Shang He was shocked and hurriedly asked Xun Bin what they were doing, and Xun Bin said: "Brother Zhou said that he would leave early tomorrow morning and come over at night to have a look." Busy explained: "When he came to see Zhao Hede, I followed him and left after only saying two words." Shang Helai's head was bruised, and he shouted repeatedly: "Confused, confused, so confused, wow, it's okay, what did he do in the middle of the night, you ...... Alas......"

Chen Jingye said: "Even if he has been here, the security here is so tight, how can the father and son of the Zhao family disappear." ”

Dong He shouted: "Roaring Heavenly Dog, bring the Roaring Heavenly Dog raised by General Yu, and smell where their father and son have gone." "Four years ago, an overseas businessman sent Yu Hualong four golden retriever dogs, twice the size of the local dog, clever and humane, extremely sensitive sense of smell, Yu Hualong has always regarded it as a treasure, this time he was in a hurry to go to Yunzhou without it, and he is being fostered in the military courtyard at the moment.

Shang He had seen the magic of these four dogs, and hurriedly let people bring them, smelled Zhao Hede's plain clothes for the dogs, and let the four dogs go to search, and the four dogs roamed the house for a while, rushed into the back garden together, and barked at a section of earthen wall. Shang Helai shouted angrily: "The rats must have left from this wall." At the mouth of the alley, the corpses of two night watchmen were found, and the four dogs sniffed at the corpses, and went on, turning a small street, and suddenly stopped at the edge of a corner wasteland, and circled around a rotten stone block.

This is a street corner vacant, put a missing edge of the stone, around the stone and pile up some unused broken baskets and dustpans, not waiting for Shang He to order, Dong He took people to remove these sundries, the current situation surprised everyone, the ground around the stone stone was obviously turned over not long ago, and the wet soil exuded a choking fishy smell. Dong He ordered the soldiers to push away the stone stone and dig it on the spot, and only a moment later, he heard a "cluck" sound, and the knife and gun hit a bluestone slab, which was inlaid with two iron rings as handles, and there were five big characters engraved "Gushan Town and City Bureau".

When the bluestone slab was lifted, a musty smell came to my face, and there was a black hole trench below.

Shang Helai squatted down and glanced inside, a disgusting aura came to his face, almost fainting him, he pinched his nose, beckoned to bring torches left and right, carefully looked at the hole, suddenly threw the torch to the ground, and said angrily: "Go and arrest Li Mao for me." Xun Bin hurriedly stopped: "What's the matter with Li Mao?" Chen Jingye sneered: "This ditch was dug by the city bureau, how did the Zhao family father and son know that there was an entrance here, this must be Li Mao's fraud." Xun Bin said: "It was Zhou Yage who came to see Zhao Hede in the middle of the night, not Li Mao. Dong He said: "What's so strange about this, Zhou Yage is here to deliver a message for Li Mao!" ”

Xun Bin is Shang Helai's wife and brother, because he is shrewd and cautious, he has won the trust of Shang He Lai, which has long caused the dissatisfaction of Dong He and Chen Jingye.

Xun Bin smiled bitterly, and shouted in a long voice: "If you arrest the general without guilt, won't you leave a way back for yourself?" ”

"Back?! There is no way back! Shang He came to anger like a fierce leopard, and he waved his hand vigorously: "If Zhao Hede goes out of the city, you and I will die and have no place to be buried." Now if you want to protect yourself, you have to kill him and blame Li Mao. ”

The last sentence was already gritting his teeth, and not long after this sentence was said, Li Mao's mansion in Yuanxiangfang was surrounded by water. Shang Helai was already very dissatisfied with the performance of his wife and brother Xun Bin, and when he arrived in front of Li Mao's mansion, he restrained his subordinates and said coldly: "You lost the person, you go and find him back and make up for it." Xun Bin didn't dare to answer, so he stepped forward to call the door, and Qingmo answered with a crossbow through the door: "Sleep, please have something to do tomorrow morning." ”

Xun Bin said: "Tonight, an assassin sneaked into the military courtyard, intending to assassinate Deputy Envoy Zhao, we chased all the way, saw him enter this house over the wall, opened the door, let us search." ”

The answer was a crossbow arrow, which had been shot from the angled angle of the gatehouse, right in front of the tip of the toe of the bar, and pierced a whole brick. Xun Bin gasped and forced his composure.

Dong He pulled out a knife in his hand and shouted: "Toast if you don't eat and drink, give it to me." With a finger of the knife, a group of soldiers divided into two groups and began to climb the wall by ladder, but as soon as their hands were next to the wall, they screamed and fell down, and then saw that their hands were bloody and terrifying. It turned out that the wall of Li Mao's house was buried with thistles, covered with floating soil, and he could not detect it from a distance, and he was hit by his hand as soon as he used his strength.

Seeing that Dong He's subordinates were frustrated, Xun Bin snorted proudly, and after humming, he felt a headache again, and he was not allowed to enter in front of the house, how could he explain this to Shang He.

Shang He looked at the wounded soldiers all over the ground, and shouted angrily: "Go push a crash car." ”

In addition to the collision wood, there are also triangular wooden buildings to prevent the invasion of arrows, and it is inevitable that attacking the gate of a private house with this kind of equipment will be a bit of a knife, and he looked at Shang He by the light of the torch, and the latter's eyes were red, and he had fallen into a state of madness. When a person is in such a state, unless forced by external forces, words can no longer be moved. From the military academy to the original township for about two miles, the call of heavy equipment such as the crash, the procedure is very cumbersome, the military institute made the clerk Cheng know that Shang He came to transfer the crash car to attack Li Mao's mansion, his heart was shocked, he and Shang He have been friends for many years, knowing that this person's temper came up, eight horses are difficult to pull back, and he did not dare to persuade him, so he made a fuss about the transfer procedures and slowly delayed time.

Early in the morning, Zhou Hong, the judge of the Qing Navy Supervision and Military Academy, rode a gentle black donkey, with two entourages, and went to the Hu Ji Sheep Soup Restaurant in Fengdafang to drink a bowl of mutton soup. Zhou Hong made a detour to the original village to find Li Mao, wanting to ask for a support order for the boss of the Hu family to facilitate the purchase of goods out of the city. bumped into a group of soldiers pushing a crashed car into the workshop, and Zhou Hong felt strange and followed.

The soldier in charge of the guard recognized him and knew that he was the messenger of the Son of Heaven, and no one dared to stop him, and when Chen Jingye was about to come forward to intercept him, Zhou Hong had already waved his hand at Shang Helai.

Shang He came to launch a mutiny, imprisoned Zhao Hede in order to seize the military power of Gushan Town, the military has always seized power in a disorderly manner, and the military supervision court needs to be the last witness, if the military supervision court plays a certain general virtue enough to command the garrison, the Son of Heaven will be awarded the festival and official position according to the regulations, otherwise, it is very likely to be identified as a rebellion, now the army around Gushan Town is gathered, a little careless, there is a danger of overthrowing the nest, how dare he dare to offend Zhou Hong under this crisis, so he hurriedly got up to greet him, a black face smiled like a flower.

Zhou Hong climbed off the donkey, flicked his clothes, pointed to the crashed car placed in front of Li Mao's door and asked Shang Helai: "With such a big battle early in the morning, the city bureau will lose the money and pay the bill, or will the **** not pay?" Shang Helai smiled and said: "The judge said that it was a little misunderstanding, yesterday there was an assassin sneaking into the military courtyard, and the guards tracked him all the way here, and saw him climb into the courtyard wall with their own eyes, and the brothers wanted to go in and search for it, but the result was good, Li Mao's house slave beat and injured our brothers." I still can't put on this battle, I want him to open the door obediently, otherwise, how can he resist if so many of us shout to kill him? ”

Zhou Hong said: "Well, it's not right to beat people, but you guys are copying guys in the middle of the night to knock on the door, and no one dares to open it." That's it, since I'm going to bump into him, I'll go back to making peace, and I'll let him open the door. Shang Helai smiled and said, "That's the best." Zhou Hong cleared his throat, stepped forward and knocked on the door: "I, Zhou Hong, the military superintendent, ask the envoy of the city bureau to answer." ”

The door opened with a "squeak", and Qingmo bowed down and saluted: "It turned out to be Judge Zhou, you gave a comment, in the middle of the night, the dancing knife and gun at the door asked us to open the door, let them come in and search, who dares to open it?" Zhou Hong smiled: "It's a misunderstanding, now that I'm here, who dares to mess around?" Please ask the city bureau to come and answer. After a while, Li Mao walked out with a helmet and armor, and complained when they met, Zhou Hong soothed: "A misunderstanding has been said now." Take Li Mao to see Shang Helai, and said: "Now General Yu and General Yin are not in Gushan, Deputy Envoy Zhao is sick again, and the girder of Gushan Town is carried by the two of you, and the previous misunderstanding will be written off, and now the city bureau is here, you can go in and search for it, but, hehe, if you can't find a result of this, Lao Shang, you have to give Li Maohua an explanation." ”

Shang He smiled and said: "That's natural, I will definitely give an explanation to the city bureau"

Zhou Hong hurriedly instructed the two entourages: "You guys put bright spots, keep an eye on them, don't let them break the bottles and cans of the city bureau envoy's house in a careless manner." ”

When Li Mao heard this, he retreated Qingmo with a cold face, and Dong He waved his hand and took the lead and rushed into Li Mao's house. Li Mao's home is not very big, and there are not many places to hide three big living people, and a group of soldiers searched it all over in an instant, but found nothing.

Shang He came to receive the report, his face was as black as a piece of iron, Zhou Hong was chatting with Li Mao at the moment, praising him for his powerful and exquisite armor, talking about the material of the armor leaf and the workmanship of the lining, knowing that the soldiers had been searched, but pretending not to know, he hung Shang He and his people there. After he was dried, Zhou Hongfang said: "Busy, I helped you, people, but you didn't find it, how do you explain this?" ”

Shang He came to smile and said: "I also ask Judge Zhou to help me with a few good words, I am also doing this for official business." Zhou Hong acted as a difficulty: "That's it, I'll tell you, I can't guarantee whether it will be successful." Shang He said: "With you coming out, Li Maohua will inevitably buy this face." Zhou Hong nodded and just walked away, a military academy Pegasus came, and reported: "Chen Dutou found important clues outside the city, please General Shang quickly send troops to Liujiapo to search on the spot." ”

Shang He came to fly on the horse and beat the horse away, everyone got on the horse and followed, but Dong He shouted: "Cheer up, in this house, no one is allowed to release a fly." ”

Chen Yangbi, the head of the knife brand, went out of the city early in the morning to inspect the various intersections and waterways leading to the field in Gushan Town, and inadvertently found a carriage with a lantern of the city bureau in Liujiapo, seven miles south of the city, the axle of the carriage was broken, and the coachman was repairing, Chen Yangbi was suspicious, and was about to send someone to interrogate, but the driver of the car abandoned the car in a panic and fled, Chen Jingye chased him out of two or three miles before he was held.

According to the coachman's confession, two days ago, a man surnamed Qin found him, gave him three times of money, hired his car to send three men out of the city, he said that the road could not go, the man gave him a lantern of the city bureau, saying that with this lantern can go out of the city in the middle of the night, under the reward, the coachman took a risk, and actually succeeded, and the guard saw this lantern, without saying a word, immediately let go. It's just that he was unlucky, and the axle of Liujiapo broke as soon as he arrived at Qili Liujiapo in the south of the city, and the three men were unwilling to wait, so they hurriedly walked away in a hurry while the night was dark. The coachman deduced from this that the three people were coming from something wrong, and when he saw Chen Jingye coming to ask, he thought he was going to arrest him, so he abandoned the car and fled.

Asked about the ages and appearances of the three men, Chen Yangbi was taken aback, the height, body shape, and age of these three people were somewhat similar to the Zhao family's father and son, so he sent someone back to the city to get reinforcements.

Shang He came to Liujiapo and released four golden retrievers, and after the four dogs went around in the forest, they found a rabbit and chased the rabbit. Dogs can't be relied on, people always rely on it, Shang He ordered Chen Yangbi, Dong He, Chen Jingye, and Xun Bin to take Liujiapo as the center of the circle and conduct a carpet search within a radius of 50 miles.

Xun Bin felt that this was very inappropriate, but after repeated mistakes, he had lost the qualification to speak in front of Shang Helai.

The hard work paid off, and finally caught the three men mentioned by the coachman at dusk that day, one old and two young, there is no doubt that they are father and son, but they are not Zhao Hede father and son, but three "money rats".

After the development of the commodity economy in the Tang Dynasty, the use of copper coins increased sharply, and the mining volume of copper did not increase significantly compared with before, resulting in the price of copper in the market continued to rise, and some lawbreakers smelted the copper coins minted by the imperial court and sold them into copper tools for profit.

These three "money rats" are all surnamed Xue, came from Yanzhou a month ago, because they lied that they wanted to buy land in the city, and hooked up with Li Mao, the martial law in the city this time, the three of them were deeply disturbed, and begged Li Mao to help them get out of the city.

Li Mao privately let them out of the city, strictly speaking, it is illegal, privately indulging in "money rats" is one, and violating martial law is another, but this kind of thing is a crime for the people to do it, and the officials are guilty of doing it at most, and whoever wants to talk about this matter will definitely be considered to be nothing to find fault with, and to stir up nonsense, only those who can't get on the stage will do it.

After tossing for a whole day, using seventy or eighty percent of the troops in his hands, he came up with such a result, Shang He was already speechless in anger, and Xun Bin was also speechless, and a sense of foreboding told him that Li Mao's private indulgence of the Xue family's father and son out of the city at this time was not just out of friendship, he was probably using the Xue family's father and son to make a plan, and while they were chasing the Xue family father and son with all their might, they unknowingly sent the Zhao family and his son out of the city.