The cowhide drum on the drum rack outside the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion was knocked on the mountain with a loud bang, and the officials were surprised when they heard it, because this drum had not been beaten for a long time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Hearing the sound of the drums, the two officials on duty hurriedly ran out of the government office, and saw a man dressed in a short green coat holding a drumstick and beating the drum surface vigorously, so he stepped forward and said, "If you have any grievances, go to the lobby to say." ”

The man in the blue short-robe threw down the drumstick and said, "Two officials, it's not that the villain has grievances, the villain is beating the drum for my master." ”

The two officials looked in the direction of the fingers of the man in the blue short clothes, and there was a man in purple clothes and a purple hat with a haggard face standing under the drum rack, and said: "Yo hi, you are not a small person, you don't even use the drum to sing grievances, is it very cowhilarious!" ”

The one coldly glanced at the two officials and did not make a sound, and the servant said: "The two officials are not to blame, my master has been greatly wronged, and his spirit is a little sluggish. ”

One of the officials said: "Look at him like this, just like a fool, we don't care about him, if there is any grievance, hurry up and go into the lobby to appeal to the prefect!" ”

The servant walked towards the lobby with the man in purple in his arms, and when he came to the lobby, he saw that the prefect was already sitting there with his face upright.

As soon as Chen Changzhou saw the man in purple, he guessed that he must be the uncle Liu Mei, because Chen Lang told him about Liu Mei's appearance and dress, so he waved his hand to a servant and said, "Show this man in purple!" ”

When the official heard this, he was surprised and said, "What? ”

Chen Changzhou snapped and glared at the shocked man and said, "I said to show this man in purple, are you deaf!" ”

When the official heard this, his grandmother's, could it be that the sun came out of the west today, since I was standing here on duty, I had never heard the prefect order to give the person who came to complain to take a seat, but since the prefect had spoken, how dare he be lazy, and hurriedly moved a chair next to the man in purple and said, "Please sit down!" ”

The man in purple was not polite, and sat down on his buttocks.

The officials on both sides were all staring at each other with big eyes, inexplicable, and said in their hearts: "This is really big, why does the prefect let you take a seat, you just sit, and you are not polite." ”

At this time, I only heard Chen Changzhou say: "The person who beats the drum, who is your surname!" ”

The man in purple sat on a chair and arched his hand and said, "My lord, the villain's surname is Liu, and the word is beautiful!" ”

When the yamen heard this, he had the heart to know: "No wonder people are coaxing, it turns out to be Uncle Guo!" Alas, it's no wonder that the prefect can sit in that position, and people's eyes have that uniqueness, Liu Mei didn't sign up, so she gave a seat. ”

Chen Changzhou didn't pay attention to what those officials thought, and nodded: "Oh, then Liu Mei, if you have any grievances to sue anyone, there is a lawsuit." ”

Liu Mei nodded and didn't speak, took out a piece of white silk from her arms, and handed it to the official who came over, the official said secretly in his heart: "Tut-tut, this uncle is not an ordinary cannon, even a lawsuit is written in silk, this is who has no eyes, eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dares to offend the uncle of the country, don't you want to see tomorrow's sunrise." The officer's pondering action slowed down, and Chen Changzhou snapped his face and said, "What are you kid rubbing there?" Don't hurry up and submit the lawsuit to the prefect. ”

The official hurriedly nodded his head, took two steps, held the white silk cloth in both hands and said respectfully: "Master, please read the lawsuit!" ”

Chen Changzhou took it and took a look, only to see that there was a small script written uprightly: "The prefect of Kaifeng clearly decided: I am Liu Mei, a resident of Sweet Water Street, because I love Zhu Yue'er, a female employee of a western restaurant in heaven and earth, I specially invited someone to match it, and obtained the consent of Zhu Yue'er's girl, the two are willing to marry for a hundred years, adhering to the marriage contract, the ancient precept of father and brother as the master, I specially entrust others, go to propose, and promise to take 200 taels of silver as the dowry, that Zhu Yue'er's two brothers Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong came to the lion to open their mouths and asked for a bride price of 1,000 taels of silver. However, my Liu Mei out of a sincere love for Zhu Yue'er girl, had to be forced to agree to their unreasonable demand, after many ways to raise money and finally borrowed 1,000 taels of silver, as a bride price on the day of the proposal to the Zhu family, who knew that Zhu Meng, Zhu Yong but did not believe in their words, broke the contract on the spot, and asked for a sky-high price, the request is really difficult for me to bear, therefore, I hereby file a lawsuit, please ask the prefect to be the master of the people under your rule, so that I Liu Mei can marry Zhu Yue'er girl, and fulfill our oath of holding the hand of the son and being old with the son. The inscription reads Liu Mei's congratulations! ”

Chen Changzhou nodded after reading the lawsuit and said, "Liu Mei, let me ask you, what you said is true!" ”

Liu Mei said: "Lord Prefect, what I Liu Mei said is true, please see it!" ”

Chen Changzhou said: "Okay, then let me ask you, where is the bride price of 1,000 taels of silver you said now!" ”

Liu Mei said: "Lord Prefect, the bride price of 1,000 taels of silver has been detained by Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong in the Zhu family on the day of the proposal. ”

Chen Changzhou picked up the shocking wood and slapped it three times: "How can this be reasonable, in broad daylight, how can such bandit behavior be tolerated." As he spoke, he grabbed a token from the bookcase and said, "Team leader Liu Sheng!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Bantou hurriedly walked out of the train and bowed: "Lord Prefect, Liu Sheng listens to the order!" ”

Chen Changzhou said: "Okay, this prefect ordered you to lead your subordinates to the Wanshoumen shantytown and summon the Zhu family to the hall, there must be no mistake!" ”

Liu Bantou said: "Take the order!" He stepped forward and took the token, waved his hand to the servant under him, and said, "Go to Wanshoumen!" ”

Those officials followed Liu Bantou out of the lobby and went straight to Wanshoumen.

Liu Bantou led eight officials out of the yamen, trotted all the way to the shantytown of Wanshoumen, found the Zhu family, opened the straw curtain and walked into the broken straw mat shed, and saw that there was only one old man, who was falling asleep on a broken bed, so he stepped forward to wake him up and said: "Hey, old man, Zhu Meng, Zhu Yong!" ”

The old man said, "I know there, those two rabbit cubs have not been home for two days. ”

Liu Bantou stepped forward and said, "Then let me ask you, where is the bride price of the 1,000 taels of silver that your family collected a few days ago?" ”

The old man shook his head and said, "I know this, it's all my two sons who are losers who are hiding." ”

Liu Bantou asked again: "So, do you know where Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong went?" The old man shook his head again and said he didn't know.

Liu Bantou saw that the old man didn't know anything, and waved his hand angrily and said: "Brothers, since Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong are not here, then take this old man back to the yamen to report to the prefect." ”

When the officials heard this, they made an uproar, put the chain on the old man's neck and said, "Go, come with us to the Yamen of Kaifeng Mansion to see the prefect." ”

The old man struggled and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I didn't break the law, why did you arrest me to go to the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

Liu Bantou walked over and patted the old man's shoulder and said, "What are you doing, Liu Mei went to Kaifeng Mansion to tell your old Zhu family, you go and listen to the verdict of the prefect!" ”

The old man shouted, "Wronged, this is really a great wrong!" ”

Liu Bantou sneered: "Hehe." The old man is wronged or not, you can't talk to us errands, and you have the ability to face the prefect. He shouted, "Take it away!" ”

The officials couldn't help but say, pulling the chains and dragging the old man back to the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion.

Coming to the lobby, Liu Bantou kicked the old man's legs fiercely and said, "Kneel!" The old man knelt down in front of the bookcase with a thud.

Liu Bantou bowed to Chen Changzhou and said, "Lord Prefect, the defendant brought it!" ”

Chen Changzhou leaned over and shouted, "Bastard, the prefect asked you to wait to interrogate Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong, how can you bring back a half-dead old man." ”

Liu Bantou said: "Back to the prefect's lord, Zhu Meng and Zhu Yong were not at home when we went, but he didn't know anything about this old man, we had no choice but to bring him back, this old man is the father of the two boys, caught Lao Tzu, and the son is not out!" ”

Chen Changzhou scolded: "Fart, the two of them are evildoers, can they be inferred by common sense!" Hurry up and arrest them and take them to the yamen, if they run away, you will ask! ”

Liu Bantou said: "It's the adult, the little one obeys the order!" He said to his subordinates: "Brothers, follow me!" ”

The eight officials followed Liu Bantou to the street, and said with a sad face: "Boss, this vast sea of people, let's go there to find those two bastards!" ”

Liu Bantou glared and said: "You ask me, I ask who to go, everyone use their brains, brainstorm, think about where those two bastards can go!" ”

So everyone went to the shade of the tree, and they all held their heads and pondered there, and after a long time, an old official suddenly shouted: "There is! ”

This voice frightened Liu Bantou and said: "What are you kid shouting for, it scared me a lot!" ”

The old servant said: "Team leader, think about it, what does this poor man want to do the most?" ”

Before Liu Bantou could speak, there was a Ya Dao: "Do you need to say this, of course it's good to eat, drink and have fun!" ”

The old servant smiled and said: "Then let's think about it, the two bastards of the Zhu family have not been home for two days, and we don't have a restaurant in Bianliang, Tokyo that stays all night long, can they go there!" ”

Seven or eight officials stared at each other for a long time and said, "Qinglou! ”

The old servant nodded and analyzed: "Yes, these two boys have been living a poor life with insufficient food and clothing in the past, and now Leng Ding has so much silver, why don't you look for a woman!" So I concluded that they must be hiding in a green building at this time! ”

Liu Bantou shook his head and said: "Even if those two bastards really have to hide in the green building, but there are many green buildings in this Bianliang City, and it will be difficult for us to find them for a while." ”

The old official said cunningly: "This is easy to say, their brothers suddenly have so much silver, they must be carried away, and if they want to go, they will pick the high-end green building." ”

Liu Bantou patted his thigh and said: "Brother's analysis makes sense, then let's divide into two teams, go to the Baochun Building, Mantingfang, Yixiangyuan, and the newly opened Baiguo Courtyard to check." When the gang found out, they directly locked up the two bastards and escorted them back to the yamen for business! ”