Before Li Yuan's father could speak, Gao Chen said: "In this way, you can let your brother tell the emperor and arrange a small mound for me to take the position of a doctor." "This is an official from the second grade, and he is not a few steps away from King Gao Huan of Qi. Xu Gongzi stood up a little angrily and wanted to leave.

Li Yuan's father hurriedly got up and grabbed him, and didn't let him go, so he persuaded Xu Gongzi to say anything.

Gao Chen also thought in his heart that he had finally spent money, so he naturally wanted to buy a seat with great value for money, so he didn't give an inch, and everyone talked for a morning, and finally Xu Gongzi gave in and said: "For the sake of Master Li's face, I made a loss-making transaction this time, where is the silver?" I'll take the silver away in a moment, and I'll make arrangements for you to enter the palace right away." ”

Li Yuan's father hurriedly said: "Don't worry, don't worry, the silver is stored in my warehouse, let's have lunch together before going to run errands." Gao Chen didn't care, thinking that the money was given to you anyway, Li Yuan's father was not afraid that he would run away here, but Xu Gongzi said anxiously: "Alas, I am also a lot of people who go to me to do errands, and I am so busy that I don't have time to eat every day, if it weren't for your Master Li who came to inform me last night, I wouldn't have been able to run errands for people today?" After that, he turned his head and deliberately said to Gao Chen: "That's it, people still don't appreciate it, thinking that I am greedy for how much money, in fact, most of them have been taken to open up the joints, which Bodhisattva in the palace do you say you can less?" ”

Gao Chen didn't make a sound, bowed his head and drank tea. Li Yuan's father saw that Xu Gongzi insisted on leaving, so he simply didn't stop him, and when Gao Chen seemed to remember something, he got up and stopped Xu Gongzi and asked, "Childe stay, how long will it take for me to complete this matter?" I have a good hope for the day you give me. ”

Xu Gongzi thought for a moment, and then replied: "This matter can't be rushed, you are like this, I will notify you as soon as I have eyebrows in half a month." Gao Chen was not very happy when he heard this, and said, "This thing will take half a month so long?" ”

"Oh, my brother, do you think this court is run by my family, and you can give you whatever you want, and you can give it whenever you want? Well, I'll give you accurate information after ten days, and that's all right. Xu Gongzi seemed to be in a hurry to leave.

Li Yuan's father also persuaded on the side: "This work does need time to get through the joints, since you have asked Xu Gongzi, you can rest assured that he will do it for you, you will live with me temporarily, it's okay." Although Gao Chen was a little suspicious in his heart, he couldn't resist the temptation of Chunjiao and Lu'e, so he dealt with this matter for the time being.

After dinner in the Li Mansion in the evening, Gao Chen didn't plan to go home, he went back to the cold home, the bed was empty, very lonely, and there were Chunjiao and Lu'e in the Li Mansion to eat and sleep together, and they were so free.

People always want to be the center of attention wherever they are, to be the center of attention. Gao Chen is an unpopular person in the Gao family, and no one cares about him, but he has to be respectfully shouted up and down in the Li Mansion Bar, which is not a common thing, plus no one is accompanied by good food and drink, it is like a fairyland on earth.

But no matter how good the banquet is, there is a time to eat up, no matter how beautiful the woman is, there are moments of separation, Gao Chen lived in the Li Mansion for three or five days, eating and drinking for nothing every day, and gradually Li Yuan's father was not enthusiastic, and the housekeeper could not find anyone, even Chunjiao and Lu'e avoided him, which made Gao Chen a little angry.

Ancient people like to pretend to be calves when they are angry, and Gao Chen is no exception, he thought to himself, okay, you don't like me anymore, okay, I'll go home, and wait for Xu Gongzi to finish my business, and then I don't want you to pat me on the back if you want to. As soon as he thought of this, Gao Chen would clean up his own house.

At home, Gao Chen scratched his ears and cheeks and waited for three or five days without thinking, but there was no news at all, and he also inquired privately when he was on duty, and there was no movement in the palace at all. So he waited hard at home for three days, seeing that the day of Xu Gongzi's explanation here was getting closer and closer, Gao Chen couldn't rest assured, so he rushed to Li Yuan's father's house to ask this Brother Li.

Gao Chen rode his horse to the gate of the Li Mansion and saw a large number of people gathering, which was very lively. He thought to himself that this Brother Li was a powerful person, and this house was full of guests whenever he came. turned over and dismounted and came to the door, only to hear people talking: Master Li has not seen anyone for three days, and now he can't be found up and down the house, and even the housekeeper is nowhere to be found.

Gao Chen was shocked when he heard this, there would be nothing wrong, right? Quickly bolting the horse to the bolting stake in front of the door, and when he was about to go inside, a stranger grabbed him and asked, "Hey, isn't this a tall man?" Did you get the news too? Gao Chen turned his head and looked at it, he didn't know this person, and he was very puzzled, but he still said politely: "It's down, ...... Your Excellency?" ”

"I'm Li Ergou, you forgot, that time at Master Li's banquet, I saw him come in hand in hand with you, and I also toasted you." Some people are familiar with each other, and they can talk whether they know it or not.

"Oh, it turned out to be Brother Li, look up for a long time." Gao Chen said politely, and scolded in his heart: your grandmother's second dog, who the remembers you.

"Are you here to ask for money today?" Li Ergou asked curiously.

"What money? I'm not, I'm here to do something with Master Li. Gao Chen didn't want to talk to him too much about his personal affairs. He was about to turn around and go in, but was pulled by Li Ergou again, he was about to get annoyed, but he was shocked by Li Ergou's words, his scalp was numb, and he was covered in cold sweat. I only heard Li Ergou say: "You don't have to go in to look for it, Master Li has been away from home for three days, and he said that he went out with the housekeeper to run errands." Who knows if it's true or not, there are a few big heads who lent him money and squatting to guard, we small heads can only guard at the door, Master Li said that he was not at home for three days, in fact, as far as I know, he had gone out five or six days ago, and the housekeeper ran away three days ago. ”

Gao Chen's mind was in a mess, the amount of information he heard him was a bit large, and he couldn't accept it all of a sudden, Brother Li was gone? Why? What about Xu Gongzi? What about my money? He hurriedly asked, "Then do you know a person named Xu Gongzi?" ”

"Young Master Xu? He and Master Li are in the same group! Li Ergou disdainfully confided in a piece of news that made Gao Chen desperate. At this moment, I saw that someone inside began to make noise, and a person suddenly ran out of the door, holding two and a half meters high vases in his arms, and there were several scrolls in the belly of the vase, which looked like calligraphy and paintings, only to hear the person scolding and scolding in his mouth and saying: "Damn, when the person runs away, Lao Tzu will take his things as collateral, and when he comes back, he will take the money to redeem." As soon as the people at the door saw him like this, they all rushed in and wanted to start robbing the Li Mansion.

Gao Chen's heart was even more cold, desperate to the end, he also followed the crowd into the Li Mansion, only to see that the courtyard was full of people, and everyone was busy looking for valuable things to go out, but the entire Li Mansion was like being cleaned up by the moving company in advance, except for the tables, chairs, benches, doors, windows, and pillars, those precious calligraphy, paintings and antique cultural relics were gone.

But those people still had the determination to dig three feet into the ground, churning back and forth in front of this Li Mansion. While everyone was in a mess, an old man with a fair complexion and rich clothes came in and shouted to everyone: "Stop! Stop it! ”

Everyone stopped to look at him, only to hear the old man say: "I am Li Yuanwai from the east of Zhuangzi, I rented the house to Li Yuan's father three months ago, and he has only paid me a month and a half of rent so far, and you are now moving all the things in my house!" Stop it! Seeing that the old man was so angry that he was about to have a myocardial infarction, he only heard one person say: "We don't care about this, then Li Yuan's father took me 50,000 taels of silver and said that he would do an errand in the palace for me, but now it's good, everyone has run away!" I don't take something back and feel unbalanced, anyway, if he doesn't pay back the money for a day, I'll take these things as collateral. ”

After saying that, everyone resumed the chaotic robbery operation, and the scene was out of control for a while, and there were not many things left, and they were all worthless things, but there were still people fighting to snatch these things.

Li Yuanwai was so angry that he fainted, and the servants on the side hurriedly helped him home. Just when everyone was scrambling and snatching things, the official of the Yecheng Mansion rushed in with a guy, and one of the leading officials shouted: "Stop it!" ”

Everyone stopped again, and the leading officer said: "You guys are robbing the innocent Li Yuan, stop it!" A person said unconvinced: "What are you, dare to care about us, my father is a household servant, this Li Yuan's father owes me 100,000 snowflakes of silver, what is the reason why you don't go to track down his whereabouts but come here to prevent me from moving things?" ”

The people were immediately furious, and kept yelling at the officials for them to find out Li Yuan's father. The errand officer shouted a little annoyed at the moment: "Don't make any noise, our master is already investigating this case, if you have any situation, go to the government to report the case, and those who rob property here will be arrested, and they will not disperse soon!" ”

As soon as people heard that the government had begun to meddle in this matter, it was estimated that it must be a big deal, thinking about their losses, they quickly put down the things in their hands and ran out of the door to report the case.

Gao Chen was already cold in his heart at this time, and his legs were weak, but he still asked the leading errand officer with a glimmer of hope: "This official, please ask, there is a ...... of Master Li in this mansion who teaches Xu Gongzi from the same party."

"What kind of Xu Gongzi are you talking about, that person is a charlatan, as far as we know, he cheated in the Huaihe area of Jiangnan in the early years, but he deceived some women who are not deeply involved in the world or women who don't care about the world, at most they are cheating money and sex, but this time he partnered with this Li Yuan's father and Master Li to cheat is an exception." The leading errand officer saw that he was also a high-ranking official, so he told everything he knew.

Now Gao Chen is completely desperate, these two people are liars! He couldn't remember how he got home, but he slept for a day and a night, and it was not until the afternoon of the next day that he jumped up from the bed, got dressed, and came to the mansion of Yin, Yecheng Mansion.

The old housekeeper reported Gao Chen's identity to Lord Fu Yin, and he was quickly invited in.

"Hahaha, I haven't seen you for a long time, how are you lately?" Fu Yin was still very polite to Gao Chen, after all, he was Gao Huan's younger brother, Gao Chen hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute, and said, "Lord Fu Yin is the master for me." ”

After listening to his narration, Fu Yin nodded and shook his head, and finally sighed and said: "Don't hide it from Lord Gao, there are a lot of people like you who have come to me to report the case in the past two days, I tell you the truth, I estimate that it will be difficult to recover this money, this Li Yuan's father is born Wang Shaolong, is a famous fraud expert in the Sichuan and Shu regions, I heard that a few years ago I also mixed in the area of Liangguo in the south of the Yangtze River, but I don't know how to come to our side this year, this is good, there are more than a dozen people who have been deceived in the city, and millions of taels of silver have been taken away in vain, alas." ”

"I hope that adults will bother more about this matter, and I must investigate it thoroughly, and I must keep this matter secret for me, you also know that if someone knows that I am buying an official, my brother's side must be very ugly." Gao Chen: This is half threatening and half begging.

"Yes, yes, don't worry, I will definitely not involve you in this matter, but if you are not on the list of victims, even if Li Yuan's father is traced in the future, it is estimated that it will be difficult for you to get the money back." Fu Yin also thought of a way for Gao Chen.

"Now I also know that the 300,000 silver has been lost, thanks to the reminder of the adults, I have lost hope." Gao Chen's mood is as listless as a dead dog.