Early this morning, Song Wentao and others rushed to the Wei Mansion, and according to the pre-planned rhetoric, they said that there were snitches infiltrating the county, and in order to find out the whereabouts of the snitches, the county would conduct a census of the population.

For Song Wentao's excuse, Wei Guangdao also supports it, after all, there are snitches in the city, if he is not caught, maybe someone will be unlucky, losing money is a trivial matter, and if he loses his life, everything will be over.

Song Wentao led everyone into the Wei Mansion, and the soldiers were divided into two ways, he, Lu Tian, and Lu You were in the front hall, printing handprints for the Wei family.

And the remaining few people used the excuse of re-checking the Huxin Pavilion to find clues for the reason, and Steward Zhang led them into the backyard.

When Xia Yuanwei led Xia Qiang to the front hall to press his handprint, Lu Neng and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, sneaked into his room and began to look for evidence.

Song Wentao's job was to drag Xia Yuanwei and give Lu Neng and them time to find evidence.

Song Wentao said this, and everything went perfectly according to Lu Dashi's plan.

Lu Dashi also nodded again and again when he heard this, praising them for doing a good job, which made Song Wentao's face even more proud.

Lu Dashi saw that it was still early, and there was nothing to do now, so he asked with a smile, "I don't know what you talked about with Xia Yuanwei!" Talked about it for so long! ”

When Song Wentao heard this, he opened the folding fan in a chic manner and slowly shook it in front of him.

"Xia Yuanwei and I are both literati, so naturally we talk about some things that are elegant and elegant, Xia Yuanwei saw that I talked extraordinary, and only sighed and hated to see each other late, if we had met earlier, we would have become good brothers long ago."

Lu Dashi smiled, but did not speak, he didn't know what a good brother between literati looked like, so he didn't interject.

Song Wentao continued to himself, "I saw that he admired me very much, so I told him that I would come here every year to attend the student gathering, and he asked me, did I come this year, and I told him, how can the student gathering be without me Song Wentao?" Naturally, I'm here! ”

When Song Wentao said this, Lu Dashi said with a smile, "Then he asked you why he didn't see your ...... at the party." ”

When Lu Dashi said this, he suddenly stopped, the expression on his face began to change, and after a while, he slapped the case violently and screamed.

"Fooled."

After Lu Dashi finished speaking, he didn't care about Song Wentao's puzzled eyes, and stood up directly and rushed out.

Out of the office, Lu Dashi ran straight to the stable.

After a plate of tea, Lu Dashi had already rushed out of the yamen on horseback.

Lu Dashi ran all the way, and when he was halfway there, he saw Lu Shui and the others running towards this side panting, and he was suddenly shocked in his heart and hurriedly greeted him.

Lu Shui was running in a hurry, and when he suddenly saw Lu Dashi, he was immediately overjoyed, and he hurriedly stopped and took a few breaths before he said.

"Brother Shi, no, Xia Yuanwei ran away!"

When Lu Dashi heard this, he only felt his heart tremble, and hurriedly asked, "Where did Xia Yuanwei go?" ”

Lu Shui shook his head, "I asked Master Wei, and Old Man Wei only knew that Xia Yuanwei was going to enter Beijing to take the exam, and as for going directly to the capital or going elsewhere, I don't know." ”

Lu Dashi sighed, "You go back to the yamen immediately, ride a fast horse, go look around, if you can find it, bring it back, if you can't find it, come back before dark." ”

Lu Shui and the others hurriedly clenched their fists and left.

After Lu Shui and the others left, Lu Dashi jumped off the horse, walked to a stone on the side of the street, and sat down slowly.

Xia Yuanwei was too cunning, and through Song Wentao's words, he had already guessed that the matter had been revealed.

So he deliberately used words to coax Song Wentao, making Song Wentao believe that he was going to set off the day after tomorrow and set aside enough time for his escape.

The question is, where will he run?

After delaying for such a long time, I'm afraid Xia Yuanwei has already escaped from the city, as long as he escapes from the city, changes into clothes, and puts on a little makeup, no one will be able to find them.

Lu Dashi sighed, it seemed that he couldn't be caught this time.

Looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, some on foot, some on horseback, and some in carriages, everyone was in a hurry, all busy for their livelihood.

Looking at the passers-by who were hurrying away, Lu Dashi's heart suddenly moved, Xia Yuanwei wanted to go, how did he go?

Thinking of this, Lu Dashi immediately stood up, jumped onto the horse, turned the horse's head, and rushed towards the Wei Mansion.

Soon, Lu Dashi rode his horse to the gate of Weifu, and he didn't get off the horse, but rode on his horse and shouted at the family of Weifu.

"How did Xia Yuanwei walk, is it walking? Or horseback riding? ”

Since the death case in Weifu, Lu Dashi has been to Weifu several times, and these gatekeepers naturally know Lu Dashi.

At this time, when Lu Dashi asked about Xia Yuanwei, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied, "Xia Gongzi left in a carriage." ”

"What kind of carriage?"

"It's a one-horse, black-shed carriage."

Lu Dashi groaned slightly, and asked again, "How can I recognize that carriage?" ”

The guy who answered laughed, "You don't need Lord Lu to recognize it, the coachman is from our Wei Mansion, and he naturally knows Lord Lu." ”

Lu Dashi felt that this kind of recognition was very unreliable, and asked again.

"What's the mark on the carriage?"

Lu Dashi's question is a little difficult for the family, the carriage is bought at the car dealership, and he can't just produce a special carriage!

Seeing that his companion couldn't answer, the other family member hurriedly said, "The carriages are all the same, but the horses are different, the horses in Xia Gongzi's carriage are all jujube red, only the mouth is white, so does it count." ”

Lu Dashi groaned slightly, nodded, turned the horse's head again, and ran in the direction of the yamen, he wanted to rush to Lu Shui before they set off, stop them, and let them go to find the carriage.

Fortunately, Lu Shui was on foot, and Lu Dashi rode much faster than them, and when Lu Dashi arrived at the yamen, Lu Shui and they ran out on horseback.

Lu Dashi hurriedly waved his hand to stop them, told them that Xia Yuanwei was running in a carriage, and especially pointed out the characteristics of the horses in Xia Yuanwei's carriage.

After everyone understood, there were a total of 6 people, and Lu Dashi divided them into three teams, going to the east, south, and west gates, while he himself went to the north gate.

After the personnel were distributed, the seven people ran to their respective goals.

Lu Dashi walked all the way, but there were too many people on the road, even if he was riding a thousand-mile horse, it was useless, he could only walk slowly through the crowd.

With great effort, Lu Dashi finally came to the north city gate, inquired carefully about the soldiers guarding the city, and learned that there was no such carriage out of the city.

Lu Dashi pondered, it seemed that Xia Yuanwei did not go here, so he returned on his horse and rushed towards the west city gate.

Passing through the bustling flow of people again, with great effort, he rushed to the west gate and informed that there was no such carriage passing.

At this time, although it was early spring and the weather was still slightly cool, Lu Dashi was already sweating in a hurry, time was precious, and the longer the delay, the farther Xia Yuanwei ran.