Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 194
There are mice in the house!Big rat!Five catties of bacon can be dragged away, and it was specially hung on the kitchen beam.

The mouse also stole seven or eight eggs the day before yesterday, and the kitchen didn't even see any fragments of eggshells or traces of egg whites.

Zhao Ping's report finally aroused Zhang Zhe's interest after he had been free for the past few days.

What mouse can do this?
Zhang Zhe knew what was going on even with his knees thinking, there were thieves in the house.

All servants were asked to work in pairs to search all the courtyards and rooms.The reason why Zhang Zhe asked two people to be in a group was not because he was afraid that the servants would be in danger, but because he was worried that they would deliberately release water if they caught acquaintances.

After searching for a whole day, Zhang Zhe found nothing except some things that should not belong to them were found from the rooms of several slaves.

Bai Lu was so angry that he called the maids who were stealing things into the corridor to kneel and slap their palms.

Now she is in charge of the inner courtyard, and she often brags in front of Lang Jun about how well she manages and controls, but today her face is swollen from being beaten by her subordinates.

At dawn the next morning, the inner and outer courts began to search again.

A few servant girls lost their clothes!

This time the servants were also scared and searched extremely carefully.After all, this is where they live, and it's too scary to think about keeping a living person here!

Zhang Zhe found interestingly that the maidservants whose palms were slapped by Bai Lu yesterday worked extra hard in today's search.

That's right, if it wasn't for the thief, the few of them wouldn't have been caught stealing things, and then they would have been slapped by the egret, and their errands would have been replaced by tired ones.It's a pity that the search continued until the afternoon, but everyone still found nothing.

Just when everyone was involuntarily thinking about the supernatural aspect of this matter, Zhang Zhe stood up and pointed to the well in front of him.

"Who drew water from the well in the yard today?"

Uncle Lei, the new housekeeper, came over with his waist down.

"Lang Jun, the water our family eats is from the two wells in the outer courtyard. The water in this well is rainwater, and no one will fetch it."

Zhang Zhe smiled and pointed to the wet footprints on the edge of the wellhead and the marks on the wellhead.

Lao Lei was startled first, water ghost?

But he immediately realized that Mr. Lang meant that there is a tunnel in the well!
There is an authentic tunnel in this house! ?
Lao Lei didn't dare to neglect, and immediately called seven or eight young men from the outer courtyard.These young men are all newly promoted by Lao Lei from several Zhuangzi, and they are the kind who can listen to greetings.

Zhang Zhe was standing by the well and studying the derrick.

The frame covered with nanmu iron, the rope is two fingers thick, it cannot be used for fetching water, but it is just right for climbing.

"Lang Jun, the things are here!"

Xiao Zhaoping held his nose and carried a package.

These are a few pieces of ragged clothes wrapped with a few balls of cow dung, a few catties of dried chili powder, poured with lamp oil, and wrapped with a long string of iron chains.

Lao Lei directed a few servants to light the package, and then put it into the well bit by bit with an iron chain.

The boys all covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, and watched the package descending with thick smoke.

When it was about two feet deep, the thick smoke suddenly branched out and rushed to the side of the well.

A boy shouted excitedly.

"There is a hole two feet away!"

"Hey, someone!"

A pole protruded from the side of the well to poke at the smoking package.

Hearing that there was someone, some of the maids who were watching were taken aback and retreated one after another, their faces full of panic.

The young servants seemed to be inspired by the fear of the servant girls to protect and express themselves, they found stones and threw them down one after another.

He also cleverly used the wooden barrel on the well rope to reach the wooden pole.

It's a pity that the smoke package was stabbed away by the people in the well and fell into the well water.

But Zhang Zhe asked people to move the tables and chairs with peace of mind. He watched them continue while drinking tea.

This situation is very illustrative. First, it means that the people below only have this one exit, and second, it means that smoking is very useful.

Uncle Lei was very shrewd. He asked the boys to hang down the smoke package to a place close to the well water.

In this position, people in the well wall can only hit the iron chain with a wooden pole, and more smoke pours into the well wall.

A violent coughing sound came from below, and a young servant was talking to himself in a daze.

"Why does it sound like a female thief?"

Zhang Zhe came to the well with a steaming teapot in his hand, and watched the people below helplessly knock on the iron chain with wooden sticks.He couldn't help but uttered: "Why are the people down here so stupid? Don't you know how to wrap the iron chain with wooden roots and hinge the package to destroy it?"

The coughing sound below paused for a moment, and the wooden stick really stretched out and began to wrap around the iron chain, ready to hinge the smoking package up.

Zhang Zhe shook his head, how stupid!

As soon as he waved his hand, several servants tugged on the iron chain together, and the stick of the man below was entangled by the iron chain and came off his hand.

"Cheat~~ liar," a desperate and trembling voice came from the well.

Chen Yushuang was completely desperate, she lost her only stick for self-defense, and she was left with the end of being smoked to death.

So when the superior ordered her to climb up the well rope, she had no second choice.

Seeing that the thief was only an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, Lao Lei dismissed the others, leaving only two servant girls in the yard.These two servant girls were also sent to the Zhang family from Jiangling official servants, and they were considered to be their own in Lao Lei's eyes.

"Lang Jun, I'm afraid that the former owner's family did not repair this well, so there may be something in it, so I only left two of my own family."

Zhang Zhe nodded, obviously Lao Lei has some experience in how to deal with this kind of thing, let's listen to him first.

"Lang Jun, Lang Jun!" Bailu walked in from the outside, "Yue Xianzun from the county sent someone to invite you, saying that it was the order from Daying, please go to the county government quickly."

will?

Zhang Zhe was shocked when he heard these two words, if only he could return to Jiangling's will.

He didn't care about the girl who was still climbing in the well, so he left Bailu and Zhao Ping to assist Lao Lei, and went to the county government by himself.

"The army has already built three camps outside Zhaoyang City. My friend said that the siege will take at least half a year. I also heard that a battle has been fought on the Tuojiang River in the east, and our army won. As long as the Wu people don't want to be attacked by us The Eastern Route Army is approaching Jinling, but not a single soldier can be spared to rescue Zhaoyang on the Eastern Route."

Wei Po's face was rosy. From the eighth rank to the seventh rank, he has been promoted two levels at a time this time.

I rode a horse for more than 60 miles, but I couldn't tell that I was tired at all.

"Brother Yue rewarded Chao Fenglang of the seventh rank, and brother Xinzhi's reward was the most practical. Your Majesty said that if you are honest, the house will belong to you, and the land will be doubled. There are [-] acres, and half of the forest will belong to you. The servants You keep one hundred for yourself, and the rest is allocated to the county. However, your right battalion was sent on an errand to Jiangling to transport military uniforms. It took a total of [-] days to come and go. Haha, Xinzhi can still go home and live How many days!"

"Your Majesty Long En, the reward is too generous!" Zhang Zhe was a little dazed.

Wei Po laughed, and said in a low voice: "It's what you deserve to get rich. When His Majesty was approving our report, he was scolding Jiang Zuo general in the account who falsely reported his military exploits, and killed three people in one go. Your Majesty will take the truth of the letter immediately." Reporting the matter of giving birth to slaves and maidservants in the field as an example, he was criticized on the spot, and Xinzhi was rewarded heavily. Isn’t this luck?”

(End of this chapter)