Chapter 72: The Old Story of Wu Mu (4)

Hua Yuwu said: "No wonder Master hasn't darts anymore in these years, he has done these things."

Qing Fei said: "You, Boss Xu, are also the leader of the Vermilion Bird Hall, why did you let Senior Ma do everything?"

Xu Huchao laughed and said: "Although I haven't been looking around, I have also done a big thing, if I hadn't done this, how could Brother Ma have escaped under the imprisonment of the forbidden army."

Qing Fei said: "Then your work of drilling holes and tunnels is not as dangerous as that of Ma seniors."

Lu Huichun stopped Qing Fei with his eyes and said, "The master of the Ma Hall should be the most familiar with the Martial Musi among us, isn't his arrangement just to deal with the duties of each hall?"

Tie Lang had an epiphany: "This Martial Pastor Division has been arranged exactly like this since the seniors set up the four halls, and it is understandable that the two seniors perform their own duties."

Qing Fei saw that everyone was biased towards Xu Huchao, so he said angrily: "You lost my grandfather Wan, and you still don't tell me where you are, but are you sorry?"

Tie Lang's choked face turned red, and he was about to explain, but Lu Huichun said: "Qingfei, don't be rude, if Brother Tie doesn't say it, there must be a reason why he doesn't say it."

Qing Fei stomped his feet away angrily, but Hua Yuwu ignored the two of them arguing, only grabbed the question of Shicai and then asked Xu Huchao: "Boss Xu, then what do you think my master is most likely to do?"

Xu Huchuan pondered for a while and said: "I always thought that he would go to meet you, but when I heard you say that you were chased all the way by the Jingbian Army, such a big movement, Brother Ma must have already noticed it and warned you." Now it seems that he should not go west, then the most likely is Kong Fang's side."

Tie Lang asked, "What is wrong with this Kongfang's Xuanwu Hall?"

Xu Huchuan said: "In these four halls, Brother Ma of Qinglong Hall is the deputy hall master, Brother Baihu Tang is the deputy hall master, and although I was the hall master at the time, I was a new entrant, so I didn't enter the palace on the night of the burning of the treasury, but Kong Fang was the hall master of the Xuanwu Hall, he should have died on the night of the burning of the mansion, but Brother Ma found out that he was still alive."

Tie Lang was puzzled: "Senior Ma is the deputy hall master, so if you don't join the hall council, how can you only know that Kong Fang is the hall master of Xuanwu Hall?"

Xu Huchuan groaned: " This matter is a long story, the hall master of Qinglong Hall is inconvenient to deal with many things due to his special identity, and Brother Ma often enters the hall as a deputy hall master, at that time, each hall master will not meet, thanks to Wan Wuhou tandem ventilation, Brother Ma should not know Kong Fang, but just a few days before the burning of the treasury, Brother Ma went to ask Ying to enter the palace to raise things, Wan Wuhou just didn't allow it, and finally reprimanded Brother Ma a few words and drove him out, Brother Ma did not leave, just wanted to wait for Wan Wuhou to dissipate his anger, and then go in to theorize, and happened to see Kong Fang enter the courtyard of Wan Seniors, but at that time I didn't know that he was Kong Fangโ€

Tie Lang nodded and said, "How did Senior Ma find Kong Fang's traces?"

"This incident was also five or six years ago, when Hua Shi's nephew should still remember that there was a big merchant who went from Kaifeng to Hangzhou to take a dart, and this dart took two years in a row, and the return was rich," Xu Huchao recalled.

"Hangzhou Zhiming Building?" Hua Yuwu exclaimed.

Xu Huchuan nodded and said, "It's Zhiming Building."

Hua Yuwu was so impressed that they took two years to finish the darts, of course, the three-point dart game also received a return of a thousand taels of gold, but does that Zhiminglou have anything to do with Xuanwutang?

Xu Huchuan continued: "At that time, Brother Ma was naturally very interested in such a big business, and after getting the commission, he went to Zhiming Building to thank the big boss."

Tie Lang nodded and said, "Then the big boss is Kong Fang?"

Xu Huchuan nodded and said, "At that time, Brother Ma just felt familiar when he saw Kong Fang, and he didn't remember who it was?" Xu Huchao paused and turned to look at Hua Yuwu and asked, "Yuwu, do you remember what the darts that Zhiminglou let you go for two years are?"

Hua Yuwu said embarrassedly: "I know what Boss Xu said, it was the autumn of the first year of darts, the dart car just entered the Xuzhou border of Jingxi Road, and encountered a rainy day for a month, and the official road was particularly slippery, and the following dart master accidentally turned over a bag, after the bag rolled out, there was a rare little rice and a large number of valuables inside"

Lu Huichun said tentatively: "It's all gold and silver?"

Hua Yuwu nodded and said: "Although we vaguely guessed that there were other things in this bag according to the weight when loading the ship, but there are rules in the dart game, except that the master knows what is really inside, others don't know, so guessing is guessing, when I really saw it, I was still dumbfounded, and the bag was broken and scattered all over the ground, with bright dazzling eyes."

Tie Lang couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, and asked, "Are all the bags you have shipped to Zhiming Lou in the past two years?"

Hua Yuwu said: "Mostly, there are still some good herbs, spices and silk rosettes, totaling more than 5,000 boxes, and it took two years to ship."

Xu Huchuan said: "No, it hasn't been shipped for two years, and there are almost half of them in Kaifeng City."

As soon as Xu Huchuan said this, everyone was stunned, and Hua Yuwu asked, "How does Boss Xu know?"

"First of all, where did this Zhiminglou dart come from?" asked Xu Huchao with a strange smile.

"The Tianyi grain shop on Mahang Street is separated from our dart bureau by a mile, saying that the rice transported by the owner from the south cannot be sold, and it can only be transported back to the south," Hua Yuwu said.

Lu Huichun smiled and said: "This matter is always difficult to get over, where is the reason that the rice from the south cannot be sold in the north, and where is the reason that the grain has been transported for two years."

Xu Huchao followed: "Brother Ma also feels that he is tired, and where there is a reason to transport grain, he will give a reward of 1,000 taels of gold."

Tie Lang said, "But how can these prove that they were done by Xuanwu Hall Kong Fang?"

Xu Hu said with a smile: "It's a coincidence, I connected the three-point dart game and the Karakumi Hall in Kaifeng City, and dug a secret passage out of the city, just in case, who knew that I took a few people to dig for two years, and it was connected to the previous secret passage."

Tie Lang suddenly realized: "This secret passage leads to the palace at one end and at the Tianyi grain shop at the other?"

Xu Huchuan nodded and said: "At first, we weren't sure where the other end of the secret passage was, because the exit of the secret passage collapsed, and then I had a plan and ordered someone to put black medicine at the end of the secret passage to explode and take a look, how are you going?"

Lu Huichun asked in surprise: "Have you blown up the collapsed secret passage?"

Xu Huchuan shook his head and said: "That's not true, Brother Ma and I knew in the cave that it must have entered the inner part according to the direction and length, but we didn't know where it led to the inner hall, and when we detonated the black medicine, we didn't hear any movement anywhere, and it took a few days to hear rumors from the people in the palace that there was thunder in the inner vault at night."

When everyone heard this, they suddenly nodded in understanding, and said, I see.

Xu Huchuan then said: "If these are not sure that Kong is the master of the Xuanwu Hall of the Wumu Division, then there is the next thing, that is the spring of one year, I and Brother Ma went to the Shangqing Palace to play in the spring, although the Shangqing Palace rarely goes, but the host has had a few encounters in Kaifeng City, and the host made me and Brother Ma a guide, explaining the scenery in the Taoist temple one by one.

When we arrived in a palace called the Four Divine Temple, Brother Ma and I were stunned, because what was enshrined in this hall was actually the four divine beasts of the Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu. In the end, when it came to Xuanwu, the host actually called Xuanwu the Divine Monarch of Zhiming."

At this time, everyone sighed, and said in their hearts, this Kong Fang actually changed a vague name to Xuanwu Hall, if it weren't for this old way, no one would have thought that this Zhiming Building actually had the meaning of Xuanwu Hall.

Tie Lang exhaled deeply and said: "In that case, Zhiming Building is Xuanwu Hall, it seems that I am going to visit this Kong Fang."

Hua Yuwu asked in a low voice: "Boss Xu said that Zhiminglou did not transport all the treasures, so where is the rest?"