This old woman's maiden name is Ai, named Ai Cuilian, at the age of nineteen married to Deng Lasheng, who bought vegetables on the street, this Deng Lasheng because he was born in Layue, his parents named Lasheng, Deng Lasheng died at the age of ten, and then his father died soon after, first began to herd cattle for the landlord's family, and then went to the dock to do portering when he was older, and he didn't work long after, and felt too bitter. I started a vegetable business, every afternoon I went to the farmer's house outside the city to buy vegetables, and the next morning I transported the vegetables to the market in the city, and I could also make some money, and slowly accumulated, and gradually the days were better, and the man should have been married at the age of seventeen or eighteen at that time, just because he was poor, and there was no one to match, and now he has accumulated some money, and he is thirty years old. The family is poor and does not support relatives, and the second is also. , no queen of the ancestors, three also. However, among the three unfilial pieties, there is no queen the largest, and this Deng Lasheng asked the matchmaker to find a daughter-in-law for himself, and the matchmaker said on the tenth day: "There is a daughter in the Ai family outside the city, named Ai Cuilian, who is nineteen years old, and you are exactly the right match." But there is one condition, you need to pay fifty taels of silver as a dowry. ”

Although Deng Lasheng has accumulated some savings by selling vegetables for so many years, the money has also been saved up by penny, so he has to come up with a large sum of silver. It hurt for a while. Why does Ai Cuilian's family want so much silver as a dowry, it turns out that Ai Cuilian has a brother who is almost thirty years old, and he has never been able to talk about his daughter-in-law, not long ago, a matchmaker came to matchmaking, and the woman asked for thirty taels of silver as a dowry, so this Ai Cuilian and his father wanted to earn fifty taels of silver from his daughter to marry his son. Don't say that fifty taels of silver is not much, ordinary peasant families can't save ten taels of silver for decades, even a big buffalo can only sell for five taels of silver.

Deng Lasheng was hesitating whether to spend fifty taels of silver, and the matchmaker next to him saw his thoughts: "Yo! I said Lasheng! Can't you feel sorry for this money, this girl is beautiful, that's called a water spirit, that big eyes, how rich the prince and grandson are waiting for me to say this family, I saw that you are honest, so I told you this Cuilian girl." Those princes and grandsons like the new and hate the old, three wives and four concubines, Cuilian will suffer if she marries the past, if you refuse to spend this money, Cuilian's father will marry her, those sons and brothers, hey!

Deng Lasheng listened to the matchmaker's words, gritted his teeth, and with the heart of not letting Cuilian marry the prince and grandson, he decisively took out a dowry of fifty taels of silver, and after three months of marriage, Ai Cuilian became pregnant, and in the ninth month of pregnancy, Deng Lasheng was overworked, coupled with his addiction to lust, and his body was exhausted. In the morning of winter, I went to the market to sell vegetables and felt the cold, contracted a tuberculosis, coughed all day long, and the medicine stone was ineffective. Within a week, he began to cough up blood, and in half a month, he died with a whimper. Leaving behind a newly married wife and children who have never met. Exactly: there is no hotel on Huangquan Road, and the three souls will fall tonight.

There were tears on the lookout platform, and tears were rustling when he abandoned his wife and children.

After this Deng La's life and death, a month later, the child was born and named Deng Xiaoyu. Ai Cuilian raised her son alone, and at the beginning, she could rely on her husband's savings to support her, but gradually after three or five years, her life was sluggish. Look at how hard the days are. There are also some matchmakers who persuade her to remarry, but seeing that her son is still young, after all, her husband is in love with him, and now that her husband is gone, she will leave the only blood and blood, if she remarries, she is only worried that the child will be bullied by her stepfather. Since ancient times, a good woman did not serve her second husband, so she decided to start from the beginning and never marry again. I thought about finding some livelihood, and thought that my husband was buying vegetables for a living, so I also scraped together some capital to start a vegetable selling business and pulled my son up. When Deng Xiaoyu was fifteen years old, he took over his mother's business and went grocery shopping alone. The mother only cooks and does housework at home.

On this day, Deng Xiayu sold vegetables in the morning and pushed the wheelbarrow back, passing by the gambling house, just waiting for three, saw, pulled in to play money, this Hou three family lived next door to Deng Xiaoyu's house, and the two were small. Deng Xiaoyu couldn't stand Hou San's stubbornness, played a few pai gow, and lost all the silver on his body. felt unwilling and wanted to get back the original, at this time, Tang Yong of Zhensan Street had already seen it in his eyes, and came over and said: "Yo! This is Deng Xiaoyu who doesn't sell vegetables, how can he lose." ”

Hou San scurried on the side: "It's Big Brother Datang, today we lost the silver because of our bad luck, can you borrow some and let us turn over the book." I'll pay you back when I win. ”

Tang Yong smiled and said: "I have the silver, and I can lend it to you, but my profit is a bit high, do you dare to borrow it." ”

Deng Xiaoyu knew that Tang Yong was a well-known scoundrel, and if he didn't take off his skin, don't think about being quiet. So I kept silent.

Hou San saw that Deng Xiaoyu didn't take advantage of this, and deliberately provoked him: "Why did you lose so much money, Lao Tzu lost ten taels of silver here yesterday and didn't coax, you only lost two taels of silver just like this bird." ”

Deng Xiaoyu listened to Hou San's ridicule, and said to Tang Yong with a red face: "Then you will lend me a tael of silver." ”

Tang Yong and Hou San laughed, Tang Yong said, "What can you do with these two pieces of silver, but if you want to borrow it, I will still lend it to you." He touched a piece or two of silver from his sleeve and handed it to Deng Xiaoyu.

Deng Xiaoyu took a tael of silver and bet a few times, but he was lucky, and he lost two or three times. Hou San encouraged him to borrow silver to gamble, this Deng Xiaoyu was soaked in small bitter water, and today he lost three taels of silver, and his heart is already like a lump of meat, where is he still in the mood to borrow silver to gamble, regardless of Hou San's pull, he threw off his sleeves and went home from the gambling house.

After going home, he went to buy vegetables as usual every day, and three days later, Tang Yong came to the house to ask him to return the silver, Deng Xiaoyu took out one or two pieces of silver to return Tang Yong, Tang Yong laughed: "Why is it so much, you want to send me away." ”

Deng Xiaoyu looked at Tang Yong in fear: "I borrowed so much from you." It's just a tael of silver here. ”

Tang Yong's face sank: "When I borrowed money, I said that my silver is very profitable." ”

Deng Xiaoyu looked at the fierce Tang Yong and said cowardly: "Then....how much money do you want ........" ”

Tang Yong glanced sideways: "Hmph! Let me tell you, borrowing ten taels of silver a day is not a profit." If you are counted with profits, you will not be able to afford to sell your whole family!"

Deng Xiaoyu cried and whispered, "Aren't you robbing!"

"Lao Tzu is just robbing, hurry up and get the silver, thirty taels of silver, not a cent less!"

"I live by buying groceries, and I can save thirty taels of silver wherever I go. ”

Ellen was cooking in the house when she heard her son and people shouting outside, so she came out of the back room and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Tang Yong turned around and said to Ai Cuilian in a weird manner: "Your son owes me thirty taels of silver, if you don't pay it back today, I will want his life." ”

Hearing this, Azilien almost fainted, and hurriedly asked, "What did he do, he owes you thirty taels of silver." ”

Tang Yong said: "This is for you to ask your precious son." All I have to do is ask for money. ”

Ai Cuilian asked Ai Xiaoyu, "Why do you owe him so much money, what's the matter?"

Ai Xiaoyu cried and lowered his head and said: "Three days ago, I came back from selling vegetables, and I was pulled in by Hou San next door at the door of the gambling house to play money, and as a result, I lost all the two taels of silver on my body. ”

Ai Cuilian finally figured it out, complained a few words to her son, and said to Tang Yong: "He only borrowed one tael of silver from you at that time, why did he ask for thirty taels of silver." Even if you are given ten times the profit, you should only be repaid ten taels of silver. ”

When Tang Yong heard this, he shouted angrily: "You say that, you don't want to pay it back, then don't blame me for being rude" After speaking, he walked out, and after a while, he called seven or eight splashes to move things as soon as he entered the door. Carry it and go out.

The surrounding neighbors heard the noise and came out to see, and saw that it was Tang Yong of the third street of the town, and a group of people were carrying things out of Deng Xiaoyu's house, so they could only dare to be angry but not dare to speak. Who dares to solicit.

Tang Yong moved all the things on the table and bench of Deng Xiaoyu's house, and asked Deng Xiaoyu to set up an IOU of thirty taels of silver, Deng Xiaoyu refused, Tang Yong grabbed his collar and went to the river, and read in his mouth: "You refuse to set up an IOU and don't pay back, Lao Tzu didn't want thirty taels of silver today, and threw you into the river to feed Wang Ba." ”

Tang Yong had just pulled Deng Xiaoyu to the river with his front foot, and Wang Shi walked to his door with his hind foot, and saw Ai Cuilian sitting on the ground at the door and crying.

Wang Shi asked the ins and outs of the matter, and an evil fire burned from the soles of his feet to the top door, and secretly scolded this Tang Yong in his heart for being too deceitful, if he was taken to the mansion, the prefect Fan Rui would inevitably shield and connive, if he was beaten to death on the street, I am afraid that he would not be able to stay on the ground of Jinling. After thinking about it for a while, I had a plan in my heart, so I first helped Azileen up from the ground and went into the house to sit. At this time, the neighbors on the left and right saw Wang Shi helping Ai Cuilian into the house, and Tang Yong also left, and they all came over and cursed Tang Yong. Ai Cuilian calmed down her tears a little, and then remembered that her son was dragged to the riverside by Tang Yong, and hurriedly said to Wang Shi: "This strong man, my son was dragged to the riverside by that Tang Yong, you save him quickly." ”

Wang Shi secretly said in his heart: This Tang Yong is just bluffing to scare Deng Xiaoyu, the purpose is to make him set up an IOU, and he will not dare to sink him into the river. Deng Xiaoyu was scared, so he set up an IOU and naturally put him back. Comforted Ai Cuilian and said: "Auntie, don't worry, that Tang Yong is just bluffing to scare people, and your little fish will come back in a while." After finishing speaking, Deng Xiaoyu came in from outside the door dejectedly.

Ai Cuilian hurriedly stood up from her seat, stepped forward and hugged her son and touched her body, and asked with concern in her eyes: "He didn't do anything to you, did he beat you?" It didn't hurt anything. ”

Deng Xiaoyu pounced on his knees and cried bitterly: "Mom! it's all my son's fault, I shouldn't have entered the gambling house and shouldn't believe Hou San's words." Mom, I was wrong. but I gave him back thirty taels of silver. After speaking, she knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, Ai Cuilian hugged her son's head, and the mother and son cried together. The neighbors wept.

A hunchbacked old man flashed out of the crowd and sighed and said, "There is really no way to sell the house, and it can be sold for dozens of taels of silver." ”

A young man in black clothes next to him sneered: "You just sold the house, and you can sell it for fifty taels of silver at most, do you think that if you take out thirty taels of silver to pay Tang Yong, you can finish the job? Now it is thirty taels of silver, and tomorrow you will pay back the money for three hundred taels of silver." ”

Everyone just shook their heads when they heard this, Wang Shi saw that his mother and son were crying more and more sad, turned around and hugged his fists to the neighbors and said, "Everyone, please go out, their mother and son need to rest." ”

These neighbors saw Wang Shi wearing Qi Chu, the character logo, and the instrument was magnificent, not like a villain in the market. And when he called the people out, they all looked at him with puzzled eyes, and one of the women asked him, "Who are you from his house, and you will drive us out." ”

Wang Shi laughed, hugged his fists and said to the neighbors: "I am the cousin of this Ai Xiaoyu, I have been doing business abroad for many years and moving around in the future, I just arrived today, I didn't expect the family to suffer this disaster, wait for me to take care of things properly, and then invite all the neighbors to drink tea, today there is something at home will not leave you, and please go back first." ”

When everyone saw Wang Shi talking like this, they had to come out, Wang Shi sent everyone out of the gate, closed the two doors, and returned to the hall, where Ai Cuilian was still holding her son and crying. Wang Shi stepped forward and comforted: "Your mother and son don't have to worry, I will handle this matter." Ai Cuilian's mother and son immediately burst into tears when they heard Wang Shi's words: "The strong man's words are true, if you can really help my mother and son, you will be like a reborn parent."

Wang Shi lifted his mother and son from the ground, and there was nothing left in the hall except a lame chair, so he let Trelian sit down. Wang Shi asked: "Do you know where Tang Yong lives in the third street of the town, I will go to find him." ”

Deng Xiaoyu said: "His family lives in Majiashan, from here through the South Gate Street, past the Laojun Hall a mile or two ahead. I haven't been there either, and I also heard Hou San talk about it, and he is usually in the gambling house. ”

Wang Shi said: "In which gambling house, you take me there." ”

Deng Xiaoyu got up and was about to lead Wang Shi away, but Wang Shi suddenly stopped and said: "In this way, aunt, you go with us, your mother and son don't live here for the time being, lest Tang Yong come to disturb again." ”

Ai Cuilian looked around, the four walls were empty, a single rice was taken away, and the family couldn't live, sighed and followed Wang Shi out, Deng Xiaoyu was supporting Ai Cuilian by the side, Wang Shi was walking forward, as soon as the three of them went out, they were seen by a splash in ambush on the opposite side, and immediately ran to report to Tang Yong, it turned out that Tang Yong was afraid that his mother and son would escape, so he specially asked a splash to monitor the movements of Deng Xiaoyu's house here. Tang Yong was sitting in the gambling house, and he ran in and said breathlessly: "Deng Xiaoyu ran away with his wife and walked with a boy in white." ”

Tang Yong heard and scolded: "This kid is really not small, take me to chase after him." ”

Tang Yong and this splash came from behind one after the other, because this Ai Cuilian walked slowly, the three of them would just walk out of a mile, Tang Yong caught up from behind, and grabbed Deng Xiaoyu by the collar: "You kid dare to run! ”

Deng Xiaoyu was helping Ai Cuilian to walk forward, but Tang Yong grabbed her collar and was about to beat her, and when she was trembling in fright, Wang Shi had already seen it, in fact, Wang Shi saw the splashy report when he came out of Deng Xiaoyu's house. It was not surprising that Tang Yong came from behind, seeing that Tang Yong grabbed Deng Xiaoyu and wanted to fight, he stepped forward with an arrow and flipped up with his right palm and grabbed Tang Yong's wrist. With a slight squeeze of internal strength, he almost didn't pinch the wrist bones into slag, and shouted in Tang Yong's aching mouth: "Ahh ”

Wang Shi laughed and said: "You also know that it hurts, it won't hurt if you hit others, and now I pinch you lightly and scream like killing a pig." ”

Wang Shi shook his hand and said, "Don't you just want silver, I will pay the debts of their mother and son for me." ”

Tang Yong rolled up his sleeves to look at the wrist that Wang Shi had pinched, only to see that there were five finger prints on the wrist, and after a while, he began to swell, he was a little afraid of Wang Shi, and he still said recklessly: "Who are you, to take care of this idle matter, I can tell you, this Jinling prefect is my godfather." I advise you to get acquainted, or tell my godfather to take you to prison. ”

Wang Shi laughed when he heard this: "I just want to make a friend with you, and I also want to get to know the prefect, well, you are his godson, and I can make a friend of yours." Let you stir it up like this, and it's time for dinner, so let's go to the restaurant in front with me for a few drinks. ”

Tang Yong hesitated a little, and Wang Shi continued: "What's the matter! The famous Zhensan Street is still afraid of drinking. Hahaha. ”

Tang Yong said: "If you drink, you will drink, but you said that you will pay back Deng Xiaoyu's silver, but you said it." ”

"I said it, will I rely on your dozens of taels of silver? Hahaha. Wang Shi has been taking Tang Yong and Ploppy, as well as Deng Xiaoyu's mother and son, forward, walking five or six miles, Wang Shi saw a tavern in front of him, Zhou Hui residents are scarce, more secluded, so he approached the store and picked a table by the window, let Ai Cuilian sit on the head, Wang Shi and Tang Yong sat opposite each other, and Deng Xiaoyu stood behind his mother. Splashy sat down. I ordered five or six dishes and asked for a few jugs of wine. After seven or eight cups of persuasion, Tang Yong couldn't hold his breath anymore and asked, "Since you said that you would help him pay back the silver, take it out to me now." ”

Wang Shi laughed and said: "Are you still afraid that I don't have any silver, since we are friends, this wine must be drunk, and after the wine is drunk for a while, I will give you the silver, you can rest assured that a silver or two will not be missing you." I'm counting on you to introduce me to the prefect. ”

Tang Yong picked up the wine glass and drank it, and put the wine glass down: "Who are you, I don't know you, if you leave, where will I go to find you." ”

Wang Shi picked up the wine jug and filled Tang Yong's mouth with wine and said, "Look at what you said, if I really don't pay you back, then you have to go to my nephew's house to make trouble." ”

Tang Yong looked at Wang Shi suspiciously: "You are not very old, you look less than thirty years old, how can you have such a big nephew." ”

Wang Shi smiled: "Look at what you said, there are still people who are younger than their nephews, where have they gone in this generation?" ”

After persuading more than a dozen glasses of wine, seeing that it was already dark, and there were even more fights on the street, Wang Shi saw that Tang Yong and Na Splashi were a little drunk, so he turned around and said to Deng Xiaoyu, You wait for me in the woods in front of you with your mother first. When Wang Shi was bored some time ago, he turned around in this area, so he knew that there was a forest two miles forward from this tavern, and there was a village more than two miles after the woods, and there was an inn at the entrance of the village. Wang Shi then led them here to eat and drink, because it was sparsely populated and relatively secluded, and the shopkeeper of the hotel was dozing off on the counter at this time, squinting and sleepy, hoping that Wang Shi would soon settle the bill and close the door of the store to sleep.

Wang Shi saw Deng Xiaoyu helping Ai Cuilian go, and at this time, Tang Yong said with a mouth full of wine: "Ah! Come and drink!"

Wang Shi called the restaurant to repay the money for the wine and food, got up and called Tang Yong and Popi: "I've gone back." Let's go!"

Tang Yong and Splashy stood up drunkenly, staggered, and followed Wang Shi out of the door, Wang Shi saw that the two of them were walking crookedly and falling, unable to stand, and did not argue about the east and west, north and south, just walked around, so they had to step forward and hold it left and right with their arms, and walked out of the tavern, taking advantage of the moonlight to the woods in front, walking into the woods, and throwing Tang Yong and Splash Pi under a pine tree, and the two of them fell to the ground. At this time, Deng Xiaoyu and Ai Cuilian were also in the woods, and when they saw Wang Shi and Tang Yong also entering the forest together, they stood there and watched, Wang Shi stepped forward and took out twenty taels of silver from his arms, which was the layer of dividends that Feng Laifu and Cheng Guang gave him last time. I was supposed to carry it with me for pocket gains. Wang Shi handed the twenty taels of silver to Deng Xiaoyu and instructed: "You take these twenty taels of silver, take your mother and leave here, these money are for you to make a plate fee, and the other is to make a capital for you, you have been going forward from this road, there is a village on the road for more than five miles, where is there an inn, where to rest at the inn tonight, and go tomorrow morning." After the last three or five years, the limelight will come back after the limelight. ”

Deng Xiaoyu took the silver and kneeled down for Wang Shi, "Thank you for the grace of the strong man for saving his life," Wang Shi hurriedly helped him up, Ai Cuilian said deeply and thanked him for a thousand thanks, and said goodbye Wang Shi went forward, saying that his mother and son walked to Bianliang, and used the remaining ten taels of silver as the capital, or selling vegetables in the city. Gradually, her life got better, she married a wife and had children, and Azilien lived a long life of 90 years without illness. That's an afterword.

Wang Shi put Deng Xiaoyu's mother and son up, turned around and took out a wrist-untying knife from his sleeve, grabbed Tang Yong's collar with his left hand and was about to kill him with a knife, and then thought about it, this kid is so bullying, rampant in the neighborhood, and there are many people who have been slandered by him, and today he will be killed with a knife, wouldn't it be cheaper for him. Thinking of this, Wang Shi sneered twice, looking at Tang Yong and Splashy before they woke up. picked up the knife and cut off Tang Yong's two arms, and suddenly blood spurted out from the fracture, Tang Yong was in pain, and the splash next to him heard the shout, got up from the ground and saw Wang Shi cut off Tang Yong's hands by the moonlight, and the wine was scared into a cold sweat, and he got up from the ground and was about to leave, but Wang Shi stepped forward and grabbed his neck by the collar. Lifting it to the ground, with his left foot on his back, he said, "I'll let you run." "Two stabs were made to his ankles with his right hand, and he cut off both of his feet and neck. The two of them were shouting and screaming on the ground, at this time it was the third watch, and the surroundings were originally dead and silent, and there was no sound at all, and the two of them screamed like this, which was particularly harsh. Wang Shi was worried that he would alarm the villages on both sides, so he pinched the jaw bone with his right hand, pinching the jaw bone, and pinching the jaw joint out of place. Wang Shi was worried that the two of them would die of excessive blood loss, so he tore Tang Yong's clothes into strips of cloth, tied the proximal artery of the severed limb to stop the bleeding, and then cut off Tang Yong's legs and the skinny hands to stop the bleeding. Then he walked towards Tang Yong with a smile, put his left hand into his mouth and pulled out his tongue, cut it off with a knife, and threw it on the ground, Wang Shi stepped on it with his foot: "It's that your tongue doesn't know how many good people have been wronged and how many people's money has been blackmailed." "Let's step on it today to make meat puree. Then the two dragon play beads in his right hand poked straight into Tang Yong's eyes and buckled them outward, and the two eyeballs were buckled out and fell to the ground, Wang Shi's hands were full of blood, and then he stepped on the two eyeballs with his feet, and poked his ears with a branch, Wang Shi laughed: "Call you this villain today, without hands and feet, you can't hear or see, you can't speak." I see how you will hurt people in the future. Then he walked up to Splash and cut off his tongue in the same way, poking his eyes out and piercing his ears in the same way. Wang Shi looked at Tang Yong and Ploppy laughing, and the laughter echoed in the dark night and the empty woods, making people shudder.

Walked to the riverside to clean the blood stains and knives on his hands and walked to Wu Ren's house, at this time it was already five drums, Wu Ren was about to get up and wash up and go to the yamen to order, when he heard the knock on the door and asked, "Who." ”

Wang Shi said in a low voice: "It's me, open the door." ”

Wu Ren heard Wang Shi's voice and wondered why he came so late, got up and agreed, while lighting the oil lamp, and came to open the door to let Wang Shi into the house, "Why are you so early, did you not sleep last night, or did you get up so early." ”

As soon as Wang Shi entered the door, he went to the teapot in the hall and poured a bowl of water, sat on a chair and drank it, because he was a little thirsty after drinking wine, he drank two bowls in a row before saying: "After drinking wine all night, this will be very thirsty, come to you to ask for tea." ”

"Where do you drink, why don't you call my brother, that's not good, you have to invite me to drink today. Wu Ren joked as he dressed neatly.

Wang Shi said: "No problem, wait for you to come back this afternoon, why don't you two have a good drink." ”

Wu Ren got dressed, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he walked out of the door, turned around and instructed: "It's still early, you can sleep in bed, and I'll come back after ordering Mao to eat steamed buns together." After saying that, he turned around and closed the door and went to the yamen.

Wang Shi walked into the bedroom, turned over and lay on the bed, and fell asleep after a while.

Wu Ren came to the yamen, went in and ordered the mao, and was about to come out of the yamen to buy steamed buns on the street, when he heard the lord outside give an order to ascend to the hall. I wonder how to ascend to the church early in the morning, it turned out that Wang Shi threw Tang Yong and the splash skin in the forest, the two of them had no hands and feet, just rolled on the ground, shouted and shouted, covered with blood, just rolled to the side of the road, the village firewood seller Liu Youfa early in the morning, was carrying a load of firewood to the city to sell, just walked to the woods and saw two people without hands and feet, in the middle of the road, covered with blood, frightened, put the firewood on the side of the road, and ran back to report when the village is right, Li Qianguang, Li Qianguang quickly brought a few Zhuang guests to see, there are Zhuang Ke recognized one of them is Tang Yong on the street nicknamed Zhensan Street, Li Zheng, Li Qianguang has also heard of it, knowing that he is the godson of the prefect Fan Rui, he has always been oppressed and good. Ordered someone to come forward to check, but the person was not dead. Someone went to Tang Yong's house to inform him again, Tang Yong's father Tang Jian brought a few people from the family to come and see, and saw that Tang Yong's hands and feet were cut off, his eyes were gouged out, his tongue was cut, and his ears were bleeding. The prefect Fan Rui wore an official hat, an official uniform, and official boots, and the third-class officials shouted Tang Wei. Fan Rui sat in the hall and patted the hall in shock: "Who in the hall has any grievances, come quickly." ”

Tang Jian knelt down in the hall and kowtowed: "Xiaomin is a villager of Majiashan under his rule, Tang Jianjian, his son Tang Yong was cut off by some gangster, his hands and feet were poked in the blind eye, and he was deaf and thrown in the woods outside the west of the city. This morning, I was seen by the woodcutter Liu Youfa and reported to my house. Please also ask the lord to call the shots. ”

Fan Rui knew that this Tang Yong was his godson, and when he saw Tang Yong lying on the wooden board covered in blood, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Tang Yong! Tang Yong!" Seeing that he didn't react at all, Master Zhong next to him whispered: "I have already checked, and his ears are also deaf, and he can't hear." ”

Fan Rui was furious and slapped the shocked wood: "Ma Ban Dutou, Pei Qing, Bu Ban Dutou, Zuo Yunsheng listens to the order." ”

I saw two big men flashing out of the left and right of the lower work department of the hall, wearing soap clothes and carrying a big knife at their waists, and the thunder also agreed, "Mark the order!"

Fan Rui instructed: "You two immediately go to find out who did such a cruel thing, and you are limited to three days to solve the case" After speaking, he dropped two tokens. This Zuo Yunsheng and Pei Qing brought their own group of catchers to inquire around.

After leaving the hall, Wu Ren went to the street to buy a few steamed buns and brought them back, Wang Shi was still sleeping on the bed, Wu Ren put the buns on the table in the hall and went into the house and shouted, "Get up and eat." After shouting twice in a row, Wang Shi sat up, rubbed his eyes and yawned a few times. Follow Wu Ren to the table in the hall and sit down, and take the buns to eat.

Wu Ren said: "There is a strange case in the yamen today"

Wang Shi ate steamed buns while eating: "Oh, what a strange case, let's hear about it." ”

"The godson of the prefect Fan Rui was cut out of his tongue, his eyes were poked blind, and his ears were stabbed deaf with a branch. He also cut off his hands and feet, which is really ruthless. The whole person can't do anything except eat, sleep, shit and fart. I can't speak, I can't hear, I can't see. ”

Wang Shi laughed when he heard this: "Who came up with such a brilliant idea." It's kind of interesting. ”

Wu Ren first saw that Wang Shi came so late last night, and suspected that Wang Shi had done this case, so he deliberately spoke just now to spy on his reaction, and saw that Wang Shi seemed to have nothing to do, and his face was very natural, as if he was just watching a lively scene.

Wang Shi had breakfast, and in the afternoon he drank wine with Wu Ren in the tavern for half a day, and everyone in the tavern on the street has been talking about this matter in the past few days. Wang Shi rested at Wu Ren's house for one night, and returned to the inn at noon the next day. As soon as he entered the store, Xiao Er came over and said, "Childe, you have been there for the past two days, and a young boy has come to the store to look for you two or three times." Wang Shi asked about this person's appearance, and guessed that it was Qin Wen. I went to the kitchen tank and looked at the two fish. The cook smiled and said, "Don't worry, the fish is still alive." No one dares to eat your fish. Wang Shi was afraid that people would poison the food, so he cooked a few dishes in the kitchen at noon. Fried a few dishes, carried to the room with a basket, just walked to the stairs, but down the stairs a person, thin and wearing a green coat, the nails on his hands are very long, passing by Wang Shi, the old man in green clothes walked downstairs to a wooden table and sat down, called a few kinds of wine and food to eat by himself, Wang Shi carried the food into the room, put it on the table, just picked up the chopsticks to eat, suddenly remembered the strange old man who just passed by himself, the clothes he was wearing, isn't it the kind of clothes that he saw some time ago in Tsing Yi。 This old man, with a thin body, is difficult to break the soul of Ma Guren, this old bastard is the best at using poison, and it is definitely not an accident that he met me on the stairs just now. Thinking of this, he put the wine and food on the table into the basket again, carried the basket to the downstairs, and saw the strange old man in green clothes, who was sitting alone on the edge of the table and drinking, Wang Shi walked to the table, took the food out of the basket and put it on the table: "Old man, I'll send a few dishes to drink with you." ”

This person is the cold-blooded killer ranked third in the Tsing Yi Society, a seven-step soul breaker, Ma Guren. The last assassination of Zhu Fu failed, and a lot of helpers were broken, and then they asked people to inquire about Wang Shi's residence, and some of the helpers heard that Wang Shi lived in this inn, and Ma Guren also came to live in this inn, and waited for Wang Shi for two days, and only saw Wang Shi come back today, Ma Guren first saw Wang Shi go to the kitchen to cook, and then carried the vegetable basket up the stairs, and hid poison in his nails, and deliberately passed him on the stairs, and the poison in his nails was bombed in the dishes. Ma Guren saw Wang Shi bring the wine and food and put it on the table, so he took the wine glass and said with a smile: "There is no merit, and we don't know how to come and eat your wine and food, so the son should take it away." ”

Wang Shi also smiled: "You are an old-timer, and the younger generation should want to fry a few dishes to honor your old man." The two were looking at each other. Ma Guren said: "I'm full, thank you, or you can eat it yourself." ”

There are four big men sitting at a table next to him, the first man to sit at the top, with a black face, wearing a dry red concave scarf, wearing a collar of flower robes, because of the hot weather, the upper half of the whole is cut off and tied in the waist, and there is a big man with a long beard and a black face sitting on the opposite table, wearing a white satin coat, a pair of black silk pants below, wearing a pair of cowhide boots under his feet, taking off his shoes because of the hot weather and being barefoot, and there are two big men next to him. Dressed energetically, with a cowhide belt around his waist, and a three-foot long board knife hanging. The four of them were sitting and drinking, and here they heard Wang Shi and Ma Guren talking about wine and food, Wang Shi asked Ma Guren to eat his wine and food, but Ma Guren just didn't eat it, and prevaricated his words.

The black-faced man got tired of hearing this, and said loudly: "You people don't eat wine and food, I'll eat it." As he spoke, he got up and came over, grabbed a few chopsticks and braised pork, and swept away the wine and food on the table. Wang Shi and Ma Guren, you look at me, I look at it, and they are all stunned. I saw this black-faced man finish eating the wine and food, and laughed: "Now that the wine and food are finished, you two don't have to fight here." Ha ha. The black-faced man with a beard next to him said, "Senior brother, come over and drink, what do you do with their business." ”

The black-faced man was about to speak, when he suddenly fell to the ground with a painful look on his face, and the three people sitting on the table next to him hurriedly came over to see, and the black-faced man lay on the ground in pain and convulsed: "There is ..... poison..." ”

Wang Shi shouted at Ma Guren: "Give him the antidote!"

Ma Gu ran out of the door with a kick over the table, Wang Shi rushed forward with an arrow step and grabbed the belt with his right hand, and threw it back, Ma Guren was thrown by Wang Shi like this, and fell on his back to the sky, and then a carp straightened, got up and raised his right hand, and a flying knife shot towards Wang Shi's chest, Wang Shi saved people's hearts, and did not avoid it, stretched out his right hand to catch the flying knife, and his left foot flew up and kicked Ma Guren, Ma Guren was thin and small, and his body was flexible, and he saw Wang Shi's left foot kicking. jumped backwards onto the table, and was about to run up the stairs, when Wang Shi arrived just in time, grabbed his right foot and dragged him back, knocking Ma Guren into the mouth and gnawing mud. Wang Shi pressed his back heart with his left hand. Ma Guren couldn't move on the ground, and Wang Shi shouted: "Where is the antidote, otherwise you will be split in the head with one palm." Ma Guren didn't speak, Wang Shi said: "If you don't speak, I'm going to do it." After speaking, his right hand was raised high, and Ma Guren said: "The antidote is in the trouser pocket." ”

Wang Shi was afraid that he would be deceitful and ordered: "Take it out slowly." Ma Guren only reached out and took out a small porcelain bottle from his trouser pocket, Wang Shi opened the porcelain bottle, poured a few pills, and let Ma Guren eat two by himself first, and saw that there was nothing wrong. Then I gave the black-faced man two pieces, and after a while, the black-faced man slowly got better, and his stomach didn't hurt anymore. The black-faced bearded man and two men in strong suits helped him up and sat on the bench. Wang Shi saw that the medicine was really effective, so he confiscated his porcelain vase. "If it weren't for your Tsing Yi Society, for the sake of killing corrupt officials, I would have beaten you to death today." After speaking, he let go of his hand and let Ma Guren get up.

Ma Guren glanced back at Wang Shi and went out. The black-faced man came over and hugged his fists and said, "Thank you Gongzi for the medicine just now." ”

Wang Shidao: "It's all my fault, I have long suspected that this dish was poisoned by him, and when my brother ate it just now, he didn't stop it in time, and almost killed you." I'm ashamed. ”

The black-faced man said: "I don't know what the son is called." ”

Wang Shi said: "The surname of the whisper is Wang, and his name is Wang Shi." I don't know what Brother Tai is called. ”

The black-faced man said: "In Xia Cao Jianren, friends in the rivers and lakes gave me a nickname called Dengyunhu. The bearded man here is my junior brother, chain leg, Zhou Huo, and the two next to him are our brothers. Wang Shi and the four of them met one by one, so they sat down to drink together, and the five of them persuaded five or seven glasses of wine, Wang Shi said: "I don't know what sect Brother Cao comes from." ”

Cao Jianren said: "We are Majiabao in Liangzhou, North Leg Gate. Family teacher, Ma Yuanshan, the people of the rivers and lakes give nicknames, and the iron legs roll the autumn wind. ”

Wang Shi said: "If you have the opportunity, I must visit you." But Liangzhou is thousands of miles away from here, what are you doing in Jinling. ”