The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

Chapter 526

When Jia Cong and Chen Ruijin arrived in Chang'an, something happened.It doesn't look big, but it's obviously provocative.There was a blind fortune-teller who lived at Mingde Gate in Chang'an and died three days ago.The last hexagram before death was Oucheng's first old soldier, Jiang Laosi, who was beaten by Jiang Laosi after the calculation-he said that Jiang Laosi had a short life and would die of accident.Just now, people from the yamen ran to Jiang Laosi's house and took him away, saying that the blind man was killed by him.

Jia Cong laughed after hearing this, "What a coincidence! I am a person who specializes in destroying other people's lives, and I have already changed many people's lives." Chen Ruijin pursed his lips and smiled.

Ou Cheng was overjoyed upon hearing this, and grabbed Jia Cong's hand: "Master Cong, I'm counting on you!"

Jia Cong spread his hands and said, "But I really don't know how to solve the case, so I can only go and see if there are any loopholes." He thought for a moment and said, "I still don't know what Ding Chu came to Qin for. No, no one can deny that he is smart and capable. If it is just a provocation this time, it can be resolved without too much trouble; but if Ding Chu dug a hole for the Gao family, the matter will not be so easy to deal with."

Ou Cheng asked: "What is the origin of that thief Ding Chu?"

"Do my aunt and Uncle Ou know that there is a counselor surnamed Zhao next to Biao Gao? He was originally a merchant."

Both of them nodded: "Mr. Zhao, we know."

"Mr. Zhao has a nephew named Zhao Tu, who was originally adopted. He is very talented and has a good memory. A few years ago, he worked with Uncle Gao and was very favored. I don't want him to fall in love with a female spy sent by the State of Lu. , and later went to the State of Lu with that female spy. And later..." Jia Cong smiled, "He escaped from the State of Lu again."

Ou Cheng asked, "Why is this?"

Jia Cong shrugged and said, "At that time, Liu Tong got a beautiful and dumb concubine, Ma Shi, who he loved like his heart. Ding Chu abducted that woman."

Ou Chengdao: "What is Ding Chu doing with Zhao Tu when he kidnaps Liu Tong's concubine?"

Jia Cong said, "Ding Chu is Zhao Tu's real name."

"What?" Taijun Jia and Ou Cheng shouted in unison.

Jia Cong spread his hands and said: "You can go to the bookstore and buy a commentary "Zi Yi Ji"".Then he told in detail about Ding Chu's origin, Bai Lingen's plan to use him to plan for Lu State, and also talked about Ding Chu and Ma Xiangzhu's experience after they arrived in Hong Kong. "Later, the Bai family declined, and the Gong family took over Hong Kong. Ding Chu seemed to be very popular under Gong Sanyi. As for why he came to Qin, I don't know."

Taijun Jia clenched his crutches and thought for a long time, then shouted: "Xiaomei—" Jia Cong still remembered this daughter-in-law named Xiaomei.She was the one who greeted her at the gate when she came back to Chang'an last time, obviously she was her aunt's confidant.But he saw Xiaomei slowly walking out from behind Jia Taijun.Jia Taijun ordered: "Go and check." Xiaomei took the order and left.Seeing her leave, Ou Cheng calmed down a bit.

Jia Cong thought for a while, and said: "At the birthday banquet of my aunt and grandmother, Liu Qian was still a young scholar. In order to vent his anger on his cousin or uncle Chen, he wanted to use me as a knife to embarrass Second Master Chen; It was Zhu Tong. At that time, I heard that the three of them were classmates and friends. Later, Zhu Tong was kidnapped by me, and Liu Qian was also packed away. I don’t know what happened to this Uncle Chen? He is the eldest son of the prefect of Chang’an. The nephew of the prefect Zhu Wei. How are the Zhu and Chen families now?"

Taijun Jia cast a glance at him: "The nephew of Taishou Zhu is that Zhu Tong from the State of Lu?"

Jia Cong nodded: "I think Beringen's strategy is also good. Ding Chu borrowed it after he went to Lingnan."

Jia Taijun looked at him again, with a smile in his eyes. "The Zhu and Chen families have already turned their backs. Not long after the division of the world, they fell into the Qin King's plan to separate. It would not be cheap for the Qin King not to separate his two families. The Chen family was very friendly with the Gao family in the past. In the past two years, the Qin King has seen that we are not good. Pleasant to the eye, their family has followed behind like a dog with western flower ideas. Governor Zhu has always had an ordinary relationship with us, and it has remained ordinary for the past two years."

Jia Cong smiled and said: "It can be seen that a good relationship is not necessarily a friend, and a cold relationship is not necessarily a passerby. The Zhu family is now their own."

"Oh?" Jia Taijun asked, "When did you get involved with Zhu Wei?"

Jia Cong shrugged and said, "To tell you the truth, since the death of the Bai family brothers, Prince Xianyizhong's remaining tribe has been headed by Hong Kong Gong Sanyi. Zhu Wei is a member of Prince Xianyizhong, so he also returned to Gong Sanyi. Hmm ...Mr. Gong is my enlightenment mentor."

Ou clapped his hands and laughed when he was established: "You still have this luck!"

Jia Cong rubbed his neck and said, "What luck! It took Mr. Gong many years to deal with the Bai family."

Jia Taijun said: "Didn't Ding Chu also return to Gong Sanyi, that is to say, to you?"

Jia Cong said: "Theoretically, it is so. But Mr. Gong didn't say anything, I still don't know what's going on."

Ou Cheng said: "I'm afraid things will change, otherwise why would he want to deal with the Gao family?"

Chen Ruijin said from the side: "Could it be that Mr. Gong gradually stopped using Ding Chu and ran away again? He sincerely urged King Qin to deal with the Gao family in order to drive the Gao family to Ping'an Prefecture. After all, the Gao family knew that 'Zhao Tu' Ding Chu is uneasy about the details."

Jia Taijun said: "This is also the reason." Nai shook his head and said, "This Lord Ding dares to cuckold the lord, so what if he is talented?"

Jia Cong clapped his hands with a smile and said, "I said back then that Ding Chu is a disaster, and Ma Shi is also a disaster. Buy one get one free, whoever you follow will be unlucky."

Ou Cheng said: "Forget it, don't care if he is a disaster or not, Jiang Laosi is still locked up in the yamen."

Jia Cong curled his lips and said, "That's right, the yamen is in the hands of the magistrate." Nai smiled and looked at Chen Ruijin, "There are many people with the surname Chen!"

Chen Ruijin smiled lightly, and said, "The man has already been taken away?" Ou Cheng nodded.She asked again, "Is this person important?"

Ou Chengdao: "It's my old brother for decades."

Chen Ruijin bowed to Jia Taijun and said that he had something to do.Jia Cong didn't ask any questions, just said to come back soon.If he didn't ask, it would be inconvenient for others to ask.Chen Ruijin turned around and went out, but disappeared in the blink of an eye.Ou Cheng was dumbfounded: "She, she has this ability?" Jia Cong was triumphant, and asked him what the case was like.Ou Cheng smiled wryly, "I came here in a hurry, and I haven't asked in detail yet." Jia Cong rolled his eyes.

About half an hour later, a door came in from outside and came back: "Master Chen, the magistrate, begs to see the old matriarch."

Jia Cong was talking some gossip to make the old lady happy, when he heard this, he was startled: "Huh? The prefect came in person?"

Menzi said: "It is true that the magistrate has come in person."

Jia Cong looked bewildered, and turned to look at Jia Taijun; Jia Taijun said: "Since you are here, please come in." He also ordered "Cong'er and General Ou are right here." They both agreed in unison.Jia Cong knew that he was probably going to use it to protect his aunt's face, so he adjusted his clothes.

Not long after, Mr. Chen came in, full of the sour air of a sub-official, no different from the officials he had seen in these years: the belly was as round as a woman who was six or seven months pregnant, the three strands of beard were neither long nor short, The official hat on his head wobbled.Jia Taijun didn't stand up, but sat on the black rosewood chair and said with a smile: "I'm old, my knees are a little out of control, it's inconvenient to go to the front to greet you, and I still look at Haihan."

Mr. Chen cupped his hands, with a smirk on his face: "I'm not a good official, I don't dare to disturb the old lady."

Jia Taijun asked him to sit down and asked: "Master Chen has always been in the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so what must be the reason for coming to our house today?"

Mr. Chen nodded and said: "There was a case a few days ago, I wonder if the old lady has heard about it?"

Jia Taijun said bluntly: "If a blind fortune teller died, I would still be negotiating with others just now."

Mr. Chen raised his brows: "Oh? Such a small case has alarmed the old lady?"

Jia Taijun said: "It seems like a small case to my lord, but it is very important to our Gao family. Every veteran followed the Gao family to kill Japanese pirates in the south and Hu people in the north. He didn't die on the battlefield, but How can the old man ignore the wronged for no reason in the peaceful city of Chang'an?" The old lady's voice was clear and light, and there was a murderous look for no reason, and Jia Cong couldn't help but want to flatter her!

Mr. Chen sneered and said: "So the old matriarch ordered people to break into the yamen by force?"

Jia Taijun was taken aback: "What?"

Ou Cheng stood up: "Master Chen, what is the meaning of this? Seizing people? What happened to Jiang Laosi?"

Mr. Chen snorted heavily: "General Ou, why pretend to be confused by pretending to understand! If you didn't take Jiang Lao Si away, who else?" Ou Cheng and Jia Taijun exchanged glances.

Jia Cong suddenly said, "Master Chen, there is a high probability of making a judgment based on conjecture without investigation. The student dares to say that this matter has nothing to do with the Gao family."

Master Chen looked up at him: "Who are you?"

Jia Cong stood up with a smile and made a bow: "The late birth is from Jinling, and the surname is Jia."

Master Chen's face changed slightly.Who doesn't know that Taijun Jia came from the Jia family in Jinling?Nai squeezed out a smile and asked, "Could it be Mr. Jia from Rongguo Mansion?"

Jia Cong bowed again: "The student is Jia Cong."

Master Chen immediately turned pale, and immediately put on a look of surprise, cupped his hands and said, "So it's Mr. Jia Cong!" It's just that his acting skills are too poor.

Jia Cong said: "To be honest, Uncle Ou was just telling me about the case of the blind man and Jiang Laosi, and he wanted me to help look into the case and defend Jiang Laosi. It's just that he knows too little. I was thinking about going to the yamen tomorrow to find out the details. The crime of smashing the prison and breaking the prison was done by the bandits in the green forest; The Gao family, I’m afraid the Gao family can’t stand by and watch. Why don’t we all work together to find out the real culprit who killed the blind man, and find out who took Jiang Laosi, why he took him, and where he is hiding.”

Master Chen looked at him, then at Jia Taijun and Ou Cheng, it really didn't look like they were hiding someone, so he couldn't help thinking.For a long time, he smiled wryly, and made a bow to Mrs. Jia: "Old Mrs. Madam, I am rude to you as an official."

Jia Taijun frowned and said, "Master Chen, what's going on."

Jia Cong said: "Your Excellency, it is best to explain the case of the blind man. Working together is the truth."

Mr. Chen rolled his eyes back and forth, obviously he had something on his mind.After a long while, he said: "Old Majesty, those veterans of yours are really too crazy. It's just a divination, and it's not that blind people chased him for divination. Didn't he go to find someone to ask for divination? Hurt people's lives?"

It turned out that the blind man was hacked to death at home twice.The police found a simple knife in the stinking ditch near the blind man's house, with the word "Ginger" engraved on the handle.Then he asked the blind man's neighbor if he knew someone surnamed Jiang. The neighbor said that someone came to him for divination yesterday, and he seemed to hear the guest shouting, "My surname is Jiang." The police quickly found the blacksmith's shop mark on the knife, Take it to ask the blacksmith; after another two days of investigation, Jiang Laosi was found today.

Mr. Chen burst into tears when he told the story, and Jia Cong got goosebumps all over his body when he heard it.After finally finishing speaking, he hurriedly asked, "Did the policeman ask Jiang Lao Si with a knife if it belonged to him?"

Mr. Chen was startled: "This... I don't know."

Jia Cong said: "Master Chen is a dignified magistrate, it's not uncommon for such a trivial matter to be unknown. Maybe the policeman who doesn't know how to handle the case may invite Wan Sheng to meet him?" Master Chen was stunned again, and thought for a long time while stroking his beard.Jia Cong asked curiously, "My lord doesn't seem to want us to understand this case?"

Master Chen hurriedly said: "That's not..." Turning around, he ordered the people following him to call for the police to come quickly.

Jia Cong added: "Brother, I'm sorry to bother you, and I'll also invite the coordinator who is in charge of this case, thank you."

After waiting for a long time but still not seeing the arrester and his co-worker, Ou Cheng said impatiently: "Do you have to arrange it temporarily?"

Jia Cong hurriedly said: "Uncle Ou, don't worry, I'm afraid it's because the yamen is a bit far away. Mr. Chen didn't think he could use them, so he didn't bring them here."

Ou Cheng sneered and said, "Master Chen didn't intend to reason with the Gao family, but only came here to play bureaucracy?" Master Chen was a little embarrassed.

After a while, the policeman and Wu Zuo came in a hurry.Originally it was a hot day, the two of them were sweaty and their backs were soaked, they knelt down to salute Mr. Chen.Jia Cong said: "Don't worry! Drink some warm tea first." Then he ordered a larger teacup, "The hotter the tea, the less you can drink cold water." The two of them didn't know Jia Cong, they just regarded it as an ordinary person. Scholar, thank you briskly, and drink four or five cups of tea to feel better.

Lord Chen coughed and said, "This is Mr. Jia from the capital."

Jia Cong cupped his hands: "You two have worked hard. In the case of the murder of a blind fortune-teller at Mingdemen, Wansheng would like to ask the two members for advice." The two of them stood up and bowed.Jia Cong first asked them to sit down and asked, "I want to ask Uncle Quick first, can you show the bloody knife you found to Mr. Jiang?"

The catcher said: "Of course I showed it to him, and he recognized it as his own."

Jia Cong said, "What does Jiang Lao Si look like when he sees the knife?"

The policeman quickly said: "Surprised, ask why I am here."

Jia Cong said: "Shocked, is there any fear?"

The policeman thought for a while: "No."

"How did he explain that his knife might have killed someone?"

The policeman said: "He said he lost his knife the day before yesterday."

Jia Cong thought, "The blind man died three days ago. If his knife was lost the day before yesterday, if he hadn't lied, his knife hadn't been lost when the blind man died."

The catcher nodded quickly: "Not bad."

Jia Cong said: "Then I can be sure that the man was not killed by Mr. Jiang. But I may not be able to find out the whole case, and this case must be much more complicated than we thought." He looked at Mr. Chen with a smile, " This blind man is a spy. As for which family sent him and what he wanted to investigate, it's hard to say."