By the time he tossed until Yin, the sky had gradually brightened, and when he saw that nothing had been found, the herald on horseback came over and beckoned everyone to collect the troops.

Qian Shunming asked everyone to go home as a team, and he was behind, and after they were more than ten steps away, he said to the old man on the tree: "Old man, you wait for me, I will come back later." With that, he followed the group and left.

After another half an hour, there were already pedestrians walking on the street, and if the old man didn't come again, he couldn't hide in the tree. Just when the old man was in a hurry and couldn't do anything. I saw a carriage coming and stopping under a tree. A man in ordinary clothes, a man in a broken straw hat, got out of the car, opened the car door, came under the tree, and said, "Come down, old man." ”

The old man looked again, it was Qian Shunming, the old man looked around and no one was paying attention, climbed down the tree along the trunk, and got into the car at once. Qian Shunming closed the carriage door and drove the carriage forward, the carriage turned around in a big circle on the street, Qian Shunming saw that there was no tracking behind him, Qian Shunming accelerated the speed of the carriage, until near the north gate, he stopped in front of a courtyard gate in an alley. Qian Shunming stopped the carriage, got out of the car, came to the gate of the courtyard, and knocked a few times. After a while, the door opened from the inside, and an old man wearing a small hat in green clothes came out, Qian Shunming didn't say anything, opened the car door, and the old man got out of the car and followed Qian Shunming to the courtyard. After arranging for the old man to rest, Qian Shunming went to the yamen to inquire about the news, and when he came back in the evening, everything was calm, and the governor's yamen did not search with great fanfare.

In the evening, the old man told Qian Shunming in detail about his coming to Shandong and Wang Jian's accident, Wang Jian and Qian Shunming also knew each other, and the old man had practiced martial arts together before.

He also talked about the news that they wanted to attack Wang Jian when they visited the governor's yamen at night last night and heard what they said. Qian Shunming was also very angry when he heard this, since the governor of a dignified province was doing such a thing behind his back, Qian Shunming was a small official and could not rescue Wang Jian.

The old man was also afraid that we would worry, so he stayed until the dead of night before following Qian Shunming back to the inn.

After listening to Wang Jinhuai, Wang Jinhuai and I also felt that this matter was very tricky, and we couldn't save Wang Jian with a few of us.

Several people were silent for a while, and I said: "Old man, don't you see if it's okay, aren't they intercepting Wang Jian halfway, we are doing it in front of them, just to avoid suspicion, we still go to the capital, and when you arrive in the capital, you will be high-profile, so that everyone will know that you are in the capital, so that they will not suspect you." But you have to find someone else to save Wang Jian, what do you think, old man. ”

After listening to my words, everyone said that it was reasonable, that is, who to find to save Wang Jian was the key.

Qian Shunming said: "Old man, you can't find outsiders for this matter, I remember that the senior brother Du Zhihao, isn't he doing a thousand households in Zhejiang, if not, ask him to bring a few people to do this." You go back to Beijing as soon as possible, I will take half a month off, go to Zhejiang, bring the senior brother and them back, if you take a boat from the canal, you can get to Hangzhou in six days, and it will only take half a month to go back and forth. They didn't want to move the king key so quickly, this Lu Ying, it will take four or five days to return to Linqu in a sedan chair, and I will let people make some trouble for him on the road, and it should be no problem to drag him for a few days. Over there, I also sent someone to tell Wang Jian that there must be someone from him in the cell, and if he gets sick, he can't go on the road in a short time, so that the time will be enough. ”

After listening to Qian Shunming, the old man said: "Just do as you say, I'm still in Jinan these days, and they don't know our relationship, you just go, I'll stay in Jinan for two or three days and then leave Jinan and return to Beijing, and when I do this, I'll be in the capital." ”

After everyone discussed, Qian Shunming said goodbye and left, of course, he still walked from the wall.

This has not rested well since the morning, the old man saw that we were tired, and we said goodbye to the house to sleep, before leaving I said: "Old man, don't get up so early in the morning, wait for me to call you you come out again, today I know that you are missing, if you suddenly appear in the morning, it will definitely make them suspicious, I told them first, you went outside to meet acquaintances, went to drink and came back late, did not alarm them, told the two of us and went to sleep directly." ”

The old man agreed to leave the room, and Wang Jinhuai then went back to the house.

The next morning, I got up early, saw Junzi and them, and told them that the old man came back last night, and they made a fuss about it.

Just after the hour, a few of us were drinking tea and talking on the stone bench in the courtyard, and two people came in from the courtyard gate, one was Steward Liu, who came with the county lord yesterday, and the other was dressed up.

I saw Steward Liu come in, got up and said, "The housekeeper is here so early, please sit down and have a cup of tea." ”

"The road can't be long, let's go if it's not early, or it will be hot at noon. The county lord has all arranged, just waiting for a few of you. I knew that the old man had an injury on his leg, and replied: "The old man is not feeling well today, so he won't go, Miss Wei doesn't know if he will go or not, Mr. Wang will go with me." ”

Wei Zihan saw me say this, he looked at the county lord unpleasantly, how could he go, and said: "I want to buy something to take to the capital today, so I won't go." Big brother, you and Mr. Wang should go, come back early. ”

Following Steward Liu, Wang Jinhuai and I got into the carriage, not far from the palace, and arrived in a while, the carriage did not stop when it arrived at the main gate, but went straight to the back door. When we arrived at the back door, I saw that it was Steward Liu, and I didn't ask, but opened the door and let us into the yard. The carriage did not stop until the edge of a lotus pond, Steward Liu opened the door, Wang Jinhuai and I got off the carriage, but saw that the lotus pond was about dozens of acres in size, the green willows on the embankment were hanging low, the thick shade covered the sun, the red makeup in the pool was covered with green makeup, and the bright colors were reflected.

The place where we got off was a small ferry crossing, and there was a boat stop at the ferry. There is a stone tablet engraved with a poem at the ferry: the lotus fairy wears new makeup, dancing in the wind and spitting out strange fragrances. But it is like a sea of flowers and clouds, and the autumn wind blows off a pool of wounds. There is a hexagonal pavilion in the middle of the pond, there is no bridge to pass, Steward Liu let the little guy lean over the painting boat, the little guy set up a springboard, a few of us got on the painting boat, a few small guys rowed the oars, and the boat slowly went to the pavilion off the shore.