9. The Beginning of the Incident - Arrival (I)
When Chu Ci and Lu Qing arrived at Linqing Mansion, it was already close to evening. The two of them found an inn to stay in, and when they wanted to discuss what they should do next, the door of the inn rang.
The two looked at each other suspiciously, not knowing what the situation was, so Lu Qing got up, came to the door, and asked, "Which one?" ”
The person outside the door seemed a little hesitant and cautious, and when he spoke, he tried to lower his voice as much as possible, and said, "Senior brother, it's me." ”
When Lu Qing heard the other party's voice, he knew who the person outside the door was.
"Senior brother, why are you here?" Lu Qing opened the door, it was the junior brother he was familiar with, "Shouldn't you be in Hezhou?" ”
Lu Qing's junior brother did not answer Lu Qing's question, but went into the room first, and then looked out of the door, and after making sure that there was nothing abnormal, he gently closed the door.
"Senior brother, after you left, Bai Xiaotang began to change blood, Linqing Mansion was originally the territory of the second elder, half a month ago, the second elder suddenly announced that he would retreat and give up his rights, and then the master transferred me here."
Lu Qing didn't expect that only a month after he left, something like this happened to Bai Xiaotang.
"By the way, what are you doing here?"
Lu Qing's junior brother still didn't speak immediately, but looked at Chu Ci who was sitting on the side.
"This is ······" Lu Qing wanted to say, "This is the Dadu Division of the Yasi Metropolitan Mansion", but saw Chu Ci shaking his head at himself, obviously not wanting Lu Qing to tell his identity.
So Lu Qing changed his words and said: "The people of the Yasi Capital Mansion are their own people." ”
As a native of the rivers and lakes, Lu Qing's junior brother naturally knows about the Yasi Metropolitan Mansion, and he also agrees with the resolution of the new master to join the Yasi Metropolitan Mansion, unlike those "diehards" in the division, who said that the new master's move was to sell Baixiaotang to the royal family of Chu State.
Hmm······ The second elder seems to be the leader of those "diehards".
"This is my junior brother, Tong Ge." Lu Qing also introduced his junior brother to Chu Ci.
Tong Ge saw that the other party was from the Yasi Mansion, so he didn't have a mustard and hugged Chu Ci with a fist.
Tong Ge didn't care about the person in front of him, he just thought that the other party was an inconspicuous figure in the Yasi Mansion.
"Bai Xiaotang in Linqing Mansion seems to be being targeted."
Lu Qing and Chu Ci looked tense at the same time, and couldn't help but straighten up and listen carefully to what Tong Ge said.
"Big brother, have you received my carrier pigeon?" Tongge asked.
Lu Qing was stunned, he and Chu Ci didn't receive any carrier pigeons along the way, not even a bird.
"Nope." Lu Qing said to Tong Ge with certainty.
"That's the problem," Tong Ge sat down at the table, and then continued to Chu Ci and Lu Qing, "We released five carrier pigeons for Senior Brother, but there was no reply, until we found the corpse of a carrier pigeon outside the city early this morning. ”
When Chu Ci and Lu Qing heard the news, they both knew the seriousness of this matter, and they couldn't help blurting out together, "Someone is blocking our news!" ”
Tong Ge nodded vigorously, then poured a cup of tea from the teapot on the table and drank it down.
"They just didn't let us send the news, but we can all receive the news from the senior brother, and our people saw that you entered the Linqing Mansion, so I came over."
"According to what you said, they may have spies spying on you." Lu Qing said to Tong Ge.
Tong Ge shook his head and said, "I saw it when I came, but there was no one. ”
"No one?" Lu Qing couldn't figure out why the other party was just intercepting the news instead of monitoring his own actions.
"Maybe ······" Chu Ci on the side spoke, "Their purpose is just to prevent Bai Xiaotang from giving us news." ”
"You're saying they deliberately let us meet?" Lu Qing thought for a while and continued, "Then there's no point in them doing this, sooner or later we will meet with the people from Baixiaotang here, won't the news be known to us the same." ”
"Maybe they have the confidence to keep us here."
After Chu Ci finished speaking, he also poured himself a glass of water, and then drank it all.
The room fell silent.
"How is Qijiazhuang going?" Lu Qing shifted the topic to the purpose of the two's visit this time.
After a long time, two words came out of Tong Ge's mouth.
"Destroy the door."
When Chu Ci and Lu Qing heard the news, they all gasped, they had guessed that something would happen in Qijiazhuang, but neither of them expected it to be so serious.
At this time, Chu Ci seemed to think of something, and immediately asked, "When did you start to feel that something was wrong?" ”
Tong Ge thought for a moment, and then said to Chu Ci: "About four or five days ago. ”
Chu Ci was silent, if according to his inference, the person who blocked the news should have some connection with the person who destroyed Qijiazhuang.
Lu Qing knew that Chu Ci should have noticed something at this time, so he urged, "What did you think of?" ”
"They blocked the news in order to prevent people outside from detecting the affairs of Qijiazhuang in advance, or to prevent Qijiazhuang from discovering the abnormality, and then take precautions."
Lu Qing and Tong Ge suddenly said: "That is to say, they are guarding against Qijiazhuang." ”
Chu Ci nodded, and suddenly asked, "Have you found any traces of the young master of Qijiazhuang?" ”
This sentence Chu Ci asked Tong Ge, he originally came to the Qing Mansion with the intention of thinking that Qi Lianyu had fled back to Qijiazhuang.
Tong Ge was a little unaware of the degree of the problem of this adult from the Yasi Mansion, Qi Lianyu, the young master of Qijiazhuang, was a person who had already disappeared in the accident eight years ago in Bai Xiaotang's intelligence.
As for why it disappeared and not died, it was because it really disappeared, as if there had never been a person in this world, so Bai Xiaotang gave him a conclusion that the cause of death was unknown.
Tong Ge didn't know how to answer this question, and he couldn't tell the other party, are you stupid, the young master of Qijiazhuang is long gone, ask what his traces do.
"This lord ······" Tong Ge sorted out his words for a while, and then said, "We really don't know the whereabouts of the young master of Qijiazhuang, because he has already ······ eight years ago."
Only then did Chu Ci realize that he had made a mistake, that is, only a few people knew the traces of Qi Lianyu, and the others thought that the young master of Qijiazhuang had disappeared eight years ago, and Qijiazhuang had not given an explanation for this matter, so all parties in the rivers and lakes speculated that the young master of Qijiazhuang had already been stabbed to death in the accident eight years ago with the old owner Qi Hanshan.
Chu Ci naturally knew about the accident eight years ago, and heard that it was the old owner's young enemy who came to seek revenge. At that time, the Dadu Division of the Yasi Metropolitan Mansion was still Liang Wang Chu Boyu, and the news came very suddenly, at that time, the Dark Division of the Metropolitan Mansion was still in charge of Qi Xuan, that is to say, Qi Xuan lived in the courtyard of Lane 47 of East Street, and Qi Lianyu was still his little master in Qijiazhuang.
At that time, after Qi Xuan got the news, he rushed back to Qijiazhuang overnight, and then the annex of Lane 47 of East Street in Kyoto Prefecture lived in Qi Lianyu, which was an agreement between Qijiazhuang and the royal family.