Chapter 380: Chen Chen's Appearance.

After leaving Zhang's Mansion, two days have passed, and there has been no movement in Duanzhou City.

The city gates are more strictly checked, and even only one city gate is allowed to enter and exit every day, and the other city gates are only allowed to enter and not to go out.

But the examination of the city gate did not yield any results.

And two days later, the news came suddenly.

It was reported by one of Mahan's subordinates, who said that he had seen Chen Chen's traces in Xicheng, Duanzhou.

After hearing the news, Mahan immediately said: "The Xicheng side is my territory, and I will bring someone to find him." ”

Bao Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "It's naturally best, but do you have enough manpower, if it's not enough, send more people, as long as you find Chen Chen, this case will be much easier." ”

Ma Han felt that Bao Zheng was thinking about it very much, so he asked Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to follow him to Xicheng, and after they left, Bao Zheng glanced at Hua Lang and asked, "Brother Hua, do you think this matter is strange?" ”

Hua Lang smiled faintly: "It seems that Brother Bao has discovered something strange!" ”

Bao Zheng nodded and said, "That's right, why did we send people to monitor the Lu Mansion and the Zhang Mansion in Dongcheng, so Chen Chen soon appeared in Xicheng, does it mean to divert the tiger from the mountain?" ”

Hua Lang smiled: "What Brother Bao said is very true, it does mean to divert the tiger from the mountain, so should we put gravity on the Lu Mansion and Zhang Mansion in Dongcheng now?" ”

Bao Zheng shook his head: "Let's just plan it!" ”

The two of them said this, and although the people next to them could understand it, they always felt that the two of them spoke in a strange style.

Ma Han took Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and a group of arresters to Xicheng to find Chen Chen, while the dynasty continued to monitor the situation in Lu and Zhang's mansions.

But there was nothing unusual about the two mansions, only before that evening, Zhang Sanyin of Zhang's mansion hurriedly left home in a carriage, Ma Han saw this, and hurriedly sent someone to pass Bao Zheng, and sent another person to follow Zhang Sanyin.

Not long after Zhang Sanyin left, a carriage also appeared in the Lu Mansion, and after the carriage left the Lu Mansion, it wandered around Duanzhou City aimlessly, and it kept wandering around until late at night, and the carriage came back.

The followers came back and reported that the carriage of Zhangfu and the carriage of Lufu went to the place where the carriage was rented in Duanzhou City, but they did not want to rent the carriage, but asked the craftsmen inside to re-nail the horseshoe for their horses, and there were many horses in the place where the carriage was rented, and this kind of additional business naturally existed, so it seems that there is nothing strange about all this.

After the follower finished speaking, Bao Zheng didn't feel anything suspicious about this matter, but Hua Lang frowned, as if there were many things he couldn't understand.

In this way, when it got dark, Mahan also brought people back, but unfortunately, they did not find Chen Chen's whereabouts.

And at this time, Hwarang was still pondering.

It was probably late at night that they went back to rest.

The next day, no one saw any trace of Chen Chen.

It's just that after Hua Lang woke up the next day, he hurriedly gathered people and rushed to Lu Mansion again.

Seeing that Hua Lang was in such a hurry, Bao Zheng asked a little puzzled, "Could it be that Brother Hua found something?" ”

Hua Lang nodded: "We were all deceived by Lu Shui and Zhang Sanyin. ”

The crowd hurried away, but they did not understand how they had been deceived.

Hua Lang explained as he walked: "Didn't Lu Shui say that he sold his own coal to Zhang Sanyin, we went to see the coal in Zhang's house, and it was indeed as much as Lu Shui bought, so we thought that Lu Shui really sold all the coal he bought to Zhang Sanyin, but in fact, otherwise, I think they bought so much coal, it will definitely attract attention, if the people in the court notice, they must give the coal a place to go, so that the coal is not too much and no less, and there is a place to go." ”

Everyone understands this, but they don't understand how they were deceived.

At this time, Hua Lang continued to explain: "It is true that Lu Shui bought so much coal in Zhangfu now, but if there was coal in the mansions of Zhangfu and Lufu before, wouldn't they offset the coal used?" ”

After everyone heard this, they were surprised and annoyed, this was an extremely simple truth, but why didn't they think of it when they went to Lufu Zhangfu for the first time?

Both of them are big families, how can they not reserve coal, even if they don't reserve it, when they are about to loot the state government, they should think of smelting silver, and naturally they will be ready before then.

Everyone hurriedly came to the Lu Mansion, and then rushed in without saying anything, when they rushed in, the subordinates of the Lu Mansion were cleaning the courtyard, and Lu Shui hadn't gotten up yet, but as soon as Hua Lang and them rushed in, Lu Shui didn't get up, and he had to run out in a hurry.

Lu Shui ran out disheveled and asked, "Master Bao has already been here once, and he hasn't found anything, why did he come again today?" ”

Bao Zheng snorted coldly and said, "Okay, you Lu Shui, you dare to play tricks with Lord Ben, Lord Ben will never spare you." Saying this, Bao Zheng made a gesture, and then all the catchers he brought began to search up and down the Lu Mansion again.

At this time, Lu Shui was very relaxed, much more relaxed than when Bao Zheng and the others first came, as if he believed that Bao Zheng and they would not find out anything.

The Lu Mansion is not big, but it is not small, Hua Lang and Yin Wuxian are strolling in the backyard of the Lu Mansion, at this time the flowers and plants in the backyard are growing luxuriantly, but at noon, they are about to droop down.

There didn't seem to be anything suspicious in the backyard, but just as Hwarang was strolling along, he saw something black on the ground, leaned over to take a closer look, and realized that it was coal.

There used to be coal in this place, which is really weird.

So, Hua Lang asked a group of officials to turn over the entire backyard and dig three feet into the ground, but they didn't dig three feet into the ground, so they found a tunnel under a bluestone slab, which started from the bluestone slab in the backyard and went straight underground, with an area about the size of an acre.

Lu Shui was shocked when he saw that the tunnel was discovered, but he still remained calm, and at this time, Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and a group of fast hunters had surrounded him.

At this time, Hua Lang and Bao Zheng and them went down from the bluestone slab, the underground became more and more open, and the more they went down, the hotter they felt, and when they walked through the stone stairs section by section, they finally came to a flat place, and after they saw this place, they were immediately surprised, just like when they saw those weapons in Luojia Manor.

Here they saw a large furnace, which was no longer burning, but still faintly heated, and the remaining coal was quietly piled aside, and by the light of the fire, they could see the remaining fire consumption on the ground.