Chapter 339 The Missing Master
When he heard the news that the two great masters might have had an accident, the most worried thing was that the sage master Guangzhi of Baidao. After all, he had been by the two great masters for a few years back then. At that time, he said to the manager nervously: "Have those two bosses checked? Is there any news?"
"The caravans have turned upside down the entire Dengzhou Wharf and the surrounding shops of Sishui, but the two great Fang masters seemed to have completely disappeared. There is still no trace." The chief manager soon received a secret letter from the two bosses, asking him to investigate the whereabouts of the two great Fang masters in Ancheng. This morning he received a close friend from the boss and learned the reason for exploring the whereabouts of the big Fang masters before.
After a bitter smile, the chief manager continued, "The two bosses want to ask about the meaning of the living gods. Should we tell Master Xu Fu directly? Or do you check it out again? If the living gods are afraid of trouble, the two bosses will report Master Da Fang..."
"Is there anything to hesitate about? Go and find Xu Fu. We are not Guangren, Volcano's father. They have never been filial to me. Why should I care about them?" Before Gui Bugui, Guangzhi spoke, Bai Wuqiu had already said a few words first. After a pause, it continued: "Let's talk to your Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan, just think you have never been here, just think we don't know anything... Just think Guangren, Volcano is dead..."
The chief manager naturally would not go back to report like this. He smiled awkwardly, looked at Gui Bugui and Guangzhi, and said hesitantly: "Is it the little one going back like this? Or are the old gods who have other ideas?"
"Senior Brother Gui, you and Guangren are both temporary disciples no matter what. For the sake of Master Xu Fu's Dafang, should you investigate the whereabouts of the two Masters?" Worried that Gui Bugui and Bai Wuqiu were together, Guangzhi hurriedly persuaded him. After a pause, he continued, "It's better to look for Master Xu Fu's Dafang blame him. Brother Gui, you can't explain."
After hearing Guangzhi's words, Gui Bugui smiled and said, "Then give you a face to Senior Brother Guangzhi. I'm tired of staying in Chang'an City for the past few years. We can also go out for a walk with Guangren and Volcano. Yaojin, let's go out for a walk together. Fortunately, you are not a vassal king who is out of the country, otherwise it would be not easy to go out for a walk... Wu Mian, what do you mean?"
Wu Mian looked at Gui Bugui with a slight look, and then said in his unique tone: "You have decided to ask me again? I can't have an idea with your son, right?"
"It's really a blessing for those two great masters. I haven't been away for a long time since I've been away." After Cheng Yaojin laughed, he interrupted his fucking father to relieve his embarrassment. Then he called his housekeeper downstairs and asked him to prepare for his trip first.
According to the Li Tang system, the king could not leave the capital privately. However, now Li Tang has become Wu Zhou, and the capital has also moved to Luoyang.
No one paid attention to the King of the Two Kings. Moreover, with Wu Mian, Guigui was the backer for him. Even if Wu Zetian wanted to find trouble for Cheng Yaojin, he would hesitate again and again.
This trip was different from the past. Cheng Yaojin had more than 120 people in the ceremonial war, which was not considered a guard. Originally, he felt that Cheng Yaojin didn't plan to bring so many people to travel. However, the lively little Ren San was trolling and rolling around with this rare pomp throughout the ages. Wu Mian, Gui Bugui was used to this little guy. When he left the city one day, Old Cheng brought his ceremonial war with his ceremonial war, and hundreds of people walked out of Chang'an City in a grand manner.
Although Cheng Yaojin has no real position, his reputation is far-reaching. No one knows that the dynasty has changed. However, when it comes to Cheng Yaojin, the demon king who made the country back then, has never heard of his great name. All the officials who passed by the prefectures and prefectures along the way have met Gao Ying, and they are trying their best to curry favor with him. The only one who can compare with Lao Cheng's treatment is probably the only queen Wu Zetian.
Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and Guangzhi were nothing, but Little Ren Yi and Bai Wuqiu enjoyed it. The Demon King even secretly recorded the ceremonial war of his silly brother, intending to return to the Demon Mountain and give him several ceremonial wars as such.
If you move forward lightly, you can reach the Dengzhou Wharf for about ten days. However, after the king of this country was made, you walked for a full month before you arrived in Dengzhou City. You were welcomed into the city by the governor here. After the banquet, everyone and the demon were arranged to be in the inn in the city.
Because he lives in His Highness the Shuangwang, this inn has been booked and no one is allowed to enter again.
Originally planned to rest for one night in the inn, he rushed to the pier outside the city the next day. Just as Old Cheng was about to go to bed, Cheng Yaojin's butler knocked on the door of his dormitory. Before Cheng Yaojin got angry, the butler hurriedly said: "Your Highness, there are two owners of Sishui, Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan, who came to ask for a meeting..."
"Their second brother has also returned to land? It seems that things are not small, which scared them both."
After Cheng Yaojin muttered, he said to the butler: "Go, call my father, uncle and others. Old Cheng, I will also see what these two Sishui owners have. They earn more money than the emperor..."
To Cheng Yaojin's surprise, he said he was asking for a visit. When the old city arrived at the living room, the two owners were already waiting here. After seeing Cheng Yaojin wearing a python in a royal suit appear, the two white-haired owners hurried over to greet him.
But Lao Cheng helped me out and said with a smile: "Everyone is a white-haired person, don't be dissatisfied. Who knows when Lao Cheng has done my luck and wants to borrow money from your two bosses. You are now blessed to me. When it's time to borrow money, do you think Lao Cheng wants to kowtow one for your two bosses?"
"Your Highness is the most blessed person in the world, and we ask you to ask your Highness for your request." After a smile, Liu Xi continued to say: "Money is something outside your body. Your Highness only speaks if you use money. Starting today, the Sishui Province will worship His Highness 50,000 taels of gold every year to show my filial piety to Your Highness and Ogawa."
"After all, he is a rich man. He can speak 50,000 taels of gold every year." At this time, Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and the others also came out. After hearing Liu Xi's conversation with Cheng Yaojin, Gui Bugui continued with a smile: "Yaojin, the two kings, does not have that much annual salary a year, so he is rich now."
Cheng Yaojin only has 100,000 shi of rice per year and 35,000 jin of rice per year. There are also a few acres of land in Wangzhuang. There are no 10,000 taels of gold in total, but Yaojin's family has a solid foundation. At present, he accounts for half of the treasures brought by Wagang Mountain. When the king's official position was taken to the end a few years ago, Lao Cheng pretended not to spend that money. He usually relied on money to support his money. Old Cheng was worried about how to spend the money after spending the money in the future. Now with the Sishui 50,000 gold per year, it really can be spent on money.
When they saw Wu Mian, Gui Bugui and the others came out. Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan hurriedly saluted them. They were stopped by Gui Bugui and said, "If you have anything to say, we are all our own family."
Did Xu Fu already know about it? Or did you find out what you have found?"
"The two great masters disappeared on the dock of Xiaochuan and His Highness, how dare you let Xu Fu know?" At this time, Sun Xiaochuan continued with a smile: "If you don't come here to see it yourself, if something happens, Xu Fu's great master will ask if we don't know how to answer, it will be ugly."
"You dare to say this, that means you have some clues, right?" Gui Bugui smiled and continued, "Say it, if you can help, we can help. If you can't help, you can testify to the old guy Xu Fu. It was Guangren and Volcano ran away by himself, not you two killed your life for money."
"This is not a joke. Old man, don't scare us brothers." After sticking out his tongue, Sun Xiaochuan lowered his voice and said, "Someone saw the two great masters on the boat to Nanshan Island at the Nanhai Pier. But he only saw them boarding, but no one saw them get off the boat..."
"Nanshan Island?" Gui Bugui was stunned for a moment. He thought about it for a long time in his mind, but he didn't remember where this Nanshan Island was. Guangren could give up meeting Xu Fu, and disappeared for two years and finally appeared near Nanshan Island. He said there was no problem there and his stupid son would not believe it.
Seeing that Gui Bugui became interested in Nanshan Island, Sun Xiaochuan took out the chart directly from his arms. After spreading the chart flat on the table, he pointed to a small black dot in the sea and said, "This is Nanshan Island. It was originally an uninhabited island. Later, Danshui was found on the island, which became a place for ships to supply Danshui and avoid typhoons. Because the island is still a few products, there have been people on the island over the past two hundred years.
Now your highness has ordered the search for two great masters on the island, and whenever there is news, it will be transmitted in drum language."
After looking at the location of Nanshan Island on the sea, Gui Bugui took a look at the surrounding sea environment. The island closest to Nanshan Island is more than 200 miles. Because it is another route to Spobey, Gui Bugui did not have this route when he was traveling to Persia, so he had never heard of it.
After looking at the chart for a while, Gui Bugui finally spoke again: "How big is this Nanshan Island? How many people are there on the island now? Can you get a list of people on the island?"
As soon as Guibugui finished speaking, Sun Xiaochuan took out a stack of papers full of names from his arms. When he handed the stack of papers to the old man, he continued to say: "Nanshan Island is about the same size as the God of Wealth Island in our Sishui. There are 685 people on the island, including 509 Han people. To be honest, you said that Your Highness and I also liked there. However, our Sishui was one step late, and the people on the island had formed a force.
In total, a piece of palm-sized place, our people will inevitably have friction when they land on the island. Then we gave up, but we still know every move on the island."
At this moment, before Gui Bugui could speak, Wu Mian, who was standing aside, suddenly said: "Does Guangren and the others' boats go straight to Nanshan Island or stop for supply in the middle of the way?"
"I went straight to Nanshan Island, and the ship was still docked at the pier of Nanshan Island." At this time, Liu Xi answered Wu Mian's question. After pausing, he continued: "Although Nanshan Island is a little fresh water, if you want to live there, you still need to supply them with agricultural tools, medicines and other things for use on the island. In the past, the passing boats were brought over, but last year the island's agricultural production was not good, so you could only buy grain from the land to survive. The two great masters were on the grain transport boat^"
"Isn't it just an overseas island? They have money to buy food?" Guangzhi has experience living in an overseas island, and he immediately heard the problem.
Liu Xi nodded slightly at the Baidao alchemist, and then explained: "The shallow sea of Nanshan Island is rich in a kind of clam that can be used for sea beads. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people living there. When talking, Liu Xi took out a playground from his arms. This sea bead is the size of a cow's eyes and shines faintly under the lamp. Even Gui Bugui, who is knowledgeable, has never seen such a big sea bead. However, Liu Xi handed it to his childhood playmate without any concern. Then he continued: "There is another thing about squids. Someone on Nanshan Island has disappeared since last year. Old man, the one who marks the missing person with a red pen on the list of your hand is the missing person. Now there are sixteen people missing. People on the island have also asked the Sishui number to help search, but it has been missing for 2009. The missing person has not been found."
"No need to say more, two bosses, please prepare the boat. When you really go to the island, you will know what's going on." At this time, Gui Bugui put away the chart and the list of people. After smiling at Liu Xi, Sun Xiaochuan and his brothers, he continued, "I originally didn't plan to wade into the muddy water of their alchemist, but this depends on the face of you brothers. It's not that the old man said something about people behind my back. Master Xu Fu is really not very sensible. He knows his disciples, and his disciples are on your dock, so he must give you some small shoes. This time it's all for you two."
"Yes, Liu Xi knows that you love Xiaochuan and me." After pausing for a moment, Liu Xi continued with a smile: "If you have any questions, please tell me. Sishui is not the same. If you use money, we can take out some of them." ° What you said is as if I am greedy for your family's fortune." Gui Bugui smiled and continued: "Let your people prepare. After arriving at the dock tomorrow, we will set off to Nanshan Island to see how that old guy Xu Fu was killed. Guangren, the two volcanoes have gone away, and they are Xu Fu killed... Hahaha..." After Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan got the letter of Gui Bugui, they rushed to the dock overnight to arrange the arrangements.
After seeing the two brothers leaving the inn, Cheng Yaojin no longer had the intention to continue sleeping. He immediately said to his godfather: "A island with Haizhu, what are those two great masters going to do there? Dad, can't anyone pretend that they both confuse us?"
"I was confused two years ago, so there was no need to be so troublesome." After Gui Bugui smiled, he glanced at Wu Mian beside him.
Seeing that he had no intention of speaking, he continued: "The sea is Xu Fu's territory. Even if Lu Wuji emerged from his head and wanted to deal with the two great masters, he would not be foolishly attacking Xu Fu's nose. I see, what happened to Guangren and Volcano. After two years of revitalization on land, he found out that the problem was on the Nanshan Island."
After saying that, the old guy walked towards his dormitory in the backyard, and continued to say to the person behind him as he walked: "Don't think so much, we just do our best to show off that old guy Xu Fu. He is embarrassing. We are helping him find someone. He will save him from turning over the small accounts in the future."
The next morning, after dealing with the governor of Dengzhou, everyone came to the dock of Sishui. At this time, Liu Xi and Sun Xiaochuan had already brought the dock to greet him ten miles away. After a few words of politeness, everyone entered the dock.
Under the leadership of the two owners, he directly boarded a huge sea boat. Although the sea boat was huge, it was still troublesome to take Cheng Yaojin's hundreds of people's ceremonial guards and guards. In the end, Lao Cheng asked his ceremonial guards to stay in the dock, and he only brought his butler on the ship.
After everyone boarded the ship, the big ship immediately set off. In addition to the big ship, there were more than ten fast ships around guarding and conveying messages around. Looking at the pomp of the two owners, Cheng Yaojin felt ashamed: "Old Cheng, I accompanied Emperor Taizong to the time difference, and it was embarrassing to Taizong when I said it. The dragon ship he was on was not half as big as this ship, and the soldiers below could not meet anyone... It was the Sishui, it was really rich."
"If King Cheng likes it, Okawa mentions that our highness will make the decision, and this ship will be given to King Cheng. Now the chef is preparing a banquet, so let's take the opportunity to do some serious business first." Sun Xiaochuan, who was on the side, laughed and then talked about the main topic. He asked his subordinates to bring a middle-aged man with a big belly from the cabin below.
This man is the former manager of Dengzhou Wharf. The disciple who had been placed on the wharf before the volcano had already escaped. This fat middle-aged man was his later successor.
"Zheng Da, tell me what happened two years ago." After seeing the person coming, Sun Xiaochuan ordered again: "Your capital and life are all in your mouth, so don't miss anything."
"Yes, the little one knew that he had made a big mistake and dared not hide anything more..." After wiping a cold sweat, the fat man named Zheng Da secretly glanced at the people in front of him, and then continued: "The little one is Zheng Da, who was working as a manager on the dock two years ago. When the two great masters were avoiding the typhoon, the little one was on the side.
Later, they received a letter. After seeing the letter, they hurriedly left. Zheng Da! Do you really want to live?” At this time, Liu Xi frowned slightly, and then he continued to say to the fat man who had already started to tremble: "Tell me what you told me in the morning..."
Chapter completed!