Chapter 515

He dug well water from the yard and found a clean square towel. He helped Wen Qihua take off his coat skillfully and carefully wiped the blood scab near the wound.

This found that his left arm is also injured, the wound is not small. The pain at the bottom of my heart increased a little, but I didn't say anything on my mouth. It's just treating the wound more gently.

Wen Qihua also kept silent and allowed her to wipe herself. How long has it been? Two years. At the moment, she looks like the little girl she just met.

His character is ancient and strange. He usually looks useless. He only knows how to eat and play. He does things seriously without being disturbed by other things. He is quiet like a kitten.

At the beginning, he was deeply attracted by her. From then on, he made an oath in his heart to protect her from worry about food and clothing, and live a happy life.

Wen Qihua's tender and affectionate eyes always fall on Si Chen Chen's body, and the love in his eyes is not covered up. Si Chen Chen focused on cleaning his wound, dressing and applying medicine, but he never found out.

After carefully treating several wounds on his body, she took a breath.

He looked up at Wen Qihua's eyes. She averted, pretending to be calm, and looked away.

"It's almost done with the wound. You can't see water these days. You can take care of yourself. Fortunately, there are some herbs in this hut. I can change them regularly

She tried to finish these words in a businesslike tone, but she turned to go, but her arm was caught.

When he pulled the wound, Wen Qihua gasped bitterly. "Don't go. Stay with me."

When is this person so clinging to others. It's like tenger.

Think of tengge'er, Si Chen Chen is a burst of sadness. I haven't seen her for many days, but she miss this baby brother very much. I don't know if he's listening to his mother's words and writing big characters.

I grew up with my brother-in-law, and I have the highest expectation of him. Now the family of Si family is in decline. My elder brother is planning big things in the border areas. He has to take care of his sick mother. His only hope is to hire a teacher for stengten in the future, hoping that he can become a great success and revive the appearance of his family. I didn't waste my father's advice before he died.

Thinking of this, she felt a little depressed and sighed for no reason.

Wen Qihua thought that she didn't want to stay with her, but she was in the way of face. There was emotion in my heart.

"If you don't want to stay, just go. Why do you have to frown? Don't let others think I'm Wen Qihua fawning on you. "

Si Chenchen was puzzled and amused. He couldn't understand her mind now.

Without much explanation, Si Chenchen only went to one side and sat down. He simply closed his eyes and closed his eyes to nourish his mind. He also ignored Wen Qihua.

I don't know whether it's too tired tonight or going south these days. I don't know if I have a good rest these days. Wen Qihua on the other side was very angry and funny.

Carry her to the shoulder with one hand, walk to the bed, and put it down gently. After covering the bedding, I sat beside her and looked at her sleeping face. Unconsciously, he reached out and touched her sleeping cheek.

It was this woman who let her live without thinking of decadence. It was she who awakened her long silent heart.

But a year and a half ago, what was the reason for her to leave her. From Min Sheng's words, it seems to have something to do with her brother Si Chi Chi, but what is the relationship between them?

She must have refused to tell herself, otherwise she would not have forced her to sign and leave the book in such a way that she did not leave any way back.

For a year and a half, he had to go to sleep with the help of alcohol. But every time to midnight dream back, the mind is full of her figure, can't wave away.

So when he heard that his father wanted to return home and make way for him, he did not refuse too much. He went to court with her at the same time, at least he had more opportunities to see her.

Her resolution at that time has been a nightmare for Wen Qihua for many years. Now, the dream seems to wake up.

Si Chen Chen and Wen Qihua waited in the hut for two days, but they did not see their close friends come to look for someone. Are they too remote to find the secret guards?

The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. He whirled back and forth like an ant on a hot pot. He suddenly thought of something and stormed into the room, regardless of whether he had offended him or not, he asked angrily,

"where have you asked your men to take Min Sheng! If there is something wrong with him, I will not forgive you. "

Wen Qihua leans on the bed, his heart is full of food, but he who loves face doesn't show it and his mouth is not forgiving. "I'm just bluffing him. I'm not going to do anything to him. This bastard should be treated. "

The secretary was angry and turned a big white eye. It's the unscrupulous person like you who should be treated.

The two were fighting with each other. Suddenly, the peach blossom fragrance came from outside the house, which made him stand up.

He ran out of the house and saw Min Sheng looking in. After a few days' absence, he has lost a lot of money. He must have suffered a lot.

Seeing the safe appearance of Si Chen Chen, Min Sheng finally put down his heart. In the past two days, I almost turned over the whole governor's residence, and even the areas around the south of the Yangtze River spared no effort to inquire about the whereabouts of the two people. Who would have thought they were hiding in such a remote suburb.Si Chen Chen Ran to Min Sheng in front of him with joy and pulled him around for two times. He was sure that there was nothing wrong with him. Then he laughed.

Min Sheng Qi did not hit a place, raised his hand to Si Chen Chen a brain, "harm I easy to find, but you are good that Wen Qihua did not embarrass you."

Si Chenchen introduces him to the hut and tells him what happened the night before yesterday. Min Sheng feels strange when he hears it. It is a premeditated assassination. But who?

Wen Qihua looked at their intimate interaction and regretted that they didn't throw him further away. It's very brazen.

Within half an hour, Wen Qihua's Secret guards also found this place and knelt down one after another, demanding punishment from the master. Wen Qihua waved a big hand. Let's go back to our residence, so as to avoid any trouble.

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escorted by the dark guards, Wen Qihua and his party returned to their residence without trace. But just into the gate, I met the nine princesses in a hurry.

Seeing Wen Qihua come back, the ninth Princess felt relieved and ran to him, but she noticed "Si Chi Chi" beside him.

Since the second day, I had little chance to see Wen Qihua, and I couldn't find him everywhere these two days.

According to the maidservant's beating, there is also the imperial warden's officer who does not know the trace.

The ninth princess is indignant in her heart. Why are the family members so haunted that it is not convenient for her to break out now. But her future husband can't have anything wrong. This is the biggest bet I've made.

"Where has Prime Minister Wen gone these days? Why don't you send people to follow the protection? Is there any trouble? " Nine princess's eyes in the tone is full of real worry.

"Thank you, princess. The minister and the Secretary paid a private visit for two days in order to share the emperor's worries."

Wen Qihua didn't want to spend more time with her, so he dismissed him with a few words. From her side around with Si Chen Chen to the inner hall.

Nine Princess stood in the same place, staring at the two people's back, that with Wen Qihua's side Si adult, body shape some thin, trance in some familiar feeling.

Have you ever met him in the prime minister's office? There is a figure in my mind overlapping with the person in front of me. The ninth princess has made a murmur in her heart.

Maybe it's the characteristics of twins, which are always somewhat similar. She didn't want to believe her doubts. His voice of indifference echoed in his ears.

"Hu Meizi's younger sister has been seduced by her lover. Now that he is following Prime Minister Wen, is it not that he regrets his actions and intends to pave the way for his worthless sister again."

With a cold hum, the nine princess's eyes were full of venom. With her in one day, Si Chen Chen, the widowed star, will not want to turn over.

In the next few days, in addition to receiving visits from local officials, Wen Qihua quietly conducted a secret investigation.

The core of this smuggling case is not a kind of precious equipment, but a necessity for everyone to survive - salt.

In recent years, salt production in coastal areas has been declining year by year, and the supply of inland areas is in short supply. In addition to the coastal areas, other places have to exchange salt to get daily needed salt, so salt shortage often breaks out.

Jiangnan is located in the core position of an important hub, which can be said to be the most convenient and efficient channel for smuggling official salt to the mainland. However, smuggling is a high-risk and high-cost business that ordinary people dare not do, and only high-ranking officials have the ability to smuggle profits through various channels.

The newly appointed governor of the south of the Yangtze River saw the gap in the inland, colluded with the officials in charge to collude with the salt transport envoys in the coastal areas to make huge profits, hold the big head in his hand, and other people get dividends from it.

It's night. It's quiet.

A green lamp in Wen Qihua's room was swaying by the night wind in the gap between the windows. His slender fingers twirled the slightly warm cup and bowed his head in meditation.

No matter whether the salt is eventually sold everywhere, it must go through the gate of the city. The court has sent many ministers to investigate the case, but they are powerless. They must have some way to hide from the guard of the city gate. It seems that if we want to find out this matter, we should start from the gate.

"Somebody." Wen Qihua's voice sounded low and low in the dark night. For a moment, Ling Yu, who was always at the door, pushed in, bowed down and said in a low voice, "what can I do for you?"

"Ling Yu. From tomorrow, you will take my secret guard to the gate of the city, so as to keep an eye on the people going to and from the gate, and see if there are any suspicious people who are transporting things out

Wen Qihua gazed at the night and said firmly, "the smuggling of official salt must have done something on the door. As long as you find someone suspicious, you must follow up and find out. But you can't frighten the snake."

Ling Yu looked awe inspiring and went away.

The next morning, he took several secret guards to the gate. In order to hide people's eyes, several secret guards changed their bodyguards into ordinary people's clothes. They were scattered around the city gate, pretending to be ordinary people wandering in the market. Their eyes were fixed on every businessman and farmer.People come and go at the gate of the city. A farmer with a donkey and a wooden cart attracted Ling Yu's attention.

The farmer was dressed in green cloth, simple but neat. His face is white, his eyebrows are blue and his eyes are burning. He looks a little different from that of ordinary farmers. There is a little more anger between his eyebrows. At the moment, he was driving the donkey to the gate of the city, with dozens of sacks on the board behind him.

The city gate guard, as usual, reached out and stopped him and raised his voice and asked, "stop, stop! What's in your sack? "

The farmer quickly jumped out of the car, with a smile on his face, nodded and said, "guard brother, I've loaded all the grain. I'm going to transport it out of the city for beef and mutton."

"Food? Open it and show it to us! " The guard glanced at the bulging sacks and said, "why so much food? How many acres of land do you have? "

"Oh, brother guard, if my poor family can have so much land, I can wake up laughing in my dream. It's not all my own. When the villagers in the neighborhood heard that I was going to leave the city today, they entrusted me to help them sell grain for some silver. "

The farmer's eyes flashed a little flustered, and in an instant he covered it with a smile, "it's all rice and millet. When I open it, don't I scatter it all? Guard elder brother, I am an honest farmer, but I dare not do those illegal things

"No nonsense! It has been ordered that Whoever transports things out of the city, whatever it is, must be checked one by one. " The guard was impatient, so he took out his sword and went to the sacks, ready to open the sacks.

"Ouch, brother guard," the farmer stopped him and said, "if you cut the sack with this sword, will the grain leak all the way? I'll give you a look at it

With that, the farmer turned to pull the top sack and slowly untied the rope at the mouth of the bag, revealing a bag of yellow millet. "You see, this is all good grain. You can see how full it is, and it will sell at a good price..."

The farmer was very elated and chattered to the guard. The guard was impatient. He saw that there were many people behind the farmer who were blocked by the wooden cart. They complained one after another, so they frowned and shook their hands and said, "OK, OK, let's go."

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"ah, ah..." Seeing the guard's release, the farmer quickly tied up the open sack again, and subconsciously tucked the mouth of the bottom sacks to the side. He jumped into the car with quick hands and feet, and drove the donkey out of the city gate.

As he walked on, the man looked back at the guard with vigilance and a look of relief. This look fell into the eyes of Ling Yu, who had been staring at him. He was suspicious in his heart and made a wink, indicating that the dark guard next to him would quietly follow him.

There is something wrong. Instead of replacing the grain with beef and mutton, the farmer went all the way around the market and quietly drove the wooden cart to a remote road. Several secret guards dodged and hid all the way, but fortunately he didn't find out.

He stopped the wooden cart at the end of the path, jumped out of the car and stood there looking around, slightly anxious, as if waiting for someone. After a while, a middle-aged man in the shape of a businessman turned out and a carriage stopped behind him.

They were whispering, and they didn't know what they were talking about. The merchant handed the farmer a piece of paper. After reading it, the farmer folded the paper up and put it into the boot. He took the sacks from the wooden cart down and put them aside. He carried the three or four sacks one by one into the next carriage. After saying a few words, the merchant got on the horse The car drove away.

The farmer took the sacks back to the wooden cart, looked around and saw no one. Then he drove the donkey to the gate of the city.

"Ah? Why are you back? " When the guard saw that the farmer was out of the city for only a stick of incense, he immediately turned back and questioned, "didn't you go to sell food? There are still so many in the carriage

"Hi! Don't mention it! I just went to the market and the meat is not fresh today! I'd better go another day. " The farmer perfunctorily went into the city quickly.

Several dark guards followed him all the way, and saw that the farmer drove his donkey around the city for a long time. He turned in from a small alley and took a shortcut to the back door of the governor's residence in the south of the Yangtze River. He parked the wooden cart outside the door. He looked around in private and ran into the back door.

Seeing that he entered the door, the dark guard ran to the wooden cart quickly and lifted up the sacks on it to check carefully one by one. There was no doubt that there was grain inside.

A few people's doubts were deeper, and they looked at the bottom of the board. On the board tightly pressed by the sacks, there seemed to be some bright white powder, which was not clear. Several dark guards moved in their hearts and touched them with their index fingers and put them on the tip of their tongue.

It's salt.

They looked at each other and knew it clearly. They looked up at the residence of the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. Several people did not dare to disturb the people in the mansion, only quietly reported this matter to Ling Yu.

After hearing this, Ling Yu cautiously came to Wen Qihua's room and gave Wen Qihua a full account of what they had seen today.Wen Qihua listened quietly, and suddenly a funny smile appeared on his lips.

After a long time, Wen Qihua said in a deep voice, "I know. Ling Yu, you send someone to keep an eye on the residence of the governor of the south of the Yangtze River. If there is any disturbance, please come back to me immediately. " For a moment, he told him, "it's still that sentence. Don't scare the snake."

Ling Yu agreed and did not mention the deployment. Wen Qihua looked out of the window with deep eyes, and the sneer on his lips deepened.

The governor of Jiangnan is really brave.

Wen Qihua has already got his eyebrows on this side, and Si Chenchen and Min Sheng at the other end have not stopped moving. The two groups are very tacit in their actions.

After discovering the secret of the wooden house, Si Chenchen and Min Sheng find another chance to sneak there, fearing that the last accident will happen again. Since returning, Wen Qihua has sent two secret guards to protect them. They didn't know.

The two men carefully entered the wooden house and searched carefully. In addition to the secret path behind the huge Buddha statue, Min Sheng has made new discoveries.

"Angry, you see."

Si Chen Chen hears the speech and goes to his side, following his eyes to a painting covered with dust on the wall.

It's just the most common landscape painting, which has been hanging there for many years.

The painting is in a humble corner in the southeast corner of the wooden house, next to the Buddha statue.

It's just a painting. Si Chen Chen doubts and looks at Min Sheng, waiting for his explanation. Min Sheng gently raised his chin, indicating her attention to the surrounding walls.

The wooden house has been in use for some years. Its beams and pillars have been mottled. It seems that it will collapse at any time because it can't bear the weight. The walls around the house were yellowing, and there were layers of spider webs in the corners.

However, the walls around the painting are not as pale yellow as those in other places. Instead, some of the walls are slightly cyan, as if they have just been painted. Seeing this, he attracted the attention of Chen Chen.

"This." My intuition told me that there must be something fishy behind the painting, but I didn't dare to touch it easily because I had suffered a loss before. He turned his head and cast an inquiring look at Min Sheng.

Seeing her concern, Min Sheng patted her on the shoulder to show Si Chen Chen to step back and reach forward to carefully remove the painting from the wall.

There is a new mud on the wall behind the landscape painting. There are obvious traces of moving around. Si Chen Chen and Min Sheng's four eyes are opposite, and the emotion is beyond expression.

The Kung Fu pays off the people who have a heart, and finally have a trace of eyebrows. The two men worked together to remove the collapsed brick and stone, revealing a fist sized space behind the wall.

There was a square ebony box in the hole.

Min Sheng carefully took the box out from behind the wall and held it in his hand. Si Chen Chen saw at a glance that the box was very valuable. A piece of fine red sandalwood was carved into this palm sized box.

The container is so attentive that the contents in the box must be valuable, or maybe it is an important clue related to the smuggling case.

After checking up and down, it was found that the wooden box was perfectly fitted, and there was no possibility of opening it.

Min Sheng frowned, thinking about all kinds of possibilities. Si Chenchen took the box from his hand and weighed it in his hand. Because of the weight of the box itself, it was difficult to judge what was in it.

Whatever it is, since you have discovered this, you can ignore it? Take it back to your place and make plans.

Si Chenchen carefully wrapped the box with a handkerchief and put it in his arms. He told Min Sheng to hang the landscape painting back on the wall as it was. The two men quietly went back to their residence by moonlight.

Back in the room, Min Sheng takes out a small package containing the items that can be easily changed. After a while, Min Sheng comes to the table with a very thin silver needle in his hand. Si Chenchen has never seen it, nor does he know the function of the silver needle. He is curious to wait for his next move.

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