Wu Zheng, who was a little chilled, moved his body from time to time, but when sleepiness hit, he had to squat down and lean against the wall behind him, hugging his body tightly.

Just when Wu Zheng, who was shrunk into a ball, was about to fall asleep in a daze, he was suddenly awakened by a sound of footsteps. Looking up in the direction where the footsteps came from, in the faint night, he saw that there were four people with waist knives and chains walking towards him, Wu Zheng quickly stood up.

Obviously, the black shadow at the root of the wall had already been discovered, so the four catchers came straight to Wu Zheng, and after the group surrounded Wu Zheng, they began to interrogate:

"Boy, where are you from, what's your name, what are you doing in Shuntianfu?"

Just looking at the dress, Wu Zheng, who is rustic in his body, does not look like a city person.

"Official, I am from Causeway City, my name is Wu Zheng, I have wandered all the way here, and I just entered the city in the afternoon. ”

Although he carried the baggage with him, he had the credentials to be admitted to the show, but Wu Zheng did not plan to tell the four catchers in front of him.

Who would believe that a new high school talent would sleep on the streets?

"Put down the package on your shoulder and open it slowly. ”

Wu Zheng had to listen to the words of the catcher, took off the burden on his shoulders, slowly put it on the ground, and stretched out his hand to untie it.

"Where did you get the money?"

The four catchers did not pay attention to the talent in the baggage, but saw at a glance that Wu Zheng was reluctant to spend more than one or two pieces of silver.

"I caught two hares on the way in exchange for the money. ”

"Nonsense, you can catch a hare?! ”

"Honestly, did you do the recent burglaries in Fucheng?"

The four catchers, who didn't even believe the words of catching two rabbits, actually said that Wu Zheng was a burglar.

couldn't help but say, Wu Zheng was forced to the root of the wall by two catchers, and the scattered silver in his clothes was also snatched away by them, not to mention, one of them shook the chain in his hand and was about to put it on Wu Zheng's neck.

Although he had never entered the yamen, he also knew that the yamen was not a place for an ordinary person like him to be helpless.

Wu Zheng, who was ready to resist in his heart, was just about to make a move, when suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a black shadow on the roof across the street and disappeared without a trace. Then the catcher who wanted to put the chain around his neck fell to the ground without warning, and before he even had time to shout, he was no longer heard.

"What guy, get out of here?!"

The other three catchers shouted loudly to give themselves courage, and hurriedly stood against the wall, and the waist knife on their waists was instantly pulled out and held in front of them.

Wu Zheng only glanced at it in a hurry, not to mention the three of them who were facing away from the roof across the street just now.

After a stalemate, no movement was found, and the three catchers who gradually relaxed still didn't seem to want to let go of Wu Zheng, and were just about to lock Wu Zheng away again, but another catcher fell to the ground silently.

Only then did the other two people be frightened, and they hurriedly left Wu Zheng, each picked up the two hunters on the ground who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and ran away along the same road without pause.

It's just that these fast catchers are also willing to sacrifice their lives and money, and they didn't let go of the scattered silver that snatched Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng doesn't care about this, it's a big deal to go out of the city tomorrow and then go to hunt some wild things and sell them back. Anyway, it won't take a few days for more than one or two pieces of silver.

Just when Wu Zheng was about to change places to spend the night, suddenly a black shadow flashed on the roof just now, and this time Wu Zheng saw a little more clearly, it was a slightly slender figure.

With the rapid rise of the black shadow's arm, a shiny thing came straight towards Wu Zheng, Wu Zheng did not reach out to pick it up, but pretended to be panicked, staggered back and dodged half a step.

"Smack. ”

When he looked down, he saw that a silver ingot, weighing ten taels, was falling at his feet.

When Wu Zheng raised his head again, the black shadow had long disappeared from the roof.

Bending down to pick up the silver on the ground, Wu Zheng thought about it, and suddenly shook it with both hands, the silver ingot that looked like it had already been pinched into a silver cake, and then he wrapped the burden on the ground again, still straddled the left shoulder, and did not forget to turn his head again to look at the roof opposite, and saw that the black shadow had long been gone, so he turned around and left.

After the four catchers made such a fuss just now, they had the silver in their hands again, and they didn't care whether the silver came from or not, and Wu Zheng, who no longer planned to sleep on the streets, quickly found an inn and walked in.

After staying overnight, Wu Zheng checked out early in the morning and walked out to the street. I walked to a stall selling breakfast, sat down and asked for a bowl of bean curd and a few fried dough sticks, and listened carefully to the conversations of the diners around me while eating.

However, after listening to it for a while, he didn't hear the information he wanted, Wu Zheng got up to pay for the meal, but suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but ask the owner of the breakfast stall:

"Uncle, why is it that there are beggars everywhere in other cities, but there is no one to see here?"

"Little brother is not a local?"

Wu Zheng nodded.

"No wonder. ”

Seeing that the boss was busy entertaining other guests, he didn't have time to explain to himself for a while, when Wu Zheng raised his feet and was about to leave, a young man in his early twenties, sitting there eating breakfast, looked at Wu Zheng and said:

"Beggars? The city was full of beggars two months ago, but recently all the beggars in the city have gone for the New Year. ......。 ”

"New Year, what year?"

Wu Zheng, who was stunned by the young man's words, suddenly stopped and asked a rhetorical question for some reason.

"Hehe, of course, I was stunned by the silver that suddenly fell from the sky, and I no longer begged in the streets, but lived the life of a rich man. Isn't it the Chinese New Year?"

Thinking of the ten taels of silver ingots he got at night, Wu Zheng also understood what the young man's words meant.

He immediately thanked the young man with a fist, and then turned around and left the food stall.

Do you want to stay in Suncheonfu?

While wandering aimlessly, I thought about this in my head.

After thinking about it, Wu Zheng still wanted to find out why Tie Lianniang was put on death row first. After all, it was the person who asked him to come to seek refuge in his father's last letter, that is to say, he was a friend of his father Wu Lipeng. How can you just walk away?

Then it is, where to go to inquire about the news of the iron thread?

Judging from the look and actions of the shopkeeper of the small restaurant yesterday, I am afraid that the iron thread girl committed a small crime, otherwise she would not have been put on death row. The restaurant shopkeeper will not change his face as soon as he hears the name "Iron Thread Niang" be mentioned.

Wu Zheng, who has been in Causeway City for a few months, knows that the teahouse and wine shop are the best places to inquire about similar gossip, but for his teenage child, whether it is a teahouse or a wine shop, it is not a suitable place for him to appear.

What to do?