The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is near the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather is bright and clear, and the osmanthus trees are fragrant.There are a lot of guests from the gold powder family, and it is common for rich families to add a few pieces of jewelry for the female relatives during the festival.Suddenly, an angry young man in the boa robe broke in with a sword in hand, followed by a dozen guards, who looked unkind.The shopkeeper hastened to meet him personally.The man said coldly: "Ask Ding Chu to come out."

The shopkeeper was stunned: "Dare to ask this high official...what do you want from him?"

A kid behind him said in a sharp voice, "If you tell him to come out, call him out. There's no such nonsense."

The shopkeeper said with a wry smile: "This...to tell the truth, he is no longer in our store."

"What?!" The squeaky voice grabbed the shopkeeper by the collar, "Where's the person?"

The shopkeeper said: "A few days ago, I heard that he stole things from others and was captured by Wucheng Bingmasi. Although he was released again...flies don't stare at seamless eggs. The villain sent him away."

The high-pitched voice was stunned: "Stealing things? Isn't your shop a very high salary? The accountant is also a thief?"

The shopkeeper said: "It is said that he stole the ancestral treasure that he wants to be promoted to be an official."

The boy in the boa robe sneered: "You have great ambition." He shook his hand and left.The shopkeeper bowed and saw them off behind him.

A group of people left the family of gold fans and went straight to the Wucheng Bingma Division.The door here is the most winky, seeing the aura from afar, you know it is the master who your master dare not provoke, while making people go in and call the commander Zhao Cheng, while nodding and bowing to meet him.The boy in the boa robe jumped off the horse on his back with a squeaky voice, without glancing at the door out of the corner of his eye, he strode in.Walking to the vestibule, Zhao Cheng had already greeted him, knelt down and kowtowed.The servant next to him blinked and knelt on the ground.

The man in the python robe stood still and did not ask them to get up.The squeaky voice stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Did you catch a man named Ding Chu a few days ago? Stealing someone's ancestral treasure?"

Zhao Cheng was stunned for a moment: "I was caught. The owner didn't find the stolen goods at their house. He felt that he had mistaken the person, so the officials let him go."

He scolded in a high-pitched voice: "Trash! What's the use of the imperial court supporting you!" Zhao Cheng bowed his head and dared not say anything.He asked again in a high-pitched voice, "Where does he live?" Zhao Cheng had a good memory, and hurriedly called the yamen servant who was going to arrest Ding Chu that day to come forward.He said in a sharp voice, "You lead the way." Then he retreated behind the boa-pao son.

The young man picked up his feet and walked away, and the yamen servant who led the way hurriedly followed.Zhao Cheng didn't dare to stand up until all these people left.Someone couldn't help asking: "Master, who is this?" Zhao Cheng pointed to the sky, and then stretched out three fingers.All the yamen servants shivered in unison.

To suppress the shock, Zhao Cheng brewed a pot of tea and rested.Just after feeling comfortable for a while, the yamen servant who was leading the way for Mr. Bogpao came back and hurriedly shouted: "My lord, that thief has escaped!"

Zhao Chenghao was so scared that he smashed the teacup: "Why did you run away!"

"We ran away on the day we let him go." The yamen servant said, "The master laughed so hard that I felt cold all over, and said that we should draw pictures and find this person within ten days."

Zhao Cheng's head buzzed, and his legs went limp.After a long while, he said, "Did the master say what he did?"

"I told you." The yamen servant said, "I said I suspected that he stole something very important."

Zhao Cheng shot the case: "That day he was let go! If he is caught again, he must be skinned alive."

"My lord, don't mess around!" The yamen servant hurriedly said, "The one said it, and he will deal with it himself."

Zhao Cheng stood up: "Hurry up! Hurry up and post pictures all over the city to find them!"

The yamen servant said with a bitter face: "Master, that master won't let everyone know about it, let us investigate secretly."

"What?!" Zhao Cheng was in a hurry, "We just have such an idea, if he hides in a corner, he can find out where he can find it secretly!"

The yamen servant snorted: "That's right! But how can he allow me to talk in front of the old man?"

Zhao Cheng walked around the house like an ant on a hot pot for more than a dozen circles. He couldn't think of a way out, so he stumbled and said, "Don't worry about that for now. Draw shadows and graphics, let them all go out and look for them!" The yamen servant ran away in response go out.

Not long after, the soldiers and horses in the five cities became empty yamen, and all the yamen servants were sent to wander around the streets. The people in Beijing were inexplicably panicked and didn't know what happened.

In the evening, Zhao Cheng returned home with a slumped face.His daughter-in-law, Mrs. He, hurriedly asked what difficulties she encountered.Zhao Cheng sighed and told what happened today.Nai collapsed on the chair and shook his head, "After a whole day, there is no news at all."

Mrs. He couldn't help with such matters, so he could only comfort him: "For so many years, the master has gone through ups and downs. Auspicious people have their own destiny." Zhao Cheng smiled wryly.What worries him is the ten-day deadline set by the master.

Three days later, He Shun, He's younger brother, came to visit his sister.Seeing my sister's sad face, I couldn't help asking.He complained: "Your honor is also unreasonable. Now your brother-in-law is asked to find a thief, and you are not allowed to post pictures and pictures all over the street, and you are only given ten days to solve the case. Today is the fourth day, and there is no idea at all." .”

He Shun didn't care about nobles and thieves, because he wanted to find his sister for money today, so he pretended to be concerned and asked, "Who is brother-in-law looking for?"

"My name is Ding Chu, and I don't know if it's his real name. I used to work as an accountant in the bank house of my family. A few days ago, someone accused him of stealing things, and your brother-in-law caught him in and locked him up for half a day. Who knows that person didn't find the stolen goods, and your brother-in-law Let him go. Yinlou heard about it, and he didn't dare to use him anymore, so he fired. Unexpectedly, after a few days, the nobleman came to him again. But since he was sent to prison, he moved out." He Shi He hummed, "If he has no ghosts in his heart, why is he in such a hurry to move?"

He Shun thought for a while and asked, "How old is this man? Does he have a family?"

He said: "God knows if there is a daughter-in-law in my hometown, but there is no one in Beijing. She looks about 30 years old, and I don't know how old she is. You wait, I will take a portrait and you will see." Then he went to the back room to find a portrait of Ding Chu. Pass it to his brother.

He Shun looked at the portrait and smiled: "A man of this age has no wife by his side, and is still working as a tent in a silver building. He must sleep in Liu Mianhua. Let my brother-in-law take this to the kiln and ask the kiln sister, and he will know .”

He's eyes lit up: "That's right. When your brother-in-law comes back, I'll tell him to go!"

By the way, He took the portrait in his bosom: "I also know a few fans, let's find out for my brother-in-law first." Mrs. He hastily praised him for being sensible.He Shunshun climbed up the pole and asked his sister for five taels of silver, saying that he must go to the brothel with nothing empty-handed.He gave him a few words of advice.

When Zhao Cheng came back in the evening, Mrs. He told him what his brother had said.Zhao Cheng sighed: "I have walked around the kiln, but no kiln sister recognizes him." He was a little disappointed.

Three more days passed, and it was the seventh day.Zhao Cheng got up early and found that he lost a lot of hair in anxiety, and he couldn't even eat breakfast, so he rushed to the Yamen.In the afternoon, He Shun hurried to his sister's house and shouted to Mrs. He: "Someone knows the whereabouts of that Ding!"

He was overjoyed: "Really?!" Immediately sent someone to the yamen to invite Zhao Cheng.

Not long after, Zhao Cheng came back.He Shun smiled and said, "Brother-in-law, I am a lucky general, aren't you?"

It turned out that a friend of his won a lot of money from gambling yesterday, and today he invited his brothers to drink.During the banquet, there was a singer who had a good appearance and a good mouth. A few idlers stayed with her to drink with her.The singer ate two extra glasses of wine and complained about her friendship.She said that she regarded him as a scholar and took care of him in every possible way; but the lover only missed the yellow-faced woman in her hometown.Gai Minger's old lady dumped him more sexually, are you afraid that you won't be able to find a man?All the idlers applauded in unison.

But at this moment, a servant from the Wucheng Bingma Division came in, and without saying anything, he stretched his neck to look around and left.He Shun remembered that his brother-in-law was going to help a nobleman catch a thief, and felt that the portrait was still in his arms, so he took it out and asked everyone present who had seen it.The singer's face changed drastically when he saw the portrait.He Shun asked her if she had seen this person before, she shook her head vigorously and said she didn't recognize him, her body trembling slightly.The whole audience could see that the singer was lying.He Shun was overjoyed and grabbed the girl for questioning; the singer only refused to speak to her death.He Shunnai troubled his brothers to take good care of her, so he rushed to his sister's house to report.

After Zhao Cheng listened, he hurriedly followed his brother-in-law to the place where they had a drink. Those few idlers were all there to sing the music.The singer's face was pale with fright, and Zhao Cheng threatened her a little, and she beckoned.It turned out that she saw that the person in the portrait was very similar to her lover.That person's surname is not Ding, but Zhao. He and Zhao Cheng belonged to the same family 500 years ago, and now they work as the accountant in a medicine store.Zhao Cheng asked him how long he had been in that pharmacy, and the singer said, "He's been there since I knew him, and it's been more than half a year."

Zhao Cheng heard that the person the master was looking for was different.If that's the case, the ten-day deadline is about to expire, so there must be a business, right?Then he rushed to the pharmacy according to the words of the singer.As soon as I entered the door, I saw the tent.The policeman who went to arrest Ding Chu that day shouted: "It's him! It's him!" The tent was puzzled, and came out from behind the counter: "Gentlemen, what's the matter?"

Zhao Cheng sized this person up a few times.Seeing that he was wearing a blue-gray cloth jacket, with a slight beard under his chin, and a scarf on his head, he seemed to be almost forty.People from a wealthy family say that Ding Chu is around thirty.But asked him his name, age, place of origin, and whether he had a family.The man said: "Little man Zhao Tu, 36 years old this year, from Ping'an Prefecture. He has a wife Xia in his hometown." He asked the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper said that he had been working here for almost two years.But he really looks exactly like Ding Chu.

Zhao Cheng looked at him and sneered twice: "It is obvious that the two of you are colluding in an attempt to fool me, how can I be fooled?" So he ordered the cashier and the two young men to be taken down, and the pharmacy here was temporarily sealed.Everyone shouted in unison.The nearby yamen servants escorted the shopkeeper back to the yamen of Wucheng Bingmasi, and Zhao Cheng personally escorted the accountant to the residence of His Highness the Third Highness.

His Highness the Third Highness has been on fire for the past few days.The subordinates suddenly spread gossip that Mrs. Ma was stealing people outside, and the rumor spread widely.He sent someone to investigate, and sure enough, a box of love poems was found in the Ma family courtyard.Naturally, Mrs. Ma did not admit it, and wrote with a pen that she didn't know what it was, let alone the accountant outside, and implored His Highness to find the person to find out the truth and return her innocence.The youngest hoped that Zhao Cheng would find that person, and hoped that he would not find him.He was suffering, but it happened that Zhao Cheng said that the thief had caught him.Then he let out a long sigh, was stunned for a while, and ordered Zhao Cheng to come in.

For a while, Zhao Cheng and Mr. accountant went to the study outside.The Third Highness felt a lot more relieved when he saw this person for the first time - he was much uglier than himself, and he was also older.He asked him his name, surname and origin, and the man answered them one by one.His Royal Highness frowned and looked at Zhao Cheng: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Chengdao: "It's really this person, I have seen it before. He is the accountant of the Jinfen Family."

The accountant said: "The villain has been working in Xia's pharmacy since he came to Beijing, and he has never heard of any gold powder family."

Zhao Chengdao: "It is obvious that the owner of the pharmacy is in the same gang as him, they are all thieves."

His Highness the Third Highness frowned: "You said you have been working in Xia's Pharmacy, do you have evidence?"

The accountant said: "Our store's accounts for the past two years have been done by villains. As the villain remembers, we made a total of 270 cents and 78 cents of silver in the past year. A batch of Korean ginseng has been brought in from the Shang Li Daguan, a total of [-] sticks, and the purchase price is..." He then carried the account book of Xia's drugstore.

His Highness waved his hand: "Wait a minute." Then he ordered people to go to their shop to pick up the booklet.

The tent said: "The real account book is in the cabinet where the astragalus is stored, and the cover is the Tao Te Ching." His Highness the Third Highness laughed dumbfoundedly.

Not long after the account book was brought, His Highness the Third Highness spread it out to look at it, and the accountant knelt down to recite the account book.From the beginning of the first month to the June, all the lines were matched.His Royal Highness wondered, "You actually remember it so clearly?"

The accountant said: "If it is not through the hands of the villain, the villain will not remember; if it is done by the villain, the villain will remember clearly."

His Highness the Third Highness had also seen the portrait, and the one in front of him who called himself Zhao Tu was too similar to the Ding Chu in the portrait; but he couldn't be the accountant at the Silver House of the Gold Fen Family and the Xia's Pharmacy at the same time.Let's listen to people from the Jinfen family say that Ding Chu is not yet 30 years old, but he is already 36 years old.

Just as he was thinking about it, someone from outside came to report: "General Sun Shaozu, the Commander of the Jingwei, asked to see him."

His Highness was shocked and delighted: "Really?! Hurry up!"

This Sun Shaozu is from the Datong Prefecture. His ancestors served as generals under the command of Jia Daishan, Duke of Xianrong.This person is obedient, never dared to offend King Yan's son, and could not win him over at all.Now that he actually came to the door, how could it not be a happy event?His Highness the Third Highness ordered Zhao Cheng, yamen servants, tents and others to be sent to the side room, and then ordered to make good tea.

I saw that Sun Shaozu was born with a burly appearance and a strong physique. He knelt down and kowtowed to the Third Highness.His Highness the Third Highness hurriedly helped him up with both hands, and invited him to sit again.Nai asked: "General Sun is a rare visitor, why did you come to see Xiao Wang?"

Sun Shaozu smiled wryly and said, "In order to accuse His Highness of the crime."

His Highness the Third Highness was delighted, and said in his mouth: "Oh? What is the general's crime?"

Sun Shaozu said: "The last general's wife Xia's natal family opened a medicine shop. It was a shop of its own duty. For some reason, it was sealed off by the soldiers and horses of the five cities. The neighbors near the left heard from the yamen servant that the accountant in the shop It was a thief who stole the most important property from His Highness's house. She scared the daughter-in-law half to death. She is a woman, she never walks outside the door, how would she know what accountant was hired in the shop? It was really not intentional. "

His Highness the Third Highness blurted out: "The co-authored Xia's pharmacy was actually opened by your daughter-in-law's family! What a coincidence!"