Song Yi

Chapter 376 Secret Arrest
A young beggar was about to speak, but the older beggar kicked him, and said to Ke Yao, "We don't know, we haven't seen anything."

Ke Yao saw it in his eyes, but his smile became stronger: "Don't you stay here every day, how could you not know? ——This steamed stuffed bun is delicious!"

A few beggars ate a small steamed soup dumpling. They were hungry at first, but now that they had some food, they were even more gurgling vigorously.

But the older little beggar still shook his head and said, "Sister, we really didn't see it. We fell asleep in the early morning."

"Impossible, a big living person fell down the stairs, will you fall asleep?"

The beggar looked left and right, and pulled the other beggars back two steps: "We really fell asleep.—Are you right?" the older beggar asked the younger beggars.

Several beggars were very reluctant, but they all nodded.

Ke Yao smiled wryly in his heart, if even beggars dare not speak their minds, it means that there is a big problem here.She put the paper bag on the ground: "The girl who died is my good sister. I just want to know how she died. Since you are unwilling to tell me after seeing it, then I can't help it, neither can my sister." Reluctantly, I will give you these buns."

Let's talk, stood up, turned around, walked out of the alley, and entered the Xiaoyao Building opposite.

The beggars hurriedly picked up the paper bags on the ground, ran away, and quickly disappeared into the depths of the alley.

Du Wenhao and the others were sitting upstairs. There were quite a lot of guests, and they finally found a place to sit down. The waiter poured tea, and Master Shen ordered some side dishes and drinks.

The guy was about to leave, Du Wenhao told him to stop, took out a sling of money from his pocket, put it on the table, and pushed it over: "This is for you. I have something to ask you."

The guy was all smiles, so get busy, grabbed the hanging copper coin and stuffed it into his arms: "Guest officer, there is nothing I don't know about in Lugao County. Hehe"

"That's good. Passing by your door this morning, I saw some guys around the door of your restaurant pouring water to wash the ground, and there was blood on it. Did something happen?"

The smile on the guy's face was a little stiff, he looked around, and said in a low voice: "Yes, a girl... from upstairs..., this, slipped and fell down. Hehe, I was too careless."

As soon as Du Wenhao heard the sound, he asked: "I see that the fence upstairs is quite high. Why did this girl fall down so well?"

The guy faltered: "This... this, the little one didn't see it at the time, he was busy in the kitchen."

"Really? You are a waiter in the shop. You should greet customers in the front. What are you doing in the kitchen at the back?"

The buddy's lie was exposed, and he was even more flustered. He nodded and bowed his head and said, "I remember wrongly. I went to the latrine at that time. I really didn't see it. I'm sorry. Wait a minute, sir. I'll go and order the menu for the kitchen." After finishing speaking, Hastily left.

Lin Qingdai whispered: "There must be something wrong here."

Du Wenhao nodded: "Well, I don't know if Ke Yao asked anything." Looking up, he happened to see Ke Yao coming upstairs.

Walking to the table, Ke Yao sat down with a sigh, took a big sip of tea from his cup, and then said in a low voice, "I think those beggars must have seen something, but they just dare not say it."

Lin Qingdai whispered: "The more you dare not say it, the more it means that the girl did not fall by accident."

Ke Yao asked, "What should we do now?"

Du Wenhao said: "Follow our plan first."

"Plan? What plan?" Ke Yao asked.

"You'll find out after a while."

"Hmph! Another trick! You don't want to say it, and I don't want to hear it!" Ke Yao deliberately turned his face away.

The four of them had already eaten before, so they just tasted a few casually, then paid the bill and went downstairs.

As soon as he left the door, Ke Yao subconsciously looked in the direction of the alley, and suddenly saw a beggar squatting in the corner of the alley deep in the alley, waving at him.

Ke Yao was overjoyed, and said to Du Wenhao: "Shopkeeper, you go first, I'll go and see those beggars, they seem to have something to say."

Ke Yao walked into the alley slowly with his head down, then quickened his pace, and came to the beggar in a hurry. Seeing that it was the older beggar just now, he kept looking back and forth nervously, beckoning Ke Yao to squat down .

After Ke Yao squatted down, the little beggar said quickly in a low voice: "Your sister was thrown from the restaurant to death by the black-faced and horse-faced arresters of the county government!" I said it!" After speaking, he ran away like a little mouse.

Ke Yao's body shook, his teeth gnashing loudly: "No wonder the ferocity insisted on driving him away and forcing him to drag the body back and bury it. These two thieves!"

Ke Yao went out of the alley, caught up with Du Wenhao and the others, and told the story.The faces of the three people changed color when they heard this, Lin Qingdai said angrily: "I'll go and kill these two thieves tonight!"

Du Wenhao waved his hands and said, "Wouldn't that be a disadvantage to them? We must bring them to justice in a grand manner, as an example to others! Just follow my subordinates." After finishing speaking, he whispered a few words to Lin Qingdai.

Lin Qingdai nodded and agreed: "This is a good idea!"

Du Wenhao said with a smile: "When this matter is done, you go to the yamen!"

Ke Yao was startled: "Why go?"

"Beat the drums and cry for grievances."

Ke Yao said: "Aren't we going to expose our identity, the matter of Liao Guibing...?"

Du Wenhao smiled and said: "You don't believe in your sister Qingdai's disguise technique? We have already modified it. I think this disguise technique is still very good, so you shouldn't be able to see it. They definitely didn't expect us to appear here."

Ke Yao said: "Let's beat the drums to complain for that girl like this, the magistrate won't accept it, maybe they will beat us out with sticks!"

"It's normal, it's not normal if he doesn't fight. Why, are you scared?"

"Who's scared? Just go!" Ke Yao puffed out his chest and said with a stern voice. "Then what are you doing?"

"Go to the Yamen too. You are in the front, we are behind, and we have to go to the Yamen."

"Why are you going? Are you also beating the drums to express grievances?"

"Isn't there anything else to do in the yamen besides beating drums to appeal for grievances?" Du Wenhao sneered and said, "I heard that the yamen in Jingjiang Prefecture has a lot of things to do. Population! Now add another one,—to kill people! Empty words are useless, go to the Yamen to get some evidence, and then we can speak!"

ah?Both Lin Qingdai and Ke Yao were taken aback: "What evidence?"

Master Shen smiled and said in a low voice: "You don't need to ask, your lord has already made up his mind. Everything is just to follow your lord's arrangement."

Du Wenhao also smiled and said: "I can't think of such bad ideas, most of them are the ideas of your military adviser."

"My lord is too modest!"

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In the county yamen's police room, the black-faced policeman was hugging his knees and screaming again and again, and a doctor had already helped him take out the money dart in his knees.Wrapping him up.

The black-faced headhunter screamed and said fiercely: "Damn it, if I know who is attacking me, I will definitely make him die ugly!"

After the doctor bandaged the wound and left, only the long-faced policeman and the black-faced policeman were left in the room. The long-faced policeman went over and closed the door, and said to the black-faced policeman with a gloomy face: "Captain, the boy who attacked you, Could it be that he found out about what we did with that chick in the morning and came to find fault with us?"

The black-faced catcher knocked him on the head: "Your grandma doesn't have a brain? If he came here for us, he wouldn't kill us? That chick is a f*ck for us to throw down the stairs to die." of!"

"That's right, hehe, not to mention, this chick is so fucking hot, and she will not depend on life or death. However, after this time, the entire Xiufang Street will probably know how powerful head-hunters are, so I will look for it next time." Which embroidered lady comes to accompany the wine, dare not not come, and dare not refuse to follow. Hehe"

"Well, this bergamot spring belongs to our master. The girl in this store is not the person under our brother's crotch? His grandma's, if you don't listen to me, you will only die!"

At this moment, a gust of wind blew by, and a person fell from the beams of the roof, covered in black, with a short blade in his hand, shining coldly.

The long-faced head catcher reacted quickly, reaching out to draw the single knife at his waist, at the same time, the black-faced head catcher opened his mouth to call for help.

The man in black shook his hands, and a few money darts shot out. The two policemen felt a pain in their bodies, unable to shout, the world was spinning, and they fell to the ground with a thump and passed out.

When the two woke up, they found that in a dark room, their bodies were tied up like rice dumplings, unable to move at all.

A man's voice said coldly: "Tell me in detail how you raped Miss Cao'er and threw her down the Xiaoyao Building to die, and also told you all about oppressing the people and committing crimes. You would rather die than live!"

The black-faced head catcher Zhang Huang asked, "You... who are you?"

Immediately, he received a heavy kick on the head, which made his eyes stare. A female voice scolded: "You are not allowed to ask, you can only answer, answer what you ask!"

"Yes, yes!" The black-faced head catcher tried to play tricks, and said with a pitiful look: "Master, sister, you misunderstood, we are good people, we are the Yamen's catcher, we don't know that grass at all, and never Do anything to offend the common people..."

The long-faced policeman also struggled and said: "Yes, we have never done it..."

With a bang, the two police officers were poked hard by something, and the pain immediately felt like a heart-piercing pain. Then, the pain quickly spread to the whole body, and the two couldn't help but screamed loudly.

The man said coldly: "Scream, no one will hear you even if your throat is broken!"

A female voice said: "I heard clearly what you muttered in the arresting room of the yamen earlier. There are also witnesses proving that you threw Miss Cao'er off the Xiaoyao Building and fell to death. You should confess the truth obediently, so as not to suffer. Otherwise, let you two thieves die like this, and then throw them into the graveyard to feed the wild dogs! — Isn’t this what you often like to do?”

The two policemen completely collapsed at this moment, and the long-faced policeman quickly said: "Forgive me! Forgive me! I said..., I said it all, we did it, we were the ones who failed, and threw Miss Cao'er downstairs , trying to scare other embroiderers..., ouch!"

The black-faced policeman also hissed: "I confess, ouch..., I have confessed... please forgive me..."

The man's voice said again: "Almost all the fertile land in your Jingjiang Mansion has lost its harvest. It is said that there is a natural disaster, but there is no disaster at all in the nearby prefectures and counties. On the contrary, they have a good harvest. Tell me, what's wrong with you?
The black-faced headhunter groaned in pain, and said: "I said, this is all done by the mastermind of Liao Guibing, the magistrate, and the magistrates of the counties. The people below us are just running errands, and the specific situation is not clear. It is him and the magistrates." Master and their idea."

"What's going on, tell me!"

"I said, I said..."

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At the gate of the Yamen in Lugao County, there are two stone lions, one on the east side, and a drum on the east side of the gate on the platform. The body of the drum is all red, and the core is slightly white. mallet.

Ke Yao and Lin Qingdai have changed into women's clothes, they are wearing coarse cloth long skirts, their hair is also messily arranged in a bun, many wrinkles have been wiped off their faces with glue, and some pot ashes have been wiped off. They look perfect. Country girl.

When the two came to the front of the hall, Ke Yao stepped onto the platform and began to knock with a mallet.

Soon, a Zaoli ran out with a water and fire stick, looked Ke Yao up and down, and shouted angrily: "What are you knocking, I heard it after knocking once, you want to smash the drum of the yamen?"

Ke Yao pretended not to hear, and knocked hard a few more times.The Zaoli swung the water and fire stick and shouted: "Don't hit it! Be careful that I will give you a stick!"

"Stop knocking, little girl! The official is here!" Lin Qingdai greeted Ke Yao, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute the Zaoli Fuli: "This servant, my sister is impatient, and the drums are a bit loud, so I can't hear you .”

Only then did Ke Yao stop the drumstick, and shouted at the top of his voice, "I'm wronged..."

The Zaoli sternly said: "Stop howling! You came to knock on the Dengwen drum, you didn't feel wronged to knock your fart, why do you need to howl? -- what wrong is there?"

"My sister was beaten to death!"

"Oh, a human life lawsuit, it will cost a lot of money, do you have to bring the usual money?"

Ke Yao restrained Gan Hao: "What kind of money?"

The yamen servant gave Ke Yao a disdainful look: "You country bumpkin, how can it be so easy to go to court? Don't you know the rules? Seeing that you are pitiful, I will tell you that going to court costs money. Whether it is the plaintiff or the defendant, you think Is our county magistrate able to see him whenever he wants?"

Ke Yao looked timid and asked: "What are the rules, and how can I meet the magistrate?"

The yamen servant held out a finger.

Ke Yao was puzzled: "A copper coin?"

The yamen servant was so angry that his face turned green: "Fart! A copper coin? You are a master and I am a beggar? One hundred coins!"

"Huh? So much?"

The yamen servant raised his head and said, "You think us officials drink the northwest wind every day? Let me tell you, it's just money. If you don't file a lawsuit, I'm too lazy to run away. Get out if you don't have money!"

Ke Yao muttered: "The yamen is really open, don't come in if you have a reason and no money!"

The yamen servant didn't hear clearly, and stared, "What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything." Ke Yao turned his head and looked at Lin Qingdai pitifully: "Sister, what should I do?"

Lin Qingdai took out a cloth bag from her bosom, untied it, and counted a hundred coins to Ke Yao.Ke Yao handed it to Zaoli.When Lin Qingdai was counting, Zaoli had already seen it clearly, and immediately stopped counting, happily receiving them in his arms, and squinting at them: "Come with me!"

The two followed them to the backyard of the county government. There are several rows of one-story houses here, which are the office area for the government to handle various official affairs.Handed the two of them over to another Zaoli, then ignored them and left.

That Zao Li spread his hand: "Pass-hand money!"

Ke Yao muttered, "What the hell are you doing?"

"My passing money? Hurry up! I'm very busy."

Ke Yao asked cautiously, "Didn't I give it to you before?"

"He is him and I am me, I haven't given mine yet! If you don't give it, get out!"

"How much...how much?"

"One hundred pennies! You don't even know the rules, and you're still going to sue!"

Lin Qingdai had no choice but to take out the cloth bag from her bosom, counted a hundred cash and handed it to Zaoli.

Zaoli weighed the silver tael in his hand, glanced at Du Wenhao and the four of them contemptuously, and shook his head: "Let's go, go to the execution room to register!"

Zaoli took the two of them into the bungalow and handed them over to a scribe.The clerk coldly asked for another hundred cash, and then asked, "What case are you suing?"

"Life lawsuit!"

"Who are you suing?"

Lin Qingdai said: "Sue the black-faced and long-faced arresters of the county government, they threw my sister downstairs and died!"

The scribe was taken aback, and put the pen in his hand on the pen holder: "What did you say?"

"We are from Chaoxi Village. My sister is Cao'er. I work as an embroiderer at 'Buddha's Hand Spring' on Xiufang Street. This morning, I was thrown down from the Xiaoyao Building next door by the black-faced and long-faced arresters of the yamen! "

As soon as this statement came out, everyone in the room was shocked.

The clerk stood up in a huff: "What did you say? Don't talk nonsense if you have no reason to refuse!"

Lin Qingdai said coldly: "Of course there is a basis! However, we will not reveal this basis until we see the magistrate of the county."

The clerk felt that the situation was serious, and changed his smiling face: "Please sit down, both of you, please sit down! I will report to the magistrate right away!"

The outer flower hall of the yamen signing room.

After disguised, Du Wenhao and Master Shen became two shabby households, sitting here timidly.

"It is said that there are two poor men who want to sell the land."

"Then take the slave's family to have a look? The slave's family also wants to buy land."

"Really! Thank you, sir!"

The signing room and the flower hall are connected, Zhou Zhixian brought the coquettish girl to the flower hall.

(End of this chapter)