However, when the mother-in-law who reported the news came back, she learned that Tang Wan had long since disappeared.

"Okay, it's very good, I didn't expect that even this inner house is not clean now."

Su Qianyu commanded:

"Let me go to each room and courtyard to take a closer look, and who is missing."

"It's certainly not that simple."

After a check, sure enough, three people were missing.

One boils hot water in the room, one buys gouache and rouge outside, and the other manages flowers and trees.

The last people who met them all said that they claimed to have gone out on errands on the orders of their wife.

"These three must be spies who have mixed in!"

"No, Aunt Tang is very good········"

"Looks like something really happened·······

There was a lot of trouble in the house, and many people were talking about it in private.

Su Qianyu was already frosty.

"Have you found out the details of these three people?"

"Mrs. Hui, not yet."

Several of the subordinates lowered their heads and looked at their toes, not daring to raise their heads, wishing that they could shrink themselves into the cracks in the bricks and stones on the ground.

"Find out!"

"Wait, someone will tell the master."

After a pause, Su Qianyu said again:

"Don't bother her over there for the time being, I'll say it myself."

The subordinates retreated.

When there were no outsiders on the field, she rubbed her forehead in annoyance:

"Ah, it's so hard to be in charge·········· I have to hold it all day, I can't do this, I can't do that, it's really annoying! ”

"It's annoying enough on weekdays, but it's a thing like this again······"

·············

"Just buy me a sugar gourd!"

"Mother, I beg you·······"

"No, the price of food has risen again recently, so you have to save money and not spend it indiscriminately. In the future, you are not allowed to eat sugar gourds! ”

On the street, a mother and daughter stop in front of a vendor selling sugar gourds.

The little girl with double braids and a plain flower skirt pulled the corners of the woman's clothes, but she didn't leave.

The rock sugar gourd inserted in the grass is covered with a layer of crystal clear icing, and the hawker carefully wraps it in kraft paper on the outside, so that no dust sticks to it.

After tasting the sweetness of the rock sugar gourd, the little girl was greedy, and she couldn't move when she looked at it.

"I beg you·······"

"No way!"

"I beg you······"

"No just no way!"

"I beg you······"

"No—okay—"

Repeating the cycle.

Finally, seeing that all the vendors were setting up stalls over there, the woman finally got annoyed, picked up her daughter, turned around and left.

Along the way, the little girl was still chattering, completely unaware of the difficulties in making a living at home.

As the situation in the city became increasingly tense, the price of food also rose again and again, and this family was just a microcosm of the thousands of households in the city.

At this moment, there was a commotion.

A figure stumbled to the ground, pounced into the crowd, and finally collapsed on a stall selling straw sandals and bamboo baskets.

The blood stains on the half of the body, staining the cloth red, caused a scream.

The surrounding crowd dispersed to avoid the chaos here.

A few catchers with knives, holding steel knives, rushed to surround the place.

A fierce head catcher with a face full of flesh and flesh, holding a waist card to the onlookers, shouted:

"The county has an order, hunt down the ocean thief Li Qi, and the idle people will retreat as soon as possible!"

Li Qi, who fell to the ground, had completely lost his strength in the chase just now, and he had lost too much blood and was already unconscious.

The two catchers stepped forward, carefully shackled, hinged, and skillfully searched him.

Teeth, soles, inside of clothes··········

"Chief, no."

One of the catchers quickly went to the head catcher and whispered back.

This headcatcher, who was wearing a public uniform and had a meaty face, changed his face slightly, and waved his hand.

"Take it first!"

The captors quickly left with the prisoners.

Such things happened all over the county at the same time.

The crowd of onlookers was a little panicked at first, but after seeing a lot, they got used to it.

As the situation became more and more tense, additional personnel were sent in the city to search for various spies, and some of the fugitive thieves from previous years were arrested.

These searches on the surface were naturally handed over to the patrol.

As for the secret war, it takes place in unknown corners.

After seeing the excitement, the crowd dispersed, and the stalls that were originally smashed will naturally come to close the stalls, and there will always be some compensation.

It's just that when no one is paying attention, a man dressed as a hunter closes his stall early, and when he passes through a nearby alleyway, he puts down his things and walks in.

In the uninhabited alleyway, this hunter picked off a loose wall tile in the corner, took out a copy wrapped in oiled paper from it, and put it close to his body.

Subsequently, go out of town naturally, as usual.

Because they were acquaintances, even the soldiers on patrol only looked at it a few times and did not suspect it.

Half a mile out of the city, there is a pavilion.

When I got here, I saw people waiting in the distance.

When I got closer, it was a mustachioed man with a bookish air.

"He Dalang, is it going well today?"

The man came up to him and asked.

"It's not bad, it sold for more than a dozen dollars, this is the meat and glue you brought, the old store in the south of the city, it's still hot!"

As he spoke, he took the thing from his bosom and handed it over.

The man took the thing, but did not open it, but untied a money bag from his waist and sent it with his backhand.

"This is good, and the other half will be paid after the deed."

He Dalang tossed upside down, estimated the weight, and had a count in his heart.

According to the agreement with this person, half of the deposit will be given first, and the other half will be given after the matter is completed, a total of twenty taels.

More money and less money is not the most important thing, the important thing is that this person is from the Xue family army in the west.

At present, the momentum of the Xue family army is like a rainbow, and it is not appropriate to offend.

Xue Zhili claimed to have an army of 50,000, but in fact there were at least 20,000 people, and he broke through the three counties without resistance.

In He Dalang, no, in the eyes of many people, it is only a matter of time before Beichen County is defeated.

Therefore, for the sake of He Jiazhai, he had to sell his favor in advance, so as not to suffer a disaster when the army crossed the border.

In these years, no matter where the army crosses, it is a disaster.

The villages along the way will inevitably be looted and reduced to proletarian vagrants.

The displaced people who have lost everything, including men in the prime of life, will be coerced into the army and become cannon fodder for the siege.

After going through several battlefields, those who survived, saw blood, and really dared to fight will be promoted to officers.

Once selected for the army, their wives and children are sheltered and given a share of property.

Even, those who have made individual contributions can also obtain the qualification to wear armor

This is how Xue Zhili came along the way.

Through this cruel elimination, after tens of thousands of casualties, he really gathered a group of elites, and he is no longer a rabble.