Bu Operatorzi suddenly turned around, pointed at Yao Guangqi, and said to Liu Huaming very formally: "I want to lead him to see that master, only lead him there, understand no, it's not you, not you, not you." Also, I didn't know that someone else had told me about this case here. ”

"Who told you that?" Liu Huaming asked again and again.

Bu Operator was a little impatient, turned around and walked forward, and said casually: "What does it have to do with you?" Then he stopped talking.

Yao Guangqi suddenly remembered something, and muttered to himself: "Could it be him?" ”

"What did you say?" Liu Huaming didn't hear clearly, turned his head and asked.

"Didn't say anything" Yao Guangqi hurriedly shook his head, and walked a few steps to avoid Liu Huaming.

Liu Huaming followed closely behind Yao Guangqi and asked angrily: "It's just right, I haven't settled accounts with you yet, why didn't you avoid the woman touching you just now?" ”

The master and apprentice went all the way to the north, and on the way Yao Guangqi repeatedly considered, after all, Beiping is the land of Zhu Diping's domain, if he can use the influence and prestige of King Yan, he may be of some help to the investigation of the case, but on the contrary, he feels that the case is still obscure, and it is still difficult to figure out what is hidden behind this matter, and it may be self-defeating to use Zhu Di's power too early, so after careful weighing, Yao Guangqi decided that it is not appropriate to involve Zhu Di for the time being, and he will investigate it first.

When I came to Beiping, it was late spring and May, and the northern land was full of life.

When Yao Guangqi and others entered Beiping City, they happened to catch up with Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong's triumphant class, Yan Wang Zhu Di's send-off ceremony for the meritorious soldiers who returned to Beijing from the south had just ended, Li Wenzhong led his subordinates to go out of the city, the people of Beiping poured out of the city, the road was full of people who set up cases and burned incense, some large families and merchants, with a large number of cooking cakes, sauce and meat and wine, kept distributing sauce and meat to the soldiers returning to Beijing on both sides of the road, toasting one by one, the general Li Wenzhong was surrounded by the local gentry inside and outside the three layers, the gentry not only had a bowl to toast, There are also those who hold a pen and paper and ask Li Wenzhong to leave a letter, and what's more, some gentry hold the eight characters of their birthdays and insist on dedicating their daughters or sisters to the general as concubines, and the entire Beiping City tossed for a long time before calming down.

The four masters and apprentices searched around in Beiping City, and only found their destination in the evening, the home of the salt merchant Wang Maoliu. Yes, it was Wang Maoliu, a salt merchant that the master and apprentice met in Zhangjia Grilled Chicken Shop in Texas.

Wang Maoliu's house in Beiping is very large, it is a large courtyard with three entrances, when the four people came to the gate, there were no pedestrians on the street, the gate of Wang's house was closed, but the two big lanterns outside the door were exceptionally bright, showing the unusual wealth of the master's family.

Yao Guangqi stepped forward and knocked on the door, and soon a young man in his twenties came out, the young man looked vigilant and timid, only poked his head out, and asked very politely: "May I ask who you are looking for?" ”

Yao Guangqi replied with a smile: "Please tell your master that there is an old man from the south, please come out to see him." ”

The young man did not turn around and go back to report, but carefully looked at everyone with his eyes, everyone could see that this young man had twelve points of doubt and caution in his eyes, Yao Guangqi understood that this must be doubting the identity of several of his people, you can imagine how frightened the salt merchants are now.

Bu Operator stretched out his hand from behind and handed over a black thing, put it in the young man's hand and said, "Take it in and show it to your master or mother, no matter who it is, they will understand when they see it." ”

Although the young man still had doubts, he still took his things and closed the door and went in, and after a while, he heard only the sound of a rapid running in the courtyard, and from the chaotic footsteps, there was no one who came out.

The door opened, and a bald head popped out first, "Old fairy, it's here." The bald man stepped forward and hugged the divination operator, with tears in his eyes, but a smile on his face. Yao Guangqi remembered him, he was Wang Maoliu, a salt merchant he met in Texas. Yao Guangqi was looking at Wang Maoliu, and suddenly heard a woman behind him shouting, "Old Fairy", only to see a lame woman and two children coming out of the yard, although the woman was lame and couldn't walk fast, but she still struggled to run forward, leading a boy with one hand, and holding a female doll in her arms, and came to the inside of the threshold, the woman put down the female doll, knelt down with her not very neat legs, and couldn't cry in her mouth, "Look at the fairy, I finally saw you, the sixth said that he went back to Texas to see you, I regret why I didn't go back with him..."

No matter how the fortune operator stopped, he didn't stop the woman's gift, and the woman not only kowtowed to the fortune operator herself, but also taught her son and youngest daughter to kowtow to the fortune operator.

After a lot of courtesy, the guest and host entered the main hall, and at the insistence of Wang Maoliu's family, Bu Operator had to sit in the middle and received another kneeling salute from Wang Maoliu's family.

Wang Mao Liule pointed to the two children and said: "You are always the great benefactor of our family, without you, how can I have both children like this now!" If you hadn't saved our husband and wife, how could we have today, although my mother-in-law was lame, but after being saved by the old fairy, she saved her life, no, she gave birth to a boy six years ago, and gave birth to a girl to us two years ago. ”

Bu Operator suddenly changed the topic and said with a smile: "I heard that the salt merchants in Beiping have all run away recently? That kid just now saw that we were also on guard, what the hell is going on? ”

Wang Maoliu sighed when he heard this, looked at his children and said, "Actually, we are also summing up, and we are also thinking about returning to our hometown in Texas in two days." ”

Yao Guangqi interjected, "Let's talk about it in detail, we are here for this." ”

Wang Maoliu began to tell: "In the opening of the imperial court, we have been paying grain for salt in accordance with the rules of the imperial court, and we have indeed made some money, for example, I can hire more people to reclaim more wasteland after making money, and now I am in the area of Beiping and Tongzhou, there are more than 1,200 acres of land, if it is not for the accident, there may be more wasteland this year." But there has always been a problem here, that is, the grain handed over, the general government is some ambush, the food we pay a little less, some of the counterparts who are calculating, always have to compare, but then the government will find him other troubles, for example, his grain is mixed with soil or the grain is moldy, in short, the peers who have more trouble with the government are actually more troublesome, but those who do not care much, such as me, the trouble is smaller. In fact, for me, these ambushes are not a fatal thing, I see it lightly, which official is not greedy for money? Who doesn't want to make some money? Not to make money, who comes out to be an official. None of this is a big deal. ”