The return of the son-in-law

Guo Zhanan specifically asked the name and residence of the Orion who led the team into the Mountain of No Return that day, and visited Li Hu while Xiu Mu was there.

Li Hu smoked a dry cigarette, staring at Guo Zhanan with eagle eyes: "My lord still wants to enter the mountain of no return? Could it be an addiction?"

Guo Zhan'an didn't mind the teasing in his words: "I have always had a puzzle in my heart, and I want to go to the Mountain of No Return to find the answer."

Orion Li Hu put down the dry smoke: "Success, I'll go with you."

Li Hu's straightforwardness was expected by Guo Zhan'an - he led so many people into the Mountain of No Return that day, and everything he said and did could tell that he had a high reputation in Tonghua County.Moreover, the snow-covered mountains will hide many dangers, and will cover many stones or trees that are usually used to help determine the direction. Li Hu was able to lead everyone out unscathed, which is enough to show that he has entered into different places in the snow many times. return to the mountain.

A person who dared to go in and out of the Mountain of No Return rumored to be haunted by snow ghosts was enough to show that he was not afraid, and even said that he didn't believe the rumors at all.

Li Hu is an outsider. His family has only been in Tonghua County for a few years, and he has long been dissatisfied with the legend of Snow Ghost.He has been in and out of the Mountain of No Return many times, trying to break the rumors of the snow ghost, but every year someone dies in the Mountain of No Return, leaving only one head, but he himself has never seen a snow ghost. I can watch more and more people believe this rumor.

The county magistrate who came now is not as cruel and money-greedy as before, he does things reasonably, Li Hu decided to trust him once.

When Guo Zhan'an came out of Li Hu's house, he saw a figure hiding behind a tree from a long distance away, and a small piece of clothes was still exposed.

He was a little helpless, ever since Huo Yuxue told him that she admired him at night, she clings to him even more unscrupulously, pretending that she wants to learn how to be a gentleman from him.

Once wearing this high hat, Guo Zhanan really should not, should not and should not.However, there was an Elder Sun next to him who apologized to him for Huo Yu and asked Huo Yu to learn more from him at the same time.

If it hadn't been for investigating the identities of Huo Yu and Sun Lao after the fact, and finding that these two people were indeed from Tiger Village, Guo Zhan'an would have suspected that the fourth prince in the capital had specially sent someone to monitor him.

Huo Yu hadn't seen anything for a long time behind the tree. After waiting for a while, he poked out half of his head cautiously from behind the tree, only to be startled by the figure standing in front of him.

"Big Brother! Why are you here?"

"What do you think?" Guo Zhan'an stretched out his hand and flicked Huo Yu's forehead, "You are so smart, you have learned to follow others? This is not what a gentleman should do."

But Huo Yu said: "That's because you don't take me to play, big brother. Of course I will follow you secretly. Moreover, this time I didn't follow you on purpose, I came to you because I have something to do!"

Guo Zhanan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is it still my fault? You are too young, go back to study obediently."

Huo Yu shook his head: "Big Brother, I know you want to enter the Mountain of No Return, I will go with you, I can help! Don't forget, I was the one who found the blood on the stone last time!"

Guo Zhan'an's eyes narrowed, and his strength increased: "What did you say?"

"You want to enter the Mountain of No Return again," Huo Yu cried out in pain, "Big brother, you hurt me."

Guo Zhanan let go of Huo Yu, but his eyes were stern: "How do you know what I want to do?"

Realizing now, Guo Zhanan found that Huo Yu could always guess his own mind.Although he has secretly investigated Huo Yu's background, there is nothing wrong with it, but whether it is the third prince Li Shaojin and his good friend Jiang Yannian, or his confidant Jia Huan who has been with him for many years, he cannot be as sure of his thoughts as Huo Yu is. .

Guo Zhan'an couldn't help but wonder, did someone specially train this Huo Yu, otherwise why would he know his mind so well?

Huo Yu hadn't realized that Guo Zhanan was suspicious of him, even murderous, and while rubbing the painful place Guo Zhanan pinched, he replied: "Brother, you obviously have many questions in the Mountain of No Return, but you didn't ask them. Now I’m looking for the Orion who led us into the Mountain of No Return, I definitely want to go in again to find the answer.”

Guo Zhanan felt that Huo Yu's reasoning was also reasonable, so he asked him, "Then how do you know that I have many questions?"

"It's clearly written on your face!" Huo Yu said logically, "Big brother, let me go to Buguishan with you."

Guo Zhan'an didn't intend to agree, but he didn't intend to refuse immediately——Huo Yu is sometimes too stubborn, and he might be entangled if he refuses directly, so he simply asked him: "What's the matter with you coming to see me?" ?”

Huo Yu patted his head: "Someone said it was your servant, and he brought many people to look for you."

When Guo Zhanan returned to the county government office, the people and carriages led by Jia Huan were standing in the backyard.Seeing Guo Zhanan coming, Jia Huan hurried forward to salute: "Master!"

A few servants and maidservants in the back saluted.

Guo Zhanan hummed: "Finally here, didn't you encounter anything along the way?"

Jia Huan shook his head and said with a smile: "Thanks to the young master, the journey went smoothly."

Guo Zhan'an looked at the servants and maidservants in the back, and said, "That's good, you take someone to resettle them first, and then come to me, I have something to tell you."

After a while, Jia Huan came, and he first reported to Guo Zhanan what he had done before: "According to the young master's instructions, I went through the dowry Zhuangzi and the shop that my wife left behind, and found a few that were profitable. They all changed shopkeepers and housekeepers. Later, I found out that it was indeed the Liu family who secretly played tricks and put these Zhuangzi and shops under his own name."

Guo Zhanan sneered: "She is really courageous, not to mention anything else, the Jiang family still has my mother's dowry list, so I am not afraid that things will be revealed one day."

Jia Huan seemed to have thought of something, and was very angry: "She just relied on her having a concubine sister! I even asked the shopkeeper, isn't this Mrs. Guo Jiaxian's tea shop, how did it become a jewelry shop? Guess what? The shopkeeper said, what's the first wife and then the wife, this is the shop of the concubine Hua!"

Snapped!

Guo Zhanan re-patted on the table: "Too much bullying!"

Jia Huan said: "If you hadn't told me in advance, young master, I would have gone to the government to sue them!"

Guo Zhan'an clenched his hands into fists: "Oh, tell me now, those people will also look at Concubine Hua and my father as a fifth-rank official, and they will be punished lightly. What's more, the emperor has always wanted to deal with the Jiang family, but he just suffered from no chance. "

Jia Huan had a feeling and asked, "What does the young master mean?"

"Let them be proud for a while, and when I become an official, it will be the time when this group of people will be wiped out!"

Jia Huan was touched by the resentment in Guo Zhanan's words, and couldn't help feeling chills.

It's just that it has always been done by doing, not by talking.Guo Zhan'an put it aside and asked instead: "Have you dealt with the rest of the shop Zhuangzi?"

Jia Huan took out a stack of banknotes, a bag of broken silver, and put three pieces of paper on it: "According to the young master's order, there is a hot spring village that was sold to Master Zhu, and there are two shops that are not profitable. It was sold to a businessman surnamed Zhuang in the east of the city, and another one was sold to a businessman from the south. According to the young master’s instructions, half of the money received was sent to my brother to the northwest, and the remaining half was kept for 100 taels. Give it to my father for the capital's emergencies, and the rest is here."

Guo Zhanan took it, read the three contracts carefully, kept the broken silver, drew two banknotes, and handed the rest to Jia Huan: "You give these to Mr. Sun, he is my accountant. "

Jia Huan responded and asked again: "Master, what is the origin of the young and old?"

Guo Zhanan talked about his experience, and at the end he had a thought, and asked: "Don't rush to give him these bank notes, you can go and find out their origins. Employers are not suspicious, suspects are not necessary, I want to confirm again .”

Jia Huan agreed.

After talking with Jia Huan, Guo Zhan'an changed into a convenient attire for activities, put on a big cloak, collected the money, and then went out.

Fuqing was anxiously guarding the door, when he saw Guo Zhanan coming out, he hurried forward to meet him, and asked with a smile, "Master, do you want to go out?"

Guo Zhanan took a look at him and ordered: "I heard crows calling last night, go and check to see if there are any crows nesting in the yard."

Fuqing replied: "Yes, I will let Lao Wang do it. Where is the young master going? I will accompany you."

"How old is old Wang? You are flexible in your hands and feet, and you can easily climb ladders. Today, you have to check the trees, roofs and lintels in the county office."

Fuqing had no choice but to nod in agreement.

After sending Fuqing away, Huo Yu came again: "Big brother, do you want to go out? I'll go with you!"

Guo Zhan'an patted him on the head: "Have you finished memorizing the book you are going to memorize today? If your grandfather trains you again, I won't help you this time."

As soon as the endorsement was mentioned, Huo Yu became discouraged: "Big brother is really a disappointment."

Guo Zhanan patted his shoulder for fear: "Since you want to be a gentleman, how can you not learn the words of the sages? Hurry up and go to school. If you read well, I will bring you white sugar cakes at night."

As soon as the food was mentioned, Huo Yu was really happy: "Then it's settled!"

When Guo Zhanan arrived at the appointed place, Li Hu was already there, with a bow and arrowheads on his back, an iron fork in his hand, and a thick rope wrapped around his waist.

Under the leadership of Li Hu, the two walked along the edge of the steep slope to a big tree.

Li Hu put down the iron fork, untied the thick rope around his waist, and tied one end of the rope firmly to the big tree: "This is the closest to the bottom of the slope. If you want to take a detour, it may take three or four hours. We are here While pulling the rope down, we will arrive soon.”

After the two descended the steep slope, they walked forward for about half a stick of incense, and finally saw the previous hut.

There was no one in the room, and the stove was clean. When I reached out to wipe it, I found that there was already a thin layer of dust on it.Guo Zhanan picked up the dry firewood next to him, fiddled with the ashes under the stove for a while, and found the gravel and branches that he had thrown in quietly before.

On the other side, Li Hu also checked the bedding and other things, and said, "No one has been here during this time."

Looking at the simple furnishings in the house, Guo Zhan'an couldn't help but fell into deep thought—who lived here before?

Li Hu was not good at thinking, so he just walked around with a metal fork, stamping his feet on the wall from time to time, as if he wanted to tear down the house.

Guo Zhanan suddenly said, "Knock it again."

Li Hu was puzzled, and followed Guo Zhanan's instructions, knocking twice on a white wall beside the bed.

Guo Zhanan stepped forward, knocked on the wall a few times, then lifted the bench beside him, and smashed it hard at the white wall!

After doing this several times, the wall peeled off, revealing a black pull ring inside.

Li Hu was tense all over, holding the iron fork with both hands, standing beside Guo Zhanan, looking around warily.

Guo Zhanan held the ring and pulled it out hard, and heard a harsh friction sound under the bed—a stone slab was moving!

Guo Zhan'an and Li Hu worked together to move the bed to the side, revealing a hole as wide as one person!

He brought some firewood from the stove, lit them all with flint and threw them down.

The hole was not deep, and the firewood fell to the ground, many of which were still burning. Guo Zhanan and Li Hu saw clearly that there were many boxy boxes underneath, all of which were locked with big iron locks.

Li Hu volunteered, found a ladder from the side, and went down the ladder to check the situation.

He heard him suddenly shout excitedly: "My lord, there are a lot of gold and silver treasures here!"

Guo Zhanan went down to take a look, and sure enough, there were a lot of gold bricks in one of the unlocked boxes.

Li Hu rubbed his hands excitedly: "Damn it, these evil spirits have put so many treasures here and deliberately released the news that the snow ghost cannibalize people! My lord, those who see it have a share, don't you mind my Li Hu?" Take a share!"

Guo Zhanan picked up one of the gold bricks through the veil, saw the imprint engraved on the bottom, his heart jumped, and he put the gold brick down again: "You can't lift this gold brick."

Li Hu immediately widened his eyes: "Why can't you afford it?" He narrowed his eagle eyes, "Could it be that my lord wants to take it for himself?"

Guo Zhanan shook his head and said, "Look at the imprint under the gold brick. This is the imprint of the emperor's private treasury. Do you dare to take it?"

Li Hu naturally didn't dare, he exclaimed and said, "The emperor's treasure is actually hidden here, I really didn't expect it."

Guo Zhan'an picked up another gold brick and said suddenly, "No, this is the mark of Northwest Tatar!"

"Tata?" Li Hu had heard about this nomadic people who have been invading the border for nearly a hundred years. "How did Tatar's treasure appear here?"

"I don't know, but you can't touch this thing." Guo Zhanan put down the gold brick, and his eyes were attracted by a small box on the other side.

He opened the small unlocked box and found that there were only three volumes inside.Guo Zhanan opened one of the volumes, and it was a record of the gold and silver transported here by Tatar every year, and the record that the gold and silver were used to bribe officials every year!

Li Hu couldn't read, but he could understand the numbers on the booklet, so he couldn't help asking, "My lord, what's written on it?"

Guo Zhanan closed the booklets, put away all three booklets, and told Li Hu: "You must not say these things, otherwise you will be killed."

Li Hu had heard the opera more or less, so he naturally knew the danger in it, and immediately agreed: "Don't worry, my lord, I'm just a hunter and don't understand anything."

Guo Zhan'an thought for a while, and then said: "I think you have some skills, why don't you be a government servant, and your monthly salary is definitely more than your hunting."

Li Hu laughed: "Thank you, my lord, but I don't want to be this damned yamen servant, a fish and meat commoner. Don't worry, my lord, you just trust me once, and I will never say anything about it."

Guo Zhan'an is not ashamed to be told that he has lost his mind. After all, this matter is no small matter. Once it is known to others, disasters will ensue. He must be extremely cautious.