Chapter 68 Night Exploration of the Liang Family's Old House
Crash!
Su Shan almost couldn't wait to run into the living room, and then saw Zhang Chongshan, who was also a little dignified, and the two of them didn't have any nonsense, the latter directly put all the detailed information obtained from the investigation on several cases, not a lot of news, and the main thing was a map of Chang'an City!
"I've already checked, after Song Shuci was killed, a person named Lu Qiu took over the Imperial City Water Division, and he only did one thing after taking office, that is, he adjusted the water intake route of the Water Division, look here!"
Zhang Chongshan pointed out a line on the map of Chang'an City, and said in a low voice,
"Originally, the water intake route responsible for protecting the fire in the eastern area of the city was Jingbei Street and Donghua Street connecting Donghua Gate, once a fire broke out in this area, the fire fighting water truck of the Imperial City Water Division would start from the Water Division here, pass through Jingbei Street and Donghua Street, and then go out of the city from Donghua Gate and get water from the moat!"
"And now, Jingbei Street has become Jingnan Street!"
Su Shan slowly swept across the map along the route pointed out by Zhang Chongshan, his brows furrowed slightly, as if talking to himself, and as if discussing with Zhang Chongshan, and said in a low voice,
"Qinghongyuan is in the north of the city, that is to say, if a fire breaks out in Qizhen, the water truck of the Shui Si Ya would have passed through Jingbei Street, and Lu Qiu deliberately changed the route to Jingnan Street, so the key should be on this Jingnan Street! Do me a favor and send me the details of Jingnan Street!"
"No problem, I'll send someone to the household department to get it, all the situations in the entire Chang'an City are recorded in detail!"
Zhang Chongshan's swarthy face showed a thick solemnity, and he turned around and walked out of the living room, while Su Shan continued to stare at the map of Chang'an City carefully, and squinted his eyes to think, he had a feeling that he seemed to be close to the truth of the matter, as long as he broke this situation again, maybe there would be a way to pull out Lijinglou!
"All the files on Jingnan Street, give!"
About an hour later, Zhang Chongshan returned to the living room with several thick piles of files, which were half a person high, carefully tied with ropes, and covered with thick dust, which were records of all the buildings in Jingnan Street, etc., for nearly thirty years!
Chang'an City - Jingnan Chronicle - Thirteen Years
Chang'an City - Jingnan Chronicle - Twenty-three Years
"Chang'an City - Jingnan Chronicle - New Eight Years"
Su Shan didn't have too much politeness with Zhang Chongshan, he directly untied the ropes on those files, and then began to look at the files from thirty years ago, these chronicles recorded things are all major events that have happened in Jingnan Street over the years, time, and place, all recorded in great detail!
Even the change of ownership of each house and so on are recorded very clearly!
However, there is too much news about these files, Su Shan reads it slowly, he has been from morning to evening, when the night came, the light in the room became dim, and some could not read the handwriting clearly, Wang Yun and Zhang Chongshan helped him light the lamp again!
The firelight flickered, Su Shan's brows furrowed even more solemnly, and just when Zhang Chongshan was a little tired and wanted to go back to rest, Su Shan's body straightened up suddenly, and there was a hint of joy on his face, he was busy pulling out a file that had been sealed for about ten years, and said,
"Found it!"
Zhang Chongshan hurriedly came over with great curiosity, Su Shan held the file in one hand, and pointed to the map of Chang'an City, in the center of Jingnan Street, where there was a very large mansion, he pointed to the house and whispered,
"Here, thirty years ago, it was the mansion of the Liang family of the first auxiliary minister Liang Yuguo, when the Wuyangmen changed, more than 300 people of the Liang family were killed, and this old house was bloody, and since then it has become an empty house, a ghost house, and thirteen years ago, a rich businessman in Jiangnan bought this house!"
This wealthy businessman had never lived in this mansion, but until half a year ago, he suddenly came to Chang'an City and renovated and rebuilt the entire old mansion with great fanfare...... At this point in time, it is about the same time as when Qinghua killed Song Shuci, plus this is the old house of the Liang family, I guess, this must be related to the fire of the Treasure Society, as well as Lijinglou!"
"The old house of the Liang family, what you said is very reasonable!"
Zhang Chongshan listened to Su Shan's words, and his dark face also showed a more obvious solemnity, the curiosity will be on fire, the water intake will be changed to Jingnan Street, and there is also the old house of the Liang family on Jingnan Street, all of this seems to be implicated by a line, he can't wait to find this line, and hurriedly said,
"I'll send someone to take a look!"
"No, let's go!"
Su Shan suddenly grabbed Zhang Chongshan's arm, and said with a solemn gaze,
"If my guess just now is correct, there must be people from Lijinglou in the old mansion of the Liang family now, and there are quite a lot of them, if others go, it will be easy to be exposed, at this time, you must not startle the snake!"
"Good!"
Zhang Chongshan felt that it made sense when he heard Su Shan's words, and nodded seriously!
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The night is deep, there is not a trace of starlight in the dark sky, the cold wind is whistling on the dead street, blowing on the face has a knife-like cold feeling, looking along the night, Chang'an City has been completely asleep, only the occasional sound of barking dogs, drifting with the wind!
Su Shan and Zhang Chongshan were both wearing tight-fitting black night clothes, and half an hour later, they appeared at the door of the Liang family's old mansion in the dark night, and looked at the dim light, the mottled door of the mansion was firmly closed, and the plaque scraped on the door had already been removed, and the emptiness looked a little depressing!
And even the stone lions of the two town gates standing at the gate are missing claws, ears, and even gouging out their eyeballs.
"We go in from the side, be careful!"
Su Shan carefully observed the front door for a moment, and could vaguely hear footsteps walking back and forth behind the door, he expected that there must be someone guarding behind the door, so in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, he took Zhang Chongshan towards the small alley on the southeast side.
Before coming, Su Shan had already made the streets around the Liang family's old house clear through the map, and after a moment's effort, the two walked through a narrow alley and came to the east side of the old mansion, leaning against the courtyard wall and listening carefully to it for a while, without finding any movement, the two jumped onto the courtyard wall!
There was not the slightest starlight in the sky, and the clouds gradually became solemn, and the two jumped to the roof that was closer to the two of them by the courtyard wall, and carefully lay on it, looking towards this mansion, it was worthy of the old residence of the first minister thirty years ago, even if it was abandoned for so long and overgrown with weeds, it still revealed the luxury and grandeur of the year!
The mottled carved fences and jade masonry, the rockery pond covered with weeds, and the bamboo forest that has now withered, the deep and winding paths, etc., are all scenes that cannot be seen in ordinary mansions, Su Shan has spent time in the palace, and after taking a look, he can't help but marvel in his heart, this mansion is prosperous when it is prosperous, I am afraid that it is not much better than the emperor's back garden!
"We've come to the right place!"
After observing the old mansion for a while, the corners of Su Shan's mouth were raised, and a smile appeared on his feminine face, but Zhang Chongshan on the side didn't see anything, so he couldn't help frowning and asked in a low voice,
"What do you see? We haven't gone in yet?"
"Even if you don't go in, you know that there must be ghosts inside!"
Su Shan lowered his body for a moment, and explained in a particularly slight voice,
"In the file sent by the household department, it was said that the rich businessman who bought the old house of the Liang family was ready to move in half a year ago, and planned to renovate and reorganize the old house, and he also reported to the household department, and brought in a lot of sand and gravel, it stands to reason that after half a year, the weeds in this house should have been cleaned up a long time ago!"
"But if you look inside, there is no trace of any movement, what do you say is not a ghost?"
"yes, it's not like it's going to be repaired and rebuilt!"
After listening to Su Shan's analysis, Zhang Chongshan's dark face also showed a look of understanding, he swallowed slightly and spitted, and said with some nervous expectation,
"Let's go in and have a look!"
"Let's go!"
The two of them flew up and swept along the roof towards the depths of the courtyard, the area of this house is really not small, it occupies two-thirds of the entire Jingnan Street, the two of them carefully observed inside, it took about half a quarter of an hour to find some clues!
"There's movement there!"
Su Shan took Zhang Chongshan to lie on the top floor of a pavilion, and the two quietly raised their heads and looked into the depths of the courtyard, only to see more than a dozen craftsmen busy in the depths of the courtyard, and even if the sky was so dark, there was no fire around them, obviously doing extremely secret things!
At the same time, around these craftsmen, there were also guards who were not weak, they all held knives in their hands, and they couldn't see clearly in the deep night, but they could vaguely hear their gloomy and cold voices.
"Be honest, within half a month, these carriages will be assembled, and you will be sent home, and the silver will be given to you a lot, if you can't do it, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being polite, let alone silver, you can't even get out of this door!
"Yes, yes, yes!"
As the words of several guards fell, the craftsmen all spoke out in horror, and then the movements of their hands significantly quickened a lot.
"Carriage?"
On the gazebo, Su Shan listened to the words of those guards, couldn't help frowning, his eyes swept over those craftsmen, and finally landed on a clearing next to him, where about four or five carriages were placed, but they were not the same as ordinary carriages, not carriages behind, but empty roof baskets!
"It's ...... Waterwheel?"
Frowning and staring for a moment, Su Shan suddenly reacted, these carriages are not normal carriages, but the same as the water trucks of the Water Division to get water to fight the fire, at this moment, the Qinghong Courtyard Treasure will be on fire, the Imperial City Water Division will change the water route, and these water wheels, etc., all the clues are flashing in his mind quickly.
After a moment of trance, a thick light flashed in his eyes, and there was even a hint of ecstasy, and he whispered,
"I know what Lijinglou is going to do!"