Chapter 34

Lee Mansion.

It was almost noon, and the servants in the mansion also found that Wu Sanhe, who was supposed to be back early, had not returned, and it was not appropriate to keep the old man waiting for it to be time for dinner.

A few servants who knew things hurriedly went out to search, thinking that Wu Sanhe was delayed by some unexpected situation. But after searching back and forth along the street from Li's mansion to the East Market twice, there was no sign of Wu Sanhe at all.

"Wu Guanshi is missing!?"

The servant reported the news that Wu Sanhe had not been found, and soon the old man of the Li family who was sitting in the dining room to enjoy Wu Sanhe's craftsmanship got the news.

The old man of the Li family is Li Bing's grandfather, his name is Li Canglie, he is eighty-nine years old this year, and he is an eighth-rank Viscount.

At the same time, Li Bing's father, Li Longcheng, who was sixty-seven years old and a fifth-rank Viscount, also got the news.

The father and son were different from Li Bing. They both came down from the battlefield, and after experiencing repeated life and death scenes, they formed a stubborn habit of being cautious in everything.

"Let all the guards and handymen in the mansion go out to find someone, and at the same time contact the Licheng Yamen to ask them to send servants to help find them."

After another steward was ordered by the master to leave in a hurry, Li Canglie and Li Longcheng, father and son, looked at each other and walked into the secluded study together tacitly.

Li Longcheng spoke first: "Father, why didn't someone call Li Bing back? I always feel uneasy, as if something bad is about to happen."

"You feel the same way? Heh, I do too. It's been many years since I retreated from the Kundalfire Pass for more than 30 years. I haven't felt such an imminent danger. Tsk tsk, I still have some nostalgia.

As for Bing'er, things haven't reached that point yet, so there's no need to call him back. "

"." Li Longcheng was a little speechless when he heard the words. His father was getting old, but the older he got, the more unpredictable he became. However, his father's words also reminded Li Longcheng that his father was known as a "mad dog" when he was young. It seems reasonable that mad dogs like danger?

After being silent for a while, Li Canglie suddenly said, "Wu Sanhe has been in our house for twenty years, right?"

"Well, yes, almost twenty-three years?"

"Yeah, he's been loyal for so many years. Even though he was just a cook, he was able to do things safely and his brains are flexible, so I promoted him to be a steward, and then you promoted him to be a steward, right?"

"Yes, father, Wu Sanhe is a very good person. Since I was promoted to be a senior manager, I have never worried about him. Everything is arranged by him properly, and the external affairs are also handled very well."

Speaking of this, Li Longcheng's face was a little gloomy.

Li Canglie shook his head and said: "Have you thought about it too? Wu Sanhe has gained our trust over the years, participated in and even handled many confidential affairs, and even took care of the accounts. Now he is not just a big brother in the Li family. It's so simple to manage things. However, we were careless, and we didn't think of assigning him some guards."

"Father, do you mean that Wu Sanhe was kidnapped?"

"Is there any other reason? How far is it from our house to the East Market? It's broad daylight again. It's impossible for Wu Sanhe to get lost or have any accidents. The only explanation is that he was kidnapped."

"If it's really taken away." Li Longcheng didn't continue his words, but the meaning was already obvious. Once Wu Sanhe was taken away, the other party's goal would definitely not be just Wu Sanhe himself.

The Li family is in big trouble.

Until the evening, all those who searched for Wu Sanhe returned without success.

"The only thing that is certain is that Guanshi Wu was taken away in a rice wine shop, and the waiter and the owner of the rice wine shop were also missing."

"There was nothing suspicious about the carriage leaving the city today, so the yamen still thinks that it is most likely that Guanshi Wu is still in the city."

Li Longcheng glanced at his father sitting on the teacher's chair, and thought to himself: He really guessed it right.

"Call Li Bing back."

Li Bing was called back by the family's old servant Jinxiu Pavilion. If it wasn't for this old servant who followed his father, Li Bing would not have come back so simply. Going to Jinxiu Pavilion to have fun after work would have long been his unshakeable pastime.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, Li Bing felt something strange. There were obviously a lot more guards in the mansion than usual, and it was obvious that he had been assigned a higher duty density.

On the way, the old servant was told that he did not tell Li Bing about Wu Sanhe, so when Li Bing entered the study, he was livid when his father Li Longcheng told about Wu Sanhe's disappearance.

boom!

Li Bing slammed the table hard, and said viciously, "Tang Qingyuan must be playing tricks!"

"Why him?" Li Canglie took a sip of tea and asked seemingly casually.

Li Bing said as a matter of course: "Before the establishment of the Black Flag Camp, Tang Qingyuan personally appointed a rootless and unreliable scum to be the chief banner officer and indulged that bastard to check my file. It was clear that Tang Qingyuan was behind it."

Li Longcheng also nodded and said: "Li Bing told me before, and asked me to cooperate with many nobles in Licheng and Fengricheng to send a report to the Xuanqingwei Thousand Households in Fengricheng. Maybe Tang Qingyuan is going to make a deal with him." Our Li family is fighting hard?"

Li Canglie shook his head and said: "You don't know what kind of temperament Tang Qingyuan is? It seems that the city government is very calm, but in fact he is a timid and fearful person. He was able to become a hundred household officials in Licheng because of Jiang Cheng's support, otherwise He deserves it too?

So even if Tang Qingyuan was annoyed when you jointly sent a letter to the Thousand Households Office of Fengri City last time, it is absolutely impossible for him to take the initiative to fight with our Li family. "

"What do you mean? The one who kidnapped Wu Sanhe wasn't someone from Xuan Qingwei?"

"I can't be sure. It's just that based on Tang Qingyuan's character, it's unlikely that he has such courage."

"But if other people attack us, then there's no need to take Wu Sanhe away? Besides, this is Licheng, so it's difficult for anyone except Xuan Qingwei to hide someone from us, right?"

Li Bing patted his chest and said: "Why bother to guess, I'll go to the guard right away, if someone is newly locked up inside, it's easy to find out, it won't be long, your house is free, I'll go and see Back!"

Li Bing went out in a hurry, but it took a full hour to come back, and his face was dark, his chest heaved violently, and he was obviously very angry.

"The dungeon is under strict control. Without Tang Qingyuan's warrant, he is not allowed to enter. It is useless even to test the approval of the hundred households officer. Moreover, all the torture files are temporarily stored in the hands of the hundred households' guards. Today, they are newly imprisoned." How many people and who are they will not be able to find out for a while. We can only ask when the gang of murderers who will be tortured in the guard tomorrow will go to work."

Li Longcheng and Li Canglie had heard something strange from Li Bing's words.

Li Longcheng immediately asked: "Did the dungeon ever have such a strict control before?"

"Yes, but that happened many years ago. At that time, it was strictly controlled because four evil cultivators were imprisoned in the dungeon at the same time. Recently, there has been no such case at all, which is very strange."