Li Yanyi frowned, thinking that the officials had made a mistake in their busyness, so they didn't put it out or care, and ordered the drummers to be brought to the hall. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

Two officials carried one man from the court, and when he came to the court, he fell on his knees and kowtowed upward.

Li Yan looked at it and couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that this was a child, who looked like he was thirteen or fourteen years old, kneeling there with a panicked face.

It was the first time that the child came to beat the drum and voice his grievances. So Li Yan asked: "The young man kneeling in the hall, what grievances do you have?" ”

The boy stammered, "I ...... No...... There is no injustice...... Grievances ......"

Li Yanyi frowned: "You have no grievances, why did you come to beat the drum to voice grievances?" ”

The boy said, "Someone...... Gave it to me...... I have a piece of silver...... Silver...... Let me...... Drumming ......"

Li Yan said: "Who is it?" Do you know? ”

The boy said, "No...... No...... Know...... He covered his face. ”

Li Yan smiled lightly and bitterly, it seemed that someone was joking with him, so he wanted to scare the child: "Do you know what crime you have committed?" This is called contempt of the courts, and according to the law you will be punished with twenty boards. ”

The child was so frightened that he almost urinated: "Hit...... Twenty...... Board...... Plate ......"

Li Yan waved his hand lightly: "But that's the law of the Ming Dynasty, my Qin army is not the Ming Dynasty, so I will spare you first, if you dare to make trouble again, the two crimes will be one, and you will be beaten forty, do you hear?" ”

The child knelt there, kowtowing like garlic.

After Li Yan sent the boy away, he asked the officer, "Where is my order?" Without an order, how can you take people? ”

The two officers who stood closest replied cautiously: "Back to Li Gongzi, we put the order in the order box before ascending to the hall, but it was only a matter of turning around, and then we saw that the order box was empty, and we just wanted to find it, so you sat down." ”

Li Yanyi frowned, looking at the expressions of the two, it didn't look like a joke, he ordered the officials to look for it together, but after searching all over the hall, there was no trace of the order.

This is strange, Li Yan inadvertently glanced inside the order box, and found that there was something inside.

He took it out and saw that it was a plum-shaped piece of paper, about the size of a palm, with a red plum blossom drawn on it.

There was a local among the officials, when he saw the silk scarf and red plum, he immediately exclaimed: "A thief of a plum!" ”

Li Yan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this: "A thief and a plum? Isn't that the story in Mr. Feng Menglong's book? ”

The official didn't know who Feng Menglong was, but said: "This is not a story, there is such a thief within a radius of five hundred miles in our area, who is very famous." And this man often does ridiculous things. ”

Li Yan nodded: "In this way, it was this thief who let the child come to beat the drum, lead me to the church, and then steal the order while people were unprepared." ”

At this time, other officials also gathered around, gossiping, through their mouths, Li Yan learned that this thief has been active in this area for more than 20 years, often stealing the money of the squire landlord's house, and going to help the poor, so the common people love him very much, and some people have received his relief and treat him as a living bodhisattva.

Li Yan said: "In the past, the officials in this place were stolen from the big order? ”

Hearing this, the official smiled: "Li Gongzi, you are right, every county official who has taken office here has lost something, either official hats and uniforms, or jewelry and jade, and even more powerful, after a county official arrived, he threatened to arrest a plum, but on the night of the third day, the big seal was lost." In the end, he didn't know how much money he spent, so he kept his official, but he didn't dare to mention a plum again, it is said that as long as he heard that a plum was coming, he was so frightened that his whole body shook into chaff. ”

Li Yan nodded: "It seems that this thief is also a hero." ”

Suddenly, someone answered: "What a hero, just a thief." ”

Li Yan turned his head to look, the red lady arrived with Xiaoqing, and the red lady heard everyone talking about Yizhimei, so she interjected: "I have also heard of Yizhimei's name, but this person is at least forty or fifty years old now." How can an old man have such ability? ”

Li Yan pointed to the empty order box on the table: "I don't have the ability, why did you steal my order?" And it's just a blink of an eye. ”

The red lady looked at the wooden beams on the roof and said with a smile: "Just now he hid on the beam, and the officials were only busy dressing up and standing on duty, so he hung himself down with a belt and stole the order." ”

Li Yan looked up, and sure enough, he saw that there was less dust on the roof beams, and it seemed that someone had once hid there.

Xiao Qingyan smiled: "It seems that Yizhimei also thinks that you are a corrupt official, and she wants to teach you a lesson." ”

Li Yan laughed: "If he really thinks that I am a corrupt official, he may have gone to my house by now and turned over the river and the sea to find silver." ”

After speaking, he raised the piece of paper to the table, the piece of paper turned over, and Li Yan suddenly found that there were two lines of small characters behind it, as if they were written with a small wooden stick dipped in rouge, because he couldn't see the pen:

Tonight's three watches, the thief is the treasure.

The red lady took a look at it and asked with a smile: "It seems that he is coming tonight." Zhibao, I can't imagine that Li Gongzi, who doesn't love money, still has treasures hidden by his side. ”

Xiaoqing coaxed on the side: "Take it out quickly, let me open my eyes too, don't be stolen tomorrow, we can't see it." ”

Li Yan smiled bitterly: "Where do I have any treasures." As you know, since the Red Maiden rescued me from prison, I have been naked and have not had a penny. ”

The red lady said: "It's definitely not silver, maybe it's the ......" After speaking, she pointed to Li Yan's neck.

It turned out that Li Yan was wearing a longevity lock around his neck, with the character Li engraved on it. At this time, Li Yan was already eighteen years old and could no longer expose the lock, so he hid the meat in his clothes.

Li Yan pulled out the longevity lock and smiled: "What kind of treasure is this, but ...... This is the last thing my parents left me, although it is made of brass, but it is embedded with a very precious jadeite, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a treasure. ”

Xiaoqing said: "Then you have to watch carefully, people are going to steal it tonight." ”

Li Yan said: "I kept it close to me, why did he steal it?" ”

The red lady shook her head lightly: "Don't underestimate him, I heard that Yizhimei is proficient in various professions on the rivers and lakes, what is easy to disguise medicine, skillfully set up mechanisms, fly eaves and walk on the wall, he will do, you sleep in the room, he will stretch down a bamboo pole from the roof, spray incense in your house, make you dizzy, and then steal it." ”

Hearing this, Li Yan was taken aback: "Then what should I do?" Or you will sleep with me......"

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the red lady's face was red, her eyes were lowered, and Xiaoqing also glanced at the red lady, smiling. Li Yan knew that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, I mean, let's take care of each other together." ”

The red lady waited for the red glow on her face to subside, and then said: "We can't be in the bedroom, then everyone will be stunned, we are in this lobby, close the doors and windows, the three of us around the table, no one sleeps, see how he steals!" ”

Li Yan said: "We can't stand it like that." Even if he doesn't steal it tonight, he will come and steal it in the future, and if we don't sleep all night, no one can stand it. ”

The red lady shook her head slightly: "You don't know this person, Yizhimei is an extremely conceited guy, as long as he sets a date, he will definitely come, if he doesn't come, he will be discredited." ”

Li Yan came to the spirit: "In this case, let's ambush more people and catch him." ”

The red lady said: "It's useless, this method has been used by the county commanders before, but no one has been able to catch a single hair of him." If we do this, it won't be useful, and besides, there are too many people to sometimes make mistakes. ”

Xiaoqing sneered: "Gongzi Li, don't you believe in our Sister Hong's ability?" Although she can't steal, if she encounters a plum, she will be allowed to take him. You can rest assured. ”

Li Yan looked at the two of them, they all looked eager to try, so he had to nod: "Okay." ”

That night, the three of them sat in the lobby, with lights lit in all four corners, and a table in the middle with dinner on it.

Li Yan has some alcohol, but it can't compare to the red lady, this girl goes south and north, any kind of person can pass, and the amount of alcohol is not inferior to a strong man. Xiaoqing doesn't know how to drink, so she drinks tea on the side and accompanies her.

The three of them were eating and drinking while talking, and gradually it was late at night, and the street had already been beaten, and Li Yan was also a little sleepy, so he said, "Shall we keep our eyes open until dawn?" ”

The red lady said: "No, let's each sleep for an hour, take turns to wake up, and that guy doesn't dare to come in." Li Yan nodded: "Okay, you guys go to sleep first." ”

The red lady and Xiaoqing fell asleep on the table, Li Yan took some documents from the public case on the side and began to check the case file.

Unconsciously, more than an hour has passed, the red lady woke up, and when she saw Li Yan's eyes that were about to boil red, she said, "You sleep, I'll watch." ”

Li Yan was indeed a little sleepy, so he fell asleep on the table.

His longevity lock is hanging around his neck, if he wants to steal it, he must reach out to pick it, and there is a red lady guarding it, and Yizhimei naturally does not dare to come. So Li Yan slept with peace of mind.

I didn't know how long I had been asleep in a daze, and suddenly I heard an exclamation.

Li Yan hurriedly sat up, rubbed his eyes and saw that Xiao Qing was looking at him with an anxious expression. Li Yan thought that Yizhimei was coming, and hurriedly touched his neck.

The longevity lock is still hanging there.

Li Yan said: "Xiaoqing, what is your name?" I didn't lose anything. ”

Xiaoqing said: "Of course you didn't lose your things, but you lost people." Li Yan was taken aback, and looked around, there were only him and Xiaoqing in the court, and the red lady had disappeared.

Li Yan hurriedly asked, "Where is the red girl?" ”

Xiaoqing said: "I didn't see it!" I was waiting for her to call me a vigil, but it was this time, and she didn't call me. ”

Li Yan looked out the window, the sky was already bright, and the morning light was shining through the window paper.

The two hurriedly searched around the hall, but there was no one, and they ran outside the hall to look for it, but they found nothing.

Li Yan suddenly understood that what Yizhimei wanted to steal was not a longevity lock at all, what he wanted to steal was the red lady, and the red lady was definitely a treasure for himself.

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