Qinrenfang, which is adjacent to the south of Dongshi, is an area where Taixue and other schools are concentrated, and Taixue at this time has set up a law school every 4 years with 30 students.

Initially, the study of law mainly studied the legal provisions of the Tang Dynasty and its application. Two years ago, at Li You's suggestion, calligraphy, law, and arithmetic were assigned to various full-time administrative agencies to implement counterpart management, specifically, the Zhongshu Province was responsible for the management of calligraphy, and the Taishi Bureau was responsible for the management of arithmetic

Dali Temple is responsible for the management of law.

Now, the course of legal study has added the content of criminal investigation, and the Dali Temple mainly arranges senior criminal investigation officials to impart criminal investigation experience.

Di Renjie, the future detective of the Tang Dynasty, is now a student majoring in Taixue Law.

The students of law are trained by the imperial court, and after graduation, they will be arranged by the Dali Temple, and they will be probationary officials of the imperial court after graduation, unlike students of other disciplines, if they want to become officials after graduation, they will have to go through many procedures to be possible.

As a very popular major, students who enter the law school are usually recommended and applied for by Guozijian, and the threshold for recommendation is very high, and the difficulty of applying for the examination is also very high.

Di Renjie entered the study of law, and Li You went through the back door. At the beginning, Di Renjie was only 12 years old, and the youngest of the other students in the law school was 14 years old. Although the prestige of the recommender Li You is high, the officials of the law still feel a little embarrassed.

Li You found Kong Yingda, the deputy minister of education and the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian, and he came forward to hold an entrance exam in front of all the faculty and staff of the law school. And all the students in the school also participated in the exam.

As a result, Di Renjie won the first place in the overall score, and now everyone had nothing to say, and the law school made an exception to accept Di Renjie for admission.

Di Renjie is very smart and good at seeing small things, and soon showed his talent for solving cases. In the same year he entered school, a case was solved.

One afternoon, Di Renjie and a few classmates went to Dongshi to play. Suddenly, I saw a lot of people around in front of me, and some people were arguing inside. The students were curious, so they squeezed in to watch the excitement.

There were two people in the crowd pulling at each other, one of them said that the other had stolen his money, and the other did not admit it, saying that the money was his own, and that the person had wronged him and wanted to take the money. The two quarreled and argued.

Everyone saw that among these two people, one was stout, with a bare chest and abdomen, and a face of horizontal flesh, which seemed to be a butcher in the prime of life, and the other was a young man with a weak body and a very honest appearance.

Seeing this, everyone instinctively sympathized with the young man who seemed to be honest.

At this moment, the officials in charge of the East City rushed over with several Wuhou from Wuhou Shop. Wu Chang asked, "Why are you arguing like this again, what is going on?" ”

The butcher rushed and said, "Your Excellency......"

Wu Chang looked at him a little unpleasantly, he pointed to the young man who looked thin and said, "You say it first,"

The young man said, "Lord, the villain passed in front of his butcher's shop and accidentally dropped the money bag to the ground. As a result, when the butcher saw it, he insisted that the money in the money bag was his, and he wanted to snatch the money bag. The villain didn't do it, so he got into an argument with him. ”

Chief Wu is in charge of local security and has some experience in handling cases. He picked up the money bag and looked at it, it was a normal gray money bag, without any lettering on it.

He couldn't judge for a while, so he asked, "What evidence do you have that you say that this money bag is yours?" ”

The butcher said, "Of course the money bag is a villain, and the villain knows the amount of money in the money bag. ”

The young man said, "The money bag belongs to the villain, and the money in it is put into it by the villain's own hands, and of course he knows the amount inside." ”

Wu Chang asked, "After you had a quarrel, did you open this money bag?" ”

"Nope." The two said in unison.

Wu Chang said: "That's easy to do! So, come with me. ”

He called the young man, pulled him aside, and whispered to him about the amount of money in his purse. Then he walked back with the young man.

He said to the butcher, "Now you can say, how many copper coins are in the purse?" ”

The butcher said, "The money in the money bag was just put in by the villain, and there are 63 copper coins in total. ”

Everyone focused their eyes on Captain Wu's face to see what he had to say.

Wu Chang looked bad and said, "The two of them said the same, both are 63 copper coins. ”

The official of the East City Bureau was also very puzzled, and he said: "Since you can't judge for a while, don't gather around here." Zhao Wuchang, you can bring them back first. Let's disperse. ”

"Wait a minute, I know whose money it is." At this time, a crisp, slightly immature voice was remembered in the crowd.

Everyone saw that it was a young student.

An official from the East City Bureau asked, "Who are you?" ”

The young man said, "My name is Di Renjie. Several of us are law students. ”

"It's a student of law, they are specialized in learning to solve crimes, maybe they have a way." Someone said.

"Their age is too young, the martial marquis are all experienced veterans in handling cases, they can't solve it, are these teenagers okay?"

There was a lot of talking.

Wu Chang heard everyone's discussions, and his face was a little unbearable. He said disdainfully: "You say you know whose money it is, and you saw it with your own eyes?" ”

Di Renjie said: "We just came here and didn't see it. ”

Wu Chang said: "Since you haven't seen it with your own eyes, how can you tell whose money it is?" ”

Di Renjie said: "Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, someone saw it, and he would tell us." ”

"Who is it? Who saw it? Hurry up and testify. Wu Chang said to the crowd.

And they all looked around to see who would come out to testify.

As a result, no one came out.

Wu Chang was just about to go crazy, Di Renjie said: "There is no need to look for it, the witnesses are the copper coins in the money bag, and they will tell us who the owner of the money is." ”

Wu Chang said: "Nonsense, copper coins can't speak, how can they testify?" ”

"Yes! The copper coin is dead, but can it speak? There was a lot of talk.

Di Renjie arched his hand and said, "Which shopkeeper, please do me a favor and bring a basin of water." ”

"I have, wait." A guy from a nearby shopkeeper ran out. Soon, a basin of water was brought from a copper basin.

Di Renjie said to the Wu Chief: "My lord, please pour the copper coins in the money bag into the basin." ”

Wu Chang poured the copper coin into the basin and said, "What does this mean? ”

Di Renjie said: "Please wait a while, the copper coin will naturally tell us who the owner of the money is." ”

Soon after, the water in the basin changed, and there was a lot of oil floating on it.

Di Renjie smiled: "Now, everyone knows whose copper coin belongs to, right?" ”

Wu Chang suddenly realized, clapped his hands and said, "Oops! Wonderful! How did I not think of it? ”

After saying that, he reached out and grabbed the young man's front placket and gave him a mouthful. He scolded: "You damn thief, you stole this money." ”

"What's going on?" Many of the onlookers still don't understand.

But the butcher understood, and he said, "Don't you understand this? I cut meat all day long, and my hands are sticky with oil, and when the copper coin passes through my hand, it will naturally get oily. “

"I see. Oh, this boy is so smart! ”

Oh, yes! It is not easy to be a student of law! ”

The crowd burst into applause.

At this time, Wu Chang suddenly remembered a question. He said, "Neither of them has ever opened this money bag, so how does this thief know the amount of money in the money bag?" ”

Now his attitude is much more respectful.

Di Renjie said: "It's very simple, it's nothing more than a few situations:

First, the butcher had to put the money in the cash box on the table, and the thief counted the amount of money. Second, when the butcher was filling the money bag, he mentioned the number of copper coins, and the thief overheard it. ”

"Oh, this student, you are really a god." The butcher exclaimed.

Then, he said to the military chief: "My lord, the villain bought a whetstone yesterday and owes 63 copper coins to the shopkeeper. When he had collected the money from the meat seller, he saw that the amount of money was sufficient, so he asked the man to bring a money bag and put the money in it.

At that time, the villain said to him, 'This is 63 copper coins owed to the shopkeeper, you can take it and let the family count it in person.' ’

It seems that when the villain said this, the thief heard it. ”

The captain kicked the thief in the ass again and asked, "Say, is that so?" ”

The thief said in horror: "If you go back to the adult, the little one should be damned, that's the way it is." This is the first time the villain has stolen, so spare the villain. ”

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This incident caused quite a stir in the law school, and the students admired Di Renjie, the little junior brother.

In the afternoon of this day, at the gate of Tai Academy, the students walked out one after another. Tomorrow is the day off, the school is a day off, and the students whose families in Chang'an can go home for a night and report back to school before dinner the next day.

At this time, out of the door came a young student dressed in a student's blue-gray service, wearing a square scarf, and a long figure, he was fourteen or fifteen years old, with a delicate face, eyes as clear as water, and a bookish face.

He is Di Renjie.

Di Renjie said goodbye to his classmates and walked to a carriage parked on the side of the road.

A guard from the Northwest Palace's palace arched his hand and said, "Di Gongzi, the prince asked the little one to pick you up, saying that there is a big matter for you to do." ”