Chapter 273: A City-wide Search
After Zhu Zixiu heard the shouting outside the door, he stood up and whispered alertly, "Don't make a noise, I'll go out and have a look." ”
As she spoke, she stood up slightly, pressed the button with her hand, and the hut swayed down until there was no sound outside.
But said that Zhu Zixiu walked out of the house, only to see that the hall was crowded with officials, all holding steel knives, looking fierce and vicious, and they were squeezing in the hall to check, Zhu Zixiu stepped forward and shouted charmingly, "Ouch, my official master, what kind of wind invited you to my small shop?"
An official said, "Don't talk nonsense, do you have strangers living here?"
Zhu Zixiu stepped forward with a very charming smile, took the hand of the official, and said, "Oh, my official master, of course there are acquaintances here, one life, two times familiarity, you are here this time, I will serve you well, aren't you an acquaintance the second time?"
Zhu Zixiu was like an old bustard in a fireworks restaurant, pulling the official and walking straight forward, the official glared at him, and said fiercely, "Get out, Uncle Ben is on official business, don't interfere with official business here!"
Zhu Zixiu said angrily, "What kind of official business is so unbelievable, people are intentional, why is the flowing water ruthless?"
The official said, "We are here this time to arrest the fugitive criminals, if there is harboring, the same crime will be punished, don't linger there, quickly give me the register of your residence." ”
Then he turned around and said to the officers and soldiers, "One group is watching the door, and the second and third groups go upstairs and pull all the guests to the hall!"
As soon as he gave the order, the two groups of people Martin Ding Dangdang went upstairs, and he shouted again at the top of his voice, "Bring all the people to the hall and check them well, especially under the bed and in the cupboard, to see if there are any Tibetans." ”
With many years of experience, Zhu Zixiu understood that this search was not as good as in the past, and it seemed that it was impossible to settle the matter by sacrificing hue, so he walked to the counter very unhappily and said angrily, "Hmph, search and search, we have searched the guests, how can we do business!"
She reluctantly took out the hotel registration book, and the official took it out of her hand, and she said aggrievedly, "You can't do it lightly, if you break it, it will be gone, and then you will have it again." ”
At this time, the officers and soldiers had already grabbed a large number of guests from the second and third floors and went downstairs, all of them were disheveled, some were barefoot, and the most tired were a couple of men and women, who were disheveled and their hair was in a mess.
"Is there anything up there?" shouted the officer.
"No, everyone is here!" replied to one officer and soldier.
"All right, stand here for me, and whoever I read the name will come forward with the belt card. ”
As he spoke, the official shouted at the top of his voice, "Zhu Changyuan!"
I saw a person squeezed out of the crowd, walked to the front row, respectfully handed over the waist card, the official looked at this person again, looked at the waist card again, and said, "Stand here!"
The man took the card, and the bow stood respectfully on the other side.
The officials shouted their names one by one, carefully checked one by one, and those who had no problems stood on the other side, and those who had problems stood on the other side.
There were forty-seven people in the booklet, and after the official was almost finished, there were still three people who had not registered, and from the forty-seven people, five more people stood on the other side, and he shouted sharply, "Why don't you three register to stay in the hotel?"
The three of them replied tremblingly, "Official, we stayed two days ago, and we are buying tea in Jinling City, and we may have to live at this time, and the shopkeeper has not registered, because we have already registered when we just came in from the store!"
Zhu Zixiu stepped forward and said, "Master Guan, what these three people said is true, their names are in the first three days. ”
The official flipped forward and shouted, "What's your name?" The three of them stepped forward and took the waist card in their hands.
The official cha flipped through the registration book, looked at the waist card, and looked at the three people in front of him, he finally found the name in the register, he looked at it carefully, and finally said, "In the future, you will have to register every day, understand?"
The three of them nodded resignedly, took the waist card, and stood aside, and then the official shouted at the top of his voice, "Recently, thieves have been rampant in Jinling, you should go out and walk around less, take care of your valuables, and not be careless." ”
Then he turned around and said to Zhu Zixiu, "If you have been staying in the hotel recently, you must register it well, and if you find a suspicious person, you must report it to the official immediately, do you understand?"
Zhu Zixiu nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes"
"These five people are a little suspicious, we have to bring them back to the yamen to be examined again!" he said, holding the five people in the middle, and walked out of the inn door and into the street.
The streets were already crowded with people, and the officers and soldiers took everyone out into the street, and the leading officers and soldiers shouted, "Have you searched them all?"
One by one, the officers and soldiers came to report, "Everyone is here." ”
The leader roared, "One group and two groups are watching them here, and groups three, four, and five continue to search the house, and not even an ant will be spared." ”
At this time, from a private house, two officers and soldiers carried a gray-haired old man out and said, "My lord, there is another one here!"
The leader let him last in line, and then shouted at the top of his voice, "Recently, thieves have been rampant in Jinling, and everyone has been called here, everyone must pay attention to it, and they are not allowed to take in foreigners. ”
Jinling City implements the armor protection system, which is organized by households and set up household heads; Ten households are A, and the first is set up; The top ten are guaranteed, and the chief of the guarantee is established.
"Every time a nail grows, count the number of your households. The leading official gave an order, and three middle-aged men came out and looked for the ten families he managed in a line.
didn't know how to do anything, and the three of them came to report, "I counted all of them." ”
"Okay, now I'm taking my family as a unit, and I'm going to bring my own belt tags, and bring my whole family to me. The leading official took the thick household registration book and began to roll out names.
"Yang Jiachong!" he arrived at one o'clock, and a family of five came to the front, each holding a waist card, and came to verify his identity. The five were taken to the other side, lined up under the command of officers and soldiers, and waited for the other people to finish ordering.
Hey, it's not easy to be on an errand, it's a thick book, you have to read it one by one, and you have to check it one by one, is it that easy? In any case, the roll call is still going on.
"Why don't you have a waist card?" It's time for the white-bearded old man who was carried out by the official at the end.
The old man was on a plank, dying, nothing mattered to him, he could do his own thing arrogantly - coughing and ignoring what the official said.
"Captain A, come here, what's going on?" the leading official shouted.
There was wind at the feet of the statue of Captain A, and he ran over on the ground and said, "My lord doesn't know, this old man is a lonely old man, he has a son, he died of smallpox a few years ago, and now the old man is half paralyzed, and he is sick in bed all the year round, and his nephew's family has been taking care of him." Captain A explained, then called his nephew, and the family of four stepped forward.
"Who are you, this old man?" asked the officer.
"This is my uncle, he is next to my house, and when I saw that he was alone, I took care of him all the time!" replied the middle-aged man.
"Your uncle, I will temporarily take you to the Yamen to await trial, and tomorrow you and the first chief will go to the chief of the security department and give your uncle a waist card, which will not work without a waist card! You have a waist card, and bring the first chief and the chief of the security department to the yamen for identification!" said the leading official.
The middle-aged man didn't listen, he hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, and then flashed to the side, and the two officers and soldiers carried the half-paralyzed old man away and carried him to the yamen.
The entire Jinling City is conducting a similar investigation, but I don't know if we can find anything, and what is the situation of Lu Xiaofeng and his entourage in Caojiagou, please see the next decomposition! )