Therefore, early the next morning, he went directly to the county office, saw the messenger on duty at the door, and stepped forward with a smile and asked, "This brother, who is on duty today?" ”

The messenger glanced at Zhou Toad and said, "It's Ma Wu who is on duty." ”

When the toad entered the yamen next week, he saw Ma Wu, and immediately said: "Ma Tou, have you handled this case with the Yin family's open fire?" ”

Ma Wu shook his head and said, "I didn't do it." ”

Zhou Toad immediately said: "The landlord Li Si in our courtyard, he harbored the big thief, yesterday there was a thief Gao Guotai living in his house, the two of them discussed all night, I understood it, and I came to send a message." ”

As soon as Ma Tou'er heard about it, he was overjoyed, slapped the table happily, and said, "Okay, wow, I'll take you to meet our county master." ”

After speaking, he asked someone to go back and tell the county magistrate Fang Yanqing, and when Fang Yanqing heard it, he didn't dare to slack off at the moment, so he immediately went to the hall and brought Zhou Toad to reply.

Zhou Toad knelt down and said, "Master, the little one lives in Li Si's house, and it is common for people with suspicious signs to enter and leave his house. Last night, Gao Guotai, the head of the thief, was at his house, telling Yin Jiadu's open fire and knife wounding the victim. The villain and the landlord have no grudges, and they are afraid that the old man will find out that the little one has the crime of not reporting it and escaping as a thief, so he came to report to the official. ”

As soon as Fang Yanqing heard this, he ordered to take Zhou Toad down first, send Ma Wu and Du Zhong to lock Gao Guotai and Li Siyi to the case, and as soon as the two arrived, they said that they would bring witnesses, so they brought Zhou Toad up.

It is said that Zhou Toad came to the court. Fang Yanqing asked: "On Tuesday, you said that Gao Guotai was in charge of the open fire, and now he has brought Gao Guotai here, do you recognize it?" ”

Zhou Toad looked at Gao Guotai and said with an oath: "I know, I will return to my lord, what he said with Li Si in the house, the little one can understand it." ”

As soon as Gao Guotai heard that this person named Zhou Toad had nothing to do, he immediately said on the side: "Lord Hui, my student doesn't recognize him." ”

At this time, Li Si knelt forward half a step forward and said, "The master is above, he used to be in the same house with me this Tuesday and lived in my house, all because he owed a small amount of rent. Borrow money from me from time to time. After borrowing a few times and not paying it back, he still had to borrow, but I didn't lend it to him, so he failed to borrow, he held a grudge, blamed good people, and begged the lord to be extra gracious. ”

Fang Yanqing thought that the two were quibbling, and immediately slapped the shocked wood, and said: "Okay, I'll torture you, see if you recruit or not, come on, pick up Gao Guotai and Li Siming together and ask again." The officials on both sides agreed. was about to be tortured, but it was a coincidence that the book was not written, when suddenly a gust of wind rose above the court, blowing so badly that there was no one to be seen on the other side. After a while, the wind stopped, Fang Yanqing rubbed his eyes and looked again, and saw that there was a piece of paper on the desk with the word "wronged" written on it.

At that moment, Fang Yanqing was shocked in his heart, looked around, and didn't know who wrote it, and secretly speculated: Could it be that there is a reason for this case, and I can't wronged a good person. made up his mind, and Fang Yanqing immediately ordered: "Come on, temporarily take Gao Guotai and Li Si down, and Zhou Toad will also be taken down, and the trial will be retried tomorrow." After finishing speaking, Fang Yanqing retreated.

Where did this gust of wind come from? It's really a coincidence, I don't know where such a strong wind came from, maybe God opened his eyes, and he also felt that Gao Guotai and the two were wronged, and secretly rescued each other. And where did the piece of paper with the word "wrong" written on it come from?

Li Kui and the three of them heard the things in the yamen hall clearly, and they all knew that Gao Guotai and Li Si must have been wronged, but the three of them came down from Liangshan, and before leaving, Chao Gai specially instructed not to cause trouble, and Yang Lin next to him also looked at the two of them vigorously.

Just when Fang Yanqing said that he was going to be punished, suddenly a strong wind came, and the fleas on the drum next to him saw that a strong wind was blowing, and suddenly his eyes rolled, and he had an idea, found a piece of paper, wrote the word wronged, and took advantage of the strong wind to rise, and unknowingly put it on Fang Yanqing's public case.

When the wind stopped, that is, the note that Fang Yanqing saw, with the word King Wu'an on it, Fang Yanqing is a clean official, naturally he can't let unjust, false and wrongful cases appear under his rule, and he was shocked at the moment, so he ordered someone to take Gao Guotai and the two down and retry them another day, so this note was written from time to time and put on the public case, and that strong wind was really a coincidence.

"I'm really angry, Brother Yang Lin, why did you stop me Tie Niu just now, that scholar was obviously wronged, if I was an iron cow, he rushed in and chopped the toad child that week." The three of them left the yamen and walked directly outside the city, and Li Kui said angrily on the way.

Yang Lin saw Li Kui like this, and also said: "When I came, Brother Chao Gai told me not to act recklessly, I have also heard of Fang Yanqing, he is a clean official, I believe that he can judge the case impartially, and besides, isn't there still Brother Shi Qian to help, let's still hurry." ”

The three of them said, they walked to the east, to a town called Yinjiadu, the three of them walked for a quarter of an hour, only to see a section of white wall in the east of the road, on which the black characters were written "Meng's old shop, all the forage, Anyu merchants". Three men stood outside the door and called for the door.

After a while, a guy came out of it, looked at Yang Lin and the three of them and asked, "What for?" ”

Li Kui shouted and said, "Stay in the store, open the door quickly." ”

The guy ignored Li Kui and said, "There is no house, they are all full." Yang Lincong said with a smile: "Just find a single house." ”

The guy didn't even look at it, and said directly: "No." ”

Li Kui was about to beat him when he was angry, Yang Lin also frowned, as if he remembered something, and said at the moment: "I have a lot of money here, I can't leave, how can I be good?" ”

As soon as the guy heard that there was silver, he immediately changed his expression, greeted him with a smile, and welcomed Li Kui and the three of them in, very enthusiastic, Yang Lin saw this, and he also sneered, and he was a little clear in his heart.

This shop is the old store of the Meng family, and the owners are Meng Xiong and Li Hu. Two guys, one surnamed Liu and the other surnamed Li, are doing some murderous business here, that is, black shops. As long as there are lonely travelers, and they bring a lot of silver, they immediately use sweat medicine and wine, and then kill people and sell more goods.

As soon as the guy heard Yang Lin say that there was silver, he hurriedly greeted him and asked for warmth. At that moment, the man hurriedly came to the cabinet room and said, "Shopkeeper, three people have come outside, and they want to stay in the hotel with a lot of silver." ”

Meng Xiong's eyes lit up when he heard a lot of silver, and he immediately said, "Then don't you come in quickly." ”

At the moment, the guys walked ahead, Li Kui and the three of them strode into the door of the store, and saw that there was a wall in front of them, the cabinet room in the east, the kitchen in the west, a slip room in the east, a slip room in the west, and the upper room in the north. Yang Lin stood in the courtyard and didn't leave, looked at the environment, and then asked, "What is the smell of your courtyard?" ”

When the man heard this, he sniffed it again, but he didn't smell anything, and when he was puzzled, he said, "What smell?" ”

Yang Lin sneered and said, "It's a bit of a thief." ”

The guy was stunned when he heard Yang Lin's words, then smiled unnaturally and said, "Don't fight this master, you can live in the room." ”

Yang Lin also laughed, didn't continue, and said: "Okay, the upper room is cool, and all sides are connected, so you can live in the upper room." ”

The guy pointed to the room and said to Yang Lin and the three of them: "It's just that the window is not pasted, the three masters go in." ”

Yang Lin nodded, and then he and Li Kui Shiqian came to the upper room to take a look, there was a kang against the north wall, and a table of eight immortals and two chairs on the ground by the window. Li Kui was also sleepy, so he sat down to rest and rest. The guy first fetched the washing water, then poured tea and brought it, and said with a smile: "What do you three want to eat?" ”

As soon as Shi Qian heard about the food, he became interested immediately, and said: "You can fry and steam it casually, and make it into four dishes, with two pots of wine outside." ”

The guy nodded, then went down and shouted four dishes, and shouted at the back kitchen: "Two pots of good wine, a fan of Haihai." ”

When Yang Lin heard what the guy shouted, he smiled slightly and said, "Come back, guy." ”

The guy turned around and asked, "What else does this master want?" ”

Yang Lin took a sip of tea, and then said with a smile: "I don't want anything else, what do you mean by the fans of Haihai just now?" ”