Li Xia stepped forward, picked up the rag and stuffed it into Yan Fu's mouth.
"Woo! Woo..."
Yan Fu seemed to have many more things to say, but he couldn't.
Li Xia didn't have much time to talk to him anymore, and patted Yao Sui's face to bring the little man who was still in a daze back to his senses.
"Go on, let me ask you, who did Yao Shu associate with in Kaifeng City, and which of them were officials of the Jinglue Mansion?"
Yao Sui said: "Many Han officials in the Central Plains were recommended by my uncle after he served in the shogunate of King Monan. They only serve as envoys in the Jinglue Mansion in Kaifeng, and there are more than ten people under the council."
Li Xia said: "Tell me one by one."
This was not a secret matter, so Yao Sui talked about it in detail...
Suddenly, "Boom! Boom!" Several bells rang.
Li Xia then blocked Yao Sui's mouth, covered him with a sack, and covered him again.
Yao Sui's vision went dark, and all he could hear next was various sounds.
"drive……"
"Don't panic, they don't have enough manpower to cover the entire Kaifeng." Li Xia said, "Now that we can clearly see their layout from the tower, they can't catch us."
"Hey, am I panicking? With you taking us, I'm not panicking at all."
"There is a North Branch River in the northwest of Tieta Lake, which is connected with Longting Lake, Libian River, and Baogong Lake. They have focused on searching there just now. Now let's go over... Come, you throw people into the river."
"good."
"Then find a driver and ask him to drive to the south of the city to attract the pursuers."
"good."
"The pursuers have left. Let's go back."
"good."
Yao Sui felt a little flustered, and soon, he was lifted up.
There was a "bang" sound, and just when he thought he was about to be thrown into the river, he felt a slight pain. It turned out that he was thrown into the boat.
Then I heard a boatman ask: "Xiao Langjun, what kind of cargo have you brought so heavy?"
"I just bought two drives."
Li Xia's voice was calm and not at all disturbing.
Yao Sui heard the calm tone in his words and knew that such a person would do things safely and would not let him escape, so he felt a sense of despair...
Zhang Hongdao marked it on the map and murmured: "Kaibao Temple Tower... Li Xia always likes to occupy high places with a wide view, which was the case when he was in Luyi. He asked people to observe my layout on the tower.
Where will it go?"
"Wulang, we searched Kaibao Temple and could not find Li Xia and Yao Xiaolangjun..."
"Of course they can't be found." Zhang Hongdao said calmly: "He saw you coming, can he still be searched by you? Have you checked the movement of the carriage?"
"The carriage is heading south, and we have sent people to chase it."
"It's fake, but we really need to pursue him, and our manpower has been scattered again. He should... go to the Beizhi River. Judging from our manpower mobilization, we must go to the Beizhi River. Damn it, it's a step too late."
Shen Kai said: "We are short of manpower and cannot search such a large city of Kaifeng. Why don't we ask the Jinglue Mansion to send more people?"
"No, the letter I sent back to Bozhou should have arrived, and father will send someone right away."
"But I'm just afraid that the Imperial Government will become suspicious."
"I will discuss it with Shi Jinglue."
Zhang Hongdao responded casually, his eyes always falling on the map of Kaifeng City, his fingers sliding from the Beizhi River to Longting Lake.
"The Kaibao Temple Pagoda is not his real hiding place. He just attracts our attention here and then returns to his hiding place. Will he take the Libian River or Baogong Lake? Or get off the boat in the middle? Or even turn around and go back...
…This little manpower…”
"Goro, would you like to eat something more?"
Zhang Hongdao shook his head and murmured to himself: "Where is he hiding? We can't run after him anymore."
He muttered to himself and walked out, passing by the servant who came with the food.
…
Wang Xuan was tied up in the house with an iron chain on his leg. He was drinking wine, and a beautiful singer was singing to him.
"I secretly think about how many happy and beautiful gatherings I had at the beginning, but how could I have known that the difficult time of gathering and separation would turn into rain, hatred, and clouds of sorrow..."
Zhang Hongdao pushed open the door and entered, listening to the beautiful girl's babbling.
He frowned, became very displeased, and shouted: "Who tricked you?"
"Why should Wu Lang be angry?" Wang Xun said with a smile: "I'm not running away. You're just holding me tight because you don't want me to go and make noises in your ears. Haha, blame me for my sharp tongue for telling this truth to your subordinates.
"Yes." The beautiful girl stepped back with her pipa in her arms.
Wang Xun narrowed his eyes and stared at her graceful figure, and said with a smile: "Why are you so fierce? You're scaring people."
"Let me ask you, where did you get the information for Lao Gui?"
"This is what Wulang asked me on his own initiative." Wang Xing said: "If people ask me later why I betrayed him, I can only answer, 'Zhang Wulang wants to know.'"
"What do you want?"
Wang Xing said: "I am not forcing you to rebel. This kind of thing, the melon is not sweet if it is forced. But if you pick this melon and want to put it back, it will be difficult."
"What do you want?"
"How about we press fingerprints together? You and I are blood allies."
"No."
"Then forget it, let's just be friends."
"Believe it or not, I will kill you."
"Are you going to offend my father, Marshal Li, and all of us?"
"Don't think I dare not."
"You dare, but why bother? If you think about it carefully, Wulang was forced to this point by Li Xia, right? Why do you have to catch him? What did he do to you? Could it be..."
The blood vessels on Zhang Hongdao's forehead throbbed.
Wang Xun, however, stopped talking and raised his thin lips with a slight smile.
"Yao Sui and Yao Duanfu were captured by Li Xia." Zhang Hongdao suddenly said lightly.
"Ah?" Wang Xun was a little surprised and said in deep thought: "No wonder Wulang came to ask me. It seems that he guessed it."
Zhang Hongdao didn't answer.
"Since you guessed it, you can't escape." Wang Xin added: "I'm not as meticulous, smart, and far-sighted as Wu Lang. But I am good at two things in my life, pulling women into my quilt and pulling men into my gang.
"
"Answer my question or I'll kill you."
"Of course I can tell Wu Lang. However, if you join the rebellion with me, you can ask the people of Song Dynasty to prepare and bring the information back..."
"Answer my question or I'll kill you."
"Okay, okay, no need to be so fierce... Oh, I shut up. What do you want to ask Wulang?"
"Who gave the information to Lao Gui?"
"Which piece of information does Goro want to know? The one from the north, the one from the east, or the one in the middle?"
"You...gave so much?"
"Well, what's the use if you can't send it over?"
Wang Xun chuckled softly, raised his hand, poured some wine into it, pressed it on the table with a "snap", as if pressing a fingerprint, and said: "No more detours! You guessed it right, Xuezhai Yao
The public is indeed one, and Zhishiyuan is one of our bases for liaison and meetings."
Zhang Hongdao's eyelids jumped, he took a deep breath and asked again: "But Mr. Yao is not in Kaifeng, who stole the documents from the Jinglue Mansion?"
Wang Xun was silent for a while and said: "If I tell Mr. Yao, you can't do anything to him, but if you recruit someone else..."
"Say!" Zhang Hongdao smashed the wine pot violently, put the broken porcelain on Wang Sui's neck, and shouted: "Don't think I dare not kill you! If Yao Sui dies, I will also offend Yao Shu!"
Wang Xun was stunned for a moment, and she really felt Zhang Hongdao's murderous intention.
Zhang Hongdao said again: "I don't care about you. As long as I catch Li Xia, he must have found out something from Yao Sui. I want to find him. This will be good for everyone."
"Okay, okay, please take it away and don't touch me... At that time, I brought the information and instructions from Mr. Yao from the north, and also had someone steal the documents from the Jinglue Mansion and give them to Lao Gui."
"who?!"
"Consultant Yang Guo..."
"Yang Guo, courtesy name Zhengqing, nicknamed Xi'an, was from Xinzhou, and later moved to Xuchang. He was a Jinshi in the Jin Dynasty, and was promoted to a political advisor. He was known for his integrity. He is now a councilor in Henan, a high-ranking official second only to the economic envoy... …”
Han Chengxu thought deeply and added: "He is a famous Sanqu master and has a good relationship with Yuan Yishan. Therefore, I had several contacts with him when we were in the Jin Kingdom. Although we are not familiar with each other, we are acquaintances."
Li Xia said: "If the owner of Zhishi Garden is Yao Shu, but Yao Shu is not in Kaifeng, does Mr. Han think that the person who comes into contact with Lao Gui will be Yang Guo?"
"Yang Guo's ancestral home is in Shanxi. He likes sour food the most and would not be happy without vinegar every day. Those dishes are from both the north and the south, which are his taste. Back then, he said with a smile that if he returned to the Song Dynasty, he should also try the fish from the south of the Yangtze River. Shrimp and crab.”
Han Chengxu said, thought for a while and then said: "Of the fifteen people Yao Sui mentioned, I know that nine of them are famous officials left behind by the Jin Kingdom. Among the nine, Yang Guo is the most likely. He had some skills long before the death of the Jin Dynasty." I want to vote for the Song Dynasty, but I can't do it. But... I'm not sure, there are too few clues."
"It's simple. I'll try Yao Sui again and I'll know."
Li Xia walked into the room where Yao Sui was locked up, and came out after a while, saying, "I want to find a way to see Yang Guo."
"Young Master, are you sure it's him?" Han Chengxu asked.
"I only know that Yang Guo and Yao Shu have a very close relationship."
"Then if it weren't for..."
"Now that Zhishiyuan is being closely watched by the Zhang family, this clue is worth taking a chance on." Li Xia said, "Well, let me meet with Yang Guo to see if I can get the information. Regardless of the outcome, we will withdraw from Kaifeng City... …”