In a blink of an eye, Zhao Chongyang has been in office for nearly two months, and because he has a large number of capable people under him, and all the work is undertaken by specific managers, Zhao Chongyang feels that his work as a fellow is still relatively leisurely. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang has nothing to do, so he plans to complete two tasks, one is a long commentary on the book "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties", which can be completed by sitting in the yamen and having nothing to do. The second is to prepare for the study of hybrid rice: let the beggars go to the mountains to find some wild rice, raise seedlings, and raise some rice seedlings. There were several acres of vegetable land behind the yard he bought, and he bought the land at a high price, and asked the housekeeper to find someone to open the backyard, let people build a fence, and turn the soil into paddy fields. When it is planting season, the seedlings are planted. Some fields are planted with wild rice, some fields are planted with general rice, and some fields are planted with two kinds of intercropping, that is, a row of wild rice is inserted, and a row of general rice is inserted. He bought another woman in Renlingxing to come back to manage the seedlings, and Pang Qiuxia and Fang Baihua supervised and arranged for people to make experimental records, and Zhao Chongyang was responsible for technical guidance......

On this day, some people reported that there was a fresh butcher shop on Jixian Street near the East Gate, and if you buy more meat, you will always have less re-name, and if you buy less, you will always have less re-name, and some people suspect that there is a problem with his claim. But others weigh it, whether it is a few catties or three or twenty catties, it is correct, some people think that he can spell, and if the amount is not enough, it will make the scale suppressed. Zhao Chongyang asked Shi Qian to take people to secretly monitor the butcher who sold meat to see what the hell he was doing? Shi Qian took someone to secretly inspect the person for three days, and when he saw that he weighed the meat, he said that he was still very winged, and at the same time he said that the suo was also very high, unless he said that there was a problem with himself, he could not see it from the process of weighing things. Shi Qian also found that if it was the thing that slaughtered others, he weighed it, and the catties would be reduced compared to the actual situation. Seven or eight pounds of things will be one pound less when he says it.

The next morning after listening to Shi Qian's report, after arranging the administrative affairs and the prison affairs, he had nothing to do, so he called Shi Qian and a few people to hang out on the street, sitting in a teahouse near Fu and drinking tea, while watching the butcher surnamed Tu sell meat, and some asked for a re-weighing, and one borrowed someone else's weight to weigh it, and three catties of pork were missing half a catty.

and his scale, and it was less than half a catty. But he was right to call himself someone else's name. The two of them have their own words, you say that I am playing the cup, and I say that you are playing the trick. The last person lost a little and made up for the three taels of meat he bought. Later, a villager carried a bag of soybeans and sold it not far from the butcher's shop, and the butcher asked him to carry it and bought it for him. It is 10 yuan a pound.

The butcher tied the bag with a rope and hung it on the weighing hook to weigh it, and then he asked the bean seller to weigh it and say that it was only nine catties. The soybean seller was anxious on the spot: "I see that I borrowed the scale over there just now, how can it become eight catties?" Take your name and I will weigh it. ”

The bean seller took the scale and weighed it, and recovered ten catties. The soybean seller said, "You will make the demon law and reduce the number of things, and I will not sell them to you." "Carried the beans on his back and left.

Zhao Chongyang asked Shi Qian: "Do you see how the butcher is named?" Shi Qian shook his head, indicating that he didn't see it. Go and buy that bag of beans, and I'll do magic with the butcher to show you."

After a while, Shi Qian and one of his subordinates bought the bag of soybeans. Zhao Chongyang took Shi Qian and others to carry soybeans and asked him: "Do you want soybeans?" Sold to you at a price of 10 wen a catty. Tu Butcher promised that he could, and Zhao Chongyang weighed his scale as eleven catties, because Zhao Chongyang added a one-pound grenade to the bean.

Tu Butcher said: "You don't count, I can only call my name." ”

Zhao Chongyang said: "Okay, then you can tell me, is it a reduction in catties?" ”

As if it were a habit of the butcher, he put the blanket containing the money on his right shoulder and picked it up. After weighing it steadily, Tu Butcher said: "Look clearly, ten catties are still two taels." ”

Zhao Chongyang said psychologically: "No, how can it be less." Oh yes, there's a layer of iron on the outside of the grenade. ”

After thinking about everything clearly, Zhao Chongyang said: "I said Tu Butcher, you are doing business in your own shop, and you can use a basket or any other box or cabinet to load money, on the street, and at the feet of the Son of Heaven, are you afraid of grabbing it on the ground?" Do you still take a blanket and put it on your shoulders and don't get tired? ”

The shop on the side joked: "He was afraid that his wife would hide the money to support the idler, so he thought about putting the money on his body." Some of the people passing by laughed when they heard this.

"Your wife is stealing money to support an idler! Dead old Chen. Tu Butcher replied.

Zhao Chongyang said with a smile: "Actually, in addition to holding money, Master Tu's blanket has another wonderful use. ”

Tu Butcher said: "This little brother said that he laughed, what is the use of a cloth bag containing money?" ”

Zhao Chongyang said with a smile: "Its magic is great, he can weigh more things for a while, and less for a while." You lend it to me now, and I'll show it to everyone, isn't this the magic you usually use to cheat people out of their money. ”

"Pet, boy, don't you inquire, in this East Gate area, I'm not a soft persimmon, I'll give it to you at will."

Shi Qian roared: "Presumptuous, this is the new science prodigy Zhao Tongzhi Zhao, who is here today to solve your selling and buying fraud case." Come on, take down the Tu butcher for me! ”

The secret agents hidden in the shadows and in the crowd immediately ran over to the four of them and stopped Tu Tu at once. Zhao Chongyang took advantage of the inattention of people to take out a shackle from the space and put it on the butcher, took the coat, and took out a fist-sized black stone from one of the coats, Zhao Chongyang asked one hand to go down to the store and move out a small square table, Zhao Chongyang took the two or three catties of big black stone and stood up, holding the black stone to the people who came over in Dawei and said: "A few days ago, our Kaifeng Mansion received a report that the Tu butcher outside the east gate had witchcraft, and the same said that he would be short of two catties if he sold things, and he bought other people's things. As long as he weighs it, it will be two catties less than the actual number of catties, and he will pay two catties less. What is the reason for this? Could it be that he really knows sorcery? Today, I will tell you the truth. This black stone is a natural magnet, it can attract iron, like this weighing plate, you see I take the magnet from above and approach him, the weighing plate is sucked up. ”

At this time, the people who had been pitted by Tu butchers on the nearby street heard that Zhao Tongzhi, a newcomer to Kaifeng Mansion, had solved the case on the spot, and all of them surrounded him. Zhao Chongyang paused for a moment and continued: "Now let's weigh the copper coins upside down, and you come up to weigh them, see how much some copper coins weigh?" Is it ready? One pound and four taels. Now, you see, I put the magnet on top of the scale, and you can see that the tower is attracted by the upward attraction of the magnet, as if someone had tied a thin wire to it and lifted it gently. In this way, the weighing rod is warped, and only when it is moved forward can the weighing be balanced. This big brother, how much do these copper coins weigh after they are covered with magnets? ”

"One pound and eight taels."

"Yes, you can see it clearly. If I want to weigh these copper coins as two catties, I will set the weighed lump on the two catties of star flowers, and slowly put the magnet from the top to weigh the lump, and it seems that the weighed is catching up, isn't it? A pound and four taels are now called two pounds. When he buys your things, he puts down the blanket with the magnet, and when he weighs the things, he puts the weighed lump under the magnet, and the weighed lump will sink down, and the ten catties of things weighed out are only seven or eight catties. ”

"Oh, this guy used to use a magnet to make a whole name, and he figured it out." "This birdman, so black-hearted, I don't know how much black heart everyone has been polluted" ...... "This Zhao Tongzhi is worthy of being a prodigy, and he can't even hide such a modus operandi, it seems that those criminals who think they are clever may be in trouble." ”

Zhao Chongyang sentenced Tu Butcher to 20 canes, fined 100 yuan, and did hard labor for three years.

The next day, when he came to the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion in the morning, Uncle Zhang said at night: "Zhao Tongzhi, I didn't expect that a small case that had plagued our Kaifeng Mansion for more than a year would be inadvertently broken by you. It seems that you deserve your name. ”

Zhao Chongyang said modestly: "That's just a coincidence, because my subordinates also played with magnets when they were children." ”

"Well, don't be modest. Now there is a case here that you need to investigate, and this case has also disturbed the Criminal Department and Kaifeng Mansion for a long time. Now that you have the talent to investigate the case, let's reopen the investigation of this case. ”

I don't know what case Governor Zhang wants Zhao Chongyang to investigate, and look at the explanation in the next chapter.