Chapter 282 Yangzhou spy
After Xie Hao's first seventh, Xie Liang looked for Xie Ying. After meeting, he didn't say a word and knelt down at Xie Ying with a thud, slapped himself and shouted, "I'm not a human, I'm not a human..."
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Xie Liang used a lot of force, and there was a clear slap mark on his cheek soon. Xie Ying quickly grabbed his hand.[]
"Yingying, brother is useless. He can't protect the Xie family, he can't protect his mother, and he can't protect you!" Xie Liang raised his head and looked at Xie Ying with red eyes. "In order to protect the Xie family and to avenge him in the future, brother really has no choice."
"Brother, what happened?" After saying that, Xie Liang actually hugged his head and cried as if no one was around. Xie Ying didn't know what was going on, so she was so anxious that she stomped her feet.
"Yingying, the man named Huang came a few days ago and said he had liked you and wanted you to sell him as a maid." After a long time, Xie Liang stopped crying and looked at Xie Ying with guilt, "He is willing to exchange our house and five hundred taels of silver."
"What?" Xie Ying was shocked when she heard this and stood there in shock.
"Yingying, for the sake of the Xie family, for the sake of mother and grandma, brother, please." Xie Liang bent down, touched the ground with his head, gave Xie Ying a big gift, and shouted with grief.
"Brother, get up, I'll be a maid for the man named Huang." Looking at Xie Liang kneeling on the ground, Xie Ying, who came to her senses, burst into tears. She knew that Xie Liang was also forced to helpless, so she cried and agreed.
Thinking of the Xie family, thinking of her mother and grandma, Xie Ying slowly withdrew her steps, turned around slowly, bit her lips tightly, and looked at Tan Zong with moist eyes, her eyes full of reluctance and anger.
"That's right." Tan Zong smiled slightly, walked forward, reached out and hooked Xie Ying's chin, "Maid should look like a maid. Be obedient in the future, and don't make me angry anymore."
When Xie Ying heard this, she smiled sadly, and two lines of clear tears flowed down. She looked up at Tan Zong, gritted her teeth, and stretched out her hand to untie the skirt.
"What are you doing?" Tan Zong was stunned when he saw this, and couldn't help but let go of Xie Ying, looking at her wearing loose clothes and untied her belt in surprise.
"Isn't this what you want?" Xie Ying took off her skirt, revealing her close-fitting red bellyband and underwear. She stood there crying and looked at Tan Zong, her face full of humiliation, and said as she reached out to untie the belt of her bellyband.
Looking at Xie Ying who was crying and raining, Tan Zong felt bad. He was not a person who liked to bully women, but in order to press Xie Liang's nail in the grain merchants' chamber of commerce, he had to let Xie Ying suffer some grievances, so that outsiders can be sure that there is a grudge between him and Xie Liang to kill his father and sister, and Xie Liang can easily enter the circle of some hidden forces and provide him with intelligence.
"Tell you, I have never liked women to pay back." Tan Zong stretched out his hand, grabbed Xie Ying's wrist, snorted coldly, and walked out of the room.
With a wow, Xie Ying, who was extremely humiliated, could no longer control her emotions. She squatted on the ground with her face and burst into tears.
When Tan Zong heard Xie Ying's crying, he shook his head slightly. War was originally a man's business, but it often involved women.
Since then, Xie Ying's face has lost her smile and she has a cold face all day long. Although her identity in the Huang Mansion is a maid, everyone in the Huang Mansion knows that she is Tan Zong's woman. Who dares to treat her as a maid? Even Tao Ying and Shi Shi were courteous to her, but the position was very strange.
Soon, the people in Yangzhou City learned about Xie Ying's entry into the Huang Mansion. They were very surprised by this. After all, Xie Hao's death was related to Tan Zong. Now Xie Hao's body was not cold and Xie Ying threw herself into Tan Zong's arms. This was simply unfaithful and unfilial.
At the same time, Xie Liang began to visit the grain merchants who had followed Xie Hao frequently, and a group of followers gradually gathered around him.
One night two days later, Huangfu, study room.
"Brother, that batch of goods was not Pang Junjing's hands. Pang Jun returned to his hometown in Shandong during that time, and was responsible for his deputy Xiao Zhengshan." Tao Yong pushed the door and walked in, saying to Tan Zong, who was lying on the table and looking at the topographic map of Suzhou Prefecture.
"Xiao Zhengshan?" Tan Zong straightened up, his expression slightly surprised.
"Xiao Zhengshan is an old man from the Cao Gang. Today is 51, he is honest and upright, and has a good relationship with his brothers on the dock." Tao Yong immediately introduced some of Xiao Zhengshan's situation to Tan Zong. "I heard that his daughter will marry a fragrant master from the Sichuan Renyitang of the Cao Gang Shuchuan. He is planning to send his daughter to Shuchuan to get married the day after tomorrow."
"Shuchuan! Renyitang!" Tan Zong couldn't help but frown when he heard this. He had an intuition that Xiao Zhengshan was definitely having problems. When he went to Shuchuan at this time, it seemed that he was avoiding the limelight.
Several halls of the Cao Gang are covered with the Yangtze River and canal basins. Among them, Renyi Hall is in Shuchuan, which is later Sichuan, and is thousands of miles away from Yangzhou. If Xiao Zhengshan leaves like this, it will be troublesome if he wants to find it again.
"Do you know where he lives? Who are there in the family?" Tan Zong frowned and thought for a moment, then looked up at Tao Yong.
"I've inquired. Xiao Zhengshan has two sons and one daughter, both living in Yangzhou City." Tao Yong nodded. He had already figured out the population and delicate address of Xiao Zhengshan's family.
"Don't worry about anything these days, just accompany Hou Fu to drink and have fun." After understanding the situation of the Xiao family, Tan Zong got up and paced back and forth in the room for a few times, and then instructed Tao Yong in a deep voice. At this moment, he had already made up an idea in his heart.
"Yes, brother." Tao Yong responded, arched his hand at Tan Zong, and retreated.
"Xiao Zhengshan!" Tan Zong walked to the table, looked at the Suzhou Prefecture map on the table, and punched it on the table. Perhaps, Xiao Zhengshan was the key to unlocking the current dilemma.
The next morning, Tan Zong took Shi Shi to the street to buy things, and bought a lot of silk, satin, gold and silver jewelry. Zheng Hu and several big men were carrying large bags of things in their hands.
Afterwards, Tan Zong and his group came to a shop called "Qin Ji Tailor Shop". Qin Ji Tailor Shop is a time-honored brand in Yangzhou City, with excellent handmade skills and is very popular among the high-ranking officials and nobles in Yangzhou.
"My man, I'm here to have a distinguished guest, let your boss come out." Zheng Hu shouted with his throat as soon as he entered the door.
"Young master, madam, please come in." A clever guy hurried over, bent, and made a gesture of invitation to Tan Zong and Shi Shi.
Upon hearing this, his face turned red and he looked at Tan Zong quietly.
Tan Zong laughed and walked in disbelief. The guys in the room quickly served tea and water to serve him.
"I am Qin Shiguan, the shopkeeper of this small shop. I wonder what this young master is called?" After a while, a thin middle-aged man in his forties and fifties came over and bowed to Tan Zong who was drinking tea.
"Huang Han." Tan Zong smiled slightly and bowed his hand to Qin Shiguan.
"It turns out that it is Mr. Huang, who has long been revered to be famous, and has long been revered to be famous." Qin Shiguan's face showed a look of surprise when he heard this. He couldn't help but look at Tan Zong a few times and arched his hands repeatedly.
The name Huang Han is very famous in Yangzhou City now. No one knows what this wealthy young master is. However, he first made a shocking gambling with Xie Laohei in Ruyi Gambling, and then beat Zhou Yi, the young master of the Zhou family, but the Zhou family swallowed their anger and didn't even dare to let go.
These two points alone are enough to prove his strong background. Unexpectedly, he came here to make clothes. After meeting the real person, Qin Shiguan discovered that Tan Zong was much younger than the legendary one, and looked gentle and elegant, not like the one who beat Zhou Yi into a pig's head.
Because Tan Zong is noble, Qin Shiguan personally measured Tan Zong and Shi Shi's clothes. Shi Shi's advanced measuring room. After she came out, Tan Zong strode in, and Zheng Hu led the people to guard the door.
"Boss Qin, have you ever made a red long gown with trousers three feet three inches three inches three?" In the measuring room, Qin Shiguan and his apprentice were in the measurement room. When Qin Shiguan was measuring the size, Tan Zong suddenly said.
"I have been an apprentice in the tailor shop since I was seven years old. Now I have been more than forty years. I have made thousands of clothes. I should have made the long gowns that the young master said." Qin Shiguang's hand holding the ruler trembled slightly, and soon returned to normal, and said calmly.
"Since that's the case, was there a monk's robe with a sleeve of three feet, three inches and three inches long made by Boss Qin?" Tan Zong smiled slightly when he heard this, turned his head and looked at Qin Shiguan.
"Young Master remembered it wrong. I have made a Taoist robe with a sleeve of three feet, three inches and three inches." Qin Shiguang stopped the movement in his hand and replied with a smile.
"Oh, it seems that I remembered it wrong." Tan Zong reached out and patted his forehead, as if he had remembered something, and looked at Qin Shiguan with a smile, "By the way, Boss Qin's master is Fang, right?"
"Young Master, my old master's surname is Yuan." Qin Shiguan corrected Tan Zong with a smile, and then whispered to the apprentice beside him, "Go, soak the Longjing of West Lake that I have treasured for many years. Mr. Huang is a distinguished guest, so how can you neglect it?"
When the apprentice heard this, he immediately walked out, leaving only Tan Zong and Qin Shiguan in the room.
"Niu Aqi, the head of the Yangzhou Prefecture of the Supervision Bureau, obeyed the order." When Qin Shiguan's apprentice went out, Tan Zong looked calm, took out half a copper coin from his arms, and handed it to Qin Shiguan with a serious expression.
Qin Shiguan seemed very excited and took out half a copper coin from his pocket. The two were combined into the middle and formed a whole one.
"Niu Ada obeys the order." Then, Qin Shiguan carefully put two copper coins into his pocket, arched at Tan Zong with both hands, and said in a deep voice.
The real name of Qin Shiguan is Niu Ada. He is a spy from the Supervision Bureau and is directly under the emperor. No one knows their existence except the emperor and the royal family who are responsible for doing their work for the emperor.
Since the age of seven, Niu Ada lurked in Yangzhou City as a wandering orphan. He was adopted by the owner of Qinji tailor shop and changed his name to Qin Shiguan. He not only taught tailoring skills, but also recruited a son-in-law.
For more than forty years, Niu Ada has been lurking in Yangzhou City, in a "sleeping". Today is the first time he has been "awakened". Before that, he thought he would never be able to perform tasks in his entire life.
Before Tan Zong came to Yangzhou this time, Zhao Yunan specifically told Niu Ada who was lurking in Yangzhou City that he could ask Niu Ada for help at the critical moment.
"There is a man named Xiao Zhengshan at the Fisherman's Wharf. He will send his daughter to Shuchuan to get married tomorrow. You must bring him tonight." Tan Zong ordered Niu Ada word by word, with a serious expression.
As he said that, Tan Zong leaned into Niu Ada's ear and whispered something to him. Niu Adalian nodded.
"Don't worry, Mr. Huang, Niu Ada will definitely fulfill his mission." After Tan Zong finished speaking, Niu Ada bowed to Tan Zong and said.
"Then please." Tan Zong smiled slightly and bowed to Niu Adayi solemnly.
In the evening, Tan Zong was still having fun with Wang Fatty and others in Yihonglou. It was only in the early morning that he was drunk and was helped out by two maids. He seemed to have drunk too much and his legs were a little weak.
Fatty Wang and others drank almost the same drink, and staggeredly sent Tan Zong to the carriage, and instructed Zheng Hu to send Tan Zong home safely.
After passing a street intersection, Tan Zong, who was snoring in the carriage, suddenly opened his eyes and his face was completely drunk. He shook his head hard, lifted the curtain and looked out.
It was late at night and the streets were deserted and there was no one.
When he drove to a dark corner, Tan Zong lifted the curtain, jumped down, and disappeared in the darkness. At the same time, a young man wearing the same clothes came into the carriage.
A few dozen minutes later, Tan Zong, who had changed into black clothes, was taken to a wooden house by a carriage. Six or seven big men in black night clothes were covered with their faces and patrolling around the wooden house with their knives.
The carriage stopped in front of the wooden house. Before getting off, Tan Zong put on a black head hood, covering his face, leaving only his nose and mouth outside, and his whole body was wrapped tightly.
The man guarding the door saw that Tan Zong was coming, and stretched out his hand and opened the door. Tan Zong led the two men into briskly.
The room was dimly lit, and a candle was lit. A dry old man with his hands and feet tied up was lying on a wooden bed.
Tan Zong sat on a chair in the shadow, waved his hand at a big man standing in front of him. The big man then walked forward, opened a small porcelain bottle in his hand and shook it in front of the old man's nose a few times, then stepped away.
The little old man's nose twitched a few times, sneezed, and opened his eyes in a daze.
"Who are you?" When he saw the two big men in black standing in front of the window, the old man blinked a few times, sat up, and asked in surprise.
"You don't need to know who we are, you just need to tell me who you are." Tan Zong in the dark said in a hoarse voice when he saw the old man awaken.
Chapter completed!