Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Jiang Shangxian cleared her throat and tried to take the initiative to ease the weird atmosphere. As a lady, she just pretended to believe this nonsense!

However, when she was working at the Dali Temple, she had seen Liu Dewei, the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, go to the cafeteria to eat. Every time he ate alone in silence with a serious face, and then left in a hurry. It seemed that this was a big deal.

Thinking of this, she nodded in agreement and mentioned Lai Lao Niang, who was the first to discover the piece of meat, encountered the murderer, and luckily saved her life in this case: "I heard that Lai Da's family is selling their house."

This matter was said by Old Lady Xia. Truth cannot be hidden. Everyone in Yong'anfang knew that the mother and son of the Lai family were taken away by the Dali Temple. Some neighbors in the neighborhood said that they were caught for stealing, while others suspected that they had picked up meat from the gutter and brought it home to eat.

The Dali Temple has not yet announced the case. Although the people have various speculations, nothing has been settled yet, so there is always room for imagination.

However, the mere fact that the neighbors were eating the meat they had fished out of the gutter had already caused an uproar in Yong'anfang. What kind of place is a gutter? The filth in it is usually avoided, let alone the meat fished out of it.

These days, she didn't even need to get close to them. As long as she saw the neighbors in Yong'anfang gathered together gossiping and retching, she knew that these people were talking about the Lai family!

According to Old Madam Xia, when this matter was first brought up, many people vomited. After the mother and son of the Lai family were released, many people came to the house to ask for an explanation, but Mother Lai was very strong and she fought them off through the door with her loud voice and foul language.

When she returned home that evening, Old Madam Xia was still muttering at the dinner table, "We live in the same neighborhood, and we see each other every day. How could she have offended so many people all of a sudden and gotten into such a quarrel? Could it be that she's not going to live here anymore?"

As a result, the next day I heard that the Lai family had found a real estate agent to sell their house and return home.

Cui Bianxu didn't want to waste any more words on the Lai family mother and son. He simply said, "They already know they're eating human flesh." Then he talked about what Jiang's mother was concerned about: "I'm afraid the compensation Madam Jiang wants is gone."

Jiang Shangxian had no hope for this. Even in modern times, telecom frauds were numerous and very few could be caught, let alone at this time. "Why would the Taoist priest help the thieves?"

She was caught for committing a crime, and she deceived the Dali Temple's Sizhi into committing fraud. She also tipped off someone else. She wrote her name backwards. They are not in the same group!

When Cui Bianxu mentioned Qingxuan, his expression was a little strange, and what he said made Jiang Shangxian blank for a moment: "Are you saying that Wu Sanniang is still alive?"

"She should be alive." Cui Bianxu said it uncertainly, but he always felt in his heart that she was still alive.

Wu Sanniang left such a deep impression on him that when he heard the news that she was dead, he didn't believe it and went to check the body. But when he couldn't find the body, he thought that this woman might have escaped.

Cui Bianxu was still too young and somewhat immature in the art of criminal justice. The methods he used to interrogate prisoners were nothing more than some cruel but not fatal tricks. However, Liu Dewei personally took charge of the case, and Qingxuan's entire body was tortured to pieces, leaving not a single piece of intact flesh or even hair.

The first thing he did after he was able to get up was to go to the Dali Temple prison to see Qingxuan, but when he saw Qingxuan, he really didn't recognize him and thought it was a pig that had begun to rot.

Qingxuan could no longer speak. It was difficult for him to even open his eyes. He relied on Ning Yuye's secret medicine to keep him alive while waiting for the trial by the three courts.

"Qingxuan said he was Yanyin's junior fellow apprentice?"

Jiang Shangxian felt a little confused: "Didn't Yan Yin have one leg chopped off? How did he get away?"

A crippled, lame man could actually run away? What were the people responsible for escorting this mission doing? Wu Sanniang was first disfigured and then fled for dead, Quchen was hacked to death on the spot, and Yanyin even had a leg chopped off, and yet he could still run?!

"Did someone rescue him?!"

Cui Bianxu shared the same idea. The yamen runners said that one night during their overnight stay, they all slept too deeply and woke up late the next day. When they hurriedly got up, they found Yan Yin missing. He suspected someone had drugged her: "This trip... has gone awry, and the yamen runners are afraid of being blamed by their superiors."

It is actually rare for a mission to escort prisoners to exile to conceal something that goes wrong. If they had not caused trouble one after another, they would not dare to conceal it. It was just that Yan Yin had no useful property and could not enter any city. He also lost a leg, so even if he ran away, he could not cause any trouble.

But Yanyin is a capable person. He can still struggle even with one leg missing. Qingxuan and Yanyin are from the same sect. Yanyin's talent is much stronger than Qingxuan, so Qingxuan has always behaved very obediently when he was in the sect.

Of course, more importantly, Qingxuan loves gambling. The reason for his poverty, in addition to his poor professional skills, is that all the money he earned from cheating and deceiving people went into the gambling house. Yan Yin knew that this junior brother was a man who was always short of money 365 days a year, so he found him, gave him some money, and asked him to go outside Chang'an City to find someone.

That person is Tanuki.

"Li Sheng?" How could someone be called that? Could it be a cat's son? Jiang Shangxian was fascinated by what he heard. So this was the Jianghu.

Cui Bianxu nodded slightly. If he was just angry when Qingxuan was mentioned, then when Lisheng was mentioned, he felt the wound on his waist begin to ache slightly. This person was really weird. "According to Qingxuan, Yanyin asked him to take a letter to Lisheng."

The credit note was sealed tightly with wax, and he didn't dare to peek. After all, he was just running errands, and it didn't matter that Chang'an was far away. He had never been to a gambling house in Chang'an, so he might as well take the money and go there to have some fun and see how his luck was.

Qingxuan, who was paid for the job, came to Chang'an with his luggage. At first, he thought he only needed to bring the letter, but after reading the letter, Li Sheng told him to find a place to stay and wait for a few days, and then go with him to find Yanyin after the New Year. Qingxuan was reluctant at first, but Li Sheng promised to give him some money, so Qingxuan immediately agreed.

It was originally a matter of making money in one go, but Qingxuan was not only itching to do something at the gambling table, but also on a daily basis. He found that Li Sheng had raised many black cats with extremely bad odors, and had to carry corpses from the graves in Shanghaofang every day to feed the cats. Then he began to wonder what his senior brother wanted that made him look for such a weirdo?