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Soon after the afternoon, hundreds of soldiers went deep into the streets and alleys, and only asked about one thing: "Dare to ask if there have been thieves at home in the past few days?" ”

"Thief? The family is surrounded by walls, and there is not even a valuable guy, and the rich family recruits thieves, and our thieves can't look down on it. ”

"Is it a thief? That's right, the king next door steals firewood from my firewood pile every day and goes home to make a fire, but you don't have to take him; The king's feet are disabled, and there is a blind old lady at home, so if you steal, you can steal it, and you can't catch him, it's pitiful. ”

"Thief? Speaking of which I want to laugh, the winter before last, is also this situation, the weather is cold, there is a thief who ran to my house to steal things, that day my lady is blaming me for losing 500 yuan in gambling yesterday, at night with a mallet in the quilt is not allowed to go to bed, I have no choice but to sleep on the ground, I didn't expect the thief to come at night, dial the latch and step in, just guess my arm, just like that, you guess what, soldier, guess what? Hey...... Don't go, soldier, I haven't finished talking yet, these sub-Qiuba, why did you leave when my storytelling addiction just came up? ”

The soldier didn't listen, but the person next to him became interested: "Say it quickly, what happened later?" ”

"Later? The thief bumped into the edge of the bed, and the girl in my family thought that I was secretly crawling on the bed, and hit the head and brainless with a mallet, and beat the thief all over the head, and finally the crying father and mother ran away, that miserable ...... Tsk tsk. ”

The onlookers' eyes jumped on the ground: "Your old lady is ruthless enough, brother, you must have eaten a mallet, it's hard for you to still be alive." ”

"Go and go, you know a fart, beating is kissing and scolding is love, and besides, my mothers are also measured, and they only turn on the brain, never hit the vital point, she knows that my brain is three points harder than iron, and she can stand it."

"Cut ......!" Everyone dispersed in a hurry, and the bragging was too much.

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In this afternoon, the soldiers didn't hear anything, but they heard a lot of stories, but they were all stories that had nothing to do with the last few days; Occasionally, there are people who claim to have entered the house in the past few days, but they have lost gold, silver and copper coins, and the thief who is looking for is not the same type as the envoy who completely explained to the envoy.

The sun was in the west, and the soldiers came to the yamen to pay tribute to Su Jin, and when someone came, Su Jin's heart sank down, because what he brought was not a clue.

Seeing that at the end of Shen Shi, the sky was getting dark, and the yamen was about to close, Su Jin finally got up in disappointment, and walked to the inner hall of the yamen dejectedly, tossing so many brothers out in one afternoon, and as a result, there were a lot of petty theft cases. ”

Su Jin was on fire, stretched out his hand and stuffed a stack of petty theft cases into the master's arms and said: "Relying on your Song Fuzun to solve them one by one, the Yangzhou Qingping world will depend on you, and this envoy has done his best." ”

The master was dumbfounded, Song Fuzun didn't know what was wrong in the past few days, he was sick in bed, humming and sighing, he didn't even sit in the yamen lobby, eighty percent of these cases fell on his head, big cases are easy to handle, these trivial cases are afraid that they can't be found out even if they are found during the New Year, it's really unlucky.

Su Jintie had just walked through the yamen with a blushing face, when he heard the sound of footsteps behind him, and when he turned his head, Zhao Hu ran over panting, and said loudly: "Master, go slowly, I heard a news." ”

Su Jin hurriedly asked, "Why didn't you come back until now, didn't you want to go to the neighborhood to ask?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "I asked all over the neighborhood, but I didn't ask anything, so I went all the way to Nancheng to ask, and kept asking near Tugangzi in the southeast corner, and finally a family said that his family had lost something recently." ”

Su Jin perked up and said, "What is lost?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "It was an old couple, the mother-in-law was sick and couldn't walk, the old man's ears were back, and the donkey's head was not the horse's mouth when he talked to me, so I was so anxious that I almost jumped to my feet, and I finally figured it out after asking for a long time." ”

Su Jin rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, yes, you have worked hard, tell me what you lost?" ”

Zhao Hu swallowed and spitted at the mouth: "The thief stole the cold rice balls in that kitchen for several days, and came again last night, stealing the rice balls is not counted, and he also took away the old cotton pants of the old man; The poor old man has a pair of cotton pants at home, and the old couple wear them in turns, which is good, the old couple sit on the bed naked and can't get out. ”

Su Jin frowned and said, "Why didn't the old man report to the official a few days ago?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "The old man thought that the wild cat had entered the house, and the place was biased, almost to the southeast corner of the city wall, the old couple originally planted a few vegetables on the hill, afraid of being spoiled by pigs and dogs, so they set up their home on the slope to guard, away from the streets of the city." ”

Su Jin patted Zhao Hu on the shoulder vigorously and said: "Good brother, this is the way to do things, you are not what you used to be, thick and fine, not only can you fight, but also do things more and more reliable, the master will give you a credit in his heart; The news you hear is important; Let's get ready and go. ”

Zhao Hu was very embarrassed by Su Jin's praise, and twisted: "I learned from my master, where are we going?" ”

Su Jin said: "Just go to the old couple's house, go and ask someone to bring some rice, oil, money and silver, by the way, find a few pairs of cotton clothes and cotton pants to bring, we can't go to the old man's house empty-handed." ”

Zhao Hu said: "Is the master going to catch the thief at night?" ”

Su Jin said: "That's not it, it's the end of the day, and at night, the thief's stomach is afraid that he will be hungry again, I hope he is Long Zhen, if it weren't for him, I would have jumped into the river in a hurry." ”

The night was low, on the remote Nancheng trail, the five horsemen slowly approached the small thatched hut that Zhao Hu said, and when they reached the bottom of the small slope, Su Jin turned over and dismounted, and the four generals of the dynasty Ma Han Huha also dismounted, tied the horses to the bottom of the slope, and several people carried rice oil, carrying new cotton jackets and new cotton pants and quietly came to the thatched house.

Su Jin gently tapped the door of the house, there was no sound in the darkness inside, Su Jin thought about it, the old man behind his ears, maybe he couldn't hear it, so he stretched out his hand and pushed it.

The door was pushed open with a squeak, Su Jin just wanted to open his mouth to ask, he heard the sound of the wind blowing in his face, Wang Chao's eyes were quick, he reached out and pulled Su Jin to the side, and a steel fork stabbed out under Su Jin's ribs with a snort, and then a short old man with gray temples rushed out angrily with his bare lower body, holding a steel fork and saying loudly: "You thief, it's okay to steal our family's food, even the old man's cotton pants are also stolen, return my cotton pants, return my cotton pants." ”

Only then did everyone understand that the old man had taken himself as a thief, Zhao Hu hurriedly stepped forward, stuffed a few pairs of cotton clothes and pants into the old man's hand, and said loudly: "Old man, do you still know me?" I've been here in the afternoon. ”

The old man couldn't hear what Zhao Hu was saying at all, but Zhao Hu's face was still recognized, and he saw Zhao Hu handing over a bunch of cotton clothes and cotton pants, several other people carrying rice oil, and one person was carrying a fragrant roast duck.

Everyone bowed their heads and entered the house, poured oil into the oil lamp, lit it, Su Jin raised his eyes and looked around, and sighed in his heart, where is this still where people live.

In addition to a bed, there are a few stumps on the ground, which seem to be benches; A robe hung on the wall, and a straw curtain barbed the corner of the room, revealing the corner of an adobe bed, and the room was so stinking that it was impossible to breathe.

The poor people live in hell, the fate of people is so different, the luxury house, brocade clothes and silk have never been seen by the old couple in their lives, busy all their lives, the family is surrounded by four walls, it really teaches people to feel compassionate.

The old man trembled and scooped out a bowl of water in the crockpot in the corner of the house, and brought it to Su Jin as a hospitality.

"There's nothing to entertain at home, let's drink a bowl of water, there are a few red dates in the dustpan, the old man will catch you and eat."

Su Jin looked at the bowl of black pressure, how dare he drink this bowl of water, and said busily: "Don't be busy, old man." ”

"What? Want to eat sugar? The old man spread his hands and said: "I don't have to eat sugar, the old man hasn't seen what sugar is like for a few years." ”

Wang Chao hurriedly said: "It's not to eat sugar, my son-in-law wants you not to be busy, we are here to help you catch the thief." ”

"What? Want the old man to compensate? A few masters, the old man didn't hurt you, I regarded you as the thief who stole the pants, but I didn't slander people, I didn't hurt you, what to pay. ”

Everyone rolled their eyes and was speechless, this old man was interrupted endlessly, and it seemed impossible to communicate.

The old woman's coughing sound came from the bed in the corner of the house, Su Jin secretly scolded herself for being stupid, the old woman collapsed on the bed, but she was not deaf, it was better to talk to the old woman in the future; So he approached the outside of the grass curtain and arched his hand and said: "Old woman, we are officials, we have come here to hear that your family is a thief, and we have come to catch the thief, please tell my father-in-law, let me wait in the house." ”

The old woman's weak voice came, "I heard it all, you call him in, and the old man told him." ”

Su Jin hurriedly turned his head and pointed to the bed behind the straw curtain, and the old man put down the dirty water bowl and went in happily with rice oil and cotton clothes, and he didn't know what gestures the old woman made, but seeing that the old man nodded again and again, he kept looking at Su Jin and them, and finally turned around and said to the ground: "My old man is deaf, but he misunderstood a few bad masters, and came to help me catch the thief, naturally I can't ask for it, this thief is also hateful, I caught him, and he will be cold." ”

Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief, so through the old woman's translation, he explained sentence by sentence that the old man should not make a sound, just go to bed and rest, and do everything by himself; The old man nodded again and again, busy putting on the new cotton pants, and learned that Suo Suo helped the old woman put on the new cotton clothes and cotton pants.

Su Jin had no time to watch the old couple show affection, blew out the lamp, and ordered Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to hide next to the firewood and grass pile next to the house, while he and Wang Dynasty Mahan hid in the corner of the house, waiting quietly.