ninety thousand miles

Chapter 330 Asking
Zhang Xintong was waiting in Sanyi Hutong early in the morning.

Although Li Chuan went to Qin Tian Prison to report every day, he only got up when it was almost midnight, had breakfast, chatted with his father and son for a while, and then walked all the way to Qin Tian Prison.

He got up a little early today because he wanted to eat wontons from the wonton stall near the alley. When I got there late, the stall was closed.

As a result, he had just gone out and walked a few steps when he saw someone running up to him and said, "Dr. Li, please save me. I listened..."

Li Chuan was frightened and didn't hear what he was saying. He almost kicked him and touched the Tianyin pot with his hand. Fortunately, he saw his face clearly before the button clicked and recognized him, so he forced his foot back.

"Zhang, Mr. Zhang, it's you," Li Chuan took a step back and said, "Why are you here at this time?"

Zhang Xintong said: "Dr. Li, I, too, suddenly became illiterate. I was infected! Does what you mentioned last time still count? Is it the one about taking notes in Qintian Prison?"

"Can't read? Don't worry, tell me, what's going on?" Li Chuan was still thinking about his clove wontons, so he said, "Have you had breakfast, Mr. Zhang? There is a wonton stand here. Not bad, let’s go have a bowl of wontons first? If it’s too late, the stall will be closed.”

Hearing this, Mr. Zhang suppressed his anxiety and said, "Okay, let's go eat first."

Li Chuan took Zhang Xintong to the wonton stall, and they each ordered a bowl.

Li Chuan said: "Thank you very much, Mr. Chang."

He pointed to the two bamboo baskets on his horse and said, "Mr. Li, these are the bayberries grown on my farm. I ate them myself and thought they were pretty good, so I brought some over."

"Then let's go." Zhang Xintong stood up immediately.

Zhang Xintong looked back and asked, "Is that man just now the adopted son of the general?"

After approaching, Chang Xiao turned over and dismounted.

Then, Li Chuan took Zhang Xintong for a while in the opposite direction of Qintian Prison. After reaching a quiet corner, he stopped and said, "Tell me more specifically, what happened?"

After finishing the soup, he put down the bowl and asked, "Shall Master Zhang go to Qintian Prison with me?"

"Mr. Li!"

Li Chuan turned around and saw Chang Xiao riding over.

Li Chuan ate hard and ate half the bowl. When he looked up, Zhang Xintong bit into half of the bowl and left the rest motionless. He ignored it and continued to eat his food.

"Small door..." Li Chuan thought for a while and said, "Okay."

Chang Xiao was not pretentious and said, "Okay, I'll take the first step." After saying that, he got on his horse again and rode into Sanyi Hutong.

After Li Chuan paid for the wontons, he walked towards Qintian Prison. After walking a few steps, he heard someone calling him.

Li Chuan didn't expect that Zhang Xintong guessed Chang Xiao's identity just by hearing the title.

Li Chuan glanced at Zhang Xintong, who was standing aside with a nervous expression, and said, "I still have something to do. I need to go around a bit before I go there. After you meet the palace eunuch, you can go find me to settle the apartment."

Chang Xiao asked: "Sir, are you going to Qin Tian Prison? I was just going to visit the Palace Supervisor Zheng. Can you wait for me to send Yang Mei to the concierge, and then we can go together?"

Zhang Xintong put down his chopsticks, nodded, and then asked hesitantly: "Can I go in through the small door?"

Before he opened his mouth, he heard Zhang Xintong say: "It is said that the relationship between the general and the palace supervisor is not good, but now it seems..."

Li Chuan couldn't help but interrupt him and said, "You should worry about your own affairs first. Do you really not recognize a single word?"

Zhang Xintong said: "Yes, when I read the words in the book, I can only see strokes one by one, but I can't put them together." "What about when writing?" Li Chuan asked.

"When I was writing, I thought I could write, but after I picked up the pen, I didn't know how to write, and my mind became more and more blurry." Zhang Xintong answered.

"Did you move out later?" Li Chuan asked.

Zhang Xintong said: "We all moved out. The others lived in one place, and I lived in another place alone. Unexpectedly, I was the one who had the problem first."

Li Chuan felt that if it hadn't been for his own problems, he probably wouldn't have been willing to report the case to Qin Tian Jian. So he said: "Let's go, Mr. Chang should have passed by."

Then, Li Chuan took Zhang Xintong on a small road. After twists and turns, he walked to a small door. Li Chuan greeted the guard and walked in with Zhang Xintong.

After walking for a while, they arrived at the calculation room. Li Chuan opened the door of one of the rooms and looked inside. He found that there was no one inside, so he said to Zhang Xintong: "This is my usual office. You go in first." Sit down for a while and I'll find someone."

"Okay, okay." Zhang Xintong went in and sat down after hearing this.

Li Chuan looked around and saw Zhu Qingyun walking from a short distance away carrying a small basin.

Seeing Li Chuan, Zhu Qingyun quickened his pace, and within a moment, he arrived. She said: "Why did you come so early today?"

She handed the small basin in her hand to Li Chuan and said, "Chang Xiao came to see the master earlier and brought a lot of bayberries. I brought some over."

Li Chuan said: "I met him on the road."

At this moment, Zhu Qingyun suddenly caught a glimpse of someone in the accounting room and asked, "Did you bring him in?"

"It's me, he's from my hometown, something happened at home." Then, Li Chuan told Zhu Qingyun what happened to Zhang Xintong, and said successively: "He is the brother of Zhang Yuanwai in Yunqiao Township, Zhang Yuanwai He helped me with a lot of things, so I thought I would try my best to help him solve it."

"I understand." Zhu Qingyun said briskly: "Let's go in. I'll ask him a few questions first, investigate, and then see what to do."

Zhu Qingyun and Li Chuan walked into the accounting room one after another.

When Zhang Xintong saw them coming in, he quickly stood up and said, "Is this Miss Zhu? I have admired her for a long time."

Zhu Qingyun said: "No need to be polite, just tell me exactly what happened."

"Okay." Then Zhang Xintong explained the whole story carefully.

Zhu Qingyun took out a pen and paper and took notes while listening. After Zhang Xintong finished speaking, she asked: "Do you know where the maids and servants you sent out went? Did they return to normal after they left?"

Zhang Xintong replied: "This... I'm not sure. But you can ask Ren Yazi."

Zhu Qingyun nodded and asked, "How are the other people in your family doing now? Are there any abnormalities?"

"I don't know. After I noticed something was wrong last night, I didn't sleep all night. At dawn, I came to wait for Dr. Li." Zhang Xintong answered.

"Where is your little daughter? Has she moved out too?" Zhu Qingyun continued to ask.

"No, she stayed at home." Zhang Xintong said, "Besides her, there are several maids and a steward at home."

After asking a few more questions, Zhu Qingyun put down his pen and said, "Stand up and I'll take a look with my magic."

(End of this chapter)