Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 132 Not in the mountains, but by the water

The door of Longxing Pawnshop was closed. It was known that the apprentices of Xin'an Pawnshop all lived in the shop, so the two of them banged on the door.

Soon a waiter came to open the door. Wang Cai said that they had already got clues about the fake painting case reported to the police in Longxing in the past few days, and they wanted to find the boss or the emperor. The waiter saw that the two were very popular, and heard that they were the supervisors and students of Nanjing Imperial College. The students of Ziyang Academy did not dare to neglect, and went to find their master and Dachaofeng separately.

Da Chaofeng lived close to him, and just over a cup of tea, Wang Cai told the whole story. Da Chaofeng was also a little suspicious of Wang Chaofeng, but he just took into account the feelings of fellow villagers in Xin'an, and they had worked together for many years, so it was not good Asking too much.

After waiting for a while, Long Xingdang's boss came over after hearing the news. Da Chaofeng told Wang Cai's words back to his boss, who seemed a little unbelievable.

While hesitating, Zhuge Xian told his boss that they would not care what happened to Wang Erchaofeng. Because Longxing had been a newspaper official before, the county government officials had no reason to doubt his companion, a scholar of Ziyang Academy, and almost detained his companion in court. So they want to know the outcome of this case.

Dachao Feng understood the idea and asked about their residence. He immediately said that they had saved a large sum of money for Long Xing and they must give an explanation.

Before noon the next day, Da Chaofeng came to visit the Quanzhe Guild Hall with four-color gifts.

Da Chaofeng and Longxing were the bosses. Yesterday, they went to Wang Er Chaofeng's house on Changchun Street. They tried both soft and hard tactics, and Wang Er Chaofeng recruited them all. They went to the county government office to surrender early this morning.

It turns out that Huizhou people's custom is that adult men have to go out to study and do business, so Yuan Pei's wife stayed at home to serve her parents and raise their children. Wang Erchaofeng married a girl with a house and two children in Suzhou the year before last. She was a girl from a wealthy family in the run-down city of Suzhou. , handsome in appearance, very gentle and gentle, Wang Erchaofeng's old house was still on fire, obedient and very doting.

This girl is good at everything else, but her temperament is a bit extravagant, and she is also a vampire in her mother's family. However, in just two years, Wang Erchaofeng spent all his savings over the years. He had trouble making money, so he was introduced to Chaobei. The Tudui Temple made a bid, and 500 taels of silver were won. Each store would pay the bills and there would be nothing left. The next installment of membership fees was 30 taels. I couldn't afford to pay them in the past few months, and I already owed three installments of dues.

The Chaobei Gang is not easy to get along with. Wang Erchaofeng is desperate, but unexpectedly, he is guided by a way.

A few days ago, a young man from his old family went to Longxing to pay 500 taels of silver for a scroll of Plum Blossom Taoist's "Yin Yin Tu". According to Wang Erchaofeng's estimation, it was worth at least 2000 taels of silver. When he was handling it, he found the hemp paper wrapping the scroll. There were faint lines on it, and when he looked carefully, he was shocked to see that it was actually a talisman painted with cinnabar. During that time, there was a lot of commotion due to Miss Qu San's encounter with ghosts during the day, and the county government went around hunting for monsters. Inspired by this, he immediately Calmly, he hatched a bold plan in his mind.

Wang Erchaofeng spent three days copying the "Picture of Fishing Yin". His craftsmanship is naturally difficult to hide from others.Due to the convenience of my position, I took advantage of the shift change in the warehouse to subcontract the authentic "Picture of Fishing Hidden".

After Wang Erchaofeng succeeded, he took a day off the next day. He pretended to go to another place to visit a doctor. In fact, he took a boat to and from Suzhou and Hangzhou in one day. The shopkeeper of Jingu Zhai in Hangzhou was an old friend of his who had known him for many years.

Although "Yin Yin Tu" is a good painting, it would be difficult to get rid of it in a day or two, so Jin Guzhai ate it and wrote Wang Erchaofeng a promissory note of 200 taels of Henghe silver. The two parties agreed to wait until today When Gu Zhai found a buyer, he gave Wang Erchao an exchange ticket that could be redeemed on sight.

Not wanting Chaobei Gang to force him too hard, Wang Erchaofeng had no choice but to discount the promissory note, thus revealing his flaws.

Wang Cai and Zhuge Xian lamented that money had killed people and sent the great minister away.

Wang Cai took a pen and paper and wrote a letter in detail. The letter was addressed to Xiaomei Shi.He would have guessed that Shi Xiaomei went to Longxing to pawn "Yuyin Picture". Wang Erchao was designed to switch out "Yuyin Picture" and Longxing became the newspaper official. The official traced the case to Shiyuan and offered a reward for the whereabouts of the Shi family's father and daughter. He He and his friend Zhuge Xian tracked Wang Erchaofeng's whereabouts and found that Wang Erchaofeng owed Chaobei Gang membership fees, so he informed Longxing's boss. Now that Wang Erchaofeng has surrendered to the county government, the Shi family's father and daughter will be fine. When Fang Fang returns home, if he has any difficulties, he only has to go to Room D in Ziyang Academy or the Zhejiang Guild Hall to find him.

After Wang Cai finished writing the letter, he invited Zhuge Xian to go to Shiyuan with him. He did not shy away from Zhuge Xian and told Zhuge Xian all about his interactions with Shi Xiaomei.

The two strolled to Shiyuan. In the past, Wang Cai often went to the small shop. The door was tightly closed, the eaves were covered with spider webs, and the stone incense burner in front of the door fell to the ground, giving off a sense of desolation. decline.

Wang Cai looked up and down for a long time, then stuffed the letter into the crack under the row door. Seeing Zhuge Xian's confusion, he explained to him that the Shi family's father and daughter said they had returned to their hometown. Maybe it was just an excuse to tell outsiders. Maybe they had long ago. When I returned to Suzhou, I just heard from the neighbors that I had caused official trouble, and I was hiding and avoiding seeing people.

On the way back to Quanzhe Guild Hall, the snow gradually fell.

On the seventh day of the winter solstice holiday, Wang Cai braved the heavy snow and returned to the living room of Ziyang Academy. He found that Wang Heng had not returned from Xishan Island. It has stopped. It depends on God when the boat will open.

The heavy rain refused to let up. For safety reasons, Ziyang Academy simply took a few more days off.

Life in Quanzhe Guild Hall was convenient, so Zhuge Xian invited Wang Cai to live in Quanzhe Guild Hall again. After a few days, the weather finally cleared up. Seeing that Wang Heng still did not return to the academy, the two of them went to Wannianqiao Ferry to watch the boats every day. Never come before.

After waiting for a few days, the passenger ship on the other side of the Xishan Mountain had been open for navigation for three or four days. Everyone felt that the situation was not good and wondered what was going on.

Wang Cai decided to wait for one more day and must go to Xishan to find Wang Heng the next day. Zhuge Xian had been staying in Suzhou for many days. He just said that he had nothing to do when he returned to the village, so it was better to go to Xishan together to experience.

At noon that day, a tall and thin Taoist priest came to the Zhejiang Guild Hall to sell divination. The manager, Old Liu, came back and said that the Taoist priest was extremely accurate. Wang Cai had something in mind, so he asked the Taoist priest to do the calculation.

The Taoist priest taught a lesson and told him that they were looking for someone. Wang Cai and Zhuge Xian didn't want the Taoist priest to be so effective, so they asked him nervously, where is that person?

The Taoist priest Shen Nabao did the math and said, "Not in the mountains, but by the water."

The two friends looked at each other, confused.

When they arrived at Wanhu Village in Xishan Mountain and learned that Wang Heng was missing near Piaomiao Peak, and saw that Wanhu Village had organized so many manpower to search the mountains, but still found no results, they remembered the Taoist priest's comments.

Xishan Island is located in the vast blue waves of Taihu Lake, with countless small islands next to it, so I gathered people together, holding dogs and birds, to search one island after another. It took a few days to find it.

(End of this chapter)