Bai Lan signed a contract with the shopkeeper at the Taiping Escort Bureau. The Taiping Escort Bureau helped her move the smuggling room before noon tomorrow, and she was paid one thousand taels of silver. Bai Lan asked them how to move, and the shopkeeper smiled and said: "Is this..." in a low voice.
After saying something, Bai Lan was shocked. The shopkeeper said sternly, "Don't worry, sir. Since we are in this line of work, reputation is the most important thing. Otherwise, we can just do something else, why bother to work hard to be a bodyguard?"
Bai Lan hesitated for a moment and said, "It's just that where can I find a place to store it for a while?"
The shopkeeper said: "Guests can temporarily stay in our escort agency. We will not charge storage fees within three days. You will have to collect money from the fourth day."
Bai Lan was amused when she heard this: "You guys really love money."
The shopkeeper said confidently: "If you don't open your business to make money, how about doing charity?"
Bai Lan thought for a moment: "That's alright, I'll just keep it with you temporarily, for two days at most. Then maybe the shopkeeper can help me transport it?"
"Of course." The shopkeeper said with a smile, "Since I have received a thousand taels of silver from the guest, I will naturally provide the best service. Our escort agency has real skills." Bai Lan nodded.
The three people then discussed the details of smuggling the private house in detail, and the discussion lasted for almost half an hour before they were finished.
It was already past noon when she left the Escort Bureau. Bai Lan did not go to the HSBC bank, but took the little girl to have lunch and visit a tea shop. She chose the largest tea shop in Chang'an City and told the clerk when she entered the door: "I
I want the most expensive tea in your shop." The waiter was so happy that he didn't notice her appearance. Bai Lan thought to herself: what her mother said before was wrong. In the eyes of many men, money is more valuable than beauty.
Much prettier.
There was an accident when entering the house. Bai Lan's little maid's waistband fell off at some point, and she was almost hanging in the door. Some small things didn't matter. Back in the courtyard, the little maid was showing off to the servants next to her proudly.
How did my aunt and grandma buy tea just now? Who doesn't know that their men like tea the most? Those few people winked. It didn't take long for someone to sneak out.
I thought the man would come tonight, but I didn't expect him to come after the second watch. Bai Lan sat in front of the case and wrote a letter to Widow Huang, sealed it, pressed it with a paperweight, and ordered the courtyard door to be closed.
The little maid asked with a smile: "Auntie, do you want tea?"
Bai Lan glanced at her: "I know you are thinking about the tea you bought today." She said generously, "Boat the water, brew it and let everyone taste it. Follow me, and you will have many blessings. If you are in someone else's yard, you will never be able to do it in this life."
I can't afford such expensive tea." The little maid agreed and went to get the tea stove, while several maids and women nearby were busy saying good things.
Making tea is Bai Lan's specialty, so naturally she cooked this tea herself. The water poured into the teapot, and the fragrance overflowed. Even though the maids and ladies had their own thoughts, they were all attracted by the fragrance of the tea. Bai Lan took it seriously and they all tasted the tea.
, everyone tutted in admiration, and compliments and flattery were endless. Bai Lan felt very comfortable and said calmly: "It's just some tea. Since you like it, eat more. There will be more in the future." Everyone cheered and flattered again.
After eating tea, Bai Lan felt tired, yawned three times in a row, and went to sleep. The little girl said: "Today, I heard someone say that sleepiness is contagious. Seeing others sleepy makes you more sleepy. It turns out it's true.
." Those few felt a little drowsy after hearing this, so they fell asleep individually.
About a quarter of an hour later, several figures quietly climbed over the wall of Bailan's courtyard. The leader entered the bedroom through the window, stepped in front of the Kang, hung up the curtain, untied a gourd from his waist, and faced
Bai Lan poured it into her mouth. Today at the Taiping Escort Bureau, the shopkeeper gave Bai Lan a bag of good tea sprinkled with drugged drugs. The bag Bai Lan gave people to eat was not the bag bought at the tea shop. After a while, Bai Lan woke up and saw
A man stood outside the tent, Hao Xuan exclaimed. The man quickly covered her mouth: "Sir, please wake up! I am the head escort Kong." Bai Lan opened her eyes wide, and after a while she remembered what was going on and nodded.
.Kong Biaotou let go of his hand.
Bai Lan sat up and looked at him for a moment, then asked, "How did you get in?"
Head Guard Kong smiled and said, "Sir, we have a badge." He said and handed her one.
When Bai Lan saw that it really belonged to their house, she was shocked: "Where did this thing come from?"
The escort chief Kong said briefly. The little maid's waist card was given away by the escort agency. Even the fact that sleepiness was contagious was deliberately told to her by the escorts pretending to be chatting. After getting the waist card, the escort agency
Seeing that it was just a bronze medal, he immediately sent it to a workshop to imitate, and someone else imitated the clothes of the servants in their house. The workshop was very capable, and they had produced dozens of imitations before evening, and then hurriedly made some old ones, and after dark
Already available.
Head Guard Kong said: "It has been found out now that your wife has a batch of gifts to be sent to the Gao family in Ping'an Prefecture tomorrow. After the fifth watch, we can pretend to be the ones delivering things and leave the house early. At that time, the most important person guarding the door is
He's just sleepy, and we have the advantage that we won't notice it. Even if we notice it, it's very cheap to restrain him for a while with my ability."
After hearing this, Bai Lan praised: "You have such ability, I really spent the thousand taels of silver well."
Kong Biaotou said: "If you don't have diamonds, you won't do porcelain work. Now that you've done this business, you can naturally do it. Your business is nothing like this, we have done much bigger things than this."
Bai Lan nodded and said, "There really are masters in this world." Then she started to pack her things.
The Taiping Escort Bureau also brought some rattan boxes that could be carried on the back, containing cotton, ropes and other items, in order to avoid damaging the items during transportation. Bai Lan packed the things to be moved, and the escorts helped
She placed them one by one in the rattan boxes, and there were as many as fourteen boxes. She affixed seals, compiled the serial numbers, and wrote out a list in duplicate. Kong Biaotou and Bai Lan each pressed their fingerprints. The fourth update had just arrived.
One day, the leader of escort Kong left with the box, saying he was packing the carriage. Bai Lan returned to the kang and pretended to sleep, but in fact she never closed her eyes again.
Little did they know that the escort head Kong had just coaxed Bai Lan. The waist card he showed her was the one belonging to the little maid. The Taiping Escort Bureau did not fake it at all, they only climbed over the wall. They did not want Bai Lan to know that they had climbed over the wall and entered the house without permission.
, lied. They were about to go out now. The brothers carried the goods on their backs and crossed the wall with some flamboyance. They had just confused the two men on duty at the west corner gate. There was a bodyguard guarding there. Everyone kept silent.
Sliding towards the west corner door, Kong Biaotou was leading the way. Seeing that he was almost there, he suddenly heard a noise in a small courtyard next to him. Kong Biaotou immediately imitated a cat's meow to make everyone stop temporarily.
The wall of the courtyard was very short. Kong Biao climbed up the wall a little and slipped over. He saw a woman burning paper and crying. She was so pathetic. Looking at the yard again, it was extremely deserted, with withered and yellow weeds covering the ground. It was obvious that it had been there for many years.
No one was staying. Kong Biaotou frowned slightly. It was such a cold day to hide in a secluded place and burn paper. The deceased must have been beaten to death by the owner? The firelight reflected the woman's clothes, which turned out to be a satin coat. It was clearly visible.
His appearance was rich and dignified, and even the posture of burning paper was very dignified. He should not be a slave. Kong Biaotou looked at the courtyard again, and suddenly found a figure quietly hiding in the corner. The dark clouds covered the moon, and he could not see the person at all.
She looked like a woman, and could only vaguely tell through the peripheral vision of burning paper that she was a woman. Kong Biao was puzzled, thought for a while, and then came back to lead the way.
Not long after, everyone scurried out from the west corner door. Head Guard Kong ordered them to go back to the escort office first, and then returned to the outside of the courtyard. The woman was still burning paper and crying more and more heartbreakingly. She cried again and again.
After a stick of incense, the paper money was burned out, and the woman was tired of crying. She stared at the ashes in a daze. The embers flickered and flickered, and soon they were all gone. The woman struggled to get up, but her legs and feet went weak.
Instead, she fell to the ground. The person in the corner was still watching, motionless. The woman cried again. This time she stopped crying after a short time, stood up slowly, turned around and walked step by step. She walked very slowly, as if
Every step was done with all my strength.
It wasn't until she opened the courtyard door and walked out that the man in the corner came out. Through the faint light coming from the cracks in the clouds, Kong Biaotou saw that she was a woman. The woman picked up a shovel and deftly moved her hands and feet a few times.
I dug a hole under a big maple tree in the courtyard. I came back and carefully swept away the ashes of the paper money that the woman had just burned, poured them all into the hole and buried them. After thinking about it, I sprinkled them on top.
A few stones. After packing up the shovel, broom and other items, the old lady returned to the place where the paper was burned, stood with her hands on her hips and looked at Huizi. Although it was dark in the courtyard and her face was not visible, you could see the complacency of this person by looking at his figure.
.
After a final inspection, the old woman walked out quietly, turned back and closed the courtyard door, took out a candle from her arms, lit it and put it on the ground, then took an iron drill and poked it into the crack of the door.
He could see clearly that she was fastening the door bolt bit by bit. Then she squatted on the ground to clean up the dripping wax and blew out the candles. Thanks to her age and the darkness, she could barely see the road with her feet.
She left without touching anything. Head Guard Kong quietly followed her around two corners, and there was a row of low houses in front of her. The woman quietly slipped into a room without changing her clothes, and fell down on the kang to sleep. After a while
Son, there was thunderous snoring in the house.
Miss Kong was a neat person. Hearing that she was asleep, he unlocked the door and went in. He raised his hand and slapped her unconscious. Then he took the quilt and rolled up the woman, lit the candle on the table, and walked in the room.
Zhong Lue searched around. The room was extremely small, and there were three boxes stacked on top of the kang. Kong Biaotou took the largest box at the bottom and checked it first. This box had a very thick interlayer, and a large oil paper bag was placed inside.
There was no time to take a closer look at this moment. He took a rope and tied the oil paper bundle up and carried it on his back. After thinking for a moment, Kong Biaotou took out another quilt from the short cabinet and wrapped it in the old woman. The original bed was thrown back
On the kang, the door was ajar, he picked up the man and left.
Passing by the deserted courtyard just now, Kong Biaotou unlocked the door bolt that the woman had just inserted. He walked in and found a shovel, half-dug the hole where paper money and ashes were buried under the maple tree, and casually put down the shovel.
He didn't know what the mother-in-law was going to do, but he just didn't want to let her succeed. He took off an earring from the mother-in-law's ear and dropped it next to the shovel. Counting the time, the night watchman at the West Point Gate was about to wake up. He
Then he carried the woman on his back and went straight out of the west corner gate, and fled with the companions guarding the gate.
Returning to the escort office, Mr. Kong placed the old lady in an empty room at the back of the escort office, and told the shopkeeper what had happened. The shopkeeper frowned and said, "Why bother with that? I can't protect this old lady from the crying woman."
Are they in a group?"
Head Guard Kong was determined: "We are definitely not in the same group." Seeing that the shopkeeper still had disapproval on his face, he explained, "The shopkeeper didn't see her look like that, and she had the attitude of having everything under her control. This woman must have
Weird."
The shopkeeper sighed: "That's all, we've all been arrested. Look what's in this oil paper bag."
The two then untied the rope and opened the oil-paper bag, and were stunned. There were four or five scrolls inside. When they opened it, they found a whole Diamond Sutra. The handwriting of the person who wrote the sutra was beautiful, so he must be a woman. The shopkeeper looked at him for a long time.
, put down the scriptures, opened the cabinet, took out the telegraph machine, and sent out a telegram. When the head guard Kong asked who it was sent to, he said: "Ask Zhu Tong to come here soon."
Zhu Tong and his wife were sleeping when the night signal soldier knocked on the door and woke them up. Liu Jing said in confusion, "What's the fuss about in the middle of the night? Can't we wait until tomorrow?"
Zhu Tong comforted her for a while: "I'll come as soon as I go. You go on sleeping, including my share."
On the contrary, Liu Jing opened his eyes and said angrily: "Didn't you say that you will live a happy life after arriving in Chang'an? You coaxed me into following you. If I had known I would stay in Beijing."
Zhu Tong smiled and kissed her cheek: "It's not mine. I want to see you every day when I open my eyes."
Liu Jing snorted: "You didn't know that this word was from a play?" Even so, he closed his eyes and fell asleep with satisfaction.
Zhu Tong stepped lightly onto the kang, put on his clothes, got up, and walked away in the night wind.
When they arrived at the Taiping Escort Bureau, Escort Kong described what happened tonight in detail. The shopkeeper said, "I was thinking, isn't Fake Bai Lan my sister-in-law? That woman who behaves strangely also hides the Diamond Sutra."
Bouncer Kong put his legs up and hummed: "Did the shopkeeper admit that she acted strangely?"
The shopkeeper glared at him. "Mr. Zhu, during the day today, the government just posted a portrait of the fake Bailan. Someone in the real Bailan's family secretly burned the paper. What a coincidence."
Zhu Tong nodded: "Check this crying woman." Then asked, "Which family are they from?"
The shopkeeper said: "It is Ding Bozhang, the brother-in-law of Gao Li, the governor of Ping'an Prefecture. Bai Lan's man is the fourth master of the Ding family."
Kong Biao shook his head and said: "Ding Bozhang is now the imperial censor. Could it be that the matter about the sister-in-law will eventually be dealt with by Mr. Ding?"
The shopkeeper and Zhu Tong said in unison: "Who is he?" "Where can it be him?"
Zhu Tong chuckled and said: "No matter how talented Ding Bozhang is, how can he be better than the Marquis of Ping'an? King Qin's mother's family and grandmother's family are not spared. How can they tolerate the Gao family? They have such a big appetite and are not afraid of indigestion."
The shopkeeper thought: "The Gao family made great contributions when King Qin came to the throne. King Qin trusted the Gao family from the bottom of his heart, so it is difficult to move them. What plan do they have?"
Zhu Tong said: "The people involved right now are a dead sister-in-law, a runaway fan, a lady who burned paper in the middle of the night, and a mother-in-law of unknown origin. They are all women. They worked openly and honestly in the military and in the Gao family of the previous dynasty.
You can't find fault. You can only go elsewhere and attack your relatives." Zhu Tong raised his eyebrows, "And she is a woman from a relative's family."
Bouncer Kong suddenly jumped off his chair and ran out. When the shopkeeper asked him what he was doing, he was too late to answer. Half a day later, he ran back and said with a smile: "Haha! That woman is awake."
Zhu Tong stood up. The shopkeeper said: "What's so funny about waking up?"
Head Guard Kong said proudly: "She can't pry open our Dajiala spring lock!"