Chapter Seventy-Three: Deception and Deception
Du Shenfei was coming down from the slope on the shore, and when he saw the calf first picking up his axe and galloping over, he shouted loudly: "Calf, where are you going if you don't look at Mr. and the luggage horses?"
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Du Shenfei was taken aback, jumped down the slope like an ape, and asked, "Calf, how can you say that our money has been taken away?"
The calf said first, "Someone just took it." ā
Du Shenfei said: "Why don't you block it?"
The calf first exclaimed, "I don't." ā
Du Shenfei said: "Why?"
The calf said, "That man is a good man, and he tells us how to guard against thieves." ā
Du Shenfei said: "It's a good person, and you're coming to rob us of our money again?"
The calf said first: "He was a good person at first, and then he was not a good person. ā
Du Shenfei said: "I can't tell you clearly, I'll ask Mr. to go." You are waiting for me here. ā
Du Shen Feifei also seemed to come to Xie Youlong's side.
As soon as Xie Youlong saw Du Shenfei, he immediately said: "Little goldfish, you are good to come! A liar took all our money." ā
Du Shenfei said: "You two are guarding here, how can you be cheated of money?"
Xie Youlong said: "The liar picked a load of radishes to wash by the river, saying that it was a farmer who relied on pig raising in the vicinity, and he began to kindly remind us to prevent fraud, saying that there are many scammers here." ā
Du Shenfei was surprised: "I've reminded you, can you still be deceived?"
Xie Youlong said: "He said that the thieves here are very powerful, and they can't be guarded against." I asked him how powerful he was. He said he showed us one. ā
Du Shenfei let out an "oh" and said, "There is such a thing, what happened later?"
Xie Youlong said: "Later, he really came to demonstrate, saying that yesterday he also saw two people sitting on this stone, the horse was standing like this, the luggage was arranged like this, and said that the thief stole like this, so he opened our box and took away the silver." Then he said that after the thief got the money yesterday, he just walked away. Then he dropped the burden of turnips, and he jumped on his horse and ran. ā
Du Shenfei listened for a long time, and finally seemed to understand what was going on, and said, "The box is also locked." ā
Xie Youlong said: "That's right." I don't know what kind of unlocking method this person used, but I wiped my hand on the lock, and the lock fell off. Xie Youlong picked up the lock from the ground, handed it to Du Shenfei, and said, "Look, it's just opened." ā
Du Shenfei gritted his teeth and said, "What a powerful thief! This person must be in the same group as the old man yesterday." ā
Xie Youlong said: "Little goldfish, how can you see that they are in a group?"
Du Shenfei said: "If it weren't for the gang, how would you know that this silver is in this package in this box?"
Xie Youlong hurriedly hammered his chest and scolded Lao Bian loudly.
Du Shenfei had no choice but to comfort him and said, "Sir, don't be in a hurry. I'll think about how to get it back. ā
Xie Youlong said: "This traitor, who got the silver taels, has his tail between his legs, and has escaped and is nowhere to be found. We don't know each other well, how can we still look for it?"
Du Shenfei said: "Sir, it's useless to be anxious, it's better to deal with it calmly, maybe you can come up with a way." ā
The calf saw Du Shenfei coming back and also walked over. The three of them are running out of options. I saw a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young beggar walking out from the side, unkempt hair, tall and thin, as if he hadn't washed his face for a year or two, looking honest and pitiful. The young beggar looked at Du Shenfei timidly, and didn't seem to dare to speak.
Du Shenfei said: "Little brother, we are also short of money now, and the money has been robbed." If you have a surplus, I'll give you a little bit of it. Now there is no way, you can go, go somewhere else to find a way to survive. ā
The young beggar said, "This big brother, I know who robbed you of your money. ā
Du Shenfei was surprised: "How do you know?"
The young beggar said, "This man is a well-known liar here, who specializes in deceiving guests from afar, so I know who he is." ā
Du Shenfei was overjoyed and said, "Really, if you know and take me to find that person, I will give you five taels of silver as a reward." ā
The young beggar took pity on him and said, "I know where he lives." I'm just afraid that if you find him, you won't give me any money. ā
Du Shenfei said: "I'm not that kind of person, how can I not talk without words?"
The young beggar said, "I don't know my heart." If you give it to me first, I'll take you. That man is a bully in this area, and if I take you and you chase them then, where will I go to find you? If that man knows that I took you there, he will not be able to get out of bed for half a year, and he will starve me to death. ā
Du Shenfei thought about it, so he said to Xie Youlong: "Sir, there is an inn on this shore, called 'Juyoushe', you just need to go up this slope and walk straight for a hundred steps to the main road, and you will arrive." We'll take you to the inn first, and then I'll go with the calf and the thieves." ā
Du Shenfei said to the young beggar again: "Little brother, please come with us, when we get to the inn, I will give you money, and you will take us again." ā
The four of them came to the "Juyousha", rented two rooms here, and settled Xie Youlong and the horses' luggage. Du Shenfei weighed five taels of broken silver taels to the young beggar, and asked him to lead the way to find the liar.
The young beggar led the way, turning around the muddy alleys, and passing through seven or eight wide streets. It was already evening, and Du Shenfei and the calf had no intention of looking at the street scene, but only urged the young beggar to leave quickly.
When the three of them came to the end of a quiet street, they saw a small hill in front of them, and there was a house at the bottom of the hill, and the young beggar pointed to the house and said, "Two elder brothers, you see, that man is sitting there." ā
I saw that the house was neat and clean, and there was a small garden in front of the house. There are several towering ancient trees in the garden, a few poles of straight and quiet bamboo are planted next to the hedge, the door hangs down the green cypress, which can be depicted; the house is close to the green mountain, and it is really happy and rare. Although this garden is small and not luxurious, it has a unique taste of elegance and tranquility.
Du Shenfei took a closer look, and sure enough, he saw that in the garden, the two were sitting opposite each other, playing chess there. Du Shenfei asked the calf first: "Calf, take a closer look, is it one of them?"
The calf first widened his eyes and understood, and said, "Big brother, this birdman thing is really here, and he hasn't even changed his clothes." The one on the right-hand side is. ā
Du Shen was overjoyed and said, "As long as people are here, I'm not afraid that you will fly to the sky." ā
When the young beggar saw that they had recognized me, he said, "Two guests, then I will go, lest they see me and have a hard time in the future." ā
Du Shenfei said: "You go! ā
Du Shenfei and the calf first followed the stone path, walked to the door, and then entered the garden.
The calf strode over first, grabbed the liar's clothes, and scolded: "You bird, you chicken, rob me of my money, and I came to the door, and if you don't pay me back, you will be cut in half with an axe." ā
Where was the person who snatched the things willing to admit it, and said, "I have been playing chess with this official all day today, where did I rob you of any money?"
Du Shenfei said beside him: "Now that you have been arrested, you don't want to deny it." ā
The man said, "You're really wrong. Where am I that kind of person?"