21. Guidelines

When some people want to ask what to do, they already have an idea in their hearts, not at all to let you really give him any advice, just to let you make statements in support of him.

Cheng Qi knew that because he had suffered from not being able to observe words and feelings, he had paid special attention to this point later, and after touching the vein, he told Hong Xinyuan with certainty: "My lord, even the people in charge have noticed it, and they know that the robbers have a Shanxi accent, but why didn't any of these dart masters who are also Shanxi people tell us about it?" Don't they know that this is an extremely important clue? With all due respect, I'm afraid that my subordinates' previous speculations have unfortunately come true. ”

This is also what Hong Xinyuan is thinking now.

After he already had suspicions in his heart, he felt that the behavior of these dart masters was very strange and suspicious, he paused, and nodded: "In this way, this matter is left to you to do, you go and check the origin of these dart masters for me, and also, go to the Shanxi side, and give me a clear check on the Ping An Dart Bureau!" ”

It was the first time that Cheng Qi had been assigned this kind of errand, but he was not busy at all, and when he heard him say this, he immediately agreed, and nodded in agreement: "Don't worry, my lord, my subordinates will do their best to live up to their trust!" ”

Hong Xinyuan waved his hand, and sat in the study for a while before calling the housekeeper in: "Keep an eye on these dart masters, see who they are dealing with, where they will go after that, don't let go of every word or deed!" ”

The housekeeper couldn't help but be taken aback, looked up at Hong Xinyuan, and asked in disbelief: "Master, do you mean that these dart masters are eating inside and crawling outside, and the thieves are shouting to catch the thief, and they are the ones who have taken the girl away together?!" ”

This housekeeper is the old man in Hong Xinyuan's family, he grew up with Hong Xinyuan since he was a child, Hong Xinyuan trusts him very much, he has always called him brother when he was a child, and now when he hears the housekeeper ask such a thing, he has nothing to hide, and nodded with a gloomy face: "Otherwise, it is too coincidental, and I have always believed in too coincidental things." ”

The butler understood, gritted his teeth and cursed: "If these people are really so bold that they dare to do such a heinous thing, they will not be able to relieve their hatred by dying a hundred times!" ”

Hong Xinyuan sneered: "Don't talk about this now, you go and let people keep an eye on them, keep an eye on them, and Jinling will always pay attention to whether there is a letter coming." Now it's important to find the girl first. ”

The housekeeper hurriedly agreed, and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Cheng Qi, who had gone out before, followed the scribe to find a few guards in the house, and then called their names and ordered: "Go to the Ping'an Dart Bureau, there is such a big thing, and no one from their Dart Bureau has come to the house, isn't this too suspicious?" ”

The guards were all Hong Xinyuan's cronies, and when they heard that it was Hong Xinyuan's order, they didn't delay, and they picked someone and went.

Cheng Qi went to Tongfu Building first, and without waiting for Xiao Er to come over to greet him, he quietly went up to the second floor, and sat down in a box on the street.

After a while, the door was pushed open, and a man in a green robe came in and sat across from him, panting a little nervously and asking, "Has anyone noticed?" ”

Cheng Qi raised his eyebrows, took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and smiled slightly: "I have already greeted you in advance, if you are still discovered, it means that you are stupid." ”

The man scratched his head embarrassedly, and seemed to have no confidence in him, and after a while, he said hesitantly: "My lord..... This, what can be done after this? ”

Cheng Qi looked at the simple snacks on the table, didn't reach out to move, raised his eyes and glanced at him, and responded with a cold expression: "Such a big thing has been done, what is it to show this appearance now?" You are not small, this is Xu Anying's granddaughter, the daughter of weaving, you all dare to rob ....."

The man did not speak.

After a while, Cheng Qi snorted: "Now that Lord Hong is angry, needless to say, the capital has already sent a letter, even Grandpa Yan, Lord Hong has already come to ask for help, and specially wrote to Ying Tianfu to let Ying Tianfu investigate strictly." Aren't you people afraid of death? ”

The man on the other side laughed, then rolled up his hand and coughed for a while before asking unhurriedly, "Why do you talk like that?" What are we afraid of, what are we not doing, and it is not us who will have an accident, don't you think? ”

Cheng Qi didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, threw a piece of silver on the table, and asked impatiently: "Now that you have found out the Ping An Dart Bureau, what will happen next, you have to tell me?" Otherwise, if I spoil your business, it won't be very good, don't you say? ”

The man smiled, touched his beard a little innocently, took out a stack of silver tickets wrapped in red paper from his arms and handed it over carefully: "This is something that has been agreed with you a long time ago, you order, no more, no less, a full ten thousand taels." ”

Silver, what Cheng Qi lacks most now is silver.

He has always felt that he should be the pride of the sky, he has a wide reputation, and no one in Yangzhou does not know that he is a talent, but he always fails the exam.

In his opinion, it's not that he can't pass the exam, it's because those examiners are all snobs.

He didn't have the money to get through the connections, and he didn't have the money to go to those literary meetings like them, so he would always be famous in Sun Shan.

His family couldn't afford to pay for his exams.....

The cold eyes of those uncles, he no longer wants to see them.

Even if he later entered the weaving department and worked as a staff member under the weaving hand, life was still sad, he didn't want to live this kind of life forever by looking at other people's faces, and he didn't want to let his widow be dragged down by him all the time, and his uncles and aunts pointed his nose and said that he doted on his son but couldn't raise a good son.

He couldn't refuse such a large sum of money sent to the door.

He stretched out his hand, numbly held the silver ticket in his hand, and asked for a while, "What happens next?" ”

There was a loud noise outside, Yangzhou was full of salt merchants and silk merchants, rich people everywhere, and places like Tongfulou, they often came, and everywhere was overcrowded.

The man lowered his voice, and said word by word in his ear at a volume that Cheng Qi could hear clearly: "You go back and tell the weaving master honestly, saying that he can't find me, and the head of the dart game has run away, so just say it, it's over." The next thing, the weaving master himself will check, it has nothing to do with you, you can rest assured, we are very reliable, will never implicate yourself......"

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