Chapter 50: An Unquiet Night
The sky was slightly bright, the mist was dark, the sound of horses' hooves came from the official road in the distance, and two figures could be faintly seen galloping in the yellow dust.
When Xie Yufei saw the majestic city wall in front of him on horseback, his face showed a smile, Yangzhou City! I'm back again...
After Xie Yufei and the others entered the city, they found the place where Xia Yiyu's subordinates were secretly staked, in order not to attract people's eyes, the forty secret guards she called came in batches, and now there are only more than ten.
"Jiayi, you go to the Xinghua Tavern in Lexin Lane to find the shopkeeper, give him half a jade pendant to find someone for him, and when you see the manager, you will ask more than a thousand people about their height, body shape, place of origin, interests, habits, relatives and friends, and the more detailed and detailed the ins and outs of this matter, the better."
"Subordinates take orders!"
Xie Yufei took out half a jade pendant and gave it to the secret guard, this half of the jade pendant can find the Yongwang steward, she is a woman and it is inconvenient for her to come forward.
After Jia Yi came back, she understood the situation to now the key to all problems revolves around one person, only he knows the real location of the silver, the batch of silver found by the people of the great prince before are all silver-plated fakes, it can be seen that this person has long had a thief's heart, and wants to take advantage of the game between the two sides, but how can he guess that the relationship between the two sides will suddenly become so delicate, and the people of the great prince will return the fake silver intact.
This bold man was Yongwang's partner Xu Qianduo, who controlled the underground trade of illicit salt in Yangzhou and Huainan, specializing in the sale of illicit salt of unknown origin, such as official salt that capsized in waves.
This is the identity of Xu Qianduo on the surface, with the secret help of King Yong, he made the business bigger and bigger, and slowly became a cronie of King Yong.
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Xie Yufei stood in front of forty men dressed in various costumes, and on the second day, everything was finally there.
She kept pacing in circles in front of forty men who stood respectfully, and she looked each of the guards up and down carefully, so that she didn't blush and be shy at all when she stared at the group of men.
Xie Yufei was tired of turning around, stopped and pointed to a secret guard: "It's just you, and you!" ”
According to the description of King Yong's steward, Xie Yufei chose two people who were ninety percent similar to Xu Qianduo, and asked Jia Yi to learn Xu Qianduo's walking habits to show them.
If you want to go up the mountain, you must first clear the stones that block the road, otherwise it will always get in the way! It needs to be cleaned up first so that it doesn't get in the way of finding someone.
The battle involving the royal family is so cruel and ruthless, if you show mercy to others, others will not be polite to you, the eldest prince even uses the powerless three princes as chess pieces, and wants to kill three birds with one stone! Xie Yufei will not treat them kindly.
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A cold and humid night breeze blew, making a pitch-black figure lying on the roof shiver,
I've been watching more than ten nights in the cold and wet night, and I don't know when it will be. The Black Shadow thought indignantly.
In the middle of the night, the quiet alleyway was as calm as ever, few pedestrians passed by, and the black shadow kept scanning the surroundings tirelessly.
The black shadow lying on the roof of the 'Dong' jumped a beat faster in his heart, and a figure appeared in the dark corner of the alley, looking left and right sneakily, and then quickly strung into the alley, came to a small courtyard and knocked on the door regularly.
The shadow nodded to the pitch-black roof opposite, and a shadow stood up on the opposite roof, and sped away softly on the connected rooftops.
After he ran into the distance, he took out a long strip of object from his bosom, pulled the upper end, and a shining ball of light shot straight into the sky.
"It's coming!"
In a small courtyard in the middle of nowhere, a man dressed as a steward kept looking up at the sky, as if that was his duty.
He hurried into the house to report when he saw the light in the sky.
"Mr. Park, the signal has been activated!"
"Well, take everyone with you!"
Park Zhenqing said that he was one of the henchmen of the eldest prince to deal with the secret affairs of the eldest prince, and the one who presided over the assassination of the third prince last time was unfortunately arrested is still in the hands of the eldest prince.
Half an hour later, a person ran in at the door and said in a panic: "Mr. Park, the signal has also risen on Qixiang Street!" ”
"What?"
Park Jinqing jumped up from the chair with a 'rub'.
At this moment, the people sent out are afraid that they have already arrived at Yangting Lane. Why is there a situation?
"Shoot the red bullet and summon the men who are spying on it!"
There is no room for failure in this matter, otherwise your results will not be good.
Outside the courtyard wall of the Yongwang steward under Yangting Alley, there were scattered black-clothed assassins, and this group of assassins crossed into the courtyard wall in unison, and after they fell into the small courtyard, they advanced on their waists, just the moment they approached the door.
The sound of "whoosh" breaking through the air sounded in the quiet small courtyard...
"It's not good to have an ambush, retreat!" The leader of the assassins shouted.
At the moment of his exclamation, a large number of his companions had already fallen, and the rest of them were all concentrating on dodging the arrows when they saw that the situation was not good, and while they were in a hurry, dozens of people rushed out of a row of several rooms and surrounded them. The two sides are entangled together, with less to welcome more, and the battle is one-sided.
The leader of the assassins couldn't figure out until he died, wasn't almost all of the Yongwang's men under surveillance? Where did this gang pop up?
After a hiccup of fighting, the small courtyard is calm again...
"Miss, all of them are wiped out and there is no room left alive!" Lihong walked in with blood stains, most of which were not on hers.
"What about our casualties?"
"One died, three were seriously injured, and the rest were lightly injured!"
After listening to the report, Xie Yufei was very sad in her heart, in the struggle between the two sides, the only thing she needed to care about was the casualties of her own side.
Seeing her lonely expression, Lihong said with relief: "Miss doesn't need to be sad, those who will become dead are all Jian nationality, and the subordinates are already very satisfied with being able to break away from Jian and become a soldier, and the family can live a good life!" ”
Xie Yufei took a deep breath to calm the emotions in his heart, "Let a few people go and ask them for the best doctor, and let twenty people in the A area go to Qixiang Street to contact." ”
Since that night to clean up the people of the Great Prince, Xie Yufei has asked his subordinates, together with the people of Yongwangfu, to turn over the entire Yangzhou City in the past five days, but has not found more than a thousand.
On the fifth day, they searched through Yangzhou City to no avail, which made Xie Yufei very frustrated, and Xie Yufei was bored lying on the collapsed chair and playing with the copper token in his hand.
"Lihong, you said you wanted to find one, how can you find him?"
"Apart from looking for the places he frequents and asking his acquaintances, his subordinates really can't think of any other way." Li Hong didn't think about it and said directly, she really couldn't think of any other way, shouldn't this be what Miss should think?
Xie Yufei sighed faintly and said, "Looking for Xu Qianduo, you can't post a missing person notice!" Even the entire Yangzhou City has been searched almost once, and now the manpower has been sprinkled outside the city, and these thousands of acquaintances have made a lot of ways to ask nothing. ”
Li Hong scratched his head and said: "It's really strange, more than a thousand people appeared in Yangzhou out of thin air more than ten years ago, and no one knows where his hometown is!" ”
A thought flashed through his mind, Xie Yufei sat up straight and said, "Why don't we ask if anyone knows what happened to him more than ten years ago?" Maybe there will be a clue involved? ”
Xie Yufei thought about it seriously again and felt that it was feasible...
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