Yang Qiuchi looked at Judge Zhao and said with a smile: "It's hard to guess, from Zhenyuanzhou City to Qingxi County, the journey will take about half a day, and your Judge Zhao will come to visit in a hurry early in the morning, covered in dust, and his face has not been washed." There are also scars on the boots of horses, which can only be left by a long journey, and if there is nothing important, how can you come to see your boss without washing your face? ”

Judge Zhao touched the dust on his face and smiled awkwardly: "It's really too anxious, it's rude to the lower officials, please atone for your sins!" ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded, and then said: "If it is official business, even if it is important, there is an eight-hundred-mile expedited, could it be that the judge is faster than the eight-hundred-mile expedited?" Naturally, you're here for personal matters. ”

Judge Zhao laughed: "Lord Yang's analysis is really no longer right. ”

Yang Qiuchi continued: "If it is other affairs of the lower officials or squires, I am afraid that you will not be able to come from the starry night of the seven-rank judge." Therefore, in this town of Yuanzhou, apart from Lord Zhizhou, I really can't think of anyone else who can make your Lord Judge come here after a tiring journey. ”

Judge Zhao was even more surprised, and praised sincerely: "Lord Tongzhi is really smart, and he is really sent by Lord Geng of Zhizhou." ”

"Lord Zhizhou sent the judge to come to me overnight to find me, and he didn't have time to wash his face, and it wasn't for official business, so he counted it out, only I, a little sesame official, would solve the case, and I wanted to ask me to help solve the case, this matter was too important to Lord Zhizhou, worried that I wouldn't go, and he himself was worried that he couldn't come, so he assigned you, the judge from the seventh grade, to invite me. Therefore, according to this inference, this incident that happened in the family of Lord Zhizhou must not be small. ”

Judge Zhao was really stunned at this moment, originally he thought that Yang Qiuchi could solve the case just because a blind cat met a dead mouse, but now it seems that it is really better to be famous than to meet, and the meeting is very famous. got up and respectfully bowed: "Exactly, the little young master of Lord Geng of Zhizhou was kidnapped and left a note that said, 'Husband's debts are repaid', Lord Zhizhou is worried that something may happen to the young master, so he specially ordered the subordinate to come and respectfully ask Lord Yang to help solve the case." ”

Yang Qiuchi nodded, turned around and ordered the squad leader to prepare a horse with Chang Fu.

Judge Zhao was overjoyed: "Is Lord Yang willing to go?" ”

"As the Tongzhi of Zhenyuan Prefecture, I am the adjutant of Lord Zhizhou, and this matter is incumbent!"

Soon the horses were ready, and Yang Qiuchi took advantage of this time to go back to the inner office and told Song Qing about it. As soon as Song Qing heard that Yang Qiuchi was going on a business trip to handle the case again, she could only tell Yang Qiuchi to be careful. Of course, Song Yun'er, a small tail and personal bodyguard, has to follow closely.

Preparing to stop, Yang Qiuchi took Song Yun'er and Nangong Xiong's personal escorts, as well as the squad leader Sui Changfu and Master Jin, as well as the beloved little black dog, and set off for Zhenyuanzhou.

In the afternoon, everyone rushed to the town of Yuanzhou.

Lord Geng of Zhizhou got the news and was already at the gate of the yamen to greet him.

After Judge Zhao was introduced, Yang Qiuchi saw that Geng Zhizhou was in his fifties, his hair was a little gray, a handful of goatees were pulled by Sisilara, his eyebrows were full of sadness, but there was a smile on his face, he must be very concerned about his kidnapped son, and he didn't want to be rude, this is really difficult to be an official. stepped forward and bowed: "Xiaguan Yang Qiuchi, see Lord Geng of Zhizhou!" ”

Geng Zhizhou also hurriedly returned the salute and said: "Lord Yang is too polite, I learned that you will be the same acquaintance of our town Yuanzhou, I have been looking forward to you coming for a long time......"

Yang Qiuchi interrupted him: "Lord Zhizhou, let's solve the case first, find Ling Gongzi, and talk slowly about anything else." ”

Geng Zhizhou nodded happily and gratefully, and bowed deeply: "Thank you, Lord Yang, everything depends on Lord Yang." With that, he welcomed Yang Qiuchi into the yamen.

Although Yang Qiuchi has not officially taken office, Geng Zhizhou has renovated the Yamen and Tongzhi Internal Offices overnight, so he directly welcomed Yang Qiuchi into his own internal office.

This town of Yuanzhou is a thousand-year-old town, which is naturally much better than the poor and remote Qingxi County, so this yamen is still very similar to that, although it is not as good as the prefect yamen of Ningguo Mansion, it is not much different from the county yamen of Guangde County.

Yang Qiuchi didn't care about visiting his internal office, and after hurriedly introducing each other, he began to investigate the case.

Yang Qiuchi first briefly inquired about the case, and then ordered the nurse Luo to be called.

When the nurse came, she knelt down and kowtowed, and told her what had happened.

After listening to this, Yang Qiuchi asked, "What were you doing with the servant Liu Shuangxi when the little young master was gone?" ”

"I, the two of us sit on the rockery and watch the fishermen fishing in the Wuyang River below."

"Didn't you notice the others?"

"No, I didn't notice." The nurse flickered.

Yang Qiuchi stared at the nurse, and then said, "Let's go, let's go to the scene of the Qinglong Cave and see if there are any clues." ”

A group of people came to the Taoist Temple Qinglong Cave.

Although this Qinglong Cave is called a cave, it is actually a building complex with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoist style, built by the mountain, hundreds of pavilions and pavilions are scattered in the foothills of the Zhonghe Mountain on the bank of the Wuyang River. The treasure hall is majestic and solemn, the attic is volleyed high in the air, the curved corridor is swirling, the pavilions are connected, and behind it is a cliff, which is full of lush vines. The storks are dotted with ancient trees, and the stone walls and caves loom in the background.

The stork master of the Qinglong Cave Taoist Temple, Kong Lingzi, learned that Lord Zhizhou and others came to the stork to investigate the case, and also knew that Lord Zhizhou's little son had been kidnapped in this stork, so he was not very frightened, and led the whole stork Taoist priests to wait in front of the mountain gate.

At this time, it was already past noon, and I saw a dark cloud slowly coming towards the sky, so low that it seemed to float against the top of the mountain, and there was a muffled thunder in the sky from time to time.

Geng Zhizhou's face was as blue as the dark clouds in the sky, his son was lost in this Qinglong Cave, and he was angry in his heart, so he ignored this ethereal spirit and went up the mountain with his sleeves. Ethereal Spirits could only follow in fear.

Passing through the Lu Zu Palace, the Guanyin Palace, the Zhongyuan Zen Monastery to the Laojun Palace, from here up the mountain is a rockery group, there are nearly two storeys high, there are several paths to go up to the top of the rockery.

Under the leadership of the nurse and the manservant Liu Shuangxi, Yang Qiuchi went to the top of the rockery, which was bare, except for strange stones or strange stones, neither pavilions nor trees, and the dark clouds had not yet covered the sun, so now it was still like a blazing sun, roasting hotly on this rockery, and the ground was so hot that it was smoking.

Yang Qiuchi turned around and asked the nurse and the manservant Liu Shuangxi: "Where were you two at the time?" ”

The nurse secretly looked at Liu Shuangxi and pointed to a big bluestone in front of her: "There." ”

"Where was the little master at that time?" Yang Qiuchi then asked, paused, and added: "I warn you, you must tell the truth, this is related to the question of whether the young master can be found, if you delay the search for the young master, you two will not be able to escape the blame!" ”

The nurse shuddered, didn't dare to hide it, pointed to a big stone slab not far away and said, "The little master was there at that time." ”

Yang Qiuchi glanced at the big stone slab and snorted: "That's not right, you two are sitting on this big bluestone, the young master is on the big stone slab, just within your field of vision, a few steps away, if someone takes the little young master away, how can you not see it?" ”

The nurse bowed her head and said, "We...... We watched the fishing boats below and looked lost......"

"That's even more wrong!" Yang Qiuchi walked to the edge of the rockery and looked down, and said coldly: "You want to watch the fishing boats fishing, don't you see the Guanyin Hall below more realistically?" Why do you come up here, you can't even see people here, what are you fishing? ”

"I ...... I was wrong...... We came here to enjoy the coolness, and it was very windy and cool here...... So it came up......"

"Cool?" Yang Qiuchi looked up at the sky, it was hot, "There is not even a tree here, it is full of big stones, and my head is sweating after a while, how can I enjoy the coolness?" If you want to enjoy the coolness, why don't you take the little master to the hall or the shade of the tree below, and run to the bottom of this head to do what? ”

"We ...... We ...... "Nurse Roche didn't know how to answer.

"When we came up just now, we also saw that the people who came to this Qinglong Cave to enjoy the cool were almost all in the Zhongyuan Zen Temple, where there were big trees, and the place was spacious and open, and the cool breeze was very comfortable, and it was so high here, who would climb on it with a sweat on their heads to enjoy the coolness? You clearly have ghosts! ”

Geng Zhizhou had already heard that the nurse was lying, and said angrily: "It must be this slut and Liu Shuangxi's ghost who kidnapped my son, come and take down these two dog slaves, so that they will be tortured!" ”

Be! The catchers behind him stepped forward to take people.

The nurse Luo and Liu Shuangxi fell to their knees in fright, screaming that they were wronged.

Yang Qiuchi waved his hand, stopped the catchers, and asked the nurse: "If you don't tell the truth again, beware of the punishment!" ”

The nurse Luo shouted in a panic: "I said, I said," glanced at Liu Shuangxi, the male servant kneeling next to him, "The two of us came to ...... here, we thought there was no one here, so we put the little young master on the big stone slab...... and hid behind the rockery...... ...... in the cave Intimacy went to ......, who knows to come out...... The little master is gone......"

Geng Zhizhou kicked himself on the head and scolded: "You dog men and women, when I finish this matter, I'll clean you up properly!" The two begged for mercy again.

Yang Qiuchi ignored this idle matter, carefully avoided places that might leave traces, and slowly walked to the big stone slab where the little young master was placed and squatted down to take a closer look, and found that there was a dry phlegm on the ground, judging from the appearance, it was only recently vomited here.

This rockery group has to go up in the Laojun Palace, because there are no trees, only nurses, manservants and other people with other purposes will come here on this hot day, so this phlegm trace is likely to be left by a kidnapper.

Yang Qiuchi extracted this sputum trace and prepared to go back for examination.

(To be continued)