Chapter 144: The Discord Scheme
"Young master, Chen Aniu found the red sleeves in the afternoon, and when he left, he walked briskly, hummed a small tune in his mouth, and carried a small bag in his hand, I don't know what was in it."
In the afternoon, when Li Hongyu was feeding the koi fish by the pond in Li's mansion, Wang Tieniu walked over quickly and reported in a deep voice.
"This guy must have blackmailed Redsleeves!" Li Hongyu smiled slightly when he heard this, and after a deep groan, he whispered a few words to Wang Tieniu, Wang Tieniu nodded again and again when he heard the words, and then bowed and left quickly.
Li Hongyu continued to throw fish food into the pond, looking at the koi fish floating on the water and competing for fish food, the corners of his mouth showed a smile, he had already guessed that the desperate Chen Aniu would blackmail Red Sleeves, so it just gave him a chance to make a move, and released the bait waiting for Chen Aniu to "bite".
"Young master, young master cousin is here." Just when Li Hongyu was wondering if Chen Aniu would "bite the hook", Rou'er walked over quickly and reported in a deep voice.
Li Hongyu turned his head to look and saw a sturdy young man following behind Rou'er, it was none other than Zhao Yulong, who went to Jiangnan to do business.
"Second brother, why are you here?" Li Hongyu couldn't help but feel a little surprised when he saw this, you must know that Zhao Yulong should be busy with business in Jiangnan now.
"I heard that you had a lawsuit in Wuchang City, so I rushed over to check, and it turned out to be a false alarm." Zhao Yulong laughed when he heard this, and stepped forward to give Li Hongyu a warm hug.
It turned out that Li Hongyu was imprisoned in the Wuchangwei Building because of Linjiang Building reached Zhao Yulong's ears, after all, there were many businessmen from Wuchang to Jiangnan, and the news flow between them was also fast.
Zhao Yulong was taken aback when he learned that Li Hongyu had injured Zhang Quan, the little marquis of Wuwei Hou's Mansion, and hurriedly rushed to Wuchang City to check on it, but he didn't expect to hear the news that Li Hongyu was released safely on the way, and he was relieved.
Li Hongyu hurriedly welcomed Zhao Yulong to the living room, and knew that Zhao Yulong and Sun Hongye's business in Jiangnan was going very smoothly, and the kind of cloth dyed with new dyes was very popular in the market.
This allowed the two to make a lot of money in the summer trade, receiving a large number of orders, and even more if it weren't for the limited production capacity.
Zhao Yulong's father Zhao Wenhan, uncle Zhao Wenting, and two brothers Zhao Yufeng and Zhao Yuxin were also waiting for the results of the township test in Wuchang City, so they naturally all participated.
Looking at Zhao Yulong, who was talking and laughing at the wine table, Zhao Wenhan couldn't help but shake his head helplessly, in fact, he liked Zhao Yulong, the second son, more in his heart, but Zhao Yulong had no interest in the imperial examination, otherwise he would be no worse than his eldest brother Zhao Yuxin, and he should be able to participate in the township examination like Zhao Yuxin.
However, since Zhao Guangfeng has agreed to let Zhao Yulong do business, even if Zhao Wenhan is unwilling in his heart, he can only obey orders, after all, everyone has their own ambitions, and some things cannot be forced.
Zhao Yulong came this time, so he naturally had to wait until the results of the township test came out before leaving, and he heard that Li Hongyu was ranked third in the Xie Yuan ranking odds of Wuchang City Casino, so he should be able to pass the exam, so he must stay to celebrate him.
Moreover, Zhao Wenhan and other Zhao family members also participated in the township test, and he also wanted to know if they could win the promotion, and then glorify their ancestors.
At the end of the morning, a middle-aged man with five big and three thick scolding walked out of the casino, he was Chen Aniu, who had to leave after losing all his belongings, and was ready to go home to get money and continue to come to the casino to fight.
Chen Aniu naturally wouldn't conjure up money for no reason, as Li Hongyu guessed, in order to repay his gambling debts, he extorted a batch of property from Red Sleeves, which means that he did participate in the murder of Mingyue Pavilion, otherwise Red Sleeves would not be controlled by him.
In fact, the person who killed Xu Tao that night was Chen Aniu, and Red Sleeves knew that he was addicted to gambling, so he lured a high return, which made Chen Aniu commit murder, and a gambler like him could do anything for money.
Shortly after leaving the casino, Chen felt an urge to urinate, so he went to a secluded place on the street to unzip his pants and pee.
"Are you Chen Aniu?" Just as Chen Aniu was lifting his pants comfortably after peeing, several masked men suddenly came to his side, and the leader asked quietly.
"Are you ......" Chen Aniu was slightly stunned, and looked at the masked people in some surprise, not knowing why these people were looking for him.
"Take it!" After confirming Chen Aniu's identity, the leading masked man waved his hand, and several masked men who followed him rushed up and pressed him firmly to the ground, and his mouth was blocked by a rag.
Chen Aniu was startled when he saw this, and hurriedly struggled desperately, but where was he the opponent of those masked men, he was quickly tied up and taken away, and disappeared into the darkness.
After crossing a few streets, the masked men took Chen Aniu to a river in the city and loosened the rope that was tied to his hands.
"Brother, we're just doing something, and when we get to the Netherworld, you have to find the right person for revenge." The masked man in the lead said coldly to Chen Aniu, and then waved his hand and asked Chen Aniu to take him to the river.
Chen Aniu was shocked when he heard this, realizing that these masked men wanted to kill him, he immediately struggled desperately, and his mouth made a whining sound, but unfortunately he couldn't break free from the shackles of those masked men.
Soon, Chen Aniu was taken to the river, and a masked man ripped the rags from his mouth, and before he could scream, his head had been pressed into the water, which made him struggle even more intensely.
After struggling, Chen Aniu's body gradually softened and lost his ability to resist.
Seeing this, the masked man in the lead waved his hand, and Chen Aniu was pushed into the water and floated face down on the water.
"Big brother, who would have a hard time with a cook and spend so much money to kill him?" Then, a masked man came to the leading masked man and asked puzzledly.
"Don't ask what you shouldn't!" The masked man in the lead opened his mouth to reprimand him, and the people under his command quickly disappeared into the night.
After the masked men left, Chen Aniu, who was floating on the water with his head down, suddenly raised his head and breathed in a big gulp of air.
"Slut, I actually want to kill Lao Tzu, but Lao Tzu is not so easy to die." After taking a few breaths, the frightened Chen Aniu said coldly, he obviously heard the conversation between the two masked men just now, and then quickly swam to the shore, and fled after going ashore.
"Big brother, this kid's water nature is really good." Chen Aniu would never have thought that after he fled in embarrassment, several figures flashed behind a big tree in the distance by the river, and it was the masked men who had captured him, and one of them said to the masked man in the lead with a smile.
"Watch him closely, see where he can escape." The masked man in the lead ripped off the face towel on his face, and through the starlight in the sky, he could see that he was Wang Tieniu, and commanded in a deep voice.
Hearing this, the two masked men bowed to Wang Tieniu and quickly chased after Chen Aniu, it was obvious that Chen Aniu would definitely flee from Wuchang City after being frightened, and the task of the two was to follow Chen Aniu and find out where he would stay.
Li Hongyu knew something about Chen Aniu's family background and knew that he was very good at water, so he asked Wang Tieniu to take advantage of his blackmail of Red Sleeves to perform such a play, adding fuel to the fire, so as to intensify the contradiction between Chen Aniu and Red Sleeves, and then separate the relationship between the two.
Chen Aniu would never have thought that he was calculated, and thought that Red Sleeves was going to kill him, so he vented all his resentment on Red Sleeves.
Worried that Red Sleeves would find someone to kill him after he knew he was not dead, Chen Aniu hurried home to pack his belongings and clothes, and then hid in a secluded grove in the city, and left the city as soon as the city gate opened at dawn.
The two men sent by Wang Tieniu followed Chen Aniu quietly and left with him, but Chen Aniu was in a hurry to flee for his life and didn't notice that he was being followed.
Because Red Sleeves is a person from Xiangyang City, Li Hongyu sent someone to check and quickly learned her life information, Red Sleeves was born in a poor family, her parents were vegetable sellers selling vegetables in the market, and her income was meager, plus her father was addicted to gambling, so the family had a hard time.
This made the red sleeves at the age of twelve was sent to the embroidery village to help with groceries, and took on the responsibility of making a living, because of the intelligence and hard work, at the age of fifteen became the embroidery girl of the embroidery village.
Originally, Red Sleeves would have a completely different life, and he would not be reduced to running this pleasing skin and meat business in the Bright Moon Pavilion.
But an incident three years ago changed the fate of Red Sleeves, her gambling father actually lost her to someone else in the casino, and then Mingyue Pavilion got her deed of sale, so that she had to become a dusty woman.
Although the red sleeves also resisted, to no avail, in the end they could only accept their fate, and rose in a year, becoming the red card of the Mingyue Pavilion.
According to rumors in the market, the reason why Red Sleeves' deed of sale fell into the hands of Mingyue Pavilion was because the people of Mingyue Pavilion took a fancy to her, so they set a trap for her father, but her father fell into it, causing her to jump into the fire pit.
Under Li Hongyu's explanation, his subordinates focused on investigating what happened to Red Sleeves when Han Taok last came to Wuchang City to participate in the township test, and Li Hongyu wanted to know if Red Sleeves knew Han Taok three years ago.
Soon, an incident that happened to Red Sleeves caught the attention of Lee Hong-woo, whose mother had a serious illness while Hankook was in Wuchang City, and spent a lot of money on it, and it was said that Red Sleeves' father won it from the casino.
Li Hongyu felt that this matter was a little strange, and it was obvious that Redsleeves' mother's illness would take time to heal, and Redsleeves' father could not win money all the time during this period.
Therefore, with his understanding of gamblers, if the money was won by Redsleeves' father, it would definitely not be able to survive Redsleeves' mother's illness, and she would definitely take it to the casino to gamble, so there is a good chance that the money did not come from Redsleeves' father.
Moreover, Li Hongyu thinks that the money cannot come from the embroidery village, otherwise there is no need for the red sleeves to hide it.
After some pondering, Li Hongyu decided to go to the embroidery village where the red sleeves used to be, wanting to find out some news from it.