Xie Guhong turned around and reproached: "Next time, don't pay attention, before you come in, the prophet will speak, if I don't collect the merit in time, where are you still alive?" When he said this, it was purely to show off after being proud, but Xie Yuanshan didn't know what he thought, stretched out his hand to wipe a handful of cold sweat, and was afraid in his heart, and said: "Yes, when the subordinates come again, they will definitely knock on the door first and tell the owner." ”

Xie Guhong said "En", looked at the corner door that fell into the dust, and secretly felt proud in his heart for a while, but his facial control was clever, but he didn't bring out the slightest trace, and said, "What are you looking for me?" ”

Xie Yuanshan was still a little nervous at this time, and he calmed down: "The owner of the village instructed his subordinates not to disturb unless it was an important matter, but the previous owner asked me to send someone to inquire about the reason for Nenjiang City, and now I have a reply, so I don't dare to slack off." ”

Xie Guhong nodded and said, "Have you found out?" ”

"Yes." Xie Yuanshan said: "The matter is similar to what the owner speculated before, it should be the people of the Qin family who are secretly making trouble." ”

Xie Guhong's face was gloomy for a long time, and he suddenly shook his head and said: "Immediately summon the children of the mountain villa in Nenjiang City to transfer the pear blossom candy business in Nenjiang City to Huajiang City, and the martial arts will also be transferred, and the children of the two cities will work together to do the snow sugar purification matter, I will go there in person in a few days, and I will be instructed separately at that time." Also, the family of the deceased must be comforted and given more bereavement benefits. Xie Yuanshan heard this: "Yes." He turned around and walked out of the courtyard, and began to draft a letter according to Xie Guhong's intentions......

After January, the scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting, the silver snow has covered the north and outside the customs. The wind is not strong, but it blows like a knife on a person.

But it's such a weather, but someone is driving away; The carriage was built to a great size, nearly half larger than an ordinary carriage, supplemented by cyan and white, and looked extremely luxurious; What is even more eye-catching is the cattle pulling the cart, the white camel of the four peaks who is not afraid of the cold and heat, is steadily pulling the cart and speeding on the road.

Hedao Village, one of several large villages near the entrance, is less than fifteen miles away from Nenjiang City and Huajiang City, and is adjacent to two villages and two villages. They are Shanghe Village, Xiahe Village, Niujiazhuang and Qinjiazhuang.

The heavy snow stopped for an hour or so, and the villagers, young and old, were coming out to sweep the snow in front of their doors, when they suddenly saw a gorgeous car driving in at the entrance of the village, and stopped to both sides of the road;

When an old man saw the four-peaked white camel pulling the cart, his face was overjoyed, and he turned around and commanded loudly, "It's the owner of the village who has arrived, and he called Bai Laosan and Wu Ziyang to come over." A little girl of twelve or thirteen years old smiled when she heard this: "Hehe, okay, Miaomiao, I'll go." He stuck his broom in the side of a pile of snow and ran away.

The four-camel cart stopped in front of the old man, the door curtain was lifted, and a young man of about twenty-six years old slowly came down from the car, this young man had a cold face, dressed in white clothes like frost and snow, and held a bright silver cane in his hand, this cane was eyebrow-high, and the body of the staff was like two snake bodies entwined and up, and the top of the connection was a hideous human head with a crack and a smile, but what was really terrifying was the hole in the eyes of the human head, sometimes poking out, sometimes hiding two terrible poisonous snakes with silver glittering.

This young man was undoubtedly Xie Guhong, and after getting out of the car, he nodded towards the old man with a jujube face, and said, "Come into the house and talk." In just four words, the old man only felt that his voice was sonorous, as if gold and iron were intertwined.

The old man didn't dare to talk nonsense, turned around, and led the way into the blue brick house behind him. The main hall of the house is simply furnished, four solid wood pear flower chairs are arranged on both sides, and there is a picture of pear blossoms falling on the wall facing the door, which adds a lot of color to the whole hall.

A woman was wiping the coffee table with a rag at this time, and when she saw the head of the house come in, and there were two guests behind her, she hurriedly gave a salute.

The old man with jujube noodles said: "You let Xiaohu get some good dishes and rice, and after I and the owner of the village have finished reporting the matter, we will go to eat." ”

The woman said, "Yes." He turned and walked out of the main hall through the side door.

The two sat down separately, and the old man got straight to the point and said, "Owner, wait a minute, I have already asked my little sister to call Bai Laosan and Wu Ziyang." ”

Xie Guhong nodded, and at this time, the woman from before came in with a teapot and a bowl, poured tea for the two, and retreated silently again.

Xie Guhong held the snake staff in his right hand, but he kept beating the true qi in the dantian, and said, "Can you be sure that it is Qinjiazhuang?" ”

The old man frowned, pondered for a while, and said, "Nine times out of ten, Qin Xiaoyi's second son did it. ”

Xie Guhong said: "Is there conclusive evidence? ”

The old man shook his head and said: "It is inference, Bai Laosan and Wu Ziyang know the specific situation best, and the two of them will come later, and they will tell the story in the future, and the owner will know." ”

Xie Guhong was silent, paused, and suddenly said, "It's here." ”

After a while, a middle-aged voice came from outside the door: "Huh! It was really the owner of the village. ”

A voice that was clearly childlike continued, "I can't lie to you." I'm your son's daughter-in-law, how can I lie to my father-in-law? Then, a slightly hoarse voice said with a smile: "Hahaha, the third child's brain is not good, presumably your little husband's head is in the same vein as his father, if the little sister marries into the old Bai family in the future, she will lose, lose." ”

Xiaomei's voice hurriedly said: "No loss, no loss, treat me very well, and so does my father-in-law." ”

This time, he changed to a middle-aged voice and laughed: "Haha, haha, how can Wu Ziyang be reasonable!" Bai Xiaomei's words are reasonable, wonderful, wonderful. ”

The voice came from far and near, and a few words had already come to the door, Bai Xiaomei ran in panting, first looked at Xie Guhong, who was speechless, and then turned to the old man, and said, "Grandpa, I brought them in." ”

The old man nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, you go to the back hall to play, and I will talk to your father-in-law for a while." ”

The little girl, though alive and well, was sensible, nodded, looked curiously at the terrible snake staff, and walked out of the door again.

Two men followed, one of whom was dressed in a blue robe, and looked like a bookkeeper; The other is five big and three thick, wearing a single cloth gown, with wrist guards on his hands, and knotted muscles all over his body. The two of them immediately hugged their fists and saluted Xie Guhong when they entered the room, and then sat down separately.

The old man spoke first and said, "Let's talk about the disappearance of Shopkeeper Li, what is going on?" ”

Without waiting for the two to speak, Xie Guhong said first: "I want to listen to all the experiences." ”

The two glanced at each other, and the person who seemed to be the bookkeeper opened his mouth first, and said: "Owner, we came to sell the white camel pear candy of our villa four years ago on the order of the general manager of Yuanshan of the villa, and we have met our opponent since we arrived here. ”

The person who carried the living appearance nodded, and continued: "The opponent is the person from Qinjiazhuang, I asked someone to inquire, the owner of Qinjiazhuang is not a nameless, but Qin Xiaoyi, who is brave and shocking." It's not that our brothers are afraid of this guy, but before the shopkeeper Xie sent our brother here, he once instructed: 'The owner of the village doesn't like to have nothing to do, so the business will be solved by business.'" We will do what we say, and operate seriously, with the quality of our pear blossom candy, within two years, it has almost accounted for forty percent of the business near Nenjiang City. ”

Speaking of this, there was a slight look in the eyes of the two, and the person who looked like the bookkeeper put down the teacup and added: "The white cane sugar in Qinjiazhuang also accounts for almost forty percent, and the remaining twenty percent is occupied by other scattered traders. ”

When the old man heard this, he said with a little regret: "If it weren't for the fact that a few sugar masters ...... disappeared one after another two months ago," there would have been a sigh later.

Xie Guhong swept the other two with some confusion, the big man who seemed to be carrying the work, and explained: "After all, the flying pigeon biography is not detailed enough. Shopkeeper Li and a few of his subordinates have been thinking about turning out our pear blossom candy tricks recently, such as pear blossom snow sugar cakes, ice sugar cakes, etc., can ...... But the most concerned thing is to be able to purify our pear blossom sugar, Wu shopkeeper said: "If we can succeed, the entire Nenjiang City, at least we can account for ninety percent of the business, and the white cane sugar in his Qinjiazhuang is not enough at all." 'Oh, that's a pity. ”

The man who looked like the bookkeeper nodded, his expression was even more regretful than his, and said: "After the disappearance of those sugar masters, we began to send people around to look for them, but fortunately, the shopkeeper Li had been in charge of purifying the pear blossom sugar before, so he also understood the joints, so he started the matter again, but after a major progress a month and a half ago, when he was about to succeed, he also disappeared." ”

He paused, and when he saw Xie Guhong make a gesture to continue, he continued: "A month ago, we found a corpse in the wild wolf ditch fifty miles south of Nenjiang City, although it was abnormally decomposed, it was still able to recognize it as Li Xiaogong. ”

The big man who carried the living appearance said: "His daughter-in-law said that Li Xiaogong likes to eat walnuts, and half of his front teeth broke when he used his teeth, so he must have been." Xie Guhong nodded, and turned his face to Mr. Bookkeeper again.

The man who looked like Mr. Bookkeeper continued: "We brought his body back, and the white shopkeeper immediately ordered to find the hall master of the mountain villa who lives in the martial arts hall of Nenjiang City, Mr. Li Da. When Mr. Li arrived, he stared at the corpse, looked at it over and over, and said, "I was tortured before, but the fracture of the lower arm of my right hand looks like a six-door bone-crushing hand; As for the collapse of the chest, it is not easy to say, the Shaolin faction's demon fist and King Kong talisman hammer; The beggars' dragon fist, Li Yuan's Haoran fist, and the dragon elbow method of the Wu family in Datong, Shanxi, can all cause such injuries. ’”

Xie Guhong frowned and pondered for a moment, and said, "What this person can do, or he is not a person. ”

The person who looked like Mr. Bookkeeper immediately nodded in agreement, and said: "The owner of the village clearly saw that Mr. Li Da said the same at that time: 'This person will be mixed, but the most fatal place is the sprain on the neck, and the technique is the cracked tablet palm, or the small Xuanyuan palm power of the Kongtong faction. As he spoke, Mr. Li Da examined Li Xiaogong's corpse again and said, "I have learned a lot of information, so I can only see here." ’”

Xie Guhong said: "How can it be inferred that the Qin family did it?" ”

The big man who carried the living appearance said: "After the disappearance of several sugar masters, we sent people to find the bodies of the other three sugar masters, some of the injuries are the same, some are different, but after Mr. Li Da saw it, one of the techniques, from the very beginning, it was 'very like' Haoran Fist, to 'definitely' Haoran Fist." ”

Xie Guhong's face was even colder, and he said, "Li Yuan's martial arts." ”

The old man continued: "Yes, Li Xunhuan has not returned since he left the customs half a year ago, and now the owner of Li Yuan is Long Xiaoyun. Moreover, Long Feng, the chief housekeeper of Xingyunzhuang, and Ba Ying, the martial artist, were in Qinjiazhuang at this time. ”

Some people are very clever and can understand a little; Xie Guhong belongs to the one who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles, but at this time, he synthesized what several people said now, and the most suspicious one is Qinjiazhuang, because Long Xiaoyun and Qin Xiaoyi have a bad relationship.

Xie Guhong said: "I need to go to Qinjiazhuang. ”

The old man, the bookkeeper, and the big man looked at each other. The old man said, "What does the owner mean?" ”

Xie Guhong said: "My time is very precious, I can't waste anything, I want Qinjiazhuang to give me an explanation within three days." After a pause, he said: "Follow the rules of the rivers and lakes." Several people then said in unison: "Yes." ”