Twelve Mirrors

Xie Ting understood, and threw the note into the toilet.Seeing that the note disappeared, he put on his pants and left calmly.

It is said that there lived a Taoist priest with a strange temper in the bamboo house behind Taiping Temple.

When Xie Ting asked for leave four days later, Gao Xin asked, "But what's the reason?"

Xie Ting said solemnly: "This subordinate is already in his twenties this year, but he hasn't gotten a marriage yet. He wants to go to the temple to ask for a lottery and calculate the marriage."

Gaoxin Nianxu smiled and said: "Then you should go to Taiping Temple. Tomorrow is the Spring Festival. There are also many unmarried women going there to make wishes. You can take a look."

Xie Ting said yes.

On the second day, as soon as Xie Ting went out, he saw a carriage parked at the door.

Yuan Ming sat in the carriage and raised the curtain to put on a silly smile at him and said, "Brother Xie Ting, what a coincidence that I met you here. Is it? How about the two of us together..."

It is indeed a very ingenious fate to meet at the door of our house.

Xie Ting ignored Yuan Ming, untied the donkey rented yesterday, and prepared to ride the donkey out of Beijing.

Yuan Ming said: "Brother Xie Ting, come up, brother Xie Ting is tired every night, be careful of the pain in the buttocks bumped on the donkey's back."

Xie Ting looked at Yuan Ming with a smirk and said: "There are more male pets than the prince's family. It will be hard work in the future. Let the Marquis lie down carefully."

Gold bars and copper plates were driving the car ahead. Hearing this sentence, it was very hard to hold back a smile.

Yuan Ming said: "Brother Xie Ting, this is interesting. Regarding who is going to work hard later, the two of us still need to discuss this kind of matter."

In this way, Xie Ting rode a donkey, followed by a colorful carriage, and entered the Taiping Temple ostentatiously.

It was already half past noon when we arrived at Taiping Temple, and a white and tender Taoist priest came to meet him. The little Taoist priest pulled his hem and said: "This benefactor, you want to see my uncle!"

Xie Ting smiled and said, "Why does your uncle want to see me?"

"Because my uncle's yard planted a lotus flower." The little Taoist said innocently.

"Then ask little master to lead the way." Xie Ting made a gesture of invitation.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming hurriedly told the gold bars and copper plates to wait for him outside, then shook his sleeves and followed.

The little Taoist led the two of them to the back of the Taiping Temple, and walked about a hundred meters. A bamboo house appeared in front of him. Xie Ting watched a Taoist talking to a woman from outside the house.

"Madam, this lottery is for the image of peace and wealth, so it is not suitable to do big things this year." The Taoist's peaceful voice came out, holding a thin bamboo stick in his hand, and was unwrapping the lottery with the woman.

Yuan Ming coughed, and the two people in the room turned their heads to look outside.

Xie Ting stood outside the door and saluted: "I'm Xie Ting, I'm here by appointment."

The woman inside got up, her clothes looked extremely expensive, her facial features were a bit dull, but she looked inexplicably comfortable for some reason, but her face was full of sorrow.

She opened the curtain and came out to salute Xie Ting first, then raised her eyes and saw Yuan Ming beside her, her expression changed a few times.

"Miss Cuixiang, long time no see, no, shouldn't it be time to call Mrs. Zuo Ru?" Yuan Ming uncomfortably covered his face with a fan.

Cuixiang was supposed to be patient, but after hearing this, she exploded, ten long fingernails raised her hand and scratched a few bloodstains on Yuan Ming's face.

Seeing this, Xie Ting uttered an offense, and pulled the two of them away from behind.

Yuan Ming hurriedly took out a silver mirror from his sleeve, carefully took a picture, and said to Xie Ting half-cryingly: "Brother Xie Ting, now that I'm ruined, no one wants me but you."

Then he said to Cuixiang: "You woman, you can even touch my face, look at it, look at it."

Xie Ting said in his heart: deserve it

Cuixiang gave Yuan Ming's flower-like face a vicious pooh, spit spattered on Yuan Ming's face, and Yuan Ming let out another scream.

"You woman...you...you you..."

Seeing the three of them entangled at the door, the Taoist said helplessly: "Monks should avoid worldly matters, but they involve human life. Madam, two adults, you should go inside the house and make it clear. good."

The Taoist saw that someone had entered, drew the curtain, and went outside to loosen the soil in the vegetable garden.

When Cuixiang entered, she knelt down with a plop, and said to Xie Ting: "My lord, I heard that my lord is currently investigating a murder case, and I want to inquire about it. Do those four corpses belong to the old Zhang's family in the eastern district of Jingdu?"

Xie Ting remained silent, and rustled from his sleeve for a long time, finally took out a scroll and handed it to Cuixiang.

Cuixiang took it and opened it, inside were four portraits, which were drawn by Xie Ting overnight yesterday.

It is a presumed appearance based on the appearance of the deceased.

Cuixiang looked at the portrait in a daze at first, but when she came to her senses, she lay down on the ground, her fingers were tightly clenched, and her whole body was trembling.

Xie Ting took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, and said softly: "Miss Cuixiang, get up and wipe away your tears, tell me everything you know, and I will avenge your family."

Cuixiang was still lying on the ground, and it took a while before she came back, raised her eyes and said: "I promised the second master of the Xu family a long time ago."

Compared with Zuo Taifu's family, Xu's family is really small.So at first when Zuo Tang said he wanted to ask for Cuixiang, Lao Zhangtou was very happy.

"But after inquiring, Zuo Tang's wife is very powerful, but most concubines go in vertically and come out horizontally." Cuixiang said.

The Zhang family repented again, and wanted to secretly find an opportunity to carry Cuixiang into Xu's house, but Zuo Tang found out about this matter somehow, and Zuo Tang was also generous, and said that he would add a dowry to Cuixiang.

But I never thought that old Zhangtou suddenly became addicted to gambling, and the more he gambled, he lost all his family property. At this time, a handsome brother came, gave up a large sum of money, and directed old Zhangtou to go to Liubo to gamble. .

This handsome brother was Yuan Ming whose face was scratched and bleeding.

Yuan Ming glanced at Xie Ting Xu Xu, and did not dare to speak again.

The old Zhangtou gambled bigger and bigger, and the more he gambled, the more he gambled.

Yuan Ming turned sideways to cover up and said: "I was also entrusted by someone, and I just gave your father more than a hundred taels of silver to guide him to Liubo and win two games. I want to wait for your father to lose too much. Zuo Tang comes out again to buy you into the mansion, isn't this a common way, besides, Zuo Tang also really likes you."

Cuixiang said angrily: "You're right. My father later found out that something was wrong, so he discussed it with the second master of the Xu family. On weekdays, it was the same as usual, and then he escaped at night, and when he came back after avoiding the limelight, he declared that I was Died outside."

But they never thought that that day, the five members of their family took advantage of the darkness to pack up their belongings and prepare to escape. They saw the sedan chair sent by the Xu family, and when they got into the sedan chair, they never came back.

"Zuo Tang left me in the outer courtyard and told me that my family owed money and they wanted our lives. He helped send my parents and two younger sisters to Zhuangzi for asylum. I didn't believe it, and asked people to go out every day. Inquire. A few days ago, there was an uproar outside, saying that four corpses were fished out of the moat outside. I inquired and inquired, but I always felt that something was wrong. A nobleman from heaven, a little Taoist priest came and told me that the adults were handling this case. He also guided me here to find Taoist Master Ming. The Taoist priest helped me plan, so I can see the adults here. I never thought about it, I never thought about it..." After Cuixiang finished speaking, the red jacket was stained with tears.

Xie Ting stared at Yuan Ming, and Yuan Ming said, "It's only a few hundred silver, so what?"

Xie Ting said coldly: "20 taels of silver is a family's annual allowance, let alone more than [-] taels."

Then he said to Cuixiang: "Then I will investigate the matter of your parents. I heard from you that his family even beat the concubine to death. Apart from that, the girl is involved in other matters."

"Yes, yes." Cuixiang nodded and said: "I have been here for more than three months, because I am in the yard outside and please that beast, so he never shy away from me."

"Then trouble the girl to talk to me, so I can write." Seeing the pen and ink on the table, Xie Ting rubbed the ink, and wrote down what Cui Xiang said, waiting to be verified.

Yuan Ming felt bored, so he went out to loosen the soil with Daoist Ming. After about half an hour, Xie Ting sent Cuixiang out very politely.

When Cuixiang came out, she had already put on her make-up, pretending to be a concubine favored by a rich family, and Daoist Ming took her to the temple.

Xie Ting dried the ink on the paper, Yuan Ming stretched his head to take a look, but Xie Ting blocked him.

Yuan Ming babbled, looked outside and said, "What's rare, let me see what's wrong."

Waiting for the ink to dry, Xie Ting rolled up the paper, hid it in his sleeve, and said goodbye to Daoist Ming.

Daoist Ming came back after delivering Cuixiang, and was patting the dirt on his body. Seeing that Xie Ting was about to leave, he said, "Master Xie, would you like to come and ask for a lottery?"

Xie Ting wanted to decline, but by mistake, he agreed: "Okay, then thank the Taoist priest."

Ming Daochang went into the house and took out a bucket of lottery. The bucket was made of ebony, with a smooth surface, and contained a hundred lottery sticks inside.He looked at the lottery inside, handed the lottery bucket to Xie Ting and said, "Please shake it three times."

Xie Ting took it, and after shaking it three times, a lottery really popped out from it. The tip of the lottery was a green bamboo, and the words on the sign were two lines of poetry.

Once in the golden hall, there is no truth or falsehood.

Daozhang Ming's expression remained unchanged and he said: "Congratulations, my lord, the official career is promising."

Xie Ting knew that the latter sentence was not good, but if Daoist Ming didn't say it, then he just didn't ask.

Yuan Ming grabbed the lottery and said with a smile: "The Taoist priest also asked me to draw a lottery to see how rich I will be in the future."

"The benefactor is extremely wealthy, because some opportunities just appeared here, so there is no need to calculate." Daoist Ming quietly snatched the lottery back.

Yuan Ming turned his face away, pouted all the time.

Seeing this, Xie Ting was afraid that Yuan Ming would say something he shouldn't say, so he pulled Yuan Ming away by his sleeve.

Throwing Yuan Ming onto the carriage awakened the sleeping gold bars and copper plates.

Seeing that his master's face was brightened again, Jin Tiao hurried to the city to find a doctor with the carriage, leaving only Xie Ting to ride the donkey slowly to the capital.

Under him is riding a donkey pumping the wind.

In his arms were the incriminating evidence of Mr. Zuo's family.

He walked very slowly on this road. When he reached the city gate, the sky was already full of stars, and a half-waning moon was hanging on the city wall. In his arms, there might be a turning point in the fate of a family.

Xie Ting sighed for a long time, feeling that he must seek justice for those people.

The tree is rooted, what should he do?

Later, Xie Ting would always think of that night, that was the beginning of everything. If he was a few years older, he would definitely not have made such a decision. Unfortunately, he was only 22 years old that year, and he had just entered the official career. .