Chapter 25: A Strange Plot in Bao Zheng's Shop
In just half a day, Chuzhou City was full of official documents posted to arrest Lu Bu.
On Lu Bu's image, he was grandly named with the surname Tang.
In a very remote inn, several people lived in on the same day.
The man at the head was strangely ugly, dark-skinned, and not very fat, but he deliberately raised a huge belly forward, so that one wondered if he had just eaten a mule.
These people took over the entire inn.
The shopkeeper had no choice but to blast away the guests who had already lived in the store one by one.
The shopkeeper was about to close the door so as not to be disturbed by the new guests, but someone pushed him in from the outside.
A government official walked in with an official document in his hand.
"Shopkeeper, have you ever seen this person?" The official sat on a chair and pointed to the portrait of Lu Bu on the proclamation and asked.
The shopkeeper leaned over to take a closer look and shook his head.
"Was there a guest in the back?" The servant asked again.
"I just got in with a few guest officers from afar." The shopkeeper replied very carefully.
"Have you ever paid the residence tax?" The officer's eyes lit up when he heard that there were guests behind him.
This residence tax was unique to the city of Chuzhou at that time, and it was also stipulated just after Fei Shi took office, as a means for him to enrich his own pockets, and it was also a means for these officials to rely on it for blackmail.
Before Bao Zheng became the governor of Kaifeng, he was the post of supervising the imperial history, and when he inspected here, this regulation was banned, and he also played a copy of Fei Shi in front of the emperor, but the emperor did not punish accordingly.
With the support of the emperor, Fei Shi's income has been implemented in a grand manner.
"My lord, the villain is not very human in the view of these guest officials, at least they are people from the capital, and this villain of residence tax really doesn't dare to mention it." The shopkeeper said.
The official slammed the document on the table.
"You take this official document, ask a few people to identify it, and bring this residence tax back by the way, and if you dare to resist, come back and report to me." As he spoke, he put his hand on the saber under his side.
The shopkeeper stared at the officer's knife, didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly picked up the official document and ran into the backyard.
What he didn't expect was that it didn't take long for him to come back with the tax money, and those people were very generous enough to give him more money.
The official was satisfied, put the silver in his pocket, and went out without asking any more about the official documents.
The shopkeeper spat at the back of the servant and closed the door.
In a guest room in the backyard, Mr. Bao was meditating with an official document.
"My lord, now that the Zijin pot has arrived in our hands, Fei Yong and Fei She's charges of stealing national treasures have been confirmed, and Qi Shun and other witnesses are also in Fei She's hands, why haven't they been arrested?" An officer asked.
Mr. Bao put the official document on the table.
"The former, He Zhutou was poisoned because he knew the secret of the Zijin Pot, which shows that this Tang Lu Bu has smelled danger. However, I saw that this man was loyal, and I was deceived by Fei Yong's illusion, and I expected that this man must have fled in search of the real treasure pot. Although Qi Shun can be used as a witness, because he is Fei Yong's person, it may be difficult to convince the public. If we make a move too early, we will be eaten by Fei Yong and others, and the result will not be beautiful. ”
"What do you mean, do you want to wait until they capture that Tang Lu Bu?"
Master Bao smiled slightly.
"Although Fei She's subordinates are numerous, they are still not as good as the mountain bandits, and they want to catch him and climb to the sky."
"In that case, what are we waiting for?" The errand officer didn't understand.
"I'm waiting for another important piece of evidence." Bao Zheng smiled mysteriously.
"What other evidence?"
Bao Zheng pretended to be mysterious, stood up and looked out the window, suddenly turned around, and said, "You quickly take two people to ambush outside the city, this official expects that before tonight, Fei Shi will definitely send someone to the capital, and you will arrest this person on the way to see me." Remember, don't let the rumors go. ”
The errand blinked a few times, wondering why Master Bao was so confident.
The errand officer was dispatched, and Lord Bao called another person.
"You take the others to the Qinglian Nunnery outside Chuzhou City, I expect that Tang Lu Bu will hide there, you just need to keep an eye on it, don't be alarmed. By the way, send another person back to Beijing immediately to see my goddaughter, Chen Yuniang, and ask her to find a way to help Tang Lubu's wife move out of her uncle's mansion as soon as possible. ”
"Isn't it dangerous for us to be sent out, and the adults are here alone?" The errand officer was a little uneasy.
Master Bao is full of confidence.
"You just have to wait, this official has his own good plan."
"The villain obeys." The messenger stopped being verbose and told the master to leave.
Lu Bu was indeed in Qinglian Nunnery.
Since official documents were posted everywhere in the city to arrest him, Lu Bu had nowhere to go, so he had to be cheeky to find Miaoling.
Miao Ling didn't dare to stay in the nunnery, so she took him to a small village not far from the nunnery, and told him the news that Xie Ying was also in the nunnery.
However, Miao Ling also told Lu Bu that the purple gold pot was not in Xie Ying's hands.
At present, the only candidate is Bao Zheng.
Lu Bu decided to return to the city in disguise early tomorrow morning, and he must find this black charcoal head.
The people sent by Lord Bao to monitor him lived next door to him.
As expected by Lord Bao, in the evening, the people sent outside the city really came back with a person.
This person was carrying a handwritten letter written by Fei Shi to Fei Yong.
On the letter, Fei Shi told the story of the loss of the treasure pot in detail, and asked Fei Yong for instructions, whether to kill Qi Shun and others on the spot?
With such a direct piece of evidence, Mr. Bao decided to close the net. However, before that, he still has to do another thing, that is, to catch the female bandit who slipped through the net - Xie Ying.
Moreover, there are many servants under Fei She, and the people he brought are obviously insufficient, and there is no holy decree on him, if he wants to openly arrest Fei She, Lu Bu is the force he must rely on.
How to persuade Lu Bu to use it for himself has become the most headache in front of Lord Bao.
Bao Zheng thought of a way that really didn't see the light - using Diao Chan.
Fortunately, he had already sent someone to ask Chen Yuniang to help Diao Chan move out of the country's uncle's mansion, but this letter was cut off by himself halfway, and it was only a matter of time before he wanted to bring Diao Chan.
Pao is patient.
To this end, he activated the first-class sword guard who stayed in Kaifeng Mansion - Zhanzhao.
Zhan Zhao was a first-class general who was enshrined by the emperor.
The Yipin generals of the Northern Song Dynasty actually had no real power, at best they were just a follower behind the civil officials, and the same was true for Zhanzhao.
However, because Zhanzhao used to be quite famous in the rivers and lakes, he followed Lord Bao to capture many court felons, and even the emperor praised him, and he was also an existence that could not be ignored in Bianjing City.
It will be up to him to escort Diao Chan and the others here, and there will be no mistakes.
Without further ado, Bao Zheng's letter was immediately sent to the capital.
After Zhan Zhao received the letter, he immediately took action, first of all, he sent someone to get in touch with Chen Yuniang, and she was responsible for bringing Diao Chan out, and he came forward as an errand official of Kaifeng Prefecture to take Diao Chan away.
Neither Zhan Zhao nor Bao Zheng expected that at this time, what happened to Diao Chan and Chen Yuniang was far more tricky than what happened to Chuzhou.