The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

In the downtown area of ​​Chang'an City, there is a big casino Fuyuntang hidden, which caused Xia Kui to kill corpses all over the ground.As soon as the official sent him, he was arrested without a fight.Zhu Wei ordered: "Take them all back to the Yamen first." He glanced at the old shopkeeper, "Take these people too."

The old man sat on the ground and begged: "My lord, we are victims."

Zhu Wei said: "You are indeed the victims of the Xia Kui murder case, and you are the perpetrators of the casino tax evasion case."

Liu Shu laughed and said, "Ten taxes and four taxes for casinos, so harsh? I've never heard of it."

Zhu Tong coughed lightly twice, and whispered: "The state of Lu's tax is five out of ten, and the state of Yan's tax is six out of ten." Liu Shu was taken aback.

Zhu Wei glanced at the two of them: "The high tax policy for casinos was originally proposed by the State of Lu. Prime Minister Liu Feng wanted to copy it, but there were too many obstacles, so he changed it to ten taxes and four."

Liu Shu wondered: "Why obstruct it? Casino money is ill-gotten gains, wouldn't it be good to charge more taxes?" Both the uncle and nephew of the Zhu family glanced at him without saying a word.Liu Shu said blankly, "I really don't know, I sincerely ask you two for advice."

King Qin also said: "I don't know about this at all! Why is someone obstructing Prime Minister Liu? Who is obstructing him?"

Zhu Tong pointed to the old shopkeeper: "Similar to their boss. Mr. Wang, even if the person who runs the casino is not a powerful person, he must be dependent on the powerful, otherwise he will definitely not be able to operate it."

King Qin and Liu Shu met each other's eyes, and they both emitted ignorant light.Xia Kui couldn't help but said: "Without the protection of an official, how can the casino ask for debts? There is no legal way to ask for debts. Killing, arson, kidnapping, and kidnapping are everywhere. It is difficult for the casino to pay back the debts." Is it life-threatening?"

King Qin suddenly took a deep breath: "This... is so?!"

Zhu Tong said: "There is no one who is not short of money. Instead of waiting to send money, it is better to send a capable servant to do this business by himself. What if someone chooses someone else to give it to you?" He paused, "In Chang'an City, There must be more than one Floating Cloud Hall. Mr. Wang can see how much money they make just by looking at the splendor of the Floating Cloud Hall. No wonder the tax has dropped sharply."

King Qin nodded slowly: "Qin's palace is not so luxurious." Nai turned around and entered the inner hall with his hands behind his back.There are calligraphy and paintings of celebrities hanging in the inner hall, and the ornaments in Duobaoge are also very elegant.In comparison, it is less extravagant, but more literary.

But at this moment, there was a "bang" sound from somewhere outside. It wasn't fire. Gunshots sounded familiar.Several people looked suspicious.Liu Shu couldn't be bothered to run the stairs, so he jumped off the balcony and said, "I'll go and have a look."

As soon as he went out the door, Liu Shu turned his head to look around. Several people raised a camera to take pictures of the dead body at the alley, and the voice just now was from the camera.Liu Shu quickly walked over.The man who was standing next to him looked up and shouted, "Mr. Liu?!"

Liu Shu took a closer look and found that it was Qiu Xingzheng who had a drink with him at the Spring Breeze Pavilion yesterday.Then he clasped his fists and said, "Mr. Qiu, you are..."

Qiu Xing was busy explaining: "I'm free today. The weather is very good, and I remembered seeing a picture book a while ago, which was issued by Beijing Zhonghua Bookstore. They sent people to take pictures everywhere, and then put them into picture books. They are all The scenery of people on the street is quite interesting. So I went to a photo studio and hired someone to take some photos on the streets of Chang’an as souvenirs. I don’t want to catch up with the murder.”

Liu Shu sized him up twice and said, "You seem like a frail scholar, but you are quite courageous."

Qiu Xingzheng asked, "Why is Mr. Liu here?"

Liu Shu said: "It happened when I was out shopping. You don't want to take pictures of this. An official came here just now and sent someone to call Wu Zuo. You photographers are hired. If Zuo Zuo finds out that there is any missing evidence, wouldn't you say no? Clear?" Qiu Xing hesitated positively, looking into the alley.Liu Shu said again, "A large group of yamen servants have arrived inside, and the murderer has been caught in a big iron lock. That man is also upright and admits it."

Qiu Xingzheng gritted his teeth: "Forget it." Nai cupped his hands and said, "Thank you for the reminder, Mr. Liu." He said again, "Aren't you going away?"

Liu Shu said: "Don't go. How lively! I am a guest of the prefect's master's house, no one dares to doubt me."

Qiu Xingzheng said with a dry smile, "That's true." Then he said goodbye and left.

Liu Shu took the trouble to personally send him out of the alley.After walking more than a dozen steps, Qiu Xing turned around and saw Liu Shu standing with arms folded, with a serious expression on his face, turned his head and continued walking.After Qiu Xingzheng disappeared, Liu Shufang returned to Fuyun Pavilion.Zhu Wei asked what was going on outside.Liu Shu smiled and said, "You Qin people are really courageous, but you just don't have common sense. Just now, idlers who watched the excitement were taking pictures of the corpses. I told them that this was a job done by Wu, and I drove them away."

Zhu Wei nodded, only then remembered that he hadn't called Wu Zuo yet.However, he didn't come with any manpower, so he borrowed a guard from King Qin to send a message on a fast horse.The rest of the guards escorted Xia Kui, the shopkeeper and seven or eight warriors in brocade clothes, and ordered the group of yamen servants to follow, and left two guards to guard the scene in case anyone came in to make trouble.The group then returned to the prefect's yamen in a mighty way.

King Qin was terrified when he saw so many corpses, he just held on, so he went to the back first to rest for a while.Liu Shu took the opportunity to whisper to Zhu Tong about Qiu Xingzheng taking pictures.Zhu Tong couldn't help laughing: "He explained so much to you? Did you want to take pictures on the street only after seeing the picture book of Zhonghua Book Company?"

"That's right." Liu Shu said, "I've also read that album, "Atlas of Chinese Marketplaces", it's really interesting."

Zhu Tong said: "You two don't know each other at all. If it's really a chance encounter, why explain it? He's afraid you might suspect that it wasn't a chance encounter."

Liu Shu was taken aback: "Then... did he go there on purpose?"

Zhu Tong said: "There is no photo studio on that street, they were invited from elsewhere." He thought for a while, then smiled, "It's interesting, I want to compete with us for business."

For a while, the king of Qin felt better and said that he could hear the trial.Zhu Wei went to the hall to ask questions, while Qin Wang Zhu Tong sat beside him.Zhu Wei ordered someone to bring Xia Kui, the shopkeeper and the group of warriors in brocade.Xia Kui has already changed out of the bloody clothes, looking black and strong, not as scary as before.Zhu Wei ordered him to speak first.

Xia Kui was originally a bodyguard master, and traveled all over the country with the bodyguard bureau.A few years ago, the bodyguard agency lost a big bodyguard, paid off, and closed down.Xia Kui lost his livelihood and worked odd jobs to survive.Last year, when he was doing odd jobs in a restaurant, he met a few idlers eating free food, and kicked them out.The owner of the restaurant is timid, afraid of being retaliated by others, he dare not keep Xia Kui to work again.Coincidentally, a diner fell in love with his martial arts, and rushed to call Xia Kui at the entrance of the restaurant, saying that he was willing to introduce him to a job as a nursing home; Xia Kui thanked him—it was at Fuyun Hall.

Xia Kui has real skills, he has fought bandits and water bandits while running darts, and he has killed people who have seen blood.Moreover, his temperament is restrained and unassuming, and he doesn't like to compete for the limelight. All his colleagues in charge like him.Floating Cloud Hall's salary is rich and profitable, and after a few months, Xia Kui saved a few pennies, sold a small house, and considered he had a home.

In the evening more than ten days ago, when Xia Kui was about to go to work, the old shopkeeper called him over and said, "You used to be a bodyguard, didn't you?"

Xia Kui said: "Yes, a dart who has been running for more than ten years."

The shopkeeper said: "The boss has a job and wants you to do it."

Xia Kui hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "But according to my master's orders."

The shopkeeper said: "The boss has a truckload of important goods that must be brought from Xianyang immediately. The secrets of the matter must not be leaked. I'm afraid it's too late to find bodyguards, so the boss wants my guy to plan a trip. You go and ask, those brothers are willing to go with you. Yes, gather around ten people. The goods have arrived safely, and the owner will reward you a lot." Xia Kui was provided by Fuyuntang for food and clothing, eager to repay the owner, and agreed repeatedly.

So I found the nurses and told them about this matter.Just as Xia Kui finished speaking, several brothers jumped up and said, "I'll go, I'll go!" Counting the number of people, there were as many as eleven who wanted to go.Xia Kui recalled that the shopkeeper said "get together ten people", and the eleven plus himself made exactly twelve.Xianyang is very close to Chang'an, these brothers are all skilled in martial arts, and a mere truckload of goods is enough.He led the brothers to see the shopkeeper.The shopkeeper secretly wrote down an address and told them to leave immediately.

The road from Chang'an to Xianyang had already been built, and Xia Kui led his brothers to the moon, and it only took more than an hour to arrive at the pick-up place.There was a brothel, Xia Kui and others entered the backyard, and someone prepared the carriage early.Xia Kui saw that it was a shock-absorbing spring four-wheeled carriage made in Taiwan. There were four healthy horses in front of the carriage, and he couldn't help but secretly guess what was in the carriage.The man urged: "Hurry up, the sooner the better, Mr. Bi is waiting for urgent use." Xia Kui thought to himself: What does he care about, anyway, we just take it back and get the reward.So he drove the carriage himself and led the people back to Chang'an.

I thought it was an ordinary job, but when I left Xianyang City, I encountered a lot of disasters.Even though Xia Kui was skilled in martial arts, it took a lot of effort to beat them back.When he ran over [-]% of the road, someone came up from behind; Xia Kui drove away the thieves again with his ability.The gate of Chang'an City was kept open all night, and the guards entered the city smoothly, and escorted the carriage to Master Bi's mansion.

They had just stopped their horses when a door ran out and asked, "But they are from Xianyang?"

Xia Kui said, "Exactly."

The door opened and let them just drive the carriage in.When I entered the door, I saw a steward leading five or six servants waiting.The steward lifted the curtain of the car and took a look and said, "You have worked hard. It's very cold, you should eat some food and wine before leaving." Then he ordered someone to lead them to the kitchen.

All the nursing homes toasted Xia Kui one after another, saying that they never thought that Brother Xia had such abilities.If you make such a great contribution today, you will have a bright future in the future.Xia Kui himself was also very happy, so he drank two more jars of wine, and was sent home when he was so drunk.

Before dawn the next day, Xia Kui was still in a dream, when someone knocked on the door.He stared out in a daze, shouting "Who is it early in the morning".Just as he pulled the latch, someone outside pushed the door open violently.Before Xia Kui could see clearly what was going on, an iron lock came to him.Xia Kui woke up with a start, and opened his eyes to see: the gate of his house was densely packed with government officials, and they held more than a dozen torches as bright as day.He hurriedly asked: "Everyone, what happened?"

A catcher sneered and said, "Don't ask what happened. You committed a lawsuit." Then he shouted, "Search!" Several yamen servants rushed into his house.Xia Kui wanted to stop him, but his neck was locked, he didn't have a weapon in his hand, and he was hungover, so his brain hurts badly.Kong has a whole body of ability that he can't use, and he is helpless.

Hearing the sound of tinkling, tinkling, and rummaging, the yamen servant shouted, "Yes, yes! Sure enough, it's here!" The man ran out with an object, "Under his bedding!"

Xia Kui took a closer look, and found that it was half a jade pendant!He immediately shouted: "I don't recognize this thing!"

The catcher quickly said: "You will know whether you recognize it or not in the court." Then he ordered "Take it away!"

After dawn, the magistrate Mr. Chen ascended the court to interrogate Xia Kui.Xia Kui only said that he didn't know everything. "The grassroots have already figured it out, they must be framed."

Mr. Chen snorted coldly: "You won't shed tears when you see the coffin." Nai shouted, "Bring witnesses to court!" The yamen servants shouted "Mighty."

I saw the sound of footsteps in disorder, and a group of witnesses came up, they were the nurses who went to Xianyang to pick up the goods with Xia Kui.Xia Kui was shocked.Only then did he realize that the pit was probably not dug by outsiders, but by his own people.

Mr. Chen stroked his beard: "You haven't really recruited it." All the Nursing Houses said it one by one.

They said that their boss, Mr. Bi, was going to hold an important banquet at noon today, and when the matter came to an end, he realized that there were not enough beauties last night, so he sent twelve of them to Xianyang overnight to pick up an oiran lady.That oiran is extremely wavy and watery.Because Xia Kui was driving the carriage, he hooked up with him in the carriage.Xia Kui couldn't bear it, so he begged his brothers to stop halfway, and then he and the oiran got into a turmoil on the carriage.But he can toss about, and it took a long time to do it.The caregiver who had something good to do approached the carriage and overheard the conversation between the two of them inside.The oiran only said that he fell in love with him, and broke the jade pendant in two.She kept half of it for herself and asked Xia Kui to take the half as a token.Xia Kui swears that he will redeem the oiran's body, and the two will be husband and wife for a long time.The oiran was in a turbulent mood, and hooked up with Xia Kui again.After a long time, Xia Kui got out of the carriage refreshed and shouted: "Let's go——" Then everyone started on the road again.

Xia Kui is a person who has experienced things, so what do you not understand after hearing this?He just stared at them without saying a word.Mr. Chen asked: "Xia Kui, do you have something to say?"

Xia Kui said: "It's all framed. The grass people don't even know what goods are in the car. Since the adults arrested the grass people and came here overnight, did something happen to the oiran lady?"

Mr. Chen proudly said: "So, you have admitted that the lady in the car is Hua Kui?"

"Isn't it the oiran lady they said?"

"Crack!" Master Chen slapped the gavel fiercely, "There are all witnesses and material evidence, and you dare to quibble!"

Xia Kui said: "Even if you have an affair with a fan, why do you have to go to jail?"

Master Chen sneered and said, "That woman is dead, don't you know?"

Xia Kui said: "The grass people have already guessed that something might happen to the woman, but they really have nothing to do with the grass people. There must be a reason for these people to frame the grass people. I hope you will find out."

All the guards swore that what they said was true, but Xia Kui naturally denied it.After arguing for a long time, Lord Chen ordered Xia Kui to be escorted back to the cell for the time being.That night, two jailers came in and put a set of iron locks on Xia Kui's siblings.Xia Kui was in Nahan when he saw two jailers coming from behind, carrying a big bulging cloth bag.Xia Kui couldn't help but feel bad: this thing is probably the "homemade bag" used to kill people in prison.