The magistrate's office of Fufeng Prefecture is located in the center of the city. It is an official office building with cornices and brackets, purple and black bricks and tiles. There are stone lions in front of the door, drums for grievances, and strong quick guards. Ordinary people can't help but be afraid when they see it and dare not approach it.
The front yard is where the small "Six Local Ministries" offices are located, and the back yard is where the prefect's family lives.
The rain has stopped.
In front of the gate of the back house of the Yamen, there were people dressed in silk and silk brocade, ladies, maids, servants and some "flowery" young masters.
A group of people stood on their feet and looked at the end of the road until the carriage was slowly approaching, surrounded by twenty policemen. They couldn't help but cheered, and they approached it from a long distance.
One of them, a beautiful middle-aged woman in gorgeous clothes, with red eyes, shouted towards the carriage: "Miaojin, my son, I have suffered so much for you..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes were filled with tears and his steps were staggering.
Su Miaojin opened the car curtain, wearing a snake bun and a white dress. She was so beautiful that she couldn't live in this world. She hurriedly jumped out of the carriage and hugged the middle-aged beautiful woman. She couldn't help but mist her eyes: "Auntie!"
The beautiful woman was the wife of the prefect Su Xingming. The couple had adopted Su Miaojin for ten years. She was more than their own daughter even if she was not their own daughter.
"Let me take a good look at it."
The prefect's wife let go of Su Miaojin and looked up and down, focusing on a certain part of Su Miaojin. As a mother of two children, she could naturally see the signs that the girl's family was broken.
Su Miaojin's face turned red with embarrassment: "Auntie, Miaojin is fine, that Xin... the thief didn't touch Miaojin at all!"
"Miss Su, what you said is wrong!"
Before the wife of the magistrate could speak, a pale-faced and thin young man not far away, with a hint of surprise and regret in his eyes, cupped his fists and saluted: "I have seen the girl in Jiang Hezhu, Du Kang Mansion, and I thought she was the thief king. I treated her with courtesy, but I offended Miss Su." The crime has been convicted, and I heard that the masters of the four major families are going to hunt him down, and they will definitely cut the culprit into pieces with a thousand knives."
Su Miaojin frowned slightly. Now she couldn't listen to Xin Zhuo's affairs. She didn't want to hear the good things, and she didn't want to hear the bad things.
The other young master smiled with admiration on his face and said: "What Young Master Jiang said is absolutely true. I also believe that the hatred in my heart can be relieved by cutting the thief's head into pieces with a thousand knives."
"Wonderful!" A fat young man next to him flapped his folding fan, "I am afraid that the four masters have captured the King of Thieves. Now we just wait for the King of Thieves to arrive and watch the execution!"
"By the way, I bought Murong's three thousand taels!"
"Haha, it's the same for me. If I can relieve Miss Su's hatred, so what if it's thirty thousand taels?"
In order to please the beautiful woman, all the young men said more and more outrageous things, and the more strange they became.
"How many people in the world are as beautiful as Miss Su, with her beautiful bun and white clothes like snow? She is as wonderful as the heavenly beings! I have admired her for a long time!"
"Yes, that's right! I heard that the Prince of Nanli County won another great victory a few days ago. I am not very talented, so I yearn for him. I wish I could be a pawn by the Prince's side..."
Su Miaojin's face became colder and colder. Without comparison, there would be no harm.
Are these nice gentlemen who are sanctimonious and cling to powerful people really praising me? I am afraid that the woman captured by the thieves has already been extremely disliked in your hearts, right?
Compared to Xin Xiaothief, who is straightforward and straightforward, he is shrewd and...
She didn't want to stay any longer, so she folded her clothes slightly as a courtesy and turned around to enter the courtyard, leaving a group of young men still chattering.
The magistrate's wife caught up and said with a chuckle: "Miaojin, are you annoyed?"
Su Miaojin turned around and said, "Auntie, why do these people block the door? No one would dare in the past!"
"This matter..." The prefect's wife sighed, "You still don't know that Mrs. Hua, the concubine of your biological father, Prince Nanli, went to the Jiang family of the thousand-year-old family in the capital to urge her marriage a few days ago."
Su Miaojin was stunned. Da Zhou's daughter's family usually got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, unless the woman was extremely high in martial arts, it could be later. She had also wondered why the giant family had not discussed marriage yet.
Is this... coming?
The prefect's wife continued: "As a result, the Jiang family's old minister spoke in a flashy way. I don't know what he meant. It seems that something happened to your fiancée. It is said that no one in the capital has seen him since he was three or four years old.
Mrs. Hua guessed that maybe your fiancée had broken bones when he was young. Wouldn't this be a drag on you? As a result, there was a big fuss... and the Jiang family's old commander ordered him to be beaten out of the house.
Only the Jiang family dared to publicly beat the wife of the county prince, who had a large number of soldiers. Afterwards, the county prince not only did not complain, but also divorced Mrs. Hua.
There are rumors all over the world that this marriage is about to break up, so those young men outside dare to come..."
"I see."
Su Miaojin was not interested and led the maid straight to her east wing.
The plum blossom courtyard is extremely elegant. At this time, the autumn plum blossoms are blooming, exuding an intoxicating fragrance. Fifteen maids are already waiting in line.
Su Miaojin went straight into the room, picked up a letter on the table, opened it and glanced at it casually, then sighed leisurely and looked at the beautiful Qiu Mei outside the room in a daze.
Her biological father finally decided to take her back to Nanli soon.
"Miss!"
At this time, Dong Ling, the personal maid, came up to her in a sneaky way: "I heard that the odds of the Golden Gou Gambling House's beheading of the thieves have soared again. Let's bet some more, too? I'm going to bet thirty taels and buy yuan. Home!"
Su Miaojin was silent for a while and said: "Take all my private money, 4,000 taels, Mr. Xu Da and Mr. Xiuxue each have 500 taels of medicine money, and the rest..."
The corner of his mouth curved into a beautiful curve: "The young master who dominates the four families was captured by Xin... the thieves!"
That little thief is so clever that six people dare to face thousands of policemen. I heard that he even injured Mr. Studious. I don't believe that people from the four families can deal with him.
"Ah? Miss you, this..." Dong Ling and a group of maids opened their mouths wide.
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Taohua Town is located in a flat area next to Zhuguan Road to the west of the Fulong Mountains. The town is not big, with sixty or seventy households and only one main street.
Because tourists often pass by Dajian on the official road, there is a tavern, a noodle shop, an inn and a braised meat shop imitating Fucheng Luxiangzhai on the street.
Unfortunately, with the recent bandit suppression in the mountains, tourists are rare, so today only the noodle shop is open.
The noodles are handmade by the shop owner himself, and the soup is made from beef bones that have been boiled for two days. You can smell a strong aroma from just three hundred meters away and your stomach will growl.
"Gululu..."
Yuan Yourong's stomach rumbled. She touched her flat belly, gritted her teeth like braided shells, and cursed angrily: "This damn little thief can run away, and he made my aunt wander around in the mountains for a few times." God, I'm going to be hungry, they are in this town...eh? Where did the fragrance come from?"
A young Yuan family warrior next to him pointed at the noodle shop: "There is a noodle shop!"
"Province!"
Yuan Yourong waved her hand, and immediately seven people behind her carefully dispersed throughout the town. She then walked to the noodle shop with her hands behind her back, looked up at the four-character plaque "Youjia Noodle Shop" on the noodle shop, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, there is a home." The owner of the noodle shop is an interesting person."
In the restaurant, the owner of the restaurant who was sitting idle saw the customers and ran out quickly, bowing his waist: "Guest sir, you are here, our noodle shop has enough noodles and soup!"
Yuan Yourong had a mischievous smile on his handsome face, looking at the bruises on the shop owner's face: "The shop owner got a new injury? Could it be that he was beaten by his own mother-in-law?"
The shop owner's face tightened and he said quickly: "My wife is very cruel. I lost half a tael of silver, so I took action and divorced her sooner or later! How many bowls does your guest want?"
Yuan Yourong covered his mouth and chuckled happily: "Nine, nine bowls are ready!"
"Okay!" The shop owner quickly went in to do some work.
Yuan Yourong glanced at the whole town: "Ada, do you think it's possible that Thief Xin is in this town?"
Because there were too many suspicions about Xin Zhuo and his family, after Song Dongxi left, she and the Chen Guiyan and Murong Lei families also separated. The Chen Guiyan family went to another town in the southwest, and she brought people to this town. .
"It is very easy to detect a fire in the mountains. If Xin Zhuo and the others want to supply supplies, they can only go to nearby villages and towns."
The young warrior named A Da pondered for a moment and then said: "Murong and Chen went to Jianxia Town, and Song Dongxi went to Menghu Village. When we come to Taohua Town, we must meet them along the way."
"That makes sense!" Yuan Yourong smiled and looked up to see two young men in tattered and dirty clothes walking out of the restaurant.
