Chapter 92 Investigating the Suspect (4)
An indescribable anger ignited from Li Yanqing's heart, his eyes turned red, as if the burning anger in his heart was about to ejaculate out of his eyes.
After Liu Chenghong was expelled, he was still sheltered by Li Wengui, and changed his name to hide in Daming Mansion. Regardless of whether Li Wengui was involved in the murder of his brother, he had an unshirkable responsibility for the death of the clan leader.
At this time, the guy screamed in horror. Only then did Li Yanqing find that the sharp short sword pierced the skin of his neck, and a wisp of blood flowed down his neck. Li Yanqing relaxed the sword a little and asked in a low voice: "Who knows where Liu Chenghong is hiding? Say it quickly!"
Li Yanqing still remembers the conversation between the three Bai brothers, and Liu Chenghong is still waiting to share the spoils, so he should still be in Daming Mansion now, but once he finds that the Bai brothers are killed, he will inevitably flee from Daming Mansion. From then on, he will hide his name again. It will be difficult to find him again. Li Yanqing is inevitably a little anxious. Today is his last chance to find Liu Chenghong.
"Speak quickly! Where is Liu Chenghong?"
The guy's neck was cut by a sharp blade, which scared him to death. He closed his eyes and stammered: "The manager of Li Ji Inn....Shopkeeper Sun may know that they have the best relationship."
After the guy finished speaking, he felt his neck loose. When he opened his eyes, the boy who grabbed him was gone. The guy touched his bleeding neck and slowly left with lingering fear.
When Li Yanqing found Li Ji Inn, he realized that he was one step late. The gate of the inn was closed and there was a sign that was suspended. Li Yanqing climbed over the wall from the backyard and jumped into the yard gently. He ran along the flower bed for a few steps, but he faintly heard someone's angry curses. He hid behind a bush of flowers and trees, observing where the sound came.
After a moment, he found two strong men standing in front of a room more than twenty steps away. The curse just now came from the room.
Li Yanqing's heart moved, slowly retreated, and walked around the back of the house. Sure enough, there was a window behind it, and the window was tightly closed. He dipped in some saliva and poked a hole in the window paper, and looked into the house.
I saw two people in the room, one sitting on a chair, and the other paced back and forth with his hands behind his back. Li Yanqing immediately recognized the person who was paced back and forth. Li Wengui's youngest son Li Qing, about thirty years old, looks very similar to his father, thin and tall, like a bamboo pole.
Li Qing seemed a little angry and glared at the other party and said, "Liu Chenghong colluded with bandits to kill the clan leader. How did my father explain to the clan members? You can no longer protect Liu Chenghong. You must tell me where he is hiding now?"
The person sitting was about forty years old and had a big round face. Li Yanqing also knew him vaguely. He turned out to be the third housekeeper of the Li Mansion, named Sun An, and was also one of Li Wengui's confidants. After Li Wengui moved to Tangyin County, he followed him, but he did not expect that he would actually be the shopkeeper of the inn in Daming Mansion.
Sun An said slowly: "Even if I say it, it's useless. He should have left Daming Mansion now, and you can't find him."
"Just tell me where he is now? It's my business to find him."
"Okay! I'll say that, Liu Chenghong has a fellow villager who is in charge of the Lu family in Daming Prefecture. Liu Chenghong has been hiding in his fellow villager's home since he came back from Xiangzhou. This morning, Liu Chenghong came to ask me that I had borrowed ten taels of silver. He said he left Daming Prefecture at noon and went to Liao Kingdom. At this moment, I guess he was already halfway north. Third Master, I'll say something bad. Liu Chenghong knew that the third master would not let him go. He had left a way out for himself, and you can't find him."
Li Qing snorted heavily, turned around and hurried away with her two subordinates. Li Yanqing was more smarter than Li Qing. He knew that Sun An had not finished speaking. Just as Li Qing left, Li Yanqing jumped into the house through the back window.
Sun An happened to get up, but heard something behind him. Before he could turn around, a sharp short sword was pressed against his neck, "You dare to scream, I will cut your head with one sword!"
"Is it... Brother Qing?" Sun An heard the voice behind him.
"It's me!" Li Yanqing said coldly.
"You put away the sword first, I will tell you what you want to know."
Li Yanqing was surprised, so he put away his sword, turned to him, looked at Sun An's pancake with a big round face and said coldly: "You say! Where is Liu Chenghong now?"
Sun An looked at him for a while and asked, "I heard from Liu Chenghong that the three heroes of the Bai family were killed, so you should have done it?"
Li Yanqing nodded, and Sun An praised: "Brother Qing is really amazing. It's not easy to kill the three brothers of the Bai family alone!"
"Stop talking nonsense, tell me where Liu Chenghong is?"
Sun An sat down, looked at Li Yanqing with a cunning look, and said lightly: "Don't Brother Qing'er want to know the cause and effect of this incident?"
"Do you know?" Li Yanqing stared at him with sharp eyes.
Sun An smiled and said, "Liu Chenghong has told me that if Brother Qing wants to know the cause and effect, I only need ten taels of silver. If Brother Qing still wants to know the specific hiding place of Liu Chenghong, then fifty taels of silver, clearly marked the price, and the same is true. If Brother Qing must force me to say it with a sword, then it will be fake news."
Li Yanqing took out a ingot of five taels of gold and threw it to him, "Say!"
Sun An's eyes lit up, took the gold and bit it with his teeth, and immediately smiled and put the gold into his arms. He was borrowed ten taels of silver by Liu Chenghong today, and he was regretful in his heart, but he didn't expect to use the news from Liu Chenghong to make it back.
After getting the benefits, Sun An smiled and said, "To be honest, the root of this matter is because of Brother Qing."
Li Yanqing snorted disdainfully and said, "Just because I drove him away from the Li Mansion five years ago, has he always held a grudge?"
"Absolutely! Over the years, he has been deeply hating the master for breaking his son's legs, making his son a cripple, and finally died at the hands of the Jurchens. He also hated the master for ruthlessness to drive him away. Every time he got drunk, he said that he would kill two people in his life, one was the master and the other was Brother Qing."
"Liu Fu'er is dead?" Li Yanqing was stunned.
Sun An sighed, "Liu Chenghong went to Liao Kingdom first and opened a blacksmith shop in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom. As a result, he and his son were recruited as blacksmithsmen. Liu Fu'er died at the hands of the Jurchens the year before yesterday. Liu Chenghong fled back to find the third master. The third master felt sorry for his son being killed, so he arranged for him to do a manager in the Daming Mansion Tavern."
"Liu Fu'er was killed by the Jurchens. What does it have to do with me?"
"Liu Chenghong doesn't think so. He said that his son was killed because he couldn't run fast, and that he didn't run fast was that his legs were broken by the master. His legs were broken because of you. He kept saying that it was actually you who burned the ancestral hall."
Li Yanqing snorted, "What about it? Let's continue!"
"A few months ago, the third master heard that your father and son accounted for 30% of the Li Ji Grain Firm. He was extremely furious and came to Daming Mansion to find Liu Chenghong for a long time. He heard that Liu Chenghong wanted to destroy your business. Soon I heard that Liu Chenghong told the military that the grain firm sold military rations privately. This matter seemed to have not been done. Later, Liu Chenghong found the three heroes of the Bai family and asked them to take action. You know the final result."
"Is it Li Wengui's intention to kill the patriarch?" Li Yanqing asked gritted his teeth.
"It shouldn't be that the third master just wanted to destroy the business of the grain business and did not want to kill his brother. It was Liu Chenghong's own intention to kill the clan leader to avenge his son. However, the third master knew that Liu Chenghong had colluded with the three heroes of the Bai family and also provided him with a lot of money. Therefore, the third master could not escape responsibility for the death of the clan leader. You saw it just now. The third master is also very anxious now, looking for Liu Chenghong everywhere, whether he wanted to kill someone to silence or something, I don't know."
Li Yanqing finally knew the cause and effect, and he stared at Sun An and said, "Now I want to know where Liu Chenghong is hiding?"
Sun An took Li Yanqing's five taels of gold, so of course he would not keep it a secret for Liu Chenghong. He thought for a while and said, "Have you heard of the Lu family in Daming Mansion?"
"I only know that there is Lu Junyi, a Daming Mansion!"
"Lu Junyi is the third of the three Lu brothers. He has a fleet manager under him. His surname is Ni, and he is a fellow villager of Liu Chenghong. The two have a good relationship. At noon today, the Lu family had a fleet transporting cloth to Hejian Mansion. Liu Chenghong was hiding in this fleet. The little officials should be able to catch up with it."
"Thank you!"
Chapter completed!