All major intelligence agencies in later generations love to use honey traps or honey traps.
For example, the KGB specially trained women - "Swallows" - to seduce their targets with their beauty.
There are also men who specialize in seducing targets with their beauty - "Crows".
In order to set up a clever game, Chang Feng sent Fatty Xu as the Fat Crow.
Although Fatty Xu looks ugly, when he lowers his head, he can only see his big belly but nothing else. But he has the status of the Duke's eldest son, and he is also Chang Feng's brother in life and death.
Yan Paner longed to sleep with the people around Chang Feng.
If a person is honest and upright, it is not easy to pull him into trouble. Then drag everyone around him into the water first. Yan Paner knows this well.
In short, starting from tonight, Fatty Xu and Yan Paner will have a bed-to-night friendship. In the next few days, the two became inseparable.
At noon this day.
Fatty Xu came to Chang Feng's room listlessly.
Chang Feng had already prepared Wolfberry Three Whip Soup for Fatty Xu: "Ah! My Fatty, I can tell at a glance that you have suffered a lot these days!"
"Hurry up and drink some soup to replenish your body. This is a recipe for replenishing soup that comes from the palace."
Fatty Xu asked: "What kind of tonic soup is this?" After speaking, he picked up the bowl and drank it all in one gulp.
After drinking, he wiped his mouth and burped: "Hiccup, why does this soup smell so noisy?"
Chang Feng said perfunctorily: "It doesn't matter what kind of soup. Good medicine is bitter and good for the disease, and divine soup is good for the body."
Fatty Xu sat on the chair and stretched out: "Damn it, that Yan Pan'er is just a female seductress who eats men's flesh and drinks men's blood."
Chang Feng asked: "Have you figured out her bedroom?"
Fatty Xu replied: "I figured it out clearly. I haven't seen the account books or anything like that. She can't put something so important in the open."
"However, there is a copper box in her room, which is quite suspicious."
Chang Feng quickly asked: "What kind of copper box?"
Fatty Xu replied: "It is three feet square. There is no lock on the door of the box, only a copper button in the style of Bagua. I don't know what it is."
Chang Feng blurted out: "The red copper bagua box! In the ninth year of Hongzhi, the Sichuan Salt Tea Ceremony was investigated. Paoze, who inspected the Qianhu Office, found one from his house in Chengdu."
"This copper bagua box is said to have been made by Fang Fanghuang, a famous lock maker from Jiangnan. The copper box has a skin three inches thick and weighs three hundred kilograms, making it impossible for thieves to steal it."
"Only by following a certain order of the Eight Diagrams and turning the copper button six times can the copper box be opened and the contents of the copper box taken out."
Fatty Xu said: "I guess that big guy will be difficult to move. What are you going to do?"
Chang Feng said: "Feng Gouzi who inspected Qianhu Station is good at picking locks. When the time comes, let him go with the people from Miaoshou Sect."
Feng Gouzi, thirty years old. Check the general banner of Qianhu Station, the famous "lock idiot" in Wei. My favorite thing in my life is collecting rare locks in the world. Naturally, he is best at picking locks.
Once he made a bet with Qianhu, the prison warden. Only a piece of iron wire was used to open the big locks of the seven prison doors.
Chang Feng led Fatty Xu to the Qianhu Inspection Station.
There are fourteen thousand households in Jinyiwei, and Chang Feng's favorite thing is to inspect the thousand households. This is where he started.
The robes he inspected at Qianhu Station were always different from those of other Tiqi.
People in Jinyiwei who have experience working for Qianhu are often better than others in promotion.
The two came to Feng Gouzi's room. There are strange locks everywhere in the duty room.
Feng Gouzi was immersed in opening a seven-ring shrimp tail iron lock.
Chang Feng shouted: "Gouzi."
Feng Gouzi's nickname is Feng Wanquan. His parents may have followed the teachings of the ancient sages - a bad name makes a living. He was given the nickname "Gouzi".
Wei Zhongpaoze made fun of his nickname at first. As time went by, no one called him tuba anymore.
Feng Gouzi raised his head and took a look. He quickly put down the lock in his hand, stood up and held it in his hands: "Master Chang, Master Xu."
Chang Feng asked: "Do you understand the copper bagua box from six years ago? Can you open it?"
Feng Gouzi said confidently: "Master Chang, you said it was six years ago! If I hold an ordinary lock in my hand for three days, I can figure out the strange principles."
"The secret lock of the copper bagua box is extremely delicate. It took me three months to figure out how to open it."
"If I encounter this strange box again, it only takes me a moment to open it."
Chang Feng smiled and said: "You are indeed a lock idiot. I have an errand for you. Come here with your ears."
Chang Feng and Feng Gouzi explained this and that.
Yan Paner's dividend meeting will be held in seven days.
Six days later at night.
There is an inn across the street from the Fujian Chamber of Commerce. It's called "Quanliu" Inn. The auspicious meaning of withdrawing money comes like a spring.
Changfeng has booked the Quanliu Inn.
At this moment, he was standing by the window of an upper room, staring at the Fujian Chamber of Commerce opposite.
Zhang Cai walked up to Chang Feng and said, "Master Chang, we are ready. Do you want to start?"
Chang Feng nodded: "Do it!"
Let’s talk about Yan Paner’s bedroom.
Fatty Xu and Yan Pan'er were chatting with each other, and they were about to blow out the lamp and pull out the wax. They were getting dirty.
Suddenly, a loud gong sounded in the hall: "It's on fire! It's on fire!"
Yan Pan'er was shocked: "What's going on?"
Fatty Xu let go of Yan Pan'er in his arms: "My dear sister, I'm scared, wait until I go out to investigate!"
A moment later, Fatty Xu broke into the bedroom with four warriors in royal robes.
Fatty Xu said: "Ah! In your Fujian dialect, you are dead! My dear sister, you have offended someone, right? Someone set a fire in the outer courtyard and they want to burn you to death!"
Yan Pan'er remained calm in the face of danger: "How's the fire going?"
Fatty Xu said: "The fire has been controlled in the outer courtyard. But I'm afraid that some assassins will take advantage of the chaos and enter the inner courtyard to assassinate you!"
"The first safest place in the entire capital is the palace, and the second safest place is the Imperial Guard."
"Good sister, I will take you to Jinyiwei first to avoid the limelight! After the fire is extinguished, the robes will catch the assassin, and it won't be too late to come back."
Yan Pan'er immediately realized something was wrong: "What kind of guards are you going to? Can't you just send a few more people to guard my door?"
Fatty Xu ignored Yan Pan'er at all and gave an order to his warriors: "Why don't you invite Mrs. Lin to the Jinyi Guard quickly?"
Four strong men swarmed up and forced Yan Pan'er out of the bedroom.
Fatty Xu came out of the bedroom and shouted: "There are assassins who set fire to harm the people of the Fujian Merchants Guild Hall! Take everyone inside and outside the guild hall to the Jinyi Guards for protection!"
With the fat man's order, it took hundreds of warriors two moments to clear the hall.
Across the street, Chang Feng saw Yan Paner being carried out of the clubhouse through the window.
Yan Pan'er shouted hysterically: "Xu Guangzuo, what do you mean? I won't go to Jinyiwei, I won't go!"
Several strong men forced her into a small sedan chair.
Chang Feng told Zhang Cai: "Let the people from the Miaoshou Sect start!"
Several people broke into Yan Paner's bedroom. The leader is Shi Jian, the deputy head of the Miaoshou Sect.
On the autumn night of the 22nd year of Chenghua, Shi Jian went to Cai Shilang's residence and stole the letter box from the air. He was in his prime at that time, in his thirties.
Now he is already fifty years old. The temples are already turning gray.
Shi Jian was followed by Feng Gouzi from Jinyiwei.
Several people lit candles. According to what Fatty Xu said before, the copper gossip box in the bedroom was found.
Shi Jian made a "please" gesture: "General Feng Qi, show your strength to our brothers."
Feng Gouzi put his ear against the copper box and put his hand on the Bagua copper button.
Every time he turned, his ears heard a "click".
Feng Gouzi muttered: "Qian, Kan, Kan, Gen, Dui, Dui."
"Zhen, Dui, Li, Li, Li, Kun."
He worked hard for a whole stick of incense.
Suddenly, everyone heard a "click".
The door of the copper box was opened by Feng Gouzi.
Shi Jian picked up the candle and lit it. According to Chang Feng, there should be an account book inside, as well as stacks of banknotes, amounting to almost three million taels.
However, when everyone looked into the box, they were immediately dumbfounded.
The copper box was empty!
Feng Gouzi said: "It's weird, it's empty. Go and report it to Master Chang!"
The Fujian Chamber of Commerce has been emptied. Changfeng can come in swaggeringly.
Not long after, he led Zhang Cai and Basha into Yan Pan'er's bedroom.
Chang Feng asked: "Is the copper bagua box empty?"
Feng Gouzi replied: "It's empty."
Chang Feng frowned: "I understand. This empty copper box is placed here to mislead others that there is something crucial hidden inside. It's a diversion!"
"The account books are hidden elsewhere."
Basha suggested: "Brothers from the Qianhu Office of Investigation and Inspection will come and dig through the Fujian Chamber of Commerce. They will always find the account books."
Chang Feng shook his head slightly: "No. If Governor Qian heard that there was a fire in the Fujian Merchants Guild Hall and that we had the people in the guild hall being 'protected' by the Jinyi Guards, he would definitely force their release."
"We still have at least half an hour to spare. The brothers who inspected the Qianhu Station have all left. It's too late to summon them now, and there's too much movement."
Basha asked: "What should we do, Mr. Chang?"
Chang Feng said: "There will be a spoils-sharing meeting tomorrow night. Logically speaking, the account books should be hidden within easy reach of Yan Pan'er."
Basha asked: "Could she have it with her?"
Chang Feng shook his head slightly: "It's impossible. When you set the fire, Fatty should have been holding her in his arms. If it were on her, Fatty would not notice it."
"I guess the account books are in the bedroom."
Chang Feng used various means to search the house and searched carefully in the bedroom.
After two moments of searching, he searched all over the bedroom, but found nothing.
Zhang Caidao: "That's weird. Could it be that Mr. Chang, you made a mistake and the account book is not in the bedroom?"
Chang Feng glanced at the bedroom again. Suddenly he walked to the copper bagua box and stopped.
Chang Feng pointed at the copper box with his hand: "There is still one place we haven't searched. Here!"
Basha was confused: "The copper bagua box is empty."
Chang Feng said: "I'm not talking about the copper box. I'm talking about the ground underneath the copper box."
"Come on, get a crowbar, a thick wooden stick and a rope. Lift up the copper bagua box and move it away."
The copper box weighs three hundred kilograms. Six strong men worked together to pry up the copper box with a crowbar, tied it with a few hemp ropes, and tied the other end of the hemp rope to a thick wooden stick.
It took ten strong men carrying two thick wooden sticks to move the copper box away with great difficulty.
Chang Feng thought: There should be a hidden compartment under the copper box to hide the account books. There are two benefits to doing this. First, you can use an empty copper box to divert attention.
Secondly, the copper box is heavy, and one or two snitches would never be able to lift it. Can block the hidden grid below.
However, Chang Feng was shocked when he knocked on the stone slab under the copper box.
The slate is solid. There is no hidden compartment underneath to hide the account books.
Chang Feng was a little surprised: "Not under the copper box?"
Zhang Cai suggested: "Should we look for other bedrooms?"
Chang Feng said: "I'm afraid it's too late. I always feel that there is something weird about this copper box."
After speaking, Chang Feng walked to the side of the copper box and put his hand in.
After a moment, he exclaimed: "No!"
Feng Gouzi asked: "Master Chang, what's wrong?"
Chang Feng said: "The copper plate at the bottom of the box makes a crisp sound when knocked. It should be a sandwich copper plate!"
Feng Gouzi quickly reached into the copper box and knocked twice: "Sure enough, there is a mezzanine! But... how to open it?"
Chang Feng said: "The matter is urgent. Let's carry the copper box to Quanliu Inn first. I'll give you a night's work to figure out a way to open the mezzanine."
"It doesn't matter whether you cut with a knife or a saw, or use skill. I want to see what's in the mezzanine before dawn tomorrow."
Everyone carried the copper box out of the Fujian Merchant Guild Hall and came to Quanliu Inn.
Yan Pan'er has an interest in Qian Neng and his son, and there are many people in Jinyiwei. Chang Feng regarded Quanliu Inn as his base camp to deal with Yan Pan'er.
Inside and outside the inn, there are Tujia robes under Basha's command, all of whom are his own people.
Let’s talk about Jin Yiwei’s side.
Yan Paner was "protected" in Fatty Xu's room. She yelled: "Xu, is this protection or house arrest? You don't recognize people when you pull up your pants, right?"
Fatty Xu smiled with a smile on his face: "Hey, good sister, how dare I put you under house arrest! The elders, the governor and other big shots treat you like a guest of honor."
"I'm really protecting you. I'm afraid that the fire in the outer courtyard of the guild hall was a fire in the east, and an assassin wants to fish in troubled waters and kill you."
Yan Pan'er said angrily: "Fart! Who dares to assassinate me?"
Fatty Xu smiled and said: "Hey, my sister is engaged in maritime trade. In recent years, many guardsmen and soldiers in the southeast have died at the hands of Japanese pirates."
"Maybe those people's wives, children, and children want to seek revenge from you."
"Or maybe your colleagues are greedy when they see how much money you are making, and want to kill you and replace you as the new maritime merchant leader."
Yan Pan'er glared at Fatty Xu: "I understand. Teasing the tiger away from the mountain, right?"
Fatty Xu pretended to be confused: "What are you talking about? I don't understand. Good sister, we are in the same bed. I know your depth, and you know mine."
"The Governor gave me another death order. Even if you lose a hair while you are in the capital, the Governor will come to settle the account with me."
"I really want to protect you!"
At this moment, Qian Neng hurriedly walked in: "What's going on? I heard that the Fujian Chamber of Commerce was on fire?"
Fatty Xu smiled and said: "Duke, it's a fire. I suspected that someone in the guild hall wanted to harm Mrs. Lin, so I invited her and her family to our guard."
Yan Pan'er saw Qian Neng as if she were seeing a savior: "Eunuch Qian, Xu Guangzuo is deliberately placing me under house arrest!"
Qian Neng stared at Fatty Xu: "What's going on?"
Fatty Xu spread his hands: "The conscience of heaven and earth! I really want to protect Mrs. Lin's safety."
Yan Pan'er said: "Eunuch Qian, there is something important tomorrow. I have to return to the Fujian Chamber of Commerce immediately to prepare."
When it came to the word "important matters", Yan Pan'er deliberately emphasized her tone.
Qian Neng ordered Fatty Xu: "Send someone to send Mrs. Lin and others back immediately."
Fatty Xu held up his hands and said, "Yes, Mrs. Lin, please."
Qian Neng said: "Xu Guangzuo, you stay."
Yan Paner left angrily. Only money and Fatty Xu were left in the house.
Qian Neng asked: "Chang Feng asked you to do this, right? Are you dealing with Mrs. Lin?"
Fatty Xu said with a sneer: "Hey, how can I do that? We brothers know that Mrs. Lin is the one you protect. It is said that even the Queen is full of praise for her."
"How dare we deal with her?"
Qian Neng looked at Fatty Xu with suspicious eyes: "It's hard to say. There is nothing in this world that Chang Feng and you dare not do."
(End of chapter)
