Lu Xiaoxian did not answer Zhou Xian's words, but turned his head to Ma Ming and said, "Catcher Ma, can you catch a few people who are used to stealing them as soon as possible?"

Zhou Xian was very surprised: "Sir, don't we deal with the people from the Red Fox Hall first?"

Lu Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Honghu Hall is waiting in advance, and we will solve the thief first!"

"Wait? What are we waiting for? Our time is limited!" Zhou Xian said anxiously.

"I'm waiting for news. We can't find their whereabouts. We can't do anything. It's useless to be anxious!"

"Sir, if you need a thief, there will be ready for the government office and prison!" Ma Ming said.

"Oh?" Lu Xiaoxian nodded and stood up and said, "Let's go and have a look!"

...

The man in front of him had a sharp mouth and a monkey cheek, as thin as dry wood, and he didn't look like a good person at first glance. Lu Xiaoxian frowned and asked, "What's your name?"

Everyone glanced at Lu Xiaoxian but did not answer.

Zhou Xian said on the side: "Sir, this person's name is Wang Qi. Although he is a tomb robber, he is also a man!"

"oh?"

"Sir, that's the case..." Zhou Xian hurriedly explained.

It turned out that tomb robbery outside Chang'an City became a trend, causing public resentment and officials at all levels were under great pressure.

One day, the officer caught a suspect, and Zhou Xianwan was eager to be sentenced to severely. The man finally admitted that he was a tomb robber and confessed several accomplices, and the objects were taken back were consistent with the objects in the tomb robber.

Zhou Xian began to seek credit and rewards happily, and this person chose a date to kill him.

On the day of execution, there were crowds of viewers, and suddenly someone shouted: "Why can the king's law allow innocent people to be killed? The tomb robber is my Wang Qi!"

After Zhou Xian sent someone to retrieve the stolen goods with the man, he was indeed in the tomb robbery after being tested by the servants and the victims. He knew that the man could not withstand severe torture, so he asked his family to forge the stolen goods to compensate, just to confirm the crime, and was executed long ago, so he avoided suffering in prison.

Wang Qi was originally a famous tomb robber in Chang'an. He was very clever. With a simple set of crime tools, he could easily open it no matter how tightly other people's graves were set up. No one on the Tao would admire him.

Zhou Xian was quite appreciative of Wang Qi and wanted to ask the court to pardon him for the punishment he deserved, but Lu Xiaoxian's sudden arrival of office led to the delay of the matter.

After listening to Zhou Xian's words, Lu Xiaoxian had a good impression of Wang Qi and nodded and said, "It turns out that he is a man!"

After saying that, Lu Xiaoxian looked at the other person. This man looked like a honest middle-aged man. Lu Xiaoxian never thought that he would be a thief.

"May I have your name?"

"Sir, the villain is called Zhang Shun!" the man nodded and said.

"Are you caught in for stealing?" Lu Xiaoxian asked.

Zhang Shun glanced at Zhou Xian and smiled bitterly at Lu Xiaoxian, "Sir, I am a thief. If I were really caught in prison for stealing, I would have accepted it. But I was imprisoned in this prison because of doing a good thing. I have been a thief for so long. I am famous for being a thief and have never been to a jail. And the good thing I did is probably the only good thing I have done in my life, but I have been to a jail. It seems that it really fits the saying, it is hard to do a good person."

"What's going on?" Lu Xiaoxian was very curious.

Zhou Xian whispered from the side: "Sir, I know this, there is still something to do with it."

A series of murders!”

"Serial murders?" Lu Xiaoxian became interested and looked at Zhou Xian: "Let's talk!"

Zhou Xian whispered: "Sir, please follow me, I will tell you the truth!"

Lu Xiaoxian saw that Zhou Xian was a little indescribable, so he nodded and followed Zhou Xian out of prison and came to a secluded place.

"Tell me, what's going on!"

Zhou Xian said with a shame: "This case was personally tried by the lower officials, and there are really twists and turns!"

...

After listening to Zhou Xian's detailed introduction, Lu Xiaoxian realized that the case was really not simple.

There is a Woodworking Bureau under the Ministry of Works. The Woodworking Bureau manages hundreds of carpenters who are good at various skills, and is responsible for the maintenance of the palace and the official office. Due to the large number of carpenters, the officials of the Works Department of Works appointed several foreman to manage these carpenters respectively.

There was a foreman named Chang Qingqiu who had an argument with a carpenter named Ma Xiaoqi when assigning carpenter work. Since then, the two ignored each other and had not interacted with each other for half a year. Everyone thought that the carpenter and the foreman had just had a little quarrel, which was not a deep hatred, and it was not worth it to be so awkward. So an older carpenter suggested that everyone gather some money to buy some wine and food, and take Carpenter Ma to the house of Foreman Chang to drink, so as to resolve their conflict.

Because there were too many people, everyone placed a long table under the grape trellis in the yard and pulled Foreman Chang and Carpenter Ma to the chief. The workers took turns to toasting and persuaded them. Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi both made their own reviews. The carpenters became more and more enthusiastic when they drank until late at night before saying goodbye to their side. Chang Qingqiu and Ma Xiaoqi were particularly happy because they reconciled as before, so they stayed to drink a few bowls. Later, Foreman Chang fell asleep under the grape trellis, and Ma Xiaoqi also staggered back to his home.

Ma Xiaoqi's wife, Luo, is in her early twenties. She has a peach blossom face and is very charming. She is a woman with aphrodisiacs.

One day, a butcher who was hawking around the streets passed by the door of Ma's house. Luo called him to the yard to cut a few kilograms of pork. Luo saw that the butcher was tall and strong, as strong as a cow, and could not help but stare at him with affection. The butcher surnamed Hu, who was already three points behind Luo's behavior and expression, so he asked to talk to Luo. When Luo handed over the money for buying meat, the experienced butcher did not go to pick up the money, but grabbed Luo's white and slender hands tightly, took Luo's arms, and carried it into the house to have a happy life.

From then on, the men and women gathered together every now and then to the point where no one could leave each other. However, this matter was done in a mysterious way, and Ma Xiaoqi kept in the dark.

Besides, when Carpenter Ma returned home, he fell on the kang. Seeing that he was sleeping like a dead pig, Luo couldn't help but feel happy. It turned out that after Luo got along with the butcher, the relationship gradually deepened, and both sides had the desire to be a long-term couple, so they plotted and planned to kill Ma Xiaoqi many times.

Luo hurriedly went out to discuss with his lover, and the adulterer rushed to the Ma family. Luo hurriedly hurriedly, butcher Hu raised his pig-killing knife and cut off Ma Xiaoqi's head with one knife.

In a hurry, the place where the corpse was hidden could not be found. Luo suddenly remembered that the kang hole was empty, so Luo and Hu Tuhu lifted the bricks of the earthen kang, but the corpse was too big and could not be put in. Hu Tuhu skillfully dismantled Ma Xiaoqi's body eight pieces, put it in piece by piece, and then built the bricks as they were, so that there was no flaw in sight.

According to the plan discussed with his lover, Luo went straight to the foreman Chang Qingqiu's house the next morning.

She broke into the door and grabbed Foreman Chang's clothes, cried and made a fuss, "My husband came to your house to drink yesterday and didn't return overnight. It must be your little belly who killed him. You will give me my husband back!"

As he said that, he still grabbed and bite his hair, and his hair also spread out.

Chang Qingqiu argued while resisting.

Luo was not willing to listen, so he kept making trouble and was about to sue the official. Chang Qingqiu thought that she had just died, so he ordered his subordinates to send her home and comforted her.

But when the persuasioner left, Luo stepped into the gate of Jingzhao Mansion, and told her husband about his death by Chang Qingqiu with tears in his nose, and asked Jingzhao Yin Zhouxian to make decisions for her.

Zhou Xian approved Luo's complaint and ordered the yamen runners to tell her to come to the hall for questioning.

Mrs. Luo knelt on the ground, pretending to be heartbroken.

Zhou Xian said sternly: "Who is the name of the woman in the hall? Tell me what kind of injustice you have?"

Luo wiped his tears with his long sleeves and choked and said, "The civilian woman, Luo, married carpenter Ma Xiaoqi as his wife. The couple has a deep relationship. My husband and the foreman Chang Qingqiu have always had a grudge, and I don't know what he was comfortable with. Last night I invited my husband to drink, but my husband didn't return all night. This morning, the civilian woman went out to search and found a blood-stained shoe of my husband on the road. Who else could he have if he killed my husband? Please make the decision for the civilian woman!"

As he said that, he raised a shoe to his head.

Zhou Xian heard Luo's story and thought to himself: This woman was sick and weak, and she cried so sadly, and her husband's blood shoes were proof of it. The photo would not be fake, so he ordered her to quickly pass it to Chang Qingqiu to the hall.

Chang Qingqiu was in his home for the morning incident. Suddenly, two yamen runners broke in and took him away without saying a word. Chang Qingqiu knew that Luo had sued him, and felt panic in his heart, but he was a foreman after all, so he calmed down quickly and thought to himself: Don’t do bad things, don’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Why am I guilty? So he walked into Jingzhao Yin Mansion with his head held high and his chest raised.

Zhou Xian slapped the agglomeration and shouted sternly: "Chang Qingqiu, you are so brave. You dare to murder your colleagues for quarrels. Now that people and physical evidence are there, what else do you have to say?"

Chang Qingqiu heard the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly kowtowed and defended: "The villain was wronged. Although the villain and Ma Xiaoqi had raised the quarrel and ignored each other, it was nothing big. The villain would never dare to kill anyone. Besides, the villain had reconciled with him last night. If the adults didn't believe it, the colleagues could testify."

Zhou Xian shouted: "Transfer to the witness!"

After a while, several carpenters were taken to court.

Zhou Xian asked: "Where were you drinking last night? Come on the truth."

The carpenters answered in unison: "When you say sir, drink at the foreman Chang Qingqiu's house."

Zhou Xian asked again: "Why are you drinking?"

The carpenters replied again: "Chang Qingqiu is our leader, and Ma Xiaoqi is our partner. They ignored each other, so we prepared wine and dishes to bring Ma Xiaoqi to Foreman Chang's house to drink, so that they could make peace as before."

"What happened later?"

"The villains were very happy to see the foreman and Ma Xiaoyan reconciled. They drank a lot of wine and did not leave until late at night."

"Is Ma Xiaoqi walking with you?"
Chapter completed!