Chapter 267: An Unsolved Case

The group entered the city and came to the inn by the city gate, and the shopkeeper saw such a large caravan coming from the inside, and walked out of the counter with a sad face, leading several little second brothers to hurriedly step out of the inn door, and stepped forward to say apologetically to the big man and the young man who had fallen off the horses: "Guest, the current snowstorm is raging, and the inn is full, so I really can't help it." ”

Yang Tengfei glanced at the packed inn hall, nodded, turned around and stepped over to the vehicle and said, "Brother Zhen, the inn is full, do you want to live in Gongzhou Mansion?" ”

There was a sound of walking in the car, and then the curtain of the car was lifted, Ah Zhen showed a rare face, covered his mouth with his hand and said, "Come, help me." ”

"Be careful...... Seeing that his eyes were blurred and swaying, Cai Jingzhi and Yang Tengfei hurriedly stretched out their arms to support him and helped him out of the vehicle steadily.

Ah Zhen stood on the snow with both feet, shook his head, then turned around and hugged the little body out of the curtain, covered her snow hat and exhaled and said, "Let's go in and hit the point, ho!" ”

"Hmm." Murong Pian was extremely distressed, "Brother Ah Zhen should also drink medicine." ”

"Xiaozhi, you go find a pharmacy, my throat is uncomfortably tight." After saying that, he coughed a few times, hugged Pian'er's waist and stepped forward to make a gesture to the shopkeeper: "I don't know if the shopkeeper can get a table, let's have a meal and leave." ”

"This ......" The shopkeeper looked at the hundreds of people left and right, and said very embarrassed: "It would be easy to do it if it was just a table, but it is really difficult for so many people." ”

"They're eating out, and we're three or four." said that there was a series of long coughs in a row, and he was tired to death.

The shopkeeper was heartbroken, and invited with his hand: "In this case, the guest is invited to come inside, and the villain will let the kitchen get some meals." ”

"Thank you." Ah Zhen stepped into the hall with his mouth covered with his hand, his eyes glanced around, all kinds of people were densely packed, and the sound of chirping was like a silent fly buzzing in his ears.

The hall was full of people, the tables and chairs were all very dense, the shopkeeper instructed the shopkeeper to move a table and chair, and squeezed next to the small door, there was a man and a woman sitting next door, as the shopkeeper bowed down to apologize, the two frowned and reluctantly moved their own tables and chairs, and when the empty table was forcibly squeezed in, Ah Zhen threw an apologetic glance at the men and women next door, and then sat down on the crowded chair with Pian'er and Yang Tengfei.

After a while, Cai Jingzhi returned from the horse, ran to the counter with a pack of Chinese medicine in his hand and handed it to the palm stack, gave a reward or two after the order, turned around and walked to the crowded table next to the small door and said, "Young master, the slave went to the kitchen to watch." ”

Ah Zhen's throat was itchy, he covered his mouth and coughed twice, and then said after feeling a little more comfortable: "No need, I am invincible, I don't have to look at it deliberately." ”

The man and woman who were forced into the table and chair heard this, and both glanced at it, and saw that the coughing boy was wearing gold and silver, sable and jade clips, extremely luxurious, and he coughed again and again, and the woman turned her head and sneered contemptuously at the man: "A hundred poisons do not invade, but this sick look is good, and a hundred poisons do not invade." ”

The man was also secretly amused, nodding and smiling at the woman. "Sister Feng is telling the truth, heh......"

"Huh?" The two tables were very close to each other, and their words naturally listened to Ah Zhen and the others without missing a word, Murong Pian's willow eyebrows were upside down, Yang Tengfei's eyes were narrowed, and Cai Jingzhi, who was standing behind Ah Zhen, was still the same, as if he hadn't heard it.

Ah Zhen covered his mouth and coughed lightly a few times, slightly twisted his eyebrows and glanced at the men and women next door, only to see that the man had a long face, his eyes were bright, he was wearing a green silk velvet jacket, a white wind jacket on his shoulders, and a snow hat. The women's dress is similar, they are all simple travel casual clothes, from the clothes and accessories are obvious to the characters of the rivers and lakes, and the two three-foot Qingfeng on the table can be determined.

Ah Zhen doesn't have a good impression of the characters in the rivers and lakes, and a pair of handsome wrinkles naturally get tighter and tighter, but their throats are uncomfortable, they don't like to open their mouths but they don't bother with them, they retract their eyes and cough three times, and quietly wait for food and medicinal food.

Heavy snow covers the sky, a large number of business travelers, and there are no dishes in and out of the guest cabinet, and a large number of bento sauce meat, salted fish, dried tofu and scrambled eggs are consumed. The shopkeeper personally sent it and apologized several times, until Ah Zhen waved his hand to say that it was okay, and then he took the bowl of decoction on the tea drag of the second brother with confidence, carefully put it on the table, and left without stopping.

When the medicine came, Murong Pian picked up the spoon and said, "Brother Ah Zhen, this ...... So many people, you ...... Do you drink it yourself? ”

These days, I always pestered Pian'er to feed him medicine, and if it was too bitter, I grabbed her little mouth and sweetened it, Ah Zhen smiled and nodded, let Pian'er feed himself in front of so many people, don't say that Pian'er didn't dare, but he also felt a little bit of that.

Just after he picked up the medicine bowl and took a few sips, he could only hear the neighing of horses outside the door, pouring into seventeen or eighteen official offices dressed in red. As soon as Ah Zhen's eyes glanced at the door, he saw the man and woman next door reaching out to hold the hilt of the sword on the table, secretly measuring the nervous man and woman, secretly thinking that they were afraid of the official errand, what did they do to violate the law and discipline?

The more than ten officials broke into the hall with waist knives in their hands, and everyone was surprised to see that it was people from the government, and the buzzing voices were silent, and they looked at them with doubts. The leader of the head catcher held the knife in his hand, his eyes were like a wolf and he scanned the dense hall, and when his eyes swept to the side of the small door, he was suddenly surprised, and the leader hurriedly stepped in the direction of Ah Zhen.

"Damn it!" The young man and woman were shocked to see the official messenger surging forward, the two of them picked up their swords in unison, and drew their sharp blades with a brush, and the man jumped on the table, his face was blue and roared: "Sister Feng, go quickly......"

More than ten officials who stepped forward suddenly saw this scene, everyone was stunned, and when the brows of the big catcher just wrinkled, suddenly, the two figures of the man and woman in front of him pounced and slashed without saying a word, and then the inn was in chaos, and the bold cat wall fled in all directions, and the timid ones trembled under the table in fright.

The sound of choking sounded, more than ten officials quickly surrounded the men and women, the man's martial arts were higher, he waved a sword and fought with the head catcher, only to hear the ping pong, the sound of blade collision was endless, and after a while, the sword in the hand of the woman who was surrounded was knocked down, and shouted at the man who was fighting. The man was fighting with the head catcher, and when he heard this scream, a distracted person also screamed miserably, fell a few feet away, and after smashing down the table and chair, the crowd surrounded him, and both of them had been detained.

"Fuck?" There was a layer of sweat on the forehead of the head catcher, and he saw several brothers with blood gushing in their chests left and right, and his face was extremely bad, and he raised his hand and threw it at the man's palm, scolded, put away the knife and turned around and walked to Ah Zhen's table, and stared at him for a while before asking: "This son, I don't know what kind of goods your team is walking?" ”

Ah Zhen heard this inquiry, and immediately understood that the officials were originally looking for him, and the two men and women accidentally bumped into each other, hit the muzzle of the gun, and waved their hands and smiled: "We don't take things, we just want to rush back to Suzhou from Xining and pass through here." ”

Everyone knows about Xining, and the head catcher is quite polite, so he clenched his fists and asked again: "I wonder how long it will stay in the city?" ”

"Don't worry, go back and tell the county master, we are not Jianghu characters, we are in a hurry to go home at the end of the year, but our body is sick, so we have to fry a bowl of medicine in the city, and we have to leave."

"I see." Duty, someone reported that a group of fierce gods had entered the city, and they had to come to investigate, of course, some of the actions of the horse. Seeing that this person was polite and polite, he didn't expect that he was not one of those ruthless people in the rivers and lakes, so he put down his heart and apologized: "It's really sorry to disturb the son, but I have to take the liberty to come here because of my duty, as long as the son is not in vain, it will be okay to stay for as long as I leave." ”

This head catcher is really respectful and courteous, as a poor master can have this humble heart is very rare, the head catcher is so, I think that this state and county lord must be a good parent, stood up from the chair slightly, looked at the men and women who were detained, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, watching the head catcher take out the money bag from the man, and compensate for the broken tables and chairs in the shopkeeper's hall one by one, a group of officials came empty-handed in a hurry, and hurriedly escorted people away.

When the official left, the shopkeeper shouted at the shopkeepers to clean up the broken tables and chairs, and repeatedly carried out the small square tables, and soon the hall was lively again.

"What a good headcatcher." Seeing the rule-based, polite and good-looking head catcher leave, Ah Zhen walked to the counter and asked: "Shopkeeper, I don't know what kind of head catcher he was under just now?" ”

The shopkeeper who counted the accounts listened to his inquiry, put down his pen and raised his finger appreciatively and said: "This head catcher is the head catcher under the master of Gongzhou County, and his name is Wei Qi." He is strong in martial arts and generous to others, and everyone respects him very much. ”

"Oh!" Ah Zhen nodded, and then asked, "What about this county master?" ”

"It's hard to say." The shopkeeper shook his head lightly, frowned and said, "It's shrewd to say it, but it's also foolish to say it." ”

"And such people?" Ah Zhen smiled dumbly, waved his hand in disbelief and said, "Then tell me, how can you be both shrewd and confused?" ”

Seeing that he didn't believe him, the shopkeeper naturally pouted angrily: "Let's take the incident of Dog Seven and Pig Eight last time." ”

"Oh!" As if he was very interested, he leaned on his elbow on the counter and asked, "Then tell me, what happened to this dog seven and pig eight?" ”

The shopkeeper thought for a while and said: "Here's the thing, this Gou Qi and Zhu Ba are both from Beicun outside the city, and the two grew up together since childhood, and the relationship is iron-clad. One lives at the head of the village and the other at the end of the village, but the fields are close to each other. At this, the shopkeeper sighed. Dog Seven and Pig Eight are not rich in their families, but they each cultivate one acre and seven points of land but they can't starve to death, and they can save a hundred or so money every year, and their lives will go back. However, no illness is saving, Gouqi's father suddenly fell ill three years ago, and Gouqi gave his father all the money he had saved for many years to treat his illness, but the disease was not cured, and the silver was spent, and his father died. ”

"It's unfortunate." The people lived a miserable life, and Ah Zhen felt uncomfortable when he heard it, and sighed and asked, "What about later?" ”

"The dog ran around for his father for half a year, and the field was deserted, and finally the money was spent, and his father died. He pledged the land to the pig eight or eight hundred habitual money, saying that he would redeem it when he had money, and of course the interest would be calculated. ”

"Pig Eight agreed?"

"Not really." The shopkeeper said naturally: "The two have grown up together since they were children, and their friendship is very iron, Zhu Ba's family is not sick or sick, so he naturally saved money, he saw that Gouqi was so depressed, and he gave nine hundred habits on the spot, saying that he would redeem it when he had money, and it didn't matter if the interest was not necessary." ”

Ah Zhen was relieved to hear it, "This pig still has a conscience." ”

"Conscience?" The shopkeeper snorted and disdained to say again: "That night, the two hugged their heads and cried, and the next day Gou Qi left Beicun with nine hundred habits and went outside to beg for a living. Three years later, that is, this year, Gou Qi suddenly came back with his daughter-in-law. It turned out that Gou Qi used the nine hundred habits to do a little business, and also made some money back, came back to clean the house, naturally invited Zhu Ba to drink, during the banquet Dog Seven mentioned to redeem the ancestral land, when the eight hundred habits, but the good buddy gave nine hundred habits, he took out one or two six on the spot, and returned it to Zhu Ba with double dedication, and agreed to go to Zhu Ba's house to get the land deed the next day, but Zhu Ba regretted it the next day, saying that he did not get the money of Dog Seven. ”