Great Lawyer

Chapter 460 The Basket Is Missing ([-])

Because of the consecutive performances of "Legend of the White Snake", Wa Si was full for seven or eight days in a row, and some audience members came late, so they came by themselves with their chairs.

Those who love to listen to opera and those who don't like to listen to opera, everyone knows that there are two brothers in the Hang family class, the elder brother Du Ying sings White Snake, and the younger brother Qing Ling sings Green Snake.

Originally there was one session a day, but because there were too many people, Wa Si cleared out the morning session and turned it into two sessions a day.

Years ago, Naoer and Hanako were too busy to touch the ground.

Du Jiuyan and the cripple were just the opposite. The two of them played horse hanging with King Gui and Taoist Mao at home, while the four from Sanchitang played two games of chess.

The next day Xiaoluo went to help out in the troupe, went to play with Lu Nianzong the next day, stayed with Du Jiuyan at home the next day, and was summoned by the Queen Mother to walk around the palace the next day.

"Are you sure you don't want to take money but continue to draw turtles?" Du Jiuyan held up a thin pen and stared at Taoist Mao who had a tortoise face and couldn't write, "You can afford one tael of silver for a turtle." ah."

Taoist Mao was very unconvinced. He looked at the clean King Gui, the clean lame man, and then the clean Du Jiuyan. ?”

"Why am I the only one letting go?"

After a round of playing, all the winning cards were given by him.

The only two times it wasn't him, that's because all the cards were drawn and everyone was not confused.

Are you angry?
"Look." Du Jiuyan pushed down his cards, and said bitterly, "I'm sacrificing my ego to fulfill you."

An irrelevant eight-of-a-kind and five-c's in her house were pressed in her hand, so the cards could not be confused.

Mao Daoshi's Wuc just played against King Gui's card, making him confused.

"Where's yours?" Taoist Mao looked at the lame man.

The cripple asked for eight of a kind.

"Just wait another round, and you will get what you want." He said, and grabbed the next one to show Taoist Mao, "Touch yourself!"

Mao Daoshi wailed.

"No," Du Jiuyan looked at the lame man, "How do you know that the next card is an eight of a kind?"

The cripple drank his tea and cast a glance at her, "You don't know?"

Du Jiuyan laughed.

"My lord, you lost money if you didn't gamble today." Du Jiuyan said.

King Gui nodded, "Daoist Mao is too stupid." He fiddled with two cards and found exactly the one he wanted.

Mao Daoshi stared at the three people with rounded eyes, and suddenly roared at the poker table: "What else are you playing, you remember the cards, what are you still playing."

"Do you have to fight wits and courage in playing cards?"

The lame man said: "Playing cards is a battle of wits and courage."

"Don't play anymore." Taoist Mao left in a huff, "Go to the poor Taoist cultivator."

As he said that, he ran away in a hurry, and after he got out, he patted his chest and let out a sigh of relief, "If you don't run, you will lose your old face in a while."

In the room, King Gui looked at the lame man, and the three of them looked at each other, "Are you still playing?"

"Song Jiyi," Du Jiuyan waved, with a warm expression, "Come and play cards."

Song Jiyi shook his head like a rattle, "No, no, no, don't play, you, you, you, bad, bad people."

"It's all your fault." Du Jiuyan knocked on the table, "At least let someone win once, it's all over now, no one will play with you."

Du Jiuyan lay on the kang, "Life is so boring, why didn't anyone ask me to handle the case?"

"It's still interesting in the case." Du Jiuyan touched a raisin and chewed, looking at the people in the room, "Shall we go to the theater?"

Dou Rongxing pointed outside, "It's snowing, I don't want to move."

"Then go to Ah Ru's restaurant to eat and listen to a little song?" Du Jiuyan said.

Cai Zhuoru's restaurant opened, named Huguang Caiji.

Every day at noon, a girl named Chuntao came to sing Jiangnan's tunes, her voice was very sweet.

Song Jiyi shook his head, "The one who sang, sang, sang, sang, is, is, is big, big, auntie."

"What kind of aunt." Du Jiuyan cast a glance at him, "You are so talented, why are you so old?"

Song Jiyi pouted and said nothing.

"He dislikes Chuntao as a child bride, so he doesn't even like to listen to the music." Dou Rongxing said.

Du Jiuyan didn't want to talk to Song Jiyi, and leaned on the kang head bored, eating snacks to pass the time.

"Mr. Du." Xie Hua smiled and opened the curtain, "There was a Mrs. Xu looking for you outside, and said she went to Sanchitang to look for you, but you didn't open the door, so she squatted outside the palace for a long time."

"If someone hadn't gone out, she probably would have squatted until night."

"Xu?" Dou Rongxing snorted, "It's so familiar."

Du Jiuyan turned over and sat up, grabbed his clothes and put them on, "I was looking for my daughter last time. Her daughter's basket is missing."

"There is work to do, brothers go!"

"Are you sure she can pay you the legal fees?" King Gui said leisurely.

Du Jiuyan was astonished, "Your Majesty's words are reasonable. Thinking carefully about the case I'm handling now, I don't even think about the legal costs anymore."

"When did my ideological awareness become so high?"

Du Jiuyan grunted and went out.

"Ninth brother has changed." Dou Rongxing said.

King Gui coughed, straightened his clothes, and said, "It must have been influenced by me!"

After he finished speaking, everyone lifted the curtain and went out.

When Mrs. Xu entered the palace, her legs were shaking, and when she was in the flower hall, her legs were shaking even more.There were seven young men sitting in the flower hall, plus two standing behind them.

Why are there so many young and good-looking men in Beijing?
"Du, Mr. Du!" Mrs. Xu was so nervous that she didn't know whether to kneel or salute. Du Jiuyan stepped forward to support her and said, "Don't be too polite, Aunt Xu, just sit and talk."

When Xu saw King Gui, her knees became weak and she asked, "My lord is here, do you want to bow down?"

"Our prince is very approachable, so don't be nervous." Du Jiuyan said with a smile.

King Gui nodded, "Sit down."

Mrs. Xu sat down cautiously, and the waiter served tea. She got up to thank her but did not dare to drink, and looked at Du Jiuyan hesitantly.

"Is there any news about your daughter's basket?" Du Jiuyan asked first.

Xu shook her head, "No news, it's been almost half a month, I've been dreaming every night recently, and my eyelids keep twitching during the day."

"What do you think?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Mrs. Xu thought for a while, and said: "After I went to your place that day, what Aunt Pan said made sense to me. I have been asking privately for the past few days. They all said that when they saw my basket at dawn, a man followed him The city gate with front and rear feet. At that time, the two of them were the only people who left the city in cold weather, so many people noticed it."

Every morning in the capital, many vegetable farmers from around the city and other hawkers of various colors come into the city to do business, so many people are waiting outside the city to open the city gate before dawn.

"Did you see that man's face?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Mrs. Xu replied: "It's cold in the morning. It is said that there is a big velvet hat on the head, with the collar standing up, and two eyes are exposed."

"My basket is also wearing a big hat like this."

Dou Rongxing was surprised, "Then how can you be sure that the person who saw it is your daughter? Who saw it?"

"Two people saw it. One was Aunt Li, who was across from Liu's house. She washed clothes for a rich family, so she had to go out at dawn. When she opened the door, she saw a basket going out of the alley, and she saw a figure from behind."

"The two meet each other often, and they can recognize each other without looking at their faces." Xu said, "That's right, Mr. Du."

Du Jiuyan nodded.

"There is another brother-in-law of my basket. He is 15 years old this year. He got up in the morning and went to the hut. When he saw the basket open and went out, he called his sister-in-law. The basket answered and said he was going to buy vegetables."

"He thought it was strange at the time. He bought some vegetables before dawn, so he followed him out and took a look into the alley, saying that he saw a man waiting at the entrance of the alley."

Xu was a little embarrassed when she said that, after all, she was her own daughter.

"Did Aunt Li and Mr. Liu see each other?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Mrs. Xu was taken aback, and shook her head, "I didn't ask about that. His family came to our house. If my two sons weren't there, they wouldn't dare to fight hard, and they would probably start fighting."

"I'm also embarrassed to ask for the dowry. I don't believe that my basket really went with the man."

Du Jiuyan asked: "Then neither Aunt Li nor Mr. Liu recognized who that man was from his back and figure?"

"No. If you recognize it, it's easy to say, just call the door. Both of them said that they look very strange." Xu sighed, "I have been asking for the past two days, and my basket is very honest. , I wash and cook at home all day, from morning to night, and sleep at night when I collapse, and don’t go out at all.”

"You said that even if she runs with others, she still has the opportunity to contact other men. Mr. Du, do you think so?"

Du Jiuyan nodded, "The reason is that there is nothing wrong with that."

"You can't find the basket now, and you don't believe that she ran away with someone, so what do you suspect?"

Mrs. Xu tugged at her clothes nervously, "I suspect they sold my basket or rented it out. You know that this kind of thing is not uncommon at all. Didn't you investigate the case of a rich man's son a while ago? The woman who came here, will my basket also be..."

She couldn't continue, and wiped her tears with her sleeve, "My family's life is miserable. If only I stopped it back then, who knows that he is a short-lived ghost!"

Mrs. Xu cried for a while, and when she had a rest, Du Jiuyan gave her the tea. She took a sip and looked at Du Jiuyan embarrassedly, "Mr. Du, I'm so sorry. As long as I think about where the basket may be suffering, I feel as if I were cut by a knife."

Gui Wang frowned and said: "This kind of suspicion is a bit plausible, but since someone saw her leaving with a man, if you want to investigate, you must find this man first."

"You checked for a few days, do you have any clues?"

Mrs. Xu hesitated for a moment, "Da Zhuang. He used to live opposite my house and grew up with Basket. When he was young, he joked that he would marry Basket to her."

"Three or five years before Lanlan got married, when the two were at most eleven or twelve years old, his father was exhausted from pulling the boat, and her mother took the two sons by herself, and left within two years."

"Da Zhuang went out to look for work, and sold the house after a while. I don't know where the two brothers went."

Xu said: "I think about it these days, if there is really a man in the basket, it can only be Da Zhuang."

"Then find Da Zhuang first!" Du Jiuyan said, "Do you still know him when you see him?"

Xu thought for a while, and said: "You should know him. He was an older child when he left. Even if there are changes now, it won't be too big."

"What does it look like? Tell me." Du Jiuyan said, "I'll get the pen."

(End of this chapter)