win the hairpin

Chapter 14
The yamen servant presented the tea to Zhu Guangli. Zhu Guangli glanced at the gold seal on it, and then handed it to Ni Peng, the famous criminal master. The two confirmed that it was the tea lost by Qi Cangsi.

Huang Wenqiu froze in place, opened his mouth, unable to close it for a long time.

He looked at Jiang Gan, then at Du Lan, woke up suddenly, and shouted at Zhu Guangli for injustice.

"If I were a thief who stole tea, how could I be so stupid as to hide tea on me! Besides, I am a frail scholar who dare not kill a chicken. How can I go to Qi Xianggong's mansion to steal things, and I don't know who I am? Sleep!"

He pointed at Du Lan again: "It must be him. He was the one who jumped on me in the wine shop just now and took the opportunity to frame me!"

"You got the stolen goods at the same time, how dare you deny it!" Du Lan said loudly, "I don't have the ability!"

Zhu Guangli's eyes wandered between Du Lan and Huang Wenqiu, knowing that there was a difference, but he didn't know what kind of grievance they had.

There is also Jin Wang in the middle.

He stroked his chin, thinking about what to do, Ni Peng had something to say, so he leaned forward and asked Zhu Guangli to go to the back hall.

In the back hall, Li Wenjing didn't expect that the dragon group was found from Huang Wenqiu, so he lost face and stammered: "Sir, there must be some misunderstandings. Huang Wenqiu and I often deal with each other. If you have studied, you will not be a thief."

"Where did that thief go?" Zhu Guangli said with a serious face, "The misunderstanding can't be covered up, the tea is on him, I have to give Qi Xianggong an explanation."

Ni Peng said in a low voice: "Master, here is the King of Jin and the Secretary of Qicang. I don't know what is going to disturb the wind and rain. Why don't you beat him for about [-] times and put him in prison, and wait until you find out clearly and then go slowly." Pay attention to it, if it really doesn’t work, it’s just a mess.”

Li Wenjing quickly said: "Exactly."

Zhu Guangli also felt that this was the reason, walked to the main hall, and threw out two red lottery sticks from the lottery tube, indicating to hit twenty boards.

Regardless of Huang Wenqiu's complaints, the two yamen servants took Huang Wenqiu away in a bundle. Originally, they were watching his words and seeing that Zhu Guangli didn't really want to hit him, just lightly hit him. But one of them was Du Lan's drinking buddy, and he saw Du Lan gesticulating in his sleeve. Fist, understood immediately, and winked with his companions, and started to fight sincerely.

Huang Wenqiu had thin skin and tender flesh, his skin was torn apart with just a few blows, and a big red flower bloomed on his buttocks.

At the beginning, he still gritted his teeth and held on, but later, he couldn't bear it, and cried: "Stop beating, I'll do it! I'll do it!"

Zhu Guangli, who was picking his nails, stopped, and couldn't help but glance at the master—I've seen someone who moves quickly, but never one who moves so fast.

This can't be regarded as a slap in the face.

Ordinary trial, to deter the ruffians, lightly hit twenty boards, get up and walk as usual, the thief can't stand it after hitting fifty boards, but this can't be beaten more than ten times, so why did he recruit.

Ni Peng hurriedly asked them to bring him in and asked him what he wanted.

Huang Wenqiu's upper body and lower body seemed out of joint, unable to walk or kneel, so he could only confess indiscriminately.

"On the eighth day of June, the eldest lady of the Song family on Hengyu Street and the nursing home invited me to meet at the Chonghua Temple in Jianshan. She said that she could sell me ten dragon balls. I didn't have any tea guides, so I ordered a hundred dragon balls. One day, there was a monk from Chonghua Temple as witness, the day before yesterday, I heard that ten cups of tea had been lost in Qi Xianggong’s mansion, so I was flustered, and saw the two of them sneaking around, so I wanted to make meritorious service first, and then ask Qi Xianggong to make amends.”

After hearing this, Zhu Guangli asked Ni Peng to write a statement, first put Huang Wenqiu in prison, Du Lan and Jiang Gan went by themselves, and then went to get Mrs. Song.

"It's late at night, and they can't go anywhere. We'll take someone tomorrow." Ni Peng invited Zhu Guangli from the front hall to the back hall, avoiding Li Wenjing: "The lady Song of Hengyu Street can't be taken."

Zhu Guangli smiled and said: "I know, a girl like her can't be a flying robber, she must be the guardian, so let's take the guardian."

Ni Peng shook his head: "This Song is the Song who saved Prince Jin."

"Oh," Zhu Guangli clapped his hands on the table, "I was almost deceived by this guy surnamed Huang."

"Huang Wenqiu and Mrs. Song have recognized their cousins," Ni Peng said with a smile, "there must be some kind of gap, biting each other, we can't really make this matter big, otherwise the prince will not look good."

Zhu Guangli nodded: "Thanks for your carefulness, it's just that it's difficult for Mr. Qi to explain. He can't leak a grain of sand out of his hands. He lost so many things. If he can't find them, he may not know what to say."

Ni Peng said: "Don't worry, my lord. You send someone to Hengyu Street to take care of the nursing home. I'll go to the palace and inform the prince about this matter. If the prince is willing to deal with it, this matter will be done without any worries." For the first public case, if the prince wants us to investigate, we will invite the Song family to ask questions, and it will also appear that you respect and love the prince."

"That's right, I heard that His Majesty misses the lord very much," Zhu Guangli nodded, "I don't want to bother others anymore, please take a walk in the starry night."

Ni Peng packed up and left. Zhu Guangli went to the Yamen and returned to the backyard. The maid helped him wash his feet, and he took last year's county tax ledger to look through it himself.

After reading it, he said to his wife Pei: "It is said that we have a lot of money and food along the way, but I can't see it. All year round, there are only [-] guan, and there is no oil or water. I'm afraid even Yuezhou can't compare. Yes. Didn't Shaopei make a mistake?"

Yuan Shaopei is his Master Qian Gu.

"If you burn his abacus, he can't make a mistake." Mrs. Pei took off the hairpin and gave him a look, "Why don't you compare with Jingdu."

Zhu Guangli chuckled: "There are more than [-] coins in the capital, how dare I compare."

Mrs. Pei took out the account book in his hand: "We invite Yuan Shaopei to read the tax accounts along the way, and we have to line up to ask for them. If you have such a master, just have fun."

Zhu Guangli said: "Look at your short temper, I'm just talking, give it to me, I'll take another look."

"What are you looking at? Lighting up a lamp and reading a book hurts your eyes." Mrs. Pei threw away the account book. "Tomorrow, you ask Yuan Shaopei to get the state seal and stamp book by yourself, and you accompany me to burn incense."

"Of order," Zhu Guangli raised his leg, "my leg hurts, it must be raining."

The wind and rain in Tanzhou came as soon as it was said, crackling, hitting the tiles, swallowing all other sounds.

Ni Peng entered the palace with his front feet, and it was raining with his back feet. He brushed off the water droplets on his body, straightened his clothes, and went to meet King Jin.

"My lord, last year we have finished the inspection of the tax and training for our road. As long as the states block it with seals, it can be handed over to the transshipment department for inspection and acceptance. This is our account. The Yan Shuai department is here. Should we be more cautious?"

Ni Peng took out the account book and handed it to King Jin.

It is inconvenient for Yuan Shaopei to come in and out of the palace, so he can only come.

"Yan Zhizhou can't manage the transshipment department," Jin Wang put it on the case, "everything remains as usual."

Ni Peng nodded, and then talked about catching the thief.

King Jin laughed when he heard this, and asked Huang Ting to go to Xie Zhou: "He and You Song both had eyes, but they didn't realize that Du Lan was in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han, so he fined them a month's salary."

Huang Ting took the order and left.

(End of this chapter)