While everyone was chatting, the fire was gradually put out. Looking at the house where the fire was gradually extinguishing, the women seemed to have a little disappointment in their eyes.
"It's going to be destroyed so soon. It's boring. Go back to sleep."
"Hey, come to my place tomorrow to play mahjong."
"Let's talk about it tomorrow, ha, I'm so sleepy."
…
A moment later, at the entrance of the bustling Fu Zhai, only Chang Sheng and the other three were left messy in the wind, and even the officers and soldiers were gone.
"Let's go back too."
Zhou Xier suggested.
The three of them also returned to the city lord's mansion.
In Fu's house, the disgraced servants were kneeling on the ground, all of them silent.
In front of him was a livid-faced Fu Pingsheng. He looked at a pile of dead money and a burnt iron basin in front of him, and his tone was cold.
"Tell me, who bought these for the eldest lady."
"Bang!"
He kicked over the iron basin, making everyone pale with fright, but no one dared to speak.
"father."
At this moment, Miss Fu came over, and her cold face was stained with some black fly ash, which made her look a little playful.
When Fu Pingsheng saw her approaching, his attitude changed drastically and he hurriedly walked up to help her.
"Oh, Yuzhu, have a good rest and don't come out."
Fu Yuzhu looked at Fu Pingsheng with a half-smile, without saying a word, until Fu Pingsheng felt some numbness in his back and finally avoided Fu Yuzhu's eyes.
"Yuzhu..."
After a long silence, he couldn't say anything.
Fu Yuzhu pulled away the hand held by him, turned around and left
"It has nothing to do with them, so why should you anger them?"
Fu Pingsheng looked at Fu Yuzhu leaving and hesitated to speak. Finally, he sighed again and waved his hand.
"Go down."
The servants fled the scene quickly as if they had been granted amnesty.
After everyone left, Fu Pingsheng stood alone and said to himself
"If I don't vent my anger on them, you won't even say a word to me."
After burning incense, Chang Sheng and the others returned to the house. After all this back and forth, the three of them could no longer sleep, so they simply sat in the yard and started chatting.
Yan Sihai looked directly at Zhou Xi'er, making Zhou Xi'er feel uncomfortable all over.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
Zhou Xier said.
Yan Sihai's eyes suddenly became sharper, he slapped the table, pointed at Zhou Xi'er, and drank
"Tell me! Who are you and why did that person want to kill you?"
Chang Sheng was stunned. Didn't that man come to kidnap the child? Why did he become a killer?
Zhou Xier also looked innocent.
"How do I know? I have no grievances with that person. He suddenly came to kill me. Why did you question me instead?"
Yan Sihai sneered, looked at Chang Sheng's confused expression, and said
"Sheng Wazi, you and I both saw that sword strike. He could have stabbed you with his sword, but he avoided it. Why?"
Chang Sheng looked at the flowerpot in his hand and said
"What's so strange about this? Hu Lou's sword also wanted to kill me, but it was killed by this flower..."
When she said this, her eyes suddenly lit up
"Yes, why did that person deliberately avoid me? Could it be that..."
Yan Sihai took the call
"This can only mean that the black shadow knows that he cannot kill you. Otherwise, why would he avoid you and kill you with one sword? Wouldn't it be easier to enter the house and rob people?"
Chang Sheng said in shock
"Twelfth floor! He is from the twelfth floor!"
Yan Sihai sneered and looked at Zhou Xier
"Why do the people on the twelfth floor want to kill you?"
Chang Sheng looked at Zhou Xier tenderly and said softly
"Xi'er, tell sister what happened."
Zhou Xier's expression changed, as if he was hesitating.
Yan Sihai was furious and grabbed Zhou Xier's collar.
"let me go!"
Zhou Xier tried her best to open Yan Sihai's hand, but couldn't do it.
Yan Sihai shouted
"If you want to die, don't drag us into the water. We are here to do business, not to be your savior!"
Zhou Xier was stunned for a moment, then let go of her hand, her expression dimmed, and her whole body was like a deflated rubber ball, letting Yan Sihai pull her.
"Old Yan."
Chang Sheng stopped Yan Sihai, who immediately offered his hand, and Zhou Xier sat down on the table.
After a long while, Zhou Xier finally spoke.
"I did lie to you. That lunatic is not my father."
Yan Sihai hummed
"We already knew this."
Zhou Xi'er lowered her head, as if she didn't dare to look at Chang Sheng
"My grandfather did work in a wealthy family. My family has been farmers for generations, and it was not easy for my grandfather to become a scholar. Unfortunately, my grandfather was unlucky and did not pass the Jinshi exam. He could only find an errand in a wealthy family. My father was not a scholar either. We have no choice but to return to our old profession. Although our family was not rich originally, with the wages sent by my grandfather and the farmland at home, we don’t have to worry about going hungry."
Zhou Xier's tone began to become urgent, and she seemed to be in a mood.
"But a few days ago, news of my grandfather's death suddenly came out in the city. Then, the next day, a group of men in black suddenly broke into my house and kept asking my parents to hand over things. If my parents couldn't hand over their things, they They want to kill our whole family..."
"and after?"
Chang Sheng asked with concern.
Several sobs came from Zhou Xier's mouth
"Later... my dad used his own body to block the knives of those bad guys. I took the opportunity to run out of the yard and wanted to find someone to save my dad, but I found..."
"As soon as I ran out of the house, I found that the entire village had been killed!"
"The corpses on the ground are all covered in blood..."
"I knew those people would not let me go, so they had no choice but to escape. I had never left the village. I only knew that my grandfather was working in Qingzhou, so I had no choice but to escape to Qingzhou. Qingzhou was mentioned in my grandfather's letter. My only choice was The only place that can be considered familiar is Qingzhou."
Yan Sihai frowned and said
"How did you, a child, escape from the pursuit of those men in black?"
Zhou Xier sobbed and shook her head
"I don't know. I just kept running away along the official road until I met you. I saw you killed the killer, so I thought I could survive by following you."
Chang Sheng listened to the story silently and remained silent until Yan Sihai patted her and she came back to her senses.
"Shengwazi, what's wrong?"
Yan Sihai asked.
Chang Sheng shook his head and yawned.
"It's okay, I'm just a little sleepy. Let's go back to bed. We still have things to do tomorrow."
Yan Sihai left without waiting for anything to say.
Yan Sihai pointed at Zhou Xier
"What should he do?"
But Zhou Xier wiped away her tears neatly, made a face at him with a smile, and then ran away.
Yan Sihai was angry for a while
"Good boy, ask for a beating!"
A stone appeared in his hand.
"Bang!"
Once, he hit Zhou Xier on the butt.
"Ouch!"
Zhou Xier touched her butt ferociously and ran faster.
Yan Sihai chuckled and said to himself
"You brat, if you hadn't risked your life to save us, I wouldn't have let you go so easily."
April 25th, early morning.
Chang Sheng and the three of them were woken up by a noisy knock on the door.
"Boom!"......
"Who!"
Yan Sihai shouted irritably and pushed open the door, but was stunned by the scene in front of him.
A large group of people blocked the door. They all knelt outside the door, kowtowing and crying.
"Lord City Lord, please make the decision for us!"
Chang Sheng came out, and when he saw this scene, several old men led by him hurriedly helped him up.
"What's wrong, old man? Get up and talk."
The leading old lady looked miserable and shouted:
"Lord City Lord, please save my grandson!"
Behind him, others also started shouting.
"Lord City Lord, please save our child."
Only then did Chang Sheng realize that these were probably the families where the boys had been abducted.
"Everyone, I promise you that I will definitely find out about this matter."
At the moment, Chang Sheng could only comfort everyone in this way.
At this time, an extremely discordant voice emerged from the crowd.
"Forget it, you officials are protecting each other, how can you possibly find out the truth!"
Yan Sihai's sharp eyes immediately saw the man who was speaking, and he picked him up.
"Officers protect each other? It's just to investigate a case. Do we need officers to protect each other? Come on, come on. You should explain it clearly to me today."
When the man saw Yan Sihai's vast magical powers and impressive kung fu, he suddenly panicked, his eyes wandered, and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Chang Sheng saw Yan Sihai's fierce look, rolled his eyes at him, and motioned for him to let go of the man.
But I saw that the man was about thirty years old, wearing coarse clothes, and he must be from a poor family.
"Don't be afraid of this big brother. My housekeeper has a bad temper. I will discipline him well. I don't know what to call him."
Chang Sheng looked at the man with a smile. Her soft voice immediately made the man feel relaxed.
Perhaps because he was used to being bullied, the man lowered his head and did not dare to look up at Chang Sheng.
"Let me tell you, Lord City Lord, that this villain's name is Liu Ping, and he is a hawker from the east of the city."
Chang Shengdao
"Why do you say officials protect each other?"
Liu Ping was filled with indignation when he heard Chang Sheng asked about this matter. He suddenly straightened his back, looked directly at Chang Sheng, pointed to an official residence in the distance with trembling hands, and said excitedly
: "Lord City Lord, in the final analysis, this child abduction case was caused by the family of the Minister of the Ministry of War. The Taiyang Mansion said it was investigating, but after investigating for a long time, nothing was found. Everyone knows that Mr. Fu's family is responsible for it. Even his daughter was possessed by the evil spirit a year ago. This child abduction case also started a year ago. How can you say such a coincidence? This matter has nothing to do with the family of the Minister of War. , but the Taiyang Mansion has been investigating the Shangshu Mansion for a month, but nothing has been found. Lord City Lord, please tell me, are they officials protecting each other?"
Chang Sheng and Yan Sihai looked at each other, could they have such outrageous speculations?
But before they could speak, the others echoed
"That's right, the Minister of War probably did too many bad things and was haunted by ghosts, but he ended up harming us!"
Chang Sheng and Yan Sihai were speechless for a while. They could no longer communicate with them. Chang Sheng had no choice but to say:
"Folks, my little sister will definitely give you justice. Folks, please come back today."
It took them half an hour to finally send everyone away, but before they could take a breath, a sedan arrived in front of the city lord's mansion.
Chang Sheng looked at the sedan in confusion, not knowing who was coming.
I saw a handsome young man slowly walking out of the sedan, dressed in white and holding a jade fan. He was high-spirited, chic and suave.
"Hello, Lord City Lord."
The handsome young man showed strong confidence between his brows, and his tone of voice was as gentle as the jade folding fan in his hand. At first glance, he was a highly cultivated person.
"Who are you?"
Chang Sheng asked.
The young man's eyes were smiling, and there seemed to be stars in his bright eyes.
"I am Li Qingchou, my father is the Minister of Punishment, Li Qingshu."
Chang Sheng was surprised. She never thought why Mr. Li would come to her.
"Master Li, please come in."
After a moment of surprise, Chang Sheng regained his composure, gently waved his hand, and invited him to enter the house.
But on the other side, Chang Sheng felt Yan Sihai gently tugging at the corner of her clothes. She turned back to look at Yan Sihai and saw Yan Sihai secretly winking at her.
Chang Sheng rolled his eyes, instantly understood his intention, and nodded slightly.
"Xi'er, take Mr. Li to the lobby."
Zhou Xi'er nodded and led Li Qingchou into the house.
Immediately, Chang Sheng also slowly walked into the mansion, while Yan Sihai's eyes flickered, and he walked towards the distance of Taiyang Road, quickly following the people who had just left.
Since we want to investigate the case of missing children, we must start from these families.
I saw that after the crowd left Taiyang Road, they dispersed one after another. It seemed that they went back to their homes.
Yan Sihai saw Liu Ping walking toward the east of the city. After thinking for a while, he followed him, but just in case, he took out a small bottle, and several flying insects flew out of the small bottle. , after seeing those flying insects following several other households, he felt relieved and followed Liu Ping.
He followed a few streets and came to a small alley. In the narrow alley, Liu Ping walked into a low house.
Yan Sihai followed him to the door and jumped onto the roof. Although his martial arts was not high, he was good at the light kung fu he used to escape.
He tiptoed on the green tiles on the roof, fearing that he would make too much noise and disturb the people in the house.
I could only hear bursts of women's cries coming out of the house.
"Woooooooooooo..."
Liu Ping's voice also sounded at the same time, and he seemed a little irritated.
"Cry, cry, cry! What's the use of crying? Can crying bring the child back!"
The woman's crying gradually weakened and turned into sobs.
"Then you go to see the City Lord today. What can the City Lord do?"
When Liu Ping heard this, he became even more angry.
"What can we do, other than just giving us a few perfunctory words? I think the city lord is just here to go through the motions, and maybe he will leave in a few days."
The woman said again
"You didn't tell the City Lord about that?"
As he said that, a "pop!" sound suddenly sounded in the room, and then, Liu Ping howled in pain.
"Why did you hit me?"
The woman cursed
"Why don't you tell the city lord?"
Liu Ping said angrily
"What do you want me to say? Tell her that the bad guy dropped a token at our house? Don't you want to live anymore? If you really show her this token, can we still see the sun tomorrow?"
"boom!"
Yan Sihai stepped directly through the roof and entered the house, shocking the two of them.
"who!"
The woman screamed in horror.
Liu Ping looked at Yan Sihai and immediately recognized him as the housekeeper of the City Lord's Mansion, his lips were dry.
"You, why are you here?"
Yan Sihai smiled sinisterly
"Don't be afraid, you two. I don't have any ill intentions here. I just want the token."
Liu Ping's forehead was already covered with cold sweat, his eyes drifted around, and he said tremblingly
"What token, I don't know."
Yan Sihai was still smiling, but in the eyes of Liu Ping and Liu Ping, Yan Sihai looked like a complete old gangster at this time.
Yan Sihai smiled and took out a poisonous tongue from his sleeve, gently stroking its smooth skin.
"Of course, if you two don't cooperate, I will always ask you to play with my good friends."
Liu Ping was so frightened that he sat down on the ground and couldn't help but move his body back with his hands.
The woman behind her still had some sense and hurriedly said
"Yes! I'll get it for you right now!"
She hurriedly rubbed Liu Ping's body, and after a moment, she took out a golden token from her belt, walked carefully to Yan Sihai, and handed the token to him.
"We are illiterate and don't know what this token is for, but judging from its quality, it should be used by a wealthy family."
Yan Sihai took the token and saw two big characters on it.
"Servant."
