Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

The huge home in the countryside is completely dark at the moment when Zi Chou takes over. Except for the chirping of autumn insects, there is no sound at all.

Wang Yushi probably didn't stay here often, and there was no one on night watch in the garden. The concierge, Li Sou's uncle and nephew, must have gone to bed early because Li Sou was drunk, and there was not a single light in sight.

After Fei Yue'er realized that there were no other servants in the garden, she began to wander around unscrupulously. Her eyesight was better than that of ordinary people and she could walk freely in the dark. After searching for nearly two hours, she found nothing and found nothing dark. A secret room or something like that.

Fei Yue'er felt that Wang's return to the countryside had nothing to do with Miss Ye San, and the autumn appreciation party at the beginning of the month was just a coincidence.

Along with the chirping of birds, a hint of white fish belly appears in the east, dawn is approaching, and tonight's work is destined to be in vain.

Fei Yue'er was wearing night clothes and had to leave here before dawn and return to the inn.

She was still clinging to the gable wall, ready to step onto the paulownia tree outside the wall and roll down the trunk.

At this moment, bursts of exclamations suddenly came from the alley, and a black shadow flashed past, followed by several people. The black shadow in front was slightly exhausted, and was gradually caught up by the ones behind him.

The black figure calmly took off the baggage from his body and threw it back, one, two, three, as if there were countless baggage wrapped around him.

There is no reason for the people behind not to pick it up. Just by bending down, the black figure in front of him slipped away like oil on his feet.

I saw a few people under the wall picking up the baggage. Only the person in front of me dropped it because he was being chased in a hurry. It might be some good treasure. I immediately opened the baggage, but I found that I had unpacked layer after layer. The layers were covered with rags and rags. Knowing that he had been tricked and played by the person in front of him, he screamed angrily, and there was no trace of the person in front of him, so he had to turn back.

Fei Yue'er waited for these people to go away, then quickly jumped off the wall, ran straight to the inn opposite, and flew up to the second floor.

The door of the room on the second floor they had booked was ajar, and Wang Heng and Xiaocai had been waiting for a long time.

Wang Heng and Xiao Cai had long been mentally prepared for Fei Yue'er's unsuccessful return. They originally thought that it was unlikely that they would return to Tianyuan to hide Miss Ye San.

The three of them worked hard all night. It was still early, so they went to catch up on their sleep.

Fei Yue'er fell into a deep sleep. When she woke up, it was already setting in the west. She went to the guest room next door and knocked on the door. Wang Cai hurriedly called the waiter to bring breakfast and lunch.

"Sister Yue'er, when you wake up, there is big news in Suzhou City." Wang Cai said with joy: "The thief Yizhi Meilanlong who has been washing his hands in a golden basin for more than 40 years has come out again."

Yue'er said in astonishment: "The heroic thief Lazy Dragon from the Jiajing Dynasty? It has been rumored for many years in Suzhou, but this knight-errant is actually still alive."

Wang Heng was filled with emotion and said: "Unexpectedly, this hero has reappeared in the world. The city of Suzhou is even more lively than the Chinese New Year. Teahouses and restaurants are already hard to find. Today's storyteller will all interrupt and say "The Surprise in the Film" "Yi Zhimei", the young men from various gates crowded Fuqian Street to inquire about the latest news from the prefecture's yamen for young and old men."

"This is it again..." Yue'er clicked her tongue in surprise.

"Look, sir, let me tell you how funny and pleasant it is to speak new and clever Mandarin." Wang Cai imitated the storyteller's manner and slapped his chopsticks hard on the wooden table:

"Look, sir, I've spent a lot of time trying to find out the news. If you're good, I'll reward you with three melons and two dates." Seeing the scallion pancakes on the table, Yue'er smiled and said, "I'll give you a pancake. It's a genuine scallion pancake. I won’t ask you to draw cakes to satisfy your hunger.”

Wang Heng handed Xiaocai the hard-boiled egg on the dining table and said sincerely: "I'll reward you with a zero duck egg."

Wang Cai cleared his throat:

"Master Lu scraped three feet of the ground, and a plum blossom robbed five households at night."

"It is said that this heroic thief Yi Zhimei Laolong, who robbed the rich and helped the poor, was generous and generous, gained a great reputation, and saw that the world was at peace and the people were happy, he secluded himself in the city and only made a living by selling divination in the SZ market. Several decades passed by in a blink of an eye. , one day I heard that the new Suzhou magistrate, Lu Fuzun, was extremely greedy and filthy. He was not satisfied with scraping the ground in Suzhou three feet, and resorted to many vicious methods."

"After hearing this, the lazy dragon went to visit Lu Fuzun's official residence at night. He saw racks of treasures in the mansion, boxes full of treasures, gold and jade mountains, such luxury. How could he not understand that these were all ill-gotten gains? So I drew a plum blossom on the wall of his inner room as a warning, hoping that he would take good care of himself and change his ways."

"Unexpectedly, Lord Lu didn't restrain himself at all. Today he is repairing the Guan Tang, tomorrow he is cutting horse grass, and the next day the fifth concubine is doing birthday celebrations. He just wants to make money, which makes the gentry and the people complain. I don't know how many people have broken their homes and torn apart their flesh and blood under his rule. .”

"That lazy dragon hates evil the most. He must teach this dog official a lesson. He carefully visited the families who colluded with Lu Zhifu to oppress the people. He robbed five families in the middle of the night yesterday. The family of the housekeeper, the Min family of the government office, the high-ranking official family of Xu, who opened the medicine shop, and the owner of Niu Cai who opened the warehouse, took away countless gold, silver, pearls and jade. They were afraid that others would be implicated for no reason, so they all painted a branch on the wall. Mo Mei proves his identity."

"That lazy dragon is very thoughtful. The last thing he picked up last night was the boss of Niu Cai who opened a warehouse near Guitianyuan. I don't know when he packed the old clothes in the warehouse into bundles and sold them. He found a flaw and pretended to be exhausted. The people who were being chased by the warehouse were about to chase him. He threw out the baggage one by one and escaped while others were picking it up. The few Kudins in the warehouse just thought they were Gold and silver, I want to take the opportunity to make a fortune myself, I don’t want to untie them layer by layer, they are all rags, with a piece of paper stuck in the middle, and the charcoal writing is square."

"At three o'clock tomorrow night, the magistrate's office will collect three thousand taels of gold."

"Ah." Fei Yue'er exclaimed.

"These minions went back to report to Niu Caidong, and Niu Caidong went to report to Lu Fuzun. Lu Fuzun was furious. Now, he has asked the clerk to write down the approval for arresting the robbers, and has closed the two counties of Changzhou and Wuxian. , We must capture that lazy dragon and bring him to the official position."

"Look, the latest rumor is that the young and old men in Suzhou City are not going to sleep tonight. They are trying their best to break the curfew and get slapped three times. They also have to wait around Fuqian Street until the middle of the night. They witnessed with their own eyes that Yizhimai stole three of the prefect's yamen. A thousand taels of gold.”

Fei Yue'er clapped her hands and said, "I've caught up, I've caught up, let's go and join in the fun."

Xiaocai smiled and said, "That's natural. I went to a clothing store early in the morning and bought a black cloak, ready to wear it in the middle of the night."

Wang Heng took off the small dagger he carried with him and tied it around the waist of Xiao Cai's cloak. Fei Yuer gave Xiao Cai a fist and said, "Young hero."

Everyone laughed, but Fei Yue'er remembered what happened during her night walk last night, and told her what she saw last night. At three o'clock in the morning, she met a night walker outside her home in the countryside, and saw one person running away before the clock broke. Several people chased her, but the person in front threw away her baggage and ran away. She guessed that this must be the lazy dragon. Judging from the body shape, the night walker she saw at the third watch was also a lazy dragon.

"From the third watch to the fifth watch, there are only two hours at most. How did you manage to steal five houses in a row?" Wang Heng asked.

Xiaocai nodded repeatedly and volunteered to go to the teahouse to find out where the five teahouses were located and how far apart they were.