Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty

Three poles in the sun.

Sitting in the lobby of the station, Fang Yizhi and Di Renjie discussed the matter of the 'ghost yamen'.Yuchi Baoqi yawned and went downstairs, when the two of them said "ghost", she turned around and was about to go upstairs.

Di Renjie saw him in a blink of an eye, stood up and shouted enthusiastically, "Brother Baoqi, we are here."

"Ah." Yuchi Baoqi replied listlessly, muttering in her heart 'I saw you earlier, that's why I have to hide', then reluctantly walked towards Di Renjie and Fang Yizhi with leisurely steps .Regarding who was sitting next to him, Yuchi Baoqi hesitated very solemnly.

Fang Yi glanced at him from the corner of his eye, his eyes were full of understanding, he hung his head and drank his tea by himself.

Yuchi Baoqi walked to Di Renjie's side in two or three steps, and simply sat down.

A bit crowded.

Di Renjie was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Yuchi Baoqi to choose his side, so he hurriedly moved inside.Yuchi Baoqi has always been close to Fang Yizhi, so today is a bit strange.Di Renjie looked at Fang Yizhi in puzzlement, and found that he had no expression.

Yuchi Baoqi still had a weary face, staring at Fang Yizhi.

"You—" Before Di Renjie could say anything, Yuchi Baoqi gave him a glare.

"Kids, don't ask if you shouldn't." Yuchi Baoqi said.

Di Renjie immediately retorted angrily: "Who are you talking about?"

"Okay, okay, I made a mistake, I will apologize to you, I am a child and I am not sensible," Yuchi Baoqi pulled Di Renjie to sit down, and then asked Di Renjie with an apologetic smile, "How is your case solved? But I almost buried myself in it, so don't disappoint my sacrifice."

As soon as Yuchi Baoqi finished speaking, he saw Cheng Chubi coming back on horseback from outside.Luo Ge and his companions arrived at the station, and when they got off their horses, they couldn't help but sigh, "It's considered to be found."

Yuchi Baoqi hurriedly greeted them through the window, "Where did you go early in the morning?"

"Take a walk around the county town." Cheng Chubi returned and sighed again, "It's still early in the morning, let's see what time it is."

Yuchi Baoqi smiled awkwardly, and immediately saw Tian Hanshan go downstairs, and sent someone to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the princess.Yuchi Baoqi was immediately happy, and Cheng Chubi raised his eyebrows, "Look, there are people who got up later than me."

Fang Yizhi also squinted his eyes.

Cheng Chubi then handed the drawn map to Fang Yizhi.

"The county town of Taiwu County is built in a square shape, with a round shape on the outside and a field shape on the inside. There are also Tian characters inside the Tian characters. Except for a few mansions in the east of the city that look different, the south and west of the city and the north of the city look similar. , the houses are all the same, and so are the walls." Cheng Chubi said.

"When we first entered the city, I noticed that the materials of the houses in Taiwu County seemed to be the same, and the houses were of the same age, as if all the houses were built at the same time. "Di Renjie said.

"I noticed that too. When we entered the city, we walked straight along the street and arrived at the post station. Although the houses on both sides of the street are similar, but fortunately they are decorated differently, so they are easy to identify." Yuchi Baoqi said.

Fang Yi raised his eyes, "Then what if it's night?"

All three were stunned.

Yuchi Baoqi suddenly realized, clapped his hands, praised Fang Yizhi, and immediately said: "Yes, it must be the reason, if you don't keep it together, you are lost."

"Even if you get lost, you shouldn't disappear completely," Di Renjie said.

Yuchi Baoqi was stunned for a moment, then sighed, "So there is still something strange about this matter."

"The reason why the houses in Taiwu County are the same, have you checked?" Fang Yi asked directly.

Luo Ge replied: "The boundary of Anzhou was always troubled by bandits in the past few years. After King Wu came here to take office, the first thing he did was to suppress the bandits. At that time, he took advantage of the terrain and surrounded those bandits into Anzhou. Zhoucheng was wiped out overnight, but most of Taiwu County was also destroyed. In order to resettle the people who had escaped long ago, King Wu allocated money and ordered people to rebuild Taiwu County. Because it was built in a unified manner, So the houses were built in a similar fashion."

Di Renjie immediately shook his head, and said straight to Fang Yi: "It seems that the problem may be caused by the same problem with the houses on the street. Luoge and the others walk in the daytime, and when they walk, they will turn in confusion. If it is at night, when the vision is blurred , there is indeed a possibility of going wrong.”

"But I remember that the guards who escorted the thieves said in person last night that they did escort the two thieves into the yamen. After looking at the door, there was a yaman to respond. How can this be explained? It can't be that this Taiwu County yamen There is a second yamen." Yuchi Baoqi said puzzled.

Fang Yi smiled, and glanced at Di Renjie.

Di Renjie was stunned by Yuchi Baoqi's words, he patted the table and stood up and said, "Yes, there must be a second yamen. Brother Baoqi, let's look for it right away."

After Di Renjie finished speaking, he excitedly grabbed Yuchi Baoqi's arm and dragged him out.

Yuchi Baoqi cried out unwillingly, "Look at the sun outside, it's so hot in summer, it's like a fireball is falling from the sky. If we go out now, won't we be roasted?"

"What are you afraid of? It's important to investigate the case." Di Renjie still pulled Yuchi Baoqi and finally got him out.

Cheng Chubi was always stuffy and didn't like to express his opinion, but now he was amused by the two of them.He then sat directly across from Fang Yi, and only had water to drink, and drank six bowls in succession.

"It would be even better if there were ice cubes inside." Cheng Chubi finished drinking, and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.

Fang Yizhi: "Only when we return to Chang'an can we enjoy this."

Cheng Chubi nodded, "But I still don't have any, I have to borrow money from Brother Yizhi."

"Don't be polite." Fang Yi finished speaking, and saw Tian Hanxi coming down with an empty bowl.

Seeing this, Cheng Chubi was surprised and asked, "Does Nineteen Lang have breakfast?"

Tian Hanshan handed the tray out, smiled and nodded to Cheng Chubi, "No, for some reason last night, I couldn't fall asleep. I went to see her in the morning, her eyes were dark, and I forced her to sleep for a while, then I just woke up at this time, but I still don’t feel refreshed.”

Cheng Chubi was puzzled, "Why can't I sleep?"

Tian Hanshan shook his head.

Fang Yi looked in the direction of the second floor, and ordered someone to bring the jujube kernel cheese that he had prepared earlier to Tian Hanshan.

"This food is good. It's easy to sleep after eating." After Tian Hanxi thanked him, he hurriedly brought it up.

It was almost dusk when Li Mingda went downstairs in a black dress.

Cheng Chubi was downstairs by himself, Li Mingda was not surprised to see him there, and wanted to leave.Cheng Chubi hurriedly grabbed the knife and straddled his waist, and wanted to go out with Li Mingda.

"You are behind me in this dress. Everyone knows that I am not an ordinary person." Although Li Mingda was talking to Cheng Chubi, his eyes flicked and he looked away. After confirming that there was really no one she didn't want to see, she felt It's more stable.

bang.

Cheng Chubi threw the shoulder knife on the table, and then stood behind Li Mingda with empty hands.

Li Mingda saw that he insisted on protecting him, but he couldn't help it. He raised his head, walked out with his hands behind his back, followed the scent she smelled before, and walked all the way to a dim sum shop called "Wanshishun".

There are so many snacks sold in the shop, there are eight kinds in total, colorful and different shapes, corresponding to different tastes, and the style is also something that Li Mingda has never seen in the palace.

Li Mingda came by coincidence, the dim sum had just come out of the pan, and after it had cooled for a while, it was placed on the bamboo lid.There are many local people who want to buy here, and they are all researching which one is delicious.

Li Mingda wondered, "Why do you have to guess, you haven't eaten it before?"

A woman in her 40s next to Li Mingda heard the words, took a look at Li Mingda, and said, "Your lord is a foreigner, right?"

Li Mingda nodded.

The woman looked at Li Mingda's handsome appearance, and couldn't help but be jealous of such a beautiful child, so she took the initiative to introduce to her enthusiastically: "This Wan Shi Shun shop is only open on the eighth, eighteenth, and 28th of every month, and it sells for eight each time. There are a lot of dim sum, but nothing is repeated, and the taste is very unique.”

"It's not the same every time? It's fresh. Then I'll have a good time trying today's eight delicacies."

The woman shook her head, "No, no, there are delicious ones and some bad ones. If you choose the wrong one, you will cry, but if you choose the right one, you will cry. The taste of his dim sum, no matter it is bad or delicious, will make you unforgettable."

"It's so interesting to gamble on luck while eating dim sum." Li Mingda became more and more interested.

"So you can see that everyone is hesitant to buy it because they are afraid that it will taste bad." The woman continued.

"What's the difficulty? Buy some and taste them one by one to know how they taste." Tian Hanxi didn't understand why these people didn't do anything, but insisted on queuing up in front.

"Because none of us want to be the first to taste it." The woman explained patiently, "Because the bad food is really bad, but the price of his dim sum is not cheap, and everything is bought by the catty. Let’s buy less, and no one wants to spend money on bad food.”

"I see." Li Mingda said loudly, "Then I'll buy it first."

"Do you really want to buy it first?" Seeing this, the woman deliberately persuaded Li Mingda not to spend money in vain.Seeing that she insisted on this, and seeing that the young man was well dressed, he must be rich, so the woman did not stop her.

The shop owner of Wanshishun happily waited by the door panel, as if he was used to watching the entanglement of these customers.Now I suddenly saw Mr. Xiaolang walking into the shop with vigorous steps, and hurriedly asked: "Are you really going to come first? A word of warning, everything must be bought by the catty."

"I want these two, all inclusive." Li Mingda pointed to the green and beige dim sum.

The shop owner was stunned, and looked at Li Mingda in surprise: "Are you... sure? Don't you regret it?"

"I don't regret it." Li Mingda asked Tian Hanshan to pay.

The shop owner hesitated for a moment, if he hadn't seen the young gentleman in front of him with a strange eye and an extraordinary appearance, he really thought that this guy had used some dirty tricks to hide in his kitchen and take a peek.Since they guessed right by luck, the shop owner had no choice but to pack both dim sums reluctantly.

"The same two catties will be shared, and I will give it to the aunt just now." Li Mingda instructed.

The shop owner glanced at the woman over there, she was his regular customer, but every time he didn't dare to stand out, and followed the trend of buying others to take a risk to taste the good ones.

The woman saw that Li Mingda wanted to give her some snacks, and she was paying two catties for each item. She couldn't bear it, so she quickly waved her hand and said no, "Just give me one catty at most, if not...Xiao Langjun, do you really want to buy so much? It's not delicious It would be a pity to spend so much money in vain.”

"No, these two must be delicious." Li Mingda saw the shop owner give the woman an extra four catties of dim sum, so he bid farewell to her.

Seeing Li Mingda leaving, all the people present were a little disbelieving, they surrounded the woman and begged her to taste the taste of these two snacks.If it is good, they will continue to wait for the next pot, if it is not good, it is good to rule out both.

The woman nodded with a smile, then took a piece out of the paper bag and put it near her mouth, but she didn't dare to bite it hard, she just touched it lightly with her lips first, and felt that the taste was okay, so she opened her mouth slightly and took a small bite. , and then she stuffed the whole thing into her mouth, with tears in her eyes, nodded happily to everyone, and made a happy whining sound from her mouth.

"delicious……"

After hearing the news, everyone rushed to the shop owner to make an order for the next pot.

The shop owner pursed his lips in displeasure, and shouted, "Line up!"

Everyone quickly lined up in order.The woman over there tasted the second piece again. This time she was a little more courageous, so she took a small sip first, then covered her mouth and nodded happily, happily telling everyone: "It's delicious, it's delicious!"

After all, the woman went to hold her snack like a treasure, and she wanted to take it home to share with her husband and children.

Everyone watched the woman enviously, and then someone in the crowd sighed.

"It's really lucky. By the way, who is that little gentleman just now? I know exactly what kind of children are in this county, but I haven't seen anyone with such a magnanimity."

"Several nobles came from the county the day before yesterday, and they stayed at the inn."

"I heard that it came from Chang'an, so it must be of extraordinary status."

"I've seen it! Coming here on a big horse, that's quite impressive. There are four or five young men in Chinese clothes, all of whom look as if they came down from the sky. I guarantee that there will be no one like them in ten miles or eight villages!" Old man Wu, who sells bean sprouts in the west of the county, exclaimed.

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and burst into laughter, blaming the old man for his ignorance, since he is a nobleman from Chang'an City, where he can compare with ten miles and eight villages.

Li Mingda was looking at the jewelry sold by street vendors, and saw that there were a few carved wooden hairpins that looked good, so he bought them all.He suddenly heard laughter from the dim sum shop, turned his head and glanced unconsciously, then continued walking forward.Li Mingda went back to the station after he had finished his shopping.

Tian Hanshu brought over the two snacks he bought earlier.

When Li Mingda first went shopping, he bought a copy of "The Doctrine of the Mean" at a bookstore, and he was rereading it by the window.When Tian Hanshan's snack arrived, Li Mingda just took a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.She took a bite, then stopped, raising her eyebrows.

"What's wrong? Isn't it delicious?" Tian Hanshan hurriedly handed the plate to Li Mingda's mouth, asking Li Mingda to spit it out quickly.

Li Mingda's eyes widened slightly, and then there was a pleasant smile in his eyes, and he nodded.

Seeing the princess's reaction, Tian Hanshan couldn't help laughing, "Folk snacks are so delicious. But your master has chosen the right one, so he should be happy. This way of eating makes people feel lucky." , quite interesting."

Li Mingda didn't speak, and continued to bite off the second piece, then picked up a piece with the other hand and handed it to Tian Hanshan.

Tian Hanshan hurriedly thanked him, then turned his head and stuffed the snack into his mouth quietly, then widened his eyes, and nodded to Li Mingda in surprise.

"It's delicious, but I don't know how it's made. The dim sum has a faint milky and sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. It's a bit crunchy at first, but it melts when chewed, and a cool and refreshing fragrance permeates the mouth." Tian Han Described intoxicated.

Li Mingda: "That's right, you save some of each to eat for yourself, and send the rest to Fang Yi."

Tian Hanshan was about to respond when his princess suddenly raised her hand as a signal.

"No, don't give it to him, give it to Cheng Chubi." Li Mingda said.

"Yes." Tian Hanshan agreed, turned around and was about to do it, before he reached the door, his noble master called him again.

"I'm afraid it's not good to just give it to Cheng Chubi. It's easy to be misunderstood. It's fairer for everyone to have a share."

Tian Hanshu said yes with a smile, "Then you really went to do it this time?"

"But don't say that I gave it specially, just say that I can't finish it, and give them the rest." Li Mingda said.

Tian Hanshu was stunned for a moment, it was the first time he heard your lord use the word "alms", it was really a bit of an attempt to cover up.Tian Hanshan agreed with a smile, and did as he said.For the other gentlemen, Tian Hanshan sent them off casually, but Fang Yizhi was the only one here, and Tian Hanshan went to battle himself.Coincidentally, when he entered, Fang Yizhi also had a book by his hand.

Tian Hanshu glanced at the cover of the book, it was also "The Doctrine of the Mean".

Fang Yi stood up to greet him.

"Nineteenth Lang bought too many snacks on the street before, and he said he couldn't finish them, so he gave them to you gentlemen. Luckily, I also tasted a piece. It tasted very good. Fang Dalang might as well try it. After Tian Hanshu finished speaking, he put two plates of dim sum on the table.

Fang Yi glanced at the dim sum, the green color is round, with a pattern in the shape of a cat's face on the surface.The white ones are flower-like, with a little bean curd dotted in the center of the flower.

"Does this snack have a name?"

Tian Hanshan said with a smile: "I forgot to ask when I bought it, and I just chose which one tasted better."

Tian Hanshu immediately told Fang Yi the story of buying dim sum.

"The dim sum seller has a bit of a temper." Fang Yi picked up the round dim sum, looked at the pattern on it, and said to Tian Hanshu, "You can guess the names of these two dim sum."

"How could Da Lang guess it?" Tian Hanshan was a little puzzled, what was the name of this dim sum, only the person who made it would know.

"Fantasy appearance." Fang Yi said straight.

Tian Hanshu was stunned for a moment, then looked at the two snacks.Hua'rong'yue'mao' does not just mean Huarongyuemao.

"What Da Lang said is very true. These two snacks should be named after this, and it can't be wrong." Tian Hanshan bowed to Fang Yi with admiration.

"This is very suitable for Nineteen Lang to eat." Fang Yi said straight.

Tian Hanshu: "Don't worry, Nineteenth Lang has left a lot, enough for her to eat."

"Thank you for her 'reward'," Fang Yizhi asked Tian Hanshan again, "Has she rested well?"

"Be energetic, otherwise I wouldn't go out for a stroll. Thanks to your bowl of food, I fell asleep after drinking it." After Tian Hanshu finished speaking, he asked Fang Yizhi how the investigation of the 'ghost office' was going.

"This matter is simple, I think Di Renjie and the others will have news before tomorrow morning." Fang Yizhi said indifferently, he was not in a hurry about this matter.

Seeing this, Tian Hanxi was relieved, and after saying goodbye to Fang Yizhi, he went to reply to the princess.

Li Mingda's head popped out from behind the book, and he looked at Tian Hanshan with bright eyes, "Have you given them away?"

"It's all delivered."

"Is there anyone who talks more nonsense?" Li Mingda felt that his eyes had no place to rest for a while, so he glanced out of the window.

"I am very grateful to your lord, but Fang Dalang even greeted your lord's body and guessed the name of this dessert."

"This dim sum has a name." Li Mingda glanced at the remaining dim sum on the table, and was stunned for a moment, "Fantasy?"

Tian Hanshan hurriedly admired: "That's right, Fang Dalang also said that this snack is the most suitable for Jiujiulang."

Dim sum is called Huarong Yuemei, and Fang Yi said that it suits her, so he should praise her for her beauty.

This ass is well done.

Li Mingda raised his eyebrows, tapped his fingers on the book happily, and recited a sentence: "A gentleman rules people by people, just stop changing."

Tian Hanxi listened puzzled, pondered for a while, but didn't understand.

When it was dark, Di Renjie and Yuchi Baoqi came back panting.

When Li Mingda heard the noise, he opened the door to take a look. After she walked out a few steps, the door of Fang Yizhi's room also opened.

Li Mingda just walked to Fang Yizhi's place, and he squinted and sighed casually: "What a coincidence."

Then she quickened her pace and went downstairs.

However, the sound of footsteps going down the stairs quickly did not cover Fang Yizhi's response from behind him.

"unfortunately."

He said no coincidence.

Li Mingda paused for a moment, then his face became hot, and he reacted quickly and went downstairs, but Yuchi Baoqi and Di Renjie who were waiting downstairs did not see any clues.

When Di Renjie saw the princess coming, he happily said to her: "The matter is clear."

"Oh? Talk about it." After Li Mingda sat down, he waited for the answer seriously.

Fang Yizhi followed, walked behind Li Mingda, and stood there.

Li Mingda quickly ordered everyone to sit down.

Di Renjie said: "We carefully asked the two guards who were escorting the bandits, what was special about the escorting process at that time. It was at the intersection of two streets that they struggled to escape, so they taught them a lesson, but The two of them raised their heads again and forgot which direction to go. It was the bandits who reminded them that they went to the 'right' place, and arrived at the Yamen after walking about two sticks of incense.

Huaiying and I found this place and went to the Yamen from there, but we arrived in less than a stick of incense.Therefore, it is expected that they may have gone to another place, not the real Yamen.Then we explored the roads in the other two directions, and finally found the 'second yamen'. "

Li Mingda was also very happy when he heard that they had solved the case, and praised them for being quick-witted, and they were able to see clearly a "ghost office" case that everyone in Taiwu County had heard about in such a short period of time.

"Since the case has been solved, we will leave tomorrow as usual. Gong Yuanzheng is there, Cheng Chubi, please go and inform us. We will meet up in front of the fake yamen in a while and see who dares to have such courage. You can blatantly act as the gate of the county government to deceive people." Li Mingda ordered again.

After three incense sticks, Li Mingda and others arrived at the place Di Renjie pointed out.

This is the back door of a house, and the height and shape of the walls are similar to those of the county government.However, there are tall logs piled up on the wall of the backyard of this family. It looks like a large pile is placed vertically and stacked against the wall.Each one is about as thick as two arms, and one foot high, which just exceeds the gate of the yamen.

Seeing this, Cheng Chubi was still a little puzzled, "The back street of this house looks a bit like the Yamen, but there is so much firewood piled up here, it must be very heavy, how could it be removed in an instant, Has it become a yamen?"

Li Mingda jumped off the horse, walked to the firewood pile, tapped the wood with his fingers, and heard a "dong dong".

"Empty." Fang Yizhi immediately said.

Di Renjie nodded: "It's empty, we've looked carefully, these logs seem to be stacked here in piles, but they are actually a fist-thick wooden plank, and the outside is made to look like this kind of wood is piled up next to each other. "

After Di Renjie finished speaking, he sent the attendants around him to split a part with an ax for everyone to see.Sure enough, it is hollow, and although the covered interior is somewhat dark, with the light that just opened the hole, you can vaguely see a stone lion and stone steps inside, and a little deeper, it seems to be the shape of a door. .

"It's here without a doubt." Cheng Chubi affirmed after reading it, and then asked someone to split everything up.

Fang Yizhi stopped immediately.

"There must be a control mechanism that can make these things evacuate in an instant." Fang Yizhi immediately led people into the house, and soon after, people outside the door heard a bang, and then saw these wooden boards divided into seven parts, one is the top The cover is fixed with wooden rods of different lengths, making the pile of fake wood seem to be stacked with great thickness.The planks were raised one by one, leveled against the top of the wall, and then pulled into the wall.After being transported in this way, it can be seen that there are obvious scratches on the top of the wall, and there are also sawdust and veneer that have been rubbed off by wood.But if it is at night, these flaws seen during the day will be hidden under the haze of night.

After all the wooden boards were removed, a gate that was exactly the same as the real county office appeared.Stone lions, red lacquered doors, plaques... are all very similar. Although the fake ones are not as exquisite as the real ones, at first glance, especially in the night, basically there is no difference.

"Not to mention, it looks quite similar at this point." Yuchi Baoqi sighed.

Then the door opened, and everyone saw Fang Yi walked out from inside.

"The thieves in the house were all arrested by the guards when we came, and they are waiting to be dealt with in the house now." Yuchi Baoqi added.

Di Renjie turned his head and asked the two guards who had escorted the bandits before, if what they saw was the same as this.

The two guards nodded, "It should be this one. It was dark at that time, and even with the moonlight, I couldn't see it clearly. I really thought it was the Yamen."

Gong Yuan just rushed over at this time, and he wondered how the case came to the back house in the west of the county.When I got to the place, it turned out to be a place with the same entrance as his county government office. I was really shocked, and took a few steps back in shock, then looked at it in amazement, and then bowed to Fang Yizhi, Di Renjie and others in admiration. admiration.

"I never thought it would be like this." Gong Yuanzheng sighed.

A moment later, the guards found a woman in the locked room.The woman is disheveled, in her 30s, has ephedra skin, and is in a trance.

Gong Yuan was looking carefully at the woman's appearance, and found that it was the widow Zhang who had been lost three months ago. He also saw a young woman who was escorted behind her.After careful questioning, I found out that this woman was Widow Zhang's maid, but after they strayed into this house, the master and servant were insulted by the thieves and locked up in this deep house compound.Widow Zhang has been tortured for several times, and she has changed from a charming person to what she is today.His maid, Hong'er, was very 'flexible'. After being bullied a few times, she admitted the status quo and was willing to serve them. After that, she gradually became a little more free. Now she even helps the thieves keep accounts, recording the amount of treasures in the family's treasury and so on.

"There were four people involved, and two of them were Widow Zhang's domestic slaves. At first, they were forced to do the work of stealing money. These four people were tied up by their subordinates because of their strong bodies and dishonest hands and feet. Watched in the lobby of the house."

Li Mingda and others moved to the lobby of the house.

After Gong Yuanzheng came in, he saw the two men tied up at a glance, his face turned pale with shock, he pointed at them with trembling fingers, and shouted, "It turned out to be you!"

Li Mingda and others looked at Gong Yuanzheng suspiciously.

Gong Yuan was busy cupping his hands and said to Fang Yizhi and the others: "These two were originally the clerks of our county government."

"It was said that they were drunk and brought them back to the yamen, but in the end they lost those two?" Li Mingda asked.

Gong Yuanzheng nodded again and again, "It's the two of them. I never thought that these two people are still alive, and they have become thieves."

The two yamen are thin and the other is fat, but they are both tall.The thinner one is called Zhao Fulai, and the fatter one is called Wang Chunsheng.

The two immediately confessed to what they had done.

It turns out that these two have long had a temperament of stealing, and they like to be gentlemen on the Liang.The two of them often went to the nearby houses to steal things while they were on duty in the Yamen at night.Because they are government servants, they can take advantage of their positions to get to know some families in Taiwu County. They know exactly who has money and who has no money.In the beginning, the two of them stole some businessmen, because they didn't have many nursing homes in their homes, and they still had some money, so every time they stole it was very smooth.However, there were also times when Wang Chunsheng was caught by one person.

Zhao Fulai ran back to the yamen to block people, opened the door first, and picked up the businessman who brought the thief, and then took advantage of the businessman's reluctance, and hit the back of the head with a stone.After Zhao Fulai rescued his accomplice, he quietly dragged the complainant to the middle of the road, pretending that he was injured from drinking too much, but he died the next day.

After that, they stopped for a while, instead of stealing locals, they went to steal some foreign businessmen traveling to and from Taiwu County.When someone came to report the case again, the two government officials took the complaint and sent people back. Knowing that they would not stay here for a long time, they did not report it and kept it a secret.Occasionally, even if someone exposes the matter, the two will use "forgotten" as an excuse to apologize to the county magistrate, and at most they will be scolded a few times.

Zhao Fulai and Wang Chunsheng have been thieves for a long time, so they are naturally very familiar with the situation in Taiwu County.

After the two realized the convenience of blocking people at the gate of the yamen, they didn't have any strange thoughts.Later, I happened to see a place behind the house, which looked similar to the Yamen.It just so happened that the owner of the house intended to change hands of the house, and the story of the woman in red dying at the gate of the yamen was wildly spread among the people at that time.Only then did the two think about it, thinking that they were Liangshang gentlemen who stole at night, and if something happened, they must be sent to the government at night.It would be a good idea to make them go the wrong way and lure them to the fake yamen with some ingenuity.So the two bought the house secretly with the stolen money, and then gradually figured out how to make a fake door. At the beginning, the door was covered with straw piles, but later they found that it was easy to be caught by the wind. When it was exposed in the rain, the two figured out a way to cover it with wooden boards.

Zhao Fulai's family was a carpenter, and he knew a little about some simple mechanism skills, so he secretly obtained a few pieces of iron while in the yamen, reworked a few gears, and then used iron chains to arrange the mechanism. , so that the "fake stakes" at the door can be transferred to the courtyard in a few words.

After getting this thing, the two of them took the opportunity to publicize the "ghost yamen" talk, and since then, the two of them have become more daring at night.

But nothing happened.

Until later, Zhao Fulai's wife and uncle came to visit and stayed at his house for two nights, but happened to find out that Zhao Fulai was doing mediocre things.His wife-in-law is a very upright person, no matter how much Zhao Fulai begged and bribed him, he just refused to agree and asked Zhao Fu to surrender himself. If he refused, his wife-in-law would insist on reporting to the government.Zhao Fulai was helpless, so he discussed with Wang Chunsheng how to escape.The two pretended to drink at night, and then disappeared.

When Zhao Fulai's wife and uncle saw that he was missing and something happened, they thought that he had done something wrong and was killed by the ghost of the yamen, so they gave up and left after a while.

So Zhao Fulai and Wang Chunsheng continued to hide in the house, and asked the other two accomplices to go out to take care of them during the day, and the two of them took the opportunity to walk out at night, looking for work, and when they met older people, the four of them would work together .The four of them have also made a plan, and when they have saved enough [-] yuan, they will leave together and go to other places to enjoy themselves.Unexpectedly, during the burglary at Widow Zhang's house, Zhao Fulai and Wang Chunsheng were recognized by Widow Zhang who had been in and out of the yamen before.The two were so scared that they ran away immediately.Widow Zhang was not willing to let them go, so she immediately took three entourages to chase them.The two were afraid that Widow Zhang would expose them, so one of them was in charge of seducing, flashing up halfway to lead Widow Zhang to the wrong direction, while the other went to fake the door.In the end, Widow Zhang was led to the fake yamen.

Because they were very confident that no one would expect that there would be two dead people, they created a fake yamen, so they became more and more rampant in peeping.But because of his status, he couldn't go out during the day, which was inconvenient after all.Then, seeing that Widow Zhang's two servants were not common people, they dressed up in silk and satin, pretending to be rich, but no one recognized them, so they forced them to join forces, and led them to steal twice, eat wine and have fun, and in the end put them to death. The two house slaves were so willing to be the "third and fourth".

As for other details of the case, Li Mingda and others did not bother to ask because they were in a hurry.

Early the next morning, the group set off to leave Taiwu County.

After Li Mingda got on the horse at the gate of the post station, when a gust of wind came, she smelled a scent of bright court. She looked at Fang Yizhi in front of her, and immediately turned her eyes towards the direction of the wind.

Seeing the princess turning her head, Wei Shuyu hid behind the wall in fright.