Xia Zhu actually does not have many courtyards in Beijing, except for the main house in Socks Lane, there are only three courtyards, the courtyard on Junyiqiao Street is one, the Yuzhang Building in Pinghu is one, and the other is a country courtyard in the suburbs.

But these are enough to make Xia Zhu proud, in Bianliang City, a metropolis with a population of one million, most people only have a small snail house, and some families can only live in two side rooms for a dozen or so families.

Bianliang City has a special organization, that is, the three divisions of the repair of the capital and the Tokyo store house, these two institutions are similar to the real estate development department and the city management demolition team in later generations, but where there is a private build, not only to demolish all, but also to pull the board to eat lawsuits, all the construction of the city's city wall palace and even the new shop house, all need to be completed by these two departments.

Therefore, the residents who live in Bianliang City enjoy the vanity of the citizens of the metropolis, but in fact, they are very hard, and Bianliang City is still an inch of land and a small number of houses due to the large number of people, land and few houses, although it has been expanded twice, it is more than twice as large as the previous dynasty, and it is still an inch of land.

The four mansions are already one of the few families in the capital, that is, Yan Shu, in addition to the big mansion in Tianshuijing Hutong, there is only a small mansion in the old city, compared with Xia Zhu, it is considered a shabby home.

Xia Zhu also had to pay attention to the impact, although he had the money to buy a house, but after all, the tree was very popular, and it was easy to attract envy and hatred if there were too many, and it was not easy to explain it to the emperor's ears; So Xia Zhu began to invest money in the shops, bought more than ten shops of all sizes in the city, and in order to hide people's eyes, without exception, the name of the holder was written into Xia Siling's name, so that that night Xia Siling gave the shop worth hundreds of thousands of yuan on Bianshuihe Street to Su Jin, Xia Zhu could only stare dryly and had no choice.

Su Jin's guess was right, Xia Zhu did manage Rou Niang in Yuzhang Tower, he knew that as long as Rou Niang disappeared, Su Jin would immediately think that he had arrested Rou Niang, and he would inevitably come to save people; Xia Zhu would rather he come to save people, so that he can open the net again, but before that, he needs to interrogate this woman named Rou Niang.

After Liu Binhua's death, Xia Zhu sent people around the clock to start monitoring and tracking Su Jin and his family, on the day of the opening of the test, the Xia family companion who was watching Su Jin suddenly made an important discovery, among the several women who followed Su Jin to the Tribute Academy, one of them seemed to be the woman who hid in the car on the day Liu Gongzi died.

The companion did not recognize the appearance, in fact, the woman and the woman in the carriage that day were very different in appearance, although the body and walking posture were somewhat similar, but it could not be concluded that the two were the same person by relying on this; The basis for that companion was actually a string of gemstone bracelets.

When Su Jin took the three girls to hang out that day, Rou Niang inadvertently exposed the pink and white gem bracelet on her wrist between her gestures, and when Liu Binhua hooked up with the woman in the car that day, the woman in the car seemed to be carrying this pink and white bracelet, the style of the two was exactly the same, and unlike the women nowadays who carried a whole jade bracelet, the reason why this pink bracelet is so eye-catching, not only because its color is pink and white that few people wear, More because its style is a style of stringing up gemstones, which is really not common in today's Great Song Dynasty.

The companion had a heartfelt eye, and ran to a jewelry store to draw it according to the pattern of the bracelet he saw, and asked the owner of the jewelry store to show him a string of the same; Unexpectedly, the boss stared at the drawing for a long time and shook his head and said that there was no such bracelet.

The companion did not give up, and went to more than a dozen jewelry stores, but none of them had bracelets of this style; An experienced shopkeeper, according to the description of the companion, boldly guessed that the pink and white gemstone could only be hibiscus or tourmaline, and asserted that no jewelry store in the capital had this style of gemstone bracelet, and advised the companion not to waste his efforts to find it.

Until this time, the companion basically had a conclusion in his heart, although the owner of this bracelet may not be the same person, but the bracelet must be the same bracelet; None of them have to be sold in Beijing, but they have the same bracelet, what does this mean?

Where did the matter feed back to Xia Zhu, Xia Zhu immediately asserted that this woman must be the woman who seduced Liu Binhua that day, as for the slight difference in appearance and height, this is very simple, the height of makeup and shoes, and the style of clothes are different, if you look at it from a distance, you must not be able to see that it is the same person.

So Xia Zhu immediately ordered that the woman next to Su Jin be interrogated, as long as it was revealed that Su Jin had designed to kill Liu Binhua and confess, Su Jin would be dead; Xia Zhu didn't even plan to pass through the government, he had already thought about using this woman as bait, and the deceived Su Jin stepped into the trap again, and then slaughtered him with his own hands, with this confession, plus Su Jin broke into his house again, he didn't need to worry about how to deal with the aftermath at all, because there was no need to deal with the aftermath at all.

When Rou Niang bought fried chestnuts with sugar and was eating while walking back, a black carriage stopped silently beside her, the door opened, someone covered Rou Niang's mouth and nose with a towel, only lightly mentioned, Rou Niang's small body as light as a feather was pulled into the carriage, the whole process took less than two breaths, it was really a blink of an eye, and then the carriage drove away quickly, even the pedestrians on the street did not notice that someone suddenly disappeared by his side.

Although Rou Niang struggled hard, how could her little arms and legs twist the rough hands and feet of these companions, and soon she was tied up strongly, stuffed her mouth and nose and crooked in the carriage and couldn't move; If it weren't for Xia Zhu's strict order not to allow them to move their hands and feet, they would have rubbed oil on this delicate little lady a long time ago, Xia Zhu was worried that once Rou Niang was humiliated, it would arouse her vow to die, and in the end she couldn't ask for any confession; Since his daughter openly forced Su Jin to let go with death, Yan Shu's view of women has changed greatly, and he began to believe that weak women are not bloodless, what he is afraid of is to provoke Rou Niang's blood.

Yuzhang Tower is the only courtyard in the city that Su Jin doesn't know, and his daughter Xia Siling is also 'imprisoned' here, and the guards are also very strict, so it is a very suitable place to interrogate here first, so Xia Zhu, who learned that he had succeeded in taking people, ordered people to be sent here for detention as soon as possible.

Yuzhang Tower is actually a mansion, and it is named because the building in the backyard is called Yuzhang Building, which is where Xia Siling lives, and the interrogation is carried out in the wing room in front of the building.

Xia Zhu tried his best to make himself pleasant, although he was a little moved by the picturesque woman in front of him, he still started the interrogation with a smile on the face of a kind old man.

"How can you be so rude to the little lady? Loosen the tie! Xia Zhu's first sentence was to scold the servants around him to untie Rou Niang.

Rou Niang panicked in her heart and didn't know what was going on, but this group kidnapped herself but didn't do anything to violate her, which somewhat made Rou Niang let go of most of her worries.

"Who are you? What is the desire to tie up the slave family here? Do you know whose slave family it is? Rou Niang asked.

Xia Zhu twisted his beard and smiled, and said, "Aren't you the concubine of Su Jin, the little Shi Pavilion house?" How can the old man not know? The old man's name, I don't know if the little lady has heard of it, the old man is the deputy privy envoy of the dynasty, surnamed Xia, with a single name. ”

Xia Zhu stared at Rou Niang to observe her reaction, he quickly got a satisfactory result, when he reported his name, the woman's frightened eyes betrayed her heart, how can a little concubine know her name? It should be unresponsive; Even if his name is too loud, it will inevitably affect in the deep boudoir, but where does the panic and fear in his eyes come from.

Rou Niang is a smart person, she keenly felt that things were not good, it seemed that the East Window incident had happened, but she quickly suppressed the panic in her heart, and said: "It turned out to be Lord Xia, the slave family is polite, but I don't know what Lord Xia has to teach the slave family here?" Lord Xia is a big official of the imperial court, even if he wants to see the slave family, he doesn't have to use such means, wouldn't he lose his identity if he passed it out? ”

Xia Zhu laughed, circled around Rou Niang twice, and stroked Rou Niang's delicate body a few times with his eyes unscrupulously, and said: "The little lady is still pretending to be confused, don't you know what the reason is when you get here?" If I were you, I would have known all the current affairs a long time ago, and the old man advised you to get to know each other. ”

Rou Niang said with a straight face: "The slave family doesn't know what you're talking about?" ”

Xia Zhu snorted coldly, grabbed Rou Niang's little hand with one hand, and pulled Rou Niang's sleeve up with the other hand, revealing half of the fragrant Hao arm, Rou Niang shouted, and at the same time pulled her arm back hard, and shouted: "Lord Xia, please respect yourself, the slave family is the person in Lord Su's room, please think twice." ”

Xia Zhu took a sip and said, "Are you greedy for your beauty when you are an old man?" Phew, the old man's family has eight concubines, all of them are like flowers and jade, and it is not uncommon for you to be a virgin. ”

Rou Niang blushed and said, "Why are you holding the hand of the slave family like this?" Men and women don't kiss, let go quickly. ”

Xia Zhu wiped his hand on Rou Niang's wrist, and then took off the jewel bracelet of hibiscus stones, and then let go of Rou Niang's soft arm, carried the bracelet and said, "Tell the old man, what is this?" ”

Rou Niang said angrily: "This is a private property bought by the slave family, Lord Xia asked what to do?" Could it be that the slave family stole it and robbed it? ”

Xia Zhu shouted: "The old man knows that it is your private belongings, and the old man asks you, where did you buy this bracelet?" ”

Rou Niang said: "I bought it in Bianliang, so what?" ”

Xia Zhu said loudly: "Lying to your face, I have checked dozens of jewelry stores in Bianliang City, where did your jewelry come from?" ”

Rou Niang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "The slave family is frightened, this bracelet was given to the slave family by Su Jin, the slave family's father-in-law, if you want to ask where to buy it, you have to ask my family's father-in-law." ”

Xia Zhu laughed, her voice was harsh and ugly, Rou Niang frowned and covered her ears with her little hands, and only moved away when Xia Zhu's laughter stopped.

"The old man asks you another question, on the third day of the first month of March, someone saw a person on the way to Dongjiaomen, wearing your unique bracelet in Bianliang City, is that you? If it weren't for you, who would you give this bracelet to wear that day? Say! Say! ”

Xia Zhu was dumbfounded and shouted, and the frightened Rou Niang's face was trembling again and again, and she couldn't speak for a long time with her eyes wide open.