Chapter Twenty-Three: Peaks and Loops

"Wronged! I'm not a bandit, I'm wronged......"

Although the old man shouted to the heavens and the earth, his thin arms and legs were thin, his strength was not good, and his resistance was not strong, so the officials easily subdued him.

"Wronged? When you arrive at the Yamen, you will know that you are wronged or not, take it away! ”

Zhao Bantou snorted coldly and waved his hand.

Lin Dong looked at Liu Shun quietly, and this kid's face was irrepressibly beaming.

"Little Liu, when did he stay in the inn?"

"Yesterday evening." Wang Liumole said a little: "It's better to be a mountain bandit!" He only stayed in our inn for one night, and it cost a dozen taels of silver, and I was trying to ask how long he wanted to stay in the inn! I didn't expect to be arrested today. ”

"Find a way to knock him out." Lin Dong said in a low voice.

"Smashed?" The second monk was confused, and couldn't understand what Lin Dong meant for a while.

Lin Dong touched the teapot on the table and quietly stuffed it to Wang Liumole: "Do as I say, just say that you can't get used to seeing the mountain bandits, and you will knock him out in anger." ”

Wang Liumole felt that something was wrong, and he didn't dare to ask more, so he carried the teapot, touched the teacup with his hand, and squeezed towards the center of the officials.

"Zhao Bantou, it's been hard work, come and have a cup of tea."

Seeing that he was almost in the middle, after Wang Liumo poured a cup of tea, he leaned towards Zhao Bantou with a smile.

"Yes!"

Taking the teacup, Zhao Bantou drank it all, and was about to hand the empty teacup to Wang Liumo, when he suddenly picked up the teapot in his hand and smashed it towards the old man's head.

"What Lao Tzu hates the most in this life is the mountain bandits, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you."

Bang!

The tea overflowed, the teapot split and exploded in an instant, the old man's eyes rolled, his mouth opened, and he collapsed.

"What are you doing?"

Zhao Bantou shouted, and the officials' hearts suddenly tightened, staring at Wang Liu's mole burningly.

"Zhao Bantou, you don't know, when I went out the year before last, I almost didn't die in the hands of the mountain bandits. No, when you see the mountain bandits, you have to say anything to be evil. Wang Liumo stepped forward with a smile, and a piece of silver was quietly stuffed into Zhao Bantou's hand.

"Hmmm! Take people away. Zhao Bantou took a deep look at Wang Liu's mole, nodded immediately, waved his big hand, and took the lead towards the gate.

Liu Shun was dumbfounded, according to his script, after the old man was brought to the door, he should start calling Shopkeeper Lin for help, when the time comes, Zhao Bantou must be suspicious in his heart, and if he asks again, the old man will confess to Shopkeeper Lin.

But the person has passed out, how can the script continue?

Seeing that the unconscious old man was about to be taken out of the lobby, Fu Zizhou seemed to say to himself: "I don't know if I woke up and asked if there were any accomplices, the ability of these officials to do things is really poor." ”

Liu Shun was excited, reacted instantly, and shouted impatiently: "Wait, wake people up, and ask if there are any accomplices, otherwise, who would dare to live in this inn?" ”

The two officials holding the old man froze for a moment, and looked at Zhao Bantou in unison.

Zhao Bantou subconsciously touched the silver that Wang Liu's mole had just stuffed, groaned slightly, and nodded. The officials immediately put the old man down, patted his face, and pinched the people.

Wang Liumole couldn't help but look at Lin Dong, but the response he got was only a slight shake of his head.

It seems that the bet was wrong!

Lin Dong was helpless, originally he thought that Fu Zizhou would not interfere, and when the old man was taken away, he would ask Bai Jingtai to help spend some money to get this matter done. I didn't expect Fu Zizhou's measurement to be so bad, so he reminded Liu Shun despite arousing Yun Lan's suspicions.

This prison trip is estimated to be unavoidable!

When Wang Liumo came to his side, Lin Dong said in a low voice: "If I am taken away, immediately rush to the Guhuan Sect to find the sect leader Xiao Tianchi, and let him save me." ”

Wang Liumo couldn't see that Liu Shun was a fool if he wanted to frame Lin Dong, and he was still up and down in his heart, and he was calm when he heard the words. The sect master of the Gu Huan Sect is out of the horse, no matter whether you are Master Fu or the emperor, you have to weigh whether there is any need to cause this trouble.

"Wronged, I am wronged......"

The old man woke up quietly, and when he noticed the situation around him, he immediately cried out again.

"Say, are there any accomplices at the inn? If you don't say it......" Zhao Bantou opened his mouth, and the two officials put the bright big knife on the old man's neck.

"I said I said ......"

The blade was cold and piercing, and the old man was a little afraid of being injured by mistake, so he dared to shout and scream, so he nodded hurriedly.

Is there really an accomplice?

The officials were happy, but the big families in Sealand City offered a reward of 100 taels of silver for catching mountain bandits, although only 350 taels of silver could fall on their heads, which was also a large amount. Catch one more one, it's equivalent to another thirty or fifty taels!

The happier than the officials was Liu Shun, who looked at Lin Dong's eyes hot and hot. Next, it's time for the old man to call Shopkeeper Lin for help.

"Shopkeeper Lin, help, I'm wronged......"

"As soon as you are scared, you will be recruited, and I will say that the shopkeeper of this inn has colluded with the mountain bandits! No one believes it yet, and I don't want to see who Liu Shun is, let alone Sealand City, who in the entire Qiufeng Mansion looks at people more than me? From the first glance, I could see that this shopkeeper Lin was not a good person. ”

Liu Shun glanced at Lin Dong proudly, and saw that his face was still unfazed, and he became more and more proud. This fool still can't see that he is going to be unlucky, and it is estimated that he may not be able to figure it out when he is beheaded.

"Shut up! People just asked him for help because Shopkeeper Lin was kind and charitable. Fu Zizhou's face was pale, and he couldn't wait to kick Liu Shun behind him to death.

Liu Shun's face stiffened, as if he ...... It seems that this sentence really can't prove that Shopkeeper Lin and the old man are accomplices, and he has to wait for the next sentence of his confession to the old man.

Here, the old man shouted again: "I was really wronged, look, I am an old beggar on Sanliu Street!" How can it be a mountain bandit? ”

"Old beggar?"

For a while, everyone inside and outside the lobby was stunned, and even Lin Dong was confused, which one was Fu Zizhou singing? Could it be that you just want to scare yourself? Not so kind, right?

Liu Shun was completely dumbfounded, and finally twisted back the accident of the old man being knocked unconscious, why did it happen again? This dead old man, according to the explanation, should use a threatening tone to let Shopkeeper Lin save him and arouse the suspicion of others.

"Really, I'm really an old beggar on Sanliu Street." The old man disturbed his head, but he had an idea, shook off the servant who was holding him, groped his hands on the ground a few times, and then grabbed his hair desperately, and in the blink of an eye, the silver and black hair was unkempt.

"That's right, that's right!"

The old beggar Suo lay down again, tossed and turned his robe on the ground and tossed it all over and over again, and got up again, and got rid of an old beggar on the street.

"Hey, looking at it this way, it's really an old beggar on Sanliu Street."

"Yes, yes, I didn't think it was like this just now, it's really true."

In the crowd, quite a few people began to respond. Not to mention, the old man's dirty appearance, Lin Dong is also a little familiar, the predecessor has rescued countless beggars, especially for the elderly and young children, there is indeed the appearance of this old man in his memory.

"Zhao Bantou, isn't this the old beggar who blocked the road and said that he had beaten someone and pulled us to turn himself in on the day of the heavy snow a few months ago?"

One of the officials suddenly cried out.

"Yes, yes, that's me, I'm the old beggar." The old man nodded hurriedly: "I almost didn't freeze to death in those days, I ate and drank here in Shopkeeper Lin, I really didn't want to go, so I sneaked out and happened to meet you." I thought, in the winter, where is the place where the cell is comfortable? You don't have to sleep on the street. It's a pity that you have seen through it. ”

Zhao Bantou couldn't cry or laugh, so he really remembered this old beggar.