Chapter 5 Framing the blame
Qishan Town, which had just experienced war, was full of ruins and many buildings were dilapidated.
The towns with thousands of households are sparsely populated at this time. Even if there are pedestrians, they are still coming and going in a hurry, most of them wearing shabby clothes and with a dish on their faces. They look around and look around as if they are worried.
Occasionally, there are strong men with bad faces who walk together, which scares a few passers-by to dodge.
These people looked like they were not good people, but no officers and soldiers came to interrogate them.
Yan Xin, who was wearing a ragged dress, walked slowly on the streets of Qishan Town. Knowing that the sword would attract people's attention, he wrapped it with a strip of ragged cloth to make a disguise.
So he is now like this, walking on the street in a big way, even the bandits and robbers passing by are too lazy to take a look.
"Good guy, see where you run!"
With a loud shout, the sound of ping-pong weapons hitting them from the alleys next to the streets.
Then a man with a look of panic and shocked expression and several ripples of colorful blood flowed from his body staggered and stumbled out of the alley.
Behind the man was a burly man with a shaved head, holding a steel knife in his hand, and chasing him calmly, taking two steps at a time, and then came to the back of the man who was huicai with a few strokes. He grabbed his hair with his left hand and stabbed him in from behind with a knife in his right hand.
Blood came out, and the man with color was not alive, and the bald man didn't let go, dragging him into the depths of the alley like a sack. He disappeared in a blink of an eye, leaving only a piece of blood.
But the passers-by seemed to be accustomed to it. As soon as they came out, they hid aside and waited for the bald man to leave, they would recover as they were before. They should do whatever they should do.
Yan Xin also hid aside and watched coldly. At first glance, the two of them were not ordinary people and did not know the reason for the conflict. Naturally, they would not help them when they saw injustice.
I just couldn't help but sigh that no one cared about the crimes in the streets in the town. It seemed that the world of this world was not ordinary chaos.
After walking forward, he finally saw a restaurant that opened the door to do business. Yan Xin touched his hungry belly and prepared to go in for a tooth sacrificial ceremony.
Fulin Restaurant is one of the few restaurants in Qishan Town that are still open. Even so, there are not many customers in the restaurant. It may be because the meal time has not arrived, or because the world is not good, there are more than a dozen eight-immortal tables in the lobby, and three or four tables are sat in the lobby.
The shopkeeper was lying on the counter bored and dazed. Seeing that a customer entered the store, he was about to smile at him, but when he saw Yan Xin's outfit, he immediately took back the smile he had just squeezed out and said weakly: "The customer wants to eat something. The store has it written on it. You can take a look first." After that, he pointed to the wall behind him.
Yan Xin saw the shopkeeper's expression changed before and after, but he smiled and was not ashamed and angry as the dog looked down upon. Yan Xin understood what his appearance looked like now. Even if the shopkeeper was not kicked out as a beggar, he would naturally not be angry.
There are a row of small wooden signs hanging on the wall behind the shopkeeper, and each sign has the name and price of the dish.
Yan Xin looked over the wooden signs carefully and calculated the price in his mind. After reading it, he found that the one or two taels of silver and copper plates he had robbed the rich and helped the poor could not even afford a serious hard dish and meat dish. He couldn't help but think that the world's silver is so valuable?
Then, thinking about the ring knife and mace that I abandoned, I suddenly felt regretful. Although the things were a little rotten, the mosquito meat was also meat. I was still too extravagant and I had to change it in the future.
"A plate of stir-fried vegetarian dishes, and then three steamed buns."
After reading the menu twice, although the names of "hydrangea scallops", "flowering mushrooms and duck feet", "eight treasure pheasants" make people's index fingers excited, Yan Xin, who is aware of crisis, ordered the cheapest dish. I don't know how long I have to stay here, so I can't spend money indiscriminately.
"Okay, please sit first, the things will come soon." The shopkeeper saw that he had made money, but he didn't mind that the money was too low. He immediately showed a polite smile and asked Yan Xin to sit down.
Yan Xin casually found a table and sat down, put the long sword wrapped in rag on it.
The table looked a bit old, but it was still clean. Yan Xin sat down for a while and then came over with two plates.
One plate was fried vegetarian dishes, and Yan Xin saw that it was indeed vegetarian, and there was no oil on the leaves. The other plate was three small steamed buns, gray and gray, and they didn't look very good. Even so, just these two things made Yan Xin's body bloom.
No matter how good it is, it is enough to fill your stomach.
Yan Xin grabbed a steamed bun, ate it in big mouthfuls with Qingwu's vegetarian dishes.
When he finished the last steamed bun, a group of uninvited guests walked into the inn.
Five or six big men came, wearing uniform black clothes, blue casino hats, and a single sword around their waists. They walked in with great strides. The leader was the leader, holding a portrait, looking at the people in the lobby with a look.
After this group of suspected constables came in, Yan Xin discovered that the atmosphere in the entire lobby suddenly became tense.
The shopkeeper looked embarrassed and looked depressed. The other guests bowed their heads and waists, and looked away. It seemed that the person who came was not the constable who upholds justice, but the mountain king who robbed the house.
The whole lobby became quiet in an instant. The original conversation and eating sound disappeared, leaving only Yan Xin, who looked confused and didn't know what happened, was still making the sound of eating steamed buns, which immediately seemed to be slashing.
But the leader of the detective looked at Yan Xin, then stopped paying attention, continued to look at the others, then stopped looking at one person, winked at the other detectives beside him, and rushed towards the man.
"My lord is wronged, I am a good citizen!"
Seeing the constables rushing to the front, the man was panicked and shouted.
The other person who was at the same table with him was so scared that he stumbled and hid aside, for fear of causing trouble.
The detectives turned a deaf ear to the man's shouting. Two detectives tied the man's hands with ropes, and several other detectives held a single sword to shock the surroundings.
The leader of the constable shook the portrait on the man's face and then put it away, as if to say it to the man and it seemed to say it to others. He shouted: "That thief, you are exactly the same as the portrait, and you dare to argue! You thief, you dare to do evil on the ground of Qishan. You don't quickly go back to the yamen with me and wait for the defeat!"
The man was already snot and tears at this time, and he couldn't say anything else, but he kept shouting about his injustice.
His deskmate hid aside and looked at a knife-holding detective who was sneering at him and was reluctant to speak.
"Take it away!"
The chief detective waved his hand, and several constables pressed the 'Jiangyang thief' away from the restaurant. The chief detective turned around and came to the counter and said coldly to the shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper Li, if you let the Jiangyang thief come to your store for dinner, I am afraid that it will be impossible to escape his responsibility."
Faced with the crime of being added to the head of the constable, Manager Li did not intend to defend himself, but said with a wry smile: "The villain knows the crime, and the villain knows the crime!" Then he took out a ingot of broken silver and stuffed it into the detective's hand, "The chief detective Wang has a lot, let the villain go this time."
Captain Wang weighed the silver ingot in his hand, showed a satisfied look, said, "Don't commit it again in the future" and turned around and left.
When the detectives left the restaurant far away, the atmosphere in the lobby suddenly relaxed, and various voices came in flooding again.
Some people whispered in a low voice, some were mocking, and some were indifferent. Manager Li sighed heavily, as if he was heartbroken, and the person who was at the table at the "River-Royal Thieves" covered his face with a sad face.
Yan Xin, who had been observing secretly before, quietly finished the last bit of food in the bowl, then put down the chopsticks, walked to the counter, handed over ten copper coins and paid for the meal, and then asked indirectly: "Shopkeeper, the man looked like a good man just now, but he didn't expect it to be a thief. As expected, he shouldn't behave like a handsome man!"
"Haha, you can tell that he is a good man," Manager Li looked at the empty streets outside and sneered: "But the constable said he is a thief, so he has to do it."
Seeing the shopkeeper's sarcastic expressions, Yan Xin pretended to be puzzled and continued to ask: "They are people in the government. Will they also frame the blame, or are they in public?"
"It's because they are on duty that they dare..." When Manager Li said this, he felt a little confused and immediately stopped his words, looking at Yan Xin with suspicion in his eyes, and intentionally or unintentionally saw the long sword wrapped in rags in his hand. However, seeing that Yan Xin's eyes were as clear as water, he was silent for a moment, and continued to say: "Can you know why those constables didn't choose other people, but chose the person just now?"
"Please help me solve my doubts!"
"The man was named Wang Jinzhi just now. Because he had read a little, he worked in the bookstore. Who doesn't know that he is an honest friend? How could he be a thief?"
"The reason why he chose Wang Jinzhi alone is that his family is small and has no powerful elders, so he is not afraid of provoking people who cannot afford to offend him; secondly, he has studied after all, so his salary is not low on weekdays, and his family is not too bad."
"If his family wants to save him, they can open their mouths and blackmail them. If they don't want to give up the money, they will be rewarded with him, and they will never lose anyway."
"It's really hateful!" Yan Xin suppressed his anger and continued to ask: "Can the officials above them let them do whatever they want?"
"Do you think that with a few constables, you dare to be so unscrupulous?" Storekeeper Li sneered: "I haven't finished what I just said. It's not the first time that Wang Jinzhi happened today. If the arrested woman had a little beauty in her family, it wouldn't be as simple as asking for money! I heard that Wang Jinzhi's first wife is a bit beautiful..."
As soon as these words were said, Yan Xin suddenly felt a breath of anger surge in his heart. If he did not express it, he would probably not have the idea to be understood.
When Yan Xin thought that he was just staying in this world for the time being, regardless of life or death, he felt that he could do something.
"It would be great if there was a good man who could come and do his best for heaven." Manager Li said with some slightest remarks.
"Yes," Yan Xin repeated in a quiet tone: "I would be fine if there were heroes to do the way for heaven!"
Chapter completed!