Before Haixi Cliff's order was believed, Haijiao found his target first.

One day in late May, he rushed back home before noon, and he didn't care about eating, so he first went to the west wing to talk to his sister, and opened his mouth to say: "I saw those Jiangyang thieves!" ”

Haitang blinked, quickly put down the pen in his hand, looked out the window, and made sure that no one would hear the conversation between their brother and sister, so he pulled his brother close to the wall, away from the window, and asked in a low voice, "Are you sure?" Haven't you seen them before? ”

"I've never seen them in person, but I've seen their sea fishing papers, and they're pretty clearly drawn." When Haijiao listened to the story of the arrest of this gang of river and ocean thieves in his last life, he had seen the wanted warrants kept by others in private.

It was originally posted on the bulletin wall next to the city gate, after the prisoner was caught, the wanted notice was useless, and when there was an official document that needed to be posted, the guards tore off the wanted document and threw it aside, just when an idler picked it up, and later told others about the bustle in the city, he used those few wanted documents with graphics to corroborate.

Haijiao remembered that the river thieves were three men and one woman, one of the three men was a beard, the other was a triangular-eyed goatee, and a particularly tall black and fat strong man, as for the woman, she looked a little bit beautiful on the figure, but there was an obvious black mole at the corner of her mouth, and she smiled enchantingly. The people who used these arrested Jiangyang thieves as talking points did not describe the beauty and coquettishness of this female robber.

Hai Jiao didn't taint his sister's ears with those gossip, but said: "The people guarding the city gate told me that these are all new faces who have entered the city for the first time, and they don't look like good people, so they interrogated them a few more times." The beard, triangular eyes, tall black fat, and the mole on the corner of the woman's mouth, several features are matched, and the speech is also a Suzhou accent, who else would they be?! Although the triangular eyes did not have a goatee, the beard was not unshavable, and the appearance of the other accomplices alone was enough to prove their identity.

"They claim to be here to look for relatives, and they are now living in the Liujia car shop. The shopkeeper of the Liu family said that after they lived in the store yesterday, they never went out again, and they ate in the house for dinner, and they seemed to be afraid of seeing too many people, and they didn't seem to be in a hurry to find their relatives at all. Among them, the triangular eye had mentioned to him that he wanted to rent a house in the city, and asked him to help find a suitable house, and he wanted to find a more secluded place. This contradicts what they say at the gates! ”

With so many coincidences, it seems that it is really the right thing.

This gang of Jiangyang thieves should have been caught during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when they had already opened stores in the city. It's not June yet, and the timing is right.

Haitang said: "Since my brother has found someone, it will be easy to do next." You can keep an eye on them every day, but you don't have to stare at them for a long time, so as not to startle the snakes, and they won't leave until the Mid-Autumn Festival anyway. The next thing is to find a way to get the sea fishing documents so that you can report them, otherwise brother, you can't explain why you know that these people are Jiangyang thieves. ”

Hai Jiao sighed: "In the last life, the sea fishing documents were transmitted to Suzhou, and it was all in August. At that time, they had been in the city for several months, and they were all familiar with each other, and no one had anything to do with the image of the river and ocean thieves on the sea fishing paperwork. I really have to wait until the sea fishing paperwork comes, and the daylilies are cold! I don't know when my grandfather will be transferred. What if we leave before the sea fishing paperwork arrives? ”

Haitang smiled: "Then it depends on my brother's ability, can you catch a handle or two from the daily words and deeds of these people, and it will be easier to be convincing when reporting them to the government as suspected robbers?" They have been committing crimes for a long time, but Suzhou is too remote, and no one thought that they would escape here, so the sea fishing documents will be passed so slowly. Once the government finds out that they may indeed be Jiangyang thieves, they will report the matter to Ganzhou or even Chang'an, and you are still worried that there will be no way to confirm their identities at that time? ”

Haijiao felt justified and said with a smile: "This is easy to do." They had already disguised themselves when they entered the city, but they still didn't look good, and the guards guarding the city gate were muttering in private. I told the guards the words of the guards to the shopkeeper of the Liujia car shop, and asked them to be vigilant, if there is really anything wrong, don't alarm people for the time being, just go quietly to report to the official, and get a reward afterwards. Even if it's really mistaken, it's a big deal to invite those people to a drink. Liujia car shop is full of customers on weekdays, and he is not afraid of offending a few passers-by at all. ”

Haitang was a little surprised: "Isn't my brother going to report it personally?" If you let others do it for you, I'm afraid that the credit won't fall on my brother's head. ”

Haijiao sighed, "If the timing is right, of course I won't be willing to give up the credit." But now that my grandfather has climbed up to Lord Tao Yuetao, he has his own future in the future, and it seems that even my future does not have to worry, I don't have to hold on to these two small credits, the key is not to let these Jiangyang thieves have another chance to kill and injure people like they did in their previous lives. ”

Haitang was quite happy to hear his brother say this, so he gave him an idea: "If you really find the handle of this group, you don't have to let the people of the Liu family's car shop take risks, what if they show their flaws and provoke a few murderers to kill them?" Even if it doesn't hurt anyone, it's not good to break the furniture and utensils in the store. Aren't those people the shopkeeper of the Liu family looking for a secluded house? Tell him to find a place away from the crowd, lead people over, and then report to the official. Officers and men will surround and exterminate people. At that time, no matter how they kill, it will not affect the Liu family's car shop. ”

Haijiao's eyes flashed slightly, and he smiled and nodded repeatedly.

The rest went very well.

The sea reef shaped ruo inadvertently passed by the Liujia car shop and told the shopkeeper about the gossip of the city gate guards. The shopkeeper is becoming more and more vigilant.

He originally thought that those people were not like good people, and he only suspected that they were spies of horse bandits and sand thieves, but now he is even more convinced that they are not good people. As Haijiao suggested, he found a secluded house for the four people, there were not many people around, and he took the triangular eye over to take a look, and the other party was quite satisfied, and moved in with his accomplices the next day.

The shopkeeper of the Liu family helped the Jiangyang thieves move with the front foot, and went to the guard house to report it on the back foot. Originally, he just accused the other party of being suspected of being a bandit and spy, but he didn't expect the guy who went to the big car shop with him to react to the people in the guard, and he heard the black fat strong man in it boast after drinking, saying how heroic he was in Jiangnan, and the people on the rivers and lakes called so-and-so, how much money he had made, how many silver taels he had robbed, how many people he had killed, and even the government was helpless, Yunyun.

Is it worth it? Listening to the tone of this black and fat strong man, is he still a green forest thief in Jiangnan?

Suzhou Wei attaches great importance to this matter. When the guards at the city gate heard about it, they also came to react to the situation, saying that they felt that these people were secretly murderous, and they had a life in their hands, and they were also suspicious of the sand thieves, and they also quietly informed the brothers in the guard who were responsible for catching spies. Now that the two sides are in a pair, they both think that these are four big fish, so they immediately unfold a big net to round up.

The round-up operation went smoothly, and after the person was caught, he was interrogated, and two of the four people were outstanding in force but had a touching IQ, and they opened their mouths after a little deception. On the second day, the Suzhou guards all knew that they had captured four Jiangyang thieves from the south of the Yangtze River, and they had robbed officials and killed officers and soldiers.

That's a big credit! The health office immediately reported to the metropolitan division.

The whole institute was overjoyed, thinking that after the peace agreement was signed, Suzhou City would not have the opportunity to fight and make meritorious contributions for several years, but I didn't expect that there would be inland bandits who would come to deliver food, it was like falling asleep and meeting a pillow. Everyone began to discuss whether to search the city carefully, maybe catch another fugitive?

On Wednesday, the general felt that it made sense, so he ordered a thorough investigation of the inns and rented houses in the city to prevent any fish from slipping through the net.

Then, he actually caught two new big fish.

(End of chapter)