Gao Guotai heard Li Si say this, and he also agreed, nodded immediately, and said, "It's okay, tomorrow Brother Xian, you will take me to thank Brother Wang Cheng." If he hadn't saved me, I would have been under the Nine Springs. That friend was a loyal and honest man, honest and benevolent, and had the style of a gentleman, and he was like a friend at first sight, and I was very grateful in my heart, and good friends were not easy to find. ”

Li Si heard that Gao Guotai admired Wang Cheng so much, and he was also curious, and said at the moment: "Okay, tomorrow I will go with my brother to meet that friend." After they had finished eating, they lay down and rested, and did not speak all night.

When they got up at dawn the next day, the two of them finished washing, had breakfast, and sat in the house drinking tea and chatting. Then there was a knock on the door, and it seemed that he was in a hurry. The two men stood up when they heard the voice, and when they got outside, the door opened and they saw that there were two officials at the door, with four men, wearing green cloth shirts, leather belts buttoned around their waists, and narrow waist boots under their feet, each holding a ruthless stick in their hands.

These two leaders, one is named Ma Wu; A Du Zhong is called an official at the entrance of the yamen. When I saw Gao Guotai, he said: "Friend, your surname is Guotai?" ”

When Gao Guotai heard this, he hurriedly said: "Back to the two officials, there is Gao Guotai below, what are you doing with me?" ”

The head didn't answer, and immediately shook the iron lock, and directly locked Gao Guotai. As soon as Li Si saw that it was not good, he hurriedly walked over to stop him, who knew that the messenger had locked Li Si up, Ma Wu waved his hand and shouted: "Enter the hospital to search for stolen goods." ”

Go to the houses in the courtyard to find the two satins from the east house, which is the room where Li Sigao Guotai slept. Li Si and the two were confused, and immediately asked, "Boss, why did you two lock me up?" ”

Ma Wu glanced at them and said, "There is a ticket here, it is our county lord who sent us to lock it up quickly, and the two of us dare not lock up the good people by mistake for no reason." You two have done it, you know it yourself, and you pretend to be confused, and you still come to ask us what we are doing? ”

The officials also said, "Pull away, Hugh has to say more." When you get to the Yamen, you will know. ”

At that moment, the messenger next to him immediately pulled the two of them, hugged two satins, and escorted them to the county office. When the sun was setting, the county magistrate had time to interrogate Li Sigao and Guotai, and in the government office, they were immediately summoned to wait for their ascension. The three shifts shouted and stood on duty. Zhuang class, in charge of the protection of the hall; The soap class is in charge of the simple arrangement; Fast shift, the management is to sign and call tickets, catch thieves and thieves. Each of the three classes has its own business.

The old man's surname in Surabaya County is Yanqing, who is born in Kejia, and since his arrival, he has been like a god, his sleeves are clean, he loves the people like a son, and he does not leave no stone unturned, and he does not close his door at night. Today, I ascended to the church and commanded: Come on, bring people to commit crimes! ”

I only heard someone below say: "Yin Jiadu robbed the satin shop, fought with open fire, injured the victim with a knife, robbed fifty pieces of satin, one thousand taels of silver, the thief head Gao Guotai, and the nest owner Li Siming got it." ”

"Mighty ......" shouted on both sides, and immediately brought Gao Guotai and Li Si.

The two knelt down and bowed at the moment: "The master is above, and the student Gao Guotai kowtows." "Little Li Siming kowtowed."

The old man looked at it above, and saw that Gao Guotai was polite, upright, with delicate facial features, and did not have any fierce anger on his face, not like a person who did a lot of evil and killed people and oversold goods, so he immediately asked: "Gao Guotai, you and others robbed the satin shop in Yinjiadu, and fought with open fire, how many accomplices are there?" Where do you get the stolen satin? It's not really recruited! ”

When Gao Guotai heard this, he was even more confused at the moment, and said: "The master of the Qing official is above, and the student is a person who reads, and he doesn't know why Yin Jiadu robbed the satin shop." As for the open fire battle, the students don't know anything. ”

At that moment, Fang Yanqing slapped the shocked wood, shouted, and said, "What a thief, his mouth is quite hard." Come on, pull it down, hit me! ”

Gao Guotai was about to fight when he saw that he didn't say anything, and hurriedly said: "Adults are angry, and the students have a feeling." The Yin family crossed the open fire and fought with a knife, and the student really didn't know about it, so he wanted to torture me, even if I confessed to the rebellion, the student didn't admit it. ”

Fang Yanqing sneered and said, "In my opinion, you must be a thief for a long time. Since you rob the satin shop, you don't know, why are these two satins in your hands? ”

When Gao Guotai heard that it was the two silk pieces he picked up yesterday night, he immediately said truthfully: "The student picked it up outside the city yesterday night." I had planned to post four doors today, and if anyone came looking for him, the student would return him. Unexpectedly, the old father sent the students over, and he told the truth below, and asked the adults to check it out. ”

Fang Yanqing ordered someone to take the two satin horses in his hand and take a look, and ordered, "Left and right, bring the Xinglong satin shop to guard the king of the sea." ”

After a while, I saw a person coming up from outside, about fifty years old, with plump facial features and a loyal face, kneeling down to kowtow to Fang Yanqing, Fang Yanqing handed the silk in his hand to the messenger on the side, and ordered: "Take down the two satins, see if they were sold in your shop, and they were robbed by thieves?" The stakes are high, and tell the truth. ”

Wang Hai of the shop took a look at it, recognized it as his own silk at a glance, and immediately said: "Master, these two satins were robbed by the thief." ”

When Fang Yanqing heard this, he asked again: "How do you know that you were robbed by thieves?" What are the credentials?. ”

Wang Hai replied: "Go back to the master, there is a certificate." In the small shop, there is a Xinglong satin shop on the shelves. There is no seal in our shop, if someone buys the satin from us, when it is good, there is only a seal, and the mark is a seal: there is a way to make money. There was no seal on the satin, so it was known that the thief had robbed it. ”

Fang Yanqing nodded, and then ordered Wang Hai to go down, at this time, Gao Guotai knelt on the side and listened clearly, and then Fang Yanqing looked at Gao Guotai and said, "Gao Guotai, have you heard?" The certified physical evidence is there, but I still don't admit it, give me a stick, and ask again. ”

Gao Guotai hurriedly defended: "The two of them clearly saw that the two satins were really picked up. It was the thief who snatched it, maybe it was lost, and it was picked up by the living. My lord just said that the students are fighting with open fire, what is the evidence? . Fang Yanqing was furious when he heard this, slapped the shocked wood, and said: "You are clearly a thief, you dare to be so cunning in front of this county, and you also said that this county has wronged you." He immediately commanded the right and left to "bring the witnesses up."

When Gao Guotai heard that there were witnesses, his face was frightened at that time, but after thinking about it, he didn't steal it himself, he didn't do anything wrong, he wasn't afraid of ghosts calling the door, and he regained his calm at the moment.

I saw one brought from the side, Gao Guotai looked up, and didn't recognize it, I saw that this person was more than 20 years old, wearing a green cloth head, wearing a small jacket of green cloth, a green middle peasant, white socks and green shoes, white skin emblem white, white with green, two cockfighting eyebrows, a pair of turn eyes, garlic nose, thin mouth, narrow head, long neck.

Gao Guotai didn't know him, but Li Si next to him recognized it, it turned out to be the street house in the same courtyard surnamed Zhou Xinger, nicknamed Zhou Toad, who lived in three rooms in Li Si's outer courtyard, and usually failed to borrow money from Li Si, and he held a grudge. Tuesday is the population of two to live, he can't support his daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law goes to work for other people, he is alone at home all day long, secretly hating that Li Si has money and does not lend him.

That night, he was upset in the house, listening to Li Si's home inviting someone, Zhou Toad thought to himself: "Li Si has never invited friends at home, could it be something?" ”

When the toad next week lay under the window and eavesdropped secretly, to see who this Li Si invited, needless to say, this Li Si invited Gao Guotai.

Zhou Toad squatted under the window to listen, and heard Li Si say that the two satins were picked up by Xinglong Store, and no one was looking for them, so the two of us made two robes. Zhou Toad understood what he heard, and thought in his heart: "I heard that Xinglong Satin Shop is in Yinjiadu, and the previous time there was an open fire, and this case has not yet been held." I will go to the yamen tomorrow and put a plaster on him, and I will say that he is the owner of the nest. Li Si is really hateful, he made such a fortune, I went to borrow a few hangs of money and didn't borrow it, so that he would know how powerful I was! If I borrow money again, he will not dare not lend it to me. ”