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Chapter 83
Li Xia stepped forward, picked up a rag and stuffed Yan Fu's mouth.

"Woo! Woo..."

Yan Fu seemed to have a lot to say, but he couldn't.

Li Xia didn't have much time to talk to him again, and patted Yao Sui's face to bring the young man who was still in a daze back to his senses.

"Go on, let me ask you, who did Yao Shu associate with in Kaifeng City, and which of them were officials from the Jinglue Mansion?"

Yao Sui said: "Many Han officials in the Central Plains were recommended by my uncle after he served in the Monan King's shogunate. Only in the Jinglue Mansion in Kaifeng, there are more than ten of them from the economic envoy to the counselor."

Li Xia said, "Tell me one by one."

This is not a secret, so Yao Sui explained it in detail...

Suddenly, "Boom! Boom!" Several bells rang.

Li Xia then gagged Yao Sui's mouth again, covered him with a sack, and covered him again.

Yao Sui's eyes went dark, and then he could only hear various voices.

"drive……"

"Don't panic, they don't have enough manpower to cover the whole of Kaifeng." Li Xia said, "Since we can clearly see their arrangement from the tower, they won't be able to catch us."

"Hey, did I panic? With you leading us, I don't panic at all."

"There is a Beizhi River in the northwest of Tieta Lake, which is connected to Longting Lake, Libian River, and Baogong Lake. They have focused on searching there just now. Now let's go... Come, you throw people into the river."

"it is good."

"Then find a coachman and let him drive to the south of the city to attract pursuers."

"it is good."

"The pursuers have gone away, let's go back."

"it is good."

Yao Sui felt a little flustered, and soon he was picked up.

With a "bang", when he thought he was about to be thrown into the river, he felt a slight pain. It turned out that he was thrown into the boat.

Another boatman asked, "Xiao Langjun, what heavy cargo did you bring?"

"Just bought two spouts."

Li Xia's voice was calm, but it was not disturbing at all.

Yao Sui could hear the calm voice in his words, and knew that such a person would do things safely, and he was afraid that he would not let him escape, so he felt a sense of despair...

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Zhang Hongdao marked it on the map with a pen, and murmured: "Kaibao Temple Pagoda... Li Xia always likes to grab a high place with a wide view, which was the case when he was in Luyi. He asked people to observe my layout on the pagoda, Where will it go?"

"Wu Lang, searched all over Kaibao Temple, but failed to find Li Xia and Yao Xiaolang-jun..."

"Of course I can't find it." Zhang Hongdao said lightly: "He has seen you coming, can you still find it? Have you checked the movement of the carriage?"

"The carriage is heading south, and someone has been sent to chase it."

"It's fake, but we really wanted to chase, and the manpower was dispersed again. He must have... gone to the Beizhi River. Seeing our manpower transfer, he must have gone to the Beizhi River. Damn, it's a step too late."

Shen Kaidao: "We are short of manpower, we really can't search such a big city of Kaifeng, why don't we ask Jinglue Mansion to send another person?"

"No, the letter I sent back to Bozhou should have arrived, and my father will send someone right away."

"But I'm afraid the Jinglue Mansion will become suspicious."

"I will discuss with Shi Jing briefly."

Zhang Hongdao responded casually, keeping his eyes on the map of Kaifeng City, and sliding his fingers from Beizhi River to Longting Lake.

"The Kaibao Temple Pagoda is not his real hiding place. He is just here to attract our attention, and then he will return to the hiding place. Will he go to the Libian River, or Baogong Lake? Or get off the boat halfway? Or even turn around... ...this manpower..."

"Goro, can you have something to eat?"

Zhang Hongdao shook his head and muttered to himself, "Where is he hiding? You can't run after him anymore."

He walked out talking to himself, and passed by the servant who came over with the food.

……

Wang Luo was tied to the house with an iron chain on his feet. He was drinking, and there was a beautiful girl singing to him.

"Thinking about how many happy and joyous meetings there were at the beginning, I didn't know that it was difficult to get together and parted, and it turned into rain, hatred, and cloud sorrow..."

Zhang Hongdao pushed the door open and entered, listening to the babbling of the beautiful performer.

He frowned, very displeased, and shouted: "Who tricked you?"

"Why should Wulang be angry?" Wang Xiao said with a smile: "I don't run away, you tied me up just because you don't want me to go and make noise in your ears, haha, blame me for being a three-inch tongue, telling this truth to your subordinates Understand, blame me, blame me, don't blame them."

"go out."

"Yes." The beauty stepped back holding the pipa in small steps.

Wang Luo stared at her Miaoman's figure with squinted eyes, and said with a smile: "Why are you so fierce, you scared people."

"Let me ask you, where did you get the information for Lao Gui?"

"Goro asked me this on his own initiative." Wang Luo said, "If people ask me why I betrayed him, I can only answer 'Zhang Wulang wants to know'."

"How are you going?"

Wang Luo said: "It's not that I forced you to rebel. In this kind of thing, a twisted melon is not sweet. But if you pick this melon and want to put it back, it will be difficult."

"How are you going?"

"How about doing a handprint together? You and I are bound by blood."

"Do not."

"Forget it, let's just be friends."

"Believe it or not, I'll kill you."

"You want to offend my father, Marshal Li, and all of us?"

"Don't think I dare not."

"You dare, but why bother? Come to think of it, Wulang was forced to this point by Li Xia, right? Why did you have to catch him? What did he do to you? Could it be..."

The blood vessels on Zhang Hongdao's forehead jumped.

But Wang Xiao kept silent, and raised his thin lips, smiling slightly.

"Yao Sui and Yao Duanfu were captured by Li Xia." Zhang Hongdao said suddenly.

"Ah?" Wang Luo was a little surprised, and pondered: "No wonder Goro came to ask me, it seems that I guessed it."

Zhang Hongdao didn't answer.

"Since you guessed it, you can't escape." Wang Luo said again: "I'm not as meticulous, smart, and far-sighted as Goro. But I'm good at two things in my life, pulling women into my quilt and men into my gang. "

"Answer my question or I'll kill you."

"Of course I can tell Wulang. However, if you rebel with me, you can let the Song people carefully bring the information back..."

"Answer my question or I'll kill you."

"Okay, okay, don't be so fierce... Oh, I shut up. What does Goro want to ask?"

"Who gave Lao Gui the information?"

"Which piece of information does Goro want to know? North, east, middle?"

"You... have given so much?"

"Oh, what's the use if you can't send it over?"

Wang Xiao gave a soft snort, raised his hand, poured some wine into it, and pressed it on the table with a "snap", as if he had made a fingerprint, and said, "No more detours! You guessed right, Xuezhai Yao The public is indeed one, and Zhishiyuan is one of the bases for our contact and meeting."

Zhang Hongdao's eyelids twitched, he took a deep breath, and asked again: "But Mr. Yao is not in Kaifeng, who stole the documents from the Jinglue Mansion?"

Wang Luo was silent for a while, and said: "I tell Yao Gong, you can't do anything to him, but if you recruit other people..."

"Say!" Zhang Hongdao slammed the jug, put the broken porcelain on Wang Luo's neck, and shouted, "Don't think I dare not kill you! If Yao Sui dies, I will offend Yao Shu as well!"

Wang Luo was taken aback for a moment, and really felt Zhang Hongdao's killing intent.

Zhang Hongdao said again: "I don't care about you guys. As long as I catch Li Xia, he must have found something from Yao Sui. I want to find him, which is good for everyone."

"Okay, okay, put it away, don't hold me back... At that time, I brought information and instructions from Mr. Yao from the north, and someone stole the Jinglue Mansion documents, and handed them over to Laogui."

"Who?!"

"Counseling Yang Guo..."

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"Yang Guo, named Zhengqing, nicknamed Xi'an, was born in Qizhou, and later moved to Xuchang. He was a Jinshi in the Jin Dynasty, and he was known for his honesty from officials to political affairs. Now he is a senior official in Henan Province, second only to the economic envoy... ..."

Han Chengxu pondered, and said again: "He is a famous Sanqu master and has a good relationship with Yuanyi Mountain. Therefore, when I was in the Kingdom of Jin, I had contacts with him several times. Although we are not familiar with him, we do know him."

Li Xia said: "If it is said that the owner of Zhishi Garden is Yao Shu, but Yao Shu is not in Kaifeng, does Han Lao think that the person who is in contact with Lao Gui will be Yang Guo?"

"Yang Guo's ancestral home is in Shanxi. He likes sour food the most. He doesn't like vinegar every day. Those dishes are from the north and the south, which are his tastes. He said with a smile back then that if he returned to the Song Dynasty, he should also try the fish from the south of the Yangtze River." Shrimp and crab."

Han Chengxu said, thought for a while and said: "Yao Sui said 15 people, I know that among them are nine famous officials left by the Kingdom of Jin, and among the nine, only Yang Guo is the most likely. Song Zhiyi, there is no way. But... not sure, there are too few clues."

"It's easy, I'll try Yao Sui again and I'll see."

Li Xia walked into the room where Yao Sui was locked up, and came out again after a while, saying, "We must find a way to see Yang Guo."

"Mr. Xiao Lang, are you sure it's him?" Han Chengxu asked.

"I only know that Yang Guo and Yao Shu have a very deep friendship."

"If it's not..."

"At present, Zhishiyuan is closely watched by the Zhang family. This clue is worth taking a risk." Li Xia said: "Well, I will see Yang Guo and see if I can get the information. No matter what the result is, we will withdraw from Kaifeng City... ..."

(End of this chapter)