The people of the Detective Affairs Department returned to the drinking restaurant, but the restaurant was empty, and they inquired about people passing by nearby, and some people saw that people from the restaurant got into the carriage and went to the east gate.

The men of the Investigation Department immediately got on their horses and chased after them, running all the way in the direction of the east gate.

In the carriage, Li Diudiu looked at Yu Jiuling, a young man a few years older than him, with tears in his eyes, because they actually knew that the shopkeeper might not return.

The Department of Detective Affairs is a group of demons who eat people and don't spit out bones, as long as they bring people back, it is impossible for them to come back, so the shopkeeper waved his hand to Yu Jiuling before leaving, meaning to leave it alone, and then explained to Yu Jiuling a good greeting......

In fact, this greeting of good guests is to tell Yu Jiuling not to mess around, there are still guests here, don't bother others.

looked at the counter again and said that he was taking care of the storefront, at first Yu Jiuling thought that the shopkeeper was talking about the money behind the counter, and after he passed, he found that there were some letters in the drawer, which were letters exchanged between the shopkeeper and his family in the capital in the past two years.

Only then did Yu Jiuling understand that the shopkeeper didn't want to affect his family, so he took all the letters away, so it would be difficult for the people in the Department of Detectives to find out where the shopkeeper's family lived in the capital.

The money was also taken away for the future treasurer's wife and children.

In addition to letters and money, there was also a booklet, which was the method of making sake with burning knives.

"Is the shopkeeper really not coming back?"

Yu Jiuling muttered to himself, he wasn't asking anyone, he didn't know who to ask.

Xiahou Zhuo nodded and said: "Although I also hope that he can come back, but probably he can't come back, the Detective Department will not take people without purpose, with my understanding of the Detective Division, they are looking for a scapegoat, Mr. Yuming escaped, if he returns to the capital, His Majesty will ask if he knows about it, and the Detective Department will arrest the shopkeeper, mostly because he knows that Mr. Yuming has only been here to drink before." ”

He was silent for a moment and then continued: "I guess they will say that it is Shopkeeper Lu who colluded with Jianghu customers, because Mr. Yuming showed his wealth in your store, and Shopkeeper Lu was interested in seeing the wealth......

He said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, we can't take care of this matter." ”

What Xiahou Zhuo said is not wrong, even if his father is a prince, he can call the wind and rain in the local area, and even turn the clouds and rain, but he can't help Liu Chongxin, Liu Chongxin can help him.

This is a big strange thing, the emperor does not trust his own brother, he only trusts one eunuch.

If Xiahou Zhuo took care of today's affairs and went to the people from the Investigation Department to ask Shopkeeper Lu to come out, even if he could come out, it would cause disaster to Prince Yu's Mansion.

Liu Chongxin is a villain who will repay him, and Xiahou Zhuo does not dare to take risks.

"I can't be angry with you just because you didn't save my shopkeeper, that's not right."

Yu Jiuling said: "But I can't go to Northern Xinjiang with you for the time being, the shopkeeper's meaning must be to let me go to the capital Daxing, let me meet his family, I must go this time...... I give them to the shopkeeper's house, and if they need help, I stay there and don't come back. ”

Xiahou Zhuo nodded and said, "It's okay, do what you think you should do." ”

The atmosphere was really a bit dull, Li Didiu felt a little embarrassed to leave like this, and he couldn't even stay for a while to see if Shopkeeper Lu could come back, he felt like a deserter, and his heart was full of shame and guilt.

However, Xiahou Zhuo said that it is meaningless to stay and wait for the news, and everyone will be implicated, and continue to take care of this matter with the kindness of a woman, and when the time comes, more and more people will die if they are implicated in the palace and the academy.

Fleeing with this kind of shame and guilt made Li Diudiu feel that he had no strength at all.

If it is against the wicked, those scoundrels, and those thieves, Li Diudiu feels that he has learned a martial art that is useful, and he can show his strength.

But this time they were facing the Department of Investigation, a powerful yamen, and his martial arts became meaningless.

Ten steps to kill one person, and then what?

After all, the blood on the ground has its own, and after he falls, there will be people who will continue to fall because of him.

For the first time in his life, he thought about the relationship between the court and the people very seriously, his current identity and ability were like an ant in front of a yamen like the Department of Investigation.

He further thought that the master said that he wanted him to enter the Four Pages Academy to buy his life, to buy a different fate, and now that the master got his wish, he also looked really glamorous, and met a friend with status like Xiahou Zhuo.

But is it really glamorous? Has fate really changed?

Xiahou Zhuo is the son of the prince, and even the son of the prince does not dare to offend the Detective Division, and the prince does not dare to offend a eunuch.

When encountering such a thing, he can only save his life first and then think about other things as Xiahou Zhuo said.

What Xiahou Zhuo said must be right, undoubtedly right.

Xiahou Zhuo, who was not afraid of heaven and earth in the Four Pages Academy, and even in the entire Jizhou City, also began to look forward and backward in front of the people in the Department of Investigation, and also began to restrain his personality.

Xiahou Zhuo saw that Li Diudian was in a daze and couldn't help but ask, "What are you thinking?" ”

Li Diudiu suddenly remembered what Xiahou Zhuo said to him that day on Fengming Mountain, Xiahou Zhuo said that the imperial court was sick, Da Chu was sick, and it was almost to the point where there was no medicine for the stone.

Xiahou Zhuo waited for Li Diudiu to give an answer.

After a long time, Li Didiu replied, "Sick." ”

His master immediately became nervous, pulled Li Diudiu is back, looked at Li Diudiu's eyes and asked, "What's uncomfortable?" What's wrong? Does it hurt somewhere? ”

Master didn't understand.

Xiahou Zhuo understood.

So Xiahou Zhuo let out a long breath with a sad face.

He didn't say it, but he thought to himself...... Even a child knew that Da Chu was sick and the imperial court was sick...... How long can our Da Chu hold on?

The carriage went out of the city gate and continued along the official road, and a group of cavalry from the Investigation Department caught up from behind, and saw that the carriage still had a liquor flag on it, and they rushed up with a roar to stop the carriage.

The driver turned pale with fright, jumped out of the cart and fell to his knees.

"What about people!"

When the men of the Detective Department saw that the carriage was empty, they were immediately furious.

The coachman replied: "There is no one, only the young man in the drinking restaurant saw me passing by in a car, and asked me if I would like to pick up someone, I asked him who he was going to pick up, and he said that he would go to Jizhou City to pick up people at the gate of the Yamen of the Law Division, and the man saw the wine flag on the car and knew that I was picking him up." ”

The coachman's voice trembled: "He...... He gave me two taels of silver to hire money, and told me to rush to Jizhou as soon as possible without delay. ”

"!"

The person from the Detective Department scolded: "I was deceived!" ”

Li Didiutius and they did not go out of the east gate, but out of the north gate.

The reason why they decided to take a detour back was because just when they were about to go out, Li Didiuu suddenly felt that it might not be safe to go like this, so he asked Yu Jiuling to hire a car.

The car with the wine flag went out of the east gate, and people saw it along the way, Li Didiu and they went out through the back door and hired another car to go out of the north gate.

After they left the city, they walked about ten miles to a village, Li Diudiu whispered something in Xiahou Zhuo's ear, Xiahou Zhuo nodded, and then he went out and told the coachman to stop when he entered the village, and let him go back to the county seat of Tang County.

Li Diudiu and the others found Li Zheng in the village, saying that they liked the scenery of this small village, and asked if there was a vacant house to rent, and the price was not low.

After Xiahou Zhuo gave the money, he said to Li Zheng You clean up the house first, let's go out for a walk, and give a reward of one hundred copper coins, of course Li Zheng will not be unhappy.

After Li Diudiu and the others left the courtyard, they left directly, changed their clothes and returned to the county seat of Tang County by taking the path.

At this time, it was already afternoon, they were waiting outside the east gate, Ye Zhuzhu went into the city alone and hired another car, and everyone got into the car and went all the way east along the official road.

Not long after they left the county seat, the people of the Department of Detectives chased them to the village more than ten miles north of the city, and found Li Zheng to inquire, Li Zheng was startled, and hurriedly said that those people would come back to live at night, so the people of the Department of Investigations set up secret posts inside and outside the village.

As a result, after waiting for a night and no one came back, Li Zheng was beaten for no reason, and he was very wronged.

And Li Didiu, they gave the coachman some more money and hurried overnight, and walked for half a day and night, and when it was dawn, they could already see Jizhou City from afar.

After walking for more than half an hour, they did not go back to the Four Pages Academy directly after entering the city, but chose an inn to live in and wash and rest in the inn.

"This trip ......"

Yan Qingzhi sighed and said: "It's the same as what we originally thought, I thought we could go out for a few days, but we encountered so many things, but fortunately, everyone came back safely." ”

Xiahou said: "I can't hide." ”

Li Diudian snorted.

Yan Qingzhi pondered for a moment, and suddenly remembered that when those people from the Detective Department wanted to take away Shopkeeper Lu, he had said that he was a teacher of the Four Pages Academy in Jizhou City, and Li Diudian was still wearing a hospital uniform......

"But that's okay."

Xiahou Zhuo said: "If someone from the Detective Affairs Department comes to him, he will say that he is indeed only drinking and eating, and he doesn't know anything else, and being caught on the spot is different from being found later." ”

He looked at Li Diudiu and said, "You guys rest here, I'll go back and see if I can find a way to deal with it." ”

After finishing speaking, he got up and walked out: "Brother Ye, you can stay for the time being." ”

Ye Zhuzhu nodded: "Understood." ”

Xiahou Zhuo didn't say anything more and left the inn directly, in fact, those people in the Detective Affairs Department may not make things complicated, they have already detained the shopkeeper Lu, and they will make up a story, if they find out that the people who ate in the drinking only that day have people from the academy and people from Prince Yu's mansion, they don't want to bother.

There is no benefit to be gained, but it has to offend people, and the people in the Department of Detective Affairs are not stupid.

But Xiahou Zhuo was not at ease, this matter had to be known to people with weight after all, he did not go home to find his father, but went directly to the mansion of the Jiedu Envoy.

Liu Chongxin may not care about a prince who has no real power, but he will not easily offend a Jiedu envoy with a heavy army, that is the prince of the feudal territory, and it is much more useful for Liu Chongxin to win over such a person than to offend him.

Anyway, I returned to Jizhou, but several people in the inn were not very relaxed.

Yu Jiuling looked at Li Diudiu, and after a moment of silence, he said: "I want to leave Jizhou early tomorrow morning and go to the capital, I want to persuade the shopkeeper to see if I can sell the house in the capital and live in seclusion." ”

Li Diudiu hummed, and after a while, he whispered, "I'm sorry." ”

Yu Jiuling was stunned, and hurriedly said, "What's so sorry." ”

Li Didiu shook his head, and his eyes reflected the powerlessness in his heart.

So powerless.