"You say it again?" the rest of his life thought he had misheard.

"I didn't eat dumplings with vinegar. The old man said again.

There was no word for a while, the surroundings were quiet, and everyone was staring at the old man intently.

Finally, Zhou Jiufeng grabbed him, "Old man, tell you, confess leniently, resist strictly, and sit in prison with nonsense." What did you do to get caught?"

The old man patted his knee, "Heaven is above, I really ate dumplings without vinegar and was arrested, why don't you believe it!"

Zhou Jiufeng pointed to his head: "Do you know what this is?"

The old man was stunned, "Isn't this your brain?"

"It's good to know! I came out with my brain today, you can't fool me!" Zhou Jiufeng patted him on the shoulder, "Don't leave it all now, wait until you enter the prison of Jinyiwei, and let you suffer if you have to eat, tell you, our prison of Jinyiwei is not as easy as the yamen." ”

"I think you people in Yangzhou City are better off not than with brains. The old man muttered quietly.

"What are you talking about!" Zhou Jiufeng glared at him.

"I really ate dumplings without dipping them in vinegar and was caught, why don't you believe it. ”

The old man sat on the ground with his buttocks, crying and grabbing the ground, "I'm a teacher, why is it so difficult to come to your Yangzhou City to eat." I don't just eat dumplings and don't dip them in vinegar, you guys are bullying people like this. ”

Li Zheng, who had just come out of Pork Nine and was carrying a piece of meat, saw that it was lively here, and pulled Pork Nine over to watch.

Yu Sheng handed him the tea that was served to him in his hand, "Okay, you stand up and have something to say." ”

The old man was really thirsty, and when he saw the water, he trembled with excitement and wanted to get up, but he couldn't do it, and in the end it was difficult for him to help him up.

"I don't think he can commit any big crimes like this. "It's hard to feel that the old man is still hunched over, and it's hard to kill a chicken.

He kindly persuaded the old man: "Uncle, don't worry, this person in front of you is the city lord of Yangzhou City, you tell the truth." ”

The old man put down the tea bowl, "I told the truth, I really ate dumplings without vinegar." ”

"Hey, you're going to say that", Yu Sheng pointed to Lizheng, "This master eats dumplings and dips them in chili peppers, shouldn't he be caught too." ”

The old man didn't know how to answer.

Aunt Qing spoke, "You start from the beginning, let's start with how you were caught." ”

The old man nodded and handed the tea bowl to Yu Sheng: "Can you have another bowl?" ”

"That's tea, from the middle of the wilderness. "Let them come in and make a pot of tea for the old man himself.

The old man walked in with the support of the rich and the poor and sat down at the long table.

Li Zheng and Pork Jiu grabbed a handful of peanuts from the little white fox and sat on the seat, ready to listen to the story with great interest.

"Four months ago, I heard that Yangzhou City was rich and crowded, so I followed the caravan south and prepared to come to Yangzhou City to teach. The old man said.

Indeed, as he expected, on the second day after arriving in Yangzhou City, someone came to the door to send him a bundle and asked him to be a gentleman.

Under the leadership of Yu Sheng's cooking, especially under the promotion of those city lords who participated in the alliance leader conference and praised Yangzhou's food after returning home, Yangzhou is now famous for its food, and the old man certainly has to try it.

At night, he ordered a dumpling at a restaurant, but he didn't like to be jealous, so he didn't dip in vinegar.

"At that time, there was also a table of officials in the same restaurant, and they were celebrating what a surname was..."The old man took a sip of tea and recalled carefully, "Yes, a head catcher surnamed Hai and named Fen cracked a big case, which made them raise their eyebrows in front of Jinyiwei. ”

While the old man was enjoying the dumplings, the catchers had already drunk to their pleasure.

When the sea catcher went out to return conveniently, he saw that the old man ate dumplings without dipping them in vinegar, and said drunkenly: "You old man, new, new, you are really a hillbilly." Dumplings, the essence of dumplings is in vinegar, without dipping vinegar to eat the delicacy of dumplings. ”

He spoke politely, and the old man didn't reply angrily: "I just like not to dip in vinegar, can you manage it?"

"Hey, you old man, you don't know what's wrong. The sea catcher said.

He sat back in his seat, drank another glass of wine, and finally felt aggrieved, slapped the table, and scolded: "His uncle." ”

His subordinates looked at him drunk, "What's the matter, Haiye, did someone make you angry?"

Hai Zhutou took a sip of wine and scolded: "Damn, there is an old man over there, foreigner, he eats dumplings without dipping them in vinegar, Lao Tzu kindly reminded him, he still thinks Lao Tzu is troublesome, he is really angry with his uncle!"

"His uncle, this old man doesn't take Hai Ye in his eyes anymore, and Jin Yiwei doesn't dare to be so arrogant. Yizhu looked at the head of the sea catcher with drunken eyes: "Master Hai, do you want to lock him up and clean him up, and release him tomorrow?"

Haiyu raised his head and drank the wine, and slapped the wine glass on the table: "Shut up his uncle, let him know how fast he catches, and kill his majesty!"

At this point, the old man took another sip of tea.

He said to them for the rest of his life: "Then I was caught by them, just because I didn't dip the dumplings in vinegar." ”

The group didn't really clean up the old man, because they were already drunk, and they threw the old man in the cell and went back to sleep.

"What about later?" Yu Sheng asked, not saying that he would release it tomorrow.

"I don't know," the old man shook his head, "I've been in prison for four months anyway." ”

"I guess I woke up drunk the next day, and the headcatcher had forgotten about it. As for his subordinates, they thought that the head catcher had let the old man go. Ye Zigao said.

Zhou Jiufeng nodded, "It's possible." ”

The jailers only watched the cells, and they locked up whoever was caught until the yamen arraigned and convicted the prisoners. And this old man, if he did not file a case in the yamen, he will naturally not be arraigned.

The jailer didn't dare to let him go, especially when the god caught the man himself.

This sea catcher is a celebrity in the Yamen, and he is also registered in front of Jinyiwei, and he has always been known for solving cases like a god and solving cases quickly.

Jin Yiwei sometimes turned to him for help.

"You've been in the cell for so long, and no one asks how you got in?" Zhou Jiufeng asked unwillingly.

She cautiously glanced at the city lord, this matter is estimated to be not good, if it is true, the people of the entire Yamen in the west of the city will suffer.

"Yes. The old man said.

When the jailers saw that he had not been brought to trial and convicted, they asked him: "What did you do to get in?"

"Because I didn't dip the dumplings in vinegar. The old man said that every time.

The jailer felt that the old man was questioning their IQ, and said angrily: "Tell the truth to Lao Tzu." ”

"I really eat dumplings without vinegar. "The old man is very stubborn.

"Nonsense, if the sea catcher will personally arrest you because of this?" said the jailer.

So, he was beaten severely.

Not only the jailer, but also the people who lived in the same cell wondered how he got in.

"Old man, how did you get in?" asked a classmate.

"I didn't eat dumplings with vinegar. ”

"Do you think Lao Tzu doesn't have a brain?" said the classmate angrily, and then thought that the old man was a thief, so he didn't dare to speak.

So, he was beaten severely.

In short, the jailer, the prisoner who came in and went out, all asked him curiously how he got in.

As soon as he said that he didn't dip the dumplings in vinegar, he was greeted with a severe beating, because he felt that he was insulting other people's intelligence.

Then others were even more curious about how he got in.

In this way, the old man was beaten a lot.

"Everyone didn't believe that I was eating dumplings without vinegar. There was a gentleman on the beam who went in three or four times, and when he saw that I hadn't gone out yet, he insisted that I was some kind of gang boss, the mastermind behind the scenes, and he had to worship me as a teacher, and he was ready to be my mouthpiece. The old man sighed and shook his head.

"As an apprentice, he doesn't believe me. I asked him to go to the restaurant and release the news that 'eating dumplings without dipping them in vinegar will be imprisoned', and he said that this was a code. The old man patted his thigh and said, "I really ate dumplings without vinegar!"