The old woman was already panicked, and when she saw the servant pointing at her, she trembled more and more like a sieve.

Her hair was half white, and on a cold day, she only wore a thin cotton coat on the outside, which was full of large and small patches, cuffs and elbows and other places that were easy to wear, and even patches were stacked on top of each other.

Jiang Muyuan looked her up and down and said, "Stand up and speak." ”

The old woman was trembling, her feet trembled, and she couldn't get up several times, but the official pulled her to barely stand up straight.

As soon as the person stood up, Jiang Muyuan saw it more and more clearly.

Poor people, who work all year round, have thick joints in their hands, but these hands are hands that do things, not hands that practice martial arts.

Especially the old woman's legs, she can't have the strength to climb over the wall.

"Where did the silver come from?" Jiang Muyuan asked her.

The old woman was panicked and scared, and she couldn't get rid of herself immediately, but she was too nervous, and she said it upside down, and several people carefully discerned it before they understood what she meant.

The silver bills were found on the window edge when I got up in the morning, and there were three of them, one tael each.

The silver money fell from the sky, so that the old woman was puzzled and happy, hid two on the bed board, only took this one to the shop to ask, and wanted to exchange it for cash that could be circulated.

The old woman repeatedly said that she did not know that there was a theft in the city, and that she had picked up the silver bill, and that she had never stolen it.

Otherwise, how could she have the courage to put things on the surface?

Jiang Muyuan asked the official to follow the old woman to her house to find the other two silver bills, and then carefully ask the people in that area if there were any other people who had picked up something.

On the same East Street, the old woman on the front foot and the servant came out of the gold and silver shop, and the news of the back foot came from the nearby restaurant and teahouse.

It is guessed that the people who rob the rich and help the poor have straighter waists: "Look, that's what it is!" ”

By the time Jiang Muyuan and Gu Yunqi returned to the private room of Suxiang Building, the majority of people agreed with this.

Listening to the wind, he hurriedly added tea to the two.

Gu Yunqi thought for a while and asked Jiang Muyuan, "What does the little grandfather think?" ”

Jiang Muyuan took a sip of tea, and his expression was not relaxed: "I have some vague thoughts, I have to wait for the officials to ask questions." ”

Although he didn't say it thoroughly, Gu Yunqi felt that Jiang Muyuan's thinking was somewhat similar to his own.

There was nothing else important to do during the waiting time, Jiang Muyuan asked Xiao Er to take the chess and play casually with Gu Yunqi.

Black and white are staggered, the two of them are multi-purpose, no one pays attention to the victory or defeat on the chessboard, and the fall is sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

More than an hour later, a servant hurried to the scene and said, "Indeed, as the old woman said, I found the two silver coins in her house. ”

Gold and silver bills, small items, and even large stolen items appeared in the yards of one or two houses, so panicked that people didn't know what to do, and they were afraid that they couldn't tell the official if they wanted to report to the official.

Now that the official mission has come, and there are so many people in the same situation as their own family, they have the courage to understand.

Those things are being counted, and they are escorted back to the government office.

The official also brought another piece of news.

Lord Li had already seen the silver coin in his house, and he was sure that it was stolen from his family.

According to the Li family, the New Year will be coming soon, and when you walk around during the New Year's Festival, you have to take silver bills to add joy to the children, this batch has just been beaten, a total of 100.

When I woke up in the morning, there were sixteen less, and the Li family realized that it had been stolen.

After listening to such a paragraph, Jiang Muyuan's inference in his heart roughly took shape, he snorted lightly, turned his head and asked Gu Yunqi: "Have you ever seen such a robbery of the rich and helping the poor?" ”

As soon as Gu Yunqi heard this, he was sure that the two of them wanted to go together, and he smiled: "I've only heard it in the story, but I really haven't seen it." ”

Rob the rich and help the poor, the rich are robbed, but the poor are not helped.

Whether it is stolen objects or gold and silver bills, even if they reach the hands of the poor people, these things are useless at all, cannot be circulated in the market, and once they appear, they will be confiscated by the government and have no meaning.

If the thief really wanted to save the people, he could take small things to nearby towns and sell them as Jiang Muyuan and Sun Ke said, and exchange them for broken silver and then hand them over to the people.

And among these things, gold and silver are the easiest to convert.

Layue is the time when each family makes money, send it to the shop near the town to melt, there is no mark of the Li family on it, even if it can't be minted privately, just change the name and make it again, and the people will not call the shop to recognize the way when they exchange it for silver.

However, the thief not only did not figure out the way back for the people, but he didn't even empty the Li family's silver bills.

They obviously have a response, otherwise they can't move the big things, no matter how heavy the hundred silver bills are, with the thief's ability, they will take it away after a few more trips, and it is not more difficult to get lucky, but the thief would rather steal a few more than the Li family.

The other party can make "robbing the rich and helping the poor" look like this, either because they have heard too many stories and their heads are not turned enough, or they have other plans.

Through such theft, the thief is hiding something else, or the desire for simple self-expression is too strong.

Whether he can help the people is not his main consideration, whether he can make a storm in the city is the first thing.

With such a lot of effort, the other party's purpose will not be concealed for too long, but Jiang Muyuan and Gu Yunqi both understand that this thief will never be easy to find.

Gu Yunqi understood the situation, so he got up and said goodbye, so as not to delay Jiang Muyuan's work.

Jiang Muyuan also got up and asked Tingfeng to hand over the prepared snacks to Gu Yunqi: "For Miss Gu." ”

What kind of taste his sister is, Gu Yunqi knows clearly, but Jiang Muyuan didn't forget to prepare these when he was busy with business, and he nodded secretly in his heart.

The two left Suxianglou together, one went back to Xilin Hutong, and the other went to the government.

Gu Yunqi had only taken two steps when he heard Jiang Muyuan calling him from behind.

Jiang Muyuan said with a smile: "Brother Gu's chess skills are sharper than Miss Gu's, I'll ask for advice next time." ”

Leaving such a sentence, Jiang Muyuan left first.

When did Gu Yunjin play chess with Jiang Muyuan?

Gu Yunqi was shocked, and even the food box in his hand was very powerful.

Jiang Muyuan entered the mansion and met Shaofu Yin head-on.

Shaofu Yin stood under the tree with his hands behind his back, listening to the official reply with a dark face, and as the official spoke, his expression became more and more ugly.

Jiang Muyuan stepped forward and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

"There is a family that is making a fuss," Shao Fu Yin replied, "almost lost his life, but he was saved in time, and he didn't let people really lose his breath." ”

Noisy? Will the ordinary poor people make a fuss at this time? Almost killed someone?