When Yan Liqiang entered, before he reached the main hall, he heard the faint sobbing of a woman coming from the room next to the main hall. Xu Enda's sister was really crying at home.
"Brother Liqiang, don't blame me. The matchmaker's words just now were so irritating that she even made my sister cry..." Xu Enci explained to Yan Liqiang somewhat embarrassedly.
"It's okay, just ignore those people in the future. By the way, who is that Mr. Zhu?" Yan Liqiang asked as he walked.
"That Mr. Zhu used to be the shopkeeper of Yue'an Cloth Shop in Chunxifang. My sister went to the cloth shop to buy cloth before, but he took a fancy to her and even dared to find someone to propose marriage..." Xu Enci said angrily, waving his fist, "That Zhu looks like a pig. He is over 50 years old and has two wives at home. When my brother was around, Mr. Zhu was very polite to us and didn't dare to show any bad thoughts to my sister. I didn't expect that when my brother got into trouble, he would dare to set his sights on my sister. I will never forgive him. If he dares to come again, I will burn down his shitty cloth shop even if it costs me my life. I will never let my sister be bullied by him..."
"Enci, you are still young, you don't have to worry about these things. Your brother is in trouble now, so you must not get into trouble. Don't worry, I promise you that the shopkeeper Zhu will never harass you again..." Yan Liqiang said to Xu Enci straightforwardly. In Yan Liqiang's eyes, a cloth shopkeeper with a few dollars in his hands was like an ant. To make such a person surrender, Yan Liqiang had plenty of ways and means, and it was just a matter of a word.
"Brother Liqiang, please sit down for a while. I'll go tell my sister. She doesn't know you're here yet..."
"Okay, go ahead..." Yan Liqiang sat down in the main hall, waiting for Xu Enci to call his sister out, while looking at the furnishings in Xu Enda's house...
There was a picture of evergreen pine and cypress hanging in the main hall, and the furniture was arranged in a decent manner. Although it was not exquisite and expensive furniture, it was clean and decent. Xu Enda's home was originally a shabby small courtyard. Yan Liqiang had been here before. In the past two years, as Xu Enda was valued in the newspaper and earned more money, the shabby small courtyard was rebuilt and renovated. At this moment, although Xu Enda's home was not as good as those wealthy families in the Imperial Capital, it had white walls and green tiles, new beams and painted windows, flowers and grass planted in the yard, and the main hall was also decent, which was what an ordinary family in the Imperial Capital should have. Life was much better than before, but he didn't expect that Xu Enda would get into trouble, and his brother and sister in the family suddenly had no one to rely on...
In the blink of an eye, Xu Enci and a young girl walked into the main hall. The girl was Xu Enda's sister. When Yan Liqiang met her before, she was just a little girl of eleven or twelve years old. She was well-behaved and sensible, and served Xu Enda. Now, after not seeing her for a few years, the little girl looked to be fourteen or fifteen years old. She had grown taller and her body had grown up. Her eyes were like autumn water and her face was like peach blossoms. No wonder she was so coveted.
"Hello, Brother Liqiang..." Xu Enda's sister had also met Yan Liqiang. Although she had just cried and her eyes were still red, when she saw Yan Liqiang, she quickly bowed to him politely.
"Come on, both of you sit down and talk..."
"My brother has been captured, and there is no news at all now. I would like to ask Brother Liqiang to think of a way to rescue my brother..." As soon as Xu Enda's sister sat down, she started talking about Xu Enda's story. When she talked about this, the little girl's eyes turned red again.
"Don't worry, your brother will be fine. I just arrived in Imperial City today and learned that something happened at the newspaper. Can you tell me how your brother was arrested?"
"We don't know what happened!" Xu Enci shook his head. "Three months ago, my brother went out as usual. He didn't come back at night and disappeared the next day. He was never like this before. Even if he had to go out for something, he would tell us. My sister and I felt something was wrong, so we went out to find out. We found out that something happened at the newspaper and my brother was kidnapped!"
"What happened at the newspaper?" Yan Liqiang asked.
"I don't know what happened. We just heard that the entire newspaper office, my brother, Xiao Wu, the big brothers we knew, and Manager Fang, more than 30 people, were arrested!"
Yan Liqiang frowned suddenly. It seemed that it was not just one or two people who were arrested, but almost all of his entire team who stayed in the newspaper. This was a bit abnormal. When he left, the newspaper was nominally the property of His Majesty the Emperor and was managed by Eunuch Liu. Even for his own sake, Eunuch Liu would not easily make things difficult for Fang Beidou and the others. When they fought with Lin Qingtian, Fang Beidou and the others were not arrested. How come now that Lin Qingtian has fallen, Fang Beidou and the others are in trouble
Yan Liqiang pondered for a while and asked, "Do you know who ordered the arrest, or have you heard any news related to this?"
"We inquired from many sources and heard that the people who arrested people were from the Imperial Mabu Division, and no one from the Ministry of Justice intervened. The person who gave the order was Sun Bingchen, the minister who is now in charge of the cabinet..." Xu Enda's sister spoke.
Yan Liqiang was shocked. What did Sun Bingchen mean by ordering the arrest of someone? This was even more wrong...
The two siblings of the Xu family didn't know any inside information, they just knew some ordinary news, but even so, for Yan Liqiang, it was enough. During the chat with the two siblings, Yan Liqiang confirmed a lot of information and had a general understanding of the current situation in the Imperial Capital. According to the two siblings of the Xu family, since Fang Beidou was captured by Xu Enda and his group, the wind direction of the entire Imperial Capital has changed. Whether it is the "Great Han Empire Times" or the newspaper founded by Lin Qingtian and his party to compete with the "Great Han Empire Times", they all began to talk about how the prophecy on the back of the stone turtle is nonsense, how unreliable it is, and how the Great Han Empire is prosperous, politically stable, and people-friendly. Even in the Imperial Capital, anyone who dares to talk about the prophecy on the back of the stone turtle will be arrested as a person who spreads evil words to confuse the public...
The Xu brothers and sisters had originally prepared to leave the Imperial Capital with Xu Enda, but suddenly, the government no longer allowed ordinary people to leave the Imperial Capital. If they wanted to leave, they needed a pass issued by the government.
Yan Liqiang stayed at Xu Enda's house for only an hour. After leaving two thousand taels of silver to the Xu brothers and sisters, seeing that it was getting dark, Yan Liqiang said goodbye to the Xu brothers and sisters and left the Xu family's yard.
Just as he walked out of the winding alleys of Chunxifang and onto the street outside, before he had taken a few steps, four men in official uniforms with steady steps came towards Yan Liqiang and surrounded him.
Yan Liqiang frowned slightly and looked at those people with narrowed eyes.
"Lord Sun just learned that Lord Yan has arrived in the capital city, and he has specially asked us to invite Lord Yan to his house for a gathering..." One of the four men bowed to Yan Liqiang and said politely.
Yan Liqiang thought about it and realized that it was the token he had shown to the detectives that had revealed his whereabouts. However, Yan Liqiang just wanted to meet Sun Bingchen, so he didn't say anything else, but just nodded, "Okay, lead the way..."
One of them waved his hand, and a black four-wheeled carriage drove over from not far away and stopped in front of Yan Liqiang.
"Master Yan, please..."
Yan Liqiang calmly got on the carriage...
(End of this chapter)