Chapter 52: An Unexpected Discovery
Shiso proudly inserted the golden hairpin he bought into his hair.
"Husband, is it good-looking? Is it really good-looking? Along the way, she kept asking Yang Muyun like this.
"It's good-looking, it's really good-looking, it's so good-looking!" Yang Muyun was almost annoyed by her questioning. "Madame is really capable, and you will return the two hundred taels of silver to forty taels." Yang Muyun sighed.
"That's because his stuff isn't worth that much." Zi Su smiled slyly: "His words can deceive laymen, but he can't deceive experts." β
"Does Madame go to that shop often?" Yang Muyun asked.
"No, it's my first time going to this store," Shiso's eyes rolled, "The goods in this store are average, and I won't go again in the future." β
"Then why does the shopkeeper say we're regular customers?" Yang Muyun was puzzled.
"My foolish husband, is there anyone who can't be named? Not to mention a monkey spirit monkey spirit like him. Zi Su glanced at him, and the corners of his mouth hung with an arc: "You!" What a stupidity! β
"Am I stupid?" Yang Muyun scratched his head.
Shisu looked at him and smiled coquettishly.
"Also, madam, how can you have so much money? You must know that my monthly salary is only ten taels of silver. β
"Husband, my money is neither stolen nor robbed, if you want to know, you can check." Zi Su also had a smile in his eyes, "Even if you don't become an official and stay at home honestly, I can support you for the rest of my life, and I can raise you beautifully." β
Yang Muyun was stunned, he felt like a fool in front of Zisu.
"Madame, let's go home!" Yang Muyun felt that if a man's self-esteem wanted to be hit, the best way was to go shopping with a woman.
"Why? Didn't you ask me to walk around the streets with you and relax? Shisu asked in surprise.
"But I suddenly wanted to go back."
"Well, you're really hard to wait, you're not happy to go home, and you're not happy to be with you." Shiso sighed.
"Who is waiting for you?" Yang Muyun secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.
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"Old Duan, if you lose, you have a treat, but you are not allowed to Laipi."
"Who is it, Lao Tzu invites you in this drunken wind house, how about it? Bold enough! β
A familiar voice came into Yang Muyun's ears, Yang Muyun followed the prestige, and saw Duan Xiaoqi, Huang Xiaoqi, Lu Xiaoqi, and Meng Xiaoqi talking in front of a restaurant.
"Duan Cheng, Huang Xuan, Lu Xiang, Meng Qi!" Yang Muyun shouted loudly.
"My lordβ" The four of them exclaimed in unison, and they wanted to turn around and run, but they couldn't move a single step as if they were nailed to the ground.
Yang Muyun stepped forward quickly and snorted coldly: "What, do you want to run when you see this official?" β
"My lord, my subordinates wish you and Miss Shiso...... No, Mrs. Shisu is happy to get married, raising her eyebrows, and growing old with her white head ......" The four of them spoke unevenly and incoherently.
Yang Muyun didn't feel funny in his heart, but his face was still covered with a layer of frost: "Do you want to fool the past after saying a few good words?" Disrespecting the boss and drugging the boss, what should be the crime according to the law of the Ming Dynasty? β
"My lord-" The four of them knelt down together and told them again and again: "It was Lord Shen and Ning Gongzi who asked their subordinates to do this......
"Yes! We can't help ourselves, my lord......"
"My lord, my subordinates know that they are wrong, for the sake of our saddle and horse, you can spare us!"
Zi Su came to Yang Muyun's side with light steps and persuaded: "Husband, although their actions are wrong, they have no ill will towards you, and besides, this matter is not for them to decide." β
"You still dare to intercede, you are also an accomplice!" Yang Muyun still had a calm face.
"You-" Shisu laughed angrily: "Okay, okay, I'm the mastermind, you're satisfied!" If you want to punish Lord Yang, punish me! β
"Madam, you-" Yang Muyun was speechless for a while, and shouted to the four people: "This account will be written down for the time being, and I will settle the account with you later!" β
"Lord Xieβ" "Mrs. Xie Zisuβ" The four of them stood up and said busily.
"My lord, Mrs. Shisu, you two are very happy that your subordinates have not been able to celebrate properly, now your subordinates are the hosts, please go up and sit down for a while." Duan Xiaoqi said respectfully, and the other three also hurriedly bowed down.
Yang Muyun glanced at Zisu, and Zisu smiled: "Husband, I'm also tired of walking, it's rare for your subordinates to pay respect, let's go up and take a nap, what do you think?" β
Yang Muyun snorted, his face softened a little, and Duan Xiaoqi and the four of them hurriedly led the way.
"Drunken Wind Residence - how familiar is this name." Yang Muyun looked at the plaque of the restaurant, and said silently in his heart.
Everyone sat down at a table by the window upstairs, and Yang Muyun looked at Duan Xiaoqi who greeted the food before and after: "Don't you four have to go to the yali to be on duty today?" How do you come out to play cards and drink? β
"Thanks to the blessing of the lord, now the brothers of our Fengzi arrest room are beautiful in the Yali. Lord Shen said, you have worked hard in these two big cases one after another, and now you are very happy, let you have a good rest for a while. You rest, and the brethren can rest and relax. Duan Xiaoqi said with a smile.
"Old Duan, why did I hear Lord Shen say that let's temporarily put Ning Gongzi under control?" Meng Xiaoqi asked.
"Old Meng, you don't understand this, this is what Lord Shen said to the rest of the Yali, it's just a face-to-face conversation, how could Ning Gongzi really call us?" Huang Xiaoqi said.
"Oh? So what is Ning Zuer busy with now? Yang Muyun was very interested in him.
"My lord, Ning Gongzi left the southern capital yesterday and went to Suzhou to investigate the case." Lu Xiaoqi hurriedly replied.
"He's so busy, what kind of case is he personally out of the house?"
"I heard that it was a group of Yunnan Wuyi people who came to the southern capital a few days ago, and they are now going to Suzhou, and Ning Gongzi is the one who wants to investigate." Duan Xiaoqi said.
"This Ning Zu'er really went to grab the job of Ying Tianfu." Yang Muyun smiled secretly.
"Sir, madam, I wish you great wealth and many blessings, please be kind and reward a few small dollars!" An unkempt, quail-clad beggar, with a cane, took a broken bowl and begged for a table of guests who covered his nose and threw a few copper plates in his broken bowl and waved his hand.
The beggar was also very interested, and begged for money and left. I saw him turn around and walk towards Yang Muyun's table, and before he could reach the table, Duan Xiaoqi threw a few copper plates over, and with a few crisp sounds, the copper plates fell on the floor. The beggar hurriedly bent down to pick it up, revealing a white object around his waist.
When Shisu saw it, he couldn't help but let out a "huh", and a look of surprise appeared on his face. Yang Muyun followed her gaze and saw that the white thing on the beggar's waist was a bone, and there were several eyes on it.
"Ma'am, what, is there anything wrong?" Yang Muyun asked.
"Husband, aren't you interested in the bone flute? The beggar had a bone flute pinned to his waist. β
"Madame is wrong, right? Such a rough bone, with only a few eyes on it, is a bone flute? Yang Muyun didn't believe it.
"Husband, I won't be mistaken, those eyes are regularly shaped, and they are clearly arranged according to the five tones of the palace merchants' horns and feathers." Seeing that Yang Muyun didn't believe it, Zi Su hurriedly explained to him.
"Get up, get up, you stinky for food, whoever let you in, don't get out of here." The guy in the shop ran over and shouted at the beggar.
"Yes, yes," the beggar picked up the copper plate and staggered out.
"What a bad luck!" The guy cursed, turned his face to Yang Muyun and the others and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry to sweep away the interest of several masters and ladies." β
"It's alright, does that beggar come often?" Yang Muyun asked.
"Still coming often? The last time he got into trouble in our shop, he caused a bunch of regulars to not show up for days. The guy shook his head.
"Oh? This is quite interesting, can you talk about it? Yang Muyun suddenly became interested.
"You don't know, one night four days ago, a few regulars who often came to our store for drinks were sitting in your current place, and they brought a few Kaki singers with them that day. At the table next to him were a few out-of-town guests, all dressed in strange ways. The two tables were drinking happily, and the one who asked for food came. As soon as he came to the table of the out-of-town guests, he somehow annoyed them, and they reached out and grabbed him. This is strangely flexible, running behind the courtesans next to the regulars at this table, and the outsiders caught him but didn't catch him, but almost caught the courtesans. This annoyed a few regulars, who thought that the out-of-town visitors were going to flirt with the courtesans, so they said that they stepped forward and pushed them, and the two sides almost didn't fight. Later, I heard that one of the regulars was still unconscious when he came home......"
Yang Muyun's face changed, "Is one of the regulars surnamed Du?" β
"Yes, he is the son of the boss of Du Youcai Du on Hanfu Street, why, does the son know him?"
Yang Muyun didn't care about answering, looked out the window nervously, and saw that the beggar had left the hotel and was walking north.
"Lu Xiang, you accompany Madame, Duan Cheng, Huang Xuan, Meng Qi, the three of you come with me!"
"Husband, what's wrong?" Shiso asked in surprise.
"Madam, you have done a great job, I'll talk about you later." Yang Muyun glanced at her and walked downstairs quickly. Duan Cheng, Huang Xuan, and Meng Qi followed closely.
"Husband, be careful, you still have injuries...... Before he finished speaking, Yang Muyun had already run away.
Yang Muyun led the three of them out of the store. Pointing north, "Chase me, catch up with the beggar just now." "Yes, my lordβ" The four figures chased north.
The beggar staggered to the intersection of the big tree and sat down on the ground, put the broken bowl in his hand in front of him, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old leading three people to run in front of him and surround him.
The beggar squinted at the young man in front of him, pulled a broken gong and said with a dry smile: "Childe brought people over in such a hurry, is it to give Hanako a gold ingot?" β
Yang Muyun smiled and leaned over: "I can give you the gold ingot, but I want something from you." β
"Hehe, is there anything else on Hanako that can get into the eyes of Childe?"
"Of course, take the bone flute on your body to Ben Gongzi, who will not only give you gold ingots, but also send you to a place to eat and live." As soon as Yang Muyun's words fell, he only heard the sound of three knives, Duan Huang and Meng pulled out the saber on their waists, and the blade pointed at the beggar.
"Childe wants it, just ask Hanako to give it to you, why bother with swords?" The beggar's face changed slightly, and he reached out to touch his waist.
"Hula-" A cloud of powder suddenly swayed out of the beggar's hand, and Yang Muyun and Duan Huangmeng hurriedly raised their sleeves to cover their faces.
"It's not good-" When Yang Muyun withdrew his sleeves and looked at it again, the beggar was gone.
"Chase-" Yang Muyun pointed to a vague figure flying to the west, and led Duan Huang Meng and the others to chase after him quickly.
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"Phewβit's finally done." A group of catchers quickly came out of Yingtianfuya, and one catcher breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's so bad luck to carry a corpse back." A catcher patted his clothes, "I still have the smell of corpses on my body now!" β
"Don't talk about it, let's go find a place to have fun after a hard night." A short-bearded, round-necked blue-robed catcher said.
"Okayβ" The crowd of catchers suddenly became interested.
"Boss, I know a good place to go...... "The group said quickly and headed north to the intersection of Fudong Street and Zhongzheng Street.
"Whewβ" A figure rushed in front of them like a wind.
"Stop himβ" Four other men chased after him. The first one was a young man with clear eyebrows.
"Isn't this the Lord of the Jinyi Guard last night?" A catcher said.
Yang Muyun yelled at them: "What are you doing in a daze? He is the murderer who sank the corpse by the river last night, don't chase it quickly! As he spoke, his body didn't even stop before he whizzed by.
"Boss, what should I do?" All the catchers had their eyes on their leader.
"Didn't you hear? Hurry up and chase me! The fast catcher gritted his teeth, drew his knife in his hand, and chased after him.
"Chaseβ" The catchers shouted and chased after them.
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"Why are they missing?" Yang Muyun and the other four came to a three-way intersection.
"My lord, I saw the man running forward." Meng Xiaoqi said.
"No, I saw his figure turn south." Huang Xiaoqi said.
"Don't say it, Meng Qi, you chase forward; Huang Xuan, you chase south; Duan Cheng, you follow me to the north. Yang Muyun shouted.
"Yes, my lordβ"
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"My lord, there is no road ahead, what should I do?" Duan Xiaoqi pointed to the dead end ahead.
"It's strange, I obviously saw a figure flash into this alley, why didn't it disappear?" Yang Muyun stroked his chin and looked at the high walls on both sides, which were more than a foot high.
He came to the base of the wall, raised his hands high and grabbed the crack in the wall, his arms were forced, and his feet kicked hard. His whole body was like a big bird, and he was firmly on the wall with his hands, and his toes were a little more on the wall, and the whole person sat firmly on the wall.
"Good kung fu, adult!" Duan Xiaoqi praised.
"Less nonsense! Come on! Yang Muyun shouted in a deep voice.
"My lord, I can't go up!" Duan Xiaoqi cried with a sad face.