"What?" An Ge took the newspaper she brought and opened it to see that it was indeed the article that Yu Yuanyuan had lost about the Chinese New Year's Eve of the palace!

Yu Yuanyuan said anxiously: "How did my article come to this?" ”

"I guess someone in the newspaper office stole the manuscript and took it...... But that's not what matters for the time being. An Ge looked at her and asked, "Does Lord Liu know about this?" ”

Yu Yuanyuan shook his head: "Not yet, I will come to you as soon as I find out today." ”

"The article we both wrote last night was generally similar to this article, and now they have posted it first, and we will post it again, which is suspected of plagiarism."

Yu Yuanyuan was about to cry: "I didn't plagiarize, these two articles were obviously written by me!" ”

"I know, this article is completely your style, but it's useless for you and me to know about it, the key is that if the article last night was published in the harem newspaper, it's hard to say whether people outside will recognize your style." An Ge grabbed her hand, "Let's go, let's go to the Mansion and tell Master Liu." ”

Ning Jiu said on the side: "Wait a while, the slave will go to prepare the carriage." ”

An Ge and Yu Yuanyuan arrived at the Di Bao Mansion as fast as possible, Liu Yongxu was about to go out with a small bag containing the manuscript of Di Bao, and the two stopped him left and right: "Lord Liu later!" ”

Liu Yongxu hesitated and entered the side hall with the two of them, An Ge told the sudden change in front of everyone, and took out this volume of "Huangliang Yibao" to show everyone.

"So, there is a ghost in our Di Bao Mansion, so I stole Yuanyuan's manuscript and gave it to this Di Bao." Liu Yongxu said with a cold face.

None of them spoke.

An Ge stared at Zhang Luo'er deadly, Zhang Luo'er also noticed her gaze, a pair of innocent and bright eyes, and said, "What is Deputy Director An looking at me doing?" Don't you doubt me? ”

Judging from his own understanding of everyone in the Dibao Mansion, An Ge can suspect that Zhang Luoer is indeed the only one. But at this time, there is no evidence, and she can't talk nonsense, just sneer.

Zhang Luo'er also sneered and said, "Among all these people, the most unlikely is me, right?" I'm different from you, you all have a family, and my family is poor, only the Di Bao Mansion can provide me with a living, I'm crazy to do this kind of thing to sell the Di Bao Mansion. ”

An Ge said nonchalantly: "You remember that the Di Bao Mansion gave you the best way to make a living, and I hope you don't be ungrateful." It can be said that there are ghosts in the Di Bao Mansion in this matter, but I prefer that someone from the outside came in and stole Yuanyuan's article. In order to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, from now on, anyone will take their articles home after writing, and wait until the day of the let-off factory, and then bring them over and hand them over to Lord Liu in person. ”

In the next few days, there was indeed no incident where the article of Di Bao Mansion was stolen by others, but An Ge always remembered this incident in his heart, and privately called the eight groups of people to inquire about the news of "Huangliang Yibao", if she could find the person behind the scenes, she would definitely have to ask for a talk, and she couldn't suffer this dumb loss.

In the first two days of Chinese New Year's Eve, the eight groups brought back news, but it was still unclear:

"Naturally, this kind of small newspaper can't be printed in the official's factory, so it can only be found

In the past few days, we have asked all the large and small workshops in the capital, but we found that the people who made this newspaper were extremely careful, and they could not find out where they would print next time, and it was not easy to ambush them......

"A few of us went to the bookstore to ask, and the bookstore shopkeeper said that every time the person who sent this newspaper to the consignment was different, that is, the errand runner who paid money from the roadside, and the errand runner didn't know the people behind the scenes......"

"Girl, you said last time that it was related to Mr. Xi Guo, and we also looked for opportunities everywhere to check Mr. Xi Guo, but there were no clues, and several bookstores that originally cooperated with Mr. Xi Guo said that they hadn't seen the new script written by Mr. Xi Guo for more than a month, and they couldn't find Mr. Xi Guo himself."

"Mr. Xiguo is gone?" Hearing this, An Ge hurriedly interrupted them and asked.

The man nodded: "Yes, those bookstores are more anxious than us, without Mr. Xiguo's notebooks, how much money will the bookstore have to make." ”

Liu Pingle was also drinking tea and eating melon seeds in Nanshan's shop at this time, and when he heard this, he patted the melon seed crumbs in his hand and said: "Mr. Xiguo has a nickname called 'Octopus Monster', because his words are written quickly and well, and it may take a year and a half for others to write a book, and he can basically produce a book in ten days, and a book is about 50,000 words, and it really takes eight hands to write so fast!" And for so many years, Mr. Xiguo has been rain or shine, even if it is a New Year's holiday, it has not been broken...... It's really unusual that it's been interrupted for so long. ”

The man said: "Who said no, I only sat in the bookstore for a cup of tea, and more than a dozen people came to ask if there was a new script of Mr. Xiguo." ”

An Ge guessed: "Will Mr. Xiguo be sick?" ”

The people in the eighth group said helplessly: "Mr. Xiguo has always been mysterious and not close to people, and we have no way to investigate. ”

An Ge thought about it for a while, but couldn't think of a clue, so he asked the people in the eighth group to go about their own business first.

After everyone retreated, An Ge took a few copies of "Huangliang Yibao" sold on the market, volume by volume, page by page.

Liu Pingle also took a volume, and he couldn't see anything when he looked at it, and asked her, "Will there be any clues on this?" ”

An Ge thought for a while, pointed to the article in the first volume of the Di newspaper and said to Liu Pingle: "Did you tell me last time that this article "Du Seventeen Niang Sticks Beat the Disciples" is very similar to the style of the book written by Mr. Xi Guo? ”

Liu Pingle nodded: "Yes, the choice of words and sentences is exactly the same as Mr. Xiguo's habits." ”

An Ge picked up another volume of Di Bao: "Then this second volume, which article do you think is the best written in it?" ”

Liu Pingle flipped over, pointed to the middle article and said: "It should be this article "Fan Twenty-Seven Niang Saves the Wind and Dust from the Sea of Fire". ”

"Yes, it's the same with the next few volumes, the well-written essays all have one thing in common - the title contains numbers, the first is seventeen, the second is twenty-seven, the third is eighteen, the fourth is nine, the fifth is thirty-two, and the sixth is fourteen. I've been wondering if these numbers mean something else...... Look—"

An Ge picked up the pen,

The seventeenth word of the first part and the twentieth seven words of the second part are ...... Until the fourteenth word of the last article came out one by one.

"It's all about—"

Liu Pingle raised his hand to cover his mouth and said in surprise: "Save me, Cangsong Hutong!" ”

An Ge nodded: "I guess that the person who passed the message to us through the Di Bao should be Mr. Xiguo. ”

"Makes sense! This also explains why he mysteriously disappeared! Liu Pingle grabbed Di and reported, "Cangsong Hutong, I know where it is, that alley is not long, we can find it by searching one by one!" ”

"Well, but the movement can't be too big, so as not to leak the news and ask the gangster who tied up Mr. Xiguo to take people away in advance."

After An Ge and Liu Pingle finished discussing, they immediately took Ning Jiu and Xing'er to Cangsong Hutong to investigate.

There are a total of four households living in the entire alley, all of which are small doors, and you can see the layout of the entire house by walking around.

The four of them pretended to be country girls who went to the city to buy rouge, and mixed into the first house to beg for water to drink, Liu Pingle and An Ge pulled the master's house to chat, and Ning Jiu and Xing'er looked around the courtyard to find out if there was a place to hide people.

After a cup of tea, Ning Jiuchong An Ge glanced at it, this is an ordinary family, and there is no possibility of kidnapping.

An Ge also knew that she had just chatted with the master's family about the Di Bao intentionally or unintentionally, and found that they didn't understand it at all, so it couldn't be them.

They left the house, turned around, and knocked on the door of the second house.

It took a long time for someone to come and open the door, and inside was a man with a rough face, not tall but extremely strong, and saw that there were several girls outside through the crack in the door, so he opened the door a little wider, and asked fiercely, "What are you doing?" ”

An Ge hurriedly smiled: "We want to beg for a drink." ”

The man's eyes looked at her for a while, and suddenly he said coldly, "No, get out." Then he slammed the door shut.

The four people outside were stunned, and Ning Jiu said, "It's very suspicious, should we go in and have a look?" ”

An Ge nodded, and was thinking about how to get in, Liu Pingle suddenly sniffed and wondered, "What smell?" ”

Xing'er also sniffed it, and hesitated: "It seems to be the smell of smoke......"

The four of them looked at each other, and An Ge looked up sharply, and saw a puff of smoke rushing up from the courtyard into the sky.

"Oops! Mr. Xiguo is here! An Ge slammed on the door and shouted, "Push the door open, Mr. Xiguo is in danger!" ”

The door was obviously locked from the inside, Ning Jiusi looked around, the courtyard wall was slightly lower than the door, she walked to the courtyard wall, raised her hand and climbed into the courtyard wall, and hurriedly opened the door for An Ge and them from the inside.

Several people rushed in together, and the person who had opened the door for them was long gone, and the billowing smoke came out of the wing, and there seemed to be a faint cry for help from the crackling sparks.

"Quick, it's important to save people!"

Several people rushed to the wing room together, with a lock on it, and for a while they could not find the key, and they slammed the door together, and it took several hits before they knocked it open, and they saw that it was in the midst of the fire

, a very tall man was tied by an iron chain, his eyes closed, and he did not move.

The fire had just started and was not big yet, but it seemed to have been poured with oil and spread quickly.

"I'm going to fetch water!" Ning Jiu and An Ge quickly went to the well in the courtyard and pulled a bucket of water, Ning Jiu splashed himself wet and rushed into the wing, and An Ge also rushed in with her.

Xing'er and Liu Pingle also ran to the well to fetch water to put out the fire, suddenly, Xing'er caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a cold light flickering behind her, she didn't have time to think about it and pushed Liu Pingle away, and the next moment she felt a pain in her back, and a knife was inserted straight into her body!

"Apricot!" Liu Pingle exclaimed, and the man pounced on her with a knife again!

(End of chapter)