After Shi Tao discovered that Xu Shu was missing, he immediately searched for places nearby where he could hide people.
He originally thought that Xu Shu was just hiding away because he was worried about being discovered, but he searched around and found no trace at all.
In desperation, Shi Tao went straight to Tangchi regardless of whether his identity would be exposed.
Shi Xiaomei happened to be working at Tangchi in the east of the city, so she was shocked when her brother came looking for her.
The brother and sister found a deserted place.
"Brother, why did you come here alone, where is Brother Xu?" Shi Xiaomei didn't see Xu Shu, her eyes were full of worry.
Shi Tao made a sad face, shook his head and said: "I don't know either. We registered at the guard station together. He came out before me and agreed to meet at the cake shop at the door. But I looked around and found him.
But he couldn't be found."
When Shi Xiaomei heard this, her face instantly turned pale, "Could it be that Brother Xu went to take the blame alone?"
Neither brother nor sister thought that Xu Shu would escape alone. Based on their understanding of Xu Shu, it was very likely that Xu Shu would choose to bear all the blame alone for the sake of Shi Tao and his sister.
When Shi Tao heard this, he seemed to have lost all strength. He collapsed on the steps and murmured: "No, it won't happen. We obviously have a chance to escape. He has changed the bamboo cards. How could it be possible? How could it be..."
Shi Xiaomei said with red eyes: "Brother Xu is such a person. I shouldn't have cried in front of him before noon. He must have thought: As long as he takes all the blame alone, Brother Xu will not have to run away, and neither will we brothers and sisters."
The separation is all my fault."
Shi Tao slapped himself in blame, "No, Yuan Zhi still has an old mother to support at home, I, I can't be so selfish."
As he spoke, he stood up suddenly and desperately wanted to go to the guardhouse and surrender.
When Shi Xiaomei saw this, not only did she not stop him, but she followed closely and said, "Brother, I'm coming too, we can't harm Brother Xu."
There is true love in the world, and I have to say that the friendship between Xu Shu and Shi Tao is really enviable.
The brother and sister rushed directly to the guardhouse, and Shi Tao directly stated his intention to come.
The city guards who were on guard at the door looked at each other, and one of them said with a smile: "There is no perpetrator in the case of massacre in the south of the city. Are you sure you want to surrender?"
"No, no one is suffering..." The Shi family brother and sister were stunned.
The team member looked at the two men calmly and explained: "If there is no culprit, there is no case filed. If there is no case filed, how can there be a murderer?"
"Then, doesn't that mean...we are not guilty?" Shi Xiaomei was the first to react.
The team member nodded, looked at Shi Tao, and said: "You should be Xu Shu's good friend. Don't worry, he is fine. He was just taken by the second master for questioning. You can wait here. Someone will send him to you soon."
He's back."
Shi Tao was stunned.
Shi Xiaomei looked at the team members in disbelief and confirmed: "Second Master, is it that Second Master?"
The two gatekeepers looked at each other, smiled, and nodded at the same time, "Yes, it's the second master!"
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An hour later.
Three rickshaws came slowly.
The Shi family brother and sister were still squatting at the gate of the guardhouse. Although they were sure that Xu Shu was fine, they still felt uneasy because they didn't see anyone.
"Brother Guangyuan, little sister."
The two of them looked up at the same time, their anxious expressions immediately revealed smiles.
Shi Xiaomei pulled her brother and ran over to greet him, "Brother Xu, it's great that you're okay."
Xu Shu called the coachman to stop. He first thanked the coachman and said, "I'm sorry for making you worry about me."
Shi Tao looked Xu Shu up and down and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was indeed fine.
"Yuan Zhi, is this brother Shi Tao?"
Naturally, Sima Yi and Cai Heng came with Xu Shu.
Sima Yi's tone of voice was still so old-fashioned, he was obviously just a kid of twelve or thirteen years old.
Xu Shu smiled bitterly and introduced both parties.
Sima Yi looked at Shi Tao with a scrutinizing expression and said: "Yes, you can kill nine people silently. It seems that your martial arts are not bad. You can hang out with me from now on."
When Sima Yi said this, he was obviously deliberately imitating Wei Cheng's tone... He definitely loved Wei Cheng.
Xu Shu couldn't laugh or cry at the side, because Wei Cheng had just said this to him once.
Shi Tao raised his thick eyebrows. If he hadn't seen these two little brats coming with Xu Shu, he would have slapped them in the face. Who were they talking to?
Seeing that his good brother's temper was rising again, Xu Shu hurriedly pulled him and said, "Okay, he was just joking with you. Come on, let's go and settle down first. I'll talk to you in detail later."
Shi Xiaomei looked at Sima Yi and Cai Heng curiously, especially Cai Heng. She vaguely felt that she had seen them somewhere before. Although she couldn't remember, their dress and temperament made her dare not neglect them.
"Yes, yes, yes, brother, Brother Xu, let's go back first... Oh, it's already this hour. I've been away from my job for too long. You go to the satellite city first. I'll go back later to buy groceries. Let's have a good celebration today."
At this time, the bell of Shenshi rang in Anyi County.
As soon as Shi Xiaomei finished speaking, Xu Shu said: "Little sister, you don't have to live in the satellite city outside the city anymore. It's too far there, and it takes half an hour to get back and forth. You can stay at my place from now on."
Shi Xiaomei was in a hurry to go to work and said with a wry smile: "Would you like to stay at the inn with you? It's such a waste of money."
Xu Shu shook his head and said, "It's not an inn, look at what this is!" He took out a bunch of keys and shook them at the two of them.
Sima Yi yawned and urged from the side: "Brother Yuanzhi, let's go quickly. After I take you to your place, I have to go back and take a nap."
Cai Heng waved his hand to hail an extra rickshaw and said, "The yard assigned to you happens to be in the east of the city, not far from here."
Cai's new residence is located in the east of the city, so Cai Heng is very familiar with this area, so Wei Cheng gave him the job of leading Xu Shu.
Not long after.
The group of people entered an alley and stopped in front of a small courtyard with a single gate.
Cai Heng said: "This is No. 2, Dongjin Hutong."
Under the confused gazes of the Shi brothers and sisters, Xu Shu took out the key and opened the copper lock on the courtyard door.
"Brother Xu, where is this?" Shi Xiaomei covered her mouth and looked at Xu Shu in disbelief as she pushed open the courtyard door.
After all, she has been working in Anyi for two months, and she is very aware of the shortage of housing in Anyi. If she is not an important person, Wei will generally not allocate housing.
Like those foreign aristocratic families and wealthy households, even if they are rich and powerful, there is nothing they can do. Nowadays, many people live in satellite cities outside the city.
Xu Shu looked at the simple furnishings in the yard, turned around, smiled slightly, and said, "This will be our home from now on!"
Shi Tao looked puzzled and had not yet calmed down.
Shi Xiaomei exclaimed, "This, how is this possible? Do you know how much a yard like this in the east of the city is worth?"
Xu Shu really didn't know, so he looked back at Cai Heng and Sima Yi.
Sima Yi curled his lips. His house was much bigger than this one, but it was just in the south of the city. It seemed that the housing prices in the south of the city were the cheapest in Anyi.
Cai Heng finally found a place where he was better than Sima Yi, and said proudly: "It's not expensive. Twenty small goldfish per acre cost about 200,000 copper coins. You only have less than one acre here, so you probably have more than 100,000."
Copper coins."
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