Chapter 238: Let Mr. Si smile
The most terrifying thing is that in fact, they have no way out, Zhuang Siyan casually said just one of her ideas, and it is useless at all.
At this moment, the woman was grabbing her hair and said: "It's all because we underestimated Luo Ke too much at the beginning, and didn't check his house properly, maybe we can find other clues, now the mansion in the capital has changed beyond recognition, and there are no things that belong to him, and it is difficult to go back and find it." ”
Zhuang Siyan is convinced that with Luo Ke's shrewd and obsessive-compulsive character, he will not do those things that are not scored, and it is unlikely that he will forget where the silver is buried as mentioned above.
It is likely that he had something similar to a map, with clear marks on it where the scattered silver was.
But there are still problems here, those are all official silver, which are spent in the capital, and they have to be melted and re-made into ordinary silver before they can be used, so how can Mrs. Luo use them if she finds them?
As long as she takes it out, she will immediately attract the attention of others, not to mention spending money, and maybe she can even lose her life.
Luo Ke would not do such a thing.
That is, someone will also melt official silver, and he has always been Luo Ke's loyal servant, as long as Mrs. Luo takes out the money, someone can help her deal with it, so that she can use it with confidence.
But when Mrs. Luo came out of Luo's house, she obviously only had two sons.
Zhuang Siyan was a little dizzy from being around, and in the end, he didn't want to think about it at all, and went back to bed to sleep.
The next morning, before she got up, she heard a chaotic sound of footsteps in the temporary house, and people seemed to be running outside.
Zhuang Siyan also jumped up from the bed, and muttered while putting his clothes on his body: "What's the situation, is there a fire?" They all ran like rabbits, and no one cared about me......"
Then I heard a voice outside say, "Mr. Si has someone from the palace." ”
"Huh? In the palace? You mean the palace in the capital? She had already opened the door and came out, and saw Ah Si standing at the door, looking outside, and replied to her: "Yes." ”
"No, what are you doing here in the palace? Where? ”
"I've been taken to the main house by Mr. Wen, tell you to get up and hurry over."
"Oh."
Not only did someone come to the palace, but it was an old acquaintance, and it turned out to be Li Fu.
This fat old man, usually walking in the palace, is trembling in one step, but he didn't expect to come to Yangcheng thousands of miles away, which also made Zhuang Siyan greatly surprised.
When Li Fu saw her, he naturally wanted to salute, but fortunately, none of the people here were outsiders, so he didn't think his behavior was strange.
Zhuang Siyan accepted the salute in vain, and asked everyone before asking: "What's the situation, it's such a cold day, you don't serve the emperor in the palace, why did you come here?" ”
Li Fu smiled with a smile on his face: "Mother, Mr. Si, it's Laba today, and the emperor sent an old slave to send some Laba food to the two gentlemen." ”
"What's that? Laba, you said that it is now the lunar month, and it will be the New Year again in 20 days? Zhuang Siyan's eyes widened, feeling as if he was living in another time and space, and he didn't even count his life.
After receiving Li Fu's affirmative nod, she looked at Wen Qing in confusion: "It's too fast, it's not as cold as the capital here, I'm too confused, and I feel that it's far away from the New Year." ”
Wen Qing looked helpless and did not reply to her words.
It is fake that the emperor sent Laba food, but it is true to urge them to go back for the New Year, otherwise there is nothing in Yangcheng, and it is necessary to send it from the capital? It's better to let Li Fulai come, but it's really enough for Sima Zhao's heart.
Zhuang Siyan pulled out his head from the wrong wheel of time, and quickly thought of this problem, but this guy has the courage not to be afraid of death, so he actually opened his mouth.
said generously to Li Fu: "Gonggong Li, thank you for your hard work, go back and tell the emperor, we also miss him, we must get things done before the year, and strive to go back as soon as possible." ”
In a word, Li Fu's old face turned red, and he hurriedly lowered his head to cover up, and did not forget to respond: "The slave must have been brought." ”
Zhuang Siyan also smiled and said "hard", the two of them are like old friends for many years, talking and laughing, one sends the other out of the door.
As soon as he came back, he saw Wen Qing's stinky face, Zhuang Siyan didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and wanted to go about his own business, but was dragged back by Wen Qing.
"You've got something wrong with your brain......"
"No, you asked before, change it." Zhuang Siyan slapped his hand away impatiently.
Wen Qing laughed angrily at her: "No problem, can you say something like that, years ago?" Do you know how many days are left before the year? Any idea how many days we've been here? Do you know how many days have it been since Luo Ke's case was launched? ”
Zhuang Siyan said "oh": "You know, then you write it down for me, it's best to write everything that happened, I need to sort out the timeline and story line, maybe I can sort out a copy when I go back." ”
Wen Qing: "......"
He confirmed that he would one day be by this woman.
However, Zhuang Siyan had already returned to the house, and after quickly checking himself, he went out with Ah Si.
Mrs. Luo is not there, no one in Luo Mansion knows her, she can go there and see if Luo Ke has any suspicious clues left.
The whole situation, so far, is still a mess, but as Wen Biao said, things have happened for too long, they have been peeling off the cocoon, from the beginning of the peeling to the present, the outer layer has been fragmented, only the inner part is left.
It feels like he has hit a hardcore, but Zhuang Siyan has a hunch that as long as this line is straightened out, this matter will be over.
The situation in Luo's Mansion is much worse than she imagined, although she tries her best to maintain a good situation, but the last riot has had too much impact on them, and the whole mansion is in chaos, but there is no money to repair it at this time, so it is a sign of decay.
Zhuang Siyan whispered to Ah Si: "This face is too big, that's it, how did they say that they loved the emperor deeply after they said that they were heroes?" ”
Ah Si: "......"
A rough man can't answer such connotative words, so he can only follow Zhuang Siyan silently.
The person who received Zhuang Siyan was a patriarch of the Luo Mansion, who was already seventy or eighty years old, with a white beard, as if he was deliberately dignified, and there was no smile on his face.
As soon as Zhuang Siyan saw him, he said, "Old Man Luo, this day is not very easy, it seems that you really need me to send you a penny." ”
Old Man Luo was so angry when he heard her words in front of him that his beard was curled, but as soon as he heard about the silver later, his two old eyes immediately shone again.
They are now too short of money, and even if this man speaks unpleasantly, who knows if it is the God of Wealth?
Luo Ke used to do a lot of things in Beijing, and even kept the money for his wife and children, but he still has this big family to support, maybe this person has any connection with Luo Ke, and it is hard to say that he can help them find the silver.
From this point of view, Old Man Luo is really a transparent person, otherwise how could he be the patriarch of the Luo family for so many years?
He and Zhuang Siyan almost hit it off, and soon reached a consensus that the clue to Luo Ke's silver was in Luo's house.
Old Man Luo said: "They used to live in the Feng Courtyard, and they only came back occasionally over the years, and their families and relatives were all in the capital, and the house only kept the courtyard, as for whether the things in it were useful or not, I don't know." ”
Zhuang Siyan smiled at him, and smiled very sweetly: "Old patriarch, I'll go and see it first." ”
Old Man Luo is a lot old, he has a lot of experience, and he will make up lies to deceive himself and others, how can he not know that letting Zhuang Siyan in is to lure the wolf into the room?
However, poverty is a hard injury, and Zhuang Siyan will come in with two people, even if she finds any clues, the people of Luo Mansion will have a chance to kill them, and when the time comes, wouldn't it be a good thing to take her results and find silver?
Besides, I don't know if I can find a clue yet.
Fengyuan is in the southeast corner of the entire Luo Mansion, which is very large, and from the outside, in order to show the importance that this family attached to Luo Ke, it was still well repaired.
It's a pity that the years have passed, Luo Ke has fallen, and the Luo family is almost gone, and this courtyard has been much depressed.
As soon as Zhuang Siyan entered, he found that this place had already been turned over, especially Luo Ke's study, although there were not many books in it, and Luo Ke had not been in the house for several years, but even so, it was also turned into a mess.
There is also a messy place, which is Mrs. Luo's bedroom.
After she came back from the capital, she lived here with her son, probably the people in Luo Mansion thought she had some clues, so they also rummaged here.
Ah Si followed behind Zhuang Siyan, looking at the mess and didn't know where to start.
Zhuang Siyan didn't start, he didn't even go inside, he only took two steps inside the door of the house, and after a general look at the furnishings inside, he came out.
The old man Luo who followed was very strange and asked, "Mr. Si, why don't you go in and have a look?" ”
"What's so nice about this, haven't you all seen it? If there were, I would have found it a long time ago. ”
Old Man Luo's face is a little not good-looking, but he is old, and there are some old age spots on his face, and there is a small change in face, which cannot be seen, and Zhuang Siyan also cares about him changing.
A few people in the group, the front and back yards, and several rooms walked through, and also talked to Old Man Luo about Luo Ke.
From Old Man Luo's mouth, I learned that there were only two or three houses in Luo's Mansion at the beginning, and they were at the place where they entered the gate.
Later, Luo Ke made a fortune and began to rebuild.
"And when was this house built?" Zhuang Siyan asked.
Old Man Luo counted the years with his fingers, and in the last year, he retreated to the second year after the disappearance of Guan Yin.
"Then your house is still quite new, and it hasn't been built for a few years." Zhuang Siyan said.
For this type of praise, Old Man Luo will still take it away: "That year was renovated and expanded, before that, there was an old man in our family who made some money from trading, so he built the house first." ”
"Oh, there are still masters in Luo's Mansion who can do business?"
"Yes, it's Luo Ke's uncle, Luo Ke was also his student at that time, and he went to take the exam to get to high school."
Zhuang Siyan patted his ass: "This Luo family is really developing very fast, with two or three rooms of real estate, but in the past few years, there are hundreds of acres of yards and countless fertile fields." ”
"Hehe, let Mr. Si smile."
"Where is it, I admire it, Old Man Luo is also a blessed person, being the patriarch in such a big family, very majestic, right?"
Old Man Luo was modest: "It was they who promoted me, an old thing, and Luo Ke and his uncle were busy with their own affairs, and there must be someone in charge of things in such a big mansion." ”
Zhuang Siyan nodded and smiled: "Where is Luo Ke's uncle?" ”