The son is responsible

"Kidnap you?"

Seeing that the two people in the carriage were slightly surprised, Xue Muji said firmly, "That's right, kidnap me."

Although Mo Zikang was favored and was protected by the prince's elder brother since he was a child, but after all, children who grew up in the Xiliang Palace often saw intrigues a lot.Intentionally injuring yourself and then blaming others, isn't this a trick that all the women in the harem use so badly when they are fighting for favor?

However, he is an outsider, why does Young Master Xue want him to get involved in the gossip and wrongs of Hou Xuehou's mansion?He instinctively felt that this young master had something to do with this move, and asked, "You have a much wider network in Pingjiang than I do. Why did you have to find me, the prince of Xiliang, instead of your cronies for kidnapping you?"

"My confidants are only Fufeng Fuyun. They have other uses. I have to find another person. Just now I was worried about whom to find, and I happened to meet you. You and I trust each other, because you don't want me to say If you reveal your true identity, you will naturally not go to inform my father, it would be perfect for you to help me act and be a kidnapper."

Mo Zikang raised his forehead, what unlucky thing happened to him, it is best to succeed, if it fails, the majestic King Kang of Xiliang will kidnap the son of Pingjiang Xuehou's mansion and spread it to Yongdu and Liangdu. It's no wonder his brother didn't break his leg during the war, but the promise he just made must be fulfilled. After careful consideration, he would rather choose to mess around with this son than to marry Miss Qin as his wife.He asked, "How am I going to kidnap you? I've never kidnapped anyone."

Xue Muji said, "I will explain to you in detail the time and place when you kidnap me tomorrow, as well as the escape and hiding routes. I have arranged everything. You just need to cover your face and pretend to be a robber. Let me get into the carriage and show my back on the street so that passers-by can see me."

Xue Muji snapped his fingers, and suddenly a person came in from outside the carriage. Mo Zikang was startled. Xue Muji said it was his own. Fuyun put a stack of papers, a pen and ground ink on the In front of the master.

Xue Muji spread out the paper and began to write. He held the pen with his left hand, and the characters he wrote were horizontal and vertical, with cadences at the bends, showing the style of a calligrapher.In the previous life, Xie Manxing was born left-handed. Later, his father-in-law changed him to use his right hand, so he can write with both hands. The fonts are completely different, but he seldom writes with his left hand.

He finished writing the first page, and then started to write the second one. After finishing five identical pages, he folded the paper and handed it to Fuyun.

He didn't pay attention, Xue Huaijiu, who was looking at Xue Huaijiu outside the window, turned his face away early, quietly watched Xue Muji writing, and frowned slightly.

After explaining the details of the kidnapping plan in detail, Xue Muji put him down at Mo Zikang's residence.

The person behind the scenes who made trouble at the racetrack this afternoon and caused trouble with him is about to be unlucky.

The carriage drove slowly, and there was still some distance to the Hou's Mansion. Xue Muji clung to his fourth brother again, thinking about his relationship with the future Dali Temple Minister, it seemed to be a little bit better, he should be able to step on his nose and face, Try it out a little bit.

He held his round head and asked, "Brother, just now at the Chuanji Night Market, you also saw the prosperity of Pingjiang. This family business is the founding feat of the ancestors of the Xue family, and it also benefits from the golden waterway and unique environment of Pingjiang." Geography is the painstaking management of the Pingjiang Patriarchs for thousands of years. It is said that starting a business is not easy, but maintaining success is the most difficult. As the children of the Xue family, should we help each other, support each other, and keep the family business well?"

Xue Huaijiu still didn't speak, Xue Muji was used to it after so long.

He continued to talk to himself, "Pingjiang produces rich merchants, but not powerful eunuchs. For thousands of years, we have had almost no contact with the imperial capital, Yongcheng, except for paying taxes. I am afraid that in the eyes of the people in Pingjiang, they do not know Yongdu. Fortunately, the Hou Mansion does not raise soldiers and has no military power. It is completely different from the Xiao family in Kaiyuan and the Lu family in Mengze. The imperial power of the Li family does not need to take care of us. The Patriarchs are getting more and more alienated from Yongdu, Yongdu's tax money is not bothered to hand over according to the amount, and the Pingjiang Marquis Mansion can do everything that Yongdu ordered."

Still no response.Xue Muji heard the guards greet Fufeng and the door outside, the carriage first went to the second room's residence, and after turning a corner, he arrived at the Changxin Courtyard.The fourth brother was about to get off the car, Xue Muji suddenly stood up and grabbed his brother's hand, he had to finish the question and get an answer before he could know what he was talking about.

"That's what I think. If, I mean, if, if one day, brother, you are an extremely human minister, and someone in the court orders you to investigate Pingjiang's financial and taxation or administrative actions. crimes, and take back the right to operate the golden waterway, which side will you stand on?"

Xue Huaijiu still didn't speak, but his eyes flickered slightly, although covered by the slender eyelashes, Xue Muji still saw him.

hesitate.

Xue Muji was a little frustrated, the fourth brother's reaction was slightly deviated from his expectations.

Forget it, there are some things that can't be rushed, six years is still a long time, he always has a way to make the person in front of him say without hesitation, "Stand by the Pingjiang Marquis's side."

……

The next day, Cai Daru, who was full of freckles, found that there were only two students from the second room sitting in the audience.

Could it be that he spent a long time shopping in the boat night market last night and overslept in the morning?He found a guard to go to Yinfeng Courtyard to urge him, but the guard came back and said that the gate of Yinfeng Courtyard was locked.

Cai Daru blew his beard and stared angrily, Xue Muji was the first student who dared to skip his class.Some of the royal relatives and relatives he taught under his hands, even the regent Lu Yu, who is now in power, listened to his lectures when he was a child, and they were all respectful.

Cai Daru made a note of this in his heart, and in the future he will punish this thieves boy for copying the ritual scriptures a hundred times. At such a young age, he has lost sight of his teachers.But it was inappropriate to care about age and child, so he opened the book and continued with the class for the next two students.

As everyone knows, a strange letter has been received in the courtyards of each house in Xuehou's mansion.

The old lady got up early and went to the Buddhist hall to offer incense. She saw a letter under the cracked incense burner. The old man opened the letter. The handwriting was unfamiliar. There were three words on the letter. She heard the letter come back.

"Come on, call the third daughter-in-law to meet me in the Buddhist hall." The old lady finished reading the letter, and the creases on her eyebrows deepened.

At the same time, Miss Xiao, the second wife's wife, found that there was also a piece of letter paper under her dressing box, she opened it and read it, but she didn't understand, why did it call Xue Huaijiu the eldest son?And why Xue Huaijiu was kidnapped, the bandit chief wrote to her?Knowing that she didn't like that unlucky child, she wished to find a place where no one was around and die quickly.

After all, the surname is Xue, Miss Xiao thought about it, the person who could enter her house must be from the mansion, could it be that some aunt wanted to plot her against her, and wanted her not to report the knowledge, and then revealed it afterwards, so as to drive a wedge between her and the master?After all, that broom star is surnamed Xue.She casually called her personal servant girl and ordered her to send this letter to the eldest room to Lord Xuehou.

The servant girl delivered the letter to Master Hou's study, and the master of the fourth bedroom was about to open the door and enter.

The fourth-bedroom master rushed into the study like a gust of wind, holding a crumpled letter paper in his hand. Earlier, someone stuffed the letter into his boots, saying that Xue Huaijiu had been kidnapped, but the bandit leader actually asked him for 1 taels of gold. The key point is that he thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't remember the appearance of this child with the same surname as himself. He asked anxiously, "Brother, who was kidnapped! Are there two princes in our family? You and Sister Feng Xin, When did you adopt another child?"

Bowing his head, under the paperweight on Xue Dezhong's desk, there was an identical letter.

Xue Dezhong had just called the head of the secret guard and the head of the bodyguard in the mansion, and the whole mansion secretly checked who the sender was.As he guessed, it must be someone from the family.There was a person in the house who came and went without a trace, a dangerous person who sneaked into the study without being discovered.

The letter sent by the fourth-bedroom master and maidservant was exactly the same as his, and the hidden guard reported that it was the old matriarch and the third-bedroom sister-in-law who also received the letter, and the old matriarch also sent the third-bedroom sister-in-law to the Buddhist hall.The old matriarch favored the third son. After the death of the third master, he loved the house and loved Wu, and treated the third wife as his own daughter. Perhaps he was frightened by the content of the letter and found someone to accompany him.

Five letters, with exactly the same content, 1000 taels of gold is not a small amount, as rich as the Pingjiang Marquis Mansion, it would take a few days to put together some cash to exchange for a bastard with a partial house?is it possible?Prince Pingjiang is his youngest son, and his name is wrong.Xue Dezhong thought, who on earth is making such a joke with him?

Just as he was thinking about it, the head of the secret guard came in a hurry, and knelt down and kowtowed as soon as he entered, "Master Hou, something serious happened, just now the subordinates checked and found Chunxiao Yuan, only Mr. Cai and the two sons of the second room are studying. The prince was not there, and the subordinates were surprised. They asked the third son and the fourth son of the second room. The fourth son was the last to see the prince. He went to the night market with the prince last night. The subordinates of the Yinfeng courtyard reported that the gate of the Yinfeng courtyard was locked. Arbitrary decision, pried open the lock, went in to see, Fufeng Fuyun went to nowhere, Shizi, Shizi and others are gone too!"

Xue Dezhong read the letter again, feeling a chill all over his body.

"Look, search the house first, search every corner carefully, don't disturb Madam. Pass my order, Pingjiang is sealed off, and no one can be released until the son is found."

Xue Dezhong's wrists were trembling, Xue Hou's mansion was almost aloof from the world, he asked himself that he had no crimes against people from the world, moreover Pingjiang was rich, people's life was rich, every family's family was rich, the industry of banditry almost didn't exist Occasionally, a few of them also escaped from other places, hiding in this gold-picking place and doing some small business casually, which is more comfortable than the thieves who used to put their heads on their belts and were shouted and beaten all day long. , who has nothing to do to be a bandit, put down the butcher's knife early, and repent.

The chief guard brought Xue Huaijiu, Xue Dezhong asked where the two of them had been last night, but there was still no clue.The only thing to do is to wait.Xue Muji also has hidden guards by his side, who are strong in martial arts and will definitely protect the master from harm.

Just as he was thinking, the head of the dark guard came again, followed by two young men in distress. The young man was the dark guard who had followed Ji'er since he was a child, and there were a few ordinary people in Pingjiang.

The head of the dark guard's face was livid, and the excellent apprentice he trained with his own hands was stunned and fell asleep on the side of the road, losing his son. He really found a stick to beat the two of them severely, but it is more important to find the son now , he ordered, "Tell the truth to the prince about what happened just now."

Fufeng and Fuyun knelt on the ground, and Fufeng first said, "The prince wanted to go to the racecourse to practice riding and archery before class, and the prince said he wanted to walk, so his subordinates and younger brother walked with the prince, turned around the embankment, a car The carriage passed by, and suddenly a figure in black appeared and snatched the prince away. Fuyun and I immediately chased the carriage, and climbed onto the wooden beam of the carriage. A cloud of white smoke suddenly spewed out of the carriage, and after that, my subordinates and younger brother fell into a coma. Wake up until the master finds us."

Fufeng lowered his head, God knows that the inner lining of his back has long been soaked with sweat, and for the first time in his life, he lied in front of his master and Master Hou.Although I recited it for a long time last night, I was still stuck in half a sentence.

The people in the families behind all saw a round, chubby little man being led into a carriage by a black shadow.Pulled by the head of the dark guard, they all scrambled to describe what happened at that time.

"The subordinates are helpless, please be punished by the lord." The chief of the dark guard knelt down, how could Lord Xue have the mood to care about these things, and he no longer had any chances to keep it, "Go, take half of the soldiers and contact the Pingjiang Yamen , Follow them to the place where the incident happened to find someone.”