At daybreak, after listening to the panicked citizens who had been panicking all night, I opened the door and found that there was nothing going on on the street.
As a border town resident, I have long been accustomed to emergency trips from military camps, and the little commotion last night was quickly forgotten.
The mule carts pouring night fragrance passed through the streets, the water carts delivering sweet water knocked on the back doors of every house, and the morning market held by small vendors was steaming.
Hecheng is still a prosperous border town.
Lao Qian and Song Dekui walked around outside and came back after buying breakfast for everyone.
Abu went to the garrison again and saw that the people inside were busy, as if something big had happened.
Thinking about the young lady's instructions, he returned without saying anything more.
Song Liyun and others gathered in the inn.
"Master Lin, the situation is unclear now, you'd better leave Hecheng."
Song Liyun felt that the garrison was attacked on the night when the Lin family was moved out of the prison. This could only mean one thing, that is, there might be no secrets in Hecheng.
In other words, the garrison office, which is supposed to be a military institution, has the Qi family's spies.
In terms of scheming, those who play fighting are no better than those who play fighting.
Lin Qingyuan did not deliberately hide it when he left the Lin family. Now that he can stay in the inn without incident, it is probably his image of a playboy who is usually not taken seriously that is protecting him.
But if the Qi family failed to destroy the Lin family and wanted to take Lin Shouzhuo hostage, then they would capture anyone who was of Lin Shouzhuo's blood, whether they were a bastard or a legitimate son.
The attitude of the garrison is also suspicious.
He is obviously a suspect and is being held in a good-looking prison in the garrison. However, he must be sent to an ordinary residential building because the prison conditions are poor and not humane enough.
This was an opportunity to give the murderer bait. If the garrison found out that his biological brother who was related to the Qi family was Lin Qingyuan, it was hard to say whether he would be recaptured.
Even if the Qi family wants to rob people in public, it won't work.
The garrison has dispatched sergeants, and the next step will definitely be to seal the city and strictly check customs clearance to put pressure on the Qi family.
Unless absolutely necessary, the garrison mansion will not quarrel with the Qi family.
The Qi family would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to challenge the military camp. Judging from the rules of the Qi family in Hecheng, it must be a conspiracy.
Jianghu is Jianghu?
Song Liyun thought of the people from Laoshanlin whom Laoqian mentioned.
After not sleeping all night, Lin Qingyuan's eyes were dark, and now he yawned and said: "The Qi family is serious about it.
If they can't touch those people, they will come to arrest me. If they can't catch me, they will go to Pingyang Mansion to arrest my mother and my sister.
If we want to be safe, we will arrest a few of the Qi family members."
"That's a good idea! Hit the snake within seven inches. The Qi family are also human beings, so pick the most painful spot to strike."
From Lin Qingyuan, Song Liyun learned that the real powerful person in the Qi family now is not the head of the family, Qi Kexian, but the second generation of the Qi family, sister Lin Qingyuan's brother-in-law, Qi Heng, who is now thirty years old.
This person travels around the grasslands and the Wu Dynasty all year round. He is cunning, suspicious, and has good skills. He is always surrounded by three or five good people who follow him, and he will not act alone.
Moreover, this is in Hecheng, the hometown of the Qi family, and half of the people on the street are related to the Qi family.
If you fight against the Qi family in the open, you will have to face half of the city at any time.
Song Liyun asked Lao Qian: "Is there a way to catch him quietly?"
Lao Qian had a wry smile on his face: What can we do if we don’t have anyone?
When he came to Hecheng this time, Lin Qingyuan was in a prison car, so he only brought his old money.
Song Liyun has a few more people. In addition to Fang Zheng and Guo Tong, there are also Abu and Song Dekui. If you want to find more people, you also need to go to the garrison.
Song Liyun gave up the idea of seeking help for the garrison mansion that had become a sieve and did not even return his invitation.
She is willing to marry Zhao Tingduo, not for the glory of the Zhao family.
Since Zhao Shoubei is superior, he has no idea whether he recognizes the marriage or not.
Since there are no secrets in a palm-sized place like Hecheng, Song Liyun won't hide in the inn.
As a result, a special group of people appeared in the streets of Hecheng.
A woman wearing a Di robe, pigtails, a white silk half-veil, and a dazzling agate stone on her head was surrounded by five or six people, walking along the street and watching.
From time to time, the woman stopped in front of a shop selling spices and powders to choose what she liked.
Hecheng is a border town, and it is also the most convenient border pass for Dilu Grassland to enter the Wu Dynasty. From time to time, grassland merchants come through the border.
The residents here not only see the Di people often, but they have seen them at least once or twice.
Even in the flowery buildings and deep alleys of Hecheng, there are Dilu barbarians.
But the one I saw today was the first time.
Not only does the jewelry make her look luxurious, but more importantly, she spends money generously.
The woman pointed at the balsam in the cabinet casually: "This, this, I don't want this, wrap up the rest!"
Lin Qingyuan, a handsome young man, followed him arrogantly. As long as the woman pointed her finger, he didn't even blink and immediately paid for it.
Which tribe is this God of Wealth from?
Well-informed merchants in Hecheng came over with their goods after hearing the news.
"Beautiful girl, please look at this silk satin. Only the lavender color of Duran can match your nobility!"
I heard someone using Di dialect to promote business.
Song Liyun only stretched out two fingers to check it, then nodded in agreement, as if he had never seen the world.
Others swarmed up again, trying to get a deal for themselves.
Abu and Lao Qian stopped the man.
In a street restaurant, the same few people hurried upstairs, and someone immediately came over to greet them: "Third Master, that dude from the Lin family has appeared, but I don't know when he followed the noble lady of the Di clan."
"What noble lady of the Di tribe?"
Qi Heng walked into the private room facing the street, looked out the window, and saw Song Liyun and his party coming out of the shop carrying a lot of things.
Qi Heng narrowed his eyes slightly, he had met Lin Qingyuan before.
Although he looked down upon a dandy who only knew how to hang around women.
But Lin Qingyuan's sister married into the Qi family and was his nephew's concubine according to seniority. When they occasionally came into contact, he would say a few polite words.
Seeing Lin Qingyuan chasing after the woman again, Qi Heng's lips sneered: A dude is a dude, the Lin family is about to be wiped out, and he is still here to have fun.
Seeing the "Di tribe" woman walking to the next shop, Qi Heng said to the entourage next to him: "Go to the customs and check which tribe has entered the customs in the past two days, and why didn't you go to the red building to hand in the note?"
The attendant did not move: "Third Master, that woman did not come from Guanmen, but came from Pingyang Mansion with the Lin family. She has stayed at Chengfu Inn for the past two days."
When the two imperial envoys from the Metropolitan Procuratorate arrived in Yunzhou, the Qi family received news that it was just a trivial matter between Lin Qinghua and a military household. They did not know about it. When they found out, the Lin family had already been sealed.
The Qi family reacted quickly and immediately abandoned the car to save the commander and wanted to get rid of the Lin family.
Qi Heng only deals with business in the family and is not interested in these in-laws.
However, I just came back from the grassland this time, and I heard from the head of the family that the Lin family might leak the news, and they wanted to silence them, but they lost five capable men.
The matter was urgent. Now that someone had come to report the presence of a Di noblewoman in Hecheng, he naturally wanted to come and check it out.
"I came here with the Lin family!" Qi Heng frowned: Could it be that the family wanted to get rid of the Lin family not just because of those slaves, but because they betrayed the master and wanted to start a new business?
At this moment, there was a noise in the street, and a group of people surrounded the "Noble Lady Dilu" and were shouting something.
Seeing the sergeant patrolling the street approaching, Qi Heng tossed his robe, jumped out of the window, and landed firmly on the street.
After a few steps, he walked in front of Lin Qingyuan, with a hint of ridicule on the corner of his mouth: "Lin Qingyuan, you're welcome!"
When Qi Heng said this, his eyes fell on the bracelet worn by the "Di Clan noblewoman" next to him, and he suddenly took a breath of cold air.