Chapter 34: If One Plan Fails, Another Plan (Part II)

In less than half a day, the "ugly thing" of the Zhou Governor's Mansion spread throughout Huizhou.

Zhou Qi and Li Bo never came out at the post station. Li Bo felt that it didn't matter, and sat on the chair and watched Zhou Qi walk around.

"Don't turn around, I'm dizzy."

"You're embarrassed to say it! Anything around your neck can be taken away! I don't know who it is! "Zhou Qi lost his temper, but fortunately, Li Bo grew up with him when he was a child, and he was not afraid at all." By the way, you give me back the little canine teeth. ”

Zhou Qi glared at Li Bo fiercely, reached out and took out the little dog tooth and threw it to Li Bo.

Li Bo happened to catch the belt around his neck, looking indifferent, "Fifth prince, it's a big deal to go back to Beijing." Just this matter, the emperor will definitely not believe it! He's watched the two of us grow up. ”

Zhou Qi was irritable, "I didn't do anything wrong, I won't go back to Beijing!" ”

Li Bo stood up and walked to Zhou Qi's side, "That's even more nothing!" Fifth prince, you are a nobleman, no one can care about anything, as long as the emperor says that you are fine, you will have no problem. ”

Zhou Qi's eyebrows were twisted together, he understood this truth when he was a child. But he suffered setbacks again and again in Huizhou: he was impeached less than a month after taking office, and this kind of thing happened in less than two months, and soon the whole of Huizhou will know that his face as a champion fell to the ground all of a sudden, and he couldn't wash it clean. Let's not talk about how it is written in the history books, even now it will have to endure everyone's criticism, and soon the emperor will receive a second copy of the impeachment of himself, what does the emperor think? What do the people think?

"Five Princes......" Li Bo felt that it was nothing, and a discerning person would know what was going on at a glance.

"You go find out who took your stuff right away! I'll draw that little beggar for you, and you can find it!" ”

"Do you still need to look it up? It must be more than one year. ”

"Then we'll have to find evidence!"

"Fifth prince, if Zhang Hai and Yu Nian get involved, they are going to bring down Qian Ji and you now, if you fight back, I think Zhang Hai will be a little easier."

"What can you do?"

"Go and ask Qian Wanquan directly, he is very likely to know Zhang Hai's origin."

Zhou Qi thought for a moment, turned around and left, "You continue to investigate, you must find evidence!" Zhou Qigang walked to the door, and the chain ran upstairs in a panic, "Adult, adult!" ”

"Panic what!" , Zhou Qizheng was irritable, and the chain hit the muzzle.

The chain hurriedly stood up, "My lord, the prison is on fire!" ”

Zhou Qi and Li Bo glanced at each other, and both came to the cell, which was a mess, and some prisoners were burned and were sitting on the ground wailing. Zhou Qi saw a row of corpses outside the cell, covered with straw mats, so he motioned for a chain. The chain lifted the straw mat little by little, and Zhou Qi saw that the deceased was only the old bustard and her men, and he was immediately furious. "Hmph, okay, this is a demonstration with me!" With that, Zhou Qi walked out.

Li Bo hurriedly came over to stop him, "My lord, he can't admit it if you go!" ”

"Get out of the way!" Zhou Qi has never suffered such a setback since he was a child.

"My lord! Now let's think about how to explain it to the emperor! Li Bo said a word, and Zhou Qi instantly calmed down, although his chest rose and fell violently, he still restrained it strongly.

"My lord, now that there is no witness, it is very unfavorable to us, the top priority is to find the Li family, last time I said that I heard the woman who heard the conversation, I will find her back now, and I will go to the little beggar now."

"I'll go to Qian's house now, and I'll go back to the prefect's yamen in a while to gather."

"Go to the prefect's yamen? Not so good! ”

"What's wrong now!" Zhou Qi glanced at Li Bo and said jokingly, "You are all from this official!" Zhou Qi regained his composure and had already taken the chain to Qian's house.

Li Bo saw Zhou Qi joking, knowing that he had an idea, he simply made a joke, deliberately stretched out his orchid finger, twisted and said, "Oh, how can you say it, people are embarrassed." ”

Zhou Qi got goosebumps, turned around and glanced at Li Bo, Li Bo instantly returned to normal, and grinned, "I'll go now." The two men went their separate ways.

At this time, Qian Ning and Wu Yi threw off the large army and entered the Shandong territory, and the two fought in the inn.

"Shaodong, you must taste our big steamed buns in Shandong, which are very strong." Wu Yi took a steamed bun for Qian Ning, and picked up one himself and ate it.

"Yes, okay."

"Shaodong, you don't know, you eat rice and stir-fry vegetables in Huizhou every day, and I want to die of big steamed buns."

"Huizhou also eats pasta, but it's just less."

"Shaodong, you don't know, I can't eat, it's okay, it's really miserable to eat every day but not eat steamed buns." Wu Yi took a big bite of the steamed bun and felt satisfied.

Qian Ning looked at Wu Yi holding the big steamed buns, and felt even more distressed about Wu Yi when she heard that she couldn't eat before, and Wu Yi remembered the scene of being "forced" to eat steamed buns by the Zhou Governor before entering Huizhou, and laughed out loud.

"Hahaha, don't you be so happy to eat a steamed bun!"

"Hehe, no, I'm thinking about it, I couldn't eat rice before, and now I'm still picky about eating rice or steamed buns, do you say I'm in the blessing and don't know the blessing."

"Everyone wants to live a better life, Wu Yi, you will be better in the future, maybe get married and have children, maybe run a business."

Wu Yi grinned and nodded, "Well, hehe." ”

"Wu Yi, have you thought about the future?"

"Later? I never thought about it, I just want to make some money now, wait for my dad to deliver it to someone, and then I haven't thought about what to do. What about the young owner? ”

"Me? I should be able to do business like my father, and strive to carry forward our Qian family. ”

"Young owner, you will definitely be able to do it!"

Qian Ning looked at Wu Yi, "I hope this batch of goods can be sold smoothly now." ”

"Shaodong, aren't we going to Qi's house? I'm sure I'll be able to sell it. ”

"Actually, I'm a little unwilling." Qian Ning paused, "The Qi family is now worshiped by the imperial court, and we sell the tea to the Qi family, and they just use our tea to be offered to the imperial court, but we obviously have no problem, but the imperial court enshrines a certain wonderful person who was taken away." ”

Wu Yi also felt strange along the way, the imperial court did not want the tea of Qian Ji Tea House to be worshipped, but in the end, it was very likely that he would still drink the tea of Qian Ji Tea House.

"Shaodong, then, if we don't sell it to the Qi family, will there be other merchants in the capital who are willing to buy our tea?"

"Yes, there must be, but the Qi family definitely needs all our tea, the price is considerable, other tea merchants should not have such a big appetite, we must find a stable sales channel this time, otherwise we will have to come once a year in the future, and the situation is very likely to be unstable."

"Young owner." Wu Yi saw that Qian Ning was a little lost, and wanted to comfort but didn't know what to say.

At this time, Zhou Qi and Qian Wanquan stood face to face, Zhou Qi's face was solemn, Qian Wanquan never thought that Zhou Zhifu could come to Qian's house at this time.

"Lord Zhou." Qian Wanquan was about to beckon the prefect to sit down.

"The official only asks you one word."

"Your Excellency, please speak."

"Who is Zhang Hai?"

Qian Wanquan didn't expect Zhou Qi to know about Zhang Hai, let alone ask himself, "Zhang Hai?" ”

"You're not going to say you don't know, are you?"

"Oh no, he said he was a businessman, and he came to do business."

"He said?"

"He came here before, saying that he was talking to us about business, and that was the day after the adult took office as the prefect."

"What business?"

Qian Wanquan stared at Zhou Qi's eyes and said very calmly, "Tribute tea." ”

Zhou Qi also looked at Qian Wanquan's eyes, "Hmph." ”

"Your Excellency?"

"Boss Qian, whether you and I want to or not, now we have a common opponent, don't we?"

"Lord Zhou." Qian Wanquan knew that Zhou Qi was right, and the Qian family could no longer be alone in this battle between the prefect and Tongzhi. "I've already told you what I know."

"Chen Ji?"

"I really don't know."

"Then go find out!" Zhou Qi said questioningly, saying that Zhou Qi had turned around and walked out, stopped and turned his head when he walked to the door, "Boss Qian, officialdom, shopping malls, and battlefields are all the same, that is, to judge the situation and know oneself and the other, Boss Qian should know best!" After speaking, Zhou Qi left on his own without waiting for Qian Wanquan's answer.

Qian Wanquan was most worried about the Qian family's participation in the officialdom battle, but now it is beyond his control. Qian Wanquan sighed and felt powerless.

Zhou Qi returned to the prefect's yamen, and along the way, he felt that others looked at him differently. Li Bo had returned, and reported that the little beggar had been poisoned at the Chenghuang Temple in Dongcheng.

"Hmph, it's fast enough. What about the five women? ”

"Four died, and no body was found in one, and no one was found."

"Is that the one who heard the conversation?"

"The one who is dead, but the one who fled may have seen the murderer, and I think we have to look for it."

"It must already be a frightened bird, investigate it, don't report too much hope."

"Yes."

"I'll go and write a letter to the queen mother, and ask her to check the matter of Gongcha."

"Fifth prince, will this reveal your whereabouts?"

"I'll pay attention to the wording, my mother may not know where we are, I'm most worried about my grandfather."

"If the Prime Minister had guessed, he wouldn't have done anything."

"Li Bo, you said that the person who gave you the note that day would not be your grandfather's person."

"Will it? Didn't you get rid of the people who followed you? ”

"After all, we only played out a group of people, so didn't the third brother follow us?"

"Fifth prince, the emperor sent you to Huizhou, will there be anyone in the shadows?"

Zhou Qi felt that it was very likely that person was the emperor, after all, he had always had the eyeliner of the emperor and the queen by his side since he was a child. Zhou Qi saw the people in the courtyard in a blink of an eye, these people were all the emperor's people, but were they really all the emperor's people? Even if they only know their destination when they arrive in Huizhou, it has been almost two months now, and it is really difficult to say how many people in Beijing know that they are in Huizhou.