Chapter 12: Borrowing the Way (1)
The next day, when the afternoon sun poured into the dragonfly house, she struggled to sit up and stretched.
"Dragonfly, I've come back from patrolling, why haven't you gotten up yet?" Liu Xing pushed open the door and complained about her as he walked inside.
"Hah...... I'm General Shi's long-lost daughter, the future lady of Lord Shaoqing, what's wrong with enjoying a blessing, you still dare to beat me......" Dragonfly got out of bed and walked out while yawning.
"Just the way you look, don't embarrass me when you go out, I'll thank God, don't say that everyone is beautiful, the Cuilan of Liu Laohan's family next door is more virtuous than you." Liu Xing continued to complain.
"Why did you come back so late today, you went to play cards secretly?"
"Nonsense, is your father and me such a person?" Liu Xing glanced at her and explained, "There was a carriage on the way back, and the wheels were cracked, so I took a few brothers to help carry it to the carpenter. ”
"Cracked?" The dragonfly suddenly came to his senses, "This is a novelty, I can understand that the axle is broken, the wheel is cracked, why don't you take off the wheel and take it to smash people and smash it against the wall." ”
"I also thought it was strange and asked the carpenter, and the carpenter said that the wheel was hit into it by something so hard that it cracked."
Hearing this, the dragonfly instantly sobered up, and ran outside after putting on his clothes carelessly.
"What are you going to do?"
"Look at the excitement!"
Liu Xing stared at the dragonfly's distant back, muttered and shook his head, and went into the kitchen to cook.
Arriving at the carpenter's shop, the dragonfly glanced around and quickly found the cracked wheel.
"Second Uncle Liu, I heard that a cracked wheel was sent over, this is it." The dragonfly pointed to the wheels and said.
"yes, that's it." Liu Er nodded.
The dragonfly walked over and took a look, and saw that there was a small hole on the wheel, the size of a stone, as Liu Xing said, and the crack extended out from this hole.
"Second Uncle Liu, how did you get this?" Dragonfly asked.
"I guess I hit something with internal force." Liu Er groped his chin and said.
"Whose carriage is so unlucky."
"Rich businessmen from other places, I heard that they robbed people on the road, and they were tied to the carriage at that time." Speaking of this, Liu Er took a sip, "I really deserve it, God has eyes." ”
"Where do you live?"
"Dragon and Phoenix Inn."
"At Aunt Mo's, Uncle is gone."
When she came to the Dragon and Phoenix Inn, Dragonfly went directly to the backyard to find Mo Xue and ask her about the rich businessmen.
"And they are very poor, and I have never seen anyone they give silver." Mo Xue said disgustedly.
"I heard that it was a rich businessman from other places, why are you so stingy."
"Yes, I owe me good wine and good food, and I am busy in vain." Mo Xue scolded.
"How many of them are there?"
"What are you doing here, isn't it a crime?"
"That's not true, Cuilan always wants to marry a good one, I'm not looking for her."
"After thinking about it, the man brought two domestic servants and two women, one of whom was reluctant, and at first glance he was turned on the road." Mo Xue said.
In the evening, Dragonfly called Su Qing and asked him to find out about the men, while she went to the stables to check on their horses.
In the second half of the night, Su Qing came to meet the dragonfly as agreed.
"Three men and two women, very vigilant, walking, sitting and lying are not like businessmen, like Jianghu sects." Su Qing directly said his conclusion.
"Their horses are all good horses of the first class, and the horseshoe is very badly worn, so it must have been a long way during this time." Dragonfly also said what she thought.
"By the way, there is a lot of rumor outside, saying that it is a woman who was forcibly captured, I look like a practitioner, martial arts should be sealed, and they regard people very strictly." Su Qing said again.
"You ask Yan Chang to go and tell the neighbors that the woman followed voluntarily, not abducted, and told them not to spread the word. Let Zeng Mi urge Second Uncle Liu to quickly repair their wheels. Dragonfly arranged.
"Why?"
"They should be here to borrow the Tao, if we can not cause trouble, don't make trouble, as long as they don't make trouble, we will turn a blind eye." With that, the dragonfly went home to sleep.
Early the next morning, someone outside the yamen sounded a drum, and the drum resounded in all directions, attracting many people to come and watch. In the more than ten years since Liu Qing took office, he has been conscientious and conscientious, and has governed Qinghe County smoothly, and there have rarely been any cases that require drumming.
"What sound?" The dragonfly put on a garment and opened the door of the courtyard and poked her head out.
"Someone has beaten the drum, take a look......"
She heard the conversation of passers-by on the street, and her heart was faintly uneasy. I just hope it doesn't have anything to do with those people.
When the dragonfly arrived, she saw a woman in purple clothes standing in the hall, claiming that her sister had been forcibly abducted by gangsters to make a child, and hoped that the county magistrate would help her make the decision and save her sister.
The dragonfly gave Su Qing a look, and Su Qing silently stepped aside and quietly slipped out of the back hall to join the dragonfly.
"The villain she said was the one who entered the city yesterday?" Dragonfly asked.
"Yes." Su Qing replied.
"Do you look at her dress and temperament, does she look like a Jianghu person?" Dragonfly asked again.
"Like, like it." Su Qing nodded hurriedly.
The dragonfly was silent, she didn't have to listen to what the woman said to guess what she meant. It seems that this trouble cannot be shaken off.
"Liu Zhukuai, what should we do now?" Su Qing thought for a while and said, "Those few people in the rivers and lakes, their martial arts are not weak, we ...... It shouldn't be an opponent......"
"Call me Dragonfly." After saying that, Dragonfly motioned for him to change into civilian clothes and follow him.
The two went straight to the inn, and happened to meet those Jianghu people checking out.
"The wheels haven't been repaired yet, where are you in a hurry?" Dragonfly asked, smiling.
"The girl is ......" The man at the head looked at the dragonfly suspiciously.
"Liu Aiting, the yamen's arrest." Dragonflies report their homes.
"The yamen still accepts women to catch fast?" One of the women couldn't help but whisper.
"Accept, of course, with the skills of a girl, you can apply if you want to." The dragonfly looked at her with a smile.
I saw that she blushed because she didn't control her mouth, and quickly lowered her head.
The man at the head was dressed in green clothes, and when he saw it, he knew that his qi was extraordinary, he moved two steps between the dragonfly and the woman, and bowed his hand and said: "Situ Hong, a disciple of Shaxuemen in Xia Song Snow Mountain, has seen Liu Zhukuai. ”
"Just call me Dragonfly." The dragonfly returned the salute as well.
"I have a teacher's order under me, and I am in a hurry to hurry, and I hope that Liu Yu will quickly make a convenient door."
The dragonfly glanced at the people watching under the inn, pointed to a certain room where they were originally staying, and said, "Let's talk inside." ”
Situ Hong hesitated for a moment, and made a "please" gesture to the dragonfly, and the dragonfly explained Su Qing a few words, and Su Qing nodded and left.
Entering the room, Dragonfly dragged a stool and sat down, and without waiting for Situ Hong to sit down, he asked directly: "Those two women are in the same door as you?" ”
"It's not." Situ Hong denied it, without any hesitation.
"They stole your cheats?"
"Nope." Situ Hong denied it again.
"You're protecting them?"
This time Situ Hong was silent, the dragonfly knew in his heart, opened the window and looked down, the people on the street were still waiting to explain.
"I don't care about their backgrounds, and the reason why you protect them has nothing to do with me. But you didn't deal with them properly, and you let the woman beat the drum, and caused us so many pairs of eyes, and caused us a lot of trouble, you have to give me an explanation. Dragonfly glared at him.
Situ Hong nodded clearly, "What does Liu Zhukuai mean ......"
"You're going to have to go to jail with me."
Situ Hong thought about it, he looked at the dragonfly for a long time with a pair of glass-colored eyes, and asked, "What about them?" ”
"People are yours, and I won't interfere."
"The prefectural order is ...... over there"
"You don't have to worry about it."
After thinking for a while, Situ Hong nodded solemnly.
Not long after, Su Qing came to the Dragon and Phoenix Inn with six catchers, and took away Situ Hong and a group of four people in full view of everyone, and "rescued" the girl who was forcibly abducted as a child.
For safety, the two sisters were taken to the government and will be escorted home by officials in the near future.
A drama of unscrupulous traders robbing people's daughters came to an end, and it didn't cost a single soldier.
In the wing room of the mansion, the two sisters sat in the house in a hurry, and kept asking the guards at the door to ask to see the county lord.
"Girl, we adults went out yesterday to deal with official business, and we didn't say when we would return." Su Qing replied.
"We don't need the official to send each other, we can go home ourselves, you let us go out." My sister begged him.
"This can't be done, the county master said that it is not safe for the two daughters' families to go out, and they must wait for him to come back and arrange someone to escort them before they can feel at ease."
"Then when will Lord Liu come back?!" My sister said urgently.
"My lord didn't say it." Su Qing replied.
"You! You guys...... Did you mean to fool me? My sister asked angrily, "We've been waiting for three days, why don't you let us go?" ”
"What can I say about this, it's not that we want to lock up the two sisters, but that Lord Liu really hasn't come back, and we have to wait for him to arrange it." Dragonfly came in with a plate of plums.
"Are you Liu Aiting?" My sister looked at her and asked.
"You know me?" The dragonfly was a little surprised.
"My surname is Meng, my name is Meng Han'an, and my sister's name is Meng Hanyun."
"Oh." Dragonfly replied coldly.
"You're the hell, aren't you?" Meng Hanan asked her.
This made Dragonfly even more surprised, and she couldn't understand why she knew.
"My father is friends with Lord Liu, and he often mentions you to me, saying that you are a smart and clever girl, and you dare to go out to catch criminals at a young age......"
Dragonfly's brows furrowed, since she was friends with Uncle Qing, why didn't Uncle Qing recognize her before in the hall?
"Liu Zhu, I have something important to go out, please let me out!" Meng Hanan was about to kneel down as he spoke.
Dragonfly looked at the situation a little weird, Meng Hanan had been trying to find a way to get out since he was locked up, but Meng Hanyun never said a word, as if he was unconscious.
"Your business has nothing to do with me." The dragonfly helped her up, put the fruit bowl on the table and was about to leave.
"My father ......"
"I don't want to hear it." Dragonfly interrupted her.
"You ......" Meng Hanan looked at her with complicated eyes, "Aren't you a quick catcher who has repeatedly solved strange cases?" ”
"Isn't it good to be alive?" Dragonfly asked her rhetorically.