"Have you finished the measurement?"

In the northeast corner of the west courtyard, Lu Tai held a booklet and looked up at the internal guard on the ladder.

"Wait, sir."

The inner guard said, leaned half of his body out of the wall, measured the length of the eaves with a ruler, and then turned back and reported: "Remove the four inches and two tiles on both sides, and the wall is about one foot six thick." ”

"Twelve feet, seven feet and four inches, plus one foot and six inches, that's ......"

Lu Tai had words in his mouth, and he took up his pen and wrote a long list of numbers on the booklet.

When he finished writing, he shouted: "This is considered to be the end of the measurement in the west courtyard, let's go around the back of the wall and continue to measure." ”

Seven or eight internal guards with rulers, ladders with ladders, and ink with ink all rushed to the gate of the courtyard with Lu Tai.

Seeing one foot in the door and one foot outside the door, he almost collided with a person who broke in with his head bored.

Lu Tai hurriedly took half a step back, looked up and saw that it was the eunuch who was 'beheaded', dodged to the side, and bowed to salute: "Grandpa Sun." ”

"Hmm."

The eunuch Sun nodded with a calm face, and passed by Lu Tai without squinting.

But as soon as he crossed the threshold, he suddenly remembered something, turned his head and carefully identified Lu Tai, frowned, and said, "You are the one next to Wang Shoubei...... Who's that? ”

"Secretary Lu Tai."

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Eunuch Sun impatiently assigned, "What about your king's guards? I didn't see him even after I went around today! ”

"It's probably in the backyard."

Lu Tai was not very sure, and when he saw that Eunuch Sun turned around and wanted to leave, he hurriedly called out to him: "Grandpa Sun, don't be too anxious, it will take a few days to send someone to Cangzhou to report the news." ”

"I'm not in a hurry."

Eunuch Sun stiffened his neck, and said in a weird manner: "But the emperor is still waiting for a reply, anyway, if I miss an errand, this board can't hit me!" ”

"I can't miss it, I can't miss it."

Lu Tai pointed to the guards beside him and said, "This is all preparing for murder, just wait for the arrangement in Cangzhou, and immediately start the knife and behead!" ”

Eunuch Sun looked suspiciously, the ladders, ropes, pools, and inkstones in the hands of the internal guards, and then spewed out a stream of turbid gas into his nostrils, rolled his eyes and walked away.

Obviously, he thinks that Lu Tai is casually perfunctory.

But Lu Tai really wasn't lying.

After the early warning stone statue made a great contribution last night, Wang Shouye became interested in it.

I think that if this thing is used well, it may be able to achieve miraculous results in many situations - the only problem is that the portions are too heavy and it is quite inconvenient to transport.

Since you want to use it for a great time, you must always figure out the basic performance.

So early this morning, Wang Lang Shouye asked Lu Tai to measure the distance of the early warning stone statue that was killed last night, and then use this as a benchmark to carry out tests in a wider range.

As for the 'consumables' used for testing, it is naturally the ink rhyme that doesn't know how many lives there are.

According to Wang Shouye's words: Anyway, they are going to die, so it is better to let him die more valuable.

However, it is said that this one passed through the wall and passed through the courtyard, and the murder scene was scattered in three directions, which was not easy to measure.

It took a whole morning, and it was easy to measure it clearly.

Lu Tai was hesitating, whether to turn back and check again, so as not to make any mistakes, when he saw Wang Shouye rushing over.

Far away, he raised his voice and asked, "Secretary Lu, have you measured it?" ”

Lu Tai hurriedly greeted him and bowed down and said, "If you go back to your lordship, you have just finished measuring your humble position, and you are planning to check it again." ”

"You don't have to check the calculation, as long as you don't miss too much—by the way, how far away is it?"

"About forty-seven feet and six feet."

"Then start from 80 feet away!"

Wang Shouye said, beckoning behind him, and immediately a middle-aged man like a blood gourd was carried by the internal guard: "Don't bother the second master, you roughly measure the distance - it must be fast, he is afraid that he will not last long." ”

"What is this?"

"The thief who was poisoned yesterday! The two young and strong ones survived, this one was a little older and closest to the sweet water gum, so they couldn't resist, and now they only have one breath left. ”

Wang Shouye said, and urged repeatedly: "Hurry up, don't let him die in vain." ”

Lu Tai didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly commanded the inner guard gate, roughly measuring the distance of eighty zhang away - in fact, it was almost ninety zhang, but as soon as the road was bumpy in these few steps, the thief saw that his breath was getting weaker and weaker, and he really couldn't afford to measure it carefully.

"Hurry up, put the bed board on the floor!"

Seeing that Lu Tai had drawn the mark, several internal guards carefully put the stretcher on the ground, and someone put their fingers under his nose, and then said happily: "There is gas, there is gas!" ”

"Get out of the way!"

There was a loud shout behind him, and when the stretcher was avoided, he saw an internal guard holding an embroidered spring knife, and rushed forward to raise the knife and fall with his hand.

There was still a gushing cavity in the cavity, and someone next to him shouted at the top of his voice: "The thief has been punished!" ”

"The thief has been punished!"

The same echo sounded in the courtyard next door, and then farther away, in about a few breaths, the news spread to the West Courtyard.

When Qian Qi heard the shout, he couldn't help but take a closer look at the stone statue in front of him, and then whispered: "My lord, this seems to be ...... I don't think there's any response. ”

"I think it's out of distance."

Wang Shouye nodded, and casually ordered: "Tell Lu Tai and let him mark it at the seventy chapters - those thieves are very hard-mouthed, maybe they will be tortured but ......."

Speaking of this, he frowned and stopped, and after muttering for a long time, he instructed again: "Tell Shen Changfu to prepare a few things to hang his life before the execution, what ginseng tablets, Baoxin Pills, in short, you can't let them die in vain!" ”

"Humble duty understands!"

After Qian Qi received the order to leave, Wang Shouye stood alone in front of the stone statue, silent for a long time, and suddenly sighed faintly:

"Alas, there's no going back."

What he can't go back to is not only the original world, but also the original self.

After just a few months of hard work, Wang Shouye has become accustomed to life and death, and now he can even deal with other people's life and death without the slightest emotion.

This had to be put on hold before the crossing, and he didn't even dare to think about it!

"Your Excellency."

Just feeling that he was in his arms, Zhao Kui hurriedly walked in and bowed down to report: "Zhou Cheng has come back from Shuntian Mansion, saying that he has found the roots of those thieves. ”

Found it so quickly?

When did the efficiency of Shuntianfu become so high?

"I heard that there was a scribe who recognized the portrait of the thief - the thief seems to be the owner of a gambling house in the west of the city, and it is estimated that he has a lot of dealings with the yamen on weekdays."

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, gambling was strictly prohibited, let alone opening a gambling house.

Even if the wind turbine is slack now, not just anyone can get involved in this business.

But that's even weirder.

What did a rich and powerful gambling house owner do when he came to steal the Buddha's relics at great risk?

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