Early the next morning, Jiang Gan arrived at Huang Wenqiu's house and made a bow: "Brother, what kind of stuffing is this for dinner?"
While talking, he stretched his neck to look at the dishes and sat down in front of the meat buns without being invited.
Huang Wenqiu could only ask someone to bring bowls and chopsticks: "Let's eat some of the pork together."
Jiang Gan ate and drank what he had picked, leaving only pickles on the table before he put down his chopsticks.
"Brother, I asked you what you asked me to inquire about yesterday. Also, it's just not a dragon group. Do you want it?"
"Yes," Huang Wenqiu said without saying a word, and gave him some money. "Thank you for making an extra trip. I will buy it today, and I will go out with the boat tomorrow."
Jiang Gan took the money, agreed, and walked out.
As soon as he left, Huang Wenqiu immediately asked Xiao Hai to follow him, and he quickly went to find Li Wenjing.
Li Wenjing was neatly dressed and was about to go to the Yamen. When he saw him coming, he sat down and invited tea first.
Huang Wenqiu bowed and sat down: "My dear friend, I have something important to ask. Has the thief who stole Mr. Qi been caught?"
Li Wenjing shook his head: "The prefect has limited paperwork and there is no news at all. I really don't know which flying thief is coming and going without a trace."
"It's really hidden. I don't want to be hit by the junior student," Huang Wenqiu said with a solemn expression: "The junior student has a classmate named Jiang Gan who helps out everywhere..."
He ignored Yin Xiao and told Jiang Gan about selling the dragon group.
Li Wenjing was surprised when he heard this, and immediately asked someone to go to the prefect's Yamen to report the news, and to arrest Jiang Gan first.
"My dear friend, wait a minute," Huang Wenqiu interrupted him quickly, "If we take Jianggan, I'm afraid it will scare the snake away, so why don't we lure the snake out of its hole."
After hearing this, Li Wenjing thought it made sense. The two discussed it and left.
When dusk fell and the sky turned blue, the craftsmen carrying burdens on the cross streets, the prostitutes in heavy makeup, the troupes singing various palace tunes, the old dancers, the ones carrying the cauldron, and the ones swallowing knives and spitting fire were all there. Go outside.
I heard them talking and laughing with my ears, but my eyes felt lonely.
Except for a few teahouses and restaurants on the street, which were lit with lamps, the rest of the doors were dark, silently devouring the hard life.
Jiang Gan walked into the wine shop in a familiar way and walked straight back. The bartender stood behind the counter and winked at him with a strange expression, but he didn't even notice.
At the back is a meat table, wine vats and other household items, all piled up in a heap, and at the back is a pile of firewood. Next to the firewood is a pair of greasy tables and chairs, with a torn hand towel thrown on top.
There was no light, and although there was a crescent moon, it was still blurry. A man in a short shirt was sitting and drinking.
Jiang Gan stepped forward and said, "Brother, why did you drink alone?"
The drinker was speechless and raised his head to take another bowl.
Jiang Qian scratched his head: "Brother, give me the stuff. I'll eat it myself, so I won't be nagging here."
The drinking man took out a jade-like object from his sleeve and was about to hand it to Jiang Gan when suddenly a dozen Zaoli rushed out from all directions and surrounded Jiang Gan and the man.
The man was shocked, jumped up, and ran away. Under the dark light, he was spinning around like a headless fly, and he actually ran into Huang Wenqiu's arms.
Both of them fell down. The yamen servants took the opportunity to tie up the man and took him and Jiang Gan into the magistrate's yamen. They lit the lights in the hall, made them kneel at the foot of the steps, and went up to the hall for interrogation all night long.
The prefect Zhu Guangli sat down in front of the hall, and the servants on the left and right beat the killing sticks and shouted "Mighty!"
Zhu Guangli yelled: "You two thieves are so brave! You stole into Qi Xianggong's house, and you don't even know how to write the word "death"!"
The drinking man then raised his head with a frightened look on his face and called out to Chongtianqulai.
Huang Wenqiu stood in the hall and was watching. When he saw him raising his head, he secretly said something bad.
This isn't Yin Xiao, it's clearly Du Lan, a helper in Prince Jin's palace.
Zhu Guangli heard that he was an idler in Prince Jin's palace. Because You Song saw him always fighting when drinking, he was not allowed to drink, so he secretly gave Jiang Gan the golden beans rewarded by Prince Jin in exchange for wine. He was also stunned.
They went out to catch a thief with great fanfare, but in the end they caught a drunkard.
Li Wenjing stood at the back of the hall and listened. He quickly asked people to bring Huang Wenqiu in and asked anxiously: "What's going on?"
Huang Wenqiu said in a low voice: "If Mr. Zhu asked him this, he would definitely not be able to do it. In my opinion, it is better to search him first and then slap him with twenty sticks to see if he can do it."
Li Wenjing glanced at him: "Don't say he is Prince Jin's helper, even a dog in Prince Jin's palace cannot be beaten by us."
The world is still uncertain, who knows what will happen next.
Furthermore, Zhu Guangli was originally from a poor family, but he was able to be re-elected as the magistrate of Tanzhou only because he had three noble people around him.
Firstly, I got a wife who was a concubine of Pei Yuzhang; secondly, I got a Master Qiangu, who accumulated thousands and thousands of dollars, no less; thirdly, I got a Master Xingming, who was well versed in the ways of officialdom and was very good at life.
How could he fall into the disgrace of King Jin?
"Are we going to let him go just like that?" Huang Wenqiu was unwilling and did not catch Yin Xiao. Maybe Du Lan was Yin Xiao's informant.
"Let's see what Mr. Zhu will do."
Sure enough, Zhu Guangli asked someone to remove Du Lan's rope on the spot and told him to go back and stop drinking and causing trouble.
Du Lan refused to give up and asked Magistrate Zhu who was the first accuser and asked him to confront him.
Zhu Guangli had no choice but to send someone to call Huang Wenqiu.
Huang Wenqiu hurriedly came out, knelt down and paid homage to Magistrate Zhu, and explained in detail how Jiang Gan had colluded with the Jiang thieves to sell the dragon group, and how he discovered the clues as he refused to resell private tea.
Jiang Gan shouted that he had been wronged, saying that even if he had the courage, he would not dare to collude with the Jiang thieves. Huang Wenqiu was lying and wanted to kill him for the sake of his future.
Du Lan also said: "The evil person will file a complaint first. Maybe he is a thief who colluded with the Jiang thieves to steal things. The magistrate will check him out quickly and search his body!"
Jiang Qian helped: "Yes, that's him!"
Huang Wenqiu said angrily: "I am innocent and upright!"
"Fart," Jiang Gan retorted, "If you were upright, how could you touch the prostitute in the Flower Tea House? I have a witness for you, the prefect!"
"That lowly woman is ridden by thousands of people and crushed by thousands of people. How can her words count?"
"No matter how humble she is, she is still a human being, and being a human being can prove it!"
Du Lan was half drunk and said rudely: "Search him. If the magistrate doesn't search him, I will ask the prince to make the decision for me!"
The three of them quarreled, and Zhu Guangli couldn't bear it anymore. He suddenly slapped his hands and said, "Shut up!"
The hall immediately fell silent.
Zhu Guangli said to Huang Wenqiu: "Since they testified against you and you testified against them, let's search all three of you."
After saying this, he called the yamen servants to come forward and search the three of them.
The yamen officer first searched Du Lan's body and found golden beans, a slingshot, a tortoise shell fan, and a piccolo. Then Jiang Gan found broken silver, an ox bone fan, and a pink purse.
Finally, there is Huang Wenqiu.
Huang Wenqiu only brought a fan and broken silver, nothing else.
Seeing that it was a farce, Zhu Guangli snorted coldly. Before he could say anything, the Yamen servant suddenly said "Hey" and pulled out a dragon ball from Huang Wenqiu leather belt.
The leather belt has nails nailed to the back of the waist, and a dragon ball hidden inside it is both light and concealed.