Chapter 103： enthusiastic

Chapter 103 Enthusiasm

Zhang Carpenter bent down and put his mouth next to her ear, "There was a woman at the stall next to me just now who was afraid that she was going to be deceived."

Then you go to the Yamen to report the crime. What’s the point of looking for her? Su Ruojin said: "There are not only city soldiers and city magistrates, but even worse, there are city orders. You report it to them!"

Carpenter Zhang shook his head, "Others won't believe it. This is just my personal feeling." He wanted to follow quietly just now, but there were so many people in the market. In the blink of an eye, the people disappeared. As he was running around anxiously, he saw Su Er Niang, because of the walker incident, he did not treat Su Er Niang as a child, and even wanted her to give advice.

Su Ruojin:…

Zhang Carpenter saw that the young lady didn’t want to meddle in other people’s business, and he broke into a sweat in the middle of winter. “Mrs. Su Er, do you still remember what I told you about Carpenter Li?”

She nodded, remembering, but what does it have to do with this matter?

“Did you recognize the liar?”

"no."

“Then how are you sure that this woman was cheated?”

Before Carpenter Li disappeared, Carpenter Zhang had been in contact with him. Zhang Liang clearly remembered what state he was in at that time. The woman was being deceived in the same state today as she was then.

Carpenter Zhang talked a lot, and his expression was a bit confusing, but Su Ruojin finally understood, "You mean there are people who specialize in defrauding craftsmen?"

The summary words seemed to open up the door for Zhang Carpenter, and he suddenly became cheerful, "Yes... yes, the woman just weaved good cloth, and the man who was the master and the servant said that he wanted to buy more cloth and wanted to She took them home to see how much cloth was left, and if the cloth was good, they could buy it all.”

In her previous life, Su Ruojin had heard of people being tricked into digging coal in the mines, or cheating on labor force, or cheating on pensions. The former was abominable, and the latter would be sent to the eighteenth level of **** after death. Now she is cheating on craftsmen?

In ancient times, possessing a craft could support your family and even make a small fortune. Some unscrupulous landowners and powerful men actually deceived craftsmen into doing things for themselves.

“Then go to her house quickly and see if she comes home, so you can know if she has been cheated?”

Zhang Liang shook his head, "We occasionally set up a stall together. I only know that her name is Kong Niangzi, and she is good at weaving. Others..." He didn't know why he was so worried and meddle in this matter. It was really because the matter about Carpenter Li was in his hands. A deep impression was left in my mind, and I always felt that the two people today were very similar to the one who tricked Carpenter Li into drinking that year.

Whether it was Carpenter Li's incident that was so unforgettable to Carpenter Zhang, or whether Carpenter Zhang was enthusiastic about people he met by chance, now that she was destined to find Su Ruojin, she was also enthusiastic.

"Walk!"

Zhang Liang: ...Where to go?

“Ask where Mrs. Kong’s home is!”

"Oh." Zhang Liang finally came to his senses and saw Su Erniang correctly. Carpenter Zhang seemed to have found the backbone and hurriedly returned to the place where the stall was set up.

Shutong frowned, it was too cold, and he wanted to take Er Niangzi home early. Unexpectedly, Carpenter Zhang was meddling in other people's business and wanted to stop him in dissatisfaction. As a result, Er Niangzi had already left with others, so he had to move the casserole to On the mule cart, Xiao ran followed.

Returning to the place where the market stalls were set up, Zhang Liang asked several small vendors before he found out about Mrs. Kong who often came to sell cloth. "She, my husband died of illness a few years ago, and one of his sons was snatched away by her husband's family. Now she is alone." One man rented a room in the Houqiao area and bought silk and weaving cloth to make ends meet. He was a poor man. "

Alone? For some reason, Su Ruojin thought of the villains who preyed on single women in later generations. They clearly did this after inquiring about them!

Until this moment, Su Ruojin felt that Carpenter Zhang’s intuition was right. She quickly asked for confirmation, “Then Carpenter Li is also alone?”

“He is not, but he has no relatives in the capital. He came to the capital from Xiangshan to make a living.”

. No matter what they are, these two are not within the reach of ordinary people like Zhang Carpenter and Su Ruojin.

"Uncle Zhang, let's go to her house in Houqiao Lane to have a look. If she comes back, we'll be worried for nothing. If she doesn't come back, you can go to the Yamen to report the case. You've done your best."

As long as someone believes in it, Zhang Liang feels that he has really tried his best.

 Zhang Liang stored the remaining two carts with a merchant he knew. He got on the Su family's mule cart and went to the back alley together. From the alley entrance, he inquired all the way to the place where Mrs. Kong rented, and talked to the landlady next door.

Zhang Liang and Su Ruojin didn’t look like bad people at first glance, but the landlady still looked at them warily, “Who are you?”

Zhang Liang said matter-of-factly: "We were setting up a stall in the market together. Today, two men with foreign accents said they wanted to buy Lady Kong's cloth. I thought they looked like liars. I was afraid that Lady Kong would be deceived, so I went to her house to see if she had come back. ?”

The landlady shook her head, "I definitely didn't come back."

Zhang Liang and Su Ruojin had a sudden heart attack. Something they didn't want to admit happened still happened, but they didn't have any evidence. Can they go to the Yamen to report the crime? Will he be coaxed out?

Zhang Liang asked, “What should I do?”

“Wait a minute, if you haven’t come back until dark...” Under normal circumstances, there is a time limit for reporting a missing person, at least one day and one night.

Carpenter Zhang obviously knew about this rule through Carpenter Li’s incident. “I was afraid that if I waited until dark to report a crime, the yamen would not accept it!” Besides, people in the yamen were on low duty at that time. Who would care whether a weak woman disappeared or not?

“Wait, Uncle Zhang, what were you talking about just now?”

Zhang Carpenter was stopped by Su Ruojin, "I'm not talking about anything, I'm just a weak..."

Stop, it’s these three words—weak woman.

 It is good to have a time limit for reporting a crime, but if it threatens the personal safety of the missing person, or the other party may be harmed, then you can report the crime to the Yamen at any time.

“Little lady, have you thought of a solution?”

“Didn’t you say that two grown men, a master and a servant, took Lady Kong away?”

Zhang Carpenter nodded, "Everyone in the market saw it."

"That's easy to handle. A weak woman was taken away by two big men. Do you think it's dangerous?"

“Of course it’s dangerous?” That’s why Zhang Carpenter felt uneasy.

Without further ado, Su Ruojin asked Uncle Shu Tong to drive the mule cart quickly and report the case while the Yamen was not on duty.

Sure enough, as they feared, there was no evidence and they were not relatives. The two reported the case, but Jingzhao Mansion did not accept it at all. Fortunately, they met the clerk who went through the shop procedures last time. This man seemed to know Hua Ping. Through him, the Yamen finally accepted the report. The case was solved, but it was not something Su Ruojin and Zhang Carpenter could urge when to send troops to find someone.

The two of them stood at the door and didn't want to leave. Master Liu smiled thinly and said, "Young lady, I have never met her, so you are already very generous. It's getting dark soon, so go back quickly."

Su Ruojin sighed like an adult, "Uncle Zhang said that two craftsmen around him have disappeared. He doesn't know if there are many craftsmen missing in other places, and he doesn't know if someone has gathered the craftsmen to do bad things."

(End of this chapter)