Regarding Su Qiange's reasonable ideas, Xue Chen naturally had no possibility of disapproving of them. He looked at the woman in front of him and smiled helplessly for a long time.

Although he disliked Wu Jingang, who was a little reckless, he didn't want Hezhuang to change the person in charge so inexplicably.

There must always be some reason for this, not only Su Qiange wants to figure it out, but Xue Chen himself also has some thoughts of inquiry.

He pondered it for a moment, and said, "If this is not the case, the gatekeeper at night should change shifts, and then we will knock on the door again." Don't say that you want to find the owner, just say that the business comes to the door, and they naturally have no reason not to let you and me in. ”

And before that, the two of them first went to various places in Tongxian County to inquire in disguise to find out what happened to this river village after Su Qiange left......

After thinking about it for a while, Xue Chen's suggestion was really good.

Su Qiange nodded, and couldn't help but feel a little melancholy, "In the past, if you came to Hezhuang, you were happily welcomed in, but now you have asked people to come out." ”

If the world is really changing, it can't help but make people feel uncomfortable.

"Why are the people in Hezhuang happily welcoming you in, isn't it all because of Wu Jingang?" Hearing this, Xue Chen's awkward intention that he had just suppressed was picked up again.

The two returned to Tongxian the same way, and they didn't talk much along the way.

After waiting for a while, Su Qiange poked Xue Chen's arm and asked, "I'll just say that, why are you still angry, so naïve?" ”

Whenever Xue Chen thought about things, he would involuntarily play with the lighter given by Su Qiange. He lifted and closed the lid of the carved iron lighter, and a small flame jumped into it, disappearing from time to time.

He suddenly stopped the movement in his palm, looked at Su Qiange, and said softly: "This is not a childish thing, Qiange." ”

Why can't she always understand what she really thinks in her heart, alas......

Xue Chen sighed to himself in his heart, and then listened to Su Qiange's coquettish voice: "Okay, I know what you mean, don't worry, this is the last time." Inquire about what happened to Master Wu Zhuang and them, and I will have nothing to do with this Hezhuang in the future! ”

"If only you could do it." When the former heard this, he glanced at Su Qiange with a helpless expression.

In the afternoon of the same day, it was a bit cloudy.

Dark clouds covered most of Xuancheng, and walking in such weather inevitably added a bit of gloomy mood to people.

Su Qiange only felt that her eyelids were beating even harder, and she thought in her heart that the matter of Hezhuang was probably not just as simple as changing the master, and the wrist jade would not be able to return to her hands for a while, so she would not be able to completely settle down.

"Wave after wave, all kinds of things have rushed to a time."

Xue Chen strode with long legs and walked in front, Su Qiange followed behind him, and couldn't help but purse his lips.

Leaving Hezhuang and going straight to Tongxian, after coming here to inquire around, there was no result.

Seeing that Su Qiange's legs were so tired that his legs were sore, Xue Chen felt sorry for himself, and couldn't help but say, "Ge'er, why don't you get involved first?" I have spent a lot of time in Xuancheng, and if I inquire carefully, I will definitely be able to ask why. ”

It's not a matter of worrying about the left and right, Su Qiange at the moment can stay comfortably in the post station and rest, waiting for the wrist jade to return to its original owner, why bother being so tired?

Of course, Xue Chen, who said this, also had selfish intentions, and he still didn't want Su Qiange to be too concerned about that Hezhuang.

"When we came to the north this time, we brought a lot of people, and a few of the four good brothers were also there. There is no need for you to worry about the matter of Hezhuang. ”

At present, the people of the entire Tong County seem to have some resistance to the word Hezhuang, but when they inquire about this place, the final response is basically no comment.

Some of them were bold enough to recognize Su Qiange's identity, so it was rare to mention it, but he didn't know when Hezhuang had a new owner. And these newcomers are not the same as the previous Wu Jingang, and they take care of the entire river village as if they were using copper walls.

Not to mention the airtightness, it is also very impersonal, and the ordinary people around not only dare not provoke, but also can't even mention it.

It's a lot more scary than Juyizhuang in Liao County.

"It seems that you still have to go into the Zhuangzi to have a look." Su Qiange finally concluded.

Xue Chen was noncommittal about this. He originally wanted to persuade Su Qiange to go back and rest, and go into Hezhuang alone at night to investigate.

You can catch a glimpse of the worried look between the woman's eyebrows...... The two sentences that were about to be exported were swallowed like this.

In the evening, the clouds in the sky became thicker, and soon lightning and thunder roared, and rain showered.

Su Qiange couldn't help sighing: "I don't know if it's raining on the Songjiang side, how are the three obedients looking for things." ”

The third obedient who was nagged by Su Qiange rubbed his nose, looked up at the cloudy sky, and ordered: "Continue to search, wait until the rain falls and don't find it, then withdraw first, and come back tomorrow." ”

The little brothers on the edge of the riverbed answered, and their men dug a little harder.

The third obediently pinched the sheepskin map that Su Qiange handed over to him before leaving, and frowned, "It's evil, the marked location and surroundings have been dug up for several feet, and I haven't even found half a hair on the table." ”

Someone stole it, right?

This unlucky thought flashed through his mind, and the three obedients realized what they were trying to write, and immediately shook their heads like rattles.

He shook his head and said to himself: "No, no, no, it's impossible, where is there anyone who is idle and has nothing to do, go to this Songjiang riverbed to dig something." ”

Su Qiange's jade bracelet lay quietly in Songjiang for a long time, until the originally dry river was turbulent again.

Now that the drought has subsided, this thing was buried several feet into the ground when it was buried that day, and the layers of protection were not leaky.

It's almost impossible for someone to pick it up while walking along the river. That's it, don't think about it anymore, when something happens, you have to blame him for the crow's mouth!

The three obedient warned themselves in their hearts, and the volume of their shouts increased: "It's going to rain soon, dig quickly, dig quickly, you have to come if you can't find Ming'er." ”

At night, there was a curfew in the entire Tong County.

The whole city fell asleep, but the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the county was more lively than during the day. At this moment, red lanterns were lit inside and outside the river village, although they were not noisy, but there were many more things to visit than during the day.

"After they took over Hezhuang, they must have used this to do a lot of illegal things," Su Qiange analyzed, "Only unsightly things are left to do at night." ”

"Isn't that convenient for us to fish in troubled waters?" Xue Chen watched coldly as two or three bureaucrat-looking people crossed the threshold and entered Hezhuang.

At present, Su Qiange is still dressed in men's clothes, and he looks very handsome by the dim light in front of the village.

They were about to go in, so Xue Chen instructed: "The people here don't know what they are, you must be very careful after you go in, follow me, don't let those groping pigs touch it." ”

"It's so dangerous, I'm a man now." The former blinked, signaling that Xue Chen could rest assured.

Immediately after that, knock on the door, make up nonsense, and cross the threshold.

Everything went very smoothly, and the two big men guarding the door also changed shifts. Su Qiange and the others took the opportunity to talk to the customer in front of them about a similar gambling house business, and they mixed in.

They are very lucky, there are not a few people who visit Hezhuang tonight, the small courtyard that specializes in gambling business is brightly lit, and there is still a queue, which is more convenient for fishing in mixed waters.

Today, the overall layout of the river village is still the same as before.

But the purpose of each courtyard and each floor is very different from before. It seems that it is really a change of steward.

Even though he knew this in the daytime, Su Qiange still couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

The person in front of them was a talkative master, and seeing her like this, he accosted: "This little brother is also here to eliminate the disaster in the gambling house?" ”

Hezhuang, like Juyizhuang, is a secret force planted by the northern head snake in various counties.

In addition to helping their superiors and colluding with officialdom, they also do some strange "business" in private.

Like these people queuing up in the front yard now, they should all owe money in the gambling house and don't want to pay it back, so they want to spend a sum of money and ask Hezhuang to help settle it.

In the past, Wu Jingang didn't like to do such things, unless he was forced to get involved in gambling houses and other places, and he would not let people come in and queue up to pay the money in a big way. Sure enough, as soon as the person in charge changed somewhere, even the sky changed.

She quietly took two steps back, with a mask-like smirk on her face: "Isn't it, my eldest brother owes gambling debts in Xuancheng, and people want to chop off his fingers, and the brothers really have no choice, so they sold their yard and came to Hezhuang to find someone to seek peace." ”

Xue Chen, who was lying on the gun for no reason, looked over, and his face was very unkind.

Just now, when the roe deer-headed man accosted Su Qiange, he was annoyed, and he didn't have time to attack. Unexpectedly, this girl opened her mouth as she spoke, and arranged a gambler's title for herself, which was really out of temper.

Su Qiange looked at Xue Chen, with a bit of hatred on his face. But only the latter could see the cunning in her eyes, like the shining stars in this clear night.

The moment they looked at each other, Xue Chen's little temper was as if it was extinguished by a nameless nectar.

He lowered his head and snorted softly from between his noses, acquiescing to his name as a "gambler".

The middle-aged man in front of him slapped his thigh, looked at Su Qiange with sympathy, and said, "Hey, isn't it a coincidence, so is that bastard boy in my family, he doesn't study well." No, he owes Xuancheng a gambling debt, and he cashes out a shop to settle this matter for him! ”

From the mouth of this unlucky father, Su Qiange learned from Xue Chen that this Hezhuang had been taking over the underground business related to this kind of gambling house more than a month ago.

They seem to have some collusion with the gambling house, and whenever someone owes gambling debts that they can't afford to repay, they will be brought together by the dealer to settle the matter.

As a result, the queues here are long every night.

"We'll have to have enough money, and we'll be polite when we talk to the boss in a moment. People don't worry about money, if you don't do it, you won't do it, and if you get out, it's useless to take more money. ”

"Yes, yes, thank you for the reminder!"

After enough words from this unlucky person, Su Qiange suddenly claimed that she had abdominal pain, and asked Xue Chen to carry her to the thatched house, only to say that she would come back in a while.

"Alas, there are so many poor people in this world." The man who was running around for his ruined son shook his head, waiting for his turn.

At that time, Xue Chen's body was extremely fast, walking on the way to the thatched house, and taking advantage of no one's attention, he took Su Qiange to a deserted place.

He said calmly: "I just checked, there is no one here, we can rest here for a while." ”

"Well," Su Qiange, who was disguised, lowered his eyes, delicate and delicate hidden under the makeup, only a little strong remained, "Tongxian is not like Liao County, there are many people who know me, but it will definitely not work if we stay for a long time, we have to fight quickly." ”