Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Rou Baozi was the first to speak: "Murong Shaojin is right, we can't just care about the life and death of those women, so let's do it, Murong Xing and Murong Shaojin will stay in the Xiaoyao Palace for the time being, and I, Ouyang Deyuan and Yinrui will go to Gusu first to track down those human trafficking gangs, and now I just hope that they haven't left Gusu yet." ”

Before Ouyang Deyuan could speak, Yin Rui spoke.

"Okay, let's get out of the way, hurry up, maybe catch up."

Ouyang Deyuan shook his head slightly and said, "No, we can go, but we can't take you on the road." ”

Yin Rui glared at him and said, "Is this a good time to be jealous?" ”

Ouyang Deyuan shrugged his shoulders and said: "I don't have to be jealous with you, she is my lady, you don't even have a chance, why should I be jealous, I mean your identity is too eye-catching, so it will cause a lot of trouble, so I can't take you to Gusu." ”

Meat bun glanced at Yin Rui sympathetically and said, "Deyuan has a point, so ...... For the time being, you can stay in the palace for the time being, and we promise to be back soon. ”

After making this decision, Roubaozi told Dugu Yefeng about the plan, and then he and Ouyang Deyuan each rode a fast horse to Gusu.

By the time they arrived at Gusu Yunxiu Silk Village, it was already empty.

Meat Bun said dejectedly: "We are late, they have already run away." ”

Ouyang Deyuan picked up a piece of paper from the empty room, he looked at it carefully for a while and said, "This is a pawnshop ticket, we can go and see, who is the thing, maybe we can find their whereabouts." ”

Meat Baozi and Ouyang Deyuan came to Hengsheng Pawnshop and handed them the pawn ticket.

"Childe, this pawn ticket has expired, so you can't redeem it." The shopkeeper said to Ouyang Deyuan.

Ouyang Deyuan replied: "I don't want to redeem it, I just want the shopkeeper to tell me who did what." ”

The shopkeeper was embarrassed and said, "This ...... This one...... Childe, we don't have this rule in our pawnshop, so I'm really sorry I can't tell you. ”

Meat Baozi stood aside and smiled at him and said, "Shopkeeper, there is no rule in this world that is not set by people." So you say that rules are dead, and people are alive, right? ”

As he spoke, he took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and put them in front of the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper smiled and put the silver in his arms, opened the account book and said: "This lady is very right, this pawn ticket belongs to the one-eyed Lao Liu of Yunxiu Silk Village, he used it as a few hairpins and a few women's clothes, all of which are worthless things, and I don't know where he got them." ”

Meat Baozi said to Ouyang Deyuan: "The one-eyed old Liu must be the one-eyed old servant that Murong Shaojin said. ”

Ouyang Deyuan asked, "Shopkeeper, do you know where this one-eyed old Liu lives?" ”

"Well, he used to live in the Silk Village, until the Silk Village suddenly closed, and I haven't seen him for several days, and I don't know where he has gone now." The shopkeeper said.

"Shopkeeper, why did this Yunxiu Silk Village suddenly close its doors, do you know?" Meat bun asked.

The shopkeeper said: "You are outsiders, you don't even know this, about half a month ago, the head of Yunxiu Silk Village suddenly went crazy, set fire to his own house, he and his wife also died in the fire, so no one took care of the silk village, the servants took some silk and ran away, only the one-eyed Lao Liu remained in the empty silk village, but now he is also gone." ”

"The head of the silk village is crazy? And burned himself and his wife to death? Why does this matter sound so weird......" Meat Bun said to Ouyang Deyuan uneasily.

Ouyang Deyuan said: "There must be something hidden in this, let's go to the old house that was burned down to have a look." ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly said: "That house is near the filial piety bridge at the south gate, alas, everything has been burned down, and you can see it when you get there." ”

Before leaving, Meat Bun asked the shopkeeper, "What is the name of the head of the Silk Village?" ”

"His name is Lan Xiangwen, he is a self-made businessman, alas, it's a pity, he went crazy with a good look, and he killed his wife Lin." The shopkeeper said with some embarrassment.

Meat Baozi and Ouyang Deyuan came to Lan Xiangwen's former residence and found that it was really burned to the ground, not to mention the bones, so burned that they couldn't even find the ashes.

Ouyang Deyuan looked through the ruins and found a strange thing.

"Lady, have you noticed anything unusual?" Ouyang Deyuan said.

Meat bun shook his head: "No, what's wrong?" Deyuan, do you see something? ”

"Everything seems to have burned in the fire, except for the gold and silver, and the jewels may burn out, but how is it that there is not even a bit of dregs left in the gold and silver?"

As soon as he said this, Meat Bun said disapprerovingly: "You also know that there are many servants in their family, maybe those servants saw that their masters were dead, so they picked up all the slag of silver and gold after the fire, which is not surprising." ”

Ouyang Deyuan shook his head and said: "No, my intuition tells me that before the fire, those valuable things have been swept away, maybe this fire was not put by Lan Xiangwen at all, and he didn't go crazy, there is a big conspiracy in it." ”

Suddenly there was an old woman who walked towards the ruins with tears in her eyes, still holding something in her hand.

She walked up to the meat bun and said, "This lady, are you a relative of the Lan family?" I've been waiting for you for a long time, why did you come? ”

Roubaozi was about to tell her that she had recognized the wrong person and that she was not a relative of the Lan family, but Ouyang Deyuan glanced at her, indicating that she might know something about the old woman.

Rou Baozi coughed slightly and said, "Well, mother-in-law, I am Lan Xiangwen's cousin, I haven't been in contact for many years, I heard that something happened to him, so I hurried over from the imperial city, where do I know that it is still too late." ”

The old woman wiped her tears and said, "Heaven is unfair, Lan Xianggong is a good person, I didn't expect to end up like this." Alas, pitiful, pitiful. ”

She trembled and opened her palm, and inside was a jade pendant carefully wrapped in a handkerchief.

"Lan Xianggong suddenly came to me the day before the accident and told me that if something happened to his family, he would hand over this heirloom chicken blood jade pendant to his relatives who came here. Now the old body will hand it over to you, I hope you will take good care of it. ”

After saying that, the old woman reluctantly glanced at the ruins again, sighed, turned around and walked away tremblingly.

Ouyang Deyuan took the chicken blood jade pendant in the meat bun's hand and looked at it.

"This piece of blood jade pendant, in fact, is an ordinary bloodstone, the valuable bloodstone must be blood bright red, commonly known as 'living blood', the amount of blood can not be too much, six or seven become treasures, and then the blood shape is distinctive, although the color of this pendant is bright red, the carved chicken-shaped zodiac is lifelike, but the amount of congestion is too large, there is no blood, and there is a hole in the back of the chicken, which is hollow, so it is not worth much. How could Lan Xiangwen treat this as a family heirloom? ”

(To be continued.) )