The Ascension Plan of the Ancestral Star of the Shuttles

Chapter 230
The head catcher was short of breath, and his face was as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly.

Elder Shi continued expressionlessly: "Besides, I didn't steal or rob. Instead, I actively caught the snitch. Many inn guests have witnessed this with their own eyes."

"As soon as the official came, he unsheathed his sword and looked like he was provoking a teacher to ask a crime. Why, the laws of the Tang Dynasty still stipulate that non-official servants are not allowed to act bravely and arrest thieves?"

"you……"

The chief arrester was robbed one after another, and he was arrogant, but the skill shown by the other party made him dare not act rashly.

At the moment, he just said angrily: "Since you are a chivalrous man who has acted bravely, why didn't you send the snitch to the officials after you took down the snitch, and didn't return the stolen goods to the owner, but instead invited the snitch into the house to talk?"

Li Fei said with a righteous face: "Naturally, he intends to interrogate the female snitch's origin and find out where her lair is, so as to catch all of them."

The chief catcher was taken aback when he heard the words, and the horizontal knife in his hand involuntarily lowered a little.

He asked suspiciously: "Is that true?"

Li Fei said decisively: "It's absolutely true."

The chief arrester said: "Then did you get the result?"

Li Fei sighed and shook his head, and said angrily, "I'm ashamed, I was also careless, that female snitch is really cunning."

"She pretended to be caught without a fight, which made us relax our vigilance. After entering the house, she made a sudden attack and tried to escape."

The chief catcher rushed straight to his head with a burst of anger, and his voice was almost suppressed from his throat: "You treat us as fools?"

Li Fei said seriously: "That's absolutely not my intention. At that time, the female thief spewed misty smoke as soon as she entered the room, and then stopped me with a hidden weapon, the Swallow Golden Dart."

"I was caught off guard, and she escaped through the window. One of our companions has already chased me out, vowing to recover what the female snitch stole."

"I waited for a chivalrous heart to be so maliciously speculated by others, it really makes me feel sad."

"..."

The chief catcher opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

It was true that the female thief was good at using the Swallow Golden Dart, but he also knew that what Li Fei said was not true.

With the martial arts shown by the opponent, if you do it, you may not be able to win the opponent, and you may suffer heavy casualties.

So there is no need to think about taking the opponent to torture and torture, but if I go back like this, I can't explain it, so what should I do?

The chief catcher was silent for a moment with a stiff face, and suddenly said: "I haven't asked for advice yet, where do you come from, and what are your names?"

Li Fei glanced at Lin Yueru out of the corner of his eye, and she immediately understood.

Immediately, he took half a step forward and said, "Father, Lin Tiannan, owner of Linjiabao in Suzhou."

The chief catcher's face turned pale with shock, but he was overjoyed in his heart. He quickly put the knife back into its sheath, folded his fists and bowed and said, "It turns out that Miss Lin was in front of you. Disrespect and disrespect."

Now he finally doesn't have to be in a dilemma anymore, Suzhou Linjiabao is a giant in the south of the Yangtze River, and he has to give him some face in both black and white.

Even the governor of Yangzhou needs to be courteous, and the prefect of Yangzhou may not even be able to speak in front of others.

As for himself, he is a fart in front of Lin Jiabao.

Just when the head catcher was secretly happy that he could have an explanation, and when the wealthy businessman was full of despair, a figure suddenly descended from the sky and landed beside Li Fei.

It was Li Xiaoyao who returned, holding the bundle in his hand, and said: "Brother, that female snitch is too cunning, seeing that she couldn't get rid of me, she deliberately threw this bundle into the river."

"I had no choice but to take back the bag first, but when I caught the bag and jumped back, the female snitch was gone."

"My... my baggage." When the rich businessman saw his baggage, his eyes widened, his despair turned into ecstasy, and he hurried forward to take back his baggage.

Lin Yueru stopped him with a raised hand, and said, "Wait a minute, you said that this burden is yours?"

The rich businessman said anxiously: "This is mine! I can clearly tell what's in it."

Lin Yueru calmly said: "Even if this burden is yours, I can't pay it back to you now."

The rich businessman's fat face was flushed red, and he said angrily, "Why? Even if you are the eldest lady of the Lin family, you can't steal my things in full view, right?"

Lin Yueru's almond-shaped eyes widened, and she scolded, "What did you say?"

The chief catcher at the side also said in a cool voice: "Be careful what you say, the Lin family's business is all over the world, the family is rich, and the wealth is incomparable to the country, the young miss will think of something like you?"

The rich businessman's breath was stagnant, and he felt a basin of cold water poured over his head, but he dared not speak out.

Lin Yueru snorted coldly: "It seems that you don't know anything about the laws of the Tang Dynasty, so I will tell you about it."

"Originally, as long as we can confirm that this is your thing, we can just return it to you. There is no such trouble at all."

"Because if you don't report to the authorities, then our act of helping you recover the lost property is a private act. At most, it can be regarded as our brave act and chivalry."

"But if you report it to the official, it will be very different. Now this burden is the thief's dirty, and it is also the evidence to convict the female snitch in the future. How can you take it back?"

"According to the law, we have to hand over this package to the government office first, and then you can take it back after the government office catches the female snitch and uses it as evidence to convict the female snitch."

After saying these words, she looked at the chief arrester and asked, "Am I right?"

The chief catcher cupped his fists and bowed, and said with a flattering smile: "What the eldest lady said is very true. It seems that the eldest lady knows the laws and regulations of the Tang Dynasty like the back of her hand. I admire, admire."

After speaking, he straightened his chest, and said to the wealthy businessman with a business-like appearance: "You have reported the case to the government office, and the government office has also filed a case. It is reasonable and reasonable, and all this burden should be handed over to the government office first. After the case is closed, You come back to get back the lost property."

"This this……"

The rich businessman's face turned green and pale, and he was completely stunned.

He watched Li Xiaoyao hand over the burden to the head catcher, and the officials and civilians on both sides looked like a family, and he felt remorse immediately, wishing he could slap himself twice.

I knew the official who reported the fart!It's just looking for trouble.

It would be better to expect that stupid official to catch the female snitch than to expect the female snitch to find out with her conscience and help him steal the bag back.

Inadvertently seeing Lin Yueru sneering and glancing at him, a flash of lightning flashed across the wealthy businessman's mind.

She did it on purpose. She could have returned the burden directly, but she deliberately handed it over to the government as evidence of a crime.

She was taking revenge. She was annoyed that I would report to the officials and cause trouble for them, so she deliberately tricked me like this.

The wealthy businessman who wanted to understand this felt even more regretful, but it was too late now.

But women and villains are difficult to raise, if you provoke Miss Lin, how can you still have him?

Li Fei didn't say anything about it, and this time it was only because of his intervention that the solution was so easy.

This guy doesn't know good from bad, so in the original play, he bit Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru back, causing them to be tortured for no reason, and ended up in prison.

At first, I thought that if the purple gold gourd was not lost this time, this guy would never make any more mistakes.

Who knew that he just went into the room and chatted with Ji Sanniang for a while, and he brought all the officials, so who else would he punish?
"Thanks to the young lady and this hero for helping to recover this incriminating evidence. If the female snitch can be brought to justice in the future, it will be entirely thanks to the help of the two."

Lin Yueru waved her hand and said, "Thank you, there is no need, but we still have important things to go to the capital, but this Yangzhou is not allowed to enter and leave, and please ask the chief arrester to tell the eunuch for me, so as to be accommodating."

The Chief Catcher patted his chest and said: "No problem, I will report the truth to the prefect and get a pass token for Miss."

"In this way, I will not disturb everyone's rest, and leave."

"Always catch the head and walk slowly."

The chief catcher clasped fists at Li Fei and the others, and left contentedly with that valuable baggage.

God knows when it will take to catch the female snitch, or if the female snitch can be caught, then this bag of property... hehe.

Lin Yueru glanced at the distraught rich businessman, Shi Shiran said: "Let's go, go back to sleep."

Li Xiaoyao was very cooperative and said sarcastic remarks, "We risked our lives to help people snatch lost property, but the good intentions were not rewarded, and people treated them as thieves. We worked all night for nothing."

Lin Yueru said angrily: "That's right, I offended the female snitch for no reason, so I have to be more careful when I sleep in the future."

The rich businessman was about to vomit blood, and those belongings fell into the hands of the dog official of Yangzhou prefect, and it was just a dream to get them back.

And Lin Yueru, this stinky girl, is Miss Lin Jiabao, so he can't afford to offend her.

It's over, it's all over now.

Listening to Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru singing together, constantly stimulating the rich businessman, Li Fei couldn't help but smile.

However, he ignored the rich businessman and went back to his room.

In fact, it is not a bad thing for him to lose these belongings, at least one life can be saved.

If Ji Sanniang was not caught, the Yangzhou prefect would not lift the ban, and he would not be able to leave the city.

Then naturally he wouldn't bump into the golden toad ghost mother Liu Meiniang on Hama Mountain and be killed by her because of this.

But that purple gold gourd, Li Fei would not let it fall into the hands of Yangzhou prefect.

The bottom of the purple gold gourd is engraved with the spirit gourd curse, which can collect monsters to refine the spirit gourd elixir.

It's just a little troublesome, the monster must be beaten to the brink of death, but not really killed, so that the monster can be successfully absorbed and refined into the spirit gourd elixir.

This thing has the same nature as spirit Gu, but the single effect is far inferior.

The principle is to refine the monster, leaving only the pure aura of its body to form a elixir.

If there is an injury, it will heal the injury, if there is no injury, the power will be increased.

So in the early hours of the morning, Li Fei, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly stretched out his hand in front of him, his arm sank into the void, and when he took it out again, the purple gold gourd was already in his palm.

……

The next morning.

Li Fei took Lin Yueru out of the inn, headed east of the city, passed through a few streets, and turned north again.

When you arrive at the northeast corner of Yangzhou City, you will see a large house.

The location of this house is very secluded. From a distance, it seems that there are many white lanterns flickering, but it looks like a house in mourning.

Lin Yueru stepped forward and knocked on the door, and after a while, the beautiful and charming Ji Sanniang in a black thin shirt opened the door.

Without much communication, the two went straight into the house.

"San Niang, the so-called 'a widower's roof has less smoke, and a widow's door has more gossip', why do you use the widow to hide your identity? Don't you know that it is easier to attract attention."

After hearing Li Fei's words, Ji Sanniang was taken aback for a moment, and thoughtfully said: "Young master's words are very reasonable, it seems that I have to change my method in the future."

This sentence comes from the novel "The Complete Biography of Ji Gong" in the Qing Dynasty. There is no such sentence in this era, so Ji Sanniang admired Li Fei for saying such reasonable words.

Seeing Ji Sanniang's kindness, Li Fei nodded appreciatively, then stopped talking and followed Ji Sanniang to the back house.

Entering the back house, several servant girls with sharp eyes came forward to greet him, bowing to Li Fei wordlessly.

What happened last night, Ji Sanniang's subordinates already knew, and they will also be the mainstay of the sect created by Ji Sanniang in the future.

Therefore, they are also very grateful to Li Fei, the person who gave them a great opportunity.

Ji Sanniang didn't introduce much, and they all left after seeing the ceremony.

When they arrived at a well in the Houzhai, Ji Sanniang said to Li Fei, "My lord, all the property I have stolen is here."

Li Fei nodded in satisfaction, knowing that she hadn't played any tricks, and knowing the original plot, he naturally knew that those belongings were indeed inside.

The three jumped into the well one after another. Naturally, there was not even a drop of water in the well, but it was actually a wide cave at the bottom of the well.

Walking along the passage of the crypt, the underground is very ventilated and dry, and the passage is spotless.

All the way to the end, suddenly, a spacious secret room appeared in front of him.

Ji Sanniang lit a few oil lamps, and saw that in addition to a dozen large ornately decorated boxes, the floor was also piled up with gold, silver and jewels.

Under the light of the oil lamp, all kinds of treasures emit bursts of brilliant light, which makes people almost unable to open their eyes.

But obviously, those gold and silver are not valuable at all, so they are randomly piled up on the ground. The most valuable must be the things in the box.

Ji Sanniang took out a bunch of keys from her waist, opened ten boxes one after another, and saw that there were some porcelain vases and jade wares, precious stones and pearls, calligraphy and painting scrolls stored inside.

Even with Lin Yueru's knowledge, she couldn't help but secretly marvel, and at the same time she was a little speechless.

Unexpectedly, Ji Sanniang stole so many treasures, but piled them up here like rubbish, without any use, it was a waste of money.

Ji Sanniang stretched out her hand to the many treasures, and smiled at Li Fei without hesitation: "My lord, please."

Li Fei nodded, and he was not polite. He waved his hand and cast a seven-color light.

As Shenguang passed by, the ten boxes were emptied in an instant, but he didn't want the boxes, leaving it to Ji Sanniang to continue packing.

Li Fei only took away most of the gold, silver and jewelry on the ground, not all of them. After all, Ji Sanniang still needs to support a group of subordinates, and she needs some capital to start a sect in the future.

"The gold and silver should be enough for you to use as a home. After all, with your ability, this place will be filled again soon."

"When we help the poor in the future, we will leave your name as Feitianmao. Firstly, it will let the recipients know who the benefactor is, and secondly, it can also cover you up."

Ji Sanniang was greatly moved after hearing Li Fei's words.

She became a snitch, as she said, just because of her hobby.

The Yangzhou Miemen massacre was committed by the golden toad ghost mother Liu Meiniang, and it has nothing to do with her. She only steals money, but rarely kills.

So she doesn't value these belongings, but Li Fei can consider for her and leave her some household, which makes her feel grateful.

This proves that Li Fei approves of what she has done, and Li Fei's practice of making her famous is tantamount to endangering him to bear it, while she has earned the reputation herself.

The most important thing is that Li Fei is helping the poor in the name of Feitianmao elsewhere, which is bound to attract the attention of the government, which will play a huge role in covering her.

Because doesn't this mean that Feitianmao is not in Yangzhou City?
"Master Gao Yi, Sanniang will be grateful." Ji Sanniang bowed to Li Feiying and said sincerely.

"Okay, everything is over here, let's say goodbye here, and we will meet again in the mountains and rivers. I hope that when we meet again next time, you will become a real grand thief who is praised by the poor people."

……

When going out, he didn't go through the mouth of the well, but exited from Ji Sanniang's room.

Li Fei didn't let Ji Sanniang see him off, and after leaving the house with Lin Yueru, he went straight back to the inn.

When they returned to the inn, Li Xiaoyao handed a token to Li Fei, saying that it was sent by the chief arrester, and with this token, they could leave the city smoothly.

At the moment, everyone packed their luggage and prepared to go.

Now the ban in Yangzhou is still unresolved, not only people can't get out, but boats are the same.

If you want to take a boat, you have to get out of the city and turn over Hama Mountain to a town wharf on the other side of the mountain.

When the group left the gate of the inn, Li Fei was surprised to see four Miao warriors guarding a sedan chair.

"Elder Shi, this is?"

Elder Shi said: "The journey is far away, the princess is weak and not suitable for traveling long distances, so the old man ordered them to buy a sedan chair."

Li Fei smiled and nodded, "Elder Shi is very thoughtful."

Seeing this, Zhao Linger hurriedly said: "Elder Shi, what are you doing? Everyone is walking, how can I sit in a sedan chair alone?"

Li Xiaoyao persuaded: "Ling'er, listen to Elder Shi! Your current situation is not suitable for walking too much."

Lin Yueru also gently pinched Zhao Linger's delicate and pretty face, and said with a delicate smile, "Yes, I wish I could carry you all the way, but you definitely don't want to."

"If you don't even want to sit in a sedan chair, then I really have to consider carrying you on my back."

Zhao Linger said dumbfoundedly: "How can I be so weak! It's just a few steps, it doesn't matter."

Li Fei said warmly: "Ling'er, this is Elder Shi's wish, so don't refuse."

Seeing that everyone's wishes were hard to go against, Zhao Ling'er had no choice but to bow into the sedan chair, and the four Miao guards lifted the sedan chair lightly, and the group headed south of the city.

When he arrived at the gate of the city, Li Fei showed the token sent by the chief arrester, left the city smoothly, and walked along the official road.

The main means of transportation in the Tang Dynasty were cars, horses, boats, and of course walking.

However, according to the records in "New Book of Tang: Che Fu Zhi", ordinary people are not allowed to take a car.

Only elderly women are eligible to ride a car, and ordinary people are not even allowed to ride a horse.

Those who do not have officials wear coarse Gebu, official clothes, green copper and iron belts, and ride Shu horses and iron stirrups.

Officials wear purple coarse cloth and blue iron belts, mid-level officials do not wear gauze and silk, children of various departments do not wear large scarves, merchants, common people, monks, and Taoist priests do not ride horses.

In other words, ordinary people are not allowed to ride horses and carriages when traveling.

So in the original play, Li Xiaoyao and the others walked all the way to Nanzhao, neither riding a horse nor taking a carriage.

However, there is nothing special about the sedan chair, anyone can sit on it.

(End of this chapter)