Nanping County produces a lot of shiitake mushrooms, and the closer to winter, the more beautiful and fragrant the shiitake mushrooms bloom. At this time, when the business was coming, there were especially many businessmen from outside the county, and Liu Yue couldn't find an inn without full capacity on the market day, so he had to find a broken temple to live in, which was not unusual.

But because he didn't live in the inn, there was no one to prove whether he was really in Nanping County on the day of Wu San's disappearance.

Moreover, because there were many merchants, it was not easy to find people who had seen and recognized Liu Yue in the bazaar at that time.

But since he claims to be there to collect shiitake mushrooms, he can't even tell the price?

After several breaths of effort, Liu Yue said: "It depends on the quality, the good quality of thirty or fifty times a load, the average quality, ten times a load." ”

Gu Yanzhang's face remained unchanged, noncommittal, and asked again: "Which market in Nanping County did you inquire about?" ”

Liu Yue replied: "The price I asked at the Fukou Bazaar." ”

Gu Yanzhang asked, "Which door did you enter?" ”

Liu Yue replied like a stream, and said, "I entered from the west gate where there were two old locust trees." ”

Outside the hall, a person gently patted Huang Banya's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Lao Zhu, aren't you from Nanping County?" Do you have two trees at the entrance of your Fukou Bazaar? ”

As soon as Huang Banya turned around, it turned out to be the same You Fanglang who was in the restaurant just now, worthy of walking the street with a banner, and his feet were so fast, he actually squeezed into the second door.

He thought of being squeezed by the other party, and he was going to ignore it, but when he saw that several people next to him were looking at him, he was a little concerned for a while, and the conversation also got up, and said: "There are two trees, hundreds of years!" I went back last month and I saw ......"

He was about to say more, but the audience began to ask again.

Immediately, the crowd turned their faces back and listened intently to the trial.

Gu Yanzhang continued to ask, "When you went, did you see those two old locust trees?" ”

Liu Yue immediately blurted out: "See!" ”

Gu Yanzhang paused for a moment, and then asked, "You said that you live in a broken temple, where is that broken temple, and what kind of god statue is offered?" ”

Liu Yue didn't think about it, and immediately said: "It is located two miles north of Nanping County, and it is providing a half-zhang tall Zhu Ronggong. ”

"Did you worship Zhu Ronggong?"

"The villain goes south and north, according to the custom, borrows the land of the gods to live, and he will definitely worship, and if he misses this ceremony, he will be punished."

"When I went to Nanping County to receive the goods, I took the copper scales, all the dried mushrooms used for comparison, and the wet cloth, what else must I bring?"

"There is also white water, I have tried shiitake mushrooms, rinsed my mouth with white water, so I can try the taste again and again."

"In your line of work, have you been stolen and robbed, you can have a fight to make trouble, and have you left anything you have with you?"

"Nothing, it went well."

Gu Yanzhang nodded, and his face soothed by two points.

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look back at the yellow plate tooth again.

Huang Banya looked like a final word, and said: "There is indeed a Zhurong Temple......

He hurriedly explained: "If you go to my house to collect shiitake mushrooms, you must bring your own scales, so as not to be greedy and cheap, if you are one or two, you will have to lose a lot of silver!" You should also bring your own dried mushrooms, so that you can compare them with each other, so as not to sprinkle water on the dried mushrooms, which are easy to mold, and they will not be long enough, and they will weigh more than three percent. ”

You Fang Lang said: "It seems that this surnamed Liu has really been wronged." ”

The scholar who spoke to Huang Banya at first said: "It is indeed wronged, in the past, I went out to study, and I saw powerful officials in other places trying cases, which was the trick used. ”

The scholar shook his head and said: "If you really haven't been there, or if you have made a mistake, when you answer many questions, you will inevitably stumble and stumble, but when you see this businessman surnamed Liu, you are not embarrassed at all, what to ask, what to answer, although you are a little nervous in court, but you still have the confidence to look, that day is really in Nanping County!" ”

Everyone was a little impressed when they heard this kind of trial method for the first time, and they were about to sigh with emotion, but they asked again in the hall.

In the hall, Gu Yanzhang waited for a while before asking: "You entered at the west gate of Nanping County, and you saw the two old locust trees, you can see what is placed between the two trees?" ”

Liu Yue was stunned for a moment, as if he was reminiscing, and after a while, he said: "I haven't seen anything, maybe when I went, it happened to be not?" ”

The scholar whispered: "Look, this is the new judgment is cheating!" You think, he is a newcomer, this time temporary, how do you know what is in which place at which time - I have also seen officials such a trial, bluffing, in fact, there is no such thing, the suspect that day just couldn't bear this trick, the answer was swallowed, and then the punishment was on, and immediately recruited. Look at this surnamed Liu, is he telling the truth at first glance? ”

Everyone nodded one after another, feeling reasonable, and was about to echo it, but they heard the situation in the hall change.

Gu Yanzhang knocked on the shocking wood and said coldly: "Liu Yue, you are not only the Zhurong Temple that arrived in Nanping County six days ago, but also the Zhurong Temple where you slept, how could you not know that Nanping County was hit by a mountain fire a month ago, and you had already invited the Zhurong real body in the Zhurong Temple to the West Gate under the two old locust trees to offer, the empty altar in the Zhurong Temple, how did you see the Zhurong real body that is half a foot high?" The bright statue of the god is placed between the two locust trees at the west gate of the Fukou Bazaar, how can you not see it? ”

Liu Yue's face suddenly turned a little pale.

His mouth was about to speak, but he didn't say it for a long time.

Gu Yanzhang already said again: "You were stopped by Wu Dajing and his people halfway back to Ganzhou City, and everything on your body has been taken care of in the state. ”

At one moment, a government official took out Liu Yue's bags that day and placed them on the ground one by one.

It was a set of winter clothes, a few copper plates, a few pieces of loose silver, two square handkerchiefs, a cowhide bladder, and a small bag containing dried shiitake mushrooms.

Although it was not the depths of winter at this time, the weather had begun to turn cold, but Liu Yue was sweating on his forehead and nose, he looked at it for a long time, and when he opened his mouth, his voice was a little dry, and said, "There is no shortage." ”

Gu Yanzhang said: "In this case, I only ask you, when you go to Nanping County to harvest mushrooms, what about the copper scales you bring with you?" ”

Outside the hall, everyone looked inside.

What about the copper scales you bring with you?

There was no trace of the copper scales among the few things on the floor.

"You have not lost anything along the way, nor have you missed anything, so don't tell me that you discarded the scale yourself."

As soon as Gu Yanzhang's words came out, there was laughter outside the hall.

At this time, copper is expensive, compared to silver, it is just a little inferior, unless there is a problem with the head, and no one will throw the copper scale.