Doge's Palace.

Wang Yuan's face was gloomy as water, and there were Chang Sangui and his wife kneeling in the hall.

Chang Sangui's task is to set every warehouse on fire. However, as soon as he set fire to one place, Wang Yuan brought someone with him, and he was so frightened that he quickly ran away, and then was caught on the way home.

The thing was so cowardly that his limbs were paralyzed, his whole body was shaking, and he knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise his head.

"Who told you to burn down the storehouse?" Wang Yuan asked.

Chang Sangui shuddered and said, "Zhao ...... Zhao Yidao. ”

"Didn't see anyone else?" Wang Yuan asked again.

"Nope." Chang Sangui said.

Wang Yuan looked at his nest and knew that he couldn't ask any clues, so he simply asked his wife: "What's your name?" ”

The peasant woman said, "Lin, Chang Lin." ”

Wang Yuan's attitude towards this peasant woman was even kinder, and he smiled: "How did you think of coming to report to the official?" ”

Chang Lin glanced at her husband and said, "I'm ...... The grass people wanted to report to the official early in the morning, but my man was not allowed and beat me. I...... I just think about it, then Zhao Yidao is used to breaking the family and killing people, and this time he is doing something to offend the governor, how can he bypass us? It's better to tell the Governor sooner and ask the Governor to save my son's life. ”

Wang Yuan asked Chang Sangui again: "Such a simple truth, you can understand it in the Hun family, why are you stupid?" ”

Chang Sangui buried his head lower and didn't dare to speak.

"Say!" Wang Yuan shouted.

Chang Sangui trembled and replied, "Grass people...... The grass people tried to set a fire, but they couldn't find out who did it. That Zhao Yidao did something to offend the governor, and he didn't dare not let my son go. If he doesn't let him go, I'll find out about it, and everyone will die together. ”

Wang Yuan laughed angrily: "If you really burn down the warehouse, it's not that the official wants to kill you, but Zhao Yidao kills you all over the place!" ”

Chang Sangui was stunned, and thought: I'm not stupid, I must let the old woman wait outside the governor's mansion first. Then I went to threaten Zhao Yidao that if I couldn't take my son home, I would report it directly to the governor. He Zhao Yidao still dares not to let go?

"Wait." Wang Yuan was too lazy to talk nonsense with this guy.

In the middle of the night, Jiang Xin brought people back and said, "Sir, Zhao Yidao is missing, and a body was found under the bed of the Zhao family, which was confirmed to be Chang Erhe, the son of Chang Sangui. ”

Chang Sangui was startled when he heard this, looked at Jiang Xin in a daze, and then sat on the ground.

"My son!"

Chang Lin wailed and cried, suddenly ran to her husband's side, and beat frantically: "If you want to report to the official, you won't listen, let you report to the official, but you won't listen...... It's said that Zhao's knife will harm people's lives, but if you don't listen, you will return my son's life......"

Chang Sangui was silent and let his wife scold.

"Drag it down, hold it for now." Wang Yuan waved his hand and said.

After Chang Sangui and his wife were taken away, Jiang Xin asked the soldiers to bring more than a dozen gangsters to the court.

"Lord Governor, it's really none of our business, it's all done by Zhao Yidao himself."

"The governor spares my life, I just lured Chang Erhe to gamble, and I really don't know anything else."

"Your Excellency the Governor, you have been wronged!"

“……”

These gangsters made Wang Yuan upset, and immediately scolded: "Shut up, come one by one!" Whoever has the surname, what he does, and what he has to do with Zhao Yidao, all explain it clearly to the governor. You speak first! ”

The gangster named by Wang Yuan said: "The small man Lu Youtian, who lives in Min'anfang in the south of the city, calls me 'Lu Er' on the street." Xiaomin and Zhao Yidao have known each other since childhood, and they usually set up a bureau to tempt people to play money. This time, Renhe County and Haining County built roads and ports, and many residents got the relocation money, so we discussed making a fortune from them. That Chang Erhe was abducted by me and Li San, I just wanted to make money from him, I really didn't think that Zhao Yidao would do a big disaster. Lord Governor, the people are wronged! ”

"Where is Li Sangui?" Wang Yuan asked.

A thug responded: "In ...... At. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Tell me about it." ”

Li Sangui said: "Renhe County, the head of the grass people's family, was also requisitioned this time and got a relocation silver. The grass people usually mess around in the south of the city, so they gave Zhao Yidao an idea to lure those fat sheep with relocation fees to slaughter a few. The grass people lured six people to play money before and after, and Chang Erhe was the last ......"

Wang Yuan asked: "In other words, it was not Zhao Yidao who took the initiative to trick the demolition households into gambling money?" ”

"It's not." Li Sangui didn't dare to lie, because the things on the stall were too big.

Wang Yuan asked again: "Think about it again, has Zhao Yidao ever inquired about what the family members of those fat sheep are doing?" ”

Li Sangui replied without thinking: "Three days ago, Zhao Yidao said to the grass people that it was too slow to slaughter fat sheep like this, and he should make a big profit. He asked the grass people to lure a family member to work in the store, made the person incur a gambling debt, and then asked the family to steal the contents of the store. said that those things that go to sea are valuable, and they can steal some to pay off their debts, which is enough to slaughter dozens of fat sheep. ”

"In the past few days, has Zhao Yidao been in contact with any strangers?" Wang Yuan asked.

Li Sangui shook his head: "The grass people don't know. ”

"What about you?" Wang Yuan asked the other gangsters.

A thug said, "I'...... I've bumped into it. ”

Wang Yuan said: "Let's talk about it in detail. ”

The gangster said: "That night, Zhao Yidao drank with a fat man. I greeted him and asked casually, and Zhao Yidao said that the fat man was his distant uncle. ”

"Which night?" Wang Yuan asked.

"I don't remember exactly, maybe it was four days ago, maybe it was five days ago." As he spoke, the gangster asked the person next to him, "Six fingers, what day is Chen Yuanwai's birthday?" ”

Six fingers replied: "Chen Yuanwai's birthday is the ninth day of the first month, and today is the fourteenth." ”

The gangster immediately said: "On the ninth day of the first month, I went to Chen Yuanwai's house to mix a meal of birthday wine, and when I came back, I saw Zhao Yidao talking to the fat man. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "What are the characteristics of the fat man?" ”

The thug replied, "It's not a Hangzhou accent, it sounds like it's from Ningbo." Yes, it is from Ningbo, and it is better to listen to the quarrels of Suzhou people than to listen to the people of Ningbo. The Ningbo accent is very hard, not good, and the voice is loud, and many Ningbo businessmen in Hangzhou speak like a quarrel! ”

Ningbo, hehe.

Wang Yuan sneered and said to the left and right, "Invite Mr. Tang here." ”

Tang Bohu quickly came and asked, "I don't know what the general system has sent?" ”

Wang Yuan said: "Please ask Mr. Tang to paint two portraits, don't care about the artistic conception and charm, just want to paint as much as possible, and the rural people can recognize it!" ”

Tang Bohu's fine brushwork is a must, especially good at ladies, landscapes and spring palace pictures.

But it usually belongs to artistic creation, pursuing beauty and charm, and deliberately ignoring the word "like". For example, the ladies in his paintings are all single eyelids, which follows the tradition of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and the ancients thought that single eyelids were better-looking.

Under Tang Bohu's operation, the gangsters narrated their appearance, and the two portraits were completed by noon the next day. And it's colored, it's not far from a real person, and you can recognize it when you see it.

"Wanted in the whole province!"

"Whoever has news of these two people, as long as it is confirmed, will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver. Those who can capture these two people alive will be rewarded with 1,000 taels for each person! ”

As for those gangsters, they will be dealt with according to law.

Let's start with a collective battle of 80 boards, which is only a gambling crime. What are the remaining charges, throw them to the county government for trial slowly, and anyway, they have to find out what they have committed before.

As for Chang Sangui and his wife, Chang Lin's report is meritorious and should be rewarded.

And Chang Sangui himself, according to the "Da Ming Law", is a capital crime, and he has to confiscate his family property to compensate for the loss.

Wang Yuan forcibly sentenced the two to divorce, otherwise the reward obtained by Chang Lin's family would not be enough to compensate for the loss of goods, and he would have to take it for the rest of his life.

However, Wang Yuan promised to avoid death in advance, and the decision was to change Chang Sangui to exile.