Chapter 239 The secret passage in the White House
When Tang Hao and his men rushed to Bai Mansion, Captain Tian was searching everywhere.
When he saw that Tang Hao was coming in person, he hurried over and saluted: "I didn't know it was Lord Zhizhou who arrived, so please forgive me for being a little far away to welcome him."
"Okay, less formality." Tang Hao waved his hands indifferently and said: "I have been informed by Mr. Yang that all the generals in the army are conducting drills, so I came to take a look in person. After all, the Bai family
But they are from a wealthy family in Lingzhou."
Catcher Tian looked at the dozen or so sergeants behind Tang Hao, and naturally understood that this case was no longer something that he, a small Catcher, could intervene in. He had to quickly give up his investigative power, "That's it, Sir, my subordinates will do it now."
Take people to the street to ask about the situation."
"Don't worry, let me tell you what you found out first."
"Back to my lord, my subordinates have just arrived and haven't found anything unusual yet."
"Have everyone in the White House ever asked?"
"Not yet."
"Let's do this. I'll bother Mr. Tian to gather everyone in the Bai Mansion to wait in the front yard. I'll ask them one by one." Tang Hao directly sent away the people from the Yamen of the state government, and also cleared out the people in the Bai Mansion.
"As ordered, I will take care of it immediately."
Tian Daotou didn't dare to say anything, so he quickly turned around and went to execute it.
More than a dozen sergeants dispersed in an orderly manner to search in various rooms in the inner courtyard. These are all good investigators in the army, and are naturally much better than the Yamen police officers.
When Tang Hao and his deputy came to the front yard, Bai Chengfu's wife was arguing with Tian Baotou.
"Captain Tian, my master is missing. Why did you arrest us? Are you trying to bully orphans and widows?"
Tian Captou explained: "Oh, Mrs. Bai, what you said is that Mr. Bai is missing and we, Mr. Yang, are very worried. No, we also specially asked Mr. Zhizhou for help, just to find Mr. Bai."
The Bai family is powerful and has contacts with officials at all levels of the state government, so he cannot afford to offend him.
"Then why did you drive all of us to the front yard?" Mrs. Bai asked.
"This belongs to Lord Zhizhou..."
"Mrs. Bai." Tang Hao slowly walked out from the backyard.
He met Bai Chengfu and Mrs. Bai twice, once when he first arrived in Lingzhou and once at the Mid-Autumn Festival gathering.
"I was really worried when I learned that Boss Bai had disappeared mysteriously, so I rushed back to investigate the matter."
Mrs. Bai turned around and saw Tang Hao, and quickly calmed down her emotions and stepped forward to greet him, "Thank you, Mr. Tang. My master is missing and we should go find him quickly. Why are we gathered here?"
"It's like this. I heard that Boss Bai disappeared at noon yesterday, but no one saw him go out. It's impossible for such a big living person to disappear for no reason, so I must ask everyone in the house." Tang Hao
As he spoke, his sharp eyes swept over everyone present, and finally stopped on Mrs. Bai.
The meaning of this goes without saying clearly. If he was not kidnapped, he must have been killed. Since he has not left the house, the murderer is among everyone.
Mrs. Bai said in horror: "No, no, Master Yang. I am the backbone of our family, how could I do such evil things?"
Tang Hao stood quietly in the courtyard, not continuing to speak, but just staring at everyone.
The deputy general asked loudly: "Who was the last person who saw Bai Chengfu?"
"It's him," Captain Tian pulled over a boy, "he said he brought tea to Bai Chengfu before noon."
The boy turned pale with fright, "Yes, I brought tea to the master, but he went out after delivering it. The master is in a bad mood, and he doesn't like to be disturbed by others during this period."
"In a bad mood?" Tang Hao took the words and asked: "Why?"
"Small, small, I don't know."
"Where are the others? Haven't seen each other since?"
"No." Everyone in the courtyard shook their heads.
While questioning people in the front yard, Junjun was already leading people to search bedrooms, accounting rooms and other places.
When I walked into the study room, it was quite tidy. There were many books and account books on the bookshelf.
Joining the Army stepped forward to look through it and found that they were all transaction details that had not been stored recently, and there was nothing unusual about them.
He waved his hand and asked his men to search carefully. The study has always been a commonly used place. It remains to be seen whether Bai Chengfu can find it. If evidence of collusion with that organization can be found, then there is no need to search. They may just confiscate the family and exterminate the family.
Several men inspected the room inch by inch, and when they knocked on the wall behind the seats, there was a sudden "thud" sound.
The sound was extremely obvious, and Joining the Army immediately reacted, "Empty?"
He stepped forward and knocked on the wall to confirm again, and the hollow sound still had a faint echo.
"Get out!" Join the Army immediately ordered, "Hurry up and notify the general."
One soldier quickly ran to the front yard, and the others immediately started to tear down the fake wall.
Tang Hao stood in the front yard, listening to the soldiers' reports, and couldn't help but look a little surprised.
As expected, there is a problem in the White House.
"In Boss Bai's study in the backyard, the wall behind the chair is empty. Can anyone here tell me what it is used for?" Tang Hao raised his head and looked at everyone and asked.
The eldest son of the Bai family was stunned for a moment, looking a little unbelievable, "How could it be empty?"
The deputy general joked: "I heard that rich people like to leave a secret door to put their treasures. Isn't Bai Chengfu locked in there when he was counting money?"
The eldest son of the Bai family quickly shut up because he was not sure whether that was the case. After all, he didn't know many things about his father.
"Does Mrs. Bai know how to open the secret door?" Tang Hao asked.
"I, I, I don't even know what the secret door is." Mrs. Bai was also confused at this time.
"Does anyone know?"
Everyone shook their heads, only the housekeeper of Bai Mansion looked a little strange, but all this fell in Tang Hao's eyes.
He didn't make it clear for the time being, but just sighed and said: "Since no one knows, for the sake of Boss Bai's safety, I have no choice but to forcefully open the secret door and go in under the witness of Mrs. Bai."
"Ah...Okay, it's all up to you." Mrs. Bai dared not refuse at this time.
When everyone arrived at the study room in the backyard, almost all the false walls had been demolished, and the switch of the secret door had been exposed.
"Here!" Join the Army was overjoyed, grabbed the wall lamp and shook it hard.
Just a few clicks were heard, and the real wall behind suddenly cracked open, revealing a dark corridor.
A soldier walked in holding an oil lamp. He could not see the end of the passage at all. Unlike what he imagined, this was not a secret room.
Everyone in the Bai family was stunned. They were completely unaware of such a secret passage hidden in their home.
But when Tang Hao saw the secret passage, he immediately secretly discovered that it was not good. Bai Chengfu probably ran away.
Joining the army and the deputy general also panicked subconsciously. If such a problem occurs under their close supervision, it will definitely be necessary to return to the military law.
"What's going on?" Captain Tian came forward to take a look with a stunned expression, and asked the eldest son of the Bai family: "Where does this secret passage lead to?"
"Here, how can there be a secret passage here? I don't know!" The eldest son of the Bai family hurriedly explained.
"You don't know your own family?"
"My dad never said there was a secret door here!"
People from the prefectural government office naturally investigated this matter as a missing persons case, but Tang Hao knew very clearly that if what Bai Chengfu did was really the matter of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan, he probably would not have dared to tell his family.
At this time, I was chasing him along the secret passage, but I was afraid that I couldn't even touch the figure. Bai Chengfu had long since lost track of where he was.
But one person may know.
Tang Hao turned around and squinted his eyes, looked at the housekeeper of Bai Mansion, and shouted sharply.