Qiu Tao, the bewitching innkeeper, sighed, "It is said that the people do not fight with the officials, the poor do not fight with the rich, the Liu family is a lesson from the past, the daughter was robbed of the concubine, and the son was also forced to go up the mountain and fall into the grass as a coward, it is useless to sue the county guard yamen, I heard that there is no result in Jingkong, don't you say it is because of the fight with the government? It is difficult to be poor, it is difficult to be rich, and it is difficult to have a beautiful daughter!"

Tang Jiusheng laughed and quipped: "It's good that our county guard didn't see you, the innkeeper, otherwise he would have sent someone to rob you to be a concubine!"

The proprietress Qiu Tao rolled her eyes charmingly, "Look at what the son said, a woman like me, where can the county keeper look at it?

Tang Jiusheng laughed, took the proprietress hand, glanced at it, stroked it, and praised: "That's because he lacks taste! Autumn peaches like this, full of water and sweet in the mouth, how can those green peaches be compared?"

Qiu Tao's eyes were crooked with a smile, and she said with a smile on her face: "Yo, I really don't see it, although Childe is young, he is still quite experienced! If Childe is in need, how about I come to sleep tonight?"

Tang Jiusheng laughed dryly, slapped Qiu Tao's buttocks with his hand, and turned to leave, "Oh, it's really unfortunate today, my aunt is here!"

The proprietress Qiu Tao scolded hatefully in the back, "The old lady knows that it is another embroidered pillow with a thief's heart but no thief's courage, but it's a pity that this is a good skin!"

Tang Jiusheng left the counter humming a little song, he didn't hear Qiu Tao's words, he only calculated that he would visit Liu's house at night tonight. During the day, everyone can't go, it's too conspicuous and easy to expose the target, in case someone sees and reports Ye Tengjiao's dog legs in the county, the Liu family will be in a big disaster.

After dark, Tang Jiusheng took the fat man and Xiahou Lingyu with weapons, left the Taoyuan Inn, and went straight to Liu Chenli's house in the northeast corner of the county. The fat man's pair of sledgehammers did not have them, mainly because they were too heavy, and it was not convenient to carry them out, and Zhu Congwu, who was responsible for carrying the hammer, was not there. Tang Jiusheng lent the Honghuang Sword to the fat man to use, and the fat man held the Honghuang Sword in his hand, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "This sword, the fat master doesn't use it, it's too light!"

Tang Jiusheng picked up the Yanling knife and scolded with a smile: "You can be content, I carry an ordinary steel knife worth five taels of silver, but this Honghuang sword in your kid's hand can at least rank eighteenth in the world!"

The three of them performed light skills all the way, and according to the location marked on the map, they came to the gate of Liu Chenli's house, and sure enough, as the innkeeper said, the courtyard was cold, and there was a huge Liu Mansion, and there was no lantern hanging.

The three of them came to the outside of the courtyard wall of the Liu house, tied a veil, looked at each other, nodded, jumped into the back room, listened around, and did not hear the dog barking. Tang Jiusheng quietly came to the front ridge of the inverted house, took out a flying locust stone from his arms, threw it down with a snap, listened carefully, and the ground was below, neither a pit nor water. Only then did he float down gently, and Xiahou Lingyu and the fat man also jumped down.

Xiahou Lingyu praised softly: "Dead fatty, I didn't see that your light skills are not bad! So fat, you actually landed without any sound at all!" Tang Jiusheng hurriedly covered Xiahou Lingyu's mouth with his hand, signaling her not to make a sound, Xiahou Lingyu felt her face flush for no reason, her body was crisp, and a warm current surged in her heart, I really wanted Tang Jiusheng to hug her gently. Fortunately, it was dark, and Tang Jiusheng couldn't see her blushing.

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In front, the three of them quietly came to the weeping flower gate, each jumped on the wall of the weeping flower gate, Tang Jiusheng squatted on the wall, looked into the main courtyard, only saw two begonia trees planted in the patio, three main rooms, only the first room on the right was lit, Tang Jiusheng took out a flying locust stone and threw it down, listen carefully, there is still the ground below.

Tang Jiusheng jumped down from the wall gently, and Xiahou Lingyu also followed, but the fat man did not follow, but jumped to the east wing, and leaned on the roof to watch the wind.

The two men went straight to the first room on the right, crept to the base of the window, listened carefully, and only heard someone in the room whispering but could not hear what was being said. Tang Jiusheng gestured to Xiahou Lingyu, who nodded and lightly jumped onto the roof of the main house. Tang Jiusheng gently knocked on the window of the first room, knocked on the door again, knocked three times in a row, and heard the voice of the voice disappearing.

Tang Jiusheng immediately knocked on the door three more times, and a young man's voice in the room asked, "Who?"

Tang Jiusheng lowered his voice and said, "Gongzi Liu, it's me!"

With a squeak, the door of the main room was pushed open, and a mediocre-looking young man held an oil lamp in his hand, carefully protecting it with his hands, for fear that the oil lamp would be blown out by the wind, and used the light of the oil lamp to illuminate Tang Jiusheng. At this time, Tang Jiusheng had already pulled the masked cloth to his chin and showed his face.

The boy at the end of the oil lamp looked at Tang Jiusheng carefully, he didn't know him, and just about to open his mouth to ask, Tang Jiusheng made a silent gesture with his right index finger, pulled the young man into the main room, and closed the door with his hand. asked in a low voice, "Are you the second son, Liu Chenggong?"

The young man nodded and said, "It's Liu Chenggong below, may I ask who the honorable driver is?"

Tang Jiusheng said in a low voice: "The junior brother is from the Wei Wang's Mansion and has been ordered to investigate the case of Ye Tengjiao's robbery of a people's daughter!

The boy groaned slightly, nodded slightly, and took Tang Jiusheng into the east room of the main house, as soon as Tang Jiusheng entered the house, he was stunned, and saw a table of eight immortals in the room, with a teapot and two tea bowls on the table. There were four people standing on both sides of the table, all wearing clothes that caught fast, and there was a man in official uniform sitting on the Taishi chair behind the table of the Eight Immortals, embroidered with a yellow oriole on the complement, and he was a petty official of the eight grades. The room looks like a simple court.

Seeing Tang Jiusheng walking in with that son, the eight-rank petty official quickly stood up, smiled and arched his hand: "Oh, the honorable driver is finally here, please take a seat!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the chair opposite the Eight Immortals table, signaling Tang Jiusheng to sit down, the little official saw Tang Jiusheng's inexplicable face, and laughed, "The honorable driver entered the city in the afternoon, we guess you are coming to find Liu Gongzi, so I have been waiting here for a long time!"

Seeing him say this, Tang Jiusheng simply pulled over the chair in front of the Eight Immortals' table and sat down. Seeing Tang Jiusheng sitting down, the eight-rank official hurriedly lifted the celadon teapot, poured a celadon tea bowl seven points full, put the tea bowl respectfully in front of Tang Jiusheng, and said with a smile: "Shangcha, please use tea!" Tang Jiusheng was afraid that the tea was poisonous, shook his head, and signaled himself not to drink tea.

The eight-pin petty official sat on the chair and smiled, "Just drink it with confidence, there is no poison in this tea!" Oh, by the way, the lower official wants to introduce himself, the lower official's surname is Weng, called Weng Tonglang, it is the county of Taoyin County, this afternoon I heard that the three messengers of the palace went to the Taoyuan Inn, I wanted to go over to greet them, but I was afraid that the messenger was inconvenient to see me because of the private visit of the microservice, so I didn't dare to come to the door to disturb!"

Tang Jiusheng leaned back in his chair and asked with an arrogant expression, "Then tell me, how did you know that we were coming."

How did you know we were coming to Liu's house?"

Weng Xiancheng said with a smile: "The Shangcha killed three people on the official road today, and the people of the Dama Gang had already publicized the three Shangcha when they entered the city, so the Xiaguan already knew about it! Presumably, Shangcha's trip was for Lord Ye to accept Miss Liu of the Liu family and Liu Qiongying as a concubine! Shangcha, I misunderstood! Lord Ye and Miss Liu met when they were incense in the temple, and they had feelings for each other, which was really a match made in heaven, so they formed a good relationship, not a robbery!"

As he spoke, Weng Xiancheng glanced at Liu Chenggong, the second son of the Liu family, and his mouth was full. Liu Chenggong smiled and took out a heavy burden from under the table, put it on the table and made a noise, obviously it contained gold and silver, Liu Chenggong pushed the burden in front of Tang Jiusheng, and said with a humble smile: "Shangcha, there are five hundred taels of silver here, one hundred taels of gold, please accept it with a smile!"

Tang Jiusheng didn't touch the burden, he just sneered, "Are you trying to buy me?"

Weng Xiancheng hurriedly shook his hand and said: "The errand is misunderstood! The errand is from Anshu County, and the saddle horse is tired all the way, these are the greeting gifts for the errand, there is absolutely no other meaning, just please go buy some tea to drink!"

Liu Chenggong nodded on the side and said with a smile: "That's right! Please rest assured, the sister is now living very happily and satisfied, some folk rumors before are all due to misunderstandings!

Tang Jiusheng laughed, pushed back the burden, and said meaningfully: "The two officials and masters, don't make trouble! Five hundred taels of silver and one hundred taels of gold to buy tea to drink? I'm afraid that I will rot my intestines after drinking such a sorry tea!"

Weng Xiancheng and Liu Chenggong glanced at each other, and Liu Chenggong asked cautiously: "It's poor, but it's too little silver?"

Tang Jiusheng's face was strange, he smiled dryly and nodded: "Well, you kid is really good! We came with three people, and you gave this little bit of gold and silver, and the three of us are not easy to separate!"

Weng Xiancheng and Liu Chenggong glanced at each other again, Weng Xiancheng nodded, Liu Chenggong quickly reached out and took out another burden from under the table, and put it on the table to untie the burden. Liu Chenggong laughed softly: "Shangcha, this is three hundred taels of gold!

Tang Jiusheng smiled and took out a round waist card from his arms, threw it on the table, and asked in a big way: "Two, let's not pretend, you say, how much is this waist card worth?"

Weng Xiancheng picked up this round silver waist card and took a closer look, only to see that the front of the waist card is a dragon, the back is a crouching tiger, and there are two big characters engraved on the top of the dragon, "Dongwei"! Weng Xiancheng gasped, handed the waist card to Liu Chenggong, Liu Chenggong saw it, his face changed greatly, the two quickly stood up, knelt on the ground, kowtowed: "Xia Guan has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and has seen the East Neiwei Division Baihu Lord!"

It turned out that this silver waist card was owned by the 100 households of the Dongnei Wei Division, and these two people panicked when they saw it, who dared to offend Dongwei, isn't that a live twist? Dongwei's 100 households, how can a small Bapin County be able to provoke it? Although Dongwei's 100 households are not big, only the six grades, but they are much more majestic than the county guards of the four grades!

The hundred households of Dongwei can run rampant in big business, and the county keeper can only manage the affairs of this one county. If this hundred households verify the crimes of our county guard, can't the county guard be dragged out and beheaded?

Weng Xiancheng fell to the ground and said tremblingly: "The lower officials don't know that the hundred households of Dongwei have arrived, and they have missed the distance, please forgive me!"

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