Jinyiwei work report

For the sake of ventilation, the window was not closed tightly, leaving a gap. After the rustling in the grass stopped, a short, fat, pale hand stretched in through the gap and skillfully propped up the entire window.

Li Zhen, who was hiding in the dark, saw the owner of the hand through the moonlight. He was a dwarf as tall as a wooden barrel, with short hands and feet, but his head was not small. He came to the hanger, stood on tiptoe, tore off the clothes, put them on the ground and patted them gently, as if he was looking for something.

Suddenly, he found that there was no one on the bunk under the bed, he was shocked, turned his head in horror, and saw a shoe sole coming towards him.

The kick at the face door directly kicked him over, knocked his head to the ground, and passed out.

Song Yingbai heard the sound of a heavy object coming to the bottom, turned over and opened his eyes slightly, and saw Li Zhen waved at him, signaling him to continue sleeping, so he didn't care so much, turned over again, and entered the room with his back facing him. Dreamland.

Li Zhen found someone to tie up the dwarf with a rope, and hung him upside down on the beam of the house, making sure he couldn't escape, so he fell asleep.

The next day, after Song Yingbai woke up, when he turned over, he saw Li Zhen sitting behind the table in front of him and looking at him. He hurriedly sat up, "You woke up so early?"

"I'm used to it." After Li Zhen finished speaking, he glanced to the right, "Do you know this thing?"

Song Yingbai followed his gaze, and saw a dwarf tied upside down in a rice dumpling hanging from the beam of the house. The whole body was only as long as his calf, and his hair was sparse. When he looked closely, he could see the blue blood vessels under his pale skin. , the facial features are hypertrophy, and the specific age cannot be seen, but it makes people feel quite uncomfortable.

Song Yingbai hurriedly got off the ground, approached to look at the dwarf, "Caught it last night?"

"Yes, I guess he wants to steal your silver. He sneaked in last night and touched your clothes directly on the hanger."

Song Yingbai hadn't revealed his wealth during this journey, and if he could barely speak, he had revealed it once when he lived here last night.

He frowned, "It must be the people in this post station guarding themselves. Judging by his appearance, he is obviously not a postman."

"That's the postman's relative." Li Zhen picked up a teacup lid from the table and threw it on the dwarf. "I know you're awake. Either tell the mastermind behind the scenes, or I'll burn you to death."

The dwarf was in pain, and slowly opened his big swollen eyes. His eyes were protruding outward like a frog's.

Song Yingbai said: "We will do what we say. We will knock you unconscious and take you out of the post station, find a wild place, and burn it clean."

The dwarf pursed his mouth, and tears flowed down his forehead, "...I, I said...a postman..."

Li Zhen got up and untied him, "Okay, take us to identify it." Holding the rope behind the dwarf, he opened the door.

Song Yingbai hurriedly said: "Wait for me." Putting on the clothes on the hanger, he followed Li Zhen's footsteps while wearing a belt.

There was a small dining hall on the first floor. At this time, several postmen were cleaning. When they saw Li Zhen and the others, they stopped what they were doing and looked at them in surprise.

"This is a thief. I believe that the person who instigated him to steal is among you." After Li Zhen finished speaking, he passed the dwarf in front of each of them and tested them one by one. Hand it over to the government, he must be well aware of how he will be treated in prison in this state."

"Do you suspect that we, as postmen, guard ourselves and steal?" One of the youngest postmen said angrily: "There is no proof, why do you say that?"

With the other hand, Li Zhen took out Jin Yiwei's dental plaque from his belt, and showed it to everyone, implying that it was based on this.

Last night, I only knew that these two people were on official business, but they didn't know that their real identity was Jin Yiwei from the capital. This was absolutely unbearable. For a while, everyone was silent, afraid to speak, and listened to these two.

Li Zhen said to the dwarf, "Is there someone here who ordered you?"

Song Yingbai observed their expressions one by one. When the dwarves passed by, there were some who started differently, and some who were curious and looked more at the dwarf, with different expressions.

And Li Cai, who hugged them with quilts last night, just came in from the outside at this time, holding a rag in his hand, watching everything that happened with a dull expression, wearing the same coarse postman uniform as yesterday, but the belt is neat tied on the belly.

At this time, Li Zhen also saw Li Cai, and looked back at Song Yingbai, and the two of them made eye contact, understanding.

"Brother—brother—save me—" The dwarf suddenly shouted at the young postman who questioned Li Zhen and the others just now, "Brother, save me quickly, I don't want the Jin Yiwei to arrest—"

The young postman jumped a few steps away, "Don't talk nonsense, I don't know you at all." He said to Li Zhen, "I'm wronged, I really don't know this monster."

Seeing this, the other postmen just moved a little away from the young postman and didn't say much.

"I only came here last month, and I don't even know this little monster!" The young postman blushed with anxiety.

Li Zhen nodded slowly, "I already know everything." Glancing at Song Yingbai, "Take him away." After speaking, he carried the little dwarf and walked straight away.

But Song Yingbai said: "Yes." and walked towards the young postman, who was so frightened that the young postman cried bitterly: "It's really not me!"

Unexpectedly, Song Yingbai passed him by, walked straight to Li Cai, pulled his arm behind him, locked it behind him, and pushed hard, "Let's go."

The young postman held back his tears, "Huh?"

Li Cai struggled, "It's not me who identified him, why arrest me?! You arrested the wrong person."

"That's right, let's go!" Song Yingbai pushed him to the room at the end, leaving the other postmen to look at each other, some sighed, some shook their heads, and then they all continued to do their own things.

After Song Yingbai escorted Li Cai back to his and Li Zhen's room, he pushed him into the middle of the house.

Li Zhen had already sat down at this time, and patted the chair next to her, "You sit here."

Song Yingbai opened his clothes and sat down, pointed at Li Cai and the dwarf and said, "You guys are really good at it, we are early in the morning, and we haven't eaten yet, so we have to interrogate you!"

Li Cai shivered, looked at the dwarf and said, "The one he identified just now...wasn't me..."

The dwarf also said: "It's not him, it's really not him, it's the young one."

Li Zhen was very impatient with this clumsy performance, "It's because the young man just came last month and didn't know what you were doing, so you framed him. Others obviously know the inside story. You don't point out Li Cai , but made me more sure that he is the chief envoy.”

Song Yingbai stared at Li Cai, and said coldly: "I just rode out from the capital yesterday morning, and I didn't show any money along the way, only at night when you hugged the quilt, I watched you work hard, and rewarded you with a piece of silver. Unexpectedly But it attracted you to steal, and we suspected you long before we identified you."

Li Zhen continued: "As for how this dwarf knew, I don't think you told him, but... Li Cai, take off your clothes!"

Li Cai couldn't help taking a step back. These two people are so powerful, they seem to know everything.

Li Zhen said coldly: "Hurry up!"

Li Cai had no choice but to take off the postman's clothes, just as Song Yingbai and the others had expected, Li Cai's belly was not that big at all, and he wore a braces outside his coat, like a back pocket for a woman to carry a child. Just in the position of the stomach and lower abdomen.

Needless to say, it was used to pretend to be the dwarf.

Song Yingbai had always suspected Li Cai, but when he saw that his stomach was not growing, he guessed what was going on.

When he hugged them yesterday, there was a dwarf in the back pocket under the clothes, so the dwarf heard about Song Yingbai's reward, and only then did the theft happen at night.

As for why Song Yingbai thought it was the dwarf's own actions, not Li Cai's instigation, it was because Li Cai saw that the dwarf was caught, and there was no worried expression on his face, but a kind of numbness and dead-hearted dullness.

Seeing that the matter had been exposed, Li Cai knelt down and said, "My lords, to tell you the truth, he is my son...he really likes to steal things...I can't manage it anymore..." With tears in his eyes, he stared at the dwarf, "You don't dare to see people, so I will carry you behind my back, but in the end you only know how to steal! I really..."

I really wish I hadn't had you, and I regret not strangling you at birth.

The dwarf blinked his eyes, with tears all over his face, and said with a sob, "I thought of stealing some money because I thought you were working hard... You are too old to be a postman, and I am like this again. Who will support you in the future?" You."

Song Yingbai knew why the other postmen had the same attitude just now. The Li family father and son were too miserable, so these colleagues turned a blind eye to them and let the little dwarf steal some money from passers-by on weekdays. Most of them are officials and relatives of officials, with rich pockets.

If they are not caught, they will not report it, and if they are caught, they will not cover it up.

Li Cai cried bitterly, "Our Li family is unfortunate, and one generation is not as good as the next generation. I thought our ancestors were magistrates, but I didn't expect that I could only be a postman, but you are not even a normal person."

The dwarf also cried, "It's not our fault, it's all the Zhai family's fault. They stole our Feng Shui."

Hearing the Zhai family, Li Zhen and Song Yingbai immediately became alert, "Which Zhai family?"

Li Cai covered his son's mouth, "No nonsense!"

Li Zhen said: "Let him go and let him talk!" There are many people with the surname Zhai, but the Zhai family cannot be mentioned, so it is very likely to be...

The dwarf sobbed: "Father, we are all like this, what are we afraid of, it is the Zhai family who has been selected as the son-in-law, these two are Jin Yiwei, you can't tell others, you can always tell them."

Because Jin Yiwei digs out the secrets of officials and nobles everywhere, monitors all officials, monitors vassal kings, and naturally includes the secrets of the son-in-law.

"It's all groundless speculation. Now that someone has a son-in-law, we can't afford to offend you. It's a small crime for you to steal something. If you slander the son-in-law, it's a serious crime." Li Cai said to his son.

But the dwarf seemed to be frightened by him, he clenched his teeth and dared not speak.

Li Zhen saw through Li Cai's considerations. The postman was a job of serving officials, so he was somewhat careful. Like Li Cai, he should have seen that the Jin Yiwei in front of him actually wanted to inquire about the son-in-law, so he intentionally frightened his son. The purpose is for Jin Yiwei to give them a guarantee.

Li Zhen is willing to do this favor, "If you say so, not only will I not blame you for slandering the son-in-law, but I will not even care about today's theft."

When Li Cai heard this, he hurriedly said: "I said, I said, my grandfather said that the ancestors of Lao Zhai's family used to be neighbors to our ancestors, and later our ancestors became Jinshi and became officials. Everyone said that the ancestral tomb was built. Okay, and then the Zhai family also built the ancestral grave, and later... our family obviously had Jinshi, but the situation became more and more difficult, while the Zhai family obviously had no one to be an official, but it went well, farming harvests, and opening a shop to make money. At the same time, Our Li family's land, it is said that the weather is good, but the harvest often fails, and one shop is open and the other is yellow.

That being said, there was no proof until I married the daughter of a down and out scholar, she could read and write, and I am not too stupid, so I should have a good child, but..." He looked at his son , with tears in his eyes, said: "If we were born like this, we would not dare to have another child, but then we heard that the Zhai family gave birth to a big fat boy almost at the same time, who was very lucky, and now he was chosen as the son-in-law. What a coincidence of? "

Song Yingbai looked at Li Zhen suspiciously, it sounded a bit strange indeed.

Li Zhen said to Li Cai: "Then you have such doubts in your heart, are you just waiting to die? Didn't you take any action?"

"Although the previous generations had such doubts, there was no evidence after all. I asked Mr. Feng Shui to secretly look at the graves of the two families, and they all said that there was nothing wrong with the burial place. But in our generation, it is really bad. I think of this incident. , I couldn’t help it, and secretly observed the ancestral graves of the two families, and found that there was a gap in one of the ancestral graves of their family and ours. I found out, and quickly filled our family’s with soil. From this, I concluded that the ancestral tombs of our two families must be related, otherwise how could there be a coincidence to crack at the same time?"

Song Yingbai said: "When did you find out that there was a crack in your ancestral grave?"

"Just last month."

Li Zhen signaled Song Yingbai to come over, and said in a low voice, "Zhai Yong is the black bird you saw last month, right?"

Song Yingbai nodded.

Li Zhen stood up straight, and said to Li Cai: "Tell me the location of your family's ancestral grave, and then don't reveal a word about today's affairs. Besides, your son's hands and feet are not clean, you..."

"I will quit this postman, take him home and discipline him properly." Li Cai said hastily.

Song Yingbaixin said that even if he didn't resign and was caught out in public, he couldn't do it anymore.

After Li Cai said the address of his ancestral grave, they had nothing to do here, so they were all sent away.

When the people left, Song Yingbai frowned and said, "If what Li Cai said is true, can the Zhai family still be regarded as innocent?"

"That's what the ancestor of the Zhai family did. It has nothing to do with him. Besides, the wedding date with the princess has already been set. Unless the son-in-law dies or is exposed as having been married, it's trivial to use Fengshui as an unproven thing. .”

"He can't die." Song Yingbai felt a little helpless, "I'm responsible for protecting him. If he had an accident, I'm in trouble."

"That's right, we went out this time to investigate the Raksha bird that might kill the son-in-law." Li Zhen looked at Song Yingbai with his chin in his hand, alas, I really broke my heart for you.

Song Yingbai seemed to hear Li Zhen saying, I am really worried about you, and immediately got up and said, "I'm going to wash my face."

As soon as the words fell, a postman outside the door said: "You two tolerances, hot water is here."

It was the young postman who was wronged just now who opened the door. He also had a companion, each holding a basin of hot water.

"Please use hot water." After entering the house and putting down the hot water, they all backed out with smiles.

Song Yingbai raised his eyebrows, "I don't need to trouble you."

After the two washed up, they went out to eat. At this time, there were already other residents eating in the small hall, and they seemed completely unaware of what happened just now.

At this time, I saw a man and a woman coming down from the second floor, the woman was unparalleled, too glamorous to look directly at, and the man, whom Song Yingbai knew unexpectedly, was Li Jia.

Li Jia saw Song Yingbai's feet go limp, and if he hadn't held on to the handrail, he would have fallen off.

"What's wrong?" Du Shiniang supported Li Jia.

Li Jia raised his sleeves to cover his face, hurried past Song Yingbai and Li Zhen, and was about to go out.

Du Shiniang held him back, "I haven't eaten yet."

Li Jia said anxiously: "Don't eat it."

"Take a bite, I'm really hungry." After finishing speaking, he sat down, and seeing that Song Yingbai and the others didn't look at him, Li Jia also sat down with his back to Song Yingbai and the others.

"This man is Li Jia. He and Ma Yongyan are friends, and he helped him redeem many members of the Ma family. However, I checked, and he probably doesn't know the details of Ma Yongyan." Song Yingbai whispered: "That woman seems to be He's from the Jiaofang Division, and he's a good friend."

Li Zhen glanced in that direction, "The woman is Auntie Du, known as Du Shiniang."

When Song Yingbai heard this, he turned his head abruptly and stared straight at Du Shiniang. He said that Li Jia's name sounded so familiar, and he turned out to be the scum of the century who betrayed Du Shiniang.

Thinking of this, he looked at Auntie Du's baggage again, wondering if the treasure chest was in there?If the dwarf knew, he would definitely steal her, and maybe he wouldn't be able to overturn the car.

Just as he was watching, he was lightly hit on the back of the head with chopsticks. Then he turned his head and looked at Li Zhen puzzled.

"Don't watch, Auntie Du will scold you for being an apprentice later, let's see how you step down." Li Zhen asked tentatively, "Are you interested in beauties?"

"Not all of them are interested." Du Shiniang is a celebrity, and what she witnessed today is well-deserved, but she has her own destiny, which is embarrassing.

"..." From all Li Zhen's thoughts, it seems that he should not have broken sleeves.

After dinner, the two continued on their way. When they were straightening their saddles, they saw Li Jia and Du Shiniang coming out.

Song Yingbai looked at the lively and pretty Du Shiniang, and thought that after all, he was a character who had been included in textbooks, so he should give her a few words at least, so he murmured loudly to himself: "It's hard to find a two-legged dog, and two Men with legs run all over the street, and if they meet a bastard, they will change to another one. If you have money and good looks, don't you worry about being loved by no one!"

After finishing speaking, he got on the horse, reined in the horse with one hand, and beat the horse with the other, "Drive!" and galloped out, leaving the others stunned.

Li Jia and Du Shiniang were naturally at a loss.

Li Zhen was even more puzzled, Song Yingbai, what's the matter with you, what nonsense did you just say? !