The magistrate led people to break open the door and rushed in.
Whether it was due to the decline of his family background, the Lu family did not have many servants.
After entering the door, there was not even a single person in the large courtyard.
"Sir, what's going on?"
A government official asked as he looked at the empty courtyard. Logically speaking, this person who had just been intercepted could not be so quiet.
"Whatever, search!"
Suddenly everyone began to enter various rooms and rummage through boxes and cabinets.
Not long after, the woman Gu Jiu saw that night was brought out. In addition to her, there were two servants, a man and a woman, and a paralyzed middle-aged man.
"What are you going to do, Lord Magistrate?"
the woman asked, standing in front of the man in the wheelchair.
"You robbed the court in public and despised the imperial court. You should be punished! Out of friendship, I can give you some immunity, but now you must hand over Lu Qiuzhi immediately!"
The woman smiled with a sarcastic and unconcerned expression.
"Our Lu family is in a state of decline. Now these are the only people left in this big courtyard. Sir, look at which one of us has the ability to rob the law field!"
"If you don't believe it, then search it. If it is found, we will admit it, otherwise you have to apologize to our Lu family in front of the people of Yuncheng."
"I have agreed."
After searching carefully for half an hour, nothing was found. Not to mention people, even the silver was only fifteen taels.
Gu Jiu looked at the broken silver in front of him and didn't notice the silver he gave away that night.
Already spent?
But no one from the Lu family went out all day yesterday.
"Impossible, keep looking!"
Seeing that he was about to find nothing, the magistrate immediately took action personally and searched every house.
Gu Jiu looked at the woman, who was still calm and calm, even giving people a nonchalant air that it had nothing to do with her. As for the man in the wheelchair, his eyes were half-closed from the beginning, and he looked calm and composed as if everything had been arranged.
Can……
If someone didn't bring him back to the Lu family, there couldn't be no signal from Shaobaisi.
Discovered?
It's not such a waste, is it?
Gu Jiu followed the county magistrate and watched him carefully check room after room.
The Lu family is very big, with at least forty or fifty rooms. Some houses looked like they had not been lived in for a long time, and there was a thick layer of dust.
Gu Jiu entered the kitchen. The kitchen area was about 60 square meters and looked very clean overall.
Gu Jiu knelt down and reached out to touch the stove. It was almost the same as the stove at Lu Qiuzhi's home in Jingchangkou.
greasy.
When raw meat is roasted, fat will leak out. Over time, the fat will be adsorbed to the surrounding stones.
Gu Jiu endured the psychological discomfort and groped inch by inch.
Suddenly, she seemed to have pressed something, and the stone under her finger was dented, and then a small click sound suddenly came from the room.
Following the sound, Gu Jiu soon discovered that one of the stone slabs was three millimeters higher than the surrounding ones.
Lift it hard.
There is a secret passage under the stone slab.
After confirming that no one was around, Gu Jiu quickly entered the secret passage. And took out a torch from the space and lit it.
But after walking a few steps, a fork appeared in front of him. Gu Jiu looked at the three identical roads in front of him and felt confused for a moment.
Which way should we go?
After thinking for a while, I randomly chose the one on the left, but after walking for three minutes, there was another fork not far away.
This... if my memory is bad and I can't remember what I chose, I might actually be trapped inside.
For the sake of safety, Gu Jiu chose the leftmost path.
At the fifth fork, Gu Jiu suddenly heard a knocking sound. Someone on the right seemed to be tapping to find the way.
Gu Jiu leaned close to the wall and listened carefully.
Knocking back a few times with his hand, the other person seemed to be stunned, followed by several muffled sounds.
Gu Jiu suspected that it was Shao Baisi, so he retreated along the original route and changed to the rightmost road.
"Shao Baisi!"
Gu Jiukankan leaned aside to avoid the folding fan and shouted.
Looking at the fan stuck in the soil, Gu Jiu's eyes widened in shock - this fan also had a blade!
"How did you find this place?"
"There is a secret passage in the Lu family's kitchen. Are you lost?"
Shao Baisi hummed in embarrassment: "Lu Qiuzhi and those others are all dead, but no money has been found yet. Have you found any?"
"No." Gu Jiu shook his head: "The county magistrate almost turned the Lu family upside down and found more than a dozen taels of silver. I suspect they hid the money here."
Shaobaisi was silent for a moment and said: "There are too many forks here, and it is impossible to explore them all in a short time. You go back first, don't let the magistrate discover this place, and we will come in later to investigate carefully."
"OK."
Returning along the original path and climbing up the stairs, Gu Jiu carefully opened the stone slab and climbed out after making sure no one was around.
"Master Magistrate, you have searched and searched. Now that you have found nothing, you should give us an explanation!"
The woman stepped forward to stop the magistrate and said.
The magistrate glanced at her, then at the person in the wheelchair, and said: "The scope is too large, and I don't have enough manpower to complete the investigation in a while."
He looked at the people he brought with him and said, "You guys stay here to continue investigating. If you find anything, go back to the Yamen immediately."
"yes!"
Then, the magistrate looked at Gu Jiu again and said, "Xiao Jiu, you should go back first. This place is too chaotic and not suitable for a young girl like you who has not yet left the government. If anything happens, I will send someone to tell you!"
Gu Jiu nodded.
The magistrate's words were nothing more than a feeling that the time was ripe, whether Gu Jiu or not was the same.
What's more, he once asked Gu Jiu if she was loyal to the imperial court, and she agreed. In this case, he should get more of this benefit, after all, he is serving the imperial court!
Since he didn't know where Shaobai Si would come out of the Lu Mansion, Gu Jiu went directly back to the bookstore and waited for Shao Baisi to join him so that he could discuss the next step of action.
Halfway through, I saw a large group of people gathered together from a distance.
"Hurry, hurry! Someone is going to jump into the river! I heard she is a young lady from a wealthy family!"
A man ran past him, excitedly dragging his companions to watch the "fun".
A wealthy family? Could it be Shi Yuyan?
Gu Jiu followed the crowd and squeezed in. Following the noise, he saw the boats in the river below.
On that crude ship, which could even be called a broken ship, there were two figures standing on it. Judging from their body movements, they were having a heated argument.
"Isn't it just a sleep? We have to do it after we get married, so what if it's a few days earlier? But you, do you know what Shi Qiusheng did to me at that time?"
"I'm asking you something! Speak!"
Although Shi Yuyan was pampered by Shi Qiusheng and grew up, she had a tutor after all, so she couldn't say bad words.
She wanted to take action when she couldn't scold him, but how could she, a woman, beat Gu Zheqi? She was thrown off the boat by Gu Zheqi within two seconds.
The people on the bridge gasped when they saw this.
Shi Yuyan can't swim.
Gu Jiu glanced at the ship not far from the broken ship, and Shi Xuyao who jumped off it and retracted the foot he had just taken.
"Just watching the excitement."
Gu Jiu's heart tightened, and he frowned and looked at Shaobai Si: "If you show up like this a few more times, sooner or later I will be scared to death by you."
"Let's go."
Shao Baisi had no intention of watching the excitement and squeezed into the crowd just to drag Gu Jiu away.
After getting out of the crowd, Gu Jiu asked in a low voice: "That's your fiancée, right? You don't care at all?"
"in spite of."
"Then your sense of responsibility is a bit weak."
Hearing this, Shao Baisi paused slightly, turned to look at Gu Jiu and said seriously: "It doesn't matter whether I have feelings for her or not, just that after she knew that she had a fiancé, she still expressed her feelings to others in front of everyone. .On this point, I won’t care about her.”
Gu Jiu nodded without any hesitation.
"You do not believe?"
"We have a cooperative relationship, and this does not affect cooperation. Besides..." Gu Jiu thought about the scene where he asked her to marry him before, and continued: "In this aspect, you two are evenly matched."
After saying that, Gu Jiu seemed to have thought of something and suddenly stopped.
Gu Zheqi's behavior of pushing Shi Yuyan into the water in front of Shi's family was tantamount to playing with fire and burning himself.
Although he is not smart, he is not that stupid!
The only explanation is that he feels hopeless and doesn't want to live anymore.
If a person doesn't want to live anymore, he can do anything. If he, Gu Zheqi, had not died in the river today, he might have burned down her library if he climbed up!
"What’s wrong with you?"
Shaobai Si looked at Gu Jiu, who seemed to be about to explode in the next second, and wondered.
"I remembered something big!"
After saying that, Gu Jiu left Shao Baisi behind and plunged into the crowd again.
At this time, Shi Yuyan had been rescued, but she looked like she was dead...
Gu Jiu recalled the squeaking and screaming noises made by everyone just now, and then looked at Gu Zheqi who was soaking in the water.
Could it be that this person saw Shi Xuyao coming and was afraid that Shi Yuyan would not be drowned, so he jumped down on purpose to drown Shi Yuyan before Shi Xuyao came over?
Thinking of this possibility, Gu Jiu took a breath.
Although Gu Zheqi had done this, Shi Qiusheng would definitely kill him; but in view of Shi Qiu's two mistakes before his death, in order to prevent Gu Zheqi from burning down his shop before his death, Gu Jiu decided to give him a ride.
"You said the big thing is to watch two people fighting in the water?"
"Yes!" Gu Jiu nodded very seriously, took out a needle from the space, stuffed it into Shao Baisi's hand, and said in his ear.
"Did you see the man in white clothes in the water? Do you have the ability to make him die immediately?"
Shaobaisi: "Huh?!!!"
"I realize that I can no longer compare you with ordinary women, because even men are rarely as vicious as you."
Gu Jiu: "...why do you praise people so harshly? Just tell me, do you have this ability?"
"No."
Hearing this, Gu Jiu immediately took back the silver needle. I really overestimated him. I thought he had the ability to hurt people by flying leaves and picking flowers as shown in the novel!
"You won't be afraid of falling if you stand so close."
"I'm good at water."
"Oh~"
Shao Baisi's voice had an obviously elongated ending, and Gu Jiu suddenly felt strongly uneasy. Before she could turn around, Shao Bai Si "squeezed" her out.
"no need to thank me."
These were the last words Gu Jiu heard before he lost weight.
Gu Jiu: Shao Baisi, please wait! It would be unworthy of a gentleman not to avenge this!
