In the county office, the county magistrate was pacing anxiously: "This group of things that don't know whether to live or die!" When has it been, and you haven't even returned home? It's the other way around! Little nails! Little nails! ”

"Little nails are there! My lord, what do you command? ”

"Where have all these people gone? Why don't you look at them well? The county order really couldn't find anyone to be angry, and pointed the finger at the little nail.

"Back to my lord, the younger one went to follow the Pu family's sedan chair on the order of the adult, so I don't know where the rest of the brothers went." The little nail cautiously replied.

"Calm your anger, and punish them when they come back, so that they will remember it for a long time! Before the adults could speak, they left the government without permission, and they were going to be punished! Qin Xiong watched the excitement indifferently on the side.

"Humph! When they come back, this official will not spare them! The county magistrate sat down on the chair angrily, picked up the tea and put it in his mouth.

"My lord! My lord! Little Zhuozi burst in happily.

"Bold! Do you still know to come back? The county magistrate angrily threw the teacup in front of Xiao Zhuozi, and the smile on Xiao Zhuozi's face was suddenly frightened and disappeared.

"Lord Qiyu, damn the little one!" Takuko-chan's head slammed into the ground.

"Say, what are you doing? Why are you only coming back now? Do you still have me as the county master in your eyes? The county magistrate scolded.

"Back to my lord, the little one took the officials to arrest Pudong Sheng!" Xiao Zhuozi said cautiously.

"Grab Pudong Sheng? Did you catch it? The county magistrate asked.

"If you go back to your lordship, you got it." Little Zhuozi replied.

"What? Caught? Didn't it say that the sedan chair in Pudong Sheng did not enter the green building? What's going on here? The county magistrate looked stunned.

"That's Pudong Shengshi's trick, he knows that our people are guarding outside, deliberately using the first sedan chair to lure the brothers away, in fact, the sedan chair is sitting in some young women who have just come to the house, many skills have not yet been mastered, and they still need to be raised for a while before they can be sent to Qinglou. The women who really want to be sent to the Qinglou are all in the second sedan chair. Xiao Zhuozi gushed.

"And a second sedan chair?"

"That's right! After Pudong Sheng used the first sedan chair to lure the brothers away, he immediately carried the second sedan chair out of the house, he thought that no one would follow him after the tiger left the mountain, but he never expected that Master Wang had already seen through his trick and asked me to take the brothers to wait outside! As soon as they went out, the brothers quickly followed, and waited until they carried the sedan chair into the Qinglou before they were arrested! Xiao Zhuozi said.

"Master Wang is really like a god!" At this moment, when he heard that Pudongsheng had been arrested, the county magistrate suddenly felt comfortable, and all his anger disappeared.

But Qin Xiong, who was sitting next to the county order, couldn't help but tighten his brows, this novice really saw through his trick of hiding the world, it seems that this person should not be underestimated.

The so-called taking people's money to eliminate disasters for others, since he Qin Xiong took the silver from Pudong Sheng, he can't sit idly by. Otherwise, once the notorious reputation of only taking money and not doing personnel spreads, how will you gain a foothold in the industry of curtain customers in the future?

He frowned, planning how to rescue Pudongsheng next.

"My lord, what about Master Wang?" Little Zhuozi searched everywhere.

"Oh no, Master Wang has already left the county office! Quick, look around! Gotta get him back for me! The prefectural order commanded.

"Yes!" Xiao Zhuozi ran out a few steps and turned back again, "My lord, then Pu Pusheng and the few women who were sent to the Qinglou are outside the yamen, what should you do?" ”

"Pudong Sheng will be put in prison for the time being, and he will be tried again tomorrow! As for the other girls, you take them to Madame, and let Madame settle them and let them stay in the house for one night, and then make plans when you find their fathers and mothers. The prefectural order said.

Xiao Zhuozi took the order and left.

After waiting for a while to no avail, they had to return in a huff.

The next day, as soon as the door of the county government opened, he received a verdict from Governor Zhuang Yougong rejecting the case of adultery by the child wife.

The case was handled by Wang Huizu, and the verdict was also written by him, and now it has been rejected for the third time, and the county magistrate feels a little embarrassed. Let's rewrite it, it is to admit that the previous judgment was wrong, and it will inevitably drop the price, don't rewrite it, it was rejected, Wang Huizu is not there, who will defend him?

When he was troubled, Xiao Zhuozi appeared at the right time.

He handed over a letter handed to him by Wang Huizu in advance to the county magistrate with both hands, saying: "My lord, Master Wang once told the little one, once the governor sent someone to reject the verdict, he would give this letter directly to the envoy, and he said that the governor would approve it after reading it." ”

When the county commander heard this, he hurriedly handed over the letter to the messenger, and then sent people to look for Wang Huizu again.

As a result, as soon as the front foot left, a servant came to report on the back foot: "My lord, the little one just saw Master Wang in the restaurant, and he was listening to a small song and drinking a little wine in the restaurant alone. ”

"This Master Wang's temper is really weird! Where does the official think he has gone? It turned out to be hiding in a restaurant and drinking. The county magistrate smiled and said.

Although Wang Huizu has just come to the house, he is still a little capable, and as a county magistrate, the more talents who can plan for him, the better.

Since the case of Pudongsheng was led by the adultery case of the child adopted wife, and the adultery case was solved by Wang Huizu, then the case of Pudongsheng should naturally be held responsible by him.

What's more, the people from Pudong Sheng were also captured by him.

Wang Huizu's restaurant is only one street away from the yamen, and the county order didn't take the sedan chair, so he chose to walk.

When I climbed upstairs, I saw Wang Huizu listening to an old woman in her fifties singing with her ears sideways, and next to him, an old man was pulling an erhu with a sad face.

The woman's eyebrows were tightly twisted into an unsolvable knot, and she looked preoccupied. The old man was hunched over and looked very tired.

"My lord, Master Wang is there! The little one went to ask him to go home. Xiao Zhuozi said.

The county magistrate stretched out his hand to stop Xiao Zhuozi, and then found a seat next to him and sat down, listening to the woman's singing quietly.

"Uncle and aunt, listen to the accent, you don't look like people from here, why did you end up here? Did you encounter any difficulties? Wang Huizu asked.

"This master, our husband and wife are out looking for our daughter." The woman sighed and said.

"Have you lost your daughter?" Wang Huizu asked.

"Three years ago, there was a severe drought in our hometown, and there was no crops, no food, and the whole village had to wait for hunger." The woman recalled the scene with horror in her eyes.

"At that time, there was a man in his thirties who claimed to be in the opera troupe, and said that he wanted to recruit a group of girls to learn to sing, so we handed over our only daughter to him, thinking that we could go out with him to eat without starving, and by the way, we could learn a subsistence craft." The old man continued the woman's words.

"Did the man tell you where he was?" Wang Huizu asked.

"At that time, he told us that it was a troupe in the capital, but we went to the capital to look for it, but we didn't find it, I remember that the person was an accent from Wuxi, so I searched all the way, hoping to find our daughter and see if she was doing well."

The old man's wrinkled face was engraved with vicissitudes, and his cloudy eyes were full of endless confusion.

"Have many people in your village sent their daughters to the theater troupe?" Wang Huizu asked.

"Yes! There are a total of 100 households in the village, and more than a dozen families with female babies have gone with him. Hey, it's all to blame for the incompetence of the old man! The old man sighed one after another.

"You two go back to the county government with me first, and maybe I can help you find your daughter." Wang Huizu regretted it as soon as he spoke, but he was driven out by the county order.

"It just so happens that Master Wang, my lord is here to pick you up!" Xiao Zhuozi said happily.

"Oh, yes! Master Wang, this official is here to take you back to the county office. The county magistrate pretended that nothing had happened, and stepped forward to greet Huizu.

"There's Lord Lao!" Wang Huizu smiled meaningfully, and didn't care about driving out the county government.

Self-esteem is important, but it pales in comparison to the fate of dozens of young girls in the Pujia compound.

"Hey, two old men, there are just a group of fifteen or sixteen-year-old women in the county government, maybe your daughter is among them!" The county magistrate said with a smile on his face.

The old couple was very happy, and they were about to kneel down on the spot to thank them, but they were stopped by Wang Huizu: "It's not too late to thank you when you find your daughter." ”

At this time, autumn is coming to an end, and the cold wind blows the fallen leaves all over the ground, beating the window lattices indiscriminately.

Walking out of the restaurant, Wang Huizu couldn't help but shudder. He couldn't help but clench his arms, lowered his head and stepped on the thin sunlight, lowered his head, and followed behind the county master without saying a word.

Xiao Zhuozi slowed down his pace and reported to Wang Huizu in a low voice: "Master Wang, the governor sent someone to send the verdict back early this morning, and I handed over your letter to the eldest brother according to your instructions. ”

Wang Huizu nodded slightly: "Okay, have you found Wu Niang's biological father and mother?" ”

Xiao Zhuozi thought for a while and said, "Pudong Sheng was caught, but the brothers who were looking for Wu Niang's parents don't seem to have come back yet. ”

"Okay, I see."

After entering the county office, the county order asked Xiao Zhuozi to take the couple looking for the girl to find his wife, and then pulled Wang Huizu into the room, and made amends with a smile on his face.

Wang Huizu smiled but did not speak.

"Master Wang, when are we going to ascend?" When the good words were exhausted, the county order began to urge the ascension.

"There's no hurry." Wang Huizu said.

After a stick of incense, the county official asked again: "Master Wang, can you be promoted?" ”

"No hurry, wait."

"Master Wang, what are we waiting for??" The county magistrate who was in a hurry to crack the big case and receive the reward couldn't hold back, he didn't know what this Master Wang was waiting for.

"Wait for an auspicious day." Wang Huizu pretended to smile mysteriously.

The minutes ticked by, and the room was filled with an air of embarrassment. After a while, Xiao Zhuozi shouted outside the door: "Master, the two brothers who are looking for Wu Niang's parents have come back, and they have been found!" ”

Wang Huizu quickly got up, pulled the closed door open with a hula, and made a gesture of please: "My lord, the auspicious time has come, hurry up and ascend to the hall!" ”