A carriage stopped in a courtyard on the outskirts of Huainan City.

"He's already here?" The woman with a lilac veil only showed a pair of emotionless beautiful eyes, gently raised the curtain and asked.

"Yes." A masked man stood at the gate of the courtyard and replied.

"That's it, I'll see what results he has gotten these days," Rong Qinglan tilted his head slightly, and then turned to the dragonfly on the side, "Dragonfly, you go to the city first, arrange the place to stay, and I'll meet you later." ”

"Yes, girl." The dragonfly nodded in response.

In the courtyard, Xu Tai was fiddling with a few flowers and plants, and when he heard the slight footsteps, he turned his head and greeted: "Miss Rong." ”

Rong Qinglan glanced at the flowers and plants in the yard disapplausively: "Can you get something?" She has always felt that Xu Tai likes to fiddle with flowers and plants, and his habit is childish.

Xu Tai was not angry because of her eyes, she was still gentle and elegant, but what she said made Rong Qinglan angry: "The prince is one step ahead of us, and Yu Zexuan already has some eyebrows." ”

"How can it be!" Rong Qinglan stretched out his hand and patted the pillar of the corridor, and Chun Congyu's hand hit the hard pillar, which made people a little frightened and worried-these hands won't be broken, right?

"Miss Rong is a little restless, some eyebrows, it doesn't mean that the water is out. They chose to come openly, and they had already met those officials. Now that they are in the open and in the dark, it is clear that we can do things more conveniently. Xu Tai seems to have long been accustomed to Rong Qinglan's behavior of "mutilating" his jade hand, and he is still calm and gentle.

"So, what exactly are these eyebrows?" Rong Qinglan took a deep breath and calmed down.

"The bandit on Bagong Mountain in Shouyang County." Xu Tai replied.

Rong Qinglan frowned at the soft Qingdai: "What does the thief have to do with greedy ink?" ”

Xu Tai explained: "The lord and the crown prince have received the news that Huainan may be greedy for ink, but they both want to find out the truth and expose it to the emperor in one fell swoop." So the prince sent Yu Zexuan and Xia Yichen. Before Xia Yichen arrived in Huainan City, he took a detour and took the soldiers of Yuwangfu to Shouyang to catch the bandits......"

"So you suspect that they knew the bandit was unusual early in the morning and went?" Rong Qinglan turned his head sideways and said what Xu Tai had not finished.

Xu Tai nodded yes: "That's true." There is another point that makes me wonder if this road of bandits is indeed extraordinary. ”

"What is it?" Rong Qinglan was puzzled.

"Although Xia Yichen is a straw bag in fighting with soldiers, the pro-soldiers of the Yuwang Mansion are not dry food," Xu Tai put forward his reasoning and analysis, "Those pro-soldiers have received special training from the Yuwang Mansion. There are also some who have even followed Princess Long Yu to the battlefield. Ordinary bandits can be exterminated by just fighting. But this sortie only brought back a few prisoners. It's even more ridiculous. After the captives were handed over to Huainan Dao, they were escorted to the capital on the way, and they were actually robbed! ”

Rong Qinglan's eyebrows became more and more furrowed, obviously realizing the seriousness of the situation: "Since it is a big case, I am not in a hurry." I went to the city to understand the situation. Over there. Don't let those two guys make any big progress. ”

"Don't worry, I'll watch those two." Xu Tai is confident.

Send Rong Qinglan away. Xu Tai sat down in the courtyard: "Come on." ”

"The subordinates are here."

Xu Tai sighed: "Staring at Miss Rong." If she wants to give the order to kill, stop it anyway. ”

"Yes."

At nightfall, the gate of the Qian Mansion was just about to be closed, but suddenly a man in a cloak came to visit.

Qian Zhanye met him in the study, and the man in the cloak did not sit down after entering the door, but only took off his hood and saluted: "Xu Tai has seen Shibo." ”

"Nephew Xu doesn't have to be polite." Qian Zhanye smiled kindly, "Why is it so mysterious when you come to Huainan this time?" ”

"Please forgive me, this time it is not appropriate to publicize it. Please also ask Shibo not to reveal my whereabouts. Xu Tai pleaded.

Qian Zhanye bowed: "No one else will ask about you, and I won't say much." Since you don't want people to know your whereabouts, you must have something important to come to me, right? ”

Xu Tai smiled: "Shibo is like a god, a few days ago I heard that there were thieves who were going to be escorted to Jianye, and these days I suddenly heard that the thieves were robbed, this matter is quite strange." ”

"This incident was originally caused by the prince of Yuwang. But later, it was faintly related to many things. The thieves have been robbed, and we are also looking for them, but we have found nothing. Qian Zhanye shook his head and sighed.

"Faintly related to many things?" Xu Tai asked.

Qian Zhanye then told Xu Tai about the armor and medicine.

Xu Tai fell into deep thought when he heard this, and Qian Zhanye continued: "In this matter, the eldest son of Yu Heyang, the head of the household department, took the initiative to ask Ying, saying that he wanted to find out, and I agreed, I don't know what the result is now." As for the armor, I also have to thank the ugly girl for coming up with the solution. ”

Yu Zexuan wanted to make a difference, Xu Tai knew this, but Ah Chou was in Huainan and came up with that method, which was really beyond his expectations. Sure enough, the Lord said that she was a sharp blade, and it was really very useful!

"Ugly is also in Huainan City?" Xu Tai asked.

Qian Zhanye nodded: "She has been in Huainan City for less than a month, and she is here to do business, and the pharmacy is doing well." You found the person in the first place, is she reliable? ”

Xu Tai secretly said in his heart: Come to Huainan City to do business? It's still medicine, and now things in Huainan City are complicated.

"Miss Ugly's background and character, Shibo can rest assured, she has some relationship with the richest businessman, the Mo family." Xu Tai understood that Qian Zhanye must have wanted to use a clown when he asked like this. If Ugly can be used for money and business, it is also a good way. After all, after that merit robbery incident, the relationship between the four princes and the Mo family was a little delicate, and if they directly helped the four princes, Ah Chou would definitely not agree.

"I see, just be reliable." Qian Zhanye was relieved.

Xu Tai brought the words back to the topic: "The matter of the bandits is quite strange, and I also have the heart to check many of the connections, and I hope that Shibo will not dislike me for being stupid." ”

"It's okay for you to check it, I can trust your character and ability." Of course, Qian Zhanye hopes that one more person will help him.

In the Tianzi room of Kai'an Inn, Xia Yichen got the latest secret report, and handed it to Yu Zexuan after reading it.

Yu Zexuan browsed it and gasped: "This cloaked man must be Xu Tai!" ”

"Fortunately, you decided not to tell Qian Zhanye until the truth is revealed," Xia Yichen picked up his wine glass and drank extremely slowly, "Otherwise, you should cry to death now, we bet that Qian Zhanye will definitely tell you everything!" ”

"You're drunk." Yu Zexuan glanced at Xia Yichen, whose peach blossom eyes were a little drunk.

"I'm not drunk," Xia Yichen poured himself another glass of wine, "So, they may be about to start acting." ”

Yu Zexuan is used to this half-drunk person: "Anyway, we don't have any valuable clues now, and the people who robbed and killed the bandits finally returned to Bagong Mountain." ”

"This can only show two things, first, that gang of bandits is highly skilled and not simple. Second, these people are very cautious! Xia Yichen sighed a little.

"This road is not working, we should take another path," Yu Zexuan took away the wine glass in Xia Yichen's hand, "I know that there is good news from the border pass today, but if you drink it again, there is no progress on our side, and the fourth prince has won the first place, I am afraid that you will not be able to control the military power of Yuwangfu for the rest of your life!" ”

The corners of Xia Yichen's mouth were hooked, but he looked like a wry smile: "What kind of military power do you think I'm really for?" ”

Yu Zexuan couldn't wait to slap him, picked it up with his hand, but the situation when he first met him when he was a child appeared in his mind, and his anger turned into a sigh: "Then think about what you really want to do!" Then he walked out of the room.

The moment he walked out of the door, Xia Yichen suddenly spoke: "Go and check the whole process of the weapon coming out of the arsenal to the use of Huainan, who handled it......"

June 27, it was the market day, and Ah Chou thought that he was going crazy with his busy days these days, and he didn't accompany his grandmother much, so he decided to go shopping with his grandmother.

"This thing is made with fine stitches, buy it back and use it as a cushion for grandma!" Ugly picked up a cushion and paid for it.

Grandma Xu smiled heartily: "The things you picked up are naturally good, and you are becoming more and more shrewd!" ”

Ah Chou held his grandmother's hand and said with a smile: "I have been doing business these days, how can I do it if I am not smart!" There are earrings over there, go check them out! ”

"Okay, you can't compare to the past, you always have to deal with those officials and wealthy businessmen, you can't dress as simple as before, and you have to buy some good jewelry and clothes." Grandma Xu instructed.

Ah Chou stretched out his hand and pulled the hem of his skirt: "I understand this truth, since I came to Huainan City, my clothes have not been bad, people rely on clothes and horses to rely on saddles, they don't dress well, and they don't have the confidence to go out to talk about business." ”

Grandma Xu smiled and looked at Ugly's blue dress today, and nodded with satisfaction: "It's getting more and more like a big girl!" ”

"Grandma is talking nonsense again!" Ugly pouted under the veil.

After walking around and returning home, a little maid from the next door came to knock on the door: "Only then did someone come to find him, saying that his surname was Zhao, and when he saw that there was no one in the girl's house, he came to knock on the door of our house again and asked if anyone lived here." ”

Surname Zhao? Isn't it Second Brother Zhao?

"What else did the man say?" Ugly hurriedly asked.

The little maid shook her head: "There is nothing else, just say that the girl will go to a guild hall in the north of the city to find him when she comes back." Then he told me the approximate location of the hall.

"Thank you, it's hard for you to remember," Ugly nodded in thanks, "I just bought some osmanthus candy, you can also take a few pieces to eat!" ”

The little maid took the osmanthus candy and ran away happily. Ugly went in and explained the matter to his grandmother.

"When we moved in, I wrote to Zhao San's sister-in-law and asked the post station to be delivered to Gujing Village. I didn't expect Second Brother Zhao to come so soon. Ah Chou picked up some things as he spoke, planning to ask Zhao Erqing to bring them back.

"Sister-in-law Zhao is a rare good person, and there is a little fifth in the Tong family, just bring more, it's not easy to run!" Grandma Xu said enthusiastically,

"That's not the more the better, on a hot day, Second Brother Zhao has to spend effort!" Ugly reminded.

Grandma Xu clapped her hands: "Look at my memory, I forgot about it!" ”

Ah Ugly covered her lips and smiled: "Grandma's memory is not good, but she is happy, I know how to measure." (To be continued......)

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