Chapter Twenty-Three: Tracing the West07 Tao Zhong's Old House
"Liang Tou'er, Zhang Tou'er, why are you two still outside?" Ren Tianbai chased the corner of the street, but the yamen of the Criminal Department rushed out of a catcher, looked left and right, chased all the way to the corner, looked at the two catchers and said: "A few adults in the department are still waiting, the two of you should hurry back!"
Liang Tou and Zhang Tou just discussed that they wanted to find a Qinglou to drink flower wine, find two fans, and talk about Huazhou, but they were also unhappy to turn around, but they didn't notice that Ren Tianbai had been following, but they returned to the yamen of the criminal department with a black face, and Ren Tianbai had to stand at the door of the yamen of the criminal department stupidly, a little helpless!
However, just eavesdropping for a while, Ren Tianbai already knows a lot about Huazhou, in short, this matter has to fall in Huazhou, and Tao Zhong must be found, plus the poison of the sea snake, Wei Qinghuan is afraid that he will also go west, secretly pondering for a while, then turned back to his residence, rested for a night, and turned to Huazhou!
The farther he went west, the more Ren Tianbai felt cordial, after Fenglingdu, he heard a rural sound, Ren Tianbai couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes, and a sense of nostalgia went straight to the top door, he had never been away from home for so long since he was a child! Although he still went to Huayin first, there were still dozens of miles away from Huazhou, but after all, he had already arrived at the ground of his hometown, entered Huayin City, and he didn't care about it, he found a small restaurant, and talked about the countryside with red eyes: "Boss, come to a bowl of noodles, more garlic!"
A bowl of oily white noodles fell into his stomach with a few cloves of garlic, Ren Tianbai gradually came back to his senses, looked at the shopkeeper and said, "Shopkeeper, ask, Tao Zhongtao catches his head, where do you live?"
"Tao Catcher, there is only one escape head in this city, not a Tao catcher!" The shopkeeper smiled when Ren Tianbai asked, but when he spoke, Ren Tianbai was puzzled to hear it, and he was a little surprised: "Shopkeeper, aren't all Tao Catchers talking about?"
"It must be different!" The shopkeeper said with a look in his eyes: "If you want to say that we were the head of the Tao Catcher back then, then I naturally recognize it, in this Huayin City, how to say that he is also a man, but if you want to say that this head of the escape, what is it? I don't know what great cases I encountered, I didn't let a fart go, so I sneaked away, and I don't know what he thinks!"
Ren Tianbai thought about it, and couldn't help but smile, only then did he understand the meaning of the shopkeeper's successive pottery catchers, it seemed that one of them was talking about escaping, so he took out a piece of silver and put it on the table and said: "I don't care if he is a pottery catcher or a runaway head, you only tell me where he lives?"
"It's not far away!" The store just sent a guest out, while cleaning up the table, his eyes glanced at Ren Tianbai's table and said: "Just in the alley in front, go out, turn left, it turns out that the three tiled houses next door to the Cheng family's compound are!
"I just have to find someone, but I don't have the time to find this ingot of silver!" Ren Tianbai got up and smiled, put this ingot of silver on the table, and went out to go, the store was stunned, took the silver and chased it out, there was still a person to be found, but there were regular customers in the store who smiled: "Boss, this is to meet a high roller, a bowl of noodles is less than one or two silver!
The shopkeeper also looked outside, took the ingot of silver in his hand and said: "You don't want to think about taking advantage of me, this guest may bet this ingot of silver on me first, and borrow copper money later, or return it to others!"
Ren Tianbai followed the direction pointed by the store, looked all the way over, and when he arrived at the Cheng family's mansion, he knew that this was Cheng Zhutou, and now the house of Cheng Zongzhu in Huazhou, the three tile houses next to it, in fact, were also the things of Cheng Zhai back then, and later Tao Zhong worshiped Cheng Zhutou as a teacher, and became Cheng Zhutou's right-hand man, to find a place to live in the city, only to rent these three tile houses to Tao Zhong in the middle, in fact, this house is still the property of the Cheng family!
The door of Cheng's house was closed, Ren Tianbai was too lazy to go to Cheng's house, so as not to be known by Cheng Zhutou, and it was another right and wrong, but the three tile houses where Tao Zhong lived were wide open, and there was no chain head, and it was even more messy inside, Ren Tianbai slowly walked in, and saw that all the cabinets in the house were opened, and many winter and summer clothes were thrown outside, mostly shabby, it can be seen that the master's family is very anxious, which is also Tao Zhong's hope in the county, so no one comes to his house to disturb, if it is another person, the home is so open, and the house has already been moved by the thieves!
"Who are you, what are you doing here?" Ren Tianbai was investigating around the house, someone outside the door suddenly snorted coldly, when Ren Tianbai turned around, he saw that it was an old catcher dressed up, carrying a waist knife, looking at himself vigilantly, and hurriedly said in a local dialect: "Big brother, I am Tao Zhutou's buddy, I know that he has no whereabouts, so I here's to take a look!"
"Man, are you his buddy there?" Lao Zhukuai was still a little wary, but when he heard Ren Tianbai talk about going out of the countryside, he knew that he was not from other places, and his tone softened slightly; "I know all his guys in Huayin City, why haven't I seen you?"
"Oh, I'm a friend of his Huazhou City!" Ren Tianbai said unhurriedly: "I went out a few days ago, and I just came back, I heard about Tao Zhutou, so I came to take a look!"
When he said Huazhou City, Lao Zhukuai's face was even more relaxed, and he nodded, and he didn't stop him, but just let Ren Tianbai walk around the house, or casually ask a few words about Huazhou, but in fact, he was also testing whether Ren Tianbai really came from Huazhou, but unfortunately most of these people were difficult to Ren Tianbai, and he actually asked and answered, but if there were some changes recently, he said that he was out of the house, and he didn't know three words to prevaricate the past!
"Are you really Tao Zhutou's buddy?" Seeing that Ren Tianbai replied like a stream, the vigilance in his heart had already dissipated, but he still had some doubts: "What is your name, can you tell me?"
"Don't hide it from the old man!" Ren Tianbai looked at no one around, this old catcher didn't look like a suspicious person, and arched his hand towards the old catcher: "It's Ren Tianbai below, and he has some friendship with Tao Zhutou, and when he was in prison, he was also taken care of!"
"Ren Tianbai, are you ...... The old catcher's face was suddenly shocked, and he stared at Ren Tianbai for a long time and said: "Back then, Cheng Zhutou said that you kidnapped his daughter and put you in Huazhou Prison, everyone said that you were cruel-minded and vicious, and you came out with this method just to repent of marriage, only Tao Zhutou often said that you are not such a person, and you will never do such a thing, and you have defended it a few times, but at that time, Cheng Zhutou was confused, if it is you, Tao Zhutou has no way, every day sighs, and his expression is in a trance for a long time!"
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