Chapter 559, Tunnels Under the Floor
On the edge of Deyun Street in the east of Luye City, there is an inconspicuous small courtyard, but it is only a second courtyard, the head of this family is surnamed Guan, named Guan Yicheng, who is about 30 years old, has always lived in a simple house, and rarely has contact with outsiders. The neighbors only knew that the boss of Guan Yicheng had opened a grain store in the west of the city, and the name of the grain store had some meanings, called Guanjiazhuang, but even if the neighbors and the boss met at the door, the boss just nodded and smiled shyly. When the neighbors chatted, they slandered in private, and the boss lived like a!
Since the Jiangzhou soldiers entered the city, the boss Guan has been a little reluctant these days, and his petite and delicate daughter-in-law only thinks that the boss Guan is afraid that the Jiangzhou soldiers will rob him of his grain if they run out of food one day. So his eighteen-year-old pretty daughter-in-law kept comforting him, "Master, it's okay, even if the grain store really robs those Jiangzhou soldiers, let's go to King Wei's Mansion to complain, I heard that King Wei is very considerate of the people!"
When the boss heard that his daughter-in-law said that he was going to Weiwang's Mansion to complain, his eyes immediately became confused, and he said: "Our little grass people, how can King Wei take us in his eyes? I'm afraid that if the complaint is not filed, the ass will be smashed by the guards of Weiwang's Mansion! Lady, the officials protect each other, those officers and soldiers are all Wei Wang's subordinates, and they came to rob the city on the orders of Wei Wang, how can he be the master for us?" Those people say that King Wei is good, but it's all hearsay, I heard that King Wei is a person who kills people without blinking, and he has killed many people in Jianzhou, and he will soon be killed in Luye City!"
The daughter-in-law of the boss Guan Yicheng is the second lady of the Qu family, a wealthy man in the city, named Qu Wenting, the acquaintance of the second miss Qu and the boss is very legendary, that is the year before last, Miss Qu Er went to the Delong Temple more than 100 miles away outside the city to make incense for her grandmother to make a vow, and when she came back in the afternoon, she met a group of robbers on the official road. When Miss Qu Er heard that someone dared to rob in broad daylight, she was immediately frightened.
Miss Qu originally thought that no matter how arrogant those thieves were, they wouldn't do it in broad daylight, right? So the Qu family didn't send many people to escort Miss Qu Er. In addition to the two personal maids, there were four people, Qu Long, Qu Hu, and their daughters-in-law, as a result, Qu Long and Qu Hu brothers and the thieves started to move, and the two of them were chopped into meat by the thieves.
The road to heaven is endless, and when he was in a panic, Guan Yicheng, who happened to escort the grain truck passing by here, met him. Seeing that the obscene-looking bandit leader was about to attack a beautiful young lady, two men and two women had been killed on the side of the road.
The remaining 20 or so thieves were still not satisfied, stepped forward to fight, Guan Yicheng was powerful, one by one, and cut down more than ten bandits, the remaining dozen or so thieves saw that the situation was not good, shouted, and ran for their lives, Guan Yicheng did not chase, fearful of the plan, only stepped forward to rescue the frightened Miss Qu Er, Miss Qu Er opened her eyes, saw that Guan Yicheng was also carrying a knife, thinking that he was also a thief, and fainted again, Guan Yicheng was helpless, so he had to blow manually to wake her up, Qu Wenting saw Guan Yicheng, and shouted "The king spares his life!"
Guan Yicheng couldn't cry or laugh, and replied: "This girl, under Guan Yicheng, is the boss of the grain store steward in the city, but she is not a thief and a grass thief, you see, those thieves and grass robbers who came to rob you have been hacked to death in Xia!"
Miss Qu Er sat up tremblingly and took a look, and sure enough, she saw more than a dozen corpses on the ground, and she was too frightened and fainted again. Guan Yicheng was helpless, and the men from the grain store first escorted more than a dozen truckloads of grain into the city, and he personally drove Miss Qu Er's carriage to follow the city. On the way, I asked the two maids whose daughters they were, so I woke up Miss Qu Er again, and personally sent Miss Qu Er and the two maids back to Qu's house.
The Qu family is naturally very grateful to the boss who has the grace to save his life, but Miss Qu Er is not angry, and she fainted again after arriving home, and she also had a high fever and talked nonsense, which was obviously caused by excessive fright. This big boss Guan Yicheng is also a little familiar with medical skills, and he can also use some techniques of Zhu You's thirteen departments, and after seeing the state of Miss Qu Er, he said that he was scared and lost. So the boss drew talismans and chanted spells, and really summoned Miss Qu Er's soul back, Miss Qu Er was scared to death by the group of mountain bandits, and finally met this life-saving benefactor, and she had to marry him alive or dead.
Qu Yuanting, the master of the Qu family, saw that his second daughter insisted on marrying, and this boss had a solid family background, high martial arts, and handsome appearance, so he had to cheekily ask the boss if he had started a family? Guan Yicheng said with a smile: "Don't hide it from Uncle Qu, the little nephew has always followed his father to the north and south to do business, and the father died unfortunately, and the little nephew only settled in Luye City in the past two years, bought a small house, opened a grain store here, and is ready to continue to do it." I used to run around, and I didn't care about marriage, so that in my twenties, my pillow was still empty!"
Qu Yuanting heard that the boss Guan had not yet married, and he was really happy to fall from the sky, so he hurriedly asked cheekily: "This time, I will be rescued by my virtuous nephew, otherwise my little daughter will inevitably fall into the hands of thieves, and the consequences will be unimaginable! If the virtuous nephew is interested, she doesn't think that my second daughter is ugly, but she is willing to be a concubine, I don't know what the virtuous nephew wants?"
Guan Yicheng hurriedly stood up, "Oh, what did Uncle say! The second miss is so young, beautiful and beautiful, and has a good family background, how can she be a concubine? Since Uncle Meng and the second miss will not give up, Guan is willing to marry the second miss Ming Media home!"
Qu Yuanting was overjoyed and conveyed Guan Yicheng's words to Miss Qu Er, and Miss Qu Er was also overjoyed. The two families invited a matchmaker, changed the Geng post, chose a good day and an auspicious day to achieve good things, Miss Qu Er married into the housekeeper, and the husband and wife were together, like glue and paint, and two years had passed in a blink of an eye. Luye's surroundings are not peaceful, Guan Yicheng relies on his high martial arts, and escorts food into the city from time to time, Miss Qu was still a little worried at first, but later saw that her husband did have the ability to kill robbers and bandits many times, so she was relieved.
Boss Guan, who looks like a weak scholar on the outside, can have a good martial arts, Miss Qu is also quite puzzled, when she asked Guan Yicheng, Guan Yicheng only said that his ancestors were generals and ancestral martial arts, and Miss Qu did not doubt it. Except for the occasional go to the grain store and occasionally escort the grain, the boss is bored at home the rest of the time, practicing martial arts, or accompanying his daughter-in-law, and he does not see guests, and even the neighbors rarely see him. I only know that the boss has a young and beautiful daughter-in-law, who is the second lady of the Qu family, a wealthy man in the city......
Guan Yicheng sighed, "Lady, I don't have anything else to worry about, I'm just worried that you are so young and beautiful, and now there are Jiangzhou soldiers and horses in the city, if they are bandits, I will have to fight them back, but if King Wei's subordinates hit your idea, they are officials, they are officers and soldiers, can I still kill officials? Therefore, it is better for us to show up less! Since I care about someone's virtue in my previous life, and I can marry such a young, beautiful, hard-working and capable little daughter-in-law, then I naturally have to focus on my daughter-in-law!"
When Miss Qu heard him say this, her heart was sweet and she smiled, being in her husband's house, it was naturally her husband who was in charge, and the husband and wife discussed it at home, so they didn't go out these days. Not only did he not go out, Guan Yicheng also instructed the maids and servants at home to go to the east and west wings less. Naturally, the maid and servant woman did not know what the situation was, but the old man commanded, who would dare not obey? Therefore, in the past few days, even the maid and maid rarely came out.
But just after lunch that day, under the floor of the east wing of the second courtyard of the boss's house, there was a knocking sound. There was a maid named Jin Dou who just walked outside the east wing, heard the floor of the house knocking, startled, panicked to report to the lord and Mrs., happened to Guan Yicheng came over, saw that the maid's face was not right, just about to ask her, the maid Jin Dou poured beans into the bamboo tube, and told the master about hearing the abnormal noise. Guan Yicheng kept a calm face and let the maid Jindou lead the way.
Jin Dou led the way in front, led Guan Yicheng into the East Wing, entered the East Wing, Guan Yicheng looked back to see that no one saw it, bolted the door of the East Wing, turned around and grabbed the maid's neck, the maid Jin Dou was so shocked that she couldn't shout if she wanted to. Guan Yicheng looked hideous, and screwed off the maid's throat and put the maid's body aside. As if nothing had happened, he came to the bright room and lifted the floor.
It turned out that there was a tunnel under the floor, and five people had come out of it. The man at the head was dressed in a scribe's uniform, with large triangular eyes and dark skin, followed by four retinues. This man with a pair of big triangular eyes saw Guan Yicheng and said dissatisfiedly: "Master Luo, why did we knock for so long before you came?"
Guan Yicheng, who is known as the master of Luotang, arched his hand, and said with a smile on his face: "Lord Niu, Lord Niu, I was talking to my wife in the house, and I heard the sound of the floor in the east wing, so I hurried out, but a maid in our family had heard a strange noise, and was about to go in to report it, so I had no choice but to trick her and kill her, in case the news leaked!"
It turned out that the person who came up from under the floor turned out to be Niu Mandi! Niu Mandi smiled bitterly: "Master Luo, you are ruthless enough, you are worthy of being a killer, you say that you will kill people, and you don't blink your eyes!"
It turned out that this hall master was Luo Yuhan, the hall master of the Jiannan branch of Luoyu Pavilion, who had been lurking in Luye City, and it was this Luo Hall Master who sent the killer Ye Zhiqiu to assassinate Tang Jiusheng a while ago. This Luotang master has a pseudonym and surname Guan, and he has opened a grain store here to be invisible, and he has the identity of the son-in-law of the Qu family, a big family in the city, and the second lady of the Qu family as a cover, and no one will suspect him. Only a few people, such as Niu Mandi, knew his true identity.