Chapter 365: Cai Ye
The follow-up news was continuously sent to Xie Wenzai by special personnel.
Haijiao was guarding his cousin's house, and as soon as there was new news, he would run to Jin Jiashu in the second courtyard and tell him the latest news.
Considering that his little sister Haitang would also ask him about it, in order to save trouble, he simply called his little sister over to listen together. And Begonia also in order to save trouble, simply stayed in the second courtyard, when the reef was not there, she tinkered with her own flowers and plants in the yard, the reef came, she went into the house and listened to the information with Jin Jiashu.
And Jin Jiashu also discovered that his friend Haijiao, who seemed to be just an ordinary smart and clever in front of him, would always be extra smart and clever in front of his sister Haitang, not only could he analyze the information in an orderly manner, but all kinds of speculations sounded very reliable, as if he was twice as smart as usual.
In the past, he always felt that although his good friend Haijiao was smart and capable, with his own ability, he could still hide his biggest secret, and he seemed to be sure that he could persuade his good friend to act according to his ideas. But today, his mind was a little shaken. He felt that the reef didn't seem to be as easy to deceive as he thought. Did he really hide the secret he thought he had hidden?
Turning her head to look at the less familiar Begonia, she seems to be as smart as her brother Haijiao, and more careful and calm than Haijiao, many times what Haijiao ignores, can't escape her eyes, and can always remind Haijiao to pay attention to those inconspicuous people or things, and avoid him from omission.
Hai Jiao seemed to be just here to tell him the latest news about Jin Jiashu, but in fact, he would get reminders and suggestions from his little sister Haitang, and bring them back to his cousin Xie Wenzai in the front yard, and feed back to the principals of the Zhou and Tang families.
Jin Jiashu could occasionally make one or two small suggestions, which were adopted by the people in charge of the Zhou and Tang families. He began to feel that he was not just waiting for someone else's arrangement, but really participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Sun family's ears, and he was useful. But at the same time, he became quieter and quieter in front of the Hai family brothers and sisters. He no longer speaks easily if he is not sure. The tentative method that he had used many times in the past, he didn't dare to try it at will.
Because he was afraid that he would be discovered by his new friends, he would not be able to get along with the Hai family brothers and sisters calmly in the future.
Haijiao was all focused on the encirclement and suppression operations of the Zhou and Tang families, and it was too late to analyze the intelligence, so where could he take care of anything else? He didn't notice Jin Jiashu's silence today, but Begonia did.
Although she didn't guess what Jin Jiashu was thinking, she also felt that the brother and sister were only concerned about talking, ignoring that the third person in the room was not very good, so she tried to invite him to join her discussion with her brother: "Brother Jin, do you have any ideas?" ”
Jin Jiashu raised his head and blinked, his eyes revealing a little dazed.
He was a little distracted just now, and he didn't hear clearly what the Hai family brothers and sisters were saying.
Haijiao didn't care, everyone has ever been distracted, and he happily repeated the information he had just said.
The battle on Zhuangzi outside the city has been over for most of the day, and now only the aftermath is left. Among the Sun family spies caught, more than half of them were outlaws with a small and innocent background. Even if these people are sent to the prefect's yamen, they can try many old cases, and they are not afraid of wronging anyone. As for the rest of the people, they look decently dressed and are all good citizens on the surface, including the person who claims to be a secret agent of the Jinyi Guard, which is a little difficult to deal with. The Zhenguo Mansion has already controlled these people, and the Tang family has not been able to get one, so they are a little unwilling, so they focus on those few fish that have slipped through the net.
The fish that slipped through the net were masked last night, and the Tang family didn't know who they were at the moment, but there were still a few spies in the city who were in charge of keeping an eye on the reef and Zhou Yijun, the pigeon keepers, and the two nurturing grandmothers and their maids. The Tang family kept an eye on them, and they could always find some clues along the vine.
The pigeon breeder has not yet realized that he has been exposed. After the spies who were watching the reef and Zhou Yijun determined their "target" last night, they went to find the pigeon keeper and used the carrier pigeon to inform the accomplices outside the city, so that they thought that they had waited for a good opportunity and besieged the small Zhuangzi where the "Jin Jiashu" lived overnight. After the failure of the operation, the pigeon breeder did not welcome a single carrier pigeon, and he himself did not know what was happening outside the city and did not contact the other accomplices.
As for the spies who were in charge of keeping an eye on the reef and Zhou Yijun, after spending the night at the pigeon keeper's place, they moved in the direction of the nurturing grandmother's residence, but they did not go to the door, but entered a small house nearby.
It was also at this time that the Tang family discovered that their people had missed this new stronghold of the Sun family's spies in the city.
They didn't know who the people were in the new stronghold, and what the Sun family spies said in the new stronghold, but they watched from a distance, and from the calm atmosphere of the other party, they guessed that they didn't know anything about what was happening outside the city.
The Tang family's personal soldiers quickly and secretly controlled the pigeon breeder, and at the same time set up a net in the pigeon breeder's house, waiting for someone to automatically send it to the door.
Until noon, they did not wait for anyone to come to the door, but waited for a pigeon with a letter tied to its leg.
The letter was succinctly written, the words were written in charcoal, crooked, and stained with blood, apparently sent in a hurry. The letter said that their operation had failed, that the Zhuangzi was not the target himself, that it was a trap, and that he had informed his accomplices in the city to leave as soon as possible, and that he should pay special attention to protecting the safe return of "Cai Ye".
The people of the Tang family were a little surprised, the enemy did not enter the house at all in the Zhuangzi, and they could still find out that it was a stand-in in the house, not Jin Jiashu himself. But that's not the point, the point is - who is "Caiye"?
Is this some important boss? Why haven't I heard anyone mention it before? What is his identity in the Sun family? What status? If he is caught, will he be able to hit the Sun family?
The most important thing is, where is "Cai Ye" now?
There are two main groups of people left in Chang'an City by the Sun family, namely the nurturing grandmothers and their maids, and the people in the new stronghold. The former are all female dependents, so is "Caiye" in the new stronghold? If he is used as bait, will the escapees take the initiative to send them to the door?
The people who monitored the new base also reported at this time, and there seemed to be seven or eight people in the new base, one of whom was about forty years old, and looked like he was dressed and behaved quite decently, claiming to be a businessman from the Central Plains, but more like a house slave or steward in a wealthy family in the capital.
There was also news from the prefect's yamen that the new base was a house that had been rented only two days ago, and the tenant was a wealthy businessman from outside, and that was just after the grandmothers went out of the city to meet with their accomplices.
This group of people claimed to have come to Chang'an City to purchase goods, but they had not been to the market or glass workshop for two days after entering the city, and only sent people to inquire about the news in the surrounding street area. Compared with the common Western Regions specialties and new in-demand glassware in Chang'an City, they were more concerned about the news of the two nurturing grandmothers, and wanted to know who they had been in contact with since they came out of the Tang family.
Such a move is not so much a concern for a companion as a surveillance snoop.
The nurturing grandmothers had obviously met with other Sun family spies outside the city, why did they look at them now, as if the accomplices didn't trust them much?
The Tang family's personal soldiers are still monitoring the two places of the upbringing grandmother and the new stronghold, waiting for anyone who comes to look for them, and they are also guarding against any of them from secretly escaping. It's a pity that the day has almost passed, and there has been no new movement from both sides.
After Haijiao repeated the current situation, he repeated the question that Xiaomei had just asked: "Xiaojin, what do you think?" What are the people of the Sun family doing now? Infighting? ”
(End of chapter)