win the hairpin

Chapter 13
Early the next morning, Jiang Gan went to Huang Wenqiu's house and made a bow: "Brother, it's time to eat, what kind of stuffing is this?"

While talking, he craned his neck to look at the dishes, and sat down in front of Roubaozi without being invited.

Huang Wenqiu could only ask someone to bring bowls and chopsticks: "Pork, let's eat some together."

Jiang Gan ate and drank what he had picked, leaving only small pickles on the table before putting down his chopsticks.

"Brother, you asked me to inquire about it yesterday. I asked, and it's just not a dragon group. Do you want it?"

"Yes," Huang Wenqiu gave him the usual money without saying a word, "Thank you for making an extra trip, I will buy it today, and I will go out with the boat tomorrow."

Jiang Gan took the money, agreed wholeheartedly, and walked out.

As soon as he left, Huang Wenqiu asked Xiao Hai to follow him, while he hurried to find Li Wenjing.

Li Wenjing was neatly dressed and was about to go to the Yamen. When he saw him coming, he sat down and invited tea.

Huang Wenqiu saluted and sat down: "Grandfather, Xiaosheng has something important to ask, has the thief who stole Xianggong Qi been caught?"

Li Wenjing shook his head: "The magistrate has limited documents to be processed, and there is no news at all. I really don't know which flying thief came and went without a trace."

"It's really hidden, I don't want to be bumped into by Xiaosheng," Huang Wenqiu said solemnly, "Xiaosheng has a classmate named Jiang Gan who helps out everywhere..."

He skipped over Yin Xiao and told all about Jiang Gan's sale of the Dragon Ball.

Li Wenjing was also taken aback when he heard this, and immediately ordered someone to report to the magistrate's yamen, first to arrest Jiang Gan and bring him to justice.

"Hang on, benefactor," Huang Wenqiu hastily interrupted him, "If you take Jianggan, I'm afraid it will startle the snake, why don't we lure the snake out of the hole."

After hearing this, Li Wenjing felt that it made sense, and the two discussed it and left separately.

When dusk falls and the sky turns blue, the artisans carrying burdens, prostitutes with heavy make-up, troupes who sing and sing all kinds of palace tunes, old dancers, those who carry pots and walk purple, and those who swallow knives and breathe fire are all on the cross street. go outside.

I hear them talking or laughing in my ears, but I look lonely in my eyes.

Except for a few tea houses and wine shops on the street, the lights are on, and the rest of the doors are dark, silently devouring the hard life.

Jiang Gan walked into the restaurant with ease, and walked straight back. The bartender stood behind the cabinet and gave him a few winks with a strange expression, but he didn't see it.

At the back is the meat table and wine tank and other household items, which are miscellaneously placed in a pile, and then there is a pile of firewood on the wall. Next to the firewood is a pair of greasy tables and chairs, with a rotten towel thrown on it.

No lights were lit, and although there was a crescent moon, it was still blurry. A man in a short shirt was sitting and drinking.

Jiang Gan leaned forward: "Brother, why did you drink it alone?"

The drinker was speechless, and raised his head to drink another bowl.

Jiang Gan scratched his head: "Brother, give me something, and I'll eat it myself, so I won't talk about it here."

The drinking man took out a jade-like object from his cuff, and was about to hand it to Jiang Gan, when suddenly a dozen or so lizards rushed out from all directions, surrounding Jiang Gan and the man.

The man was startled, jumped up, and ran away. Under the black light, he spun around like a headless chicken, and bumped into Huang Wenqiu's arms.

The two of them fell down together, and the yamen servants took the opportunity to tie up the man, and brought him into the magistrate's yamen together with Jiang Gan. They lit up the lights in the hall, made them both kneel at the bottom of the steps, and went up to the hall for interrogation overnight.

Zhu Guangli, the prefect, sat down before going to the hall, and the servants on the left and right beat the killing sticks, shouting "mighty!"

Zhu Guangli shouted and asked: "You two thieves are so brave! You stole it into Qi Xianggong's mansion, and you really don't know how to write dead!"

Only then did the drinking man raise his head, showing a frightened face, and called out to hit Tianqu.

Huang Wenqiu stood in the hall and was watching. When he saw him look up, he said inwardly that he was not good.

Where is Yin Xiao, it's clearly Du Lan, a helper in Prince Jin's mansion.

Zhu Guangli heard that he was an idler in Prince Jin's mansion, because You Song saw that he was always fighting while drinking and forbade him to drink, so he secretly exchanged the golden beans rewarded by King Jin for Jiang Gan's drink, he was also stunned.

He caught the thief with great fanfare, but in the end he caught a drunk man.

Li Wenjing stood behind the hall and listened, and hurriedly asked Huang Wenqiu to be brought in, and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

Huang Wenqiu said in a low voice: "Mr. Zhu asked him like that. He would definitely not recruit. In my opinion, it is better to search the body first, and then beat him with twenty sticks to see if he recruits."

Li Wenjing glanced at him: "Don't say he is the helper of King Jin, even a dog in Prince Jin's mansion, we can't beat him."

The universe is undecided, who knows what will happen next.

Furthermore, Zhu Guangli was originally from a poor family, and he was able to be re-elected as the magistrate in Tanzhou because of the smoke from his ancestral grave and the presence of three nobles by his side.

Firstly, she got a wife, a concubine sister of Pei Yuzhang, secondly, she got a Qiangu master, who had accumulated tens of thousands of dollars, and she was not bad at all.

How could he lose the face of King Jin.

"Is it just let go like this?" Huang Wenqiu was not reconciled, and Yin Xiao was not caught. Maybe Du Lan was Yin Xiao's informant.

"Let's see what Mr. Zhu will do."

Sure enough, Zhu Guangli asked someone to untie Du Lan's rope on the spot, telling him to go back and not drink and cause trouble.

Du Lan refused to give up, and asked Zhu Zhifu who was the first to accuse, and asked him to confront him.

Zhu Guangli had no choice but to send someone to call Huang Wenqiu.

Huang Wenqiu came out in a hurry, bowed to Zhu Zhifu, and explained in detail how Jiang Qian had colluded with the Jiang thieves, wanted to sell the dragon ball, and how he found clues about his refusal to resell private tea.

Jiang Gan yelled at his injustice, saying that even though he was very courageous, he would not dare to collude with the Jiang thieves. Huang Wenqiu made lies and wanted to kill him for the sake of his future.

Du Lan also said: "The villain will file a complaint first, maybe he is a thief who colluded with the Jiang thieves to steal things, the magistrate should quickly check him and search him!"

Jiang Gan chimed in: "Yes, that's him!"

Huang Wenqiu said angrily: "I am innocent and upright!"

"Fart," Jiang Gan retorted, "If you are upright, how can you touch the whore of the flower tea house? The magistrate, I have a witness!"

"That lowly woman is overwhelmed by thousands of people, how can her words be counted!"

"No matter how humble she is, she is still a human being, and a human being can testify!"

Du Lan was slightly drunk, and even said rudely: "Search him, if the magistrate does not search, I will ask the prince to make decisions for me!"

The three of them quarreled, Zhu Guangli couldn't bear it any longer, and slammed the gavel: "Shut up!"

The hall was immediately silent.

Zhu Guangli said to Huang Wenqiu: "Since they testify against you, and you testify against them, then search the three of you."

After finishing speaking, he called the Yamen servants to come forward and search the three of them.

The yamen servants first searched Du Lan's body, and found out golden beans, slingshots, tortoise shell fans, and piccolos, and Jiang Gan's body was broken silver, beef bone fans, and red powder purses.

The last is Huang Wenqiu.

Huang Wenqiu only brought a fan and broken silver, nothing else.

Seeing that it was a farce, Zhu Guangli snorted coldly, but before he could say anything, the yamen servant suddenly let out a "huh", and pulled out a dragon ball from Huang Wenqiu's leather belt.

The leather belt is already nailed to the back of the waist, and it is light and concealed to hide a long ball.

(End of this chapter)