In the north of the city, in Wangjia Alley, since Wang Xingping returned to Guiyang, he has set up a rule, and every day before noon, there are family members who sweep the streets and alleys as usual.

Unlike those big cities in the belly, Guiyang City is a new city in the strict sense, and it was only about 50 years after the city was built, and the scale of the city has not expanded in the slightest compared with the Longqing period. However, the walls are small, but they are much cleaner than those of the surrounding provinces. Wang Xingping heard Wang Mingde mention that the taste of pickled herbs in Beijing is much stronger than that in Guiyang City, and every year in the spring is the season of cleaning the ditches in the city, and the southern ground will not be used to going to Beijing to take the exam, although Wang Mingde did not say that he would try to fail the list and how much it has to do with the environment of the capital, but Wang Xingping occasionally thinks of this section in his heart.

And from the perspective of a modern person, the level of hygiene in Guiyang City is really not very good.

And Wang Xingping himself attaches great importance to cleanliness, not only at home, but also after returning to Guiyang, even the alley outside the door of the mansion is also generally noted, so that now as soon as you enter the alley outside the palace, you will feel particularly refreshing, and today the city is also on the scene, and the street outside is more lively than in the past, and you will feel more relaxed and happy when you enter the alley.

It was almost noon, and the sun was hanging high, but the temperature was quite pleasant.

The backyard of the Wang family is not big, and the female dependents do not often go out when Wang Xingping is not there, and even the daily fresh vegetables and fish and meat in the market of the Ming Dynasty will be delivered to the door, and the big families really don't worry much about life.

But just because you don't have to worry about life doesn't mean you won't have anything to worry about.

Xiao Shi, who is now in the backyard, is worried about the news of his son, but the sudden visit to Gu Er's cabinet that has happened to come to the house for a long time makes Xiao feel worried.

After the autumn cool, Xiao's family was dressed in plain clothes at home, and there was no surprise when she saw Gu Fengming, and in the days after Wang Laiting's death, the two shopkeepers had seen her a lot, and they were also familiar with her. Although this Gu Erzhu is not very positive in the mouths of his husband and son, and he is a scheming person, he doesn't know what is going on when he comes to visit.

Gu Fengming didn't see it, he walked straight through the porch, and when he passed through the second courtyard, he saw a stove piled up in the courtyard, which made him take a few more looks, and he didn't know what the Wang family was doing, and he was secretly a little surprised in his heart. But when he saw Xiao Shi, he didn't say much, and he put his hands forward and gave Shi Ran a salute, "The villain has seen the grandmother of the master." ”

Xiao Shi was also easy-going, and let Lan Niang look at the tea, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, but guessed Gu Fengming's intention, "Mr. Hard work on the cabinet, I haven't seen Mr. come to the house for many days to eat a bowl of hot soup, but what happened to my Xiaoping?" ”

'Seems to know?' Gu Fengming thought so.

This is also true, if it weren't for the fact that there was something very important in charge of the counter, it would be almost noon and you should have a meal to rest and come again, and you would never choose such an hour that is not embarrassing or embarrassing.

Gu Fengming, who was moving, couldn't help but secretly observe, after not seeing each other for many days, this Xiao family has become more and more wealthy, and he is no longer embarrassed when his husband just died. This is also what it should be, with such a good son who is at the top of the house, he should be able to relax. The handmaiden beside Xiao has never seen it, and she doesn't know when she entered the mansion, although she is well-mannered and handsome, she has a cold and blank face in front of people, which makes people feel a little flustered.

Naturally, he came to the palace to explore the truth and reality, but before coming to the palace, Gu Fengming was not completely unprepared, and he was not at ease to rely on a few men who were a little blind in his eyes to investigate.

Therefore, he personally went to the outside of the government and the north gate to inquire again, and the poor people he could recognize were naturally not very noble, and the left was just some ordinary errands and small economy. These people are tired of dogs on weekdays, and if they can get a ticket for the main hall, they can still swagger outside, but the things in the middle of the night last night are not worth it, and they haven't even woken up completely when they come early today.

Besides, there is a lot of pressure on the market during the day, so Gu Fengming asked a lot of questions about the people who were familiar with him, and I am afraid that the news came from the people who came into the city to rush to the market.

In the palace, all he can be sure of is that Wang Xingping has entered the yamen and Wang Xingping has not come out yet, but after delaying some and not, Gu Fengming also thinks that it is enough, whether he is in prison or not, there should be no other Zhou Zhang this day, and most of them are in trouble.

Gu Fengming thought carefully, thought of this and still didn't hurry, and urged the carriage and horses to take a few more steps to go to Rouyuan Gate first, looking at the people and goods coming in and out of the Wengcheng Gate, but also set up cards, which was actually common in the past, but today's inventory is much stricter.

Let the companion go up to inquire and learn that something happened outside the city, the commander of the king who patrols the city has not come back since he left the city last night, and the soldiers who were originally stationed at Rouyuan Gate are also under martial law over there, and all they heard sporadically are broken words, probably saying that there was an accident in a private warehouse in the north corner, and there were thieves who entered the warehouse at night, and many people died.

As for the fire situation that Gu Fengming still wanted to know, no one knew about it, just like the news brought back by his nephew before, it had been surrounded by soldiers from Guiyang Mansion, and it couldn't get closer, and both ends of the alley at the gate were guarded by officials and soldiers, and they couldn't even go to the gate of the courtyard to look outside.

After getting this news, I thought that I had taken most of the reassuring pills, at least something did happen, and if I did it, I would naturally die. Gu Fengming's heart was much higher because of this, and while sending people to continue to ask questions in the north corner, he also asked his henchmen to go to Shuiwo Village to take care of him, and then he leisurely urged the carriage and horses to come to Wangjia Lane.

When I entered the palace, Wang Xingping was indeed not in the palace, and the remaining half of the pill was also settled.

Although Xiao Shi knew some of the Gu family's actions on the counter, the minimum number of courtesies still had to arrive, not to mention that his son had not been at home since yesterday, and there were some rumors outside. This Gu Fengming is not an outsider, when the news of Wang Laiting's death came back, the Ye family and the Gu family were also contributing, and she should have been a housewife to come out to entertain guests, and people also called themselves grandmothers.

Gu Fengming pretended to be anxious at the moment, "It seems that something happened to the young owner." ”

But when he said this, he was also a little surprised, wasn't Wang Xingping brought into the mansion? Why does this mother seem to be unclear.

"What Tian Cai'er, who sells fish, said is true." The maid on the side immediately answered the source of the news for Gu Fengming.

As soon as the city gate opened, Tian Caier, who was accustomed to sending fish and vegetables to the wealthy families in the city, went to deliver goods to each family, and his wife and brother celebrated their birthday tomorrow, and their home was by the North Gate Bridge in Rouyuan Gate. Today, Tian Caier was instructed by his wife to go to his brother-in-law's house to send two good carp, and said some nonsense, and when he came to the palace later, he told Menzi that there was a big incident in the north corner, and in the middle of the night, Rouyuan Gate went out to patrol the city, and Yingying also brought a sentence that someone saw that the young master of the Wang family was brought into the mansion, but after all, it was just a matter of no shadow, and Xiaoliu was not at home, so he had to let the door go out to inquire but there was no letter back yet, and people didn't know where to go.

Lan Niang was considerate at this time, and blindly persuaded Xiao Shi to be relieved at home, until Gu Fengming came to the door.

"What happened to Xiaoping?" Hearing this, Xiao Shi couldn't sit still any longer, where could he still take care of the reservedness of the master's family.

Seeing Xiao's appearance, Gu Fengming also knew in his heart, and some doubts were immediately left behind, since even ordinary dealers knew about this, that is, nine out of ten, his brother-in-law really had some means to say that the local soldiers of the family were moving, and he didn't know how much money and interests were involved with the toasts on weekdays.

However, Xiao had to answer his question, and Gu Fengming didn't have as much care as before.

"Grandma in charge, don't worry, I only heard some sporadically, you also know that the rumors in this market have always been chicken and dogs, there is no full shadow, it is said that the north corner outside the Rouyuan Gate was called by thieves last night, my nephew only went to see it in the morning, but it was the grain depot of our Futai that happened......"

"Ah......" This is what Nada Cai'er didn't mention, and Xiao Shi immediately fainted so much that he almost fainted.

It was Wei Qianlan who hurriedly held on, but there were many concerned eyes in her eyes.

"Then the young master, he." The girl helped the housewife to ask.

Gu Fengming still pretended to be calm, "I have already gone to the mansion to ask, the young master was indeed brought into the mansion last night, and he has not come out when I came." ”

"Something happened to the grain depot of the Futai, why did the government arrest my family's people?" Xiao Shi relieved his breath, but immediately grasped the point of this matter.

'Who told your son to die for himself?' ’

Gu Fengming suddenly popped up this idea in his heart, it was this reason, if it wasn't for Wang Xingping's self-recommendation to raise autumn grain and grass for Zhang Heming, how could he be persecuted. But if it weren't for this, how could the government arrest him Wang Xingping first, the cycle of cause and effect has its own retribution, Gu Fengming only felt that it was this Shaodong who stole chickens and rice, and the government's business was so easy to do? I won't see how many layers of skin you have peeled off this time.

But another thought turned around in an instant, and even he himself was a little surprised, the Xiao family and the Wang family in the government late at night only knew about it by a fish and vegetable seller in the morning, so Wang Xingping was not in the mansion last night?

He was saying that last night in the house was Xu Zhi on duty at night to pretend to explain, but because of this thought, he stiffly broke the conversation, "Wait...... Young Master, ...... him? ”

"What's wrong with me?" A beautiful young man's voice broke the gloom in Gu Fengming's throat, which made the middle-aged second cabinet startled when he looked back, and almost jumped up.

When he fixed his eyes again, the person who spoke was dressed in a plain robe, with a dark turban and belt, and looked like a scholar, who else could it be if it wasn't Wang Xingping?

After a morning of being talked about by all kinds of people, the Lord finally returned.

"You ......" Wang Xingping listened to Gu Fengming's words and asked a little worried about him, but he still waited for him to finish his words, "You...... Master...... Didn't you get brought into the government? ”

"Mr. has ears for beckoning, it was the warehouse in the north corner that was broken in by thieves last night and killed someone, Xu Tongju and Sun Fuzun recruited me to interrogate."

"Oh......" Gu Fengming was suspicious, but still asked, "In the morning, my nephew said that Sun Dafu went to the north corner, but at that time, the door of the mansion said that he had never seen the young master come out. ”

"I went to school in the morning, came back at noon to say goodbye to my mother, and after dinner, I will continue to go back to study hard in the afternoon."

Wang Xingping replied with a smile, with Gu Fengming's knowledge, he naturally immediately thought that the east gate of the courtyard of the State Guest House of the Mansion could lead to the Yamen of the Academy, but it was a lot less than walking from the outside to the Minglun Hall of the Academy, and the door outside the Mansion would naturally not see him come out. With Wang Xingping's relationship with the Great Grandmaster, it really makes sense for him to have his own entry and exit on both sides, but I hate that I actually forgot this section.

And this Wang Xingping actually ran to study with such a big matter, and he didn't know whether he was big or crazy, but he suddenly remembered Fang Cai's doubts, and still asked what he always felt was wrong.

"Wasn't the young master at home last night?" At this moment, Gu Fengming already had a meager sweat on his head, and he didn't notice it yet.

"A few friends rarely came to Guiyang, so I went to meet them in the east." Wang Xingping didn't care about the panic of the middle-aged man in front of him, and he understated it.

Gradually feeling that something was wrong, Gu Fengming's bruised face was already tight, "Oh? Is it outside the city? ”

"Yes......" There is no need to explain this, most of the drinking at night is outside the city, and few wine shops in the city operate at night, but there is no need to make too much effort in the game of cat and mouse, Wang Xingping turned defense into offense, "But it happened that after eating at night, he bumped into the three Zhang brothers, and he was very polite." ”

"Which Zhang San?" Gu Fengming's head was suddenly confused.

"Daimyo Chang Gung, the one who usually walks and jumps in front of Mr. on weekdays."

At this time, Xiao Shi had already seen his son, and he was in peace, and he was telling Lan Niang to go to the back kitchen to make a meal, and he just took over when he heard the words, "It turned out to be that Zhang San, he doesn't live on the counter on weekdays, why did he meet him at night." ”

Xiao also understands that if he catches the wind outside at night, he will probably go out of the city, and this Zhang Chang Geng is not in the city to rest and wander outside the city, which is naturally curious.

Wang Xingping replied to Xiao Shi, but his eyes looked at Gu Fengming fixedly, a smile that could not be concealed rose at the corner of his mouth, but the words in his mouth pierced Gu Fengming's heart like a sharp sword, "That Zhang Chang Geng actually colluded with thieves to try to set fire to the warehouse, and was ...... by the child Kill ......"

"Ah......" Gu Fengming seemed to be stuck in his throat by something, and he only swirled in his mouth in one breath and couldn't come out.

"Mr. Gu, don't worry, that Zhang Changgeng is already dead at this time, although he didn't say anything, but the rest of the dozen or so thieves who died are all Yiren, and it is not difficult to find out their identities."

Seeing that Gu Fengming seemed to be guilty of phlegm, Wang Xingping simply sped up his speech, for fear that the person in front of him would not be able to wait for the performance to end.

"When I came back before, I saw a team of Fubiao [note: the governor's own soldiers] going to the Beijing Gate, and when I missed the team of soldiers, I vaguely heard them mention a sentence, saying that the name of the place they were going to was ......" Wang Xingping's speed of speech was extremely fast, but he paused here, and saw Gu Fengming in front of him trembling as if he had been hit by thunder and fire and was about to fall to the ground, but the last place name really sounded in his ears like thunder, "Shuiwozhai ......"