invited Luo Gong into the small study in his own courtyard, and Meng Jun didn't bother to say anything, and directly took out an ancient book from a whole row of bookshelves in the small study. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

What kind of book is that ancient book, Luo Gong was not interested, and only stared at Meng Jun and took out another envelope from the book.

The envelope was so thin that it was almost impossible to tell if there was a letter inside.

Meng Jun sat down opposite Luo Gong and handed the envelope to Luo Gong.

As soon as Luo Gong took it, he felt that there was a letter in the letter, but it was only about one piece of paper, and that paper did not need to be folded, obviously it was a very short letter.

Taking out the boxy letter, which was so small that it didn't need to be folded, Luo Gong only saw a short line of words - the next target, Lin Chang.

The sender is Wang Zhongtong.

Luo Gong asked, "How did you get this letter?" Is it reliable? ”

The focus is on the back, so it's okay for Meng Jun to answer the previous questions if he wants to, or if he doesn't answer them, but the questions in the back must be answered.

Now that Meng Jun has really received Yushi's approval, he has no reason not to tell the truth, and replied:

"Reliable! The command makes it possible for adults to rest assured that it is absolutely reliable! ”

That was the evidence that Meng Jun spent nearly 10,000 taels of silver to buy it.

When Luo Gong heard this, he said: "Why do you suspect Wang Zhongtong, I don't care about this seat, but you spent a lot of effort and money to buy this letter, do you know who is the person who went to take Lin Chang's life?" ”

"That person is not a professional murderer, he is a person hired by Wang Zhongtong, as for who it is......" Meng Jun was full of regret, "I want to know, and I have checked, but I can't find out." ”

Except for Wang Zhongtong's matter, Meng Jun had nothing more to say to Luo Gong, and soon Luo Gong took his leave, also leaving quietly.

After sending Luo Gong away, Meng Jun couldn't help but think of Yu Shi's slight blame and disappointment in his tone in a brief letter.

He sat in the little study and thought about it, thinking that maybe he had been too careful.

If he is too self-restrained, sometimes he will lose many opportunities, which will not be beneficial to his future career, or even harmful on the contrary.

Returning to the Jinyu Inn before noon, Luo Gong asked the shopkeeper to put the meal in the inn lobby, put on the pot of wine, and only took a few sips before asking the shopkeeper to withdraw and change the pot of tea.

Halfway through lunch, Li Xinshu came, he seemed a little dusty, he should have rushed to the Jinyu Inn from somewhere.

At Luo Gong's signal, Li Xinshu sat opposite Luo Gong and said to Luo Gong across the table:

"My lord, I found it! The family bought the fields under the nameless mountain, and sealed the nameless mountain and did not allow the hunters to go up the mountain to hunt, this family is surnamed Song, the principal is called Song Huaishi, in Qingli Mansion is also a big family, the Song family is also Song Huaishi, and there are no side branches or other relatives, just like moving into Nanli from other places! ”

But after Li Xinshu's careful investigation, he knew that the Song family had been doing business in Nanli Mansion for fifty or sixty years, that is, from Song Huaishi's father's generation to Nanli Mansion, to Song Huaishi's generation has been in business for two generations.

Song Huaishi's father and son are also business talents, but in the past fifty or sixty years, they have become the largest merchants in Nan Loei Province, and unlike the two wealthy families of Liang and Lin, the Song family has an excellent reputation in Nan Loei Province.

When Li Xinshu's people inquired, they didn't meet anyone who said that the Song family was not good.

It is said that the Song family is wealthy, but there is no one in their eyes without relying on a few blockages, and Song Huaishi's father and son have done a lot of good deeds over the years, such as building bridges and paving roads, giving porridge and spreading kindness, etc.

Let's talk about Song Huaishi, Li Xinshu said:

"I've seen this Song Huaishi in person, with an ordinary appearance, and a kind atmosphere, always smiling, different from his father's rich state now, Song Huaishi is tall and thin, and there seems to be a few taels of flesh on his body, and he was blown away when the wind blew!"

If it weren't for knowing that the Song family was not short of money, Song Huaishi must be the eldest grandson of the Song family, Li Xinshu would have to Huaiying Song Huaishi was abused in the Song family!

Luo Gong ignored these seven-seven-eighty-eight, and asked directly about the point:

"This Song Huaishi not only bought the fields under the Nameless Mountain, but also bought the entire Nameless Mountain?"

Li Xinshu nodded: "That's right, I have verified this!" ”

Luo Gong was silent, he thought about what was worth Song Huaishi's money to buy in that nameless mountain, and asked after a while:

"What's of value on the Nameless Mountain?"

Li Xinshu didn't need Luo Gong to ask like this, he had checked it earlier, shook his head and said:

"No, except for those large and small beasts that can be hunted and sold for some silver, Nameless Mountain is really nothing worth spending a lot of money to buy."

There must be a demon when something goes wrong, Luo Gong said:

"There must be, Song Huaishi is a businessman, and you said that Song Huaishi's father and son are both good at business, so they can earn such a big family business as the Song family now, so they can't buy a mountain forest for no reason, this mountain forest must have something worthy of Song Huaishi's memory, you continue to check, you can't find it on the surface, just check the secret, and check whether it is related to the Wang family, and check it together, see what is the intersection between the Wang family's livelihood and the Song family's livelihood, if so, check what is strange."

After Luo Gong finished a series of explanations, he asked Li Xinshu if he could have lunch?

Li Xinshu shook his head very embarrassedly, and finally under Luo Gong's greeting, he had lunch at the Jinyu Inn with a shy face, during which Luo Gong asked the shopkeeper to serve two side dishes and a pot of wine.

Li Xinshu and him like to drink the most.

He used to drink little but wine.

But only after seeing with his own eyes that Meng Shen had actually learned to make tea, he suddenly felt that in fact, he could not drink wine, and it was good to eat tea instead.

As for the tea ceremony......

Luo Gong couldn't help but look at his pair of clean and slender hands, and said in his heart that even if he was better than Meng Shen, how could the tea art be better than Meng Shen's!

Li Xinshu didn't know what Luo Gong was thinking, he ate his meal quietly, and occasionally drank a little wine, and Luo Gong was opposite, he was so beautiful.

After Li Xinshu finished lunch at Luo Gong's place, he left the inn and left.

Bingwei came back at this time and brought good news:

"My lord! There's something strange on the king's side! ”

Bingwei followed Wang Bian to the suburban mansion where Wang Zhongtong raised private thugs, and at first he followed and listened all the way, but there was no major discovery, it was all the daily instructions of some Wang Bian to the five people in the house.

"What instructions?" Luo Gong asked.

"One is that you can't go out without permission, and the other is that you can't act without authorization!" Bing Wei said, "There was only the latter one before, but the first one has been added in the past two days!" ”

This was the complaint of the woman of the five after Bingwei left the king's side, saying that the rouge gouache she used was gone, and that she wanted to make a new dress and dress, and she could not leave the house to buy it in the city.

Bing did not hesitate to say: "In that mansion, I also saw a man with his face covered all day, I heard Wang Bian call him Lin Sheng, he looks personable, and his demeanor is also elegant, like a son who is not rich or noble, very polite and educated, but this Lin Sheng doesn't like to talk, I don't hear him open every time I go back, but this time I heard a sentence!" ”

When Wang Bian was about to leave, he suddenly asked Lin Sheng, asking if he could find the letter from the last time?

Lin Sheng didn't open his mouth at first, but after asking Wang Bian three times in a row, he slowly said that he didn't find it.

"Letter?" Luo Gong thought of the thin letter that Meng Jun handed him, and took out the folded envelope from his sleeve pocket: "Maybe this is the letter they are looking for." ”

Bing didn't see the envelope in Luo Gong's hand, and it happened that he was asking Luo Gong for the letter, so he quickly reacted:

"That's what you're talking about? What kind of letter is this? Where did you get your grown-ups? ”

After asking three questions in a row, Bing didn't finish asking, and Luo Gong didn't want to hide it, so he told Bing Wei 1510.

Bing Wei was surprised after hearing this: "It's really ......"

"Knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts?" Luo Gong took Bing Wei's words, and seeing that Bing Wei nodded, he sneered and said: "This Wang Zhongtong is indeed hidden deep enough, just the Lin Sheng you mentioned just now, I think it is the masked boy we inquired about when we were in Zhusha County before." ”

"Before Lin Chang died, he pestered Lin Chang for a while, and the son who had a dispute with Lin Chang?" Bing Wei thought that it was indeed possible to cover his face and not show his true face, and asked: "What's going on with this Wang Zhongtong?" Why did he hire someone to kill Lin Chang? And say it's the goal? Could it be that the previous two Zhusha Zhixian were also killed by the people he sent? ”

Luo Gong said: "If this letter is really the letter that Wang Bian and Lin Sheng are looking for, then we have also found out the murderer and the mastermind who killed the three Zhusha Zhixian in a row, as for the reason...... You said that they are now restricted by Wang Zhongtong to live in the courtyard and are not allowed to enter the city? ”

Bingwei nodded: "Yes!" ”

"Let's go!" Luo Gong said and stood up and walked straight to the door of the inn.

Bing Wei didn't ask again, he knew that Luo Gong wanted to go to the mansion on the outskirts of Wang Zhongtong in person.

In Nanli Wang's Mansion, Liancheng has been paying attention to the movements of Mrs. Wang, Wang Hai, and the external steward, after all, Mrs. Wang is a woman in the inner house, so she doesn't have much chance to leave the mansion.

However, Wang Hai and the foreign steward obviously had to go out to deal with many things, but he repeatedly saw the shopkeepers or stewards of various shops coming to Wang's mansion and reporting various decisions about buying and selling with Wang Hai.

He felt that Wang Hai had gone a little too deliberately, this was because he knew that their emperor was always paying attention to him?

So Wang Hai has converged?

But it's too much of a convergence, and that makes people pay more attention, doesn't it?

Liancheng sighed silently in his heart.

If the Lord of his Thousand Households is here or the commander is here, he will probably be able to see something, or will he go back and report it first?

But the commander made the adults explain the things he did, and he hasn't done anything yet, so will he go back and be scolded?

I'm not afraid to scold him, I'm afraid that the commander will not scold him for being useless, and then go to a sour sentence or two in front of his family's thousands of households, then he will be finished, and he will definitely let his family's thousands of households clean up miserably!

Thinking of this, Liancheng sighed again.

Then he thought that since Mrs. Wang, Wang Hai, and the foreign steward were not out of the Wang Mansion, and they couldn't see any signs of movement, why didn't he go to investigate the other matter that the commander had explained?

That's right, just do it!

Whether the nameless mountain has anything to do with Nanli Wangfu or not, he has to find out.

If he can't find out again, he won't have the face to see the commander again.

Hiding under a wall in Wang Hai's courtyard, Liancheng thought about it, then turned out of Wang Hai's courtyard and went to Mrs. Wang's courtyard.

After these days of his watching, he summed up a conclusion, that is, Wang Hai has never been able to make big decisions and big decisions, or Wang Hai does not dare to make decisions at all, and they must finally be decided by Mrs. Wang before they can be implemented.

The Lord of his family has said more than once that the person who is really in charge of the house in Nanli Wang Mansion is Mrs. Wang, and he also believes it, but this is the first time he has really heard it with his own ears and seen it with his own eyes.

Thinking of Wang Hai's dignified seven-foot man, who was about to hug his grandson, and had to obey his mother with full authority, he felt a burst of sadness for Wang Hai.

When he turned his senses, he couldn't help but rejoice that although his home in Beijing was just an ordinary hereditary military household, it was better than his father's kindness and filial piety, and he would never interfere in his affairs as an errand in the Jinyi Guard's yamen, and his mother would never care about whether he had enough to eat, whether he was warm or not, and so on.

In the past, he didn't think that he was so happy compared to this now!

When I arrived at Mrs. Wang's yard, Gu's mother was instructing the rough girl to sweep the yard.

Liancheng is strange, Gu's mother is a housekeeper's mother, why does Gu's mother have to personally guide and supervise such rough work as how to sweep the yard?

After taking a closer look at Gu's mother's expression, he found that Gu's mother seemed to be calling for a rough girl, but in fact, a pair of old eyes were turning around, and the left and right were full of vigilance.

He couldn't help but look at the main house in the courtyard.

It was an upper room connected to Mrs. Wang's bedroom, and it was also the hall for entertaining guests in this courtyard, in addition to the main house, there were two small wings connected to the left and right.

Could it be that there are guests in the main house at this moment?

No, he should go from this courtyard to the courtyard of Wang Hai over there to pay attention to the movements, why did the guests come here after such a while?

Or is it a confidential conversation behind closed doors, and you have to take care of the distinguished guests who come out to guard the door in person?

The more Liancheng thought about it, the more he felt that it was, and he was glad that he was lucky to turn back in time, otherwise he would not have known that he had missed it!

But now, how do you get close to the corner of the main house?

That's a problem.

You can't get close to the front of the main house, Gu's mother doesn't give birth, and those first-class, second-class and rough girls are standing inside and out in all corners under the front porch of the main house, obviously this is a practice that makes people unable to get close to eavesdropping.

But Mrs. Wang trusts so much?

Gu's mother doesn't need to say it, no matter how far away the rough girls are from the door of the main house, and they are busy sprinkling and sweeping, they shouldn't be able to hear half a minute, but there are a lot of first-class and second-class girls, there are five or six people, and the places where they stand are also blocked by people who want to get close to eavesdropping.

Others can't hear it, if these maids have a heart, and the people inside lower their voices by an octave, they can listen carefully, and they can hear a little after all.

Is Mrs. Wang really relieved?

Or is it the same as his family's thousands of adults, don't use suspicious people, and don't suspect people?

Liancheng thought about it for a while, trying to hide his body from being discovered, and on the other hand, he looked around to find the best place to listen to the corner.