I solved crimes in the Song Dynasty and strengthened the country [Seventh Five-Year]

03 Can't find it in the snow

"Hey! The vicious dog kills people without enough food! Look at me, Zhan Zhao, doing justice for the sky today!"

After nightfall, at Dongshikou, a man in a red robe took the flying red-tasseled gun, jumped and played twice, and pointed at the ferocious black dog chasing him.

On the round platform, the tip of the gun flipped, and the black dog also turned a few somersaults as if it was spiritual. After being knocked down by the huge flame from the man's drink, it landed on its back and let out a dying whimper.

"it is good--"

Jiang Lin sat in the front row and cheered with the nearly [-] onlookers present.

Zhan Zhao at the side felt his ears burn.Although his name has often appeared in operas since the official gave Zhan Zhao the name "Royal Cat", he still hasn't fully adapted to such scenes.

Zhan Zhao couldn't help asking: "Jiang Shaocheng, you are the one who contributed the most to this case, why do you want people to sing that it's my credit? Please let me come over and watch..."

Jiang Lin smiled slightly and pointed in the direction of the round platform.

After the man sang the concluding words, he held a gong to collect the money for the performance, and a gold ingot fell in front of his eyes.

The man hurriedly raised his head to thank him, but he saw an imposing young man with a cold and arrogant expression, wearing a beautiful moon white flower cloak, with delicate features and youthful looks.

Zhan Zhao recognized at a glance that it was Bai Yutang who had met him once, and looked at Jiang Lin in surprise.

And this is all in the calculation of the latter.

Jiang Lin knew that if he wanted to solve the seven-day period hanging over his head, he had to meet Bai Yutang.Even if the other party was not a witness to the murder case, he still took away the Moonlight Pearl that he was ordered to look for.

That's why Jiang Lin arranged such a play, and brought along Bai Yutang's most cherished royal cat, Zhan Zhao, to watch.

Bai Yutang has a wild and proud personality, stealing pearls and teasing cats without concealing his behavior, but when he wakes up the next day, he finds that only "Royal Cat" kills "Tengu" in the city, and no one mentions his big move of "Golden Mouse". I have to hop secretly.

But he couldn't help but came to care about what others said about what happened last night, and he was even more curious about who erased his name.

Asking the location of the instigator from the hesitant man, Bai Yutang's eyes froze, and he put a steel knife on Jiang Lin's neck with his backhand, and kicked a white boot on the coffee table with a bang. The spectators fell back in fright.

Zhan Zhao said urgently: "Bai Yutang!"

Bai Yutang also recognized him, his eyes flickered, but he only asked Jiang Lin, "Did you teach me to sing this play?"

Jiang Lin's smile remained undiminished, and he deliberately provocatively said: "Bai Wuye is so skilled, but he only dares to bully Jiang, a weak man who has no strength to restrain a chicken. Brother Zhan, he is really not as good as you."

Bai Yutang suddenly became angry, seeing his right palm had a callus, the blade pressed down and said: "You clearly know martial arts."

"I used to meet, but it won't work if I broke my head. What's so strange about it?" Jiang Lin raised his neck slightly, but he didn't lose the slightest momentum. Relying on the benevolence of the officials, you dare to make trouble in Kaifeng Mansion, how can you be considered a hero?"

Bai Yutang was in a hurry when he heard the words, and was about to grab Jiang Lin's neck with his knife, but Zhan Zhao quickly blocked it, and the two sides passed several moves in an instant.Clothes fluttered and became entangled, tables and chairs split and fell, and the crowd screamed and fled in all directions.

The entertainer was tripped by someone unpreparedly, the money box was thrown into the sky, and copper coins, broken silver, and silver ping-pong were scattered down.

"Silver is falling from the sky! Hurry up and pick it up!!"

Some desperate crowd started to jostle and push.In the chaos, Jiang Lin "instinctively" reached out to block a hooligan who robbed the cash box, but was elbowed away by the other party.

Jiang Lin wanted to chase after him again, but the young master in Huafu beside him was stunned by the sudden change.Jiang Lin narrowed his eyes, turned sideways to stabilize the opponent, and said loudly: "West side!"

Zhan Zhao received the signal, and flew out a sleeve arrow with his backhand, which hit the fleeing man's left leg.However, he was accidentally hit on the shoulder by Bai Yutang, and fell rapidly from the height of the column.Bai Yutang hurriedly pulled the red silk to rescue him, Zhan Zhao turned over in the air to hide, and landed softly on the injured part.

The man protected the cash box, pointed at the black dog to bite the thief who robbed the money, ran up to Zhan Zhao in shock and panic, and said, "Thank you, Zhan Zhan, are you all right?"

Bai Yutang jumped to the center of the round platform, stabbed his knife into the floor, and instantly calmed down the troublemakers.

Being shiveringly stared at by everyone hiding behind the messy courtyard, Bai Yutang's chest was filled with embarrassment, and he said angrily, "I will pay for all the losses in this courtyard."

Jiang Lin walked to Zhan Zhao's side, pressed down the other's hand that wanted to protect him, and said slowly, "Bai Yutang, you call yourself a knight, but what you do is really childish..."

Bai Yutang sneered: "You bureaucrats are just afraid that you won't find the pearl or solve the case and lose your head. What qualifications do you have to preach to me?!"

Seeing that the other party admitted without hesitation to making trouble in the government office and stealing the pearl, Jiang Lin was also aroused a little.

As soon as he clapped the table, he said righteously: "Jiang has lost all his martial arts, and he can't defend the country like his father. He has already put life and death aside! Unlike you Bai Yutang, although you have all the abilities, you only dare to be with your own family. Fight! The northern whip hits the back, but you can still turn a blind eye!*”

These words moved everyone present.

At this moment, the vassal regime in the north has just left the Song Dynasty and established itself as Xia.The traitor Li Yuanhao's attitude was extremely arrogant, which made the Song people feel the humiliation of the Chanyuan Alliance again.Jiang Lin's words happened to hit the most painful and hated place in the hearts of the people of the Song Dynasty.

What an honor it is to serve the country.A person like Bai Yutang with high martial arts skills has the ability, why doesn't he go to the battlefield to kill the enemy?

Everyone looked at Jiang Lin with scorching eyes, applauding silently for him.

Bai Yutang was at a disadvantage, and his heart was slightly shocked.He stared at Jiang Lin closely, thinking to himself, what is the origin of this Jiang Lin?

Jiang Lin softened his tone and continued to say to Bai Yutang: "I understand, you think there are treacherous people in the court, who regard chivalry as a pure stream, and only oppose the court, but I don't believe that you can't tell whether what you are doing is right or not. You are wrong. Think about it carefully, this time you are making a big fuss in Kaifeng Mansion, is it for righteousness, or for personal grievances?"

After saying a word, you can hear a needle drop in the hook bar.

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao's shoulder, which was injured by himself because of chasing the murderer, and a wave of wavering flashed in his eyes.

... Could it be that I am not as good as Zhan Zhao?

This thought slipped through Bai Yutang's mind, but he immediately denied it.He gritted his teeth and said: "You, a civil servant surnamed Jiang, are used to sophistry. Zhan Zhao can't find the 'Moonlight Pearl', so don't expect me to go back with you."

Jiang Lin knew that this was the biggest concession Bai Yutang could give.

He hid the smile on his lips, stretched out his right hand while the iron was hot, and said, "Then, why don't you give us a high-five?"

·

Zhan Zhao was injured, so he took a step ahead.Jiang Lin ignored Bai Yutang, who had made the promise, and planned to bring the thief who robbed the money to Kaifeng Mansion, and the busker went to testify together with him.

"Cao Min Tan Cuo, thank you Mr. Jiang for your help! I'm so sorry just now, I pointed you out... Come on, Beibei, salute Mr. Jiang." As he spoke, Tan Cuo taught the black dog to stand up, paws clasped Shaking and apologizing together.

"Don't worry, Jiang wanted to meet him in the first place." Jiang Lin looked at the black dog with a smile, and chatted casually, "My friend's house also has a dog, which is as cute as brother Tan's, teach me I also want to raise one... Hey, I still have his dog hair on me, Brother Tan is so knowledgeable, I wonder if he can tell the breed of this dog?"

As he spoke, Jiang Lin twirled something from his sleeve—it was a few dog hairs he picked out from the fabric of Chen Zhifu's clothes.

"Well...it's probably a brown long-haired fine dog." Tan Cuo didn't think too much, and said casually, "If Mr. Jiang wants to raise a fine dog, I'm afraid he can't find it in Kaifeng Mansion."

"Why? The fine dog is not a rare breed, is it?"

Tan Cuo said: "You are an outsider and don't know that the sale of fine dogs has been banned in Kaifeng prefecture—just because of a special game called 'fine dogs chasing rabbits'."

Jiang Linxin thought that he might be considered an outsider, but he had heard of "a small dog chasing a rabbit"—dozens of hounds chased a rabbit, and betting on the hound that killed the rabbit was considered a winning bet.

He pointed to the bustling casino on the side of the road and asked, "You can't help gambling, but you can't buy dogs?"

Tan Cuo touched his Beibei's head, and said helplessly, "Yeah, what's wrong with the beast? For the sake of excitement, the rich bribed the breeders to feed their favorite puppies special medicinal powder to make them addicted to it on the field. The blood is incomparable, but they don't care about the side effects of the medicine, and let them be brutally killed after the game."

Hearing this, Jiang Lin frowned.

"When the gambling game was at its peak, more than a hundred rabbits and nearly a thousand small dogs could be killed in a day... until the trouble became too big, the imperial court thought of banning it. But they dared not touch people. The first to bear the brunt were those small dogs, who were almost killed. Brighten up."

Tan Cuo sighed and said, "Those who can still raise such fine dogs are probably people related to gambling back then."

·

In the early morning, Yushitai.

"What a Xue Qing, it's nothing more than laziness and slack at work, but he can use public power to such an extent for private use, and dare to prevent the suffering master from reporting to the higher authorities!" Bao Zheng slammed the case on the table and said angrily, "I am going to detain him today." Write down all the ten deadly crimes, and advise the officials!"

Chao Chao at the side was about to persuade him to calm down, but Bao Zheng suddenly changed his face, even the raised beard was smoothed out, so he knew that Zhan Zhao had arrived.

Bao Zheng stepped forward and said with concern: "Guard Zhan, I heard that you were injured in the fight with Bai Yutang last night, why don't you take a good rest for two days?"

"Thank you for your concern, my humble job is not a serious problem." Zhan Zhao cupped his fists and said, "I came here today to ask my lord Xu Beizhi to assist in the investigation of the theft of the Pearl."

Apart from hearing that the murderer had been identified, Bao Zheng didn't know anything about this case in Kaifeng Mansion.He frowned and said, "Why do you suddenly want to get involved in this case? But it's related to what happened last night?"

Zhan Zhao then told Bai Yutang one by one about the fact that Bai Yutang named Yumao in the note and gave him a high-five.

In terms of emotion and reason, he is obliged to do so.

Bao Zheng no longer stopped him, but noticed the third person that Zhan Zhao frequently mentioned.His words were playful: "This Jiang Shaocheng..."

"You heard it too." Zhan Zhao didn't hide his admiration, "Three questions to see through the murderer, and led out Bai Yutang that night. The Dali Temple is not full of Xue Qing."

When Xue Qing was impeached, Bao Zheng also thought about who could succeed him.Hearing Zhan Zhao's recommendation at this moment, he was a little pleasantly surprised, but still reserved: "You still praise him. He even tricked you into making a bet with Bai Yutang."

Zhan Zhao has long seen that Jiang Lin intends to use his own strength to capture Bai Yutang, but he still voluntarily ends up in the game.He knew that Bao Zheng was most jealous of young people without ambition, and he didn't mean to belittle Jiang Lin's behavior, so he said, "I don't mind lowly positions, what worries do you have?"

Bao Zheng laughed when he heard the words, and said, "Good job, Zhan Zhao. Sima Guang, who I originally wanted to recommend, was chosen by His Majesty. This Jiang Shaocheng is eloquent and eloquent. Could it be that his talent and learning can match him?"

Zhan Zhao thought about Jiang Lin's second place name, and said with a smile, "If you say you can't, you're being modest."

"Then call him here and compare him with Sima Guang." Bao Zheng twisted his beard, "I want to see if this man is as powerful as you said."

At the same time, Xue Qing just rushed to the gate of Yushitai in a hurry.

After being smashed by Zhan Zhao yesterday, Xue Qing didn't even care that his fence was smashed, and went to various relatives and friends to plead for mercy, but was rejected all the time.

Xue Qingdang even knew that if Bao Zheng really handed over the memorial to impeach him, he would really be doomed.

So even if there is only a sliver of hope, he will come to Yushitai with great benefits to have a try.

He didn't believe it... This Bao Zheng could really be as ruthless and selfless as the rumors said!

*Adapted from Lu Xun's famous quotes.