Chapter 348: Cutting out the roots
"Say! Who sent you?"
Jiang Sanlang kicked the man hard.
The man glanced around, his heart sinking, but he relied on his confidence and shouted: "Do you know who I am? Let me go! Otherwise, your Jiang family will look good!"
Jiang Sanlang looked stern and asked again: "I ask you again, who sent you here? What do you want to do in my house?"
The man snorted, "Who do you think you are! How dare you ask grandpa..."
Before he finished speaking, a dagger was inserted into one of his thighs.
"Ahhhhh..." The man screamed, his whole body twisting.
Jiang Sanlang's voice was cold: "This is the last time I ask you, if you don't answer honestly, I will send you to the West!"
Then the man became frightened and begged for mercy: "I said it, I said it! Don't kill me... Yes, it was Chen Guanglu who asked us to arrest him, saying he wanted to sacrifice your little witch to heaven."
Jiang Sanlang held back his anger and asked, "Where is Chen Guanglu? Why didn't he come?"
"He said that everyone in the village knows him and it's not convenient for him to come over. He asked us to arrest him and meet him in Simen Town." The man rolled his eyes and continued: "Chen Guanglu is now a popular figure in front of Prince Cheng. You, you are just a little kid." If the people offend him, I'm afraid there will be no good fruit to eat... Otherwise, I will take you to find him..."
Seeing Jiang Sanlang deep in thought, the man added: "However, Chen Guanglu's whereabouts are hidden. Without me to guide him, you will definitely not find him yourself."
"Okay, I'll let you lead the way." Jiang Sanlang did not miss the flash of pride in the man's eyes.
He pulled out the dagger and suddenly pierced the man's heart.
Since you are unwilling to tell the truth, there is no point in keeping it.
Later, Jiang Sanlang packed the three people with sacks, asked his daughter to go out first, ran to the mass grave, and then released him and the three corpses.
Although Ying Bao was panicking, she calmly left the cave, carried a basket on her back and ran to a tomb far outside the village.
After releasing her father and the three corpses, Ying Bao felt her legs and feet trembling.
From now on, she would not dare to enter the cave alone.
Jiang Sanlang dug a hole without saying a word and buried three sacks deeply.
Seeing that the little girl was a little trembling, he comforted him: "Don't be afraid, Bao'er, these are bad people. If we don't eradicate them today, our family will never have peace."
Ying Bao nodded repeatedly.
She also felt that these people deserved to die. They dared to break into her house in broad daylight and rob people. How brave could they be to do this?
After burying the sacks, the father and daughter returned home, and Ying Bao quickly released A Niang.
Chun Niang had already woken up and knew that the gangster died at the hands of her husband, so she didn't ask anything, just washed her face and went to cook, but half of the pancakes were burnt.
The next day, Jiang Sanlang quietly left the village with his daughter.
Yingbao took the family's bay-red horse into the cave early in the morning. After walking out of the village with her father, she released the horse where the villagers could not see it. The father and daughter rode the same horse and headed for Simen Town.
Regardless of whether Chen Guanglu was in Simen Town or not, Jiang Sanlang had to go take a look.
What happened yesterday reminded him that his family had already become enemies with the man named Chen. If he was allowed to act recklessly, his family would be the ones who died.
More than an hour later, the father and daughter arrived at Simen Town.
At this time, Ying Bao was wearing boy's clothes, with two thick eyebrows drawn with charcoal pencil, her face was painted with brown powder, and she was wearing a bamboo hat on her head. It was basically impossible to tell that she was a girl.
Jiang Sanlang also dressed up. Not only his eyebrows were scrawled, but he also used black charcoal to draw a circle of black marks around his mouth. He also wore a bamboo hat on his head and carried an umbrella behind his back, like a traveler on a far journey.
Ying Bao put away the horses and took a walk with her father in Simen Town.
First, they went to the best local restaurant. The father and daughter ordered two dishes and chatted with the waiter here.
When asked if any foreigners have come here recently, the boy said: "That's a lot. Our place has been very lively recently. Grain merchants from other places are collecting grain at high prices, and they also hire many people to transport grain. Two hundred Wen One day, if my mother-in-law didn’t want me to leave home, I would have wanted to sign up.”
Jiang Sanlang asked calmly: "Brother, where do the grain merchants live?"
"Guests also want to sign up?" The young boy looked at Jiang Sanlang and saw that his clothes were neat and made of good materials. Although his face was a bit dull, he was still quite impressive and did not look like he was looking for a job.
Jiang Sanlang: "I have a business to discuss with them, and I'm not signing up to do moving."
"I see."
The boy didn't believe it and didn't want to answer, but when he saw the man handing over a bunch of copper coins, he immediately smiled and said: "The grain merchants live in Yunlai Inn. If the guests want to discuss business, they should come as early as possible. When they came for dinner in the morning, they said, We’ll set off early tomorrow morning.”
"Thank you for informing me." Jiang Sanlang and his daughter ate in a hurry, left the restaurant, found out about the inn the waiter mentioned, walked in, and offered to stay.
The shopkeeper said quickly: "I'm really sorry, our inn has been booked. It's better for our guests to go to another hotel."
Jiang Sanlang looked regretful and said, "In that case, I'll rest for now and leave in a while."
Of course the innkeeper didn't have any objections and asked the boy to bring the tea kettle and pour tea for the guests.
Ying Bao followed her father and sat in the most secluded place in the inn lobby, slowly drinking the tea poured by the boy and secretly looking around.
The inn is a civil structure with two floors.
The lower floor is low and is a low-class shop; the upper floor is a wooden turret and is a high-class guest room.
After a while, someone came out of the superior guest room, stood at the railing and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Hey! Go buy two jugs of wine! Cut up two kilograms of pig head meat and buy a braised goose. You want it whole. No arms are allowed. Young legs!”
The shopkeeper responded and asked the boy to go out quickly to buy wine and meat.
Ying Bao and Dad have already seen that Chen Guanglu is indeed here.
It's just that he and others were playing Shuanglu in the inn and didn't come out.
After confirming that Chen Guanglu was here, Jiang Sanlang stood up and took his daughter out of the inn.
After looking around, we finally came to Linjiang Pier in Simen Town.
This is a small pier. Usually no big ships dock, but today there is a big ship moored not far away.
There were porters carrying bags of grain to the ship.
Ying Bao discovered with sharp eyes that the person supervising the work here turned out to be one of Cao Xianwei's subordinates.
"Dad, have you seen that person? He is Cao Xianwei's subordinate."
Ying Bao quietly said to her father: "I saw this person when the county captain tried the case. He should be Cao Shen's confidant."
Jiang Sanlang squinted at the man and said in a low voice: "Let's ignore Cao Shen first and get Chen Guanglu over first."
Jiang Sanlang didn't even feel safe if Chen Guanglu was left alone for a day.
This person is cunning, cunning, and ruthless. If he doesn't act first, he may be the one who suffers.
On the other side, after Chen Guanglu finished a game of Shuanglu, he called one of his men uneasily and asked, "Gao Xun and the others haven't come back yet?"
Staff: "No, they should have arrived last night, but for some reason they haven't come back yet."
Chen Guanglu walked around the room a few times with his hands behind his back. Suddenly he heard the man behind him laugh and say: "It's not a big deal. It's just making an enemy. Why go to such trouble? Just kill him."
Chen Guanglu glared at the man: "What do you know? It's easy to kill the Jiang family, but the king wants to take that little kid to the county, so we have to be more careful."
The village where the Jiang family lived was very dense, with only a few entrances and exits. If he killed someone first, he would not only be unable to catch the baby, but he might also lose his life there.