A knife in love

Chapter 1390

When Li Qiufeng saw Zhang Shi describe the situation of Xiao Dong, shopkeeper Hu and others, he had a rather gloating expression on his face, and felt a little strange in his heart.It's just that after he thought about it, Zhang Shi intervened to get Xiao Dong and others to hire Qin Laowu's big boat.Whether to go or not will make Fusang, in fact, it has little to do with Zhang Shi.Anyway, Zhang Shi had already got the money, so he was happy to see the jokes of Xiao Dong, shopkeeper Hu and others.

Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng said: "From what I can see, the Wang family village did its best to help us find the big ship. The owner of the Wang family led people to search outside the city for the past two days. He was exhausted and exhausted. He only returned early this morning. Go to the manor to rest. But even though he came back, the chief steward of the Wang family manor took Zhuang Ding to the south of the city, and was still searching for the whereabouts of the big ship."

When Li Qiufeng said this, he paused for a while, and then said: "However, at noon today, Mr. Wang invited you to have a drink, and he mentioned one thing, which may help us find the whereabouts of the big boat."

Zhang Shi was indeed as Li Qiufeng thought, he had already received the silver from the shopkeeper Hu, and whether he could go to Fusang smoothly this time had nothing to do with him.So hearing what Li Qiufeng said, he wasn't very happy, he just said "Oh" and didn't say anything more.

It's just that the big boat is Qin Laowu's wealth and life, and there has been no news for the past two days, which makes Qin Laowu very anxious.At this moment, when Li Qiufeng said that he had a clue, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhu, what good idea do you have?"

Li Qiufeng then told about the Daxue Mountain bandits and the Dashan Island pirates mentioned by Master Wang at the banquet.After Zhang Shi and Qin Laowu heard this, they couldn't help but looked at each other, unable to say a word.After a long while, Qin Laowu said tremblingly: "So, my big boat will never be found again?!"

Zhang Shi saw Qin Laowu's pale face and gloomy expression, so he hurriedly comforted him and said, "Old Wu, the matter has not yet come to an end, so don't be so scared. Besides, Xiao Dong once said that even if the big ship is gone, he will You will be compensated according to the price, why are you in a hurry?"

Qin Lao Wu said: "The surname Xiao is cunning and treacherous, and he loves money like his life. If the big ship is destroyed, how can he easily compensate? Even if his conscience finds out, he will only change ways to make Lao Hu and others pay for the money. Zhang Yuanwai, Who are Lao Hu and the others, you know better than me. These people are all stingy people who have to dig out money from the cracks in the rocks. If the surname Xiao asks them to take out the money, they will probably let me ask the shopkeeper Yin for money. I want taels of silver. Shopkeeper Yin stayed on the big ship, and nine out of ten have already been killed by robbers. Could it be that I go to the underworld to ask Lao Yin for silver?"

When Qin Laowu said this, his heart was restless, he couldn't help rubbing his hands, and he couldn't help sighing.Seeing his appearance like this, Zhang Shi couldn't sit still and watch.He thought for a moment, and then said to Li Qiufeng: "Since Brother Zhu has received such important news, why not follow Lao Qin and me back to the Dongsheng Inn and tell Master Xiao about this matter. With the few of us alone, we want to deal with Green forest thieves and pirates are no different from hitting a stone with an egg. Master Xiao is a member of the officialdom, if he comes out to write to the Liaodong governor's yamen and the Liaoyang magistrate's yamen, and the officers and soldiers deal with the green forest thieves and pirates, maybe the big ship can be taken back."

Hearing Zhang Shi's words, Qin Laowu felt like a drowning man had grabbed a straw, saying yes repeatedly, and looked at Li Qiufeng eagerly, showing a begging look.Li Qiufeng thought to himself that he had lived in Wangjiazhuang for two days and found the clue of Erniu.However, as he walked around Wangjiazhuang swaggeringly, the murderer who killed Erniu had scruples, so he dared not come out to do evil again.It's better to leave Wangjiazhuang temporarily and let the enemy relax, so that the flaws will be exposed.And with Qi Jiu staying in Wangjiazhuang, he can leave with peace of mind.

Thinking of this, Li Qiufeng nodded, and said in his mouth: "Just do what Zhang Yuanwai said. Let's rush back to Dongsheng Inn and tell Mr. Xiao the news."

Seeing that Li Qiufeng agreed, Qin Lao Wu was overjoyed and hurriedly urged Zhang Shi and Li Qiufeng to rush back to Dongsheng Inn as soon as possible.Li Qiufeng called a servant and asked him to tell Murong Danyan and Wang Xiaoyu that he had returned to the city beforehand, so that they don't have to worry.The servant agreed, and then went to the backyard to meet Wang Xiaoyu and Murong Danyan.Li Qiufeng hurriedly stopped him and told him to go after an hour, otherwise Wang Xiaoyu would definitely get angry.The servant was startled, stuck out his tongue, and hurriedly stood aside.

Li Qiufeng followed Zhang Shi and Qin Laowu out of Wangjiazhuang, and went straight back to Dongsheng Inn in Dongliao County.The three of them had just walked into the yard of the inn, and saw that guy named Monkey was packing things in the yard.Zhang Shi called the little monkey to the front, and asked in a low voice, "Have the errands from the two yamen who came this morning left?"

The little monkey smiled and said, "You mean Master Ren and Master Cheng. They talked to Uncle Xiao for a while and left in a hurry. They didn't even have lunch at our inn."

Only then did Zhang Shi nod his head, and turned to Li Qiufeng and Qin Laowu and said, "Master Xiao must be unhappy because the two missions didn't bring any good news. Although he is still polite to us, he doesn't seem to treat Mr. Hu and the others cursed like that. But these two days he has been very anxious, and he is afraid that he will not look good when he sees us. Therefore, when we go to see him later, we must be careful not to touch his bad luck."

Li Qiufeng and Qin Laowu nodded, and were about to follow Zhang Shi into the inn, when Li Qiufeng suddenly remembered something, turned around and stopped the little monkey, and said in his mouth: "I asked you something. That day Is that old man surnamed Shou who gambled in the lobby still living in the inn?"

The little monkey was stunned, as if he couldn't remember which old man surnamed Shou.But after a while, he slapped his head and said, "Mr. Shou checked out of the room early this morning."

When he said this, he paused for a while, looked Li Qiufeng up and down, suddenly showed a strange smile on his face, and said in a low voice, "Master, does he owe you a lot of money?"

Li Qiufeng was startled, shook his head and said, "No. I never gambled with him, how could he owe me money?"

The little monkey said with a smile: "Master, don't you know? After Mr. Shou left the room, several groups of people came to our inn to look for him. They all said that Mr. Shou owed them money, and they came to the inn to collect debts." When the villain saw the old man asking about Mr. Shou, he thought he owed the old man money too."

Li Qiufeng secretly wondered, he knew that although Shou Nanshan likes to gamble, but he gambles very well, he never defaults on his money when he loses, and he always pays off his gambling debts in the end.Why did you leave in such a hurry today that you didn't want to pay back the money you owed to others?

When he was thinking about it, he heard the little monkey laughing: "These guys are the bosses and guys of a well-known black-hearted gambling house in Dongliao County. There are usury and extortion in the workshops. I heard that Mr. Shou borrowed 80 taels of silver from every gambling workshop, and now he pats his ass and leaves, these guys are really miserable!"

(End of this chapter)