Criminal investigation in ancient times

The crowd dispersed to both sides, two attendants followed Lin Xiaoze and dragged Zhang Rui to avoid the makeup shop on the side, Zhang Rui turned around and saw Lin Xiaomin standing in the middle of the road in a daze with a kite in his arms, he was annoyed, he should have listened to Xiaoze If not, this kid is not only timid, but also a little dumb!

Zhang Rui hurriedly shouted: "Xiaomin, get out of here!" The male duck voice of the half-sized man was so ear-piercing that it aroused people's attention.When did Lin Xiaomin standing in the middle of the road encounter such a thing, he turned his head to look at Zhang Rui with staring eyes, his face was so pale with fright that he couldn't even move his legs.

Zhang Rui threw off the entourage leading him and ran to the road to push the people away. The horse was already in front of him. Although Captain Zhang had a high force value, who could tell that this small body couldn't keep up.The horse stood up in fright with its entire front legs, and it was about to step on his back.

"Hiss~~~~" There was a piercing cry of the horse, and when Zhang Rui opened his eyes again, the horse was already lying on the ground twitching all over, with a puddle of blood bleeding from its neck.

Zhang Rui looked around and saw a man in a black robe looking at him with a faint smile on his face.That person is none other than Zhou Yin who competed with him in Muguzhai.

Zhang Rui walked over and said, "Thank you Mr. Zhou for saving me today!"

At some point in Zhou Yin's hand, an extra fan "shuala" opened to cover the two of them, lowered his head and looked at Zhang Rui playfully, "How do you know I saved you? I didn't make a move."

A faint smell of medicine penetrated Zhang Rui's nose, and Zhang Rui said in his heart, this person is really not in good health.As soon as he raised his head and looked into Zhou Yin's eyes, he suddenly remembered a sentence in the sketch: "They are all foxes, why are you playing with me..." He didn't poke him, just nodded and said: "I thought it was Zhou Yin Young Master, since it’s not the case, I’ll thank others.” After speaking, he nodded and left.

Lin Xiaoze was so frightened, it took him a long time to react and ran over, grabbed Zhang Rui and looked up and down, "Ruier, are you okay? The horse didn't hurt you, did it? I was scared to death just now! In case you were caught by that The horse stepped on... But why did the horse suddenly fall to the ground? It's really strange!" He was so frightened that his face was covered with cold sweat.

Lin Xiaomin sat on the side of the road blankly, because Zhang Rui pushed with some strength just now, and he fell hard, a long cut was scratched on the hem of his clothes, his hair was messed up, and the paper kite he held in his hand was also torn.Seeing that Zhang Rui had nothing to do, his heart fell from his throat, and he cried unknowingly with tears all over his face.

The onlookers saw that the horse was dead and that there were no casualties, so they dispersed. After a while, two boys in common clothes ran up, their faces turned pale with fright when they saw the dead horse.One of them said loudly: "Who killed this horse?!" His tone was not good.

Because Zhang Rui was taken aback by the horse, he was already a little angry. When he saw the owner of the horse coming, he said in this tone without apologizing: "You two are the owner of the horse?"

Seeing someone replying, the two young servants stepped forward: "Of course we are not the owners of this horse, but you killed this horse that came as a tribute from the Western Regions. Your lord will definitely not let you go!" We must arrest Zhang Rui.

Lin Xiaoze stepped forward, frowned and dragged Zhang Rui back, staggering the boy's hand and saying, "Why are you two so unreasonable? He didn't kill this horse, but the horse almost stepped on him just now. You two don't apologize. Forget it, it's so rude!"

When the two servants heard that this man did not kill the horse, they scratched their heads and wondered what to do.The rest of the onlookers who did not leave pointed out to the two of them what to say to bully human beings.

Lin Xiaoze snorted coldly and shouted to Lin Xiaomin who was beside him: "Why are you crying, don't leave!" Lin Xiaomin stood up, patted the dust off his body, wiped the tears from his face and followed the two elder brothers.

Standing in the crowd, Zhou Yin squinted his eyes and looked at the boy who left, closed his fan and tapped his other hand lightly, muttering: "Well, I guessed it, there's no more fun now." Then he turned and left The crowd, with a few guards around them, they were dressed like ordinary people, if you don't look carefully, you really can't see it.

Lin Xiaoze was carrying the paper kite, and hearing Lin Xiaomin's sobbing, he said angrily: "Don't cry! If I hadn't brought you out today, how could I have encountered such bad luck! Do you have a head or a leg? When the horse came over, everyone stepped aside, but you stood in the middle of the road in a daze?!"

Lin Xiaomin lowered his head, hugged the broken paper kite and didn't speak, still sobbing non-stop, today he was really frightened, it was the first time he experienced such a dangerous thing at such a young age, if Zhang Rui hadn't pushed him , maybe today he will die under the horse's hooves.

Zhang Rui rubbed his forehead and said: "Forget it, it's lucky that you didn't get hurt, Xiaomin, don't stand still when you encounter such a thing next time, try to run to both sides, you know?"

Lin Xiaomin nodded, and cowardly said: "I understand Brother Rui."

When the three of them returned to Lin's mansion, the attendants told Master Lin what happened today, but the attendants didn't know Zhou Yin, and they didn't know who killed the horse.

Master Lin thought about it for a while, and there must be someone with expertise to help him. He sighed secretly, exaggerated Zhang Rui, reprimanded Lin Xiaoze and Lin Xiaomin and let it be over.

When encountering this incident during Chinese New Year, Zhang Rui was still a little flustered, so Zhang Rui came out of Lord Lin's study and went back to his guest room alone.Because the guest room was rather remote, Mrs. Lin tidied it up and made a separate yard for Zhang Rui. On weekdays, there were only two cleaning maids and two servants, and Uncle Han also lived with him. When Rui came back, he briefly told him about the sacrifice.

Uncle Han: "Master, I don't think you look very good, but what troubles you have encountered?"

Zhang Rui told Uncle Han about what happened on the street today, and Uncle Han said he was afraid after hearing this. "Master, how dare you rush forward? If the horse steps on you, it will kill you on the spot!"

Zhang Rui pinched his earlobe and said, "I didn't allow me to think too much about the situation at that time. If I didn't save him, the child would die under the horse's hooves." In fact, even as a policeman in modern times, if he sees a child in the middle of the road, He will also rush to save people, this is an instinct and has nothing to do with others.

Uncle Han sighed and said, "Master, you are still a child yourself. In the final analysis, we are dependent on others. If the master is still alive..." Old Han rubbed his hands. He had never experienced such cold in Beijing these days. My hands have frostbite, which doesn't show up outside, but when I enter the house, my hands are itchy unbearably.

Zhang Rui glanced at it and said in shock, "Uncle Han, why are your hands so swollen?"

Uncle Han hurriedly put his hands behind his back, "It's okay, young master, you're going to school after the next year, it's better to go out less during this period, if there's something missing, I'll go out and buy it for you.

Zhang Rui nodded, and told Uncle Han to go to the clinic as soon as possible. This frostbite can be small or serious, and if it is not treated properly, it will be amputated.

After Uncle Han retreated, Zhang Rui sat on the kang and thought of Zhou Yin just now. It was Zhou Yin's guards who saved him, but Zhang Rui was still not sure whether he was the Twelfth Prince or the First Prince.Forget it, he took out several purses from his pocket, these purses were the lucky money given in the morning for New Year's greetings, the old lady gave the most, a 50 tael silver note.Master Lin also gave the same 50 taels, other Mrs. Lin gave 20 taels of silver ingots, and finally Aunt Yuxiu gave a 100 taels of silver ingots.In this way, it is more than [-] taels, so you don’t have to worry about saving some money to buy pens and inks for the time being.

Master Lin will also give him 20 taels of silver every month as pocket money, the same as Lin Xiaoze and Lin Xiaomin, except that Lin Xiaoze has his mother's monthly subsidy, and from time to time he goes to the old lady to extort some money, Lin Xiaomin also has some His aunt, the elders he has no closeness with can only save it again and again.

By the way, Lin Xiaomin had just returned to Liuxiang Garden, when Yu Xiu saw her son's appearance, she was startled, and hurriedly pulled her over to ask what's going on?Did Xiao Ze bully him?

Lin Xiaomin shook his head, and told his aunt that he was almost hit by a horse on the road, and that Zhang Rui sacrificed his life to save him.Yuxiu patted her chest so frightened that she couldn't say a word, she held her son's hand trembling uncontrollably.

Lin Xiaomin: "Mother... If there is no brother Rui today, I am afraid that the child will never see mother again."

Yuxiu blushed and said: "Thanks to Rui'er, mother will give you something later, you can take it and thank him, it's not easy for him, he has nothing to live on, Amin finds opportunities to get close to him, if he With great promise, you are a cousin, he will naturally help you." It has to be said that although Yuxiu is an aunt, her vision of people is far higher than that of Mrs. Lin.

Lin Xiaoze returned to the backyard and told Mrs. Lin about it. Mrs. Lin was picking out some high-quality materials, she curled her lips after hearing Lin Xiaoze's words: "Didn't Mother tell you last time, don't tell Brother Rui My son went out, why did I go out with him again this time, and brought that little bastard with me." Mrs. Lin had never liked Yuxiu, and she always called her concubine son a bastard.

Lin Xiaoze frowned even though he was used to hearing it, and said, "Mother, don't always call him a bastard... I didn't even think about taking him with me. He insisted on following him. I didn't expect such a thing to happen. Almost stepped on by a horse."

Mrs. Lin snorted, and thought to herself, it's none of her business who let the horse step on them, as long as her two sons are fine.Although Xiaoqing asked his daughter-in-law Yuanying to persuade Mrs. Lin several times to treat Zhang Rui better, but every time she said a few words, Mrs. Lin became impatient, leaving Yuanying with nothing to say and no longer making fun of herself.

Lin Xiaomin came to Zhang Rui with the thank you gift prepared by his mother, just in time for Zhang Rui to practice martial arts, because today's saving people is really not honorable, making Zhang Rui more determined to practice those basic skills before, unexpectedly Turning around, I saw Lin Xiaomin standing at the door.

Zhang Rui wiped off his sweat and said, "Why didn't Xiaomin call me when he came? Come in and sit down."

Lin Xiaomin lowered his head, followed Zhang Rui into the room with a small wooden box in his arms, and said, "Today...thank you Brother Rui for saving your life, my mother...let me bring this to you as a repayment."

Zhang Rui opened the wooden box on the table in doubt, and saw a stack of 100 taels of silver bills in the wooden box.It looks like there are dozens of them.Zhang Rui was startled, and hastily closed the box and pushed it back, saying, "This... this is too precious, you and I are brothers, and I should save you, so you don't need to give me any thanks."

Lin Xiaomin raised his head and looked at Zhang Rui, with a faint light in his eyes: "Brother Rui, you can just accept this, my mother said that you have a lot of places to spend money after you are alone in the capital, it is impossible to always go to ask for it with your father, these things Money is not much to mother, but to elder brother Rui, it can solve a temporary need." This sentence may not be the longest sentence Lin Xiaomin uttered, but it is the most fluent sentence he uttered, as if everything He can become less shy and afraid about Zhang Rui's affairs.

Zhang Rui knew that Aunt Yuxiu's family was in business, otherwise she would not be a concubine for a good girl. Money is basically dispensable to Yuxiu, because when she is short of money Yes, her natal family will deliver the silver right away.This is also one of the reasons Mrs. Lin has been able to tolerate her for so many years, because most of the Lin family's expenses come from Yuxiu's natal family.

In the end, Zhang Rui still accepted the money, and chatted with Lin Xiaomin about the school by the way, after all, the two will study together in the future.

Lin Xiaomin was not interested in the school, so after chatting for a while, he somehow turned to Zhiyuan again.Lin Xiaomin sighed and said, "It's a pity that my paper kite was torn. If it didn't break, I would still be able to release the paper kite with Brother Rui."

Zhang Rui also showed interest and said, "The skeleton of the kite is not broken, why don't we draw another one and paste it."

The child's eyes lit up and he said, "Brother Rui, wait for me, I'll go get that broken paper kite."

Zhang Rui smiled and nodded, looked at the back of the child running out and sighed secretly: "In fact, Xiaomin is not so timid and cowardly, it's just caused by the environment..."