"Say it again?"

Gu Fan's tone was particularly cold at this moment.

The guard said with excitement: "Fourth Young Master, this is absolutely true! Our defense system in that house has always only been reported to you, Young Master, and will not be informed of the people being protected. This is because we don't want the people in the house to be harmed.

I feel weird because the secret whistle will be hidden in the house

Everywhere in the house. The girl's personal maid named Yun'er, she came to me privately and said that she wanted to know the location of our secret sentry to prevent the maids in the mansion from being frightened. The subordinates knew very well how much the fourth young master valued the girl, so they agreed

Got her."

Gu Fan looked at him coldly, gritted his teeth and said, "And in return, Yun'er gave you eight hundred taels of silver?"

The guard nodded and said, "Yes."

Gu Fan resisted the urge to slap him, and said in a cold voice: "If Nan Qin really asked Yun'er to find you, why did she give you so much money?"

The guard was speechless for a moment and did not dare to meet his gaze.

"explain!"

"It was Yun'er who took the initiative to mention my family's situation, and then was willing to spend a sum of money to buy the news. She also asked her subordinates not to tell others. For a while... for a while..."

"Nonsense! It's full of loopholes! You knew there was something wrong here, but you leaked the news because of eight hundred taels of silver!"

The guard's eyes were red, and he smiled miserably: "Fourth Young Master, I just want to leave a sum of money to my family. After I die, they can live well with this money. The money was deposited by my subordinates into the Taiping Bank.

I put the receipt in my mother-in-law's hand, and I didn't dare to spend a single penny."

Gu Fan clenched his fists, his eyes spitting fire.

Pei Yue sighed softly, stood up and walked over and asked: "In other words, you have never contacted those thieves from beginning to end, and you don't know the whereabouts of Miss Nanqin?"

The guard shook his head violently and said, "I don't know."

Pei Yue asked again: "Are you a soldier under brother Li Jin?"

The guard replied: "Yes, at that time Brother Li was the commander of the right army of Yanshan Guard, and his subordinate was a sentry officer of the right army."

Pei Yue looked complicated and said slowly: "What's your name?"

The guard looked confused. Since the Marquis of Zhongshan went to Taishitai Pavilion to find him, how could he not know his name? However, he did not dare to hesitate in front of Pei Yue and quickly replied: "My name is Cheng Guangtai."

Pei Yue was noncommittal, turned to look at Gu Fan and asked, "Do you want to kill him now?"

Gu Fan's expression was changing, and it was clear that there was a war between heaven and man in his heart.

Pei Yue continued: "Otherwise, let's lock him up first. After we find Miss Nanqin and the maid Yun'er, we can ask whether this is true or not. If everything goes well and what he said is true, then there will be no need.

His capital crime is just to drive him out, what do you think?"

Gu Fan said in a deep voice: "Okay."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Guangtai ignored his injuries and kowtowed to the two of them quickly.

After the other guards took the man away, Gu Fan looked at Pei Yue and said, "I thought that as you rose up the ranks in the army, you must hate traitors like this the most. I didn't expect you to be softer than me."

Pei Yue sighed softly: "This man suffered injuries in the army. He will not live long. And he was beaten by you with fists and kicks. It is still unclear whether he will be able to see the sun tomorrow morning."

Perhaps this topic was a bit heavy, so the two did not continue chatting.

Not long after, Qi Min and Wang Yong returned to the Hou Mansion, with heavy and slightly excited expressions on their faces.

"Master, Master Gu, we found out some information!" Qi Min spoke first, with a very urgent tone.

Gu Fan stood up immediately. Pei Yue nodded and said, "Say it quickly."

Qi Min said quickly: "A few guys in the firm left the city to go to the mine early this morning. They rushed to the earliest moment when the city gate opened, and happened to see thirty or forty fierce knights escorting a carriage leaving Kyoto."

Pei Yue and Gu Fan looked at each other, feeling something bad in their hearts at the same time.

Qi Min found that the expressions of the two people looked very solemn, so he did not dare to show off any more, and said quickly: "According to the memories of those guys, the group of people left the city from the east gate, just in front of them. At that time, the city defenders simply asked After saying a few words, he did not look at the situation in the carriage. After leaving the city, the other party went to the official road to the east."

Pei Yue frowned and said, "To the east?"

Wang Yong added: "There was a guy who was from Qinzhou. He heard the voices of several of them speaking, and they seemed to have accents from counties along the coast of Qinzhou."

Gu Fan asked anxiously: "Can you be more specific?"

Wang Yong said apologetically: "Master Gu, although that guy's ancestral home is Moyang Mansion in Qinzhou, he has been living in Kyoto and has only been to Qinzhou a few times to worship his ancestors, so he is not particularly sure."

Gu Fan couldn't help but cursed a thief, and then said to Pei Yue: "Brother Yue, you have a good relationship with Master Shen. Can you ask him to use Taige's token to let me take people out of the city overnight?"

Pei Yue shook his head and said: "It's not that I don't want to find Mr. Shen. The problem is where should we go? There are countless branches of the official road to the east. You can go north or south, or you can go all the way east until you see the raging sea. How to determine the direction of the other party's movement? ?”

Gu Fan said: "Then what should we do now?"

"wait."

"wait?"

"The other party who kidnapped Miss Nanqin certainly didn't want to bring her back to support her. I guess there will be news soon. The other party must have a plan by using so many people. In this case, they will definitely contact you. "

Gu Fan only felt that his mood was getting more and more irritable, but he also knew that what Pei Yue said was the right way. If those people really took Nanqin away from Kyoto, then he would be trying his luck like a headless fly. Not only would he not be able to save Nanqin, on the contrary, it is possible to miss key news.

So he can only wait.

Gu Zhen had already rushed back to the Guangping Marquis Mansion in the evening, and she still had to appease her mother Zhao.

Pei Yue tried to persuade him for a moment, but Gu Fan still refused to go to the guest room prepared for him to rest. He kept sitting in this room with red eyes. Pei Yue had no choice but to temporarily put down the quilt prepared by Lin Shuyue and accompany him. Sit here.

The entire Zhongshan Marquis Mansion was unrestable this night.

After dawn, the second housekeeper Wang Mo suddenly came to Pei Yue in a hurry, holding a letter in his hand.

"Master, the front yard boy just discovered this outside the corner door." Wang Mo said nervously.

Before Pei Yue could speak, Gu Fan, who had only been squinting for half an hour, rushed over and snatched the letter away. He saw four neat characters written on the envelope: Personally signed by Gu Fan.

He tore open the seal and took out a piece of ordinary paper. He took a look at it and then gritted his teeth and said, "Pingyuan Town!"

Pei Yue took the letter and saw a simple sentence written on it: Master Gu, at noon on February 22nd, please bring Taiping Bank banknotes of 100,000 taels and march thirty miles east of Pingyuan Town.

Pick up Miss Nanqin from the graveyard. If we find that there are more than five people traveling with us, we will kill Miss Nanqin immediately.
Chapter completed!