With Xie Lingyun's supervision, the Xie family quickly arranged for Zhou Chong to return to Songjiang, originally Xie Lingyun wanted to go back with Zhou Chong, but Zhou Chong saw that she was entangled in affairs during this time, and she really couldn't spare time, so she finally persuaded Xie Lingyun to stay.

Early the next morning, Zhou Chong left Shuangyu Port on the boat arranged by the Xie family, and in addition to him on the ship, Xie Lingyun also arranged his bodyguard, that is, the bald and scar-faced strong man Uncle Hei, to the ship to be responsible for Zhou Chong's safety.

Speaking of which, this Uncle Hei is the son of the Xie family, he has followed Xie Lingyun's father Xie Da since he was a child, worked hard for the Xie Family Chamber of Commerce for many years, has saved Xie Da's life many times, and is one of the most trusted people in the Xie family, so after Xie Lingyun took over the family's business, Xie Da arranged Uncle Hei to her side.

The Xie family's ship was very fast, and it had already arrived at Qingcun Port in Songjiang Prefecture just after noon, in order not to let people find out, Zhou Chong disguised himself as an ordinary servant of the Xie family, and then followed Uncle Hei off the boat, got into a carriage and galloped towards Songjiang City.

The journey was very smooth, Zhou Chong's carriage quickly entered the Songjiang Mansion, but Zhou Chong did not go home, but followed Uncle Hei and them to the Xie family's mansion, where they waited until after dark, and then rushed to Xu Guan's mansion under the cover of night.

Xu Guan in the prefect's yamen was also very anxious during this time, before the imperial court passed down a decree to let him put Wang Lun in prison, although he and Wang Lun are close friends, but the so-called holy will is difficult to violate, although Xu Guan is unwilling in his heart, but he can only personally put Wang Lun in prison, and his identity is special, he does not dare to visit in prison at all. At most, he just told the cell boss to take care of Wang Lun. You must not let your friends be wronged in the slightest.

After dinner tonight. Xu Guan sighed and returned to his study, he has been thinking hard about ways to help Wang Lun in the past few days, but he has no clue, seeing that the Jinyi guard who escorted Wang Lun back to the capital is about to come, but he is still helpless, Li Gong in the capital has also tried his best, is there really no way to save Wang Lun?

thought that he had been friends with Wang Lun for many years, but now he was watching him being framed and imprisoned. But he didn't have any way, which made Xu Guan, who was sitting behind the desk, sigh faintly. But just when he lowered his head, he suddenly saw a set of Journey to the West on the table, which reminded him of Zhou Chong, and sighed again: "Zhou Chong, Zhou Chong, your Sun Monkey is brave and vast, and can go to heaven and earth to do anything, if you have such a ability, Brother Wang doesn't have to be afraid of being framed by villains!" ”

Speaking of Zhou Chong, Xu Guan thought of what Wang Lun had talked about with him before. According to him, Zhou Chong has no intention of pursuing a career now. Instead, he took over his father Zhou Hai's overseas business, although he is doing it well, but in Xu Guan's opinion, it is really a pity, with Zhou Zhong's talent, if he can enter the imperial court, the future is limitless, where is it comparable to a small smuggler now?

Just when Xu Guan was feeling sorry for Zhou Zhong in his heart, suddenly there was a knock on the door, and then an old servant reported outside the door: "Master Qiqi, Xie Fu sent someone to come, saying that it was an important matter to see the master!" ”

Hearing that it was from Xie Fu, Xu Guan was also stunned in his heart, his wife and Xie Da's wife are sisters, so he has a very close relationship with Xie Fu, and the Xie family Chamber of Commerce also has some of his shares.

"Let him in!" Xu Guan said in a deep voice, although he is very irritable now, but the people of the Xie family still want to see him.

"Yes!" The old servant outside the door said yes and turned to leave.

After a while, Xu Guan heard a sound of footsteps outside, and then as soon as the door of the study opened, a young man in a light cyan robe walked in, but when Xu Guan saw the appearance of this young man, he was startled and stood up from the chair at once, but at this time there were servants in the house outside, so he couldn't bear to call Zhou Chong's name.

"Stand down, all of you!" Xu Guan calmed down his excitement, walked to the door of the study and instructed the servants outside, and only after the subordinates retreated, he closed the door, and then turned back abruptly and said: "Zhou Chong, why are you here, don't you know that the people of Jinyi Wei in Lu Dao are inquiring about your news some time ago?" ”

"Lord Xu, the junior took the risk to come here to ask the adult to save Uncle Wang's life!" Zhou Zhong bowed to Xu Guanshen. Xu Guan and Wang Lun have a deep friendship, and Zhou Zhong also admires his character, so after seeing each other, he didn't make any detours.

However, Xu Guan smiled bitterly when he heard Zhou Chong's request: "Nephew Zhou Xian, why don't I want to save Brother Wang, but now that the court has a life, I am a small prefect, how dare I disobey the orders of the imperial court?" ”

"Lord Xu misunderstood, the little nephew didn't want the adults to disobey the orders of the imperial court, but hoped that the adults could help Uncle Wang delay for a while!" Zhou Zhong opened his mouth to explain, he naturally knew that Xu Guan was not capable of exonerating Wang Lun, but he just came to ask the other party to find a way to let Wang Lun delay in Songjiang for a while.

"Procrastinating?" Xu Guan glanced at Zhou Chong with some suspicion, he had heard Wang Lun say before that Zhou Chong asked him to delay the time as much as possible until April, when there would be a big change in the court, Wang Lun would definitely be able to get away with it, but Xu Guan had always been very suspicious of Zhou Chong's method.

Seeing Xu Guan's expression, Zhou Chong also knew that the other party didn't believe his words, so he had to explain: "My lord, I know that this matter may be unbelievable, but I can guarantee that by April, a big change will happen in the court, and then Uncle Wang will not only be innocent, but may even have merit, and now the key is whether we can help Uncle Wang delay him until the time when that big event happened." ”

Seeing Zhou Chong's sincere appearance when he spoke, and his mind was also very sober, this made Xu Guan also hesitate, although he didn't have much contact with Zhou Chong, but through his son Xu Shenzhong, he also learned that Zhou Chong is not a person who likes to talk in vain, and it is such a major matter, according to common sense, Zhou Chong will definitely not joke about this matter.

Although thinking of this, Xu Guan still said with some hesitation: "Zhou Chong, this matter is related to Brother Wang's life, are you sure that by April, Brother Wang will definitely be fine?" ”

"Pretty sure!" Zhou Zhong nodded heavily, and then persuaded again, "Now that Uncle Wang has been imprisoned, and the people from the court are coming soon, it can be said that we have no other way, there may be a way to survive if we delay time, but if we don't delay time, I'm afraid that no one will be able to save Uncle Wang!" ”

When Xu Guan heard this, he finally sighed, and then said: "Okay, I will try my best to delay time, but the person who came to escort Brother Wang this time is Jinyiwei, these people are arrogant, and I am not sure how long I can delay." ”

Seeing Xu Guan agree, Zhou Zhong was also very excited, only to see him reach out and take out a stack of silver tickets from his arms, and then gently put them in front of Xu Guan. But Xu Guan's face changed when he saw this, and he said angrily: "Nephew Zhou Xian, what are you doing, do you think I have to collect money for Brother Wang?" Hurry up and take it back for me! ”

Xu Guan can't be regarded as a clean official, for example, he can take some examples of silver in the yamen, but he is a good official, which can be seen from the previous rescue of the victims, and he is more affectionate, not like most people in officialdom who put interests first, so when he saw Zhou Chong take out the money and put it in front of him, he would be so angry.

However, Xu Guan obviously misunderstood what Zhou Chong meant, and saw Zhou Chong hurriedly explain: "Lord Xu misunderstood, the younger generation knows that Lord Xu is honest, and he has a good relationship with Uncle Wang, so he naturally won't accept money, but this money is not given to adults, I just hope that adults can use this money to entertain the Jinyi Wei who came to escort Uncle Wang back to Beijing, it is best to let the other party accept the money, and it would be better to delay for a few more days on the road!" ”

Hearing that the money Zhou Chong took out turned out to be used for this purpose, Xu Guan's face became softer, and he said apologetically: "I see, the virtuous nephew is really bothered, although those brocade guards are arrogant, they are all vampires, and with the silver to open the way, it should be able to move them." ”

Xu Guan said and picked up the silver tickets and looked at them, but he was startled, only to see that the stack of silver tickets were all one thousand taels and a total of ten, which means that Zhou Zhong took out ten thousand taels of silver at once. Seeing such a large sum of silver, Xu Guan was also shocked, thinking that Zhou Zhong deserved to be a smuggling businessman, and he was really generous, not to mention such a large sum of silver, not to mention buying ordinary Jinyiwei, it was enough to get to the capital to buy Jinyiwei's command history.

However, what Xu Guan didn't know was that now Zhou Chong was desperately poor, and the previous Chamber of Commerce had spent the 80,000 silver raised before in order to buy ships and recruit shipwrights, not to mention 10,000 taels in the Chamber of Commerce, even 1,000 taels were a little reluctant. This 10,000 taels of silver is still the soap dividend he withdrew from Xie Lingyun in advance, otherwise he would not be able to get so much money if he was killed.

After Zhou Zhong discussed with Xu Guan, he went to see Wang Lun in prison under Xu Guan's arrangement, and found that although Wang Lun was in prison, he was in good spirits, and Xu Guan's care, so he did not suffer much. Wang Lun was also very happy when he saw Zhou Chong, and once again told him to take good care of his daughter, and he didn't have to worry about his affairs anymore.

After discussing with Wang Lun in prison for half the night, Zhou Chong left, and when he returned to Qingcun Port, it was already dawn, and the Xie family's ship was ready to set sail at any time. But just as Zhou Chong boarded the ship and was about to leave, he suddenly saw a familiar figure wandering in the harbor. (To be continued......)