"Say it again?" Yu Sheng thought he heard wrongly.
"Eat the dumplings without dipping them in vinegar," the old man said again.
There was silence for a moment, the surroundings were quiet, and everyone was staring at the old man intently.
Finally, Zhou Jiufeng grabbed him and said, "Old man, let me tell you, if you confess, you will be given leniency but if you resist strict punishment, you will go to jail for talking nonsense. Tell me! What on earth did you commit to get you arrested?"
The old man slapped his knee and said, "By God, I was really arrested for eating dumplings without dipping them in vinegar. Why don't you believe it?"
Zhou Jiufeng pointed to his head: "Do you know what this is?"
The old man was stunned, "Isn't this your brain?"
"It's good to know! I came out with my brain today, you can't fool me!" Zhou Jiufeng patted him on the shoulder, "If you don't give up now, when you enter the Jinyiwei prison, there will be hardships for you. Let me tell you, we Jinyiwei
The prison is not as easy to escape as the Yamen."
"I think you people in Yangzhou City are better off without brains." The old man muttered in a low voice.
"What did you say!" Zhou Jiufeng glared at him.
"I was really caught eating dumplings without dipping them in vinegar. Why don't you believe it?"
The old man sat down on the ground and cried loudly, "I am a teacher, and I wonder why it is so difficult for me to come to Yangzhou City and make a living. If I don't just eat dumplings without vinegar, how can you bully others like this?"
Li Zheng, who had just come out of Pork Jiu, was carrying a piece of meat. Seeing the excitement here, he pulled Pork Jiu over to watch.
Yu Sheng handed him the tea served for him and said, "Okay, stand up and say what you have to say."
The old man was really thirsty. When he saw the water, he trembled with excitement and tried to get up, but he was unable to do so. In the end, it was the rich and the poor who helped him up.
"I don't think he can commit any major crimes like this." Fu Nan felt that the old man was still hunched over, and it would be difficult for him to kill a chicken.
He kindly advised the old man: "Uncle, don't worry, this is the lord of Yangzhou City, please tell the truth."
The old man put down his tea bowl and said, "I told the truth. I really ate the dumplings without dipping them in vinegar."
"Hey, you have to say this," Yu Sheng pointed at Li Zheng, "this master eats dumplings dipped in chili pepper, shouldn't he be caught?"
The old man didn't know how to answer.
Aunt Qing spoke, "Tell it from the beginning, let's start with how we were caught."
The old man nodded and handed the tea bowl to Yu Sheng: "Can I have another bowl? Your tea is really good."
"That's the tea from Zhonghuang." Yu Sheng asked them to come in and said that he would make a pot of tea for the old man.
The old man walked in with the support of Fu Nan and sat at the long table.
Li Zheng and Zhu Zhujiu grabbed a handful of peanuts from the little white fox, sat on their seats, and prepared to listen to the story with great interest.
"Four months ago, I heard that Yangzhou City was rich and crowded, so I followed the caravan south and planned to teach in Yangzhou City," the old man said.
Indeed, as he expected, on the second day after arriving in Yangzhou City, someone came to see Shu Xiu off and asked him to become his teacher.
Under the leadership of Yu Sheng's cooking skills, especially those city lords who attended the League Leaders Conference and praised Yangzhou's food after returning home, Yangzhou is now famous for its food in Donghuang, and of course the old man has to try it.
At night, he ordered a dumpling at a restaurant, but he didn't like to be jealous, so he didn't dip it in vinegar.
"At that time, there was a table of government servants in the same restaurant. They were celebrating a guy named..." The old man took a sip of tea and recalled carefully, "Yes, a headhunter named Hai and Fen solved a major case.
They feel proud in front of Jinyiwei."
While the old man was enjoying the dumplings, the detectives were already enjoying themselves.
When Nahai Captou went out for convenience and came back, he saw the old man eating dumplings without adding vinegar. He said drunkenly: "You old man, you are new, you are new here. You are really a country bumpkin. Dumplings, the essence of dumplings is that you are not jealous, but you are jealous."
You can’t taste the deliciousness of dumplings if you dip them in vinegar.”
He spoke rudely, and the old man replied angrily: "I just like not to be jealous, do you care?"
"Hey, you old man, you don't know what's good or bad," Hai said.
He sat back on his seat and drank another glass of wine. Finally, feeling aggrieved, he slapped the table and cursed: "It's his uncle's fault."
His subordinate looked at him drunkenly, "What's wrong, Master Hai? Someone made you angry?"
Hai Baotou took a sip of wine and cursed: "Damn it, there's an old man over there. He's from outside. He doesn't eat dumplings with vinegar. I kindly reminded him that he thinks I'm nosy. What a big deal!"
"His uncle, this old man doesn't take Mr. Hai seriously. Even the Jin Yiwei dare not be so arrogant." The first arrester quickly looked at Mr. Hai with drunk eyes: "Master Hai, do you want to lock him up and take care of him?
Will you release it tomorrow?"
Hai Dao raised his head and drank the wine in one gulp. He slapped the wine glass on the table and said, "It's his uncle's fault. Let him know how powerful the policeman is and how powerful he is to kill him!"
Having said this, the old man took another sip of tea.
He said to Yu Sheng and others: "Then they arrested me because I ate dumplings without dipping them in vinegar."
In fact, these policemen didn't do much to deal with the old man, because they were already drunk, so they threw the old man into the cell and went back to sleep.
"What happened next?" Yu Sheng asked, didn't he say he would let it go tomorrow?
"I don't know," the old man shook his head, "I stayed in prison for four months anyway."
"I guess when I woke up drunk the next day, the catcher had already forgotten about it. As for his subordinates, they thought the catcher had let the old man go," said Ye Zigao.
Zhou Jiufeng nodded, "It's possible."
The jailers only watch the cells, and they will lock up whoever the arrester captures until the prisoner is interrogated and convicted. As for this old man, he has not filed a case in the government office, so naturally he will not be interrogated.
The jailer did not dare to make the decision to release the head without asking for it, especially when the magic catcher personally captured the person.
This sea catcher is a well-known figure in the yamen, and he has also registered with Jin Yiwei. He has always been known for solving cases like a god and with great speed.
Jin Yiwei would sometimes seek help from him.
"You stayed in the cell for such a long time and no one asked how you got in?" Zhou Jiufeng asked unwillingly.
She glanced at the city lord cautiously. This matter was probably not going to go well. If it was true, the entire city's west yamen would suffer.
"Yes." The old man said.
Seeing that he had not been arraigned and convicted, the jailers asked him: "What did you do to get here?"
"Because I didn't dip the dumplings in vinegar." The old man said this every time.
The jailer felt that the old man was questioning their intelligence and said angrily: "Tell me the truth."
"I really ate the dumplings without dipping them in vinegar." The old man was very stubborn.
"That's nonsense. If it's because of this, Hai Captou will personally take you back?" the jailer said.
So, he was beaten severely.
Not only the jailer, but also the people who lived in the same cell were curious about how he got in.
"Old man, how did you get in?" a classmate asked.
"Eating dumplings without dipping them in vinegar."
"You think I have no brains, don't you?" the classmate said angrily, and then thought that the old man was a thief, so he didn't dare to say anything.
So, he was beaten severely.
In short, the jailers and the prisoners who came in and went out all asked him curiously how he got in.
As soon as he said that he was eating dumplings without vinegar, he was beaten severely because he felt that he was insulting other people's intelligence.
Then others became even more curious about how he got in.
This happened over and over again, and the old man received a lot of beatings.
"No one believed that I was eating dumplings without vinegar. There was a gentleman who went in three or four times. When he saw that I hadn't come out yet, he insisted that I was some kind of gang leader and the mastermind behind the scenes. He insisted on becoming my disciple, and even
Prepare to be my mouthpiece." The old man sighed and shook his head.
"As an apprentice, he didn't believe me. I asked him to go to a restaurant and spread the news that 'eating dumplings without vinegar will lead to imprisonment.' He said that this was a code." The old man patted his thigh and said, "I'm serious."
You eat dumplings without dipping them in vinegar!"