They threw off the horses in the gambling house and returned to the old house of Jutou.

On the third watch, the people who went to Ma Za's house also came back, but they found nothing, and another person was injured.

Qing Ran came back to report, saying that Ma Zhai's house was full of organs, as well as dungeons, and it was estimated that the person they were looking for should be inside, but if they wanted to rescue it, I was afraid it would not be so easy.

Zhuang Siyan gritted his teeth: "It's not easy to save it, this thing has been poked out, you have to hurry, otherwise the horse scum will definitely kill people." ”

Zhuang Siyan arranged here to let Wen Qing's people rest, and she took Liu Gongzi to find Ah Si, put the people in his house, and instructed him to take care of it, not to let him escape, let alone let him die.

Ah Si nodded solemnly.

Returning to the General's Mansion to connect with Ye Yuanpei, Zhuang Siyan said frankly: "I can't hide this matter, let's tell Ling Tiancheng, let him transfer troops to encircle and suppress the Ma Mansion, you can also come forward openly, and we will have a chance to win." ”

Ye Yuanpei said in a deep voice: "Is it more beneficial for us to pick in the open?" ”

"It's not necessarily the most advantageous, but we can find enough people as soon as possible to give the scum a hard blow.

If it continues like this, if Lu Xiao is really in his hands, I am worried that it will affect his safety. ”

Ye Yuanpei didn't respond, his eyes looked at the corner of the table, thinking about something.

After a long time, he said, "Why did they arrest Lu Xiao?" ”

Zhuang Siyan said: "There are still many things in this, the Liu family and the Lu family are not simply a money-grabbing wife, there must be other connections."

When we went to the gambling house in the evening, we saw Liu Gongzi with Ma Jung, and at that time, it was not like a gambler facing the boss, but like an acquaintance for a long time. ”

Ye Yuanpei nodded: "If there is really something between them that we don't know, maybe Lu Xiao will ...... now." ”

He didn't say anything, but the look on his face was very bad, and he was silent for a while before he got up and said, "I'm going to see the emperor today." ”

Zhuang Siyan looked at him and didn't speak.

After she came out of the Ye Mansion, she returned to Ah Si's house and prepared to interrogate Liu Gongzi.

Who knew that this Liu Gongzi was in a group, and when he brought it back from the gambling house, his legs were weak, and he was later arranged to Ah Si, looking at his fierce look, he was directly frightened and fainted.

Ah Si looked at the person who was still tied to the chair, and looked embarrassed: "I don't know what's going on, I fainted." ”

Zhuang Siyan glanced at it, didn't say a word, went to scoop a scoop of cold water, and splashed Liu Gongzi on his head.

Liu Gongzi woke up with a scream, raised his eyes and saw Zhuang Siyan and the two of them, and when he rolled his eyes, he was about to faint in fright.

Zhuang Siyan stretched out his hand and gave him a slap first, and then said helplessly: "Just this little guts, how did you mix in a place like a gambling bank, and you are still swaggering everywhere." ”

Liu Gongzi seemed to have come back to his senses after being slapped in the face, and stammered: "I just went to play, and my father cooperated with Ma Ye." ”

"Your father? Isn't it already hanging? Zhuang Siyan looked at him and asked.

Liu Gongzi didn't know what it meant to hang, but repeated Zhuang Siyan's words: "My father died, and Ma Ye came to me to talk about this matter, and wanted to transfer all the shares in our hands to him." ”

Zhuang Siyan asked, "What share?" ”

"The banker's."

In order to survive, this Liu Gongzi also worked hard and told him about his father's cooperation with Ma Jun.

It turned out that the Liu family did not have their own business, and all the sources of income for their family mainly came from two places, one was the gambling village of Ma Zha, and the other was Lu Lin's silver village.

In today's terms, each has more than 30 percent of the shares.

The business of the gambling bank and the silver village is so good that it is not good, so the Liu family is equivalent to taking a golden rice bowl, and without doing anything, they can keep taking money out of it.

Lu Lin's situation, Zhuang Siyan doesn't know now, and he doesn't know why he is willing to give money to the Liu family.

But that horse scum is insidious and vicious, why is he willing to do such a thing, and he still has a backstage.

Will the big boss in the background watch the money in his pocket being taken away by others?

Liu Gongzi was stunned about these things, and only said that he didn't know anything about these things, and he only took over the matter after his father's death, and he didn't even find the documents about the share.

Liu Gongzi said: "Ma Ye said that as long as I give him the share paperwork, he will give me 5,000 taels of gold."

My father died, and I couldn't manage the big expenses of our family, and I would like to get the money, but I can't find where to put the paperwork. ”

He said that he was pitiful and wronged.

Zhuang Siyan wanted to kick his feet when he looked at him, he was really a loser, and he was quite wasteful.

After thinking about it, I still asked, "How did your father die?" ”

Liu Gongzi's face was frozen with a layer of ice slag, which was already a little blue, and coupled with his decadent appearance, it was really miserable.

Zhuang Siyan didn't bother to look at him, took a cup of hot tea and sat beside him, drinking while blowing hot air, and asked him a word from time to time.

Liu Gongzi's voice trembled: "My father froze to death." ”

"Freeze to death? Your family is so rich, didn't you have money to wear? ”

Liu Gongzi glanced at Zhuang Siyan sadly: "No, he took off his clothes and went to sleep at night, but somehow he came out of the quilt and lay down in the courtyard outside, and then froze to death at dawn." ”

"This is too strange to die, isn't it? None of you suspect that someone else killed him? ”

Liu Gongzi squinted at Zhuang Siyan again: "There are no wounds on the body, where is it that someone else killed?" ”

Zhuang Siyan didn't speak again, and that was almost all he could get out of Liu Gongzi's mouth.

However, the matter is getting more and more complicated.

Liu's father's purpose in killing Lu Lin was not to rob his wife of money, and it is also possible that Ma Slag's share of the Liu family was not for money, but for other purposes.

Just like now, someone killed Liu's father, if he just didn't want to share the money, he could have killed Liu Gongzi with a knife, so that there would be nothing in the future, why did he keep him, and what share of documents do you want?

When I came out of Ah Si's house, it was already dark.

Zhuang Siyan stood on the side of the street, watching the gray light in the distance increase little by little, and finally add a trace of color, and then more and more.

The sun pulls out of the clouds and throws light and warmth into the earth, illuminating everything around it and people's faces.

Ye Yuanpei should tell Ling Tiancheng about the matter now, right?

She's going to have to go back, too.

Since this matter can't be hidden, it's better to explain it honestly, Ling Tiancheng shouldn't let the generals of the Dasheng Dynasty go alone and let others kill them, right?

Thinking so, Zhuang Siyan walked to his house.

He changed his clothes, went out in a carriage, and went all the way to the palace gate.

What she didn't know was that from the time she entered Ah Si's house to the way into the palace, there was always someone following him.

At this time, he was standing in a corner not far from the palace gate, blocking the view of others looking at him.

His eyes were cold, watching Zhuang Siyan get out of the carriage at the gate of the palace, took the waist card to show the guards, and then walked in calmly, the cold light in his eyes became more and more victorious.

In the early morning, there were already many people on the street, and from time to time there would be backslidden people passing by him and glancing at him.

But in addition to his cold eyes, the clothes on his body were very ordinary, and he could not completely attract the attention of others.

He quickly came to his senses, came out of the corner, blended into the crowd, and walked towards his destination.

Ye Yuanpei, as the current general of Zhennan, is a big crime to return to Beijing without permission.

Fortunately, when he came back, he didn't have enough ten people with him, and there were special circumstances.

Ling Tiancheng was not a real tyrant at all, after listening to his words, he just said angrily: "Such an important matter, as soon as you enter Kyoto City, you should enter Beijing and return to me." ”

Ye Yuanpei lowered his head, looking like what you said was right, it was my fault.

It wasn't until Ling Tiancheng finished his fire that he eased his tone and said, "How many people?" ”

Ye Yuanpei estimated a little, and then replied: "You have to get one or two thousand, the Ma family is like an iron bucket, and it is really difficult to get in, and the same is true for the gambling house." ”

With a wave of his hand, Ling Tiancheng wrote a secret edict and handed it to Ye Yuanpei and said, "You go and take this to the commander of the Praetorian Guard, no matter how many people there are, let him cooperate with you in this matter, and you must rescue Deputy General Lu." ”

Ye Yuanpei bowed forward, received the holy decree, and saluted Ling Tiancheng again, and then walked outside.

But I was thinking, what's wrong with this guy today? It's too generous, and he even asked the Praetorian Guards to cooperate with him.

Who is that Praetorian Guard, they all guard the safety of the Imperial City, and now they have to cooperate with him, Ling Tiancheng is not afraid that he will fool the Praetorian Guard into rebellion?

Later, he smashed his head and said, "What do you think?" Now let's save Lu Xiao, the idiot, first. ”

Ye Yuanpei is very smart, so smart that even his self-knowledge is deeper than others.

He felt that in addition to his abilities, he could cross over, but in fact, in terms of intrigue, he was still far away from Zhuang Changyuan, and he didn't have that heart and energy.

So I just want to be a general, lead my own little people, and live a life that can be lived, as for the rebellion, I still don't think about it anymore, and I can die quickly.

From another point of view, Ling Tiancheng is actually not bad for him, and even a little good, as long as it does not involve Zhuang Siyan.

After Ye Yuanpei came out of the palace, he went to the Praetorian Guard Commander and told Ling Tiancheng's holy decree and his own meaning.

And Zhuang Siyan had already returned to Baizhu Courtyard at this time.

She deliberately changed into a set of palace clothes, combed her hair well, and even made the rouge powder on her face a little thicker, looking bright and moving, with a little shyness.

Ping'er and Lan Xin were temporarily left in the house outside the palace by her, and at this time, she took the other two palace maids to the Chenxi Palace.

As soon as Li Fu saw her, a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, and he came over to salute and said, "Niangniang is back, the emperor is still talking about you this morning." ”

Zhuang Siyan said "um" and said to Li Fu: "Gonggong Li, you are so talkative, arranging the emperor's lies everywhere, are you not afraid that he will slap your mouth again?" ”

Li Fu didn't think about it, and first slaped himself in the face: "Niangniang, the old slave is confused, I can't control this stinky mouth, don't be like me, and then be angry with yourself."

The emperor is inside, you please, you please! ”