Su Jin as a gesture of hospitality. Seeing Su Jin looking around the room, there was a hint of embarrassment in his wrinkles.
"There is nothing to entertain you at home. Just drink a bowl of water. There are a few red dates in the dustpan. The old man will catch you and eat them."
Su Jin looked at the dark bowl, how dare he drink the bowl of water, and said hurriedly: "Master, please don't be too busy."
"What? You want some candy?" The old man spread his hands and said, "You can't eat candy. I haven't seen what candy looks like in several years."
Chao Chao said hurriedly: "It's not that you want to eat sweets. My young master wants you to stop working. We are here to help you catch the thief."
"What? Do you want me to compensate you? Gentlemen, I didn't hurt you. I thought you were the thieves who stole the pants. I don't want to blackmail you. I didn't hurt you, so why should I compensate you?"
Everyone rolled their eyes and was speechless. The old man kept interrupting and it seemed impossible to communicate.
The old woman coughed from the bed in the corner of the room. Su Jin secretly cursed himself for being stupid. The old woman was slumped on the bed, but she was not deaf. It was better to tell the old woman what she wanted. So he walked outside the straw curtain and cupped his hands.
: "Old lady, we are official servants. We came here to catch the thief after hearing that there was a thief in your house. Please tell me, please, and let me wait in the house."
The old woman's weak voice came: "I heard it all, you just call him in, I just tell him."
Su Jin hurriedly turned to her husband and pointed to the bed behind the straw curtain. Then he put down the dirty water bowl, carried the rice oil cotton-padded clothes and went in happily. He didn't know what gestures the old woman made, but when he saw that the old man
He nodded repeatedly, kept looking at Su Jin and the others, and finally turned around, bowed his head to the ground and said: "My old man is deaf, but I misunderstood a few police officers and came to help me catch the thief. Naturally, I asked for it, and this thief is too special."
Damn it, if I catch him, he will be heartbroken."
Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief, so through the old woman's translation, she told her husband sentence by sentence not to make a sound, just go to bed and rest, and do everything by herself. The old man nodded repeatedly, and was busy putting on the new cotton pants, and carefully
He helped the old woman put on her new cotton-padded clothes and trousers, and the two of them were gesticulating, obviously very happy.
Su Jin had no time to watch the old couple's display of affection, so she blew out the lamp and ordered Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to hide by the firewood pile next to the house, while she and Wang Chaoyang Mahan hid in a corner of the house and waited quietly.