In fact, on the way to Hangzhou between Zhao Xiu and Zhang, when the mother and son of the Zhao family were cheeky and insisted on going together, they mentioned that they went to Hangzhou to visit the cousin of the son of the Zhao family. Although Zhao Xiu later saw that they were just hastily diverted, and they had no intention of visiting relatives in other places, since they could offer the reason of "cousin aunt", they really had relatives in Hangzhou, and they were not afraid that they would be frivolous.

The Zhao family has relatives in Hangzhou, which is not unusual. can be the background of his family, and his relatives are not ordinary people. If there is a high-ranking official among them who knows something about the actions of King Qincha Guangping and his party in Hangzhou, it is possible that the news will leak. What Zhao Wei and Gao Zhen are most worried about is this problem, they must try their best to find out which of the relatives of the Zhao family's mother and son in Hangzhou is!

Zhao Wei said in a deep voice: "I'll go down to see if that kid is gone, if he is still wandering around, send a clever person to follow, and see where he goes back tonight." Gao Zhen nodded, and reminded him: "Be careful." ”

Zhao Xiu saw his brother go out and go downstairs, closed the door, and asked Gao Zhen with some concern: "It has been a few days since the mother and son of the Zhao family came to Hangzhou, could they have heard something a long time ago?" ”

Gao Zhen is not as pessimistic as her: "Not everyone in Hangzhou knows what we are doing. I'll tell you the truth, except for the prefect of Hangzhou, we haven't shown anything at all. Even if some people were borrowed from various local yamen to help reconcile the accounts, it was only under the guise of checking the accounts of the dam repairs over the years, and they did not say where there was a problem with the dam. It's still the first month, and the officials and people in Hangzhou are still busy celebrating the New Year, and there are not many people who will take the time to pay attention to what my father is busy with. And those who pay attention may not be able to guess the true intentions of my father. ”

That being said. But it's always reassuring. However, Zhao Xiu thought in his heart, King Guangping has always been wise, since he thinks it is okay, it shouldn't be a big problem, right? In fact, with his status and status, how many people dare to stop him when he takes the lead in investigating that bad debt? Even if someone heard the news in advance, they would have destroyed the evidence early. The embankment was placed right there. It doesn't become strong overnight. No one can escape all the officials involved, and it is a big deal to try them one by one. No matter who it is. As long as you have done bad things, there will always be traces. One or two pieces of physical evidence are not necessarily indispensable.

Just thinking about it, Zhao Wei's angry voice suddenly came from downstairs: "Who are you?!" What do you want to do with my family's carriage?! "There are also coachmen brought from the capital and the coachmen of the Mi family shouting loudly at someone. A commotion ensued. Gao Zhen hurriedly dodged out and ran to the staircase to ask what was going on. Zhao Wei stood at the top of the stairs angrily and said, "I'm instructing someone to do something." I saw someone sneaking into the carriage shed of the teahouse and didn't know what to do, and when I got closer, I found that he was going to do something to our carriage, so I shouted to stop him. The servants of our family and the people of the Mi family are gathering elsewhere to talk. I didn't have time to stop him for a while, but I told him to escape! ”

The servant who went to chase turned around and apologized to Zhao Wei. Instead of catching him, they told him to flee into the crowd and disappear. Today's lantern festival. There are more and more pedestrians on the street, and they are helpless. Zhao Wei asked them a few questions and frowned.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse rushed to hear the news. Although it is not the people of their teahouse who do bad things, allowing outsiders to sneak into the carriage shed in the backyard of the teahouse is, in the final analysis, the negligence of the teahouse. Now that he has angered the nobles, he naturally wants to come to apologize.

Zhao Wei listened to him with a straight face, but he had no intention of continuing to listen, and sent the person away with a wave of his hand. There is a debtor and a debtor, and the teahouse is just an negligence, but he will not be mistaken for the real culprit.

Back upstairs, he first went to Zhang's side to appease his grandmother and aunt, so that they didn't have to worry. Because of the early discovery, neither carriage was damaged. Mi Yingzhi asked with some concern: "Cousin Zhao, can you see the appearance of the person who came?" I don't know why. My father and mother have a good reputation in Hangzhou, and they are very polite when they go out to meet people. The old lady and her cousin returned to Hangzhou for the first time. Cousin Zhao is a Qincha, and he has no grudges with the officials and people of Hangzhou. For no reason, how could anyone want to do anything to the carriage of our two families? ”

Zhao Wei was a little nervous and replied dryly: "I don't know either." But I don't think he came for his cousin's house. It was my family's carriage that he wanted to do with his hands and feet. He looked at Zhang: "It's the one my grandmother and sister are sitting in." ”

Zhang was taken aback: "Who the hell is it?" To do such a thing! ”

Mrs. Mi hurriedly said: "I'll send someone to send a letter to our master, and we must find out what's going on." If it's just a small night, it's okay, I'm afraid that I have bad intentions and deliberately rush to the house. ”

When Mi Yingzhi heard this, she immediately got up and walked to the door, and ordered someone to pass the word and call a mother-in-law who was in charge of running errands to come over, so she ordered her to rush back to the palace to report the news. Zhao Wei saw that she spoke concisely and to the point, and handled things neatly, and for some reason, he felt an inexplicable pride in his heart.

Although he is a Qincha, he is a foreigner, and it is far less convenient than the local officials to track down someone in Hangzhou. If Uncle Mitang was willing to lend a hand, it would naturally be much more convenient than him tracking it alone.

He looked at Mi Yingzhi and solemnly made a gesture, rarely feeling stiff and overwhelmed: "Thank you Cousin Mi, my cousin really helped me a lot." Mi Yingzhi smiled slightly, her cheeks were slightly red, she bowed her head and returned the salute, and then retreated to her mother's side.

Zhao Wei walked out of the private room, calmed down a little, and entered the room where Zhao Xiu and Gao Zhen were. Zhao Xiu hurriedly greeted him: "How's it going?" Did you catch someone? She had already heard Gao Zhen tell what had happened.

Zhao Wei shook his head, paused, and then said: "The coachman who drove the car for his grandmother said that when he was chasing, he was very close to that kid for a while, and he vaguely saw half of the other party's face through the lights on the street, and felt a little familiar. A few days ago, when my sister and grandmother came from their hometown, the mother and son of the Zhao family insisted on accompanying them. At that time, a little guy who was with the Zhao family kid looked a little similar to the person tonight. ”

Zhao Xiu was taken aback: "Is it someone they sent?" But what are they trying to do with our carriage? ”

Zhao Wei couldn't figure it out, so he could only shake his head with a gloomy face. He also specially instructed his sister: "I didn't mention this matter to my grandmother, and my sister won't tell her for a while, so as not to worry about her old man." Zhao Xiu agreed, thought about it, and said with some amusement: "If you want to do something bad, you should do something to the horse." If the horse is frightened, my grandmother and I will be in danger of sitting in the car. The man was only doing things in the carriage, could it be that he wanted the carriage to break down on the way back? We didn't go fast, the car broke down, we couldn't fall, at most we changed to another car that the girls were sitting in, what could happen? ”

Gao Zhen squinted his eyes and said, "I'll accompany Brother Wei to send you back in a while, if that Zhao family kid really wants to do something bad, he will definitely show up on the road!" ”

Thanks to this, they didn't get to appreciate the lanterns that night. Zhao Wei was afraid that something would really happen on the road, so he urged his grandmother and Zhao Xiu to go back just after a watch. The mother and daughter of the Mi family also said goodbye and left. They have their own servants and servants to escort them, and they are wearing lanterns from the prefect's yamen, and they really don't dare to beat them. Just in case, Mrs. Mi also sent two servants to lead the way to the ancestors of the Zhao family, so that they would not go the wrong way at night.

After separating from the mother and daughter of the Mi family, Zhao Xiu and his party returned to their residence by the West Lake, and Gao Zhen rode a horse in parallel with Zhao Wei. The carriage went smoothly all the way, and there was no breakdown, and there were no robbers on the way. Only halfway down the road, in a remote and few people, I saw a carriage and a few people waiting on the side of the road from a distance. But the other party didn't move, and Zhao Wei and the others didn't plan to pay attention to it. Gao Zhen was careful and quietly sent a small servant to see who it was. The little guy turned around and came back to report that it was the son of the Zhao family.

When Zhao Xiu and the Zhang family returned to their residence, the servant sent by Zhao Wei to follow the son of the Zhao family in advance also returned, and after a secret conversation with Zhao Wei, Zhao Wei turned around and said to Gao Zhen and Zhao Xiu: "The boy I met on the road is indeed the boy of the Zhao family, and the carriage is empty." They waited on the side of the road for most of the hour, but they didn't dare to come up. I suspect they were trying to manipulate the carriage, and when the carriage broke down on our way home, they would have an excuse to talk to us. What a fool! We don't have only one carriage in our family, so what does it matter if the car breaks down?! ”

Zhao Xiu also listened to it funny, but Gao Zhen was more concerned about another matter: "Can your servant track him down where he lives?" ”

Zhao Wei nodded: "My people saw him leading people into the back door of the official residence of the political envoy of Zhejiang." ”

Gao Zhen was taken aback and frowned: "Could it be that his relatives are the political envoys of Zhejiang?" ”

"I haven't heard anyone mention where the wife of the Zhejiang political envoy is." Zhao Wei also frowned and said, "If it's really his family, then it's troublesome." Didn't there only be two account rooms in the garden today, and they were recommended by the political envoy Yamen? ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and their expressions were very strict.

Zhao Xiu carefully interjected: "Do you want to go back and talk to the prince?" If the two people who came today have suspicious backgrounds and some key things, don't let them know. ”

Gao Zhen immediately decided: "I'll go back to the garden and ask people to keep an eye on those two people." ”

Gao Zhen's actions were decisive and timely. When he returned to the garden next door, he immediately sent someone to monitor the two bookkeepers, and he happened to catch one of them—both of them had sneaked into the garden on a secret mission, and in the middle of the night, they slipped to the fence in a remote part of the garden, and worked together, one to watch the wind, and the other to throw a small black cloth bag to the other side of the wall. It's just that the wall is too high, and he doesn't throw the bag over the other side of the wall the first two times. When he threw it for the third time, he was grabbed by the guards who rushed to hear the sound.

The two bookkeepers, together with the black cloth bag, fell into Gao Zhen's hands and were sent to King Guangping as soon as possible. (To be continued) R466