Chapter 1148: The First Ceremony Before the Soldiers
Naturally, no one responded behind the door.
Chizi bowed first and then responded. After waiting politely for a moment, he kicked the door open without hesitation, and then... revealed five or six panic-looking men in the yard.
"You, who are you? Why do you break into private houses?"
One man yelled without much confidence and backed away while talking. The people behind him also had a tacit understanding and stepped back in unison. The scene was once hilarious.
But Cui Weizhen and others couldn't laugh at all. Whenever they thought that these people were related to the gangsters who kidnapped the children, they wanted to cut them into pieces right now.
At this time, Zhou Lizheng stood up and asked: "Who are you? How come you are here?"
It was the same man who just shouted: "We are friends of Brother Lang, and we are here to visit Brother Lang today."
"Where is Xu Lang?" Brother Lang's name is Xu Lang, and Zhou Lizheng, as the Li Zheng of Daxingfang, still knows the name of every household head.
"I, we don't know either."
At this time, Chizi glanced back, went out and came back quickly. He whispered in the master's ear: "Sir, the government servants just came to report that the boss and the others entered this room not long ago and have not come out since.
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Cui Weizhen's eyes became sharper and sharper. However, this group of people were very timid and afraid of getting into trouble. Before the government officials could arrest and interrogate them, their strong momentum immediately evaporated: "Sir, please have mercy! Your Majesty, please have mercy! We are only responsible for keeping a lookout.
Nothing was done! The three adults did come into the house, but we didn’t find them when we came in, so we didn’t know anything!”
"Did Xu Lang hide in with our little master?" Chizi continued to ask.
The man nodded immediately. Cui Weizhen and Ye Zhenzhen looked at each other, and they could see the excitement and anxiety on each other's faces. Ye Zhenzhen couldn't wait to ask: "Is there a secret passage in the house?"
"Yes, yes, there is indeed a secret passage in Brother Lang's house, but no one knows about it except him." The man lowered his eyebrows and said, "Those three adults may have found the secret passage."
Chizi immediately took people into the house to search for the secret passage.
Ye Zhenzhen originally wanted to follow him, but found that Cui Weizhen hadn't moved at all, looking at everything in the yard with a deep look. Suddenly, he paused and asked a very incomprehensible question: "Is there a ladder in the yard?"
"Yes, Brother Wolf always puts it in the northwest corner..." The man replied honestly, and suddenly his voice stopped: "Where is the ladder? Why is it missing?"
"Who lives in the house next door?"
"The house next door was purchased by a businessman from the neighboring government. He only lives here when he comes to Mingzhou Prefecture occasionally to do business. On weekdays, there is only an old man Li who guards the house." Zhou Lizheng said quickly.
After Cui Weizhen heard this, he turned around and walked out. Ye Zhenzhen was so blessed that she hurriedly followed him and asked with surprise, unable to hold back her surprise: "Weizhen, do you suspect that Zhou Wu has rescued the bailiff? Is he hiding in the room next door?
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Cui Weizhen nodded: "Zhou Wu is good at the art of traps. Ordinary traps cannot defeat him." Combined with the man's previous description, it would not be a problem for Zhou Wu and others to bring down the two gangsters. So the most likely thing is that they have already hid in the next door.
's house.
The most dangerous place is the safest place.
This time I knocked on the door. Although I had to wait for a long time, someone finally came and opened the door. The person who opened the door was an old man who was nearly fifty years old.
Old Man Li was frightened when he saw the government officials who were waiting for him. He thought he had committed something and the officials came to the door. It was not until Zhou Lizheng explained the whole story to him that he understood what had happened.
"Zhou Lizheng, are you saying that someone is hiding in my house? It's impossible. I've been carrying it in the house all the time, and I haven't heard anything at all."
Zhou Lizheng sighed. Old Man Li has been very deaf this year, but he still doesn't admit it. The guards around Mr. Cui must be experts. They must be very careful when climbing over the wall and entering the courtyard. Old Man Li who lives in the concierge has not
It is also possible to detect.
"Brother Li, regardless of whether anyone has entered the house or not, you should let the adults go in and search first, so that everyone can feel at ease."
Old Man Li was a little hesitant, but after taking a look at Cui Weizhen and Ye Zhenzhen next to him, he finally nodded in agreement - he also liked to join in the fun and knew who these two nobles were.
However, he agreed, and he did not forget to emphasize: "Please, sir, please be careful when searching. If you bump into something, I won't be able to entertain you, old man."
"Thank you, old man." Cui Weizhen thanked him sincerely: "We are just looking for people and will never move anything else."
Old Man Li felt relieved and took them in personally.
"This house is just a temporary residence for the owner. There are not many rooms, and the furnishings are not gorgeous. There is no way to hide people. You can see clearly as long as you open the door..."
Old Li Tou was talking nonchalantly, and suddenly his steps stopped, and his eyes widened instantly: "Hey! Why are there arrows and knife marks on the pillars? Has anyone really been here?"
Cui Weizhen's face suddenly sank.
Ye Zhenzhen was so frightened that her heart almost stopped and her legs became weak. She barely managed to hold onto Cui Weizhen's arm to prevent her from falling: "Jie Duan, what happened to Jie Duan?"
"It's okay, it's okay. Don't be afraid!" Cui Weizhen hugged her tightly.
This was when Chizi came back from checking the traces and said: "Sir, madam, there are indeed traces of fighting in the yard, but there is no blood, and it seems that no one was injured. Besides, except for the traces of fighting, there are no traces of leaving.
, I suspect it was wiped out by the boss and the others."
"How do you know it was Zhou Wu who erased it?" Ye Zhenzhen asked eagerly.
Chizi smiled: "Because the villain discovered the password left by the boss at the scene. If I guessed correctly, the boss should still stay in this house."
He turned around and asked Old Man Li: "Old man, where is the northeast corner of this house?"
Old Man Li was still in shock and replied in a daze: "The northeast corner is the cellar..."
cellar!
Yes, they were most likely hiding in the cellar, and they never came out because they were not sure who was coming.
Ye Zhenzhen couldn't wait to run to the northwest corner. Cui Weizhen called her: "Zhen'er, come back."
He hurried up, keeping his wife behind.
Ye Zhenzhen didn't understand very much. She just wanted to see her son as soon as possible. Although Chizi said that no one was injured in the attack, she couldn't rest assured and had to see it with her own eyes before she could rest assured.
The bailiff had been knocked unconscious by the gangsters before and taken away. I don't know if he was injured... When she looked up, her clothes were already filled with tears.
Meeting his wife's eyes, Cui Zhiduan felt a pain in his heart. He was no less anxious than his wife, but he had to stay rational and advised her: "Safety comes first, be careful of fraud."
