The last Chiyou

Chapter 2The Theft

The next thing is simple, it is nothing more than prying open another door and pushing the door straight in.There was nothing in this person's luggage, the big boxes were full of books and some ink scrolls, other than that, his personal belongings and a bag of Tongbao, about a few hundred dollars.Instead, I found a heavy box inside, opened it under the lamp, and inside it were all kinds of gold, silver, jade, pearls and agates, with a strong fragrance and brilliant precious light. Fourth brother's piece of Chi Youlin was also properly wrapped in silk and placed here.

Yongjia swallowed his saliva, resisting the thought of taking Chi Youlin back to his fourth brother, and first picked a golden step for Xiuniang, which was covered with pearls and agates. The multicolored pearls and jade inlaid were very gorgeous. I changed into a crystal clear sapphire blue glass hairpin, and took a pair of gold rings inlaid with precious stones. The style is simple, but the design is exquisite, as a wedding gift for Si Ge and Xiu Niang.Then he rummaged through the box, took out a solid silver ring, picked out the inlaid purple gemstone and threw it away, put the ring in his mouth, sucked it like candy, and continued to search, finally found a pair The gold armbands and a pair of pure gold wreaths with a large cleat hanging on them, pick up the cleats and take a bite, the fragrance is soft and smooth.Yongjia felt extremely happy, threw away all the bits and pieces of jewels and emeralds that were inlaid or hung, threw them back into the box, took the rest of the things, and ran back home in a hurry. Ruhua's profiteer put it back on the bed properly, and even closed the door for him.

This is called the thief also has the way, Yongjia is proud, I am still very kind.

However, Liu Zhongwen didn't think so at all.

Of course, the ideas of the thief and the owner are always different.

The next day, Liu Zhongwen, who finally woke up, touched the big bag on his forehead, and silently looked at the open box on the desk. The jewels in the box were scattered all over the desk. There were a few things missing, not many, and some The expensive gemstones inlaid in the ornaments are still there, but the base is gone. The most valuable thing here is the Persian cat's eye, which was originally embedded in a necklace. The cat's eyes, which were countless times higher, remained.

This thief is very strange.

Fortunately, the cat's eyes were still there, Liu Zhongwen took out the handkerchief, wiped it clean carefully, wrapped it up and put it in his arms.The Liu family spent all their money this time, but they could only gather such a box of things. I don't know if it will catch the eyes of any powerful person, but the most proud Liu family has done a whole lot in Qinzhou, a remote place in the northwest. The descendants of the direct descendants of the five-and-a-half-year-old history, there is a way to look up and make a move.Other things are lost, but with the newly acquired piece of fire essence, it can be said that if this cat's eye handed down from the Han Dynasty is stolen, he will go bankrupt, cut himself up and sell meat I can't afford it.

But in any case, being stolen is always an unpleasant thing. No matter how broad-minded Liu Zhongwen is, he will inevitably put away the stone knife left by the stupid thief for later effect.

And Yongjia, who was holding Chi Youzhu all the way, even though he was still dressed tightly for this trip, covering his red scales and two rosy horns on his head, and he had to stay in the carriage and was not allowed to go out, but he touched his arms. With a lot of snacks, he was still extremely satisfied, and had long since left this knife that could be used as evidence in court behind him.

Dingyang Town belongs to Changshan County, Quzhou Prefecture, which is located in the east of Jiangnan Road. I don't understand the world, and it is difficult to survive independently in the future, so I took him out of the mountains to see the world, moved many times, and chose to settle down in such inconspicuous places, but Shiro's destination this time was Jiangzhou Prefecture in Jiangnan West Road. Adjacent to Poyang Lake, it is prosperous and prosperous.

Yongjia lay at the window and looked at the increasing number of passers-by on the avenue outside and the towering city wall that was already vaguely visible in the distance. He was a little confused when he was excited, and asked Shiro: "Why did you move to such a big city? There is no land in the city, you If you don’t know how to do business, can we all starve to death together?”

Shiro replied: "I'm approaching my day. Before I die, I have to take you to recognize the place where the majesty and your mother met back then. I won't see the majesty in the future. It's also a thought to go back here often." Son."

Yongjia had already heard how his father abducted a girl from a good family—the amazing and beautiful fourteenth mother of the Xie family in Chenjun—that is, the heroic deeds of his mother. Hearing this, he couldn't help curling his lips and said: "Alright. It also saves me from appearing ignorant about him when I go to rescue him in the future."

Silang helped his forehead silently, and couldn't help persuading him: "Since the majesty asked me to take you away, he saved his mind to tell you not to go back to Jiuli. Now there have been many generations, I'm afraid there are not many." People still remember the matter of Maharaja, so why do you rush over to let them remember?"

Yongjia was very dissatisfied: "My father was crushed at the bottom of the mountain. As a son, I can't just watch and do nothing. It turned out that there was a man named Chen Xiang who dug up a mountain to save his mother." What? He can do this kind of thing with such little strength, and of course I have no problem. I found my father early, just to ask him to find a way to help me grow up quickly. It took hundreds of years to grow up so little, It's killing people."

Shiro sighed: "You were born like this, I'm afraid the majesty doesn't know what's going on, otherwise I wouldn't have only given me 400 years of life. It stands to reason that the majesty's lineage knows it since it landed Talking and walking, hiding the rare horns on your body is just a matter of thought, after that, you will grow up at any time. You can become an adult in a few months, and you can live without eating or drinking for a few years. The time of 400 years is strong enough to run rampant in the world. But you are different. Even if you guard Chi Youzhu every day, you still grow extremely slowly. After 400 years, you will only grow to the size of an ordinary child of four years old. The lin horn is gone, but it is getting weaker day by day, so you have to rely on gold and stone to barely survive. In the past, Xiu Niang and I were covering you. When I die, you will still be like this. It is really difficult to deal with. No wonder you are troubled. "

Yong Jia said nonchalantly: "It's nothing, anyway, keep the beads, take them out and lick them every few days when no one is around, and I won't starve, so you and Xiu Niang can die in peace."

Xiu Niang was sitting silently in the corner of the car, as if closing her eyes to rest her mind, when she heard Yong Jia's words, she suddenly sat up, her face seemed to be frozen, she lifted the curtain and moved outside the car.

Yongjia blinked, and quietly asked Shiro: "Is she annoyed when she looks like this?"

Shiro smiled: "Don't worry, women are always inexplicable."

Yongjia agreed very much, and nodded meaningfully with Shiro, in exchange for two cold eyes from Xiuniang.

Jiangzhou is really a big city. From the perspective of a bumpkin like Yongjia, the prices are really frighteningly high. The most ordinary inn, the most ordinary house, plus three meals, cost 35 yuan a day.Yongjia had just hid Chi Youzhu, and he couldn't hold back the rare horns on his body for a while, so he could only hide in the car and watch Shiro handing out fragrant Tongbao one by one. He took out a lot of silver and found a silver shop to sell it, so that he could fill his pockets. Then he thought about it, with Shiro's temper, knowing the origin of all these gold and silver, he would definitely ask him to return all the gold and silver to that beautiful profiteer. This is a big deal inappropriate.

It's better to hurry up and eat it as a snack, destroy the corpse and wipe out the evidence.

After completing the formalities, Shiro came back to pay the fare, picked up his luggage, and carried Yongjia into the store with Xiuniang.Seeing that Yongjia was completely covered from head to toe, the shopkeeper looked suspiciously, Shiro explained: "The child caught a cold on the way, and he is still not well."

The owner of the shop was relieved, and smiled quickly: "It's not easy to get windy in spring. There are all good doctors in our Jiangzhou city. If you need introductions, just let me know. I'll ask someone to take you there."

Shiro also thanked him earnestly.

Yongjia huddled in Xiuniang's arms and muttered in a low voice: "Every time it's windy and cold, I don't know how to change it... Hiss! It hurts... Ugh"

Xiuniang withdrew her strength from pinching his buttocks, looked at him tenderly, and said softly: "My son is good."

Yongjia is sad and angry, women are the most annoying!

The strange appearance with long horns on his head and body covered with a lin is obviously not suitable for going out. Ever since he moved into the store, Yong Jia was forced to stay at home. He waited until the afternoon of the third day before finally seeing in the mirror that his lin horns had disappeared. After getting down, he happily grabbed Shiro and said, "Fourth Brother, Fourth Brother, I want to go out for a stroll!"

When he was excited, he didn't pay attention to his strength. Shiro was reading a book on the bed, and his arm was almost broken by him. He smiled and begged for mercy: "Let go, little ancestor, can't I take you out? It has to be said, no matter how greedy you are, you are not allowed to gnaw on other people's wheels!"

Yongjia rolled his eyes: "That happened hundreds of years ago, you still say it now, isn't it annoying?"

Wheels and other things, there is only a little bit of iron, and they are not good for eating. He smiled and thought, if you want to eat, you have to eat to your heart's content, and you have to be unaware, but this must not be true. Shiro said.

Zi Xiuniang is going to wash clothes in the backyard now, if she doesn't leave now, when will she wait?

He rolled his eyes and said again: "Fourth Brother, I wonder if I can go out by myself?"

Shiro frowned: "No, I'm worried about you going out by yourself."

Yong Jia reassured: "It's okay, it's okay, I will definitely not cause trouble, compared to those people outside, I am also an old man, even if something happens, I will let others, you just need to rest assured."

Shiro just shook his head, sat up and put on his shoes, obviously determined to take Yongjia along, Yongjia pushed him down again, and said with a smile: "fourth brother, now you are too weak to hold me So, why are you trying to be brave? You can take me to Hukou Town with peace of mind and enough strength to see what the place where my father and mother met in the past looks like, so I don’t need to bother you now.” After finishing speaking, they couldn’t help breaking up Pulled off the quilt, wrapped Shiro in a circle, and patted him kindly.

He was very strong, the quilt was rolled up very tightly, Shiro's death was approaching, he was already weak, and he couldn't break free for a while, watching Yongjia walking out with a smile, he only had time to warn: "Don't cause trouble!"

Yongjia turned his head and smiled and waved his hands: "Just don't worry!"

Shiro couldn't help feeling a deep sense of uneasiness in his heart.

This uneasiness lasted until Yongjia Quanxu Quanying came back, and the three of them went to Hukou Town and returned the next day, and it still didn't dissipate.When notices were posted everywhere in the city, saying that there were burglars in the city, warning the residents to close their doors at night and be careful about doors and windows, Shiro's uneasiness suddenly reached its peak.

He asked Yongjia: "The snitch mentioned in this notice is you! Whose house did you steal and eat again?"

Yongjia sternly asked: "How is that possible? When I have something to eat in my pocket, I will never steal it from others." After speaking, he subconsciously covered his sleeve pocket. There was a piece of gold half the size of a palm hidden in it, and he was not willing to eat it. When it's over, I just touch it out in no one's place and lick it to satisfy my gluttony.

Shiro sighed, and when he was about to say something more, Xiu Niang silently handed over a cup of tea, her warm fingers lightly brushed the back of Shiro's hand, Shiro looked at her, smiled slightly, and finally said nothing.

What Shiro was worried about was probably because Yongjia had the ability to be lawless, but he didn't have much time to control him, and he never worried about whether his family Yongjia would suffer.And Li Congjia, who was ordered to be in charge of the Jiangnan West Road, was inspecting the Jiangzhou area at this time. What bothered him was the black hat on his head.

Snitches are not scary, but uneducated and courageous ones are.

The rich are not scary, but the rich with background and status are scary.

It's not terrible to have a case at Ren, but it's the most terrible thing to be caught by the immediate superior after a case is made at Ren.

This time, he caught up with it all.

Lu Shaolian with background and status, Mr. Lu Xiaolang, the direct son of Fan Yang's Lu family, not to mention the huge family fortune, all the officials in the family have never been lower than the fifth rank!Such a rich man was met by snitches, and all the stolen things were Lu Xiaolang's treasures!The Snitch actually tore up many treasures that Mr. Lu Xiaolang regarded as eyeballs!

Mr. Lu Xiaolang was very angry, and Li Yushi was very frightened.

If Mr. Lu Xiaolang had an outburst directly, and even picked up a whip to beat him up, Li Yushi might not be so scared, but Mr. Xiaolang just wrote lightly: "I have only been in Jiangzhou for a few days. The ground here is really not flat, so I have to talk to my brother when I get home."

Li Yushi wanted to say, this place has been really peaceful for a long time, if you hadn't lived in Jiangzhou City arrogantly with more than a dozen carts of luggage, the snitches wouldn't be eyeing you.What did you lose, can I make it up for you?Can you not find your parents?Lu Dalang is the third-rank censor of the current dynasty, and he is the immediate boss of a mere eighth-rank supervisory censor. There is really no need to disturb his old man for such a small matter!

Of course, this cannot be said directly. Li Yushi graciously took over the job of the local magistrate of Jiangzhou, and sincerely promised Mr. Lu Xiaolang to solve the case within ten days. I hope Mr. Lu can rest assured.

Mr. Lu Xiaolang expressed his reluctance to accept it, so Li Yushi was even more troubled.

Li Yushi was troubled. The pressure on his subordinate censors was unavoidable, and they worked hard every day in the streets and alleys of the huge Jiangzhou City, looking for possible clues.

Naturally, Liu Fengji and Wang Xiping, who were also censors, could not stay out of the matter.However, Liu Fengji, who has always been a good son of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, seems to be calm and breezy at this time. His colleagues are so busy that they can't get their feet off the ground, but he and Wang Xiping sit at the head of the Xunyang Tower and enjoy tea. And the one seated at the same table was precisely that Lu Xiaolang, Lu Shaolian, who was said to be very annoyed and angry, and who was already unwilling to leave the door.

Lu Xiaolang is still young, with a white face and red lips, a shiny golden brocade robe, red boots and a white jade crown, and a few large green jade stones embedded in the scabbard of the sword in his waist. Oh, but such bright red and green colors don't look bad on him.

He ate a cup of tea slowly, and then smiled at Liu Fengji who was sitting with his back to the window: "I have heard Ziyu's name for a long time, and I just saw him today, and his style is really extraordinary."

Liu Feng said modestly: "Don't dare, my servant is the light of the firefly, and I dare not compete with Lord Xiaolang for glory."

Mr. Lu Xiaolang waved his hand: "Where is there, when Ziyu entered Chang'an on a white horse, at the poetry meeting held by Princess Yiyang, he wore a crown and a belt, and was graceful. The peerless appearance makes the world call him a fairy, although I didn't get to meet him at the right time, but just thinking about it, it is amazing enough."

Liu Fengji still needs to be more modest, and Lu Xiaolang, who has long been tired of pretending, has already sat down next to him, looked left, right, up, and down at him, and exclaimed: "It really looks good. I have always been curious. Yu Ding is also known for his beauty, the Guangling County King will praise so hard, what does he look like? Now that I can see you, this life will be worthwhile. You are such a beauty, and you come from the Liu family, why bother to go there Lao Shizi is going through the imperial examinations, and he has been made things difficult by villains every step of the way, if he obediently composes a few poems with Yi Yang, your official fortune will be guaranteed and money will flow in."

Liu Fengji smiled and said: "Then, why did Mr. Lu Xiaolang escape from Chang'an?"

Lu Shaolian was at a loss for words, and said slightly angrily: "The most annoying thing is you who are censors. Your eyes and ears are so sharp that you can't hide anything. For Shi Shilang's sake, I don't care about you. I will tell you this, don't Give me a rumor, I just had a good time with Yidu recently, and the concubine Xian started to talk about marriage with my family, but Yidu is only ten years old this year, and he is still a baby. The concubine Xian doesn't care, so I can't mess around with her. "

He clapped his hands, then smiled and said, "Don't talk about that, you handed me a note saying that you want to see me, but now that you see me, what do you say?"

Liu Fengji smiled, and Wang Xiping, who was sitting on the side, said, "Young Lord was thieves the day before yesterday and lost a lot of things. I was ordered to investigate this case. Some things are unclear, so please give me your advice."

When Lu Shaolian heard this, he was furious: "That little thief! I caught him and cut him to pieces! If he took it away properly, I wouldn't feel bad, but he just tore those treasures into pieces. Violence is unforgivable!"

Wang Xiping wiped his sweat silently, but Mr. Lu Xiaolang felt distressed not because of the lost things, but because that uneducated snitch didn't cherish these things well.

"Then, my lord, the list of lost items lists 27 items in total, and 22 of them are marked as damaged. I don't know which parts were taken away?"

Lu Shaolian replied angrily: "That little thief who doesn't open his eyes only takes gold and silverware, but if there are precious stones inlaid, he will leave all the precious stones on it to me, and steal the gold and silver. You must know that the inlay technology is better now. They were all lost, so he just dismantled them for me!!! The dismantling was so clean that it was better than the most experienced goldsmith, and there was no trace of gold or silver on the gems, it was like a dog licked it."

Over there, Yongjia sneezed loudly in his room.

The author has something to say: (These two sentences, "The fragrance spreads so deeply in the heart of heaven, is not known by ordinary plants and trees" come from Fang Xiaoru, a great master in the Ming Dynasty, and I plagiarized them.)

(The censor Lixing is the censor who practiced. In the Tang Dynasty, the censor platform was the highest supervision department, with a doctor censor as its head, and censor Zhongcheng as its deputy. There were Taiyuan, Dianyuan, and procuratorate under it.

There are six censors in the Taiyuan Court, who are in charge of prosecuting and impeaching all officials; they try cases specially ordered by the emperor, and they are divided into direct courts with Jishizhong from the Menxia Province and Zhongshu Sheren from the Zhongshu Province to accept unjust lawsuits. "Little Three Divisions".The servant Yushi also has a special person in charge of the daily chores of the Yushitai official office.Among the imperial censors, the servant censor has the highest status and the most important authority.

There are nine censors in the hall, who are in charge of the rituals of the court, picketing the rituals of the court meeting, and reporting non-violations along with the driver.

There are 15 supervisory censors in the procuratorate, and the junior ones are called "supervisory censor Lixing", who are in charge of supervising local officials and six departments of Shangshu province.In the Tang Dynasty, "Tao" was used as the supervision area. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the country was divided into ten, and it was increased to fifteen during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.Each Taoist sent a supervisory censor, who was later also called the patrol envoy, the observation envoy, and the inspector envoy.

The establishment and clear division of labor of the three courtyards of the Yushitai show that the censor supervision system in Chinese feudal society has matured.In order to ensure that the censors could independently exercise the power of impeachment, the Tang Dynasty changed the practice of selecting the censors by the head of the Yushitai, and selected the censors by the Ministry of Officials. Some censors were appointed by the emperor himself.In addition to having supervisory functions, censors also have certain judicial powers, which is a characteristic of China's censor supervision system.In this case, in addition to the small three divisions mentioned above, if there is a particularly important case, it can be tried jointly by Dali Temple Minister, Minister of the Criminal Ministry, and Yushi Zhongcheng, which is called the third division judge.

Liu Fengji and Wang Xiping were supervisors of the censors. According to the New Tang Book, there were 15 supervisors at that time, all of whom were under the eighth rank.In charge of inspecting all bureaucrats, patrolling prefectures and counties, prison litigation, military service, sacrificial sacrifices, camp operations, and Taifu cashiers all came to Yan;It belongs to an official who is not high in rank but has great power, and specializes in offending people. )

(The map was wrongly checked at first, and the place names and distribution maps of various roads in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong and Tianbao were used. In fact, by the reign of Dezong written in this article, it has become very powerful. It’s just floating clouds, I’m too lazy to change it.)