Chapter 168: Chasing the murderer was caught by mistake
It is said that Songbai and others went downstairs and saw a woman lying on the ground, bleeding to death through seven holes, and when they were watching, they found that someone patted their shoulders behind them, turned their heads, but there was no trace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Songbai wondered a little, could it be that someone was joking with him, touched his head and turned around, puzzled, and heard someone calling him behind him, so he turned around again.
This time it was the same result, I still didn't see anyone beckoning me behind my back, I only felt a change in my trouser legs, so I looked down and saw a man more than four feet tall smiling and waving at him.
So he squatted down, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "This little brother, are you calling me?" I thought someone was joking with me. ”
"Come out, I have something to say to you. The little man pushed away the crowd behind him and went straight to the side alley.
Songbai then noticed the visitor, dressed in a tattered green clothes, holding a wooden stick in his right hand, holding a broken bowl in his left hand, this face is full of wrinkles, short arms and legs, especially those hands, the fingers are particularly thin and short, like ginger that has not yet matured in the ground.
"This brother, I know you, you are friends with our master of the horse hall, my name is Sixi, what is your name?" This little dwarf Sixi was about to jump on the stone platform where he was washing clothes, but he couldn't jump for a long time.
Song Bai stretched out his right arm, lifted the Qi directly onto the washing stone platform, bowed his head and said to him: "My name is Song Bai, the Taoist priest of Lingyun Temple in Hengcang Mountain, you are a disciple of the Beggar Gang, why haven't I seen you before?"
"I'm in charge of collecting intelligence for the government, so the official left me a room, but I can only enter and exit through the back door, and I can beg for food by the way when I have nothing to do, haha! Why are you here? Isn't it a small cabin outside the Zhenwu Palace?"
"Come over and have a glass of wine with my brother, by the way, I have something to talk about, did you see anything about the murder just now?" Songbai asked by the way.
This dwarf Sixi, looking around, saw that there were no pedestrians in this alley, and all went to see the woman lying on the street, so he sat down on the stone slab again, waved his hand and said to Song Bai: "You come here, I will tell you what I just saw, but you have to keep it secret, otherwise I will not be able to go to the government to receive the reward." ”
Songbai was a little puzzled when he heard this, so he squatted down, and the four joys covered his mouth with his right hand, and said softly: "I was across the street just now, watching this woman run to the terrace outside the window, very frightened, a man came over from the corridor, grabbed her hair fiercely, and threw it down from above, you see, it is there." ”
Songbai followed the direction of Sixi's pointing, it turned out to be the attic of the Zhou family's compound by the street, and when Songbai looked up again, a figure flashed through the window outside, and then disappeared.
Songbai couldn't help but say, pushed away the crowd of blockers, looked up at the attic above, and ran all the way away, this Chen Zhi was still looking at the crowd, and saw a commotion in the crowd, so he turned around and looked back.
"Brother Songbai, what are you doing? I thought it was a carriage coming, what are you running?" Chen Zhi chased after him.
Songbai ran into the courtyard of the Zhou family, turned his head and said, "There are people above, hurry up and tell your subordinates to watch the gate, don't let people run out." ”
Chen Zhi hurriedly ordered the two brocade guards to stay, responsible for guarding the gate of the Zhou family's compound, and not allowing outsiders to enter or leave, so he took a dozen brocade guards and went to the compound.
Songbai hurriedly stepped on the stairs and went directly to the attic, only to see a black shadow jump up from the attic, fly to the roof next to it, and hurried away.
Songbai picked up the stool with a broken leg on the ground and threw it out hard, only to see the stool with a broken leg flying towards the back of the man in black.
The man tumbled and fell from the roof of the house, slammed into the table of the roadside vendors, and got up from the ground, and the hawkers-by ran away in astonishment.
The man in black was injured in the leg, dragging his right leg, jumping forward, and the pine and cypress kicked him out with a flying kick, and when he was about to lift him up, he had a steel knife behind his back and put it on his neck.
Songbai slowly turned around, it turned out to be Cheng Zhutou of the Yamen, and surrounded the two of them with the catcher, and the rest of the catcher came forward and helped the person on the ground up.
Cheng Zhutou shouted angrily: "What are you doing? In broad daylight, you are committing murder on the streets of the capital, do you still have Wang Fa in your eyes? ”
The crowd couldn't help but say, stepped forward and tied Songbai with a rope, Songbai shook his head with a smile and said, "This catcher is fast, I'm here to catch the murderer." Why did you tie me up?"
"Murderer? I see that you are the murderer, come on, bring the two of them back to the yamen for me, and ask our master Qingtian to open a public trial. This Cheng Zhutou led everyone and escorted Songbai back to the yamen.
When Chen Zhi came with the brocade guards, the head catcher had already taken the two away, and the kind passers-by told him that he took the brocade guards and went to the south yamen of the city.
At the entrance of the yamen in the south of the city, two stone lions are arranged on both sides, on the wooden frame on the left, inlaid with this drum, four errand officers at the door, standing on both sides, the master Lin Yunzhi, shaking the goose feather fan, looking at the front of the yamen, this shuttle pedestrians, full of smiles, brushing their beards.
Cheng Zhutou escorted Songbai back to the yamen, and the four yamen bent down to salute, only to see him wave his right hand and urge his subordinates: "Hurry up and take it in, Master Lin, the master can be in the back house, this person is committing murder on the street, and I am arresting him, so bring it back, please make a clear decision." ”
This Lin Yunzhi shook his fan over, glanced at the pine and cypress, pointed to the street and said: "The master was picked up by the official sedan chair of the Hu Mansion just now, and it is estimated that he may not be able to return to this yamen for a while! What the hell is going on with this person? Why is the five flowers tied up?"
"Master Lin, don't you know, this tall man, who beat this prime minister on the street, happened to be rescued by me passing by, brought the two back, and asked the master to open a court for trial. This Cheng head catcher clenched his fist and said.
"Let's go in first! There are people coming and going at this door, and others think something big is wrong when they see it, you might as well catch the murderer in the family compound this week, and take care of these trivial things, alas!" The master shook his fan and continued to look ahead.
This Cheng Zhutou wanted to say a few more words, but when he saw Lin Yunzhi standing up, he sighed, waved his hand to his subordinates, and escorted Songbai into the door.
It didn't take long for Chen Zhi to come with Jinyiwei, and Master Lin Yunzhi hurriedly stepped forward, bent down and asked, "Uncle Guo, what kind of wind blew you here today?" ”
Chen Zhi pushed Lin Yunzhi away, didn't say a word, and ran to the lobby with Jinyiwei, and really saw Songbai's hands tied behind his back and escorted in the corner.
Chen Zhi hurriedly stepped forward to untie the rope for Songbai, and when the crowd saw this, they didn't dare to step forward to stop it, so they hurriedly went to report to Cheng Catcher.
"Haha! It turned out to be Uncle Guo? Why did you come to the yamen in person and didn't give me a word?" I heard a voice from the back hall, and everyone looked back......