Poor children

Chapter 54
一
It was bright in the morning, and a person came up from the mountain. It was none other than Jin Shun'er, the boy who was serving Fang Shaoqin closely.

In the past few days, everyone who went up the mountain was running like flying, and they worked hard to climb up the mountain. It seemed that he also had a life-threatening emergency. Jin Shun'er hurried to the temple before he could get in and call. Fang Shaoqin had breakfast in the quiet room in the backyard, and then hurried to the backyard. When no one else was in a hurry, he opened the door and entered the house.

"Master, it's not good. Second Miss, please go to the Fourth Prince's Mansion immediately. In the middle of the night yesterday, someone nailed a letter to the door of the Prince's Mansion with a dart, saying that it was in their hands by the two young nephews." He hadn't finished speaking yet. Jin Shun'er looked up and found Cheng He sitting with him having breakfast. "Oh, I see. It turns out that the two young masters are in your hands. Did you tie them up?"

"It's not what you think," Fang Shaoqin was about to explain.
"Master, this time I have to persuade you a few words. Our master is a bit picky, and you usually have a lot of money to spend, but even if you are short of money, you can't kidnap your ticket. You even tied your own nephew. , if this spreads, your famous student" Jin Shun'er said this, then thought about it and said, "It's not easy for you, I know it, just this time, I will help you, where do you tell them to put it?" I'll help you get the ransom, but I can't do this kind of thing again in the future, but I don't know how much each of the two nephews and young masters divided?"

"Damn it, what are you talking nonsense about?" Fang Shaoqin was a little embarrassed by what he said.

Chenghe stirred the porridge in his bowl, "I only found out today that my uncle had such thoughts about our brothers. It's really hard to guard against family thieves day and night. Could it be that those strong men were really hired by my uncle?"

"I didn't, I didn't! Just listen to his nonsense. Even if I am short of money, I can't kidnap you."

"Then who are you going to kidnap? Poor boy or Noble? I don't have the money to pay for it," Tie Daner said.

"What's wrong with you two? Why do I have to tie up my own family?"

"If you don't kidnap your own family, then who are you going to kidnap from other people's families?" Cheng He asked.
Fang Shaoqin was so angry that he walked around on the ground, "Who can I tie up? I won't tie up anyone."

two

"You said you received a letter last night. What was written in the letter?" Fang Shaoqin asked Jin Shuner
"You didn't write the letter, why are you asking me?"

"Don't talk nonsense. I didn't kidnap the person. He escaped. Your Master Zhe is still in the hands of the kidnapper." Fang Shaoqin arrived.

Jin Shuner took out a piece of paper from his arms and said, "This is the copy copied by the second lady. The copy sent by the kidnapper is in the hands of the fourth prince."

Fang Shaoqin took it over and saw that it read, "We have your two young masters in our hands. If you want them to survive, don't report it to the official, don't try to find it yourself. If we see you doing anything unusual, you The two young masters of the family will undoubtedly die. You are required to put [-] yuan of silver under the bridge over the Lalin River in the east of the city before sunset tomorrow afternoon. After we get the money, we will ask the two young masters to go home safely." Fang Shaoqin looked at it and then The letter was handed over to Tiedan'er, and soon all three of them had read it.

"What do you think?" Tiedan'er asked
"I have already escaped, why are they included in them? They must know that I have not returned home, or my family has never seen me, so they included me in them. I think they still don't want to let me go." "Pass me" Chenghe arrived
Fang Shaoqin nodded, "The letter said that if they see any unusual behavior, it's obvious that someone must be monitoring your home now, or there may even be an insider."

"I saw with my own eyes that they kidnapped the poor boy, but there was no mention of it in the letter. I felt that these kidnappers seemed to know something about my family, and knew that the poor boy had nothing to do with my family, or that he might. Could it be that something happened to the poor boy?" Chenghe started to worry.
"Stop talking!" Tiedan'er didn't want to hear it, and she didn't want to think about the worst. "It seems that someone must be targeting the palace now. We can't report it to the official, and we can't send people out to search for it, but a few of us can go there." Look, Chenghe, please take us to the place where you had the accident yesterday, maybe we can find some clues."

Both of them nodded in agreement. Fang Shaoqin said to Jin Shun'er, "Go back to my sister and tell her that I have been delayed for something and will go back later. Tell him not to worry and not to mention that he saw your nephew and me together." Don't mention anything about what we are going to do. Don't go anywhere after you return to Miss Er. Go directly home. When you get home, you won't say much to my father and your young mistress. You don't know who is hiding in the dark right now. Who is it? Be careful."

Jin Shun'er agreed to come out, went down the mountain and went back to the palace, and the three of them were also going to go down the mountain to Baihua Valley, but they were stopped by Fang Shaoqin when they were about to go out, "Chenghe can't go out like this, those kidnappers seem to treat him well." He's very familiar. I don't know how many of them there are. Maybe they are looking for him now. We have to change his appearance."

After hearing this, Tiedan'er went to his room and got a Taoist robe for him to put on. He also tied a cow's hair bun on his head, pretending to be a little Taoist priest.
three

Baihua Valley, on the hillside, under the big trees, the traces of yesterday's fight can no longer be seen at all, and it is as peaceful and beautiful as before.

Seeing that there was nothing there, the three of them got on their horses and headed for the main road, which leads directly to the north and the south. The three of them stood by the side of the road and did not take any action. They did not know whether they had taken this road, nor did they know which direction they would go. go

At this moment, the early morning sun seemed to shine on something in the grass, giving off a little light. Chenghe happened to see it. Chenghe dismounted and walked to the grass, squatted down and picked up a bead. It turned out that this bead It is one of Chengzhe's bracelets. It was polished from the white crystal that was paid tribute to the South China Sea and was given to Chengzhe by His Majesty the Emperor when he was testing the homework of all the princes during the New Year's Day. One hundred and eight pieces. White crystals are strung together. This one is unique and must be something that no one else can have.
Holding the crystal bead, Chenghe raised his head and looked left and right, only to see one glowing far away on the way to the capital. The three of them took advantage of the early morning when there were not many people on the road, and followed the glowing white crystal bead to the outside of the city along the way. At this time, the sky was bright and there were more and more people coming and going. The beads were no longer found. The three of them sat on their horses and looked at the city gate.
"Hidden in the city, these kidnappers seem to be masters. They are hiding under our noses. This is the real darkness under the light," Fang Shaoqin said.

"It's just that the capital is so big, even if we know they are in the city, I'm afraid it's only you and me who won't be able to find them for a while." To investigate the situation, I have to go to the uncle to explain it first. If the poor boy does not go to see the old man at the uncle's place for two days, he must be in a hurry. It is not suitable for Cheng He to show up in this city, so let's go to the uncle for the time being. Let’s hide it at home”

Fang Shaoqin also felt that it was time to go to his sister's place to have a look. "Okay, when I come out again, I will go to Uncle Master's divination stall to find you. I will be stared at when I come out of the house over there. I pretended to go to divination." Hexagram, let’s discuss countermeasures later.”

So the three of them urged their horses into the city, and each went to work.

(End of this chapter)