"Zhu Cairong~?"

In the office building of Qiquge New Workshop, Uncle Fu couldn't help frowning after hearing the name Li Zexuan revealed and said, "Young Master, please wait for a while. I will check the roster to see which workshop Zhu Cairong is in!"

As Li Zexuan thought before, there are thousands of craftsmen in the workshop. It is difficult to find someone, but it will take a lot of time. Fortunately, all the craftsmen in the workshop are registered with Uncle Fu. Now he only needs to send a few people to the list to check if Zhu Cairong is the person!

"Yeah! There's Uncle Laufu!"

Li Zexuan nodded, and then Uncle Fu turned around and left.

After about two cups of tea, Uncle Fu finally came back. He held a booklet and said as soon as he entered the door: "Mr. Marquis! I have found it! Zhu Cairong is a blacksmith from the steel mill. He entered the workshop in March this year. He worked very hard and had four consecutive months of evaluations!"

In order to ensure production efficiency, Qiquge Workshop has always implemented performance management of assessment and evaluation under the instruction of Li Zexuan. Each craftsman is rated according to the monthly labor results of the craftsmen. The A-level rating is naturally the best, and it can receive a reward of more than two cents of money!

"Steelmaking Plant?"

Li Zexuan's eyes flashed, then he stood up and said, "Go! Go to the steel plant!"

"Young Master! Wait for me! I will accompany you!"

Uncle Fu didn't know why Li Zexuan was so anxious to find Zhu Cairong, but he could feel the anxiousness in Li Zexuan's tone and quickly turned around and followed.

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"Hongsheng, where is Zhu Cairong? The young master is in a hurry to find him! Call him out!"

Not long after, Li Zexuan and his group arrived at the steel plant. As soon as they entered the yard, everyone could feel a fierce heat wave hitting their faces. Of course, the noisy iron thunder made people feel upset. Uncle Fu directly found Zhang Hongsheng, the manager of the steel plant, and asked.

This Zhang Hongsheng was the founding master who helped Li Zexuan build a new type of plate armor last time. The son of Zhang Yajiu, a famous craftsman, had only been in the workshop for a few months. With his extraordinary casting memory, he was appreciated by Li Zexuan and valued by Fu Bo. He became the chief manager of the most core department of the workshop - the steel factory. Such promotion speed made other craftsmen in the workshop envious!

"Hmm? Marquis? Marquis, are you back?"

Zhang Yajiu was drawing the drawings at this time. He couldn't help but raise his head when he heard the sound. When he saw Li Zexuan behind Uncle Fu, he couldn't help but lit his eyes and bowed to Li Zexuan with excitement.

"Um!"

Li Zexuan nodded and asked directly: "Hongsheng, is there a person named Zhu Cairong here? Where is he now?"

"Oh! Mr. Marquis, you and Manager Fu are here to find Cairong!"

Zhang Hongsheng scratched his head, and then he remembered that Uncle Fu had asked him this way just now. He thought about it and quickly replied: "Cai Rong said he was feeling unwell at noon, so he filed a leave of absence from Zhang, and then went back to the craftsman's dormitory to get a piece of clothes and went home! Marquis, if you are in a hurry to find him, you can only go to his house to find him!"

The Qiquge New Workshop covers a large area. It not only has various functions of production plants and office buildings, but also dormitories specially prepared for craftsmen to rest temporarily. After all, in order to catch up with the project progress, the workshop will arrange for craftsmen to start work day and night. If there is no "employee dormitory", it will be too inconvenient!

"What? He's going home?"

Li Zexuan frowned, and suddenly a foreboding feeling came out in his heart. His eyes narrowed and he looked at Zhang Hongsheng and asked in a deep voice: "Where is Zhu Cairong's dormitory? Take me here!"

No matter how stupid Zhang Hongsheng was, he could hear something wrong from Li Zexuan's tone. He put down the pen and drawings in his hand and said, "Okay! Mr. Zhang bring you over here!"

Soon, several people left the steel factory and walked towards the back of the workshop. On the way, Zhang Hongsheng couldn't help asking: "Mr. Marquis, why are you so anxious to find Cairong? Although this kid is a bit dull, he is very down-to-earth in doing things. If he accidentally offended you in some place, please look at him and don't blame him!"

It is rare that Zhang Hongsheng actually pleaded for Zhu Cairong in front of Li Zexuan. Of course, this also indirectly shows that Zhu Cairong's character is indeed quite good, but some... some are too unlucky!

Li Zexuan frowned and said, "He did not commit crimes against me, but only involved a case! I must find out clearly!"

"Public case? What kind of public case?"

Zhang Hongsheng widened his eyes and asked incredible face.

Li Zexuan did not answer, but asked anxiously: "How far is the dormitory from here?"

Although he knew that the workshop had built dormitories for the craftsmen, he had never been there before, so naturally he didn't know where it was.

"Just ahead, it's coming soon!"

Zhang Hongsheng pointed to the row of houses not far ahead and said.

A moment later, everyone came to the "employee dormitory" of the workshop. Under the leadership of Zhang Hongsheng, Li Zexuan and Fu Bo arrived at a dormitory near the east. When they saw that there was only a bed and a table. Although it looked simple, they had to admit that the room was cleaned up very neatly.

"Hmm? There seems to be a piece of paper on the table?"

Zhang Hongsheng frowned at this time, looked at the square desk, and couldn't help but say.

After saying that, he went forward directly, held the paper in his hand, and looked at it carefully. There were more than a dozen big characters written on the rice paper, and some characters were interspersed with Chinese pinyin. Obviously, Zhu Cairong's "cultural level" is not high, and words that he can't write can only be replaced by Chinese pinyin!

It is worth mentioning that with the implementation of the "Da Tang Dictionary", Chinese Pinyin has now been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Not only are children learning, but also some young people with a little motivated spirit. They want to learn literacy and recognize words through Chinese Pinyin! Although the Tang Dynasty is not a low-quality era and only has a high reading experience, people who can read literacy still have a high social status.

After only a moment of reading, Zhang Hongsheng's expression became extremely ugly. Until finally, he put down the letter in his hand, quickly walked to Li Zexuan, and said anxiously:

"Marty! It's not good! Zhu Cairong's letter said that he is ashamed of you and has no face to live in the world. He... He wants to break himself up and use death to atone for his sins!!"

"What? Are you saying that Zhu Cairong is going to commit suicide?"

Hearing this, Li Zexuan's voice increased eighth degrees, and his face finally became anxious. He paused and said anxiously: "Hurry! Uncle Fu, take people outside to find Zhu Cairong! Hongsheng, you can go with him too!"

"Yes! Marquis!"

Zhang Hongsheng held his fists and took the order, and then he whispered: "I know where Cairong lives, go to his house first! Come with me!"

After saying that, he rushed out of the room first.

Uncle Fu quickly shouted from behind: "There are horses in the stable! Go to the stable to lead the horses!"

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After a while, six knights jumped out of the workshop gate and rushed towards Zhujia Village to the north.

The person in charge was Zhang Hongsheng, and the ones behind were Li Zexuan, Du'er and the four marquises' guards. Fu Bo was old and weak, so naturally it was impossible to follow him.

Regarding Zhu Cairong, when he first learned that he was smuggling gunpowder to the Tianlong Sect, Li Zexuan was angry because he asked himself that he had always treated his servants well, especially at the workshop, where he invested the most material and financial resources in order to improve the treatment and status of craftsmen. Now a betrayer has appeared in this core department. How can Li Zexuan not be angry?

However, after learning about the specific incident, Li Zexuan no longer resented Zhu Cairong. The ancients valued filial piety, and filial piety was greater than heaven. If Zhu Cairong chose to betray him in order to save his mother, Li Zexuan felt that this was understandable! Even if Li Er would eventually punish Zhu Cairong for the Taimiao incident, Li Zexuan would come forward to plead for him!

But he never expected that Zhu Cairong's temperament would be so strong that he did not even defend himself and chose to commit suicide!

Since Zhu Cairong was praised by Bo Fu and Zhang Hongsheng at the same time, it means that he is indeed a craftsman with outstanding abilities. Li Zexuan is willing to "save" such talents himself!

After hiking for more than ten miles, the group finally arrived at Zhujiazhuang.

Under Zhang Hongsheng's leadership, everyone quickly found Zhu Cairong's home. This was an ordinary farmhouse. The gate was not locked. After pushing open the dilapidated gate, Zhang Hongsheng shouted into the house: "Cairong! Cairong! Are you there~!"

The room was silent and there was no response.

Zhang Hongsheng was very anxious and walked quickly to the door. He pushed hard and pushed the wooden door open.

Li Zexuan followed behind and entered the house, and saw that it was really "small walls in the house". There was nothing except a wooden table and a few wooden benches!

Zhang Hongsheng was a little unwilling to accept it and ran into the inner room to check it out, but it came out soon! Then he went to look at the kitchen again and returned in vain!

"Mr. Marquis, I have searched for it inside and outside, but no one was found! Moreover, Cairong's family seemed to have been thieves, and nothing was gone! Even pots and pans were gone!"

Zhang Hongsheng came to Li Zexuan near and said with his fists.

Li Zexuan frowned and said, "After being thieves? Which stupid thief would even steal pots and pans? Go to the next door to find a farmhousekeeper to ask!"

"Are you here to find Cairong?"

As soon as Li Zexuan finished speaking, an old voice came from outside the house. Everyone followed the sound and saw an old man with white hair and hunched back walking towards him.

Li Zexuan hurriedly went out and said, "Yes! Old man, we are here to find Cairong. Do you know where he went?"

"...you, are you the marquis?"

The old man rubbed his eyes and then asked incredible expression.

Although Li Zexuan's ideal is to be a rich second-generation otaku, things went against his wishes. Many times he often ran out, so many people near Chang'an City knew him.

Seeing that the old man recognized him, Li Zexuan nodded and said kindly: "Well! Old man, are you..."

The old man said excitedly: "Mr. Marquis, I am the master of Zhujia Village. You are looking for Cairong. Unfortunately, this child has moved away before!"

"Move away? Where did you move?"

Li Zexuan frowned.

The old man sighed and said, "This kid didn't say anything either! After he came back from the workshop at noon, he distributed all the pots, bowls, and some rice, flour, fish and meat at home to the neighbors. He said he was going to move to a very far place! Alas! This kid is also pitiful. His mother was killed by a thief a while ago. I guess she wanted to leave this sad place!"

Li Zexuan felt nervous and thought that this was not to move, it was clearly a way to distribute the "legacy" to the neighbors before committing suicide!

So he quickly turned his head and looked at Du'er and asked, "The Tianlong Sect finally killed Cairong's mother?"

Du'er nodded with a sad face and said, "Well! Longshou said that he didn't like disobedient church members, so he would give Zhu Cairong some small punishment!"

"brute!"

Li Zexuan couldn't help but shout angrily, then he looked at the old man and asked, "Zhu Lizheng, do you know which direction Zhu Cairong is heading?"

Zhu Li was just thinking about it and said, "The little old man only knew that Cai Rong left the village empty-handedly, and he didn't know where he left afterward!"

"What should I do?"

Li Zexuan was suddenly a little anxious. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind and he asked quickly: "Zhu Lizheng, do you know where Zhu Cairong's mother was buried?"

The old man nodded and said, "This little old man knows that his mother is buried in a mass grave by the river outside the village!"

Li Zexuan ordered without hesitation when he heard this: "Go to the river!"

"Yes! Marquis!"

The three escorts of the Marquis' Mansion quickly clasped their fists and took the order, then ran out quickly.

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Chapter completed!