Records of the Lost Cases of Helaitang in the Ming Dynasty

Everyone was astonished, and Cheng Xiucai couldn't help but feel proud.

It turned out that Cheng Xiucai had not left beside the canal outside Panmen that day.

He was being coerced, and the more he thought about it, the more unwilling he became, and he had the intention of getting back a fight.

Guessing that Wang Heng and his party were going to Pingwangyi along the canal, they were foreigners and probably didn't know how to call a boat, so they hired a cloth selling boat from Panmen Water and Land Pier, and hid among the cloth to let the boatman He walked slowly towards the river port and shouted several times across the water, "Five cents per person goes to Songling, eight cents goes to Pingwang, ten cents goes to Zhenze."

Wang Heng and the other three really got on the boat, and when they arrived at Pingwang Ande Bridge, they met the Pingwang Post official boat that was picking up the sedan. After they landed, they followed the sedan into Songling, the town of Wujiang County. Unexpectedly, there was Huangque behind them, and Cheng Xiucai followed them all the way. Follow them.

After that, they agreed to wait in the melon shed. Wang Heng and Xiao Cai went to the Patriarch's Hall in the west of the city. Fei Yue'er walked around Shen's house from time to time, but Cheng Xiucai noticed them.

Xiaocai patted the table and said clearly: "Did you put the four tea cups?"

Cheng Xiucai smiled and said: "Raise a glass to the bright moon. It's rare to see such a clear night. The moon is like a hook and the stars are faint. With the sky blue celadon lamp after the rain, it's not too bad."

Xiaocai lamented: "It's a pity that the seventh brother suspected that a bad person had left a pot of good tea, so he didn't dare to drink it."

Wang Heng couldn't help but smile, put his forehead in his hands and said, "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed."

After being reminded by Xiaocai, Cheng Xiucai suddenly remembered the matter and said, "Guys, please sit down under the table. There are burned Dixi Pavilion emblems on my cups and cups. I have to go and get them back immediately." "

Cheng Xiucai's footsteps came and went as fast as the wind. After a while, he turned around with his baggage on his back.

Looking out from the eaves, the east is white and dawn is about to break.

"It's a lucky thing that I only brought it up when I was young, otherwise it would be inconvenient if the Shen family found it tomorrow." Cheng Xiucai came in like a gust of wind.

Xiaocai cooked a wok of white porridge. Cheng's house only had dried pickled radish, so everyone drank several large bowls of porridge with the radish.

Wang Heng explained the reason why they visited Shen's house at night to find Miss Ye San, who claimed to have died of illness. Cheng Xiucai shook his head and said that his mother had stayed in several ladies' houses in Songling, but none of them were from the Shen family, and she didn't know Ye San. The third girl, therefore, cannot help.

There are differences between men and women, so it makes sense that Cheng Xiucai doesn't know Miss Ye San.

Fei Yue'er and Cheng Xiucai were both shocked when they told the story of what happened in Shen's woodshed and the man's instructions before his death that he carried back and left in the outer courtyard.

Guests of Taxue Villa will disembark from Zhigu Village to Beijing. Please be sure to put this information in Pingwangyi Tianzi No. 2. It is related to the safety of the imperial court. This sentence has profound meaning.

Whether or not to pay attention to this matter is really a question.

Cheng's house is usually uninhabited, so it saves a lot of effort and no need to hide it from others.

In the dim light of the morning, the person who came back from Shen's house was placed on the stone steps. He could clearly see that he was a middle-aged man wearing a Liuhe hat and brown shorts. He did not have anything on his body to prove his identity. There were no visible wounds.

Wang Heng squatted on the ground and looked at it for a long time and said: "This man must be an official. He is dressed like a peddler, but his feet are wearing soap boots. It is obvious that the clothes are a temporary change, but it is not so easy to change the shoes." of."

Fei Yue'er walked back and forth a few times, stepped forward, rolled her eyelids, and said, "This man's eyes are bloodshot, his nails are black, and his fingers are covered with abscesses. It seems he died of poisoning."

Wang Cai said: "This man came out after listening to me and the seventh brother say a few words in the haystack of the woodshed. Therefore, he should be the enemy of someone in Shen House."

Cheng Xiucai said: "I wonder what the people in Shen's house will do if they find out that you have escaped? He is an official, will he ask the government officials to hunt you down?"

Xiaocai said: "Probably not, we just violated the night ban, and he has no evidence to settle the score afterwards, so how can he arrest people casually? If we really want to count, Brother Yueting is the grandson-in-law of the Shen family, and we can be considered relatives. "

Fei Yue'er smiled and said, "We are not afraid of the Shen family. The Seventh Young Master is a prisoner of the South Prison. Is it possible that it is illegal to wander around Shen's house?" "Then, what are you going to do with this person's body?" Cheng Xiucai asked. .

Wang Heng thought about it again and again, and said: "Bury him first. Just remember where to bury him. If anyone asks about it in the future, you can take them there. It is not appropriate to leave the body in your house. If the government discovers it, you should do it." You can’t explain why it’s implicated.”

Cheng Xiucai nodded and said: "There is a charity village in the east of the city, but I just need to give him a few taels of silver and let them bury it."

Without further ado, it would be better to get to Yizhuang in time for dawn and no one on the street.

Because Fei Yuer's foot was injured, she was asked to stay at Cheng's house.

There was a cart in Cheng Xiucai's courtyard. He put on his short clothes and spread it with straw, and the three of them pretended to be transporting firewood.

At three o'clock in the morning, we set off for Yizhuang at dawn and met almost no one along the way.

When I arrived at Yizhuang, I gave the steward an extra two taels of silver, but the steward didn't ask anything.

Wang Heng took out five taels of silver, asked the steward to give the deceased a thin coffin, and burned some paper money. The servants of Yizhuang built a new tomb. Because they met in Shen's house, they built Shen Da's tomb.

After finishing the work, it was already three o'clock in the morning. When I returned to Beimen Street, I deliberately looked around Shen's house a few times. The Zhu family who had been noisy in front of Shen's house yesterday had disappeared. I thought they had returned to the countryside. There was nothing unusual about the rest.

When I returned to Cheng Xiucai's house, it was already early noon.

A table of food has been placed in the hall, but it was brought by the restaurant that Cheng Xiucai called Xiangshui when he went out in the morning.

Among them was the sea bass from Songling, which Wang Cai felt was no less good than the four-cheeked sea bass from Yunjian.

Wang Heng took out the token he picked up last night, looked left and right, and said thoughtfully: "The person who ambushed us last night was very clever and capable. I'm afraid we are no match for him and will cause trouble in vain."

Wang Cai said: "Seventh brother, don't be discouraged. Even if we don't look for Miss Ye San anymore, we still have to go to Pingwang Station to report this letter, which can be regarded as an enemy of that person."

Wang Heng nodded reluctantly and said to Cheng Xiucai, "Brother Cheng, please hire two green donkeys for us."

"That's not a problem." Cheng Xiucai said: "I think about it carefully and there are various puzzles. Although the Shen family is a famous family in Songling, it has declined in recent years, and the family fortune is not very generous. How can his family have such a good reputation? Such a powerful person? If he is such a powerful person, is it possible that he is dormant at home on weekdays? I will go out to find some old mountains and lakes later and ask about the situation of the Shen family. "

"Mr. Cheng, why don't you come with us to Pingwangyi? Maybe we can still rely on you." Xiaocai tried his best to invite.

Cheng Xiucai was confused: "It's daytime now, and there is no danger. We might as well go separately and meet at night to discuss it. If we all leave, what if we can't return to Songling at night and Miss Fei has difficulty moving?" Not unattended.”

When Xiaocai wanted to invite them again, Wang Heng also said that it would be good to split up. Cheng Xiucai then led them along Beimen Street to look at the city gate. There was a carriage and horse station near the city gate. Cheng Xiucai came forward and hired two strong men. A huge green donkey escorted them out of the city gate.

Walking on the official road, the green donkey walks quickly and steadily.

Wang Heng smiled and said: "Xiaocai, you are wary of Cheng Xiucai, so why do you invite him to Pingwangyi again and again?"

Xiaocai snorted and said, "Seventh brother, you are pretending to be confused because you understand."

Wang Heng laughed and said: "Of course I understand that before you went to Fei's house in Taiping Town, you had already thought about telling Miss Yue'er to Brother Yueting."

Xiaocai raised his eyes and said, "Then you still want Cheng Xiucai to stay?"

"Of course I have selfish motives." Wang Heng's green donkey walked happily and said from a distance: "My eldest sister is also sixteen."