late Qing Dynasty arrest

Li Guolou just got up in the morning, broke five eggs and hadn't swallowed them yet. Xie Ma walked into the inner house and said anxiously: "Master, Ai Baldy is in a hurry to find you, saying that he has a major case to ask for your help. My lord personally invited you,"

"Oh," Li Guolou got up habitually, and suddenly remembered that he was not a police officer. Bao Yi was helpless about some case, and wanted to ask him to come forward, "Thank you, let Captain Ai come in for dinner. I don't pay attention to rules here. "

Ai Hai walked into the inner house with Gao Yao and Wu Yun poking his head. He was amazed. He had never seen a mansion with such a layout.

Standing at the entrance of the main building, Li Guolou was extremely dissatisfied when he saw Ai Hai and Gao Yao Wuyun were still visiting the inner house, and shouted: "Hey, you two, Grandma Liu, are visiting the Grand View Garden. This is the residence of the fourth-rank official, do you understand? Rules,"

"Hey hey," Ai Hai and Gao Yao Wuyun's faces were ruddy, and they quickened their pace, gloating at their misfortune at first glance.

"Are there any dead people?" Li Guolou has long since lost his composure and yelled anxiously.

"One person died," Gao Yao Wuyun shook his body indifferently, walked from Li Guolou's side into the dining room on his own, and said with a pleasant smile, "Morning sister Xiaofang, morning second grandma."

"It's unreasonable. Are you guys handling cases like this? If someone is dead, they are so sure. Is there no one to care about now?"

"We see dead people every day, so is it worth feeling sorry for them?" Gao Yao Wuyun sat down casually, grabbed a white film and ate it. He choked on eating too quickly.

Ai Hai handed Gao Yao Wuyun a glass of milk, shook his head and said, "Don't be in a hurry to catch Gao Yao, I'll let you do the talking if you can't speak." Li Guolou was told about a major case that happened in the capital,

A shocking case happened in the capital yesterday. The bank of Wanjia Bank was robbed. The thieves dug a huge hole leading directly to the cellar. They robbed 30 silver and gold from the bank. The thief was killed in the tunnel, and the Ministry of Criminal Justice sent all the men and horses to search the city, but found nothing, and did not find out which gangster committed the crime.

Li Guolou looked at Ai Hai and Gao Yao Wuyun's gloating expressions, and his expression returned to his usual calmness. He didn't want to see the Wanjia ticket office collapse at this moment. He had already thought of who committed the crime. I helped people stay dormant for a winter, and finally made a big deal. The value of 30 taels of silver property would cost more than [-] to [-] catties. If I used a cart to pull a hundred catties in a hole in the ground, it would cost [-] to [-] catties. A thief, such a big group of thieves, where will they hide? Zheng Zizi will not know. Will the person who washes his hands in the golden basin reveal some secrets about his apprentice? Li Guolou filtered his past experiences in his mind, thinking Looking at the scene when I met Zheng Laizi for the first time, Zheng Laizi got off the carriage with a cane, and there was a tall man beside him, the tall man who helped Zheng Laizi, that tall man should be one of the masterminds of the theft , but time has passed so long, he has already forgotten what that tall man looked like,

Zheng Zizi must have been hiding when he got the news. Where should he start? Li Guolou wanted to grasp the last straw, so he asked casually, "Second Grandma, does Zheng Zizi still go to Jinfengyinlou every day?"

Xie Xiuzhu rolled her eyes and said: "Xiaolou, have you forgotten, Zheng Zizi went to Siam in person for your official career, looking for a large piece of emerald stone, and has been walking for several months." How smart she is, Zhenbao Xuan's hole is vivid, and he has already guessed what Li Guolou is thinking. The partner "Zheng Zizi" is a man, so why drag him into the water? Being judged as the principal culprit in the theft case of the Wanjia ticket office, wouldn't it make people criticize their family's "Golden Phoenix and Silver Tower" as a den of thieves for collecting stolen goods?

"Oh..." Li Guolou's expression remained unchanged, and he did not let Ai Hai and Gao Yao Wuyun see that he was guilty, karma, he planted the evil consequences of the theft of the Wanjia ticket office, Ai Baldzi should think I figured out the mystery, so I went to the door and invited him out of the mountain. "Ai Bald" is a treacherous villain, and found out him as the culprit without showing his face. Then Mr. Bao should also know about the "burrow" in Zhenbaoxuan, but what should he do? How to deal with it, whether to shirk and refuse to go, or to face difficulties,

Li Guolou stood up and said: "Captain Ai, I have a task for you to investigate all corner goods stores, carriage stores, carbon delivery workshops in the capital, and those who deliver water, and those with more than 20 people must be investigated. , the stolen goods must still be in the city, and we have to dig three feet to find them.”

"Head, don't forget the 1% reward. Don't sell favors to Wanshoulu at that time. We have so many brothers who are looking forward to a ticket." bring the water out,

Li Guolou said angrily: "Since you know that I am in the city, you should have looked for me yesterday. The place where the gold and silver were buried for a day has even grown grass." His backpack for solving crimes, he was very happy, and felt that he had regained the fun of being a fast catcher.

Li Guolou was wearing a suit, a top hat, and a black leather bag on his back. He left the Li Mansion neatly dressed.

The driver of the carriage was "horse cake" Ma Dequan. Li Guolou gave his good brother in the past a chance to let Ma Dequan and his second son Ma Liang come to him to be servants. Ma Ming, the eldest son of

Ai Hai smiled and said, "Ma Bing, where is your son?"

"Hey, Captain Ai, aren't you taking care of my son?" Ma Dequan's eldest son, Ma Ming, is still underage, but has already begun to bear the burden of supporting the family.

Ai Hai laughed, stepped on the yellow puma, waved the whip, and said with a smile, "Horse cake, I have time to drink, I'm leaving." After speaking, Ai Hai bowed to Li Guolou and Ma Dequan, and left first.

Accompanied by Gao Yao Wuyun, Li Guolou came to a teahouse opposite the Dongtangzi street of Wanjiapiaohao. This is the place where the thieves dug a hole. The nearby streets have long been closed.

Jumping off the carriage, Li Guolou smiled slightly at the yamen guards standing guard, and asked, "Gao Yao arrests the head, how long is the burrow?"

Gao Yao Wuyun replied: "I've measured it, and it's 300 meters."

"Well," Li Guolou stepped into the Chunlai teahouse, and Bao sat there drinking tea together. The two sides were old acquaintances. There were twenty single-wheel carts in the teahouse, which were the means of transportation left by the thieves to carry silver. Li Guolou knelt down and inspected the twenty roughly handcrafted carts. They should have been made by the thieves themselves, but the wheels are ready-made. Let’s start with this point first.

"Lord Bao, remove this wheel and send someone to the repair shop to find out which repair shop made it,"

Bao Yi patted his thigh together, and shouted: "Master Li, it's still your idea, Captain Yao, I'll leave this matter to you,"

Yao Cuo bowed his head in shame and said: "Zha, this subordinate will do it now." After speaking, Yao Cuo glanced at Li Guolou, who was inferior to others, and he couldn't accept it.

"Master Bao, who did that dead ticket office clerk Ji Rong usually hang out with?" Li Guolou didn't stop for a moment, looking at a corpse on a wooden board. The dead Ji Rong was strangled to death. It's the end of being an internal response, naively thinking that having drank sworn wine with the enemy, they are brothers for life,

Bao Yitong said in a deep voice: "There is still no clue. The deceased Jirong was also from Shanxi, and he rarely left the Wanjia ticket office. As for who he went out to meet with, I asked the people in the ticket office. People remember doing Ji Rong's business,"

Li Guolou didn't get angry, but his tone was no longer kind, and he said: "Where are the painters, Wan Nianqing and his apprentices, Zhang Haojie, go and let a few painters draw the head of the deceased, Ji Rong must be flirting outside Be happy, not near here, but farther away, don’t you even understand this truth, rabbits don’t eat grass beside their nests,” said Xing Yunfeng, who was next to Li Guolou and stared ferociously. I can't hear the things in the underworld, and talk about the capital's black and white,

Xing Yunfeng was scolded by Li Guolou, he was embarrassed to stay in the teahouse, and he said in a hurry: "Master Bao, I will ask a photographer to take photos to prove the most accurate."

"Then hurry up," Bao Tong saw that Li Guolou had arrived, and he commanded well, found several clues to solve the case, and hurriedly asked for advice: "Master Li, what else can we do first?"

"Sacks, Mr. Bao, the thieves stole so many silver and gold ingots, they must be shipped in sacks, forty sacks must be bought from nearby, and anyone who buys more than [-] sacks at one time has a serious It is suspected that the store will have an impression of such a person," Li Guolou drew inferences from one instance, and then thought of a loophole for thieves,

"Lord Li, great advice," Bao Tong said, his complexion improved a lot. Every clue has new hope, so he hastened to arrange people to find new clues.

Without saying any polite words, he walked directly into the cave, "Master Bao, do you have any clues?" Li Guolou walked into the cave with an oil lamp in his hands.

"Hey, there was a sudden fire in the west of the city the night before yesterday, and all the people in the yamen were transferred to Youfang Hutong to fight the fire. Now that I think about it, the thieves deliberately distracted the yamen guards who were on duty. Mr. Li, I am ashamed to say that I haven't found anything valuable yet. clues," Bao walked together with his head down, fortunately, his ugly face could not be seen in the darkness of the cave.

There are marks of cart wheels in the cave, and the thieves have a huge project. Li Guolou walked in the front with an oil lamp, looked at the wide cave, and asked as he walked, "Master Bao, how is the Wanjia bank? run on,"

There was something in Bao Yi's conversation: "Master Li, it's only been a day, and most people don't know it yet, but Wan Dong's family has passed out several times, ahhh,"

Li Guolou touched his nose, didn't look back, secretly annoyed, Bao Yi even heard his background clearly, knew that Xie Yunfang was his fiancée, he had grievances with Wanshoulu's family, they couldn't get it right,

After walking 300 meters in the cave, I came to a secret room. No matter how strong the secret room is, if there is a traitor to respond, it will always be opened. This is the cellar where the Wanjia bank deposits silver. Not a single copper coin could be seen, only a few oil lamps gave off a smell of kerosene,

Staff member Lin Qingxie stepped out of the cave, sighed and said: "Master Bao, this case is even more shocking than the case of self-theft by the household department supervisor, and it will have a great impact on the Wanjia Bank."

"Well," Bao Yitong glanced at Li Guolou, gloating at his misfortune, Wanjia Bank has fallen this time, and it will be even more difficult to turn around. Please come in and the bank has lost its biggest competitor. It was Li Guolou who said, Next year, please come to the bank to at least double the principal of the shares, possibly three or four times. If the ticket number is maintained, it will not pose a threat to the bank,