A guy who came to the door crying and shouting and begged for a lackey under the door? For Zhang Shou, this is a question that is not worth thinking about at all. Is he fed and holding on? A bunch of very malleable little guys at home don't need it, Ah Liu personally stepped on it inside and outside the capital and picked it up, and he didn't need a helper with a good character, but he used a black market background to do dirty work?

Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if he wants to do the dirty work in the future...... Who could do it more neatly than Ah Liu?

Therefore, when Jiang Zhuo'er asked who those guys who also took this task, he hooked his hand at Ah Liu, and when he left Jiang Zhuo'er in the torture room regardless of it, he immediately took Ah Liu out to the study, and he said bluntly: "Can you contact Hua Qiye?" If you can, throw this hot potato out, there are no torture instruments in this torture room, and it won't last long. ”

"Not tonight." Ah Liu shook his head very directly, and seeing that Zhang Shou was a little stunned, he said solemnly, "There may be an accident tonight." I don't have proof, I just don't feel right. ”

Zhang Shou is not superstitious, but he does not dare to disbelieve the so-called sixth sense. After all, for a man like him, who has lived in peacetime for too long, and has spent most of his time in comfort since he arrived in this world, his premonition of danger is infinitely close to zero, and at best he can only judge the crisis from the changes in the situation.

At this moment, when Ah Liu said this, he remembered that he and Zhu Ying heard the situation of the camp rebellion in the Linhai camp in the village, and then thought about the events in the past few days.

"I see. Then it is up to you, and this person will be shut up and ignored for the first time, and there is no need to send anyone to report the news, so that the person who goes out will not be harmed during the night. You go and arrange the defense yourself, and I, a layman, will not command you, an insider. ”

was called an insider by Zhang Shou, and Ah Liu was naturally very happy. He said yes with a high spirit, and then strode out, but before he took two steps, he turned around again, but said hesitantly: "Although the madman has trained a lot of people, but the heat is still shallow, it is better for you and the lady to go to the Tiangong, it is safe there." ”

Hearing such a reasonable suggestion, Zhang Shou was about to agree, but suddenly his heart moved, and he had a vague thought.

You must know that things like underground secret rooms and secret passages are the last retreat of rich and noble families in these years, plus they are hidden deep underground, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and when they really encounter any desperate road, they can even be transferred immediately, so that many secret passages even have self-destruction devices - of course, self-destruction will never use gunpowder......

Who can stand a powder magazine under their house, which could explode into the sky at any moment?

But things like secret passages and secret rooms are still afraid of two things, one is water, and the other is fire. Water attack is afraid of people diverting water to pour water, but fortunately, most people will not lose their minds and go crazy enough to use this method of siege to deal with secret rooms and secret passages.

As for fire, there is no such thing as burning down secret passages, because it is difficult for fire to spread underground, but the problem is that where there is fire, there is smoke. In an era when air circulation was all dependent on vents, smoke prevention was completely unrealistic, and after burning a house, the air was filled with the smell of smoke on all sides, and the secret passages could not be spared.

However, not to mention the extraordinary means of water attack and fire attack for the time being, if the secret passage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is another major premise, that is, the location of the secret passage in the secret room is very hidden, and others do not know.

However, his garden was formerly known as the Luwang Courtyard, and after he took over, not only did he not re-excavate these things, but even Ah Liu specially stepped on it, and drew the location of the secret passage and the secret room into drawings and reported it to the emperor. Of course, this is only a superficial article, this Zhang Garden has been returned to the royal family for a long time, where is there any concealment in those secret rooms?

Awakening to this, Zhang Shou couldn't help frowning and asked: "Anyway, unlike the secret room at the back of this study, I remember that there are exits on the other side of the Tiangong Workshop, are those exits really reliable?" ”

Ah Liu was a little dumbfounded in other places, but on this kind of professional question, his reaction was very fast: "Young master, are you afraid that the exit will be discovered, so you counterattack in?" ”

Seeing Zhang Shou nodding, he said thoughtfully; "I heard from a madman that it used to be a shop of a relative of an official in the Shuntian Mansion, which was not very eye-catching, so after King Lu completely enveloped people, the exit was set there. But it is now a good hall for the celebrant. Of course, the three words of the celebrant will not hang out, and the Jimin Charity Hall is still a little famous in the capital. ”

Speaking of this, he said very seriously: "However, this good hall is under the nose of the Son of Heaven, there are not so many messy things, I have been there, it is peaceful and quiet inside, and the atmosphere is good." However, I don't think the young master needs the three caves of the cunning rabbit, so after I sent the secret passage and the secret room map, I told the madman to block all the exits of the secret passage, and I also asked the madman to come and set up a mechanism. ”

Zhang Shou left all these housekeeping at home - as an outsider with a shallow foundation, since he calmly accepted that the emperor said that it was for sale, but in fact it was a gift to the house, and fully accepted the plan of spending seven to help train the manpower in the house, that is, he calmly exposed everything to the emperor's gaze, so he only had a vague impression of what Ah Liu said.

He's so busy, where does he have time to care about this?

Therefore, he didn't bother to think about it, and said bluntly: "Even the layers of rammed earth like the imperial tombs of the past dynasties can't withstand the tomb robbers who make the holes, not to mention the secret passages that are blocked in our house." ”

Ah Liu was about to refute, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zhang Shou's statement was not unreasonable. So, he was silent for a moment, and finally spoke: "Then let's do it, the young master will tidy up his things, and stay with the lady at night, and you don't have to worry about other things." ”

Zhang Shou saw Ah Liu's words and walked out, he didn't know if he would touch his mouth up and down, and let Ah Liu run and break his leg, but he felt that his worry was not unreasonable, so he didn't remind anything more, and when he returned to the desk, he cleaned it up casually, and then put a pile of manuscript paper into the wooden box, put on his coat and hugged the wooden box and walked out of the study. He didn't have much to do with it except the manuscript. As for the fact that there was a prisoner in the secret room behind him, which was regarded as a torture room, he completely forgot about it.

This night, Zhang Shou slept on the carved bed in the east wing of the Wu family's courtyard. Although the environment has changed suddenly, and there has been a lot of turmoil recently, it is probably because he was too busy during the day, and when he came over at night, he was nagged by Wu's adoptive mother again, and he didn't have the strength to think about it at all, went back to the room to wash, and fell asleep as soon as his head was dipped in the pillow.

However, perhaps because he was too tired, he dreamed one after another, and after each awakening, he continued dreaming in a daze with almost no sluggishness. One after another, when he was finally woken up by a burst of calls, he found himself sweating.

Before the meeting, it was the familiar face of the Wu family, and Zhang Shou, who was still in a trance, was stunned.

Seeing his scene, Wu couldn't help but think of the scene when he was a child, and quickly took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, and avoided it a little embarrassed after seeing that people were stunned, and she realized that now Zhang Shou is not only getting older, but also knows that the two are not biological mother and son, so it is a little inappropriate to be so close.

So, she immediately tucked the handkerchief back into her sleeve, and then said with a smile: "Ah Shou, in the middle of the night, Ah Liu sent someone to report that he had caught a few thieves who had sneaked in. He told me not to tell you, wait until dawn, I think about it until midday. It's still early, but there's such a big thing going on at home, and I still want to wake you up. ”

"Why don't you go out today and go back to sleep? Look at the way you look sweating, take a day off. ”

Ah Liu captured the thief or something, although Zhang Shou's heart sank, but he was not too worried, but the Wu family instructed him to ask for leave today, so he couldn't help but glance sideways at the window. I saw no light outside, as if it was still a long night.

With a thirsty throat, he smiled at Wu and didn't answer, but wanted to get the tea cup on the small table next to him. Seeing this, Wu hurriedly snatched the teacup, and then poured the cold residual tea inside, but poured another cup from the purse. Although it was not a little warmer than the tea just now, when she handed it to Zhang Shou, she still whispered: "When you go to bed in the future, hang a pot of water outside." ”

Seeing that Zhang Shou was noncommittal and lowered her head to drink tea, she said again: "Lest you be thirsty in the middle of the night, you can only drink this cold tea." ”

"Mother, it's okay, Ah Liu is next to me on weekdays, the teapot is warm in a thick quilt, and there is warm tea anytime and anywhere." Speaking of this, Zhang Shou put on socks, put on his clothes and got out of bed, because he said with a smile, "As for the thieves in the house, they have to ask for leave, which is also a bit of a fuss...... Well, when it's daybreak, send someone out and take a look. ”

Knowing that the gesture he had just avoided might make the Wu family have some thoughts, he took the initiative to shake Wu's hand: "Mother, I promise you, if someone comes back from the investigation, it will not be peaceful outside, so I will ask for leave today." If there's nothing big going on outside, I'll go to Jiuzhang Hall later. Don't look at me just sweating profusely, it's just too much of a dream. ”

"Thinking about it day and dreaming at night, if you weren't busy and you encountered so many things, how could it be like this?"

Although Wu was distressed, Zhang Shou gave in so much, she couldn't be stubborn anymore, and after sighing, she made way for Zhang Shou to change clothes. Although the two mothers seconded by Zhao Guogong's Mansion are teaching the girls in the family by hand, Zhang Shou's clothes around him have always been pretended to be done by others except Ah Liu, and she has no intention of testing the self-control of those little girls.

After all, when Zhang Shou was in the village, those big girls and little daughters-in-law, and even a little older girls, who didn't like to follow Zhang Shou all day long?

When Zhang Shou's costume stopped coming out, she saw that people even had their hair combed, so she hurriedly said: "I'll send someone to call Ah Liu over, you ask him personally?" ”

Knowing that the Wu family would never let him join forces with Ah Liu to hide her this time, Zhang Shou nodded happily, and immediately ordered someone to fetch water to wash. After rinsing his mouth and brushing his teeth with warm water and washing his face with cold water, he finally felt refreshed, so he simply used a soft towel wrung out of cold water to apply it to his eyes for a while.

And while Zhang Shou was washing, Wu had already hurriedly asked people to go to the kitchen to see what they had to eat. Fortunately, after a while, she saw that Mother Yang, who she had sent, came back with a food box in person.

"The small kitchen is still on fire, and in the big kitchen, Xu Po didn't sleep all night and made a lot of vegetable bags, so Ah Liu had the strength to stay up late to do things, and when she heard that the young master was up, she asked me to bring ten back. If you heat the charcoal fire below, it shouldn't blow cold. ”

Zhang Shou didn't expect the big kitchen to be busy all night. Although Mrs. Xu is not so old and weak as she looks, because making steamed buns is not as easy as it seems, just a large number of green leafy vegetables have to be cleaned, kneading dough and chopping stuffing and stuffing, etc., it takes a long time to be busy, not to mention that because it is too popular, every time you do it, it is a hundred.

So all the flour and vegetables needed were in large quantities. She doesn't want to fake others, so she doesn't often do it at home.

Thinking that the old man hadn't slept all night, he was suddenly a little apologetic, but when the food box was opened in front of him, he saw the slightly yellowed but chubby bun, and his stomach couldn't help but become even more hungry, and he immediately grabbed one in his hand without thinking about it, and then pushed the food box in front of Wu, and he eliminated the one in his hand with three strokes and five divisions.

And Wu Shi saw his unscrupulous appearance, and remembered that everyone outside said what Bachelor Zhang's appearance and demeanor were, and couldn't help but smile - in her opinion, that is, in front of her own family, Zhang Shou would be so unscrupulous.

And Zhang Shou finished eating in one go, and found that Wu still didn't move, so he had to remind him again, but he signaled Yang's mother and others to take it themselves. Although the others were polite again and again, they shook their heads when they saw that Wu had eaten one, and Zhang Shou said that it was enough for three stomachs, and they still divided the rest.

After all, once Mrs. Xu makes vegetable bags, the family has a large population, and there will be no point, even if they never get tired of eating, they still can't force the old man who is old but very stubborn to do more. Who wants to waste?

And when a group of people had roughly filled their stomachs, Ah Liufang took An Lu to be late.

Although he didn't sleep all night, Ah Liu still seemed to be in good spirits, and An Lu, the lame man who was in charge of the concierge before, was a murderous aura that had not yet been removed, and although there was no blood on the clothes on the two of them, they could still smell a bloody breath. Rao is Wu had already known that there were thieves sneaking in, and he couldn't help but turn pale. Could this be a murder?

Ah Liu saluted Wu and Zhang Shou as usual, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said simply: "Two groups of thieves came in before and after the night, a total of eight. ”

Seeing that Ah Liu said briefly, Wu and Zhang Shou's mother and son all looked at him, and An Lu could only explain in detail on his behalf: "Lady, young master, after the ugly hour last night, a total of two groups of thieves sneaked in. A group of two people came in from outside over the wall, because others found out, I quickly led people to surround them, but this is a sound from east to west. The real killer move is that the exit of the secret passage at the other end of the heavenly workshop was dug up, and six people sneaked in, but they were hit by the trap, four died, and two were seriously injured, and they all took down! ”