Donkey Trouble Volume 4: The Prodigal Son of the Capital 63, the big thief borrowed his face
Life is a game of cheating, and he is just a big player who teaches his children to cheat.
Seeing that Zhao Hongyin was angry, Liu Kui thought for a moment, exchanged glances with Zhou Long, and said: "Since the adults have seen through it, we won't turn around in circles!
Xin Wenyue's mother was originally a rich girl, but because of her beauty, she was raised as a housewife and became pregnant. The big bully, when he learned about it, he didn't follow it or died, and he wanted to kill the girl. The rich man had no choice but to give her a lot of money to keep her away. The girl fled to other places and married a merchant surnamed Xin as a concubine. Later, the girl gave birth to Xin Wenyue and let him go to private school for a few years. Because he is stubborn by nature, he often makes some fox friends and dog friends, blindly eats, drinks and has fun, and his stepfather does not love him, and when his mother dies of illness, he is even more cold to him. Xin Wenyue couldn't see a cold face, couldn't be restrained, and couldn't endure hardship, so he wandered the society and joined the thieves.
Xin Wenyue is smart by nature, looks good, has read poetry and books, has a clever mouth, has a thick heart and eyes, and is especially able to fool, and joined the gang of thieves, and was soon promoted from a small apprentice to a second-in-command. The first leader capsized the boat and died, he reorganized the gang and became the leader. The rich people in the capital gather, it is a place where all industries make a fortune, Xin Wenyue is determined to become bigger and stronger, of course, he will not let go of the opening of this big market.
As a thief, Xin Wenyue can walk on the waves all year round and never capsize, the main reason is that he is good at borrowing face.
Human face, also known as face, is not only fat and thin, big and small, expensive and cheap, and can be lost, rewarded, fought for, and kept. Many times, it seems that fighting for face is the first thing in life, and it is not an exaggeration to even go bankrupt.
Because there is a face without a face, a big face and a small face are important symbols of people's high and low, which involves many problems of eating, drinking, housing and transportation. Those who have a big face can get the wind and the rain to get the rain, the things that can't be done can be done, the light that shouldn't be touched can be touched, and even go beyond the law and be given preferential treatment, while the faceless people with small faces can't do what they should do, they can't get what they deserve, and they can't even move an inch, and they hit a wall everywhere.
For example, according to the regulations, you can't fly horses in the downtown area, and if you have a big face, you just treat it as a wilderness, whip it up, and patrol the streets.
If the official is a two-eyed man and insists on detaining the horse, the son will go back and tell the official father, but the boss of the official will come to reprimand him in an hour, and he may also reward the official with a big-eared scraper, and it is uncertain whether to fire the squid. This is the relationship between face and face.
It is so important to have a face, a faceless face, a big face, and a small face, of course, Xin Wenyue must attach great importance to it.
He has no face of his own, so he can only rent other people's ones everywhere. Chen Tuan's face was big, and he borrowed it as a "protégé"; the professor and the juren were a face-to-face title, and he printed them on his business card and hung them on his head. Although he has borrowed the three faces of the former dynasty, Professor Xishu, and Chen Jun's protégé, this face is outdated, distant, and not very glamorous after all, if you want to expand the theft business in the capital, you must borrow a closer, bigger and more glamorous and practical face, he chose Zhao Kuangyin and his son.
On that day, he found the domineering Zhao Kuangyin on Optimistic Street, and inquired about it, knowing that he was the son of the commander of the forbidden army in front of the palace.
Zhao Hongyin was worried about his son's stubbornness and no one dared to teach, Xin Wenyue recommended himself, and he was a protégé of Chen Jun, a person and a professor, of course he seemed to be sleeping and touched the pillow, and he accepted it happily.
Zhao Hongyin, as a close minister of the emperor and an important member of the imperial court, is well known to everyone in Bianjing; Zhao Kuangyin is his son, and there are a large number of prodigal children of official families under him, and they can also be regarded as celebrities in the capital; Xin Wenyue, with the face of Zhao Kuangyin, stepped in and out of the rich courtyards, and walked the streets and alleys late at night, of course, no one was suspicious; and when the stolen goods were sold to and from various pawnshops and businesses, of course, no one would ask about the origin of the stolen goods. It was too late for those arresters and officials to bow down when they saw him, and they would not have thought that the criminal they were tracking down was this sanctimonious teacher.
But there are aquatic fish, the wind comes and the trees move, the trees grow by the water, the birds inhabit the forest, the clay pot does not leave the well, the bees are many dead flowers, and everything in the world is interconnected, and what is planted will bear fruit.
Thefts in the capital occurred frequently, and the Kaifeng Prefecture ordered the public to arrest and crack the case within a time limit, and the public arrest and dragnet type of census resulted in the seizure of several valuable stolen goods from a pawnshop; chased people with stolen goods, and found two gamblers; from the gamblers traced down the person who sold the stolen goods by gambling in the casino, and soon caught the thief Tao Wu. That Tao Wu is Xin Wenyue's friend and lives in the school.
The clay figurines can't stand the rain, and the dew can't stand the sun. Xin Wenyue circled into the eye of the fast catch, and all the disguises were quickly peeled off.
Xin Wenyue was polite and polite in the school, and he looked like a gentleman, but when he went to brothels and casinos at night, he showed a scumbag face; he boasted everywhere that he was good at teaching, but the students he taught were very little literate, except for eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, but they were very little literate; they seemed to be powerless in front of others, but they were vigorous and vigorous at night, and their clothes were windy -- these details of life were not noticed by ordinary people, and they were difficult to discover, but it was very easy for them to catch them, but they only used some conventional reconnaissance methods of visiting and inquiring, secretly tracking, and lurking and observing!
Xin Wenyue was included in the sight of the catcher, and the pig baby was wrapped in the net, and soon showed her hooves and claws, but when she was about to arrest the fast, she smelled the wind and escaped under the cover of Zhao Kuangyin.
Liu Kui and Zhou Long analyzed according to the clues they had, Zhao Kuangyin may have hidden Xin Wenyue at home, considering Zhao Hongyin's identity and fearing that he would be startled, he sneaked in late at night to reconnoiter Xin Wenyue's whereabouts.
Liu Kui briefly introduced the case to Zhao Hongyin, and said sincerely: "We are afraid that Kuang Yin will be deceived for a while, and it will be difficult to give up the relationship between teachers and students, and hide the criminal in the house, which will damage your reputation and hurt your face, so the secret agent at night intends to arrest him silently." This is the meaning of being humble and considerate for adults, please forgive me!"
Zhou Long begged: "I beg your lordship to give me some guidance on where the eldest young master and Mr. Xin may be hiding." caught the thief, so that the eldest young master could get out of the way. This is a subordinate who is in a hurry, and he has to do it as a last resort, and it is also a painstaking effort to take care of the face of the adult!"
Zhao Hongyin listened attentively, as if listening to an absurd story. He was first surprised, then strange, then questioned, and after difficult analysis and judgment, he had to believe that what the two of them said was the truth, and stayed there.
His wooden appearance was like an unstable clay sculpture fetus, and even if he tapped his finger from the side, he would fall to the ground.
Liu Kui, Zhou Long and the guards woke up Zhao Hongyin, and with Zhao Hongyin's consent, they asked the guards to cooperate and checked all over the house. After such a long time of noisy tossing, Zhao Kuangyin had already changed Xin Wenyue's clothes and pretended to be a servant and sent out from the back door, how could he find a little shadow?
Poor Liu Kui and Zhou Long were each given 50 boards from their bosses because they lost their stealing heads, and they were also deducted two months' salary. The two did not dare to expose Zhao Hongyin's father and son's love for helping the thieves escape, but Zhao Hongyin's father and son still had a grudge against the two of them. The difficulty of catching a corrupt officialdom is evident.
Many years later, Zhao Kuangyin seized the throne, and in order to cover up the scandal of worshipping the thief as a teacher, he turned Xin Wenyue's identity as the thief into just "careless friends and saved the stolen goods for the Jiangyang thief". The thieves who lived together didn't know who they were, and the gold, silver and jewelry stolen by the thieves let him keep them, and he didn't even ask where they came from.
Xin Wenyue fooled Zhao Kuangyin, the prodigal son, as a "big material", and Zhao Kuangyin took power, so he used Xin Wenyue, a thief, as a "virtuous", and arranged for Xin Wenyue to know Fangzhou, so that he could kill Chai Zongxun, the Later Zhou Gong Emperor, who was relegated there, and cut off the last root left by Chai Rong. This is really a good start for the future generations of people in power to "appoint people on the basis of merit"!
Even Zhao Pu, the prime minister at the time, who had been following the horse, couldn't look past it, and couldn't help but start the shooting, resolutely opposed it, and couldn't stop it.
The major case in the capital is well known to everyone, and the major personnel arrangements of the imperial court, and the ending of Emperor Gong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, historians have to be euphemistic and vaguely remember.
This is the case, everyone in the world knows that the people who beat Ma Wenren still cover up their ears and steal the bell, try their best to cover up for Zhao Kuangyin, and write Xin Wenyue as a generation of famous teachers, which is actually another "high-level black" for Emperor Zhao Kuangyin. Zhao Kuangyin attaches great importance to the teacher's affection, stresses righteousness, uses the right, is not afraid of people's words, and evaluates correctly, without detrimental to the greatness of the emperor, without losing the brilliance of human nature, so it is based on the truth.
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