When Master Sun and Master Liao returned to the Yamen, they didn't get a rest, because the shopkeeper who was working in the Mengle Inn was brought to the court, and the two of them went directly to the hall and asked, "What is your surname, who is your name, and how long have you been working in the inn?"

The shopkeeper had never been to the court, and he was already frightened by the startled voice, and shouted in a trembling voice, "Wronged, my lord, this is not what I did." ”

Master Liao said fiercely on the side, "What are you shouting about wrongdoing, you haven't said that you did it yet, what are you wrongdoing?" Now it's just asking you, you have to answer truthfully, if there is half a lie, it will be superfluous for you to shout wronged at that time, understand?"

The shopkeeper kowtowed again and again and said yes, and then Lord Sun's question began to answer, "The small Caojiaxiang in the west of the city, the surname is Cao Ping'an, there is still an old mother in the family, my father died of illness five years ago, and I have been working as a junior in the major inns in Jinling. ”

Master Sun said, "How did you get to this inn?"

The shopkeeper named Cao Ping'an said, "The little one used to be a guy from Jiangchun Restaurant, and after the Double Ninth Festival last year, I heard that something happened to this inn, the shopkeeper was gone, and no one took care of the inn." Cao Quanqiang, that is, the shopkeeper of the Mengle Inn now, was also a guy from Jiangchun Restaurant at that time, he came to make an appointment with me, saying that we were going to get rich, I couldn't believe it at the time, he said that the shopkeeper of the Mengle Inn had disappeared for more than a month, and now the inn is no one, and he wants to open the inn as the shopkeeper. At that time, we laughed at him, saying that he wanted to eat swan farts and wanted to be a shopkeeper and wanted to go crazy, but we never thought that the next day, he didn't come to the restaurant, and we didn't care, but a few days later, he came to us and asked us to call him Cao Shopkeeper, we couldn't believe our ears at the time, a guy, turned into a shopkeeper, he said he came to take us to eat fragrant and spicy drinks. Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuqi followed him to the Mengle Inn, and saw that he had already refreshed the door, hung a red cloth on the door, and said to us with a smile that he would open as a shopkeeper tomorrow. ”

Master Sun interjected and asked, "Where is this Cao Quanqiang from? Who else is in his family? Where are Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuqi from? Where are they now?"

Cao Ping'an replied, "Cao Quanqiang, Zhao Jiuwu, Zhang Chuwu and I are all fellow villagers, we run the hall together in Jiangchun Restaurant, Cao Quanqiang's family has no one, his parents are dead, Zhao Jiuwu's family has a blind father, Zhang Chuwu's parents are there, and now they have gone to Jiangchun Restaurant." ”

Master Sun immediately sent someone to Jiangchun Restaurant to bring Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuwu to the court.

There are more and more onlookers in front of the yamen, but whenever the yamen opens a court to try a case, there are always onlookers in front of the yamen.

Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuwu were brought to the scene, and all the answers were almost the same, in the face of the majestic errand and the majestic court, they had already collapsed into a ball, and they all explained the ins and outs of the matter clearly.

Master Sun said, "Then tell me about the appearance characteristics of the two people on the top of the third floor." ”

Zhao Jiuwu said, "The first, thin, not tall, face a little dark, he arrived at the inn at noon, after arriving at the inn went up to the third floor, he never came out again, has been sleeping in the house, until the evening, only downstairs to sit alone in the hall to eat, the one who came behind, wearing snow-white clothes, about twenty years old, always smiling on his face, his beard is particularly conspicuous, thick, like eyebrows. ”

Master Sun looked at Master Liao, Master Liao nodded, he had already drawn the appearance of the two people according to Zhao Jiuwu's description, and the messenger took it to Zhao Jiuwu and the three of them, Master Sun said, "Look at it, is it like this?"

Zhao Jiuwu and the three of them looked at it, and Cao Ping'an said, "This is very similar, just like this, especially his beard, which is very similar." But this ......"

He carefully looked at another picture, and after looking at it for a long time, Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuwu also felt that the four eyebrows were particularly similar, but the thin man was not very similar.

Hey, people, why do you have to look so unusual, so that others can easily find the characteristics? With a public face, at least it is not so quickly recognized, and the person with four eyebrows, Master Liao's painting is clearly Lu Xiaofeng!

After Cao Ping'an's guidance and repeated revisions, Master Liao finally came up with a picture that was seven points similar to Sikong picking stars, Master Liao took his proud work, walked to the desk, and said to Master Sun, "My lord, look, the case of unjust ghosts can be closed, they all recognize that it was these two people." ”

Master Sun took the painting, looked at it and looked at it, pondered, nodded for a while, shook his head for a while, and couldn't make up his mind for a while, Master Liao bit Lord Sun's ear and whispered, "My lord, even if it wasn't his crime, but he is in Jinling, we have a lot of things that are not easy to do, it is better to issue a notice and find him out, one can calm the hearts of the people, and the other can let him come out, and we can control it." ”

Master Sun listened to Master Liao's words, nodded slightly, then sat up straight, slapped the shocking wood on the desk very much, and shouted, " Things are basically clear, there were a total of 36 people who lived in the inn last night, 34 of them had all been interrogated last night, and left early this morning, only two people, last night and the innkeeper had a mouth, threatening not to let the shopkeeper open a shop, they took the signboard, or not relieved, so they pretended to be a ghost, returned to the inn, scared the shopkeeper to death, cut off his arm, escaped from the inn, this act is not tolerated, what he did, hurt the heavens and reason, outrageous. Someone's coming!"

The words of the people in the hall can be regarded as labeling these two people, and it can be regarded as announcing to everyone that the truth of this case has been revealed.

"This prefect is really a god, and in the morning, he solved this bizarre and ghostly case. ”

"Now everyone is relieved, and we can live a stable life again. ”

......

The verdict of the case was praised by the onlookers in front of the yamen, and they all applauded.

As Lord Sun knocked on the shocking wood again, he shouted, "Come on, quickly issue a notice, and offer a reward of 100 taels of gold to arrest these two thieves!"

The servants immediately stepped forward and received the painting, and Lord Sun turned to Cao Ping'an, Zhao Jiuwu and Zhang Chuwu and said, "The innkeeper Cao Quanqiang is so ambitious, and he occupied the inn that did not belong to him, so he caused this misfortune. The three of you and Cao Quanqiang belong to the same village, and he has no relatives at home, so the three of you will bring his body back and bury it well, and in the future, you will definitely keep to yourself, work well in Jiangchun Restaurant, and you will not be allowed to go out of Jinling City.

After the three of them kowtowed to thank him, they stood up and prepared to leave, when a voice came from outside the yamen, "Oh, the painting on this wanted notice, you are so ugly!" Then two people walked out of the crowd, I don't know who these two people are, if you want to know how this matter is, please see the next decomposition! )