Although the jar that was scattered on the ground was broken into many pieces, there were still many large fragments left some wine, especially near the bottom of the altar, because of the thickness of the wall, and there was a round depression there, so there was still a lot of wine, and those onlookers listened to it, they couldn't care about the amazement, and rushed up, some of them poured directly into their mouths with the porcelain pieces, and some carefully picked up a large porcelain piece and walked back slowly, it seemed that they were brought home to drink slowly.

Yun Qi was still crying with a sad face, thinking about how much money he would have to lose for the lost money, but Qiao Zhong was smiling and grinning, as if the fragments on the ground had nothing to do with him, he still squeezed inside, took out a piece of porcelain, poured some wine into his mouth, thought about it, came to Yun Qi's side again, and said to Yun Qi: "Brother, open your mouth, take a sip, this wine is spilled anyway, and you can't cry back, since being happy is also a loss, and being unhappy is also a loss, why do we want to make ourselves unhappy?" Brother, if you want to drive some, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, come, take a sip, and be happier. ”

Yun Qi thought about it, so he reached out and took the porcelain piece in Qiao Zhong's hand, poured the remaining wine into his mouth, and then looked at the crowd of people who were picking up wine on the ground, and couldn't help laughing, this matter is a disaster for themselves, but for those people, it is a joy a year ago, in fact, people are very easy to satisfy, everyone may really not care about this little wine, everyone is so happy, it is because they feel that there are free things to pick up, and free things, no matter how big or small, are happy, today, Think of yourself as doing a good deed.

The two brothers dragged the cart back to the dart board, as expected, after Steward Cui learned the news, he lost his temper, and then calculated the amount of compensation they had to pay, and reprimanded the two: "I don't care if you can recover the loss from the county, but this shatters the escort things, according to the rules of the dart bureau, we will immediately compensate, so the two of you, the next three months of wages will not be a penny, the dart bureau will pay in advance, if you can get compensation from the county government, that is your ability, if you can't, can only be regarded as unlucky. After saying that, he brushed his sleeves and left.

Yun Qi and Qiao Zhong glanced at each other with a wry smile, this ending had long been in their expectations, fortunately, the dart game was in charge of food and accommodation, otherwise, they really didn't know how to spend these three months. The biggest task now is how to reduce the losses as soon as possible and get some compensation back from the county government, after all, I helped them catch the thief.

Early the next morning, the two came to the county government early, and wanted to ask Guo Zhutou about compensation, who knew that Guo Zhutou was sent out on business early in the morning, and it was said that it would take more than an hour to come back, so they either waited or came to find it in the afternoon, but the two of them had already pushed off the morning in order to find Guo Zhutou today, and only took half a day off, so after thinking about it, they decided to wait for him to come back.

The two walked to the bottom of the steps not far from the county office, each found a stone and sat down, put their hands in their sleeves, and glared at each other with sad faces, suddenly Yun Qi remembered what Qiao Zhong said about sending fish, which had been entangled in his heart, and he didn't know the answer, he happened to be okay today, just enough to ask him, so he said: "Qiao Zhong, how did you solve the matter of sending fish you said last time?" ”

Qiao Zhong looked at him and smiled mysteriously, and said, "Actually, it's very simple, because I can cook this dish, so I rushed directly to the back kitchen of the county order's house, and then made it, just let them serve it." ”

"Huh?! That's exactly what happened. Yun Qi opened his mouth wide in surprise, he thought about a lot of possibilities, but the only thing he didn't expect was such an answer, which was too unexpected.

"Haha, you really believe it, lie to you, this is a must for Yipinlou, where will I do it." Qiao Zhong smiled, revealing two rows of white teeth, lining his black skin, which looked even whiter and shiny. "Actually, I originally inquired, there are three masters who will make this dish in this building, although the shopkeeper refused to let the master go to the county commander's house to cook, but his eyes were only staring at the master, I secretly invited another not very famous master with five taels of silver, let him go to the county commander's house to make this dish, and leave immediately after it is done, and it only takes less than half an hour before and after, the master naturally agreed, and he can earn five taels of silver in half an hour, which is his salary for more than two months! And I also packed the ticket, saying that when he cooked, he would drive everyone away and promise not to divulge the secrets of their business, so it was easy to do. And I, in addition to handing over a little commission to the dart board, took four taels of silver, haha. ”

"I see." Yun Qi suddenly realized. "I thought there was a peculiar way, in fact, I designed a method, I don't know if it is feasible or not, we are in the mountains, sometimes the mountains are obviously close to each other, but to pass, but to go around, but to go around a long mountain road, sometimes even to walk a day or two to walk the opposite mountain, so, the mountain people sometimes use the method of pulling a cable, that is, to pull up a rope between two mountains, and then people or goods through this rope to and fro, it saves a lot of time, I am thinking, It certainly doesn't take much time to pull a rope directly from Yipinlou to the prefectural governor's house, and then slide the basket with food through the rope. ”

"Well, that seems like a good idea." Qiao Zhong thought deeply, and then shook his head again, "Although this method is possible, there is a fatal problem, which leads to the fact that this method will not work, the height between Yipinlou and the county commander's house is not like two mountains, and this rope will definitely hang down to the ground in the middle, so the basket must not be able to slip far." ”

"Hmm, then, can we solve it like this......" Yun Qi frowned, so the two of them squatted down, broke a hard grass from the ground next to them, and discussed it while drawing on the ground.

"Ouch, what are you talking about? It's so lively, I heard that you guys came to me, I'm sorry, I went out in the morning. Guo Zhutou didn't know when he came back, and he was hurrying towards them.

The two hurriedly threw down the hard grass in their hands, stood up and saluted Guo Zhutou, Qiao Zhong asked carefully: "Guo Zhutou, I don't know how the matter that knocked over our wine jar was handled, but we each compensated six taels of silver, if we can't recover the loss, this brother and I will drink the northwest wind in the next three months." ”

Guo Zhutou frowned and said: "This matter is difficult to do, I reported your matter to the county commander, and the lord said that it was hit by the thief, and he should be compensated, but this thief is a habitual thief in the county, and the house is surrounded by four walls, empty, and there is only one single, so you want to get compensation, it is estimated that ......"

"Guo Zhutou, we only smashed it when the government was handling the case, we are assisting the government in handling the case, the thief can't afford to pay, the government should at least give us a little compensation, right?" Yun Qi hurriedly stepped forward.

"Alas, I understand your feelings, but I can't do anything about this, I'll talk to the county order again, as for whether it's useful or not, I can't do it for sure, don't expect too much." Guo Zhutou sighed and comforted the two.

In the next few days, as the New Year was getting closer and closer, Qiao Zhong and Yun Qi asked Guo Zhutou for news many times, but each time they got disappointment, and slowly, they lost confidence and were a little discouraged and disappointed. Seeing this situation, Guo Zhutou was also very embarrassed, so he invited the two fast legs to a small shop for dinner on the twenty-sixth day of the year, hoping to untie their knots by drinking.

After three rounds of drinking, the words of several people gradually increased, the three of them each talked about some of their past events, Yun Qi picked up his experience in the mountains and said something, and talked about how he hunted with his younger brother, Qiao Zhong talked about some interesting things he heard when he was walking darts, Guo Zhutou listened to the two of them talking lively, and couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the two, so he picked the case he had handled, and said one or two wonderful, and the two of them were dumbfounded, and they couldn't imagine that this seemingly peaceful Wanzi County looked like a peaceful and peaceful county, and the appearance was peaceful. There's so much blood and ferocity hidden.

Yun Qi listened and listened, and suddenly his heart moved, picked up a glass of wine, toasted Guo Zhutou, and then asked: "Guo Zhutou, I have not been here for a long time, and I heard a case from a long time ago a few days ago, and I have been thinking about it hard, I don't know if Zhutou can teach me?" ”

"You said, in this county, I have been a fast catcher for more than 20 years, and I basically know a thing or two about ordinary old cases." Guo Zhutou threw a piece of meat into his mouth, and then took another sip of the wine glass.

"I've heard people say that five years ago, the Japanese invaders came to our county and slaughtered a whole village called Shannan Village, but I have run a lot in the streets and alleys of the county these days, and I have met some people, but no one can explain this case clearly, I am very curious, I don't know if the head arrest can solve the confusion in my heart?" Yun Qi Dao.

Guo Zhutou smiled lightly, looked left and right, and then said to Yun Qi: "Brother Yun, what about this matter, there is, I also participated in the investigation of this case back then, although this case has passed so many years, but it is the most tragic case I have seen so far, I still feel cold when I think about it, more than 160 people in the village died, and they died all overnight, and there was no eyewitness afterwards, and no obvious evidence was found, so that our county's arresters were tossed for a long time, and suffered a lot of boards, In the end, it was found out that it was the Japanese who committed it. ”

"Why must it be the work of the Wokos? Isn't it said that there is no evidence and eyewitnesses? Yun Qi asked in surprise.

"At the beginning, we also aimlessly checked everywhere, as long as there was a trace of suspicious clues will be checked, and after more than ten days of investigation, we did not get a key clue, at this time, our county's wealthy businessman Xu Tai ran to the county office, and said to the county order, this thing was done by the widows, he has definite evidence, we asked him to provide it to the government, but he refused, said that he wanted to eliminate harm for the people, he organized a team of hundreds of people, and went to sea in a mighty way, saying that he wanted to avenge the villagers, but then there was no follow-up. However, it is said that they died a lot, and the county commander also asked us to investigate, Xu Tai just said that their ship encountered a big storm in the sea, and many sailors were swept into the sea, so they couldn't come back, and we lost some manpower, and we couldn't verify it, so the matter was over. ”

"Xu Tai? How did he know it was a wolf? And how did the Japanese enter Shannan Village, and how did they escape? There was no trace left. Yun Qi pondered.

"There must be a grudge between this widow and Shannan Village, otherwise they would not have slaughtered the people of the whole village, they definitely stepped on the plate before, we don't know much about this, but how they ran away afterwards, we really found out through investigation." Guo Zhutou proudly threw a bean into his mouth.