When he came, Liu Hua observed and found that those inns, restaurants, teahouses, chess clubs, and near the city gates, were all full of secret sentinels. Needless to say, those should all be Hu Yingzhong's people, and they are looking for Bai Xiaoyu in these places.

But judging from the behavior of catching fast on the street just now, they haven't found Bai Xiaoyu yet, so Liu Hua automatically ignored those places, and he wanted to look for Bai Xiaoyu according to the clue that Bai Xiaoyu sent a letter to the governor's yamen.

After casually entering a shop called "Qingya Moxiang", a shopkeeper stepped forward to greet him: "This guest officer, welcome to the shop, I don't know what the guest officer needs?" The four treasures of the study in our store are the most complete. ”

Then, the shopkeeper introduced the goods in their store to Liu Hua, from Huizhou Wolf Pen to Jiangnan Xuan Paper, and from Qingzhou Yantai to the century-old ink, and finally introduced the paperweight, cinnabar, letterhead paper, seal, pen wash, and pen holder in their store one by one.

Looking at the shopkeeper in front of him, Liu Hua interrupted him with words: "Stop, you do have a lot of good things in your store, but I don't need those, I just want to write a letter to my family, you just need to find me a letterhead, an envelope, a brush, and a box of ink." ”

"What? Did the guest officer deliberately come to the small shop to make trouble? After saying this, the smile on the shopkeeper's face disappeared: "If you want to write a letter, go to the booth where you write letters outside, and ask someone to write one on your behalf, why bother to come to our store."

The items sold in this store are all rare items, and the cheapest wolf pen is also worth two taels of silver, not to mention other items. In the letter-writing stalls outside, it only costs two pennies to write a letter for someone, and a pen in our store is worth a thousand letters there, so I advise you to go there. ”

Hearing this, Liu Hua's heart moved, and then he pretended to be nonsense and said, "What kind of attitude do you have?" Do you doubt that I will not be able to pay the money? Since you don't want to do my business here, I'd better go to other shops, I don't believe it, there are still things that can't be bought with silver these days. ”

"I advise you not to go, after the other shops understand your situation, they will definitely be the same as the small shops, and persuade you to go to those stalls that write letters on your behalf to find someone to write on your behalf, the reason why we do this is that we don't want you to spend money in vain.

There is another reason, that is, because the letters, rice paper, and envelopes in each store are sold in piles of them, and it is impossible to break a stack of packages for a single letterhead. After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he turned around to entertain other customers and ignored Liu Hua.

After listening to the shopkeeper's explanation, Liu Hua nodded thoughtfully, and then left the shop.

After that, he went around several other shops that sold the four treasures of the study, and sure enough, as the shopkeeper said, none of them were willing to sell him scattered letterheads and envelopes.

After leaving these shops, Liu Hua first inquired about the location of Baifu, and then went to the periphery of Baifu to check, because Baifu was surrounded by officials, so Liu Hua observed for a while, and then left.

Then he went for a walk around the governor's yamen, checked the route, and saw if there was a route that was both hidden and fast? After Bai Xiaoyu escaped from Baifu, he would have time to write letters, send them to the door of the governor's yamen, and then leave calmly.

Through observation, Liu Hua discovered a detail, because Bai Xiaoyu's father was a political envoy, the Bai family's mansion was very close to the governor's yamen, and there was only one street in between, and if it was on foot, it would only take five or six minutes to arrive.

Why would Bai Xiaoyu send the letter she wrote to the governor's yamen a day after she escaped? What did she do in between? Where did she write that letter?

With questions, Liu Hua inquired with people on the street and asked if there was a stall nearby that helped people write letters on their behalf? Then he was guided by passers-by to another street, and on the east side of this street there was a stall that wrote letters for people.

The stall owner is a scholar about forty years old, looking poor, his clothes are all patched, the stall is a dilapidated desk, there is nothing on the table except pens, ink, paper, inkstones, if it were not for a piece of cloth next to it with the words "ghostwriter", Liu Hua would have thought that he had found the wrong place.

This stall is on the east side of the governor's yamen, two streets across the governor's yamen, and Baifu is on the west side of the governor's yamen. But now that he is here, Liu Hua still decided to try his luck.

Seeing that a customer came to the door, the stall owner hurriedly greeted Liu Hua enthusiastically: "This son, please sit down, I saw the son stop in front of the stall, I don't know?" Is there something you need to do? ”

Hearing this scholar speak in a gentle manner, Liu Hua couldn't help but smile, and after sitting down from the chair, he chuckled: "Hehe...... Sir is so polite, I've been away from home for a while, and I've been missing my family a little lately, so I wanted to write a letter to my family.

It's just that I have some private words, and I don't want to be known by outsiders, I don't know if this will work? I borrowed my husband's booth and he only needed to lend me a piece of letterhead, an envelope, and a brush. When I'm done writing my letter, I'll pay the normal price. ”

After hearing Liu Hua's request, the scholar didn't think much about it, and directly put the letterhead and pen and ink in front of Liu Hua: "The little boy is too polite, just a few pieces of paper, and there is no cost to talk about.

Hehe...... But it's also a coincidence, some time ago, there was also a little minister who was about the same age as Gongzi came to borrow pen and ink, and the reason he said was the same as Gongzi, and even the requirements were the same, and he also wrote a letter and sealed it himself, and after writing it, he left in a hurry. ”

"Oh? And this kind of thing? It should be my brother, I came out to look for him, may I ask sir, in what direction did my brother leave after writing the letter? Liu Hua guessed that the person might be Bai Xiaoyu, so he casually made an excuse and asked Bai Xiaoyu where he went.

"Really? How coincidental is it? The scholar was a little surprised, he recalled for a moment, then pointed to the east and said, "I remember that the little boy left towards the east, and he left in a hurry, as if he was hiding from something?" ”

"East?" After muttering to himself in a low voice, Liu Hua looked to the east, then at the direction of the governor's yamen, and then nodded thoughtfully.

At the same time, at the residence of Hu Yingzhong, the governor of Zhili, Mr. Xishui was taking a letter and looking at it carefully, and Hu Yingzhong next to him saw this and couldn't help but say: "Brother Xishui, isn't this the letter that the little girl of the Bai family wrote to Tong Guowei, you have been reading it for a long time, do you see what the door is?" ”

After hearing this, Mr. Keizui put the letterhead on the table: "Your Excellency, please see, the paper of this kind of letterhead is very rough, and the ink used to write the letter is not good, and there is a lot of friction around the envelope, so it must be touched often. I think I may be able to find Bai Xiaoyu's whereabouts through these clues. ”

After speaking, Mr. Xishui carefully packed the letter, and then instructed a guard behind him: "Tuno, I have finished reading this letter, you should return it to Your Highness quickly, this is your Highness secretly extracted from the Holy Dragon Case, don't let it affect Your Highness." ”

After the guard named Tuno left, Mr. Xishui stroked his beard, pondered for a moment, and then said lightly: "It seems that we have to investigate from a different angle, Lord Governor, you send someone to investigate the shops around the Bai family that sell the four treasures of the study." There may be a clue there that we need. ”