Deng Gui's sinister eyes were like knives, turning on the faces of Mrs. Huanxi and the two officials on duty in the front hall of the government office today.
The large suitcase, which had been pulled out by force with an iron wedge, was moved to the middle of the bedroom. Deng Gui had already gone through the clothes inside. Except for the small bag of gold and silver, there were secret letters and other clothes in the suitcase.
Jin Longquan, Tang Tiande and others stood expressionlessly next to Deng Gui. They didn't know exactly what was missing, but they also understood why Deng Gui was so angry.
No matter how insignificant Deng Gui is as an inspector, he is the only one who represents the dignity of the imperial court in Huaiyuan Town. Not only did the bandits in Hutouling rob and kill business travelers, but now a thief broke into his room. How?
Tell him not to get angry?
"Except for that idiot from the Xu family, has anyone really come in?" Deng Gui asked again in a low voice.
"The public house was very deserted today, not many people came in and out. Wang Fu and I didn't leave the front hall at the same time. Who came in or out was hidden from our eyes - except for Xu Huai who came over and said he wanted to stay with Deng Langjun for a while.
"Except, the other people who came here all left after explaining things to me and Wang Fu without staying. But after Xu Huai left the palace, he left the military camp and has not returned until now," said a dark-skinned man
The official said.
"Wang Fu also thought that Deng Langjun's top priority was to send people quickly to capture Xu Huai." Another official agreed.
It was not that they didn't hear Xu Huai's grumbling words to himself when he left the mansion. Even when Deng Gui came back and found that the room had been burglarized, they had no doubt that Tang Tiande had sneaked in and done it.
However, Xu Huai disappeared after leaving the military camp before noon. At this time, they told the truth "truthfully" without anyone questioning him. Deng Gui might not be able to do anything to get Tang Tiande.
They thought that instead of offending Tang Tiande and the Tang family behind him, it would be better to blame Xu Huai first.
"Don't bully me too much!"
Seeing that the two officials looked at each other while talking, as if they were afraid that the other party would reveal something, Deng Gui almost exploded with anger.
If these two people were not related to Jin, Tang, Qian and other famous surnames, he would have slapped them with big ears. At this time, he could only suppress the anger in his heart, and he was trembling a little.
Pointing to the top of the courtyard wall on his left hand, he asked,
"Are you trying to say that these marks were made intentionally by that idiot from the Xu family, to make me mistakenly think that someone else was climbing over the wall?"
"The junior officials also find it very strange." The black-faced official said bravely.
"Then when you saw him coming in and out, you didn't ask why he came?" Deng Gui asked in a low voice.
"Deng Langjun sent people to capture Xu Huai, and then everything will be known," said the black-faced official.
When Deng Gui almost couldn't control himself, a soldier quickly ran over and reported: "Xu Huai has returned to the military camp. Do you want to arrest him for questioning?"
"What else do you have to say now? Are you still trying to bully me now?" Deng Gui could no longer control the anger in his chest. He raised his foot and kicked the black-faced official over, grabbed the saber at his waist, and glared angrily.
He glared at the official, as if if he dared to tell another lie, he would chop him into pieces with his knife.
He usually has a good temper, but at this moment, he really has no temper at all, and everyone in the world thinks he is a sick cat.
"Xu Huai said that Tang Dutou sent him to find Lang Jun, but when he left, he said that Tang Dutou was already in the courtyard, but we did not see Tang Dutou in the courtyard." The black-faced official knelt on the ground.
Fear of Tao.
"You're talking nonsense." Tang Tiande, who had the mentality of watching a good show, didn't expect that things would suddenly turn on him, and he immediately became furious and scolded the official.
Deng Gui gave Tang Tiande a cold look and asked the black-faced official: "Why didn't you say anything just now?"
The black-faced official wanted to slap himself twice. If he had told the truth truthfully at the beginning, he would have been able to face it openly now. How should he explain it now?
Could it be that he told Deng Gui that he didn't say it just now because he thought that Deng Gui couldn't compete with Tang Tiande who had the support of the Tang family?
"You also deliberately hid it from me?" Deng Gui looked at another official named Wang Fu with a gloomy expression.
"I'm hard of hearing. Xu Huai seemed to have said something when he left, but I didn't hear clearly!" Wang Fu ignored the resentful look in his companion's eyes at this time and pushed the matter away from him.
"Go and catch that bastard Xu Huai, pry open his broken mouth, and ask him which dog eyes saw me coming in this yard!" Tang Tiande shouted furiously, he didn't want to bear the blame for no reason.
This black pot.
Deng Gui took a few long breaths, suddenly waved his hand, and said calmly: "Okay, there is nothing missing in my room. It's just that people are calling banditry these days and it's making people panic. Let me start a fight with you.
It's just a joke! Don't take it to heart, Tangdu. I'll treat everyone to a drink that day to apologize."
Deng Gui's change shocked many people.
Tang Tiande changed his mind and realized that Deng Gui was convinced that it was him who had sneaked into the hospital, but he didn't want to break up with the Tang family, so he gently uncovered it. His heart and lungs were about to explode with anger, and he shouted: "How can this happen?
At once……"
"Tiande, since Lang Jun said it was a joke, you should stop pestering him." Jin Longquan grabbed Tang Tiande's waving hand and asked him to quiet down.
"I..." Tang Tiande's face turned red when he saw Jin Longquan was like this.
"Let's go out and talk." Jin Longquan pulled Tang Tiande out.
Deng Gui also signaled everyone else to leave: "Okay, I'm a little tired today. I'll treat you all to a drink that day."
Tang Tiande was dragged out of the public corridor, and he was very angry and said: "If you don't catch that bastard Xu Huai and ask him, how can I wash off this basin of shit on my head?"
"Tiande, let me ask you, how many people in this military camp can pull out the copper wedge?" Jin Longquan asked.
"Xu Huai, that bastard, is born with supernatural powers, why isn't he him?" Tang Tiande asked.
"Xu Huai can smash the suitcase to pieces with one punch, I have no doubt, but he pulled out the copper wedge bit by bit, and there is no trace of digging and prying, but it can't be him - I said this
, Tiande can't even confuse the difference between exerting force and exerting strength, right?" Jin Longquan said, "No matter who is planning it, since the person behind the scenes asked Xu Huai to return to the army camp, he is naturally sure that we can't get it from him.
If you continue to entangle me with me if you ask me the truth, besides forcing Mr. Deng to fall out with you, what other benefits will you gain?"
"I..." Tang Tiande felt unspeakably aggrieved and wanted to pull out the knife and cut it randomly to relieve his hatred. But Jin Longquan's words made sense. This matter was too strange. Even if he wanted to figure out what was going on, he shouldn't.
So reckless.
"Let's go, I'll treat you to a drink!" Jin Longquan pulled Tang Tiande out of the military village, fearing that he would meet that idiot from the Xu family and lose control of his temper.
Deng Gui stood behind the courtyard wall and looked at Jinlongquan with a gloomy face. Tang Tiande walked outside the military village and said to an old servant who had followed him for many years: "Follow Jinlongquan and Tang Tiande. See what they are going to do when they go out."
Human contact - do you really think that I, Deng Gui, is weak and can be bullied?"
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When Xu Huai returned to his residence, Su Di was talking to Wang Xuan. He found an excuse to send Wang Xuan away, then walked over on tiptoe and said, "You idiot, why do you act like nothing is wrong? Have you seen Xu Wuliang?"
Xu Huai glanced at the setting sun above the Western Mountain and said: "If Uncle Seventeen still doesn't send someone to deliver the letter in another hour, we will leave the military stronghold! Uncle Wu Liang and the others will prepare their horses and wait at the south of the military stronghold.
Let's then go south along the Baijian River, go to Huangshitan and wade across the river to Yuhuangling!"
"You really don't want to tell Mr. Wang?" Su Di only found out about all this last night. When she saw off Xu Wujiang and the others in the morning, she finally controlled the panic in her heart. Today, she didn't dare to go out the whole day.
Afraid of being discovered, Xu Huai not only sneaked into Deng Gui's room and read the secret letter, but also ran to Xu Wuliang and Liu Qiong'er to discuss the plan to evacuate to Yuhuangling, and then he could walk back as if no one else was around.
The military camp is coming.
However, this matter arose because of Wang Zhen. Xu Huai discussed everything with Wang Zhen and Lu Xiong, but in the end he hid it from them. Su Di always felt uneasy.
"As long as we leave the military camp and wait for the news from Seventeenth Uncle to come back, Mr. Wang and Mr. Lu will guess everything, and they will not be affected by us at all. What can we say to them at this time?
Are we going to fall into the trap of bandits? Does Aunt Seventeen want them to keep the secret for us, or does she want them to be loyal to the court and go to Deng Gui to report us at this time?" Xu Huai said.
"That's right. I'm panicked. I'm so confused that I don't even have a clue! I don't know what makes you so cruel. You've deceived us for so long, but you still seem to be fine." Su Di smiled bitterly and raised her hands.
He took the sword from his waist and said, "I haven't used this sword in two years, and my hand is raw."
Su Di fled the famine with her parents and settled down in Tongbai Mountain. She was not a delicate young lady. Before she married Xu Wujiang, she had done rough and tiring work at home and was also used to boxing.
In Tongbai Mountain, it is not a shocking thing for girls to practice martial arts.
But after marrying Xu Wujiang, Su Di thought about marrying her husband and raising children. Xu Huai and Xu Xin'an were very good people in the house. She had no money left to hire servants and maids. Su Di had to take care of all the tedious things in the house alone.
After taking care of the chores, I left the practice alone.
Su Di's reaction was much better than Xu Huai expected, and they didn't say anything at the moment. They made a fire in the house to prepare for the afternoon meal (evening meal), and secretly made the final preparations to sneak out of the military camp.
In addition to the straight-spine long sword, waist sword, pouch sword and hand crossbow that can be carried with him, Xu Huai certainly cannot directly carry the long bow left by Xu Wujiang behind his back.
This would be unexplainable if someone caught him.
A long bow is more than four feet long, and a bow also needs arrows. Su Di prepared a large bamboo basket and put two bundles of iron arrows, climbing ropes, iron hooks and other items inside; the long bow was wrapped in cloth.
, put it in a bamboo basket and its head still popped up.
After taking the afternoon meal, when it got dark, Xu Huai walked around the military camp, mainly to confirm that there was nothing abnormal, and then returned to the house, picked up things with Su Di and walked out of the backyard door.
The inspection team's stronghold was 250 steps deep and surrounded by a thousand steps.
The Inspection Department usually does not have rural soldiers to help guard. Even if not a single soldier is sent out, there are only 120 soldiers. It is overwhelming to arrange 30 to 40 soldiers to patrol at night; but usually the manpower will be
Concentrated at the east and west village gates.
In order to save firewood, bonfires were not lit in other sections of the village wall. There were also two bloody robberies and massacres on the horse trail, so the soldiers on guard at night followed the rules and inspected them at regular intervals. However, people like Xu Huai who were familiar with the internal situation
In human eyes, such a warning system is full of loopholes.
The wall of the village was made of rammed earth and was only about one foot high. Xu Huai pressed his fingers on the cracks in the wall and quickly climbed up the wall to pick up the bamboo baskets. Su Di didn't need his help, she was even taller than him.
Be flexible and climb up the wall.
There is flat land outside the Nanzhai wall, and there is no ditch to separate it from the outside. When they heard Xu Wuliang's disguised chirping of birds in the distance, Xu Huai and Su Di walked through the tall weeds and followed Xu Wuliang who was hiding under the elm tree.
Wu Liang meets up and sneaks together to hide the horses...
