At this time, the sky had completely darkened. Except for the lanterns hung high in front of some wealthy houses in the market, other areas of the street were still extremely dark.
After the young master of the Chen family was kicked out by his father, he just cursed and walked towards the dark alley and flower street.
And when his back disappeared into the depths of Flower Street, a middle-aged man wearing a blue official uniform looked embarrassed and stumbled towards Flower Street.
If you look carefully, you can see that this man is the inspector who was pointed out by Shang Yunjin at noon today as having close contact with the Chen family.
No one knew how this inspector appeared here. He ran all the way, his forehead was soaked with beads of sweat, and his expression was even more panicked. As he ran, he only looked back from time to time, His expression was frightened and wary, as if there was some monster chasing and devouring him behind him.
I don’t know how long he ran. After seeing the door of Chen’s house, the inspector immediately slapped the door of Chen’s house loudly.
At this time, the Chen family's master had just driven away his son, and the Chen family's wife had an argument with him again.
"Master, it's getting late. Even if you want her to come back, you shouldn't kick out Zha'er so late! What should we do if Zha'er has an accident? Is this the only child we have now?" Chen The wife just cried and cried.
For some reason, Chen Shoubei's already irritable heart only became more irritable when he heard Mrs. Chen's cry.
"Child? Child? You only talk about this useless traitor all day long. If you hadn't only had this traitor, I would have kicked him out! What do you think this traitor has besides eating, drinking and having fun every day?"
"And you too. Normally this traitor doesn't take Chang Yunjin seriously, but you actually follow him and do all the mischief! If this traitor really returns to Anxi, then there will be no need for help. You have enmity with the governor of Anxi! Do you think this will be of any benefit to us then?"
Allowing her husband to scold her, Mrs. Chen just cried weakly. After a moment, she whispered, "Wasn't she very obedient before? Who knew she would be like this this time? Besides, I am close to Zaier." Life is completely different from before. We have treated her so much better, but she is not grateful. Instead, she turns her back and makes further progress. This shows that this person does not deserve to be treated well."
Hearing Mrs. Chen's words, Chen Shoubei suddenly sneered, "Is it too much to push the envelope? I guess you have been grudges for a long time, right?"
After saying this, at the same time, Menzi trotted over and said at the door, "Master, an adult who claims to have an old acquaintance with you has requested to meet you. He said he has something important to talk to you about. explain."
After hearing this, Chen Shoubei obviously didn't want to talk to Mrs. Chen about his rebellious son anymore, so he just glanced at Mrs. Chen and said, "You go in, I have a guest."
After hearing this, Mrs. Chen could only leave unwillingly.
After Mrs. Chen entered, Chen Shoubei waited silently for the man to come in.
In just a moment, the man was led into the main hall with gray tiles and white walls by the Chen family's servants. Chen Shoubei, who was sitting in the main seat in the hall, only glanced at the other person and immediately changed his gloomy look. , just stood up with a smile and said, "Brother Jian'an, why did you think of coming to visit late at night?"
It was obvious that he knew this green-clothed official. He only invited him to sit on the Taishi chair next to him. At the same time, he only motioned to his servants to hurry up and bring tea.
Li Jian'an had no intention of joking with Chen Shou Bei at this time. After he took his seat, he asked in a deep voice, "Did Shou Bei know that a big disaster will befall you this time?"
Hearing this, Chen Shoubei immediately asked in confusion, "What's the trouble? Aren't I doing a good job?"
"If you were aware of it, it wouldn't be a disaster." The official in green sighed in a low voice.
Seeing that the other party's expression didn't seem to be fake, Chen Shoubei immediately became serious.
"What kind of disaster is that? Brother Jian'an, please give me some advice as soon as possible." Chen Shoubei said in a low voice.
Naturally, Li Jian'an stopped trying to be pretentious. He just whispered, "We are going to eat at a restaurant after noon today. Guess who we met?"
"Who did you meet?" Chen Shoubei asked in surprise.
After hearing Chen Shoubei's inquiry, Li Jian'an naturally stopped trying to keep it secret. He sighed in a low voice and said, "I met someone."
I arrived at a woman who claimed to be your daughter-in-law. She was on the run from your order. "
After hearing Li Jianan's words, Chen Shoubei immediately asked, "Where is the tavern you mentioned? Do you know where that woman went?"
Seeing Chen Shoubei so nervous, Li Jianan knew that the other party must really be his daughter-in-law.
Although he didn't know what happened to the other party and Chen Shoubei's son. However, he still answered Chen Shoubei's inquiry immediately.
"Shen Yiqiu rescued her at that time, and then she asked Shen Yiqiu to take her to Anxi Prefecture."
Upon hearing this, Chen Shoubei suddenly stood up from his chair, "You said she is with Shen Yiqiu?"
"Yes, and I didn't know until after I came here that Shen Yiqiu might want to make trouble through what happened in Leiyang City. If we don't treat him carefully, we might fall into his trap."
"And it seems that Shen Yiqiu came here this time to investigate the reselling of weapons in the city."
Upon hearing Li Jianan's words, Chen Shoubei fell completely silent.
"I only found out about this today. Guard, I have to remind you that they can't let them take advantage of this matter! Otherwise, you and I will be finished!"
Upon hearing what the other party said, Chen Shoubei only said coldly, "I understand."
After the words fell, Li Jianan then said, "By the way, I took great risks to come here this time. Thanks to your wife, now they all know that I am yours, and they are here at the moment." You are wary of me, so you can’t let those people go back smoothly, otherwise there will be endless troubles.”
Hearing Li Jianan's words, Chen Shoubei only nodded.
But then he still asked, "Can Shen Yiqiu be with you?"
Li Jian'an just shook his head slightly when he heard this. "On the way back today, he took the lady to who knows where? He said he would take the lady to a safe place. Although I followed him carefully, but the other people at that time But he was leaning against me, so I had no idea where Shen Yiqiu had gone! I didn’t even know whose subordinate this Shen Yiqiu was. If you really want to gain something, my suggestion is that you should transfer those people Just find a reason to detain him!"
Upon hearing Li Jianan's proposal, Chen Shoubei only looked at him meaningfully.
However, this state did not last long. Chen Shoubei nodded, "I will go find them. Brother Jian'an, in order to avoid any accidents, why not stay at my house and wait for news."
After hearing Chen Shoubei's proposal, it was clear that Li Jian'an had exactly what he planned. Therefore, not only did he not refute Chen Shoubei's proposal, he immediately agreed.
And with Li Jianan's intelligence information. Chen Shoubei immediately arranged for his servants to find the city guards.
After finishing these chores, while waiting for the arrival of the city guards, he only headed towards the inner room. However, at the moment, he passed the inner room without entering. On the contrary, at the moment, he only left the guards around him. They were all sent away.
Then, when he was the only one left in the long inner street, he walked into the deepest room in the inner room and gently pushed the door.
Then an inner room filled with sundries and books and bamboo slips suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
Looking at the inner room, he was obviously not unfamiliar with it. He just closed the door of the inner room, and then came to a bookcase. The seemingly ordinary bookcase filled with bamboo slips actually hid a mechanism.
Chen Shoubei only moved the bamboo slip away, and within a moment, a small mechanism was revealed under the bamboo slip. He turned the mechanism, and an iron box suddenly popped up from a certain wall. The color of the box was almost the same as the wall. Color, if it hadn't popped up suddenly, most people wouldn't be able to tell that the small piece of wall was any different from an ordinary wall if they didn't observe carefully.
As soon as Chen Shoubei saw the box pop open, he immediately dug out a blue-covered account book hidden in it. He was relieved when he saw that there was nothing wrong in the account book.
This time, he just stuffed the account book into the iron box again and locked it carefully again.
After doing all this, he immediately put the bamboo slips back to their original places.
Fortunately nothing was lost.
At the same time, he just left here immediately.
Not long after he came out, the messenger said that the city guard was visiting.
So Chen Shoubei just locked the door tightly, and then he immediately followed the housekeeper to see the city guard.
But when he left, he didn't notice a figure in black squatting on the big banyan tree in his yard. As soon as the man in black saw Chen Shoubei leaving, he jumped down from the tree in a hurry.
At this time, he sneaked into Chen's mansion quietly like a ghost.
He first came to the room that Chen Shoubei had entered just now, and then he used the copper wire to search for the lock. In just a moment, the lock was easily opened.
The man then quickly entered the utility room in the inner room. Perhaps he should be grateful that Chen Shoubei could not trust anyone, so there was not even a guard here, so he could enter without disturbing anyone tonight.
Then the secret guard quickly found the hiding place of the account book according to the direction in the picture.
And it didn't take much effort. He quickly found the place where the ledger was hidden.
After opening the iron box, he only hurriedly flipped through the account book. After making sure that this was the one he was looking for, he just stuffed the account book that his master asked him to forge into the iron box.
After doing all this, he immediately pretended to be the same as before, and then he locked the door and left.
And when he left, he didn't feel anything strange in the inner room.
At this moment, this secret guard can almost be said to be coming and leaving in a grand manner.
During this period, he encountered almost no decent obstacles.
