"Old Jiang, what's the matter?"

Bao Yuanqian walked outside the house and saw that Jiang Wei was already waiting with seventeen or eighteen officers and soldiers in the yamen, and wondered in his heart, this old Jiang was injured by a knife wound and should be on vacation, what did he do when he came to find himself?

"Master Bao, don't come unharmed."

Jiang Wei joked to him, although both of them are non-official and have no character, but Bao Yuanqian's real power is much greater than Jiang Wei's.

Bao Yuanqian waved his hand, "Old Jiang, you don't talk nonsense with Lao Tzu, say, what's the matter?" ”

Jiang Wei smiled indifferently, "What else can I do?" Didn't you tell Lord Deng about the secret passage under the Suzhou Acropolis? Lord Deng sent me today to let you lead the way to investigate. ”

Bao Yuanqian suddenly told Deng Pingyu about this matter that night, but he didn't expect that three days had passed, and Deng Pingyu thought of sending Jiang Wei to do this.

He is familiar with Deng Pingyu and what Jiang Wei can do, obviously this matter has not attracted much attention in Deng Pingyu's heart, but it is also expected, the power reshuffle in the past few days, it is the transfer of defense forces, and the purge of the old party, which is not the first to bear the brunt.

He is not a witness, so how much effort can he put into the so-called underground tunnels?

However, Bao Yuanqian has always been vigilant, and he is a first-hand witness, he thinks about this underground secret passage that extends in all directions, and the underground river cave makes those spies of Warahuiros haunted, and he always feels a little uneasy.

While the two of them were talking, they went all the way to the dry well that was turned out that day, and walked along the street to the front yard of the charred second house on the left, although in the past few days, the smell of burnt paste in the air could still be faintly smelled, and it was hard to imagine that the sky-high fire of that day, but now there are many sergeants guarding here.

With a "ding", he looked up and saw a fragrant cart parked at the door of Cui's house in the distance, obviously returning from the dust.

The maids in those cars jumped off the horse, put down the steps, and immediately walked down the woman in Tsing Yi on the carriage, who was Cui Yingying, who had been to Ganzhou for more than a month, and Bao Yuanqian was thinking about her.

Jiang Wei saw that Bao Yuanqian's eyes were straight, so he said: "Go ahead, don't delay too long, there is still business." ”

Bao Yuanqian laughed awkwardly, walked over and paused, hesitated again and again but shouted, "Yingying." ”

Huan'er looked disdainful and sighed, and Cui Yingying obviously didn't expect Bao Yuanqian to appear here, and said in surprise: "Brother Bao? You? Her eyes glanced at Bao Yuanqian's clothes.

Although she didn't know what kind of clothes it was, she also knew that it should be worn by the yamen errand boy, and she was carrying a long knife, compared to the appearance of the coarse cloth clothes before a month, it was a lot more 'human-like and dog-like', so she asked.

Bao Yuanqian saw that she was paying attention to her general flag clothes, and he was also a little satisfied, so he smiled and said: "Hey, a while ago, I made military merits, raised a general flag, and was transferred back to the command yamen on an errand and managed dozens of people. ”

What he said is a bit hypocritical, his military exploits are true, but is this general flag raised by his military merits?

But human nature, from ancient times to the present, which man is willing to say to the girl he likes, ah, his official is promoted by other women, and it has nothing to do with me?

Cui Yingying listened, her face didn't change much, she just pulled the corners of her mouth, showed a reluctant smile and said: "That Yingying congratulates Brother Bao on his promotion, Brother Bao's future is limitless." ”

Bao Yuanqian was a little puzzled by her salty and non-trivial words.

"Ahem.." Bao Yuanqian didn't wait for what he wanted to hear, so he asked, "Yingying has been going to Ganzhou for so long this time, how can you have a good time?" ”

Huan'er said impatiently: "Then you still need to say?" Good wine and good food all day long, good mountains and rivers to play, if it weren't for the holy decree that Lord Dou received from the imperial court, my young lady might not be back for a long time! ”

Cui Yingying hurriedly turned around and glared at Huan'er, but Bao Yuanqian didn't care about the first half of Huan'er's sentence, but the second half of the sentence.

Lord Dou, pass on the message?

Isn't it the experience officer in the purple-robed official uniform that night? In the past few days, he has been stationed with Suzhou Wei, could it be that he is fast and horses first, and Cui Yingying is slowly coming behind him?

This made him feel a little sour in his heart, and said in his heart, you go to the appointment, and I have the right to make the appointment when you are going to the appointment, but now that people come to Suzhou on business, you will follow suit?

Bao Yuanqian wanted to say something, he wanted to ask you, Lord Dou, but when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't say it, and his heart was unnecessary.

The scene was cold for a while, and neither of them knew what to say.

only heard Huan'er's urging, Cui Yingying saluted, "Brother Bao, Yingying has returned from a long distance, and I want to go back to the house to meet my father first, but I am lost." ”

Bao Yuanqian nodded, "It's just right, I also have business to do, and I will get together again when I have time in the future." ”

Cui Yingying entered the house with Huan'er's support, and Bao Yuanqian sighed lightly and walked back to Jiang Wei's side.

"What? Didn't you give me back the guidance that day? How can I be confused by the authorities today? Jiang Wei saw Bao Yuanqian's deflated appearance, and fell into the well.

Bao Yuanqian glared at him and scolded: "Damn, don't you know that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read? It's hard for this Qing official to cut off family affairs, don't talk nonsense, follow me! ”

Jiang Wei laughed and followed closely with the sergeant.

The group walked for a long time, and when they arrived at the abandoned house, they pushed the door and creaked in, the dry well was exposed, and a thousand pounds of stone slab fell aside.

"This is it, be careful, with a torch, it's dark down there." Bao Yuanqian reminded.

Jiang Wei led the people to jump into it in turn, gradually descending, the light became darker and darker, and everyone lit torches, reflecting the surroundings brightly, and the surrounding terrain was in full view.

I saw that there are four natural dark holes on three sides, and there are many artificial holes of slightly smaller scale between the dark holes to connect, which are densely packed and are just like a maze.

That day, Bao Yuanqian and others came in the dark, but they didn't notice that there were such many forks in the road around the exit of the dry well, which was more exaggerated than the maze.

Jiang Wei frowned, obviously it was the first time he had discovered that there was a cave here, "I didn't expect this big family of Suzhou Wei to make so many dark holes in order to attract groundwater into the house." ”

In ancient times, there were no exploration tools, only by virtue of experience and general direction of construction, sometimes ten places may not be on the right place, become an abandoned hole, over time will be the whole underground is full of holes, not collapsed even if it is good.

Bao Yuanqian and his party walked forward for a while, and they didn't dare to separate, and after walking in the middle for a long time, everyone smelled a foul smell in front of them, and then the firelight printed the 'people' all over the ground in front of them.

Naturally, it was the sergeants led by the dinner bucket that night, a total of ten, who died neatly together, which was obviously done by the group of spies who were the ones who did it.

Bao Yuanqian explained, took Jiang Wei, who was covering his nose, to recognize the general direction, found the rice bucket and jumped into one of the entrances at that time, and looked up, the entrance of this cave was more than two meters, and it was impossible to go up.

Jiang Wei said solemnly: "It seems that this matter is obviously not possible by relying on a dozen of us alone, this place is complicated like a labyrinth, we have to go back and inform Lord Deng of the situation, so that he can send some more people." ”

Bao Yuanqian agreed: "Yes, I'm afraid that this entire Huajian Fang, and even the east of the city, is like this, there are no 1,800 people, don't even think about going through this labyrinth." ”