CHAPTER 3

Because of her record in childhood, Jin Xia's name is really famous. She was always mentioned by her neighbors in the old days, as a pretty fierce girl. She was uncomfortable at first, and then later, she think thats okay, not bad.

After she become a Catcher, and regarded as a member of the official family. Her reputation gradually faded from her neighbourhood. Yuan Chen, Jin Xia's mother, even couldn't restrain her daughter, and lately she just realize that Jin Xia was getting older day by day, no one came to mention anything bad about her anymore.

In order to prepare her one and only daughter's dowry, Yuan Chen sells tofu in the day and dried tofu at night, which is very difficult.

Jin Xia also known as a heavy money-lover. Now Jin Xia heard that her mother like Mr. Yi's youngest child. The first reaction that Jin Xia thinking about how much dowry did mother and father make, so that the Yi family could be tempted.

Then she thinks about it again, the idea of marriage is really once and for a life time: if I marry into the Yi family, Yuan Xi, my young brother will be their little brother-in-law, then Yuan Yi's private lesson expenses at school in the next few years can be saved, as well as summer private lesson and winter private lesson also can be avoided, it is indeed a considerable expense. if all these expenses are saved, then dowry can be recovered.

She knocked hard her forehead, and looked anxiously at the burning firewood in the stove, and tucked it in again.

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The Jinshui River flowed slowly, reflecting the countless bright lights on both sides of the strait.

There are also people who are rowing boats for sale. The man with the flower on his head is shirtless. If someone on the shore throws down money, he immediately smiles and sings a promise and then climbs to the towering bamboo pole, leaping into the water, there are still flowers in the air, or turn around or somersault before entering the water.

The restaurants on the shore are adjacent to each other, and the small bridge stalls on the street slipped.

Leaning next to the little stone lion on the bridge railing, Jin Xia was boredly guarding the stall of dried tofu, listening to the sound of silk bamboo and the noise from the restaurant next to her, her eyes fixed on the river. She had been here to help her mother selling their tofu tonight, her mother feels not well because selling tofu last night, so Jin Xia persuaded her mother to go home to rest, and let her help sell the tofu. Yuan Chen couldn't rest assured and she want to take care of the stall. Jin Xia had to swear that she would be sure to keep the stall with honesty, then later finally her mother go back first and rest.

"Come just two cents for a dried tofu, you can add spicy oil!" she said with a smiley voice.

Jin Xia look up and see Yang Yue, wondered, "How do you know I'm here?"

"I just sent two pickled fish to your house, and I met your mother. By the way, she subsidized for your business trip. She said that you are here to stand." Yang Yue take a bunch of dried tofu, drained it with spicy oil, "My dad told us to go with him to the Military Department Secretary in the morning."

"Oh." Jin Xia casually response, "Is there something missing in there?"

"Only ghosts know." Yang Yue followed her gaze and looked at the river, curious, "What are you looking at?"

"Did you see that diving juggling?" Jin Xia asked.

With her voice, the shirtless man leaped from the high pole with a beautiful backflip, threw three somersaults with his knees, and plopped into the water. The river was cold. It was cold and piercing, Yang Yue could not help shrinking his neck and snoring for that person.

"I sell three bunches of tofu, and he has jumped back eight times." said Jin Xia to the shirtless man who climbed into the boat infinitely enviously, "once he jumped up he got paid, for me its equally to selling tofu for a month, whats your opinion, what else should I do? should I quit selling tofu and start do that diving juggling, too?"

"Aren't that cold?"

"Do you think with that much money he can get in every jump, he can feels the cold?" Jin Xia looked down at a pile of hill-shaped marinated tofu, don't know when it will be sold out, and sighed.

"Lack of money again?" Yang Yue knew her very well.

Before Jin Xia answered, someone came in front of the stall.

"I want four bunches of tofu, two bunches of hot sauce, and two bunches of plum powder. The more sour, the better, my lady wants to eat some sour now." Sun Jixing, the eldest son of Sun's family with his wife visit the night market.

Although she was very reluctant to raise her eyes, Jin Xia, for the sake of collecting money, she quickly prepared the dried tofu and passed it, with no expression: "This is your four copper plates, thank you."

Sun Jixing paid. Sun took the dried bean curd, and blinked at her: "Well, Jin Xia, why are you here at the stall? Don't you catch a thief?"

"... haha ... this is a special task." Jin Xia, she lowered her voice and rushed past.

"Recently, the government is deploying a big operation. If You have nothing to do here then go home quickly, I see your wife is pregnant, its dangerous, right?"

Sun Jixing was nervous when he heard it, "You.. you are joking, right!"

Jin Xia signaled them to look at Yang Yue next to her and asked, "Otherwise, you think we two are here ... is it really for selling dried beans?"

Sun Jixing was busy carrying her women home in a hurry, and Yang Yue watched their back disappear into the crowd, only to wonder: "God, why you scare them?"

"The loving couple wandered around in front of my mother. Thats why my mother keep blaming me for not getting married yet, and I wouldn't be able to talk back. This is really kill me."

She squeezed her brows in annoyance, and suddenly heard a noise from the crowd on the left, looking to look up, she saw a man wearing a fluttering scarf and a three-inlaid robe fell over the pedestrian and fell heavily. When he fell on her tofu stand, the dried tofu immediately spilled to the ground, and various sauces splashed!

"Hey you..."

Seeing that he still had a pair of match gold cooked copper bell pestle in his hand, he looks like a fortune teller. Jin Xia stretched out her hand to pull him. Unexpectedly, the fortune teller waved backhand, a bright long dagger was exposed at the bottom of his sleeve. At a glance, Jn Xia knows that the blade was poisoned.

"Be careful!" Yang Yue was frightened and rushed forward.

The movement was too sudden. Jin Xia had a quick reaction and turned to his side in a perfect time. His dagger slanted off half of her sleeves.

Yang Yue had already prepare to shot, but someone came first. A blue shadow passing by. Volley's flying leg kicked the fortune teller to vomit blood, struggled on the ground.

"Say! Where are the secrets hidden?" The visitor was wearing a bamboo-green solid-gauze patchwork suit. He stepped on the wrist of the fortune-teller's dagger, his voice chilling like cold air.

"... I don't know!" The fortune teller was sweating with pain.

The blue-shirted man, Jin Xia recognized him.

There are few high-powered people in this kingdom. On the top is Sejong, the king, then other one is Yan Song, the Cabinet's first assistant and there is another person, Lu Bing, the Supreme Commander of Jin Yiwei. He and Sejong were good buddies who grew up together. They also risked their lives and rushed into the fire to rescue Sejong. The relationship between them is hard to explain. Long story short, Lu Bing is a good official. Although he ruled out dissidents and held power, he at least fulfilled his duties and indeed redressed many injustices in jail, but as everyone knows, he and Yan Song made good friends.

In front of Jin Xia, there is Jin Yiwei's supreme command, with Lu Bingqi's sword, his eyes flowed, not angry and prestigious, very frightening. The young man in front of Jin Xia is Lu Bing's son, Lu Yi. Lu Bing was born as the No. 1 position, but Lu Yi is said to have high martial arts, even better than his father. He is one of the best in Jin Yiwei.

In her opinion, in terms of appearance, Lu Yi should be looks like his mother, with insufficient power and good looks, except that his eyes resemble his father, with his appearance and his calmness, commensurate with his age, he looks a bit cold.

Lu Yi's feet twisted slightly, adding a bit of strength, Jin Xia felt that she could even hear the fortune-teller's wrist bones crackling.

"I ... really ... don't know!" The fortune-teller's voice was stern.

This fortune-teller carries a poisoned dagger, which is definitely not a good one. Although Jin Xia knows that Jin Yiwei always has bad way to handle people, but he is so forced to confess, she stepped forward and said, "I don't know what the fortune-teller committed. What's the matter? Just to interrogate ... "

She spoke only halfway, Lu Yi didn't even lift his eyelids, his placket dangled, revealing the Jin Yiwei waistband tied to his waist, and said coldly: "The government office on the duty, idlers don't interfer!"

At first when the Jin Yiwei came, people around him were so curious, but now they didn't dare to talk anymore, and spread quickly and quietly. The formerly bustling Xinfeng Bridgehead soon became deserted.

In the meantime, four people arrived, all of which are all wearing blue and long body armor, leather boots, and soap leather boots, which are the Jin Yiwey official clothes. Before the four came to Lu Yi, respectfully Shi Lizhen reported: "Master Lu, Cao Ge is dead."

When Jin Xia heard Cao Ge, she already understood something, so she couldn't help sighing: Just for half a day, Cao Ge was tortured and even died.

When she became a Catcher for more than two years ago, she had a lot of temperament, and wrote a lot of life mottos for herself. She couldn't get used to Jin Yiwei's way when handling cases, Departement Six were indeed had no right to interfere with Jin Yiwei, and she wanted to leave, but her eyes fell on her tofu dregs. Then she thought of her mother's scolded face.

She tried to make her voice cry as much as possible, it was better if she can add some pitiful effect: "Master, you can't smash my booth when handling the case!"

No, no one heard her.

Lu Yi frowned anxiously and pointed at the fortune teller: "Bring him back to prison!"

The fortune teller knew the horrors of Jin Yiwei's prison, his face changed, and suddenly he got up and struggled, not to escape, but to rub his hands on the poisoned dagger.

The poison was very overbearing, in the blink of an eye, the fortune teller vomited black blood, whimpered and dead.

Lu Yi's brow froze tightly, he succinctly ordered, "Search."

Four Jin Yiwei searched the body of the fortune teller, Jin Xia and Yang Yue watched coldly. Watching them from head to toe, untied the hair buns of the corpse, then to the underwear, even the soles of the shoes were cut away.

"They are so rough." Yang Yue watched, and whispered to Jin Xia.

Jin Xia dismissed: "What's the said again? right.. right.. practice makes perfect. At best, it's not the level of Departement Six's work, such a bunch of rough people."

Lu Yi turned his back to the two of them, they did not know that he could hear them. He slightly turned his head. Yang Yang, who was about to speak, closed his mouth.

"Master Lu, we cannot find anything!" After the search, they are marched to Lu Yi.

"Guess what they're looking for?" Yang Yue was curious, and asked Jin Xia with a low voice.

Earlier, Yang Yue said that the Secretary of the Ministry of Defense had lost something, and Cao Ge was from the Ministry of Defense. She had already faintly guessed, but it was inconvenient to say, she just said, "This is must be a big case that related to the national affairs."

Lu Yi turned his head again. Although he didn't speak, the meaning of cold light in his eyes was obvious: SHUT UP!

For Jin Xia, the imminent thing is not a major military issue, but they are smashed her tofu stand in front of her, so she spoke again, sincerely and plainly: "Master, my tofu is not expensive, It's enough to give me one or two silvers."

At the same time, one of them said to Lu Yi with anxiety: "Both people are dead, no picture can be found...."

"ehem," Jin Xia forced to raise her voice at the back: "Several officials, you should at least give me some money!"

Her voice was so crisp and bright that it was hard to ignore, and not only Lu Yi, but also all the Jin Yiwei looking at her.

"One or two pieces of silver will be enough." Jin Xia accompanied by a smile, motioned them to see her smashed dried tofu stall.

"Search again! Hurry up!" One them yelled at her in horrible symptoms, ignoring Jin Xia.

If talk about money, Jin Xia has always been very resilient, she keeps nagging: "I will leave after you give me the silver, otherwise I will not be able to explain to my mother."

"You..." They are approached her and tried to fight, but stopped by Lu Yi with a bored wave.

"Give her the money to let them roll!" At the moment, Lu Yi obviously doesn't want to have more troubles, let alone see unrelated idlers and so on.

He ordered and they dont dare to not listen, so he had to take out his wallet and give two silvers to Jin Xia.

Jin Xia take the silver with joy, Yang Yue was about to leave. After taking a few steps, she stopped and looked back at Lu Yi.

She reminded in a good mood: "I don't know what you are looking for, but looked from his clothes, there were moss marks on the sleeve, and the shoes were half-wet. I guess he had just been to a place close to the river before, such as a bridge hole."

Lu Yi stared at her, then squatted on one knee to check, it turned out that there were traces of moss on the left and right sleeves of the fortune teller.

"That place is a bit high, so he pads his feet, holding the wall with his left hand and going with his right hand." Jin Xia continued, "If I guess correctly, there will be moss shavings in the nails of his left hand."

Lu Yi took a close look at the left hand of the corpse, it turned out that a few stars were green in the middle finger seam, thoughtfully.

Seeing that he had understood, she turned and left, carrying two pieces of silver on her hand, walking much faster than usual.

"There are so many rumours that Jin Yiwei are a bunch of rough people, and now I know thats true." For Jin Yiwei's style, she was very disdainful and walked towards Yang Yue. "But if they can find whatever it is that missing, then we dont have to go to the Secretary of the Military Department tomorrow morning."

"Wait, so you know whats missing?"

"Cao Ge is dead, also that fortune teller, they should find that missing things quickly, nothing will happen to us." Jin Xia felt a little sorry, "Cao Ge was a big catch, the reward must be high! ...and they will get the reward"

Half an hour later, the Jizhou defense map wrapped in tarpaulin was found at a bridge pier recess. The fortune-teller's real name is Song Yongwen. In fact, it is a double-sided work hidden in the capital. He collects information and sells it at a high price. Cao Ge offended his boss and was transferred from Beijing. He stole a defense plan for revenge and sold it to Song Yongwen, then fled with Qi Qiu's family.

The case was concluded. Commander Jin Yiwei led Lu Bing into the palace late at night, but Sejong was still angry. He ordered everyone related to the case they should get a death sentence, then give back the book of the Ministry of War to its original place.