Liu Gouwa's loud scolding frightened the two who were arguing dumbfounded, and looked at Liu Gouwa in shock, and the melon-eating crowd also stopped whispering and were silent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Gouwa didn't like others to kneel down for herself at every turn, called the tall and thin two up, and said: "Both of you have identified each other as robbing your money, then there must be one of you who is lying here, in fact, it is not difficult to find out the person who lied......" Liu Gouwa paused when she said this, looking at the tall and thin two who were a little nervous.

The skinny Chai Wu's eyes shrank, and the surprisingly tall Zhang Dagui opened his lips slightly, looking forward to Liu Gouwa, stunned for a while, and the two knelt down at the same time and said, "Please be a lord to uphold justice!" ”

"Are you sure you want justice from your own officials? As long as you come out and confess your crimes now, the official can intercede with the county lord and ask for a lighter punishment. After Liu Gouwa finished speaking, he stared at the two of them again, and the two of them lowered their heads at the same time and did not say a word.

"Well, then the official will find out the liar, didn't you say that you caught the person who robbed you of your money? Then the two of you ran from the gate of the county government to the intersection at the gate of the north city at the same time, and the one who ran slower was the robber. Liu Gouwa said with a smile, it was almost more than a hundred steps away from the county government to the Beicheng intersection, which was the same distance as they said they had caught the other party.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Qian Feng hurriedly asked, "My lord, why did you let them race?" Everyone also looked at Liu Gouwa, who was confident, suspiciously.

"It's simple, if the robber runs fast, will he still be caught?"

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized, and they all shook their heads, and even said it reasonably. When the thin and skinny Chai Wu heard this, his face was pale, cold sweat was dripping, he knelt down on his knees, and begged in a trembling voice: "The villain is guilty, please forgive the adult, the villain has a sixty-year-old mother to support, and there is a child under the age of less than one to be fed, there is no grain of rice at home, there is no soup in the pot, and in desperation, I have to do it, and I hope that the adult will forgive the sin, and I hope that the adult will forgive the sin." ”

Isn't there an eighty-year-old mother at home, this is a classic line in ancient times when criminals were caught begging for mercy, how did it change to sixty? Liu Gouwa looked at Chai Wu being arrested and begging for mercy, and smiled secretly in her heart.

"This is really Chai Wu ...... Dongcheng" Some people who eat melons recognize Chai Wu......

"I heard that he really has a paralyzed old lady......"

"Last month, his mother-in-law almost died in childbirth......"

"I heard that he is the poorest person in the area......"

In the melon-eating crowd, you suddenly started talking about it. Liu Gouwa was surprised when she heard the discussion of the onlookers, she thought that Chai Wu was arrested, but she was just reciting classic lines, who would have thought that he was unwilling to admit his guilt honestly at first, but now he really talks about the truth that is unbelievable.

Seeing that the onlookers were talking louder and louder, Qian Feng stepped forward, pointed to Chai Wu and asked Liu Gouwa for instructions: "My lord, what should he do with ......?"

"The Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people, in front of the law, everyone is equal, although Chai Wu is excusable, but the crime is unforgivable, and it will be handed over to the county for judgment according to the rules." Liu Gouwa said loudly in front of everyone.

Recovering his innocence, Zhang Dagui, who was surprisingly tall, retrieved the money and things that belonged to him, and knelt down in front of Liu Gouwa and thanked: "Thank you for upholding justice, the villain is also from the east of the city, and he is also from the hometown of Chai Wu, and he is willing to give half of the silver money to help Chai Wu's family." ”

When Chai Wu heard this, he was ashamed, and cried: "It's all because I'm obsessed with money for a while, and I have done such a dirty thing, and I am ashamed to see my father and fellow villagers. ”

Zhang Dagui poured out half of the money from the money bag and handed it to Liu Gouwa, asking Liu Gouwa to transfer it on his behalf, for Zhang Dagui's righteousness and squandering money, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but look down on him, in this era of difficult people's livelihood, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, Zhang Dagui can still have this heart to help the poor, which is really commendable.

Liu Gouwa waved his hand and asked the official to escort Chai Wu down, came to the oil seller and the flour seller, and asked, "You said that you found a money bag, and you said that it was your own?" Liu Gouwa couldn't help but think of the ancient corrupt officials broadcast in the TV series in later generations, and also dealt with similar cases, the corrupt officials and county orders in this situation, will take this money bag as their own, what are you two fighting about? In the end, it is not nothing. Of course, it was just a funny clip made up by later generations, and the real situation could not develop like that, although people can be shameless, they can't be shameless, at most they are turning the road and getting the money bag.

With the experience of the robbery, the oilman and the flour seller were worried, and Ai Ai's statement that the money bag was his own, was true.

Qian Feng took out an old money bag sewn from the ya, walked briskly to Liu Gouwa, and said, "My lord, this is the money bag." ”

Liu Gouwa lifted the money bag and looked at it, it was very ordinary, nothing special, the bag contained hundreds of coins and a few pieces of loose silver. Liu Gouwa saw a similar case in the later TV series "Da Song Ti Criminal Officer", the protagonist Song Ci put the money in the water, and the pork oil flowers floated on the water surface, so as to pronounce that the money belonged to the pork guy. Now the difference is that the pork guy has changed to an oil seller, and the thief has changed to a flour seller, Liu Gouwa originally planned to draw a gourd to solve the case, but he picked up a money and looked at it carefully, not only was the money not greasy, but also did not use flour crumbs, but there was a faint fishy smell that seemed to be absent, and he couldn't help but know in his heart, so he said to the flour seller: "You said that this money bag is yours, this bag is so old, it must have taken a lot of time, you are selling flour, do you see that this bag has traces of flour?" After Liu Gouwa finished speaking, he handed the money bag to the flour man.

The flour man glanced at the money bag in a daze, and quibbled: "I have a habit of cleanliness, and every time I sell flour for money, I will dust off the flour on the money bag." ”

"Then presumably every time you sell flour to collect money, you won't wash your hands and then load the money, the money you receive will be more or less stained with flour, and over time, you will always accumulate a lot in your money bag." After Liu Gouwa finished speaking, she poured out the silver money in the bag and turned the money bag upside down.

The money bag was empty, there was nothing, Liu Gouwa shook the money bag in front of everyone, and asked loudly to everyone: "Tell me, everyone, is there flour?" ”

Everyone replied in unison, "Nothing." The crowd was full of emotion, and they laughed and laughed.

"The eyes of the masses are bright, you won't still say that this money bag is yours." Liu Gouwa sneered at the flour man.

The flour man's face turned red, and he walked out of the yamen with his head bowed and walked out quickly, attracting a burst of laughter from the melon-eating crowd.

Shamefully walked away the flour man, and the oil seller knelt down to Liu Gouwa happily, and said gratefully: "Thank you for the justice of the villain, so that the villain's money bag is lost." ”

"Wait." Liu Gouwa thanked the oil seller and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that this money bag is yours?" ”

The oil seller was stunned, the people who ate melons were stunned, and Qian Feng, who was standing behind Liu Gouwa, was also stunned. Qian Feng asked inexplicably: "My lord, since this money bag is not the one who sells flour, but the one who sells oil, what proof do you need?" Qian Feng asked the question in everyone's hearts, and couldn't help but look at Liu Gouwa, looking forward to his analysis.

"Who said that this money bag is for the oil man." Liu Gouwa smiled and said, "Qian Zhutou, you ask someone to bring a bucket of water, and you will understand later." Then he said to the oil seller: "You are an oil seller, and you often have a lot of oil in your hands, and in the same way, the money bag and money are also stained with some oil.......

"Uh, big man, this money bag is not and it is not mine......" The oil seller listened to Liu Gouwa instruct Qian Feng to send someone to carry water, and then listened to his explanation, and immediately understood, before Liu Gouwa finished speaking, he was busy confessing to himself, and saw a government official walking quickly with a bucket of water, and before he finished speaking, he was busy picking up the oil burden and escaping from the county government as if flying, which once again caused the laughter of the people who ate melons.

The water brought by the official sweating profusely was lifted in vain, because everyone understood the truth that oil floats in the water, and the official had to carry the water away again.

"And whose bag is it?" Qian Feng then asked.

"It's not difficult to find the owner of this money bag, in fact, it's not difficult to ......" Speaking of this, Liu Gouwa clicked his mouth, said a lot, his mouth was a little dry, Qian Feng saw this and hurriedly poured a cup of tea in person, and served it to Liu Gouwa, Liu Gouwa drank tea, and secretly praised Qian Feng in his heart for being eye-catching, smart and capable, and worthy of his own promotion.

Qian Feng expected to know who the owner of the money bag was, and everyone waited and waited, and when Liu Gouwa drank the tea, Qian Feng stepped forward to take the teacup and asked, "My lord, is there any way to find the owner of the money bag?" ”

Liu Gouwa looked at the people who were looking forward to it, pretended to smile mysteriously, and said, "Just dry the money and you'll know." Liu Gouwa asked Qian Feng to put the money and money bags together on the ground in front of the yamen to expose to the sun, which couldn't help but arouse everyone's amazement and expectations.

At that time, it was autumn and winter, the sun was not very strong, the vegetation was sparse in the distance, and a large number of insects were dormant, but there were also many mosquitoes, flies, ants, cockroaches, etc., which were not hidden in all corners of the city. Not long after Liu Gouwa dried the money, a few flies flew from nearby, flying around the pile of money and money bags, making an annoying buzzing sound, and I don't know when a long line of big ants crawled on the ground, crawling all over the money bags and money.

Liu Gouwa leaned over and picked up a coin, only to see that the money was slightly white in the sun, and there was an ant on the money that did not have time to escape. Liu Gouwa looked at the ant that kept moving, and joked: "Do you know why this ant climbs on the coin, does this big ant also like money?" These flies fly around coins, are flies also fond of money? ”

Everyone suddenly smiled, and Qian Feng also smiled heartily: "My lord is really funny, how can these ants like money, these money may have the smell it likes, so they will revolve around the coins." ”

"That's right, what does the money smell like? Now that the smell of money has been exposed, you can smell it casually. Liu Gouwa looked at the curious crowd and smiled.

After smelling the coin, many people say uncertainly: "It smells fishy", "It looks like fishy", "It smells like salted fish......

"Everybody smells fishy, whether it's raw fish or salted fish, it's fish anyway." Liu Gouwa said this, prank, and said with a smile: "However, this official smells more than you." ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, thinking that they had neglected something, and Qian Feng couldn't help asking, "What is the other smell that adults smell?" ”

"That's the copper stench."

Everyone was stunned, and then burst into laughter.

The laughter gradually died out, and Liu Gouwa continued: "Look at this coin, some of them are white, and the white ones are fish oil, only the dried fish oil will be white, exuding a fishy smell, so it can be concluded that the owner of the money bag is selling raw fish, and there is so much money in the money bag, it must not be the villagers who sell fish, but fishmongers, there are fishmongers around here?" ”

"It seems that there is a fish shop surnamed Qiao, which specializes in selling some fish and shrimp." Qian Feng said beside Liu Gouwa, "My subordinates have also bought fish from him a few times. ”

After Liu Gouwa explained that Qian Feng would go to inform the fishmonger surnamed Qiao to claim the money bag later, he came to the old horse again, and the two middle-aged people who were fighting for the horse hurriedly stepped forward with shy faces, saluted and respected, and claimed to Liu Gouwa that the old horse was his own, and then argued.

Liu Gouwa didn't pay attention to their dispute, only circled around the old horse, and then listened with her ear to the horse's mouth for a while, and said: "You don't have to argue, the old horse has already told the official the name of its owner." ”

"And who is its owner?" The two middle-aged men fighting for horses asked at the same time.