Chapter 152: Chicken Crow and Dog Thief

"Are you alright?" Looking at the young man grinning and covering his buttocks, Li Yuntian pretended to be surprised and reached out to help him. The update is the fastest and the fastest to the eye

"How can it be okay!" The young man opened Li Yuntian's hand, raised his head and looked at him angrily, "How do you walk, the master's waist is about to be broken by you, you say, are you going to ...... it public or private?"

"Huh? How are you. Halfway through the words, the young man recognized Li Yuntian and looked at him with a surprised expression, "Didn't you leave by boat yesterday?" ”

"Alas, it's hard to put into words." Li Yuntian smiled helplessly and asked with concern, "Did I hurt you?" ”

"No, it's just a small matter." The young man smiled when he heard this, got up from the ground with a sting, and moved his hands and feet at Li Yuntian lively, signaling that he was fine.

"I'll take you home." Seeing this, Li Yuntian picked up the bag of grain on the ground, and quietly approached the young man.

The young man did not refuse, and walked away with the old hen and Li Yuntian, after experiencing yesterday's incident, he also had a lot of good feelings for Li Yuntian in his heart, and he was also very curious about why Li Yuntian still stayed in Cangzhou.

After talking on the road, Li Yuntian knew that the boy's surname was Zhang, he had no big name, his nickname was Fugui, and his father used to be a coolie carrying sacks on the dock, but five years ago he died in an accident while carrying grain from the Cao Gang, leaving his mother, a younger brother and a younger sister behind.

Since Zhang Fugui's father died in the line of duty, Zhang Fugui can receive a pension from Cangzhou Xiangtang every month until his younger siblings reach adulthood.

Today, Zhang Fugui came to Xiangtang to receive a pension, and since tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiangtang also gave him an old hen.

It was only at this time that Li Yuntian realized that the Mid-Autumn Festival had quietly come, and this was a day of family reunion, but he could only be depressed and anxious about the matter of the edict in Cangzhou.

After learning what happened to Li Yuntian, Zhang Fugui felt that he was too unlucky, usually thieves would not steal from passenger ships, because the owner of the passenger ship had already settled the relationship between the top and bottom.

In Zhang Fugui's opinion, Li Yuntian was targeted by thieves, so he quietly sneaked on the boat at night and blew smoke for him, so Li Yuntian was stolen on the whole boat, and he slept until three poles in the morning.

Li Yuntian felt that what Zhang Fugui said made sense, no wonder he was groggy when he woke up today, and he didn't know anything about the theft last night, and it seemed that he was smoking.

As for the effect of smoke, Li Yuntian saw it when he caught Wang San in Hukou County, and he would fall into a coma after being hit, even if he was taken away, he didn't know. The update is the fastest and most stable

"Money is something outside the body, and if it's gone, it's gone, but those few clothes were sewn by my mother herself, and I went to distant relatives in the capital, and I saw the clothes like a loving mother, and I had to find them back no matter what." After listening to Zhang Fugui's analysis, Li Yuntian pretended to be depressed and said.

"It's just a few clothes, and this little favor is wrapped around me." Zhang Fugui saw that Li Yuntian only needed clothes, and patted his chest with a smile, which can be regarded as repaying Li Yuntian's personal debt yesterday.

Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what Zhang Fugui said, he was also a child of the Cao Gang, and he was much faster than him to find out the news.

Zhang Fugui's home is in a shantytown near the wharf, and as far as the eye can see, there are low, dilapidated adobe courtyards and thatched houses.

When he came to a small courtyard with mud walls, Zhang Fugui stopped, pushed the door and walked in, where a boy aged Yankuai and a girl of five or six were feeding pigs in the yard.

Zhang Fugui put down the old hen in his hand and began to cook in the kitchen, and when he heard that a distinguished guest was coming, a middle-aged woman with a pale face and a haggard expression walked out coughing with the support of the boy, and asked the boy to pour water for Li Yuntian.

The middle-aged woman is Zhang Fugui's old lady Zhao, the boy's name is Fulu, and the girl's name is Jixiang.

Zhang Fugui quickly made lunch, Li Yuntian picked up a piece of black multigrain dough and took a bite, the taste was very rough, making it a little difficult for him to swallow, but the Zhang family ate it with relish.

In the evening, Zhang Fugui took Li Yuntian to a ** family at the dock, and he had already found out in the afternoon that the two guys who stole Li Yuntian's baggage and money bag were likely to be two local habitual thieves, one nicknamed Erhei, and the other was a skinny monkey.

They were seen sneaking back from the docks at midnight last night, carrying a bag in their hands. Both of them are gamblers, and they will definitely come to ** to gamble at night, as long as they guard in **, they can be found.

However, until it was close to midnight, neither Erhei nor the skinny monkey appeared.

Just when Li Yuntian was secretly anxious, Zhang Fugui came over and bumped his arm, and pouted in the direction of the entrance, only to see a strong man with dark skin and a thin man walking in.

Li Yuntian knew that these two guys were Erhei and the skinny monkey, and after the two entered the **, they gambled separately, and Li Yuntian quietly followed the skinny man, that is, the skinny monkey.

The skinny monkey didn't notice that he was being targeted by Li Yuntian at all, and he squeezed in front of the gambling table with great interest to gamble money.

Finally, in the morning, the skinny monkey got up and went to the toilet, because he won a dozen taels of silver, so he was in a good mood, and hummed a little tune.

Li Yuntian quietly followed behind, and when the skinny monkey came out of the latrine, he strangled the skinny monkey's neck from behind, making the skinny monkey unable to make a sound, and dragged it to a secluded place in the ** courtyard.

Zhang Fugui was carrying a wooden stick in his hand, and he wanted to knock the skinny monkey unconscious, but he didn't expect Li Yuntian's skills to be so sharp, so he took the wind on the side.

"Say, where are the clothes in the baggage you stole last night? You can take the money, but my mother sewed the clothes for me, and you must give them back!" Li Yuntian pressed the skinny monkey against the wall, took out a pair of scissors from his body, and asked in a deep voice against his neck.

"This big brother, you must be mistaken, I don't know what you're talking about." The skinny monkey was almost strangled to death by Li Yuntian just now, but now he was held to the neck with a sharp pair of scissors, and when he heard this, he suddenly panicked and denied it.

"I don't have time to listen to your nonsense!" As soon as Li Yuntian exerted his hand, the tip of the scissors cut a bloody mark on the neck of the skinny monkey.

"We've got rid of the clothes." The skinny monkey felt that Li Yuntian was not the kind of person who was easy to deceive, so he was so frightened that he didn't dare to deny it anymore, and hurriedly said.

"If you dare to lie to me, I will kill you." Li Yuntian frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice.

"It's useless for us to keep the things in our baggage, so we take them as two taels of silver." In order to confirm that he was not lying, the skinny monkey took out a pawn ticket from his waist and handed it to Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian took a look at the bright moonlight in the sky and saw that the ticket was opened today, and it was used as some clothes and other items, and it was a total of two taels of silver.

What made him feel depressed was that this pawn ticket turned out to be a dead pawn, that is to say, it could not be redeemed after being pawned, and if he wanted to come back, the pawnshop would definitely ask for a high price, where would he have the money to pay the pawnshop now.

"Get out!" Li Yuntian was not in the mood to deal with the skinny monkey, so he searched out a bunch of keys from him, put away the scissors and whispered.

The skinny monkey ran away in a hurry as if he were amnesty.

Li Yuntian left with Zhang Fugui with an expressionless face, for the sake of today, the only way to do this is to sneak into the pawnshop at night and steal the clothes, otherwise the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be.

The pawnshop is a street corner away from **, and the signboard on the door reads "Ruyi Dang" three big characters, at this time it is already morning, and the courtyard of the pawnshop is silent.

Like people who usually do business, there are also dogs in the pawnshop to guard the home, but this is not difficult for Li Yuntian, when he was in Hukou County, he witnessed Zhao Hua's brother-in-law who was the inspector of the Baishui Town Inspection Department using pork mixed with poison to put down the dog of Zhang Sanxiang, the head of the water coward, so he can be regarded as experienced.

Although pork is not easy to find, meat buns are still sold in the night market, and rat medicine Zhang Fugui's family has it.

Li Yuntian leaned on the wall of the pawnshop's backyard and observed the movement in the courtyard for a while, and then threw the meat buns mixed with rat medicine into the open space in the courtyard.

After a while, a yellow dog smelled the aroma of the meat buns, emerged from the shadows, and gulped down the meat buns on the ground.

"Dog, dog, don't blame this imperial history for being ruthless, this imperial history is also a last resort, you can be regarded as indirectly meritorious, and you may be able to support yourself in the next life."

Li Yuntian rode on the wall, looked at the yellow dog feasting there, and said with his hands folded.

Afterwards, he smiled bitterly helplessly, thinking that his famous superintendent of the imperial history and the Shuji of the Hanlin Academy had become a generation of roosters and dog thieves, and if it was spread out, he was afraid that it would become everyone's laughing stock.

After waiting for about half an hour, Li Yuntian felt that the mouse medicine had almost worked, so he climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, and Zhang Fugui hid outside the wall to control the wind.

After tiptoeing around the yard, Li Yuntian finally found the warehouse where the items were stored, with a thick iron door and iron bars installed on the windows.

He took out the bunch of keys he had found from the skinny monkey, and gently rotated in his keyhole, trying to unlock the lock.

This set of keys is what people usually call "master keys", experienced thieves know which key to use to open the lock at a glance, Li Yuntian is a layman, only to use a stupid way, a key to try, the action is very clumsy.

There was a crisp click, and I don't know how many keys I tried, but with a slightly crisp sound, the lock opened.

Li Yuntian breathed a sigh of relief, carefully pushed open the door and walked in, closed the door and took out a fire fold, blew it and took a look into the room, there were rows of shelves inside, on which were placed all kinds of items with logos, including porcelain and bronze, and some small boxes and wooden boxes.

"Catch the thief!" Without waiting for Li Yuntian to step forward to check the shelves, a man's shout suddenly sounded in the courtyard.

This sudden scene made Li Yuntian feel shocked, and hurriedly extinguished the fire, hid behind the window, and listened to the movement outside with bated breath, he felt that he was cautious, he should not have exposed his whereabouts, could it be that someone else had sneaked into the courtyard? One