Chapter 39: Portrait of a Thief

I saw the weak scholar walking to the middle of the porter in the shade of the tree, showing the portrait in his hand to everyone, and did not say anything else, but asked if anyone recognized this person. Everyone recognized this guy at a glance, this is the porter Ma Jiao'er, an honest person, who lives in a small village two miles away. The scholar entrusted one of the sturdy young men to inform the stubble with the portrait that if he did not appear at the city gate within a quarter of an hour, he would hand over the portrait to the guards of the city. The young strong man happily went.

Mosquito is a little puzzled, you also handed over the portrait to him, what if the porter escapes with the portrait, you don't have any evidence. The weak scholar smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, I still have many portraits in my head, which can be drawn at any time, and I am not afraid that he will not come." And don't they all say that he is an honest man, he should be greedy for a while, and there is medicine to save him. ”

The porter followed the mosquitoes and they walked towards the city gate, and it was only two quarters of an hour's journey from the dock to the city gate, and if the porter had not escaped, the porter would have been waiting there when they reached the city gate. The thin monkey took the twenty yuan he won, and while playing, he provoked the mosquito: "Do you dare to bet with me again, just bet on whether this porter will appear at the city gate, you choose first!" ”

The mosquito looked at the weak scholar, who shook his fan and smiled confidently, looking like he was winning. Originally, I was a little hesitant, but now I believe in this scholar and take a gamble, who will make his portrait so similar. He immediately spoke: "I bet that he can come!" ”

Tian Xing and Yiwen in the car were busy checking Zhu Xiyi's injuries, and they didn't have time to care about the mosquitoes and their noise, as long as they didn't delay the trip, he wouldn't ask. However, when I heard that this scholar relied on the sketch of the portrait, I wanted to find the luggage thief, and I was not as panicked as ordinary people, so I couldn't help but be curious, and looked at him a few more times, but I didn't pay attention to it, I just felt that this scholar was calm and calm, and he had the demeanor of a general.

Idle and bored all the way, the mosquito started talking to him. This scholar's name is Zhang Hongjing, a native of Hedong, who was recruited to join the army for Henan Mansion, and recently came to Luoyang City to take up his post. wanted to take the opportunity to travel to the great rivers and mountains of Sanchuan, so he came to Luoyang City alone to take up a job, without bringing an entourage. Tian Xing heard him say that he was the Hedong Zhang family, this Hedong Zhang family is now in full swing, and he is quite favored by the Son of Heaven in Chang'an, and there is a prime minister Zhang Jiazhen, whose son is the imperial historian Zhang Yansheng, and it is said that he will also pay homage to the prime minister. But looking at the scholar in front of him, he is shabby and low-key, not like the son of the Zhang family, he should be a down-and-out branch.

When he was about to reach the gate of the city, he saw a thin man kneeling on the ground from a distance, and a strong man standing beside him, with two bags of luggage behind him. The mosquito screamed loudly in surprise: "What did I say, this porter will definitely turn himself in, and the thin monkey will return twenty yuan to me!" ”

Zhang Hongjing checked the luggage and found that there was nothing missing, so he picked up the thin porter who was kneeling on the ground and begging, and admonished him earnestly: "This misstep has become a thousand years of hatred, you have to keep in mind, don't regret it for life because of temporary greed, you can go, make money in the future, feel at ease, how comfortable and happy!" After this Hongjing finished speaking, he took the portrait, stamped it with his own seal, and then gave it to the thin man porter, asking him to remember today's lesson.

The porter took his portrait and thanked him and left. This made Tong'an, Thin Monkey and others stunned, it's so simple?