Just as Chen Ke walked into Xie's mansion, a man also hurriedly walked into a courtyard in Qinghefang.

The man walked into the main hall and saluted on one knee, "My lord, I have found out, the person who inquired about the news of the thief in the teahouse in the morning is called Chen Ke." But ......"

"But what?" A calm voice asked.

"This person only entered the city yesterday, and yesterday afternoon he also pawned a house, which is in Qinghefang, not far from here. The humble post found out that Chen Ke had just gone to the Xie Mansion. ”

"Xie Fu? Which Xie Fu? ”

"It's the Qianhu Guangdao Imperial History Xie Qingyuan Mansion, just three days ago...... It should be four days ago, Xie Fu lost a painting, what is it called. ”

"Go report victory," the voice suddenly became extremely stern, "Luo Huai, you have been with me for so long, can't you even remember what happened in the case?" ”

"Guilty of contemplation." Luo Huai hurriedly knelt down and admitted his mistake.

"Get up, what else have you found?"

"I found out that there are two groups of people who are also observing Chen Ke's whereabouts, one is a few gangsters in the city, I heard that this Chen Ke beat several of them in the Qian Ji rice shop yesterday; The other group of people is not clear for the time being, and the lowly position is just secretly observing, and does not dare to alarm them. ”

"Well, you're doing the right thing," the man called the adult bowed slightly, "the most important thing now is to catch the thief, and don't alarm the two groups of people you said, lest you startle them." As for this Chen Ke, he moved so fast, nine times out of ten he came to the thief, hmm, you send more people to check the details of this Chen Ke. In addition, I will ask someone to hand over my post to Xie Mansion, and I want to meet Xie Qingyuan. ”

"Yes." Luo Huai agreed, and then turned to leave.

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Chen Ke entered the study and sat down opposite Xie Qingyuan.

"You are Chen Ke?" Xie Qingyuan's words were very impolite.

"Exactly down there." Chen Ke is neither humble nor arrogant.

"Tell me, what are you looking for me?"

"Catch the Rogue Man."

"And then?"

Damn, Chen Ke is angry, are you a scholar who has been an official, how can you not speak politely at all. He didn't answer, lit a cigarette, and smoked it himself. The cigarette, like the other items, had traveled through time and space, and although it had wasted a little precious weight, Mr. Gu did not object, but only let him bring two packs.

After taking a puff of cigarette, Chen Ke immediately calmed down, and the anger in his heart suddenly disappeared without a trace. Being able to control one's emotions quickly is a must for investigators. He smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to Xie Qingyuan, "Get one?" ”

A hint of surprise flashed in Xie Qingyuan's eyes, although the young man in front of him was aroused by his few words, he immediately calmed down, it seemed that he was not a simple reckless person. Although he had never seen the appearance of modern cigarettes, as soon as he smelled the smoke, he knew what it was, waved his hand, and did not take the cigarettes handed over by Chen Ke, "In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the saint issued a ban on smoking, and the old man had already quit." ”

Chen Ke listened to his voice soften, and took out the two pieces of paper with the information of the thief from his arms, "I am seventy percent sure that I will catch the thief, but I need your help." This is not bragging, when he was an investigator, the owner asked for a lot of requests to recover the stolen items, which also made him deal with many international thieves.

He extinguished the cigarette and spread out the two pieces of paper, "Judging from this information, the thief has three characteristics: first, the rogue case, and the political envoys from the 13 provinces in the south and north have his criminal records. ”

"The second is to steal only gold, silver, jewelry, and other valuable goods, and the only painting that has been stolen is Your Excellency's Go Victory Map. Many paintings and calligraphy are worth a fortune, one is tens of thousands of taels or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and the calligraphy and paintings are lighter and more convenient to steal. With his skills, it is not difficult to steal a few famous paintings, why does he not take the light and more valuable calligraphy and paintings, but take these bulky gold and silver jewelry? The only explanation is that he doesn't know calligraphy and painting at all. ”

"Third, he likes to be famous. You see, in October last year, he stole the official seal of the commander of the Nanjing Jinyi Guard, and sent it back after seven days. The official seal is worthless, what is he doing stealing the official seal? And after stealing it, he took the risk of sending it back. Also, every time he commits a crime, he will leave the words 'Thieves come here for a visit'.

The best explanation is that he likes to be famous, such a person is very conceited about his skills and does not want to be a nobody. This is also the reason why he is circulating everywhere, and the thirteen political envoys have traces of his crimes, which is equivalent to leaving a name in all parts of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xie Qingyuan listened to his words quietly, and said softly: "You have a lot of words in these words, which are quite fresh, and your speech is also organized, but your Beijing official language is not very good, and you still need to practice." ”

Chen Ke was a little crazy, you were aggressive as soon as we met just now, but now when it comes to the point, it turns around. If he hadn't wanted to get his phone back quickly, Chen Ke really wanted to punch him in the face and let out a bad breath.

Chen Keqiang resisted the urge to beat people, and said in his heart, old fox, go around the bend, and see who can calm down.

"Yes, I have to practice, people talk a lot about being greedy and chewing, I learn a little Sichuan dialect, Cantonese a little bit, a few years ago I also learned Changsha dialect and Henan dialect, and recently I want to learn Jiangxi dialect and Hangzhou dialect, alas, I learn everything, everything is not fine." Chen Ke continued to put on a smiling look.

Xie Qingyuan looked at Chen Ke's smile narrowed into a line, and "groaned" in his heart, this guy is too difficult.