My historical mission 1

Ning Xiucai said,"Xiao Bei, your kung fu is so good. If it weren't for you today, I would have died here." Without me, you might not have rested here, and nothing would have happened. Let's not talk about this for now. I have ready-made dry food in my bag. Let's just eat a bite. The water from her well is not poisoned, so you can fetch it and drink it. We still have to rest here tonight and start our journey again tomorrow morning. After saying that, I took out the dry food and went to the well to fetch water. Although it was not good to drink raw water, it was safer than boiling water on the old woman's stove. I carried the water into the house and ate two meals with just plain water. Two mouthfuls of dry food.

This day has been tiring enough. Brother Ning, please go to bed first while I go to the courtyard for a walk. Ning Xiucai said, I will go with you. No need, this old woman smells very strong of snakes. She must have kept venomous snakes around her. Just rest in the house. I'll sprinkle the powder in the house. It's safer for you to stay in the house. But keep your pockets closed as you say. I sprinkled the insect repellent powder around, closed the door, and walked to the next room.

When I opened the door to the room, I saw that the room was very simple, with a wooden bed and a cabinet next to the bed. The cabinet door was open. There was a small wooden table in front of the window next to the door. The wooden table was covered with dust. , this room looks like no one has lived in it for a long time. Before exiting the room, go forward and enter the room at the far end. This room is obviously used to store sundries. Some shovels are very valuable and are gathering dust. There was indeed a foot-high black jar standing next to the door. The jar was very clean and seemed out of place in the room. I didn't dare to open the lid of the jar directly. I listened through the jar and found that there was something alive inside. There was a strong snake smell on the jar. This is the snake raised by the old witch. It’s better not to open it. To be honest, I am also afraid of snakes. I specially brought a suitable stone from the outside and pressed it on the jar, so I felt relieved.

After walking around the yard and not finding anything special, I returned to my original room. Ning Xiucai was still sitting on the edge of the pit waiting for me. When he saw me entering the house, he immediately stood up and asked,"Have you found anything?" I looked at the two rooms next to them, and they didn't look like they were occupied. But this room was very clean. It looked like someone was living in it and cleaning it. I looked around the room, and it was very simple. There were two cabinets on both sides of the pit, a small table, and two quilts and two pillows on the cabinet. I thought to myself, if there are two pillows, two people should usually sleep here.

I opened the cabinet and took a look. One contained men's clothes. The clothes were very old and many had patches. The other contained women's clothes. They were better than men's, but they were all made of coarse cloth, but judging from the size, they should be. Not the clothes of an old witch.

I looked at Ning Xiucai and said, this doesn't seem to be the old witch's home. She probably came here recently. Ning Xiucai nodded and said, I also think that a middle-aged couple should have lived here.

I want to tell Ning Xiucai that we are not good at investigating cases, so we should go to Yingtian Mansion tomorrow and hand over the man and snake jar to the people in the government office and let them investigate.

We made do with it here for the night, and hitched up the carriage early the next morning and set off. This time there was an old witch who was still in a coma and a jar filled with poisonous snakes.

Not long after we left the small hut, the old witch seemed to be waking up. I took out the drug that came out of the fur ball from my arms, put it under the old witch's nose and shook it. Passed out again smoothly. Ning Xiucai asked me curiously what I was doing. I shook the medicine bottle in my hand. This was the anesthetic I made and it was very effective. If you don't knock this old woman out, she'll be making trouble on the way. Aren't we also in trouble?...

After driving all morning, we finally saw the city wall of Yingtian Mansion. Ning Xiucai and I breathed a sigh of relief, finally arriving.

When I entered the city gate, I saw that it was already noon, so I ate two bowls of wontons on the roadside. After resting for a while, I asked for directions to the government office. As I walked, I told Ning Xiucai,"Brother Ning will arrive at the government office soon. Who should we hand over to him? I grew up in the countryside and have never seen the world." Brother Ning has a public name and it means things are easier when he arrives at the government office. This matter has to be left to Brother Ning. I will just follow you and be a book boy. Ning Xiucai smiled and said yes. When he got to the government office, he told his brother that most of these matters were handled by the general judge. I heard that the general judge of Yingtian Mansion was surnamed Song. He was the same year as my husband. Let's go find him. Song Tongxuan will do.

When he arrived in front of the government office, he saw a government official standing guard. Ning Xiucai stepped forward and handed over his candidate name tag, signing up for the Taoist student Yizhou Shengyuan and asking to see Mr. Song, the general judge. When the yamen officer saw that he was a scholar, he said to this student, please wait a moment. Let's go in and ask the judge. After saying this, he went in with his name tag. After about a cup of tea, the yamen servant came out and said to Ning Xiucai, Sir, let you in. Ning Xiucai looked back at me, and I nodded to him. Ning Xiucai said, Xiaobei, wait for me outside, and then went in with the Yamen servant.

About half an hour later, Ning Xiucai came out, followed by four tall men in police uniforms. They walked to the carriage, and I quickly jumped out of the carriage. Ning Xiucai said,"I have told your Excellency what happened. Your Excellency wants to interrogate the prisoner. You can go in with me."

When the police officers saw the old witch who was unconscious in the car, they were all shocked. The four of them looked at each other and said, this is the old woman. After arresting her for so long, she didn't expect to be caught by the two little brothers.