Chapter 112: Disaster Leads to the East
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Chang Qing didn't dare to stay longer, according to Li Yingge's instructions in advance, he went straight into the study outside Yuan's house with people on his back, and just took out the remaining flask in the package, and before he could throw it towards the main hall of the study, he was pressed down by a small hand leaning out of his shoulder.
Chang Qing turned his head to look at it, and saw Li Yingge silently shook his head, then slid off Chang Qing's shoulder, and walked up the steps as soon as he landed, but what he entered was not the main hall with three open rooms in the outer study, but the ear room on the west side that served tea and charcoal.
Chang Qing was suspicious, and the habit she had developed over the years prompted her to only do her best, and she hurriedly stepped forward to help Li Yingge.
When I turned my head to look, I saw Li Yingge stopped in front of the low cabinet where tea utensils were placed in the ear room, and was standing on tiptoe to count, and when he counted to the seventh small drawer, he quickly opened it, and groped for a moment at the bottom of the small drawer.
Chang Qing was stunned, seeing that Li Yingge had the account book in his sleeve, and his movements climbed onto her back again without the slightest hindrance, so he didn't think much about it, and hurriedly jumped to the root of the wall of the outer study with people on his back, and under Li Yingge's signal, he threw the remaining flasks to the doors and windows of the main hall in turn.
The tongue of fire quickly sprang up, and at the same time that the firelight spread to the door and wall, Chang Qing had already jumped a few times with Li Yingge on his back, and once again passed through Yuan Xiaoyang's living courtyard behind the outer study, turned over the flower wall, and stayed in the inner courtyard behind the flower wall.
This small courtyard is the courtyard that Li Yingge asked her to find out the use of before, because the mother-in-law who is on duty at the second gate of Yuan's house has another resting place, this courtyard is only used to pile up sundries, and usually only padlocks are idle.
Through the moonlight, Chang Qing carried Li Yingge on his back to the base of the wall facing outward in the small courtyard, and listened to the movement outside with bated breath.
After a while, the people who rushed to the inner courtyard to fight the fire found that there was also a bright fire in the direction of the study in the outer courtyard, and Steward Zheng's face changed greatly, and he didn't care about the report, so he rushed into the wing room where the masters temporarily stayed, and said urgently, "Old lady, eldest young master, the outer study is also out of water." ”
Yuan Shicang, the old man of Yuan, had just been sick on the way to Beijing, and the water in the living room in the middle of the night had made him sweaty, and his face couldn't help turning pale when he heard the words at this moment, and he hurriedly stood up and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze, go and put out the fire!" ”
Rao is Yuan Xiaoyang was extremely calm from beginning to end, and his eyes couldn't help but condense slightly, and he didn't care about appeasing the panicked Huang family, so he only let Zheng's mother take care of it carefully, and followed Yuan Shicang to the outer courtyard in a hurry.
Steward Zheng had already asked people to rush to the outer study first, and at this time, Yuan Shicang and his son, who were walking like the wind, rushed to the second gate, and the people from the inner courtyard who heard the wind converged, and a group of people turned to the outer study with great momentum.
The second door suddenly became cold, Chang Qing pricked up his ears and stopped moving for a while, and then made a safe gesture to Li Yingge, Li Yingge didn't delay any longer, and whispered in his ear, "Go." ”
Her voice was extremely low, but the lightness in her tone was audible even to Evergreen, who had always been very dull in these subtleties.
Chang Qing was even more suspicious in her heart, and after leaving the Yuan Mansion safely and returning to the Kang family safely along the route she came, she visited Xie's mother and slept soundly, so she went straight to the bed with Li Yingge in her arms, and said in a low voice, "Brother Ying, what kind of grudge does the Yuan family have with you, and what did you take from the Yuan family?" ”
Li Yingge said that he would not make trouble, Chang Qing knew that Li Yingge did not lie to her when he made those flares, as long as the Yuan family did not sleep thunderily, they would definitely be able to extinguish the fire in time, they were just a time difference, but Li Yingge did not tell her that setting fire tonight was just "convenient", and the real purpose was to obtain the half-old booklet.
Chang Qing knew that she had done a clean job from beginning to end, and she couldn't find out what happened to the Yuan Mansion in the middle of the night, but she took the booklet that the Yuan family was obviously a secret possession, that was another matter, she didn't think that Li Yingge would be targeted, but she was afraid that Li Yingge would get into trouble.
Li Yingge smiled slightly, at this moment the mood was indescribably happy, and when he heard the words, he took out the booklet in his sleeve pocket and handed it to Changqing, "The Yuan family of Qihe started with cotton planting, and then became big with the cloth business, and now the name of Qihe is one of the best silk and satin shops in the industry, but the longest and most profitable is the pawnshop opened by the Yuan family all over the northeast border pass.
Yuan Xiaoyang's room entered Beijing this time, in addition to the steward of his own room, he also brought a deputy steward of his family, who was in charge of the pawnshop business, and this time he entered Beijing with him, and he also wanted to open the Yuan family's pawnshop to the capital. This booklet is the account book used to open a pawnshop and deal with the election of the emperor and businessmen, but it is not an open account, but a secret account. ”
Chang Qing only thought that Li Yingge heard what Xie or Uncle Zhong said, and when she heard the word "secret account", her face couldn't help but be pale, Rao is she is not good at making accounts, but she has been working under Xiao Hanqian's name for a long time, and her vision is not as good as ordinary people, and after a few glances, she found that something was wrong, and exclaimed in a low voice, "These things collected by the Yuan family's pawnshop are really ...... Wacky very! ”
Li Yingge knew that Chang Qing understood, so he took the account book, flipped through it for a while, and said lightly, "Tonight's matter, the first thing the Yuan family suspects is those Qihe merchants who are also competitors of the imperial merchants, you carefully stare at the movements of the Yuan house, and see that they are almost bitten by dogs and dogs, so you will 'send' this account book to the other Qihe merchants." ”
Without hesitation, he tore the account book into three parts of different thicknesses.
Once these three incomplete account books fall into the hands of competitors, how can the Qihe Yuan family still compete to be the imperial businessman? Maybe Yuan Xiaoyang will be implicated.
Chang Qing figured out the joints, and couldn't help but feel a sense of horror at Li Yingge's obedience, how old the little master is, he can think of and use such a decisive means to hit the key point.
Seeing her silently putting away the account book, Li Yingge raised her eyebrows and said, "Scared?" ”
Chang Qing shook his head, patted his chest and said, "It's a little scared." You can't hide this from me in the future, and venture into the house to get something yourself, and I should do it. ”
Li Yingge also thought that Chang Qing had a complaint about her city government and methods, but she didn't expect that what Chang Qing was afraid of was this, and her heart warmed at the moment, and she said meaningfully, "Don't worry, now I have done everything I can do." Other...... It will only depend on what happens in the future......"
Chang Qing was confused when he heard it, and he couldn't understand how Li Yingge could know that the Yuan family hid the secret tent in such a hidden compartment, seeing that Li Yingge had no intention of opening his mouth again with the quilt, he had to press the question in his heart, and went back and forth tonight to make sure that there were no traces, and then slept with his clothes.
At first, because the neighbors on the left and right were idle empty houses, they did not make much noise, until the fire in the outer study was controlled, and the neighbors near the left heard the gong of the warning, so they sent people to inquire one after another.
Steward Zheng had just sent off the officers and soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division, and he was busy and politely sent off the neighbors who were close to the left, but he couldn't relax in his heart, wiped his hot sweat into the flower hall in the outer courtyard, and reported in a deep voice, "When the next person went to report the case, he happened to meet the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division patrolling the city, but the fire had been extinguished when he turned around, and he checked inside and outside the house and didn't catch any suspicious characters. But ......"
Steward Zheng pinched the corner of the wall and found the broken flask, and continued, "The people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division found such broken bottles in the main courtyard and the outer study, a total of six, and the old slave left one behind. Master, young master, look at ......"
Yuan Shicang and Yuan Xiaoyang looked cold as early as when they saw the wreckage of the bottle, and after glancing at each other, they motioned to Steward Zheng to step back, "Don't worry about it here, take someone to clean up the outer study first." Talk to Zheng's mother and let his wife move to the hospital first. ”
Steward Zheng hurriedly took the order and left.
When only the father and son were left in the hall, Yuan Shicang showed an annoyed look, paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, and pointed to the broken bottles piled up on the table for a while, almost angrily, "Look what the hell this is!" The tattered things that children play with have actually been used on my Yuan family! Tell me, such a bottle Qihe was common for ignorant children to play in the early years, and the Qihe official government had already ordered that this thing should not be made!
Except for those Northeast businessmen who have entered Beijing with us, who would have thought of using such a thing to harm people and cause this disaster! I really look down on those families, and they actually resorted to such unseemly methods! ”
Yuan Xiaoyang had other ideas, he had been silent, and he thought about it, and only slowly spoke after a while, "Father, don't forget, only three people know where that secret account is hidden, and even Steward Zheng doesn't know that there is such an important account book hidden in the ear room." Those businessmen want to check, and the steward from my own family, I don't think he can stay in the inn anymore, so I should take him into the house. ”
Except for Yuan Shicang and Yuan Xiaoyang, only the steward from the family knew about the secret account, Yuan Xiaoyang even had one more head, and he couldn't imagine that Li Yingge had already known the things in the secret of the Yuan family and Yuan Shicang's habit of hiding things.
Yuan Shicang and Yuan Xiaoyang had the same idea, and also suspected that the housekeeper was not clean, and it was likely that he forgot his righteousness and became a ghost in others, so he took advantage of the fire to smash Huanglong and stole the secret tent, and said viciously at the moment, "Let Steward Zheng bring him to trial, give me a 'good' trial!" ”
Yuan Xiaoyang slowly bowed his head, but his face was a little absent-minded.
He always felt that there was an indescribable weirdness about walking on the water in the middle of the night, especially the businessmen who stood side by side with the Yuan family in Qihe, the more wealthy they were, the more they paid attention to harmony and wealth, and they would not use such ruthless means to be reasonable.
But when they first arrived in Beijing, they only had the intention of making friends everywhere, and there was no reason to easily make enemies, and if they wanted to say who would target them, they could only think of those few competitors.
The thought turned here, and Yuan Xiaoyang's mind suddenly flashed in the peach blossom forest, the little face that spoke casually and did not lie to him from beginning to end.
To say that after he entered Beijing, he felt the cold treatment most directly, and it was none other than Li Yingge, who only had a two-sided relationship.
Yuan Xiaoyang frowned unconsciously when he thought of this, only to feel that this idea was very absurd, and instinctively shook his head, as if he wanted to dispel the indifferent little face in his mind.
But he said very calmly, "Father, Li Ge Lao, we have to visit again." ”
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