When the Marquis of Xiangyang died, his family sent countless agents to ask Mr. Qi to mourn for the old man, but they were all blocked. On the third day of the first seven days, even a fool knew that Falcon Bookstore had done this on purpose.
On this day, Xue Pan went to visit friends near the Marquis of Xiangyang. He wore plain clothes and stopped by to pay his respects. Qi Jianhui saw that he had just finished eating, so he guessed that he was not here on a special trip.
Just don't know and come out to accompany him personally.
After the ceremony was completed according to the rules, and after a few more formal remarks, the two of them went to the next room to sit for a while. Seeing Qi Jianhui's frown, Xue Pan persuaded him: "For an old man to be so old, it can be considered a happy funeral."
Qi Jianhui sighed: "That's not the reason."
. We found him two days before he left, but the girl had some misunderstandings about the family and refused to come back. There was also a local snake living near her house, and they tried their best to stop us from sending her a message."
Xue Pan snorted: "Since that's the case, why bother? It doesn't matter if you don't want to."
Qi Jianhui sighed again: "It's just that my grandfather really missed her, and he still missed her before he left. He always hoped that she would come and see the old man off so that he could go there peacefully."
Xue Pan said: "It's not easy for you either." After thinking about it, he said, "A local snake is no better than a rat. I'd rather bother the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to take care of it. You girl, the benefits will come naturally if you give me some ideas." Then he hummed, "This
I've seen a lot of men. It's okay to give her some good ideas as a man."
Qi Jianhui shook his head. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said: "Brother Xue, if you want to find someone but don't have an address, how will you find him?"
Xue Pan said: "Look for his friends and relatives to inquire."
Qi Jianhui said: "If he doesn't recognize his friends or relatives, he is just a man in the green forest."
Xue Pan said: "Snakes have their own snake paths, and rats have their own paths. Naturally, the Green Forest people asked the Green Forest people. Do you know there is a S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
Qi Jianhui said: "I only found out recently."
Xue Pan clapped his hands and said: "Look, if you want to know, you will naturally ask about it, right?"
Qi Jianhui frowned and said, "I heard that SHIELD is shameless when it comes to asking for money. Our family is not the only one looking for that person. I'm afraid they will use this matter to sell it for money."
Xue Pan said, "You don't want people to know that you are also looking for that person?" Qi Jianhui nodded. Xue Pan said, "Won't you ask someone else to find out?"
Qi Jianhui's eyes lit up: "That's right! Brother Xue, you really can't live as good a life as you did back then."
Xue Pan proudly handed over his hand: "You're welcome, I'll treat you with admiration after three days apart!"
Two days later, a man who looked like a manager went to Falcon Bookstore to do business. It turned out that he was from Ruixiang Bank. Last year, their young boss got married, and the young lady was from Suzhou. Because of the long distance, I hired a bodyguard, and it was from Beijing.
The best Taiping escort agency in the company. At first, things went smoothly. When we arrived near the junction of Wu and Chu, we encountered some powerful bandits, numbering five or six hundred people. The escorts could not see the enemy, but suddenly an expert fell from the sky, like a ghost.
Killed the bandit leader and repelled a large number of bandits. When I asked the people in the escort agency, they didn't recognize him! Then there were more than ten dangers along the way, all of which were saved by this man. The owner of Ruixiang Bank, the young owner was very grateful to him and felt that he was the one who saved him.
Talents are rare. Nowadays, the world is extremely unstable, so I would like to have someone like this come from home to work.
The clerk from Falcon Bookstore asked, "Does he have any appearance? Do you have any martial arts skills?" The clerk talked for a long time and left a portrait of the man.
The clerk immediately recognized that the person wearing a straw hat in the painting was the second grandfather of their family, and said: "It will take some time, sir, come back in seven or eight days. The price will not be determined until we find out a rough estimate."
." The steward repeatedly said, "The price doesn't matter," and asked him to leave.
As soon as he left, the waiter smiled and showed the portrait to their boss. Liu Xiaoqi smiled and said: "Second brother must have incurred some peach blossom debt." Because he remembered that Jia Cong said that the Marquis of Xiangyang would ask someone else to come.
He found a Green Forester for them and murmured, "It can't be such a coincidence, it's going nowhere..." He took the portrait on his sleeve and went to Rongguo Mansion.
As soon as Jia Cong heard this, he said: "It's a good idea!" and said, "I didn't expect the Chu government to have to rely on robbery to survive so quickly."
Chen Ruijin also said: "When their escort came back this time, I suspected that there were Chu soldiers disguised as mountain bandits and water bandits."
Jia Cong said: "I'm afraid there will be more than one." Nai hummed, "That's what I'm saying. Our escort agency can handle ordinary robbers, but we can't compare with the regular army."
Liu Xiaoqi glanced at the two of them and said: "You two should be clearer! The King of Chu sent people to rob the wedding convoy of the young lady of Ruixiang Yinlou. The special envoy of the King of Chu is with the Xiangyang Houfu. The Xiangyang Houfu will ask people to explore a green forest.
The man in the middle turned out to be the steward of Ruixiang Silver House. Could it be that Ruixiang Silver House and the King of Chu were working together to seize the dowry of their own young mistress?"
Jia Cong said: "Their young mistress's natal family is a wealthy family in Suzhou. The two families have a lot of business dealings, so they won't kill the goose to get the eggs. Besides, it's not like their family didn't give enough betrothal gifts. That steward may have used the name of the master's family to find you."
Buying information is either an imposter from another company, or someone used some trick to coax the owner of Ruixiang Bank to become interested in your second brother and spend money to find out about his whereabouts. There is definitely a mole in Ruixiang Bank."
Liu Xiaoqi frowned and said, "What's the origin of Ruixiang Silver Tower? I don't know. Why would King Chu place spies in their house?"
Jia Cong said: "It may not be that spies were planted, but it may be that they were bribed after knowing this. And what does it have to do with the Qi family? The escort is Liu Er, and the Qi family is Liu Si's ex-wife."
Chen Ruijin said with a smile: "Didn't Brother Lan say that? Misunderstanding."
Jia Cong said: "That's not right! Shouldn't we be more wary of their bookstores?"
Liu Xiaoqi hummed: "Afraid? King Chu's special envoy is not a fool. If he mistakenly thinks that my second brother has something to do with...that...fourth sister-in-law, he will avoid it."
Chen Ruijin said: "Don't forget, your bookstore has just opened and Liu Er's bodyguard has left. Hurry up and come back before the end of the year."
Liu Xiaoqi suddenly slapped his forehead: "That's right! The second brother came to our bookstore first on the day he returned to Beijing, but it happened that the special envoy of King Chu was doing business with me. He didn't come to talk, as if he was a guest from outside."
Jia Cong thought: "They are rushing to Suzhou; I'm afraid something will happen on the way, and they will go back to Beijing very quickly. The letter from the fake water bandits from Chu State will not arrive in Beijing faster than them." He stood up and said,
"Suppose that when Liu Er met the special envoy of the King of Chu in the bookstore on the day he returned to Beijing, the envoy didn't know that someone had disturbed their prince's business. Since the King of Chu had professional robbers, the business must be more than that. That day he was wearing
Straw hat?"
Liu Xiaoqi said: "Wear it, take it off when you enter the house and carry it on your back."
"The characteristic of the straw hat makes him easy to identify." Jia Cong said, "Go to the neighbors and ask if anyone has heard about a man wearing a straw hat and when. If so, which neighborhood uncle or aunt told them?
What are you talking about?" It was about his cousin, so Liu Xiaoqi left immediately.
He came again that night. Sure enough, someone was asking about Liu Er near the bookstore. On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a man came, claiming to be an agent from the Wucheng Army and Horses Division. He was wearing casual clothes to handle important cases. He asked if anyone had seen a man wearing a straw hat.
Still carrying the portrait. Liu Er came to the bookstore and would not let others see it. The only time he showed his face was when Chen Ruijin asked Princess Jian'an to help the Qi family to frighten the local gangsters.
The maids and women were guarding them. Most of the neighbors were watching the fun from a distance; the children were timid, big and small, and they were familiar with Liu Mingyi, so several of them slipped inside and poked their heads around. Some children recognized Liu Er's portrait and told them
When the people who arrested Princess Jian'an left, he did not follow them, as if they were not in the same group. On the sixth day of the lunar month, the agents came again and inquired about Qi's origins. A woman with a bad mouth told him that she had heard that
The Qi family came from some prince's house.
Chen Ruijin smiled and said: "That's it, Qi and Liu Er have hooked up."
Jia Cong also said: "I went to the escort agency, but no one came to inquire about Liu Er. On the way to escort the escort, the people from the escort agency told Ruixiang Yinlou that they didn't recognize Liu Er. The spy in Ruixiang Yinlou was either picking up the bride.
Among the people, they either have a very high status."
Liu Xiaoqi asked: "How come you have such a high status?"
"After picking up their young lady and returning to Beijing, I have to talk to my boss and important stewards about what happened on the way. If I want to inquire about the clerk, according to the professional ethics of the spy, I have to ask the other party for confirmation. What if the little clerk makes false claims? Since the company even
I didn’t even go to the escort agency to ask for confirmation. The traitor is very sure of the news and won’t waste that energy by not going to the escort agency.” Jia Cong said, “I just asked Fourth Uncle Jia to go to Ruixiang Silver Building tomorrow to talk some words.”
Liu Xiaoqi nodded and said, "Shi Li sent someone to Xiangyang Houfu to find out the news. Let's wait and see what he can find out."
Shi Li wanted to escort Shi Xiangyun and Mu to the Taiwan Mansion. He had been busy arranging the matters at hand recently and arrived very late. However, the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion had already found out a lot.
Just a few days before the death of the old Marquis, the special envoy of the King of Chu came to visit. Mr. Qi and Qi Jianhui, his father and son, accompanied him to talk. Qi Jianhui ordered someone to give a portrait to his daughter-in-law, saying that she was a relative of the Qi family, and asked if she could
Do you recognize it? Grandma Qi looked at it for a long time, but she didn't recognize it. Then she passed it on to the other ladies and grandmothers. Not long ago, Princess Lin'an's maid recognized it and said that the woman in the portrait was the one their princess went to buy a few days ago.
The embroiderer who did the embroidery came from the palace and knew how to embroider the patterns in the palace. It was her neighbor who injured the princess.
Qi Jianhui suddenly remembered something and blurted out: "Is it her?" The busy man sent the portrait to Grandma Qi again, "Let grandma take a closer look. Do you really not recognize it?"
Grandma Qi looked carefully for half a day, but she still couldn't tell, but she felt that she looked familiar. A daughter-in-law beside her said, "Grandma, I look a bit like the girl from the Fifth Uncle's family in the early years."
Grandma Qi suddenly said: "Yes! It's been too long and I can't remember, but she does look like her." She then sent someone back to her husband: The person in the portrait is the granddaughter of the fifth uncle who replaced her daughter in the palace.
The special envoy of the King of Hou Chu discussed with Qi Jianhui behind closed doors for half a day, and then ordered people to invite Qi's father and brother. Then he ordered her to make mourning clothes for her. After the old marquis died, he sent more than a dozen people to coax her back home.
——They all got beaten back by the Liu family.
After everyone listened, they each told Shi Li the news from various places, and each thought for a while.
Jia Cong said: "Let me explain it. The Taiping Escort Bureau escorted the people from Ruixiang Yinlou to Suzhou to pick up the bride. Because the young lady brought a large dowry, the officers and bandits under the command of the King of Chu were robbed. Liu Er jumped out and defeated the bandits and protected the escort.
After returning to Beijing, he went to the bookstore to visit Xiaoqi, and happened to meet the Chu King's special envoy doing business. However, at that time, the Chu King's special envoy may have thought that he was also a business guest. After a few days, Xu, for some reason, attracted the Chu King's special envoy.
Knowing the feats of Liu Er's bodyguard, he asked someone to pretend to be a plainclothes police officer to handle the case. He inquired about Liu Er near the Falcon Bookstore where he met Liu Er, and then caught up with the Qi family. Then he checked the Qi family. His surname was Qi.
Someone who comes from the Marquis' Mansion will easily become suspicious of the Marquis of Xiangyang whose surname is Qi. He went to the Marquis of Xiangyang personally to inquire about it, and he found out the origin of the Qi family."
Chen Ruijin thought: "It seems to be true. However, it is very far-fetched when I think about it carefully, and the relationship between it is still unclear."
Jia Cong said: "First thing. Since the special envoy of the King of Chu thinks that Liu Er is looking for Liu Xiaoqi to do business, he is probably a spy. What's the use of asking a spy to find a few idle men and talkative women and children? What's more?
, it’s just an official who lost a business, which is not a big deal. There are many green forest businesses that may or may not succeed. Why did the Chu State give a portrait to Liu Er? I think this is the reason.
That’s the crux.”
Chen Ruijin said: "It's the New Year now, and the special envoy of the King of Chu is very busy. He is actually willing to leave so many important things behind and go to Xiangyang Marquis Mansion to inquire about the Qi family in person."
Liu Xiaoqi held her cheek and thought for a long time, then said: "The special envoy of the King of Chu has not yet suspected that the second brother has something to do with our bookstore. Otherwise, it would be too hasty to use the funeral of the Marquis of Xiangyang to coax the fourth sister-in-law to come over."
Jia Cong nodded: "Well, they only think that Mrs. Qi and you are neighbors. You like Mingyi so much, and several children play together every day. I'm afraid you are just meddling in other people's business."
After a long time, Shi Li suddenly said: "The Kingdom of Chu has gradually divided into several factions over the years, and several uncles are not convinced by the King of Chu. This special envoy of the King of Chu was sent by the first King of Chu. Today's King of Chu
He is his grandson. I wonder if the King of Chu is behind this special envoy."
Jia Cong responded: "Are you saying that the special envoy of the King of Chu has followed an uncle who is determined to be an assassin and usurp the country?"
Shi Lidao: "You are used to seeing the princes in Beijing. Have you forgotten that SHIELD was originally founded in the green forest? Those who come to SHIELD are not necessarily spies, and they are not guaranteed to be people from the green forest. Didn't Qi Jianhui tell Xue Pan that he wanted to
Are you looking for a man from the forest? A mysterious straw hat guest quietly helped Ruixiang Silver House protect the young mistress’s dowry, but did not receive the reward. Ruixiang Silver House has no origin, I have already checked it. Since they have a mole in Ruixiang Silver House,
You must know that. Therefore, Liu Er is not like a spy, but like a lone ranger. He showed up when Princess Jian'an went to Qi's house, but he was not Princess Jian'an's. This move seemed to make him admire Qi. Princess Jian'an
The carriages and horses were noisy, but who knew at first that they were there to help themselves and not to cause trouble?"
"Oh!" Jia Cong stood up and said, "What does a green forest tycoon with high martial arts skills do to pay special attention to an ordinary embroiderer? That embroiderer also has a daughter, and she looks like her own daughter. Judging by her age,
After all, the palace had not dismissed the palace maids when my daughter was born." Nai raised his eyes and looked at everyone, "If it were me, I would guess that this green forest lone ranger wearing a straw hat was once the palace guard. If so.
, the Qi family is very valuable. Even the Straw Hats went to Falcon Bookstore to do business, maybe asking them to help take care of the Qi family."
Chen Ruijin suddenly said: "We seem to have overlooked a sentence."
"What?"
"Qi Jianhui said to Xue Pan, 'Our family is not the only one looking for that person.'" (. Just Love Network)