It was sunny and cloudy, then cloudy. Hu Qinqi from Honghu hurried to the front of the archway of Caojia Liquor Fang, saw a huge iron lock on the door, he turned around and looked around, saw two passers-by, and said hello, hey, excuse me, why did Caojia Liquor Shop lock the archway?

Passerby A shook his head and said, I don't know.

Passerby B blinked his eyes and said, I know a little, I heard the catcher in the yamen say, the Cao family of seven was in the lunar month last year, which day, I can't remember clearly, they transported a boat of soybeans to Chibi to prepare to cross the river, maybe they were robbed by gangsters in the river, and their family of seven was killed. It is said that several corpses surfaced on the surface of those Tianjiang rivers, all of which were swollen and deformed, and it was difficult to identify, and it was estimated that they were the bodies of the Cao family of seven.

When Hu Qinqi heard this, he burst into tears, crying and shouting, oh my God! Last year, I sent a letter asking my cousin Caoyang's family to help me buy soybeans and send them to Jiangbei.

Passers-by A and B watched him cry in front of the Cao Family Wine Factory, and his eyes were red.

Passerby B approached Hu Qinqi and patted him on the shoulder and said that the county government knew that the Caojia Liquor Factory had been destroyed and was investigating the case, but the case was not solved, and not a single bad person was caught. I also heard that the county government is preparing to confiscate the real estate and property of the Cao family's winery, since you are a relative of the Cao family, if you can't inherit these properties and property, you can at least share a part of the benefits. After such a long time, it doesn't work for you to cry, so go back and set up a tablet for your relatives, the Cao family, to burn incense and make offerings!

Passerby A said, I suggest you take the time to find the county office, the Cao family winery has a lot of property, you are their relative, you will get some, and you should get some.

Hu Qinqi wept and said, I don't want to get this kind of property, this relative of my sin—

At this moment, in the underworld, there is a big drum hanging on one side of the outer field of the Hades Palace, and the drum surface is impressively marked with three black characters: Drum of Injustice.

Cao Yang walked over, picked up a mallet, and struck the drum vigorously to make a "bang" sound.

Cao Yang shouted loudly, my Cao family of seven died unjustly! The shadow god catches us quickly, and we will arrest the murderer!

In the palace of the king of Hades, the king of Yama was sitting in the tent, and when he heard the sound of drums beating and singing grievances outside the hall, he was stunned, and looked at the guards on the left and right and asked, who is beating the drums and sounding grievances? Let him come into the temple.

The guards on the left and right immediately shouted in unison, and the ghost spirit entered the hall-

After a while, Cao Yang walked into the hall and looked at the king of Hades with tears streaming down his eyes and kowtowed repeatedly.

The king of Hades said, Cao Yang, your family of seven was robbed and killed on the Chibi River by transporting a boatload of soybeans, didn't the military judge accept this extraordinarily serious murder case?

Cao Yang wiped a handful of tears and said, "My Majesty, the military judge has indeed accepted the case, but as far as I know, neither the yang nor the underworld have caught the murderer.

The bull-headed horses standing on both sides of the hall witnessed Cao Yang, and they also felt sad.

Hades said, "What are you anxious about?" Sooner or later, the murderer will be caught.

Cao Yang said, "My lord, I don't have any other intentions, and I'm not anxious because the murder case has not been solved so far." I'm just taking the opportunity of beating the drum to enter the temple to provide a little clue about the arrest of the murderer.

Hades made a gesture and said, "Speak—

Cao Yang said that at noon on the 24th of the lunar month last year, our family of seven people was brutally robbed and killed on the Chibi River. I remember there were seven robbers, all of whom wore the kind of wide-brimmed hats that dogs drilled holes, covering the top of their faces with two eyelets that could be looked out. When one of the masked men stabbed me with a dagger, I lifted the dog-drilled hat he was wearing, and the robber revealed the truth, and he had a black scar the size of a copper coin on the left side of his face.

When the bull head and horse face heard this, they looked at each other.

Hades asked, did the two gods hear that?

The bull head and horse face hurriedly said in unison, "King, remember, one of the robbers has a black scar the size of a copper coin on the left side of his face.

Hades said that the king ordered the two gods to arrest the murderer according to the clues provided by Cao Yang, and as long as one of them was caught, the other murderers could be confessed.

The bull head and the horse's voice said loudly, obey!

One morning, it was cloudy and overcast.

There are two horse-drawn carriages on the rural road in the northern suburbs of the city, one in front of the other.

Hu Xiangcai sat in the carriage and talked and laughed with Hu Decai, who was sitting next to him.

Hu Xiangcai said, I got 1,400 hanging money for the dividends of the business in partnership with others last year, which was too little and not enough to spend, so I used this money as the capital to collect ramie.

Hu Decai said, your idea is correct, but it is not easy to do business, you can't make money by following the rules, and it is easy to be found if you are short or two, it is difficult!

Hu Xiangcai looked at Hu Decai and said with a smile, the third child, you have to use your brains to do everything, and you have to take action.

Because Hu Xiangcai and Hu Decai only cared about talking and did not raise their whips, the motley horse pulling the cart slacked off and ran slowly.

The carriage driven by Hu Micai in the back followed, and his jujube red horse was parked, and he snorted.

Hu Micai shouted loudly, Hey, big brother, your carriage is running so slowly?

Hu Xiangcai looked back, and the jujube red horse driven by Hu Micai was about to touch the butt of his car, so he turned his head and raised the whip, shouting "Drive-", and the variegated horse driving it had to run again.

Hu Xiangcai turned his head again and said, Hey, second brother, what are you in a hurry, isn't my carriage taking the lead?

Hu Micai said, big brother, where to collect hemp?

On both sides of the country road are lofty mountains, the mountain wind is whistling, and the voice is quiet, so you can't hear clearly.

Hu Xiangcai put his hands in the shape of a funnel, shouted loudly to the back, and went to Songjia Village.

In Songjia Village, the old man Song came out of the house with a thin face, and when he raised his eyes, he saw two carriages parked at the entrance of the village, and two words were written on the eaves of one of the carriages: Collect hemp.

Old man Song walked over and watched the three people jump down from the two carriages, and asked, how much do you collect a pound of hemp?

Hu Xiangcai said, a pound of money.

Old man Song asked, there are 4,000 catties of hemp piled upstairs in my house, is it to pay cash?

Hu Decai shook the bag of money in his hand and said, Of course, pay cash, we brought the money.

When Old Man Song saw the money bag, he also seemed to hear the sound of ho-ho when it was shaking, and he believed it. He said, "Okay, I'll sell you all the 4,000 catties of hemp upstairs."

Hu Micai said, old man, take us to see it! Is the quality good, do you do it or not?

Old man Song said that the hemp that has been put for two years is of good quality and dry. So, Old Man Song walked in front to lead the way, and the three of them got into the carriage again, and called for a drive - the two carriages drove one after the other to the yard in front of Old Man Song's house and stopped.

The three of them jumped out of the car one after another, and Hu Xiangcai also brought a scale down.

Old man Song said, don't want your scales, use my card scales.

Hu Xiangcai grimaced at the two accomplices, and then put the scales he had brought back into the carriage.

Hu Xiangcai said, old man, are you afraid that we will make your ghost? We won't, you're so old, you can't bear to cheat on the scales! You said that you can use your own scale, but you don't know whether the standard is standard or not.

At this time, Mrs. Song came out of the house and handed over a card scale to Old Man Song.

Old man Song took the scale and said, how can there be anything that is not standard? At such an age, I still have to deceive my heart, and I still have to be disrespectful to the old?

Hu Xiangcai was speechless, and only took the card scale in Old Man Song's hand to take a look, Hu Decai and Hu Micai also came over to look at it separately, and weighed the scale. Then he returned it to Old Man Song.

Old man Song instructed Mother Song, you take them upstairs to see Ma.

Mother Song said "um" and left.

Hu Xiangcai stayed below, Hu Decai and Hu Micai both followed Song's mother to climb the wooden ladder upstairs, and when they saw that the building was full of ramie, reaching the rafters and tiles on the roof, they gave Song's mother a thumbs up.

Mother Song said, you can help me throw the hemp bundle downstairs, you can throw it all away, weigh it all, and sell it all.

Hu Decai and Hu Micai replied in unison, okay!