Zhurou

Chapter 58 Collusion
Zhao Mingzhi tidied up his things in a hurry, not daring to go back to sleep, and only half leaned on the bed and squinted for a while after tidying up.

Only a wall separated, the sound of the qin in the east chamber was intermittent, and it didn't know how long it lasted before it stopped.

And that Fu Huaiyuan left the inner courtyard, did not leave the mansion, let alone returned to the room, but walked through the corridors and corridors in the middle of Xu's house, and went to a house in the front yard after a while.

There were already several attendants waiting there. After hearing his explanation, they each took orders and went out one after another.

Fu Huaiyuan sat for a while, went to wash his face, and then took a few volumes of books from the table in the room, wrapped them in cloth, carried them out of the door.

After stepping out of the door, he hesitated for a moment, then turned back and groped the bedside for a long time, found a curved sharp knife that was one palm and a half long, half palm wide, and tried the tip of the knife on the wooden bed, and the blade was still sharp. Rest assured, he put the knife back into its sheath, hid the knife in his waist and went out again.

Turn around the corridor and walk one or two hundred steps to the guest room.

As soon as he appeared, a young servant who had been waiting for a long time came up to meet him.

Fu Huaiyuan asked, "Is there anything wrong last night?"

The young man said: "Don't worry, Mr. Fu, the youngest one has not slept all night, and has been watching carefully. The second head of the house has turned off the light after only two cups of tea since returning to the room, and has not gone out since then, and has not heard anything inside." movement."

Fu Huaiyuan nodded, and threw a few dimes of silver into his arms.

The young man hurriedly picked it up, put it in his arms, immediately smiled, couldn't stop thanking him, and then led the way. When he got to the door of a house, he turned around and saw Fu Huaiyuan beckoning to him, so he reached out to knock on the door.

After a few breaths of time, there was a sound of footsteps in the room, and Li Xun asked from behind the door, "Who is it?"

Fu Huaiyuan waved his hand to let the boy out of the way, stood in front of the door, and said, "Li Xun, it's me."

At that moment, the door opened from the inside, and a tall figure stood by the door. After seeing the situation outside the door clearly, he stepped aside and said, "Come in."

Fu Huaiyuan had a ghost in his heart, he looked in from the door, and saw a dark person in the middle, he hurriedly touched the sharp knife in his waist, then forced a smile and said: "Why don't you light the lamp?"

Li Xun gave a faint "Oh", and not long after, he saw a spark flashing in the room, he lit the fire pocket and put it on the table, not long after, the thick candle ignited, and the whole room was suddenly brightened.

And on the same table, there are two bundles first, and another long strip, which is wrapped in cloth and cannot be seen inside.

Looking around the room, Fu Huaiyuan followed into the door, saw the things on the table, pointed and asked, "I only stayed for a day, so I'm packing up and leaving now?"

Li Xun nodded, removed the burden, and poured him tea.

Fu Huaiyuan sat down after him, took another look at Li Xun's attire, and asked with a smile, "In the middle of the night, you go to bed without taking off your clothes. You haven't been in the army for many years. Have you not changed your habit?"

Li Xun said: "It hasn't been many years since I was in the army."

As he spoke, he pushed the teacup to the opposite side.

Fu Huaiyuan didn't drink it, but looked at the long stick on the table again, and asked curiously, "What is this?"

Li Xun picked it up casually, and shook off the coarse cloth wrapped around it, but in the middle was a long iron rod, as thick as half an arm, when he picked it up, it scraped against the table, making a sound of iron and stone rubbing against it, very sharp.

"Short blades are difficult to use, long knives are forbidden, so I found a stick to defend myself."

Fu Huaiyuan forced himself to smile, and said, "Let me try."

As he spoke, he reached out to lift it.

I didn't feel it when I looked at it from a distance, but when I started to hold it, I felt the weight was so heavy that it dropped my hand. I told him not to check it, his hand trembled, and he almost couldn't hold it steadily.

And the body of the stick is not smooth, but has chiseled upper and lower grooves, if you count carefully, there are eight holes.

"Why is this stick so rare?"

"It's not surprising. It was commonly used in the military. It can immediately bleed blood when stabbing a person, and the enemy will lose strength in a short time-it is much less effort than ordinary swords when close to the body."

Fu Huaiyuan only felt a chill behind his back, and subconsciously put the iron rod by his hand, away from Li Xun, touched the sharp knife at his waist again, calmed down his heartbeat, and said: "It's midnight, don't talk about it—I'll talk about it this time." Coming here in the middle of the night disturbed your clear dreams, but in fact, you have something to ask for."

He glanced at Li Xun on the opposite side, seeing that he didn't seem to be agitated by being woken up at all, and he didn't seem to be angry at all, so he continued: "I know that my aunt asked you to talk to her last night—she wanted to marry Miss Wan." I have given you many years, and you always refused to agree before, is it the same this time?"

Li Xun frowned and said: "If you want to inquire about the marriage of the women in the boudoir, go and ask the old lady to show you. I am a foreigner and I don't know."

Fu Huaiyuan still had a smile on his face, but there was a trace of coldness in his eyes, and he said: "After all, we have known each other since childhood, it would be meaningless for you to send me away like this - the Escort is owned by the Xu family, but it is known as the Li's Escort to the outside world. Not here all the year round, the upper and lower bodyguards still regard your words as an imperial decree."

"As for my aunt, she always talks about 'Li Xun' when she has nothing to do, and she tells me to follow your instructions, so that's all. When I went back to Wanniang and Yan, my aunt will definitely write to you, waiting for you I was only willing to deal with it when I came back, but in the end I only waited for you to send back some gold and silver property."

When he said this, his smile gradually narrowed, and he continued: "You are so perfunctory, she still asks Wan Niang to make you a robe and send it to you, and asks Wan Niang to write you a letter-these contacts are also considered foreign affairs. male?"

Li Xun looked at him and said: "If you say that Junzhou sent clothes and letters, I have been out for more than half a year, and I seldom go back to Jingzhao Mansion. Even if I go back, I still have a lot of business. All the chores are handled by my subordinates, and I don't know about it."

Fu Huaiyuan laughed back angrily, and said: "What a 'many business', but Junzhou is here for chores? Don't think that no one will know what you are doing because you are far away!"

While speaking, he threw the cloth bag in his arms on the table, and said: "I sent someone to Jingzhao, Fengxiang and other places to check. I didn't know about it before. Since last year, as for the month before last, you have never been in any escort agency. If you are going to run darts, there is no name in the list of darts—you are a living person, and you only perfunctory your aunt to say that you are out of business, what does the word 'foreign' refer to?"

Hearing his question, Li Xun stretched out his hand to pick up the cloth bag, opened it, and found that there were more than ten booklets in several volumes, in which he wrote the age and time, and also wrote about a certain escort agency in a certain place, every page was written. "Li Xun has not arrived."

He randomly flipped through a few pages and asked, "Where did this thing come from?"

Fu Huaiyuan sneered and said: "Do you think that all the bodyguard bureaus are in charge of you, and that the bodyguard managers are all covered up by you, so that you can hide from the world? In the past two years, I have sent my men to station outside the doors of various bodyguard bureaus, guarding them in shifts every day. If you appear, how can you not know?"

He continued: "You spend all day wandering around with the Xu family's property, but you neglect your duties and fill your pockets. You have accumulated a lot of property and property over the years. Guess what your aunt will think of you once I tell this matter to you? !"

Li Xun didn't take it seriously, without raising his eyelids, he said: "Since you know that the bodyguard's surname is Li, why don't you ask the old lady why the surname is Li?"

He put the booklet on the table casually, pushed it back in front of Fu Huaiyuan, and said, "Take it and talk about it."

Fu Huaiyuan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed back: "You are really self-reliant and think that some crimes can't be dealt with - but I don't know, since I can send people to guard you, I can usually send people to guard other escort agencies."

"Over the past two years, in several bodyguard bureaus in Junzhou and Dengzhou, the bodyguards have rotated, and there are often faces coming and going, and they often go back and forth for no reason. Checking where they are going, they are all going to various bandit villages."

"The serious pedestrians dare not go there, and the bodyguard bureau has not picked up the bodyguards. What are they going to do in the bandit village?"

"Li Xun, don't you dare to collude with bandits?!"

"My uncle died at the hands of bandits, and you actually had close contacts with them. If my aunt finds out about this, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)