On that day, after the prefect finished measuring the word "flower" at the fame and fortune, he was depressed and unhappy, returned to the government office, called Liu Wendao, and told him about the word measurement. and asked Liu Wendao to calculate whether he had a disaster recently.
That Liu Wendao is actually a Jianghu **, and he has no real skills, he only knows how to blindly please people. Listening to the prefect talk about this, he pretended to calculate it. said that the man of fame and fortune is talking nonsense, and the master will be lucky next.
After listening to this, the prefect was happy. So while ordering someone to catch the fish and dog that slipped through the net, he sentenced the tomb robbers and bandit leaders to death, and then submitted the list and case files, just waiting for Emperor Zhu to approve the decision.
Besides, when Yingou came back from the tomb robbery that day, he saw the paper that his son Mingtuo had brought back from the fame and fortune, opened it and looked at it, and was taken aback. Just because the shovel was only used by tomb robbers, since he drew it on paper and tore it up, he regularly warned himself to stop. Xindao This person actually knew that he was doing this business, and he could actually be accurate to this extent! When I heard my son say that he only needed a penny, he felt a burst of gratitude in his heart.
In the evening he went to the house of two accomplices in the village and advised them not to go again. Unexpectedly, the two of them did not think so, greedy for wages, and the next day the weather improved, so they went again.
After another two or three days, Yin Gou coveted the wages again, and thought to himself, although this Mr. Word Tester was extremely accurate, but I told me to stop thinking that he was only out of kindness, and did not mean any danger. I'll go there and see, and if they're working there, and there's no danger, I'll make up my mind.
When I came to a place more than a mile away from the tomb robbery, I climbed to a high place, and saw that some of my former accomplices were cooking on a fire, and some were digging the earth, no different from when I was there. Just as he was about to walk down to meet the crowd, he suddenly heard a bang, and saw one or two hundred officers and soldiers suddenly rushing out and surrounding those who were robbing the tomb. The boss surnamed Feng seemed to be conceited and wanted to escape, but was knocked to the ground by officers and soldiers, and then stepped on the ground by several people, unable to move. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were all captured, and none of them escaped.
Yin Gou saw all this in his eyes, and his legs were so frightened that he went limp. When he came to his senses, he hurried home. I didn't dare to stop on the road, and I didn't arrive home until late the next night. hurriedly woke up his wife and children, as well as the blind old lady, and told everything about it. It wasn't until this time that the family knew that Yin Gou was doing this. His wife was a peasant woman, and when she heard that her husband had sinned, she was so frightened that she was left behind. Although his wife is blind, she has an idea. Tell Yin Gou to send him back to his parents' house, live by himself for a few days, and then make plans later. Your husband and wife should leave quickly with their children, and after a few years, if the government does not pursue it, they will come back then.
Yin Gou thought that this was the only way, so he carried his mother and sent him to his uncle's house. When he came back, he saw that his wife had put away his things, and immediately took advantage of the night to take his wife and children and fled to other places.
A few days later, the officers and soldiers came to arrest them, and when they saw that the house was empty, they heard that Uncle Yingou was in the next village, so they pounced again. But I saw that the old lady was a blind old woman, so I had to give up.
After Yin Gou escaped that night, he didn't distinguish between east and west, and only thought about running as far as possible. After walking for a few days, tired and hungry. Seeing that this place was deserted, he found a cave that was enough to live in, and lived in the cave. Then he took out the tools for making a fire, made a bonfire, and took out dry food to quench his hunger.
Although the tomb robbery is a big case, no one is implicated, and the government has never arrested him at Yin Gou's house, and he has been pretending to search for a few days, and there is no trace of Yin Gou, so he will relax.
Yin Gou lived in a cave and went out every day to investigate, but found that no officers and soldiers were chasing him. And he dwelt in a cave.
After staying for a few days, he saw that there was not much dry food left, but fortunately he was good at hunting. When the family is not working, they often hunt some game to improve their lives. The barren mountains and mountains here are not accessible to people, and there must be a lot of wild beasts. So he found a vine and rubbed it, and the vine became stronger.
Out of the cave, Yin Gou went to look for traces of the beast. Who knew that there was no trace in the mountains, and it was not easy to find the traces of beasts. After a long time, there was not a trace of the beast's footprints. But you can't return in vain, a family of three, it's terrible to have no food.
Fortunately, I finally found a trail that muntjac often walks, and I was overjoyed to see the fresh footprints. I thought that if it was a small beast like a rabbit, the vine was too thick to tie tightly, and even if it was trapped, it would escape. Immediately carefully find a suitable place to put down the trap, make a trap, and then cover up the leaves and traces of the steps he had knocked when he did this, and then returned to the cave.
Before dawn the next day, I went to the place where I had set up yesterday, and came to a place about dozens of feet away from there, and suddenly there was a faint sound of human voices. Yin Gou thought to himself, how could anyone come here? Could it be that my whereabouts have been exposed, and the government has come here to search? In this case, it is better for me to turn myself in, so that my wife and children will not suffer together.
Just as Yin Gou was about to step forward and turn himself in, he heard someone scolding loudly: "Damn, which poor head killer of eighteen generations came to this deep mountain and old forest to hunt beasts." But he hung my grandfather and me. The scolding was quite loud, and the Yin dog in the distance could hear it clearly.
But I heard another person whisper: "Old Lu, you be quieter." There are people hunting here, so naturally there are people who frequent it. How is it good that you shout so loudly that you attract outsiders? ”
Although Yin Gou was a peasant, when he heard these two people talk, he also knew that he was definitely not here to search for his own officers and soldiers. I thought to myself, since the people who came had nothing to do with me, I should hear what they had done when they came to this remote place.
I only heard the man called Lao Lu say: "Second brother, are you angry or not?" We finally found this inaccessible place to talk about things, and someone came before us, and hung me here, if you hadn't come early, you would have taken me down, and I would have been afraid that I would have been collected until dawn. ”
The second brother said, "A few of us have come out of the clan to investigate the whereabouts of the Spirit Dog Scepter for several years. A few months ago, thanks to the blessing of the patriarchs, we found the scepter. However, Liu Zurong, a traitor who was killed by heaven, suddenly rebelled for some reason, stole the scepter and prepared to sacrifice it to the Han court. Finally, it was pitiful that this deranged traitor was actually taken away and killed by bandits.
But because of this, he lost the trace of the scepter. It stands to reason that this scepter should have been escorted to Beijing along with the bandits' stolen goods. However, a few days ago, the seventh brother came to see that he followed behind the team escorting the stolen goods, and when they were staying at the hotel, he secretly opened the hinge of the box, and searched carefully, but he did not see the scepter. So Scepter went**?
I only heard Lao Lu say: "The seventh brother's ability is excellent, and this kind of means of opening the box without damaging the seal is rare in the world." Then he asked rhetorically: "Uh, eight, do you want to tell me, the scepter has gone?"
This sentence startled Yin Gou, who was eavesdropping in the distance, and said in his heart, why didn't he call the second brother but changed his name to the eighth brother? Could this man be a madman? But I heard another person besides Lao Lu and the second brother say: "It must be the prefect!" ”
Can you make it clear? I only heard Lao Lu say angrily: "I'm afraid that your mouth is rented, and you are reluctant to use it." I see....”
I thought so, too. The second brother interrupted Lao Lu's words and said: "The people in the world who know the spirit dog scepter, except for my clan, are only Han people who have been fighting with our clan for many years. Since I don't know what the Scepter is, I don't know how it works. I think it was the prefect who saw that the scepter was very strange, so he stayed. He didn't know that what the court really needed this time was a scepter. ”
Lao Lu said: "Then why didn't the imperial court directly ask for the scepter, but escorted the stolen silver into Beijing together?" Wouldn't it be a lot of work? And why did the court know that the Scepter had been intercepted by that gang of bandits? ”
The first problem, of course, is that the court deliberately conceals people's eyes and ears, if it is straightforward and exposes the target, people who know the magic will come to rob it, and there may be even more ulterior reasons; The second question is actually simpler, Liu Zurong's traitor must have colluded with the people in the court a long time ago, as soon as he got the scepter, he contacted the people sent by the court, and two or several people sent the scepter to the capital. And Liu Zurong obviously didn't trust the people sent by the imperial court to contact him very much, so he kept the scepter with him all the time, refusing to give it to them. When they were robbed by bandits, one of the accomplices must have escaped and went to the government to report the news. As a result, there are the next things such as cracking down on bandits and searching for stolen goods. ”
After listening to the second brother, the two were silent, presumably nodding in agreement with what the second brother said. After a while, I heard the second brother say hatefully: "It's just that I blamed me for believing Liu Zurong, a traitor, the four of us were supposed to take turns on duty at night, taking care of the scepter, and we didn't dare to touch our lips when we dripped. Thinking so, it's all right. I didn't expect to fall in love with Liu Zurong's way. It must be that this guy got *** or something like that, and put it in the wick, and when the wick burns, the medicinal properties of ** will be released. He prepared his own antidote in advance, so that it would be fine. ”
The eighth suddenly said: "Don't talk about this, second brother, what should I do next?" ”
The second brother said: "Well, I heard that the prefect is very lustful, if Xiao Tao has a chance to get close to him, then things will be easy." ”
Second brother, the little peach girl is our clan, and she was asked to give up her life in Wanfanglou at the beginning, because Wanfanglou is a place to be sent to, and it is easy to find out the news. Now that the whereabouts of the scepter are gone, Peach's mission is complete. Now I heard that there is a ** who is very compatible with her, and promised to redeem her. This is her chance to get out of the sea of suffering, can we think of other ways where the prefect is, Xiao Tao, she ......”
Lao Lu, for the Spirit Dog Clan, for the Spirit Dog Scepter to give his all, that is the supreme glory! Why don't you understand? After a pause, he continued: "We must find ways to facilitate Xiao Tao to meet the prefect, and see if there are any greedy people among the prefect's right-hand men, so that we can use our strength to push the prefect to meet Xiao Tao." ”
Lao Ba said: "Mr. Fame and fortune in Yongzhou City is quite unusual. ”
When Yin Gou heard him mention Mr. Fame and Fortune, his heart sank, and he listened attentively. I only heard Lao Lu reply: "Yes, this person is very accurate in measuring words." Many people who have never asked him for a word test admire him very much. It's just that it's the greed for money, which makes people criticize. ”
The second brother said: "Although I have never asked this person to test words, I have met with him a few times. Lao Lu, have you ever heard that a greedy person will accept a copper plate and measure the character for others? I am afraid that his greed for money is a disguise. The Hermes-Epitek who have been fighting with us for many years have to beware, they are also coveting the Greyhound Scepter. When he saw that the day was already bright, he said, "I have said this beforehand, the day is already bright, and if the hunter comes, he will surely see through the hiding." The venue for the next meeting will be decided. That Mr. Fame and Fortune, you must not provoke him, wait for me to touch his details. ”
After the three of them left, Yin Gou thought that this Mr. Fame and fortune had a life-saving grace for him. Listening to the meaning of these three people's words, it seemed to be unfavorable to him. In any case, I have to find a way to inform Mr. Fame and Fortune about this, lest he not be wary and be calculated by these three people.