Yun got into the carriage in a very bad mood, leaned against the frame of the carriage and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Li Sha'er immediately noticed that Yun was not in a good mood, stopped Xiyi's words, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, will you go to Guangxiao Temple next?" ”

"No, I won't. I just knew something very terrible, and I didn't have the heart to visit Guangxiao Temple. Yun said.

"Your Majesty, what kind of thing is it?" This was not asked by Li Sha'er, but by Xiyi. She usually gets along with Yun more casually, and she thinks that things that can be called 'terrible' should have nothing to do with political affairs, so she asked.

"Have you ever heard of 'harvesting and cutting'?" Yun said.

"I've heard that when I was a child, my mother and concubines talked about it, and it was very scary." "'Harvesting and cutting'? Is there someone in Guangzhou City now 'picking and cutting'? Xiyi and Li Sha'er said successively.

"When the guards around me went to rescue a child, they noticed that something was not quite right with the gourd they were carrying. It's the guards who came from Wudang, the two of you have also seen it, and you have learned about spells and evil arts in the master's gate, and found that the style of their gourd is used to collect souls, so it is inferred that they are doing the thing of harvesting and cutting. Yun explained.

"Your Majesty, these men who do the things of harvesting and cutting are not enough to atone for their sins." Xiyi said.

"Don't worry, Xiyi, from the twenty-ninth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1293 AD), it is a capital crime to harvest and cut people, and the same is true of the Ming Dynasty: "Ming Law" volume 19 "Criminal Law Two Lives Harvesting and Cutting People": 'Anyone who picks and cuts people will be executed by Ling Chi, and the property will be cut off to the home of the deceased. Although his wife, sons, and family members did not know about it, they were resettled for 2,000 miles. Slash for the Servant. They're going to be cut by a thousand cuts. ”

Yun then said, "However, this must be able to catch them before it can be executed." If they were to escape, it would not be possible. I have already mobilized all the divisions of Guang to search for these people. ”

While the two of them were talking, Li Sha'er had been thinking about something, and only occasionally interjected. However, neither Yoon nor Hee Yi noticed.

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Before returning to the palace, Song Qingshu and Zhang Wuji said: "Senior Brother Zhang, Your Majesty instructed me to send this captured prisoner to the Imperial Envoy Division, and you will help Senior Brother find out about this child's home and send him back." ”

"I know, Senior Brother Song, don't worry, I will definitely send him home safely." Zhang Wuji said.

He then turned around and said to the rescued child, "Little brother, what's your name?" How old are you this year? ”

As soon as he spoke, he heard the child cry "wow".

Zhang Wuji immediately scrambled: "What's wrong?" Why was it that there was nothing wrong with the kidnappers just now, and now they suddenly cry? ”

One of the hundred households who stayed here today who was in charge of guarding hurriedly came up and said, "Guard Zhang, this child should have been drugged by the abductor just now, so he seems very calm; Now that the strength of the medicine has passed, I naturally cry out of fear. ”

"So what should I do? He kept crying. How to ask him to get out of his home and send him back? Zhang Wuji said.

"Guard Zhang, please see, although his clothes are not very gorgeous, they are indeed good fabrics, which shows that he must be from a good family. Such a person usually carries an object that only his family has, and when he finds that object, he can know which family he is. The hundred households said.

"Then let's see if he has any such object on him." Zhang Wuji commanded.

Although Baihu was a little slanderous, he also touched it immediately; After a while, he took out a bag from the child, opened it and looked at it, and said to Zhang Wuji very solemnly: "Guard Zhang, this person is from the Li family. ”

"Li family, what kind of family? Is there someone who is now a high-ranking official in the government, or is it a family of military generals in the guard? Zhang Wuji heard from the bluntness of this hundred households that this Li family might have some background, so he said so.

"Neither," Baihu said with some embarrassment: "This Li family is one of the three most important merchants in Guangzhou, operating many transactions and making a huge fortune. ”

"However, the head of their family, Li Jihu, married the daughter of his in-law to the concubine of the Gao family in the south of the city as his wife, and also helped the Gao family with money from time to time, so we don't dare to offend their family." He added.

"The Gao family you are talking about, but the family of Gao Xianchen, who is now serving as a servant of the Criminal Department?" Zhang Wuji asked.

"This is it. Some of their family members are in the capital as the servants of the criminal department, and some people are in Sichuan County, and there are also a few people in the family who raise people and show talents, and we dare not offend their family, even the close in-laws. Baihu said.

Zhang Wuji doesn't care. As a guard beside the emperor, his hometown is near Wudang Mountain in Huguang, and his family has been a lay disciple of the Wudang faction for two consecutive generations.

So he just said, "Now that you know which one it is, just send it back." He bent down and picked up the child and asked Baihu to show the way to Li's house.

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At this time, the east courtyard of the Li family was also full of chickens and dogs. Countless subordinates walked around, shouting the words "Guangjun" or "Young Master", searching for a person.

Li Guangrui was also standing here at this time, reprimanding a few people in front of him: "Why can't the fifteenth brother suddenly find it, what are you doing to eat!" ”

"Although tomorrow is the day of grandpa's birthday, but today he will definitely want to see his grandchildren, if grandpa has not been able to find the fifteenth brother when he summons him, you know the consequences!"

The people in front of him were all in charge of the east courtyard where he couldn't find this Li Guangjun now. When they heard Lee Guangrui's words, they were even more frightened.

You know, tomorrow is not only Old Man Li's birthday, but also his 70th birthday! All the Li family members in the field have come back as long as they can come back, and they are very nervous to prepare, for fear that something will go wrong; If the news of the fifteenth young master's disappearance was known to Old Man Li, even if Old Master Li was old and virtuous and did not dispose of them, the current head of the family, Li Jihu, would not let them go.

One of them was about to say something, when a mother-in-law came over with a little maid with a little tattered clothes and a red and swollen face and said to Li Guangrui: "Young Master, I have asked clearly, the fifteenth young master secretly slipped out of the house with a few of his little servants today." This little slut covered up for the fifteenth young master at first, and he was beaten to confess. ”

"In this case, there is no need to look for it in the house, send more people to look for it outside the house, and be sure to find the fifteenth brother before grandpa summons him." He had already suspected that Li Guangjun had run out of the mansion, and had already sent someone to look for him outside the mansion, but there were not many people; Now that I know that it is indeed outside the house, of course I have to send more people.

Li Guangrui glanced at the maid at this time, and said: "All the maids and servants in his room have been expelled from the house." ”

"Young Master, you have been wronged! This is all forced by the fifteenth young master, and we dare not do it. The little maid, whose face was red and swollen, immediately struggled and begged for mercy in a vague voice.

"Of course I know that Fifteen asked you to do it, if it weren't for the fact that you are still loyal to him, you would not only be expelled from the mansion, but you would have been expelled from the mansion with your legs broken." Lee said.

He explained this and stopped talking to them, turning to leave the east side of the courtyard and head to the antechamber. There is a big difference between the people in the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard of a large family, and since they want to go out of the house to look for it, they can only send people from the outer courtyard to look for it.

And, "...... We really can't go through the whole city of Guangzhou with our own people, and we have to find the police for help. Lee said to the steward in the front yard.

"But now Your Majesty is in Guangzhou City." The steward of the front yard said: "Young Master, Your Majesty's safety is the top priority, two or three percent of the police in the entire Guangzhou are guarding outside the palace day and night, and the rest are also out to maintain law and order, I'm afraid it will not be easy for the police to find the fifteenth young master." ”

"Fifteen Jing is making trouble on such a day, and when he is found back and grandpa's birthday has passed, he must be punished well."

"But no matter what, you still have to find the police to search together. Our family has more money, even if it is five or six hundred taels of silver, we have to call him back between the fifteenth of grandpa's search. Lee said.

As soon as the steward in the front yard agreed, he was going to arrange for someone to go to the patrol police substation and the nearby police station to find a familiar police leader.

But as soon as he turned around, he saw someone running in from the outside at a very fast speed, and ran in front of him as soon as he slipped through the smoke, and said after taking a breath: "Steward Zhang, someone at the door sent the fifteenth young master back!" ”

"What!" Steward Zhang and Li Guangrui said in unison: "Who sent him back?" ”

"It's a few people from the left guard of Guangzhou, one of them is a hundred households, one is a trial hundred households, and there are a few soldiers, and the porter is entertaining a few of them." The subordinate gasped.

Steward Zhang and Li Guangrui glanced at each other again, and found that something was wrong: if everything was normal, Li Guangjun should have several small servants around him, and it was impossible for him to be sent back alone.

Steward Zhang immediately walked briskly to the door. Li Guangrui was stunned for a moment, and then followed.

After a while, the two of them reached the gate, and saw that there were five or six people in the gatehouse, in addition to their own doormen. These people all have the ability and rules of soldiers and generals, and you can see from a distance that they are not the same as ordinary people.

Of course, there is also the fifteenth young master of their family. In fact, the first person to notice the two of them coming over was their own fifteenth young master. This man named Li Guangjun seemed to have discovered his brother coming to the gate through his sense of smell, and turned his head at the moment when Li Guangrui could be seen by him, and shouted loudly as he ran towards him: "Big brother! ”