The day turned from sunny to cloudy and then cloudy. Hu Qinqi, who came from Honghu, hurried to the archway of Caojia Winery and saw a huge iron lock on the door. He turned around and looked around. When he saw two passers-by, he said hello, Hello, may I ask, what's wrong with Caojia Winery? Are all the archways locked?
Passerby A shook his head and said, I don’t know.
Passerby B blinked and said, "I know a little bit. I heard from the policeman in the yamen that Cao's family of seven transported a boatload of soybeans to Chibi to cross the river in the twelfth lunar month last year. On what day it was, I can't remember clearly. Maybe They were robbed by gangsters in the middle of the river, and all seven members of their family were killed. It is said that several corpses surfaced on the river in those days. They were all swollen and deformed, making it difficult to identify them. They were probably the corpses of the Cao family of seven.
When Hu Qinqi heard this, he burst into tears and cried, "Oh my God!" Last year, I sent a letter asking my cousin Cao Yang and his family to buy soybeans for me and send them to Jiangbei. I was a tofu maker on Honghu Street. I needed soybeans to make tofu, but unexpectedly, my cousin and his family were harmed.
Passers-by A and B watched him cry and howl in front of the Cao's Wine Shop, their eyes turning red.
Passerby Yi approached Hu Qinqi and patted him on the shoulder. He said that the county government knew that the Cao Family Winery had been destroyed and was investigating the case, but the case was not solved and not a single bad guy was caught. I also heard that the county government is planning to confiscate the real estate and property of the Cao family winery. Since you are a relative of the Cao family, if you cannot inherit these properties and property, you can at least get part of the benefits. It's been so long, and it's useless for you to cry. Just go back and set up a memorial tablet for your relatives, the Cao family, and burn incense and offer sacrifices to their souls!
Passerby A said, I suggest you take the time to find the county government. The Cao family winery has a lot of property. You are their relative, so you will get some, and you should get some.
Hu Qinqi cried and said, I don't want to get this kind of property. This relative of mine has suffered so much——
At this moment, in the underworld, a large drum hangs on one side of the field outside the Palace of Hell, with three bold characters clearly marked on the drum surface: Drum of Injustice.
Cao Yang walked over and picked up a mallet and hit the drum hard, making a "bang bang" sound.
Cao Yang shouted loudly, "Seven members of my Cao family died unjustly!" Detective Yin Chao is here to catch the murderer for us!
In the Hall of the King of Hell, King Yama was sitting in the tent. When he heard the sound of drums beating outside the hall to cry out grievances, he was stunned for a moment. He looked at the guards on the left and right and asked, who is beating the drums to cry out grievances? Let him come into the palace.
The guards on the left and right immediately shouted in unison, signaling that the ghosts of injustice had entered the palace——
After a while, Cao Yang walked into the hall and looked at the King of Hell with tears in his eyes and kowtowed repeatedly.
The King of Hell said, Cao Yang, your family of seven were robbed and killed while transporting a boatload of soybeans on the Chibi River. Didn't Judge Wu accept this extremely serious murder case?
Cao Yang wiped his tears and said, Your Majesty, Judge Wu has indeed accepted the case, but as far as I know, the murderer has not been caught either in the world of heaven or in the underworld.
The bull-headed and horse-faced people standing on both sides of the hall felt sad when they saw Cao Yang.
The king of hell said, are you in a hurry? Sooner or later the murderer will be caught.
Cao Yang said, Your Majesty, I have no other intentions, nor am I anxious because the murder case has not yet been solved. I just took the opportunity of beating the drum to complain and enter the palace to provide some clues to apprehend the murderer.
The King of Hell made a gesture and said: Say——
Cao Yang said, it was noon on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month last year, when our family of seven, old and young, were brutally robbed and killed while boating on the Chibi River. I remember that there were seven robbers in total, and they all wore wide-brimmed long-brimmed hats with dog holes drilled in them. The upper ends of their faces were covered with two holes through which they could see out. When one of the masked men stabbed me with a dagger, I painfully lifted up the hat with holes drilled into it. The robber revealed his true identity. He had a black scar as big as a copper coin on the left side of his face.
When the bull-headed horses heard this, they looked at each other.
The King of Hell asked, did the two divine catchers hear it?
The bull-headed and horse-faced men hurriedly said in unison, Your Majesty, remember, one of the robbers has a black scar as big as a copper coin on the left side of his face.
The King of Hell said that I ordered the two gods to catch the murderer based on the clues provided by Cao Yang. As long as one of them is caught, the other murderers can be confessed.
The bull-headed horse-faced voice said loudly, "Yes!"
One morning, it turned cloudy.
There were two carriages on the rural road in the northern suburbs of the city, running one behind the other.
Hu Xiangcai was sitting in the carriage chatting and laughing with Hu Decai sitting next to him.
Hu Xiangcai said that in the last twelfth month of last year, I got 1,400 yuan from a business partnership with others as dividends, which was too little to spend, so I used this money as capital to collect ramie.
Hu Decai said, your idea is correct, but it is not easy to do business. You can't make money by following the rules, and it is easy to be discovered by others. It is difficult!
Hu Xiangcai looked at Hu Decai and said with a smile, "Lao San, you have to use your brain and take action in everything you do."
Because Hu Xiangcai and Hu Decai only talked and did not raise their whips, the variegated horses pulling the cart became slack and ran slowly.
The carriage driven by Hu Miucai, who was behind, had all caught up. His bay-red horse was parked and snoring.
Hu Miancai shouted loudly, "Hey, brother, is your carriage running so slowly?"
Hu Xiangcai looked back and saw that the maroon horse driven by Hu Miancai was about to touch the butt of his car. He turned around, raised his whip, and shouted "Drive--", and the variegated horse that was driving the horse ran away again. stand up.
Hu Xiangcai turned around and said, "Hey, second brother, are you in a hurry? Isn't my carriage taking the lead?"
Hu Micai said, Brother, where can I collect hemp?
There are high mountains on both sides of the rural road, and the mountain wind whistles loudly. Even if the voice is low, it is difficult to hear clearly.
Hu Xiangcai curled his hands into a funnel shape and shouted loudly to the back, "Go to Songjiacun."
In Songjia Village, old man Song with a skinny face came out of his house. When he looked up, he saw two carriages parked at the entrance of the village. On the eaves of one of the carriages were two words written: Harvest Ma.
Old man Song walked over and looked at the three people jumping out of the two carriages, and asked, how much does a pound of hemp cost you?
Hu Xiangcai said, a drop of money is worth a pound.
Old man Song asked, "There are 4,000 kilograms of hemp piled upstairs in my house. Should I pay in cash?"
Hu Decai shook the bag of money in his hand and said, "Of course you have to pay in cash, we brought the money."
When Old Man Song saw the money bag, he seemed to hear a whooshing sound when it was shaking, and he believed it. He said, OK, I'll sell you the 4,000 kilograms of hemp upstairs.
Hu Micai said, old man, take us to see it! Is the quality good or not?
Old man Song said that the hemp that has been stored for two years is of good quality and dry. So, Old Man Song led the way, and the three of them got on the carriage again and called out to drive - the two carriages drove to the front of Old Man Song's house one after the other and stopped.
The three people jumped out of the car one after another, and Hu Xiangcai came down with a scale.
Old Man Song said, I don’t want your scale, use my scale.
Hu Xiangcai made a face to his two friends, and then put the scale he had brought down back on the carriage.
Hu Xiangcai said, old man, are you afraid that we will mess with you? We won’t. At your age, you wouldn’t be able to bear it if we cheated on the scale! You said it's okay to use your own scale, but I don't know if the standard is standard.
At this time, Mrs. Song came out of the house, holding a clamp scale in her hand and handed it to Mr. Song.
Old man Song held the scale and said, "How can it be non-standard?" At such an old age, I still want to deceive my heart, and am I still disrespectful?
Hu Xiangcai was speechless. He just took the clamp scale in Old Man Song's hand and looked at it. Hu Decai and Hu Micai also came over to look at it and weighed the scale. Then he returned it to Old Man Song.
Old Man Song told Mother Song to take them upstairs to see hemp.
Mrs. Song said "Yeah" and set off.
Hu Xiangcai stayed below. Hu Decai and Hu Micai followed Mrs. Song up the wooden stairs upstairs. When they saw the ramie piled all over the floor, touching the rafters, purlins and tiles of the roof, they gave Mrs. Song a thumbs up.
Mrs. Song said, help me throw the hemp bundles downstairs. I can throw them all away, weigh them all, and sell them all.
Hu Decai and Hu Micai replied in unison, "Okay!"
