It is said that Li Wen hurriedly put on his official uniform and went out, only to see that the people of the Pan family had already crowded the county government hall, and the crying and shouting were shocking. The official hurriedly shouted twice, but he didn't have half the strength in the dantian. Li Wen panicked and asked, "Who is wronged?" ”

The three sons of the Pan family howled in unison for a long time, and said one word after another. It turned out that early this morning, the girl of the sixth aunt in their house went to serve the master and got up, but saw that the house was in a mess, and the sixth aunt and the old man fell half-dead on the kang, screaming loudly in fright. A few bold mothers-in-law who came forward to check on the two of them were tied up with small clothes or torn tents, and the tent fragments were stuffed in their mouths, and the sixth aunt woke up after being dangled for a long time, and their lord had already died of anger.

The six aunts seemed to be frightened stupid, and everyone pinched and screamed, still in a daze, but in the end, it was their wife who ordered someone to take a basin of cold water and pour her head to wake her up. After sobering up, she looked around for a long time, and suddenly screamed: "There is a thief~~~ Catch the thief~~~" It was the wife who scolded her for a few words before calming down. It took a while for her to burst into tears.

Later, she said that she and Master Pan were in a dream last night, and she didn't know what time it was, and she was suddenly woken up, and two masked men could be vaguely identified in the moonlight, holding knives and forcing the master, only to hear them shouting "Say it quickly" in a low voice. The old man was already bound by them, and she wanted to shout so that the thieves would find out, and he also pinched her throat and stuffed her tongue, and smashed her on the back of the head, and she fainted. I didn't know anything about what happened until I woke up.

At one time, everyone counted the goods, but only the tent was missing one hundred and twenty-four taels of silver, and the treasury was pried open but nothing was lost, and everything next to it was undamaged. Because the old man Pan was dead, he came to the yamen to report the case.

Li Wendong felt that the dark clouds were overhead. He is just an ordinary county order, such a Houmen family is dead, where can he take responsibility for blaming him? I had to call the sixth aunt to come over and ask questions.

The sixth aunt was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she knelt down and trembled. Li Wen first asked her to recount the story from the beginning, and then asked the thief what he looked like, she said: "The two thieves are very tall and strong, dressed in black, and one of them is quite fat, although they both cover their faces with black scarves, but they can see that the fat man has a beard, and the one who is not fat is a goatee like our master." ”

Levine asked, "How's the sound?" ”

The sixth aunt said: "That fat man's voice is muffled, not fat...... "She thought for a while, "it's the same as ordinary people's voices." ”

Levine asked again: "Where is the accent?" ”

The sixth aunt shook her head: "The concubine doesn't know." ”

"How old do you sound like?"

She thought about it again: "If you don't say anything, you should be in your forties." ”

Li Wen asked her to say what happened again, and it was the same as before, so he ordered her to draw a charge, and shouted to go to Pan's house to take a look. Their county is small, and quite poor, not even a job, in previous years, if there was a murder, please come to the county to see. Now that the big man is dead, he has to send someone out to borrow it. He comforted the Pan family again, promised to solve the case and avenge the old man Pan, and said a lot of good things before sending the group away.

When he was done, it was almost noon, and when he returned to the back office, he saw that all kinds of account books were still spread, and Young Master Gao and the others were sleeping hulala, thinking that they were very busy last night. He suddenly had a stir: Why were they robbered as soon as they came? Among the people accompanying them were more than a dozen big men, some fat and some thin. Who in this county dares to provoke the Pan family! If it is a thief passing by, it is too coincidental. He didn't alarm Young Master Gao and the others, and came to the table to check if there were any clues.

However, I saw that there were three blank pieces of paper on the case, with some frames drawn on them. Li Wen took a closer look and couldn't help but praise it.

The first column of the vertical column is the month, the horizontal column is the name of the tax, the number of the tax is filled in, the lack is a space, the last line is the total, the far right has the total amount of the whole year, and a few lines of unfinished sentences. "In Angu County, there are men and women (blank) mouths, and children under the age of 16 are not counted. Equalize the tax per person for the year (blank). For the common people (blank) households, each household will be balanced to contribute taxes (blank) this year. Men between 16 and 60 are counted (blank), and each male is balanced to pay taxes (blank). "It is clear what year, month, when, and how many taxes have been raised.

Li Wen's eyes suddenly turned red, and he no longer doubted this young master Gao. These three are the county's tax contributions in the past three years, and if you can fill in the first few blanks, it will be obvious that the tax has increased extremely fiercely, and anyone who is not a fool can see it. Among them, the old one also approved a line of words, "Zi said, the harsh government is fiercer than the tiger." "There are so many account books, and it is very troublesome to look up. Needless to say, these teenagers were busy with this last night.

At this time, the child was already awake, and he was busy waking up others, and several children yawned and gradually cleaned up and got up. For a while, Jia Huan rubbed his eyes and bumped into each other, saw Li Wen seeing him, and hurriedly came over to say hello: "Lord Li, morning!" ”

Li Wen hurriedly wiped away his tears and arched his hand: "Young Master Zhao is early." "It turned out that Jia Huan was the cousin of Young Master Gao, and he reported his mother's surname according to the habits of the princes and princes.

Jia Huan blinked: "Why am I a little sad to look at adults?" ”

Li Wennai pointed to the boxes on the case and sighed: "I, Li Wen, have always known that there are capable people in the world, but I don't want to have such a genius!" Young Master Zhao, whose idea was this? ”

Jia Huan glanced at it and said, "Oh, this form was taught to him by my cousin's husband." ”

Li Wen couldn't help but sigh again. At this time, Jia Cong, Gong Kun and others gradually came over, they were all a little embarrassed, and arched their hands: "I overslept." Li Wenxian thanked them again, this time it was much more sincere than yesterday.

He suddenly remembered the case of the Pan family, and said with a bit of amazement: "Young Master Gao is extremely talented and compassionate. There was a big case in this county, and the lower officials dared to ask the young master for help to think about it. ”

As soon as Jia Cong heard the "big case", he came to his senses: "What big case? Speak up, talk fast! ”

Li Wen told him about the murder of Master Pan, and Jia Cong, Gong Kun and others pretended to be quite curious while listening to it. Last night, Wu You had already said that he was going to Pan's house to do business, because he was afraid of causing trouble, Gong Kun repeatedly told him not to hurt people's lives, why didn't he listen? If you have to kill Old Man Pan for some reason, you should even kill that aunt, and you still have a living mouth, what do you think. It's just that looking back and thinking about it, Wu You is just a teenager, where is the big man? Besides, he doesn't have a beard. More and more puzzled.

Gong Kun first suspected that his own people did it, and after thinking about it for a long time, he said in a mysterious way: "I'm afraid this matter is not simple. ”

Li Wen was busy asking for advice.

Gong Kun said: "It's just more than a hundred taels of silver, which is really nothing." Li Wen thought to himself, where is your wealth? More than 100 taels in this county are enough to make money and kill people. Gong Kun continued, "They never let the old man Pan see his face, and he couldn't commit murder, so he took the money and left." ”

Li Wendao: "Bao Buqi asked Master Pan where their family's savings were?" ”

Gong Kun said: "Is there an injury on the old man's body?" How did he die? ”

Li Wen smiled bitterly: "There is nothing to do in this county, and people have been borrowed from neighboring counties. Listening to the old servants in their family, I am afraid that they will suffocate to death, and there seems to be no injuries on their bodies. ”

Gong Kun hurriedly said, "That's it." Even if you want to ask for money, you should use some vicious means, how can there be a reason to suffocate if you don't say it. He sneered, "If you are a capable person, it will be very easy for such a rich man to speak." ”

Li Wen suddenly shook his head. Although he had already guessed that this gentleman was unusual, he was afraid that it was becoming more and more unusual now.

Gong Kun suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Since this old man Pan is related to the Dingcheng Hou Mansion, the five girls in the third room of the Dingcheng Hou have recently been blessed with the Holy Favor and become a nobleman. What Master Li said yesterday is that he is the uncle of the third young grandmother? ”

Li Wen nodded repeatedly.

Jia Cong interjected coldly: "The third master of their family happens to be in the third room, that is, the noble brother's brother with the same father and mother, and now the third wife is the continuation of the string." Counting up, in the entire Dingcheng Hou Mansion, only the third master is closest to the nobles. ”

Li Wenhao sat down on the ground with his butt in his hand. This kind of prince and prince plus the palace is deep, where can he understand? Half a day before he asked in a trembling voice: "What does Mr. think?" ”

Gong Kun shook his head and said, "God knows what he shouldn't know." Silence the ordinary. ”

Li Wen was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.

Gong Kun whispered again: "What should the adults do, they are just two thieves, and they are caught; If the origin is extraordinary, it will not be discovered at will. ”

Li Wen nodded hurriedly, and quietly left this matter in his heart "untouchable".

For a while, everyone went out to eat again, and had a round with Wu You and others. When he saw Wu You's face, he knew that he hadn't slept well last night, and Gong Kun stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?" Wu You cried and told the story of last night from the beginning. Gong Kun's brain hurt, he choked for a long time, raised his hand and poked his finger: "You are a cannon fight!" ”

Wu You said with a sad face: "I clearly took that woman out." ”

Gong Kun knocked him again: "That's a person!" Not a thing! People have legs! Legs can walk! ”

Wu You argued: "I know this...... I think that the little girl in her small place has no courage to come, and she must listen to me......"

Gong Kun couldn't help but use his strength to smash him: "What is your idea?" How big is this county? Her lord died, and the tent lost the money, and she took the money and touched the ashes on her face to escape? Isn't that waiting to die with a straight neck? She can't run for a few days before she can be caught, and it's a capital crime to talk about flowers with her, do you believe it? Whether it is a thief or adultery, if the old man Pan lives, she will not live. ”

Wu You shouted in a low voice: "You let me not hurt people's lives......"

Gong Kun said: "Who let you get that woman in again?" Just take the old man and ask if it's okay? He scolded him for a long time before he began to discuss business.

After they finished lunch, Jia Cong, Gong Kun and others returned to the county office, and Wu You and others returned to the inn. When I arrived at the door of the inn, I saw that there were hundreds of people inside and out, not to mention hundreds, all of them were young men, holding knives and sticks and shouting: "The thief is gone!" ”

Wu You and the others hurriedly made a frightened look, and boldly stepped forward to ask, "Fellow villagers, what happened?" ”

The person at the head was none other than the son of the Pan family, and he pointed at them and scolded: "You bold thieves! Don't tie your hands and hand over the silver! ”

Wu You said blankly: "What thief?" We were passing through. ”

The uncle of the Pan family sneered and pointed to the first few dart masters behind him and said, "Among these few, there must be thieves!" ”

Wu Youlian shouted: "How can you spray people with blood!" We are good travelers, where there are thieves. Do you have proof? ”

Uncle Pan said with tears in his eyes: "My father's life savings are all stolen by you, do you want evidence?" Easy tightness. If you are passing by, and you want to come with silver, you should be a silver ticket, and you will not have much cash. If we find a lot of silver, we are robbers. ”

Wu Yu hurriedly said: "This eldest brother, you are from the Pan family, I went to the county office this morning to see the excitement and saw you, I heard your family say that only more than 100 taels of silver were lost, and we are such people, more than 100 taels is not ordinary." ”

Uncle Pan sneered: "You also stole 1,400 taels of silver from my father!" ”

This is a poor and remote place, who has ever heard of such a large amount as 1,400 taels of silver? The onlookers were in an uproar.

Wu You also sneered twice: "There is such a reliance, has anyone heard of it?" ”

Uncle Pan ignored him and drank: "Search!" ”

The dart master at the back immediately rolled up his sleeves: "Grandpa is afraid that you won't succeed?" ”

Wu You waved his hand to the back, and said in a sensible manner: "Young Master Ben is not afraid of shadows. Yes, we didn't go on the road with that much cash. It's just, Mr. Pan, what if the search is finished? How are you staying? My upright husband, if you want to be wronged, you can search if you want to? Do you think that the surname Pan is not successful? The young master also wanted to give a word of advice. Mr. Pan, I am very big and capable, and not everyone can afford to be provoked by you. If you close your eyes and act recklessly today, when we are like the ordinary people of Angu County, we are afraid that we will suffer a big loss. You can't afford to mess with me! "Jia Cong, the bear child of the Red Mansion

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Chapter 105 of the main text.

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