Poor Family

  Chapter 92 Tracking down the suspect (4)

  An indescribable anger ignited from the bottom of Li Yanqing's heart, his eyes were red, as if the burning anger in his heart was about to spurt out from his eyes.

  After Liu Chenghong was expelled, he was still sheltered by Li Wengui, changed his name and hid in the Daming Mansion. Regardless of whether Li Wengui participated in the murder of his brother, he had an unshirkable responsibility for the death of the patriarch.

At this time, the man yelled in horror, and Li Yanqing realized that the sharp dagger had pierced the skin of his neck, and a stream of blood flowed down his neck. Li Yanqing let go of the sword a little, and asked in a low voice: " Who knows where Liu Chenghong is hiding? Tell me quickly!"

Li Yanqing still remembers the conversation of the three Bai brothers, Liu Chenghong is still waiting to divide the spoils, so he should still be in Daming Mansion now, but once he finds out that the Bai brothers have been killed, he will definitely flee from Daming Mansion, and then hide his name again, and then try to find him It is very difficult, Li Yanqing is inevitably a little anxious, today is his last chance to find Liu Chenghong.

   "Say it! Where is Liu Chenghong?"

  The guy’s neck was cut by a sharp knife, frightening him out of his wits, he closed his eyes and stammered: "Shopkeeper Sun of Liji Inn may know that they have the best relationship."

  After the man finished speaking, he felt his neck loosen. When he opened his eyes, the young man who grabbed him had disappeared. The man touched his bleeding neck and left slowly with lingering fear.

When Li Yanqing found the Liji Inn, he realized that he was one step late. The gate of the inn was closed, and there was a sign of suspension of business. Li Yanqing climbed over the wall from the backyard, jumped into the yard lightly, and ran along the flower bed After a few steps, he faintly heard someone's angry scolding, he even hid behind a bush of flowers and trees, and observed where the sound came from.

   After a while, he found two strong men standing in front of a room more than 20 steps away. The scolding just now came from the room.

  Li Yanqing's heart moved, he backed away slowly, and walked around to the back of the house. There was indeed a window behind it, and the window was closed tightly. He poked a hole in the window paper with some saliva, and looked into the house.

There were two people in the room, one was sitting on a chair, and the other was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. Li Yanqing immediately recognized the pacing back and forth. It was Li Wengui's youngest son, Li Qing, who was about thirty years old. He looks very similar to his father, thin and tall, like a bamboo pole.

  Li Qing looked a little annoyed, glared at the other party and said: "Liu Chenghong colluded with the gangsters to kill the patriarch, how can my father explain to the clan? You can no longer protect Liu Chenghong, you must tell me, where is he hiding now?"

The sitting person was about forty years old, with a big round face. Li Yanqing also vaguely recognized him. It turned out that he was the third steward of Li's mansion, named Sun An, and one of Li Wengui's confidantes. After Li Wengui moved to Tangyin County , he also followed, but he didn't expect him to be the innkeeper in Daming Mansion.

  Sun An said slowly: "It's useless even if I say it, he should have left the Daming Mansion by now, you can't find him."

   "Just tell me, where is he now? It's up to me to find him."

"Okay! Let me say that. Liu Chenghong has a fellow villager who is in charge of the Lu family in Daming Mansion. Liu Chenghong has been hiding in his fellow villager's house since he came back from Xiangzhou. This morning Liu Chenghong came to ask me to borrow ten taels of silver. He said that at noon Just leave the Daming Mansion and go to the Liao Kingdom. At this moment, I guess he is already halfway north. Third son, let me say something harsh. Liu Chenghong knows that the third master will not let him go, and he has already left himself a way out , you can't find him."

Li Qing snorted heavily, turned around and left in a hurry with two of his men, but Li Yanqing was smarter than Li Qing, he knew that this Sun An still had something to say, just as Li Qing left, Li Yanqing came from behind. The window jumped into the house.

  Sun An just got up, but heard movement behind him, and before he could turn around, a sharp short sword was already on the back of his neck, "You dare to shout, I will cut off your head with one sword!"

   "Brother Qing?" Sun An heard the voice behind him.

   "It's me!" Li Yanqing said coldly.

   "You put away the sword first, I will tell you whatever you want to know."

  Li Yanqing was surprised, so he withdrew his sword, turned in front of him, looked at Sun An's round pancake face and said coldly: "Tell me! Where is Liu Chenghong now?"

  Sun An looked at him for a long time, and asked: "I heard from Liu Chenghong that the three heroes of the Bai family were killed, and it should be you who did it?"

  Li Yanqing nodded, Sun An gave a thumbs up and praised: "Brother Qing is really powerful, it is not easy to kill the three brothers of the Bai family by himself!"

   "Stop talking nonsense, tell me where Liu Chenghong is?"

  Sun An sat down, looked at Li Yanqing slyly for a moment, and said indifferently: "Brother Qing, don't you want to know the cause and effect of this incident?"

   "You know?" Li Yanqing stared at him sharply.

Sun An smiled and said: "Liu Chenghong told me everything. If Brother Qing wants to know the cause and effect, I only need ten taels of silver. If Brother Qing still wants to know the specific hiding place of Liu Chenghong, then fifty taels of silver is required. As far as the price is concerned, no one can deceive you, if Brother Qing insists on forcing me to say it with a sword, it will be false news."

  Li Yanqing took out an ingot of five taels of gold and threw it to him, "Say it!"

  Sun An's eyes lit up, he took the gold and bit it with his teeth, and immediately put the gold into his arms with a smile on his face. He was borrowed ten taels of silver by Liu Chenghong today, and he was always regretful in his heart, but he didn't expect to use Liu Chenghong's news to earn it back.

  Sun An got the benefits, so he smiled and said: "Speaking of which, the root of this matter is still because of you, Brother Qing."

  Li Yanqing snorted disdainfully: "Just because I drove him out of the Li Mansion five years ago, does he always hold a grudge?"

"Almost! Over the years, he has always hated the old man for breaking his son's leg, making his son crippled, and finally died at the hands of the Jurchens. He also hated the old man for driving him away mercilessly. Every time he got drunk, He said that he would kill two people in his life, one is the old man, and the other is you, Brother Qing."

   "Liu Fu'er is dead?" Li Yanqing was stunned.

Sun An sighed, "Liu Chenghong first went to Liao Kingdom and opened a blacksmith shop in Nanjing, Liao Kingdom. As a result, he and his son were conscripted as blacksmiths with the army. Liu Fu'er died at the hands of the Jurchens the year before last, and Liu Chenghong fled back to find the third master. The master felt sorry for his son being killed, so he arranged for him to be a steward in the Daming Mansion Tavern."

   "Liu Fu'er was killed by the Jurchens, what does it have to do with me?"

  "Liu Chenghong doesn't think so. He said that his son was killed because he couldn't run fast, and that he couldn't run fast because he broke his leg. The broken leg was because of you. He kept saying that you actually burned the ancestral hall."

  Li Yanqing snorted, "And then? Keep talking!"

"A few months ago, the third master heard that your father and son accounted for 30% of Li Jiliang's business. He was very angry, so he came to Daming Mansion to talk to Liu Chenghong for a long time. He heard Liu Chenghong said that the third master wanted to destroy your business. I heard that Liu Chenghong reported to the military about the private sale of military rations by the grain store, but this matter seemed to have failed, and then Liu Chenghong found the three heroes of the Bai family and asked them to take action, and you know the final result."

   "Is it Li Wengui's intention to kill the patriarch?" Li Yanqing asked through gritted teeth.

"It shouldn't be. The third master just wanted to destroy the business of the grain store, and didn't want to kill his brother. It was Liu Chenghong's own intention to kill the patriarch to avenge his son. However, the third master knew that Liu Chenghong had colluded with the three heroes of the Bai family, so he also provided it to him. A lot of money, so the death of the patriarch, the third master is not free from responsibility, you just saw that the third master is also very anxious now, looking for Liu Chenghong everywhere, whether he wants to kill someone or something, I don’t know.”

  Li Yanqing finally knew the cause and effect, he stared at Sun An again and said, "Now I want to know, where is Liu Chenghong hiding?"

  Sun An received Li Yanqing's five taels of gold, so of course he would not keep it a secret for Liu Chenghong. He thought for a while and said, "Have you ever heard of the Lu family in Daming Mansion?"

   "I only know that there is Lu Junyi in Daming Mansion!"

"Lu Junyi is the third of the three brothers of the Lu family. He has a fleet manager, surnamed Ni, who is Liu Chenghong's fellow villager. The two have a good relationship. Today at noon, the Lu family has a fleet to transport cloth to Hejian Mansion. Liu Chenghong is hiding in this fleet, and the little officials should hurry up and catch up."

   "Thanks a lot!"

  Li Yanqing left the inn after leaving a sentence. He left Daming City and chased north along the Yongji Canal.

   There are only two chapters today, and three chapters tomorrow. I wanted to save some manuscripts, but after writing 50,000 words, I scrapped them and wrote them from scratch. There are not many manuscripts in my hand.

  (end of this chapter)