Chapter 24 Sleepless Night
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse at night, and the moon hanging above the sky like a jade plate is undoubtedly brighter and more beautiful in an era without light pollution.
Such a beautiful moon, if it is in prosperous places such as the capital or in the prosperous places such as Suyang, Jiangnan, there may be talented men and beautiful women, literati and poets stop to watch, and even recite two poems to cheer and sigh, but in this remote town, it is obvious that no one has the energy or leisure to watch.
As a vulgar toxic chicken soup in later generations said: For most people, it is already difficult to survive.
This was the case in the era of technological prosperity hundreds of years later, and it was undoubtedly even more so in this era when famines occurred from time to time.
No matter how beautiful the moonlight outside the window is, what does it have to do with most people? On the contrary, there may be many people who complain that such bright moonlight is a bit dazzling and makes it difficult to fall asleep.
Most of the people in Yuelai Inn are among the insomnia group, but their insomnia is not because of the bright moon in the sky, but the series of things that happen during the day.
As the person who is most closely related to those things during the day, Zhao Qing naturally finds it difficult to fall asleep.
Although he was warned by Lu Xiao's cold expression, Zhao Qing still couldn't control himself from thinking about this matter when he was lying on the bed. After all, Lu Xiao's various behaviors were too strange. Zhao Qing didn't feel anything before because of the panic in his heart, but at this time he was lying on the bed and finally regained his calmness. After temporarily putting Lu Xiao's threat aside, Zhao Qing was able to calmly start to start the matter.
Although Li Dali's identity was suspected to have reported it to Lu Xiao himself, yesterday evening, he was the one who made him closely monitor Li Dali, and asked the magistrate Zhou Guan, who was looked down upon by him to investigate the authenticity of Li Dali's identity. He secretly left the inn and went alone to arrest Li Dali.
After thinking about it, judging by Lu Xiao's performance, if he had known Li Dali's identity before, Zhao Qing would not believe it, so there was only one possibility left, that is, some unknown things happened during his arrest of Li Dali, which made Lu Xiao quickly change his thoughts in just half a day.
Zhao Qing closed his eyes and his breathing became a little rapid. After Lu Xiao came back, he immediately entered the room and wrote the letter he sent as quickly as possible and ordered him to send it. It was obviously related to this secret, and it is very likely that this secret was related to Lu Xiao's father.
After nearly twenty years of joining the Jinyiwei, Zhao Qing has never been able to get up and down, but he has never had little knowledge. In addition, he is meticulous and deep, and in a short time, he straightened out the context of the matter and approached the core part of the matter.
But he could only stop here and go further. Unless he knew the content of Lu Xiao's letter, even if he wanted to break his head, he would never have thought that Li Dali's true identity would be Lu Xiao's uncle.
Zhao Qing couldn't fall asleep, and his Shangguan Luxiao was also tossing and turning.
But the reason why Lu Xiao finds difficulty falling asleep is obviously different from Zhao Qing. In other words, the reason why he finds difficulty falling asleep lies in Zhao Qing.
In an impulse, he asked Li Dali to follow him back to Lu Xiao in the town. He was thinking about the reasons with all his might. Although he had asked his father in the letter to solve the problem, first of all, the longer the matter was delayed, the more difficult it was to deal with. Secondly, he really had no confidence in his father.
The inquiry before Zhao Qing left had already made him feel urgency, and he had to come up with a solution as soon as possible to solve this hidden danger. Otherwise, even if he could use Zhao Qing to mess things up this time as a handle to suppress Zhao Qing, it would be difficult for the rest of his subordinates to be suspicious and detrimental to him.
But if the perfect solution was so easy to figure out, he wouldn't have to tossed and turned until now, and it would be difficult to fall asleep.
There are many people in Yuelai Inn that find it difficult to fall asleep, or they can't sleep well, but in the end, there are still many people who are simple-minded or not thinking about this matter can fall asleep peacefully. However, in the Dongsheng Inn opposite, whether it is the person involved, Li Dali, or Bai Shier who has performed abnormally before, or even Wang Jinbao, who has not performed abnormally before, are all open their eyes at this moment.
Needless to say, Li Dali, as the person involved, has experienced things like getting rid of the stalking, diving and escaping, being tracked, and finally reversing, recognizing the junior Lu Xiao as his junior nephew. If he could fall asleep peacefully at this time, that would be really abnormal.
Bai Shier, who has been acting a little abnormal since yesterday, was not considered the person involved, but he did not fall asleep at this time. Like Zhao Qing, he was also thinking about what happened today.
Although he did not raise any objection after Li Dali returned to the inn and gave an explanation that he had disappeared for a day, Bai Shier's heart was like a mirror. Li Dali did jump into the river beside the town during the day and escaped from the town. This was enough to show that Li Dali was afraid of something and avoiding something. Moreover, the power he was hiding was very powerful, enough to prevent Li Dali from escaping normally, a tall, powerful person, and even a good martial arts master, from escaping normally.
And it is obvious that this power is the Yuelai Inn, which has only recently appeared in the town.
Thinking of this, Bai Shier undoubtedly became even more curious about the identity of the people from Yuelai Inn opposite him.
"The constables of Liushemen never bothered to use these small tricks. They were always open and upright when arresting, and they wanted everyone to know that Liushemen was doing business. Moreover, Liushemen probably didn't have so much Yucai to come to this remote town to make a fortune," Bai Shier habitually muttered to himself in a voice that only he could hear. This was his habit. When thinking, it could help him make his mind clearer.
"Then there are only Jinyiwei and East and West Factory." Bai Shier continued to analyze to himself, "However, East Factory and West Factory have never dealt with each other, and they like to break up each other. If Yuelai Inn is really one of them, then there shouldn't be only Yuelai Inn in the town at this time." Bai Shier's somewhat confused eyes gathered again as he talked to himself, and his tone became a little excited.
"Then it can only be the Jinyiwei," Bai Shier nodded affirmatively, "Well, it's probably the Jinyiwei. However," Bai Shier seemed to change his face, and his expression suddenly became strange again. "Is there anything worth the Jinyiwei spending so much manpower, material resources and financial resources in such a remote kiln town? And Li Dali, what is the relationship between him and the Jinyiwei? How could he suddenly seem to have nothing happened after escaping from the town, and come back?" Like Zhao Qing, Bai Shier couldn't figure it out.
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Although Li Dali and Bai Shier couldn't fall asleep, they were at least lying on the bed at this time. Wang Jinbao, who had always shown his appearance of being dull, introverted, not good at socializing, and liked to deal with livestock, was still sitting in front of the window. If he narrowed his sight a little, he would find that he was holding a small brush in his hand, using the bright moonlight to sweep away his dull and even silly expression. While paying attention to the movements around him alertly, he was writing on a piece of paper that was not as big as a palm.
Although his writing is like the wind, if he can get closer, he can find that the fly-headed small calligraphy in his pen is not only not sloppy because of the speed of writing, but is extremely neat, just like the craftsmen in the bookstore printed it with templates.
Wang Jinbao quickly wrote on the paper. Soon, the paper as big as a palm was densely packed, full of extremely neat fly-headed small calligraphy. It seemed that this piece of paper could not write down the entire content. Looking at the paper as big as a palm, Wang Jinbao pondered for a while, and finally stood up, put down the pen in his hand, turned over, and flew out along the open window, looking a little short and thick. Although his movement looked a little funny, he had to admit that he actually did this movement very beautifully, and as his feet fell into the yard, he could find his extraordinaryness.
Generally, such a big move, especially for a person with a sturdy and short figure like him, there will inevitably be a lot of noise when he lands, but when he lands, the sound is so slight that it is almost impossible to hear. Such a body movement alone is much stronger than most of the thieves who claim to be thieves in the world.
He glanced around with a clever look and listened to the surroundings. After not noticed any movement, Wang Jinbao breathed a sigh of relief, and a hint of pride appeared on his face. He straightened his body and rushed to the inn lobby quickly and silently.
But just as Wang Jinbao was about to arrive at the lobby, a very slight movement came from his ears that had been standing erect, which instantly raised his heart, kicked his feet, rushed forward quickly, entered the inn lobby, avoided his figure, held his breath, erected his ears, and listened to the movement outside.
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Lu Xiao tossed and turned in the bed for a long time, but he couldn't fall asleep. Instead, as time went by, he became more and more worried about how to explain Li Dali. In the end, he put on his clothes, pushed open the door, and quietly left Yuelai Inn as in the daytime, went around to the back door of Dongsheng Inn, and turned over and entered Dongsheng Inn.
Obviously, he had thought hard and had no good solutions, and finally put his ideas on the person involved in this matter, Li Dali, and wanted to ask whether Li Dali could help him come up with a good solution to his troubles.
Although he knew that it was very risky and a bit stupid to come to Li Dali in such a rash manner, he felt a little at ease when he thought that this incident was caused by Li Dali.
Moreover, in Lu Xiao's opinion, it is already a very small chance that a person with unknown identity and extraordinary skills in the small Dongsheng Inn can exist in an unknown Dongsheng Inn, which is a very small matter. How could there be another such person? Therefore, although the behavior of rashly infiltrating seems dangerous, in fact, there should be no mistake.
With this idea, Lu Xiao successfully entered Dongsheng Inn, and the situation seemed to be similar to what he thought. Except for the livestock in the backyard who reacted because of his movements and movements, no movement was heard.
According to the news reported by his subordinates before, Lu Xiao sneaked all the way to Li Dali's room, and then whispered to call Li Dali to come.
"Uncle Master, Uncle Master." He didn't knock on the door because he believed that Li Dali would definitely find it difficult to fall asleep like him. Therefore, he should have noticed his arrival at this time. The only thing he had to do was to show his identity.
Sure enough, with Lu Xiao's low call, a slight sound came from the room. After a moment, the door was gently opened, and Li Dali's face, which was somewhat helpless and annoyed, appeared in front of Lu Xiao.
"Why are you here?" Seeing Lu Xiao's smile, Li Dali really wanted to kick him hard, but at this time, he was obviously not allowed to do this. Therefore, despite his helplessness, he could only carefully observe the movements around him and call Lu Xiao into the house. "It's so late, why are you here to go to me if you don't sleep?" After entering the house, Li Dali lowered his voice with seven points of dissatisfaction, three points of curiosity, and asked in a low voice.
"This," I didn't know why I was so fooled by the gods. Lu Xiao, who ran here, had no regrets along the way. When I saw the master, I began to feel a little regretful and hesitated, not knowing whether I should appeal to my request. After all, in his opinion, his request was really embarrassing.
"What the hell is it? Tell me quickly if you have something to say, and let me go if you have nothing to do." Seeing this, Lu Xiao actually started to twist. Li Dali couldn't help but feel angry, and his tone couldn't help but raise it a little. If he hadn't known his situation at this time, he would have been cursing loudly.
But the more Li Dali did this, the more difficult it was for Lu Xiao to speak. After all, not long ago, he patted his chest and promised Li Dali that he would not have to worry about being able to settle everything. Less than half a day later, he came to ask the other party for advice, and his face was really uneasy.
"What the hell is it? You said, if you don't say it, then I'll drive people away?" Seeing that Lu Xiao was still changing his face, Li Dali couldn't help but stand up and act like he was about to drive people away.
"No, uncle, I said, isn't it okay?" Seeing that Li Dali seemed to really want to drive him away, Lu Xiao finally decided to give up his face, gritted his teeth, and told him all the things he wanted. "Uncle Master, do you have any good ideas?" After saying that, Lu Xiao couldn't help looking at Li Dali with hope, hoping to get the answer he wanted.
"Tsk, that's all that?" Li Dali curled his lips, and then spit out the following content in Lu Xiaoji's eyes.
Chapter completed!