As soon as the rope tied around Li Biaotou was untied, his hands and feet were numb due to being hung for too long, and he fell to the ground with a "plop". Granny Zhang quickly helped him up again, dragging him to the ground.
He sat down on a simple wooden bench in the house and poured some cold water for him to drink from the pot next to him.
Li Biaotou drank a lot of water, as if he didn't even have time to breathe. "Gudonggudong" After drinking a few sips of water, his expression seemed to have recovered a little. He leaned against the mud wall behind him, as if he was not relying on anything to support him.
He would immediately collapse to the ground. After a while, Li Biaotou said intermittently, "What do you want to know? Just ask."
Granny Zhang interrupted impatiently, "What are you pretending to be? My old lady has asked you so many times in the past few days, and now you ask us what we want to ask!"
Biao Li didn't even look at her, he closed his lips tightly and didn't make a sound.
Butler Yan glanced sideways at Granny Zhang and said in a low voice, "I'll ask." Then he ignored Granny Zhang's gloomy expression and said kindly to escort Li, "Li Dequan, your escort is for the capital."
where?"
When Qiao Xianyong heard this, he realized that Butler Yan was asking questions that he wanted to know but didn't know when he first joined the Baisha Escort Agency, so he listened more attentively.
Li Biaotou blinked his eyes, licked his dry lips, and said, "It was sent to the residence of General Shangguan, the general of the sea in Jingcheng Town. It is said that the Queen Mother's birthday is the first month of the year, so the general Shangguan who guards the South China Sea specially selected some treasures.
It will be sent to the palace from the palace."
Butler Yan nodded, as if he already knew about this matter, and said, "That's true. We have seen this batch of goods. Most of them are gold and silver. I think General Shangguan also gained a lot in the South China Sea. Look at those treasures.
These are some ancient relics, but what are their origins?”
Captain Li thought for a moment and said, "To be honest, I don't know what those treasures are. When they were delivered by dozens of guards from General Zhenhai's Mansion in the South China Sea, they were wrapped tightly and had stickers on them.
Okay, General Zhenhai's seal." He seemed to remember something again, and added, "That old prostitute Lu Chufu seems to know some inside information. Before departure, he and I drank together once, and Xiaotian was accompanying us."
Biaotou Li thought of Xiaotian again, and his teeth itched with hatred, and he said, "I'm afraid this old pervert would have laid eyes on Xiaotian at that time."
Butler Yan was afraid that he would keep talking about Xiaotian again, so he walked to him, poured him a bowl of cold water himself, and handed it to Li Biaotou. Li Biaotou drank it again and wiped it.
He opened his mouth. Butler Yan watched him drink water and asked, "So, what did Lü Chufu say when he was drunk?"
Li Biao rubbed his messy hair and said through gritted teeth, "This old pervert loves to brag. It's embarrassing to say that there are so many escorts in our Baisha Escort Agency, but none of them has the backbone. Every time
I held him in my arms and listened to his nonsense. It was the same that night. Lv Chufu had eaten too much and asked me slyly if I knew what the big bet was about. Of course I shook my head and said I knew.
It was a tribute from General Zhenhai. Lu Chufu smiled proudly and obscenely, saying that these objects were treasures from an ancient sea tomb."
"Ancient sea tomb?" Butler Yan's eyes seemed to light up, and his tone became extremely unusual. He took a step forward and said in a deep voice, "What else did he say? Think about it carefully!"
Li Biaotou grabbed his thin hair hard and tried to remember. While thinking about it, he said, "Well, well, the old thief said that General Zhenhai was not idle by taking advantage of the errand of guarding the border. The price is sky-high.
Study some ancient books, ancient route maps and so on. Not to mention that he actually studied it. I don’t know whether it was hundreds of years ago or more than a thousand years ago. There was really an official sent from the capital city of the Central Plains to go to other islands.
When the ship was sailing to the South China Sea, it hit a reef and sank. The treasures in the ship disappeared into history along with the sunken ship."
"So General Shangguan found this ancient shipwreck?" Butler Yan asked with a frown.
"According to Lu Chufu, he should have finally found the sunken ship. Moreover, not only the ship, but also a seabed tomb seemed to have been dug near the sunken ship. This is extremely miraculous. But this tomb was actually found by Zhenhai
Lü Chufu’s servant doesn’t know whether the general has opened it or not. He guessed that the treasures taken by the escort this time should have come from the sunken ship.” Mr. Li recalled.
"Hmm, that's interesting." Butler Yan pondered. "What's the relationship between Mr. Lu and General Zhenhai?"
This seemed to be easier to answer, and Li Biaotou immediately replied without thinking, "General Shangguan is a very suspicious person. The soldiers in his house have all shed blood and been knifed with him during the many years of military expeditions in the north and south."
Logically speaking, Mr. Lu Chufu cannot fall into the eyes of Shangguan General."
"Then why does Lu Chufu know so many secrets about General Shangguan? Can he take on such an important escort trip?" Butler Yan asked after hearing this.
"Because the old prostitute's first wife, Mrs. Lu, was actually called Shangguan Mei, but she was the biological sister of General Shangguan! General Shangguan had indeed always looked down upon Lü Chufu, but instead he looked down upon his brother, Na Daishan
The leader of the faction, Lu Chuyuan, paid more attention to him. However, his sister, who was much younger than him, fell in love with Lu Chufu for some reason and wanted to marry him. General Shangguan seemed to have lost his parents in his early twenties, and his sister
She was more than ten years younger than him, so she had been very fond of her since she was a child. So when he saw that his girl was so devoted, General Shangguan had no choice but to spend a lot of money to help Lu Chufu open the Baisha Escort Agency, which could be regarded as a stable career.
." Li Biao finished speaking in one breath, then picked up the tea bowl and took a few sips.
"I see." Butler Yan pondered, "I heard that it is extremely difficult to enter General Zhenhai's inner palace, but I think this is where Mr. Lu can come and go freely?"
Li Biaotou showed contempt and shook his head and said, "This old prostitute is like seeing a god when he sees his brother-in-law. He is so frightened. General Shangguan doesn't bother to pay attention to him at all. Every time I accompany him
He and his wife went to the Shangguan General's Mansion. Lv Chufu and I were only allowed to wait in the front hall, but only the Lu family could enter the inner palace. We went ten times, and nine times we couldn't see General Zhenhai in person.
, it turns out that I don’t want to see his brother-in-law at all. The only time I could see him was probably because Lu Chufu’s brother Lu Chuyuan was there.”
"Well, this is easy to handle, but it's not easy either." Housekeeper Yan said to himself, completely ignoring the confused looks on Granny Zhang and Biao Li's faces.