Chapter 11: Turn your hands into clouds, turn your hands into rain

Chapter 11: Turn your hands into clouds, turn your hands into rain

  Chapter 11 Turn your hands into clouds, turn your hands into rain

  West Third Street of Suzaku Street, from South Fourth Square, Yong'an Square.

  Fangjiao Street Shop, Wuhou team Zheng Lao Zhang is leaning under the big tree in front of the street shop, squinting and scanning the passers-by. "It's really hot here." He cursed to God in his heart, pulled up his sweaty clothes and shook them, trying to fan the heat off his body.

  In this scorching summer day, he only hoped that it would get dark sooner, so that he could get off duty and rest earlier.

  Suddenly a gourd was handed in front of him.

  Old Zhang looked up, and found a short and strong man with thick eyebrows and a scarred face, smiling at him.

   "Wei Dalang?"

  Wei Chang's scarred face is still quite famous in Chang'an City, and some people even secretly call him Wei Yan Wang. Some market rogues and hooligans even have a jingle that they are not afraid of Wei Scarface when they are born, and they are not afraid of King Yama when they die. What's more, they directly ask people to tattoo these two sentences on their bodies, one sentence on the left arm and one sentence on the right arm.

  In the eyes of these rascals, Wei Chang can be compared with King Yama, which shows that this person is still very powerful.

  As the head of the Wuhou team, Lao Zhang is in charge of this street shop at the corner of Yonganfang. There are thirty people under his command, and he has stayed here for a long time, so he is an old acquaintance with Wei Chang, the bad commander of Chang'an. Seeing Wei Chang, Lao Zhang didn't have a good face. This guy is a small official, but because of catching thieves and thieves, he didn't give him face several times, which made him a ninth-rank Wuhou team.

  Sometimes, Lao Zhang is quite envious of this Scarface Wei. You say that he is a mere outsider, but he eats more food than himself in Chang'an City.

  If Wei Chang met Lao Zhang on weekdays, he would never say hello, and the two would even turn their heads to pretend not to see each other. But today, just like Taibai Jinxing appeared in the daytime, Wei Chang stepped forward with a smile and handed him a gourd.

"It's hot and stuffy today, are you thirsty? I have a pot of drink here, which is ebony pulp, and it's still iced." He said and handed over a flax pancake, with shiny sesame seeds on the surface. , the aroma is attractive.

  Lao Zhang froze for a moment.

Then he laughed, "What's the matter, come to ask about the case of Guo Yuanwai's family again? Didn't I tell you earlier? We didn't see anything or hear anything. The case is handed over to our Wuhou Zhanyuan, let us help you settle the case."

   "Captain Zhang, I know how much I offended you before, so please forgive me." Wei Chang said in a low voice, and handed over another mustache, but there was a little silver light on the mustache. Lao Zhang saw at a glance that there was actually a piece of silver collar in the cake. He estimated that there must be at least two taels. Although it cannot be used as cash, it can be exchanged for three thousand coins at any time at the gold and silver shop, which is quite a lot. .

   "Take it back." Lao Zhang sneered twice and refused.

"Brother, please do me a favor. I just caught a few suspects here. Could you please come over and take a look for me? Have you seen him coming in and out?" Hubing passed it over.

  Lao Zhang thought in his heart that it would not be easy for Wei Chang with a scarred face to bow his head to him today. The key is that these two taels of silver collar can give his mother-in-law a hairpin later.

  Old Zhang hesitated for a while, but finally took the mustache, and said, "Then help me take a look."

   "Please, brother, come with me here."

  Old Zhang was holding the silver collar in his hand and smiled. He followed Wei Chang to the corner of the street. As soon as he passed by, a sack fell from the sky and put him in it, and then someone covered his mouth tightly.

  Wei Chang over there succeeded, without any hesitation, he took a few of his bad guys to pick up Lao Zhang and ran away.

  In broad daylight, openly kidnapping Wuhou Duizheng is really exciting.

  Turn left and turn right, and a group of people soon came to an empty house.

  A young delinquent saw Wei Chang and the others coming back, and hurried in to report to Qin Lang.

   "The monkey has been taken."

  Qin Lang sat on the porch of the empty house, and was asking a bad person about the house.

"This house was originally the house of an official of Sinong Temple. Not long ago, he retired from his old age and returned to his hometown with his family. This house was entrusted to Yaren to help sell it, but it has not been sold yet, so it has been vacant. on."

   Bad people are scattered in the city, and the news is the best. Knowing that this house has been vacant recently, I just borrowed it temporarily today.

   "This house is pretty good, how much does it cost?"

"Back to the Shaofu, the Yong'an Square where this house is located belongs to the south of the city. It is a little farther away. Some of the squares are even empty. People have grown food and vegetables. The price is not expensive. If the Shaofu wants it, I will help the Shaofu talk to the Yaman, at most three hundred guan will do."

300,000 yuan, a house in the capital with more than 1,000 square meters of land. There is a house and a yard. What is rare is that the previous owner took good care of it, with all the furniture, and even the flowers and trees in the garden. Well, just buy a few servants and move in with your bags.

  Wei Chang strode in with a few bad guys.

  Qin Lang raised a finger to his lips, signaling him not to speak, then moved him to the side and whispered something in his ear, Wei Chang nodded, and carried Lao Zhang to the backyard for interrogation.

  The sack is untied.

   The embarrassed Lao Zhang first looked around, saw Wei Scarface and a group of bad people in soap clothes, and shouted angrily, "Wei Scarmian, you don't want to live anymore, dare to kidnap the imperial court official?"

   Wei Chang's face was dark.

  A bad person beside him took a step forward, pulled out a dagger and pressed it against Lao Zhang's throat. Lao Zhang felt the coldness, and immediately dared not shout anymore.

"Captain Zhang, I'm really sorry. We have a new magistrate from Chang'an County who judged Facao. He is young and energetic. As soon as he came, he let me solve the case of Guo Yuanwai within a day. If he can't solve the case within the time limit, he will quit. My errand even threatened to investigate the background of my old Wei's previous cases. You know, in our business, black and white are not black and white, and no one can clean up their ass. If it is really investigated, my old Wei probably There will be no good results, and I really can't do anything about it, so I made this bad move, so I ask my brother to do me a favor and tell me everything you know. My old Wei will definitely keep this favor in mind, and there will be a report later! "

  Lao Zhang stared at Wei Chang without saying a word.

   "Brother Zhang is not willing to give face? Do you want to see my old Wei go into the water? There is no other way, and my old Wei has no choice but to put a back on his back before he dies. I will ask my brother to go on the road first."

   "How dare you!" Lao Zhang couldn't figure out which of Wei Yanwang's words was true and which was not, but everyone on Chang'an Street knew that Wei Yanwang was cruel.

Wei Chang smiled and said, "I've made up my mind. After I send my old brother away, I'll make another corpse of a lowly maidservant, smash it up and put it together, and then I'll report that the Silla lowly maidservant from Guo Yuanwai's family In fact, you were instructed to poison and then steal gold and silver. As a result, because of the unequal distribution of the spoils between the two of you, you were attacked and killed by a full-hearted slut. Before you died, you fought back and stabbed the **** to death. gone."

  Old Zhang was sweating coldly.

   "No one will believe your nonsense, no one will believe it at all."

   "Who knows, maybe someone believed it. Anyway, we can't solve the case today, and my old Wei has nowhere to go. Why don't we take a risk."

  Lao Zhang didn't expect Wei Chang to be so vicious.

   "I said I said, I will tell you everything I know." Old Zhang panicked.

   "Okay, I'll listen."

  Lao Zhang told the truth about what they saw in the street shop that day, for example, a few people from the Guo family came out to find the doctor that day, and who was there to interrogate them at the street shop.

  Wei Chang asked about the movement outside the gate of the Guo Mansion earlier and later on the day of the crime, including the details of the people who came and went.

   "I've told everything I know, let me go."

  Wei Chang looked at Lao Zhang ferociously, and Lao Zhang hurriedly said, "I'll leave here later, and I'll pretend nothing happened. We haven't seen anything today."

   "Can I trust you? I think only the dead are the most reliable."

  Old Zhang is almost peeing, he believes that Wei Chang can really do anything.

   Just then, there was a sound of footsteps.

  Qin Lang appeared.

   "Wei Chang, what's going on?"

  Wei Chang pretended to be very flustered, and quickly crossed his hands in salute, "Return to County Captain Qin, my subordinates are handling the case."

"Handling the case? If I hadn't come in time, I'm afraid you have committed a terrible mistake." After finishing speaking, Qin Lang walked up to Lao Zhang and stretched out his hand to help Lao Zhang up. Sorry, I have no way to rule, and let these guys risk you."

  Old Zhang was still in shock, and when he saw the young Qin Lang, he was also puzzled for a while.

   "I'm Wei Chang's boss, the new county lieutenant of Chang'an County, the judge of Facao. My surname is Qin, my name is Lang, and my style is Huailiang. I'm the third son of the Duke of Yi. I'm really sorry, and I apologize to you on their behalf."

  Qin Lang deliberately reported his prominent status.

  "Qin County Lieutenant, don't dare." Lao Zhang looked at the young and excessive Qin Lang, and heard that he was the son of Duke Yi, so he knew that this young man had a lot of background.

"Zhang Duizheng, I basically know everything about the matter. It's a pity that he came a step too late, and Zhang Duzheng was shocked. I will send Zhang Duzheng back and report the truth to Yongzhou Mansion and Youhouwei Yamen. Lawless guy, how could you use such despicable means to kidnap the imperial court official because of Zhang Duizheng, because you refused to cooperate with the case? You deserve to be killed! Zhang Duizheng, I will definitely give you justice, even if the matter gets out I will also lose my position because of lax governance, and I don’t care.”

  Lao Zhang suddenly shivered.

  He didn't doubt that the young county lieutenant would spread the matter. Anyway, it was only Wei Chang who was unlucky when things went wrong.

  First of all, he has the responsibility of intentionally not reporting what he knew, and secondly, when the news spread, he would lose face. How can he stay on Chang'an Street in the future?

The most important thing is that he heard the voice of the young county lieutenant, Qin Lang will also be implicated if the incident is revealed, and this young man is the son of Lord Yi, and he can take office in Chang'an County at a young age. Wei, obviously has a strong background.

   This matter is really going to make a big fuss, which is equivalent to implicating Qin Qiong, so wouldn't Lao Zhang also offend Yi Guogong's mansion?

   "Forget it, Wei Shuai and I are old acquaintances, he was just joking with me." Lao Zhang weighed in his mind for a long time, and felt that it would be better to make big things into small things into nothing, otherwise it would be no good.

"Hey, I didn't expect Captain Zhang to be so generous. This really helped me, Qin Lang, even though I only took office the day before, but this Wei Chang is my subordinate after all, and I can't escape being responsible for his crimes. "Speaking, Qin Lang directly took out a silver collar.

   This is a silver collar worth about ten taels, which can be exchanged for about seventeen or eight guan coins at any time.

"Brother, this is what I did to scare my brother. Looking back, I went to Dongshi Yuelai Restaurant to treat guests and apologize for my brother. Brother, you don't count the faults of villains. This really helped me a lot. Otherwise, I, Qin Lang, would probably have to be dismissed from office on the first day I took office, and become a joke of Quan Chang'an."

  Old Zhang hurriedly said, "Qin County Wei's words are serious, in fact, we are just joking, Wei Shuai and I are old friends, right Wei Shuai."

  Wei Chang nodded, "Well, it was indeed just a moment of nonsense, but the Shaofu misunderstood it. This subordinate must correct it in the future, and never dare to joke like this again."

"I'll send brother Zhang back to the street shop!" Qin Lang supported Duitou Zhang out, stuffing the silver collar directly into the money bag on Duitou Zhang's waist, Duitou Zhang pretended to take it out, Qin Lang pressed it down, and Zhang Duizheng accepted it after three or two clicks.

"Qin County Lieutenant really deserves to be a talented general. He is so young. In the future, whenever there is a need to use my elder brother, just follow orders, and I will do my best." Regardless of the embarrassment just now, he felt aggrieved, and was even secretly happy that he could get to know the son of Yi Guogong under his chance.

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  When Qin Lang returned to the empty house again, Wei Chang had already found important clues based on Lao Zhang's confession.

"Young Mansion, there is indeed a problem. During the day, a man from Silla appeared twice, and it was the groom of the Guo Mansion who met him. On the morning of the second day when the incident happened, the groom drove the carriage out again. Pass through the door. Therefore, I seriously doubt that the Silla servant Yusu has an internal response in the mansion, and it is the groom."

  Qin Lang chuckled, "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and take down the groom, follow the clues and find the Silla man, then the hiding place of the Silla servant will be revealed, and the case will be closed."

  Wei Chang also planned in this way, he threw his hand at Qin Lang.

   "The Shaofu is as good as a god, and the case is resolved. The subordinates really admire it and are convinced."

   "Don't flatter me, let's catch the person and close the case first."

   Wei Chang stood there and hesitated, "Is Captain Zhang all right?"

"What can be the matter? Old Zhang was a little frightened, but I have compensated him. He is also a smart man. He is very clear about what to say and what not to say. When I turn around, I will treat him to a drink again. If you come to make an apology, you will turn the page."

   "Young Master Xie." Wei Chang cupped his hands, and he also knew that in fact, Lao Zhang was more concerned about Qin Lang's face than that, otherwise it might not be so. The key to this case is Lao Zhang. Without Qin Lang's swift move, he would never be able to open the gap from Lao Zhang.

  Without Qin Lang to help him find out, he could press to find out the facts of the case, but in the end he couldn't get it right.

   "Okay, I don't need to talk about this because they are all my brothers, let's arrest them."

   "Aren't you going with Shaofu?"

  Qin Lang stood there and looked at the house, "I think this house is quite spacious and not bad, take a look again, if it looks really good, I'll buy it later, you guys go first."

  Wei Chang left quickly with a large group of bad people.

   Ah Huang stood behind Qin Lang, "Sanlang, do we really want to buy this house?"

   "If you're good, just buy it."

   "But it's two hundred guan, let's leave the house."

   "The gold knife that King Qin gave me weighed a pound, and there were some precious stones on it, at least worth more than three hundred guan. If you sell it at a gold shop, won't you have money to buy a house?"

   "But this golden knife was given by the King of Qin."

   "If you give it to me, it's mine. Why don't I sell it and buy the house? Besides, if the money is gone, it will come back. Since everyone has come out and set up a new family, this house must have a house first."

"Then do you want to buy some servants and maidservants with the remaining money, housekeepers, bookkeepers, cooks, coachmen, personal maids, accompanying book boys, doorkeepers, and housekeepers?" Lao Huang said. Breaking off his fingers, he said.

"Ah Huang, you will be my housekeeper from now on. As for the book boy and servant, the yamen sent me two Zhiyis and four Baizhis. Just use them first, take your time, everything will be fine." of!"

  Ah Huang, who was originally just a groom in the Qin Mansion, heard that he was promoted to a housekeeper, so he couldn't help but grinned, unable to close his eyes.

"Okay, this house is really nice. You can go to the gold shop to change money, and I'll send someone to find that man." After walking around, Qin Lang really fell in love with this house, no It's not a mansion, but it's spacious, simple and elegant, which suits his aesthetics.

   "Hey, I'll go right away." The old horse took the golden knife and hurried away.

  Qin Lang stayed in the courtyard alone, and couldn't help laughing.

  From now on, this will be his home.

  (end of this chapter)