Xu Liang guarded at the gate of the southern city, from noon to sunset, in addition to the group of funeral people who passed in the morning, several groups of people went out of the city one after another, but after careful search by the officers and soldiers of the inspection department, no problems were found. Seeing that the sun was about to set, in addition to finding hundreds of unknown people, Feng Suqin still had no news.

Xu Liang returned to Xu's Mansion in the east of the city, and the people served dinner, but Xu Liang was not in the mood to eat. Dai Yingying sat on the side, seeing Xu Liang like this, her heart was sour, thinking that once Feng Suqin disappeared, Xu Liang would be so nervous, if he had some accidents in the future, he didn't know what kind of mood Xu Liang should have.

Dai Yingying sat at the table and suffered from gains and losses, and suddenly thought that Feng Suqin was the wife that Xu Liang Mingmei was marrying, and she was not even a concubine! It's a shame to think about.

"Xu Liang, if you want to come to the young lady, you will definitely be fine. You don't have to worry too much. Dai Yingying blushed and persuaded.

"Alas," Xu Liang sighed and said stunnedly, "Didn't we think wrong?" Suqin has been taken out of Zhenyuan City? ”

Dai Yingying shook her head and said: "No, according to Miss Chun'er, the time between she went away to buy roasted sweet potatoes and found out that the young lady had an accident took a while, and Miss Chun'er immediately reported it to Lord Huang when she found out that the situation was wrong." In such a short period of time, it is not easy to send people out of the city with a car. ”

Xu Liang heard this and said with a wry smile, "Now I can only do this kind of thought." ”

"This meal is almost cold, Xu Liang, you have been standing on the city tower all day, eat some to fill your stomach." Dai Yingying said again.

Xu Liang listened, saw Dai Yingying looking at him worriedly, couldn't bear to brush off her kindness, picked up chopsticks, hastily picked up a few bites, thinking that he could eat a full meal at this time, but Feng Suqin didn't know where to suffer, Xing was being bullied, thinking about it, he lost his appetite again, and ordered people to withdraw the food.

The sun will set, and the afterglow will turn the entire western sky red. The reflection of the sunset reflected in the pond water in the courtyard, attracting a few carp from the vicinity to come to play, when Xu Liang stepped forward to watch, the carp was frightened, the red tail swung, scattered in all directions, which was shocking.

Dai Yingying stood beside Xu Liang, wanting to comfort Xu Liang but couldn't think of suitable words, so she stayed by the side sullenly. At this time, she secretly hated her lack of learning and unskilled, thinking that if she was as knowledgeable and talented as Feng Suqin, she would definitely be able to think of many appropriate truths and enlighten Xu Liang.

I only hate myself when I was a child, I don't like to read, I prefer to play with knives and sticks, and until now, I am naturally in the ranks of masters in terms of skill, and in terms of talent, I can't catch up with Feng Suqin.

The two stood in the courtyard for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps at the gate of the courtyard, and the voice of the iron head came: "Young master, good news, good news!" ”

The two people in the courtyard came back to their senses after hearing this, Xu Liang was overjoyed, ran forward and asked urgently, "Have you found Suqin?" Where is it? ”

Iron Head shook his head and said, "Not really. It was the inspection department that caught a gambler during the interrogation and said that he knew the whereabouts of the young lady. ”

"Who? What about people? Xu Liang asked.

"Bring it on." Iron Head shouted back.

Immediately, four guards escorted a middle-aged man with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks to step forward. The iron head pointed at the man and said, "Young master, this person knows where the young lady has been arrested." ”

The man raised his head, looked at Xu Liang with a wince, his little eyes rolled wildly, and he grinned at Xu Liang and said, "Lord Xu, little Hu Chenggong, I once saw the young lady being arrested. Hu Chenggong grinned, revealing two rows of yellow teeth.

"Oh, tell me, who did it?" Xu Liang said happily.

Hu Chenggong sneered, but his head was tilted elsewhere, and said: "Lord Xu, you are a big official, and the little ones know that they know, but they can't say it in vain." ”

That's what happened. The iron head glared fiercely and said: "Let you say it, what so much nonsense!" ”

Hu Chenggong didn't seem to be afraid of iron at all, sniffed, stretched out the cuffs that were so dirty that he couldn't see his true color, wiped them on the side of his nostrils, rolled his strange eyes, and said, "Iron butler, you scare me with words." My old Hu Ke is a dilapidated household in Zhenyuan City, and after today, there is no tomorrow, the young lady of the Xu family is different, and her worth is very expensive. When my Lao Hu news is released, it's not too much to ask for some benefits, right? Moreover, those people are not ordinary Lords. ”

"You!" The iron head was so angry that he was about to slap him, but Xu Liang stopped him and chuckled: "Brother Hu said it well, you say, how can you sue me?" ”

"That's pretty much it." Hu Chenggong said proudly, he narrowed his small eyes, stroked his belly with both hands, and said embarrassedly to Xu Liang: "Lord Xu, my old Hu was mixed in the gambling house the day before yesterday, and he was just about to go out to find something to eat when he was arrested by the military master of the Inspection Division, and now this stomach is so empty that his chest is almost against his back, I just want to say, I am also so hungry that I have no strength." ”

"Well said!" Xu Liang immediately ordered: "Come here, tell the kitchen to prepare a few good dishes, and then make a pot of good wine." ”

In the small pavilion in the courtyard of Xufu, a round stone table was soon placed with six or seven hot dishes with attractive aromas, and the tattered Hu Chenggong sat on his two thighs that had not been washed for two months, sitting there holding a plate in one hand and stuffing the dishes in his mouth with the other, and the oil juice was dripping all over the stone table.

Dai Yingying and Tietou stood five or six steps away, looking at Hu Chenggong with disgust.

Xu Liang didn't care, chuckled and sat aside, poured a full glass of wine, and put it in front of Hu Chenggong: "Brother Hu, come, don't patronize and eat, drink some soju to quench your thirst." ”

Hu Chenggong didn't raise his head, stretched out his oily dirty hands, snatched the wine glass and drank it all, hissing and sticking out his tongue, and praised: "Good wine!" Then he buried his head in eating again.

This meal took half an hour, the seven plates on the stone table were all bottomed out, and the pot of warm wine went down for most of the time, seeing that the iron head was almost about to glare angrily, Hu Chenggong slapped his bulging belly with satisfaction, and hiccuped several times in a row, and then looked at Xu Liang and grinned and said: "Lord Xu is really a refreshing person, it really moves Lao Hu and me." ”

Xu Liang said with a smile: "Brother Hu eats an amazing amount of food, and it also makes me admire." ”

"Hehe, I've won prizes." Hu Chenggong really felt that Xu Liang was praising him, so he pulled up the dirty cuffs again, wiped his mouth indiscriminately, looked at the table full of wolves, and sighed: "Alas, Lao Hu, I haven't eaten such a sumptuous meal for a long time, but Lao Hu I am penniless now, and I don't know when I will starve to death on the street after this meal, what's the use of having such a big secret in my heart, alas." He sighed three more times.

Xu Liang smiled very kindly, patted Hu Chenggong's shoulder, and said: "Brother Hu has made such a great contribution to my Xu Mansion, how can Xu Mansion watch Brother Hu starve to death on the streets!" Tietou, prepare five hundred taels of silver for Brother Hu, and take it as a thank you from the Xu Mansion. ”

"Young Master?" Iron Head exclaimed.

Xu Liang glared at Tietou and said, "No need to say more, go quickly." ”

Hu Chenggong was already stunned, looked at Xu Liang ecstatically, and said repeatedly: "Lord Xu is really too polite, this, how can this be called Lao Hu?" ”

But in my heart I was shouting: Five hundred taels! Haha, Lao Tzu has made a fortune now!

Xu Liang waved his hand cordially and said, "Brother Hu is right, be careful, and it should be." Brother Hu, don't see outside! ”

Seeing Tietou put the wrapped five hundred taels of white silver on the stone table, Hu Chenggong's eyes straightened, he took it in his arms, and smiled at Xu Liang: "Then, I'm not welcome to that old Hu." ”

"It should be, it should be." Xu Liang said with a smile. After that, he looked at Hu Chenggong with a smile.

Hu Chenggong also said that Xu Liang was being polite to himself, and after meeting Xu Liang was still looking at himself with this expression, he slapped his head and said, "Ouch, you see I'm confused." The news of this young lady has not yet been told to Lord Xu. ”

"Hehe, it's okay for Brother Hu to say it now." Xu Liang said.

Hu Chenggong held the bag of silver tightly with both hands, looked at Xu Liang, and said, "Lord Xu, old Hu, I saw that the people from the Inspection Department started to search for the young lady from the southwest of the city?" ”

"Not bad. My wife's carriage was found in a small alley west of the city. ”

"Big mistake!" Hu Chenggong said with a look of regret: "The carriage that was thrown in the alley was simply a dangzi, and the young lady had already been taken to another carriage in the direction of the South City Gate when she was arrested in the accident." At that time, it happened that Lao Hu and I had just come out of the gambling house in a hurry, and I happened to see the gang stabbing the coachman to death, knocking the young lady unconscious, and then taking another carriage waiting on the side and leaving. ”

"So, my wife has been sent out of Zhenyuan City?" Xu Liang exclaimed.

"That's not true, I really see Lao Hu, as soon as the carriage walked on the street, I met Lord Huang of the Inspection Department leading people to patrol the city, and the carriage turned into a courtyard on the side of the street. Later, the young lady's entourage ran to the street and met Lord Huang, and Lord Huang immediately ordered the city gate to be closed. ”

"Hmm." Xu Liang listened to the secret voice, and was very lucky. asked Hu Chenggong again: "I heard you say so carefully, could it be that you have seen the appearance of that group of people clearly?" ”

Hu Chenggong shook his head again and again: "At that time, Lao Hu and I stood far away, and the group of people moved fast, how could I see clearly." ”

Tietou had already seen that Hu Chenggong was unhappy, and scolded after hearing it: "Then how do you know who arrested the young lady?" Empty mouth and white teeth, cheating on food and drink, isn't it intentional to entertain us? ”

Hu Chenggong rolled his eyes, looked at Tietou with great disdain, and sneered: "Old Hu, although I didn't see the appearance of that group of people, I happened to know whose house they turned into. ”

"Who's?" Xu Liang and the others asked in unison.

Hu Chenggong stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Lou Ji Grain Store, and said, "Lou Ji is the big shopkeeper, Lou Wuye." ”

"It's really a Lou family!" Xu Liang got up, his face suddenly turned pale, he slammed his fist on the stone table, gritted his teeth and said: "Order Xing Zhongshan, lead people to surround that house overnight, and all the people in Lou Ji will be arrested by Lao Tzu and interrogated strictly!" ”

"Yes!" The Iron Head replied in a loud voice, turned and hurried out to deliver the order.

Seeing that Xu Liang, who had just been amiable, suddenly changed his face, his face was full of murderous awe, Hu Chenggong was also startled, picked up the bag of silver, and said with a smile: "Lord Xu, since you have something important to do, the little one will leave." ”

Hu Chenggong had just taken two steps when he heard Xu Liang behind him snort coldly, "Slow!" ”

Hu Chenggong turned around timidly, squeezed a smile and said, "Lord Xu, what else do you have to order?" ”

Xu Liang waved his hand at the guards standing on the left and right, and said, "Brother Hu doesn't have to hurry to leave. Come on, take Brother Hu to the firewood room and watch it, and then make a decision after finding the young lady. ”

Hu Chenggong listened, his legs weakened, and he said with a sad face: "Lord Xu, everything I know has been sued to you, how can you do this?" Seeing that Xu Liang was unmoved, he reluctantly glanced at the bag of silver in his hand, put it on the ancient table, and begged: "I don't want this silver Lao Hu, Lord Xu, can you let me go?" ”

Xu Liang shook his head again and again when he heard this, looked at Hu Chenggong and said faintly: "Brother Hu said something, I just asked Brother Hu to live in the house for a while, and I have no intention of making things difficult." As long as it is proved afterwards that what you said is true, then take the five hundred taels of silver. If you find out that you are lying to me in the end, then I can't say that Lao Tzu will have a theory with you! Hehe, is it so easy for you to earn my Xu Liang's silver? ”