Chapter 61: The Dog Officer is Caught
The prince led a team of men and horses to Pu County. On the way, I kept seeing refugees from Youpu County, going to other counties to beg.
When he arrived in Puxian County, the prince took people directly to the prison and took out a holy decree to announce the acquittal of Zhou Shangshu, that is, all those related to this case. Then when I went to the mansion, I didn't see the figure of Sun Zhifu in the back house. The prince's only thought was that the dog official had already heard the letter and fled, and the dog official would not be removed for a day, and Li Min would not be at peace for a day.
searched the entire prefect's mansion, not to mention that the gold and silver were soft, but he didn't even see a single figure, the prince was dumbfounded, he was ordered to arrest the important criminals of the imperial court, and now let the criminals run away.
Zhou Jin saw that the prince looked at a loss, and said with a smile: "Does the prince regret not arresting people first, let the dog official run away, rest assured that the dog official can't run far with so many things, and there are so many beggars along the road, as long as you ask, you will definitely know where he fled to." So the crown prince and Lord Zhou led a team of people out of the prefect's mansion, and several people inquired about the whereabouts of the dog official, and gathered at the prefect's mansion after dark.
The prince went out of the prefect's mansion, walked a little west, and saw a few beggars coming back from Kyoto, and hurriedly took out a few taels of silver and asked them if they saw a team of people by the way, and a few beggars said that they saw a group of people, I don't know if they went out from Puzhou, it seems that they went to Longhu Mountain.
As soon as the prince heard about Longhu Mountain, he went to take refuge in the king of the mountain, as if he had warned him not to occupy the mountain as the king again, otherwise he would have to arrest him and go to prison, so difficult that he was still on the mountain, waiting to be arrested, no matter how he knew the whereabouts of Qian Ren's dog official, seeing that it was getting dark, he rushed back to the prefect's compound and met with a few people, and the team of people he brought with him also rested in the prefect's mansion.
The prince said; "There is the whereabouts of that dog official, he is in Longhu Mountain. Now let's see if there is anything in the kitchen that can't be cooked, cook first, stay in this house today, and then go and arrest the dog official tomorrow after eating. ”
I found a few officers and soldiers to go to the kitchen to prepare for cooking, but the things in the kitchen were quite complete, and the dog officer didn't take away the food, and it was estimated that when he got to the mountain, he would come down to find food.
The prince was thinking about it, someone shouted for dinner, and the group had dinner, and the prince asked a few guards to arrange for the officers and soldiers to take turns to keep vigil, and he and Zhou Shangshu found a place to sleep.
In the middle of the night, the prince was sleeping soundly, and when he heard that there was a thief, he got up in a hurry, and saw a few guards pressing a few people in
It turned out that these people sneaked into the mansion and scurried around the mansion, as if they were looking for something.
The prince interrogated and found out that these people followed Qian Ren to Longhu Mountain.
The prince asked; "Isn't there a gang of bandits on the mountain?"
Someone came and said; "When they went up the mountain, there was no one on the mountain."
The prince asked; "Why did you sneak in?"
Several people said; "Because I was in a hurry, I didn't bring much food, so the prefect sent a few people down the mountain to get food in the evening."
The prince asked the guards to take a few people down, and then went back to continue sleeping, the next day the prince rushed to Longhu Mountain with a large group of men and horses, to the bottom of the mountain, the prince asked the guards to take the officers and soldiers to surround the whole mountain, blocking the path up and down the mountain, and after a while, he caught it again, a group of people who wanted to go up the mountain, it turned out that Qian Ren saw that the people sent yesterday did not come back, and saw that the family was hungry, so he sent a group to buy food and send it to the mountain, he thought that the car sent before was opened, and this time he sent all the people who dragged the family, Leave his family with him as hostages.
This group took the money given by Qian Ren to the meat market to buy meat, and then bought vegetables, rice noodles, pots and bowls, and then drove the carriage back to the mountain, but I didn't expect the prince to wait here, the prince saw the car full of meat vegetables, rice and noodles, and said to Zhou Jin happily; "This Qian Ren has prepared quite a lot for us, knowing that we are hungry, he bought so much food and filial piety, which is more convenient for us to go around the mountain and catch dogs.
Ordered people to take those subordinates down to tie up the trees, and checked the food, so that the officers and soldiers began to camp at the foot of the mountain, and cook in pots, the officers and soldiers under the mountain were busy cooking, and the smell of rice filled the air.
At this time, he smelled the smell of meat and vegetables, and several children shouted to eat meat, Qian Ren was upset when he saw it, and ordered: "Search immediately to see if there is anything to eat, but if it really can't work, just rush down the mountain, and it is better to fight than to starve to death trapped on the mountain." The people all agreed, and there was not even a grain of grain on the mountain, so a few people begged Qian Ren, and the adults might as well let us rush down the mountain! Qian Ren smiled and said, 'Good'.
said to another subordinate: "You come here", said that the two of them entered the inner house, and after a while, the two exchanged clothes and came out separately, Qian Ren wiped a few handfuls of mud on his face, and it looked like a turtle. He asked his subordinates, who had exchanged clothes, to rush down the mountain with their families, and he also mixed in with the crowd.
The prince and the others were about to eat when they saw a group of people coming down from the mountain, and the prince hurriedly said, "Prepare quickly, and you must not let the dog official escape." A few of the guards were ready, and when they saw a man dressed in the prefect's clothes, everyone focused on him, and in a short time he was caught. Just when people thought that they had arrested the dog officer, the man in uniform said: "You caught the wrong one, I am not Qian Ren, he forced him to exchange clothes with me, I will help you arrest him, the dirtiest face is him," following the direction of the man's finger, people saw a man with a muddy face and tattered clothes untying the reins of a horse tied to a tree, the prince ordered someone to arrest this pretend, and he hurriedly chased Qian Ren, and the prince chased him out of the mountains and forests,
The two of them went one after the other, seeing that the prince was about to catch up, and they didn't want their horse to suddenly lose their horses, because the prince had practiced some martial arts, otherwise he would have fallen off the horse a long time ago, and the prince hurriedly came down, and he could only see the dog officer running away. looked at his horse and turned out that the dog officer had stumbled on himself, and there was a nail on the horse's hoof, and when he looked at several more in front of him, the prince picked up all the nails.
At this time, Zhou Jin came and saw the prince on the side of the road, and the horse was lying on the ground. I knew that something had happened to the horse, and the two of them were about to go to the same horse, when they saw a red war horse in the distance, the prince knew that this was Feiyan's war horse, and he got closer and closer to see Xia Feiyan's horse tied to Qian Ren.
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