"Dingtou! The people are gone, not in the gambling house! ”

"Are you sure? Have you searched all the places inside? ”

"I've looked for everything, I and the sixth child have looked at several rooms in the courtyard one by one, and no one is there!"

The two catchers who were in charge of keeping an eye today couldn't believe their ears, how could Wang Tiecheng disappear out of thin air under their noses?

"Boss, we really haven't left for a moment, we've been staring at the courtyard of the gambling house, Wang Tiecheng really hasn't come out!"

Another catcher also nodded again and again, and the important clue characters were lost by them, this is a big deal to lose their jobs!

Ding An stared at the gambling house of Zhu Laoscar's house: "All go in and search for me!" All the people inside were concentrated in the courtyard, and no one was allowed to leave! ”

"Yes!"

Because they were carrying out the task of secret stalking, all the officials were wearing civilian clothes, and the gamblers who were still gambling drunk and dreaming of death were suddenly interrupted by a group of people, and naturally they were scolding and refusing to give in, knowing that a few gamblers who rushed in front and tried to do it were knocked down one by one, so everyone stopped a little, and they were escorted to the courtyard outside to squat.

Zhu Laojiao, who was sleeping in the side room, was woken up by the movement outside, and thought that another gambler had lost all his money and was making trouble, so he rushed out of the house with a curse.

"His grandmother's, which of the eight lambs is making trouble here again...... Who are you! Who the hell gave you the guts, looking for something to find my head on Zhu Laoscar, I think you are fucking tired! ”

Zhu Laoscar picked up the sickle by the door as he spoke, and was about to step forward to draw a picture with Ding Anbi, who was the leader of the group, when he was caught by the person who was in charge of keeping an eye on Wang Tiecheng just now, and kicked it over, Zhu Laoscar fell to the ground in response, and the pain in his mouth was "Oops, oops".

The catcher gave his companion a look, he had just made a mistake, and now is the time to find a chance to make amends! The two quickly stepped forward and held the county government's waist card in front of Zhu Laoscar: "Open your dog's eyes and take a good look!" That's the chief catcher of our county government! ”

Zhu Laoscar looked at it, and in an instant, he collapsed back to the ground like a deflated ball, and his heart was over, it was over, the government was here to arrest him, and the crime of setting up a private casino was not small!

"Lord Chief Head Catcher, all officials, spare your life, spare your life! I'm a small business, it's the villagers who get together to have a good time when they are slack, I really didn't do anything hurtful, please give me another chance, I promise not to do it in the future, I promise! ”

Ding An waved his hand, paced in front of Zhu Laoscar and asked, "Do you recognize Wang Tiecheng?" ”

Zhu Laoscar nodded again and again: "Recognize, recognize!" He's been coming to me every day for the past two days! ”

"What about the others?"

"This ......" Zhu Laoscar looked around, all the gamblers who often came to his gambling house were there, but he didn't see Wang Tiecheng: "Here, the villain doesn't know where he went, he was still here this morning!" ”

"Do you have any other exits besides the courtyard gate in front of you?"

"Other exports...... Yes, yes, there's a little back door in the backyard! ”

Hearing this, Ding An turned his head and glanced at the subordinates who were in charge of surveying the terrain near the gambling house, and it was the first time he had heard of the fact that there was a back door in the backyard of the gambling house.

The subordinate was stunned by Ding An's glance, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "Boss, I really checked before, but I didn't find a back door!" ”

Ding An ignored his subordinates' explanations, and just said to Zhu Laojiao: "Lead the way." ”

Zhu Laoscar led everyone around in the backyard of the gambling house, and really found a gap on the wall behind a firewood stack that could only allow one person to enter and exit, which was the so-called "back door" in Zhu Laoscar's mouth.

Although the "back door" was found, Wang Tiecheng still couldn't be found, not only Ding An and others, as soon as the Jiang family heard that Wang Tiecheng was missing, they also began to look for it in the village, and even the people from Chu Ping, Zhao Cheng and Shen Cui were involved!

The entire Zhutun Village is not big, whether it is Wang Tiecheng's house, or a few places he often goes to on weekdays, or the house of a relative, Ding An and his people have almost turned upside down, but Wang Tiecheng seems to have suddenly evaporated from the world, and there is no trace of it.

The case seems to have reached a dead end again, and Ding An can only arrange for people to continue to keep an eye on the Wang family and the Hu family, while continuing to look for clues about Wang Tiecheng.

Chu Ping looked for Wang Tiecheng in the middle of the night on the first day, and then returned home to sleep, and the next morning he was still in the house to make up for sleep, and was shouted by Qian who rushed into the house: "Ah Ping! Wake up, the three boys are coming to you, saying that there seems to be news of the Hu family's lack of morality! ”

Chu Ping, who was still asleep, sat up with a carp: "Auntie, what are you talking about?" Hu Shun's eight lambs are news again? What did the three boys say? ”

"Hurry up, I just heard him mention it, and I rushed in and called you! Didn't you ask those idlers to keep an eye on you, and whoever gave the clue would give the silver! The three boys haven't seen the silver yet, how can they tell me so much! ”

Chu Ping got the news, and immediately went to find Ding An, who was still searching for clues in the backyard of the gambling house: "Ding Zhutou, someone saw Huang Liang and Hu Shun last night, and they were in Zhutun Village!" The three boys in our village are also frequent visitors to this gambling house on weekdays, yesterday the gambling house was closed, he couldn't stay idle on three or five people to get together in one of the people's house to gamble money by themselves, said that it was the middle of the night to the village when he returned, the figure walked near the foot of the mountain that the path was near, and the result was to see two people carrying something to the back of the mountain, the three boys used to be a love to join in the fun, and followed up only to find that it was Huang Liang and Hu Shun, who hid in the back mountain in the middle of the night to dig a pit! ”

"The path at the foot of the mountain? But the one behind the courtyard wall? ”

Chu Ping went out to look through the gap in the courtyard wall, and when he came back, he said to Ding An with certainty: "This is it!" ”

"Wang Tiecheng also disappeared after embarking on this road!"

All the clues seem to be concentrated on the path behind the gambling house that loops around the foot of the hill and connects to several nearby villages. The officials set out from the gap behind the wall, searched carefully inch by inch, and finally found a line of footprints that stretched from the backyard of the gambling house to an abandoned courtyard.

In order to avoid startling the snakes, Ding An decided to divide the troops into two ways, one team went to the site of the pit in the back mountain, and the other team went straight to the abandoned house.

The officials gradually approached the haunted-looking courtyard from all sides, and soon Ding An found a few fresh kicking footprints on the ruins of the backyard, and there were many traces of trampled on the weeds nearby.

The process of discovering Hu Shun and Huang Liang was very smooth, it seemed that he didn't want people to notice that there were people here, and there was dust everywhere in the courtyard and houses, but because of this, following the footprints that fell on the dust, the officials quickly found the two people hiding in the cellar of the stove room!

Faced with the two people who refused to come out of the cellar for anything, Ding An repeated his old trick and ordered someone to light a large bundle of straw in the entrance of the cellar, then closed the baffle of the cellar, and then dipped his clothes in water to plug all the gaps, and then waited quietly outside.

Huang Liang and Hu Shun were originally hiding in the innermost part of the cellar, and their vision was blocked and they couldn't see what the officials outside were doing, until there was a "snap", the baffle of the cellar was heavily closed, and the cellar was shrouded in firelight, and thick smoke was everywhere!

There was not much water in the cellar for them to drink, and it would be useless to splash it all up, so Hu and Huang could only choose the latter between choking to death and being arrested.

In addition to Huang Liang and Hu Shun, the officials also found all the tools used by the two to make silver tickets and paper money in the cellar. At the same time, the official who was sent to the back mountain also sent back a shocking news that in the backfill pit on the back mountain, Wang Tiecheng's body was actually buried!

Wang Tiecheng never dreamed that the five hundred taels Huang Liang agreed happily, and he also made up a reason for signing and drawing a charge, but he just wanted to trick him into the cellar to kill people and kill people, after all, no one can guarantee him who is addicted to gambling, so he used this as a threat for the first time, and he will not ask for the next time, and the dead are really no threat.

Huang Liang didn't expect that they would have been exempted from the death penalty in the first place, after all, they were made and sold in the name of paper money, and it was the Jia brothers who sold fake silver tickets with red seals.

On the day Huang Liang and Hu Shun were arrested, Ding An went to Wufang Village again, and asked the village chief of Wufang Village to spread a message in the village: All those who had made silver tickets and paper money in the Hu family's workshop before, as long as they went to the village chief's house before today's application and found an official to register and confess, they would no longer be held accountable for the crime in this case, and if anyone was found to have concealed it in the future, they would all be dealt with with Huang Liang and Hu Shun for the same crime!

On the way to escort Huang Liang and Hu Shun back to the county office, a new official took a thick pile of confessions in his hand and asked the seniors next to him: "Brother Liu, do we Ding Tou'er have so much power?" What about so many people, saying that if they don't pursue their crimes, they won't be held accountable? This is a big case of participating in the forgery of fake silver tickets! If the county magistrate blames him this time, what can he do? ”

The older man who was replaced by Brother Liu glanced at his new colleagues with a foolish look, and pouted: "Who said that these people have committed crimes?" ”

"Didn't Ding Tou'er say it? Those who come to record a confession at the time of application today will not be held accountable! ”

"If you don't say that you are still tender, those villagers are just doing odd jobs in the Hu family's workshop and making paper money, what kind of responsibility can they have?"

"That Ding Tou still said!"

"If you don't even scare and coax like this, where are you going to find such witness testimony? You still have a lot to learn! ”

The newcomer looked at Ding An's back in front of him, and his face was full of admiration: "Ding Tou'er is Ding Tou'er, and he is worthy of being the chief catcher of our county government!" ”

The arrest of Huang Liang and Hu Shun not only solved the truth of the whole case, but also finally returned the innocence of the little couple, the moment Shen Luzhu walked out of the county jail, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, the cold air of the northern winter filled the entire lungs, and the clammy and cold stinging sensation at that moment seemed to be more real and vivid than any previous breath!