Chapter 156: Money Catches Fast and Gang Servants
An hour later, a group of people came back noisily and clamoring like red and hanging colors.
It took so long, it can be seen that it took a lot of effort. Although most of them were injured, there was some excitement and pretentious little pride in killing two perverted evil people.
In the lively atmosphere, someone offered to visit everyone's life-saving benefactor, so there was a sound of stamping on the stairs, and then Chu Han's door was knocked.
Out of double respect for the master and the grace of saving lives, the noise quickly subsided after the knock on the door.
At this time, it is natural that he can't take the shelf and disappear, Chu Han opened the door and dealt with it a few times, the implication is that all the heroes don't have to take this matter to heart, and anyone present will do it like her...... Yunyun.
Someone in the audience said that they always had to leave a big name or something, Chu Han paused for two seconds and replied to them: "Chu Menghan." ”
It seems that his reputation is not loud enough, and it has not yet spread here. The Xiao family's Baiyun Villa is close to the edge of the Central Plains, and the Bright Villa of Wu Yun, the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and now, they are still on the road between the two.
As soon as she thought of this, someone in the crowd slapped her hands and suddenly shouted, "Ah, it turned out to be the blue-eyed Earth Venerable!" ”
Everyone looked at her with a puzzled expression, but the woman looked at Chu Han and continued: "Blue eyes respect Chu Menghan!" I remember! I remember! ”
Everyone asked her what was going on, and the woman told her everything she knew, causing everyone to nod their heads and keep saying oh oh, and their eyes at Chu Han were even more reverent.
However, there are also a few people who are not long-sighted, and even tentatively asked a few sons around her, Chu Han's face sank slightly, and said, "Du Naifu's family." I'm sorry, but I'm resting, and I hope you'll forgive me. ”
With that, he turned around and pointed his back and ass at the crowd.
Since the people have issued an eviction order, it is not easy for everyone to gather here again.
However, it turned out to be her husband and family, and this blessing is a little better......
The same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, and there are some people who want to fish in troubled waters and make some windfalls, quietly turning the backyard room where the shopkeeper's wife and husband live. Even searched the ice cellar where the broken corpses were hidden, but the result was that they found neither boxes of jewelry, gold and silver, nor martial arts secrets.
Although they had doubts in their hearts, they couldn't keep their eyes on it, and the two had been killed, and there was nowhere to ask, and the few people who came to search at the same time tacitly left the backyard silently with a little silver tael they had found.
Soon after they left, several figures floated out of the back window of the second floor, and immediately, several carriages quietly left without alarming anyone, and even the sound of horses' hooves could not be heard.
The inn has no owner, there is no food, even if there is a little cooking skills and wants to borrow the stove, but because the kitchen has cooked human flesh countless times, and there are dead corpse "ingredients" in the ice cellar, no one can get a frying spoon.
Even if you dare to make a fire, you won't be able to eat what you burn.
So at dawn, the guests in the inn packed up their things and went downstairs one after another.
However, at this moment, amid the sound of horses' hooves, a group of more than a dozen people rushed to the horse, instantly blocking and surrounding the door of the inn, blocking all the people who were about to leave.
"The yamen is handling the case, everyone is standing still, waiting for interrogation!" A middle-aged woman dressed in a fast-catching suit and wearing a fast-catching hat stretched out her hand and showed a wooden black card to show her identity.
Everyone looked at each other, and no one went to the yamen to report the case, when did they know? I didn't come early or late, but I didn't come until I found the dead body in the ice cellar and the shopkeeper was killed, and I obviously came with a report. Can......
They looked at each other with a hint of suspicion, but after looking at it for a long time, they didn't know who was going to report the letter. Last night, there was a lot of commotion, and everyone didn't know each other, and I don't know who took advantage of the chaos to run away from the yamen, and whether they sneaked back after they went.
With a wave of his hand, a middle-aged catcher who was less than forty years old quickly entered with four helpers.
In a short time, they found a large number of headless corpses in the ice cellar, as well as unused human flesh and bones in the kitchen.
This made them equally frightened, and after finally calming down, they turned to scolding bad luck.
Then I rummaged through every corner, desperately digging into the ground, but in the end I couldn't find even a piece of silver.
So the next step was to report in detail to the middle-aged catcher, and began to suppress the angry but irritable interrogation.
As in ancient China, although these catchers are very majestic in front of ordinary people, there is no shadow of untouchables at all, they take people and lock people at every turn, and anyone who sees them will be afraid of three points, and even those who do small business on the street must pay protection fees in filial piety on a regular basis, but their actual status is not high, only a little more decent than the play.
In the eyes of officials and nobles, they are just small servants who can't get on the stage, and they are not even as good as the dogs raised in their own mansions.
The official servants are also mostly composed of ordinary people, that is, they go to the yamen to serve as errands, but whether they can become fast catchers is determined by the county order or the county ginseng, mainly the county ginseng. People say that the county officials are not as good as the county management, and the county ginseng is the current management.
Because the arrest is about to solve the case and collect the rent, it is necessary to be strong, quick with hands and feet, and flexible in mind, which is the minimum. It would be better if you had martial arts, and you would definitely be reused.
But the contradiction is that the real Jianghu warriors disdain to be the lowest dogs, and they are ridiculed and scolded by the Jianghu people, and they will offend people because they always arrest and take people, and more importantly, they can't get much food subsidies.
If you want to prepare more for yourself, you can only secretly embezzle, take bribes, extort money, and engage in gray income under the nose of the county order.
In this way, even if the counties and counties advertise high salaries to hire masters for fast hunting because of their needs, few people have uncovered the notice to apply, because the reputation of those fast catchers has been stinked by them, but anyone who can eat is unwilling to be scolded behind their backs for "having no children".
But everyone has their own aspirations, and not all people care so much about face and reputation, after all, it is also very enjoyable to be able to fake a tiger in front of ordinary people, not to mention that there is a lot of extra money to be fished. And in the team of more than a dozen people in front of him, the positions of the two deputy catchers were specially bought with money. Among the more than a dozen helpers, there are also white servants who do not have a penny of subsidies.
Just like the modern police, they came out to run, just hoping to get oil and water, but now in addition to the broken corpse, they haven't even seen half a piece of silver, can that face not be so black that they want to drip? Is it true that they only have the highest consciousness of single-mindedly eliminating harm for the people?
The rivers and lakes and the imperial court seem to be two parallel lines on the surface, but under the world, it is not the king's land, although everyone is not afraid, but when the yamen needs the cooperation of the people of the rivers and lakes, even if they are not happy, they should give a little face, know or not, know how much, they have to say a few words, especially if the martial arts have not been cultivated to the level of mastery and there is no background background, so as not to provoke a body of shame and cannot be washed or removed.
It's just that at this moment, everyone was not prepared at all, let alone stringed up the words in advance, and for a while, no one spoke first.
The vendetta of the people in the rivers and lakes, the yamen is not completely ignorant, let alone has no power to manage, but the entanglement is too big, it is related to various sects, and it is twisted and twisted together, so it is too lazy to care.
Especially the small local yamen, there is no bile tube, usually one eye is closed, and even most of the time both eyes are closed, as long as no one reports the case, who loves to die or not, loves to bury or not, typical people do not lift, officials do not prosecute.
But in the second half of last night, not only did someone stab a piece of paper directly into the head of the county magistrate's bed with a flying knife, but also wrote criminals and physical evidence in the paper.
What's more, an inn killed so many people, and there must have been a lot of looted property, and I am afraid that the boxes containing silver are piled up in a certain secret room. This is the real reason why they got up from their beds overnight and galloped their horses.
"Why don't you speak? Eating and living in the inn, and leaving without checking out the bill when the shopkeeper is not seen in the morning, is it the work of the Jianghu people? Tell me, did you kill the shopkeeper?" The middle-aged head catcher threatened, "If no one answers, it means that the dead bodies in the ice cellar have nothing to do with you, so please all come back to the yamen with me, when will the suspicion be released, and when will you leave!" ”
This...... The lips of a merchant moved, and he tried to say something, but he did not speak.
But one of them was irritable, but he couldn't help but shout: "We only came here last night to stay in the tip, and you just said that the dead body was hidden in the ice cellar for many days, how could it be that we did it?" We have to leave today, but we can't find the store to settle the bill, we are in a hurry to get on the road, and we can't wait for the store to appear! ”
The horsewhip in the middle-aged hunter's hand pointed to the mess in the dining hall on the first floor, and snorted coldly: "You mean, these tables, chairs and benches were broken by yourself?" These cracks are clearly new from last night, are you trying to tell me that you are all deaf and can't hear half of such a fierce fight? Or are you all involved and afraid to admit it? ”
She glared: "If you don't want to talk here, then follow me back to the yamen." You should know that whether it is a Jianghu person or an ordinary person, if he resists arrest or runs away with the suspicion of a criminal, he will be wanted by the whole country, even if he deliberately does not report it, it is blatantly against the government. I don't think it's wise to have your portrait all over the wall. ”
This...... People hesitated.
The government has intervened, and no matter how many people the shopkeeper killed, but the murder of the shopkeeper was committed by everyone, at this time, who is willing to bear the responsibility alone......
Everyone looked at the servants, there were only a dozen people on the other side, and except for this middle-aged catcher, the rest of the little minions were not high, if they were killed together, the odds of winning were very high, and whoever could run away and who was entangled depended on their personal skills......
This side made eye contact, ready to move, the middle-aged catcher over there quickly noticed their small movements, guessed a little bit of the character of the rivers and lakes, parted the whip to the waist, pressed the handle of the knife on the waist with his right hand, scanned everyone fiercely, and said coldly: "The faces of all of you have been engraved in my mind, and you want to walk cleanly, unless you have the courage to kill me, the head catcher, and completely become a fugitive who kills the county government!" ”
As soon as these words came out, the hands on the hilt of the sword shrank back one after another, and the impatience began to slowly dissipate.
The two parties were silently confronting each other, but they heard a young woman's laughter from the second floor: "Yo, forgive me for being clumsy, isn't this the famous Qian Catcher?" ”