Ouyang Shu woke up, and the sky was already bright. Perhaps because he had walked too many places yesterday, he slept very deeply this night, and fell asleep as soon as he lay down. He rubbed his eyes and got up, but he felt a faint soreness on his body.

He got out of bed, called Xiao Er to bring noodles and soup to wash, and then dressed neatly and came downstairs.

The first floor of an inn is also a restaurant, and breakfast also serves steamed buns, soy milk, porridge and other breakfasts.

Ouyang Shu ordered a few things casually and ate them. Not to mention, I also ate breakfast here a few days ago, and I don't think that after eating the buns from the Lujia bun shop last night, I came to eat the buns here again, and I felt really bad.

A lot of times, good things are the bane of bad habits. Just as a good face can turn a bright man into a complete faint man, food can also make a person with a good appetite tricky. And Ouyang Shu is the one who has just been corrupted by food. Eating the steamed buns from an inn, he began to secretly regret the cage of steamed buns that he hadn't swallowed yesterday. So he hurriedly ate a few bites, then stopped, called Xiao Er, and said: Accounts!

The shopkeeper of an inn is a man in his forties, and unlike ordinary businessmen, he is quite tall and thin, and he always has a hint of a smile on his face, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.

Li Jieyuan, Chenghui, a total of seventeen dollars.

Ouyang Shu nodded and put his hand into his pocket, but he quickly changed color, an embarrassed look appeared on his face, and his hand froze there, neither continuing to dig inside, nor pulling it out.

What's the matter? Li Jieyuan, could it be that the money was lost? The smile on the face of the shopkeeper Yi also froze.

Ouyang Shu's heart trembled, and he hurriedly said: I'll go upstairs and have a look! Pushing the door in, he immediately opened his bag and took out the book on it, and a burden appeared under the bag, and there was a burden inside.

Without opening this baggage, Ouyang Shu knew that it was over, and all the silver and the box of rouge were gone!

Ouyang Shu's heart was resentful and strange.

If the thief was stealing, why didn't he leave a single book on it, but he didn't even let go of a box of rouge? And what is even stranger is that since the thief stole all the contents of the baggage, why didn't he simply take the baggage with him? Wouldn't that be much simpler and more convenient?

At this time, the shopkeeper of Na Yi had already walked in, and when he saw Ouyang Shu's face, he knew what was wrong. He had no choice but to stand there silently, waiting for Ouyang Shu to speak first.

Where is the Kaifeng County Office? Ouyang Shu turned around and asked.

Shopkeeper Yi thought for a while and said: Since the theft was born in our inn, then it is better for the villain to lead Xie Yuan to the county office!

Ouyang Shu saw that the shopkeeper neither asked for food money as soon as he opened his mouth, nor shirked his responsibility, he had a good impression in his heart, nodded and said: "It's hard work!"

At that moment, Shopkeeper Yi took Ouyang Shu to Kaifeng County.

The Kaifeng County Ya is about two hundred steps south of Kaifeng Mansion, and a big drum is naturally set up at the entrance of the county Ya. The two of them hurriedly beat the drum, and one of the officials came out and asked, "Why are you two beating the drum?"

Ouyang Shu gave a general idea of what he had stolen. The servant said, "Wait!" and stepped inside the door.

Soon, an official stepped out of the door.

This official was about forty years old, tall and majestic, and when he walked, he held his head high and his chest high. He had a long beard and looked very imposing when he moved with the wind.

He wears a two-beam crown on his head, a rhino horn hairpin, a magpie brocade ribbon, a copper ring around his waist, his hakama pleats are green, and he wears a white silk middle single, white silk trousers, and a white Luo square heart curved collar. From the costume, it can only be seen at a glance that this is an official below the sixth grade, but it is impossible to tell his true identity, because the officials below the sixth rank of the Great Song Dynasty wear such court clothes except for the imperial history. And the county order of the largest official in the yamen of Kaifeng County is only the seventh grade.

However, generally speaking, officials will only dress so formally when they are in court, and they will not wear such fully armed court clothes when they are on duty in the yamen. This also shows that the official himself is a very serious person.

When the official walked out, he was followed by several officials.

You are the one who reported the crime? This official spoke in a rough voice, but he was also like his own person.

The student is exactly. Ouyang Shu hurriedly bowed in response.

When the official heard that Ouyang Shu claimed to be a student and knew about the move to enter Beijing to catch the exam, his serious face softened a little, and said: The county lord of this county has recently taken leave and gone home, and this official is Fan Zhengping, the county lieutenant of Kaifeng. Without further ado, let's go to the scene and have a look!

As soon as Ouyang Shu heard that this person was Fan Zhengping, the well-known and strong county lieutenant, he couldn't help but be in awe, and hurriedly led him and the shopkeeper Yi to turn around and go to an inn.

It turned out that this Fan Zhengping was a word. When he first arrived in Kaifeng County, he encountered a tricky matter.

At that time, the family of Empress Xiang (now Empress Dowager Xiang) wanted to build a Ciyun Temple, and Cai Jing, the head of the household, opened up the neighboring farmhouses in order to please the queen. But the surrounding farmhouses are ownery, the owner of the field sued Kaifeng County, the county order saw that the queen and the household were involved, how dare to meddle in affairs, had to take a delaying strategy, Fan Zhengping couldn't see it, after a secret investigation, after determining the truth of the facts, he went to a sparse and impeached Cai Jing. After Emperor Shenzong learned the truth, he fined Cai Jing twenty gold.

In terms of stage, Fan Zhengping was victorious, but he also offended two people he couldn't afford to offend, which is why he is still in the position of Kaifeng County Lieutenant more than ten years later, and has never moved a step.

You must know that according to the official system of the Song Dynasty, officials will be promoted according to a certain number of years as long as their performance is not too poor in the evaluation of officials. And with Fan Zhengping's official reputation, he will not be reduced to a situation of being rated as poor. Ironically, the county magistrate who didn't dare to do anything back then had already been promoted to the court class.

Coming to an inn, several officials immediately blocked Ouyang Shu's bedroom, Fan Zhengping walked in with two officials and carefully investigated inside, while Ouyang Shu could only wait for the results outside.

After about half an hour, Fan Zhengping walked out of it, and with a very solemn look on his face, he called Ouyang Shu into the house.

The thief came in through the window, hooked the window with a hook, and climbed up with a rope. Then, he made a small hole in the window paper and blew some fog into it

Ouyang Shu nodded and said: No wonder I slept very hard last night, I woke up late this morning, and when I first woke up, my body was still a little sore.

Fan Zhengping nodded and said: You're right. This is the basic modus operandi of the White Mist Thieves, who have not appeared in Beijing for several years. It's just that, according to what you reflected, it was different from the White Mist Thieves a few years ago.

White Mist Thief?

Fan Zhengping nodded, with a hint of shame on his face, and said: This white mist thief appeared in the year when the Empress Dowager ascended, that is, in the eighth year of Yuan You (1o93), and in the next few years, he frequently committed crimes, and his methods were the same as the thief last night, first using the fog to charm the owner, and then entering the house and stealing wantonly. Because the government has not ascertained the identity and appearance of this thief, it only knows that he used the fog to commit crimes, so they called him the White Mist thief.

Speaking of this, Fan Zhengping couldn't help but pause. If the officials hadn't found an excuse in this case, how could he still be a small county lieutenant now? However, this case has not been solved for a long time, and the only scapegoat is him, the county lieutenant, and the county magistrate and the head catcher at that time have now been promoted.