Judge of the Lamp

Chapter 33
The Lantern Lantern's lamp really has something to say, Xu Zhiqiong thought that only a knife could emerge, but he was wrong, the lamp has more functions.

There are not only knives in the lamp pole, but also crossbow arrows and oil. When the mechanism is triggered, the oil will drip on the candle, and the lantern will burst into flames and smoke.

There is still medicine powder hidden under the lamp holder, shake it vigorously, and the medicine powder sprinkles on the candle, and fireworks can be emitted, flying several feet high, which is used to warn for help.

It took Xu Zhiqiong all morning to learn how to use the lamp, and spent another two taels of silver to ask Niu Yuxian to make some changes to the lamp pole.

Although Niu Yuxian was only at the ninth rank, Xu Zhiqiong found that his methods were very unusual. Just like what Lu Yinpeng said, Niu Yuxian might be an unborn genius.

At noon, just about to go home, I saw Yang Wu walking over with a tired face.

He just finished cleaning Wang Shijie's room.

"Zhiqiong, come here, I have something to tell you."

Yang Wu called Xu Zhiqiong to a secluded place, and gave him two pennies.

Xu Zhiqiong asked in surprise, "Why did you give me the money?"

"Give this money to Wang Denglang, brother, listen to my advice, stop competing with Wang Denglang, you will be the one who suffers in the end."

Xu Zhiqiong wiped his nose: "Why am I at a disadvantage?"

"You are still stubborn. You watch the night until dawn every day. Don't you feel hard? We followed Wang Denglang to watch the night, and it was over before three o'clock. When we came back, we accompanied Wang Denglang to eat supper at the yamen until dawn. Look at this How nice."

Xu Zhiqiong heard the words: "Are you going to eat supper with him, or serve him for supper?"

"It can't be called serving, just take care of him, who made him a senior."

"You are also invited for supper?"

Yang Wu laughed dryly and said: "It doesn't cost much, and there are many things that you don't need to buy, as they are ready-made."

Xu Zhiqiong asked in astonishment, "Where did you get it ready-made?"

Yang Wudao: "Don't ask, if you are reluctant, I will pay for your share."

Xu Zhiqiong stuffed the money back to Yang Wu, shaking his head again and again.

Yang Wu said anxiously: "A good man doesn't suffer from immediate losses. I asked others, and the newcomers in the first year are all like this. Look, Wu Qishou is here, so hurry up and say something soft."

Wu Chunyang was holding a pile of washed clothes, and was about to send them to the small house for Wang Shijie. Today Wang Shijie was sleeping in the yamen.

Yang Wu hurriedly stepped forward to stop Wu Chunyang: "Wu Qishou, let Zhiqiong deliver the clothes, he has something to say to Wang Qishou."

Wu Chunyang looked at Xu Zhiqiong, snorted and said, "I can't afford Xu Dadenglang."

Xu Zhiqiong looked at the pile of clothes, quietly took out a paper bag from his pocket, and hid it in his palm.

He walked up to Wu Chunyang, reached for the clothes, and said with a naive face: "Yes, yes, let me send it."

Wu Chunyang said angrily: "Get up, get away from me!"

"Let me deliver it, just let me deliver it..." Taking advantage of the opportunity of tearing, Xu Zhiqiong inserted his hand into the clothes, and with a flick of his fingertips, the medicine powder sprinkled on the clothes.

Fortunately, I was quick and almost got my fingers on it.

After tearing for a while, Wu Chunyang became more and more annoyed, and shouted at Xu Zhiqiong: "Get away, don't touch this clothes, don't blame me for being rude to you!"

Xu Zhiqiong stepped aside, pouted and said, "If you don't touch it, don't touch it, who cares!"

Wu Chunyang sent the clothes in, and Yang Wu was so anxious that he beat his chest and stamped his feet: "Zhiqiong, you are dishonest, dishonest, you are so obstinate, can Wang Qishou forgive you?"

Am I dishonest?

My heart is very sincere!

I sincerely gave Wang Denglang a big gift.

When he itches for a day, he must be furious.

He will definitely suspect me, and then he will lay hands on me.

At that time, the four-inch horn will belong to me...

That night, Xu Zhiqiong came to work on time.

Wang Shijie still had the same face: "I don't need to say more, you go to Beiyuan! Meng Qingdeng went to spot check yesterday, and there was no missing lamp. It will be like this from now on. If there is a missing lamp, I will tear you apart."

Xu Zhiqiong was about to leave with the lantern in his hand when he suddenly saw the green lantern man Meng Shizhen walking over.

"Where are you going?"

Xu Zhiqiong sniffed his nose and said, "Go to Beiyuan to watch the night!"

"go alone?"

"I go alone these days."

Wang Shijie was terrified, and hurried forward to Meng Shizhen and said, "Meng Qingdeng, don't listen to his nonsense, I want him to go to the north of the city to familiarize himself with the roads, not to actually watch the night."

Xu Zhiqiong scratched his head and said, "I am also the one who lights the lamp."

Wang Shijie was about to scold Xu Zhiqiong, but Meng Qingdeng started to scold him: "You shameless old man, you're just lazy, don't you know the serious things? It's not peaceful recently, why did you let him go to Beiyuan alone? ? Beiyuan is your territory, don’t you know where it is? Can you bear the burden if something happens? Let’s watch the night together today, don’t separate!”

Meng Shizhen scolded for a long time, Wang Shijie repeatedly said yes, and when Meng Shizhen left, Wang Shijie spat at his back.

Say I'm lazy?How long has it been since you went on the night watch yourself?
According to the rules of the Yamen in charge of lamps, the white lantern man has to patrol the night every night, the green lantern man patrols every three days, the green lantern man patrols every five days, and even the red lantern man has to patrol the night every ten days.

But Wu Xu was usually slack in discipline, his subordinate Deng Lang often fished, Red Lantern rarely went out, and Green Lantern wandered around. Qing Deng Lang walked out of three streets at most, and the rest of the work was handed over to Bai Deng Lang.

Now that there are newcomers, several white lantern men have also taken a break, such as Ma Guangli, Wang Zhennan, and Li Pu'an who are in charge of Beiyuan with Wang Shijie, Feng Angui, Li Changjie, and Xiong Kangjun who are in charge of Xiji, Dai Yun and Zhu Hongan who are in charge of Xilu, Shi Chuan, Kou Shiyi, and Li Xiuwu from Wang'an River... They temporarily handed over the land to Wang Shijie, and asked Wang Shijie to take the newcomer to watch the night and light the lamps. They went home and slept with their wives. There are real benefits here.

Not only Bai Denglang, but the entire yamen in charge of lamps has the atmosphere of bullying newcomers, which has almost become a customary rule.

After being scolded by Meng Shizhen, Wang Shijie was unhappy, and took everyone to patrol the Wang'an River.

Walking on the road, seeing Wang Shijie scratching his back, Xu Zhiqiong knew that the effect of the medicine had taken effect.

Xu Zhiqiong was very anxious.

If Wang Shijie found out that Xu Zhiqiong had drugged him, he would definitely fight Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong couldn't kill him, the Wang'an River was too busy, he couldn't kill people in crowded places.

He really wanted to find an opportunity to go to Beiyuan, where he had prepared everything and waited for Wang Shijie to catch up to Beiyuan before making a move. That was the place suitable for harvesting meritorious deeds.

It's all because of Meng Shizhen's troubles. If it weren't for him, we would have succeeded tonight!

It seems that I have to endure tonight, remember the Taoist priest's instructions, and don't leave any traces.

It was so troublesome to kill a dog last time, but this time, if you want to kill a dog, you must not leave your hands on impulse.

Walking to the Wang'an River, Wang Shijie saw an old woman selling vegetables, stepped forward to look at the vegetables in the basket, and asked, "Who asked you to sell vegetables here?"

The old lady was trembling with fright, and saluted Wang Shijie again and again: "The women sell vegetables here every year, for many years."

"Did you pay last month's tax?"

Paying taxes is a matter of the Ministry of Household Affairs, not under the control of the Yamen in charge of the lamp. Wang Shijie has nothing to find fault with.

But there is nothing he can do to find fault with you, Lantern is the master of the night in the capital.

The old woman quickly took out the tax stamp: "My lord, it's a total of one hundred and twenty cash, and I paid it in full."

Wang Shijie looked at the tax stamp, threw it aside and said, "Selling this big basket of vegetables a day only paid more than [-] yuan in taxes a month. Tell me, how much did you miss?"

The old woman hastily argued: "My lord, women pay taxes according to a fixed amount, four pennies a day, a penny is a lot!"

"Fart your mother! I've wronged you! Come here, take the vegetable basket away!"

The two newcomers went up to collect the vegetable baskets, but the old woman held the vegetable baskets and refused to give them: "Your Excellency, you can't do it, the women have not violated the king's law, the women have no children, and there is a grandson at home, and they just rely on selling small vegetables to make ends meet. Ah, my lord can't make it..."

After grabbing it a few times, I couldn't grab it, and the newcomer couldn't do it anymore.

This is an old lady, and if she is a human being, she can't do it.

"Ordinary waste!" Wang Shijie stepped forward and kicked the old woman in the face. The old woman rushed to the ground, her face was covered with blood, and howled endlessly. The two newcomers moved the vegetable baskets and followed Wang Shijie away.

Chu He was behind him, his veins throbbing with anger, he clenched his fists and walked behind Wang Shijie.

Yang Wu stepped forward and grabbed Chu He: "You don't understand the rules here, it's like this every day, Wang Qishou said, this is called Liwei, this group of traders must beat us frequently, otherwise they won't take us seriously! "

Chu He pointed to the old woman on the ground and said, "Bullying a sixty-year-old woman is also called Liwei? Is this something a human can do?"

"Keep your voice down," Yang Wu said in a low voice, watching the onlookers point and point, "The head of the flag said, no matter if you are old or weak, women or children, you can't be soft-hearted about this kind of thing! Come here like this, what do we know!"

Xu Zhiqiong finally understood why Wang Shijie's crime was four inches long.

This was accumulated over ten years.

Under the crowd watching, Wang Shijie remained unchanged, pushed away the crowd, and continued to patrol the streets.

Xu Zhiqiong squatted beside the old woman and asked, "Can you still walk?"

The old woman cried: "I can't go, my grandson is waiting to eat, my lord, grandpa, I kowtow to you, you return the food to me..."

The old woman was crying so hard, Xu Zhiqiong took out a piece of broken silver from his bosom, stuffed it in the old woman's hand, and said in a low voice: "This is enough for you to sell vegetables for a few days, take it, go quickly Bar."

The old woman stopped crying and stared blankly at Xu Zhiqiong.

Xu Zhiqiong smiled: "Let's go quickly, I was wronged tonight, take my grandson to eat something good."

Before the old woman could thank her, Xu Zhiqiong got up and left. His actions were extremely secretive just now, and the onlookers didn't see that Xu Zhiqiong gave the old lady money, but they didn't understand why the old lady stopped crying.

But someone saw it.

Xu Zhiqiong continued to walk forward, and suddenly felt that the sound of footsteps was wrong.

The judge's ears are very good, and he can judge the exact position of a person from the sound of footsteps. If there is a person whose relative position remains unchanged, it proves one thing, Xu Zhiqiong is being followed.

By the Wang'an River, Xu Zhiqiong was followed by Zou Shunda once, and the thrilling memories are vivid in his memory.

He glanced behind him out of the corner of his eye and determined the position of the stalker.

Such a tall man, about the same height as Chu He.

Among the people you know, who is about the same height as Chu He?

It seems there is only one...

Wang Shijie walked along the river and met another citrus seller.

Squatting next to the tangerines, Wang Shijie asked the stall owner, "Is your basket of tangerines a mess?"

"No rush," the stall owner said tremblingly, "Yes, it's for sale."

Guanpu, a common game in Daxuan.

It's okay to say it's a game, or it's right to say it's a gambling.

This basket of oranges sells for [-] Wen, you can buy it with [-] Wen, or you can buy it with [-] Wen.

The rules of Guanpu are very simple, take six copper coins and throw them, six of them are heads up, it is called Liuchun, and if this basket of oranges is thrown, all of them will be given to you.

If five heads are up, it is called Wuchun, and you can take part of the oranges. You should discuss with the stall owner how much you want to take.

If you don't even have Wuchun, then you have lost, and the twenty coins will be given to the stall owner for nothing.

Wang Shijie took out six copper coins, and said to the stall owner: "Your basket of oranges is not worth much, one time, two coins, what do you think?"

How shameless, two pennies will be thrown once.

The stall owner kept begging: "Master Deng Lang, if I don't rush my citrus, it's for sale."

Wang Shijie didn't seem to hear: "I'll be fine with Sanchun, right?"

Sanchun means that if there are three or more heads, he wins.

There is no such thing as three pure in Guan Puli, but only three heads up, so what is it called pure?

Chu He was so angry that his scalp was about to explode.

Wang Shijie took out six copper coins and flipped, two heads, four tails, and lost.

The stall owner heaved a sigh of relief and saluted again and again: "Master Deng Lang, I don't want your money. I said it at the beginning. I won't rush with you. I'll get you some oranges to eat."

Wang Shijie lowered his eyes and said: "You still want my money? You are making a private bet here, I should arrest you and go back to the yamen, do you still want my money?"

The stall owner looked at Wang Shijie with tears in his eyes, and cried, "My lord, I didn't, I didn't rush, my lord, I didn't..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Shijie knocked down the stall owner with a punch, stepped forward and patched his face several times.

The stall owner had a five-year-old daughter. She hugged the stall owner and cried, "Don't hit my daddy, don't hit my daddy!"

Wang Shijie stepped forward and kicked the girl's face. The girl's face was covered with blood, and she lay on the ground, crying heartbreakingly.

This is really heartbreaking, Chu He's lungs are about to explode.

Wang Shijie turned around and said to the newcomers: "Don't say I treat you badly, let's share a few oranges for each of you!"

The orange basket was snatched away, and the stall owner hugged his daughter and wanted to snatch it back, but Xu Zhiqiong stepped forward to stop him, stuffed two pieces of silver, and said in a low voice: "Hurry up, take your daughter, and go home quickly."

Normally Wang Shijie would just clean up two or three street vendors, but today he was in an extremely bad mood, first scolded by Meng Qingdeng, his body was itchy, and he was indescribably irritable.

Along the way, two fish sellers, one wine seller, one tea seller, one flower cake seller, and two fruit sellers were beaten up. Regardless of the old and weak, women and children, they all beat down...

Several newcomers were carrying the load and pushing the cart, and they almost couldn't carry it.

Wang Shijie felt that it was almost the end of the night, and was about to go back to the yamen, when he suddenly saw a girl singing with tambourines on the street.

The girl was pretty, and she sang well, but the people around her were only interested in applauding and offering rewards. Wang Shijie made such a big noise, and these people didn't notice it.

Wang Shijie stepped forward to push away the crowd and walked up to the girl.

Seeing this ferocious Lantern Lantern, the people who listened to the music dispersed in a rush.

The girl was so frightened that she put away her tambourine and wanted to run away, but was stopped by Wang Shijie.

"Little lady, you are so handsome. I will reward you with two coins. Go and sing two songs at my grandfather's place."

While speaking, Wang Shijie pinched the girl's face with his hands: "This little face is so fair!"

The girl hid, but Wang Shijie reached out to pinch again.

If the girl hides again, Wang Shijie will pinch it again.

The girl hid again, and Wang Shijie got annoyed.

"What are you hiding? Are you plotting something wrong? Are you hiding something on your body? Let me search!"

The girl looked at the crowd of lantern bearers with a look of horror, and kept her eyes on Xu Zhiqiong, as if asking for help.

Xu Zhiqiong found this girl familiar.

It seems to be the egg seller at the entrance of the alley.

The egg seller is called Xia Ni.

The female pusher is called Xia Hu.

Is this girl the pusher?
She is a colleague?

Is it to grab business!

Wang Shijie reached out to grab the girl's clothes, but the girl tried her best to dodge.

Wang Shijie's body became more and more itchy, and her heart became more and more irritable. She shouted angrily, "How dare you hide?"

After all, he punched the girl in the face.

The fist stopped in mid-air, and the wrist was clenched.

A tall figure appeared behind him.

Who can be so tall?
It must be Chuhe.

Wang Shijie laughed and said: "Your surname is Chu, you dare to grab my master's wrist. You provoked me tonight, so don't blame me for being poisonous!"

When the words fell to the ground, Wang Shijie raised the light pole and poked behind him, the tip of the knife came out, and poked directly at the man's eyes.

Since it was Chu He who made the first move, Wang Shijie can justify his blindness by poking him!

Ding!There was a crisp sound.

This time the eyes were poked, but it was like poking a piece of iron.

Wang Shijie put away the lantern pole, her crotch got wet, and she peed!

The person behind him was not Chu He.

He knew who this man was.

"Qian, Qianhu..."

Wu Xu let go of Wang Shijie's wrist, and grabbed Wang Shijie's eyes by his hair: "Look at your little appearance, why are you so handsome, how fair is your little face!"

"Qian, Qianhu, this, this woman, she, she is planning to do something wrong, I'm watching her..."

Before he finished speaking, Wu Xu punched Wang Shijie in the face.

The bridge of Wang Shijie's nose collapsed, flew out more than ten feet, and rolled into the Wang'an River.

Wu Xu pointed to a few newcomers and said, "You catch him, tie him up, and send him back to the yamen."

Turning around and pointing at Xu Zhiqiong again: "You, follow me!"

Xu Zhiqiong looked at Wang Shijie in the river with distress, did he not be beaten to death this time?
What can I do if I am killed?If someone beats him to death, does merit still count?
The girl who sang the song also looked at Heli with concern, and was a little disappointed to see that Wang Shijie had shown her head and was not dead.

Why is she disappointed?
If she is Xia Hu, it proves that she is a judge of the seventh rank.

It seems that the judge of the eighth rank cannot kill with his own hands.

Maybe the seventh-rank judge can't kill with his own hands, he can only pick up ready-made ones.

Xu Zhiqiong let out a long breath, and suddenly heard Wu Xu yell: "Let you come with me, wait so long!"

(End of this chapter)