Master Luo Cao

Although it was just a thin piece of paper without one or two bloody fingers attached, no one dared to suspect that it was written by Qunying Village, because those who had doubted it all paid for their suspicions. Painful price.Kong De's lips trembled uncontrollably, his eyes swept across the faces beside him in fear, and finally stopped on Fu Yunshu's face. Said: "I beg the county magistrate to save my child!"

Ordinary kidnapping robbers often threaten their families with their lives not to report to the officials, but Qunyingzhai has never asked for this. You don't want to report to the officials, anyway, the officials can't beat us.Fu Yunshu's heart was full of turmoil, he pursed his lips tightly, and said in a deep voice after a while: "Mr. Kong, you get up first."

Kong De suddenly raised his head, stared at Fu Yunshu with his scarlet eyes, and said, "Master Fu! I only have this one son, and he is suffering in that bandit's den right now. You can't do nothing, sir!"

"Mr. Kong Lun is a citizen of our court. If that is the case, as a parent official, there is no reason for this county not to save him." Fu Yunshu stretched out his hand and forced Kong De, who was poked on the ground, to be lifted up. , Confucius, you better get up first and then talk."

Two cups of tea were placed on the table, and the lid of the cup was removed, and a white mist rose up.Fu Yunshu held the cup, but he didn't put it to his mouth, he just asked: "Besides Confucius, have you ever made enemies with the bandits in Qunyingzhai?"

Kong De seemed to have aged decades in an instant, and said lazily: "The old man traveled all over the world to make a living. He offended countless people. How can I remember clearly?"

Kou Luoche was quite gloating at the side: "So you deserve what Confucius is going through now?"

Kong De looked at Kou Luoche with unkind eyes, and Kou Luoche responded with a smile, and the eyes of the two turned into invisible swords, facing each other in the air.Fu Yunshu glanced at the two of them lightly, and said, "Can Member Wai get these 3000 taels?"

Kong De said: "Although 3000 taels is a large amount, I, the Kong family, have pieced it together and can still afford it."

Kou Luoche said: "As far as I know, the rules of Qunying Village is to send the money to the foot of Jindiao Mountain before noon on the third day after receiving the letter. Release the hostages."

Fu Yunshu said: "Since this is the case, Member Kong must make up the money within these three days."

Kong De speculatively said: "Master Fu, do you mean that you want the old man to spend money and eliminate disasters?"

He didn't say the next sentence, but Fu Yunshu had already heard the meaning - "Then what's the use of your government?" The year is not too late, saving people is the most important thing, first bring Mr. Kong Lun back safely, and when the time comes in the future, it will not be too late to settle the accounts carefully." After finishing speaking, he stood up, took two steps towards the outside, and suddenly turned around, Said: "After Member Kong collected enough money, he ordered people to report it to the county, and the county sent people to send the ransom to the foot of Jindiao Mountain, and then sent back all the money of Master Kong."

Kong De said coldly: "How dare I bother Mr. Fu with such trivial matters?"

"Human life is at stake, how can it be considered a trivial matter?" Fu Yunshu smiled lightly, and said: "Although there is no such precedent, the bandits are bandits after all, and there is no guarantee that they will not go back on their promises. What should I do if I tie you up together by doing nonsense?" After a pause, he continued: "Or, Member Wai is worried that there are official hamsters in my Jiuhe County Yamen, who will eat up all your silver. ?”

Kong De's expression froze, and he said after a moment: "I don't dare."

"Then it's settled." Fu Yunshu beckoned, and Kou Luoche immediately followed him, stood beside him, and said in a low voice, "My lord, are you leaving now?"

Fu Yunshu said in a very soft voice: "It's been so long, Wang Xiaozhu should have finished his work, why don't you stay here to sing with this old man?" Lang Sheng said to Kong De: "Thank you for the hospitality today, the county has other important matters. Don't bother me any more, if something happens in Qunying Village, Member Kong must report it to the yamen immediately."

"Of order." Kong De bowed deeply, "Send off my lord."

When Kou Luoche and Fu Yunshu walked out of Kong's house, they saw a person squatting in front of the carriage. Fu Yunshu stepped forward and said, "Wang Xiaozhu."

Wang Xiaozhu jumped up immediately, "My lord!"

Fu Yunshu asked: "Is the matter settled?"

Wang Xiaozhu looked at Kou Luoche in confusion, and asked, "Mr. Kou, have you told Master Fu about this?"

Kou Luoche shook his head lightly, then asked Fu Yunshu: "How do you know?"

"I saw you two muttering something together," Fu Yunshu blinked his left eye at Kou Luoche triumphantly, "Guess!"

The appearance of the little county magistrate reminded Kou Luoche of Wangcai raised in the stockade. Every time he came back with a pheasant and a hare in his mouth, he would run to squat in front of him, sticking out his tongue, waiting for him to encourage him to rub its head. The big fluffy tail is shaking and flying.Kou Luoche habitually itched his palms. If it wasn't because of Wang Xiaozhu's presence, his hand would have moved to Fu Yunshu's head involuntarily, and the thief's hand moved to his nose instead, rubbing it. Kou Luoche praised him with a smile ,"so smart."

If he had a tail, Fu Yunshu thought to himself, at this moment, he might not be able to control his tail.He coughed in disguise, turned to Wang Xiaozhu, and asked, "Have you gained anything?"

Wang Xiaozhu nodded sharply, "Yes!"

Kou Luoche said: "We'll talk about it when we go back."

Fu Yunshu got into the carriage first, and Wang Xiaozhu also wanted to get in, but Kou Luoche, who followed closely behind, grabbed his belt and pushed it out, "Go to the carriage!"

The car curtain fell, separating the world.The two were silent for a moment, Kou Luoche said: "What is Brother Fu's plan for this matter?"

Fu Yunshu asked: "What matter?"

Kou Luoche said: "It seems that there are many things, but actually counting with fingers, there is only one thing in total."

"The so-called body is not afraid of the shadow obliquely." Fu Yunshu leaned on the cushion placed on the carriage, and said, "The Confucius family obstructed us from seeing Kong Lun, so we have to make people suspicious."

Kou Luoche said: "It's just that if Shen Jue's death is really related to Kong Lun, they don't have to cover it up like this. As long as they are in collusion, we have no evidence, and we can't detect anything. Instead, we will stop them from seeing it, so that people will be aroused." suspicion."

"I can't figure it out." Fu Yunshu murmured, propping his face with his left hand, and suddenly turned his eyes, looked at Kou Luoche and asked, "Is it possible that the letter from Qunying Village just now was also forged by the Kong family?" What? After all, Kong De only said that Kong Lun was cultivating in the back mountain. If I really insisted on going, I could still catch him. But if he falls into the hands of Qunying Village, he will naturally not be able to stand trial."

This incident happened suddenly, even as the leader, Kou Luoche was not very clear at the moment, he thought about it and said, "I don't think so."

Fu Yunshu asked: "Brother Kou, why do you think so?"

Kou Luoche said: "I've heard something about Qunying Village. When this village was just established, many bandits from other hills used the name of Qunying Village to do bad things. However, all of them were thrown on Qunying Village. The owner of the village, Hai Dongqing, was so angry that he found an opportunity to clean them up one by one, so that in the huge Jiangbei Mansion, only this family of bandits was left. If the Kong family dared to call Qunyingzhai is a scapegoat, or if it is not known to the public, once it gets to the ears of the bandits, let his family have a great fortune, I'm afraid it will be bad luck, Kong De dare not."

"According to what you said, Kong Lun was really kidnapped by bandits?" Fu Yunshu frowned, "He went to the back mountain and walked through the Jiuqu corridor. How could he be kidnapped?"

"Mountains don't have legs, but bandits do." Kou Luoche said with a smile, "Maybe he ate too much in the morning, so he went for a walk in Jiuqu Corridor, met Mr. Kong Jiagui, and tied him up."

In his words, he secretly laughed at Fu Yunshu, who ate a lot in the morning, and Fu Yunshu gave him an annoyed look.

Kou Luoche suddenly said: "The county lord really intends to ask Kong De to pay a ransom to save people?"

Fu Yunshu said: "Otherwise?"

Kou Luoche said: "Then watch the bandits take the money away?"

Fu Yunshu said: "Even if the bandits don't take it away, the money won't belong to me."

Kou Luoqi stopped laughing, and quietly looked at Fu Yunshu with a calm face. The curtains of the car shook, and a little bit of sunlight leaked in from time to time, falling on the corners of Fu Yunshu's brows and eyes.Kou Luoche said: "I thought you would take this opportunity to attack Eagle's Mouth Cliff."

"Brother Kou, Haidongqing is the one who kidnapped the hostages, not us." Fu Yunshu laughed dumbly. "Now the county has no soldiers and no money. What are we going to use to attack the mountains? Qing is tied up in the county government prison, maybe I will try to make the bandits in Qunyingzhai raise their hands and surrender." As he spoke, the smile on his face gradually cooled down, and a faint chill appeared, and he said: "Say If the time has not come, in fact, it is always just my incompetence."

Kou Luoche opened his mouth to say some comforting words, but he couldn't say "It's okay, you will be able to get rid of the bandits one day", hesitated, so he stretched out a hand silently and pressed it on his shoulder.

"But one day," Fu Yunshu said coldly, "I will make Qunying Village cease to exist."

Back at the county government office, it was almost noon.Fu Yunshu was stuffed with rice dumplings in the morning, and he didn't remember having lunch at all. Together with Kou Luoche, he led Wang Xiaozhu into the study room, and Shi Shiran sat down with the hem of his robe lifted. County magistrate Fu said solemnly : "Wang Xiaozhu, what did you find in Kong's house?"

"My lord, under the order of Mr. Zun Kou, taking advantage of the opportunity when all the servants of the Kong family were called away, they climbed over the wall and entered Kong's house, and found Kong Lun's room. I found a locked wooden box underneath." Wang Xiaozhu must have been crushed by the hard wooden box, so he took it out of his arms with a grin and put it on the desk, "Time is running out, I haven't had time to pry it Open it, I don’t know what’s inside.”

"Why did you bring it back without knowing what it was?" Fu Yunshu scolded displeasedly, "If there are bank notes in it, what should we do with it?"

Wang Xiaozhu lowered his head and muttered: "Then... the subordinate will put it back?"

Fu Yunshu said: "Nonsense!"

The wooden box is rectangular and flat, and it really looks like it can store bank notes.Kou Luoche glanced at it for a while, picked it up, shook it, listened carefully, and said, "Master, it doesn't look like there is a bank note in it."

Fu Yunshu asked: "What's inside?"

Kou Luoche said, "It's like a book."