Xu Zong did not notice that Zhao Yan, who was in the crowd in the casino, went downstairs with the bald man and left the casino.

The bald man is Gou San, the gangster boss in Kunshan County. Because his real name is Gu, people call him Gu Master in person, and only call him Gou San behind his back.

"Master Gu." When Gou San came back from the door, Zhao Yan led Tan Zong to meet him.

"Young Master Zhao, you are a rare guest." Gou San was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised. He smiled and said, Zhao Yan is not a gambling person and has never been to the casino. Since Zhao Yan is here, there must be something to look for him.

After a few greetings, Gou San invited Zhao Yan and Tan Zong to the room upstairs, and two beautiful maids served tea.

"Young Master Zhao, I wonder what to look for Mr. Gu?" After the maid stepped down, Gou San looked at Zhao Yan with a smile.

"Master Gu, I want to know Xu Wu's whereabouts these days, where he went, who he met, and anything related to my Zhao family these days." Zhao Yan took a fifty taels of silver notes from his body, put them on the table, looked up at Gou San, and said in a deep voice.

"I'll send someone to investigate now. When there is any news, I will notify Mr. Zhao Er immediately." Gou San heard this, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes. He glanced at Yinbao and answered quietly.

Tan Zong keenly noticed the subtle changes in Gou San's eyes and smiled secretly in his heart. He concluded that Xu Zong must have come to Gou San to find Gou San for the purpose of Xu Wu, whose whereabouts are unknown.

For the Xu family, Xu Wu suddenly disappeared, which was nothing more than two reasons. One was that Xu Wu hid, and the other was that Xu Wu was arrested. They must have searched everywhere, but there were no clues, so they came to ask for help from Gou San.

Now Zhao Yan is also here for Xu Wu. Thinking of the incident at Yunji Restaurant and the fire at the Zhao family's medicinal materials shop, Gou San must have had a premonition that something happened between the Xu family and the Zhao family.

"Mr. Xie Gu." Zhao Yan heard this and bowed to Gou San.

Zhao Yan and Gou San chatted for a while before getting up and saying goodbye. During this period, Tan Zong did not say a word, and Zhao Yan did not mean to introduce him to Gou San to know him.

Despite this, Gou San still guessed Tan Zong's identity and knew that the serious young man in front of him was the young master Shen who taught Xu Wu a lesson at Yunji Restaurant.

After seeing off Zhao Yan and Tan Zong, Gou San paced back and forth in the room, frowned tightly. Tan Zong guessed that Xu Zong came for Xu Wu. The Xu family searched all over the entire county town but did not find Xu Wu. The last time Xu Wu appeared in everyone's sight was the afternoon before yesterday, he went to the county town to hang out with a coquettish little widow, and then no one saw him again.

The Xu family once looked for the little widow. The little widow insisted that Xu Wu left after dinner. As for where Xu Wu went, she didn't know.

"Can't this boy Xu Wu run away?" After a long time, Gou San stopped and muttered to himself, "It was the Xu family who deliberately tried to do so.

The Zhao family had a villa in the county town. After leaving the casino, Zhao Yan led Tan Zong to the villa and prepared to rest in the villa.

"Second Young Master, Mr. Cousin, and the kidnappers have heard news that we should prepare 8,000 taels of silver bills within three days, otherwise they would tear the bills." As soon as Tan Zong and Zhao Yan entered the yard, they hurried out of the hall and whispered to the two of them.

Just this afternoon, an old farmer came to Zhao's house in panic and handed a letter and a small cloth bag to Li.

The old farmer was working in the fields in the afternoon when two masked men suddenly appeared and gave him half a tael of silver, asking him to give these two things to the Zhao family.

There was an earring in the small cloth bag. Li recognized that it was Zhao Rong at a glance. In the letter, the kidnapper first praised Qiao Yu and Zhao Rong's beauty, and his words were full of threats. Then he made a request to ask the Zhao family to prepare 8,000 taels of silver notes in three days. They would come to Zhao's house to get it. Otherwise, they would wait to collect the corpse for Qiao Yu and Zhao Rong.

"Eight thousand taels!" Zhao Yan was annoyed as soon as he heard this. This was simply a difficult task. The Zhao family did not care about their great business. If they wanted to pay out eight thousand taels of silver, they had to sell some industries, but in a hurry, how could those industries be sold?

"I went south this time and brought three thousand taels of silver notes." Seeing that Zhao Yan was a little disobedient, Tan Zong pulled him into the living room and said in a deep voice.

"Cousin, how do you explain to your family?" Zhao Yan looked at Tan Zong with a complicated expression when he heard this.

Tan Zong told the Zhao family that he went to Suzhou and Hangzhou this time not only for a trip, but also to buy industries in these two places and make the family's business to Jiangnan.

"It's important to save people, I don't care about anything else." Tan Zong frowned slightly, "I'm afraid that they won't let anyone go after they collect the money."

"Those bastards, if I catch them, I will cut them alive." Zhao Yan couldn't help but worry when he heard this, and punched the table next to him and said gritting his teeth.

"We can't sit and wait for death." Tan Zong walked to Zhao Yan and whispered, "There are officials in the county's borders to investigate. The kidnappers could not take Yu'er and Rongrong out of the county. If they wanted to take Yu'er and Rongrong on the country road, they would definitely be discovered by the villagers. The safest way for them is to hide Yu'er and Rongrong, but it is not easy to hide the two living people without knowing each other."

"Cousin, I will listen to you no matter what you say." Zhao Yan felt that Tan Zong was right and looked at him solemnly.

"There are only two places where Rongrong and Yuer can be hidden in Kunshan County, one is Hexi Town and the other is the county town." Tan Zong pondered for a moment and said, "Since the Song family did such a thing, they would definitely not hide people in Hexi Town to draw a clear line with the kidnappers. Then, in this way, they would definitely hide people in the county town."

"County?" Zhao Yan's face showed a suspicious look, "But, how did they hide it from others and transport Rongrong and Yuer in?"

"The cart for transporting goods." Tan Zong paced back and forth a few times in the room, looking at Zhao Yan firmly, "If Rongrong and Yu'er were hidden in the cart for transporting goods, then people could be easily transported in."

"Yes, why didn't I expect this?" Zhao Yan's eyes lit up, and he smashed his left hand hard with his right fist, looked up at Tan Zong, and said in a deep voice, "I'll send someone to inquire and see which trucks were entering and leaving the county town yesterday."

As Tan Zong said, if it is in the name of transporting goods, no one will suspect that the goods on the car will have other things.

"You must be careful, never alert the snake." Tan Zong nodded and gave a deep instructor.

"Don't worry, cousin, I know how to do it, and I will never reveal any flaws." Zhao Yan responded, walked out of the living room quickly, and arranged for someone to inquire about the news.

Looking at Zhao Yan's back in the yard, a smile appeared on the corner of Tan Zong's mouth. Everything was going on according to his plan. The reason he chose to create a kidnapping case yesterday was because Maji Salt Shop would transport goods to the townships below yesterday and return to the city before night. In this way, it would be suspected and he could also use the Zhao family as a cover to investigate him.

At midnight, just as Tan Zong was drinking tea in the living room, Zhao Yanfeng walked in quickly and placed a piece of paper in front of him.

"Cousin, this is the list of all the trucks entering and leaving the city yesterday." Zhao Yan said, picking up a cup of herbal tea on the table and drinking it gulp.

Tan Zong looked at it and found that there were more than a dozen stores listed on the paper, including Xuji Silk and Maji Pharmacy Store, and the others were either shops or wealthy families in the county, transporting their own goods.

"Investigate one by one." Tan Zong frowned and thought for a while, looked up at Zhao Yan, and said with a serious expression, "Everyone above is suspected before finding the exact evidence."

"Okay!" Zhao Yan put down the teacup, wiped the corner of his mouth, and nodded heavily.

Three days later, after a busy and secret investigation, Tan Zong and Zhao Yan excluded the majority of the dozen names on the paper, leaving only Xuji Silk and Satin Village, Maji Salt Shop, and Hotan Ji Grain Store.

These three shops were deliberately left by Tan Zong, among which Xu Ji Silk and Satin Village was his goal to stabilize Zhao Yan, while Ma Ji Salt Shop Hotan Ji Grain Store was his goal.

The reason why Tan Zong became interested in Tianji Grain Store was because when he was investigating Tianji Grain Store, he accidentally noticed something, that is, Tianji Grain Store is very close to Maji Salt Store, and there is a grocery store in the middle.

Since Tan Zong's attention was initially focused on the Maji Salt Shop, and then ignored the Tianji Grain Store. When the Tianji Grain Store and the Maji Salt Shop's name appeared in front of him, a strange idea suddenly emerged in his mind, that is, is it possible that the batch of grain transported into the Maji Salt Shop could be transported away by the Tianji Grain Store?

What Tan Zong is most puzzled now is how the grain transported into the Maji Salt Shop is transported out, because the Maji Salt Shop usually transports only two or three trucks of salt to the towns below, and is not large in scale.

The grain store is different. The grain he transported out can be more than a dozen or twenty trucks, and it is entirely possible that the batch of grain will be transported out.

If the Tianji Grain Store transported that batch of grain, then it could solve the problem of transporting that batch of grain. However, another problem was placed in front of Tan Zong. There was a grocery store between the salt shop and the grain shop. How did they transport the grain from the salt shop to the grain shop without any idea?

Unfortunately, despite Zhao Yan's help, Tan Zong still could not solve this problem. He had explored the environment there on the spot. The salt shop and grain shop were surrounded by residential areas. If they wanted to secretly transport grain at night, they would definitely be discovered. Could it be that the batch of grain had grown wings and flew?

After repeated thinking, Tan Zong decided to take the opportunity of Qiao Yu and Zhao Rong being "kidnapped" as an opportunity to find a way to enter the warehouse of the Maji Salt Shop Hotan Ji Grain Store to check it out on site, so that there may be any discoveries.

During this period, Zhao Yan went to the casino and Gou San told him that since the Yunji Restaurant, Xu Wu had only appeared at a young widow's house, and then he didn't know where he went. He had never seen anyone in the past few days.

"Cousin, this kid must be guilty and hides." After returning to the other yard, Zhao Yan smashed the table hard and said hatefully.

"You can run away, the monk can't run away!" Tan Zong said coldly when he heard this, "As long as it can be proved that it was him, then we will go directly to the Xu family to ask for people!"

On the night of the third day, while Tan Zong and Zhao Yan were waiting anxiously, news came from the Zhao family. As Tan Zong thought, the kidnappers repented:

The kidnappers kidnapped the wife and children of a middle-aged villager in a village outside Hedong Town, and asked him to ride a horse to take away his pockets containing 8,000 taels of silver notes.

The middle-aged villager told Zhao Baifa who had already returned home that the kidnappers said that after they checked the silver notes and confirmed the number was correct, Qiao Yu and Zhao Rong would naturally be released.

Zhao Baifa was unable to do so, so he had to give the 8,000 taels of silver bill that he had finally collected to the middle-aged villagers, and then sent someone to secretly follow the middle-aged villagers.

Who would have thought that the people sent were attacked by the kidnappers on the way, and they were tied up and threw them into the grass on the side of the road.

The villager then returned to the Zhao family and brought a letter from the kidnappers. In the letter, they first thanked the Zhao family for taking out the ransom as much as possible, and then said that in order to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, they were planning to keep Qiao Yu and Zhao Rong for a few more days, so that the Zhao family would not worry, and they would definitely "take care of" the two of them.

After reading the letter, Zhao Baifa couldn't help but get furious and tore the ambiguous letter to pieces on the spot, and then asked his family to report to the official with a pale face. At this moment, there was no way except to report to the official.

When Li learned that the kidnappers had remorseed, he fainted when he saw that the darkness was made in front of him. The maids on the side hurriedly stepped forward to support him, beat their chests and pinched the people, and became a mess.

"It's too much!" After learning what happened, Zhao Yan slapped the table hard, stood up, and said angrily, "If they dare to touch their cousin's wife and Rongrong, I will tear them into pieces."

"Now is not the time to get angry." Tan Zong looked at Zhao Yan expressionlessly, his eyes flashing with a cold light, "Who is in the Xu family now in the county?"

"Xu Laosi has been at Xuji Silk and Satin Village these days." Zhao Yan was slightly stunned, then understood and walked out, "I'll capture him now. If there is anything wrong with Rongrong, I'll ask for his head."

"Young Master, do we want to help?" When Zhao Yan angrily led a group of people to find Xu Zonghou, Shen San and Shen Si who were guarding outside the door walked in, and Shen San asked in a deep voice.

"Since the Zhao family has reported to the official, Xu Zong should have known what happened in the Zhao family and will definitely be prepared." Tan Zong took a sip of tea and smiled slightly, "Zhao Yan will definitely suffer a great loss this time. You two are hiding in the dark. If he is in danger, he will rescue him."

"Yes!" Shen San and Shen Si bowed to Tan Zong and walked out quickly.
Chapter completed!