It went like this, on the day Mu Le was besieged on the street and rescued by Yuan'an, his master asked him to go home, but he vehemently refused, leaving Yuan'an alone with a frown, and returned to the broken temple in a daze.
Nigu, who had taken him in, greeted him with concern: "Where did you go? I've been looking for you everywhere!"
Mu Le didn't speak and just laid down on the grass.
Nigu grabbed him, "Don't be lazy, there is a big deal tonight. Come with me!"
Involuntarily, he dragged Mu Le and walked outside.
In the small restaurant, Xiao Er brought some wine and vegetables to Mu Le and Nigu.
Taking cover, the two of them observed the plump, fair, beardless man that Nigu had been eyeing in the gambling hall.
Nigu said, "There, it's him! Let's go to the inn with him in the evening. You give me a hand, and I will smoothly take his bulging package!"
Mu Le was depressed, "I- I don't want to do this kind of thing anymore."
Nigu stared at him, "Are you backing down? Brother, it's not righteous for you to do this! Who has been providing you with food and clothing these days? Who has taken you out to play with girls? Although you didn't stay, you also looked, right? Won't you help me with this?"
Mu Le was very unhappy in his heart, but he also unfavorably said, "This is stealing, it's robbing. I don't want to do it."
Nigu rolled his eyes and thought about it, "What is stealing, robbing? It's my fault for not explaining the original story to you, this person is my enemy!"
Mu Le raised his head and was about to believe it.
Nigu added, "My parents, it was him, he killed them! When I saw him, I couldn't wait to split his tendons and skin him! What is there if I take his money? Am I not already compassionate enough?"
The boy, how could he know that he was lying. He only felt that since he had received this person's favor, he believed that he did have a deep hatred here, so he said, "Okay, I'll help you."
It rained heavily that night, it was like a hole had opened in the sky.
Mu Le and Nigu sneaked into the inn room where the plump, fair man was staying from the window.
The room was dark, and the two of them were feeling around the room. Suddenly, a flash of lightning struck. The room became as bright as day in an instant. Mu Le and Nigu saw the man sitting facing them at the table wide-eyed, blatantly staring at them! They were stunned, Nigu was almost about to pee, and he didn't care about anything, he stabbed the man without saying a word. The plump, white man was stabbed in the neck without resisting, and he fell to the ground without even uttering a word.
When he saw him start to kill, Mu Le was shocked for an instant, then he grabbed Nigu's wrist: "You, what are you doing? Didn't you say - didn't you say you are not here to kill?"
Nigu was furious: "He saw us, if he don't kill him, we will be done for! Hurry up, hurry up, find his money bag! Fast!"
Mu Le was shocked and had no time to react. Nigu found the purse behind the dead man and opened it to see that it was full of silver.
The murder fell to the back of his mind, and Nigu was elated: "He didn't play for nothing. Didn't play for nothing!"
There was movement outside the door.
It was the inn servant who knocked on the door outside: "Sur, the wine and vegetables you ordered, sir?"
Nigu was about to jump out of the window and escape, but was dragged back by Mu Le, "Let's go! Idiot! Are you stupid?!"
Mu Le was still stunned.
Nigu thought to himself: "Hmph, this idiot. This is my fate with you, just do something for me again!"He quickly stuffed the knife in his hand into Mu Le's hand, then jumped out of the window and fled.
At the same time, Xiao Er pushed the door in, and there was another flash of lightning. Xiao Er saw the corpse on the ground and Mu Le holding a knife. He was so frightened that he shouted loudly, and the wine and vegetable tray also fell and spilled all over the place: "Murder! Someone killed someone!"
A group of people rushed in when they heard the sound, and Xiao Er fell to the ground, pointing at Mu Le: "This is the person! Don't let the murderer run away!"
Mu Le told his little master what happened on the night of the heavy rain in this way. Yuan'an was quite shocked when she heard it, frowning and holding her chin. She was shocked for a second, then she relaxed again, changed her face, clapped her hands and said, "Forget it, you come home with me first. I'll hide you first, save the officers trouble."
She didn't care about who died and who ran away right now. Getting Mu Le back was more important than anything, better than anything.
The two of them were about to run, but then someone flew down from the roof and stood in front of Yuan'an and Mu Le. This person was tall, dressed in black, and his thin white face was not smiling. Wasn't this Zhao Lanzhi?
"You fake cook, robbing criminals under my nose again, where else do you want to go?"
Yuan'an was taken aback and smiled: "It turned out to be Constable Zhao. That's right, it's me again. I stole a criminal again. By the way, you people are really not clever in doing things for the court. Why did you let me succeed again?"
Zhao Lanzhi also smiled: "Don't look down on people. Miss, if you really did succeed, will I be here?"
Yuan'an remembered that he had received the news that Mu Le was in prison because the people from Luoyang County office sent his waist tag to the mansion, she seemed to understand something: "Ohh, Constable Zhao, did you send Mu Le's waist card to me? Did you deliberately inform me to let me rescue Mu Le? When we met just now, you knew it was me at a glance, did you let me go on purpose?"
Zhao Lanzhi: "You figured it out."
Yuan'an curled her lips: "These methods are so boring, what do you want to do?"
Zhao Lanzhi took a step forward: "Two purposes. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid this kid wouldn't talk to people as clearly and honestly as he did just now. I couldn't grasp the case either. Besides, do you know who the person who died was?"
Yuan'an said: "Who was it?"
Zhao Lanzhi: "Eunuch Cao, an eunuch of the imperial library."
Yuan'an was quite shocked: "Eunuch? Why did an eunuch come out of the palace?"
Zhao Lanzhi pondered a little, then decided he could tell the girl in front of him what he couldn't say to others: "This matter is a big internal secret, and it can't be investigated in the open, and too many people can't know about it. I deliberately asked you to bring him out, just to avoid people's eyes and ears."
Yuan'an nodded: "That's it. So, you believe as much as I do that Mu Le is not the murderer anymore?"
Zhao Lanzhi glanced at Mu Le and smiled coldly: "Stupid kid. If you have the mind to kill, how can you not know to run away?!"
Mu Le stood up after hearing this, and confronted Zhao Lanzhi tit-for-tat: "Who is a stupid kid?!"
Yuan'an pressed Mu Le back: "What should we do now?"
Zhao Lanzhi: "We must find the Nigue he mentioned right away! He is the murderer, I want what he took from Eunuch Cao!"
Yuan'an was suddenly excited: "I just happened to be so free that my arms are uncomfortable from idleness! Since you want to avoid people's eyes and ears, you can't bring helpers from the office. I'll help you!"
Seeing that she was like this, Mu Le also said: "I'll go too."
Zhao Lanzhi looked at these two people, and somewhat helplessly said: "You treat handling cases as a game, right?"
Not long after, in the small hall of a brothel, Yuan'an, dressed in men's clothing, dangled two big golden balls in front of the old Madam, playing with them in her hand.
The old Madam was greedy and leaned forward: "You, if you have any requirements or hobbies, just tell me directly. The girls will definitely satisfy Young master."
Yuan'an said: "I am a dedicated person. I have been here for a few months to do business. My friend brought me to you to meet a beautiful woman named Chunhua. Madam can just to bring Miss Chunhua out to meet me."
The old Madam said: "Looking for Chunhua, Young master is really good at seeing people. Chunhua is our best here. But you are a step late, she has just been redeemed by her former patron."
Yuan'an pondered for a while, then looked at the old Madam and smiled: "Madam, I know your business. There are so many girls that you have to take care of, right? You don't need to bring someone else for me, so please tell me directly how can I find Chunhua? I will give you these golden balls in my hand to play with."
The old Madam turned her eyes: "Chunhua has a chronic headache and can't run far after redeeming herself. She has to go to a clinic in the east of the city to get medicine on the 15th day of each month. If it won't work, can just go there and wait for Chunhua."
After the old Madam finished speaking, she took the golden balls in Yuan'an's hand, took a bite, and it broke. It turned out to be eggs painted gold!
Yuan'an laughed as she quickly rushed off.
Chunhua was actually the lover of the ruffian Nigu. This kid never does good things, but he is romantic.
After taking the silver from the dead man, the first thing he did was to go to the brothel and redeem Chunhua. Chunhua has had a headache since childhood, and she had another attack during the day. She was lying on the bed and was dying. Nigu came in from outside: "The medicine is here, the medicine is here, I bought it for you!"
Nigu served Chunhua water and medicine. After she took the medicine, she seemed to be better, she leaned on his shoulder and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Nigu said, "Chunhua, there is no need to be so polite. If you follow me, you can rest assured. As I told you, now that I have money, you can stay with me and live a good life, I won't let you suffer."
Chunhua threw herself into Nigu's arms: "Darling, Nigu!"
Suddenly, a voice came from outside: "Is the money you have earned from good deeds?!"
Before the voice fell, Zhao Lanzhi, Yuan'an, and Mu Le broke in.
Nigu was shocked and pointed at them: "Who are you? Who are you? I see Mu Le, ah, how come it's you?"
Zhao Lanzhi, with a calm face, pressed the blade to his neck: "You plotted to gain wealth and harm lives, framed others, but you can't hide on the fifteenth. Do you still want to talk nonsense? What did you take from the dead? Hand it over quickly!"
Nigu denied: "Officer, I don't understand a word of what you're saying. Did you make a mistake? What dead person are you talking about? I don't know, I don't know anything!
Mu Le, angered, rushed up and grabbed Nigu's collar fiercely: "You, you used me! You killed someone!"
Nigu was almost strangled to death by Mu Le, but Yuan'an came up and dragged Mu Le away.
Nigu fell to the ground, and Zhao Lanzhi pressed him on the bench, sitting on him himself: "I'm just asking you questions, but since you won't talk..."
Nigu still refused to beg for mercy: "I don't know anything, really!"
The prostitute Chunhua on the bed cried when she saw this, tumbled out of bed, and took out a large bag of silver from the partition hidden under the floor tiles, and shouted at Nigu while crying: "You value wealth over your life! How can you enjoy it if you really die!" She knelt at Zhao Lanzhi's feet, "My Lord, officer, spare him, this is the silver he stole, we used a few ingots, and the rest are here. All for you!
Zhao Lanzhi glanced at the silver, not interested: "And the painting?! What about the painting he brought with him?!"
Nigu said: "Painting? What painting? I don't know! The silver is all here, what else do you want?"
Zhao Lanzhi sneered, raised the sword, and was about to stab Nigu in the eye.
Nigu: "No! Really don't!"
Zhao Lanzhi didn't retract the sword, the tip of the knife was about to stab into Nigu's eye. Yuan'an and Mu Le became nervous.
Nigu yelled: "Ah! I remember! I have seen it, I have seen it!"
Zhao Lanzhi retracted the sword and stood up. Nigu rolled over and started vomiting. Panic had turned his stomach upside down.
Zhao Lanzhi was experienced, under the stimulation of death, not only did he recall what happened a few days ago, but he could recall what he saw and heard when he was still breastfeeding as a child.
Nigu panted heavily: "My Lord, I remember. When I was scoping out this person in the casino, I saw that he was also carrying something long and round, like a scroll wrapped in it. But I was not interested in that, I just wanted his money!"
Zhao Lanzhi: "The day you killed him, didn't you see that painting?"
Nigu shook his head: "No! No! Never seen it! Your methods are really good! Good methods! My life is yours! I dare not lie! I dare not!"
Zhao Lanzhi felt that it was almost enough. This person probably only knew this much. He took the silver in one hand and pulled up Nigu with the other: "Let's go, go to the county office to talk."
He walked up to Yuan'an and Mu Le: "Thank you for your help. I have caught the criminal, there will be no more problems for Mu Le. You can take your horse slave home."
The excitement just now made Yuan'an very excited. He got closer and said to himself: "Constable Zhao Zaotou, what kind of painting are you looking for?"
"It has nothing to do with you."
Yuan'an leisurely: "I think there's still a long way to go, we are partners."
Zhao Lanzhi looked down at Yuan'an. She was really beautiful and adorable. When asking for a favor, she wrinkled her brow, pouted her lips, huddled her shoulders, and clasped her hands together—a cute and slightly mischievous appearance. Zhao Lanzhi stared at her for a while, contemplated for a moment but he couldn't bring himself to refuse her. However, he remained silent and left with Nigu.
Yuan'an understood the unspoken rule of asking someone to do things in the background, she gritted and looked back at Mu Le, and suddenly became angry again: "Let's go home! See if you dare to run around again in the future!"
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