Ha! What a pair of good friends! Does it mean that he, Lu Chen, doesn’t even want a future?
If he returns empty-handed this time, the emperor will definitely not use him again, but will Lu Chen be able to escape unscathed?
No matter how bad things are, someone will always be labeled as incompetent, right? How can the emperor trust Lu Chen to do things in the future?
"I really want to apologize to you for this, but I have caused you trouble! You also know that every move of aristocratic families in the capital is under the eyes of others. From the moment we leave the capital, people may be able to control it.
whereabouts."
Gu Chengyu was a little surprised that Lu Chen could confess, but he didn't believe what Lu Chen said.
If it is really what Lu Chen said, then how can this aristocratic family still have sex?
Gu Chengyu smiled noncommittally, "Since Mr. Yan is coming to visit, let's see what Mr. Yan's intentions are."
But before Gu Chengyu could receive the second master of the Yan family who was coming to visit, something happened in the Yi family that night.
"Sir! The Yi Mansion was flooded at night, and the fire was very strong. I saw two groups of people attacking the Yi Mansion at night. The fire may have been set by one of them." Ding Ba reported the situation of the Yi Mansion to Gu Chengyu.
Report.
Gu Chengyu raised his eyebrows, was he going to take action again?
"What about those two groups? They have withdrawn now?"
"I haven't done this before I came back. But the guards of the Yi Mansion are really powerful. They fought with two groups of people, and they were able to draw evenly, even though there were casualties on all three sides. They were very fast, and when I saw that something was wrong, I
I will come back immediately to report. However, I have warned Ding Wu and the others before coming here. If those people have already retreated, then follow them."
Dingba knew that he had lost track of the man in black a few days ago, which made him a little dissatisfied.
This time he didn't dare to delay and came back immediately to report.
Gu Chengyu pondered. The foreign aid of the Yi Mansion was indeed great. But when the Yi Mansion cooperated with others, they wanted to exchange the treasure map for something.
It is undoubtedly a fool's dream that the Yi family wants to monopolize the treasure map.
Gu Chengyu thought that the Yi family had not been as unknown as when the late emperor was alive in recent years, and now there were actually two famous people in the family.
The fourth generation of the Yi family has grown up, which shows that the Yi family plans to become an official, but who will be the person who will cooperate with the Yi family?
As far as the three major families in Hejian Prefecture are concerned, the Yi family is still at a low point. Who would leave the other two booming families behind and find a family that is in decline?
He probably did this because he saw Yi's potential and wanted the other party to use it for him.
Gu Chengyu thought about the characters of several princes and felt that the second prince and Prince Jing were very likely.
Of course, maybe the princes were not the only ones who came to Hejian Mansion, maybe some ministers from the court also participated.
"So the treasure map is still in the hands of the Yi family?" The Yi family was so firm that Gu Chengyu found it a bit tricky.
"I asked you to keep an eye on Ma Zhihong for the past two days. Did he do anything strange?"
Gu Chengyu thought that Ma Zhihong was an imperial envoy on the surface, but it had been a while since he came to Hejian Mansion, and he didn't know what his plan was.
Ma Zhihong belongs to the eldest prince. As long as he finds out which people Ma Zhihong comes in contact with, he can grasp the whereabouts of the eldest prince's lineage.
Before Gu Chengyu came to Hejian Mansion, he had already asked people to pay close attention to Ma Zhihong. He was a key figure.
"Back to my lord! Sir Ma stays in the inn every day, and only goes out twice during this period, both times to drink in a wine shop."
Ding Ba thought about it carefully and determined that there was nothing unusual about Ma Zhihong these past two days, and no one went to the inn to look for Ma Zhihong.
Gu Chengyu was a little surprised, as Ma Zhihong was quite cautious.
It seems that this time either the eldest prince's people have not yet contacted Ma Zhihong, or there is an eldest prince's spy in the inn.
"Keep an eye on Ma Zhihong carefully. There should be some movement from him in the past two days."
It has been delayed for so long. Everyone in Hejian Mansion knows that Gu Chengyu is here. Ma Zhihong should understand his situation. How can he still sit still?
"Sir! Ding Wu and the others are back!"
Gu Chengyu was shocked, "So fast? Let them in quickly!"
"Sir! We followed the men in black who attacked Yi Mansion at night and found their hiding place. There was also news from Master Ma. He disguised himself as a country farmer and met with the leader of one of the groups."
"The leader of the other group went to Qu Mansion. The younger one saw that he didn't come out again after he went in."
Gu Chengyu frowned, the person Ma Zhihong went to see should be from the eldest prince's lineage, but why is there still no movement from the third prince?
Qu did intervene. Did Qu do it himself, or had he already reached an agreement with some faction? Could the third prince be behind Qu?
"If you continue to keep an eye on it, if you encounter someone attacking the Yi Mansion at night again, then come back and report it to me. Let's take this opportunity to see if we can fish in troubled waters."
In fact, today is an opportunity. If Gu Chengyu had known the news earlier and rushed there, he might have been able to steal the treasure map.
Anyway, there are people in front of him, so those people can't take care of him.
Dingba and the others are still lacking in martial arts, and there are only a few of them.
The Yi Mansion is so tightly guarded that Dingba and the others will definitely not be able to steal it.
Besides, he didn't know where the treasure map was hidden in Yi Mansion. If he could find out where the treasure map was hidden in advance, it would be easier to steal it later.
The incident happened suddenly, so it was considered timely for Dingba and the others to come back and report the incident as soon as it happened.
Those people retreated in such a short period of time, and even if they rushed back immediately, it would be too late.
Gu Chengyu thought about it and felt that he couldn't wait any longer. If he took the initiative, the effect would be better.
But if you want to go to Yi Mansion to steal the treasure map, you must know the layout of Yi Mansion and where the treasure map is hidden.
Gu Chengyu suddenly smiled, since Lu Chen came with him, how could he not do anything? He couldn't have raised Lu Chen for so long in vain!
The next day, Lu Chen came to the small study excitedly.
"Jin Yu! The Yi family was attacked last night and they even took away the water."
As soon as Lu Chen entered the study, he sat down opposite Gu Chengyu.
"Oh? Do you know who did it?" Gu Chengyu was extremely surprised and raised his eyes to look at Lu Chen.
"There are two groups of people, one is from the Qu Mansion, and the other is not yet clear."
Lu Chen's eyes flashed, and he took a sip of the tea served by Ming Mo.
"Then did you send someone to follow?" Gu Chengyu hoped to find out other information from Lu Chen so that he could know who was behind the other group.
"Of course, but the Qu family must have formed an alliance with others. They have already attacked the Yi family before, and the losses were not small. But they have made a comeback in such a short period of time, so they must have the support of someone."