Heifu was walking in the narrow alley in Chaoyangli, with homes connected to each other on both sides. People often came in and out along the way, either carrying buckets to fetch water or visiting neighbors. There was not much farm work to do in the winter.
The house was almost repaired, and the people inside seemed much more relaxed.
I met many people along the way, and when they saw Hei Fu's red and crimson clothes, their expressions froze, and they quickly saluted him and said hello.
Heifu didn't ask any questions, and kept a kind smile, nodding his head all the way to the inner door.
Although the villagers in the setting sun once left a very bad impression on him, not everyone is like this. The village community is generally harmonious and friendly. If no one instigates it, the villagers are very simple. Jealousy is also pure jealousy, and so is respect and love.
Simple respect and love, joy, anger, sorrow, and fear all come from the heart and are seldom concealed.
However, Heifu discovered that the people in Chaoyang were still quite afraid of him as the head of the pavilion. Just now, there was a four or five-year-old servant boy biting the nail of his thumb and curiously staring at the rope and dagger around his waist.
The mother immediately scolded the child, and hurriedly pulled the child's hand and asked him to turn his head away!
When she passed Mr. Hei, the woman also kept her child in her arms and apologized repeatedly.
Heifu took the initiative to let them go first, and then shook his head helplessly: "Is it because my predecessor was too arrogant and gave people in Chaoyang a bad impression?"
In fact, even in later generations, ordinary people would be a bit submissive when meeting the police. After all, they are violent law enforcement units. And Heifu is now the "Tiangu" of the Qin Dynasty, what later generations call the "court eagle dog". Qin's laws are strict,
In the eyes of the people at that time, when the pavilion chief came to the door, it usually did not do anything good, and might lead to the disaster of ruining the family.
Hei Fu came here to take someone.
After walking for a short while, he stopped outside a house in Chaoyanglidong.
This is a typical official residence. The yard is not big, and there are two entrances. The gate is unlocked, and the walls are not built. It is only surrounded by a fence half a person's height. Through the fence, Hei Fu can still see what's inside.
situation.
There was a tall pineapple tree planted in the yard. Now there were only a few dead leaves left. Hei Fu could not help but narrow his eyes. The anonymous letter was made of pineapple wood...
The sound of chirping came, and Heifu took a look. On the left side of the tree was a chicken coop. A woman in her twenties and wearing a geisha skirt was holding a dustpan and spreading the rice bran and vegetable leaves in the yard with one hand.
Let the chickens in the chicken coop come out to eat. When she fed the fluffy and tender yellow chickens, she smiled happily.
However, this peaceful moment was broken by an uninvited guest in red and crimson clothes outside the door...
When the woman raised her head, she happened to see Mr. Hei standing in front of the door. She immediately let out an exclamation. The dustpan in her hand accidentally fell to the ground, and the rice bran was scattered all over the floor!
The chickens immediately flapped their wings and swarmed over, pecking at her feet. Their sharp beaks even pecked on the woman's cloth shoes, but she remained indifferent. Her lips trembled slightly and she shouted into the house.
"Good...beloved man..."
"What's wrong!?"
The man in the house came out immediately when he heard his wife's exclamation. The man was more than seven feet tall and was wearing a thick winter coat. In addition, the family could afford to raise so many chickens, which showed that the family was in a good situation. Unfortunately, the man looked sick.
He was unhappy, his face was thin, his voice was out of breath, and he had a bit of a cough.
Heifu saw that he was holding a sharp knife in his right hand and something in his left hand. He couldn't help but become alert and put his hand on the hilt of the sword.
At this time, the male host also saw Heifu, saw the two-foot wooden slip in his hand, the rope around his waist, and the hand on the hilt of the sword, and was suddenly stunned.
Heifu nodded to him: "I am the head of Huyang Pavilion, and you are a public servant from Chaoyangli?"
"I'm just going to cure the disease." The man nodded and forced a smile: "I wonder why the pavilion chief came to see me?"
Heifu glanced at the woman standing blankly by the chicken coop. It was not good to arrest her in front of her wife, so he said: "It's better to come out and talk."
The man seemed to understand something, and nodded with a pale face. He threw the knife in his right hand on the ground, approached his wife, stuffed the thing in his left hand into her hand, and then tenderly placed his hand on the woman.
On the lower abdomen, he said softly:
"Be at home and I'll come back as soon as I go."
Heifu noticed that it was a small wooden figure, mostly carved, with a nose and eyes, and the woman's abdomen was slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant...
He loosened his grip on the sword hilt.
The chief of the pavilion who ruined the family, and the official who destroyed the family.
At this moment, Heifu suddenly felt a trace of regret. He regretted not listening to Li Xian's words, burning the anonymous letter, and getting clean...
The current plot seems to be different from what he imagined. It seems that he no longer needs to be mysterious. The suspect has been basically identified, but the person who submitted the letter did not act like a buffoon and panicked in front of him.
He watched the man and his wife say goodbye reluctantly, and hesitated a little. If he turned around and left at this time, would it still be too late?
But when he turned around, Li Xian and Ji Ying had already appeared in the distance, hurrying towards them.
That's too late.
At this point, it was too late for Hei Fu to stop. Not to mention that he boasted in front of everyone in the pavilion, but in Qin's rules, it is one thing not to know the person who submitted the letter, but to deliberately condone it if he knew who it was.
That's another thing. If Mr. Hei is soft-hearted, I'm afraid he won't be able to keep the red turban on his head.
Hei Fu sighed secretly. At this time, the man had already left the yard, closed the door carefully, looked at his wife again, and then bowed to Hei Fu heavily!
"Do you know why I'm here?" Heifu tried hard to make his tone less cold.
"Know……"
The man smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand: "It was my fault. I shouldn't take chances. Chief of the pavilion, just tie me up."
"No need."
The man's wife was still looking at him in tears in the fence. Hei Fu walked up to Qu Ji, patted his shoulder and said loudly: "Don't be nervous, I just want to ask you a question in the pavilion! That's all!"
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Although anonymous reporting is a crime, the crime only carries a fine of up to three degrees, which is equivalent to more than 4,000 yuan. It is not very serious. With the financial resources of this person, he should be able to afford it.
Of course, the premise is that this person does not make malicious and false accusations in the letter...
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Two hours later, in the Huyang Pavilion, in front of Heifu, Li Xian and others, Gongshi Quji had finished explaining the matter...
Including how he saw Ji Ying going to Chaoyangli to deliver letters every three or two days, which led him to plan to find opportunities to anonymously send letters. Including how he observed the style of the letters in Li Zheng and Tian Dian's hands on the December Festival, and used them himself.
I cut two wooden tablets from the yellow pear wood in the yard and wrote the content on them, but did not write my name...
"That's what happened. I was also at the house of the official who had a son. I hid the wooden slip in my arms and was waiting for an opportunity. When the mailman put the basket next to his bed to go to the toilet, I went to the toilet.
I followed him and saw that no one was paying attention, so I threw the letter in."
Qu Ji was not in good health, and he caught a cold on the way back. He coughed while talking. Heifu asked someone to put his winter coat on him, and asked Pu Zhang to heat a brazier and place it next to him.
Then he felt better and told the whole story intermittently.
Heifu asked Li Xian to record his questioning process on a wooden tablet. He pointed to the letter on the case and asked: "Quji, you have worked so hard to do these things just to post an anonymous letter. Why are you doing this?"
Do you want to do this? What is written in this letter? Who is involved?"
I don't know if it was because of his excitement that Qu Ji started coughing again. After taking a sip of the hot water handed over by Xiao Tao, he said with a wry smile: "Since the letter is in the hands of the pavilion chief, you can just open it and read it yourself. Why bother?"
May I say it one more time?"
Dongmen Bao, who asked to steal, had long since sent off the prisoners and returned from the countryside. As soon as he entered the door, he heard that Heifu had successfully arrested the person who submitted the letter. He couldn't help but be very excited. He always believed that one should not be too polite to suspects. Hearing this, he immediately
Angry, he slapped the table and said, "You guy! How dare you speak so harshly!"
"Leopard! Don't scare him."
Heifu stopped the Dongmen Leopard, held the wooden tablet in his hand, held the knife in his left hand, and began to slowly cut the tightly knotted rope...
Except for Yu Liang, who was sent outside to guard the door, the five people in the room, Dongmen Bao, Li Xian, Ji Ying, Pu Zhang, and Xiao Tao, couldn't help but straighten their bodies, sit down and look around, curious about the contents of the letter.
Finally, Heifu cut the knot and slowly opened the wooden slips together. The upper slip was blank, while the lower slip was densely filled with black seal characters...
After a quick glance, Heifu's expression immediately changed.
"Quick!" He raised his head and ordered seriously: "Is what you reported true?"
Qu Ji said weakly on the straw mat: "Every word is true, absolutely true..."
With a "click" sound, Heifu closed the slip, his mood was agitated and his eyes were bright!
He never expected that a small anonymous letter would be involved in such a major case!