Chapter 4 Chapter 4: Kung Pao Loves Talents, Seeks Talents, Desires Desires, Taizun Treats Thieves, Sicks and Evil

It is said that when Lao Can came out of the Fufu Office, he left the sedan chair, walked around the street for a while, and lingered in the antique shop for a while.When I returned to the store in the evening, the shopkeeper rushed into the room to say "Congratulations", and the old man was at a loss as to what was going on. The shopkeeper said: "I just heard that Mr. Gao in the courtyard came to invite you personally. He said that Futai wanted to see you, so he went all the way into the yamen. You are really good luck! There is a master Li and a master Zhang in the upper room. They all went to see Futai with letters from the capital, but failed to see him three or five times. Occasionally, when they saw him back, they would lose their temper, curse at others, and send them to the county to be beaten every now and then. Like you always do Futaiyang sent out the copy master to come in and talk about it, how much face is it! Even if you don’t have an errand right away? Why don’t you congratulate the old man!” The old man said: “It’s nothing, you listen to their nonsense Mr. Gao is the doctor who healed his family. I said that there is a pearl spring in the Futai yamen, which may lead us to see it. So yesterday, Mr. Gao happened to be free and invited me to see the spring. There is Futai came to invite me!" The shopkeeper said: "I know, don't lie to me. When Mr. Gao was talking here, I heard his butler say that Futai went in to eat and walked past the door of Mr. Gao's room. , and shouted: "Hurry up and have dinner, go ask that Tiegong to come! Go late, I'm afraid he will go out, and I won't see you today." Lao Can smiled and said: "Don't believe their nonsense, there is no business." The shopkeeper said: "Don't worry, I won't ask you to borrow money."

I only heard shouts from outside: "Where is the shopkeeper?" The shopkeeper ran out in a hurry.I saw a man wearing a bright blue top, tugging flower feathers, a pair of ground tiger boots, a purple woolen jacket, and a sky blue mandarin jacket. He held a lantern in one hand and a pair of red name cards in the other. Shout: "Where is the shopkeeper?" The shopkeeper said: "Here, here! What's the matter with you?" The man said: "Do you have a Tie Lord here?" The shopkeeper said: "Yes, yes, here It's living in the wing, I'll lead you there."

The two walked in, and the shopkeeper pointed at the old man and said, "This is Master Tie." The man took a step forward, greeted him, raised the post in his hand, and said, "Gong Bao said, please greet Master Tie! Tonight, Master Tie was not able to stay in the yamen because he was invited to dinner by the academy, so he asked the kitchen to prepare a banquet quickly and asked to bring it over immediately. Gong Bao said, if you don’t like the food, please be more forgiving, Master Tie.” The man turned his head and said, "Bring up the banquet table." The two people behind carried a rectangular box with three openings, and lifted the lid. The first opening was a small bowl of saucers, and the second opening was a large bowl of bird's nest, shark's fin, etc. The third exhibition is a roasted piglet, a duck, and two plates of dim sum.After opening it, the man called: "Where's the shopkeeper?" At this time, the shopkeeper stood beside the waiter and the others, who had been staring blankly for a long time. Hearing the call, he hurriedly responded: "What's the matter?" Then send it to the kitchen." Lao Can hurriedly said, "I dare not be a Gong Bao who bothers me so much." While asking the man to sit and have tea in his room, the man repeatedly refused.When the old man gave way, the man entered the room and sat down on the next twig; if he was asked to go to the kang, he refused to die.

Lao Can took the teapot and poured him a bowl of tea.The man quickly stood up and asked An to thank him, because he said: "Listen to the payment from the official insurance, and quickly clean the courtyard of the South Study Room, and invite Master Tie to come in and live in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. If you have any errands in the future, just go to the Wu Xun's room and call, and you will be ready." Go and serve." The old man said: "How dare, how dare!" The man stood up, greeted him again, and said, "Farewell, I want to go back to the yamen to disappear, please give me a business card." The old man called the waiter to come, and gave him a pick. Four hundred coins in the box; on the one hand, I wrote a thank you post and sent the man out, but the man insisted repeatedly, but the old man still sent him out of the gate to see the man get on his horse.

When the old man came back from the door, the shopkeeper greeted him with a smile and said, "You still want to lie to me! Isn't Master Futai bringing you a banquet? I heard that it was Mr. He who was arrested by Wu Xun. He is a general. In the past two years, the guests who lived in my store, and Futai often brought banquets, but they were just ordinary banquets, and it would be fine if Ghosh came. Respect like this, I am the head here One time!" The old man said: "Don't worry about him, it doesn't matter whether it's ordinary or abnormal, but how do you sell this table?" The shopkeeper said: "Or give some best friends, or tonight Hurry up and write a post, invite some decent customers, and bring them to Daming Lake to eat tomorrow. The ones from Futai are much more honorable than those bought with gold." Lao Can said with a smile: "Since they are more honorable than those bought with gold, But someone wants to buy it? I'll sell him two handfuls of gold to pay back your rent." The shopkeeper said: "Don't worry, I'm not afraid of your old house's rent. Someone will develop it for you. Your boss If you don't believe me, try my words and see if it works!" The old man said: "Whatever he does, it's just that the food on the table tonight, in my opinion, should be transferred to you as a treat. I don't want to eat him, it's annoying panic."

The two of them talked for a while, but they still treated the old and disabled guests, so they invited all the residents of this shop to the open room of the upper room.The people who lived in the upper room, one surnamed Li and the other surnamed Zhang, were extremely arrogant.Seeing that Futai is so important today, I am trying to get in touch, thinking that I am asking for a recommendation.But when Lao Can borrowed his outside room to invite people from our shop, it was naturally the two of them who sat there, and they couldn't help but like it.So during this banquet, the old man was flattered to the point of discomfort.Very helpless, also had to perfunctory a few words.After a feast of wine, they all dispersed.

Unexpectedly, this piece of Li Ergong came to the wing room to thank him in person, and flattered him for half a day.The man surnamed Li said: "Brother, you can donate a fellow acquaintance. This year, you can donate one to pass the class. Next spring, there will be another big case. If you introduce it in autumn, you can get Jidong Taiwu Lindao. If you lose the office, you can make up for it. Zhongshi." The surname Zhang said: "Brother Li is the richest man in Tianjin. If you can take care of him and get two recommendations, Brother Li can borrow the money for donating to the palace. When I get a good job, I won't pay it back. It's too late." The old man said: "Thanks to the love of the two, the brothers finally have good luck. It's just that I don't have the ambition to go out of the mountain. If I want to go out in the future, I will be kind." The two tried to persuade them again, and they each returned Sleep in the room.

Lao Can thought in his heart: "I wanted to spend another two days in Panhuan. Looking at the situation, I'm afraid that unnecessary entanglement will become more and more tight. 'Thirty-six strategies, the best strategy is to walk'." He wrote a book that night. , asked Gao Shaoyin to thank Zhuang Gongbao for his friendship.Tian Fuming was about to settle the accounts of the store, hired a second-in-command car, and left for the city. Going out of the west gate of Jinan Mansion and going northward for eighteen miles, there is a town called Luokou.Before the Yellow River merged with the Daqing River, all the seventy-two springs in the city flowed into the river from here, so it was a very prosperous place.Since the merger of the Yellow River, although there are still cargo ships coming and going, after all, it is only one or two tenths, which is far away.When the old man arrived at Luokou, he hired a small boat and said that he would take it to Dongjiakou, a subordinate of Caozhou Prefecture, to disembark.Fortunately, today is the southeast wind, and the sails are hoisted up, and it goes with a "huhu".When the sun was about to set, we had already arrived at Qihe County, so we broke down and stayed.On the second day they lived in Pingyin, on the third day they lived in Shouzhang, and on the fourth day they arrived at Dongjiakou, where they stayed overnight on the boat.Tianming paid for the boat, moved his luggage and stayed in a store in Dongjiakou.

This Dongjiakou was originally a road from Caozhou Mansion to Daming Mansion, so there are quite a few car shops.This store is called Dong Erfang's old store.The shopkeeper's surname is Dong, he is over sixty years old, everyone calls him Old Dong.There is only one guy named Wang San.The old man lived in the store, and he was supposed to hire a car to go to Caozhou Mansion, but he wanted to inquire about Yu Xian's political achievements along the way, so he set off slowly to make an inspection. When there was a chenpai that day, the residents in the store, even the one who got up and retreated, all left.The shopkeeper cleans the house, the shopkeeper has finished writing the account, and sits idle at the door.Lao Can also sat down on the bench at the door, and said to the old Dong: "I heard that the adults in your house are very good at handling robbery cases. What's the situation?" He is an upright official, and he really tried his best in handling cases, but his hands were too hot, and he managed a few robbers at first, but later the robbers touched his temper, and Master Yu became a weapon for robbers instead."

The old man said: "How do you say this?" The old Dong said: "In the southwest corner of our place, there is a village called Yujiatun. There are more than 200 families in Yujiatun. There is a rich man in the village. His name was Yu Chaodong, and he gave birth to two sons and a daughter. Both sons married wives and raised two grandchildren. The daughter also left the court. The family lived a very comfortable life. , was robbed once by robbers. In fact, it was only some clothes and jewellery, worth only a few hundred dollars. This family reported the case, and after the three major people tried their best to seize it, they also captured two robbers who were their followers. Dude, the stolen goods are only a few cloth clothes. The robber's mind has gone to nowhere.

"Unexpectedly, because of this capture, the robber became enmity. In the spring of this year, the robber actually robbed a family in Fucheng. Lord Yu acted resolutely, and he didn't take a single person for a few days. After a few days, he robbed another family." A family. After snatching it, they set it on fire. Do you think Master Yu might follow? Naturally, they mobilized the cavalry and chased it down. "After the bandit snatched it, he went out of the city with a torch and a foreign gun in his hand. Who would dare to step forward to stop him? After leaving the east gate and looking northward for more than ten miles, the torch was extinguished. Master Yu adjusted the horse team, Walking to the street, the ground guard and the watchman reported the situation in detail. At that time, the horses chased them out of the city, and they saw the torches of the robbers in the distance. There was a gunshot. Master Yu heard it, how could he not be angry? He was brave enough, and he had twenty or thirty horses under his command, all of which were armed with foreign guns. It was the sound of gunfire. When it was almost dawn, it seemed that we were not far away from catching up. By then, we had arrived at Yujiatun. After passing Yujiatun and chasing further, there were no guns or fire. "Master Yu thought about it, and said: 'There is no need to chase forward, the robber must be in this village. The cavalry team under him sent eight people, from southeast to northwest, with two horses on each side, and no one was allowed to go out; they called up Dibao, Xiangyue and others. It was already dawn at this time. Master Yu himself led the cavalry up The people searched from house to house on foot from south to north. After searching for a long time, there were no traces of them. They searched from east to west, and just found this Yu Chaodong's house. They found three earthen guns and several more. A knife, a dozen poles. "Master Yu was furious, and said that the robber must be at his house. Sitting in the hall, he called the Dibao to ask, "What kind of family is this?" The Dibao replied, "This family is named Yu. The old man is called Yu Chaodong. Two sons: the eldest son is named Yu Xueshi, and the second son is named Yu Xueli, both of whom are donated supervisors." Master Yu immediately ordered the three fathers and sons of the Yu family to be brought up. You think, a countryman who met the mansion My lord came, and he was furious again, so there is no reason not to be afraid? In the living room, the father and son knelt down three times, already trembling rustlingly, but they could still talk there. "Master Yu said: 'You are so bold! Where did you hide the robber?' The old man was so frightened that he couldn't speak. It was his second son who had studied in Fucheng for two years and had seen a little bit of the world. A little more courageous, he knelt and straightened his waist, and said upwards: "The supervisor's family has always been a good citizen, and he has never dealt with robbers. How dare he hide robbers?" Master Yu said: "There is no collusion with robbers, this army Where did the device come from? Yu Xueli said: "Because after the robbery last year, robbers often came to the village, so I bought some poles and asked Tianhu and Changgong to come to protect the house in shifts."Because the robbers have foreign guns, there is no place to buy foreign guns in the country, and they dare not buy them, so they returned two or three guns from the bird hunters, and fired them twice at night to scare the robbers. "Master Wang shouted:" Nonsense!That's why good people dare to buy arms!Your house must be a robber! , turned around and called out: 'Come on! ’ The subordinates agreed in unison like thunder: ‘Hey! Master Yu said: "You have sent people to guard the front and back doors, and search for me earnestly!" Then the horsemen went to his house, searched from the upper room, the suitcases and cabinets, all the clothes were exhausted, and the lighter and more valuable jewelry were tucked into their waists.After searching for a long time, nothing illegal was found.Unexpectedly, after searching, in the northwest corner, in a room with two piles of broken agricultural equipment, a bundle was found. There were seven or eight pieces of clothes in it, and three or four of them were old silk.The horse soldiers took it to the hall and said, "I gave this burden in the back room where the things were piled up. It doesn't look like my own clothes. Please check it, sir." " "Master Yu looked at it, frowned, narrowed his eyes, and said: 'These clothes, I remember, seem to belong to the family that was stolen in the city the day before yesterday. Let's take them back to the yamen, and check them according to the lost list.'" Pointing to the clothes, he said to Yu's father and son, "Where did you say this clothes came from?" Yu's father and son peeped at each other, but they couldn't return. It was Yu Xueli who said, "I really don't know where this clothes came from." Master Yu So he stood up and distributed: "Leave twelve horsemen, and the local guard will take the father and son back to the city for a trial!" Then he went out. The followers pulled over the horses and rode on them, Take the rest of the people into the city. "Here, Yu's father and son cried with his family members. The twelve horsemen said: 'We have been running all night, and we are very hungry. Get us something to eat, and let's go! No one has a bad temper. I know, the later you go, the worse it will be.' Di Bao also went back in a panic and explained, packed his luggage, asked Yu's family to prepare a few cars, and everyone got in. It took more than two days before they entered the city. "The daughter-in-law of Yu Xueli here is a girl from Wu Juren in the city. She thought that her husband, father-in-law and elder brother-in-law had all been arrested, and she must not be loose. All of them have been arrested, and there is no one to take care of them in the city. I think, sister-in-law, you always take care of the family affairs; here I also hurried to the city to find my father to find a way. Do you think it is okay? His sister-in-law said: "Good, very good. I was thinking that there must be no one to take care of them in the city. The people in charge of the Zhuangzi are all rural old men, and they are just a few away. They are like fools in the city. Useful." Saying that, Wu Shi packed up, picked a double-set flying car, and rushed into the city. When he arrived in front of his father, he cried loudly. At this time, it was only one or more days, and there were three more than their father and son. It's still ten miles early. "Ms. Wu was crying and told his father about the catastrophe. When his father heard it, Wu Juren trembled all over, and tremblingly said: 'If you offend this bereaved star, things will go wrong. Go and have a look first!" Put on clothes quickly, and went to the government office to ask for an audience. Go up to the number room and go back, saying: "My lord said, now there is a robbery case, no matter who it is, you should not see it." Wu Juren agrees The master Xing Ming in the house has always been a good friend, so he went in to see the master and told all kinds of grievances. The master said: "This case is in the hands of others. It is absolutely fine. But this boss has never acted according to the law. If you can hand it over Come to the brother's study, and you'll be fine. I'm afraid if you don't hand it over, there's nothing you can do." "Wu Juren made several bows one after another, and asked him to go out. He rushed to the east gate and waited for his in-laws and son-in-law to come in. However, by the time of one bell of tea, the horsemen had arrived with the cart. Wu Juren rushed to him and saw him. The faces of the three of them were pale. Yu Chaodong looked at them, and only said, "My in-laws, save me", and the tears flowed down like a tide. "Just as Wu Juren was about to open his mouth, the horsemen beside him yelled: 'Your Excellency has been sitting in the hall waiting for a long time! You have already been urged by four or five horsemen, let's go quickly!' The car did not dare to stop. Wu Juren followed the car Walking, he said: "My family is relieved! The soup is in the fire, but I have a way, so I have to go." Then, I have arrived at the gate of the yamen. I saw many officials in the yamen coming out to urge: "Hurry up and take it to the hall. At that time, a few policemen came, locked the father and son with iron chains, and took them up. Fang knelt down, and Master Yu handed over the lost order, and said, "Do you have anything else to say?" The father and son Fang said "wronged", only to hear the hall slapped in shock, and shouted: "If you get the stolen goods now, you still call it wronged!"Stand him up!go! The left and right police dragged and dragged, and pulled it down. "I don't know what will happen next, let's listen to the next chapter to break it down.