"I didn't expect Liu Guogong to be such a knowledgeable person, when it's over, I have to visit him in person!" Li Tao said with emotion.

"Lantian King, there are only five days left to turn out for a month, what should we do next?" Zhang Wei asked.

"Ma Ming, can you catch a few habitual thieves as soon as possible?" Li Tao turned his head to Ma Ming.

Chen Shi was very strange: "King Lantian, don't you clean up the people of the Red Fox Hall first?" ”

Li Tao said with a smile: "Wait in advance for the Red Fox Hall, take advantage of this time to solve the thief first!" ”

"Wait? What are you waiting for? We have limited time! Chen Shi said urgently.

"I'm waiting for news, we can't do it without news, and it's in vain to be anxious!"

Chen Shi wanted to ask, but saw Zhang Wei secretly handing him a look, so he had to stop asking.

"King Lantian, if you need a thief, there is a ready-made prison in the palace!" Ma Ming said.

"Let's go, let's take a look!"

……

"What's your name?" Li Tao looked at the middle-aged man in front of him.

"My name is Zhang Shun!"

"Were you caught stealing?"

Zhang Shun smiled bitterly: "It's true that I'm a thief, if I was really caught in prison for stealing, I would admit it." But I was imprisoned because I did a good deed. I have been a thief for so long, and I am famous in the road, and I have never been in prison. And this good deed, I'm afraid it's the only good thing I've done in my life, but I ended up in prison. It seems that it really responded to that sentence, and it is difficult to be a good person. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Li Tao was very curious.

"That's a long story......"

……

Chang'an City has set up a carpentry bureau, with hundreds of carpenters who are good at various skills. Specialized in the maintenance of the palace and government offices. Owing to the large number of carpenters, the officials in charge of the carpentry bureau of the Ministry of Workers appointed a number of foremen to supervise the carpenters separately.

There is a foreman named Chang Qingqiu in the carpentry bureau. When assigning carpentry work, he had a quarrel with a carpenter named Ma Xiaoqi, and since then the two have ignored each other, and they have not been in contact with each other for half a year. Everyone thinks that the carpenter and the foreman have just a little quarrel, which is not a deep hatred, and it is not worth such awkwardness. So an old carpenter suggested that everyone pool some money to buy some food and drink, and take the carpenter Ma to the house of the chief carpenter to drink. In order to resolve the contradiction between the two.

This day is the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the carpenters finished their work in advance, carrying chickens, ducks and fish. Carrying a few jars of good wine, he pulled Ma Xiaoqi to the house of the chief worker. Because of the large number of people, everyone set up a long table under the grape trellis in the courtyard, and pulled the chief foreman and the horse carpenter to the chief seat. The workers took turns to toast and persuade them. Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi both made their own reviews. The carpenters drank more and more. I drank until late at night and then went home drunk. Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi were particularly happy because they were reconciled, and they stayed to drink a few bowls. Later, the chief worker fell asleep under the grape trellis drunk, and Ma Xiaoqi also staggered back to his home.

Ma Xiaoqi's wife, Luo, is in her early twenties, looks like a peach blossom powder, is very charming, and is a water-based poplar woman. If it weren't for the fact that his parents fell in love with the carpenter's skill in eating imperial grain. She won't marry this man who is more than a decade older than her! When Luo first married Ma Carpenter, he saw that Xianggong was very capable. is also considerate to her, and once wanted to settle down and live with him for the rest of his life. However, in the past few years of marriage, Luo has not given birth to a boy and half a girl, Ma Xiaoqi is busy all day and can't stay at home, Luo is lonely in the empty room, and her restless heart slowly stirs. Every day after her husband went to work, she would sit at the door of the street to do some needlework, and when she met some gentlemen in the market, she would inevitably flirt with her eyebrows and scold her to kill time.

One day, a butcher who walked the streets and alleys to sell passed by the door of Ma's house, and Roche called him to the courtyard to cut a few catties of pork. Seeing that the butcher was tall and sturdy, as strong as a cow, Luo couldn't help but feel a spring in his heart, and stared at him with affection. When Roche handed over the money to buy meat, the experienced butcher did not take the money, but tightly grasped Roche's white and slender hands, took Roche into his arms, and carried him into the house to have fun with men and women.

After about half an hour, Luo suddenly woke up from his intoxication, pushed the butcher away, and said, "You can't stay here for a long time, my father-in-law will be back soon." Lang intends to have a concubine, and when you and I meet, we use the bricks in front of the door as a code, and there are bricks in front of the door to indicate that my husband is at home. If the bricks in front of the door are taken away, you can feel free to knock on the door. ”

Hu Butcher was overjoyed, swore that he would only love Luo in his life, and threw down four pigs' trotters and left.

Since then, the man and woman have been together every now and then, to the point that no one can do without the other. It's just that this matter is done secretly, and Ma Xiaoqi has been kept in the dark.

Besides, when the carpenter came home, she fell on the kang with her head down, and Roche interrogated her where she had been drinking so late to come back. Ma Xiaoqi drunkenly told the lady about the drinking, and snored loudly as he spoke. Seeing that he was sleeping like a dead pig, Roche couldn't help but be overjoyed. It turned out that after Luo and the butcher got along, their relationship gradually deepened, and both parties had the desire to be a long-term husband and wife, so they plotted to kill Ma Xiaoqi many times. This opportunity finally came, Luo hurriedly went out to discuss with his lover, and Hu Butcher also felt that this was a good opportunity to start.

The adulterer and adulteress hurried to Ma's house and saw that Ma Xiaoqi was still asleep. Luo hugged his leg, Hu Butcher raised the pig-killing knife, and cut off Ma Xiaoqi's head with one sword. Poor Ma Xiaoqi didn't know that the lady was his murderer until he died. In a hurry, he couldn't find a place to hide the corpse, and Luo suddenly remembered that the kang hole was empty, so Luo and Hu Butcher lifted the bricks of the earthen kang, but the corpse was too big to put in. Hu Butcher skillfully dismantled Ma Xiaoqi's body into eight pieces, put them in one by one, and then built the bricks as they were, so that people could not see the slightest flaw.

According to the strategy discussed with his lover, Luo went straight to the foreman Chang Qingqiu's house early the next morning. She broke into the door and grabbed the clothes of the foreman, and cried loudly: "My father-in-law came to your house to drink yesterday and didn't return overnight, you must have killed him with a chicken intestine and a small belly, and you returned my father-in-law!" ”

As he spoke, he scratched and bit the foreman's face, and his hair fell apart.

Chang Qingqiu parried while arguing: "I only had a little quarrel with your father-in-law, how could I kill him?" Besides, Ma Xiaoqi and I have reconciled last night. ”

Where is Luo willing to listen, he sprinkled vigorously, and pulled Chang Qingqiu to sue the official. Chang Qingqiu remembered that she had just died of her father-in-law, and ordered her subordinates to send her home, so that she could be comforted. (To be continued......)