Chapter 30: Suppressing Thieves in the Valley (Part 1)
"What's wrong? You don't look very good." Ouyang hung a homemade bath towel on his neck and ate with chopsticks: "Is it okay?"
"It's okay." Xiao Qing smiled with a tooth: "Young master, are you sure of the trial?"
"No." Ouyang said unintentionally: "You don't know my knowledge, you can be said to be a bunch of wacky things. At that time in Hangzhou, if Mingqing hadn't helped, let alone Jie Yuan, I would probably be ranked last among the people who failed the exam."
"If the young master is a fool, the capital is full of fools." Xiaoqing is telling the truth. Ouyang knows more things than she imagined. The most powerful thing is that he can invent entertainment tools: called poker. After playing with Xiaoqing several times, he became obsessed with Landlords. At night, he acted coquettishly and begged to play with Ouping and Ouyang. But what she strangely was that Ouyang could kill all sides when he was sleepy. He caught four bombs and bombed himself back to sleep. Xiaoqing dreamed several times that he stepped on Ouyang and held an eyebrow thorn in his hand and asked: Tell me, why did you take the fourth bomb? Ouyang begs for mercy in his dream and said: Female hero, I'm taking it for you. Xiaoqing thought about it, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"What's the situation?" Ouyang looked around and touched his face again. There was nothing wrong with it.
"No, no!" Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Young master, after dinner, can we continue to fight Landlord?"
"Still fighting? After half a month of fighting, aren't you tired of it?" Ouyang complained. He was just passing the time to create playing cards, but he didn't expect that this little girl would become addicted to playing. She was addicted to her and her level was not very good. In addition to losing, she still lost. Not to mention cheating, even if she didn't cheat, the dead girl would basically lose. That card skill was so stinking. Ouyang always felt that he was ravaging the young girl, and he even deliberately let the water go. This girl was still staring at the cards in her hand, concentrating on her mind, as if she was worried that if she didn't look at her, the cards would disappear.
"Anyway, what's the matter." Xiaoqing used the method of setting off.
As she thought, Ouyang immediately got goosebumps: "Okay, okay, okay. Please don't disgust me when you eat, okay? But... this thing is only for us to play privately and not leak out."
"Why?"
"People gambling is crazy enough. If you have such simple, convenient and cheap gambling tools, wouldn't that be even more crazy?"
Xiaoqing praised: "Young Master is worried about the world..."
Ouyang was ashamed: "I just don't want to poison the people." I can't bring advanced technology, and there is no need to bring a bunch of messy things. Where can I worry about the whole world?
That night, the three of them gathered together to fight the Landlord. Half an hour later, Xiaoqing's face was covered with turtles. After washing her face, Xiaoqing was slandered and wanted to continue. Ouyang gave Ouping four bombs, took four more, and Yizhuang beat Xiaoqing into a turtle full of face. Xiaoqing could only go back to the room to sleep angrily. She decided to continue the dream of ravaging Ouyang yesterday in her dream at night.
Yangping had to pass through a Shanggu County when he arrived in Bianliang. The three of them found that the atmosphere in this county was tense as soon as they entered the ground of Shanggu. Four knives at the intersection were checking each person who left the county, and even Ouyang, the person who entered the county, were investigated. After asking, Ouyang learned that a thief was hidden in Shanggu County. A few days before the incident, a thief named Feitian Divine Rat who was supposed to be escorted to the state government to execute suddenly broke into prison, killed two yamen runners in prison and escaped.
After discovering it, the township soldiers and yamen run away everywhere and blocked the intersections of the city. Since winter has arrived, it is impossible for the Flying God Rat to jump into the mountains and forests, so the yamen set up a net of heaven and earth in the upper valley to capture the thief. The Flying God Rat has great martial arts skills and is notorious. This incident happened near the capital, and local officials attached great importance to it.
Ouyang also learned that Zhan Ming, the headmaster of this county, was not an ordinary person. He had previously fought alone in the flying divine rat to capture him. However, because the three-day limit had passed, Zhan Ming was scolded by the county magistrate and gave him another three-day deadline. If he did not get the flying divine rat, he would be imprisoned for dereliction of duty.
As we walked in, almost everyone was talking about the flying god rat, saying that this person could fly over the eaves and walk around the walls and was invulnerable to swords and guns. Ouyang got off the horse and chatted with people all the way into the city, and he was also a little angry. It is hard to say how this flying god rat is doing, but it is a crime. He ransacked everywhere under the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor. There were no less than a hundred murders in his hands, and there were also charges of rape, killing, arson, etc. As soon as he escaped from prison, he robbed a family of people. The county government hanged a hundred taels of silver to capture it, but there was no news. The flying god rat seemed to have disappeared from the human world.
When Ouyang was a policeman, he had seen many bandits. He knew that these people had regarded one day as the last day and had no human nature. Even if they didn't meet, there was no reason not to help if they met now. If they were in trouble, Ouyang didn't believe it. He believed that he had martial arts. For example, the female thief in Xincheng had agility and quick movements. He believed that he would fall down with one move. According to his analysis, the Flying God Rat should not reach the level of the female thief. Otherwise, he would have been killed long ago, so why would he be trapped in the county?
"You guys close the doors and windows today." Ouyang in the inn ignored Xiaoqing's coquettish divine devil's magic and said, "I want to go out and have a look."
Ou Ping immediately said nervously: "Young Master, don't you want to get the flying divine rat, right?"
"I guess this person slept during the day and appeared at night."
"But you, Master, have bare hands, what if you are encountered by a thief?"
"I will shout for help." Ouyang smiled.
When Ouyang went out, Xiaoqing said anxiously: "Why don't you stop him?"
Ou Ping shook his head: "He is the young master, and I believe the young master will do it."
"Okay, you're so tired. I'm going to bed." Xiaoqing returned to the room angrily, changed into a set of clothes and slipped out.
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Just now, there were almost no pedestrians on the street, and there were only the village heroes who occasionally passed by. The yamen runners could not be sent out. The cross-track check and shift change at the intersection was already the limit. There was also the safety of the county officials and other factors. The people could only take care of themselves.
The literati Ouyang dressed up without any doubt in the patrol. It will be a provincial examination in March next year, and there will be many candidates passing by Shanggu County one after another. Moreover, the fugitive was a tall and strong man in his thirties, so it was impossible for Ouyang. The village chief just kindly reminded Ouyang to go back to the inn soon.
The fugitives hiding in the countryside are inferior. Because everyone in the countryside is familiar, it is difficult for many strangers to not be discovered. Those hiding in the wilderness are moderate because they are inconvenient to find food in life. The smartest ones are in the city. First, there is normal contact with strangers, second, there is a rich supply, third, there are still hostages when they are arrested, fourth, the terrain of the city is complex, unlike rural areas and barren mountains, which is flat at a glance.
Ouyang has outlined the biggest possibility, that is, the criminal is hiding in a family's home, taking hostages, forcing his relatives not to report him, or getting food for him. This may be Ouyang's possibility, that is, if he is a fugitive, he must choose this way to avoid the news.
If it is yourself, you must choose a store, so that you can know the movements of the officers and soldiers in the attic or the inner hall, and an open shop is the least suspicious place. Ouyang has imagined that the criminal has held a certain boss's wife or child hostage. The boss opens a business and needs to provide the criminal with food and drink. The constable comes to investigate and will only ask the boss if he has seen any suspicious people.
Chapter completed!