Chapter 169: Cause
Lin Yunlei was thinking about the content of the letter he received two days ago, and at the same time whipped the horse under him with the whip in his hand, hoping that it would be faster, as for the two entourages behind him, he had no time to care about it at all, and the two days and one night of rushing was not making him look so embarrassed, except for the slight cyan stubble growing under his chin, his whole mental state was even better.
Lin Yunlei was afraid that Xia Zhi would be taken away by someone on different roads, so he sent several groups of people at the same time to search in different ways, and at the same time, in the name of Lin Yuntian, let the four northern counties strictly guard at the same time, if there are suspicious characters, they must be reported, and at the same time, he mobilized his manpower in the four counties to let them always pay attention to the situation of the summer solstice, and at the same time attached the character image of the summer solstice.
He himself took two people, and he has been rushing to the capital, and in the past few days, no useful information has been transmitted from the government offices of Nanjun or other east, west, and north counties, but Lin Yunlei's own people have sent a letter.
The letter was sent from the capital, saying that they had met a few suspicious people, shouting on the street how to grow cotton and how to sell cotton planting techniques, and the disappearance of the summer solstice might be related to them, and the letter also mentioned that they had managed to tie up a few people and let Lin Yunlei arrive as soon as possible.
Although Lin Yunlei was more curious about who did such a thing, since he received the letter, he immediately hurried to hurry. Although Lin Yunlei was also in a hurry before, he had to stop for a while every place he passed, make arrangements in the local area, or search for it, and then continue to hurry. I'm afraid I've missed the summer solstice.
He thought that in order to find Xia Solstice, he first had to determine the reason for Xia Solstice's disappearance. Those few people may be the breakthrough. Only then did they rush to the capital, but because of the long delay on the road before, they didn't go far from the barracks, which didn't even take two days and one night, seeing that the sky was getting dark, Lin Yunlei and they were about to enter the city gate.
After entering the city, Lin Yunlei didn't even eat a hot meal, and directly took his entourage with him. Let them be led to the suspicious people.
I don't know if I don't know how to do this, I still look like an old acquaintance, isn't it the Tian Shan family who was kicked out of Tianjia Village, except for Tian Xiaoshan, aren't the adults and children all here. Seeing them, Lin Yunlei's face instantly darkened, and he was angry, these people should not have let them go in the first place, they couldn't kill them, and they should be locked up forever. Now he has no doubt that Xia Zhi's disappearance is related to them, and this family is not a good bird.
After all, in the capital, Lin Yunlei and they were more restrained in their work. There was no private cell to detain the Tian Shan family, but only a firewood room was found for their family to stay. In addition to having no place to sleep, someone will take care of everything to eat and drink, if it weren't for the bad sleep, their family would simply be happy, after all, there is no need to be tired and tired to have someone to send food and drink, everyone is happy.
When Lin Yunlei entered, they happened to be eating, watching the family gobble up, the anger in their hearts was rising, these culprits ate and drank well here, but Xia Zhi didn't know where the road was, what kind of crime did he suffer, Lin Yunlei threw a gloomy look over, and immediately someone stepped forward to snatch the food in their hands, and withdrew the vegetable leaves on the table.
"Hey......, why did you take my bowl, I haven't eaten yet......" Tian Dashan's daughter-in-law, Chen, was eating happily, when someone snatched the dishes and chopsticks from behind, and shouted unhappily, but when he turned his head and saw Lin Yunlei standing on the threshold, he immediately glared at him, and his tongue was straight in fright. Oh, mom, how did you see this person, where is their family's way to live in his hands.
Tian Shan and Tian Dashan, as well as Tian Xiaoshan's daughter-in-law and two children, also looked unhappy, they were deceived and locked up for several days, Lin Yunlei's subordinates in order to stabilize them, waiting for Lin Yunlei to come over, in addition to not letting them go out, they have always been good food and drink.
On the contrary, they have developed the habit of arrogance, thinking that these people believe in their skill in growing cotton, and treat them as honored guests, and now they suddenly remove the food from the table, which makes them very displeased.
"What is this for, believe it or not, I don't sell you the art of growing cotton!" Tian Shan sat in the room, didn't look up at who the person was, and said with great displeasure to himself.
"Yes, I won't sell it to you......" Tian Boss said unhappily, but before he finished speaking, he was pulled by his daughter-in-law's sleeve, Tian Boss unhappily shook off his daughter-in-law's hand, but in the end he looked up at the person in front of him, and he couldn't say anything about being frightened.
"Ah, Daddy......" Tian Dashan looked at Lin Yunlei's gloomy face, and quickly tugged Tian Shan's sleeve and asked him to look at the door. This is really a narrow road, how can they meet this kid again, it must be a good thing to meet him, not to mention that their family is still in the hands of others, Tian Dashan only hopes that his unpromising brother can find them and bring them back at this time.
"What for...... You ......" As soon as Tian Shan looked up, he naturally saw Lin Yunlei standing there with a black face, and he was speechless in an instant.
"Yo, what's the matter, don't you know an acquaintance?" Lin Yunlei pursed his lips and said with some sarcasm, adding to the words acquaintance.
"Say! Isn't that stupid thing you guys are doing? It's the summer solstice that is missing! One second Lin Yunlei was sarcastic about these people in a slightly sarcastic tone, and the next second he immediately yelled gloomily at these people, and the momentum made Tian Shan's family shrink back in fright.
"What, what summer solstice is missing, I, we don't know!" Tian Shan stammered, he didn't know what Lin Yunlei was talking about.
"I don't know the road, you think you can solve the problem without knowing the road, tell me, who did you talk to about cotton after you came to the capital? If I don't say it, the pain of flesh and skin is indispensable, and let me find out something, then it's hard to say! Lin Yunlei gave him a look, and his subordinates moved a stool and put it directly on the door, Lin Yunlei sat on it, just sat on the threshold, and confronted the Tianshan family.
Speaking of which, Tian Shan's family drove out of Tianjia Village, and they wanted to find a place to settle nearby, but the good things didn't go out, and the bad things spread thousands of miles, plus the Zhu family's personality was too bad, and the village chief of Niangniang Town knew about them, and there was no village willing to take them in.
Later, Tian Dashan was angry, so he encouraged Tian Shan to go to the south, because he had heard that the south was rich, and there were many high-ranking officials and nobles, and those people's fingers were sewn and leaked a little enough for them to eat for a lifetime.
But their own savings were not much, and they brought their families with them, so they ate their old books, and before they arrived in the south, the family ate all the old books, and only after starving did they arrive in the capital, which is also the most prosperous city in the north, no worse than the south.
It was not easy for the family to get together, settled in Dongcheng, thinking about finding some work, and had some income, but they were illiterate, and had no memory, in the case of difficult work in the Dawu Dynasty, it is conceivable that a group of people could not find any good jobs at all, except for doing coolies for people, not to mention a little money a day, and the money earned was not enough to pay the rent, on the other hand, such a day and night of hard work, their bodies could not bear it at all, and several people quit their jobs in a few days.
In this case, when Tian Dashan went out to look for work, when he passed by a restaurant, he found a merchant pulling an oxcart of cotton seedlings.
When he heard that the merchant asked the shopkeeper to take good care of those seedlings, saying that those things were precious things, and the shopkeeper would not be compensated for breaking them, he curiously went up to ask the merchant what it was.
When the merchant saw Tian Dashan come forward to ask, he first looked at him vigilantly, and then found that Tian Dashan was a beggar, and then impatiently asked the shopkeeper to drive them out. Tian Dashan looked down on people when he saw them, not only did he not answer his question, but also drove him out of the city as a beggar.
"What's the big deal, sooner or later, Lao Tzu will also make a fortune one day, let you all kneel in front of the uncle and beg me! Isn't it just a broken seedling, Lao Tzu has shoveled I don't know how many Lu Dao, Lao Tzu is not rare! After saying that, the shopkeeper was about to beat him with a broom, and he hurried to run, but was stopped by the merchant, and then politely invited in.
This merchant is none other than the son of the man who found cotton and gave them to the master, planted cotton, and helped the master make a lot of money, because their family knew how to grow cotton, was reused by the master, when he heard Tian Dashan say that he shoveled a lot of cotton seedlings, he became suspicious, where they planted cotton, he had never seen Tian Dashan, it was not someone who planted cotton, or thought of his father, cotton also grew somewhere.
"This brother, you just said that you shoveled a lot of such seedlings?" The merchant politely invited Tian Dashan into the restaurant, and let the queen serve it deliciously.
However, Tian Dashan didn't eat him, and looked at the businessman suspiciously, not knowing why he changed his face before and after.
"Brother, if you tell me, this is yours!" The merchant directly took out a silver ingot, he was really unhappy to grind with Tian Dashan, he believed that Tian Dashan's current situation would definitely not be able to resist the temptation.
It's a pity that he underestimated Tian Dashan, Tian Dashan still couldn't make a sound, still looked at the merchant, of course, his eyes were staring at the silver ingot without blinking. The merchant took out another silver ingot and threatened him, and he honestly told the matter of the cotton seedlings, and then he leaked the news about planting cotton on the summer solstice. (To be continued......)