"This is Xuan Niang's home!"
Before the fifth watch, Di Jin and Di Xiangling had already arrived at their destination.
Xuan Niang lives in a small house. Judging from the environment at home, it is unremarkable and very ordinary.
When he rescued Mrs. Lei that night, Di Xiangling was full of curiosity and followed the subsequent arrests of lame Li and Xuan Niang. He saw with his own eyes the nursing home and the government officials rushed into the house and grabbed Xuan Niang while she was still under the quilt. come out.
She has no make-up yet and is completely unrecognizable.
But in fact, it was a different person.
Di Xiangling thought of that scene and was a little surprised: "At that time, Xuan Niang had been replaced by the Zhu family. With the Zhu family's martial arts, she would definitely be able to detect someone entering the house, but she could still calm down and pretend Zuo knew nothing and allowed himself to be arrested by the government officials..."
Di Jin said: "She has the ability to escape from prison, so she can naturally accept being imprisoned. In this way, the Imperial City Department outside can't find her. This decision is not unwise... The Lei family has already gone through it. The scene was severely damaged!”
Looking at the messy house and the plowed earth in the backyard, he frowned.
The Lei family came here to search for the body. If Zhu killed her in order to replace Xuan Niang's identity, the body would not risk being moved to another place, and would definitely be buried at home.
But after digging through the soil in the backyard, no corpses were buried, and searching through the house, there were no secret passages, so those people left in despair.
"If Xuan Niang died, it would be Zhu who took advantage of her to kill her and replace her identity..."
"But since Xuan Niang is not dead, and Zhu dares to live in peace and take her place, it shows that the two have reached a tacit understanding, and the relationship between them must be close..."
After listening to Di Jin's analysis, Di Xiangling judged based on Jianghu experience: "They should come from the same sect. The superb disguise skills must be passed down. Zhu's Qinggong movement skills are not something ordinary Jianghu people can possess. She has a master who is good at martial arts.”
Di Jin asked: "What kind of...er, martial arts sects are there in the capital?"
Di Xiangling said: "It cannot be called a sect. The largest gatherings of Jianghu people in the capital include the Zhongyi Society, the Beggar Gang and the Pirates' Ghost Market."
According to her explanation, Di Jin also gained a better understanding of Jianghu groups.
The Zhongyi Society was the basis of the later Baojia Law. It was the elite of a village or a township who gathered under the call of a prestigious big family to deal with bandits and protect themselves. Chao Gai in Water Margin was a typical example, so in Baojia After the law was promulgated, he naturally became Baozheng.
As the name suggests, the Beggar's Gang is a gang composed of beggars and homeless people. Compared with the positive image of the Beggar's Gang in the martial arts world, in real history, this kind of organization hides evil and specializes in doing evil things.
The Pirate Ghost Market is a mixed bag of good and bad, good and bad. They occupy the underground ghost market formed by the sewers of Bianjing and form a trading place named Ghost Fanlou, hoping to create an underground rule and expand their influence.
To sum up, the Zhongyi Society is a positive Jianghu group, the Beggar Gang is a negative Jianghu group, and the Pirates' Ghost Market is both good and evil, with some rules, but not many.
Di Xiangling said: "If the Zhu family is not a spy from the Liao Kingdom, then she is like a member of the Ghost Market. These thieves are very powerful and have colluded with all parties. Even the Kaifeng Prefecture can't do anything to them..."
"Worry-free cave, right?"
Even if Di Jin has never been there, he is familiar with the name of this place. Never in the past dynasties has an underground force developed in the capital that even the imperial court could not control like the Song Dynasty. Every protagonist who traveled through the Song Dynasty had to deal with it. It was simply exaggerate.
And he is even better. He is still in Bingzhou, and he can actually meet the thieves from the ghost market: "The thieves came to Lingjin Court as a palace maid, do they want to steal treasures in the palace?"
Di Xiangling nodded: "It's not unusual. Eunuchs often steal good things from the palace and sell them. Female thieves from the palace work in the palace, and they cooperate with each other. Isn't it that the ghost market is regarded as the best place to sell stolen goods? This underground market The reason why the city is the size it is today is because of this!”
"So, could it be that this woman overheard some secrets in the palace and was arrested by the Imperial City Department? The raccoon cat..."
Di Jin suddenly had some kind of guess, but after thinking about it carefully, although that incident was rumored to be very mysterious in later generations, in contemporary times, it is not considered a secret, and it would not lead to such a big fight...
He put aside those thoughts, walked around inside and outside the house, and suddenly said: "Suppose that Xuan Niang is also a female thief who has an old relationship with the Zhu family, and the two women have a deep friendship and are willing to allow each other to take refuge, but Xuan Niang cannot hide for the rest of her life. Outside, she will come back eventually... How do the two girls communicate?"
Di Xiangling said: "The contact information of the stolen door is secret inside the door, and outsiders have no way of knowing it. Maybe Zhu has set a time, and when the limelight is over, Xuan Niang will come back, and the two girls will change their identities?"
"Maybe... this clue can't be investigated!" Di Jin shook his head and his eyes moved: "By the way, where is Xuan Niang's money?"
Di Xiangling didn't react for a while: "Huh?"
Di Jin said: "Xuan Niang participated in at least five kidnapping cases, and the ransom money was divided equally. It was a large amount of money. Chen Xiaoqi spent it on gambling, and Lame Li supported a large family. According to Mr. Mo's investigation , but Xuan Niang didn’t spend any money, so where did she put her money?”
The reward of three thousand guan promised by Lei Huhu has not been withdrawn yet because it is not safe to keep the money at home. In the same way, if Xuan Niang saves the money, she must find a safe place to store it...
Thinking of this, Di Jin walked out of the room, suddenly jumped up, came to the roof, looked at a house in the southwest under the moonlight, nodded and said: "Sure enough, I felt a little familiar here just now. I went to that house not long ago. Pass!"
Di Xiangling came to him and asked curiously: "Where is that place?"
"The outer residence of Hao Qingyu, the superintendent of Jinyang Academy."
Di Jin looked at the distance between the two: "That lady also lives in seclusion and never shows up in public. Hao Qingyu's money is also ill-gotten gains made by blackmailing college students, and neither of them can be seen in the light... If they get together in one place, no one knows what is going on." Don’t realize it!”
Di Xiangling's eyes brightened: "Let's go find out!"
The two of them immediately headed towards the outer house.
When they arrived at the house, they saw that the courtyard was completely dark, and there were no servants or maids guarding the house. Only a candle was burning in the house, giving off a soft light.
This is the style of rich families. Candles are lit all night so that people who get up at night will not bump into them.
But this time, the woman who was sleeping on the bed suddenly opened her eyes, and was shocked to find that at some point, a tall figure had stood in front of the bed, looking down lightly.
The woman's color suddenly changed, and she reached out to grab her back. Her body went numb and she could no longer move.
Di Xiangling controlled him in an instant, while Di Jin took the candle lamp and turned it from behind, illuminating each other's faces: "I'm disturbing my lady late at night!"
"It's you?"
At that time, under the threat of Lei Jun, the trembling wife of the foreigner had just woken up. She subconsciously changed her expression, her eyebrows were stern, and she gritted her teeth: "I didn't leave that time. I knew there would be trouble in the future. I didn't expect it would be you again." This scholar comes to your door, what are you going to do...do you want money?"
Di Jin smiled slightly: "I'm not interested in your couple's ill-gotten gains. I just came to get to know you again...Ms. Xuan?!"
