"What?"
Although Xiao Han had been mentally prepared before this, when Butler Lu actually said that his home had been robbed, he was still shocked and asked hurriedly: "What thief? What did they steal? "
"I still don't know which thief it was, I just know that he stole the calligraphy, paintings and ornaments from the house and ran away!" Butler Lu looked a little angry and a little scared.
As the chief steward of the Hou Mansion, he failed to take good care of the house and instead let someone sneak in secretly and steal the things! No matter where you look at it, this is a dereliction of duty on his part! That's why he behaved like this. Perhaps in Butler Lu's eyes, this wasn't stealing. This is clearly a slap in his old face!
However, Xiao Han didn't mean to blame him immediately at this time. He just frowned and asked carefully: "He only stole calligraphy, paintings and ornaments? Didn't he steal anything else? Didn't he go to the study or the back house?"
Of course, he said this not because he disliked the thieves for stealing too little, but because he was worried that this was not a simple theft.
Xiao Han is not afraid of stealing. As one of the most wealthy households in Chang'an now, even if he follows the thief, he probably won't be able to steal even one thousand percent of Xiao Han's property!
But the problem is, what if this person sneaks into the house not to steal things, but with ulterior motives? The consequences are not as serious as usual.
"Not really!"
The steward Lu who was asked obviously did not realize the meaning of Xiao Han's words. He just lowered his head in shame and whispered: "This abominable thief took advantage of the festival tonight to sneak into the second courtyard of the mansion and steal those people." The calligraphy, paintings, and small ornaments hanging on the guest room walls were all packed up and stolen away! Just now, a servant accidentally discovered that the wall was empty. When he looked again, he found that there were also some other valuable things missing. Only then did he know that someone had secretly stolen them. Came in!"
"Everyone is gone and they haven't been found yet? Where are the guards at home? What have they been doing! Have they neglected their duties?" After hearing what happened, Xiao Han's face became pale and he looked around with a gloomy look.
Although the Xiao Family Zhuangzi has slowly evolved from the state of a nearly completely closed military fortress to the state that an ordinary Zhuangzi should have, the defense of his Marquis Mansion has never relaxed for a moment!
In this mansion, even if it can't be called a post at five steps or a sentry at ten steps, it is definitely much more tightly protected than the homes of ordinary powerful people! Under this kind of protection, even if you want to sneak in, it will be extremely difficult, let alone being stolen by God or ghost! That's why Xiao Han asked Butler Lu if someone among the guards had neglected their duties, or even had an insider who was colluding with outsiders, both internally and externally!
"The guards in the mansion are on duty tonight and haven't noticed anything unusual!" Butler Lu opened his mouth and was about to speak when a deep voice came from the darkness behind him!
Immediately afterwards, Lao Qiu, holding a long knife, walked out of the darkness step by step, knelt down on one knee towards Xiao Han, clasped his fists and saluted: "My subordinate is not doing things well, please punish me, Lord Marquis!"
"Punishment?" Xiao Han narrowed his eyes slightly, and did not let Lao Qiu get up. He just stared at him coldly and asked: "Punishment is something that will happen in the future. Now I want to know that since we are on normal duty, there is no hope. , how did the thief get in? Could it be that, like a bat, he can fly with wings? "
"This..." Lao Qiu clenched his teeth, and a thin trickle of sweat appeared on his forehead. He hissed: "Of course thieves don't have wings! But I have just questioned all the people on duty tonight. I led others to search the entire mansion again, and finally discovered that the thief entered the mansion by climbing over the wall from the west courtyard!"
"Xikuoyuan? Zhang Qiang's house?" Xiao Han's eyes flashed when he heard this, and his voice could not help but be a little nervous: "No! If you climb over the wall from Zhang Qiang's house, you will definitely alarm the little Qi there! Why didn't it bark? Or did it come out too? What happened?!"
"Master, Xiaoqi is fine! Moreover, he didn't bark tonight..." When he said this, Lao Qiu's expression became strange: "Besides, my subordinate also discovered something strange. What happened! When we were searching for traces of the stolen rooms, we unexpectedly discovered Xiaoqi’s footprints, one after the other, as if they appeared at the same time as the thief’s footprints!”
"One after another, appearing at the same time?" Upon hearing this, Xiao Han felt his eyes darken, and he almost died of anger on the spot! This traitor dog, this traitor dog! Was he bribed by a thief to guide others?
Well, you really can’t blame Lao Qiu!
Because the West Cross Courtyard of Xiao Han's house is only separated from Zhang Qiang's house by a wall, most of the previous guests who were afraid of "wine hangover" also escaped from here.
And the biggest function of this wall is to make it easier for Xiao Han to see them being embarrassed!
Every time, after they struggled to climb up the wall and climbed to Zhang Qiang's house, as soon as they landed, they would be immediately arrested by Zhang Qiang, who had been waiting here for a long time, and continued drinking! Xiao Han would always be overjoyed, as if he had taken advantage of him, he couldn't hold back his smile for a while.
Therefore, in such a place, naturally there cannot be too many guards, otherwise, fools will not run away from here, right?
Moreover, in order to make it easier for them to escape from here, Xiao Han also deliberately built Xiaoqi's den here. Firstly, it is convenient for those people to step on the kennel and dig into the trap, and secondly, it also has some anti-theft function.
After all, with Xiaoqi's amazing sense of smell, smart brain, and strong body, taking care of the house and home is nothing! At least, it is much better than manual patrol!
However, who would have thought that trusting this dog so much would be in vain, but this dog would actually turn out to be such a dog!
Something really happened today, but not only did it not warn others, but it also showed people the way? How could this make Xiao Han swallow this breath!
"Where did this stupid dog go! I'm going to stew dog meat hot pot tonight!" Xiao Han, with a fierce look in his eyes, gritted his teeth and shouted angrily at Butler Lu!
He has roughly guessed who the thief is now!
But even if that kid really stole his own home, Xiaoqi, a stupid dog, shouldn't help an outsider deal with him!
This kind of rip-off behavior of eating one's own food and then smashing one's own pot will definitely not be tolerated!
"Then Xiaoqi, he should still be in the kennel, right?!" Butler Lu was confused. He didn't know that he was talking about thieves, but in the blink of an eye, it turned into a dog meat hot pot stew?
Besides, how many years has Xiao Han been talking about dog meat hot pot? Apart from anything else, Butler Lu felt that his ears were getting numb when he heard these words!
But that dog is still living well now. Not only has he not been killed, he has even gained a lot of weight. His body shape has almost turned into a legendary pig dog!
