Qin Official

Heifu was walking in the narrow alley in Chaoyangli, with connected homes on both sides. People often came in and out along the way, either carrying buckets to fetch water or visiting neighbors. There was not much farm work to do in the winter. The house was almost repaired, and the people inside seemed much more relaxed.

I met many people along the way, and when they saw Hei Fu's red and crimson clothes, their expressions froze, and they quickly saluted him and said hello.

Heifu didn't ask any more questions. He kept a kind smile and nodded all the way to the inner door.

Although the villagers in the setting sun once left a bad impression on him, not everyone was like that, and the village community was generally harmonious and friendly. If no one instigates them, the villagers will be very simple. Their jealousy is also pure jealousy, and their respect and love are also pure respect and love. Their joy, anger, sorrow, and fear all come from their hearts and rarely hide it.

However, Heifu discovered that the people in Chaoyang were quite afraid of him, the pavilion chief. Just now, there was a four- or five-year-old maid child biting the nail of his thumb and curiously staring at the rope and dagger around his waist. His mother immediately scolded him and hurriedly pulled the child's hand to let him go. Don't look away!

When she passed Mr. Hei, the woman was also nonchalant, holding the child in her arms and apologizing repeatedly.

Heifu took the initiative to let them go first, and then shook his head helplessly: "Is it because my predecessor was too arrogant and gave people in Chaoyang a bad impression?"

In fact, even in later generations, ordinary people are a bit submissive when meeting the police. After all, they are violent law enforcement units. And Heifu is now the "Tiangu" of the Qin Dynasty, and what later generations call the "Eagle Dog of the Imperial Court". Qin's laws were strict. In the eyes of the people of the time, it was generally not a good thing if the pavilion chief came to visit, and it might lead to the destruction of the family.

Hei Fu came here to take someone.

After walking for a little while, he stopped outside a house in Chaoyanglidong.

This is a typical public house. The yard is not big, and there are two entrances. The gate is unlocked, and the walls are not built. It is only surrounded by a fence half a person's height. Through the fence, Hei Fu can still see what's inside. situation.

There was a tall pineapple tree planted in the yard. Now there were only a few dead leaves left. Hei Fu could not help but narrow his eyes. The anonymous letter was made of pineapple wood...

The sound of chirping came, and Heifu took a look and saw that there was a chicken coop on the left side of the tree. A woman in her twenties wearing a geisha skirt was holding a dustpan and spreading the rice bran and vegetable leaves in the yard with one hand. Let the chickens in the chicken coop come out to eat. When she fed those fluffy and tender yellow chicks, she laughed happily.

However, this peaceful moment was broken by an uninvited guest in red and crimson clothes outside the door...

When the woman raised her head, she happened to see Hei Fu standing in front of the door. She suddenly let out an exclamation. The dustpan in her hand accidentally fell to the ground, and the rice bran was scattered all over the ground!

The chickens immediately flapped their wings and swarmed over her, pecking desperately at her feet. Their sharp beaks even pecked at the woman's cloth shoes, but she remained indifferent. Her lips trembled slightly and she shouted into the house.

"Good...beloved man..."

"What's wrong!?"

The man in the house came out immediately when he heard his wife's exclamation. The man was more than seven feet tall and was wearing a thick winter coat. The fact that his family could afford to raise so many chickens showed that his family was well off. It's a pity that the male host looks sick, his face is thin, his voice is breathless, and he has a bit of a cough.

Seeing that he was holding a sharp knife in his right hand and something in his left hand, Heifu couldn't help but become alert and put his hand on the hilt of the sword.

At this time, the male host also saw Heifu. He saw the two-foot wooden slip in his hand, the rope around his waist, and the hand on the hilt of the sword. He was stunned on the spot.

Hei Fu nodded to him: "I am the head of Huyang Pavilion, and you are Quji, a public servant in Chaoyangli?"

"I just want to cure the disease." The man nodded and forced a smile: "I wonder what the pavilion chief came to see me for?"

Hei Fu glanced at the woman standing blankly by the chicken coop. It was not good to arrest her in front of her wife, so he said: "It's better to come out and talk."

The man seemed to understand something, and nodded with a pale face. He threw the knife in his right hand on the ground, approached his wife, stuffed the thing in his left hand into her hand, and then tenderly placed his hand on the woman. On the lower abdomen, he said softly:

"Be at home. I'll be back when I go."

Heifu noticed that it was a small wooden figure, mostly carved, with a nose and eyes, and the woman's abdomen was slightly bulging, as if she was pregnant...

He loosened his grip on the hilt of the sword.

The chief of the pavilion who ruined the family, and the official who destroyed the family.

At this moment, Heifu suddenly felt a trace of regret. He regretted not listening to Li Xian's words, burning the anonymous letter, and getting clean...

The current plot seems to be different from what he imagined. It seems that he no longer needs to be mysterious. The suspect has been basically identified, but the person who submitted the letter did not act like a buffoon and panicked in front of him.

He watched the man and his wife say goodbye reluctantly, and hesitated a little. If he turned around and left at this time, would it still be too late?

But when he turned around, Li Xian and Ji Ying had already appeared in the distance, rushing towards them.

That's too late.

At this point, it was too late for Hei Fu to stop. Not to mention that he boasted so much in front of everyone in the pavilion, he just said that in Qin's rules, it is one thing not to know the person who submitted the letter, but to deliberately condone it if he knew who it was. It's another story. If Mr. Hei is soft-hearted, he may not be able to keep the red turban on his head.

Hei Fu sighed secretly. At this time, the man had already left the yard, closed the door carefully, glanced at his wife again, and then gave Hei Fu a heavy bow!

"Do you know why I'm here?" Heifu tried hard to make his tone less cold.

"Know……"

The man smiled bitterly and stretched out his hand: "It was my fault. I shouldn't take any chances. Chief, just tie me up."

"No need."

The man's wife was still looking at him in tears in the fence. Hei Fu walked up to Qu Ji, patted his shoulder, and said loudly: "Don't be nervous, I just want to ask you a question in the pavilion! That's all!" "

Although reporting anonymously is a crime, the crime only carries a fine of three, which is equivalent to more than 4,000 yuan. It is not very serious. With the financial resources of this person, he should be able to afford it.

Of course, the premise is that the person made no malicious and false accusations in the letter...

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Two hours later, in the Huyang Pavilion, in front of Heifu, Li Xian and others, Gongshi Quji had finished explaining the matter...

Including how he saw Ji Ying going to Chaoyangli to deliver letters every three or two days, so he decided to find an opportunity to send letters anonymously. Including how he observed the style of the letters in the hands of Li Zheng and Tian Dian on the day of the twelfth lunar month, whittled two pieces of wooden tablets using yellow pear wood in the yard, and wrote the contents on them without writing their names...

"That's what happened. I was also at the house of the official who had a son. I hid the wooden slip in my arms and was waiting for an opportunity. When the mailman put the basket next to his bed to go to the toilet, I I followed him and saw that no one was paying attention, so I threw the letter in."

Qu Ji was not in good health. He caught a cold on the way here and coughed while talking. Heifu asked someone to put his winter coat on him, and asked Pu Zhang to heat a brazier and place it next to him to relieve the pain. He then told the whole story intermittently.

Heifu asked Li Xian to record his questioning process on a wooden tablet. He pointed to the letter on the case and asked: "Quji, you have worked so hard to do these things just to post an anonymous letter. Why are you doing this?" Do you want to do this? What is written in this letter? Who is involved? "

I don't know if it was because of his excitement that Qu Ji started coughing again. After taking a sip of the hot water handed over by Xiao Tao, he said with a wry smile: "Since the letter is in the hands of the pavilion chief, you can just open it and read it yourself. Why bother?" Do you want me to say it one more time?"

Seeking Robbery Dongmen Bao had already sent off the prisoners and returned from the countryside. As soon as he entered the door, he heard that Heifu had successfully arrested the person who submitted the letter. He couldn't help but be very excited. He always believed that one should not be too polite to suspects. Hearing this, he immediately Angry, he slapped the table and said, "You guy! How dare you speak so harshly!"

"Leopard! Don't scare him."

Heifu stopped the Dongmen Leopard, held the wooden tablet in his hand, held the knife in his left hand, and began to slowly cut the tightly knotted rope...

Except for Yu Liang, who was sent outside to guard the door, the five people in the room, Dongmen Bao, Li Xian, Ji Ying, Pu Zhang, and Xiao Tao, couldn't help but straighten their bodies, sit down and look around, curious about the contents of the letter.

Finally, Heifu cut the knot and slowly opened the wooden slips together. The upper slip was blank, while the lower slip was densely filled with black seal characters...

After a quick glance, Heifu's expression immediately changed.

"Quick!" He raised his head and ordered seriously: "Is what you reported true?"

Quji said weakly on the straw mat: "Every word is true, absolutely true..."

With a "click" sound, Heifu closed the slip, his mood was agitated and his eyes were bright!

He never expected that a small anonymous letter would be involved in such a major case!