Two hours later, the two brocade guards who had inquired about the news came back.

Wang Xu put together the news that the two of them had inquired about, and found that the information they heard was similar, the 27 missing people were all over Fuzhou, if there was something in common, that is, these people who disappeared, each of them could be called extraordinary, and the lowest was the level of a squire.

Check the files of the people who disappeared before, the nephew of the prefect, the young owner of the chain restaurant, the son of the boat gang boss, the second young master of the dart game...

None of the victims were ordinary families, and at worst they were the kind of soil overlords who had thousands of acres of fertile land and were the kings of towns and villages.

"My lord, in the process of investigation, I found a strange thing, I don't know whether to talk about it or not."

"Tell me..."

Wang Xu looked at the document without raising his head, thinking that it was a trivial matter.

"When the subordinates investigated, they found that those families who had people on the red boat often fell apart within a few years, and even if they didn't fall apart, they were not as good as before, and they were very decaying."

"Oh!"

Wang Xu raised his head slightly, the Red Mansion Shipyard was destroyed by fire eighty years ago, and it first appeared fifty years ago, counting this time, it appeared five times in total, and there were about 100 people on the ship.

More than a hundred people, this is not a small number, if the people who got on the ship, the family was in decay in the years to come, the red boat would definitely be even more weird than he thought.

"Checked?" Wang Xu asked in a deep voice.

"Yes." The sallow-faced brocade guard bowed his head and replied: "My subordinates have checked, and there are records of 114 people, after these people boarded the red boat, the families of these people either suffered a great disaster, or failed to make a decision and went bankrupt. is a little better, the family business is not as good as before, and the family specifications have been knocked down to a level. ”

"Shhh Wang Xu gasped, there are hierarchies in the family, from top to bottom, the most transcendent family is the royal family, then the first-class family that has been inherited for thousands of years, and then the century-old county family that occupies a state and can empty the state.

Further down, it is the local wealthy family who occupies a place and can compete with the prefect, as for the overlord in the county town and the squire in the village and town, they can only be regarded as a fourth- or fifth-rate small family.

Although these people also call their families family, they are actually just putting gold on their faces.

In fact, the world has strict requirements for the positioning of the family.

In troubled times, a family that can rise up and gather thousands of soldiers in a word is a family.

For example, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, Sun Quan during the Three Kingdoms, the Sima family who founded the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and even Li Shimin later, were all from a big family.

As long as they are willing, they can easily pull up a team of tens of thousands of people and seize a state.

Fuzhou, among the thirty-six states in the world, is only considered to be the middle and lower, and it can be called the county at the moment, that is, the Fu family led by Fu Tianqiu.

Moreover, the current Fu family is not strictly speaking.

Unless he can go one step further and become a first-class member of the imperial court, and then live a long time and operate in Fuzhou for twenty or thirty more years, it will be possible to have a county family that will not fall for a hundred years.

Therefore, the family was knocked down to a level, not as simple as a sentence, but the efforts of two or three generations were in vain.

In addition, a family gets up, destined to step on the bones of countless people, and make enemies with countless people, it is conceivable that the old family has fallen, and others will definitely not give him a chance to rise again.

"Fuzhou is bounded by only eight prefectures, 65 counties, 716 townships and towns, and more than 5,000 villages. In such a small place, more than a hundred families are decaying, even if they are all small families, it is terrifying enough to spread. ”

Wang Xu smacked his tongue secretly, although he said that this has disappeared again and again in the past fifty years, and it is impossible for one place to be dominant.

However, such a number is still appalling, if it were not for the troubled times now, and the demons and monsters are emerging in an endless stream, I am afraid that it would have attracted the attention of people with a heart a long time ago.

It's a pity that in troubled times, everyone can't take care of themselves, how can they take care of these things, it is estimated that even if they are deleted, they are regarded as a normal phenomenon.

"You can write this matter into a file and seal it, don't disclose it to the outside world, so as not to cause panic in the outside world."

Wang Xu doesn't want to make trouble for himself, turning big things into small things, and turning small things into small things is the king.

"Yes, sir." The yellow-faced brocade guard nodded slightly, and didn't ask a word that shouldn't have been.

Wang Xu waved his hand to let the two out, and sat in the room deep in thought.

Shi Taigong who came out alive can be transferred, and those who can't come out are ruined, and it seems that both things are related to luck.

He is more interested now, what is hidden on the red boat, it can actually attract other people's luck, this is not something ordinary people can do.

Night...

Fuzhou City is not a curfew, and at night, talented and beautiful people who are too hot during the day, wealthy businessmen, have started a day of entertainment.

Wang Xu was dressed in a white costume and held a folding fan in his hand, just like an ordinary son-in-law, walking on the crowded streets.

Outside the street, there is a canal, and boats full of laughter and laughter flow down the river from time to time.

Occasionally, there is a small painting boat parked on the shore, and a few dressed flowers and branches are displayed, and they laugh at the twenty-eight girls when they see people, and they really love each other.

Wang Xu saw with his own eyes that a scholar wearing a green shirt who was arguing with others to sell paintings was seduced by the girl's smile, and the original price was to sell the painting for five taels of silver, and three taels of silver was sold.

The scholar took the silver, got on the boat impatiently, and beckoned the boatman to drive away amid the laughter of everyone.

"Phew..."

As he walked, Wang Xu suddenly heard a whistle, and when he looked back, it was actually a girl standing on a small boat.

The girl looked to be in her twenties, dressed in a white-washed dress, and looked very modest.

Looking at the boat again, the boat is very small, it should be a remodeled fishing boat, but compared with the fishing boat, the canopy is widened, and there is less earthy smell of going out to sea to fish.

Seeing Wang Xu look up, the girl held the canopy with one hand, put the other hand on her lower abdomen, made a gesture of two, and licked her lower lip with her tongue.

Wang Xu snorted, this is the Daning Dynasty, scissor hands are not used for taking pictures, what the purpose of the girl is self-evident.

He was a good gentleman, and he walked away quickly with his hands behind his back and shaking a folding fan.

"Phew, he's a poor ghost again, he doesn't even have two taels of silver, what kind of books do you read!"

Wang Xu is deaf and clear-sighted, and the girl's voice can't deceive him.

Hearing that this was really the case, Wang Xu shook his head slightly, she is a good girl, what is not good to do, but she has to do this.

He is not discriminating against women, the body is the capital of the revolution, this sentence is true, but is this kind of money very cool to spend, smiling all day long, and even losing the dignity of being a human being.

"There is no law at all in the appearance of the Red Mansion Shipyard, as if it can teleport, and the entire range of thousands of miles in Fuzhou can appear as long as there is water. The archives show that under normal circumstances, every ten years, the Red Mansion Shipyard will only appear once, and when it appears, it is rare to disappear at a glance, and it often appears for several days before disappearing.

Last night, the Red Mansion Shipyard appeared once, and according to the rules, it will appear again today, but no one knows where it appeared, but fortunately I am not completely unprepared. ”

Wang Xu unfolded the fan and put it into his eyes, and the map of Fuzhou was drawn on it.

On the map, every river is clearly visible, and as long as it is a river area where you can take the Daifuku boat, all of them are marked on it.

This folding fan is the prop prepared by Wang Xu, it looks like a fan, but it is actually an electronic map.

Throughout the territory of Fuzhou, wherever there is water, Wang Xu sent insect robots to monitor.

Millions of insect robots are scattered, and if the Red Mansion Shipyard does not appear, as long as it appears, he will receive information immediately.

Even if the red boat appeared hundreds of kilometers away, he could immediately take out the flying machine and arrive in a few minutes.

The so-called random appearance of the red boat does not exist at all here, and this is the convenience of technology.

"Red Mansion Shipyard, let me see what you are!" Wang Xu closed the fan abruptly, and once again returned to the appearance of the son-in-law, with a kind smile on his face, like a pure little white rabbit.