Chapter 499: Catch the thief and take the stolen goods
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Twenty miles north of Taiyuan City, there is a village of more than 100 families, Zhuangzi is called Liujiazhuang, because these 100 families are tenant farmers of the Liu family of the Wang clan in Hedong. ,!
More than a mile away from Zhuangzi by the Fenshui River, the Liu family built a courtyard covering an area of dozens of acres, which is used by the Liu family to live in the summer every year.
But this year is a little abnormal, I heard that it is the eldest son of the Liu family, Liu Jin, who came to the courtyard to relax, and there are more cars and horses coming and going in the past few days, and there are often movements at night.
However, no one dared to snoop on the tenants on the Zhuangzi, I heard that one of the favorite concubines of the eldest prince Liu Jin died in the earthquake a few days ago, and the eldest prince was in a very bad mood for this, a few days ago when a tenant farmer passed by the courtyard of the Liu family, he couldn't help but look in a few times with curiosity, and he was beaten by the eldest prince, and he is still bedridden;
The second housekeeper who came with the eldest prince was kind-hearted, and he also went to Zhuangzi to warn everyone, saying that the eldest prince is not pleasing to anyone these days, so that everyone must not approach the other courtyard if they are fine, otherwise it will be in vain if they are beaten.
In this way, the tenants in Zhuangzi have avoided the Liujia courtyard for the past few days, and no one knows what is going on inside.
Before noon on this day, I saw twenty or thirty fast horses galloping over, the first one was the big housekeeper Liu Sanmin, and the twenty or thirty men behind him were all wearing black suits, looking very mighty, this team of people and horses was not afraid of disturbing the bad-tempered eldest son, and rushed directly into the gate of the other courtyard with a bang.
Liu Jin, the son of the Liu family, is nearly twenty-five years old and has sword eyebrows and starry eyes. At this moment, he was anxiously struggling in the courtyard with his hands in his hands, and when he saw Liu Sanmin entering the courtyard, he hurriedly greeted him and asked: "Third uncle, you are here, tell me quickly, what is my father going to do?" ”
"The eldest prince. I'm afraid things are not good, Yang Yi, the Duke of Naining Guogong who staggered with the convoy last night, and those four people were also sent by him to embellish the convoy. Now that the matter is urgent, a message has been sent to the lord's side, and the silver and weapons are immediately buried deeply. Grain and grass should also be burned on the spot, and then the ashes should be poured into Fenshui and washed away. ”
As soon as Liu Jin heard that it was Yang Yi, the Duke of Ningguo, who was sent to keep an eye on him last night, his expression suddenly changed greatly, Yang Yiquan leaned towards the government and the opposition, who didn't know? Who doesn't know? provoked such a big evil star, I really don't know what the ancestors of the Liu family have done!
He didn't think much about it, so he shouted to the house slaves in the other courtyard: "Hurry up, are you all deaf?" If you don't hurry up and find something to dig a pit, whoever drags it out again, Lao Tzu buried him first. ”
There were already more than 100 people in the courtyard. Coupled with the thirty people that Liu Sanmin just brought, the whole two hundred people suddenly exploded, running up and down one by one to find tools, but the courtyard of the Liu family is used to escape the heat, what tools do you usually have for digging the soil?
So the gate of the other courtyard soon rushed out of dozens of horses. Rushing to the Zhuangzi a mile away to grab the hoe and shovel, because the matter was urgent, they did use the robbery, as soon as the horse entered the Zhuangzi, without saying a word, one by two rushed directly into the tenant's house. Drinking ordered the tenants to hand over the tools, looking more fierce than the bandits on the mountain, and the quiet Zhuangzi also jumped with the chickens and dogs, and became a mess.
After Yang Yi got up, he sent twenty guards out of the city to find Zhang Erfa four, and after these twenty guards arrived at the place where they had staggered with the convoy last night, they immediately divided into groups of five and searched in all directions;
Liujiazhuang is three or four miles away from the north-south official road, and there are low mountains to block the view, Liujiazhuang can not be seen from the official road, twenty guards at first focused on the north, one of the teams rushed up the low mountain, when they saw Liujiazhuang, they didn't care, but they still routinely planned to ask the people in Zhuangzi.
When passing by the courtyard of the Liu family, he saw a man in a strong suit peeking out of the door, and his expression changed after seeing five guards dressed in forbidden army uniforms, and he hurriedly closed the door.
There were some noisy sounds in the courtyard, as if someone was digging, and after the man in the strong suit closed the door, the excavation in the courtyard soon stopped.
This immediately aroused the suspicion of the five guards, one of whom stepped away as usual, and then four went up and banged on the door.
Liu Jin and the others in the courtyard were shocked when they heard that a forbidden army had come to the door, and they all thought that the matter had been revealed, and Liu Jin asked Liu Sanmin without a master: "Third uncle, what should I do?" What to do? As soon as this matter is revealed, this is a great crime to kill the head......"
"Don't panic, eldest prince, it is said that if the matter is revealed, there should not be only five people outside the door, if I guess correctly, these people should not have discovered the secret of the courtyard, but they just found here by mistake."
"What are they doing here?"
"It should be Yang Yi sent to find the four people last night, the eldest prince asked everyone to avoid it first, I'll go out to deal with it, and quickly send the people away."
Liu Sanmin wanted to get it well, but he didn't want to think about who came, a few forbidden soldiers outside the door were originally Yang Yi's lineage, and now they are following Yang Yi as a guard, on the ground in the east of the river, I am afraid that they may not pay attention to Xiang Chaoran when they come;
When Liu Sanmin went to open the door, the four guards outside the door didn't give him a chance to speak, and a snow-bright steel knife was put on his neck.
The other three rushed into the courtyard with knives, and a few men guarding the front yard came up to stop them, and the three of them shouted violently: "We are on the orders of Lord Yang, the pacification envoy of Hedong, to search for the lawbreakers, who dares to stop it, it will be regarded as a rebellion!" ”
The three of them roared fiercely, ignoring a few men in strong suits, and continued to rush in without pause, this can make Liu Sanmin anxious, the front yard is no problem, but once these three people are allowed to enter the backyard, it will be over:
There are too many materials transported out in the past few days, and the rooms in the backyard are not enough to pile them up, plus no one expected that anyone would dare to come to the Liujia Courtyard to check, and most of the grain and grass materials are stacked in the yard;
Now I want to wait for the silver to be buried, and then pile up these materials on the new soil and burn it, so as to hide the traces of the new soil.
But now they haven't even dug the pit, and the piles of materials haven't moved, and as soon as these three people rush in, as long as they are not blind, they can see it.
Liu Sanmin didn't care about the steel knife and neck, and hurriedly shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen. Listen to me, this is the courtyard of the Liu family in Hedong, the lord of my Liu family has granted the court to invite Lang, and the envoy of the Hedong transfer is a friend of eight worships, how can he harbor lawbreakers in the other courtyard, and the people living in this backyard are all female dependents, which is really inconvenient to enter. I also hope that all the military marquis will not look at the face of the monk and look at the face of the Buddha, don't be surprised by the female dependents in the backyard, the military marquis has worked hard all the way. The villain must offer some wine money here to comfort the military marquis. ”
Liu Sanmin said as he took out a few banknotes with a face value of ten yuan from his cuffs, and several guards saw it and smiled: "It's really generous, since there is a transfer envoy behind it." You're so polite to us little characters, brothers, what do you call it? ”
"Hahaha, according to the scholars, this is called being attentive to nothing, and it is either a traitor or a thief."
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and search!"
Liu Sanmin took out dozens of banknotes in a hurry, thinking that he could impress a few soldiers, but he didn't want these people to be so tricky, which made him feel like he was lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot.
"Marquis. Ladies and gentlemen, even if you don't look at the face of my master, you have to take into account the face of the transfer envoy Xiang......"
"Don't fucking talk nonsense, we don't look at anyone's fucking face except for Scholar Yang's face. If you talk nonsense, believe it or not, Lao Tzu slashed you first. The guard who put the steel knife on Liu Sanmin's neck yelled at him, and his saliva sprayed Liu Sanmin's head and face.
The other three people didn't pay attention to him at all, picked up the knife and rushed to the backyard, at this time Liu Jin in the backyard turned his heart sideways, anyway, it was a knife to stretch out his head, and it was also a knife to shrink his head. He gritted his teeth and led dozens of people to greet him, and shouted: "It's really shameless, and I don't look at whose house this is, a few little thieves with an army even dare to come to the door to spread wild, come on, coax me out!" ”
When the three guards saw that dozens of men in strong suits were welcomed, and everyone was holding knives and sticks in their hands, they couldn't help but stop, and shouted again with reluctance: "We are on the orders of the scholar of the dynasty, Ning Guogong, and Yang Yiyang, the pacification envoy of Hedong, to search for lawbreakers, who dares to obstruct official business, which is like a rebellion, do you want to rebel?" ”
"You said that it was on the orders of Ning Guogong, but what is the evidence, if there is no evidence, who will believe you, can you get the evidence?"
A few guards really couldn't come up with any credentials, they were temporarily ordered to go out of the city to search for Zhang Erfa and the four people, where did they bring any credentials?
"You can't get it, can you? Come on, coax me out immediately, if these rebels who break into people's houses dare to play tricks again, they will beat me! ”
When Liu Jin and others rushed out, the three guards looked in from the second gate, but saw that the backyard was piled up with a hill-like thing, covered tightly with an oilcloth, although they couldn't see what was a good thing under the tarpaulin, but it was not far from the place where they met the convoy last night, remembering the things pulled by hundreds of carts last night, and then looking at the people in this yard with different looks, the three guards were more sure that the backyard must be greasy, and the heroes did not suffer, they quickly withdrew from the Liujia courtyard, and then the four of them guarded near the courtyard and sent a person back to report the news.
This is the news that Yang Yi received when he was drinking with Xiang Chaoran in Jinyang Building.
Yang Yi did not dispatch himself, but let his hundred guards and another fifty men and horses from Zhang Qi, a total of one hundred and fifty people, return to the Liujia Courtyard;
Liu Sanmin originally sent someone back to the city to report the situation to Liu Mingbing, but not long after the two people who returned to the city to report the news came out of the Liujia Courtyard, they were taken down by the four guards guarding outside.
As soon as one hundred and fifty people rushed to the courtyard of the Liu family, the front door and the back door were blocked, and then the door was directly broken, this time they got Yang Yi's instructions, and Zhang Qi's seal letter was on their bodies, where are there so many scruples, after rushing into the courtyard, they will put down first when they see people.
Liu Jin also had more than 200 people in his hands, and he knew that he would not escape the death penalty after the matter was revealed, so he ordered the 200 men to fight back.
But in broad daylight, fighting hard with the forbidden army, this is really a rebellion, their momentum is naturally much weaker, although the number is large, but it is difficult to defeat the forbidden army like a wolf and a tiger, only two cups of tea, the forbidden army will take Liu Jin and the others all;
After a search of the backyard, everyone couldn't help but gasp;
The backyard not only piled up a large amount of grain and grass materials, but also a large number of silver pillars, on which there are also the marks of the government;
What's even more unexpected is that there are a large number of prohibited weapons, including 200 divine arm bows and 3,000 grenades......)
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