The county and county yamen in the city dispatched all the officials to arrest quickly, and even the people and Zhuang used them, looking for the whereabouts of Master Fan and the arrest fast, the captain of the city gate strictly guarded the four gates, and checked all the people and vehicles who went out of the city, and even the captain of Songshan also led troops to the streets, searching for suspicious people everywhere, and shouting for two days, but there was no clue. The acting county shou Long Shiyuan was anxious about the tea and rice, and there were two big bubbles in his mouth, and he had already sent someone to quickly spread the news to the Wei Wangfu, asking the Wei Wangfu to send someone to support quickly. Fan Zhixian's identity is special, and Long Shiyuan does not dare to hide it.

At the entrance of the Yamen of Songshan County, the door can be full of birds, deserted, the county magistrate has lost it in the past two days, and the county Cheng Yue Song presides over the affairs, Yue County Cheng is a famous family, nearly thirty years old only mixed into a small county Cheng, has already been dissatisfied. However, before the cattle were all over the place, he was helpless, but now it is different, it is King Wei, as long as he has the ability, he may be reused, of course, he has to perform well.

Especially now that the magistrate of the county has been kidnapped, if he can take the opportunity to crack this case and rescue the lord, he will definitely be rewarded by the Wei Wangfu, and his promotion is just around the corner! Yue Xiancheng, who is enthusiastic about solving the case, has not left the county government for two days, and ordered two local soldiers to come to his house, brought all the quilts, and even slept in the second hall.

On the morning of the third day, Yue Xiancheng, who was sitting in the county government, was meditating, and Hu Si, the official of the government, dragged the water and fire stick in his right hand and a letter in his left hand, and ran into the second hall in a panic, shouting excitedly while running: "Yue County Cheng, Yue County Cheng, the one who wants money is here, the one who wants money is here!"

Yue Xiancheng, who was looking at the case file and pondering in front of the public case, was taken aback, raised his head and saw that it was Hu Si, a servant, and couldn't help frowning: "Hu Si, how old are you, you are still so unstable, and you have no head to speak! What is the reason for money?

Hu Si ran to Yue Xiancheng's side, handed the letter in his left hand to Yue Xiancheng, and said excitedly: "Yue Xiancheng, this is a small rice flower sent by a small man, saying that a masked man gave him five taels of silver, and specially instructed him to send it to the county office, saying that this letter is related to the county magistrate, and instructing him to deliver it! That little rice flower was taken to the class room by Bai Laosan and they are being carefully interrogated!"

Yue County stood up, took the letter, and quickly took out the letter, which was a piece of rice paper, and unfolded it. I saw crooked words written on it, "Tomorrow afternoon, outside the city of Tulonggang, you send someone to put down 1,000 taels of silver, leave, we will naturally release people on the spot! If you dare to send officers and soldiers to ambush, we will tear up the ticket!"

Yue Xiancheng sneered, "What a bold man, in broad daylight, he dared to kidnap the magistrate and arrest Kuai, and ask the government for ransom, I think you are impatient!" Yue County Cheng Xing rushed and said: "Bring that little rice flower to the second hall, don't scare him, don't bully him!" Hu Si quickly nodded yes, and ran out to ask for food.

After a while, Bai Laosan and other seven or eight soap class and fast class officials escorted the small ones to the second hall, one by one, as if they were facing a big enemy. Yue Xiancheng laughed secretly in his heart, this county magistrate has lost it, and everyone is going to be scared to pee. Especially Qi Bantou, Bai Laosan and Lu Laowu are the parties, and they are as anxious as ants on a hot pot, for fear that there will be some mistakes between the adults and the catchers, and they will be implicated again. Although it is said that the yacha is cheap, but there is oil and water fishing in the yamen, although the life is not enough compared to the above, but there is more than the bottom. If you lose your errand because of this, how wronged!

The officials protected the little one to the second hall, the little one had never seen the official, he originally received five taels of silver, the person who asked him to send the letter only said that he wanted him to send the letter to the government, and the word was passed on to a government official even if the task was completed, he could go, who thought that he would be detained by the official, which scared him a lot. When he arrived at the second hall tremblingly, he found that there was a pleasant-looking official sitting on it, not only did he not let people beat him, but also asked people to move him to a seat. He has seen this battle when he is a little begging for food, his legs and stomach are tendoned, and he dare not sit alive.

Yue County ordered people not to scare Xiao Yao, give him food to eat, give him water to drink, asked him some questions about the person who gave him five taels of silver, asked the person's physical appearance, accent, where he came from, and so on. Yue Xiancheng groaned for a long time, let the little one let go, and the five taels of silver were also returned to him, and the little one kowtowed and left happily. Five taels of silver, that's a huge amount of money, and he can completely improve his life.

Bai Laosan was anxious as if he was something, blushing and arguing with Yue Xiancheng: "Lord County, are you just letting this little beggar go? We still have to count on him to take those two kidnappers! Ouch, my lord, you are too gullible to be credulous, this little beggar must be in the same group as them!"

Yue Xiancheng smiled slightly, and said confidently: "Bai Laosan, you are not in a hurry, this county Cheng has its own clever plan! You just go back to the class room and wait for the news!" Yue Xiancheng looked at the two officials and beckoned: "Lu Heqing, Yu Youzhen, you two come here!" The two officials didn't know what the county official was going to do, so they came to the county Cheng lord together, Yue Xiancheng said in a low voice: "You two change into the people's clothes, go out and keep an eye on the little begging for food, don't let him find out, see who he contacts all day, and come back at night to report me!"

The two errand servants were ordered, went back to change clothes, and followed the little begger for food. Yue Xiancheng didn't dare to hide it, and hurriedly took someone to report the situation to the county guard yamen, but before he left the second door, someone came in to report, saying that the county guard was coming. Yue Xiancheng hurriedly went out to greet him, and welcomed the county guard into the third hall, Long Shiyuan heard the news, and he was also in high spirits, and hurriedly called the masters of the two yamen over, and everyone discussed countermeasures. Since these kidnappers can't hold their breath and ask for silver, isn't this an opportunity to catch them all?

It's just a little headache for everyone, Tulonggang outside the city is a loess hill, there is no shelter, it is impossible to ambush the brigade of people, even if you send a few masters to go, but there is no place to hide, what should we do? Everyone is gossiping, and they don't have a clear idea. But the acting county shou Long Shiyuan was worried.

Later, Guan Yiwen, the master of the county government, proposed: "Lord Long, Lord Yue, I think we should send people over to reconnoiter from a distance today, and don't get close to Tulonggang! Looking at some people from a distance, it is impossible for them not to send someone to get the silver, according to what the letter says, they will have to hand over people later, so how can they not send people out? As long as some of them get there, it will be easy to do so, as long as we can catch their comrades, we will not be able to catch this gang!" Long Shiyuan subconsciously stroked his chin and groaned.

Yue Xiancheng shook his head and said: "Old Guan, this matter is not so simple, although they agreed to be in Tulonggang, but you have to think a little farther, what if you go to give someone away is like this little beggar today, what if you spend money to buy it? If this is committed, they will be caught by the government, and they will definitely be at least executed!"

Long Shiyuan nodded, and said with a lonely face: "Lao Yue's consideration is not unreasonable, I'm really afraid that Master Fan will make a mistake, how can I explain to Wei Wangfu? What Lao Guan said is also reasonable, let's just do both, Tulonggang only sends a few masters to watch from afar, and they are not allowed to show their faces to startle the snake, and here we will arrange two capable people to send silver! As long as it is a fox, we don't have to be afraid of him if he shows his tail sooner or later!"

In the evening, Lu Heqing, the official who followed Xiao Yaofan, came back and reported to Yue County Cheng that the Xiao Yao Fan had no contact with any abnormal people, but just quietly bought a roast chicken and bought a few oil cakes to improve his life. Yue Xiancheng nodded, and asked him and Yu Youzhen to continue to monitor the little begger. Lu Heqing received the order to go down, Yue Xiancheng leaned back in his chair and pondered, it seems that this clue can't go on, maybe the little food is used by the thieves to divert the attention of the government, and it is unknown.

Songshan City near the north gate has a small courtyard house with two entrances, it is the house of the rich man Mo Datou, Mo Datou is a dye business, the year before last from Luye City, opened a branch in Songshan City, and set up a house, Jinwu Zangjiao raised a beautiful concubine here, Mo Datou is not here for half a year. No, Mo Datou is not here for a while, only the beautiful concubine Fu Yumei and a few maids live here. There are a few male servants living in the inverted room in the outer courtyard, but the rules of the Mo family are very strict, and the male servants are usually not allowed to enter the hanging flower door.

In the main room of the Mo family, the young and beautiful hostess Fu Yumei was sitting precariously, looking at the two middle-aged men kneeling in front of her with a majestic face, and scolded angrily: "Xie Yingdong, Wang Chengbao! You two are so bold! The previous order from the hall master was to assassinate Fan Chenglin and Luo Fengyang, and the two of you dared to make your own claims, and kidnapped the two of them and asked the government for money, are you two ghosts confused? The lobby mainly knows about this matter, whether the money can be spent is a trivial matter, and the heads of the two of you have to fall to the ground!" When the time comes, Lou Zi will be stabbed, and even we will all have to suffer!"

Xie Yingdong, the big man kneeling on the ground, was the one who kidnapped Luo Fengyang and Fan Chenglin, and when he took off his mask at this time, his face was vicious, and he was not a good person at first glance. Xie Yingdong kowtowed and said: "Fu Die, it's too late to say anything now! I also complain that our brothers shouldn't lose money in betting, they are in a hurry to lose, and they want to make some money to turn over the book, Brother Chu Shan has already taken Luo Fengyang and Fan Chenglin out of the city, and he is ready to get the one thousand taels of silver and slaughter the two of them on the spot, so as not to miss the orders of our hall master!"

The little man Wang Chengbao also said: "Fu Die, one person does things and one person is responsible, if the hall master is really blamed in the future, and he does not blame others, our two brothers will naturally bear it together, and we will never affect Lord Butterfly and Mr. Mo!"

Fu Yumei sighed, "What do you say! Even if you admit that you did it privately, won't I have to bear the charge of lax control? How long has Chu Shan been out of the city? Is it too late to send someone to catch up with him now? If those two people want to be killed on the spot, how can they still exchange them for silver? Even if you two lose money in gambling, you two can't be so red-eyed as to joke with your own lives!"

Xie Yingdong and Wang Chengbao glanced at each other, shook their heads together, and said, "Brother Chu Shan has been taking them out of the city for at least two or three hours, and now it's definitely too late to chase them! Maybe they have already arrived at Tulonggang outside the city by now!"

Fu Yumei stood up, stumbled to her feet and said, "You two, I'm afraid that you will spoil the big things of the hall master and the prince! Forget it, I will personally go out of the city to chase them! May God bless Chushan from accidents!"