The dishes of Jiuqulou are no different from those of Wangjiang Tower, which reminds Bai Qiaoshui of Wangjianglou's famous wine peach blossom brew.

"That, Uncle Zhang, I don't know if there is peach blossom brew in Jiuqu Building?"

"Of course there is, it's all uncle's negligence, Ah Shen, quickly bring a jar of peach blossoms."

"Boss Zhang, my lady is not suitable for drinking, and when she drinks, she will talk nonsense, so don't drink."

After listening to Xiao Yu, Bai Qiaoshui retorted: "I won't get drunk." ”

"Eh, there's no reason not to drink when eating, let's just drink less."

"That's it."

As soon as Bai Qiaoshui echoed Zhang Qiandong, there was a knock on the door: "Boss, the peach blossom brew is here." ”

Zhang Qiandong got up and opened the door and let the drinker in.

"Xiao Shen, just put two jugs of wine in the jug."

"Okay."

After Xiao Er, who is called Xiao Shen, poured the wine, he pulled the door and went out.

Zhang Qiandong sat down, took three wine glasses, poured them one by one and handed them to Xiao Yu and Bai Qiaoshui.

Then he raised his wine glass and made a "please use" gesture: "I guarantee that it is still the taste of Wangjianglou." ”

Bai Qiaoshui didn't expect to be able to drink peach blossom brew with the same taste as Wangjianglou in South Vietnam, so he was naturally a little happy.

After drinking and eating, Zhang Qiandong took the two to a pavilion behind Jiuqu Building.

If Zhang Qiandong wanted to play chess, Xiao Yu accompanied him, and Bai Wanshui, who didn't know much about Go, had to sit aside and eat Jiuqulou's dim sum while watching the two of them play chess.

"Does Boss Zhang know Li Anran's daughter, Li Lanzhi?" When he said that, Xiao Yu's white seed had already fallen.

Zhang Qiandong's sunspot fell, and he mentioned a white son by the way: "Of course I know, how can we businessmen and regular customers not know each other." ”

Bai Qiaoshui found that when Li Lanzhi was mentioned, there was a bit of respect and pity in Zhang Qiandong's eyes.

"Around the ninth day of February last year, did Boss Zhang ever see Li Lanzhi?"

Xiao Yu fell again.

Zhang Qiandong thought for a long time before playing black chess: "The ninth day of the second month...... Oh yes, the eighth day of the second month is the birthday of the insider, so the Jiuqu Building closed early. ”

"At that time, Miss Li was so drunk that she didn't leave Jiuqulou, and said that she would buy all the wine in Jiuqulou."

"But where am I willing to sell it to her, a little girl's family, why do you drink so much wine, I'm afraid that something will happen to her, so I asked Ah Shen to send her to the Li Mansion."

"Moreover, at that time, I also wondered why Miss Li, who usually came to our Jiuqu Building just to eat, drank so much wine at once, maybe there was something annoying."

As soon as Zhang Qiandong finished speaking, Bai Qiaoshui put down the dim sum in his hand, and his intuition told her that there seemed to be something wrong here.

On the eighth day of the second month of February, Li Lanzhi went to drink, what was the reason...... Do you want to drink to kill your sorrows? After that, the little er named Ah Shen sent her back.

Bai Qiaoshui was a little puzzled about her drinking: "Uncle, do you know why Li Lanzhi came to your restaurant to drink on the eighth day of the new year?" ”

"How can I know this, after all, this is someone else's privacy, and if people don't say it, I'm embarrassed to ask, right?" After speaking, Xiao Yu followed him and left a son.

is also true, so it is impossible to know what happened to Li Lanzhi before she was killed.

"Uncle, how is Li Lanzhi, has he ever had a grudge against anyone?"

"It shouldn't have been, Miss Li has a very good personality, is beautiful, and is also kind, and once gave the money she saved to an orphan in a Salesian home to go to school."

"Although her father Li Anran's official character is not good, Miss Li's personality is not like Li Anran at all, which is rare."

"Anyway, in Jiuqulou, I haven't seen anyone sneer at her."

"Neither male nor female?"

Zhang Qiandong frowned and thought about it: "No." ”

In this case, isn't the clue broken?

The sky was already glowing with orange sunset, Xiao Yu looked at the chessboard that was almost a draw, and the two got up and shook hands.

"Boss Zhang, it's getting late now, it's time to go back with your wife."

"Xiao Gongzi's chess skills are really superb, Zhang really admires it, and I hope that next time I will have the opportunity to play a game of chess with Xiao Gongzi."

"Boss Zhang has lifted up and said goodbye."

"Farewell, Ah Shen, send Xiao Gongzi and Mrs. Xiao out."

"Okay, boss."

Bai Qiaoshui followed Xiao Yu out, and at the same time, took a good look at this little er named Ah Shen.

With some dark skin, slightly thick lips, slightly darkened lips, a cotton dress and a cotton hat on his head, he looks like a very honest person.

When he walked outside the door of Jiuqu Building, Bai Xiaoshui still decided to ask this little er named Ah Shen.

"Ah Shen, do you remember a year ago, you had a regular visitor named Li Lanzhi here?"

As soon as he heard Li Lanzhi's name, Ah Shen trembled all over: "She, she...... It's scary. ”

"What's scary?" Isn't Li Lanzhi's person very good? Why did Ah Shen say that it was terrible, could it be that Zhang Qiandong deceived them?

Ah Shen looked at the surroundings that had gradually lost people, looked at Bai Xiaoshui with some caution and said, "Didn't she die last year?" It was a terrible death. ”

"Mrs. Xiao, why did you say that Miss Li was such a good person, why did she die inexplicably? He died so miserably, he was cut into pieces, hey. ”

Khan, it turns out that he was talking about corpses.

"Ah Shen, what do you think, what is Li Lanzhi?"

"Very good, very good, every time Miss Li comes to Jiuqulou, she will give us these little two tips, and she will give a lot." Speaking of this, Ah Shen's eyes were full of sympathy.

"Also, I heard that Miss Li was going to marry General Ji, but before she could get married, she had already died."

"Which General Ji?"

"General Zhuguo."

Ji Chuyan?

If everything she heard about Li Lanzhi today is true, and her character is indeed like that.

Just imagine how such a person could provoke others to want to kill her?

"Then the last time you saw Li Lanzhi, did Li Lanzhi do any strange behavior, or say some strange words?"

"Yes, on the evening of the eighth day of the second lunar month, Miss Li got drunk and said that she would buy all the wine in our Jiuqulou, and then our boss persuaded her for a long time."

"Nothing else than this?"

Ah Shen frowned and thought for a while: "By the way, there is one more thing, on the night of the eighth day of the second lunar month, our boss asked me to send Miss Li back to Li's house, and Miss Li seems to have been calling a person's name all the time. ”

"Moreover, he repeatedly said something like 'why can't you marry the general, I like him'."

Bai Qiaoshui's brows furrowed slightly, could it be that he killed for love?

"And what's that name?"

"I don't know, but I heard one of the words, which is the national surname of our South Vietnam."

Protect?

Is it royalty?

Wei Che?

Bai Xiaoshui and Xiao Yu glanced at each other, and they thought of the same person.

"Okay, thank you, you can go back to Jiuqu Building." After speaking, Bai Qiaoshui took out a silver ingot from Xiao Yu's money bag and handed it to Ah Shen.

Ah Shen took the silver, thanked him repeatedly, and then turned around and went in.

The two quickly returned to the General's Mansion, but saw some ordinary people surrounded at the gate of the General's Mansion, and some guards in the palace guarding the door.

Bai Qiaoshui hurriedly squeezed into the crowd, and saw a middle-aged man in an official uniform, walking out of the general's mansion with Li Anran.

Li Anran's hands were chained by wooden shackles, and a heavy chain was also dragged around his two feet and neck.

Bai Wanshui suddenly pushed away the knives of the guards in front of him, and with his arms outstretched, he blocked in front of the middle-aged man in official uniform.

Why did they take the people they arrested without even saying hello to them, and then take them away, what is the reason?

"My lord, I don't know why my lord took away the guests of the General's Mansion in such a way?"

"Miss Ye, the official doesn't want to, but Master Li has done too many wrong things, someone has reported it, and now the emperor has ordered the official to find out about this matter, and first put Li Anran in the prison, of course the official is going to ask for someone."

"This king remembers that at the banquet, Lord Liu was quite helpful to Lord Li, and he stopped him from saying the wrong thing, and now he has begun to enforce the law impartially, Lord Liu is really clear about public and private, and this king admires it."

I don't know when, Xiao Yu has already come to her side.

Bai Wanshui looked at the official in front of him carefully, listened to Xiao Yu's words, and suddenly understood.

Isn't this middle-aged man the minister who stopped Li Anran at the banquet before and didn't let him continue to make a fool of himself?

"Lord Liu wants to handle the case impartially, which is actually the blessing of the people, and we can't hinder Lord Liu." As he spoke, Xiao Yu had already pulled Bai Xiaoshui to the side to make way.

"Thank you for your understanding, let's go."

Even if Bai Xiaoshui is not very willing, Xiao Yu is not bad, people are in the office.

If she continues to stop and provoke that Lord Liu, it will be a crime of obstructing official business.

It's really not a good deal.

"Let's go, let's go and discuss with Ji Chuyan first."

"Uh-huh."

The two found Ji Chuyan in the study.

Ji Chuyan came to open the door, and when he saw Bai Qiaoshui, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but hook up a smile.

But when she saw Xiao Yu standing next to her, the whole person was gloomy.

"What's the matter?"

"Remember Li Lanzhi, right?"

"I don't remember, who is Li Lanzhi?"

The corners of Bai Qiaoshui's mouth twitched, and he took out the jade bracelet: "It's the person who gave this jade bracelet to you." ”

"Oh, she, what's wrong?"

"We want to talk to you about how she was killed."

"Brother Chu Yan, my Fourth Emperor Brother is coming back!"

As soon as Bai Qiaoshui's voice fell, a voice broke in outside the door, and then a person flew in and pounced directly on Ji Chuyan's body.

"What did you just say?"

"The Four Emperor Brothers are coming back." Wei Tuya, who broke in, raised her little face, looked at Ji Chuyan again and said.

"Really?"

"Am I going to lie to you?" Wei Tuya smiled playfully, and it seemed that she liked this Four Emperor Brother very much.

"Wei Ming's kid is really, he went out and traveled for a whole year, and he didn't write a letter to me."

"Don't complain, I didn't see him write to me......" Saying this, Wei Tuya saw Bai Wanshui and Xiao Yu standing aside, so he let go of Ji Chuyan and shook Bai Wanshui's hand instead.

"Miss Ye, my Fourth Emperor Brother is coming back, if he knows that Brother Chu Yan is going to marry you, he will definitely give you the best wishes."

Hearing these words, Bai Xiaoshui and Ji Chuyan were embarrassed.

And the most unhappy thing about the people in this study is Xiao Yu, as soon as he heard Wei Tuya's words, Xiao Yu sneered: "Who said that Ye Yu wanted to marry the person opposite?" ”

"My brother Chu Yan and Miss Ye are in love, and it is only a matter of time before they get married." After speaking, Wei Tuya raised her chin at Xiao Yu very arrogantly.

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