It is said that that night, Liu Xiaoqi brought back a night traveler from outside. It was the green forest thief Kou Lou Jinqiao that Jia Cong offered a reward for. Jia Cong stayed for a moment, forced a smile and waved: "Hello, Master Lou. Since you are here,
How about having some tea inside?"
Lou Jinqiao cupped his fists and said, "Mr. Zhou is so polite."
When Jia Cong was about to turn around, he caught a glimpse of the men in black underground from the corner of his eye and asked, "Xiao Qi, who are these?"
Liu Xiaoqi pointed to one and said: "This is your own Zhou Lang."
Jia Cong opened his mouth: "Sent by Cui Mian?"
Liu Xiaoqi chuckled and said, "I know what stupid mistake you made."
It turned out that after dinner tonight, he and Liu Zhuang were stationed at two ends of the Lu Mansion to patrol. Not long after the clock was set, Liu Xiaoqi discovered a group of night walkers stepping on the roofs of neighbors' houses. He held his breath and concentrated not to disturb those people.
When the people arrived about ten feet away from Lu's house, the leader made a gesture, and everyone else stopped and hid in the dark. The leader walked around Lu's house three times, with Liu Xiaoqi following him from a distance.
, met Liuzhuang on the way. The man returned to his accomplices and assigned them who should guard where. The accomplices dispersed outside Lu's house as he said. Liu Xiaoqi couldn't help but praise: The leader has some insight and guarded the place.
The location has views from four directions.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, another night traveler came from a distance. Someone in the front group noticed it and imitated a few cat meows. The leader jumped out first to meet the person and clasped his fists. The man was slightly startled and also clasped his fists.
He said a few slang words, meaning that he wanted to get a deal from the Lu Mansion. The leader did not allow this person to go over, but he insisted on going over, so the two started fighting.
At this moment, all the uncles and nephews of the Liu family were hiding aside to watch the excitement. Liuzhuang told his seventh uncle in a low voice: "The one who blocked him is Zhou Lang, and the others are his brothers. Their usual method is that Zhou Lang comes out alone to talk to others.
During the fight, the remaining six secretly discovered hidden weapons."
Liu Xiaoqi's mind flashed: "Could it be that no one came forward to announce the 10,000 taels of bounty before, because they were stopped by these bastards? Jia Cong, this idiot!" Before he finished speaking, Zhou Lang's six
The accomplices had secretly surrounded the night travelers. The uncle and nephew ignored the small talk and rushed over to capture them all before they released the hidden weapons.
After hearing this, Jia Cong patted the back of his head and said to Zhou Lang: "Hey, I~~ do you want to explain?" Zhou Lang remained silent. Jia Cong shrugged, "You guys should be silent slowly. Let's talk after you think about it." He turned to face
Lou Jinqiao clasped his fists and said, "Sorry for delaying the meeting. Mr. Lou, please." Then he led Lou Jinqiao into the house.
Lou Jinqiao was brave enough to sit down in front of Jia Cong and said with a smile: "This is the first time I have tea from the Minister of War's house." After a moment of silence, he mentioned the case he had committed that year.
Lou Jinqiao was really a tough gangster. He had done everything from killing to stealing goods, and he was never afraid of the underworld's retribution. He went back to visit a friend and contracted an illness in an inn, which lasted for more than half a year. He invited a doctor to come and see him, and the doctor also agreed.
After taking the medicine, he could only see no improvement. Seeing a tall man gradually become skinny, Lou Jinqiao himself felt that he had done too many evil things in his early years and met an unjust ghost seeking his life, so he just waited for death. One day, he found that he even clenched his fists.
It was no longer urgent, thinking that the end was coming. So he called the innkeeper into the room, took out all the money he had, and told him: "Leave me here. If I die, buy me a coffin. If you have more money, I will return."
you."
The boss knew that he was not an ordinary person. Although he was ill now, he still did not dare to send him away. However, it would be really troublesome if someone died in the inn, so he complained a few words to other guests behind his back. A passing doctor heard this and went to Lou
I went to Jinqiao's house to have a look. Lou Jinqiao had no hope of surviving, so if he wanted to see it, let him see it.
The doctor asked after hearing about it and said: "I have a folk remedy, which was passed down by my husband. It seems to be a disease like yours. Because I have never encountered it before, I don't know if it works or if there are any flaws. A strong man can be willing to give it a try.
try?"
Lou Jinqiao was about to die, so what did he care about? He was not afraid of death until he was about to die. Only he knew that in those three or four days, he was afraid of all the ghosts and gods that he had never been afraid of before. So he agreed repeatedly,
With tears streaming down his face, he just wished he had no energy to kowtow to the doctor. The doctor was kind-hearted, so he went out to grab some medicine and decoction for him to take. Lou Jinqiao felt energetic the next day.
The doctor didn't come back after that, but the waiter came to deliver the decoction. It turned out that the doctor was only staying for one night, and he had been delayed for most of the day to get medicine for Lou Jinqiao. So he gave the innkeeper the prescription and asked him to take care of Lou Jinqiao. If
It saves the guest from the bad luck of death, and the boss does not mind the trouble of taking care of the patient. In just half a month, Lou Jinqiao recovered!
He felt that the doctor had saved his life, and he was willing to change his ways from now on and never do those murders and robberies again. He also wanted to find the doctor to repay his kindness and asked people about his origins.
The man only had one son, who was abducted by a kidnapper four years ago. A few days ago, a neighbor was doing business in Jinling and saw a child in the market who looked like his son. The man immediately left his family behind and rushed to Jinling to find his son. Lou Jinqiao was thinking about it.
I owed the doctor my life and chased him to Jinling. I never thought that the general would catch up and collect the body of the doctor.
What the neighbor saw was indeed the son of the doctor, who was bought by a wealthy family. Because of his good looks, the master chose him to be a prostitute. The month before last, the master got drunk with a few dandies and killed the boy. The doctor checked
After understanding the truth, he went to the door to fight and died at the hands of the evil slave.
Lou Jinqiao originally had a heart to correct evil and secretly vowed to the Buddha in the temple not to kill again. When he learned about this, it was like pouring cold water on him. After searching for two days, he finally found it in a righteous village.
When the doctor's body arrived, it was rolled up coldly in the straw mat. Lou Jinqiao sat next to the body and watched it all night. The next day, he went out in broad daylight to solve a case and stole some silver. He buried the doctor with the courtesy of a filial son. After the first seven days, he
He began to investigate who the master was and planned to kill him. As for whose brother-in-law he was, Lou Jinqiao had no control over him. So he was wanted by Wu State.
After hearing this, Jia Cong thought for a long time and said: "Your revenge is not clean. Since we are several dandies, what else can we do besides that brother-in-law? The root of this matter is the kidnapper. If not the kidnapper kidnapped the doctor's son
, the child will not die. If the child does not die, the doctor will not die either. Shouldn't the kidnapper also be killed? Renyazi also has a share. There are so many murderers who killed your benefactor, but you only killed one, does it count as repaying his kindness?
"
Lou Jinqiao thought about it and clapped his fists: "Yes! It's not just that one!"
Jia Cong said: "Even if you kill the dandy and kidnapper Ren Yazi, there is actually another culprit."
Lou Jinqiao's eyes were bright: "Who is it!"
"Slavery." Jia Cong said sternly, "Humans are human beings, not chickens, ducks, cattle or sheep. They should not be bought or sold. If there is no human market, the kidnappers will have nowhere to sell them."
Lou Jinqiao chuckled and said, "Without the market, who will serve the masters of your wealthy families?"
Jia Cong shrugged: "You have hands and feet, why do you want someone to serve you? Don't you know that Yan State has closed the human market for many years?"
Lou Jinqiao was stunned: "I don't know."
"It doesn't matter, I'll tell you now." Jia Cong said, "But you are indeed a criminal, I can't let you go."
Lou Jinqiao immediately clasped his fists and said: "This villain knows that he has committed a serious crime. What the gentleman just said is absolutely true. The villain has not killed all the murderers. I hope that the gentleman will give the villain a year to avenge his benefactor and then come back to claim it." die."
"It's because you have committed crimes before." Jia Cong said, "I can't believe it just based on your words. I have to check to see if there really is such a doctor."
Lou Jinqiao slapped his chest and said loudly: "My surname is Lou, a good man who is upright and upright..."
Jia Cong interrupted: "Pull him down! You said yourself that you have committed murder and robbery. Isn't that just killing someone who is weaker than you and robbing someone else of their hard-earned money? Is that what you call a good man who stands upright?" Lou Jin Qiao choked. Jia Cong curled up his lips and said, "I really look down on people like you who only bully the weak. The world is so big, why can't we find a serious job? To put it bluntly, isn't that lazy?"
Lou Jinqiao was stunned for a while and then said: "I... I have never thought about finding something serious to do."
"Why? What does your mother-in-law do?"
"I don't have a wife." Lou Jinqiao said, "My master picked it up when I was a child. My master is a thief, so naturally I followed him."
Jia Cong was silent for a moment and sighed: "This... is really not easy." After being stunned for a while, he sighed again, "Let's do this for now. Don't blame me. I was deceived just now because I believed in people's words. . Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the well rope for ten years, let alone just a few days ago. If your case in Wu State was really about avenging your benefactor, I don’t think there is anything wrong. If you want to kill the other murderers, I support it. .”
Lou Jinqiao looked at Jia Cong for a long time and said, "Who is Mr. Zhou? The people under your command are very powerful."
Jia Cong shrugged: "You don't have to worry about this. Since you are Lou Jinqiao..." He shouted outside, "Xiaoqi Xiaoqi——"
Liu Xiaoqi was listening at the door, and walked in after hearing the words: "What are you doing?"
"There will be another notice tomorrow and it will be said that Lou Jinqiao has been captured."
Liu Xiaoqi glanced at Lou Jinqiao: "That's it?"
"Well, that's it. Let others guess our purpose of arresting Lou Jinqiao." Jia Cong also looked at Lou Jinqiao, "By the way, which wealthy family are you working as a nursing home for now?"
Lou Jinqiao nodded: "Not bad."
"Well, you can't leave anyway." Jia Cong thought for a while, "Have you ever received any green forest stickers? What it says is that if someone is unjust for profit, how much money he gets will be enough for the person who kills him. It has to be doubled. There is also Bai Wuchang painted on it."
"Is this what you're talking about?" Lou Jinqiao took out a square piece of paper from his arms.
Jia Cong took it and took a look. Sure enough, it was the one Lu Jian showed him today. He nodded and said, "Exactly. Who gave this to you?"
Lou Jinqiao cupped his fists and said, "I'm sorry. Mr. Zhou, I won't say anything."
Jia Cong narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a moment: "Master Lou, I'm just being polite when I call you a hero. Do you know that you are a prisoner?"
Lou Jinqiao smiled calmly: "I have a scar as big as a bowl on my head, but I am a good man again after eighteen years."
"How is that possible!" Jia Cong bared his teeth, "You have committed too many sins. Once you die and go to hell to have your skin cramped and peeled, you will definitely not be reincarnated as a human being. I don't know whether you will be a pig, cow, sheep, mosquito, fly, bedbug. If it weren't for that doctor,
Save you, you are probably waiting in the chicken coop of the Lu Mansion to make soup tomorrow, and you have already lived for five or six lifetimes." He said it so smoothly that Lou Jinqiao trembled slightly. Jia Cong spoke again.
He said, "But since you are alive, you still have the opportunity to make up for your mistakes. For example, do good deeds and save ten times as many people as you killed." Lou Jinqiao's eyes flashed. Jia Cong said leisurely, "What if you do good deeds now?"
Just die..."
Lou Jinqiao shook his head: "I bear the sins I have made myself. When I go to the underworld, I have to go to the mountain of knives and go to the oil pan. Reincarnation as an animal or an ant is all my fault."
"That's it." Jia Cong touched his chin, his eyes seemed to be wandering. "Okay then. It doesn't matter. I don't believe that all your colleagues in the green forest are the same as you. There must be some of them who love money more. Money is the most valuable thing in the world.
The weapons used are stronger than those of women."
Lou Jinqiao blinked and said blankly: "Sir, what did you say?"
Jia Cong smiled and said, "Thank you, Mr. Lou, for helping me confirm my inference." He ordered someone to take him down.
Seeing the guards handcuffing the man and leading him away, Liu Xiaoqi sat down in front of Jia Cong and asked, "What's going on?"
Jia Cong rubbed his temples, and after half a day he smiled bitterly and said: "I have some ideas but I haven't figured it out yet." He took a sip of tea and said, "First of all, there must be a problem with the Cui family. And there may be more than one problem. And the problem may not be caused by
As for Cui Mian. Cui Mian is a man who has suffered at the expense of his family and is also ambitious. I guess his son-in-law... may not be dead."
Liu Xiaoqi frowned: "Not dead? His son-in-law even threw away his daughter's life, and he still helped him?"
Jia Cong held his chin and said: "Without this son-in-law, Cui Mian's status in the Cui family will immediately drop to an unknown extent. If this son-in-law is alive, no matter whether he is a fool, a cripple, or an eunuch..."
"Hiss..." Liu Xiaoqi took a breath and said for a long time, "Ms. Cui's belly... I don't know if it's a son or a daughter."
"That's right." Jia Cong nodded, "He was born as a boy, and the fifth child is of little use. Being a daughter is equivalent to a death sentence for Cui Mian's political future. He really loves his daughter, and I was there that day. That feeling is not
Pretending. However, after calming down, the daughter may not have a political future. Therefore, Cui Mian is a particularly easy person to take advantage of. Moreover, he is both talented and knowledgeable, and he actually did it when the clan asked him to take the blame.
It can be seen that... Cui's cowardice is probably hereditary. Therefore, it is not impossible for people who know the details to coerce him." Then he picked up the post given by Lou Jinqiao and showed it, "The meaning of this thing is clear. Regardless.
No matter how much I pay, someone will pay double the amount."
Liu Xiaoqi suddenly thought of someone and tapped the desk with his fingers: "We are going to keep increasing the reward money. It seems that you, a loser, told Cui Ju about it."
Jia Cong covered his face and finally put down his hands for a long time: "I will never do such stupid things again."
Liu Xiaoqi glanced at him sideways and said comfortingly: "It's okay, you're not stupid just once or twice."
Jia Cong read the post for a long time and said: "Now we can be more sure that this is a woman who is very capable of treating men. Lou Jinqiao would rather go to hell than confess to her." He suddenly snapped his fingers.
, "We have some clues. Let's check all kinds of courtesans and madams first." Liu Xiaoqi raised his eyebrows. Jia Cong smiled and said, "Among the brothels, it is easiest to develop this skill."