After leaving Fengyuan County, Chu Ping continued to hurry, and there was no need to mention how hard it was to sleep in the wind and rain along the way. Let's say that at noon on this day, Chu Ping finally came to the city gate tower of a county seat, looked up at the plaque on the city gate tower, and saw the three big characters "Tongyuan County" written on it, Chu Ping smiled happily and said: "After several days of travel, I finally found a place where I can stay, it is better to go to the city first, find an inn to take a good rest, and when the rest is enough, it is not too late to hurry!"

Entering the county seat, wandering around for a long time, I finally found an inn with the name "Dongfu" to settle down. Chu Ping asked the innkeeper for a quiet and elegant guest room, and instructed the guys in the store to prepare some good wine and food and send them to the room.

After eating and drinking enough, he removed the broken table, lay down to rest for a while, looked up at the ceiling of the roof, and gradually fell into deep thought, thinking, thinking, the image of Shui Lingyu appeared in his mind again, and saw her smiling sweetly at herself, and gently swaying her soft figure from time to time.

Somehow, Chu Ping suddenly laughed, this laugh didn't matter, Chu Ping immediately came back to his senses, slapped his head violently, and blamed himself: "Oh yes! Chu Ping, Chu Ping, what do you say has happened to you lately? For no reason, you always think of what a girl is doing here? You are too ashamed, right? Forget it, it is important to go to sleep quickly and have a good rest......!"

After resting here for two days, Chu Ping only felt refreshed and energetic, and was no longer as lazy and weak as before, so he was ready to set off again.

However, not long after leaving the inn, I suddenly saw a young woman with unkempt hair not far ahead, waving her fist and rushing towards her, and kept shouting: "I will kill you thief!" When she rushed closer, Chu Ping hurriedly dodged sideways, and before she could ask the reason, the woman turned around again, and rushed towards him again with a fist, Chu Ping dodged lightly again, and asked her with doubts: " No, I said that this sister-in-law, I don't know you at all, so how can I ever offend you? Why do you want to beat you again and again? Why is this?"

The madwoman didn't say anything, staring at Chu Ping with anger, gritting her teeth and gurgling, as if she wanted to eat him alive. Next, something even more unexpected happened, I saw the crazy woman suddenly rush to a meat case set up on the side of the road, picked up the long knife that chopped meat in her hand, and slashed at Chu Ping. The passers-by who were watching were all screaming loudly in fright. Chu Ping couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly dodged it, and said a little angrily: "I didn't say you, this sister-in-law, did you recognize the wrong person?

The madwoman shouted angrily, "You thief, you killed my husband, you must kill you today!" As soon as the words fell, she rushed again with a knife.

At this moment, I saw an old man with a white beard, who quickly rushed to the madwoman, stretched out his hand to snatch the long knife from the woman's hand, threw the knife far away, and said to the woman: "Oh, my eldest lady! You recognize the wrong person! This son, he is not the murderer of Zhang Xianggong at all! The old slave begs you, eldest miss, you should hurry up and go home with the old slave, okay? My eldest lady! The staff is waiting at home in a hurry!"

The madwoman said to the old man, "Uncle Sheng, it is him, he is the one who killed my husband." Hurry up and kill him for me, so that I can avenge my husband!"

The old man said a little anxiously: "Oh, I said Miss, he is really not the murderer of Zhang Xianggong! Miss, you listen to the old slave tell you, although this person is dressed the same as the thief, but the old slave assures you that he and the thief are not the same person at all! Miss, you really recognize the wrong person!" No matter how the old man persuaded her, the madwoman still insisted that Chu Ping was the murderer of her husband, and she wanted to rush towards Chu Ping again, but fortunately, the old man struggled to stop her, so she failed to rush to Chu Ping. Seeing such a thing happening, there are more and more lively people, and in the crowd, there are bursts of discussion from time to time:

"What the hell is going on? Could this man be the flower thief who deserves a thousand cuts?"

"Who knows! Didn't you hear what the old butler said just now, he said that this man is not the thief at all!"

"I don't think this person looks like that kind of person! But that Miss Fang, why do you keep saying that he is the thief?"

"Oh, wasn't she frightened crazy by the thieves?

"Maybe!"

The two of them continued to talk, and the other person stepped forward and interjected: "Chew! Why do you two think that Miss Fang has recognized the wrong person? How can you tell from the face of the good guy and the bad guy? Perhaps, this person really is the flower thief who deserves to be killed by the heavens!"

One of them nodded again and again: "It seems to be such a reason! Good people and bad people, who can see it!"

"yes!"

......

Hearing their discussions, Chu Ping was even more puzzled, but he was also sure of one thing, there was indeed a flower thief wearing the same clothes as himself here, Chu Ping didn't know what to do, I want to leave, I'm afraid that I will always bear the notoriety of this flower thief, if I don't leave, but I don't know where to start investigating this matter.

Just when he was in a dilemma, he suddenly saw several county officials walking towards him. Coming to everyone, the head catcher quickly asked the old housekeeper of the Fang Mansion, "Dare to ask Father Li, what is going on?"

Li Laohan first saluted him and replied: "If you go back to Sun Zhutou, the eldest lady of my family, she mistakenly regarded this person as a thief who killed my family's Zhang Xianggong, so she caused this misunderstanding, and I hope Sun Zhutou can understand!"

Before Sun Zhutou could speak, Miss Fang shouted angrily: "No, no, he killed my husband, it's him!"

Seeing this, Sun Zhutou said helplessly: "One of you says that he is not, but the other insists that he is a murderer, this teaches me how to do it? In my opinion, it is better to do this, you might as well go to the yamen with me, and ask the county lord to make a decision for you!" walked up to Chu Ping and said: "This young man, now I really have no choice, so I have to wronged the young man and follow me to the yamen!"

Chu Ping clasped his hands into fists and said, "Okay! Now that the matter is over, I think it has to be like this, I believe that the county commander will definitely return my innocence." ”

"Very good! Then please!" Chu Ping and the three of them went to the county government with Sun Zhutou. After coming to the county office, Sun Zhutou took the lead in coming to the back office, and told the county magistrate what had happened.

Coming to the county hall above, the county magistrate sat down, the three classes of officials stood on both sides, and after shouting the hall prestige, Sun Zhutou brought Chu Ping and the three of them to the hall, knelt down in front of the hall in turn, and listened to the county magistrate's questioning. The county magistrate slapped the hall in surprise and shouted: "Who is kneeling in the hall?

Chu Ping was the first to reply: "Lord Hui Zhixian, in Xia Chuping, from Tianshan!"

Li Laohan replied: "Back to the eldest lord, the old man's surname is Li Mingchangsheng, and he is the housekeeper of the county's Fang Tianchun Fang Yuan's foreign mansion, and the one next to me is my family's daughter Fang Wanting. ”

The county magistrate nodded, and asked again: "Then you and the other three, what is the reason, you have to fight fiercely on the street?"

Chu Ping replied: "If you go back to your lordship, I really don't know what the reason is, this Miss Fang family will repeatedly find trouble in Xia, but I haven't had any physical conflicts with her, and I hope your lord will find out!"

After hearing this, the county magistrate asked Li Changsheng: "Li Laohan, I don't know what this person said, is it true?"

Li Changsheng replied: "Returning to the words of the county lord, it is not bad! What this young man said is not false at all. ”

Unexpectedly, Fang Wanting suddenly shouted: "It's him, it's him who killed my husband." ”

"Bold!" The county magistrate slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "On the county court, how can you be presumptuous!" Fang Wanting, this county thinks that you have gone crazy because of the pain of losing your husband, so I don't care about you. If you dare to roar in court again, don't blame this county for punishing you!"

"Yes...... , Thank you for the kindness of the county lord!" Li Changsheng thanked the county lord on behalf of Fang Wanting, and then, the other party Wanting said softly: "My eldest lady, the old slave begs you not to talk anymore, okay? Otherwise, the board hits the body, but it hurts!" Hearing him say this, Fang Wanting really quieted down, and stopped shouting or screaming.

At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of "dong dong dong" drumming from outside the county government, and the county magistrate slapped the wood in surprise and shouted: "Come on! Go and check who is beating the drum, and bring the person who beats the drum to the hall quickly!"

"Yes!" Sun Zhutou walked out of the county hall, and he didn't have much work, only to see him bring an old Confucian student who was over half a hundred years old to the hall, this person was Fang Wanting's father, Fang Tianchun.

Why did you come to the county government to play the drums suddenly? It turned out that he was waiting at home for Li Changsheng to find his daughter Fang Wanting, but he didn't return to the left and right, so he had no choice but to go out of the house and look for his daughter on the street, but unexpectedly, he unexpectedly heard someone talking that his daughter was taken back to the yamen by the county government, so he rushed to the county government to play the drum.

Fang Tianchun came to the county hall and kowtowed to the county magistrate: "Fang Tianchun, grass people, knock to see the county commander!"

The county master pointed at Chu Ping and asked Fang Tianchun, "Outside Fang, I don't know if you can recognize this person?"

Fang Tianchun glanced at Chu Ping in the direction of the county master's finger, and was not surprised, and hurriedly replied to the county master: "Lord Hui, it was this person who broke into my daughter's room that night and wanted to plot against my daughter, but he was hit by my son-in-law Zhang Xiaoqian, so this thief was ruthless and brutally killed my son-in-law with a sword, and then he jumped over the wall and fled. My lord, please punish this thief severely, and avenge my tragic death of my son-in-law!"

When Chu Ping heard him say this, he suddenly felt wronged, and hurriedly pleaded to the county magistrate: "Wronged, Lord County Commander, he is purely a false accusation, I don't know him at all, how could I have broken into his home to do such a bad thing, I hope that the lord can investigate clearly, and he is still innocent in the next one!"

The county lord took a closer look at Chu Ping, and saw that his facial features were upright, with a solid and honest appearance, and his body exuded a sense of justice. Those who are officials pay attention to listening to the sound and reasoning, and distinguishing the appearance and color. The sage has a cloud: "The gentleman is sincere in the middle, and the form is in the outside." The county magistrate concluded that Chu Ping was definitely not the kind of flower thief who liked to look for flowers and ask willows, so he asked Fang Tianchun: "Dare to ask Fang Yuanwai, that night, have you ever seen with your own eyes the true face of that thief's Lushan?"

"This ......! I ......" Fang Tianchun was so speechless that he couldn't answer.

Seeing him like this, the county magistrate was already in his chest, slapped the shocked wood, and shouted: "Tell me quickly! Have you seen the true face of the thief clearly? Don't hesitate, tell the truth quickly!"

Fang Tianchun squeaked tremblingly, "No...... Nope!"

The county magistrate slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Bold Fang Tianchun, since you didn't see the true face of that thief, why did you dare to assert that he was the thief who broke into your house that night?"

Fang Tianchun replied tremblingly: "Back to the words of the county lord, although the grass people have never seen the true face of the thief, the grass people can be sure that the thief's clothes are exactly the same as this person!

"Bold!" the county magistrate slapped the shocked wood and shouted: "Okay, you bold Fang Tianchun! You dare to assert that he is the thief just because you are dressed in the same clothes, you are too rash and arbitrary! If this county didn't see your old age, it would definitely reward you with 20 boards!"

Fang Tianchun was terrified, kowtowed and apologized: "Yes...... , the grass people know that they are wrong, thank you for your kindness!"

The county magistrate said to Chu Ping: "This young man, although this county can't conclude that you are the hateful thief from this, it can't also assert that you must have nothing to do with this matter. Let me tell you the truth, the thief has committed three cases in my Tongyuan County, and two of them are women, after being humiliated by the thief, but they were brutally killed by the thief. Just because the case is serious, the county has decided to give you half a month, as long as you catch the real murderer, the county will give you justice, otherwise, the county will have to convict you of the real murderer. In addition, the county should warn you that if you want to take advantage of the opportunity to escape, then the county will definitely report to the court and issue an official document against you for sea arrest, and at that time, even if you escape to the ends of the earth, the county will definitely arrest you. Do you understand?"

After hearing this, Chu Ping was excited, clasped his hands into fists and gave a salute, and replied: "Thank you for the extra kindness of the county commander, and you should do your best to arrest the thief!"

The county commander nodded again and again and smiled: "Okay, very good! Then the county is waiting for your good news here!

"Wei ......... Martial .........!"

After leaving the county office, Fang Tianchun smiled coldly at Chu Ping: "Boy, although I don't know what your relationship is with that thief, but I can be sure that you must know him, it's not good, you have a lot to do with him! I hope you can capture him, otherwise, you kid will just wait to squat in the cage!"

Although Chu Ping was angry, he felt helpless, so he had to return to the Dongfu Inn again. Unexpectedly, the guy at the inn didn't teach him to enter the door at all, and he said quite ugly: "Hmph! You shameless flower thief, don't want to enter the door of our Dongfu Inn for half a step! Get out of here! Hugh teaches you that filthy and filthy air on your body has stained the feng shui treasure of our Dongfu Inn! Get out!"

Although Chu Ping was very angry, he had no choice but to find other inns to settle in. After looking for a long time, no inn was willing to let him live. Chu Ping shouted angrily: "Damn! I obviously have never done such a dirty deed, but now I have fallen into this field. I must take that hateful thief, first, to eliminate the harm of this people, and second, to wash away the stigma of this prostitute and thief, and to restore my innocence!"

I don't know how Chu Ping should get rid of this lawsuit?