When more than 60 Northern Navy cavalry arrived at the Pudou Temple, it was just after the beginning of Si, which was about 9:00 a.m. The deputy company commander who led the team found a valley to hide the brigade of troops, and then sent a few soldiers to the Pudou Temple to reconnaissance.

In less than half an hour, a soldier ran back to report that the beggars were still there. The deputy company commander left a few people to watch the horses, and then took the others to set off. At the entrance of the ruined temple, he divided his subordinates into two groups, letting one platoon guard the exits of the backyard, and took the other platoon directly to the door of the backyard. After a while, when he learned from the walkie-talkie that everyone was in place, he raised his hand and shot him in the sky.

"Bang!"

The gunshots echoed in the small yard, and the snow on the branches was shaken and scattered. The beggars in the house were shocked. They thought to themselves that during the New Year, who came to set off firecrackers in this dilapidated temple?

"Everyone inside listens! You are surrounded! I've fired dozens of shots, and I'll shoot if I don't come out! Everyone walked out with their heads in their hands! Those who dare to resist will be killed without any hesitation!"

Several beggars rushed to the front of the window and looked out through the gaps on the straw curtains. Unexpectedly, when they saw this, they were all shocked and shivered. A guy was even more scared and urinated. A fishy smell began to float in the house.

The beggar's face on the kang changed suddenly, and he also looked out to the window. He saw at least twenty people wearing white cloaks standing or squatting in the yard, all holding "muskets" in their hands, and under the black muzzle, he actually had a shiny "dagger".

The beggar's head was buzzing, his ears roared, and he couldn't do anything. This was not a yamen runner, but a Beihai soldier who made the Qing court frightened!

Speaking of the sudden departure of the troupe and the villagers of Hurry Village, although he was alert, he thought about it carefully and did not take it too seriously. The reason why he thought so was mainly because of the "New Year's Seal" system that led the Qing government to the past.

The sealing system of the Qing Dynasty was inherited from the Ming Dynasty. The Imperial Heaven Regulatory Commission determined the sealing date for the next year in the previous year and explained it in the promulgation of the World's "Shixian". Almost from the early Kangxi period, the sealing time was determined on the 19th, 20th and 21st of the twelfth lunar month, and the opening of the seal office had to wait until the 20th of the first lunar month of the next year.

Although there is military affairs during the sealing period, disasters and murder cases must be handled, and local officials must not delay, for murder cases, someone must first report to the official to provide evidence; as for ordinary cases of petty theft, no one cares about them, and they must wait until the seal is opened before talking about them.

The beggar thought that the previous case was perfect, and he thought that it was New Year's Eve. Even if the New Year's government investigated the case, the New Year would be over, so the official officer would not go out of the city and run to the ruined temple for dozens of miles. After discussing with his subordinates, he decided to wait until the snow stopped and then run away with the money he robbed.

How could he know the problem? Because the four counties have just been conquered for a few months, the more the New Year is, the less the military control committees in various places dare not take it lightly; and the system of Beihai Town is completely different from that of the Qing Dynasty, so there is no rule for sealing the New Year!

"Boss, what should I do?"

The beggar's head and eyes rolled rapidly, and he whispered to several subordinates: "Howl!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of beggars in the house began to shout: "Official, it's unfair! We are just a group of flowers, and we use this dilapidated temple to hide from the wind and snow for a few days..."

"Okay, okay! We haven't done anything illegal!"

The beggar's head took advantage of this time to quickly lift a corner of the earthen kang, took the few bags handed over by his subordinates, stuffed them in one by one, then covered them with a brick of kang, sprinkled some soil on it, then covered it with a broken mat, picked up a pile of hay and covered it on it, and finally pressed his own ragged bedding. The earthen kang was blocked because the flue was blocked and it had not set fire, so it was just right to use it to hide things.

"Bang!" The North Navy outside didn't say anything nonsense, fired another shot at the sky, and then began to count: "Ten, nine, eight..."

At this moment, the beggars in the room were scared and even those who beg for mercy and were afraid to say anything. The beggars had no choice but to have no choice but to have dozens of "mutts" outside, and there was no window to the west of the west wing where they were. He had no chance to jump into the window and escape. His eyes turned rapidly and he whispered to everyone in the room: "Every mouth is tight! They have no evidence, so they dare not do anything to us. As long as they can hold on, they will be out in a few days!"

After hearing this, the beggars nodded in a hurry.

Seeing this, the beggar's head shouted in a hoarse voice: "Official! Let's come out! Come out!"

The North Haijun outside waited for a while and saw that the straw curtain finally moved. The first thing that stretched out was a hand, followed by a guy in ragged clothes and pulling a pair of torn cotton shoes.

At this time, the soldier closest to the door gave two steps to the right, pointed to the open space behind him and shouted: "Hold your head with both hands! Squat there!"

As soon as the beggar walked over and squatted down, two Beihaijun rushed over, and took one arm from under the ribs to the back, and the other arm around the back of the neck stem. Then he used black plastic handcuffs to tie his wrists, and a "Su Qin back sword style". The beggar screamed in pain, and then fell to the ground. After that, the other beggars also came out one after another, all of whom were scolded in the same position as the first one.

All the beggars were shocked at this moment. You should know that this method of tied people is usually used by old constables in the yamen, and is specially used to lock and hold those thieves and repetitioners. After ordinary criminals are tied up like this, as long as the rope is tied firmly, it is difficult for the prisoners to break free. Moreover, there is also an advantage in binding people in this way. If their arms are controlled, they will not be able to run away even if they run away.

"Go and bring those two constables in." The deputy company commander and other beggars who were leading the team were tied up, so they asked their men to go out and call people.

Soon, two guys wearing casual clothes, felt hats, and even the iron ruler was not on their waists. When they saw beggars twisting on the floor, one of them had a smile on his face. This way to tie people was his idea!

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The words show that the "constable" group in the Qing Dynasty were actually two types of people, called "custodian" and "Kuaishou". The arresting officer specializes in the arresting of thieves, similar to later criminal police, with chief arresting heads, arresting heads, arresting soldiers and vacancies, among which vacancies are temporary workers; although Kuaishou sometimes assists in vacancies, their main responsibility is to collect grain. Although the two are often collectively called constables, they are by no means the same thing.

Since there is no one in the Ninghai Prefecture Military Control Commission who is good at catching and solving cases, after receiving the report from the checkpoint last night, two people who had been constables were temporarily recruited from the city. The older one was Cao Guifu, who was in his early thirties and was once the captain; the other one was Guo Yu, who was only nineteen this year and was a captain before.

Cao Guifu was very famous in Ninghaizhou. He was good at arresting thieves. By observing people's appearance, he often found flaws that are difficult for ordinary people to discover. Guo Yu was a naughty man, but he inherited his father's position and used money. At that time, he became a surveillance at a young age.

Although the social status of the Qing Dynasty was not high, the annual work and food was only 6 taels of silver, it was a rare job. Moreover, many leaders of secret sects came from the group of constables, such as Lin Shuangwen, and the first passage of the Bagua sect that was examined by Xu Funan before.

In a place like Dengzhou Prefecture where sea trade is developed, not to mention the obscene act of robbing and robbing and sharing of wealth, the order is a monthly fee and bad rule. One arrester can get hundreds of taels of silver every year, and the captain and the chief arrester can get thousands of taels.

Cao Guifu and Guo Yu are well-known among the constables. Of course, they also take the money they should take, but they don’t do anything bad about their conscience. For example, they never get involved in bullying men and women and thieves who are sitting on the ground to share the spoils.

The two have been hiding at home since the Northern Navy captured Ninghaizhou, fearing that the adults of the Xin Dynasty would use them as rafts and end up raiding their homes. When the military control committee came to the door last night, the two responded in half panic and half happy.

Although Cao Guifu has made a lot of money over the years, he is used to being nodded by others on weekdays. He is really uncomfortable being a civilian these days. Guo Yu is young and has just taken over his father's position. He has not earned much money yet and has no errands.

Although it was very hard to travel on New Year's Eve against the wind and snow, both of them felt that they could be selected by the military administration master, and be able to eat the public meals and wear official clothes again. As for whether the court would fight back, they were not worried about this. In the past, the maritime merchants who had traveled to Ninghaizhou had already spread all over the North Hai Army, how could the court's army be rubbed against the ground?

At this moment, the deputy company commander said to the two: "I will leave the matter of searching for evidence and interrogating the criminals to you."

"The villain must do his best to do his job, please rest assured."

Cao Guifu and Guo Yu knew that the Beihai Army had no rules to kneel down, so they bowed and looked at the group of beggars on the ground. Guo Yu was young and had no idea of ​​the criminal group of "Old Melon Thieves", so they just stared at each other with big eyes. Cao Guifu was different. He narrowed his eyes like an eagle and looked around the beggar's head.

He stared at the other person from head to toe twice, then approached again, squatted down and stared at the other person's face for a while, and suddenly grinned.

"Yang Kui, I've been looking for young people for so many years, but I didn't expect that I would meet here today!"

Because of the binding posture, the beggar's head was very difficult to raise his head. When Cao Guifu looked at him just now, he kept lowering his head and did not dare to look up. At this moment, he was shocked when he heard the other party calling out his name. He glanced at him with his head and looked down and pretended to be pitiful, "This official, have you recognized the wrong person? I don't have the surname Yang, but Li, and everyone I know is called Li Erling."

Cao Guifu smiled and said, "Stop pretending. Master Neng is called Zhu Shengwu, and there is also a senior brother named Wu Sanmao. Seven years ago, Master Neng's three disciples came to Dengzhou Prefecture to commit a crime. I also took a few brothers to arrest him on the orders of Lord Zun of the Mansion and chased him to Laizhou Prefecture. Unfortunately, Neng ran away. Three years ago, Zhu Shengwu and Wu Sanmao were arrested for committing a crime in Qingzhou. Both of them were captured. Why did Neng run out?"

The more I heard the beggar's head, the more frightened he became, but his face still showed a pitiful look. He thought that as long as he didn't recognize him, he couldn't find any evidence, and it would be clear what you can do to me!

"Official, I'm just a flower boy. I'm going to beg for food with a group of brothers. You can't be wronged!"

When the other beggars heard this, they also called out a wrongful accusation. Several North Hai troops next to them shouted angrily and acted to smash it with a butt. The beggars stopped.

Cao Guifu knew that as long as a person like Yang Kui was arrested, he would never escape being cut into pieces; so he would not recognize him as long as he could not find evidence. So he turned around and entered the west wing room, and Guo Yu followed him in.

As soon as the straw curtain was lifted, a smelly sweaty and stinky feet came to his nose. The smoked Guo Yu hurriedly covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves, while Cao Guifu just wrinkled his nose and pulled off the straw curtain hanging on the door.

As the air flowed, the smell in the house became much weaker. Cao Guo and his wife took out the iron ruler from their waists and searched everywhere in the house. They first scattered the weeds on the ground for a long time, and even pried open the gaps on the bricks on the ground with iron rulers to carefully check whether there were any traces of digging in the soil below.

After searching all the houses to the south, the two of them came to the north house again. They didn't let go of firewood and hay piles, and they also looked for the ground. Unfortunately, they found nothing, so Cao Guifu then turned his eyes on the earthen kang.

Guo Yu was so tired that he was sweating all over. He jumped onto the kang, tapped the iron ruler a few times in the empty space. After pulling the bedding, he used the iron ruler to stick in the hay a few times, but found nothing. He was about to get off the kang, but Cao Guifu suddenly called him.

"Uncle Cao, what's wrong?"

"Xiao Guo, let the pile of grass be removed."

Guo Yu had no choice but to turn around and move the grass away, revealing the broken mat below. Cao Guifu's eyes lit up, and he raised his foot and also got on the kang, pulled the mat open, and pulled it a few times with an iron ruler...

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Cao Guo and his two men entered the house and churned. Taking advantage of this, the deputy company commander asked their subordinates to take all the beggars to the open space outside the temple gate. After waiting for a long time, the deputy company commander and the soldiers were a little impatient. Just as they were about to come in and ask, suddenly there was a noise from the gap in the courtyard wall, and there was a sound of running. A person panting and shouting: "The stolen goods have been found!"

When the beggars heard this, their faces changed drastically, and the beggar's head also complained secretly. At this time, Cao Guo and the other two soldiers who accompanied them walked out with a few bulging bags, which looked quite heavy. When they put the things on the ground and opened them, they found that in addition to some silver, there were more than a dozen copper coins, jade pendants, rings and clothing belts, etc., a lot of mixed things.

Cao Guifu sneered: "Yang Kui! The stolen goods are here, and he still does not plead guilty!"

Guo Yu also shouted: "Tell me quickly! Where did the corpse be buried?"

Although the beggar head Yang Kui looked a little depressed, he still looked pitiful and said, "It's unfair! These things were picked up by villains, and I don't know anything next to him."

Cao Guifu said: "You said you picked up so much money? Where did you pick it up? Let's say the same."

Yang Kui lowered his head and turned his eyes around, and said, "These bags were picked up by the villain and his brothers on the road. After waiting for a day, no one came, so he lived in this temple. The villain asked people to go to the post road every day to see if there were any passers-by looking for them."

The deputy company commander was so angry that he thought that he wouldn't cry until he saw the coffin. Then he said to his subordinates: "Take all these guys back!"
Chapter completed!