Besides lying down, I also know a little about power struggles

Chapter 61 Popo Mofo De Te Ne Le
Fang Tong said calmly: "I have seen some heroes in the mountains, they like to use this kind of gesture."

Feng Twelve listened to her explanation and stopped asking. He thought she probably didn't know that Cangmang Mountain belonged to the royal enclosure, and there were special people guarding and patrolling it on weekdays. No outsiders were allowed to enter, and there would be no gangsters wandering around.

Fang Tong felt a little guilty when he saw that he was silent.

Seeing the steam rising from the water on the stove, she quickly wrapped the handle with a handkerchief, picked up the kettle, and diligently added hot water into the teapot.

She pulled Feng Twelve to sit on the chair, poured a cup of hot tea and placed it in front of him, picked up her notebook, pointed at a few unfamiliar words on it and changed the subject: "There are some words in the book that I don't recognize. How do you explain this word?"

Feng Twelve looked at the word she had circled: "躐, pronounced the same as '猎', means to trample on or go beyond. When you ascend a seat, you should start from the lowest seat. Otherwise, it is considered as skipping a seat and is considered disrespectful."

Fang Tong picked up the pen and wrote the pinyin of "liè" next to the circle.

"What does this mean?" Feng Twelve saw it at a glance.

"This is called Pinyin, which is similar to your Zhuyin Fanqie method." Fang Tong said, "Next time I see this, I will know how to pronounce it."

Feng Twelve looked at the strange lines thoughtfully: "What you can do is different from ordinary people."

Fang Tong smiled and said, "There are many things you can do that I don't know."

"Can you teach me?" Feng Twelve asked.

Fang Tong blinked, and suddenly a first-grade pinyin alphabet table popped up in his mind. A three-head-tall Q-version Feng Twelve sat on a small stool, reading carefully from the table word by word: Popo Mofo Det Ne Le…

She shook her head and threw this weird scene out of her mind: "I was afraid you were busy."

"I have it now." Feng Twelve said.

Fang Tong regretted it very much. She shouldn't have taken the easy way out and written pinyin in front of him.

"Give me a few days to sort it out."

What else is there in the pinyin table besides initials and finals? Fang Tong racked her brains. She never expected that after so many years, she would have to pick up her elementary school textbooks again. She obviously didn't go to a normal school, and her major was not elementary education.

She stuffed the lukewarm tea into his hands and said, "We've been talking for so long, you must be thirsty. Have some tea first."

"Let's change rooms first." Feng Twelve put down the teacup and glanced around, "Anything you want to take away?"

Fang Tong looked at her clothes. Everything from head to toe was bought by him. What else could it be?

She quickly put away the books and papers on the table, holding the book box in one hand and the Fuling cake in the other: "No more."

Feng Twelve took the book box from her hand and led the way out.

Fang Tong followed him to the main house, which was as big as three side rooms. The house was brightly lit by candles and filled with warmth.

Feng Twelve put the bookcase on the table and said, "Everything in this room is new. You can use it as you like."

Fang Tong said, "Can I read for a while?"

This room was much brighter than the previous one. It used the finest smokeless candles, which were not as irritating as oil lamps. It was unusually warm and quiet. She wanted to sort out her notes for today.

"You are the owner of this house now." Feng Twelve said.

"No, no, I am the dove and you are the magpie." Fang Tong replied with a smile.

Feng Twelve raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Come uninvited, that's called occupying the magpie's nest."

As he was speaking, he heard a loud shout from the courtyard -

"Your Highness, I found it, I found it!"

Although Gao Tiancai was overweight, he ran quite fast. He quickly crossed the gate and entered the yard.

He looked around and ran towards the main house where the lights were on.

"What did you find?" Feng Twelve stepped out of the door and closed it behind him. Gao Tiancai stopped in an emergency and said cheerfully, "Your Highness, I found this in Furong Courtyard."

He waved to the yamen runners behind him: "Hurry up and present the things."

The bailiff came forward holding a wooden tray, on which was an egg-shaped object wrapped in cotton cloth.

Gao Tiancai picked up a corner of the cotton cloth with two fingers, carefully peeled it off, and said to Feng Twelve: "Your Highness, please look."

There was an iron object lying on the cotton cloth, like a round iron ball, with some mottled rust on the surface.

Feng Twelve saw the shape of the iron weapon and his eyes darkened: "Thunderbolt bomb?"

"That's right." Gao Tiancai was overjoyed. "I found this thunder bomb in the room of the two thieves and will come back to report to Your Highness."

"Where are the people?" Feng Twelve asked, "Anything else you have discovered?"

"We also found some clothes and loose change, but they were all common items and we couldn't tell where they came from," Gao Tiancai said. "According to the madam of Furong Courtyard, the two men left early this morning and never came back."

"Has anyone seen where they went?"

"I am asking the guards to interrogate everyone in Furong Courtyard one by one," Gao Tiancai said, "but there are so many guests staying at Furong Courtyard recently that I am afraid it will take some time to get any results. But don't worry, Your Highness. I have ordered people to check all the inns in the city overnight, and any suspicious people will be arrested."

"With County Magistrate Gao making such a big fuss, any thief would have been scared away long ago." Feng Twelve said, "The murderer doesn't dare to go back to Furong Courtyard, so could he go to the inn?"

Gao Tiancai was stunned for a moment: "This... is due to my lack of consideration. I..."

"Forget it," Feng Twelve said, "Have the defenses at the city gate been strengthened?"

"The city gates are closed for the night, your highness, don't worry."

"Those two are quite skilled and have weapons on them. You'd better send more people to prevent them from getting desperate."

"Yes, yes, I will take care of it now."

Gao Tiancai ordered the yamen runners to hand the thunder bomb to the guards who came over, and hurried away with his men.

Xiaonian held the wooden tray, looked at his back and muttered: "This Gao Tiancai, if you say he is capable, he does things carelessly. If you say he is incompetent, he let him search for physical evidence."

Feng Twelve picked up the thunder bomb from the plate and rubbed the rust on it with his thumb: "There should be an engraving at this position, but it has been filed away."

Xiao Nian leaned over and took a look: "Every thunder bomb produced by the imperial workshop has a mark to indicate its destination. The murderer filed off the mark. Is he afraid that we will find its source?"

"If the Thunderbolts were stolen, there would be no need to go to all this trouble."

"Is there someone colluding with both insiders and outsiders?" Xiaonian asked.

Feng Twelve did not answer, but remained in deep thought: "Why would such an important thing be left in Hibiscus Courtyard?"

"Perhaps they plan to return to the city after the mission is accomplished," Xiaonian guessed, "As long as they pretend nothing has happened, no one will realize that they are the murderers who are hunting you down."

Feng Twelve shook his head: "Would you throw your weapons around?"

"That won't happen," Xiaonian frowned, "How about I go to Furong Courtyard and ask the madam again?"

"No, take everyone with you to guard the main roads in the city, and pay special attention to the places connected to the inn." Feng Twelve ordered.

"Your Highness, are you worried that there are accomplices of the murderer in the inn?"

"A masked man came to the post station tonight and asked the officials about my whereabouts." Feng Twelve said.

Xiao Nian was stunned: "Who is so bold?"

"Gao Tiancai has people search all the inns in the city. If the other party is guilty, they might reveal their true colors." Feng Twelve said, "The county government has limited manpower. You guys go and help keep an eye on them, just in case."

(End of this chapter)