Chapter 318 Catching a Thief
Xia Daohua stared at Doctor Xiao Hu for a long while, then looked around the two rooms in his house. Doctor Xiao Hu was always a careful person, so he would naturally have noticed it.
However, although Xia Daohua is a curious child who wants to take a look at everything and wants to be in charge of everything, she is not likely to talk too much.
Although Doctor Hu felt that Xia Daohua looked a little strange today, he didn't find her annoying.
Xia Daohua looked around but still couldn't find a suitable place to put the camera - Dr. Xiao Hu was a doctor and was very familiar with flowers and plants.
If I come across one I don’t recognize, I will definitely explore it…It’s not convenient to put a camera on a bonsai.
If it were something else, it would be too abrupt.
It seems that we can only think of a solution from another angle.
When Xia Daohua was thinking about how to secretly investigate in the Hu Family Clinic, Wei Shiqi took the opportunity to tell Xia Daohua that Eunuch Wei had returned to Beijing with Wei Jizu.
Xia Daohua didn't pay attention at first, but after Wei Shiqi said this, he sighed three times in succession, and Xia Daohua's mind, which had already wandered away, was pulled back by him.
As soon as Xia Daohua saw Wei Shiqi’s sad face, she knew that Wei Shiqi was very worried.
"Why are you worried? The old man comes home every now and then to visit, isn't that normal?"
"You don't know..." Wei Shiqi hesitated for a moment, but quickly explained - in the past, even if Eunuch Wei returned to Beijing to report on his work, or left Ping'an County for some other reason, he would always keep in touch with them.
I would contact you every few days to let you know I was safe.
But this time, Eunuch Wei hadn't contacted them for a long time.
Seeing Wei Shiqi's worried expression, Xia Daohua paused and swallowed back the words of comfort that were about to come to her tongue. Instead, she briefly explained to Wei Shiqi what had happened with the "Puji Rescue".
Of course, she didn't say how she got the person back.
She only said that the people had been found, the biggest loss was the dogs, and the Beggars' Sect was involved. Another thing was that there was a traitor in "Puji Rescue", but she was not sure who this person was.
Lihua saw that the two of them were talking in low voices, and their brows were getting more and more furrowed, so she deliberately walked closer and asked with a smile:
"What are you two talking about, whispering to each other?"
When they looked up and saw Lihua, their faces suddenly brightened.
Xia Daohua has always liked Lihua, but Wei Shiqi's attitude towards his future daughter-in-law is more than just liking. His handsome and gentle smiling face has unknowingly been tinged with a blush.
Lihua was delighted when she saw the two smiling faces. Then she looked at Wei Shiqi's shy expression and couldn't help blushing.
Xia Daohua couldn't help laughing when she saw the two of them like this. She smiled like an auntie. For a moment, she even forgot all her worries.
However, this warm and sweet atmosphere was soon broken by the noise from the street.
A team of yamen runners walked down the street, beating gongs and shouting as they walked, asking everyone to be careful at the door and to take anyone they saw who looked suspicious to the county yamen...
Neighbors flocked to the streets to watch the excitement, and some brave enough went to the yamen runners to ask about the details.
Xia Daohua listened carefully.
It turned out that those dandies who came to Ping'an County for sightseeing finally discovered that they had been robbed - everyone's purse, silver bills, and jade pendants were stolen clean by bold thieves who came from nowhere. The only valuable things left on their bodies were the clothes they were wearing, the hairpins on their heads, and the horses under their buttocks.
Didn’t this group of people go to “Daohuaxiang” and try out the “zero-yuan shopping” trick?
Seeing that Xia Daohua had been polite to them all the time, they thought it was not advisable to hit someone who smiled at them. Moreover, they did not dare to pick a fight directly in front of Gu Shanrou, who was a half-landlord. Therefore, after leaving "Daohuaxiang", they planned to find a place to get rid of Gu Shanrou, and then come back to "Daohuaxiang" to cause trouble - after all, most of the playboys were at odds with Li Gan, and at this time Li Gan had "lost his heart" and his whereabouts were unknown, so they took the opportunity to bully his subordinates to vent their anger.
Gu Shanrou was very popular among the royal family and had always been loved by the emperor and empress, so they didn't dare to go too far in front of Gu Shanrou.
The method these people thought of to get rid of Gu Shanrou was to gallop on horseback. However, after crossing most of Jixiang County, they still failed to get rid of Gu Shanrou. They never expected that Gu Shanrou was a hidden talent. She usually looked weak, ladylike and demure, but in fact her horsemanship was no less than theirs.
Then they looked for a place to drink, and Gu Shanrou remained calm and insisted on accompanying them.
They then changed their mind and decided to go drink wine.
This time, Gu Shanrou naturally couldn't follow them, but she sent a manager to accompany them, under the pretext of helping them settle the bill.
Gu Shanrou's face did not look good. After giving instructions to the steward, she rode away.
As soon as Gu Shanrou left, this group of playboys, under the respectful gaze of Gu Shanrou's manager, gritted their teeth and entered the most luxurious brothel in Jixiang County.
In fact, it’s not that they don’t like brothels, but they originally planned to go directly to "Daohuaxiang" to cause trouble. However, at this time, Gu Shanrou’s manager was accompanying them, so it was naturally not easy for them to run over directly.
After entering the brothel, the manager gave the group money first, and the group didn't even notice that they had lost anything.
In fact, in the capital, this group of people often visited such red-light districts.
At this moment, he discovered that the red-light district in Jixiang County was not inferior to those in the capital, so he became interested and put off the matter of causing trouble for "Daohuaxiang".
The manager stayed with them for a while, but they finally sent him away with an excuse.
Then, when they were halfway through drinking and wanted to pay for tips, they realized that their purses were missing!
He felt around his body again and found that apart from his wallet, even some of his personal belongings, such as banknotes and clothing accessories, were missing.
This is a thief!
The playboys thought they had entered a shady shop and could not help but make a big fuss in the brothel. They had a fight and finally alerted the patrolling yamen runners and were taken to the county magistrate's hall.
Although County Magistrate Yang did not recognize these people, he could identify them by their accents and the material of their clothes. When he heard them introduce themselves, he realized that something serious was going on.
Such a serious theft case actually happened under his rule!
How can this be!
County Magistrate Yang immediately sent out all the bailiffs and detectives to catch the thief.
Those who can have such skills must be habitual criminals, perhaps old thieves who only recognize clothes and not people. They committed the crime because they saw that these people were dressed luxuriously and had foreign accents.
Of course, the bailiffs would not actually tell it in such detail, but the incident of these playboys causing chaos in the brothel had already spread throughout the streets and alleys as a lively event at the beginning of the year.
Xia Daohua looked at the hurried yamen runners and smiled slightly.
(End of this chapter)
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