Master Luo Cao

The two went to the world like black and white to seduce the soul, one left and one right put the old man in the middle and walked away, pushing and shoving to get into the carriage, Kong De repeatedly said: "How can the old man sit in the same carriage as the adults? This is really disrespectful." Fu Yunshu said "No problem" while winking at Kou Luoche.Kou Luoche got the order and waved the coachman back to drive the cart himself. This job is similar to tying meat tickets to catch fat sheep. He did it skillfully, and the carriage galloped away like an arrow leaving the string.The Kong family is in the west of the city, and the county government office is in the middle of the city. It was quite a distance away, but under Mr. Kou's speed, they arrived in a short time.

Ding, the gatekeeper of the Kong Family, saw a carriage with the official logo galloping towards him, and he rushed up to him from a distance. The driver sitting in front of the carriage was actually very handsome, with a leg in black boots dangling down, and he was full of smiles. Turning his head back and rushing inside, he said: "Master Fu, member Kong, we are here." Then, the coachman jumped out of the car, opened the curtain, and a handsome and elegant young man leaned out of the car and looked around. Said: "Mr. Confucius, your family is so grand."

Hearing this, the servant trembled and stared at the carriage tremblingly. After a short while, his master's voice came from inside, saying: "Your Excellency, I'm honored." When he got to the car, he was going to pretend to be a human bench to ask the magistrate to get off the car, but the magistrate smiled at himself and shook his head, then helped the driver's hand and jumped off.Immediately, the servant was caught by the majesty of the county magistrate, and he turned his head to look at him blankly, but suddenly felt a pain in his head. When he looked up, his master was glaring at him sinisterly, so he quickly lay down and got out of the car to meet him.

Kong De got off the car on his own foot, and immediately greeted Fu Yunshu with a smile on his face, "My lord, this way please."

Because the Confucius family shared the same surname as Confucius, even though they were separated by hundreds of thousands of miles, they still felt that they were the descendants of sages. The sandalwood was wafting, and the sound of the zither was melodious. Fu Yunshu smelled his nose itching, covered his nose with his sleeve and rubbed it again, and then held back, and praised insincerely: "Mr. thing."

This sentence obviously hit Kong De's heart, his old face was smiling like a chrysanthemum blooming in autumn, shining in the sun, and said: "Your Excellency has good eyesight, this sandalwood is specially brought from Nanyang by a friend of this old man. Rare, when sandalwood was scarce in the past, a box of incense the size of half a palm was comparable to a hundred taels of gold! Now it is not as good as it used to be, but the output is not much, fortunately, it only takes a little bit of it to fill a room with incense."

Fu Yunshu said: "This county doesn't know anything about spices, so I need to thank Confucius for his teaching."

"Mr. Fu, where is this?" Kong De said: "If you like it, I still have some here. Although the quantity is not much, it can still be safe this year. If you don't mind, I will take it for you."

Hearing this, Fu Yunshu's nose started to itch again, and he quickly declined, "Thank you, Member Kong, for your kindness. This county appreciates it." Glancing at Kou Luoche beside him, the two eyes met. Kou Luoche immediately understood, and said: " My lord, you have other important matters arranged this afternoon, so it is not advisable to delay too long."

Fu Yunshu said in embarrassment: "This..."

Kongde sneered in his heart, but he said with empathy: "My lord, the business is important. This old man will call all the male servants in the house, and your lord can choose."

Originally, it was just an excuse, but who knows that the servants of the Kong family are really strong and good-looking, and they are not so taller than those crooked melons and dates in the yamen. Fu Yunshu met these strong men. As soon as he lit up, he really began to look carefully, thinking about whether he should really catch a few strong men and go back.

Kou Luoche saw that the county magistrate had forgotten the important things of this trip, he sighed helplessly, called the butler of the Kong family who was standing by, and said, "Is there a roster?"

The steward of the Kong family glanced at Kong De, saw him nodding his head slightly, and said with a shy smile, "Yes, yes, I'll bring you the small one."

Kou Luoche took the roster and scanned it roughly. There were 37 people, and none of them was named Shen Jue.He secretly glanced at the seemingly honest Kong De who was standing aside, and he knew it well, but he had to sing a full set of operas, so he called out the names one by one, and after counting all the 37 people, he pretended to be surprised and said: "Hey. , Sir, why does this subordinate feel that something is wrong?"

Fu Yunshu secretly paid attention to a few people, thinking that the county government team in the future will finally look alike, he was very happy, when he suddenly heard Kou Luochao's words, he finally came to his senses, remembered what he was here for, and said hastily: "Uh... Mr. Kou thinks something is wrong?"

Kou Luoche shook the thin roster in his hand, and said: "It seems that there is one person missing." Turning his head to look at Kong De, he said: "Besides Confucius, someone sent a corpse to the Yamen a few days ago, and it was confirmed , is a man named Shen Jue, from Bodhi Town, and in front of him is the personal servant of your Master Kong, why is it not on the list?"

"Ah? Is there such a person beside Lun'er?" Kong De looked at the housekeeper blankly and asked, "Why do I have no impression?"

The housekeeper and Kong De also had a perfect understanding, and they acted on par with Kou and Fu. They were as proficient and natural as if they had been rehearsed dozens of times. There is such a person who works in the young master's yard, but he doesn't talk much, and rarely shows up in other yards, so you may not be familiar with him."

"What about the other person now?" Kong De pretended to be angry and said, "I don't know who is here? The magistrate wants to see him, why don't you tell him to get out!"

"I'm afraid it won't work, master," said the butler in embarrassment, "that kid ran away half a month ago."

"Run away?" Kong De said in surprise.

"Run away?" Fu Yunshu and Kou Luoche said in unison.

The butler said: "My lord, Shen Jue seems to be an old acquaintance with our young master. Our young master saw that he was pitiful and gave him a job. Who knew that he dared to contradict our young master by sticking his nose in the face?" , the young master didn’t punish him, but he ran away without a sound! The little one was planning to report to the police, but the young master said, ‘Forget it, let him go’, so he gave up, and it was half the time. I haven't seen him for a month." The two small pitch-black eyes rolled around, and he said in fear: "My lord said earlier...the corpse? Could it be... Could it be that the kid already..."

"That's right," Kou Luoche said, "Shen Jue is dead."

His voice was not low, and when it reached the ears of all the family members, it immediately caused a commotion, "What? Shen Jue is dead?" "How could he die? Isn't he... very much loved by the young master?" "But it seems I haven't seen him for a long time..."

"What are you arguing about?!" Kong De yelled, then looked at Fu Yunshu again, and smiled, but the previous politeness and flattery were completely gone in this smile, his face was torn off, and only a cold heart remained, and said: " It turns out that the county magistrate made a special trip here not to select the yamen servants, but for the death of Shen Jue?"

"What are you talking about?" Kou Luoche rushed ahead of Fu Yunshu and said with a casual smile: "They are all similar important matters. Why separate them if they can be handled together? Both the government servants and the murder case were selected. Isn’t it killing two birds with one stone?” Walking two steps toward Kongde, the two of them were almost stuck together, Kou Luoche was much taller than the old man, looked down at him from a high position, and said: “Member Kong, although my son is related to the murder case, No one wants to be in a relationship, but it's just a question, Yuanwai, wouldn't you be reluctant?"

"Since it's just a question, the old man has no reluctance." Kong De pulled the corner of his mouth coldly, turned his head and said to the housekeeper, "What are you doing in a daze, Mr. Fu is here in person, why don't you hurry up and call the young master?"

The housekeeper said in embarrassment: "Master, have you forgotten? Today is the day when the young master went to Yunjian Temple to clean up. He left after you left."

Kong De suddenly realized: "If you don't tell me, I will almost forget." He cupped his hands at Fu Yunshu, "I'm sorry, Mr. Fu, the tablet of the old dead wife is enshrined in the Yunjian Temple in the back mountain. Every day I would go to the temple to clean up, but today happened to be staggered."

Fu Yunshu twitched the corner of his mouth with a half-smile, and said, "This is really a coincidence."

"It's really unfortunate," Kou Luoche said, "but Member Kong is really relieved, you have such a wealth of money, how dare you let your son go out of the city alone?"

Kong De said: "Yunjian Temple is located in the back mountain, and you walk through the Jiuqu Corridor. You don't need to go through Jindiao Mountain. Mr. Kou is too worried."

"Mountains have no feet, but people can walk." Kou Luoche smiled softly, and said meaningfully: "The bandits in Qunyingzhai don't expect to sit and wait for the fat sheep to come to their door."

Hearing this, Kong De's face changed slightly, and just as he was about to speak, a servant rushed over and shouted loudly: "Master! Master! Something is wrong with Master!"

"Presumptuous! What's the point of being in such a panic?" Kong De shouted impatiently, "What's the big deal?"

The servant held a piece of paper in his hand, and handed it to Kongde tremblingly, "An arrow suddenly hit the gate, and it nailed this..."

Kongde suddenly felt something was wrong, so he quickly unfolded it. An ordinary piece of rice paper had a few large characters written on it like a flying dragon and a phoenix - Take 3000 taels to redeem your son's life.

There is also a red mark on the lower left corner, which is a soaring eagle.

Kong De's face turned gray immediately, and when he let go of his hand, the rice paper fell lightly to the ground.

Kou Luoqiao bent down to pick it up, scanned it casually, and recognized Qing Yanzi's handwriting. With a chuckle, he handed it over to Fu Yunshu. Well aware of their habit of tying up meat tickets, I just took a closer look and recognized them immediately, and said in a voiceless voice: "Qunyying Village?!"