This summer, Yang Yue and Yang Yue looked at each other, and they were all strange. Shangguanxi went to see Lu Yi early in the morning, so how could he say that he has not come back yet.
Could it be that she deliberately concealed this matter from Xie Xiao? Naturally, they didn't say anything about what happened between the two of them. Yang Yue said: "Brother Xie, I have something to ask for, I don't know if Brother Xie can help. We are currently looking for a girl's place to live. We only know that it is not far from the water, and there are many helpers from Wu An. I wonder if you can inquire for me. ?"
"It's such a trivial matter that you're looking down on me too. Who are you looking for?"
"Her surname is Zhai, and her name is Lanye. She is the adopted daughter of Zhai Zhongwai, who is said to be the brother-in-law of the prefect of Yangzhou."
When Xie Xiao heard this, he made a big move and called a young fisherman from nearby, and asked him like this. Young Housheng replied with a smile: "His family loves to drink fresh fish soup, and Laohu will deliver fish to his house the next day. He used to live in Fengqiao Street, but recently he had to move to Guanqianqian Street for some reason, and he gave it to Laohu. Saved a lot of things."
"Where is Guan Qian Qian Street?"
"There is a big locust tree close to the door at the back corner of his house, and there is an earth temple next to it."
Xie Xiao grew up running wild in Yangzhou City since he was a child. Hearing what he said, he immediately understood. He untied the cable and said to Yang Yue this summer, "Come up, I will take you there!"
Walk along the waterway, turn left and right, until you reach a bridge, Xie Xiao pointed out: "You just walk forward and see the Temple of the Earth. I have nothing to do, just wait here, and let's finish it. Go for a drink!"
This summer, when he was about to go ashore, he saw that Yang Yue was careful not to touch the millet cake, so he called him and handed over the wooden box containing the spices: "Dayang, you go, I will talk to Brother Xie."
Yang Yue was stunned.
"You, don't worry, we'll be waiting for you here." This summer smiled. Since he was sending things for Lu Yi, Zhai Lanye would have met him in person. I'm afraid he would have to ask a few more questions so that Yang Yue would be able to talk to her alone, so as to solve his lovesickness.
Yang Yue took the wooden box, scratched his head and smiled, then turned and left.
Xie Xiao fastened the rope, leaned on the boat, and asked curiously, "Aren't you here to investigate the case? Is this girl suspicious?"
I couldn't tell him the details in the inside, so I just said this summer: "This girl Zhai was born very well. Master Lu met her on the boat this morning. After returning, I will not forget it. No, we have prepared spices and let us send them over to show our hospitality."
"Lu Yi..." Xie Xiao snorted coldly, "I can't see that his virtue is still in the middle of the wind."
"That's it."
This summer greeted with a smile.
"You're quite happy to be his son of a bitch?" Xie Xiao squinted at her.
"Brother, people are in the rivers and lakes, you can't help yourself..." This summer was not annoyed, and thought about it seriously, "No, I should be in Cao Ying and in Han."
Xie Xiao shook his head with a smile and asked her, "How did you know it was me that night?"
"Not only did I know it was you, but I also knew that it was Sister Shangguan who used Lei Ming's thunderbolt." This summer, he approached him and said in a low voice, "I said, brother, you are too careless. Although it is not a good thing to help Jin Yiwei, it is not a fool to eat."
"It's alright, alright... If you can't help you, you can still talk sarcastically."
"Don't worry, Mr. Lu is very busy right now, and he doesn't care about your brother at all. The people who brought up the prison officer are eager to fawn on him, and they will definitely not dare to lynch the lynching. It is inevitable that you will take your brother seriously. . He's in jail, and nothing will happen."
Listening to what she said was reasonable, Xie Xiao was a little relieved.
"I'm also listening quietly for you. If you plan to transfer him to Beijing..." Glancing at him this summer, he said slowly, "It's always better to act on the road."
Xie Xiao was silent and hummed twice.
This summer, her hands and feet can't be idle, and while talking, she vigorously tossed the boat. There are few such boats in the north and more in the south of the Yangtze River. She has never seen it much. She only knows how to pull and push, causing the boat to sway.
Knowing that she had a fresh idea, Xie Xiao swayed with the hull of the boat, and didn't worry, she let her play.
While the two were gossiping, a scull boat came quickly from the bridge, and the splashed water made a sound.
"Less helper! Something went wrong!"
Xie Xiao stood up abruptly and asked, "What's the matter?"
"A dozen of the brothers ran into the oriental people in Hejiazhuang. Those people were arrogant. They attacked without saying a word. Several brothers were killed and injured. The rest were no match for them. They barely escaped after entering the reeds. life."
"Eastern!"
I was taken aback this summer, and I immediately remembered that Yang Yue had mentioned before that some people who were injured by Orientals came to the hospital for treatment, but the government hadn't even arrested them.
"You go off the boat, I have to go see the brothers." Xie Xiao said to her, "I will come back to find you when I have time."
"I'll go with you." Out of the instinct of catching fast, I wanted to see which Japanese pirates were so rampant this summer.
Xie Xiao only hesitated for a moment, then nodded happily: "You sit still!"
The scull boat moved quickly along the waterway, circled out of Yangzhou City, shot into the big lake like arrows, and headed southwest. After a while, you could see a large reed field, and two small boats like fish burrowed into it. The reeds about the height of the two swayed gently around, and the boat turned left and right. At first this summer, I could barely remember the path, but after three turns and five turns, I was completely confused. Every turn looked exactly the same. Can't really see any difference.
"Don't waste your time," Xie Xiao saw that she wanted to memorize the path. "Without my lead, you can only beat the wall when you come in."
Jin Xia sighed: "When I was reading "Loyalty Water Margin", there was also such a large reed field in Shijie Village, and the three brothers of the Nguyen Brothers were haunting them..."
"That book is a biography of a group of strong men. You are an official, how can you read it?"
"It's not a banned book, so why can't you read it."
"Also, now the court is rampant, and I dare to snatch it outside Beijing. If you are forced to fall into the grass one day, I don't think it is new." Xie Xiao said in his mouth, swayed his direction, and turned to the left. Swing away, the surroundings suddenly opened up.
The boats were gathered here, and Shangguan Xi, dressed in a pink-colored robe, stood in the middle, with a heavy brow, listening to his subordinates helping everyone to report their affairs, which was particularly eye-catching. Almost at the same time as she saw her this summer, she also saw them, as if she did not expect Xie Xiao to be with this summer, her expression was a little stunned.
"Less gang master, less gang master..." The surrounding gang members called out one after another.
Xie Xiao took a big step, jumped over on the board, and walked all the way to Shangguanxi's side.
"Young gang master," Shangguan Xi looked at Jin Xia, who was following, ... Miss Yuan. "
This summer, I bowed my hands to her: "I also ask my sister to forgive me. I heard that something happened here and it has something to do with the Orientals, so I'll come and have a look."
"It's serious."
"Sister," Xie Xiao asked Shangguan Xi, "How many brothers did you hurt?"
"Six serious injuries and three minor injuries," Shangguan Xi took a deep breath, "Four brothers died."
Xie Xiao was silent for a moment, and then said: "Take me to see... By the way, on the old man's side, hide it for a while."
Several injured brothers had been sent to the hospital, and Shangguan Xi first took them to the bank where the bodies were placed. In the gloomy room, there were four corpses, all covered with white cloth.
"Can I take a look?" Although this summer is an official post, this place is the territory of the Wu'an Gang after all, so some etiquette is still required.
Shangguan Xi glanced at Xie Xiao, and seeing that he did not object, he stepped forward to uncover the white cloth covering the corpse.
This summer, I first reached out and pressed the skin of the recently deceased person, which was still elastic. It was less than half an hour after death, and then I checked the wound on his body. There are more than a dozen wounds on his body. The fatal wound is a slash in the chest, from the upper right to the lower left.
Xie Xiao has not been in the gang for several years. He is not familiar with the four deceased people. He lowered his head and asked Shangguan Xi. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw Jin Xia's blackened wound and reached out to fiddle with it. He quickly stretched out his arm and pulled her away, shouting: "Watch out, poisonous!"
The loudness and force of the voice shocked Shangguan Xi who was nearby.
"I said brother, don't be surprised." Jin Xia was helpless, and showed him his hand. "It's not the first day that I was an arrester, so I don't even understand this."
At this moment, seeing that she still has a small silver sign in her hand, Xie Xiao shyly threw her hand away, and still said: "Be careful if you have a sign. If you die here, you will cause us a lot of trouble."
"Don't worry, don't worry, I'll crawl back to die if I die."
This summer, he responded nonchalantly, then turned to check on the other dead.
Shangguan Xi saw that the two of them didn't hide any taboos, and said, "Fourth, Miss Yuan is a guest, how can you talk to her like this."
Xie Xiao said: "She doesn't have those taboos, sister, you don't have to meet her."
After a while, this summer put away the silver lottery, frowned and asked Shangguanxi: "How many Orientals have they met?"
"The brothers who came back from the injury said that they were fighting against four Orientals. They met at the Hejiazhuang Ferry. From a distance, they could see that there were also Orientals in the village, and it was estimated that there were at least dozens of them."
"There's still more in Zhuangli!" Jin Xia was shocked, "Have you ever reported to the officials?"
"Just now, someone has been sent to report to the official."
This summer, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then he still frowned: "These Orientals are quite fierce, I'm afraid... How can I get to Hejiazhuang? Is it not far from here?"
"They're not easy to mess with, so don't join in the fun." Xie Xiao frowned, "Let's go, I'll take you back to Guanqianjie first. The officials in Yangzhou's territory are not dead anymore. I want you to be a foreign monk. What scriptures."
"I just went to have a look. You can see that these wounds were all injured by small hidden weapons. The hidden weapons are poisoned. This poison will not kill people immediately, but it will make people move slowly. Look at these dozens of knife cuts. , he was just playing tricks on him, and he didn't take his life until the last knife, which shows that at that time he had no room to fight back and could only be a mermaid. Among this group of oriental people, those who use hidden weapons are the most deadly. I haven't seen it before... Sister Shangguan, is there any poisoning among the injured brothers?"
Shangguanxi nodded: "Yes, the doctor is not familiar with this poison. Although he boils the detoxification decoction, he is not sure about it. Fortunately, it is not fatal, so you can try it slowly."
Xie Xiao listened, his eyes slowly patrolled on the corpse, and after a while, he said: "I have abolished him, let's go!"
"Fourth, you can't go!"
Shangguanxi hurriedly tried to dissuade him.
"Brother, I'm an official and I can't do anything. In the end, it's my job, so don't come and join in the fun." I didn't want him to go this summer.
Xie Xiao stared and waved his hand: "I can't let these brothers die in vain."
"The situation is unclear at the moment. I don't know how many Orientals there are. If you are going to seek revenge, then we'd better not go." This summer also stopped him, "I just went to see, but I didn't plan to go all out."
"I'm going to have a look too." Xie Xiao stared at her.
This summer, shaking his finger, he made a three-chapter agreement with him: "Then say it first, you are not allowed to do it, you can only follow me, whoever does it is a mangy dog."
"It's still a mangy dog, how old are you... You have to follow me."
Xie Xiao muttered in his mouth, but he finally didn't object. He pulled her out, unfastened the boat and jumped on it. Shangguanxi couldn't persuade him, so he had to follow the boat. The young descendant whom I saw on the boat this summer this morning had been squatting silently outside the door and waited, and at this time, he also silently followed up on the boat.
"Sister?" Xie Xiao was stunned.
Shangguanxi didn't even look at him, and only instructed the descendant: "Arui, take a detour from the west waterway to Jiuliting to go ashore."
"Juliting?"
"It's only half a mile from Jiuliting to Hejiazhuang, and there are large mulberry forests to hide." Shangguanxi explained.
Before Xie Xiao could speak, he heard Jin Xia applauding: "Sister Shangguan is still thoughtful."
While speaking, the young man named A Rui had already swung the boat away, crossed the reeds, and headed for Jiuliting all the way covertly.