Chapter 64
After cleaning up, Peng Tiexia fell asleep. The northwest road was far away. This trip was not a good job. Peng Tiexia felt depressed and had been drunk these days. He was still drunk and felt uncomfortable. He didn't want to leave any more steps.
As the sun had just set, the two cavalry ran from the official road, arrived at the horse shop, and whispered to the soldiers guarding the door: "Is Peng Tiejie, who escorted Zhang Yuan's family, rest here? We are coming from the capital, and there is an emergency document!"
After eating, the soldier who was eating there was anxious and got up quickly and said, "I'm here, I'm here! Two of you wait, I'll report it! Tie's road is exhausted and is resting inside."
After a while, Peng Tiejie came out sleepily, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the two of them and said, "But it's a cause, why are there any official documents? I'll take these men and women to the northwest, and not everything has been arranged."
The two soldiers came down from the horse and took out the waist sign for Peng Tixia. It turned out that they were sent by the Privy Council. After checking Peng Tixia's identity, they took out a document and handed it over, and said, "The Shufu has an order. You can stay for a while. Wait until the official document is coming, and then make a decision."
Peng Tiehe looked behind him and shook his head and said, "This is not a pain. You two came earlier. I was in Zhongmu. One day later. I was in Guancheng. Now I am in the middle horse shop. There is no inn, so how can I rest? Why not, I will rush to Guancheng Inn tomorrow and stop there?"
A soldier said impatiently: "You have a lot of trouble! So I just stayed in a hotel in this town for a few days. What's the matter? There are imperial guard camps in several counties and towns around me. Are you still afraid that someone will rob you?"
"Brother joked, where did the thieves come from in the heart of the Central Plains?" Peng Tiejie laughed and accepted the official documents. The town is not crowded and has inconvenient accommodation, so it makes more than a dozen people wait here, which is really annoying.
The two soldiers handed over the official documents and left on their own, leaving Peng Tie and his group with more than a dozen people.
Du Zhongxiao and three Kaifeng Prefecture officials asked from the city gate and chased Wu Kejiu all the way out of the city. It was not until the third day that they barely left the Kaifeng Prefecture and arrived at Putian Town. Seeing the crowd outside the horse shop from afar, Du Zhongxiao said happily: "Okay, I'll see Peng Ti!"
Several men were excited after hearing this, and urged the horse to come to the front and let the soldiers go in and report.
When Pengtixia heard that another official came, the boss was impatient and went out of the horse shop without saying hello, but just stood there and listened to someone.
Du Zhongxiao bowed: "Tixia, here is Du Zhongxiao who came to Beijing from Xuzhou to study. He had a drink together a few days ago."
Pengtixia nodded: "I remember you. What's going on?"
Du Zhongxiao said: "Two days ago, a thief entered my room and stole a booklet of steamed wine. This book is useless for most people to steal. They think about it. It may be related to the people who came from Dangxiang. Near that, only Tixia escorted Zhang Yuan's family, which was related to Dangxiang people. I was afraid that there would be a bad person to come to attack Tixia, so I hurriedly found out of the city, one was to chase the thief, and the other was to inform Tixia."
Peng Tiexia frowned and said, "This is the hinterland of the Central Plains, with large camps of imperial guards. What kind of thieves dare not come here without eyes! Little official, you are worried about nothing and think too much. Maybe you lost the booklet and are not angry. Make up these words to let the public follow you to investigate."
"What is Tie's saying? I keep that book in my heart, and I can write another one at any time, so what's the matter? It's really too strange that I came to inform Tie's. Be careful on the way."
Peng Tixia was not willing to listen to such words. He forced himself to listen to Du Zhongxiao after he finished speaking, and then turned back to the room to rest.
Du Zhongxiao shook his head and said to several officials: "This place has left Kaifeng Prefecture, and you need to pay the official documents to continue to investigate. It's too late, so why not stay in the town and continue to move forward tomorrow."
The few of them left the horse shop without any objection and went to an inn in the town.
The next morning, Du Zhongxiao got up and left the inn, walking alone along the Jinshui River. This happened when he had decided to leave Beijing and was very depressed. He searched along Wu Kejiu's trail these days, and he became less and less confident when he walked. Did he really guess wrong? This was even a farce directed by Wu Kejiu, just for the booklet?
Suddenly, a shadow flashed by the river in the distance, looking very familiar. Du Zhongxiao suddenly shuddered and looked closely, but it was the person who entered the room to grab the booklet that night. This man was tall and had a beard, so he was very easy to recognize.
Seeing that man was treacherous and wandering around the horse shop, Du Zhongxiao was excited again. After thinking for a while, Du Zhongxiao returned to the inn, woke up Cui Jiejie, who was with him, and said to him: "Jing, the thief who entered my room to grab things that night was watching the wind in the horse shop. This matter is not small, and the Jiejie can watch him and quickly report to the local government. As long as you catch this person, everything will be revealed."
Cui Jiejie agreed and called a man to go to Zhengzhou quickly, and went to see the person who came to watch the wind.
After the arrangement was made, Du Zhongxiao sat in the inn, drinking tea alone. He came to help find people, not to handle the case, but found his own task to complete. If these people who came were really Dangxiang people, they would definitely be more vicious than ordinary thieves, so why should he go to the muddy waters?
The people in front were forced to do errands, and Peng Tiexia delayed the trip again, and missed the trip. Ma Da, Niu Er and others were anxious when they were waiting. They had to forget everything, but they didn't expect any accidents, and the matter suddenly became uncontrollable. Niu Er personally brought people to the garden to watch Peng Tiexia to avoid any more accidents. There was no way, and it was impossible to rob people in advance. After leaving Kaifeng Prefecture, it was sparsely populated. Crossing the Yellow River north, people were still unaware of it. The Song Dynasty was just chasing, and most of them were heading to the front line of Shanzhou. I didn't expect them to take Hedong Road.
At about noon, Cui Jiejie returned to the inn and said to Du Zhongxiao: "The thief who looked at the wind did not leave, so he stayed in the horse shop not far from him. He went to Zhengzhou not far away, and the person who reported the news came back soon. The little official cleaned up and prepared to get people with us."
Du Zhongxiao said: "I have no power to tie a chicken, how can I participate in this kind of thing? Just take people to get it. I can recognize that guy clearly and I will definitely not be wrong. Just wait for someone from Zhengzhou to be investigated, and the case will be solved."
Cui Jiejie thought for a while and nodded in agreement. He had only two or three people under him. He did not cooperate with the local government and did not dare to go out to arrest people early. One of them was not easy to escape and was very guilty of being blamed. Putian was just a small town, and there was no supervision town, and there was no yamen, so how could he find a man. Peng Tieshi, who lives in the horse shop, did not dare to be alarmed because he looked at Zhang Yuan's family, so he was in a dilemma.
At this moment, the officials sent to Zhengzhou and two others came back to report to Cui Jiejia: "The youngest person reported to Zhengzhou. The governor Di attached great importance to it. He thought that the big case was so he sent a magistrate and brought more than 30 people with him. Now they are outside the town, and they just waited for the guidance of the ministerial level, and then took the people!"
Cui Jiejie breathed a sigh of relief and went out to find Zhengzhou soldiers with the public from Zhengzhou.
Chapter completed!