However, it was said that Ximenqing, Ou Peng, and Ma Lin waited at the gate of Yanggu County, but they saw that there were many more local soldiers guarding the gate inside and outside the city than usual, and dozens of public officials were there to carefully check the people who left the city.

For the head of the name Cui Xiaoyi, is Yanggu County arrest envoys, Pingsu also has a lot of Ximen Qing to make money good, seeing that it is Ximen Qingshi, he came forward, Ximen Qing saw it and hurriedly stepped forward and sang: "Why is Cui Guanguan personally here today?" Cui Xiaoyi said: "It's also very unlucky, a few days ago, the county magistrate's mansion was robbed, lost a batch of property, and I don't know where the thief came from, so bold, dare to start at the magistrate, and we are so tired that we are here to search and arrest." ”

Ximen Qing sighed: "But I don't want to have such bold thieves in the city." Cui Xiaoyi only looked at the large group of carriages and horses behind Ximenqing, and asked, "The big official is going to move." Ximen Qing said with a smile: "It's just to send some medicinal materials to Tokyo for sale." After speaking, he stuffed a piece of silver into Cui Xiaoyi's hand, and Cui Xiaoyi also smiled: "If someone else also has to work hard to open the luggage to check, since it is a big official of Ximen, there is no need to check it." ”

At that moment, Cui Xiaoyi waved his hand, and the public officials got out of the way, and Ximenqing and his party went out of the city.

Ximenqing and his entourage stayed overnight, and left the territory of Yanggu County within a few days, this day they arrived outside a mountain forest, the sky was cold, and there was no village shop, and the group had to stay up all night in the forest to raise the fire.

A group of people raised several bonfires, but they still couldn't stand the cold wind, how could they be cold? It is just like a cold wind blowing from the bones, and the night is cold. The ice is clear and the fog is blowing, and the eyebrows are white and the north wind is cold.

Ou Peng and Ma Lin will give out more than a dozen cowhide water bladders, all of which will be given to everyone to the bottle of fragrant wine, and said in their mouths: "Cai Niangzi knows that the road is hard, and I specially ordered us to bring cold wine, this is the imperial wine in Beijing, and I will not taste it once in my life. ”

I heard that it was the wine prepared by Sanniang, Ximen celebrated the joy, and the first one took a big sip, the wine was mellow and long, only one sip down, it was warm down the throat to the heart, and praised it: "It is really a good wine, I have never tasted it, and it is better than going out on Jingyang Gang." The rest of the stewards and companions brought by Ximenqing also drank.

After a while, everyone felt dizzy, Ximenqing only felt that the world was spinning, the corners of his mouth were salivating, and a pair of eyes looked directly at Ou Peng and Ma Lin, who were only there and scolded with a smile: "A group of stupid people drank my lady's footwashing water!" Pour also! Pour also! Before the words fell, Ximen Qingyi and others fell to the ground one after another, unable to move.

Ou Peng and Ma Lin whistled, and more than 50 people came out of the forest, but this group of people was the Shaohua Mountain Iron Guard on Chai Jinzhuang, together with the original ten Iron Guards, a total of more than 60 people. Ou Peng and Ma Lin made a gesture, and a cadre came up, dragged Ximenqing and the others aside, and even looted their belongings, and then whistled, and everyone pushed the cart, drove the car, and carried the burden, and swept away Ximenqing's gifts and dried medicinal materials.

Ximen Qing did not wake up until the next day, and they were all frozen very stiff, and slowly got up. Ximen Qing said: "The lady of Nai was not careful, and only found two Yu Hou who were thieves to follow me all the way, but I suffered from it, and my whole wealth was buried." Everyone said: "Master, today's matter has come out, so it's better to report to the county early." ”

Ximen Qing said bitterly: "This is also true, but this is the land between the two counties, and the front and back are generally far and near, so I have to go back to Yanggu County first, where the people are familiar, so I can start this lawsuit, but I am afraid that the gang of thieves will go far." The crowd said, "I have to go back to the county first." At that moment, the crowd had to help each other, and they came down the mountain and returned via Wangyanggu County.

The group of people had no luggage, and when they arrived at a town, they had to take off their clothes and pawn them before they could exchange for a bowl of hot wine to drink. In the end, the clothes were exhausted, and everyone was like beggars, begging for food along the way, so they suffered for several days before returning to Yanggu County. After entering the city, Ximenqing went straight to his home.

Wu Yueniang hurriedly came out to greet her when she heard the news, Ximenqing suffered a lot along the way, Wu Yueniang saw it and hurriedly ordered someone to get her clothes and change them, and taught her to arrange wine and food. Ximenqing and the others devoured it once before they were satisfied.

After eating and drinking, Ximenqing asked, "Where is Mrs. Cai?" Wu Yueniang said: "I got up early the day before yesterday and disappeared, leaving only a book here, and the concubine didn't dare to watch it." Ximen Qing hurriedly took the letter and read it, only to see that it was written: "Ximen Daguan Taijian: Don't complain about cheating you of your money, the official's net worth is also forcibly snatched, only your lending and trading, I don't know how many people have been ruined, I will scatter your wealth in this box, it is to accumulate blessings for you." I'm not the daughter of the Cai family, and you didn't sleep with me that night, or the servant woman who followed, I don't know what it tasted like? If you want to report to the official, listen to it. ”

After reading the letter, Ximen Qing was furious, and in a fit of anger, he even ripped the letter to pieces, and scolded: "The thief and slut who killed a thousand knives deceived me so hard!" At the moment, the atmosphere was like a bullfight, and Ximen Qing went straight to the county to report to the official.

When the magistrate of Yanggu County heard that Ximenqing reported to the official, he didn't dare to slack off, and he hurriedly went to the hall, so he listened to Ximenqing's words in the hall, but then when he asked the woman about her appearance, surname, and place of origin, she didn't know anything. When asked others, Ximenqing could only say the appearance of Ou Peng, Ma Lin and others, and he didn't know whether the names were true or false.

After hearing this, the magistrate sighed: "Big official, this trip is a person with good deception, I am afraid that the thief will be difficult to find, or not, for the sake of the past friendship, I will also help you find it." "At that moment, the clerk of the order document stacked the facts of the case and Ximen Qing's words, and sent the public in the house to investigate everywhere, and then taught people to make pictures and graphics, and went down to the sea to catch the official document, just look for the gang of thieves and don't mention it.

Ximenqing returned home and did not go out for several days. On this day, I don't know how to get through the news, all the creditors who originally pledged the shops, homes, and fields came to the door to ask for money, as long as Ximenqing repaid the money. Where did Ximenqing pay back the money? In desperation, he had to pay off all the rights of all the shops, houses, and land.

After the calculation was clear, Ximenqing's family wealth of more than 100,000 yuan, the clothes, jewelry, and antiques at home were all repaid for debts, and there was nothing left, so even the ancestral house was lost, and overnight, Ximenqing became a penniless person.

Seeing that Ximenqing was broken, after several ladies cursed, they went back to their parents' homes, and they all forced Ximenqing to write a letter of resignation, and the marriage in the future has nothing to do. The maids, servants, and servants in the house also left separately. In the end, only Wu Yueniang was left by his side, and the two of them discussed, so they had to go to Wu Yueniang's house to settle down first. When they arrived at Wu Yueniang's house, the father-in-law's family heard that the son-in-law was no longer beautiful, but when they heard it again, it was the son-in-law who coveted the wealth of women, so he was deceived, so he naturally spoke coldly and sneered. Ximen Qing is a person under the eaves, how can he not bow his head, he has to grit his teeth and endure it, but he hates Sanniang to the bone. Ximenqing was defeated, and he temporarily settled in his father-in-law's house.

The words were divided into two ends, but it was said that after Sanniang left the book that day, she changed into men's clothes, left Ximen Mansion at night, and first went to the inn of the Lion Tower. On the third day, she swaggered at the head of the Lion Tower to watch Ximenqing's return, and then went to the county to report to the official in a hurry, all of which were sneering.

In the afternoon, Sanniang wandered on the streets, but saw Wu Song with a few native soldiers coming to him, and he took pictures and pictures to check when he met people. When Wu Song also saw Sanniang, he was immediately overjoyed and stepped forward to worship: "Where did Little Brother Hu come from?" Sanniang smiled: "I heard that Second Brother Wu became the head of Yanggu County, so I came to see you." ”

Wu Song was overjoyed, and was about to pull Sanniang to eat and drink, but Sanniang asked with a smile: "I saw that Second Brother Wu seemed to be on business, but I was afraid that I would disturb the business." Wu Song said: "It's okay, the lawsuit of the big official of Ximen is a confused lawsuit, neither nameless nor human, but where to find this group of thieves?" It's just that when people ask, they don't know the point. ”

Sanniang smiled: "Why didn't Second Brother Wu ask me to come?" Wu Song said: "Yes." At that moment, he spread out the paper and looked at Sanniang, and only asked, "I wonder if Brother Hu has ever seen these people?" ”

Sanniang saw that there were a few people painted on it, that is, the masked women's clothes herself, as well as Ou Peng, Ma Lin and a few, but this painting was dictated by Ximenqing, and the painter did it, so it was only seventy percent similar, not to mention that she changed into men's clothes and went to the veil, it was Ou Peng and Ma Lin, and it was not easy to recognize people.

Sanniang looked at it and smiled: "I didn't expect the thief to be a woman, it's really amazing." Wu Song also said: "I admire this woman so much that I have deceived people with a net worth without making a sound." That Ximen Qing did a lot of evil, and everyone in the county scolded him, and this time he heard that he had folded his worth, and everyone applauded. ”

After a few words of gossip, Wu Song decided to invite Sanniang to eat wine, so he came to the lion building, picked a pavilion to sit, paved vegetables, hot food and wine, also known as the restaurant, scalded the wine, cut three or five catties of mutton, made a pot of hot soup, and the two of them drank it.

After three rounds of drinking, Sanniang said: "I heard that Second Brother Wu beat a big worm, so he stayed here and sat down, but he didn't know how to fight that tiger?" At that moment, Wu Song explained the ability to fight the tiger in detail, and Sanniang listened to it with relish.

Then Sanniang asked again: "Second Brother Wu has done the capital here, so he won't go back to his hometown to find his brother?" Wu Song said: "It's a coincidence, a few days after doing the capital, I bumped into my brother on the street, it turned out that my brother's family also moved to the county, so they gathered here, which is a great thing." ”

Sanniang said: "That's good, since Second Brother Wu's brother is here, it's good to lead me to meet later." Wu Song said: "I want to invite Brother Hu to get together at home." Speaking of this, Wu Song took a sip of the wine bowl, but asked: "The taste of the wine here is not as good as the fragrance of the bottle of the little brother, after the separation that day, I drank the wine given by the little brother along the way, and I was drunk all the way for a few days, and the trip was delayed for several days. Thinking about it at the moment, it still tastes good, but I don't know if Brother Hu still has a bottle of incense? ”

Sanniang smiled dumbly, it turned out that Wu Song was so late for a few days to fight the tiger, but this was the reason, and said with a smile at the moment: "Naturally, tomorrow I will bring wine to Brother Ling's mansion to pay a visit." Wu Song said: "It's okay, tomorrow I will be treated on official business, so I will come to find my little brother to go to my brother's house to eat and drink." The two of them made up their minds, ate two more jars of wine, and then parted.