Ghosts come to the door: entangle the little lady

Chapter 34
"Catch the three of them!" A yamen servant upstairs shouted holding a package.

When Bai Xiaosheng heard it, he felt something was wrong, but he didn't intend to run away. After all, they had never done anything to steal, and they were not afraid of the shadow.

When the yamen servants downstairs heard this, they all stepped forward and surrounded the three of them, with unfriendly expressions on their faces.

The yamen servant upstairs also came down, opened the package, and found that it was full of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as a thick stack of silver bills. The crowd around them took a deep breath, after all, these people were ordinary people. Common people, have never seen so much money!
Master Cao stepped forward to have a look, counted things, nodded, the anxious look on his face faded, turned his head, and shouted angrily: "Look at you three, you are so handsome, you actually did such a thing!"

Gu Wanqing was furious, she was not someone who could be wronged casually, and Mr. Cao didn't ask the truth of the matter, but only relied on this bag of treasures to convict them of stealing, they wouldn't do it!

"Old man, you haven't figured it out yet, so don't spout blood!" Gu Wanqing said coldly.

"Isn't that clear enough? It was found from your room!" The entourage beside Master Cao stepped forward and shouted, as if to let everyone know that the stolen goods were found from their room , then they are thieves!
At this moment, Bai Xiaosheng knew that something was wrong, so he stepped forward and asked, "Excuse me, sir, where did these thieves come from?"

The yamen servant has a righteous face, he is not as bullying as the leader of the yamen servant. Seeing that the two girls are beautiful and cute, and the boy looks like a young boy, he does not want to believe that such three people can be the same. They are not thieves, but the things were indeed found in their room, which is unmistakable, so they said: "It was found under the bed in the innermost room."

Isn't the innermost room the room where Gu Wanqing and Wu Tong slept?
The three of Gu Wanqing looked at each other in dismay. They were quite tired from shopping last night, and they were full after eating. They fell asleep after a trip. When it was dawn, they had no time to commit crimes!
The thing that puzzled Bai Xiaosheng the most was that he knew Meng Cangqing was in that room, how could it be possible for people to have the opportunity to stuff the package under the bed with him there?Then there is only one possibility, Meng Cangqing was not in that room last night, where did he go?

Seeing the surprised faces of the three of them, the yamen servant gave a cold smile and asked, "What do you three have to say?"

Bai Xiaosheng cupped his hands and said, "Master, you have also seen that we are all powerless, both of them are weak women, and I am just a scholar, where do I get the ability to go to the house to steal?" What about the property? What's more, Master Cao has two skilled attendants, and we are even more incapable of stealing."

When it came to the end, Bai Xiaosheng showed an innocent face, and the surrounding crowd began to discuss, a little believing that the three of them were not thieves anymore.

"Hmph! The current Jiangyang thieves are all pretending to be weak girls and scholars. Even if things are exposed, they can win favors by virtue of appearances and get away with it. Do you think I can trust you with your few words? What an excuse!" The chief of the yamen servants naturally heard the crowd's discussion, gritted his teeth, and said viciously.

"There is nothing wrong with accusing the crime...Although the things were found from under our bed, it is inevitable that someone set them up..." Gu Wanqing squinted her eyes, she felt that this was a trap, her mind flashed, and appeared Seeing that sneaky figure, I had a guess in my heart, and said aggrievedly with a look of being wronged.

"Hmph! What kind of tricks are you going to play again! Come on, arrest me and take me back for interrogation!" The yamen servant obviously felt that the people around him began to talk about them, and he felt that if this stalemate continued, everyone in the audience would be punished. Being deceived by their pitiful and innocent expressions, it is very bad for the Yamen's reputation!

Bai Xiaosheng took a step back, opened his hands to protect the two of them, and asked with a cold face, "Are you going to take us back and beat us up?"

Wutong had never seen such a battle before, she was so frightened that her tears were tearful, and she was very cute. She suddenly felt that even in the secluded forest, she had never been so scared before. These vicious people were more terrifying than those ghosts. People are afraid.

The people around were so frightened that they almost cried when they saw Wutong, and they all began to accuse the servants of being unfair and bullying the weak. They had forgotten that the stolen goods were found from their room.

Simple people always prefer the weak. Even if the weak are at fault, when the strong bully the weak, they will still choose to stand by the weak and condemn the strong. This is human nature. If you are strong, you should not bully the weak. !

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the yamen servant calmed down, walked up to Mr. Cao, and asked, "Master Cao, look..."

Mr. Cao is such a smart person. He knew that the other party wanted fame, and obviously wanted him, the sufferer, to speak. He said slowly, "Young master, what you said is serious. How could you be tortured into a trick? I I also hope to find the thief and deal with him severely, so as not to harm others in the future, don’t you think so? Since something has appeared in your room, you have the responsibility and obligation to go back to the official and explain it... just to ask questions, absolutely There will be no torture..."

As soon as Mr. Cao said this, the people around him also felt that it made sense, and persuaded the three of them, "Just go to the yamen to ask a question, don't be afraid..."

Bai Xiaosheng didn't expect the other party to say a few words, so he let the wind of the crowd go to them, turned to look at Gu Wanqing, Gu Wanqing couldn't think of a good way to prove that they didn't steal this thing, so he nodded, but in his heart he was I hope Meng Cangqing can come to rescue them, because this incident happened strangely, nine out of ten it was planted to frame them deliberately, otherwise why would this thing appear in their room!

Seeing that Gu Wanqing nodded, Bai Xiaosheng said to the yamen servant: "I can go back with you, but the two of them are girls, and it will damage their reputation if every girl goes to the yamen servant, see if you can..."

"No! The things were found under their beds. They have the biggest suspicion. They must go to the yamen for questioning! What if they really did it, what if they run away?" the yamen servant said without giving in.

"You..." Bai Xiaosheng wanted to say something, but was stopped by Gu Wanqing. Gu Wanqing didn't expect that Bai Xiaosheng's glance at her just now meant that he went to the yamen by himself, and asked the two of them to wait for him in the inn. They'd rather be with him, at least they wouldn't be worrying about in the inn.

"All three of us go together, lead the way." Gu Wanqing said in a cold tone.

The corner of the yamen servant's mouth turned up slightly triumphantly, and a gleam of light flashed in his fierce eyes, and he escorted the three of them to the yamen. Master Cao was the sufferer, so naturally he followed them to the yamen, followed them all to the yamen, The crowd who watched the fun also dispersed.

When the second brother saw that the three of them had been taken away like this, his expression became anxious, and after everyone had left, he hurriedly asked the shopkeeper, "What should we do? This official is a famous corrupt official, as long as he has enough money It's so white that it can be called black, I just saw that yamen servant looked at the two girls with unfriendly eyes..."

"You don't have to worry about this, the boss will take care of it." The shopkeeper said calmly, as if nothing had happened.

Seeing that the shopkeeper didn't respond, the second brother saw that it was useless to be anxious, so he had to look at the door and worry.

"You seem to be very concerned about them?" The shopkeeper raised his eyes and glanced at Xiao Er, and asked in a chatty manner. He knew that the three of them were friends of the boss, and they were all free of charge, except for himself. , others didn't know, so he was a little curious about Xiao Er's behavior.

"Ah?" Xiaoer was asked, scratched his head, and said for a while, "When they came into the store, they were very polite to me and respected me. Just now the yamen servant kicked me, and the girl also kicked me." If you don't dislike me, just take the initiative to help me and care about me, and you will feel that they are all good people, and they definitely didn't do this..."

Hearing this, the shopkeeper stopped talking, just sighed and patted his shoulder.

Although Xiaoer didn't know what the shopkeeper meant, he knew that the shopkeeper was a good person, otherwise he wouldn't have taken in the wandering man back then.

Gu Wanqing and the others followed the yamen servants to the yamen very quickly. They thought they were about to start an interrogation, but they didn't expect to take them directly to the prison!
When the three of Gu Wanqing were taken to the prison, they felt something was wrong.

"Brother Guan, didn't you tell us to ask us first?" Bai Xiaosheng asked, although he knew it was useless, but it was better than ignorance.

"Hmph~ The official is not free, he is out socializing, I can only feel wronged and stay here for a while now." The yamen servant said in a strange way, with a gloomy and cold face.

Bai Xiaosheng didn't say much anymore, but pinched his fingers and made the calculations. If there was no danger, he gestured to Gu Wanqing and Wutong with his eyes, don't be impatient.

The three of them followed the yamen guards and kept walking inside. Along the way, they looked at the people on both sides of the prison who kept shouting for injustice. He grabbed the clothes of the yamen servant, but he was severely beaten by the yamen servant with the scabbard. Immediately, a miserable cry filled the entire prison. When the prisoner heard the voice, he was too frightened to stretch out his hand, and could only howl dryly, shouting that he was wronged!
But it was of no use. Some people began to shout that they were wronged as soon as they came in, and finally shouted hoarse, and no one paid any attention to them. It is lying dying in a dark and damp prison, watching the rats slowly gnawing at his body, waiting to die.

(End of this chapter)