Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 551

At this time, a clerk saw Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang's war horses, his eyes lit up, and he hurried out of the store to greet him, "Guest officer, are you two staying in the store or playing the top?"

Wang Mang threw the reins to the man and said, "Look for someone."

The store clerk hurriedly grabbed the horses of Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang.

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at each other, and they followed Zhang Gu and the coachman into the store quickly.

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang walked into the store and looked around.

I saw that the outer hall was the place where the game was played, and people of all colors gathered around the table, guessing fists and making orders, pushing cups and changing cups, it was very noisy.

Zhang Gu and the coachman walked through the outer hall to the second courtyard, Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at each other, and they followed closely behind.

There are more than a dozen guest rooms in the second entrance courtyard. Unlike the outside, this place is very quiet.

Zhang Gu and the coachman walked quickly to the upper room in the middle.

Wang Mang looked around, pointed to Zhang Gu and the coachman, and Li Yuanfang nodded knowingly.

The two of them tapped the ground with their toes, jumped up and jumped to a big tree in the courtyard, and flew up to the roof under the cover of the tree's shadow.

Zhang Gu and the coachman were talking while walking, and after a while, they walked into the upper room.

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang leaned on the roof of the upper house, gently removed two pieces of roof tiles, and looked into the room.

A lantern was lit in the room, and a middle-aged man in casual clothes paced back and forth in the room.

Hearing Zhang Gu and the driver come in, the people in the room turned around.

This middle-aged man is none other than Lu Jiying, the magistrate of Shanyang County.

He took a step forward and asked anxiously: "How is the matter going, where's your wife?"

Zhang Gu said with a bitter face: "It's my wife, the two younger ones almost lost their lives."

Lu Jiying was taken aback: "What did you say?"

Zhang Gu said: "Hey! This woman is really powerful. She saw through your plan, lured us to the side of the official road, stoned me unconscious, and ran away."

Lu Jiying stomped her feet fiercely and said, "Run away? Where did you go?"

Zhang Gu said: "I don't know the little one, I should go down the official road."

Lu Jiying scolded: "You two trash, you can't even do such a small thing well, what use are you for!"

Zhang Gu said aggrievedly: "Stop scolding, just look at our heads..."

With that said, the two turned around.

Lu Jiying saw that there was a big gash in the back of the head of the two, and the blood had coagulated.

"Go down, go down, and wash the wound quickly."

Lu Jiying waved his hands unhappily at the two.

The two agreed to turn and leave.

Lu Jiying said angrily again, "Be careful, you two, don't let the water get into your head. Your brain is not strong enough, and it will be even worse if it gets in the water! Don't hurry up!"

The two of them clutched their wounds and ran out the door.

Lu Jiying sighed and sat down on the chair slowly.

On the roof, Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at each other, they nodded slightly, they gently covered the two roof tiles, and looked down with their probes, but there was no one in the courtyard.

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang flew up and landed on the ground.

Wang Mang said, "Brother Yuanfang, it seems that the Ning family is not here."

Li Yuanfang nodded, and suddenly said: "I don't know who these three people are? Why do you want to trick Ning away?"

Wang Mang took a deep breath: "This middle-aged man is not simple!"

"Oh?"

Li Yuanfang raised his eyebrows: "Tell me!"

Wang Mang said: "It seems that they don't look like people pretending to be officials, but they really look like people from officials."

Li Yuanfang frowned: "People from the government?"

Wang Mang nodded: "Yes, but judging from their appearance, they don't look like high-ranking officials. Judging from the appearance of Zhang Gu, they seem to be officials at the county level."

Li Yuanfang said, "Could it be an official near here?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "Absolutely not. Judging by their appearance, they are a bit secretive. If they are officials here, they will definitely not be like this."

Li Yuanfang nodded: "Jing Yang, what you said, it is true that the court clearly stipulates that officials are not allowed to leave the administration without reason, and it looks like they really left secretly."

Wang Mang said: "Brother Yuanfang, I think so, you go after the Ning family, and I will follow these three people."

Li Yuanfang nodded: "That's it!"

While the two were talking, they walked quickly to the outer hall.

After the two of them walked to the outer hall, the clerk of the outer hall store came forward and said: "Guest officer, have you found the person you are looking for?"

Wang Mang shook his head: "I didn't find it."

The store clerk said: "It's getting late, why don't you two stay in the store."

Li Yuanfang shook his head and said, "I'm in a hurry, so I can't stay here."

"Then at least you stay here and get something to eat."

The shop assistant said again.

Li Yuanfang said: "I won't eat. I'm leaving."

Wang Mang looked at the shop assistant's disappointed expression with amused expression, and said, "Xiao Er, he wants to leave, but if I don't leave, open me a room."

The store clerk's expression immediately changed from cloudy to sunny, and he said with a smile, "Okay!"

Wang Mang looked at Li Yuanfang: "Be careful all the way!"

Li Yuanfang nodded: "Don't worry!"

Said, walked quickly to the door.

The store clerk looked at Li Yuanfang's back and said, "Then go slowly."

Li Yuanfang nodded, and the moment he was about to walk to the door, a burst of jasmine fragrance wafted from nowhere.

Li Yuanfang stopped immediately, sniffled, and murmured: "The scent of jasmine..."

Wang Mang saw that Li Yuanfang stopped suddenly, and stepped forward a few steps: "Brother Yuanfang, what's wrong?"

Li Yuanfang didn't speak, he turned around and scanned the outer hall like an eagle.

The dozen or so tables in the hall were almost full of people.

Li Yuanfang searched carefully, and there were at least five or six people sitting around each table.

Li Yuanfang sniffed again, but the scent was gone.

Wang Mang looked at Li Yuanfang sniffling, and asked suspiciously, "Brother Yuanfang, what's the matter?"

Li Yuanfang said: "I seem to smell the smell of jasmine just now."

"Jasmine!"

"Jasmine Spice!"

Wang Mang reacted immediately, and he also looked around at the diners.

He looked around suspiciously, pondered for a moment, and said, "Brother Yuanfang, could it be that you smelled it wrong?"

Li Yuanfang shook his head, he took out the silver box from his pocket, put it on his nose and smelled it, and sure enough, a fragrance wafted out.

Li Yuanfang smiled wryly: "It may be the spice box I carry!"

Wang Mang shook his head helplessly: "Okay, brother Yuanfang, go quickly, it will be too late."

Li Yuanfang nodded, and he turned around again and walked towards the store door.

Suddenly, a lonely figure from the corner of the wall crossed his line of sight, Li Yuanfang stopped again and turned around.

Wang Mang kept paying attention to Li Yuanfang's movements, and his eyes were also attracted by the person sitting in the corner.

Looking around, I saw a man in a Hu suit sitting with his back to the store door. There were five or six people or even a dozen people at the other tables, and he was the only one alone.

(End of this chapter)