Jin Ping nodded and said: "I understand, I will try to arrange it."
In the following days, everything in the palace was as usual and calm. However, the "Zhang Ji Silk and Satin Shop" located in the east corner of the city was not so peaceful. Not long after it opened that day, a group of officers and soldiers walked in. The first one said: "Who is this?"
From the shopkeeper?”
A middle-aged man standing behind the cabinet hurriedly came over and said cautiously: "To this official, I am the shopkeeper here. Several officials are here to make clothes? What is this place like, I mean?"
There are all kinds of materials and colors, you can choose slowly, just tell me if you have any favorites, I will definitely give you the biggest advantage..."
The leader of the cadre impatiently said: "Okay, ok, we are the yamen of Shuntian Prefecture. We have just received news that the thieves who stole the jade cup of an adult from the Ministry of Industry are hiding here. We are here to search; you
If you hand it over now and get to Shuntian Mansion, I can beg you a few favors, but if you wait until we search it out, then we can only deal with business matters."
The shopkeeper was startled, then shook his head hurriedly, "This villain has always abided by the law and would never harbor thieves. He must have made a mistake."
A slightly fat man walking behind came over and said, "Whether it's a mistake or a hiding, we'll know after a search."
The shopkeeper said with a grimace: "My lord, what I'm telling the truth is true. There are only two of us here, and there really aren't any thieves."
The leader of the Yamen glared at him and shouted: "I didn't hear the king..." Halfway through, he suddenly stopped talking, quickly glanced at the fat man, coughed and said, "Is there anyone there?"
You'll know the thieves after searching them." As he said that, he waved his hand to the officer behind him and said, "Search carefully for me, don't pull it down anywhere."
The officials agreed and started searching. The silk and satin shop was not big, so they quickly checked everything. Just as the shopkeeper said, there was no third person.
He walked up to the man and said softly: "Mr. Wang, it seems that the information is wrong and the bandits are not here."
The person called Mr. Wang was Wang Fugui who had made great achievements in protecting Yong Cang in Jinan, but I don’t know why he was with these Shuntian government officials.
Wang Fugui didn't say anything. He walked to the cabinet filled with various colors of satin and cotton, looked at it and said, "You really have a lot of satin here. I saw that in those big stores, it's just like this."
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "What this official said is absolutely right. Even though our shop is small, we have everything you need. No matter what kind of satin you want, we can find it here."
"Really?" Wang Fugui casually took off a piece of lake-blue Hangzhou silk and said, "Do you have any of Yingtian Yun Brocade, Sichuan Shu Brocade, and Suzhou Song Brocade?"
The shopkeeper smiled apologetically and said, "The official is joking. These kinds of brocades are all tributes from the royal family. How can a villain have them? Let alone a villain. Even if you go to all the silk and satin shops in the capital, you won't be able to find an inch of them.
"
Wang Fugui smiled slightly and said nothing. At this time, he had already taken out seven or eight pieces of brocade from the cabinet, and was still taking them down.
The shopkeeper saw that something was wrong, but did not dare to stop him. He asked tentatively: "My lord, what are you trying to do?"
Wang Fugui ignored him and said to the officials standing nearby: "Take off all the silk and satin."
The officials responded and stepped forward together to take down the silks and satins one after another. The shopkeeper could not stop him and could only watch from the side. After finally waiting for them to take them all off, he came over and said, "Master, are you okay?"
You would think that someone is hiding in these silks and satins. The satins are laid out one after another, how can they hide people?"
Wang Fugui said with a half-smile: "Satin can't hide people, but walls can."
After all the silk and satin were removed, the white wall behind was revealed and... a statue of a god. It was a bit wrong to say that it was a statue of a god, because this statue had two horns on its head and a two-headed snake on its feet. It had a ferocious face and was completely different.
Like the statues they saw in temples.
Wang Fugui took the statue and said, "Which god is this? Why have I never seen it before?"
"The villain doesn't know that a few years ago, the villain took over this store from someone else. At that time, the statue of the god was there. The villain once thought about throwing it away, but he was afraid of offending the gods, so he threw it away casually.
Place it behind the satin."
Although the shopkeeper tried his best to pretend to be light and casual, Wang Fugui still caught a hint of nervousness, and he calmly said: "I see, I think this statue is quite fun, why don't you give it to me."
"This..." Seeing the shopkeeper's hesitation, he said, "Why, you don't want to give up?"
The shopkeeper quickly put on a smile and said: "How could it be possible? If the official likes it, just take it. I just didn't expect that the official would be interested in this Buddha statue."
"I like everything I've never seen before. It's a little hobby." As he said that, he put the Buddha statue on the table, leaned against the wall, tapped his fingers carefully, and after all the tapping,
He clapped his hands and said: "There are no agencies and no thieves. It seems that the report was wrong. Let's go."
The chief of the government officials nodded and walked out with him. Before leaving, Wang Fugui certainly did not forget the statue. After leaving the silk and satin shop, he looked back and saw that the shopkeeper and the waiter were placing the piles of food on the table.
The satin is put back on the shelf.
When they reached a fork in the road, the leader of the Yamen stopped and asked politely: "Sir, will you go to Shuntian Mansion with the boys, or will you just go back to the Infantry Yamen?"
Wang Fugui said: "The commander is waiting for the replay, so I won't go to Shuntian Mansion. I really bothered you brothers today. I'll treat you to a drink another day."
"Your Majesty, you're welcome. This is what you guys should do." After saying that, the leader of the Yamen Cup held his hands and said, "You guys, we'll say goodbye now. Your Majesty, please go slowly."
After Wang Fugui walked away, the yamen beside him asked doubtfully: "Chief, when did the infantry yamen start taking charge of catching bandits?"
The leader of the Yamen glanced at him and said: "What do you know? There is news that the bandit is not as simple as we know on the surface. He is probably a rebel!"
"Rebellious party?" the Yamen exclaimed, and then asked in confusion: "Since the last time the rebellious party in Jinan was punished, everything has been peaceful. Why did another rebellious party suddenly appear?"
The chief official frowned and said, "I don't know the specifics. I just know that he sneaked into the house of the Lord from the Ministry of Industry and stole not only one jade cup, but also something more important."
The officer asked curiously: "What is it?"
"I don't know, Mr. Wang didn't go into details. In short, the most important thing right now is to catch the thief as soon as possible. I hope the clues next time will be more accurate and not miss the mark like this time." He said, "
By the way, Mr. Wang has confessed that no one should know about his or even the infantry yamen’s involvement in the investigation, so please don’t go around talking nonsense.”
The officer responded: "Don't worry, leader, we have been following you for so long, and you are not the kind of person who has no sense of proportion."