Chapter 31: The Flower Thief (1)

On this morning, a strange thing happened to Sun Yuanwai, a big family in Longyang Fucheng, and the long-term worker came to Fu to get up in the morning to sweep the yard, and after sweeping the yard, he opened the gate to sweep the door. As soon as I opened the door, I saw that there was a lily in the door, and I took a closer look at it and put a steel needle on the door. Sun Yuanwai thought to himself, "This must be a prank made by some ruffian." Thinking of this, he said to Laifu: "Laifu, guard the door carefully. After that, he left without paying much attention to it.

Nothing happened from day to night, and when the night was ugly, the cry of Sun Xiulan, a girl from Sun Yuan's family, alarmed the family's dreams. First of all, Yahuan Cao'er hurriedly got up and ran to Sun Xiulan's room, and saw Sun Xiulan sitting on the bed with her head down and crying, Yahuan took a closer look at the young lady's belly pocket. He stepped forward and asked, 'Miss, what's wrong with you, what's wrong?' Sun Xiulan couldn't cry and said, "I was ruined by a man." With that, he reached out and threw a lily on the bedside to the ground, and continued to cry. Yahuan hurriedly persuaded: "Miss, don't cry quickly, the whole hospital has heard the crying." Sun Xiulan stopped crying when she heard this, she was still sobbing aggrievedly, and Yahuan said: "Miss, quickly put on your clothes, and I'll go find the old lady." ’

Yahuan came to the door of Sun Yuanwai's room, and saw that the lights in Sun Yuan's outhouse had been lit, Yahuan said in a panic: "Master, something happened to Miss." Sun Yuanwai said while putting on his clothes: "Cao'er, what do you say is wrong with Miss, is it sick, how do I seem to hear Miss's cry." Yahuan said: "Master, the young lady is not sick, but a flower thief." Sun Yuanwai heard that there was a flower thief, and before his clothes were neatly dressed, he opened the door and rushed out and said loudly: "Come on, come and catch the thief." After shouting a few times, the wife was busy dressing, and the maid hurriedly said: "Don't shout, master, the thief has already run away, you can go and see the young lady." Sun Yuan said, "Okay, let's go." The lady said in the house, 'Wait a minute, I'll go and see.' After a while, Mrs. got dressed and walked out with Sun Yuanwai towards Sun Xiulan's bedroom, and led the way in front of Yahuan.

Sun Yuanwai and his wife followed Yahuan Cao'er to Xiulan's door, and Cao'er pushed the door in and screamed in fright: "Miss, how can you not think about it." Seeing Sun Xiulan hanging on the beam, she hurriedly stepped forward to hug the young lady's leg, trying to save her but couldn't move, Sun Yuan saw her daughter hanging from the beam and committed suicide, and was shocked, so she hurriedly stepped forward and put her daughter down, and when she snorted with her hand, she had no breath, and cried loudly: "Daughter, why are you short-sighted." The wife had already taken her daughter in her arms and wept bitterly, when the rest of the family rushed over. I felt inexplicable when I heard that the young lady hanged herself, and I didn't know what was going on, but I didn't dare to ask more.

Sun Yuanwai cried for a while and said, "Cao'er, what the hell are you talking about. Cao'er whispered to him, "Master, Miss has been ruined by the flower thief." After speaking, he went to pick up a lily from the ground and handed it to Sun Yuanwai, and Laifu was surprised to see it at the door and said, "Master, I have thrown this flower away in the morning, how can I go to the lady's room again." Sun Yuan said: "Mother Zhang stays to serve his wife, and the others go back to rest, and we will talk about it tomorrow morning." Zhang's mother walked up to her and squatted down to comfort her, and Cao'er was also waiting on the side.

Sun Yuanwai secretly thought: "Do you want to report this matter to the official, if you report to the official, your daughter's reputation will be completely ruined, if you don't report to the official, won't your daughter die unjustly in vain, if you let your daughter die in such an unknown way, others will even more guess and talk nonsense, and it will damage her daughter's reputation even more." Sun Yuan thought about it and decided to report to the official, asking the flower thief to avenge his daughter by obeying the law.

The next morning, Sun Yuanwai took Cao'er to Longyang Mansion to beat drums and voice grievances. The yacha guarding the door opened the door and walked out and said, "I said what is the matter with you, you came to beat the drum early in the morning to disturb people's dreams, and the master has not yet gotten up." Sun Yuanwai said: "I'm sorry for you, official, just report it, I have something urgent to find the master." The yacha said, "Then you wait, and I'll go and see." Then he walked in and closed the door again. After a long while, no one came out, so Sun Yuanwai had to beat the drum again.

After a while, the door opened, and she came out and said, "Who is beating the drum, please follow me into the lobby, the prefect wants to see you." Sun Yuan said: "It's the grass people." Sun Yuanwai came to the hall of the palace, told him what had happened, and then said: "Yesterday morning, a lily was stuck with a steel needle in the door of my house, just like this one, and something happened at night. After saying that, he told Cao'er to show the lily that the night flower thief had dropped to the prefect. After hearing this, the prefect Yao Wenbin said: "This thief dares to send a signal before committing the crime, and he is too bold and arrogant, and he doesn't take the government and national law to heart at all, and we will go to your scene to investigate immediately." 'Governor Yao took Lin Zhutou, Master Zhou, the female servant and a few catchers, and Governor Yao sat in front of the big sedan chair of the four people and followed Sun Yuanwai to the house.

Governor Yao went to Sun Xiulan's boudoir to investigate inside and outside and found no evidence, and the female servant conducted an inquest on Sun Xiulan, and the result was that she was indeed violated by a man, and it is also true that she hanged herself. Yao Wenbin, the prefect of Yao's mansion, took people to return to the house after the inquest, and returned to the lobby of the mansion, and the prefect Yao ordered Master Zhou to write a notice, which said: 'There is a flower thief who came to Longyang Mansion, his age and appearance are unknown, and he will put a lily on the door of the victim's house before committing the crime to inform him, and he may go to the crime at night. 'The payment is the prefect of Longyang. As the saying goes, good things don't go out, bad things go thousands of miles, and notices are posted in many places, and soon the city will be full of wind and rain, and everyone knows it.

The next morning, someone reported the case, this person is Li Chengdong, a big family living in the west of Longyang Mansion, and his house found a lily on the gate this morning. Governor Yao ordered Lin to take a few arresters to Li Chengdong's house to check on it, and after checking it, he returned to the house to report that there was indeed such a thing. Governor Yao and Lin Zhutou discussed it and decided that Lin Zhutou would bring some catchers to Li's house to ambush and squat tonight, preparing to arrest the flower thief. After dark, Lin Zhutou set up an ambush around Miss Li's bedroom, Miss Li, as usual, went back to the room to rest after dinner, but Yahuan had another task, asking Yahuan to squat in a dark corner of the lady's boudoir to keep watch for Miss, Yahuan was afraid that she would fall asleep if she couldn't stay up, so she took a basin of water and a towel to prevent sleepiness at night and wash.

The people in ambush were all squatting silently, waiting anxiously, feeling that time was passing very slowly, and they were all holding on. But as soon as the hour passed, the people began to fall asleep and took naps one by one. The light is still on in the young lady's room, and the girl is very sleepy, so she will wash it for a while, and Zuihou will fall asleep with a tide towel on her own. Miss Li was so scared and nervous that she couldn't sleep, and then she fell asleep in a daze when she smelled a scent, which turned out to be incense blown in by a flower thief from the window. When Miss Li woke up again, she was shocked, because there was a strange man lying on top of her, but she couldn't speak and couldn't move, and she was very ashamed and afraid that she didn't dare to look at that man anymore, and closed her eyes to death, no matter how he moved, it turned out that the flower thief first stunned the young lady, went into the room to the bed, and then woke her up with a wet cloth.

Yahuan was awakened in her sleep by the sound of the flower thief making the bed, Yahuan wiped a towel and looked at the young lady's bed, this look made her startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Catch the flower thief." Then he cried out: 'Come, catch the thief.' The flower thief was startled when he heard such a shout, and he hurriedly jumped out of bed and got dressed, trying to stop Yahuan's incessant shouting. At this time, Lin Zhutou broke into the door and shouted: "Where is the thief going?" Before the sound fell, the knife had been slashed. The flower thief hurriedly dodged and avoided, and Na Zhi jumped in from the window and quickly swung his knife and slashed over, but the flower thief avoided but his arm was scratched a little. The flower thief saw that there was no way out, jumped on the beam of the house, just arrived at the beam, Lin Zhutou's steel knife chopped again, this flower thief is a kung fu master, seeing that there is no way to go, he broke out of the house, and the people in the courtyard shouted into a piece: 'The flower thief ran away from the house, and the flower thief ran away from the house. I saw the flower thief as light as a swallow, and he galloped away on the roof, and soon disappeared into the night.

Yahuan hurriedly covered Miss Li with the quilt, Li Chengdong and his wife also rushed over, Lin Zhutou took the catcher out of the boudoir and came to the courtyard, just to meet Li Chengdong, Li Chengdong said: "Lin Zhutou, have you caught the flower thief?" Lin Zhutou said: "I'm sorry Mr. Li, the flower thief ran away." Li Chengdong said: "How is my daughter?" Lin Zhutou said: "I don't know, you go and take a look." Mrs. Li walked to her daughter's bed, and when she saw that her daughter could not speak or move, she cried loudly: "Girl, what's wrong with you, why don't you speak." Seeing this, Li Chengdong hurriedly ran out to catch up with Lin Zhutou, who was leaving, and said: "Lin Zhutou, why can't my daughter speak or move." Lin Zhutou thought for a while and said: "This may be the acupuncture point mentioned in the rivers and lakes, the person who is pointed at the acupoint is either unable to move, or unable to speak, and the serious can kill people, I think Miss Li will not be serious, you can find a doctor to show her." After saying that, he took the catch and left quickly. Li Chengdong found a doctor to see it and said that it was no major problem, and it would recover after 12 hours.

After this lesson, the flower thief changed his course of action, he planted lilies in several different places in the city, but he only committed a crime in a certain place, and then he committed a crime against people who did not arrange flowers, and several girls were already ruined by him, and two of them hanged themselves in shame. Later, the government posted a notice to reward the arrest of the flower thief, and the government issued a bonus of 1,000 taels of silver, and some wealthy households spontaneously donated 2,000 taels of silver as a bonus for catching and stealing. But this flower thief is a master of the rivers and lakes, strong in martial arts, especially light skills, flying eaves and walking on the wall is commonplace, sometimes even if he finds him, he can only watch him escape.

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