Chapter 64: The Submitter
Hefu walked in the narrow alleys of Chaoyangli, flanked by people's homes connected to each other, and along the way, people often came in and out, or carried buckets to fetch water, or went to neighbors' houses, and there was no farm work to do in winter, and the houses were almost repaired, and the people in it seemed much more leisurely.
I met a lot of people along the way, and when I saw Heifu's red silk clothes, their faces were all condensed, and they hurriedly saluted him.
Heifu didn't ask much, kept a kind smile, and nodded all the way to the door.
Although the villagers in the sunset once left a very bad impression on him, not everyone was like this, and the village community was generally harmonious and friendly. If no one instigates it, the villagers are very simple, jealousy is also simple jealousy, respect is also simple love, joy, anger and sorrow, all in the heart, rarely concealed.
However, Heifu found that the people in Chaoyang were still quite afraid of him. Just now, there was a four or five-year-old boy with a weeping beard biting the nail of his thumb and staring curiously at the rope and short sword around his waist, and he was immediately scolded by his mother, and quickly pulled the child's hand and told him to turn his head away!
When she passed by the black husband, the woman also kept the child in her arms and apologized repeatedly.
Heifu took the initiative to let them go first, and then shook his head helplessly: "I'm afraid it's not that my predecessor is too arrogant and makes the people in Chaoyang have a bad impression, right?" ”
In fact, even in later generations, ordinary people are a bit submissive when they see the police, after all, they are violent law enforcement units. And Heifu is now the "Tiangu" of Daqin, the so-called "imperial eagle dog" of later generations. Qin's law is strict, and in the eyes of the people of the time, the pavilion chief is generally not a good thing, and there may be a disaster of breaking the house and destroying the door.
Hefu is here to take people.
After walking for a short while, he stopped when he walked to a house in the east of Chaoyang.
This is a typical public mansion, the yard is not large, the front and back are two, the courtyard door is not locked, and the wall is not repaired, only surrounded by a half-human high fence, through the fence, Heifu can still see the situation inside.
There was a tall pineapple tree planted in this yard, and now there were only a few dead leaves left, and Heifu's eyes couldn't help but narrow, the anonymous letter was made of pineapple wood......
The sound of chirping came, and Heifu saw that on the left side of the tree was a chicken bowl, and a woman in her twenties wearing a cloth skirt was holding a dustpan, and scattered the rice bran and vegetable leaves in it in the courtyard with one hand, so that the chickens in the chicken pot could come out and peck at it. She also let out a happy laugh when she fed the fluffy yellow chicks.
However, this calm and pleasant moment was broken by an uninvited guest in a red dress outside the door......
As soon as the woman looked up, she happened to see Heifu standing in front of the door, and suddenly let out an exclamation, and the dustpan in her hand accidentally fell to the ground for a while, and the rice bran was scattered all over the ground!
The chickens immediately flapped their wings and swung at her feet, pecking desperately at her feet, and their sharp beaks even pecked at the woman's shoes, but she was indifferent, except that her lips trembled slightly, and she shouted into the house.
"Good ...... Lovers ......"
"What's wrong!?"
When the man in the house heard his wife's exclamation, he immediately came out, this person was more than seven feet tall, wearing thick winter clothes, and their family could afford to raise so many chickens, indicating that the family was well-off. It's a pity that the man looks sick, his face is thin, his voice is out of breath, and he has a little cough.
Seeing that he was holding a knife in his right hand and something in his left hand, Heifu couldn't help but be vigilant and put his hand on the hilt of the sword.
At this time, the man also saw Heifu, saw the two-foot wooden slip in his hand, the rope around his waist, and the hand on the hilt of the sword, and was stunned in place.
Heifu nodded at him: "I am the head of the Huyang Pavilion, but you are a public servant in the rising sun?" ”
"I'm just going to get sick." The man nodded, and reluctantly smiled: "I don't know what happened when the pavilion chief came to me?" ”
Heifu glanced at the woman standing by the chicken in a daze, and arrested her in front of her wife, which was not good, so he said, "Let's come out and talk." ”
The man seemed to understand something, nodded palely, threw the knife in his right hand on the ground, approached his wife, stuffed the thing in his left hand into her hand, and then put his hand on the woman's lower abdomen with tenderness, and said softly:
"I'll be at home, I'll go and I'll be back."
Hefu noticed that it was a wooden figure, half-carved, with a nose and eyes, and the woman's abdomen, slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant......
He gripped the hilt of his sword and let go.
The chief of the pavilion who broke the house, and the commander who destroyed the door.
At this moment, Heifu suddenly regretted that he had not listened to Liham, and burned the anonymous letter and ended it clean......
Today's plot doesn't seem to be the same as he imagined, he doesn't seem to have to play tricks anymore, the suspect has been basically determined, but the submitter didn't obediently play the image of a harlequin, panicking in front of him.
He watched the man and his wife reluctantly say goodbye, a little hesitant, if he turned around and left at this time, would it be too late?
But as soon as he turned around, the figures of Lixian and Ji Ying had already appeared in the distance, hurrying towards this side.
It's too late.
At this point, it was too late for Heifu to stop again, not to mention that he boasted about Haikou in front of the pavilion, but only that in Qin Lu, it was one thing not to know the person who submitted the book, and it was another thing to know who it was but deliberately connived. If Heifu is soft-hearted, I am afraid that the red curtain on his head will not be able to be saved.
Heifu sighed secretly, at this time the man had already gone out of the yard, closed the door carefully, glanced at his wife again, and then slammed towards Heifu!
"Do you know why I'm here?" Heff tried to make his tone sound less cold.
"Know ......"
The man smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand: "It's my mistake, I shouldn't be lucky, Pavilion Chief, tie me up." ”
"No need."
The man's wife was still weeping in the fence, and Heifu walked to his side, patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly: "Don't be nervous, I'm just looking for you to go to the pavilion to ask questions!" So much for! ”
Although the anonymous report is guilty, the crime is only punished by the third grade, which is equivalent to more than 4,000 yuan, which is not very serious, and with this person's financial resources, he should be able to afford it.
Of course, the premise is that this person did not make a malicious false accusation in the letter......
……
Two hours later, in the Huyang Pavilion, in front of Heifu, Lixian and others, the public servant had already finished explaining the matter......
Including how he saw Ji Ying go to Chaoyang every three or two days to deliver letters, so he had the intention of looking for an opportunity to submit letters anonymously. Including how on the day of the festival, he observed the style of the letters in the hands of Li Zheng and Tian Dian, and cut two pieces of wood with pineapple wood in the courtyard, and wrote the content on it, but did not write the name......
"That's the way it is, I was also at the house of the prince who had a son, and I hid the wooden slip in my arms, waiting for an opportunity. When the postman put the basket next to him to go to the toilet, I followed, and when I saw that no one was paying attention, I threw the letter in. ”
I was not in good health, and when I came on the road, I was cold again, and I coughed while talking. Heifu asked him to put on his winter clothes, and asked Puzhang to heat up the brazier, and put it next to him, so that he could feel better, and said the whole thing intermittently.
Heff asked Leham to record his questioning on a wooden slip, and he himself pointed to the letter on the desk and asked, "Why do you do this, you have done all this just to submit an anonymous letter?" What is written in this letter? Who's involved? ”
I don't know if it was because he was emotional, he coughed again, he took a sip of the hot water handed over by Xiao Tao, and then said with a wry smile: "Since the letters are all in the hands of the pavilion chief, you can just open it yourself and see it, why let me say it again?" ”
As soon as he entered the door, he heard that Heifu had successfully arrested the bookmaker, and he couldn't help but be very excited, he always thought that he should not be too polite to the suspect, and he was immediately angry when he heard the words, and said: "You guy!" Dare to be hard-mouthed! ”
"Leopard! Don't intimidate him. ”
Heifu stopped the leopard, squeezed the wooden slab in his hand, sharpened it with a knife in his left hand, and began to slowly cut the tightly tied knot......
In addition to the fish beam who was sent outside to watch the door, the five people indoors, Dongmen Leopard, Lixian, Ji Ying, Puzhang, and Xiaotao, couldn't help but straighten their bodies, sat and looked, curious about the content of the letter.
Finally, Heifu cut the knots and slowly opened the wooden slabs that were joined together, the upper slabs were blank, and the lower slabs were densely covered with black seal characters......
After glancing at it, Heifu's complexion immediately changed.
"Go to the disease!" He raised his head and shouted solemnly: "What you reported, but it's true!?" ”
Qu Ji said forcefully on the straw mat: "Every word is true, it is true......
With a "snap", Heifu closed the slip, his mood was agitated, and his eyes were blazing!
He never expected that a small anonymous letter would involve such a big case!