The next day, Bai Lang disguised himself as a tutor and went to the Security Bureau to talk to Huang Yubiao for a long time. From this, he learned that Lu Chongxi went out from home yesterday morning and returned home at 12 o'clock at night. Nothing else is known.

Through Huang Yubiao's help, Bai Lang also learned that Lu Chongxi had sold his farm, villa and some properties near Dongzhou.

The money from the sale of these properties may have been extorted by Cheng Qiyan, so he hated Cheng Qiyan to the core, so he kidnapped him and hid him.

On the other hand, Lu Chongxi lives the same life as usual, and there is nothing suspicious about it. He hardly left the house, except once, at the invitation of a farmer named Lin Yuesheng in the southern district, he went to hunt wild boars in the mountains and forests near his farm.

When Bai Lang heard the news, he hurriedly rushed to the farm with a subordinate named Lu Baoli, and secretly conducted a secret investigation of Lin Yuesheng's mansion, but there was nothing suspicious.

However, he was still not reassured, so he asked Lu Baoli to stay there to continue the investigation, and he himself returned to Dongzhou first.

Two days later, Lu Baoli's report came. Attached to the report was a list of the farmer's male and female servants, hunters and forest guards.

Bai Lang picked up the list and looked at it carefully. When he saw the name of Xue Huayi, the last person who looked at the forest, he couldn't help but be stunned.

This person used to be the head of the Internal Affairs Section of the North Sea Island Security Bureau, and Bai Lang had done a big business on North Sea Island, so he had a little impression of this person. And Lu Chongxi is also from Beihai, and he is a friend of the former prime minister, so there may be something to do between the two.

Therefore, he immediately sent a telegram to Lu Baoli, and the telegram explained: Please find out Xue Huayi's identity as soon as possible.

Soon after, he received a reply:

Xue Huayi is a native of Beihai, recently introduced by Lu Chongxi, entered Lin Yuesheng's farm to work, and now lives in an ancient house on the farm, living with the forest watcher.

"This is the place, Lu Chongxi must have locked Cheng Qiyan in Xue Huayi."

Thinking of this, Bai Lang immediately took action. In the first step, he first found out the addresses and names of the two old women who kidnapped Junjun last time. Then, disguised as a quick-witted gentleman with a kind attitude, he went to visit the two old women.

"I have been friends with Mr. Cheng Qiyan for many years, and I am very worried about his sudden disappearance recently." As soon as he saw the old woman, he first pretended to be sympathetic in order to deceive the two of them into trusting him.

"I will definitely find a way to rescue Mr. Cheng Qiyan, I have many friends in the Security Bureau."

Hearing him say this, You Yingna, the elder sister of the two old women, wrote a letter to Bai Lang and asked him to bring it to Cheng Qiyan.

Early the next morning, Shirarou set off with the letter.

When Xiao Li learned of this, she also wanted to go with him, so they set off with the driver Gu Xin.

The old house on the farm is near the southern suburbs. Bai Lang let Xiao Li stay in a hotel, and he took a car to the ancient house, and that night, the car traveled more than 30 kilometers, and finally arrived there at about 8 o'clock the next morning.

As a result of the telegram had been taken beforehand, Lou Baoli had been waiting there for a long time. Under his leadership, Shirarou made a detailed survey of the nearby terrain.

This ancient mansion is known as the "Dead Stone House" by the locals. A small river flows quietly around the old house. On the other side of the river is a steep cliff. The ancient mansion sits on a cliff and towers into the sky.

There is a mossy stone bridge under the ancient house, and after the stone bridge is a sheep intestine path, through the path, there is a vacant land, and the gate of the ancient house is here.

On either side of the iron gate are ancient towers, which stand on both sides. Bai Lang looked at it and asked, "Where does Xue Huayi live?"

"Oh, there's a hut where the old house collapsed, and he and his wife live there."

"Do you have any children besides them?"

"I have three sons, all of whom are tall and traveling, and I have heard that they went out on the day Cheng Qiyan was kidnapped."

"I see." Shirarou went into the old house, looked around, and returned to the hotel in the evening.

For the next few days, he searched around the city and around it. On the seventh day, when Bai Lang walked into the door of the house, he faintly heard the neighing of horses in the distance.

He hid deep in the jungle and watched secretly. I saw two people on horseback slowly walking down from the stone bridge downstream, they were Lu Chongxi and Xue Huayi.

"Hey, it's the two of them, how could it be just the two of them?"

Bai Lang held his breath and thought as he watched secretly. I saw them get off the horse, Xue Huayi's wife came out and opened the door, and Lu Chongxi and others entered the ancient mansion.

After a while, Lu Chongxi walked out, his face full of unhappiness, and said, "This is really a stubborn guy, it's too infuriating." I'm going to hunt rabbits later, and I'm not free. I'll come back in the evening, and I'll be sure to let that guy confide in me. Xue Huayi, tell your children to take good care of him, I'll come back at 10 o'clock in the evening, and I must hang that guy up then. If someone comes to save him, kill him, understand?"

"Got it!" Xue Huayi replied.

Then the two jumped on their horses and hurried back to hunting.

"My guess is right, Cheng Qiyan is locked up here." Bai Lang hurriedly returned to the hotel and said to Xiao Li: "Tonight, Lu Chongxi is going to force Cheng Qiyan to tell the place where the secret agreement is hidden, and we must rescue him before then." ”

Xiao Li was about to ask him how to save him, when Lu Baoli, who had just gone to the street to buy something, came back and said, "Boss, you let me buy what I was looking for." ”

He handed Bai Lang a thin and broken book called "Adventures in the Dead Stone House", published in 1924. "This is something I found in a second-hand bookstore with a lot of difficulty." ”

Bai Lang first opened the illustration, which was a detailed picture of a pagoda that was about to collapse in the center of the ancient house. The three floors above ground of this tower are about to collapse, and the first of the two underground floors built by digging up the rock is also about to collapse, and it seems that the second floor must be the place where Cheng Qi was secretly imprisoned. The picture gives this floor a name, "The Torture Chamber".

This tower used to be used by the owner of the ancient mansion to lynch and interrogate prisoners, and I don't know how many people died in this torture room. Now, Xue Huayi's children must be guarding there, and of course, they must have weapons on them.

"In this way, this place is not easy to get into!" Lu Baoli shook his head.

"It's not easy, but there's always a way."

"Can you get in through the window?" Xiao Li interjected from the side.

"There is a window, but because this is a basement, the window is on the other side of the cliff, and the window is a twenty-foot cliff, and the whole cliff is so smooth that there is not even a foothold."

"So, there's no way around it!" Xiao Li said disappointedly.