Chapter 39: Catching the Thief

"Yes, not only that, the prince also talked to his daughter about the Fang family." Ji Erlan's long eyebrows furrowed, showing a look of confusion and surprise, and explained her speculation with Yang Zhen again, and then said: "It turns out that the prince has seen through the affairs of Fang Mansion early on, but he doesn't seem to want to be in the limelight anymore, so when he saw his daughter walking with Miss Fang today, he took the opportunity to inform his daughter at this time......"

Ji Erlan confused the cause and effect, and said the matter in a high-sounding manner, "Otherwise, King Du and his daughter don't know each other, there is really no need to help, but Prince Du not only helped his daughter, but also specially told his daughter about the Fang family, his intention, is it to let his daughter inform the people of the Fang Mansion?" So that the Fang family can avoid the disaster? ”

Ji Chenglin was dumbfounded: "This ......"

Ji Erlan said with a smile: "My daughter thinks that at this time, my father has just entered Beijing, and it is the time when I need to get acquainted with my colleagues. ”

Ji Chenglin was stunned and said: "How to do it?" ”

Ji Chenglin is just a civil official, and in the huge capital, he is an insignificant six-grade petty official. Moreover, although the cause and effect of the incident were known, there was no way for the thief to know when and how he would do it, and he really did not know what he should do.

Ji Erlan said with a smile: "Father didn't know, Miss Fang told me that the cousin's relatives will arrive in the capital the day after tomorrow, and there will inevitably be a risk of goofs. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, the gang of thieves will not delay until the last moment, so there must be action tonight, why don't my father take the initiative to discuss with Lord Fang, lay a net of heaven and earth, capture the thieves, and then follow the vine to rescue the abducted girl and take this nest of human traffickers? If this matter is done, why should my father be unknown in the capital? ”

Ji Chenglin stood up suddenly, and patted a few cases excitedly: "Yes, you are right." His eyes lit up, he thought for a while, and then hesitated: "In this way, if the prince knows that we are so calculating, will he blame him?" ”

Ji Erlan said calmly: "When Erlan heard about this, he didn't dare to say anything, so he could only inform his father of the matter first and let his father decide, isn't this common sense?" Moreover, the result is good, how can the prince account for these things? ”

When Ji Chenglin heard her say this, he immediately laughed and said, "Okay, my good daughter!" Father went to the door to discuss this matter with Master Fang! He stepped out of the threshold, frowned and turned back and admonished: "Erlan! My father knows that you are wise and capable, but there are some things that are not easy to offend! ”

"What my father said is that Erlan understands."

Ji Chenglin got Ji Erlan's promise, and then left satisfied.

Ji Erlan looked at Ji Chenglin's back with a smile, and walked slowly towards the main courtyard. If she wants to take revenge, she must let the Ji family become strong as soon as possible, otherwise, things like today can't be easily solved, let alone those who are in power.

She went to the main courtyard to accompany the Qin family for dinner, and returned to the empty mountain building leisurely, the sky was already dark, and she asked Dudong: "Who is on duty tonight?" ”

Twilight said: "Tonight is the slave and maid on duty, what do you have to say?" ”

"It's nothing, you just need to keep my house safe and not disturbed."

Twilight glanced at Ji Erlan suspiciously, and agreed, "The slave knows." ”

In the middle of the night, I only heard a few black magpies chirping occasionally.

Ji Erlan covered his face in black, crossed the twilight winter of the outer room and slept lightly, and quietly walked out of the house.

Twilight seemed to feel something, opened her eyes slightly, and saw that the candle flame seemed to be blown twice by the wind, and there was no other movement, and she closed her eyes and fell asleep again.

Ji Erlan walked lightly to the edge of the courtyard and climbed over the wall, his movements were extremely chic and neat. She looked in the direction of Fangfu and saw that there were lights left everywhere in the mansion, which was very conspicuous in the Yong'an Fang shrouded in night. It seems that Mrs. Fang can't let go of her heart, and she lets people patrol the house from time to time.

She looked around, slipped all the way to the highest place in Yong'an Fang, and quietly squatted down to overlook the movement around Fangfu.

Lord Fang had already spoken in the mansion, saying that he would be on duty in the palace tonight and would not return to the mansion, and Ji Chenglin had never returned, so he must have negotiated with Lord Fang and arranged manpower in secret. It's just that the thief is cunning, and if he notices something unusual, he will inevitably not get away.

That's what she's here to stare at.

Squatted quietly on the beam for a while, and suddenly saw a figure slipping over the wall to the north, very familiar, and the purpose of that person seemed to be the beam she was squatting on.

Ji Erlan smiled and moved his body towards the shadows, brought the man over, and suddenly said 'hehe', and the man was suddenly startled and had already made a move. Ji Erlan blocked the moment and said, "It's me." ”

Lei Ze couldn't cry or laugh: "I drop three aunts, six aunts, aunts, and aunts...... You're going to scare me to death! ”

Ji Erlan rolled her eyes: "Big nephew! With your guts, how can you do things for your master? ”

Lei Ze rolled his eyes angrily at her 'big nephew': "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm afraid that the thief will run away, and my father will be busy and come to keep an eye on it. What are you doing here? Didn't the prince say that he was not interested in catching thieves? ”

Lei Ze said: "The prince is afraid that in order to help the Fang family, if there is a good one, you will not be able to thank him." ”

Ji Erlan snorted speechlessly and said, "Thank you for worrying about it." Turning her face to see Razor's expression, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she said, "You seem to be gloating?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Lei Ze said 'hehe', looked around carefully, and whispered, "Miss Ji is so worried about family affairs at such a young age?" ”

Ji Erlan didn't bother to take care of him, and replied casually: "It's just to support the family." ”

Lei Ze felt that Ji Erlan was a girl's family, and she had to think about supporting her family, which was a bit weird. After thinking about it, her breadwinner is really more advanced. Master Ji was originally promoted to Shangjing for meritorious service, and this time he will be in the limelight again, maybe he can directly attract the attention of the emperor, or he may get the blue eyes of a minister with a humerus.

Thinking so, he stretched out his thumb to Ji Erlan: "Miss Ji is scheming. ”

Ji Erlan was furious: "If you make any more noise, I will throw you down!" ”

Razor touched his nose and kept silent. The two of them squatted intently on the beams of the room and stared at the movements of the Fang family.

The full moon is gradually slanting to the west, and it has reached the fourth watch, which is the most difficult time of the day, and it is a good time to do it. Sure enough, a white shadow floated into Mrs. Fang's courtyard. Ji Erlan said: "I don't know how many places they want to start, I will protect Mrs. Fang, you are here to keep an eye on the movements in other places, and tens of thousands of other thieves have escaped!" ”

Lei Ze glared at him: This girl Ji is really a ......

Ji Erlan was dressed in black, her head and face were tightly wrapped, and she specially picked a place where the shadows were heavy to settle in, Lei Ze saw her disappear after a few ups and downs, and couldn't help but be speechless, where did you learn this full experience and skills?

The lights were on in Mrs. Fang's room, and she was dark green right now, and she hadn't slept well for a while. Since that day, someone was invited to do the work, and the house was calm, but the people felt more and more that there were really ghosts and monsters, and they were still in fear. She sighed and was about to lie down, when she suddenly heard a sad and sad 'cousin', she suddenly felt a thrill and sat up suddenly. "What people!"

The four girls on the side obviously also heard the movement, and were startled by Mrs. Fang's exclamation, and shrank in the corner in horror: "What's the matter......"

The candle flame in the room flickered slightly, as if it was also very uneasy. One of the green-clothed girls boldly said, "Maybe a cat passed by our yard and kicked on a rock." It's that we're too nervous......"

Another younger girl's jaw trembled, two tears rolled down her eyes, and she said in a trembling voice, "I heard someone talking......"

Mrs. Fang had a clear conscience and said, "Don't talk nonsense, don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door......"

The girl in green is Mrs. Fang's close person, she doesn't leave Mrs. Fang half a step on weekdays, knowing that her cousin's affairs have nothing to do with her, she stubbornly said: "I'll call the guards to come over, you are guarding Mrs. here, don't leave half a step, you know!" ”

She cautiously walked out of the door, looked around, saw no suspicious figure, and hurried down the bluestone road to the gate of the courtyard.

Ji Erlan hid in the dark, saw the white shadow scattered the hair, the figure was not tall, and she could vaguely see that it was a woman, she avoided the sight of the girl in green, and went to the window again, and opened her mouth to say a poignant 'Give me my life'!

The screams of fright suddenly pierced the silence of the Fang Mansion, one higher than the other, one sharper than the other, the girl in green didn't go far, when she heard the movement, she let out an 'ah' in horror, and then shouted: "Someone! Help me! Something happened to Madame! ”

Only then did Ji Erlan understand that the other party was planning to attack the west and draw all his attention to Mrs. Fang! Easy to do elsewhere.

As soon as the white shadow heard the sound of footsteps everywhere, he knew that it was the guards of the palace who rushed over, and hurriedly flew up the courtyard wall, Ji Erlan followed the person silently, and saw her tearing off the white robe while running, revealing the night clothes inside.

It seems that her mission has been accomplished, and she is about to evacuate this place.

Of course, Ji Erlan wouldn't let her run away like this, the stones in her hand shot out one after another, the man's legs and knees were hit one after another, and one rolled to the ground unsteadily, Ji Erlan took the opportunity to step forward and kicked the opponent's lower abdomen heavily, and when the other party died in pain, he didn't breathe, and slashed her neck with a palm.

"Hmph, fist and foot kung fu is really not as good as scaring kung fu."

She tied up the fainting thief and dragged her back to the vicinity of Fang's house, just as she saw the torches around Fang's mansion connected together, and the noise was everywhere, Lord Fang took the lead, holding one person in one hand, it seemed that they were two leader-like figures, Ji Chenglin stood awe-inspiring and righteous, commanding people to tie up the rest of the murderers one by one and take them away for interrogation.

Ji Erlan pouted at his dignified father, jumped to a high place, looked around, and sure enough, she saw that Lei Ze was hiding not far away, she whistled softly, Lei Ze turned around, and saw Ji Erlan waving to him, so he quietly moved to her side and greeted: "Miss Ji!" ”

Ji Erlan pointed at the woman and said, "This, it is estimated that it is the person who is pretending to be a cousin, please trouble you, come forward and hand it over to Master Fang, and I will go back." ”

Razor glared, "Why do you want me to go?" ”

"If you don't go, I can't go anyway." Ji Erlan smiled and walked away in style.