Qiu Liang led his troops to besiege a mansion in Zhuzhi Lane that had been in disrepair for a long time, and blocked it in a small courtyard by the garden, so he simply ordered people to bring artillery.The soldiers cheered secretly when they saw the artillery.Qiu Liang gave an order, and everyone withdrew to a little distance, and the artillery aimed at the courtyard and fired.Hearing the loud rumbling sound, it hurt from the ear to the back of the head.The courtyard wall turned into rubble in the blink of an eye, and the sky was full of dust.The dust gradually fell, and the smell of blood spread out.The soldiers all looked at Qiu Liang and waited for his order, holding their breath.Qiu Liang stood there blankly in a daze.After a long time, the old man closed his eyes slightly and opened them again, ordering his left and right to step forward to check.

All the five houses collapsed, and there were many corpses lying in disorder inside.Qiu Liang was getting older, his legs and feet were not as sharp as when he was young, so he went to the front to rest.After sitting for a while, he called a servant who needed to come to him: "Go, call Jia Cong." The man responded and wanted to leave, but Qiu Liang called him back.After thinking for a long time, he said, "Don't go, go back and let Shizi know." The man responded again.

After sitting for about two quarters of an hour, a soldier guarding the door said back and forth, "Mr. Jia is here."

Qiu Liang frowned: "Is he alone?"

"Yes, with four followers."

Qiu Liang said silently for a moment: "Call him in."

Suddenly Jia Cong walked in, looked around with innocent eyes, and asked Qiu Liang, "Lord Qiu, what's going on?"

Qiu Liang glanced at him: "Why are you here?"

Jia Cong said: "I'm going to the Yamen today. You're not here all the time, and you say you have other business. I thought I'd just take a rest~~ and came. Who knew that your old official business was here."

Qiu Liang stared at him and said, "Whose house is this?"

"I don't know, I just know that an inventor lives there." Jia Cong said, "I wanted to see him yesterday, but I didn't see him." Qiu Liang didn't sound right, so he hurriedly asked for details.Jia Cong then told a person who helped him line up to buy snacks that a friend could make a copper wire machine. "Actually, our craftsman has already made that. The one surnamed Mei said that his friend must have done better than ours. He said it very confidently, so I asked my wife to come and see it together. Who knows that the man took Joe and refused to see him. I."

Qiu Liang was confused: "What does the surname Mei look like?"

Jia Cong scratched his head and gestured: "He has delicate features, is seven feet tall, has a Beijing accent, and has a rather elegant demeanor." He turned around and called a guard over, "You and Mr. Qiu describe what Mr. Mei looked like yesterday, and let them Draw a picture."

Qiu Liang didn't bring a painter with him at the moment, and he didn't dare to leave, so he sent someone back to the yamen to call; he also ordered to check the shop where he bought dim sum yesterday.Jia Cong asked what happened here again.Qiu Liang said: "Last night, I received a report from an informant that secret works from other countries are hidden here."

"Ah?!" Jia Cong was taken aback, "Careful work?" Qiu Liang stared at him with a good look.Jia Cong thought for a long time, then spread his hands and said, "I'm confused."

Qiu Liang said: "Please tell me the story again, and what does the hunchbacked old servant look like?"

Jia Cong turned to look at the guard; the guard said, "I remember." Jia Cong cupped his fists towards him.

So I recounted what happened yesterday.Speaking of Mr. Mei talking with him in the small teahouse, his eyes quietly glanced at the blue bricks under the ground.What does Qiu Liang do?After listening to this section, he looked at Jia Cong and said, "That's all? You didn't say anything else?"

Jia Cong curled his lips and rubbed the back of his head: "There is something else, I don't know if I can keep talking to you. Why don't you go back and ask Ah Cen." He thought for a while, "This matter is messy... Master Qiu, call me Ah Cen can come here."

Qiu Liang frowned slightly: "That's all for now, you can continue."

"Well. Then I called my wife over."

"Since looking at the machine, tell your wife what to do."

"My daughter-in-law is also interested in these things." Jia Cong said, "She likes new technologies very much, and she has studied science and engineering in Dajiala Academy, so she is much better than me. I am also afraid of being deceived by others. .” Qiu Liang nodded.Jia Cong then went on to talk about how he came with Mr. Mei, and how the old servant opened the door.Mr. Mei went in and asked, but he refused to see Jia Cong.Jia Cong sang a little song at the door for half a day in order to stir up ideas.

Qiu Liang asked strangely: "People don't want to see you, what are you doing singing ditties?"

Jia Congli said bluntly: "I don't know how to sing~~ I just make some noises to disturb him, what if he gets bored and comes out to scold me? Can't I take advantage of the situation to coax him? I can't see myself, What's the use of having a three-inch tongue."

Qiu Liang glared at him: "Nonsense!" Jia Cong pouted.

Qiu Liang thought for a long time before he explained the process of attacking the house.Jia Cong was lazy at first, but when he heard that someone was dead, he was frightened and sat upright.After Qiu Liang finished speaking, Jia Cong's mouth grew wide and he couldn't close his mouth for a long time: "You always... pushed the cannon over here?!" Qiu Liang nodded.Jia Cong shivered, "Oh my god! It's too high-end!" After being stunned for a long time, he rubbed his temples and muttered, "This...what is it!" Nai stood up and walked around the room twice with his arms behind his back, and suddenly said, "Is there Mr. Mei among the dead thieves?"

Qiu Liang said: "The rubble has not been cleaned up yet, some corpses have already been carried out."

Jia Cong hurriedly said, "I'll take a look." Turning around, he was about to walk back when he suddenly stopped, as if frozen.After a long time, he turned around, "Lord Qiu, you just said... After the thieves were surrounded, they killed the soldiers who entered the yard, and then threw the corpses out one by one?"

Qiu Liang sighed: "Not bad."

"Then... are all the corpses Pao Ze? Are you sure they are all dead?"

Qiu Liang was stunned for a moment: "You suspect that the thief escaped from the courtyard pretending to be the corpse of our army robe Ze?"

Jia Cong said: "I don't know if I haven't been to the battlefield... It's always written like this in the commentaries."

Qiu Liang ordered to count the dead bodies of Paoze.Not long after, soldiers came to report, and there were quite a few dead bodies, but two robes were found in the yard, and their battle robes were stripped off.Qiu Liang stumbled: "They let them escape!"

Jia Cong touched his chin and said, "It may not be a good thing. It is obviously a risky move to pretend to be a dead body and escape. It means that this house has no tunnel leading to the outside." After thinking about it, "All the thieves are dead? Are there any injuries?" ?”

Qiu Liang sighed, stood up and said, "Go and have a look."

When the two walked to the back, the bombardment ruins were still being cleaned up, and the smell of blood and gun smoke was strong.Jia Cong hadn't seen so many dead people for a long time. Feeling sad, he silently bowed three times to the corpses and said regretfully, "They are all middle-aged men, so it's not good to do something. There are so many wastelands overseas that no one has opened up."

Qiu Liang was about to ask him why he bowed, but he couldn't laugh or cry when he heard the words: "The same rice supports a hundred people, and there must be a thief."

Jia Cong looked down at the corpse: "Is there any one alive?"

Qiu Liang squatted down and looked at the corpses that had been cleared up one by one, and after a while he found one that didn't die from rubble.This person died of poisoning.Qiu Liang squeezed his mouth open, there were indeed crushed fangs inside, Nai Senran said: "These people are dead men."

Jia Cong frowned unknowingly: "The dead are not something ordinary rich and noble families can afford."

Qiu Liang said seriously, "What else did Mr. Mei say to you?"

Jia Cong hesitated for a moment: "You old...do you know about the baby girl in Shizi's residence turning into a boy?" Qiu Liang nodded.Jia Cong said in a low voice, "Mr. Mei said that his friend admired Meiren Fan, and he did that for Meiren Fan." Qiu Liang was stunned.Jia Cong explained, "That's why... I called my wife over here. Men may not be able to talk to women about love."

Qiu Liang thought for a while, poked his finger, and cursed: "Stupid! They obviously played a trick on you to coax you to come here!"

Jia Cong shrunk his neck and said, "I went back last night... I also thought of this possibility... After thinking about it, I didn't come in anyway, what are they trying to do to me?"

Qiu Liang snorted and said, "It's obvious that the surname Mei wants to coax you to meet someone. Since the person refuses to meet, you must know him." Then he thought again, the Shizi's mansion received the letter from the dagger, it was Pinching Jia Cong to see this person's attempt.Could it be that the surname Mei wanted Jia Cong to see someone in the house, the people in the house didn't want to see him, and there were other people who wanted to prevent Jia Cong from seeing him?Nai asked Jia Cong, "Do you recognize any of these corpses?"

Jia Cong looked at them one by one. There was neither Mr. Mei, nor the hunchbacked old servant, nor the bald and thin old man.Those who died were all young and strong.He couldn't help feeling regretful: "What a good young man..." Qiu Liang couldn't help but glared at him.After reading all the corpses, Jia Cong shook his head, "I don't even recognize them."

Qiu Liang said: "These are all minions, the man who wants you to meet is probably a leader." He checked again himself, and the clothes were all the same.Nai ordered them all to be moved back to the Yamen, and ordered Wu to do a detailed inspection.

Now the painter has arrived, and he and Jia Congzhi's guards have painted Mr. Mei's portrait in front.Qiu Liang felt familiar as soon as he saw it.Jia Cong looked at him: "You have known the co-author for a long time?"

Qiu Liang frowned: "It's just familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it."

Jia Cong said: "It's the first time I've seen it... Huh? Why do I think it looks familiar?" He also looked at it for a long time, "But I really haven't seen it before! How can it be familiar?" Nai squeezed his chin, He muttered, "Could it be that I know his father? His brother?"

"Oh!" Qiu Liang clapped his hands, "Mei Hanlin's son!"

"Ah?!" Jia Cong secretly shouted in his heart, "Fuck, it's really him!"

Qiu Liang said: "I met him in Beijing, he was still young at that time. Although his appearance has changed a little now, he can still be seen clearly."

Jia Cong rubbed his nose: "What's inside... He seems to be engaged to Miss Xue's family back then, and she came to the capital all the way to the capital just to wait for the church, and then he regretted the marriage during the chaos in the capital. Xue's family asked him to argue, He said that the family of the prince and his mother took a fancy to the Xue family's money and forced him to withdraw from the marriage; he is innocent."

Qiu Liang frowned, and after a while he murmured: "I heard that this person is quite talented, but now I don't know who he voted for."

Jia Cong had another idea in his heart.As the saying goes, love is born from the heart.This house obviously hides some secrets, and it is very likely that the two old men have been guarding here for many years, similar to guards.Qiu Liang said that the voices shouting at him in the ruined courtyard were very strange and unpleasant.At that time, all the corpses of the Shu soldiers had been thrown away.Whether the speaker is a hunchbacked old servant or a bald and thin old man, it is quite normal, but the soldiers who died now are all tall and burly.Therefore, one of the two men may not have come out, leading the dead soldiers to resist inside.It's just that Qiu Liang was so impatient that he would use artillery.However, there was no old man among the corpses.

He just lowered his head and meditated, Qiu Liang asked, "Cong'er, what are you thinking about?"

Jia Cong said, "I wonder if there is a cellar in the ruined courtyard."

Qiu Liang's eyes moved: "Why do you see that?"

Jia Cong said: "When I came back to Shu, I encountered so many things. The Shu Palace has a tunnel, Ding Wangji's house has a tunnel, and Qingyang Palace has a cellar. It seems that the Shu Kingdom and the cellar are destined. Will we meet again this time? To the cellar? This house is so big and the place is so remote, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it has bad intentions... Uh, it seems to have some special purpose."

Qiu Hao said with a smile: "Although the words are unreasonable, I also have this suspicion. I will let them dig three feet later."

The two of them walked around inside and out several times, and seeing that the house was normal elsewhere, they went back to the yamen.He also ordered the artist to draw a lot of portraits of Mr. Mei and sent them to the police in Chengdu for a quick look, saying that he was a secret criminal.

An official as big as Qiu Liang has the worst people under his command.A group of strong men kept working, lighting torches at night, and the rubble was cleared and the ground was dug at dawn the next day.Jia Cong didn't fall asleep again.Qiu Liang's people picked him up early - and sure enough, a tunnel was dug out from the basement of the main house in the courtyard.Qiu Liang has already rushed over and sent someone to call Jia Cong.

Jia Cong yawned and rushed to the ruined house, the sky was already bright, and Qiu Liang's people surrounded him closely.The tunnel entrance is just under a big case that has been crushed in the main room, but the case is made of rosewood.After lighting the torches and following the soldiers, Jia Cong took a deep breath—it was too big!Too high!

The underground space is as high as a two-story building. At first glance, I don't know how far it is. There are many large pillars lined up and all of them are high-quality nanmu.The ground is paved with blue bricks, and there are stone carvings everywhere.Jia Cong followed the soldiers for dozens of steps, and saw that the two sides were separated into rooms made of bricks.Walking into a room, the inside is not small, about fifteen or six square meters.There is a bed, a table, but no bedding, and a pen, ink, and inkstone stand without paper, and the lamp holders are covered with bronze green lamp holders, and there are oil stains in the lamp holders.And no dust.Jia Cong walked around the house for a long time, and asked the soldiers following him, "Have you seen the toilet?" The soldiers shook their heads.

But he came out of the house and looked for someone to find out where Qiu Liang was.A little leader led him there.Now there is still a road, so I turned two corners to find Qiu Liang.Qiu Liang stood with his hands behind his back. In front of him was a large shelf full of jars.Jia Cong leaned over and asked, "Lord Qiu, do you see any living people?"

Qiu Liang said: "There is no living person, but there is one dead body." He pointed casually.

Jia Cong followed his hand and looked over, and there was an old man lying on the ground, it was the hunchbacked old servant. "How did he die?"

"Bite the cockroach in his mouth." Qiu Liang said, "He died yesterday." He paused, "And I see that the calluses on his hands are extremely thin."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Maybe he doesn't know much."

Jia Cong blinked: "Then...should there be someone else who is skilled in martial arts?"

Qiu Liang pointed to the jar and said, "To be a prison guard, you have to be [-]-handed. Otherwise, how can you keep watch over so many prisoners?"

Jia Cong looked up at the jar, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "What's in it...the stuff here...could be ashes."

"Exactly."

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